Snyder’s Return

Introduction to D&D -Baldur's Gate - Aukan's Gamble - Pt_4

July 09, 2020 Adam Powell Season 2 Episode 6
Snyder’s Return
Introduction to D&D -Baldur's Gate - Aukan's Gamble - Pt_4
Show Notes Transcript

The confrontation in the backroom comes to it's conclusion with the surviving parties vying for position and resolution. Can Bron, Aukan and Cricket live long enough to collect any winnings?

The Introduction to D&D is at an end and the adventure moves forward as Fists, Fur and a Mountain of Trouble.


Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) 5e rules, including the Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus Module referenced are properties of Wizards of the Coast (WotC)

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All right

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after that so you are now standing over this prone,

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beaten as an agent who's coughed up some blood disease isn't landed

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looks very

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unnerved by the whole experience if I'm perfectly honest.

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So that's that's you done? Yeah.

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All right, the yanti who had this person launched out them sort of staggered actions as this is not how this day was supposed to go. But we will end it now I think. And he's gonna

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step over the top

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of the centre him and he's going to wield his Scimitar. And he's just going to come at you and attack you twice.

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Which one? Was this? The first one here?

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Is it the one

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next is he like? Yeah, I'm just making sure he doesn't jump out. Why

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is that one chooses to? Yes, no no problem. Oh yeah. tiny steps over

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a prime and

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he's gonna make two cemetery attacks against you or can

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first one is a

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21

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tip call

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yeah I'm 16

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or five points of slack which as he's now sussed the weight of the cemetery and you see it sort of shimmer flick past and it's it's almost hypnotic in its movement. Second attack as you bring around to bear again is a dirt 20

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so I imagine that hits as well

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and that's for another four points of slashing damage. So to Quick slices with the Scimitar

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and a side you can lie

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as I said to present all Rena Nobody leaves especially not you You bastard

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at the damage or knows well how much damage is that altogether?

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You name

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the second one yeah,

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I can't see your health, I get zeros

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and I'm 19

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I had 28 but I've just last name they're

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quite deep. You're

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the

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the second one, the second deonte that was was hit by the hammer strike from yourself is going to turn towards you looking down over you at He's just going to start flashing the cemetery as well seeing his compatriot having success against the big man they're going to try and carve their way through you and out the door beyond. So the first cemetery attack is unfortunately natural 20 for you. So Mac dice plus one, so that's six

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plus,

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so seven points of slashing damage, nothing that's respectable second one seems to be seeping onto the blade. These finely crafted deonte blades. It is unbelievably neither crit nor for another white, I'm sure it is another point seven points or slashing damage. Roll to ones on a six sided dice. I'd say what the odds but it's on

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again, okay.

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And they So the blows are short and short and sharp and clean.

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And they're looking just to get their way out.

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However cricket you are there next to the action.

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I'm going straight for a bite foot on the neck of the one closest to me going for the throat and I'm going to try and tear that thing out

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of a different type of animal so it is just a normal melee attack but I have advantage because he's like,

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yes, there are many reasons

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also flanked also also. Okay, so if I get something out so it's a natural 19 plus four, so I'm sure that hits

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and then that is going to be five points of piercing damage.

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I think the wolf only gets one attack, you know

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I must make a strength save save let's go with that nice.

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Strength is 18

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yeah it's fine turn

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Yeah, I think on if so I've got

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double double check if you got another time but we can you can always add that on

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and I'll have a look. It doesn't say

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yeah, just a normal. Yeah. Cobain's one. All right at the same time thug

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heavily so beaten, shaken,

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thrown, bruised,

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sort of drags himself away along the floor towards the far corner of the room.

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able to get So far

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stands up

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and sort of assesses the situation. And you can see that they have managed to sort of keep hold of their mace. It's all been attached by us or loop around the arm and they will act with purpose and sort of looking around to see if he can find his heavy crossbow but he's unable to see it in the room.

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And so he's just going to wait there. bide its time and see if the young to do his work for him and clear a path out.

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And you can hear him under his breath as he sort of dragged himself back across the floor isn't

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q Goliath? I noticed. Do we notice in that like, kind of crawling away?

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Yeah, it's, it's not subtle. It's not sneaky is just the fact he's on the floor. And to open up a bit of space is sort of dragging himself backwards

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and there was no sort of deception involved in his actions

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brown from the corner of your eye you have noticed his entire agent drag himself away and the young to have sort of gotten some decent hit

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against yourself and

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or come behind you. Okay.

