Welcome to Roll for Heresy, with Squigs, played
by Tim, Chet, played by Wallin, Francisco, played
by Cliff, and everyone else, played by Kevin.
Last time on Roll for Heresy, the team camps
after a wet fight with the Chesquisco, and learn
a little bit about each other. Chet's a good
cook, Squigs is always thinking of the Empire,
and Francisco's empathy will eventually get them
all killed. Surviving the Monkey Stampede, with
only minor writing implement damage, we move
on to the next day. Uh, that was terrible. I
can't believe they took all the - they tried
to take my quill. Of all the things these little
shits could take, they tried to take my quill.
It wasn't food. Well, I mean, an animal's gonna
do what an animal's gonna do. You can't, uh,
you can't demand they take, uh, your food over
your quill. Maybe, uh, your quill looks a little
shinier. So they grabbed that. You didn't eat
us though, so that's... They didn't say any of
our names, so that's also important. They didn't
smell like lavender, so I think that's good.
Those are most of the rules on the list, yeah.
If you have to beat eight, I would rather beat
eight by one big thing than a bunch of small
tiny things. That'd be very painful and last
a lot longer. That does not sound like a lot
of fun. Of the two? Yeah, I'd have to agree with
you, yeah. When in doubt, go for the big chomp.
Not the little ones. Yeah, I'd prefer like getting
stuck under a sheet of scrolls, a stack of scrolls
and just forgotten for months on end. Well, I
mean, if we're talking about how we want to go,
I'd rather just a rockfall on my head. Oh, I
would much rather that. Found more than one.
Seen a couple of scholars. They tend to go towards
the older persuasion, they tend to last a lot
longer. I've seen more than one scribe trapped
under a pile of books that fell on him and was
rude enough to expire and stain all of the records
he was working on. Yeah, you guys are wild. Dying
of old age, my bed surrounded by loved ones.
I'd have to go with that? You joined the Imperial
Guard, didn't you? That's distinctly not in the
survival plan for Imperial Guard. Old age surrounded
by loved ones. You can write that one off entirely.
I mean, Francisco, how old are you? Uh... Uh...
23? Well, looking at this one, you should have
been dead years ago. Really? Oh, yeah. He is
a backwater. They haven't even done a full founding
yet, I don't believe. I don't believe Strong
has done a founding. So they're just putting
together their... their guard regiments to tithe
out. I don't think they've even got close to
15 hours yet. Yeah, I mean, you start keeping
track of your hours now. When you get to 15,
you let me know, and I'll take a couple steps
away from you. Uh, what's a founding? Oh, uh,
you don't know? Oh, a founding? Uh, that's when
part of the tithe to the Emperor and the Golden
Throne, uh, world is called upon to form a regiment.
for the Astra Militarum. Men and women, according
to however the planet, those that rule it, see
fit, are gathered together and tithes to the
military. They're all gathered and they are shipped
off to fight in the wars for the Emperor, to
hold the line against the Xeno, the Heretic,
the Mutant, and the Hanes. I guess. I guess hates
are more of an in -theater specific. But they
almost never return to the planet from their
founding. You're - Oh! My mother was a guardsman.
I don't even remember the planet she was from,
but she never saw her home again. Her land of
her birth. The guard becomes her home. The guard
becomes your home. Uh, you and me, uh, Francisco,
in this line of business are what we call expendable.
We're all sure I guess I for the Emperor of course
I I yeah, I mean, but someone has to survive
right like you can't kill every single soldier
There'd be no soldiers left. Well, she can but
they don't they're not going to expend the effort
to ship you back across the galaxy It's a very
day. Oh I see what you mean Now we about died
three times already. How many you know, how dangerous
do you think it is up in up in the void? Oh He's
just trees and critters and whatnot. At least
here you have some control over your fate. Yeah,
I guess I Didn't think of it like that. I mean
as best if you don't think about it at all It's
good. It's quite depressing No sense worrying
about it. You've already signed the paperwork
and that's not revocable. Yeah Yeah, not think
about it. I think I'll go ahead and just not
think about it. I mean, if you want to think
about it this way, when you're dead, you're not
going to have to worry about it at all. Exactly.
