My name is Irene. I play I own a starling and she has a riff of the Shadow Dragon from Dungeons and Dragons.
Snyder’s Return:They were the best fighting in a war they couldn't comprehend, for a cause entwined into a shutting world of espionage, subterfuge and sabotage. Coming this year is a story of teamwork, hope, and betrayal, as they follow the harsh and intense, relentless directive Where are you guys landing?
Iona Starling:Wherever there's room?
Snyder’s Return:Oh, there's plenty of room.
Iona Starling:Yeah, so she'll probably land um, it probably be really awkward since she's only got three legs to do it. So there's a bit of there's a bit of a scuttle to it. And then she uncross her talents to let out Rafa gently on the ground.
Rafa:Good thing does that rough is hungry that means that he hasn't doesn't have anything in his belly. That means that even if he's sick
Iona Starling:or to God if you if you vomited a few balls
Unknown:no hungry.
Dr. Henry Edwards:You are scrubbing that shit out of my scales
Iona Starling:thank God she doesn't have croissant between her scales. Thank God for that.
Snyder’s Return:Yes. So as you so with respect to the main street then that is in this sorry state of repair. The very few people moving around whereabouts in relation to the main street of Walmart. Are you putting yourselves
Iona Starling:where among were Can you repeat that?
Snyder’s Return:So you've gone across the city into the Walmart the state or district, the main street is looks horrible and run down and you don't want to end only you'd have a better sense of positioning. They would be those up towards the house. You located than the main coming back in towards the city a little bit is the main street which runs through the middle of wild knock. And then there's like the whole housing estate in and around that area. So with respect to the Main Street, where are you putting yourselves
Iona Starling:probably a bit more down. Probably.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Dr. Edwards lands on the roof SWAT band
Iona Starling:mice, like directly on the roof of the SWAT van.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Oh yeah.
Iona Starling:Okay, I have a question Does he crushed that? Can you like you made me rule when I want to lay it on a roof? Can Can you make him rolled? See if he crushed the ramp?
Dr. Henry Edwards:I mean Dr. Edwards isn't a dragon so
Iona Starling:Dr. Edwards is the size of a Hulk SWAT vans aren't that tough?
Snyder’s Return:I would like you need to take the risk
Rafa:Russia says roughly it's a company car it's probably a
Dr. Henry Edwards:personal transformation powerful physicality.
Iona Starling:I don't know if I think those are weaknesses your situation you could control it, I guess if you could find a way to control the anyway,
Dr. Henry Edwards:I do actually homebrew that in my own campaign where power tags can be weaknesses and weaknesses can be stressed
Snyder’s Return:I think it's an optional
Dr. Henry Edwards:it's also an upgrade you can get for certain powers.
Iona Starling:Oh right. Yeah. I mean, I guess it I guess you can ever use it a weakness tag where you can like logically know like, I want to know she's not going to fit through a sewer if she's in a dragon form right.
Dr. Henry Edwards:And I will take my new power to tag from turf top of the food chain. Are there any weaknesses you want me to invoke?
Snyder’s Return:Don't think the serum sort of comes into this, although you are on it, it is not sort of being deprived from you so.
Dr. Henry Edwards:So just the serum serum. Okay, and I have another upgrade for my adaptation. Just mark a plus one for now. Take the risks, good job on Raw, The secret to always get in good roles to make very few roles.
Snyder’s Return:So, with a 12 a great success, describe what it looks like as you land upon them what to solve.
Dr. Henry Edwards:So he launches himself from a low roof and lands, probably with his massively oversized mitt outstretched and sort of just vaults himself off of the roof onto the pavement. There is a slight, hand shaped dent in the roof of the van. But it is not enough to do more than startle the occupants.
Snyder’s Return:As you startle the occupants. They not expecting an impact on the roof, but quickly pile out and raise weaponry should we say in your general location. You can see them quickly sort of drop it and sort of move out from the van in a very organised and practice fashion to sort of stay behind the doors for cover and other to sort of split wide and look to sort of moving flank this unusual looking forward that they were certainly not expecting to land on the van as their weapons are raised and look at you, Iona and Rafa you land a bit further back a bit further down Main Street and can sort of see all this happening in the distance.
Iona Starling:lobby that he made a fool of himself.
