Introduce yourselves and introduce who you're playing.
Abel:Hi everybody my name is Abel and I'm at Leone and Bob area and some fucking lion bitches allow min max to Fox so let's go on party. Yeah maybe we'll get introductions. what those are class one Charlie you
Salem:do yeah my mind's not as good because I don't really like play the actual character so I'm selling I'm a hill dwarf milk like a hill
Snyders Return:dwarf monk
Abel:a hill dwarf haha sick
Salem:yeah held off Mancha like fucking shield
Abel:decent we'll get on together it'd be like you're about speed about brawn. Let's speed Yeah,
Salem:I can run up walls and I'm very fast forward off.
Unknown:Cool. I'm just gonna scream at everything because that's a line to get away.
Snyders Return:Let's see how it pans out Shall we? Alright, so the pair of you have concluded your business in nikka, dryness and have been given a new assignment to go and collect a few small items of personal worth by one of your contacts in the kedron has to travel up to the Harris's mines, just north of where you are just past the long gorge and the gate. And you set up it's quite a long journey, it's gonna take you a week or so travelling through. But you managed to make it through the way in gorge move through the Wayne gates. paying a small toll to gain access through that entranceway. It's not until you trust them walled that you are stopped by the sort of townsfolk there. And the the town leader, the mayor for want of a better description, sees that you are fine, strapping, travelling folk. And he intercepts you and he says to you, please, please. Where are you headed? We could really use your help.
Unknown:We're headed to the hairdresser minds. Why what's up my friend? Oh, a little walk talking like that. It's the real fine device. Let's go with it. Go with it. Good. We'll run with it. React. js.
Snyders Return:Sure. heading in that direction. Our our Oracle our faith leader has been dragged into the siren greenforest by some beastly flying creatures and we have no one here is able to leave and tracker I can maybe spare one but I need you to go in and rescue her.
Unknown:To Irene right. Slow down young man. siren greenforest you just said that your Oracle. Is that not a faith teller? Or fortune teller? Yes, yes, exactly. And that she didn't realise this was gonna happen. She did this me. Did you get yourself a new fortune teller baby back so badly. Wow, she got she got picked up and flown away? Yes. But that's adding to your cost right there. I don't do flying creatures. Flying flying creatures. Yeah, how many?
Snyders Return:It was, there was such a such a kerfuffle when it happened. Maybe? Maybe three. It sounded like there could have been more But
Abel:do you know what they were? If any idea
Snyders Return:winged insectoid. creature it was
Unknown:insects. Wow. That's adding to your pressure. Man. You got enough to pay for this? May my boy Salem don't come cheap.
Snyders Return:Please, we need her back. We'll read our kitty and pay your expense. If you only return her to us.
Abel:Really? I've just written down incest instead of insects. Sorry. I really messed up that spelling. Okay. Okay,
Salem:how much they're gonna pay is it?
Abel:And that's a very fair point. My boy is concerned about the deal we're about strike in the aspects of currency that you will provide us on completion of your said task, my man. We can
Snyders Return:we can pull To get the gems and and and some golden
Unknown:garni good ale.
Snyders Return:Of course, of course.
Unknown:Okay, hold on the
Abel:I mean, you ain't gonna carry it. Well, you can carry the gems. I'll carry the ale now. Oh yeah, I'm gonna give it to you but let's be honest. You're gonna get far carried. I've written Cray availe
Salem:not sure what you think. Frick sake. Probably no, it's not with those stats.
Abel:Okay, okay, sorry What was your name young man?
Snyders Return:My name is Justin
Abel:Preston. right wrist and it's an absolutely fortunate day. You've come across us fine, gentlemen. Because we so happened to be doing nothing else better to do and our trips been pretty boring as hell. Salem.
Salem:Sorry, I would have stopped my buses.
Abel:Oh, okay. No, you know what, we'll we'll do it. Okay. Gotta have a big old pile of gems and ale and other things. trinkets and maybe the Oracle can tell our future let me know if I can get myself a better blade than this one. Because I think she's a cursed. But anyway, that's for another story. Just point me in the direction. Oh, wait. Do you happen to know anyone? That's good at finding stuff because I'm good at hitting stuff.
Snyders Return:We can and you see him sort of looking around at the various people who have gathered.
Abel:Are they all a small? There's no Alexis intimidate is me. I am interested.
Snyders Return:No.
Unknown:Okay, no
Snyders Return:one is intimidating.
Abel:I'll look around about that skirt. I'll go out I just realised I've got a plus five survival. That's good enough for me. I'm going
Snyders Return:and I'm in the frickin direction. It was sort of West northwest. Just across it into the into the forest.
Abel:Right west northwest three ish flying insect thingies makes your Oracle you want her back? Anyway, please go on our way. Cause however you haven't taught you haven't shut up yet. Since you got here Come on. Leave these poor guys alone. The morning
Salem:I need to tell you doing plenty enough for the both of us in rescue this.
