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Tanner:And then you will see this sort of magical shimmer against the door.
Fraser:And then all of a sudden, over his left shoulder shoots almost seemingly out of nowhere. A glowing purple great sword.
Tanner:With this you kind of you feel some power wrenched from you as you give some of your lifeforce to try and cut this down over the
Will:door says it is I normal human Jason. How are you people?
Tanner:They all drop their fine, fine scotch on the ground.
Bruce:I believe I found one of them in the nuts.
Tanner:The one that you haven't talked to and also haven't punched in the nuts. He's like trying to get your attention. You're not gonna do anything funny. I swear on my name. The name of my father. Young Daniel.
Will:yd can you go ahead and take us to the armory?
Tanner:You're not getting in here. You roughyeds your look. You're too
Bruce:old now. That's a just
Will:a caste old person.
Tanner:Okay, all right.
Will:It's uh, okay, so he doesn't do it. He doesn't save
Tanner:as you guys are searching through here. You find three interesting things. The third thing that you notice is an empty stand. That would perfectly fit a one. Alright,
Bruce:check the tired up fucker.
Will:I guess Yeah, I guess we're gonna we didn't loot him. So I guess we loot him now after taking this road.
Tanner:Yeah, you guys. You look through his possessions. You don't find anything of interest on him. A student ID. It says Kelsey Grammer.
Will:Great, great work. Yep.
Fraser:Yep, you deliver this just because I'm here as long as you came up with that. Mark Bart? Yes.
Will:Don't you use bonds? Would you have a use for a one? Like, what was here?
Fraser:But I have never used the one before. I'm not sure I would even know how
Tanner:I mean even when you're alone. Sorry. Go ahead.
Will:Nice masturbation nope, leave it in state and their tender has got bad masturbation jokes.
Fraser:I've never used the one before. I'm not sure not sure it would be of much use to me now.
Will:Oh, maybe we don't need the one. Question you guys. This shield? Does anybody else? You guys don't use shields to you?
Fraser:No, I have no use for shield either.
Will:Archie Do you mind if I use this shield?
Bruce:No, I've had it. Okay,
Will:I'm gonna investigate the shield and you guys can do here this is I don't know what to do with this. This is a good X ray. I guess it would probably fit somebody with a lot of strength. Archie. I'm going to do a Arcana role on the shield Tanner.
Tanner:Okay, give me an Arcana role. Just keep in mind that our cannon is going to tell you whether or not it's magical. Maybe a little bit about it but won't do the same thing that identification would
Will:now going to see if I have identification.
Tanner:The problem is you do? Wait.
Will:Mark, Bart. Can you tell me anything about this shield? With Baby? The identification spill?
Tanner:That's not one that Warlocks get.
Fraser:Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of spill.
Will:Okay, I'm just going And also, if I know what it is five plus 25277
Tanner:There is an aura coming off of it. You can't tell what it does.
Will:It's better than my shield though, right?
Tanner:I mean, it would act as a shield equally.
Will:But I can't attune to it. I know well, you
Tanner:can attune to it. You can 100% attune to anything, but you just don't know what it does,
Bruce:essentially means if it's cursed, you're fucked. Yeah, basically.
Will:Okay. See if this fit, this won't fit in the bag. Okay, we'll just say I'm gonna take this along with me. What's it just use it for now.
Bruce:I'm gonna go approach the axe. And look it up and down. Yeah.
Tanner:So Archie, you're taking a look at this axe. The head I mean, it is old. It is old old. It's withstood some test of time. It looks like something that's been handed down through generations that just wouldn't be used by an affluent family at this point. Again, it is it is a felling axe. But the hedges the head is a little bit larger than a standard felling axe. And you can see the divots and stuff from it's where but the blade of it is incredibly sharp and honed.
Bruce:Alright, is it up on a wall like hanging? Like, you know? Yeah, it is okay, I'm gonna on a plaque. I'm gonna snatch it off the plaque and test its weight. See if it's okay balanced and usable for combat?
Tanner:Yep, you take it off the wall. It is balanced almost perfectly. The half of this thing fits so nicely in your hands. You think you could actually work better with it than your current X? The only problem that you might have with it is that it doesn't have a wolf on it anywhere. There. It is honed and so well made. That you know it would be plus one.
Bruce:I see. Okay.
Tanner:So this is a plus one great X. Whoa. But as you as you swing it around. I mean, you just notice how how well it cuts through the air. It is. It is exquisite. And as you look at the handle, right between where both of your hands are there is an engraving in there. And it does read Abra lane on the haft. Wait a second. Oh, laundry I really never
Will:learned. I was thinking for some reason. Oliver Hadley, okay. Oh, no. Yeah, I was thinking I was thinking that would be his axe or
Tanner:some fucking wild. Cool. So that is everything you see in here. The guy that you got young Daniel, he are young David. Shit.
