Welcome to Roll 4 Heresy, with Walton playing
Chet, Cliff playing Francisco, Tim playing Squigs,
and Kevin as the GM. Last time, the party headed
deeper into the jungle to continue to look for
a landing zone. Having survived traps and a fight
with Chesglutko, they began looking for a place
to rest. Yes, so... You guys are, you manage
to cross a little stream safely. You're a little
wet, you know, you take your time. And I will
say that, you know, from the time you began to
travel from, you know, the base through the previous
zone with the booby traps and the vine through
this river, the sun is getting pretty low in
the sky. So you can continue to travel or you
can set up camp or something. I turned the chat.
So a couple of thoughts if we do want to stop
here. It looks like the dead fish lizards were
a good deterrent to the other fish lizards, but
I assume they'll also attract scavengers in the
not too distant future. Maybe we want to throw
a couple carcasses a little bit further into
the jungle and whatever would have eaten us might
eat them instead. Oh yeah, that sounds like a
pretty good idea. These things might keep off
any other predators that might come try to eat
us. I can maybe take one of these things and
make a meal out of it for us so we can have something
to eat that's not made of people. I'd be... I
mean, I'm an adventurous eater. I've had... Hold
on, what would he think is an exotic food? that
he uh would be perfectly normal for other people
is there like some in the universe like yeah
rocks i've eaten a rock before so i've i've definitely
tasted my pair of uh bizarre cuisine you ate
a you ate a rock yeah i was told people would
eat rocks on other planets it was a normal thing
out there is that starts with the i think it
ends with a seat instead of the cave Oh, okay.
I thought you were talking about like a stone.
Oh, no, no. That would be absurd. Yeah, that
would be pretty tricky to pull off. He looks
at the rocks on the shore with his eyes open,
and I'm like, no, never mind. Covered in blood
and mud. But yeah, Kevin, could I take one of
these corpses and just sort of throw it deeper
into the jungle? Like, drag it to the edge of
the thick wood and just toss it. Could they be
eaten? Like, do they look edible? Oh, give me
a survival. I will give you a survival. I will
say that DM is one. It's one success and one
failure. Yes, you do see that the creatures appear
to be edible kind of like... other lizard -like
creatures you've seen in the past, you know what
part of it not to eat and what part of it to
eat. Oh, that's perfect, because I have the Gormon
skill. Oh, really? It lets me add double rank
bonus dice to any tests made to prepare food.
That's fantastic. That's amazing. So Chet immediately
sets his pack down and... produces like a sealed
plastic bag of spices and He starts getting the
works. Okay. I'm gonna make uh, I'm gonna make
us something good D You know you said you sit
back and relax and let Chet do his work Very
well, so we move on we move off from the bank
and I am just going to kind of Map out where
we are. I'm gonna spend some time consolidating
the maps And watching watching Chet and taking
notes on his cookbook I've never, I don't think
Squigs has ever had the opportunity to actually...
He's occasionally seen someone prepare food,
but he's never seen a catachan jungle fighter
and ratling. A whole bag of spices of unknown
origin. It's like a Food Network show, but you're
surrounded by death. Yeah, like when Gordon Ramsay
made fried rice on a mountain. See the thing
here, you got to make sure you take out the poison
sacks because you don't want to mess up the flavor
profile of the meal. He's just like cutting into
this lizard fish thing. It's like cooking at
the Monster Hunter tent. That's exact. It all
looks amazingly delicious even though it's an
absolutely drug combo. You even have the turning
spitfire. Turning spitfire, he's got half a head
of cabbage in there. Yeah non -descript space
cabbage All right, so you guys set up camp for
the night or you just taking a quick meal break
if we're setting up camp at some point probably
Camp here for the night, you know kind of take
watches. I'm assuming squigs doesn't actually
squigs has an idea like okay, like the standard
Like, we're camping, everybody watches for a
period of time. Yeah, we can take watch as long
as we follow the rules of the jungle. I think
we should all be fine. Right. No names and check
it's A class. That's right. I'm actually always
confused. Do we light a fire to keep things away
from us? Or do we light a fire so that nobody
notices us? Or we don't light a fire so that
nobody notices us? The answer to that is yes.
I think it probably depends on where we are.