Rafa:He reached the goal faster.
Iona Starling:Are we going to help him or what? Oh wait, we're in this together.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Shit. He looks at the crew and says Mr. Hyde. I did not realise that your team were so jumpy.
Rafa:I guess he doesn't need help.
Iona Starling:All right. Let's go. Iona does not change out of her dragon form because she's making the fucking statement
Dr. Henry Edwards:the irony of Mr. Hyde talking to Mr. Hyde all we need is the third Mr. Hyde and we've got a sitcom two and a half hives
Rafa:down some notes
Snyder’s Return:I was ordered either already there as weapons or trained upon you. Mister Hi. Sorry. Hi. It says in response the team is well drilled that is all not expecting these occurrences. So what you can see iron and Rafa is sort of the assault rifles are sort of tilted up and sort of brought to Earth readied or, like at ease position, they're sort of pointed out the way and the the pistol that Mr. Hyde was holding is sort of relaxed, but from the side of you own or refer you here. Pop screen pop browser, as a half dressed man comes racing out the alley holding a fire axe and screaming kind of growling something intelligible at you.
Iona Starling:Is does he charge at us like does he
Snyder’s Return:is he is charging towards you. Act in hand racing out of this sort of alleyway.
Iona Starling:I don't know. Let's out a ferocious roar back than trying to swat it as hard as she can.
Snyder’s Return:go toe to toe for
Dr. Henry Edwards:Oh boy. My favourite three words as hard as she can
Iona Starling:you all right. I'm gonna put combat training on there. You know what this counts. Okay,
Dr. Henry Edwards:I'm waiting for this guy to fold like wet tissue paper
Iona Starling:he's about to baby
Rafa:Nice.
Snyder’s Return:Oh nice. So owner with a 14 and a power three you get to choose to have the following You can manage to achieve your goal as in take something they hold you can get them good inflicting a status equal to the tip no tear equal to your power which is three we've been blocked Dodgeville countered the best attempt
Iona Starling:I guess since he's coming at me with I guess the idea was so I think you blocked DOJ or counter their best attempt so I guess I countered their best attempt and with my last two power I'll inflict the status batted on to
Dr. Henry Edwards:you get the status equal to your power you just choose two options
Iona Starling:right function your right my bad I'm
Snyder’s Return:just increase the number
Iona Starling:333 power I guess tossed yeah tossed
Snyder’s Return:off so you find your attempt No, I'm not gonna say that sentence No, because I wouldn't yes that would have come out very wrong. So rewarding that slightly with the sort of thoughts for me so guilt Okay, so as this act swings towards you and you sort of power off and push them back toward tossing this this person backwards you do notice that they are even larger physical form of first appeared the shadows as the sort of an air form as they emerge from the the anyway to the side sort of masks somehow and you're only able to sort of push them back so they take tossed three they will take pushed
Iona Starling:to Fair enough.
Snyder’s Return:And they say to you both of you and draw rules again and you can see the axe being lifted but as he moves you now shifts and starts heading to refer instead.
Rafa:Okay, ruff is pretty cool, kind of his his bit startled, but he if the guy comes too close, he will
Snyder’s Return:say it's gonna cause more times yeah, he's going to try and swing his axe at you and change shifting target and moving away from iron as draconic for some exam so I need you to face
Rafa:danger. Danger. Okay. Three. Okay. Rafa will use his unbreakable buddy superhuman strength furious rage to have something oh yes, his disorienting trends
Snyder’s Return:and hunger also likely to evolve so as a negative the selected one yes. Read the Yes.
Unknown:Minus one. Okay, that's the power of three basically, or alpha will vary. As cool as he might he is he will leave at the guy and really give him a hit in the stomach. Trying to get his axe and rip it out of his hands and mark the guy
Snyder’s Return:back facing or I guess being more first.
Unknown:Yes. Oh, okay. And just the sense okay. Good job.
Snyder’s Return:Yeah. So describe how you defend from having this axe or swallow towards you.
Unknown:Okay, well, rough will basically stop the axe mid swing. You will see a faint greenish glow or a faint greenish our enveloping him and you'll also see that well he fended off the the axe or he caught the axe with his left hand and his right hand but brushed his ring a little bit, or his piercing. And basically that's it. He caught the guy or the axe with one hand and then he will go basically for the throat with his right hand and be like, Dude, are you okay? You want a Snickers You're not human you're hungry.
