Snyder’s Return

Fists, Fur and a Mountain of Trouble - Pt_15

October 01, 2020 Snyder's Return Season 2 Episode 18
Snyder’s Return
Fists, Fur and a Mountain of Trouble - Pt_15
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The Party race into the fight with the Cultists, can the quell the murderous hoard? With Captain Zodge fighting at the Basilisk Gate to protect the city, action must be taken.

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Do you make your way

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out

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north east towards the bucketlist gate and you can hear a couple of streets ahead of you

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there's a lot of shouting there's there's sort of the sound of people screaming both in panic and in pain.

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And you can hear all sorts of commotion happening. Literally just a couple of streets ahead.

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So wait What are you guys responding

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sarena forward bronze boys wherever wherever this mole dwarfee boy equals man it's just one dat one thing after another with this group

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I'll continue at the back

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I guess in bronze at the front Yeah, bronze boys always follow withdrawn benches all the time. I should be the board.

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Me Maybe I can teach you a thing or two you make a song out of you yet.

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As you guys close the gap following bronze lead

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through the city streets and you get into this this area very close to the battlers gate there is just chaos. There's civilians running past you in panic. They're sort of spreading out and running into buildings and under archways and alleyways into different areas and courtyards and down alleys you know, someone likes an alley.

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Oh, yeah. You can see

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just maybe not Brown, but actually brown do a perception check. Where before he does a lift and pull on the shoulders. The perception check with advantage

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13 that's a scanning the crowd there seems to be a massive

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big mix of, of cloaked figures and all these other individuals. And you can pick out fighting them back and pushing them as hard as they can. back towards the battle Escape is just almost innumerable Flaming Fist officers and foot soldiers.

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And you can just hear the sounds of battle there's

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the odd spell been flung that that spectral core that

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was seemed so effective against hard you can see at least one of those every couple of seconds to storming across. Everybody do a perception check that

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815 21 motherfucker get run. I don't know if it keeps going that way. You know, do I didn't know you want me to do another one? yet? Do another one, please.

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1414 Okay, you're the first one to see it. And then you point out to Brian and eventually sort of the information gets passed back to you. pod

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that just for a second moving between the crowd and there's a black cloaked figure that is there a second and gone the next and then further across in the crowd in front of n different members of the Flaming Fist dagger drawn the same way you believe to be the same black cloaked figure.

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And now you've seen one you can see there's another one. And this just mass of people is just doing everything it can to end or knock unconscious or deal with the other side. And you guys are still sort of stood back from the fray just for just for a moment watching this all unfold. And as you're scanning and watching these different cultists doing their thing, the sort of more regimented one seem to be sort of more organised whereas the to be others that are just blindly going around stabbing whatever moves. You can see Sarge in his

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entourage sort of shouting to other Flaming Fist personnel and you can hear over the top of the melee, got them go wide

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cover my right flank.

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And it doesn't any doesn't spot you initially, but pretty sure at some point he's going to zero in on you guys looking for that backup lock. No problem does that look familiar?

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What's that

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stabby voice in the black cloaks?

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I you know, you know, let's go. I said mouth.

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Just gonna start running straight towards it. How far away? Oh, away? Are we? Oh, well, I mean, they're always they're probably over 100 feet away because of where they sort of maze to sort of squeeze them back towards this massive city war gate gate in the city or the battle escape. So you've got some grounds to open up if you want to do anything before you sort of get into that sort of melee combat.

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Now as soon as I get into 60 feet

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I want to cast Can you Hilo Sal, and

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Rev. And can you can you do like a little song heelas at all on anything like that.

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Now only in short rests. She

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suspended What about you socks? Have you got a heel? I wear heels? Yeah. Give me a little sing. It's a Ting Ting? I will. Why does touch event and then you feel good. I feel

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y'all cast as we as you're like putting me down and Al Gore as we all go. I'm going to cast your wings on.

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Okay, now you got heal for nine. I've got four pigs. Anybody else need heals all Can you spread it all?

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Too far I didn't realise he only need to demo otherwise do something else but it doesn't actually matter. Still one

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level one two hour slot.

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So as you go running in and running into this wave, I'd like a D 20 role from each of you. One boy initiative in the true sense. So give us an initiative rule. Okay, what are we adding our initiative or not? Yeah, I got 12 At 1611

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we got the 16 hot

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and then reverse so I'm pretty close together. All right, so hot following sort of broad suggestions you're able to sort of crash into this melee array we're easily able to identify even in the chaos that's going on so what you want to do when you're in the middle of this free

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house on a find the nearest target and swing out with my swords Tell

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me give us a Do you want to kill these guys or do I keep Capture One

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was the original thing I'm just attacking they Captain Hodge one in backup and wanted you to flank that was the whole reason he sort of okay recruited you and persuaded Brian it would be good for his career. My belter Captain attack saying do non lethal damage when it comes to the end? Nick? Yeah.