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Howard has a yanti look at

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one of them is pretty much

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that both on the sort of if we would have put it in quarters in the sort of the last quarter of health Okay, I am going to use my child has divinity preserve life where like a golden orb will like form in my hand and then I'm going to put 10 points of HP into myself and five hate Be into

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or con

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as like the bite my holy power within any creatures within 30 feet chubby pasta lovers love to toss and then I'm gonna have my ram while I'm still going to be facing the anti hints be like this starting to piss me off and then just point towards the one that looks more fucked off then smash the round against him

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alright so that

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is the one the one that's more heavily damaged is only marginally is the one opposite or currently fighting or come just to the or

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or as a woman this girl she's gonna just double creamy probably get 30 1313 hits

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That's 10 points

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as the

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ram impacts and sort of smashes into the side of this young too, you can see also purple blood. And you can see the inside of the mouth sort of starting to fill with the blood. It's still standing but it's now wheezing. And it's looking down at you with with irons, it's angry, it's raffle. And it is is looking to sort of deal with you now lessons of a let's get out of the way situation a more of a make you suffer. Walk on it is your turn. So I'm

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going to get the great sword. I'm going to bring it up just try and like a slashing motion to try and catch them. The is like straight in the face for the one opposite me.

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So I'll roll hit

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But the great sword yeah first Yes please.

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Oh 11

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just just hits with the the damage is already taken it's a bit sluggish to move out the way and you're able just to just make contact with it sufficient to do some damage

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10 damage

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even though it's more of a glancing blow, it's it's enough to sort of offset the Xian tea that's opposing you. And it's starting to bleed heavily from several rooms.

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So is that drop no or is that just it's still it's still hanging on.

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It's just hanging on. You can see that the knees are starting to give the sword is being wielded in a sort of lower stance.

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The breathing is is more laboured, and there is blood pooling on the floor. Check something one second. Chris see under your actions under all see you does it say actions then attacks per action? Does it say two or just one?

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And

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attacks for action one, but I'm looking to see

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if you've got like a smaller weapon in your phones, okay? Yeah, yeah, I've just thought Oh good. Can I call it No? Yeah, so I've got an opportunity to talk as well. Yeah, that's if they move out of your five foot three. Let's have a look as well for every action. So how can you parry so when an electric shock damages you with a melee attack?

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superiority die What's that?

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Do you get a certain amount of something? That's a DA so further damage to have spirit or die and options and the Euro da to either reduce damage or add damage or augment certain options to the character has. So if he attacks me again,

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could I then roll for like a parry sort of thing? Yeah.

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Yeah. So if I was rolling hit you, you would then say, I'm going to use my reaction to parry and then we would work through that mechanic to see what happens.

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Right. I see described as such.

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Okay, so that's my general hope with that. Do you have action surge at level three of interest? And I think I think you're under bonus action. bonus action. No, no action. Just stay just second wind. All right, fair enough. Yeah. Okay. That's health.

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Stein at second level.

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So action surge starting to level second level, you can push yourself beyond the normal limits.

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I have one. Yeah. Oh, you do? Yes. Get

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some white paper then

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just show so I click that note on that and then I go back out of it.

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Yeah.

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Oh, eight to hit. Not enough the

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sluggish as it may be it's able just to raise the symmetry to deflect the blow. What strength remains able to just knock you're potentially killing strike away and give itself a little bit of breathing room

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you sneaky bastard. Next time I'll take you with my hands.

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Try

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ironically it is go so he's gonna try and stop you with so it's

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just a flattered potentially this killing blows is given it a sort of shot of adrenaline almost The first strike is for 21. Dealing six points of slashing damage, and it tries to bring the blade round a second time to hit you all can for a while. But right I've got four d 20s. I'm rolling in nine on rotation, but just whichever one, whichever ones I grab, and this is the third dice, I've rolled a crit on, so I'm not. So that's six, plus a one. I'm jinxed. So another seven points are slashing damage.

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Perfect hit done very heavy. And

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so it's it's holding on to life and it's trying to end yours. Get the

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How can I parry there are not only enough Hurry, Chris.

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I don't think it says you can't parry a crit. So what does it say?

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I'm sure you can So when another creature damages you with a melee attack you can use your reaction and extend once of hero day to reduce the damage by the number you rule right so that a D is a DA to DC

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pretty sure it is yeah

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so which is the damage by the number you rule?