That is... Yeah. Okay. You'll die, I'll take
your stuff, and then I'll probably die later.
That would be a bad precedent if guardsmen started
living forever. They'd probably then kill you.
Yeah. Oh. Alright. Well, that's good to know.
Thanks. Thank you both. That'll be something
to not keep in mind going forward. Yeah, don't
think about it. It's fine. It's not worth worrying
about. It's fine. You're already in it. In for
a pint, in for a pound. You're good. Instead
of worrying about your inevitable violent...
most likely terrible death focus on The violent
most likely terrible death you might face here
on this planet. You got to stay in the present
To be fair. I Mean plenty of people have violent
deaths on their own. They're not even out in
the jungle Yeah, I mean you can die just come
back when you're sleeping just crush your head
with a rock The poor bastards in there working
in the tank farm tank farm moving around all
them Lehman russes Demon russes, yeah, the demon
the tank depot. Oh Like little stop for nobody.
Oh Now they say it's a farm. So you think food,
but it's really not food is tanks Sorry, I'm
not quite up on your Little lingo the military
we're using nowadays there III get I don't know
why I just pictured like a like a tank of like
like an oil tanker Not like a... No, you're right.
The military would have tank tanks. I mean, I'm
sure they have those too. You have an ocean,
don't you? Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure you have. Like
there was. I mean, for now. Yeah. Right. I mean,
look, rogue traders, black ships, everybody needs
water. True. Yeah, that... But yeah. I'm worried
about it. No. Thanks guys, that's true. It's
all about perspective, is what I'm hearing. And
hey, if you ever get too down about it and you
just want to check out early, you just let me
know and I'll shoot you in the back of the head.
Now, Chad. Remember, you did offer to shoot me
in the back of the head. Well, it's an open offer
for anyone who wants it. It is a good offer.
Besides me, because I can't really shoot myself
in the back of the head, so I'm gonna have to
do that for me. If you ask, I'll give you a hand.
See, that's very polite. I appreciate it. So
it's a stand -in offer. If anybody wants to check
out early, you just give old Chet the high sign
and I'll come up behind you and shoot you in
the back of the head. Or I can wait till you're
asleep and hit you with a rock. However you want
me to do it. The rock will probably save us some
paperwork. Yep, save me a bullet. There's rocks
all over the place. Look, there's a good rock
over there. I can just go grab that one and hold
on to it. Not even worried about the bullet if
you shoot him we know best -case scenario you
Nobody says anything worst -case scenario suddenly
everybody's implicated in some sort of heresy
and the entire squad gets executed And that's
for old Chet Mosey's on along to the next way
station Okay, I'm getting it now. Thank you for
the politeness. That is that is very kind It's
a cruel galaxy Francisco, but it doesn't hurt
to be polite Well said. I couldn't agree more.
Suppose we should be moving on then. Secretly
Francisco wants to ask another question, but
decides against it. That's valid. Okay, so you
guys wish to pack up and move on? I don't think
there's any reason for us. I'll sketch out the
clearing, make a note of... Horrible, awful Xeno
thief monkeys. Yes. You realize you're... As
you do that, you realize you're further than
any scouting party has gone before. Oh, that's
good. And bad, probably. Because I'll be going
through and basically, part of whenever we take
a break and then we'll eat or whatever we do
for downtime, part of what I'll do, what Squigs
will do, is he'll start transferring maps and
other notes he's made into the data slate. Yeah.
Just in case something goes wrong, we still have
the data set. As you do so, you realize, you
know, about a day ago, when you encountered that
swinging log trap, that's about where the trail
of all the different scouting parties end. And
you've gone past that now. Oh. Just for all of
your edification, I think we've gone out farther
in this direction than any other. Party has I
don't know if that means anything necessarily
you or Chet or you Francisco That's good we gotta
be getting close that right Well, yeah, it is
as far as we got me that make sure You know putting
down good marker so get back that tracks also
We don't have a destination. We're looking for
a good area to drop in a good area to set up
a landing pad. I don't think we've found anything
thus far. This clearing might be, but those nightmare
creatures from the water. I realize the water
and the general terrain is not good here. No,
it's probably, I'll like stamp my feet down like,
I think it's a bit marshy. I don't know. Francisco,
how would you feel about landing a craft here?