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As my place to flaming seven put it down. Yes. I mean, there's no mean just to

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back again. All right. Give me a an attack roll.

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Seven, seven out of favour. So you go racing in you guys watch this. This is the

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art of opening strong,

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flaming swords but sort of trailing in is waken as it sort of jumps into the middle of this group and it just swings a hair. It's very imposing, but it's it's no allender follow swing as a bonus action.

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I got the

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same result.

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Hi, my digital dicer shit. me I've given the lucky rub.

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Log. And all right. So big, sliced, sliced, nothing, nothing doing nothing happening. However, auction, sort of seeing the flaming swords of the half walk racing off. You then pick up the pace. What are you doing? A shout out hot dog. And I'm just gonna run off and take a shot.

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Right Oh,

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1111 just hits. Oh, let's go. Roll me a default. Pay for one on one. As you come racing into the fray, swinging your great sword, you're able just to cleave into one of these cultists, putting them down in your week. Moving into the middle of the middle if you do anything else. Yeah, but he's a bonus action. And one second.

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So action surge, I'm going to use a song just going to go for another attack straight off the bat. All right.

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Ah, lane.

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Your Grace or momentum sort of brings around and as you feel Boyd that you've noticed that some of the cultists have sort of suss out your manoeuvre and step back a bit of a shot.

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Brian, you are next?

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I have a follow up.

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So if that goes down?

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Is there any alt can I reach any you can reach that you can get into I'm sort of collapsing time a little bit so you can get into the fray? Or you can cast a spell or you can do whatever you want.

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And depending on what you do depends on how you affect this massive of people. Okay, so you can have many, many actual, like, cultists, can we see? Do a investigation?

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Okay. Oh, natural, Tony. Nice. You reckon in your small, small pocket where you've come in from this right hand side, you've probably got to contend with 10 to 12. But, you know, you've got zadan, his central sort of collective cleaving through as best they can. And then guys on the far left, well, on the other side of the battle, this gate that are trying to fight them back in from that way, but in your immediate vicinity. There's between 10 and 12. Okay, and what's our environment? Like? Is it like,

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how much ground do we are actually covering this right flank? Like, if we're pushing towards this gate?

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safe, we were to set someone up next to the wall. And then for men, like 10 feet apart was enough stop

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any getting through or is it quite still quite large area that we have to try and cover. There's still a fair amount of

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ground to cover. But But between sort of your group and zarges group, and the culture sort of retaliating and moving back within the city streets. It's a very fluid and dynamic sort of area work if you want to

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try to cling to a wall or sort of move through a side income round and other side that

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it's

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all available to you. Now I think I'm just going to go

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a bit further than hard on all gone, but then find like, lock off as much as the right flank as I can.

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And then just yell this. What are we doing any? Any of them running away? If you can get hold of one? We can question them later. And then I'm just gonna start fighting one. All right. I will do it with one closest me out cast sacred flame on

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spell attack. Is it not? deck safe? flames even though

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it's a mighty one.

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Just a little taste was the guy. Yeah. So you you're safe. The sacred flame hits this, this one and actually sort of wins the individual and sort of drops into a to a knee effectively at the moment. taking them out. At least for this moment in time.

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You're doing nothing else?

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No, not at all. Oh, Raven

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pegged it ahead of you. Right. Um, I would like to get

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within 60 feet.

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I'll be able to do that. And yeah, you can position yourself okay.

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How many people we fighting?

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Although that wasn't technically really you, you reckon within the matter bodies.

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There's sort of 10 to 12 but there's potentially more reinforcements more than the ones that are closer to are closer to me.

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Well, closer to Yeah, well basically while I try and do is

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cast fairy fire on as many of the enemy people as possible. You reckon you can probably get five. Wow, God. I would like to do that and they have a deck save of 13 to be no

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One passes. flannel. Wow, Aussies say,

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Oh, I was good

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at New sprinters boys. So with that

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they are now glowing. I'm gonna go with a violet

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colour

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just to make it really easy for everyone to see them

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and then I am going to

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without the old

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edge

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and stop playing the thunder songs.

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The thunder battle cries I'm trying to spy

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or can I think?

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Thank you very much. I'm so motherfucking inspired right now. Yeah, I'm just gonna be like playing to your ego.

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The biggest motherfucker in the body. Yes you are. You're the creative motherfucker in the party. I'm so tall. You're so tall and handsome. My nose is massive.