I don't spend as much time out in the nightmarish
jungle places. You light the fire to keep stuff
away from you, but once you light the fire, you
do not leave the fire. In another situation,
if you were to see a fire, you do not go towards
the fire, so it is a sort of... Deterrent because
you might be going towards a fire and you think
it's a fire and it's actually a ain't oh and
then you get eight I Still am endeavoring my
best to not get eight. So everything is endeavoring
its best to hate me Now what's that you're using
there and he's just gesturing to like one of
your the weirdest spices you have It looks like
a cross between a star anise and like a peppercorn
a long pepper. Oh, this is a this is pepper salt
Well, you got to do you got to find some of them
work tribes They like to keep pepper salt and
you got to sneak in there and get it and then
you got to get out without getting eight So it's
part. It's part of the experience gives a nice
smoky flavor to whatever you put it on. Interesting.
Really? Like, so you snuck into an orc encampment,
and I'm assuming they go on like this until it's
time to end the watch. He's got orc spices. Like,
what did you? How? Who figured out that orcs
have spices? Well, somebody had to do it first,
and they probably got eight, but then, you know,
the story probably spread. This is... And he's
just like... You can see, it looks like he's
producing the pencil sketches, like the fully
outlined sketches of that. And writing down your
story next to it. Like, you don't know this kind
of stuff unless you talk to people. People know
all kinds of interesting things that you never
know unless you ask them. I have heard many things.
I have read a lot of reports and I never once
heard of stealing spices from orcs. Yeah, I mean,
if you look at it on paper, it doesn't make any
sense, but once you do it, then you're like,
oh, okay, that's why. That's why they did it.
I would have... I would have struck that from
the record if I had ever seen that A is superfluous
and B as straight -out fancy. They talk about,
you know, oh, this is heresy, that's heresy.
I'm just trying to make good food, man. And,
you know, I go where the flavor is. Apparently,
it seems like you brought some with you. If flavor
is heresy, well, then you just call me a heretical
bastard, because you know what? I like not eating
people, and I like my food to taste good. You
see, Squigs just kind of gets pensive for a second
because of that. Whatever. Not my problem. Francisco
takes a bite of the lizard fish. It's just like,
I've never even met an orc, so I've never even
seen an orc. I don't know. It seems fine to me.
Yeah, and at that I will also take a bite. Just
like Monster Hunter, I will just stab it and
jam a whole piece of it in my mouth with my stiletto.
Or my food fork, my food knife. Probably my food
knife, I wouldn't use my stiletto for that. I
will say it tastes better than you figure it's
supposed to. Whatever Chet did to this actually
made it. Pretty good. Oh. Makes a note. This...
An interesting part. I'm sure Chet knows. The
heretical cooking of the Rattling. Maybe you
know, Francisco. I'm sure Chet knows. But one
of the parts of the survey is finding new things
that are... New and different ways a planet,
especially a planet newly brought into... the
folds can contribute to the Imperium. These are
edible enough. Maybe if these creatures are easy
enough to breed, this might be another export
for straw. Turning the unerrable water into another
source of food would greatly increase, possibly,
straw standing. This was actually pretty good.
I feel bad for whoever they have to hire to become
the new fish lizard person farmer. Seems like
a rough job. Probably. The important part is
that we can always get more people to do it.
If it has value, we will export it. Or the God
Emperor expects no less. You guys, you can name
it. You can name this creature. We could name
this creature. Have to think of what to name
this creature. I Mean just call it lizard fish
or fish lizard or and or Charles Charles beware
of the aquatic Charles Things like there's like
scale Charles there there's 42 different varieties
of fish lizard Francisco, Squigs, Chet, so it'd
be Chess Squigsco? Chess Squigsco? Chess Squigsco.
Chess Squigsco. Chess Squigsco. Chess Squigsco.
Chess Squigsco. Ah, the Chess Squigsco! If you
say it fast enough, it just sort of melts together.
Which is funny, because actually, Francisco might
actually know the native name for this language,
and they're just like, now we're gonna use the
name we prepared. Oh yeah. Once you guys bring
up that we can name it ourselves, I'm just like,
yeah, that's definitely a Chisqueeksgo. That's
definitely where it's going to go. Chisqueeksgo,
there. All right, perfect. I'm going to make
a note. Chisqueeksgo. All right. I will never
bring this thing up again. Have to say that.