Now this would be terrible definitely you could
slip in the mud if it rains a lot We don't know
how high the water gets And obviously the monkeys
could crawl into the works and start mucking
things up as is their namesake Yeah, terrible
spot terrible spot so we might want to just keep
heading out and I'm sure we'll find something
Makes sense to me. All right Anything else do
we have any food or anything left over? Yeah,
you have Provisions for a week and you've been
traveling for two days. Okay. All right, so we
got plenty. We'll then try Actually, I think
you also hunted for food. So you have more than
that. Yeah, well we did but we got for you the
month the Lizard dogs just weeks go this name.
It's your fault. You did this to yourself. I
did. That will teach you to let us have any agency
whatsoever. There's gonna be a really important
NPC with a really horrible name that I will never
have to say but you will have to address it my
son. If you tempt us with shenanigans we will
give you shenanigans. Okay So if you guys are
done, I think we're done. I think we freaked
out Francis go thoroughly good good good So what
I'm gonna do is I'm not gonna have you have the
same kind of Continuous jungle encounter ten
times in a row. I'm just kind of gonna describe
your journey to the next destination And if at
any point you want to stop me or add something
because you're doing something on the journey,
I'll give you a brief respite and then I'll reset
the scene. Makes sense. We should be back up
to two wrath, right? Yeah, everyone reset your
wrath. Those are the points. See, a lovely thing
that Tim did is he gave me a GM screen. So I
have this wonderful shortcut of everything in
here. So your wrath die, there are two points
that you start with. And... I'm sorry. It could
be every session we start with two wrath? Yeah,
every session you start with two. And then we
can earn wrath via something. Where do I find
my wrath? It's on your character sheet. It'll
be on your player character sheet, right next
to whatever your quote is. Oh, I see. Okay, it's
at two, yeah. And something else, too. We haven't
really messed with it. It hasn't really mattered.
But there is technically our per -play objective.
Which if you roll it comes up with a little table
to help give you some roleplay guidance Yeah,
roleplay guidance a little way to yeah, so you
can spend those dyes to reroll an entire roll
by the way We forgot like the whole like those
are pretty important wrath points. Yeah, we spend
it to reroll failures You can add a narrative
element, which is change the scene or if you
take a rest you can restore your shock equal
to your rank plus your tier so you know it's
pretty powerful if you miss you can spend it
as a reroll after you know um it's a failure
you can't do that with the glory right glory
we have the glory you can add one die to a test
beforehand add one die to a damage beforehand
increase a critical hit or seize the initiative
those are the only things you can do with glory
Oh, okay, so when we change something going on,
change the narrative or whatever, that wasn't
glory, that was wrath that did that? That was
wrath. You can only do it two times per game.
Unless I award you, specifically award you, wrath
points back. Not to be confused with the wrath
die, which is the special die that gives you
a wrath complication or a wrath critical, the
red die when you roll it on the screen. Yeah.
Wrath points are different. So a clarification
of sorts. We all we're all learning Listeners,
we're all learning together you and you and us
you and us Not me I'm not learning anything Yay,
and the fun thing is I got a sweet little difficulty
table So now when you ask me what the DN is,
I'm gonna know. And it's harder than I've been
saying. So we're gonna, we're all gonna do this
together. Oh, nothing's supposed to be a DN1.
DN1 is like picking your teeth. Yes. You can
still fail it. Wow. DN3 is standard. I've been
giving you a lot of twos, which is like medium
easy. Well, you guys are making it harder on
yourself with threes. So maybe I'll start. Let
me see what three does and then we'll like. We'll
be a loosey -goosey and go from there. Well,
I mean, it's like whatever you think is difficult,
right? Sorry, what was that? Yeah, exactly. All
right. Is everyone good? Yeah. Chet wants to
take the lead again just because he's the ranger
here. Yep. Chet will take the lead and start
ranging forward through the jungle filled with
haints. Yeah. All right. So your journey begins
at the break of dawn. When the dense jungle stirs
to life, over multiple days, your path weaves
through a labyrinth of towering trees, whose
canopies filter sunlight into dappled patterns
on the forest floor. At times, a serene clearing
reveals a crystalline pool. Its surface shimmers
under the play of light, a welcome respite from
the thicket's relentless embrace. Yet the jungle
is a realm of duality. Its beauty is profound.