Will:Young David. Andy does Daniel. Friday. I think we said David,
Tanner:why do you turn to you guys. You're welcome. Thank you. Right, so I appreciate you not killing that dude. If you'd like we can go check out the locked up man. Guard Captain. Hey, it
Bruce:seems like a good idea. I'm gonna see if he's well iron enemy is the enemy. We'll leave them there. Who's an ally? We'll take them with. We can use them or use them.
Tanner:He seems pretty dope. If like, he didn't hate us for what we did.
Bruce:Oh, you've kind of taken over and say that you're going to take his hometown over and lock him in a basement and, you know, some?
Tanner:He's locked in the wine cellar though. So I mean, if you gotta be locked up somewhere.
Bruce:Well hope he hope he's not drunk.
Will:If he's, if he's that dope, how did he get captured by you guys? I mean, no offense, but we've just been pretty easy.
Tanner:I mean, Zeke and his main crew. Different level, even though they're all like different colors. Different level.
Will:Got it. So, Zeke,
Tanner:not good guy. That no Zeke's a good guy, but like is his badass.
Bruce:So you're saying we're probably going to have to kill him.
Tanner:Man, I'd prefer you didn't have to kill anybody because then it's gonna be on my conscience that you know I kind of lead you around. And like I don't know if I can live with that.
Bruce:To be fair, we did say we'll kill you if you didn't, so it's not really your fault.
Tanner:I feel completely fine about it. Now. Let's go And now we pulled back from the current scene to get a view of things happening elsewhere in the universe. The light grows closer. He climbs, the light grows closer. He climbs, the light grows closer. He climbs, the light grows closer. He climbs the light grows closer. He climbs the light grows closer. He climbs a new sound brakes are go mal caught from his ascent. A faint beat. He shakes his head and brings a pale hand to his tired eyes. How long have I been climbing? Argo asks his gray surroundings. Though he has climbed for so long nothing has changed about this stairwell gray stone stairs and gray stone walls above and below but this this is new. It's not a part of the voice that has long since abandoned him. Argo ponders for a moment a heart he says as he places his hand on his chest. His own heartbeat is faint. Whereas my mind been all this time. The light and now this heartbeat it is this place i i should not be here. And those words. Show here on best North River. Shoe healing best drum. I am now Corey Chu. He'll invest number three VA fully Wilk Barun drum, I am now crave what what do they mean? For a moment? Argo thinks of going back down the gray stone stairs to meet death. Maybe they would accept an apology. And maybe it would be better to sink beneath the drift. But an old thought revealed itself. What information could this tower hold? If it has been this difficult to get this far, some unimaginable wonder must rest at the top knowledge, his sole purpose, one that he would lose his sense of self for it might come to that he worried. One step and then another and then another after that. Each step I'll recount our findings. Maybe then I won't lose myself again. Right. Once more, one step and then another. One, the beating of a heart. The heart and soul can be separated. too. The pieces of a soul can be made whole again. Sorry. A soul can carry the outlines of memories. For a soul can be contained in a vessel and not decay. Five, a new mind is fragile. It can break. Six sacrifices are necessary. He pauses as his eyes well with tears. He shakes his head and continues to seven. The soul must be captured before it departs. Aid. A soul cannot pilot a body of only magic and metal. Nine 1862 loose wires start fires 1860 Oh. As Argo attempts to connect with the next step. He's caught off guard as he realizes there are no more steps. He raises his hand and shields his eyes from the light pouring in through the Crystaline windows that surrounds him. He blinks and his vision focuses on the only object in the circular room. There in the center. A small gilded cage sits atop an ornate alabaster pedestal. As his senses returned he He realizes how loud the beating has become. With each thump, he takes a step closer to the cage. Inside he sees a pulsating black heart. He reaches out his hand to a small latch on the cage turns it then pulls open the door. From outside the tower a scream resonates through the drift the waves above the afterlife go still. Shadows begin to climb the exterior walls rushing to the top with godly haste
Will:Wow, how am I supposed to follow that? Hello, dear listener, this is will aka the voice of six. Thank you so much for listening to our 12th episode in our campaign, the Neverthere there. If you want to find out more about the world of your set and the continent of Lear, you can find a bunch of nerdy world building info at Nother realm.com That's n o t h e r realm.com. Our next episode comes out in two weeks on January the second and if you're enjoying the podcast, follow us on your favorite platforms so you don't miss any episodes or the bonus content that we are releasing regularly. Now please enjoy the rest of the episode, we will not have another message because that cut scene was far too powerful
Tanner:All right, so young Daniel leads you back around the wall. He kind of stops short of being completely in sight of the other door. And outside of the door. You see three reds stationed up. All of them are alert. You're kind of peering around this corner. And they're not talking to each other. They are ready. They know their job.
Bruce:Yeah, I'm gonna look at the during click, we have an ability, you know any of them.
Tanner:I mean, not personally, I've heard stories. They're not main crew with Zeke. But like they're totally in on this. And they're they stick together through pretty much all assignments. So I know they're kind of badass.
Bruce:You know the names?
Tanner:Yeah, that one is and he goes from left to right. Pit Artemis and Gaius,
Bruce:Tim Artemis. And guys, as I was you said, it is okay. Yeah.