Thanks, Kevin. Oh, no, we're going to screw whatever
your current adventure is. We're going to the
ocean. We're going to become the pirates. I'm
not letting you guys name anything. We go to
tenner and be like, have you tried the Chisquixco
tenner? It's pretty good. Drive back out there,
catch a couple off the river. Oh, I really like
the Chisquixco, guys. I'm a big fan. You know,
Chet, you cook it pretty good. But it's weird
how you keep putting in that stuff in there,
and then I get tired. But it tastes real good.
Just slowly poisoning tenor. I Knew you guys
loved each other. He's gonna have the resilience
of an ogren I'm so happy I could create an NPC
that is so fun and is brought up even though
he's thousands of miles away And we're trying
to figure out a way to poison him as soon as
this goes live like uh tenor's gonna have a big
fan like following you just know it's gonna be
justice for hashtag justice for tenor and all
sorts of things all right guys we have to kill
tenor before we get to the live episode i mostly
worry about the fan fiction the fan fiction is
gonna be a nightmare you know what let those
degenerates do what they want as long as it's
not illegal i don't give a shit You know what?
You know what? We go on whatever subreddit they
make, and then we just fain to be outraged by
the horrendous things they produce. Oh, a role
for heresy subreddit. Maybe you're right. Maybe
one of these days. I'll leave that up to you.
You're doing a good job of managing that stuff.
Oh, thank you, thank you. But, uh, yeah. Yeah,
I don't know either. We'll figure it out. I just
lurk. I don't know what I'm doing. All right.
All right, so I will say... Yep, we set watch.
We set watch. As the night falls, the jungle
takes on an eerily different character. Cloaked
in darkness and alive with an orchestra of nocturnal
sounds. The dense canopy overhead blocks much
of the moonlight, leaving only faint silver beams
filtering through the gaps in its leaves. Shadows
dance across the thick undergrowth, shifting
and swaying as if the jungle itself is blue.
What's that spooky? Spooky. So you guys, you
sit around the campfire in a loose circle, your
faces illuminated by its light. Your voices are
low as you joke about orcs and spices and what
to name this stupid lizard fish. And of course
the name Chesquithgo comes directly into your
head as if ordained by the emperor himself. That
is forever the name of this creature. People
are going to be so confused when it's a primary
enemy. Let your squigs go! Squigs noting that
potentially how good this thing tastes is a good
farm for anywhere there's large bodies of water
that you can't grow any kind of straw root on.
But now... You all begin to tire, and I believe
it's time to determine who is taking watch. Uh,
Squigs will offer to take the first watch. Um,
being that he doesn't spend a lot of time outdoors,
he figures it's best if he does it while there's
still some semblance. Uh, like, well he's mostly
awake and can let the - what he assumes the darker,
more - More difficult times to watch would be
to those better trained for it. That's his thought.
I would say generally second watch is the most
dangerous. Which makes sense. Do you want to
give that to Chet then? Squicks take first, Chet
takes second, and Francisco takes third, because
I think Chet has the best awareness out of all
of us, right? I mean... Don't know I have an
awareness of five Okay, I have an awareness of
like two so if I go last that might be safe as
three group. All right I mean also actually if
we take into account statistics like They're
not statistics with stats Yes, Griggs is no problem
taking me the harder watches as well No, it's
like like you've already said it's not necessarily
his first rodeo So, uh, why don't you go first,
Francisco, and then Chet, where you wanna go?
Do we lose him? Oh, sorry. My weapon's stuck.
What happened? Uh, we're determining watch. Watch
order. Oh, I've got an awareness of four. I can
take any watch. It doesn't really matter. Okay,
so I'll take second watch. Uh, we'll let you
take third, and Francisco will go first. So I
have an awareness of five. Sounds good to me.
Perfect. Alright, so that's our watch order.
Francisco, Squigs, Chad. Okay. Well. You guys
go to sleep? Uh, yes. We perform whatever actions
you deem necessary to advance the plot. Okay.
Okay. So. Francisco. Yep. You're alone. Squigs
and Chet's. Who snores? Which one of you snores?