But its dangers are also lurking, twisted roots
lying in wait beneath smothering leaves, sudden
downpours that transform a gentle stream into
a roaring torrent, and hushed, shadowed presence
of stealthy predators whose eyes glint momentarily
in the gloom. With each day's trek, the jungle's
mysteries unfold. an unexpected burst of bioluminescent
at twilight, vibrant orchids clinging defiantly
to ancient trunks, and the eerie, almost otherworldly
echo of distant call. Despite the hazards, the
hanging vines, the hidden pits, the constant
diligence demanded by these unseen threats, the
journey rewards you with a profound awareness
of life's delicate balance between peril and
enchantment. End. As you continue, you notice
something about the terrain. The trees begin
to become more and more scarce, and it becomes
more and more flat. As the sun dims in the distance,
and the bioluminescence clings, and begins to
become more and more dense, you see in the distance,
fire, smoke, and what looks like, hewn wood.
What wood? Hewn, like chopped down with a - Hewn?
Okay, hewn, okay. Uh, Chet'll, you know, put
his fist up to stop and kind of look down his
scope at the fire and see if he can, uh, see
anything or make anything out. Alright. Let's
do a roll. Oh, god. Okay. Well, you want me to
roll. There's no perception, so give me a survival
or awareness. Survival. Eh, I'll do awareness,
that's better. We'll do DN3, we'll start with
the standard. Okay, so DN3, I have a dice pool
of four. So let me roll that. Let's see, so I
got two successes and two failures. So the twilight
of the day falls upon the horizon. That allows
you to see the bioluminescence clinging more
densely to this area, the fire. but it's still,
it's just, the jungle is just so obscurative
that you can't really make out anything more
than that. There's something over there. I can't
really make it out, but there's definitely a
fire. I can see that. I want to take it a little
slow and cautious. This could be a problem. If
this is signs of humanity, you know, they're
so deep in the jungle, they've never encountered...
anyone in civilization this is this is first
contact with uh with with jungle people they
they this could be completely new uh i don't
even know what the protocol is for this i i'm
not really much of a diplomat squigs uh diplomat
how what is this kind of thing kind of look like
i know i know it's like a hewn tree but like
Ah, you're not close enough, but you notice that
wood looks like it's been... You know, you've
seen fallen trees due to rot, due to storms,
due to various natural occurrences. This has
very clearly been wood shaped by tools. Oh. Neat
monkey's doing that. Are there monkeys around
here that do that? I look at Francisco, chat.
I don't know. Nope! Okay, alright, um... Can
I roll, like, can I make, like, an awareness
test? Just to see if anything's watching us?
See if I can see if anybody's watching us? Uh...
Or see if I can sense it? Like, yeah. Sense it?
You want to sense if you feel the eyes on the
back of your head? You can do it in five. In
five? Alright, this is possible. Not likely,
but possible. You also have lots of glory points.
Nope. That's three. Sorry, I didn't set the DN.
