WEBVTT 00:00:04.020 --> 00:00:06.960 Welcome to Roll for Heresy, with Squigs, played 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:10.759 by Tim, Chet, played by Wallin, Francisco, played 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:13.460 by Cliff, and everyone else, played by Kevin. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.640 Last time on Roll for Heresy, the team camps 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:19.579 after a wet fight with the Chesquisco, and learn 00:00:19.579 --> 00:00:21.620 a little bit about each other. Chet's a good 00:00:21.620 --> 00:00:24.000 cook, Squigs is always thinking of the Empire, 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:26.579 and Francisco's empathy will eventually get them 00:00:26.579 --> 00:00:29.420 all killed. Surviving the Monkey Stampede, with 00:00:29.420 --> 00:00:31.800 only minor writing implement damage, we move 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:36.950 on to the next day. Uh, that was terrible. I 00:00:36.950 --> 00:00:38.530 can't believe they took all the - they tried 00:00:38.530 --> 00:00:42.670 to take my quill. Of all the things these little 00:00:42.670 --> 00:00:44.829 shits could take, they tried to take my quill. 00:00:45.710 --> 00:00:49.250 It wasn't food. Well, I mean, an animal's gonna 00:00:49.250 --> 00:00:52.130 do what an animal's gonna do. You can't, uh, 00:00:52.149 --> 00:00:54.609 you can't demand they take, uh, your food over 00:00:54.609 --> 00:00:57.070 your quill. Maybe, uh, your quill looks a little 00:00:57.070 --> 00:01:01.210 shinier. So they grabbed that. You didn't eat 00:01:01.210 --> 00:01:04.310 us though, so that's... They didn't say any of 00:01:04.310 --> 00:01:06.790 our names, so that's also important. They didn't 00:01:06.790 --> 00:01:09.909 smell like lavender, so I think that's good. 00:01:10.189 --> 00:01:12.569 Those are most of the rules on the list, yeah. 00:01:13.150 --> 00:01:16.170 If you have to beat eight, I would rather beat 00:01:16.170 --> 00:01:18.769 eight by one big thing than a bunch of small 00:01:18.769 --> 00:01:22.489 tiny things. That'd be very painful and last 00:01:22.489 --> 00:01:24.829 a lot longer. That does not sound like a lot 00:01:24.829 --> 00:01:27.689 of fun. Of the two? Yeah, I'd have to agree with 00:01:27.689 --> 00:01:30.750 you, yeah. When in doubt, go for the big chomp. 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:35.879 Not the little ones. Yeah, I'd prefer like getting 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:41.459 stuck under a sheet of scrolls, a stack of scrolls 00:01:41.459 --> 00:01:44.840 and just forgotten for months on end. Well, I 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:46.239 mean, if we're talking about how we want to go, 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:48.700 I'd rather just a rockfall on my head. Oh, I 00:01:48.700 --> 00:01:53.420 would much rather that. Found more than one. 00:01:53.659 --> 00:01:58.739 Seen a couple of scholars. They tend to go towards 00:01:58.739 --> 00:02:02.469 the older persuasion, they tend to last a lot 00:02:02.469 --> 00:02:07.049 longer. I've seen more than one scribe trapped 00:02:07.049 --> 00:02:10.509 under a pile of books that fell on him and was 00:02:10.509 --> 00:02:13.110 rude enough to expire and stain all of the records 00:02:13.110 --> 00:02:17.569 he was working on. Yeah, you guys are wild. Dying 00:02:17.569 --> 00:02:19.889 of old age, my bed surrounded by loved ones. 00:02:20.310 --> 00:02:23.689 I'd have to go with that? You joined the Imperial 00:02:23.689 --> 00:02:28.370 Guard, didn't you? That's distinctly not in the 00:02:28.370 --> 00:02:31.180 survival plan for Imperial Guard. Old age surrounded 00:02:31.180 --> 00:02:33.240 by loved ones. You can write that one off entirely. 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:39.280 I mean, Francisco, how old are you? Uh... Uh... 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.159 23? Well, looking at this one, you should have 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:47.960 been dead years ago. Really? Oh, yeah. He is 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:52.479 a backwater. They haven't even done a full founding 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:54.840 yet, I don't believe. I don't believe Strong 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.060 has done a founding. So they're just putting 00:02:57.060 --> 00:03:00.930 together their... their guard regiments to tithe 00:03:00.930 --> 00:03:03.590 out. I don't think they've even got close to 00:03:03.590 --> 00:03:06.129 15 hours yet. Yeah, I mean, you start keeping 00:03:06.129 --> 00:03:08.389 track of your hours now. When you get to 15, 00:03:08.430 --> 00:03:10.270 you let me know, and I'll take a couple steps 00:03:10.270 --> 00:03:13.969 away from you. Uh, what's a founding? Oh, uh, 00:03:14.409 --> 00:03:19.530 you don't know? Oh, a founding? Uh, that's when 00:03:19.530 --> 00:03:22.270 part of the tithe to the Emperor and the Golden 00:03:22.270 --> 00:03:27.009 Throne, uh, world is called upon to form a regiment. 00:03:27.340 --> 00:03:31.919 for the Astra Militarum. Men and women, according 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:35.740 to however the planet, those that rule it, see 00:03:35.740 --> 00:03:40.960 fit, are gathered together and tithes to the 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:46.879 military. They're all gathered and they are shipped 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:49.879 off to fight in the wars for the Emperor, to 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:52.120 hold the line against the Xeno, the Heretic, 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:58.110 the Mutant, and the Hanes. I guess. I guess hates 00:03:58.110 --> 00:04:01.669 are more of an in -theater specific. But they 00:04:01.669 --> 00:04:03.710 almost never return to the planet from their 00:04:03.710 --> 00:04:08.550 founding. You're - Oh! My mother was a guardsman. 00:04:09.469 --> 00:04:11.069 I don't even remember the planet she was from, 00:04:11.169 --> 00:04:15.370 but she never saw her home again. Her land of 00:04:15.370 --> 00:04:17.490 her birth. The guard becomes her home. The guard 00:04:17.490 --> 00:04:20.389 becomes your home. Uh, you and me, uh, Francisco, 00:04:20.589 --> 00:04:24.550 in this line of business are what we call expendable. 