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Yeah, so with reactions you get one per entire round so when you're not when it's your actual turn you have like a reaction which is like an opportunity attack or this for instance, so if you use this and he runs away you can see an opportunity attack.

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Yeah, live

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Yeah, I'll just stay Yes. I'll roll the three. Okay, so

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before damage, yes, that oh damage on the second attack.

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And then the ante in front of you earned is just going to stay there. And hope that is our can plead his way through from the other side. Speaking of which is our looks down upon you, Brian, ignoring this yappy wolf type dog creature that has appeared where once there was a gnome

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goddamnit

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and it's gonna take two strikes against you.

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No, actually, it's not. It's like situation this

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looking beyond it. And again for not the first time it's going to look down at you holding its sword out towards you in a menacing fashion and say,

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allow us to pass and we will not hurt you anymore.

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And I would like you to do a wisdom saving throw, please

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take a screenshot of the show

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that's the 23

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This isn't eight isn't 18 there's still plus five Yeah,

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no, I'm happy with that. And so again, the word especially from this heavily beaten up yanti that's looking down upon you. Just has it's just white noise now it's nothing you you know you have the advantage and there seems to be sort of a desperate power play. And you just ignore it outright.

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We come to the the wolf. I mean, that's why the liberal calling you a wolf but cricket, it's your turn. I the wolf. The wolf. Goddamnit. Yep, I'm going to attack the guy straight over brawn with my super PAC tactics.

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Hopefully with the advantage.

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They were horrendous. I got a six and a five plus four. So Tom to hit right. You're yapping towards Negative wow I'm doing real good here guys.

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Continue I'm doing your bit

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Give me something

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there you go.

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Yeah okay at least I'm hearing

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I am a team player. Thank you guys. encouragement button came in.

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Other

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annoying thing

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get away

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tapped into my

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breathing so much as you can tell, he's managed to sort of roll over. That's about as much as his input gets.

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The Zen targum agent is now sort of furiously scanning the room. He's actually going to ignore what's happening in front of him as best as possible.

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So we're going to try and manoeuvre himself in such a way to give himself an opening.

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So he's going to sort of move around the table

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just enough so that he can

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give himself a better position.

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Moving forward.

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Brian,

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you've seen this agent appear behind the deonte basically through their legs almost as they saw tower above you a little bit, but it is your turn.

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I don't think you're going anywhere. You hold tight. And then I'm just going to turn back to the Auntie thing. I'm dealing with this filth and I'm just going to

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Am I gonna do

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I'm going to

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cast

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sacred flame again on the guy in front of me

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and then that like that white flame of the forge like is this gonna be trading night and he stood deck please

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Okay, thanks so

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that dex is a 15 taxes so it does not

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self cross

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within my

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bone surgeon my spiritual weapon is going to attempt to hit him

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usually use your fucking cooking today

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This is why you guys got all these now to 26 five. So those of you haven't plus 18 points of damage, but this is a tough one

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oh my god,

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we'll describe for us what it looks like one when you are spiritual weapon your RAM takes this yanti out of the fight

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is just going to full blown discharge like into his face again to the Ram's horns like glowing golden are going to like slightly dull with the blog that comes out of his face as it caves in a skull. They will like just carry on charging through and then I want to kind of like position it still kind of like dripping in front of the the, the the centurion agent and then I'm going to turn towards the centre and as well They kind of like move myself to the left, if I'm facing it, and then like move slightly towards so you can like, straight dash out the door.

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Alright.

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So you sort of as the ram disappears into skull, you already know what's happening. You're looking past each scene, there's entire him and you sort of sidestepping monitoring his actions moving to intercept,

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right? Orca, and

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you've heard a horrible Rams followed by a squelch followed by the sound of a body dropping onto table then onto the floor.

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However, you have your own issue to deal with

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some fucking region. And I still obviously I finished my hand so I just grabbed me Greer to throw it to the floor. And then I'm going to go with me first and try and finish them off. Let's have a look.

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So

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So rule 2116 plus five nine

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and then these are four so I hit the fours

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fishery in his face

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him for for damage

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What is it like when you put your fist through somebody's face

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just click the faces and just run it straight in Boston these nose face just in caves the power of bush

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may actually stop the game punch like the last by the way.

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Aries Aries eyeballed poppin nipples for added together.

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Yeah, you can erase all cartilage

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snapping and and so on. squeegee bits popping as your fist

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ends up looking like hey by the end of Hercules if

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you're doing anything else

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well can now you've sort of planted this thing again this young

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just the agent left now isn't it? And

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so like as the as his Auntie like falls to the floor. I just leaned over pick my great sword up and then just casually move next to Brian. Looking at the Santa and Agent

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centaurian Sorry, sorry.