Uh... Oh. I see. That's fine. So, uh, that's
a failure. That's a three success on a DN5, so
that's gonna be no. Yeah, you look around and,
you know, you've been traveling in the jungle
multiple days. You've seen lots of things spying
on you, so you can't, but you don't really feel
any different than all those other days. All
right. Well, so I think our... best course of
action is either to go forward and attempt to
hopefully make contact with whatever did this
if whatever did this is still around and I'm
saying what because I do not trust any of the
locals I barely count most of the locals as humans
sorry Francisco you're one of the good ones okay
okay and then or we just go around it and mark
it off as something weird here What if uh, what
if we I mean we're in them it's the middle of
the night right you said there was bioluminescence
and things like that it's It's like the golden
hour like the Sun is setting. Oh, all right Everything's
extra vibrant. Everything's extra vibrant like
you like this this this fire is just barely noticeable
because it's just barely brighter than the surrounding
area now that the bioluminescence this is like
The 30 minutes it begins to wake up you begin
to notice it like nightfall is coming, but it
has not reached you Would we wait for nightfall
then maybe make some ghillie suits and try to
sneak sneak around just because uh You know,
I know chat wasn't able to see anything a second
ago But if we like did some stealth got a little
bit closer late, maybe hear what language they're
speaking if they do speak a language i don't
know if we're dealing with cavemen or if we're
dealing with uh uh something else right i mean
there's there's no real caves around here these
are these would be more marsh people marsh folk
there you go i guess the important thing is that
fire means that it's probably human so we should
i don't think we should just ignore this i definitely
think we should interact with them because one
uh if we can look at them, if we can see what
they're like and what their society is, maybe
they can show us where a good landing zone would
be. And two, like, you know, this is incredibly
fascinating. First contact with a group that
has never seen civilization, that's got to be
definitely the most interesting thing I've seen
so far. It's also an interesting way to get yourself
chopped up and ate. Well, I mean they they can't
eat humans like or the first humans they've ever
met They're not gonna be like, oh, this is the
first time I'm ever gonna eat a human No, they've
got to be eating monkeys or something out here
Frank Francisco my friend I'm gonna be real real
gentle when I say this, but you are made of meat
So you I mean even if they've never eaten a human
before They can eat meat so they can eat you
Now, I'm not telling you this to inform your
decision on what you're going to do. I'm just
saying, don't go in there with the assumption
that they can't eat you. Right. That is a great
point. I am in fact made of meat. Okay. I still
suggest stealth, but I definitely agree if we
get spotted or something, we might shoot our
way out then. I don't want to get et. I'll say
the... Biggest issue with this will be... I am
not anywhere near as adept as either of you will
be at being quiet in this environment. Oh, I
was just gonna say, I know we never split the
party, but... For a stealth mission, we could
split the party. It might be good to have someone
back. I mean, this isn't D &D, so... Yeah, D
&Ds are nerds. Word. We're cool guys. Yeah. Alright.
Because, yeah, if we go without you, Squigs...
I can hang back over here and just wait. And
you guys will know where I am. I'll be right
over here. I'm gonna pick a taller tree. Maybe
a little distinctive outline. There's some branches.
I'll be like, all right, boys, you go see what's
what. If we need to talk to them, I have no problem
talking to whoever that is, if they're amenable
to talking. Nah, I mean, alright. If we're not
back in an hour, obviously we're dead. Leave
us behind and turn home. Yep, that's my plan.
Yeah, well, I guess we're gonna, we'll head over
there, uh, quiet, like, and try and see what's,
what's what over there. And remember, we do have
a bunch of glory out of... That's right, I'm
the glory generator. Yeah, feel free to use it
as, you know... the toughness of these tests
get harder and harder, don't forget to throw
in some glory points against them. You'll get
them back if I throw you an easy test and you
blow it out of the water. Uh, cause yeah. Kevin,
I think while we still have a little bit of daylight
left, I'd like to make, uh, make us ghillie suits.
So just suits like covered us in like vines and
leaves and things like that to help us blend
in a little bit better. Okay. Uh, that sounds
like a survival check, right? Alright. And...
Alright, so I only have three. Unless you want
to do some sort of tech, I don't think you guys
have any sort of cloaking. No. No. No, that's...
That's way out of what any of us would have.
How's your survival chat? Mine's only a three.
Mine is a two. I'll do it, and I'll spend one
of our glory to do it. Alright. So how do I get
rid of the glory? You have to do that? Yeah,
I'll do it. Thank you. I'll just increase my
dice pool. All right. How much are you rolling?
And I roll. It was four dice to get three success.
They only got two. And a wrath complication.
Wrath complication. Interesting. Oh, no. The
machines of the ghillie. Yeah, right? I just
want to see. Wow, it's the same thing over and
over again. All right, it's like you don't have
and you can pick whatever you want off that.