00:04:25.719 --> 00:04:29.500 We're all sure I guess I for the Emperor of course 00:04:29.500 --> 00:04:34.360 I I yeah, I mean, but someone has to survive 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:38.379 right like you can't kill every single soldier 00:04:38.379 --> 00:04:41.459 There'd be no soldiers left. Well, she can but 00:04:41.459 --> 00:04:44.180 they don't they're not going to expend the effort 00:04:44.180 --> 00:04:47.339 to ship you back across the galaxy It's a very 00:04:47.339 --> 00:04:52.310 day. Oh I see what you mean Now we about died 00:04:52.310 --> 00:04:55.470 three times already. How many you know, how dangerous 00:04:55.470 --> 00:05:00.250 do you think it is up in up in the void? Oh He's 00:05:00.250 --> 00:05:03.629 just trees and critters and whatnot. At least 00:05:03.629 --> 00:05:06.069 here you have some control over your fate. Yeah, 00:05:06.069 --> 00:05:09.629 I guess I Didn't think of it like that. I mean 00:05:09.629 --> 00:05:11.529 as best if you don't think about it at all It's 00:05:11.529 --> 00:05:14.670 good. It's quite depressing No sense worrying 00:05:14.670 --> 00:05:15.970 about it. You've already signed the paperwork 00:05:15.970 --> 00:05:20.079 and that's not revocable. Yeah Yeah, not think 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:23.660 about it. I think I'll go ahead and just not 00:05:23.660 --> 00:05:26.879 think about it. I mean, if you want to think 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:28.399 about it this way, when you're dead, you're not 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:30.560 going to have to worry about it at all. Exactly. 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:35.279 That is... Yeah. Okay. You'll die, I'll take 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:37.160 your stuff, and then I'll probably die later. 00:05:38.259 --> 00:05:42.839 That would be a bad precedent if guardsmen started 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.319 living forever. They'd probably then kill you. 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:50.939 Yeah. Oh. Alright. Well, that's good to know. 00:05:52.300 --> 00:05:57.459 Thanks. Thank you both. That'll be something 00:05:57.459 --> 00:06:03.360 to not keep in mind going forward. Yeah, don't 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:05.939 think about it. It's fine. It's not worth worrying 00:06:05.939 --> 00:06:09.259 about. It's fine. You're already in it. In for 00:06:09.259 --> 00:06:12.160 a pint, in for a pound. You're good. Instead 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:16.899 of worrying about your inevitable violent... 00:06:17.129 --> 00:06:21.870 most likely terrible death focus on The violent 00:06:21.870 --> 00:06:23.990 most likely terrible death you might face here 00:06:23.990 --> 00:06:26.449 on this planet. You got to stay in the present 00:06:26.449 --> 00:06:30.970 To be fair. I Mean plenty of people have violent 00:06:30.970 --> 00:06:32.310 deaths on their own. They're not even out in 00:06:32.310 --> 00:06:36.009 the jungle Yeah, I mean you can die just come 00:06:36.009 --> 00:06:37.870 back when you're sleeping just crush your head 00:06:37.870 --> 00:06:42.029 with a rock The poor bastards in there working 00:06:42.029 --> 00:06:45.089 in the tank farm tank farm moving around all 00:06:45.089 --> 00:06:49.279 them Lehman russes Demon russes, yeah, the demon 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:53.480 the tank depot. Oh Like little stop for nobody. 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:58.079 Oh Now they say it's a farm. So you think food, 00:06:58.100 --> 00:07:02.139 but it's really not food is tanks Sorry, I'm 00:07:02.139 --> 00:07:06.680 not quite up on your Little lingo the military 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:10.759 we're using nowadays there III get I don't know 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:13.100 why I just pictured like a like a tank of like 00:07:13.100 --> 00:07:16.269 like an oil tanker Not like a... No, you're right. 00:07:16.389 --> 00:07:18.910 The military would have tank tanks. I mean, I'm 00:07:18.910 --> 00:07:20.930 sure they have those too. You have an ocean, 00:07:20.970 --> 00:07:24.970 don't you? Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure you have. Like 00:07:24.970 --> 00:07:32.050 there was. I mean, for now. Yeah. Right. I mean, 00:07:32.649 --> 00:07:36.730 look, rogue traders, black ships, everybody needs 00:07:36.730 --> 00:07:41.449 water. True. Yeah, that... But yeah. I'm worried 00:07:41.449 --> 00:07:46.170 about it. No. Thanks guys, that's true. It's 00:07:46.170 --> 00:07:51.670 all about perspective, is what I'm hearing. And 00:07:51.670 --> 00:07:53.949 hey, if you ever get too down about it and you 00:07:53.949 --> 00:07:55.930 just want to check out early, you just let me 00:07:55.930 --> 00:07:57.329 know and I'll shoot you in the back of the head. 00:07:57.769 --> 00:08:01.550 Now, Chad. Remember, you did offer to shoot me 00:08:01.550 --> 00:08:04.269 in the back of the head. Well, it's an open offer 00:08:04.269 --> 00:08:06.149 for anyone who wants it. It is a good offer. 00:08:06.949 --> 00:08:08.689 Besides me, because I can't really shoot myself 00:08:08.689 --> 00:08:09.949 in the back of the head, so I'm gonna have to 00:08:09.949 --> 00:08:13.360 do that for me. If you ask, I'll give you a hand. 00:08:13.660 --> 00:08:16.300 See, that's very polite. I appreciate it. So 00:08:16.300 --> 00:08:19.819 it's a stand -in offer. If anybody wants to check 00:08:19.819 --> 00:08:22.639 out early, you just give old Chet the high sign 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:24.399 and I'll come up behind you and shoot you in 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:26.420 the back of the head. Or I can wait till you're 00:08:26.420 --> 00:08:28.500 asleep and hit you with a rock. However you want 00:08:28.500 --> 00:08:30.980 me to do it. The rock will probably save us some 00:08:30.980 --> 00:08:33.559 paperwork. Yep, save me a bullet. There's rocks 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:34.899 all over the place. Look, there's a good rock 00:08:34.899 --> 00:08:37.159 over there. I can just go grab that one and hold 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:40.110 on to it. Not even worried about the bullet if 00:08:40.110 --> 00:08:44.690 you shoot him we know best -case scenario you 00:08:44.690 --> 00:08:47.190 Nobody says anything worst -case scenario suddenly 00:08:47.190 --> 00:08:49.210 everybody's implicated in some sort of heresy 00:08:49.210 --> 00:08:52.350 and the entire squad gets executed And that's 00:08:52.350 --> 00:08:55.750 for old Chet Mosey's on along to the next way 00:08:55.750 --> 00:08:59.429 station Okay, I'm getting it now. Thank you for 00:08:59.429 --> 00:09:04.110 the politeness. That is that is very kind It's 00:09:04.110 --> 00:09:06.610 a cruel galaxy Francisco, but it doesn't hurt 00:09:06.610 --> 00:09:10.980 to be polite Well said. I couldn't agree more. 00:09:11.419 --> 00:09:15.120 Suppose we should be moving on then. Secretly 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.580 Francisco wants to ask another question, but 00:09:17.580 --> 00:09:21.440 decides against it. That's valid. Okay, so you 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:24.700 guys wish to pack up and move on? I don't think 00:09:24.700 --> 00:09:27.080 there's any reason for us. I'll sketch out the 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:32.279 clearing, make a note of... Horrible, awful Xeno 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:37.500 thief monkeys. Yes. You realize you're... As 00:09:37.500 --> 00:09:39.360 you do that, you realize you're further than 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:42.720 any scouting party has gone before. Oh, that's 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:47.419 good. And bad, probably. Because I'll be going 00:09:47.419 --> 00:09:51.419 through and basically, part of whenever we