Oathbreaker: A DND Story
Oathbreaker: A Dark Fantasy Actual Play Podcast
Betrayal. Corruption. A kingdom in ruin. The oath has been broken, and the dead refuse to rest.
Welcome to Oathbreaker, our second long-term campaign together. Join our party of schemers, outcasts, and would-be heroes as they navigate a kingdom torn apart by political intrigue, forbidden magic, and the looming threat of an undead crown.
With years of shared adventures behind us, our table is filled with rich roleplay, high-stakes decision-making, and the chaos of a group that knows how to push each other to the limit—both in and out of character. Whether you're here for the deep lore, intense combat, or just to watch everything spiral into madness, this story is one you won’t want to miss.
Swear your loyalty—or break your oath. The choice is yours.
Oathbreaker: A DND Story
Episode 6: Fireballs, Finger Guns, And A Sheep Walk Into A Melee
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SPEAKER_10:Sweetheart. I think there's even a thing on Netflix too that had the Dallas. Yeah, my my daughter's uh big in cheer, so she she was all about it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that's that's what it was. And uh they it exposed how much they were making and how much how much work it was to actually be a cheerleader, and like they have to be actual athletes.
SPEAKER_10:No, dude, it's crazy just on like my daughter's level. Uh like I went to the first competition. My my wife did this as a teenager, so she knew all about it. I came in and like these girls are like falling from like a like an 18-foot drop, getting up and then just going through it. Like Amelia does nothing but practice and train all the time, and she's seven, so I can only imagine as the tiers go higher, but like her team is hardcore.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, they I've seen the in the competitions they chuck the the girl on top, like chuck her like 20 feet in the air or something. Like, holy shit.
SPEAKER_10:No, it's wild. Like Amelia does like the lifts for the other teams because she's like taller and like like but like she's like for like a seven-year-old, like we like she jokes around like flexing and stuff like that, but like she's like a like a pretty ripped seven-year-old. Like compared to my boys, like she's definitely gonna win that fight.
SPEAKER_06:Big fan of the classic American film Bring It On, as well as Bring It On Again.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah. Bring it on, yeah. Bring it on again.
SPEAKER_10:My wife loved those movies.
SPEAKER_03:Wasn't there like a wasn't there like a third and a fourth one? Yeah, there's a whole bunch of them. I've tried it. It's been a while since I even must messed around with DD Beyond. I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing right now.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, it's been a minute. I appreciate everybody's uh patience while I was getting my computer up and going.
SPEAKER_06:Open your characters.
SPEAKER_08:Can you guys hear me okay? Characters.
SPEAKER_06:Yes. Yes. Can you hear me or okay?
SPEAKER_10:Yes. Am I not logged in?
SPEAKER_06:I had to re-log in.
SPEAKER_10:I feel like every time they they release like so many things, uh, they they force uh you to re-log in. I just had to do the same thing like two days ago.
SPEAKER_03:And I gotta try to remember what I use to log in. Is it Twitch?
SPEAKER_10:I unfortunately did it to Wizards.
SPEAKER_06:Can you link it to like a Google account? I I log in through Google.
SPEAKER_10:I I signed in and like I I don't know what I did to the the Google credits, but it will not let me log in through Google, so I had to like make a Wizards account, link my Google account to that, and now I can log in through Wizards, but I can't log in through Google.
SPEAKER_06:As long as you're still getting all the stuff for paper.
SPEAKER_10:That's what I mean. I'm still getting all the stuff. I'm just like, it's just such a they make it so complicated. Alright, there it is.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_10:I said, Wow, hold on, I'm not done yet. You guys probably don't listen to Mega Ran, but like he's a pretty big time nerdcore uh rapper. Uh I wore my it's been uh it's been nerdy t-shirt, and he immediately asked if that was from a DD podcast. What? So yeah, no, and I love this guy. Like I've been to a couple of his shows, like I follow his career, but like like and so like when I ran up to him, he was like, yo, yo, yo, is that is that that's from a podcast, right? Like a DD thing? I was like, yes, absolutely. And then I did not get much more about it, but like, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Yo, have that guy. Oh shit. What is this? I don't know.