Let's see. You don't necessarily have to Yeah,
I know and you can also make up other ones, too
My brain is very taxed. Um It's nice to have
it tell me what to do. So let me add more things
to this. Yeah, we do my time. Yes Something bad
happens, but you don't know what it is. Oh goody
But my ghillie suit isn't great. You think the
ghillie suit is helping you like you have that
yeah All right, I'll load up me and chat with
the ghillie suits and then once it's let nightfall
I guess we'll go attempt stealth checks to get
in and do I see how bad these ghillie suits look
I will say that you don't because They don't
actually look bad. This is just the wrath complication
that I'm not telling you. Oh, okay Well, you
know what this is a fine job you did I appreciate
it I Truth be told I saw the word ghillie suit
when I was playing Monster Hunter the other day
and I'm like, oh, yeah, those are funny. I like
those man Perfect. I am I'm just gonna sit with
my back against the distinctive tree that we
found So the canopy is a little like Canopies
half broken out. There's a log fall next to it
I'm going to set my back to it, facing where
the fire and the tree was, and then I'm going
to wish you guys luck and just have my pistol
and my dagger out. So can I roll a stealth to
try and get closer? Yes. You will roll a stealth,
but I will not tell you what the DN is. Oh, mystery.
OK. You can choose to use glory dice. You can
choose not to. I'm doing something special that
I will reveal afterwards. I'm not going. I got
a dice full of seven. I'm pretty confident I
can get a roll out of this. Mine's only four.
If people don't mind, I'll take another glory.
Yeah, that's fine. Go ahead. All right. Thank
you very much. Oh my god, that was horrible.
I failed five times. Oh no! Okay. So bad. That's
the opposite of what I wanted to happen. Oh,
and I got a Wrath Critical. I got a Wrath Critical.
Francisco. Oh, Francisco. So I restored the glory
that I just took, which is nice. Yeah, it did
it automatically. Oh, that's nice of them. Okay.
So bad at stealthing. You got two successes,
I got three successes. See, I love it. The dice
tell stories and the story is not what your character
sheet wants it to be. Yeah. Yeah, you've rolled
seven dice. Oh my God. It's terrible. So how
fucked am I? So you approach this fire, the light.
Light from the star, the red sun, goes beneath
the horizon. Faintly, you see one of the two
moons illuminated tonight, making it a very bright
night. The bioluminescence clings almost as if
it was purposefully hung in a pathway. Now you're
smart, you don't stay on the pathway, you stay
off of it. As you stealthily approach, and as
you get closer, You see a village, like it's
very clearly a village, and you hear the hustle
and bustle of activity. This small village shimmers
like a hidden gem in this alien jungle. Towering
iridescent trees draped in luminous vines, framed
batched abodes sculpted from twisted organic
timber and the bioluminescent moss. A gentle
cacophony of rustling leaves resonate. Calls
of unseen creatures and distant rhythmic drumming
of tribal rituals fill the air, each sound weaving
a story of natural wonder. The atmosphere is
rich with a heady melody of scents. The damp
soil mixes with a sweet and spicy hint of exotic
spices. the smoky traces of incense tickle the
inside of your nostril and evoke an almost tangible
sense of mystique. In the distance, in the center
of this village, you see a creature fully clothed,
on two legs, bipedal, begin to feed the fire,
what looks like the main fire. The village is
large and let me see if I can... I'll jump you
to the map once you guys start to interact with
it. Other than that, you're going to have to
kind of use your imagination as you're stealthily
approaching it. You're not quite getting the
whole glimpse of it. Do we hear anyone speaking?
There are sounds. If you listen closely, you
can try to understand them. Yeah, I'll give it
just a shot just to see if I can understand anything
that they're saying. just an awareness check
just an awareness check yeah i'm just gonna roll
for punsies like don't think i can pass this
uh i got two successes you got two successes
um they all sound like mumbles if whatever they're
speaking you can't hear it but they are speaking
okay that's fine uh all right um in that case
that kind of told me but uh oh uh i'd like to
look for weaponry are we talking spears are we
talking shields are we talking anything fancy
um i'll like you see you see primitive weaponry
scattered about spears shields clubs and whatnot
you can see that it's very obviously displayed
do they have ranged weaponry like bows and arrows
They might, you can surmise but you can't see
them. Are there any that look larger than the
other ones? Like clearly they're like the fighters?