take 00:09:51.419 --> 00:09:54.200 a break and then we'll eat or whatever we do 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.000 for downtime, part of what I'll do, what Squigs 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:02.480 will do, is he'll start transferring maps and 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:05.179 other notes he's made into the data slate. Yeah. 00:10:05.340 --> 00:10:07.600 Just in case something goes wrong, we still have 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:10.960 the data set. As you do so, you realize, you 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.919 know, about a day ago, when you encountered that 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:17.299 swinging log trap, that's about where the trail 00:10:17.299 --> 00:10:21.820 of all the different scouting parties end. And 00:10:21.820 --> 00:10:27.960 you've gone past that now. Oh. Just for all of 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:31.799 your edification, I think we've gone out farther 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:35.940 in this direction than any other. Party has I 00:10:35.940 --> 00:10:37.500 don't know if that means anything necessarily 00:10:37.500 --> 00:10:43.679 you or Chet or you Francisco That's good we gotta 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:47.320 be getting close that right Well, yeah, it is 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:51.039 as far as we got me that make sure You know putting 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:54.820 down good marker so get back that tracks also 00:10:54.820 --> 00:10:58.559 We don't have a destination. We're looking for 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:04.220 a good area to drop in a good area to set up 00:11:04.220 --> 00:11:08.840 a landing pad. I don't think we've found anything 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:11.820 thus far. This clearing might be, but those nightmare 00:11:11.820 --> 00:11:16.019 creatures from the water. I realize the water 00:11:16.019 --> 00:11:19.100 and the general terrain is not good here. No, 00:11:19.220 --> 00:11:21.460 it's probably, I'll like stamp my feet down like, 00:11:21.659 --> 00:11:23.980 I think it's a bit marshy. I don't know. Francisco, 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:29.120 how would you feel about landing a craft here? 00:11:29.970 --> 00:11:32.129 Now this would be terrible definitely you could 00:11:32.129 --> 00:11:34.909 slip in the mud if it rains a lot We don't know 00:11:34.909 --> 00:11:38.129 how high the water gets And obviously the monkeys 00:11:38.129 --> 00:11:40.809 could crawl into the works and start mucking 00:11:40.809 --> 00:11:45.909 things up as is their namesake Yeah, terrible 00:11:45.909 --> 00:11:48.250 spot terrible spot so we might want to just keep 00:11:48.250 --> 00:11:52.029 heading out and I'm sure we'll find something 00:11:52.029 --> 00:11:57.179 Makes sense to me. All right Anything else do 00:11:57.179 --> 00:12:02.240 we have any food or anything left over? Yeah, 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:06.259 you have Provisions for a week and you've been 00:12:06.259 --> 00:12:09.440 traveling for two days. Okay. All right, so we 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.000 got plenty. We'll then try Actually, I think 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.539 you also hunted for food. So you have more than 00:12:15.539 --> 00:12:18.320 that. Yeah, well we did but we got for you the 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:24.639 month the Lizard dogs just weeks go this name. 00:12:25.779 --> 00:12:31.840 It's your fault. You did this to yourself. I 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:35.659 did. That will teach you to let us have any agency 00:12:35.659 --> 00:12:39.340 whatsoever. There's gonna be a really important 00:12:39.340 --> 00:12:42.360 NPC with a really horrible name that I will never 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:44.399 have to say but you will have to address it my 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:48.740 son. If you tempt us with shenanigans we will 00:12:48.740 --> 00:12:58.409 give you shenanigans. Okay So if you guys are 00:12:58.409 --> 00:13:01.389 done, I think we're done. I think we freaked 00:13:01.389 --> 00:13:09.629 out Francis go thoroughly good good good So what 00:13:09.629 --> 00:13:13.269 I'm gonna do is I'm not gonna have you have the 00:13:13.269 --> 00:13:16.730 same kind of Continuous jungle encounter ten 00:13:16.730 --> 00:13:19.669 times in a row. I'm just kind of gonna describe 00:13:19.669 --> 00:13:23.409 your journey to the next destination And if at 00:13:23.409 --> 00:13:25.750 any point you want to stop me or add something 00:13:25.750 --> 00:13:27.669 because you're doing something on the journey, 00:13:28.250 --> 00:13:31.210 I'll give you a brief respite and then I'll reset 00:13:31.210 --> 00:13:34.049 the scene. Makes sense. We should be back up 00:13:34.049 --> 00:13:36.470 to two wrath, right? Yeah, everyone reset your 00:13:36.470 --> 00:13:40.070 wrath. Those are the points. See, a lovely thing 00:13:40.070 --> 00:13:43.009 that Tim did is he gave me a GM screen. So I 00:13:43.009 --> 00:13:47.129 have this wonderful shortcut of everything in 00:13:47.129 --> 00:13:51.190 here. So your wrath die, there are two points 00:13:51.190 --> 00:13:55.929 that you start with. And... I'm sorry. It could 00:13:55.929 --> 00:13:58.450 be every session we start with two wrath? Yeah, 00:13:58.450 --> 00:14:00.830 every session you start with two. And then we 00:14:00.830 --> 00:14:05.129 can earn wrath via something. Where do I find 00:14:05.129 --> 00:14:07.070 my wrath? It's on your character sheet. It'll 00:14:07.070 --> 00:14:09.269 be on your player character sheet, right next 00:14:09.269 --> 00:14:12.330 to whatever your quote is. Oh, I see. Okay, it's 00:14:12.330 --> 00:14:15.769 at two, yeah. And something else, too. We haven't 00:14:15.769 --> 00:14:18.129 really messed with it. It hasn't really mattered. 00:14:18.210 --> 00:14:21.570 But there is technically our per -play objective. 