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Yeah, this snake people are called EMT is a two words like, you asked EMT

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why you a n hyphen t? Ah Yankee.

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Yeah, they're like snake. Then he's his entire faction like imposters people.

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If that's correct, then yeah,

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yeah. Young to put it in the group chats or the general chat.

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Young tea

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Yeah, so as you're intimidating they were dead cricket. You are

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a lone wolf. as it were.

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I am the lone wolf.

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I'm going straight for the good oh by T by T pounds. Is that any of my boys around you all pretty much. The punch to him is the spiritual weapon of the bloodied Ram. Okay, wow, I'm just gonna go for an attack because

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that's what we'll still

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be grappling and stuff and just try and go for a bite with megaton advantage.

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is too much

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that is an eight to hit.

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Unfortunately not he's

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able to sort of move his leg out of the way as you trap slammed down upon it

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well I'm just gonna stay neck near him anyway he just growling and barking and trying to be in this cavitating as possible

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Captain Smiley's is

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dead on the floor. However, the Zen time agent is able to sort of slide around between you cricket and the body. And he takes out his a his or his his Mesa hand and he stands over the body of Captain Smyth.

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He says,

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If you value this man's life, you will allow me to leave choke bodily picks up the body, or the sort of the, the suffering frame of Captain Smith, gripping him under the arms to sort of support him against himself using him as a shield

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and says,

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I'm leaving move out the way

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so do we think is select as a group? Yeah, so obviously the the U and T people I mean they had they were Pope they surely must have been the ones who posted them in the end because they shot was posing like every got a way of being able to actually finding

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like,

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like like maybe space in the EU or something like I'll check the bodies and then maybe look for something that they could have poisoned them with. Because then otherwise we're holding somebody for no reason. You know what I agree?

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I was I was gonna maybe just ask him to prove that it wasn't him that poison. Yeah. Because I mean if he hesitates or if we end So check your role

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but he could just be like

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obviously the one that killed him. Yeah, we're still in the initiation Yeah, we are.

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We're sort of dropping out as we're now into a hostage situation rather than a combat situation

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so it's a bit more like

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I was still gonna be like pacing slowly towards and then a lot gonna pounce until

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for can. You can can you quickly search those bodies? Check if there's any vials of poison. Todd, can you guarantee that you're the man that did not poison office? I have no beef with this man. I'm just using him as a shield to get out of here. I did not poison him. Why do you think I accused you? This place is more corrupt than half the

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test towns and cities across this land. Can I check in horses?

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Yellow inside check.

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Oh my god. I actually got another notch with money. I'm not even joking.

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They fucking you guys do it. Why have I got shitty ass?

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The tone is more exasperated than anything else you get the vibe that he was just a for a game and he's just trying to get out and he doesn't want anything to interrupt his business and all this is just being taken off in front of him. Yeah, it's just trying to get on with life.

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Have you found anything?

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to roll a check to see if I can find any

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investigation check.

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I'm finding it hard to believe you.

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20 look at this look, look. Look at this one.

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As you look around there's there's obviously the coins on the floor people with weapons possessions which are now able to pretty much have yourself to pretty much any of it. There's some clothes there's some personal items but there's what scar snarf dumped on the floor. But there is there is no vial or anything like that

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you worked on other than

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other than you Braun The only person to have touched the drinks was the barmaid. So, so far as you're aware, and you know as a flame fist Flaming Fist The borders gate you can make enemies killed a number of different factions and saying the wrong thing or being in league with the wrong people is just as likely to bring you to an end as a random

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finishing his investigation like you do yeah

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there's nothing here of notes that I that I can see nothing that would indicate that anybody here poison the poison the general

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okay we've got an establishment that's been put against the Flaming Fist since

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I know this has escalated quite severely, but you could go but if I see you around these parts and that just happens to be another death or trouble. I'm coming after you

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I'll be gone by morning.

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Good. I need

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Carefully and to his credit lays Captain smiles back on the floor, moves through the curtain and disappears. Thanks for listening. If you want to hear more of us or to get in contact with us, you can find us on Twitter at Return Snyder. You can find us on Instagram, Facebook, and also if you wish to support the channel on patreon@patreon.com slash nice return music and sound effects provided for this episode are from epidemic sounds.com Transcribed by https://otter.ai