There are ones in different clothing. There are
ones that are holding spears, but they're of
all mixed sizes. They're not very, it's not like
forks where like they're biggins and smallins.
But there's women and children too and everything,
right? Elderly. Don't let Anakin hear that. Chet's
gonna aim at the closest child. So clearly this
one's in charge. Red Cisco will just sort of
like take the barrel of the gun and just sort
of set it down gently. He kind of gestures like,
I don't think we want to go deeper in. I think
we want to back up and go find... re -meet up
with squigs and tell them what we just saw, because
I don't know about pushing our luck with this.
Chet does some hand signals that coordinate to
OK, and slowly slinks back into the jungle, back
towards where it came from. Give me an awareness
test, Chet. Awareness test. Alright, let's roll
that. Do a DN3. D and three, that's rule four.
Let's see what we got. Successes, four successes,
one failure. I got a shift possible. No, no shift
possible. No shift possible. Very nice. All right.
You begin, you're both staring into this lovely,
carved out village deep within this jungle. You've
been journeying for several days. You've got
the rhythm you've got these cloaks on you've
got the stealth you're like, okay, you've gathered
enough information you begin to back up and something
about the area you just You feel it you instinctively
turn around and you're two inches away from an
arrow tip pointed at your face Hey Hello uh sir
or ma 'am uh my name is chet longbottom from
birmingham long bottoms uh you have a lovely
camp here you um all right well um you got an
arrow pointed at my face so i don't really have
much choice i just want to know are you going
to try and eat me no talk Oh, all right then.
Show me the way there, big pointy arrow man.
And he like, gestures. And like, now that you're
aware, you kind of like, get, you kind of like
turn around and follow where he gestures. He
takes his arrow, he backs up a little bit to
like, he's got the advantage of, you know, being
at range. He doesn't want you to like lunge and
grab the arrow. You like... You kind of just
know now. You like look around. You've been...
They're watching you. And they've been watching
you the whole time you've been watching them.
There are multiple of them. This just feels awkward
now. I feel kind of dumb. I thought the ghillie
suits were nice. I don't know. What do you want
from me? Well, obviously the ghillie suits didn't
work. Maybe we just made it out of the wrong
type of thing. It smells funny to them or something.
You use green leaves. You're supposed to use
the brown leaves. Damn it. I knew I should have
looked at these. We'll have to ask them if they
let us. All right. We're going to fade to Squigs
really quick as they lead you to the village.
Squigs, some time passes. You don't hear anything.
You don't see anything. Just kind of sitting
there. Looking around like trying to just more
listen All right, you want to you want to give
me an awareness test? Sure. I mean like that's
I'm like hopefully my hope is if something goes
wrong and They get caught or whatever I'll hear
their shootout and either then I'll determine
if it sounds like it's a lot of shooting Maybe
I just don't come Or if something's sneaking
up on me An awareness test. Do you want to give
me a DN? You want to keep that secret? No, it
is a secret for I'm doing opposed rolls. Oh goody.
It is not a DN test. It is an opposed test. An
eye roll. A stealth check of these compounds.
I regret giving you the DM screen. This was better
when you didn't know what you were doing. So
yeah, that was uh, I rolled five, I rolled by
five awareness, got four successes. Alright,
alright. You let me know if I can shift it. No.
No, actually I rolled really good, you got obliterated.
Ah, fuck. Fuck every single duck. Sorry. I just
rolled four sixes. Oh. I got eight successes.
Well, I guess you can shift to glory if you bought
I can shift to ruin oh You're right. I sure will
you probably should Yeah, cuz I'm gonna ruin
your day boy you already did so unlike Chet who
got a small inkling and Like managed to turn
around You're just, you're so concentrated. Like,
you're aware, but you're worried. You're like,
oh, I'm listening for the shootout. Like, I know
they're gonna, like, something bad is gonna happen.
And as soon as that thought clicks into the back
of your head, you feel multiple spears poking
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