00:14:21.899 --> 00:14:24.440 Which if you roll it comes up with a little table 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:29.980 to help give you some roleplay guidance Yeah, 00:14:29.980 --> 00:14:32.639 roleplay guidance a little way to yeah, so you 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:35.940 can spend those dyes to reroll an entire roll 00:14:35.940 --> 00:14:39.080 by the way We forgot like the whole like those 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:42.360 are pretty important wrath points. Yeah, we spend 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:45.639 it to reroll failures You can add a narrative 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.659 element, which is change the scene or if you 00:14:48.659 --> 00:14:53.080 take a rest you can restore your shock equal 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:55.639 to your rank plus your tier so you know it's 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:58.559 pretty powerful if you miss you can spend it 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:02.360 as a reroll after you know um it's a failure 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:04.480 you can't do that with the glory right glory 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:08.460 we have the glory you can add one die to a test 00:15:08.460 --> 00:15:11.360 beforehand add one die to a damage beforehand 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.980 increase a critical hit or seize the initiative 00:15:14.980 --> 00:15:16.580 those are the only things you can do with glory 00:15:18.300 --> 00:15:21.759 Oh, okay, so when we change something going on, 00:15:21.899 --> 00:15:23.500 change the narrative or whatever, that wasn't 00:15:23.500 --> 00:15:25.220 glory, that was wrath that did that? That was 00:15:25.220 --> 00:15:28.220 wrath. You can only do it two times per game. 00:15:29.860 --> 00:15:33.440 Unless I award you, specifically award you, wrath 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:38.480 points back. Not to be confused with the wrath 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:41.679 die, which is the special die that gives you 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:44.240 a wrath complication or a wrath critical, the 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:46.399 red die when you roll it on the screen. Yeah. 00:15:46.750 --> 00:15:51.269 Wrath points are different. So a clarification 00:15:51.269 --> 00:15:54.990 of sorts. We all we're all learning Listeners, 00:15:54.990 --> 00:15:57.649 we're all learning together you and you and us 00:15:57.649 --> 00:16:05.350 you and us Not me I'm not learning anything Yay, 00:16:06.129 --> 00:16:09.450 and the fun thing is I got a sweet little difficulty 00:16:09.450 --> 00:16:11.889 table So now when you ask me what the DN is, 00:16:11.970 --> 00:16:14.509 I'm gonna know. And it's harder than I've been 00:16:14.509 --> 00:16:16.730 saying. So we're gonna, we're all gonna do this 00:16:16.730 --> 00:16:19.490 together. Oh, nothing's supposed to be a DN1. 00:16:20.090 --> 00:16:23.309 DN1 is like picking your teeth. Yes. You can 00:16:23.309 --> 00:16:28.210 still fail it. Wow. DN3 is standard. I've been 00:16:28.210 --> 00:16:30.690 giving you a lot of twos, which is like medium 00:16:30.690 --> 00:16:33.429 easy. Well, you guys are making it harder on 00:16:33.429 --> 00:16:36.169 yourself with threes. So maybe I'll start. Let 00:16:36.169 --> 00:16:39.159 me see what three does and then we'll like. We'll 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:41.440 be a loosey -goosey and go from there. Well, 00:16:41.500 --> 00:16:43.419 I mean, it's like whatever you think is difficult, 00:16:44.019 --> 00:16:47.539 right? Sorry, what was that? Yeah, exactly. All 00:16:47.539 --> 00:16:52.179 right. Is everyone good? Yeah. Chet wants to 00:16:52.179 --> 00:16:54.259 take the lead again just because he's the ranger 00:16:54.259 --> 00:16:57.779 here. Yep. Chet will take the lead and start 00:16:57.779 --> 00:17:01.340 ranging forward through the jungle filled with 00:17:01.340 --> 00:17:05.680 haints. Yeah. All right. So your journey begins 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:08.650 at the break of dawn. When the dense jungle stirs 00:17:08.650 --> 00:17:12.309 to life, over multiple days, your path weaves 00:17:12.309 --> 00:17:14.930 through a labyrinth of towering trees, whose 00:17:14.930 --> 00:17:17.750 canopies filter sunlight into dappled patterns 00:17:17.750 --> 00:17:21.650 on the forest floor. At times, a serene clearing 00:17:21.650 --> 00:17:24.430 reveals a crystalline pool. Its surface shimmers 00:17:24.430 --> 00:17:28.009 under the play of light, a welcome respite from 00:17:28.009 --> 00:17:31.230 the thicket's relentless embrace. Yet the jungle 00:17:31.230 --> 00:17:34.089 is a realm of duality. Its beauty is profound. 00:17:34.460 --> 00:17:38.400 But its dangers are also lurking, twisted roots 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:41.720 lying in wait beneath smothering leaves, sudden 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:44.940 downpours that transform a gentle stream into 00:17:44.940 --> 00:17:48.720 a roaring torrent, and hushed, shadowed presence 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:53.740 of stealthy predators whose eyes glint momentarily 00:17:53.740 --> 00:17:57.759 in the gloom. With each day's trek, the jungle's 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:01.829 mysteries unfold. an unexpected burst of bioluminescent 00:18:01.829 --> 00:18:05.069 at twilight, vibrant orchids clinging defiantly 00:18:05.069 --> 00:18:08.849 to ancient trunks, and the eerie, almost otherworldly 00:18:08.849 --> 00:18:13.029 echo of distant call. Despite the hazards, the 00:18:13.029 --> 00:18:16.269 hanging vines, the hidden pits, the constant 00:18:16.269 --> 00:18:19.829 diligence demanded by these unseen threats, the 00:18:19.829 --> 00:18:22.609 journey rewards you with a profound awareness 00:18:22.609 --> 00:18:26.630 of life's delicate balance between peril and 00:18:26.630 --> 00:18:30.769 enchantment. End. As you continue, you notice 00:18:30.769 --> 00:18:33.509 something about the terrain. The trees begin 00:18:33.509 --> 00:18:36.170 to become more and more scarce, and it becomes 00:18:36.170 --> 00:18:40.130 more and more flat. As the sun dims in the distance, 00:18:40.710 --> 00:18:44.809 and the bioluminescence clings, and begins to 00:18:44.809 --> 00:18:49.569 become more and more dense, you see in the distance, 00:18:49.890 --> 00:18:53.589 fire, smoke, and what looks like, hewn wood. 00:18:54.109 --> 00:18:56.650 What wood? Hewn, like chopped down with a - Hewn? 00:18:56.769 --> 00:19:00.750 Okay, hewn, okay. Uh, Chet'll, you know, put 00:19:00.750 --> 00:19:04.210 his fist up to stop and kind of look down his 00:19:04.210 --> 00:19:07.990 scope at the fire and see if he can, uh, see 00:19:07.990 --> 00:19:11.589 anything or make anything out. Alright. Let's 00:19:11.589 --> 00:19:16.490 do a roll. Oh, god. Okay. Well, you want me to 00:19:16.490 --> 00:19:20.849 roll. There's no perception, so give me a survival 00:19:20.849 --> 00:19:25.569 or awareness. Survival. Eh, I'll do awareness, 00:19:25.569 --> 00:19:28.430 that's better. We'll do DN3, we'll start with 00:19:28.430 --> 00:19:32.210 the standard. Okay, so DN3, I have a dice pool 00:19:32.210 --> 00:19:38.130 of four. So let me roll that. Let's see, so I 00:19:38.130 --> 00:19:42.410 got two successes and two failures. So the twilight 00:19:42.410 --> 00:19:47.549 of the day falls upon the horizon. That allows 00:19:47.549 --> 00:19:51.210 you to see the bioluminescence clinging more 00:19:51.210 --> 00:19:55.740 densely to this area, the fire. but it's still, 00:19:56.099 --> 00:19:58.559 it's just, the jungle is just so obscurative 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:00.599 that you can't really make out anything more 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:03.519 than that. There's something over there. I can't 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:06.539 really make it out, but there's definitely a 00:20:06.539 --> 00:20:10.680 fire. I can see that. I want to take it a little 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:14.500 slow and cautious. This could be a problem. If 00:20:14.500 --> 00:20:18.160 this is signs of humanity, you know, they're 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:21.420 so deep in the jungle, they've never encountered... 