Will:Oh, well. Is there anybody else around that? We can hear? See?
Tanner:Hang on one sec. There we go. Now, as you look around there is there's no one else just these three.
Will:We have the chance we can probably do this art. I don't know Archie. Every time we try to talk our way through things tends to go poorly. But we do have these cloaks on you our red cloak at this point.
Bruce:I might have you to stay back here and have trouble starts. Just come in swinging.
Fraser:I've got your back and I hold my hands up and they're glowing purple.
Will:We need a code word.
Bruce:You'll know. Because you'll see me cleave somebody in twine.
Will:Maybe alcohol,
Bruce:right? Fuck it. We'll use alcohol again.
Will:Okay, sounds good. Oh, cool. That's our that's our code word for beat people up.
Fraser:That's my code word for let's have a damn good time.
Will:We can do both at the same time.
Fraser:Let's do it.
Tanner:You guys are fucked up. All right. So what's the plan?
Bruce:You knew? Alright, so that's what I'm gonna do. I am just going to approach them and act like I've been sent to kill the guard Catherine. Okay. How's that play? I haven't. And I have an axe to do so.
Tanner:All right. You start your approach. They noticed your confidence. Yep. They noticed you immediately. All remained stoic. The two on the right, Artemis and Gaius look at each other. Look back over to you. Pitt does remove eye contact.
Bruce:The opera ln x is like just kind of sitting on his shoulder
Tanner:Okay
Will:before we go further I am preparing my crossbow to fire a shot
Tanner:okay cool no guidance or any I guess guidance
Will:on him before he leaves yeah that's true you get a guidance Archie thank you the
Tanner:man nothing if not benevolent
Will:what what is Marquardt doing real quick he's preparing
Fraser:this kind of sanding with his hands you know sort of behind his back so they can't really be seen all that well but they're you they're obviously glowing a bit purple and ready to ready to pounce so are you ready to do some stuff
Bruce:we can call it we'll call it just to give you like a meta explanation of that if you have something you would like to do, but you don't want to do it right now you can prepare an action based upon some sort of condition so like you like with the guy with the red cloak, I prepared an action to bonk him on his head with my axe if he started spitting out spell words. But yeah, it's like you can only prepare your turns worth of an action basically. So you couldn't be like are prepared to attack each one and like that's not you can't do that. So Joe just to give you an explanation what like what what meaning what we're doing so you understand the rules side of it a little later.
Tanner:So so I'm imagining at this point since it is purple energy you're preparing eldritch blast
Fraser:and elders blast of course cool
Bruce:the only spell ever to be used as a spell
Tanner:the best fill in the in the whole fucking game. It really is. Okay for warlocks. No for anybody. It's a it's it's not Opie but it's perfect. I love this,
Bruce:but it is it is it is the best cantrip in the game. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 100% BB Chantry?
Will:Yes.
Tanner:I would say yeah. And that makes it the best spell in the game, even though it's not there
Bruce:because it gets it over and over with Warlocks it gets stronger, which means that it can get anyway.
Tanner:All right, okay. You walk up to these guys. full confidence. You have the Abra ln x brace against your shoulder as you're walking up. The first guy at Pitt, he does look over to you. And he raises his eyebrows that you approach doesn't say anything.
Bruce:Do any of them address me?
Tanner:Now? They're all just looking at you. Okay.
Bruce:I'm just gonna walk up to them like, like, you know, within personal reach because I'm their friend.
Tanner:As you get into about 10 feet. Pit does raise his hand and stopping motion and he says, What's your business?
Bruce:Oh, you don't tell pit? No. Gonna use the Abilene axe to chop his head off. Execution orders?
Tanner:He looks at Artemis and Gaius they shake Artemis guys. Did you hear? They all look at you. Go ahead and roll this action
Bruce:target event that should be named.
Will:He knows all their days. Come on. Really good. It's very prepared.
Tanner:Yeah, right. Yeah, it's prepared by All right, cool, and you have guidance as well.
Bruce:This D four I believe so. Yep. 16 total.
Will:Bro, bro. Shitty.
Bruce:The odds of them all believing me are slim to none. So there's gonna be probably okay.
Tanner:Artemis, Artemis and Gaius look at each other and nod. Pitts eyes narrow. I usually sent word we were told that no one was going to die by our hands.
Bruce:Don't hear the commotion earlier. Once your church guards broke out, a couple of them
Tanner:are dead. Those idiots. They would have knocked them out, knocking somebody out with fire as possible. If they decided to attack again after there was a more or less friendly into the first altercation and that's on them. None of our consciences will be solid.
Bruce:I fully agree. Problem is he's worse about 10 of them.
Tanner:That's true, but he's locked up.
Bruce:Never seen a lot pick before.
Tanner:Have I seen a lockpick before? Yes. I've seen a lot to pick before he doesn't have any on him.
Bruce:I heard him somewhere places you check everywhere up his bomb.
Tanner:Yes.