Iona Starling:Is not as nice. She could just
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Unknown:yes, he will basically can catch with one hand the axe on with the under he will just kind of not squeeze it but just having in check.
Snyder’s Return:As in sort of move to do that you've he seems to always start to grow in stature, that what's left of like a firefighters outfit that he's wearing and the X seems to begin to sort of rip and tear it's almost like watching the doctor but this this person starts to become Harry a darker first start sort of emerging from every part of their body that the beard begins to sort of turn dark eyes begin to sort of turn a fierce red colour and the mouth begins to sort of twisting conforming to like canine fangs.
Iona Starling:Oh shit he's a werewolf and says
Snyder’s Return:I need you to go toe to toe to overpower you and you in turn trying to overpower
Rafa:him Can I can use the same back Okay, okay okay I bought
Iona Starling:I can give you a give you a whole point I'm just not sure how she's going to do that I'm just trying to figure out how she would
Snyder’s Return:you're a bit dragon kind of stood
Iona Starling:I guess she she'd try and reach over and try and pry the guy
Unknown:you probably have to have lightning can Can't you just kind of hit him with him with your tail just like
Iona Starling:I think the reason is she can hit you with such a big blow without hitting you as well right you're basically strangle together so the only thing she could kind of hope is trying to peel him off you and then maybe throw him as far as she can
Unknown:if I if I glance towards Dr. Edwards we're still behind right we're not you're you're further down the road.
Iona Starling:Yeah, I was gonna call I was going to call for help probably. Shit. Shit actually. Okay, I'll give you a help. Will points.
Unknown:If that's all right then give you You guys, I will use one help point from Iona. Okay, I can't use many or multiple right?
Snyder’s Return:You can use as many as you can't use more than than Iona has
Iona Starling:to offer right I think that's the real Yeah. Okay. I mean I don't mind I have two left to spare but I'm not sure do you want to do you want to use them both?
Unknown:I have nothing against using both of them right now because the other powers that I can use
Iona Starling:all right, you can have two you can have two power there you go.
Unknown:Thank you very much. And I will use morally ambiguous if that's okay. Because I I do like I stopped the guy in the sense that I kind of want to talk to him but
Iona Starling:will you just jab at his throat take out his eyes
Rafa:yeah and I will use his axe if I succeed Yeah, that'll do it.
Unknown:Okay, I do you okay that will be a power of three do you want to invoke any other weakness
Snyder’s Return:will say the effective ones already been used but the because of his incessant mentioning the sense of hunger so that will be minus
Iona Starling:three can croissant and
Snyder’s Return:and his firefighter X is also a minus one which is why I'm missing the first one
Unknown:okay then that will be a power of one
Iona Starling:wow go toe to toe I was looking at the wrong thing
Unknown:yes
Snyder’s Return:great success with the death card is stacked against you. So you managed to achieve your goal take something they hold give them a status or you can block dodge or counter their best attempts.
Unknown:Okay, I will counter the the attempt because I believe that he will he will his try to swing the axe again of me or will he try to crush me?
Snyder’s Return:We'll have to see what happens.
Unknown:Okay, well I will try to push him back a little bit I was still I already are still having in my my hand. I will rip the the axe out of his hand and start crushing his throats and as soon as he gives in a little bit I will like I'm used to swinging and axe and I will just split his head
Snyder’s Return:what is what
Unknown:I will use the axe? I will try to rip his axe out of
Snyder’s Return:take some of these hold the hold split is what
Rafa:the split is ahead. I will use the X myself.
Dr. Henry Edwards:I mean you've got one power so good luck Yeah,
Rafa:I will try to attack and yes
Snyder’s Return:losing so
Dr. Henry Edwards:in that case I'm going to use a helpful
Unknown:Oh take something you hold okay. Yeah. Oh yeah, no, no no, I've read the first one I was doing all three basically. Oh, yeah. So yeah, I will I will not attack I will counter or I will block the guy and rip the X out of his hand and use it for myself.