Oh, Chet definitely snores. He sleeps holding,
like, crating his rifle like a body pillow. Is
this his murder waifu? Oh, long rifle -a. Oh,
rifle -a son. Oh, right son. Sorry, that was
way funnier to me than it should have been. Rattling
rifle -a my beloved. Ratlina. Ratlina. You did
give it a name in one of the previous episodes.
That's true. I think it was Debbie. I can't remember.
I don't think it was Debbie, but like... Well,
no. It could be Debbie now. We'll take better
notes. That'll never happen. I think her name's
Cheryl. I like Cheryl better. I think it's Cheryl.
It's Cheryl now. Cheryl the shooter write that
down. He's taking notes quick. Yeah, yeah, Cheryl
the shooter no problem Braces I'll post a note
was gonna be let me go actually, I think there's
Yeah, oh yeah, but that's hard to do while we're
playing Yeah, well we'll figure that out. Yeah.
If only somebody would get faster at editing,
we could just take the notes of a previous book.
You've previously published episodes. And also
for the benefit of it, I will, when I do watch,
I'll have my back to the fire so that my eyes
can adjust to the darkness. Oh, that's a good
idea. Okay. Perfect. Yeah, I think you can make
this work. Sorry Yeah, I'll just sure we'll talk
about that later All right, so Chet and squigs
enter their accommodations You hear squigs like
Dutifully taking notes summarizing the actions
of the day before quietly closing whatever notebook
he has and going into a peaceful somber sleep.
And then Chet, on the other hand, you hear kind
of like a chaotic scrambling as he's like rolling
around in the sleeping bag. You hear the clack
of his gun as he like gets comfortable with it
and then a sawing sound as he begins to snore
with the barrel right up underneath the crock
of his neck. as he's cobbled close with Cheryl.
You know, you're sitting around the fire, you
can feel the light reflecting off your eyes,
and then you're like, ah, this is not good for
watch, so you put your back to it. And as your
eyes begin to slowly adjust, you can just feel
the pulse of life coming from the jungle. Like,
you hear... the humming of the bugs you see the
swaying of the leaves and it looks just as alive
as it did in the day at at night and almost almost
more alive as you're not like the night makes
it more serene so the the subtlety of all the
actions kind of stand out and i want to i want
you to give me that sweet awareness test yeah
Yeah, yeah, well you don't see anything Well
not soon after You begin your watch maybe an
hour into it, you know You're kind of scanning
scanning and then like you're facing away from
the fire So like you're not actually looking
through the fire to that side And you know all
of a sudden you hear some like rustling sounds
within within the the ear encampment behind you
So as you turn around you whip your head around
because all of a sudden you hear Someone something
or someone As you turn around you see some of
the food being dragged away that was left next
to the fire You see like a little furry tail
and you see like a little tiny little tiny arm
and it's just like Just yeah, maybe that's Francisco's
thing is like we ate our fill we knew we weren't
gonna bring a bunch of food with us so You know
what I Know I don't want to think there's more
food out here So I'm just gonna run over and
like kick at whatever was trying to steal the
food. Just like, get on, get out of here. Get,
get. And this like, you know like little, the
little tiny monkeys with like the really big
eyes? Yeah. Like an eye eye? Yeah, like an eye
eye. That's perfect. It was like, it's really
tiny and it's like trying to drag this like larger
like carcass of the food away and you know it's
like nibbling at it when you run over at it and
you start like kicking at it and it goes like
as it's like clearly being hurt and it like lets
go of the food and it like backs away some and
stares at you I pick up the food and I like throw
it really deep into the jungle just so it's like
he can have the food I just don't want him to
be near our camp when he has it and then if he
like on the other watches the other guys get
accosted by more iis for more food that's their
problem yeah so he he's just like and he's just
like skitters off into where you threw the food
and then you hear like uh the leaves rustling
as he's like clearly eating it all right and
uh You don't really notice anything else? After
like 10 minutes the noise kind of dies down from
that area and you can kind of hear it like walking
away through the brush. Good, good. Quiet night,
I'll take it. But then yeah, when my shift is
over I'll go wake up Squigs. Alright, Squigs
kind of wakes up. Oh, is it my turn already?
Yep. Good. Anything interesting or strange happen?