Bruce:Okay, good. We're just gonna get an only one gonna be there. All right. Well, so he's problem. I went by the armory. gentleman told me take this. Come here. That's why the Oberlin axe wants me to execute him so much. Let's go back to jump to go to Zeke, that we're not excusing the guy.
Tanner:Yes. All right. Well, Grayson has no charge here. If he told you to do something that's I doubt that comes from Zeke. Zeke will have to tell me himself.
Bruce:All right. Let's go get him. Okay. And we turn around and walk away. Okay. Oh,
Will:oh, really? I was about to say this. We're about to go look at Margie. Margie. You're about to find out why I am the face if I lied.
Bruce:Right? Well, yeah, I'm gonna go back to the place where
Tanner:we're the rest of us are your basic back around the corner. You get back over there.
Bruce:I'm gonna nudge six. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna say go ask where the guy was supposed to kill the guard captain
Will:understood the same same password just in case things go sour right
Bruce:names to use that when you reference me. It's relatively simple enough that it's believable that somebody could be named that
Will:under the HA take your red cloak.
Bruce:Now I want you to go and say I wish they were supposed to be you're supposed to meet him and help deal with his guard captain. Okay, using numbers numbers to convince them. He's gonna pitch he's gonna tell you to piss off and then I'm gonna send another one of us and I'm gonna keep doing it until you guys. Okay, enough of us come looking for.
Will:Understood. Let's do let's do this.
Bruce:All right. Story. The only way I'm going to convince him is if numbers show up.
Will:Okay, cool. Walk a walk around the corner. I guess from where he just disappeared.
Bruce:Remember multiple multiple people telling the same story is generally how a story becomes convincing.
Will:Okay, cool. Yeah, I woke up to Okay.
Tanner:Basically the same thing as your approach close. Paid raises an arm. doesn't say anything to him.
Will:I'm looking for Thea if he's supposed to be killing the guards. Captain. Theo. Theo.
Tanner:Yeah. Okay. Not happening.
Will:Zeke sent me himself. I'm not sure why I'm here. I was what I was set to No. Get notification for Zeke, so that he could tell him that Theo did the job that was asked of him.
Tanner:Okay, go ahead and roll deception. Straight. No advantage.
Will:Oh, I did pretty good at minus 170. We keep going up one.
Bruce:I feel like the other two are convinced now though. So are we rolling against them to still?
Tanner:You know what? You're not. Okay. One roll. What you're up
Will:17 Total at minus one.
Tanner:Okay. Once again, pit looks at you. gotta hear from Zeke. This guy's too important to knock off and we weren't supposed to kill anybody.
Will:Where did where did Theo go? I'll get him. I'll grab Zeke too.
Tanner:Yeah, you bring zip download to you and you don't know that guy. Don't know you.
Will:Understood. Okay.
Fraser:So at this point, I come from walking around the corner from behind. Okay. And I just I shout down the quarter. Jason. Jason. Have you found Theo? Has he done the job?
Will:No, I I don't think so. I haven't found deal yet. And these guys haven't let him do it. They need to hear from Zeke specifically.
Fraser:Okay. Well, I continue to approach and just walk up and say Well, where is he? Zeke sent him here to do a very specific job and we have to make sure that it's done.
Will:I? I'm not sure. Do you know what to do with
Fraser:your name? pit pit right pit? Yeah. Have you seen him? Has he been here? Yeah. And
Tanner:I don't have to tell you shit.
Fraser:What do you mean you you definitely need to tell me these things.
Tanner:I'm sorry. You need to learn your place. My oh my
Will:pace.
Fraser:My place. At this point. I get up in his face and back him against the wall that he's standing in front of and get up to his nose. He
Tanner:doesn't move an inch
Fraser:by my place back down my place back down. You have lost your mind, son.
Tanner:He shoves you. Go ahead and give me a strength contest. So what you're going to be rolling as athletics.
Bruce:I hear all this going on.
Fraser:It's a 12 plus one.
Tanner:He shoves you back so hard. You you fall down. Stay down. Get the fuck out of here bring Zeke. And at this point, you can see Artemis and guys kind of nudging each other. And Artemis looks at Pitt and says dude, I mean like, Hey, why do we care?
Will:Wait a second. Wait a second. That's that's my new friend.
Tanner:Yeah, it's fine.
Will:Ah, in the words of in the words of my dearest friend of the world, Archie alcohol I cast to spare the dying or I guess told the dead on his ass. Okay, I grabbed him recast told the dead and what else do I do? I'm Zeke motherfucker
Tanner:Okay, everyone go ahead and roll initiative what's gonna happen is because things kind of changed up and you guys did some more actions you particular surprises won't work except for sixes who will get something off to start off with everyone will just go in their typical order for everything else
Fraser:14
Tanner:Very nice.
Will:That escalated quick I said I did say alcohol for Archie to be on the move Archie's but he wouldn't get a surprise rail when I did that
Tanner:I write right
Bruce:around the corner and be like why are you doing
Tanner:Marsh Don't fucking Yeah, just keep on with the story. You
Bruce:keep telling a lie. You don't ever tell the truth when you start telling a lie.