00:20:21.630 --> 00:20:25.190 anyone in civilization this is this is first 00:20:25.190 --> 00:20:28.950 contact with uh with with jungle people they 00:20:28.950 --> 00:20:34.230 they this could be completely new uh i don't 00:20:34.230 --> 00:20:36.549 even know what the protocol is for this i i'm 00:20:36.549 --> 00:20:43.170 not really much of a diplomat squigs uh diplomat 00:20:43.170 --> 00:20:46.829 how what is this kind of thing kind of look like 00:20:46.829 --> 00:20:49.829 i know i know it's like a hewn tree but like 00:20:49.789 --> 00:20:52.910 Ah, you're not close enough, but you notice that 00:20:52.910 --> 00:20:55.390 wood looks like it's been... You know, you've 00:20:55.390 --> 00:20:57.809 seen fallen trees due to rot, due to storms, 00:20:58.009 --> 00:21:00.309 due to various natural occurrences. This has 00:21:00.309 --> 00:21:05.289 very clearly been wood shaped by tools. Oh. Neat 00:21:05.289 --> 00:21:08.849 monkey's doing that. Are there monkeys around 00:21:08.849 --> 00:21:11.450 here that do that? I look at Francisco, chat. 00:21:13.250 --> 00:21:18.109 I don't know. Nope! Okay, alright, um... Can 00:21:18.109 --> 00:21:21.269 I roll, like, can I make, like, an awareness 00:21:21.269 --> 00:21:24.190 test? Just to see if anything's watching us? 00:21:24.329 --> 00:21:27.650 See if I can see if anybody's watching us? Uh... 00:21:27.650 --> 00:21:30.670 Or see if I can sense it? Like, yeah. Sense it? 00:21:30.690 --> 00:21:32.369 You want to sense if you feel the eyes on the 00:21:32.369 --> 00:21:34.630 back of your head? You can do it in five. In 00:21:34.630 --> 00:21:38.410 five? Alright, this is possible. Not likely, 00:21:38.410 --> 00:21:41.470 but possible. You also have lots of glory points. 00:21:42.009 --> 00:21:44.450 Nope. That's three. Sorry, I didn't set the DN. 00:21:45.849 --> 00:21:50.359 Uh... Oh. I see. That's fine. So, uh, that's 00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:53.119 a failure. That's a three success on a DN5, so 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:55.680 that's gonna be no. Yeah, you look around and, 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:58.480 you know, you've been traveling in the jungle 00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:01.579 multiple days. You've seen lots of things spying 00:22:01.579 --> 00:22:03.740 on you, so you can't, but you don't really feel 00:22:03.740 --> 00:22:07.240 any different than all those other days. All 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:13.839 right. Well, so I think our... best course of 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:16.640 action is either to go forward and attempt to 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:18.779 hopefully make contact with whatever did this 00:22:18.779 --> 00:22:21.799 if whatever did this is still around and I'm 00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:26.059 saying what because I do not trust any of the 00:22:26.059 --> 00:22:28.940 locals I barely count most of the locals as humans 00:22:28.940 --> 00:22:32.720 sorry Francisco you're one of the good ones okay 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:39.839 okay and then or we just go around it and mark 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:43.039 it off as something weird here What if uh, what 00:22:43.039 --> 00:22:46.279 if we I mean we're in them it's the middle of 00:22:46.279 --> 00:22:48.500 the night right you said there was bioluminescence 00:22:48.500 --> 00:22:52.640 and things like that it's It's like the golden 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:56.420 hour like the Sun is setting. Oh, all right Everything's 00:22:56.420 --> 00:22:59.420 extra vibrant. Everything's extra vibrant like 00:22:59.420 --> 00:23:03.299 you like this this this fire is just barely noticeable 00:23:03.299 --> 00:23:05.759 because it's just barely brighter than the surrounding 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:08.839 area now that the bioluminescence this is like 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:12.000 The 30 minutes it begins to wake up you begin 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.319 to notice it like nightfall is coming, but it 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:19.640 has not reached you Would we wait for nightfall 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:22.880 then maybe make some ghillie suits and try to 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.220 sneak sneak around just because uh You know, 00:23:26.299 --> 00:23:28.140 I know chat wasn't able to see anything a second 00:23:28.140 --> 00:23:31.039 ago But if we like did some stealth got a little 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:34.849 bit closer late, maybe hear what language they're 00:23:34.849 --> 00:23:37.250 speaking if they do speak a language i don't 00:23:37.250 --> 00:23:38.910 know if we're dealing with cavemen or if we're 00:23:38.910 --> 00:23:43.569 dealing with uh uh something else right i mean 00:23:43.569 --> 00:23:45.549 there's there's no real caves around here these 00:23:45.549 --> 00:23:49.049 are these would be more marsh people marsh folk 00:23:49.049 --> 00:23:51.410 there you go i guess the important thing is that 00:23:51.410 --> 00:23:54.950 fire means that it's probably human so we should 00:23:54.950 --> 00:23:57.930 i don't think we should just ignore this i definitely 00:23:57.930 --> 00:24:01.210 think we should interact with them because one 00:24:01.210 --> 00:24:06.400 uh if we can look at them, if we can see what 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:08.579 they're like and what their society is, maybe 00:24:08.579 --> 00:24:11.259 they can show us where a good landing zone would 00:24:11.259 --> 00:24:17.819 be. And two, like, you know, this is incredibly 00:24:17.819 --> 00:24:22.160 fascinating. First contact with a group that 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:25.559 has never seen civilization, that's got to be 00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:27.119 definitely the most interesting thing I've seen 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:30.839 so far. It's also an interesting way to get yourself 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:35.539 chopped up and ate. Well, I mean they they can't 00:24:35.539 --> 00:24:38.680 eat humans like or the first humans they've ever 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:40.380 met They're not gonna be like, oh, this is the 00:24:40.380 --> 00:24:42.660 first time I'm ever gonna eat a human No, they've 00:24:42.660 --> 00:24:45.099 got to be eating monkeys or something out here 00:24:45.099 --> 00:24:48.220 Frank Francisco my friend I'm gonna be real real 00:24:48.220 --> 00:24:51.400 gentle when I say this, but you are made of meat 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:55.920 So you I mean even if they've never eaten a human 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:59.859 