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Yes, but adequate for your size. Thank you. But my mom says I'm beautiful anyway.

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Cost what your mother says.

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Yeah,

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I make a song about it. It's always yoga.

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like

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okay, I'm just gonna swing again. cuz I've got nothing else to do. I don't think returning into a bear right now will help situation so I'll just

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change my colour of my dice and they still roll ship.

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That's an eight. So I'm presuming that misses. So I'll do a bonus attack.

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Oh, Mike.

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Three again. So say oh, my God, I need this go back. That's a Bear Bear kill thing with this. I don't.

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That doesn't mean just flaming swords criss crossing through the air but the cultists, you're facing down or just too nimble. It would seem at this point in time. Or can you have been inspired by

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your body? Bardot not bothered? odd friend. And this is

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also I clicked on inspiration and let's go.

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Okay, who's closest to me? Like enemy wise, you killed one. So you've got one within sort of 10 feet sort of near the side of the street or you've got a bit of space opened up to get to others and that has the one closest to me got a weapon on a lot. He had a weapon on him. He's now on the floor dead. I'm pretty sure no one. One who's alive. I mean, sorry. Yeah, they're all tooled up. Don't come to a party like this and come at the hand. It is just rude. I'm going to charge the closest and then I'm going to attack

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my school.

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Okay, 19.

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Yeah, hits those

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damage

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is 10

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Why don't you just saw them attack as well. At the same time.

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We'll have the sort of videos on what's involved when we days first.

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And I did six to six extra damage on top of the 10 to 16. And then you've got a roll of DC seven through 13 Plus, I think what normally would but he's dead. So let's

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strike through and use the extra power to sort of drive down the great sort of disarm him, you're actually dislocate the shoulder

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exacerbating the injuries you'd already given. And his collapses to the floor. heaving as blubbering, you can hear sort of the vomit forming coming up but as he tries to bring the Harpy just collapses and rolls over another half Africans a scream at heart? Ah, no one for the odd. Right so that then leads on to Brian and I the one you're the only dwarf on the field. Okay.

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Right I'll just move towards the one in front of me. All right. So yeah, so you easily close the gap to this one just in front of you. He's sort of bearing down there seems to be sort of blood on his clothes. Sort of dressed in black similar to the knife before but this seems to this one seems to have a just a simpler looking dagger in hand. Okay.

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And he he has been subjected to fairy fire as well. Oh, okay. This cluster of three failed the fairy fire. Kill them.

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I mean I could do a range attack that gives advantage right

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Yeah, I think so. If I was to do Gaiden books it's still a hit. Yeah

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I'm sure it's just any attack roll against the effect of creature is okay I would like to do want to back up a little bit I know I've already moved I'll do others it's up to you this it's entirely up to you if if when closing the gap you you size it up and think I know what's going to help the situation you can see the fairy fire glowing so you know exactly what situation this individual is in so as you would make that assessment, you don't have to close the gap if you don't want to. Okay, can I do as in like I fired the guy bolt first and still close the gap. All that sounds cool. Do that. Okay, I'll on the way run into him. That's an 11 Yeah, I know. It's a bad isn't. It is advantage but 11 will hit so you can try for a critical period. That's why we try for a crit. Yes, the system works. Let's go live.

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This time you ain't gonna die. aghdam

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HD six

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that's 20 points of

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damage. You don't guiding bolt this guy. You make a hole in Him. Jesus was like, it's like a golden. Ah, like, hammer throw out front. Like I didn't that bar. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. So is this this hammer comes racing out forming as the spell takes form. It approaches this guy and sort of meets the fairy fire. And the fairy fires or bends around this golden hammer and the impact. You can hear it resonating off the buildings as it impacts this guy and just completely just tears into it is central sort of the breadbasket as it were. Absolutely. annihilating. And for that I will give you inspiration. Cool. face

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you do anything else? It was the captain watching

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rotor semi?

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semi. Did you see me?

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Do you know who I am? Yeah.

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Do you know I got two so five, all wrapped up in in the means and the sound of the impact you're unsure as to whether

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it has attracted the notice of notable members of your organisation or other members of the cultists should be okay. And then as I make my way

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towards where that guy was, uh

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I will

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cast spiritual weapon again. And one that's to the right with verifier.

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And then the ROMs just got a full blown like, are

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like almost like running next to me, but I'll just carry on as if it's a forming next me and then the last like 20 feet that needs to move. He'll do it then like run him cloth, rolling the tech with advantage because I verify that's a dirty 20 Oh, by the way, so yeah, dirty.