Tanner:You got you will be able to get up there in one turn. What is ISO? 14 four Morbark Yeah, okay. Was everyone else got
Bruce:813
Tanner:First up in the order six, you get your spare the dime. What does that do? What do I need?
Will:He needs to roll a DC 13 saving throw wisdom.
Tanner:And this is pit you're attacking? Yeah, he passes.
Will:Okay, so he doesn't take shit. Okay.
Tanner:Yeah, as you as you unleash this spell on him, he brings his hands up and shrugs you off. Since its touch, and he squares up against you. His face is Placid, he is ready for the shit. All right, we'll move on to top of the order which is Mark bark. You've just been knocked down. So you are prone. What that means is you'll have to use all your movement to stand up, but you're right next to them. So you could still do a melee range attack.
Will:I think it's half human instead of and.
Tanner:Yes, you're right. Thank you, but it's okay. Yep. So you have to
Will:move 15 feet back if you need to. If it is,
Tanner:you wouldn't take necessarily an opportunity to take because these are not melee attackers.
Bruce:I don't think you take opportunity to text for standing up and this addition anyway.
Tanner:Now I'm
Fraser:motherfuck motherfucker I'll show you to push me and I stand up and I grabbed the great sword out of the hilt on my side as it glows purple and I swing at him.
Tanner:Okay, cool. Go ahead and roll to hit
Fraser:it's a got a camera eight on dice. Okay, plus plus. What is that? What do I plus two?
Tanner:I should say anything, but it's probably just proficiency because you're not adding your charisma to it yet.
Fraser:Okay. Yeah. So plus two then okay, cool. Great.
Tanner:You go to strike at him. And just because of your movement and getting up, he is ready for and has enough time to sidestep out of the way and you miss him. I don't believe this proximity. there's anything else that you can do for bonus action. So I think that's the end of your
Fraser:turn. Yeah, that's probably it there.
Tanner:Okay. All right. We will now move on to the next person around. Why D? Who? You guys left him back around the corner. He's peering around and he starts kind of slowly approaching looking between the two groups. Not sure what to do. I'm with him. Oh, that's right. You are you are with him. You didn't run away from him. So yeah, he's he's looking between you and the other guys and he doesn't make a move. He's very weird situation. Then we'll move on to Archie. All right.
Will:Oh, they roll bad for this year. Thank God.
Bruce:So how long has this been like a couple of minutes for those conversations? Yeah. I'm gonna look at why D and I was gonna say, this is what we're gonna do. Going around a corner together, and I'm gonna yell at him and yell at the Martini compadres over there. We're gonna start we're gonna make them think that I'm acting as read quick. Follow me. Okay.
Tanner:I'm trying to fast advantage 10 probably bad. Okay, all right. He nods.
Bruce:Okay. All right. Yeah, around the corner. Okay, and I feigned surprise as I see these two green clerks attacking red clerks
Tanner:hit instantly notice you look it up. looks up at you. He says. Yeah, this semester you're looking for a little bit of infighting. Pretty fucking dumb bud.
Bruce:Well, fuck are you talking about?
Tanner:The fuck are you talking about?
Bruce:I don't know. I don't know why these two green cloaks are attacking you. I know he's not right.
Tanner:Then give him the fuck off. They said they're with you.
Bruce:They're not with me. Like you know, whatever. You to knock your shit off, right? I'm approaching. Just fucking like playing anger. How you fucky Thank you. Ah, attacking red cloaks. Once you know how this works. I just keep approaching kind of aggressively towards the towards I'm margin.
Unknown:Six. You I know you Jason right? What are you doing, bro? If you want to die you got to fucking Death Wish you know who these are? No, no. He hit my friends.
Will:I didn't like it. I pushed him.
Unknown:He started it. Go Yeah, yeah. Okay, but Well, we were sent here by Zeke. What are we supposed to do? Well, at this point, they've been you know, rules are off.
Tanner:We kick your ass here and now we're gonna get the fuck up back the fuck up. And we can do this with some diplomacy
Will:you know what? I agree.
Unknown:I back up a little bit. He looks over at you Mr. Burke. We came in here complete. I don't care. Fuck you.
Fraser:We came in here. Ready to be?
Bruce:Radek at a screencloud
Fraser:and that'll take that shit.
Bruce:Okay, why within melee range a pit yet? Approaching this entire time?
Tanner:Yeah, I mean, you can get there you are stacked behind the other two. Right? So you kind of got the sandwich that and the other three. Okay, so yeah, you could probably you could squeeze into the place where six was in order to
Bruce:be next to mark barred right? Yep. I'm gonna use that opportunity to get there and I'm going to kind of turn towards Mark Mark and I'm going to just be like,
Unknown:I and I point a pit is called fucking kill you if you make him that's not what we want.
Fraser:I mean, I don't want that, obviously.
Unknown:But he, why are you here? Because you're not with me. I'm just gonna leave.
Fraser:And I turn and walk off back in the direction I originally came. Alright,
Bruce:so how about we all just chill out? I'll go get some alcohol.