before They can eat meat so they can eat you 00:25:00.170 --> 00:25:02.630 Now, I'm not telling you this to inform your 00:25:02.630 --> 00:25:04.250 decision on what you're going to do. I'm just 00:25:04.250 --> 00:25:06.769 saying, don't go in there with the assumption 00:25:06.769 --> 00:25:11.529 that they can't eat you. Right. That is a great 00:25:11.529 --> 00:25:16.809 point. I am in fact made of meat. Okay. I still 00:25:16.809 --> 00:25:22.029 suggest stealth, but I definitely agree if we 00:25:22.029 --> 00:25:25.730 get spotted or something, we might shoot our 00:25:25.730 --> 00:25:29.069 way out then. I don't want to get et. I'll say 00:25:29.069 --> 00:25:33.339 the... Biggest issue with this will be... I am 00:25:33.339 --> 00:25:37.599 not anywhere near as adept as either of you will 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:41.240 be at being quiet in this environment. Oh, I 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:43.180 was just gonna say, I know we never split the 00:25:43.180 --> 00:25:45.839 party, but... For a stealth mission, we could 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:47.839 split the party. It might be good to have someone 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:51.460 back. I mean, this isn't D &D, so... Yeah, D 00:25:51.460 --> 00:25:57.880 &Ds are nerds. Word. We're cool guys. Yeah. Alright. 00:25:58.460 --> 00:26:01.299 Because, yeah, if we go without you, Squigs... 00:26:01.299 --> 00:26:05.700 I can hang back over here and just wait. And 00:26:05.700 --> 00:26:07.400 you guys will know where I am. I'll be right 00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:12.579 over here. I'm gonna pick a taller tree. Maybe 00:26:12.579 --> 00:26:15.019 a little distinctive outline. There's some branches. 00:26:15.180 --> 00:26:19.980 I'll be like, all right, boys, you go see what's 00:26:19.980 --> 00:26:22.519 what. If we need to talk to them, I have no problem 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:27.380 talking to whoever that is, if they're amenable 00:26:27.380 --> 00:26:31.299 to talking. Nah, I mean, alright. If we're not 00:26:31.299 --> 00:26:33.759 back in an hour, obviously we're dead. Leave 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:38.599 us behind and turn home. Yep, that's my plan. 00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:41.980 Yeah, well, I guess we're gonna, we'll head over 00:26:41.980 --> 00:26:46.660 there, uh, quiet, like, and try and see what's, 00:26:46.660 --> 00:26:49.359 what's what over there. And remember, we do have 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:53.759 a bunch of glory out of... That's right, I'm 00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:56.980 the glory generator. Yeah, feel free to use it 00:26:56.980 --> 00:27:00.019 as, you know... the toughness of these tests 00:27:00.019 --> 00:27:01.960 get harder and harder, don't forget to throw 00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:04.099 in some glory points against them. You'll get 00:27:04.099 --> 00:27:06.359 them back if I throw you an easy test and you 00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:08.960 blow it out of the water. Uh, cause yeah. Kevin, 00:27:09.180 --> 00:27:11.940 I think while we still have a little bit of daylight 00:27:11.940 --> 00:27:15.299 left, I'd like to make, uh, make us ghillie suits. 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:19.039 So just suits like covered us in like vines and 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:21.200 leaves and things like that to help us blend 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:25.660 in a little bit better. Okay. Uh, that sounds 00:27:25.660 --> 00:27:31.930 like a survival check, right? Alright. And... 00:27:31.930 --> 00:27:33.410 Alright, so I only have three. Unless you want 00:27:33.410 --> 00:27:35.710 to do some sort of tech, I don't think you guys 00:27:35.710 --> 00:27:40.569 have any sort of cloaking. No. No. No, that's... 00:27:40.569 --> 00:27:43.029 That's way out of what any of us would have. 00:27:44.430 --> 00:27:47.069 How's your survival chat? Mine's only a three. 00:27:47.309 --> 00:27:51.250 Mine is a two. I'll do it, and I'll spend one 00:27:51.250 --> 00:27:58.200 of our glory to do it. Alright. So how do I get 00:27:58.200 --> 00:28:00.680 rid of the glory? You have to do that? Yeah, 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:04.819 I'll do it. Thank you. I'll just increase my 00:28:04.819 --> 00:28:07.380 dice pool. All right. How much are you rolling? 00:28:07.380 --> 00:28:11.140 And I roll. It was four dice to get three success. 00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:13.920 They only got two. And a wrath complication. 00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:21.059 Wrath complication. Interesting. Oh, no. The 00:28:21.059 --> 00:28:23.839 machines of the ghillie. Yeah, right? I just 00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:25.859 want to see. Wow, it's the same thing over and 00:28:25.859 --> 00:28:30.140 over again. All right, it's like you don't have 00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:31.619 and you can pick whatever you want off that. 00:28:31.700 --> 00:28:34.559 Let's see. You don't necessarily have to Yeah, 00:28:34.579 --> 00:28:37.460 I know and you can also make up other ones, too 00:28:37.460 --> 00:28:41.960 My brain is very taxed. Um It's nice to have 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:43.859 it tell me what to do. So let me add more things 00:28:43.859 --> 00:28:50.539 to this. Yeah, we do my time. Yes Something bad 00:28:50.539 --> 00:28:53.819 happens, but you don't know what it is. Oh goody 00:28:54.710 --> 00:28:58.309 But my ghillie suit isn't great. You think the 00:28:58.309 --> 00:29:00.609 ghillie suit is helping you like you have that 00:29:00.609 --> 00:29:04.130 yeah All right, I'll load up me and chat with 00:29:04.130 --> 00:29:07.269 the ghillie suits and then once it's let nightfall 00:29:07.269 --> 00:29:09.250 I guess we'll go attempt stealth checks to get 00:29:09.250 --> 00:29:11.869 in and do I see how bad these ghillie suits look 00:29:11.869 --> 00:29:18.730 I will say that you don't because They don't 00:29:18.730 --> 00:29:21.990 actually look bad. This is just the wrath complication 00:29:21.990 --> 00:29:24.839 that I'm not telling you. Oh, okay Well, you 00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:27.420 know what this is a fine job you did I appreciate 00:29:27.420 --> 00:29:33.480 it I Truth be told I saw the word ghillie suit 00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:35.299 when I was playing Monster Hunter the other day 00:29:35.299 --> 00:29:37.660 and I'm like, oh, yeah, those are funny. I like 00:29:37.660 --> 00:29:45.059 those man Perfect. I am I'm just gonna sit with 00:29:45.059 --> 00:29:47.099 my back against the distinctive tree that we 00:29:47.099 --> 00:29:51.140 found So the canopy is a little like Canopies 00:29:51.140 --> 00:29:53.519 half broken out. There's a log fall next to it 00:29:54.130 --> 00:29:59.109 I'm going to set my back to it, facing where 00:29:59.109 --> 00:30:03.910 the fire and the tree was, and then I'm going 00:30:03.910 --> 00:30:06.369 to wish you guys luck and just have my pistol 00:30:06.369 --> 00:30:11.869 and my dagger out. So can I roll a stealth to 00:30:11.869 --> 00:30:16.509 try and get closer? Yes. You will roll a stealth, 00:30:16.670 --> 00:30:20.750 but I will not tell you what the DN is. Oh, mystery. 