Abel:Calm down. Shouting now
Salem:sooner is ever sooner I get some fucking ill.
Abel:Hey, that sounds Let's go.
Salem:Okay.
Abel:Okay, I do not run in blindly. Like, can I run faster, and I saw it in my back and start running like an actual lion. I double my speed. That's what I thought. Yeah, I'll double my speed then I'll use fucking a pretty good, I'm pretty good. I've gotten pretty good speed. I mean, probably not compared to the frickin monk. But you know, let's go. We travel light. Let's hunter Samak. And then off we go.
Snyders Return:You can interest in showing it's not at all. So as you move across from trust unwalled and head towards the edge of the forest area. I'd like you to do that. We'll get to that in a second. The forest stretches out in front of you and behind which you see the large mountain snow capped clouds sort of sat above the wispy white off not the horrible, dark, depressing stuff. Beautiful view back down towards nikka, dryness and sort of up into the narrow valley ahead of you. And as you cross the, the trees seem to be more evergreen sort of conifer. That's what I'm going for more of a coniferous forest area. And
Abel:nothing quite like
Snyders Return:as you had in the tree scene, meant to be wellsprings natural growth, sort of grown to give space for one another to grow. selected to let the next one grow, but there's space between allowing you to move quite nimbly, and you see,
Abel:what's the forestry and the third is a pretty thick is a very mossy or is it like a modern sort of forest or has it been like a billion years as roots,
Snyders Return:some dropped some foliage forming.
Abel:It's not like fangorn forest or anything crazy. I got as many references and now we're gonna be Lord of the Rings, bass
Snyders Return:notes, it's Scottish countryside, you know,
Abel:the finest,
Snyders Return:the finest of the countryside. So, moving through the world In this forested area follow the changes in light and shadow you can hear sort of, couple of birds and and sort of small, potentially small mammals moving through undergrowth further through as the purview to continue on into the forest, you do see a doe and a deer. Whether it was a female deer or not is open to discussion.
Abel:And then I'm pretty hungry. My animal instincts are kicking in right now.
Salem:which will mean killing kill one leave the other one to suffer.
Abel:Well, I'm a big fan of bat of Bambi films so I think the mother killed the mother Yeah, because the dad was hopeless Yeah. How you're going to be doing as a stupid head bunch it I've got no range I can range Eva wheezing I am fucking lion I don't know foreign clause is learn how to stand up out 20 years ago, I will leave it we got we got
Snyders Return:the DP more than there seems to be this strange background noise that seems to sort of flood in through the forest towards you and and sort of flood your senses to a certain extent you certainly the more you press on the more you notice this sort of almost white noise sort of emanating from the forest around you.
Abel:Is this like static? Or is it like, like cricket noises?
Unknown:Or sounds like insect noises?
Snyders Return:A nature check
Abel:nature super nature natural with a plus zero
Snyders Return:nice
Abel:What a shot. I definitely don't trust these dice on baby bond at all. And I don't know why
Unknown:have you? Yeah
Abel:I normally always get ones it's annoying that my first 20 because there's an algorithm they won't give me another 100% is completely random and fair. I don't believe it. In the system, man. It knows what I'm trying to do man it can hear my thoughts.
Unknown:No way man.
Abel:No way man. Wow. Man, yeah, you're in for a treat.
Snyders Return:Actual dice? Yeah,
Abel:yeah. Sorry, I made sure the shit out of it.
Snyders Return:So you oppose and sort of have a good listen and this time, that background noise, you sort of tune out everything else and you hear it and instead of just being sort of a hum moral or a buzz there is a definite sort of wing like noise to it. But but not just a single wing multiple.
Salem:I mean, normally they come in pairs, but
Abel:if you want now if you're an oak tree thing, and you just helicoptered in the shed out of it
Unknown:is that called
Abel:a loss of fee? Is that clear? here Yeah, man. I said a smart thing God dammit you will appreciate it you've
Salem:been trying to be smart that's what you did.
Abel:Here wink wings I hear Wings Over here you're welcome that's why will not fly but Ron ring creative increasingly fast so it looks like we're flying.
Salem:You heard wings were in the trees. I'm sure there's birds everywhere.
Abel:Now I've only heard wings and the direction I'm pointing Yeah, birds
Salem:have wings just to say
Abel:Yeah, well I don't trust anything but wings. We're here to kill shit well wings. winkling. Follow your stupid fucking genius and you know it. Let's go. Actually the best person here
Salem:let it go over my head.
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Abel:So I saw something going through the tree like,
Snyders Return:you see a glimmering within the trees ahead.
Abel:This is the glimmering like something that looks like metallic or is it something that is almost like nature based like maybe water or something like that? You know, it isn't as bright as like a mirror is or like shiny metal?