Tanner:Relax.
Will:Hey, does that count now?
Tanner:We've kind of we're gonna keep same order in combat, but that's fine. That's fine. What what is what is happening at this point is I will give the two of you a surprise round Mark Mark, you've gone far enough outside where you wouldn't be able to get in on this particular attack. But it has seemed to calm them down enough to where they are potentially going to be surprised by this.
Will:So it's Bruce's turn still technically,
Tanner:you can attack same time. I will allow that because six year next so Okay,
Bruce:cool. Yeah, what? Wait,
Fraser:I'm gonna attack at the same time. Archie.
Will:It's okay. Yeah, we're using the same Turner order that we had so you feigned walking off? Angry? Yeah. And now you can turn around to hit him with a glass on your next turn or whatever. But yeah, so So I did not. I did knock a crossbow arrow. So I have that ready. So I'll pull that up. Ready to go whatever and fire at the same time. Archie swings livery does Okay. All right, who you guys hit pit.
Bruce:I'm aiming straight for pit.
Tanner:Okay, both of you roll your attacks tell me what you get.
Bruce:Where was windy? Because I definitely was paying attention to what he was doing. I don't trust him. He's,
Tanner:he's right behind you. Okay,
Bruce:I don't trust him motherfucker. Still. So
Will:14 plus two.
Tanner:Okay. 14 plus two is 16 grez as you and what do you get Archie? I got 19 Okay, as you both go to make an attack on him, it raises his hand and this blue energy flashes up as both of your attacks come across instantly deflects the bolt that comes towards him. However, with a 19
Bruce:with an 18 cleaver It was fucking shield that hits
Tanner:through his shield. Yep. So you you cut through. His shield is not strong. enough to stave off this particular attack and I rage okay cool
Bruce:with my mouth turning into the mall of whatever the hell I think it's like a beast mall or whatever Yeah, I think we said wolf yeah some it looks kind of is where
Tanner:we'll be in slightly can lycanthropic
Will:lycanthropic y'all What's up call me
Bruce:that will Darrow I'll do 11 damage. And I'm going to say through my toothy, Wolfie grin. Zeke's not killing me because you don't want to fucking listen. Oh,
Tanner:oh, okay. All right. Artemis and Gaius, look over this shit that's happening. And like, they they nudge each other and are like look, and they look back over at Pitt. Who you know, you're right as this axe cuts across him and slices through his red robes across his chest, and the blood starts coming out. Just darkening his robes. He looks up at you and this I mean you can see the fire in his eyes and he spits on the floor and says never seen a student need to use an axe.
Bruce:And I just because I'm stronger than you
Tanner:i When you say that you you hear him whisper a spell and his body starts to shift and blur and you can see him sort of wavering about it messes with your eyes as it seems to be some sort of strange imagery going on what was a one that is minimize everything, dingus? Okay, and as he does that, he will dash off to the corner about 20 feet away to get out of your immediate range
Bruce:okay
Will:it's an opportunity to tech Yep, no it's not
Tanner:No Yeah, it is.
Bruce:No it is Oh, I thought he used to spell to do it so I didn't think he No
Tanner:no he used he used to spell but now he is running but only what I mean six won't be able to do it. He has a crossbow ready and that doesn't Yeah,
Bruce:all right. I'm gonna hold on I gotta I gotta flip a coin because I'm stuck between two decisions and I don't know what I should do. I'm not sure what Okay, okay. All right. I level the axe at him and I say I just hold it up to him and I say you're going to stay in your fucking corner and let me do what I came here to do
Tanner:buck you and that is the enemy's turn. Artemis will now go and Artemis is like a little freaked out situation but he but he steals himself pretty quickly. He will arc his arm around and right where Archie and six are standing this slick grease will begin to clear and cover the ground 10 foot square starting at you and then two squares behind it one where why D is I need both of you to give me a dexterity saving throw that me yes six and arching. I need three three okay
Bruce:14 Remember I get advantage because I can see is
Tanner:nice. Okay, so you already do that?
Bruce:Yes 14
Tanner:Six. As this grease begins to form on the floor, you take a step back and lose your footing and fall prone. Archie, you can feel the slickness building up on your boots, but your you know grime, you're able to keep your stance in it and you remain standing. And this guy will help stand strong in front of the door and in his turn, and we'll move on to Gaius who will then hold his hands out initiative has to be the last one that I gotta look up
Bruce:the last bell
Tanner:okay. He will touch his thumbs together and hold his hands out with his fingers spread and a thin sheet of flame shoots forth out at you. I need everyone that is just going to be the three of you mark bark you've gotten far enough out of the vicinity. So I need six Archie and I'm going to make one For yd to see if you save so dexterity saving throw please you gotta be a 1319 14
Will:again
Tanner:nice okay okay so both of you saved young Daniel did not the grease underneath your feet looks killing Daniel ignites and flames raise up from it young Daniel begins to fry and he screams briefly until he is choked of life and is just a fried chicken on the floor
Bruce:so he just killed him instantly basically
Tanner:yep it did enough damage to kill him instantly
Fraser:yes it did that student these guys did it
Tanner:okay the other two of you you do take six damage
Bruce:all right and oh not kill anybody you just roasted a fucking green cloak
Tanner:you seem to you seem to hit something and guys but you can he looks at Artemis and like Greece and then fire that was the plan there is now fire all around you Yeah, fire all around you. That will end his turn he will also stand next to Artemis in front of the door and we will move back to the top of the order Mark bark you are within distance to do magic spelling or to attempt to put out fire or to you can you can still run up and hit in melee range. Anyone But pit
Fraser:I think it was anyone but
Tanner:you can't hit pit with melee you can hit him with spells.