Anything I should know? Our food's gone. The
leftover chest squigsco got eaten by a monkey
of some kind with big eyes. I don't know. He
seemed like he was just hungry so I just didn't
cause a fuss. Oh, okay. Didn't even hear anything.
Alright, well sounds good to me then All right,
you knock out gets in sleep. Well, I'll take
the next section of watch. How's the fire? Uh
fires looking fine. Yeah Yeah, I paid a couple
logs on there or a couple little more on there
to keep it at a Not like a roaring fire, but
there's heat and a little bit of light He'll
sit up and he'll just kind of take out his knife
and his pistol and just kind of set them in his
lap and just kind of listen and watch to the
jungle um just quietly like count to himself
to stay awake like he'll be counting like pops
or flickers of light or strange noises like he's
just like constantly accounting his surroundings
to stay awake so that's uh that's And as he lets
Francisco drift off, he looks over at Chet. How's
Chet doing? Chet is in a really awkward position
now, where maybe he's completely sideways, and
his rifle is in his left hand, pushed, and it's
under his right leg, and his right arm is up
above him, and he's just snoring away. Okay.
Well, I'm just gonna let that be. And I'll just
kind of sit by the light, you know keeping the
light out of my eyes and Yeah, go about accounting
through my through my watch period, okay Let
me get your awareness test very well Go I should
have asked you for a DN, but it's okay Keep forgetting
to set a DN every single time I do this because
it's like with D &D It's like you roll and I
don't have to tell you how difficult it is You
don't necessarily have to right as long as you
have an idea for ya. It just makes yeah, I know
Yeah, some of the internal mechanics Well for
success to I cannot Yeah, so I'll say That's
good So I'll say you know You're sitting. You're
by this fire. You fed it a few logs. Francisco
drifts off to sleep. You know, maybe he's like
mumbling a little bit. He's a little moving a
little bit. You know, you can tell he's had a
rough day. This is probably pretty stressful
for him. Maybe he's not used to all of this chaos.
And you're just kind of like staring into the
darkness that is this jungle. And you notice
that, like, the symphony that's been playing
begins to shift. And it's subtle at first. You
know, you hear the distant call of birds and
the hum of insects is slowly being replaced by
a faint rustling in the treetops. Okay. Once
I realize this, do I have an idea? Do I think
I know what could be causing any of this? Or...
Because it seems like alarming. And I don't want
to start waking people up until I have to. But
if it begins to, like, really, like... If it
gets more rustly than other nature noises, I
will kind of just, like, lean over and, like,
kind of, like, kick chat. And then I'll kick
Francisco and just kind of, like, get them up
and be like, There's something moving around
in the canopy. I hear the shaking of the trees,
the movement. Yeah, most of the wildlife appears
to have decided to go quiet. I don't like it.
All right, I'll take a look at it. And Chet's
like, all he's wearing is his flak armor and
his pajamas. He has, like, emperor pajamas. So
now that you're all awake, you all get this feeling
of unease as the sounds grow louder and more
deliberate, like tiny feet moving rapidly through
leaves and branches. Oh, shit. Does anything
seem to come close to us? Yes, without warning.
Oh, no, with plenty of warning because you've
heard it. A swarm of small monkeys burst into
this clearing! I knew I should become best friends
with the one that we found. Why'd you befriend
animals? I thought I was supposed to. A bunch
of monkeys burst into the clearing and they just
start grabbing at shit. They're clearly not hostile,
they're just starting to steal your shit. Immediately
throw some logs onto the fire to raise it up.
And then as soon as anything that comes close
to me is getting stabbed. Chet begins firing
indiscriminately towards the monkeys. Goddamn
bar mitz, get out of here! Get! It's just as
any monkey that tries to touch my shit is getting
shanked. We're going to go through like a skill
check. This is not a combat. This is just going
to be like, you guys tell me what you're going
to do and we'll choose a skill that's close to
it. and we'll set a DN and you'll roll and then
that'll be your success or failure at you trying
to do this thing. Okay, makes sense. So we've
got Squigs, you're making the fire bigger or
you're stabbing. We've got Chet shooting at them
and we've got Francisco doing something. I think,
you know, we have those radios on us. I want
to see if I can like fiddle with it to make like
a quick feedback. Problem to make like I went
went noise to chase scare him off or something
like that. It's blasted static You you do have
a tech skill. I was just think I'm gonna tell
I'm very bad at it But maybe when it's my turn,
I'll try to steal a glory point and add to it.