Snyder’s Return:Remove the x naught upon you remove the X and he starts to sort of lash towards you but you sort of can't have the actions this sort of big form. Well, that seems to be increasing in size. And for potentially sort of begins to tower a tower over you but is a larger stature broad, broadly and broad. With Auto
Rafa:Mechanic shout over to
Iona Starling:that was what I own I was going to do X ray as soon as as soon as he grabs the axe from him she she turns around down the she looks around her neck and looks back and she bellows as loud as she can
Snyder’s Return:how tense Do you doctor says the your agents doctor?
Dr. Henry Edwards:They are indeed and with that he launches himself down the street and just basically throws himself As a projectile against this werewolf, hope you've got Ooh boy this can be fun. When personal transformation, powerful physicality imbibe the CRM transformative top of the food chain morally ambiguous is burned. So I need to mark that. And should I assume you want to invoke the CRM or
Snyder’s Return:what's that word?
Dr. Henry Edwards:It's adaptation.
Snyder’s Return:Yeah. And you can also use agents and Associates potential since one is holding them still and the other one has
Dr. Henry Edwards:Yeah, I will use agents and Associates as well. And I is hunger going to be a weakness here?
Snyder’s Return:Yes, you all still follow?
Dr. Henry Edwards:So that's one and with all I've got a job girls, I love Lavon
Snyder’s Return:we'll start with the result of 11 power of four you can choose to the following take a superior position get them good get more than there is only one control the collateral damage or hold the targets attention or gain the upper hand for ages
Iona Starling:but this guy like I honest real probably got a paw wrapped around him so like you you bog him, you probably hit her as well. If you're not aiming,
Dr. Henry Edwards:I am going to control the collateral damage.
Iona Starling:Thank you.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Good You're welcome.
Iona Starling:Thank you sir.
Dr. Henry Edwards:So a tear five torn asunder as he grabs the werewolf by the legs as he goes hurtling past
Iona Starling:is known as holding the top half and he's holding the bottom something
Rafa:like a strike.
Snyder’s Return:Right. So that was that? And then you've done. Oh, DuBois. Yes, I'm just making sure I track it properly. So you got pushed to off of push to off of Rafa and you have just done.
Dr. Henry Edwards:tier five torn asunder.
Snyder’s Return:Five. Unfortunately, he is savagely torn
Dr. Henry Edwards:at
Snyder’s Return:level four, as you tear through the sides, but his physicality is able to resist being torn, clearly asunder. However, there is lots of yelping and much frustration in the face and the voice and pain and anguish as this is human. Questionable, is looking incredibly, incredibly hurt. He seems to be just be able to just lessen the impact that each of you have had on him so far, just for an hour, at least as the axe is released to your hand wrap up so you now technically have that as a storytime. But for now. Yes. He yobs grab growls he's struggling to stay in one piece but still tries to lash out. It's unclear if he's trying to be released so you can escape or if he can try and just attack and he's gonna just reach out and attempt to attack the hand that holds him because Dr. You have flown past with with force and roughing I've stepped back with the fire axe where you have the fire axe so he is going to attempt to sort of lash out at you with his claws his hands have developed into these these sort of sharp clawed hands. It's a choice to lash down into your talent.
Iona Starling:Talent it's kind of hard. It's I don't know. I kind of saying between between talent and path usually depending on what I'm trying to do with it.
Snyder’s Return:So I need you to face the danger against Moodle three. You Oh,
Iona Starling:okay. Um, the only thing I got for that is honestly, um, Dragon Form. Anything else I can pull up? I don't know. Can I pull up the fat man dragon fruit? What was that? Okay. All right. All right, there we go. I take two.
Snyder’s Return:So, as it he sort of drags his claws down into your hand. Yes. Less of a morning and more of just a stab. Sort of stabbed to as the claws or a sink into your drip chronic skin just enough to pierce it through as he continues to draw and now grovelling and start of what's left at his top bottom half connection is starting to arrive in your hand to escape
Iona Starling:i on a crushes them
Dr. Henry Edwards:squeamish
Snyder’s Return:you've got because I think that's that's the most we're clicking dangerous
Iona Starling:determination for this
Dr. Henry Edwards:like stomping grapes
Iona Starling:Yeah, you know what? I'm a click understands cause and effect because let me tell you she knows exactly how to apply fresh are there buddy yeah, I think that that's yeah, that's that's for power. Give me what you got, buddy.