Snyders Return:It is it is metallic but it's quite dull. Metallic as a clearing does it look like we're approximate clearing?
Unknown:Yeah, how far away? Are we from the shiny thing?
Snyders Return:It touches the light but you're still a couple of 100 feet back. It's just the way that light sort of matches through the I want to say the canopy but yeah, retention towards a shiny object.
Abel:I mean, let's be honest, were the most badass people here. So the mission Fair enough?
Unknown:No should go.
Abel:Okay, good idea. I'll do the same. Not because I'm a pitcher and a fan because I just think it's a smart thing to do. All right.
Salem:Well, I'm gonna attempt stuff towards it when I get close to like stealth puppetry. Clearly,
Abel:rolling dice in shit. I'm just gonna click this button right next to it.
Salem:Then again. It was on my last game so Okay, and so it continues one guy's natural one.
Abel:Or you think you're super stuff? I got a 13 that's pretty, pretty respectable.
Snyders Return:Plenty. Salem? What happens that causes you to completely destroy your stealth attack as approach? I think I got snagged on some phones.
Abel:I don't know. He's actually in or how class I am. But that's definitely not it was how pound my main is, like, tree
Salem:root and a beanie. stumpy like a mushroom.
Unknown:I don't know.
Snyders Return:Abel as you sort of crouch loan take on this sort of predatory starts as you're starting to start Ford.
Abel:Born like baby
Snyders Return:nice and nice and quiet almost sort of gliding as best you can. is like the shoulders you can see sort of just lifting as you sort of stealth forward as as your body cruises quietly through the phone the undergrowth.
Abel:Oh yeah, I'm gonna do that like rolling shoulder number. You know when you see the lions doing it for that reason trees start rolling. But absolute Prowler Yeah, I say I'm the Prowler.
Snyders Return:Salem as you're watching. He will sort of move in this very proud ish way. The amusing. You become distracted and as you start to sort of move up one of the trees to get better purchase and move quietly and completely misjudged the placement of the thorns giving out a bit of a dwarvish Yelp and expletives as more of a grunt. As your body makes contact with these thorns sort of scratches you not really hurting too much, but more the surprise the catch. However, with that behind you able you're able to move up and what you see isn't just a small shimmer of metal. It appears to be some sort of chain that seems to have come down and something may have rubbed like paint or some sort of coating off just to give this sort of more reflective surface and it comes down and anchors somewhere close to where you are down to the ground and this chain Heads up through the tree line, and then sort of up beyond and it's obscured by branches. Funny sediment managed to climb a tree. It's obscured by the branches, the canopy, the foliage or the the trees themselves as to what it actually attaches to. But it's certainly a chain that leads to something.
Unknown:By hearing noises and animal noises,
Snyders Return:you that sort of buzzing sound now that you've moved quite a lot closer, now pick out almost separate sets of wings. And they are deep and wrong. That the tone is not a high pitch whine like from say, a mosquito or something like that. This is powerful sort of
Abel:thrust. We're talking heavy. Yeah, something heavies in the air. Big old lift. Alright. Once I think one Salem's finished freaking Patton down is booboos. I might give him the old squat team eyes on pointing out the chain, and then point to the foliage. And then I I will mind pulling the chain. And then put a thumbs up
Unknown:thinking of it seeing if he understands. And I just I just say, so I'm going to walk you say to me,
Abel:Sam, can we just shake this? Shake? Shake the chain? How big is the chain? Is
Salem:it one that we can actually share? it like,
Unknown:oh, we'll make it bigger. Oh, it's Oh, we're going got it.
Snyders Return:I mean, you can get your hands on it. But you can't get a single hand around it.
Abel:Oh, it's a two hander.
Unknown:We work out what's going on? Let's give it a tug. My bench like you know 121 30 is asking
Snyders Return:strength check with an athletic, wonderful.
Unknown:Oh, oh, yes. my time to shine. I spell my powers and I rub them together better boys. You're about to watch something real special. Okay, okay. Okay. I was a good one. Okay, 26 obey bash, I am a weapon.
Snyders Return:You evil. With the help of Salem group, this changed tug of war Stein almost dig your feet in polls. And it's what takes a few seconds for the slap to sort of be taken up by your leverage. As you pull, you get a heavy resistance, and then there's just the slightest give on the chain, as it just gives a little bit and then from beyond almost towards the end is permanence because you can't see it? due to previous obstructions. You mentioned obstructions there is change in sound.
Abel:As in, like what type of sound and it change to it, does
Snyders Return:it change in the wings? Yes, was more of a more than
Unknown:Oh, they stopped,
Snyders Return:they've stopped for a second. Okay, then the noise shifts, as the sound sort of carries away from that sort of general location ahead of you and starts to move across. You can't see the source at this point in time. But the sound you can track sort of moving across from your left to your right hand side. And that sound getting louder and louder. But I gotta
Unknown:say my body density
Snyders Return:the chain whips and drops down so there's this heavy, heavy set of wings starts now encroaching down, moving into the the general tree area where you're in it could be it could be 100 feet away. It could be even closer.