Oh Sure, so uh, I guess we'll just go in alphabetical
order since we have no better. So Chet you start
Yeah, that's gonna shoot at that. He's gonna
start shooting at him. All right, I'll say they're
Will say the swarm is within melee of you. They're
tiny and They're like moving very quickly so
I will set the DN at like Three and you don't
have to roll for damage. Just like we'll just
see if there's a successor failure Three you
did okay, so you just you know, you're woken
up you hear this you're like Oh, I ain't getting
eight. And then you just like, lock and load
and just begin blasting. And then you see, like
you hear a roar of these little tiny monkeys
as they're like, as you just begin blasting away
at them. Goddamn varmint get out of here. Get
get Francisco. All right, I will attempt to make
a tech check. I will mark off one glory if you
could for us and I'll Sure thing. I'll set the
DN to 2. You're not using the radio for its normal
function, so it's not 1, so it'll be a 2. Let's
give it a shot. There it is, wow. Hey! And you
got the glory back. Hey! There you go. Yeah,
I'll just make a walk in those. Yeah, so you...
Grab a radio and you're like, oh these stupid
things and then you take a second one and You
like override the feedback loop and you like
point them at each other in like such a way that
it just like Kind of gets like louder or noxious
and you see a bunch of the little critters that
had things in their hands Immediately drop them
and like plug their ears because their ears are
huge, right? They're like And, like, they start
screaming and they begin to run away. Alright,
Squigs. Trying to, like, get the fire up so I'm
throwing on some more kindling and everything
just to try to make it as big as possible. Easier
to see, hopefully scared these whatever the hell
they are off. Alright, give me a survival check
as you try to stoke the fire beyond what it is
right now in a quick way. The DN of 2. The DN
of 2. Since it's more difficult. Might be able
to pull this off. You can use glory dice as well?
Eh, I'll take the failure. Okay, so like... I'm
just like swinging around. I'm trying to throw
this stuff in there and stuff is getting tough
getting close and like touching me. I'm just
swinging my knife at it. I'm swinging the wood
at it. It's kind of flailing in the dark. Yeah,
so you start like throwing like what you can
into the wood, into the fire. It's just not igniting
fast enough. You know, it's a jungle. Things
are moist. Like, you know, the fire was already
started, you know, with your with your fire starter
kit as it was. So like it's a it's kind of like
nothing there is like Prometheum where it's just
going to go up and cause this like explosion
to scare them. And then at the same time, they're
like grabbing at your pants. They're like. poking
at your head as they come by as they're jumping
and swinging by and they're annoying the shit
out of you. That tracks. That completely tracks.
Yes. And so I will say they are attempting to
steal from you. No, not from me. I like my stuff.
Attempting to steal from me is heresy. Pick that.
So I will make them do an athletics check? No.
What would be a good stealing action? Let's see,
stats... Agility maybe? There is deception? Okay,
deception. There's deception if they're trying
to fake me out. I would say agility also would
make sense. Or stealth? Or if you're just, you
know... Yeah, I'll do a stealth check. Yeah,
that's a good check with agility. I'm gonna set
the DN of 2 against you, and they're going to
attempt to steal from you. Yes, and they do really
good! No, I'm being robbed by tiny monkeys! So
tell me what do you have on you that I can steal?
I have... Alright, so what I have is I have my
auto -quill. my data slate three scrolls of ancient
records uh and as well as some administratum
records all right i'm gonna roll a die as well
as like knife or last pistol and then some last
packs okay so if you roll a d8 i'm gonna roll
a d8 and i'm gonna say higher is worse for you
where like if they roll an eight They're gonna
steal the data slate. And if they roll a 1, they'll
steal, I don't know, something you don't care
about. Like the empty LazPack or something. Works
for me. Can this roll D8s, or am I gonna have
to roll it on my own? You just slash R, 1D8.
A 4. Okay. Something you medium care about. Something
I medium care about. Let's say they steal...
Your quill or do you have a lot? I don't care
about that a lot. It's gonna be a That's replaceable.