Fraser:Yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. Cool. Yeah, so I'm gonna go ahead and I've still got a grudge against old pit and I'm gonna eldritch blast is asked to oblivion
Will:alright him yes
Fraser:out the fucking
Tanner:give me that attempt. Go ahead and oh,
Fraser:that's an 11 plus whatever it
Bruce:is charisma modifier in that Yeah. Okay, so 60
Tanner:Give me another role because it's a disadvantage because this will
Fraser:take the lower of the 2015
Tanner:you the eldritch energy crackles between your fingertips and you reach out ahead and flick this ancients fell forward and it splashes against Pitt and it connects with them. Go ahead and roll damage. Oh sure.
Fraser:Are over off the table. That's an eight.
Tanner:Okay. All right. Pit is still standing. But he definitely does not look to be in the best condition. He hunches over a bit, puts his arm across the gash on his chest. And his breathing is a bit labored. But his face is still stoic with a hint of anger in it ready to strike out not ready to back down. He has a job to do. We will then move on to d move any closer move anywhere else Mark Mark
Fraser:how close am I right now?
Tanner:You are 15 feet from Artemis and Gaius you are the better part of 40 feet from Pitt.
Fraser:Okay, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna just more or less stay where I am. Okay. Seems like a good range Mart.
Tanner:All right, Archie. It is your turn.
Will:I was gonna make a suggestion. Fraser when you're doing that, that at 13 HP you should probably stay in the back. Yeah, that's
Fraser:why I was like, Yeah, Artemis and guys don't seem nearly as threatening as it does right now. I have a grudge against Pitt. But I can also hit him from here with elders class, so I don't really want to get any closer to him. I don't know that it matters if he's just a magic boy who can sling fire all over the place. But
Bruce:I tend to have a question. Yes. So I have an advantage on perception for hearing and smelling. Can I utilize that skill to not have to use my eyesight to hit a pit? Because as soon as shimmering is an eyesight issue, because I see him shimmering, right so it doesn't look right.
Tanner:I will give you this. I'll give you this and transform your mouth. Okay. Give me a perception role. Based on smell. We won't do it based on hearing your perception or based on smell to see if if you can make that connection. Like there's burning body around you. There's other smells that are currently very strong.
Bruce:Gotcha. Okay. 16
Tanner:Do you think that? This is a very interesting question.
Bruce:If it's no, it's no, it's fine. I just I'm just I mean, I have that.
Tanner:Well, I mean, you have you have a utility that could be kind of fun. I'm just trying. Okay. Explain to me how using smell would help you pinpoint someone's location when you're going to be swinging at him. And then
Bruce:well, I mean, it's the same thing is like tracking. So like a wolf tracks you through your smell. That's how it knows to find you. So I'm thinking that if I have advantage on it for hearing smelling that, due to the fact that it's a magical nature, it helped me locate somebody. So like, he's got this probably. Right. So shimmering. So he has this, I guess? Certain not so compact area in which he seems to exist in but it's bigger, because he's shimmering. So he's really moving. Because when you say shimmering, is he moving back and forth quickly, like a vibration? Yeah, basically. So I would imagine that if that's only a sight thing, and not a hearing smelling thing, I would be able to narrow down the space in which he appears with smelling hearing versus sight. Because that's not going to put, I don't think the spell is going to put out any kind of sight or smell. And if I'm wrong, I'm cool with that, too. You don't have to tell me you can just be like, you think you might got it, and I'll go for it. And if I miss, I miss out on what I
Tanner:will, what I will give to you is, you know with it within this animalistic nature that you've unlocked. It is more likely that you could find something using one sense if you cut off the other sense. So you think that if you close your eyes, maybe you could hold your nose and and have it sort of
Bruce:Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah, I planned on doing that. So
Tanner:if you do that, if you do that your eyes will need to remain close in his attack will have advantage on you. attackers will have advantage because you won't be able to dodge but you can have a normal attack against him. I will get to your next turn.
Bruce:Yeah, I'll take it.
Tanner:Okay. All right. We'll
Bruce:certainly look at one more thing too I'm also going to reckless attack because pocket he's already got advantage. Okay, yeah, that gives me advantage during my turn.
Tanner:Oh, you fuck. Alright.
Bruce:You want to stop? We can pull it back. If you want to pull it back. We'll pull it back.