Dr. Henry Edwards:We started with a werewolf and now we have raspberry jam.
Snyder’s Return:Wonder if that is the same. Oh shit, I didn't get that right.
Rafa:Okay, success.
Snyder’s Return:Success was a result of nine and a power four. So you can choose one you can take cover or security superior position, you can get them good with a plus one tear to troll the collateral damage, hold the targets attention if possible, which is very possible. Or you can gain the upper hand and and bank a single juice.
Iona Starling:I don't need a juice he's about to die in a few seconds. I guess my goal here is to kill them. So you get them good for as much as I can. All my power
Snyder’s Return:all my power so that's a five knocked out a four. But he goes in your your claw your talent and you feel warm. Moisture fluid sort of seeping between your your claw in separate claws. As the body of this individual begins to regress to a human male of slightly older tattooed still quite tall and broad the beard loses a sort of the darker ufer and goes to like a salt and pepper kind of beard.
Rafa:Can I while he's going down?
Iona Starling:As soon as he goes limp Ayana drops the body or what's left of it and goes to licking the wound that was left on her like Tallinn arm oh I need to look up I need to look up dragon anatomy
Snyder’s Return:yes gone off
Rafa:rough I would like to actually while before he dies or at least and when when he has the the chance he would like to investigate and see beyond demist and see if what if he somehow connected to the black methods to the black plague or if he's something else because that doesn't really looks like it has something to do just just trying to see if the mist will reveal some kind of connection between these two or if it's something else entirely
Snyder’s Return:up to you see through the list Absolutely.
Rafa:Okay. Then that is a investigate with to power because I have two methods.
Snyder’s Return:Yes. As you again channel your inability and from a drawing and solving X push this this power out. revealing the truth behind what is in front of you. You do see the bisected form in front of you for want of a better description appears virtually human now. tall, strong in individual, you see, looking through the mist, effectively the RSA lupine and that sounds wrong. Some of rabbit lupine lupinus.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Leukine means laughing Yes.
Rafa:Yeah. lupine. Yeah.
Snyder’s Return:So you see this sort of lupine Wolf, Wolf Man Form, again, separated it on the floor in front of you that doesn't seem to be the black or the hungry. He spoke of didn't sort of sit with with what you had seen an experience from, from the others that you were investigating the sort of Victor Chang and the others. However, what you noticed sort of lifting your head up from the curb is everything in and around the area of the mainstream, you surely get a skeletal sense of the desolation of the structures and there seems to be like a strange the building's almost replaced by a warped and on top of dead wood or forest. A sense of of gloom and repressed feeling of hunger sort of seems to emanate from from every angle. There is there is there is a sense of foreboding like a twist of, of psychosis that kind of hands and sits in the air. Looking around the place looks like a bit like a approaching like a snow blast in winter wonderland. But a lot of the snow has melted. There's seems to be one section as you begin to look round the up even up towards where the SWAT truck is. SWAT family is Mr. Hyde. They sort of stay hidden. I think Mr. Hyde stands out. And some of the others will come back to that in a second. But looking around panning around there seems to be a graveyard setup, black tree trunk shadows crown with antlers that sort of creep, out of sight that sense of deprivation, of unreadiness of flight. A sense of deprivation pervades the air and it seems to invoke unbridled hunger in yourselves, that you started to feel definitely what what this poor gentleman was suffering from. That doesn't seem to be any sort of fixed source of whether it's maligned forces come from it just seems to be everywhere. And the only place that seems to be shielded from this appears to be a church just just off towards the the end of Main Street, past where Mr. Hyde and the SWAT team are. Thanks for listening, you can find out more about the show, including our interview episodes via linktree or at our website at www dot Snyder’s return.squarespace.com. please consider leaving us a review. City of mist as a TTRPG by Sun evoke. You can find out more about city Mist by going to www dot city of mist.co music and sound effects for this episode from epidemic sounds.com. The intro and outro music were composed by Chloe Elliot. You can find her on Twitter at Khloe underscore with the flow. The logo was designed by Jessie Lowe you can find her artwork on Twitter at Akon Nomi underscore art. We're gonna use our help points and be ready to investigate next time on metallers monsters and madmen