00:30:20.950 --> 00:30:25.130 OK. You can choose to use glory dice. You can 00:30:25.130 --> 00:30:27.829 choose not to. I'm doing something special that 00:30:27.829 --> 00:30:31.349 I will reveal afterwards. I'm not going. I got 00:30:31.349 --> 00:30:34.650 a dice full of seven. I'm pretty confident I 00:30:34.650 --> 00:30:36.569 can get a roll out of this. Mine's only four. 00:30:37.009 --> 00:30:38.829 If people don't mind, I'll take another glory. 00:30:39.369 --> 00:30:41.990 Yeah, that's fine. Go ahead. All right. Thank 00:30:41.990 --> 00:30:44.839 you very much. Oh my god, that was horrible. 00:30:44.900 --> 00:30:52.359 I failed five times. Oh no! Okay. So bad. That's 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:54.680 the opposite of what I wanted to happen. Oh, 00:30:54.700 --> 00:30:58.259 and I got a Wrath Critical. I got a Wrath Critical. 00:30:58.779 --> 00:31:03.059 Francisco. Oh, Francisco. So I restored the glory 00:31:03.059 --> 00:31:05.299 that I just took, which is nice. Yeah, it did 00:31:05.299 --> 00:31:08.279 it automatically. Oh, that's nice of them. Okay. 00:31:09.140 --> 00:31:11.890 So bad at stealthing. You got two successes, 00:31:11.890 --> 00:31:14.309 I got three successes. See, I love it. The dice 00:31:14.309 --> 00:31:16.569 tell stories and the story is not what your character 00:31:16.569 --> 00:31:21.269 sheet wants it to be. Yeah. Yeah, you've rolled 00:31:21.269 --> 00:31:29.609 seven dice. Oh my God. It's terrible. So how 00:31:29.609 --> 00:31:39.670 fucked am I? So you approach this fire, the light. 00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:44.220 Light from the star, the red sun, goes beneath 00:31:44.220 --> 00:31:48.200 the horizon. Faintly, you see one of the two 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:51.500 moons illuminated tonight, making it a very bright 00:31:51.500 --> 00:31:56.460 night. The bioluminescence clings almost as if 00:31:56.460 --> 00:32:01.440 it was purposefully hung in a pathway. Now you're 00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:03.599 smart, you don't stay on the pathway, you stay 00:32:03.599 --> 00:32:06.779 off of it. As you stealthily approach, and as 00:32:06.779 --> 00:32:09.769 you get closer, You see a village, like it's 00:32:09.769 --> 00:32:14.069 very clearly a village, and you hear the hustle 00:32:14.069 --> 00:32:18.029 and bustle of activity. This small village shimmers 00:32:18.029 --> 00:32:24.470 like a hidden gem in this alien jungle. Towering 00:32:24.470 --> 00:32:29.390 iridescent trees draped in luminous vines, framed 00:32:29.390 --> 00:32:33.569 batched abodes sculpted from twisted organic 00:32:33.569 --> 00:32:37.769 timber and the bioluminescent moss. A gentle 00:32:37.769 --> 00:32:41.630 cacophony of rustling leaves resonate. Calls 00:32:41.630 --> 00:32:44.609 of unseen creatures and distant rhythmic drumming 00:32:44.609 --> 00:32:48.930 of tribal rituals fill the air, each sound weaving 00:32:48.930 --> 00:32:54.329 a story of natural wonder. The atmosphere is 00:32:54.329 --> 00:32:58.609 rich with a heady melody of scents. The damp 00:32:58.609 --> 00:33:04.529 soil mixes with a sweet and spicy hint of exotic 00:33:04.529 --> 00:33:09.970 spices. the smoky traces of incense tickle the 00:33:09.970 --> 00:33:14.049 inside of your nostril and evoke an almost tangible 00:33:14.049 --> 00:33:17.890 sense of mystique. In the distance, in the center 00:33:17.890 --> 00:33:23.390 of this village, you see a creature fully clothed, 00:33:23.609 --> 00:33:27.630 on two legs, bipedal, begin to feed the fire, 00:33:28.250 --> 00:33:30.910 what looks like the main fire. The village is 00:33:30.910 --> 00:33:35.559 large and let me see if I can... I'll jump you 00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:37.819 to the map once you guys start to interact with 00:33:37.819 --> 00:33:40.160 it. Other than that, you're going to have to 00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:43.500 kind of use your imagination as you're stealthily 00:33:43.500 --> 00:33:45.140 approaching it. You're not quite getting the 00:33:45.140 --> 00:33:49.099 whole glimpse of it. Do we hear anyone speaking? 00:33:49.859 --> 00:33:53.779 There are sounds. If you listen closely, you 00:33:53.779 --> 00:33:58.920 can try to understand them. Yeah, I'll give it 00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:03.400 just a shot just to see if I can understand anything 00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:05.559 that they're saying. just an awareness check 00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:08.380 just an awareness check yeah i'm just gonna roll 00:34:08.380 --> 00:34:10.219 for punsies like don't think i can pass this 00:34:10.219 --> 00:34:14.019 uh i got two successes you got two successes 00:34:14.019 --> 00:34:19.159 um they all sound like mumbles if whatever they're 00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:21.179 speaking you can't hear it but they are speaking 00:34:21.179 --> 00:34:28.260 okay that's fine uh all right um in that case 00:34:28.260 --> 00:34:32.539 that kind of told me but uh oh uh i'd like to 00:34:32.539 --> 00:34:36.849 look for weaponry are we talking spears are we 00:34:36.849 --> 00:34:40.630 talking shields are we talking anything fancy 00:34:40.630 --> 00:34:47.750 um i'll like you see you see primitive weaponry 00:34:47.750 --> 00:34:53.130 scattered about spears shields clubs and whatnot 00:34:53.130 --> 00:34:55.670 you can see that it's very obviously displayed 00:34:55.670 --> 00:34:59.309 do they have ranged weaponry like bows and arrows 00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:03.400 They might, you can surmise but you can't see 00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:07.480 them. Are there any that look larger than the 00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:10.579 other ones? Like clearly they're like the fighters? 00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:15.139 There are ones in different clothing. There are 00:35:15.139 --> 00:35:17.579 ones that are holding spears, but they're of 00:35:17.579 --> 00:35:22.400 all mixed sizes. They're not very, it's not like 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:24.480 forks where like they're biggins and smallins. 