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Dirty 20 definitely hits

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nine points of force damage as this guy was actually sort of facing partially away from you. So it the Ram praxian fallen in the spine. And you can see as it it sort of you can hear spit and blood come popping out. And as it sort of collapses and breaks the spine of this. cultist who just drops under the the impact whether he's not dead, but he's probably paralysed nice. Maybe go bite him. If he's still alive at the end.

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We'll take him may want to consider medicine check after that, but alright. Are you doing anything else? Let's move bonus attack move. bonus action. Yes. All right reason your fairy fire euphrosyne been used to great advantage in front of you.

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It is your turn.

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I am going to stay where I am. I feel I get my head kicked in.

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Is there any of the ones that haven't had very fire up? Which ones the?

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in a straight line now I mean, who went out? I'm fat the ones next to

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the people down the bottom. So this is all can the ones next to pod? Yeah. Okay, so the one in front of hot

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I would like to cast vicious mockery.

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I'm going to say

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you sir, all right, phoning up Vincent juneberry

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and he is going to take a wisdom saving for please. Seven a modifier, so that's a fail. Okay. So that is one D for psychic damage which is three and it has disadvantage on his next attack right till the end minute next hack makes before the end of its next turn. Okay so as this insult rings out and you can see

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especially you hide in front of you.

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The individual seems to be sort of shaking their head and a bit uneasy on their feet, the voice of Captain Zod sound shouts over the top. That's about good time you guys showed up. And then there seems to be a bit of movement of the cultists sort of running in various directions just trying to sort of open out the space each is going to take one attack against pods and everyone else did it. So one attack against you

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that's a 14 hot that disadvantaged

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that's that's a miss anyway.

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So there's there's cultures moving here, there and everywhere. Catan zarges is sort of acknowledging your presence but the mood does not sound that good and looking across sort of Brannon or can you seem to sort of the best vantage point from where you are and you can see that their group is being sort of pushed back and making various forays backwards and forwards and Captain zarges team seems quite well drilled but they're still having issues however pod it is back to you with your flaming swords

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awesome Here we go.

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big swing this time

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around 10 just not enough you're able to even with disadvantages are so able to deflect the blow it it's a cat is in but not really. So that's that's a first

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bonus attack.

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Five is a funny one. Oh yeah. Go nobody hits.

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plus 10 plus, Pisa 13 points of damage 10 slashing three fire struggling to cope with the vicious mockery from from Raven on this glancing initial blow it he seems to not adjust his stance to

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welcome your second strike that digs deep in to the

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the mass of this this individual and the fire catches the cloak. And you can see it sort of blistering the skin as he forced forced asleep falls to the floor during his last breath.

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You're doing anything else

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look around so who took notice that took forever to kill him? But I not at you. I see what you're doing.

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plan it. Is there any other bad guys up around? There's one immediately next to you.

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And then Okay, are you blind? Yes, I'm fine. I've been focused on the one guy it seems like to build another lemon approaching it at quite some speed. Others tend to face the

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the bad guy to the left. Yeah. Right. That

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or can it is you Let's go. Okay. So I'm gonna

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I'm going to go for the one who was approaching as quickly and try to intercept All right, you can easily sort of get into right up in its face, his face their face, their face, want to give it a bit of a swinging swing.

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Oh fucking 11 just just makes contact.

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He this one have been concentrating past you really looking down towards Raven. And as you sort of moved across, you caught him off guard and you're able to connect with your attack 12 points of damage taught by Stellar here as this one is a sort of start to pay across and head towards Raven and you stepped across you put your great sword out and basically sort of side through and lift him off his feet, cutting deep across the chest as though sort of almost clothesline in this this coldness with your sword. And you can see it sort of sink in and that sort of satisfying sound as as blade goes into skin. And he sort of slides and slips underneath and just begins to play.

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lead out at your feet, you have an absolute bloodbath just at your toes. You do anything else and have a look one sentence though there's no i think i think that's me. All right, Brian, you've heard some heavy cleaving from either side of you and the sound of skin blistering from your left from hods weapons and the screams and yelps of a of a man dying. From your right. However, you have a clear track and a spiritual weapon. Okay.

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Is that one to my left? Those standing yet? So that one sort of on a intercept path heading in the general direction of harden and Raven. They're sort of trying to get past this sort of Vanguard that you you've established into the the rear garden. Okay. I mean,

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I think I'm gonna trust that they have him. There's no,

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there's only what is that one standing next to hot as one stood next to hods. Yeah. And then, of course, and then others in front of you. I'm just going to shout back at Raven and like, make sure you don't want to get away and point out one close to me on the left, and then I'm going to point to the one just behind it and then cast a told the dead.

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