That's gonna be a pain in the ass to replace
though Yeah, so one of them like you've got your
knife in your hand. You've got your gun out You
know you're you're like throwing the things in
there and then like in your pocket was your auto
quill you know one of them reaches for your data
slate and you're like uh -uh and then as you
pull away like One of them rips out your quill,
and then he gives the scamper off. No, no, no,
no, no! When I point that out, I'm like, shoot
that one! He stole my quill! And I'm gonna...
Yeah, I'm still trying to just, like, swing at
stuff. I'm kinda overwhelmed. I'm trying to stop
him from stealing the rest of my shit. So, um...
Okay, we're gonna go through one more round of
this exact same thing. Okay. You wanna do the
same thing, or give me new ideas? And then, uh...
Well, that'll be the conclusion of this monkey
stampede. I'm going to attempt to shoot that
monkey since it stole my shit, as well as cover
my own ass. The light's not working. Okay. I
will say, um, now this is gonna be tough because
they're small, and now you're specifically aiming
at one. Yes. And I will spend a wrath. To have
it kind of trip over my auto -quill. Just to
make it easier to shoot. Okay. The auto -quill's
heavier than it thought, the point gets stuck
in the ground. Maybe it bends the auto -quill
a little bit, but it's kind of trying to scamper
away with it. It's a bit lopsided because it's
an auto -quill, right? So it's metal and steel
and, uh, scribe - not scribe, uh, parchment,
etc. That's relatively heavy. Sure, so as - So
it's like, it's got the auto -quill in one of
your hands, and the way the monkey's scurrying,
it's actually still using its hands to scurry.
So as it plants the auto -quill into the ground,
there's like a soft log, and it like, pierces
the log a little bit, and it like, hesitates
just ever so slightly to like, have to pull the
auto -quill out of the log as it continues to
run. And that gives you a chance. And now the
DN is only two. Alright. Classical school! I'm
just gonna try to shoot this thing down. PN2.
Alright. Well. I have a shift. Good job. Alright.
Do I have one shift possible? Yes I do. So now
don't forget, you can, because this is like a
narrative thing, instead of shifting for damage
you can shift - I was gonna shift this for effect.
Extra, extra effect. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna shift
this for effect. Hit two monkeys or a super blow
up a monkey shifted for effects nice So you you're
like no no no no no like you are a scribe This
is your scribing tool this monkey is going to
die and you just You just aim Like the auto pen
is too much for this little monkey to handle
and it gets stuck in the ground and in that moment
of hesitation You blow its head off and its head,
like, splatters into multiple other monkeys,
and I'll say at odds towards Chet, even towards
Francisco, evens Francisco, a torrent of monkey
blood just explodes towards you, and the monkeys
that we're going to steal from you are debilitated
as... They have they have other monkey blood
on them and some of them scatter So it's gonna
be easier for you to pass whatever you do. Gotcha
Wonderful Okay in exchange, you're you know,
you're covered in my covered in this delicious
monkey blood Yeah So you might as well go next
now that we All right. Well now that I'm covered
in monkey blood and everyone the monkeys are
all scared of me. I'm just gonna like okay fine
I'm gonna take my sword and I'm gonna turn it
sideways and I'm just gonna pick a big monkey
that's trying to steal my stuff and I'm gonna
smack it on the ass with a baseball bat and see
if I can send it flying. Alright, give me that
sweet DN1. Weapon skill test. Yep. Alright. There.
Just smack. Smack. So you can also shift for
more effect. I forget how to shift. So you click
the six and it glows and then you right click.
Oh yeah. Where are my options here? I don't know,
I just shifted it. Yeah, so you shift it to other
and that signals me that you're shifting it not
to like a glory point or not to damage to like
a narrative effect. Yeah, there's just some narrative
effect. Yeah. Nice. Help chat out. Right, so
like... Instead of killing this monkey, you choose
to just spank it with the flat end of your sword.
And, like, you just, you get it good. You find
the biggest monkey you can, and you just thwap.
You like, somehow, you know, like swords are
still kind of flexible, so you like, kind of
like, give it a little rat tail, and like, thwap!
Like, that sound is loud, but the scream that
comes from this monkey is even louder. And, like,
a lot of the monkeys that are, like, stealing,
like, stop and look, and then that gives Chet
an advantage of what he's about to do. Excellent.