00:35:24.860 --> 00:35:26.559 But there's women and children too and everything, 00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:30.420 right? Elderly. Don't let Anakin hear that. Chet's 00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:38.679 gonna aim at the closest child. So clearly this 00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:43.360 one's in charge. Red Cisco will just sort of 00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:45.739 like take the barrel of the gun and just sort 00:35:45.739 --> 00:35:51.039 of set it down gently. He kind of gestures like, 00:35:51.340 --> 00:35:54.260 I don't think we want to go deeper in. I think 00:35:54.260 --> 00:35:59.130 we want to back up and go find... re -meet up 00:35:59.130 --> 00:36:01.409 with squigs and tell them what we just saw, because 00:36:01.409 --> 00:36:04.769 I don't know about pushing our luck with this. 00:36:05.610 --> 00:36:08.510 Chet does some hand signals that coordinate to 00:36:08.510 --> 00:36:14.030 OK, and slowly slinks back into the jungle, back 00:36:14.030 --> 00:36:17.849 towards where it came from. Give me an awareness 00:36:17.849 --> 00:36:23.969 test, Chet. Awareness test. Alright, let's roll 00:36:23.969 --> 00:36:28.780 that. Do a DN3. D and three, that's rule four. 00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:33.840 Let's see what we got. Successes, four successes, 00:36:34.039 --> 00:36:39.019 one failure. I got a shift possible. No, no shift 00:36:39.019 --> 00:36:42.179 possible. No shift possible. Very nice. All right. 00:36:42.659 --> 00:36:48.380 You begin, you're both staring into this lovely, 00:36:48.820 --> 00:36:52.739 carved out village deep within this jungle. You've 00:36:52.739 --> 00:36:56.519 been journeying for several days. You've got 00:36:56.519 --> 00:37:00.119 the rhythm you've got these cloaks on you've 00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:03.619 got the stealth you're like, okay, you've gathered 00:37:03.619 --> 00:37:08.800 enough information you begin to back up and something 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:14.639 about the area you just You feel it you instinctively 00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:18.280 turn around and you're two inches away from an 00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:27.730 arrow tip pointed at your face Hey Hello uh sir 00:37:27.730 --> 00:37:33.289 or ma 'am uh my name is chet longbottom from 00:37:33.289 --> 00:37:36.329 birmingham long bottoms uh you have a lovely 00:37:36.329 --> 00:37:44.389 camp here you um all right well um you got an 00:37:44.389 --> 00:37:45.949 arrow pointed at my face so i don't really have 00:37:45.949 --> 00:37:48.289 much choice i just want to know are you going 00:37:48.289 --> 00:37:56.820 to try and eat me no talk Oh, all right then. 00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:01.420 Show me the way there, big pointy arrow man. 00:38:02.139 --> 00:38:06.699 And he like, gestures. And like, now that you're 00:38:06.699 --> 00:38:09.940 aware, you kind of like, get, you kind of like 00:38:09.940 --> 00:38:12.860 turn around and follow where he gestures. He 00:38:12.860 --> 00:38:15.320 takes his arrow, he backs up a little bit to 00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:18.099 like, he's got the advantage of, you know, being 00:38:18.099 --> 00:38:20.159 at range. He doesn't want you to like lunge and 00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:25.619 grab the arrow. You like... You kind of just 00:38:25.619 --> 00:38:29.019 know now. You like look around. You've been... 00:38:29.019 --> 00:38:30.860 They're watching you. And they've been watching 00:38:30.860 --> 00:38:32.539 you the whole time you've been watching them. 00:38:33.400 --> 00:38:35.960 There are multiple of them. This just feels awkward 00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:40.500 now. I feel kind of dumb. I thought the ghillie 00:38:40.500 --> 00:38:42.800 suits were nice. I don't know. What do you want 00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:45.719 from me? Well, obviously the ghillie suits didn't 00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:48.280 work. Maybe we just made it out of the wrong 00:38:48.280 --> 00:38:50.480 type of thing. It smells funny to them or something. 00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:52.219 You use green leaves. You're supposed to use 00:38:52.219 --> 00:38:54.079 the brown leaves. Damn it. I knew I should have 00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:58.639 looked at these. We'll have to ask them if they 00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:01.860 let us. All right. We're going to fade to Squigs 00:39:01.860 --> 00:39:04.280 really quick as they lead you to the village. 00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:12.920 Squigs, some time passes. You don't hear anything. 00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:15.699 You don't see anything. Just kind of sitting 00:39:15.699 --> 00:39:19.940 there. Looking around like trying to just more 00:39:19.940 --> 00:39:22.880 listen All right, you want to you want to give 00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:25.199 me an awareness test? Sure. I mean like that's 00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:30.400 I'm like hopefully my hope is if something goes 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:34.980 wrong and They get caught or whatever I'll hear 00:39:34.980 --> 00:39:37.300 their shootout and either then I'll determine 00:39:37.300 --> 00:39:39.320 if it sounds like it's a lot of shooting Maybe 00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:43.760 I just don't come Or if something's sneaking 00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:51.340 up on me An awareness test. Do you want to give 00:39:51.340 --> 00:39:54.219 me a DN? You want to keep that secret? No, it 00:39:54.219 --> 00:39:58.480 is a secret for I'm doing opposed rolls. Oh goody. 00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:02.280 It is not a DN test. It is an opposed test. An 00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:06.059 eye roll. A stealth check of these compounds. 00:40:07.139 --> 00:40:09.739 I regret giving you the DM screen. This was better 00:40:09.739 --> 00:40:14.289 when you didn't know what you were doing. So 00:40:14.289 --> 00:40:16.489 yeah, that was uh, I rolled five, I rolled by 00:40:16.489 --> 00:40:20.630 five awareness, got four successes. Alright, 00:40:21.010 --> 00:40:28.349 alright. You let me know if I can shift it. No. 00:40:29.030 --> 00:40:31.750 No, actually I rolled really good, you got obliterated. 00:40:32.170 --> 00:40:36.889 Ah, fuck. Fuck every single duck. Sorry. I just 00:40:36.889 --> 00:40:42.769 rolled four sixes. Oh. I got eight successes. 00:40:43.550 --> 00:40:46.750 Well, I guess you can shift to glory if you bought 00:40:46.750 --> 00:40:50.889 I can shift to ruin oh You're right. I sure will 00:40:50.889 --> 00:40:55.130 you probably should Yeah, cuz I'm gonna ruin 00:40:55.130 --> 00:41:01.809 your day boy you already did so unlike Chet who 00:41:01.809 --> 00:41:05.949 got a small inkling and Like managed to turn 00:41:05.949 --> 00:41:10.150 around You're just, you're so concentrated. Like, 00:41:10.389 --> 00:41:12.570 you're aware, but you're worried. You're like, 00:41:12.630 --> 00:41:14.449 oh, I'm listening for the shootout. Like, I know 00:41:14.449 --> 00:41:16.449 they're gonna, like, something bad is gonna happen. 00:41:16.789 --> 00:41:18.690 And as soon as that thought clicks into the back 00:41:18.690 --> 00:41:21.809 of your head, you feel multiple spears poking 00:41:21.809 --> 00:41:24.789 into your back. Thanks for listening to this 00:41:24.789 --> 00:41:27.309 episode of Roll for Heresy. Join us on Discord 00:41:27.309 --> 00:41:29.230 at the House of Heresy and Madness.