Salem:I'm going to move into a tree.
Abel:I'm gonna pull out my blade of the Medusa. Boys. Let's get Lau this is what we're going to get paid for. By the way that was your that was your idea for pulling the chain. Good job, idiot. I'm just gonna run towards the noise. See if I'm not trying to freak out. I think I won that battle.
Salem:I'm not stupid to your level. All right.
Snyders Return:Hey, boy. You are running in the general direction of this encroaching heavy set of winged type sound Yeah, Salem wow Do I hear you just hit one
Unknown:okay yeah that's fine
Snyders Return:Salem you're just staying where you are moving into a tree with line of sight yeah I'm staying I'm staying in the tree okay because everybody loves a good stat
Abel:no one yeah everyone likes a good weeks I can't my far superior min max and character of joy min max. Yeah dude why do you think I got 26 on a fucking anthrax check so what are you really bad at? And
Unknown:so we're not very intelligent between us
Abel:now why do you think I ran towards a flying fuck creep
Snyders Return:so you are running to intercept probably only 4050 feet ahead of you you can't the leaves sort of moving on a branch kind of crack and dropping almost
Abel:I want to quickly like hide behind a tree I break out of the last minute and just because I don't want I don't even know what if I can find so I'll just be the big boy and then as soon as I hear it getting closer I want to hide just behind the tree muscled out to habit so
Snyders Return:like Romeo stealth chick
Abel:No worries. One stealth Eve on stealth back checks that isn't 11 other than mine but it's because I have my big bushy mane it's just magnificent is obviously popping out from the side of the tree but you know, glamour costs people sometimes it costs you in stealth and I'm okay with that.
Snyders Return:Although you move into a position your your movement isn't as quick and as smooth as to evade what is descending. Sure. Dropping down into the tree line so literally those roots while it's a tree so there's roots trunk and then the lower branches which are only sort of five six metres What's that? Say 20 feet and then I can't put it up yet.
Abel:Okay, that's fine.
Snyders Return:This darkened form drops hovers and then seems to make an honour to be unnerved. I'm going to say beeline for
Unknown:the man when he
Snyders Return:comes racing towards you. And you can see that he is these wings are just pushing up undergrowth the power that's coming down the branches above it or moving the dirt underneath it is shifting leaves and twigs from the power of these wings as it is racing through towards you.
Abel:Come on baby.
Snyders Return:Well you think you're still so it's just gonna attack you
Abel:oh yeah I'm totes behind this tree I'm just gonna wait for this I was how i do i brand I was like this fucking suck it's gonna fly Pathfinder by the judge. And it's going to not know what hit him. No podcast idiot. I'm chuckling to myself. I think I'm a fucking genius.
Salem:I'm just waiting to see what it does to able
Abel:now to be alive. Oh God save yourself
Salem:I'll melt away into the tree
Abel:just Homer Simpson display the back into
Unknown:I'll try anyway
Snyders Return:satisfied with your suppose the hiding position you don't quite catch as the form of this. Flying insectoid bend under underneath or brings round it's behind underneath. Bringing Yeah, that's the budget and the stinger barbed point comes racing towards you for a seven thing to hit.
Abel:That's my armour class hits nice.
Snyders Return:I'm going to use average damage because it will speed things up it will help Okay, so you take eight points a piercing damage cool
Abel:oh wait. I put one is not working all right. It'd be better if I actually put Num Lock on boom
Unknown:shithouse
Snyders Return:I'm finished yet. You have a I have an eight points of peace in damage.
Unknown:Yep, seven
Snyders Return:point fire damage
Unknown:on fire.
Snyders Return:Fire Damage and I need you to make a constitution savings.
Abel:Come on. Come on. Don't fuck me girl as a 16.
Snyders Return:Alright, you feel a pulse coming down the stinger for a second but your body seems to resist any effect. happened. However this thing then backs off, you can see that it's sort of front legs seem to be almost sharpened on the inside to a point. And he's gonna swing one of those horrible blade light legs at you for natural. And it sort of gets itself turned round. I'd like you guys to roll initiative please. Hey, thanks for listening. If you'd like to learn more about slides return podcast, then come and find us on Twitter at Return Snyder. Go and check out our website at www dot Snyder's return.squarespace.com You can find us on Facebook and on Instagram. Please leave us a review you can do so on iTunes. You can find size return on any way you get your podcasts and it'd be great to get in touch. We also have a Discord server. And if you want to support the show, support the channel. We have a buy me a coffee links in the description below. Hope to hear from you again and until we speak again. Thank you