Tanner:Oh, no, it's a good enough reasoning. I gave you a way to stack it and beat me at the game. So go ahead.
Bruce:Okay. non-natural are actually 21 to hit.
Tanner:Oh yeah, that'll do it. All right.
Bruce:Okay, so he takes 10 damage from my brain X. Okay, with my eyes closed, so that should probably be like what the fuck in and of itself, but
Tanner:you close your eyes. And push your senses past the smell of the force, Archie. Yeah, you push yourself past the smell of bacon boy. And you you swing your boy you swing your new axe at him and this thing. You have a sense it's it is like you're felling a tree. It goes through the entire space where you think he is. And it cleaves clean through him. You hear splashes on the floor, but don't see the damage you've done because your eyes remain closed.
Bruce:Okay. Your body something?
Tanner:Oh, yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, you've cut through some things that people really need.
Bruce:I'm just gonna, I'm gonna say out loud in my life for life.
Tanner:Okay, all right. His Gaius and Artemis look stunned.
Bruce:So it was the badass that's what you're telling me.
Tanner:It speaks and this gurgle comes out. As he says Dawn will wreck you. And then he stops breathing
Fraser:pitch and
Unknown:now we move on that's what I thought. Oh. So I mean, I guess we could continue fighting. Artemis. Gaius, would you like to continue fighting? I'm
Tanner:Rob persuasion advantage because you are trying to save their lives
Bruce:Oh, I like how I like how it's become it's become about saving their lives now that I've met under their friend
Will:that's a 13 and 11 on dice minus one is a 12.
Bruce:That's fucking hilarious. That means they're scared. That's what it means.
Will:Just lie on the dice they wrote a five, five Na,
Tanner:Gaius, Gaius doesn't hesitate to lower his arms. Artemis looks over at Pitts body and back to you and just takes a step back and he says, I don't want any trouble,
Bruce:but that's that's fucked. That's fucked. That's fucked. Well, I didn't want to kill your friend. But he won't let me do what I came here to do. Are you going to be in my way to go do the same to you? I still have my eyes closed. No, no, no, this was going to happen because now you've made me mad. You're gonna fuck off right now. Or we're not stopping. You killed my green cloak. He was my green cloak. And you fucking burned him. lit him on fire. And you made him breathe his own burning flesh before he died. Gaius
Tanner:Gaius looks down at the body and looks at the burning I'm gonna go ahead and say six you walk out of the fire
Bruce:which is fucking epic looking.
Tanner:Yeah, you do you take as you do.
Bruce:The Firebird trigger damage.
Tanner:Yeah. Gaius looks at the scene. He kills all the bear and he pukes Artemis says Will my brother and I are gone. We'll leave right now.
Unknown:Pay I can make a suggestion. Leave leave town very pit. I wouldn't stay here.
Tanner:No, we're not. I'm not I don't want to carry that. That's disgusting. I can't
Will:I mean, I know I'll bury him. vices done. Okay.
Tanner:He grabs guys by the collar and leads them out and they leave the the flames dissipate on the grease which is pretty much burned up on the floor. And why D is nearly unrecognizable. Combat is over.
Fraser:I spit that's what I thought
Bruce:I spit on Friday and open the door. Okay. Archie Archie is mad that he killed Why do he's not happy that that he killed his own like because remember Archie is about family. And they were supposed to be part of the same family. And he without a second thought was like you're not going to do this live but I'm going to burn this motherfucking innocent little green cloak to death right in front of you. So that actually upset Archie because Archie is about family.
Will:Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Why do you did try to betray us a little bit
Bruce:No yen he never made an actual indication he was going to betray he followed me when I told him to so as far as through empathy
Will:to make us not attack him. The blue thing? No, that
Bruce:wasn't why I did that was that was this pitch shield spells a reaction spell? Yeah, you have any
Will:time? No, no, no, no, no. Why he
Fraser:was trying to attack why he
Will:okay. He's gonna kill why even
Bruce:though like there was he didn't trust him. He was like, oh, there might be potential here and then like, just you burn your family. Yeah, he burned your comrade to death. But you won't kill anybody. Yeah, okay.
Tanner:Why? Oh,
Will:why the
Tanner:there's there's no, there's never going to be any why do you why, man? No, no. Why do you why?
Will:Okay, why do you why I'm sad
Bruce:or to just not feel guilty. He's just angry. Let's make it.
Tanner:As you spit on Pitt's body. You do notice that one of the the tears that you turn his cloak, you do spot a key. So you grab it, and you use it on the door. You open it up and inside our rows upon rows of wine in the back bodies of bodies. In the back, there's a figure sitting in the chair. You could tell from here that he is tall and lean, but the look that he gives you is commanding his presence the way he holds himself. Even though he is wearing pretty dirty clothes at this point as if he's been in a tussle. He stands and the he moves his ash blonde hair out of his face and you can see partially pointed ears as he takes a step forward. He sniffs and he shakes his head and just looks at you expectantly.
Bruce:Cheers love, cavalry's here. Let's go.