Chet, what do you do? As there's monkey blood
spraying at Francisco, Francisco smacks a monkey
in the butt with his sword, the monkeys are screaming,
there's shit flying everywhere. Uh, Chet's gonna
keep shooting. He's gonna keep blasting. Alright.
DN2, I guess then, since I gave you a DN3 last
time. We'll reduce it by one, since they're distracted
by potential red bottom. It's a good thing he
helped you out. Your rifle is long, so your aim
is getting messed up as they're swinging off
your rifle. But just in time, with that loud
screaming... the monkeys stop doing that just
in time for you to blast a few more and with
your combined effort the monkeys scatter back
into the jungle through the tree troughs leaves
and branches falling everywhere and just as like
quickly as they came they are gone your campsite
is a little beat up nothing important was lost
You know, maybe some food, maybe they stole something
that doesn't really matter to you that you don't
notice. There's some minor damage to your tent
and your camping supplies. Nothing that can't
be fixed with time. But you have survived a small
harassment detail of monkeys in the middle of
the night. Where the hell did all these monkeys
come from? I mean, it's the jungle, you know,
they probably smelled your very delicious cooking
and wanted just to have a bite of it. Well, come
to the dark and steal your dessert. Well, we
made it. We might turn some of these into sandwiches
or something. Don't look like they got a lot
of meat on them. Maybe you can make them into
like a monkey jerky. I'm going to go and pick
up my auto quill. Try to wipe off the blood.
Oh, I think it's still my watch. Hopefully that's
the rest of it. And I'm going to start throwing
some overboard on the fire. Might as well try
to get some more sleep. I know there was a bit
of excitement in the middle of the night. We
still got a little time yet before I have the
waking chat. Yeah, I mean, I'll go ahead and
take over since I'm already up. Alright, let
me get out of my pajamas. Alright, alright. I'm
just kind of Well chat's getting all set up.
I'm just gonna move the monkey corpses stack
them shift them away from our campsite a little
bit and then I will go just start fiddling with
my article What in here? I'm just like pulling
out rolls of parchment Put those in my pack bending
the nibs back in place Well, Chet's ready, but
once he's ready, I will pass the watch off to
him and go to sleep. All right. So, Chet, a little
excitement in the middle of the night. Francisco
and Squigs are back to sleep. Let me get that
awareness test. Awareness test. DN, we'll say
DN2. I actually have to remember to give you
a DN. Oh! Okay. Look at that! Sure! That's a
sexy roll. Mother of God. I see through the veil
and pierce the warp with my mortal eyes. Yes.
That's seven successes on a DN2. You rolled three
sixes and then a four. Good job, Chet. Nothing
gets by you. As you go through the night, you've
got your rifle. You've got Cheryl. every little
broken branch every rustled leaf like you're
you're constantly looking through your scope
ain't no more monkeys coming to steal your shit
you ain't getting eight and you know throughout
the night you're fine you managed to just if
there was something out there you staved it off
can I ship all of these or can only shift one
you should be able to shift all of them I'm gonna
put these all in there. You can shift all the
ones that you... Yeah, that you don't need to
success. You should be able to click another
six and then right -click it. Just call me the
glory generator. That's right. Yeah, what the
heck? I gotta make this DNS harder on you guys.
I mean... I feel like you guys are like... Barely
succeeding all the time. I mean, that's right.
Like if I made it a little bit harder, it could
be like raw and complete failures. I mean, they
have a, if you have concerns about that or whatever,
they do have, like, recommended difficulties.
Like, not recommended difficulties, but, like,
a difficulty scale to give you an idea. Yeah.
For your DMs. Yeah. So. We're still getting used
to it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's just that,
if that makes your life easier. No, I know. Plus,
I wanted that DM to be easy, because I wanted
the night to be over. The night is over. Yes.
Yes, chat. The dawn breaks over the jungle, and
the world slowly stirs to life. The jungle awakens
in layers. The morning air, cool and crisp, carries
a scent of dew -soaked leaves and earthly soil.
Tiny droplets cling to the foliage, glisten like
jewels as the first rays of sunlight pierce the
shadows. The stream, quiet and reflective, catches
the light. Its surface shimmers like molten gold
as it winds through the forest. It's morning
now. You have all survived the night. But what
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