SPEAKER_10:Mega ran. He like raps about like Sega and D and all this other stuff, but like, yeah, he's huge in the nerd core thing. Damn. Alright. I know I was so excited, and I was like, I forgot to tell him. That's very exciting.
SPEAKER_06:I love that. I wish they would come talk to me. Hey, anybody would come talk to us.
SPEAKER_04:I know, right?
SPEAKER_06:I was just talking to Brandon Gager about how like disconnected it feels. We hear these numbers and I don't know, like 50 people in our Discord, and uh like maybe ten of us talk to each other. Yeah. Where are people? Um just blow my mind. Play some games. Yeah, right. Play some games, make fun of us. Tell us what's good. How you guys feeling tonight?
SPEAKER_10:Pretty good? Tomorrow's my birthday. Oh, happy birthday! Oh, thank you, thank you.
SPEAKER_08:I as a birthday present, I if I kill your character, it'll be quick.
SPEAKER_10:Oh my god, I already saw that j that that Andrew's character's dead. It's so quick.
SPEAKER_06:Is that I saw that in the chat. Is that a true thing? I thought it was a joke. He did stupid shit. Is he really dead?
SPEAKER_08:Sorry, it's no shit, he did die.
SPEAKER_06:He did stuff like that. Was he like shit? Was he did did he just like get revived right away or uh he went down several times. Like not dead then.
SPEAKER_10:I think he's I think he's gone.
SPEAKER_03:You gonna make me click those notes? I can't try to figure out how to get into the notes.
SPEAKER_08:Okay, since you guys are asking me directly, he is not dead, but he came fucking close.
SPEAKER_12:Oh man. I thought he was I saw the group chat thing, I was like, oh my god.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, and Andrew was like, hey, watch this, play along. I'm like, alright.
SPEAKER_12:Oh man, what an asshole.
SPEAKER_08:It it came real close. Like the the baddie that they fought in the last episode, uh, it went after him after he went down.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, I like immediately reached out to him. I was like, your character's so much more sturdy than mine.
SPEAKER_06:Maddie took really bad notes.
SPEAKER_08:I mean, he said several times that he missed you having you there because now he's got to try to take notes and he's terrible at it.
SPEAKER_06:Oh my god. It doesn't any difference says that they were in danger.
SPEAKER_08:They were in real bad danger.
SPEAKER_10:There's so much danger, all the danger.
SPEAKER_08:Andrew was on two death saves or death rolls, and failed two death rolls already. And or he he he was on one, the baddie attacked him, he saved one, and then Maddie happened to kill the baddie. Like, there's no reason he should have been able to do it. He couldn't see the bad guy, he didn't know where he was. Like it was a lucky fucking roll.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, I was listening to part of that, but I was mostly playing video games.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_10:Ooh, apparently I'm playing the Sims 4. Are you? No, my wife.
SPEAKER_03:My wife is. Alright. It's it's Sims.
SPEAKER_02:Doesn't pay a whole lot of freaking attention.
SPEAKER_08:Um okay. So I am going to kick us off. Any questions about where you guys left off? I'm gonna I'm gonna inch I'm gonna do the introduction where uh Maddie and Andrew's characters walk off from you guys. They're gonna go grab a drink in a tavern. You know, where no adventure ever starts. And you guys are being whisked off to the uh King's Tournament ball, which is the ball that happens the night before the King's Tournament.
SPEAKER_02:Wait, we're going to the ball?
SPEAKER_08:Yes, you are going to the ball.
SPEAKER_10:I did not write that down.
SPEAKER_06:I thought. Didn't we already start the King's Tournament?
SPEAKER_08:So it's separated into two things. So the King's Tournament, right? Uh you guys are in the part day one of the King's Tournament, and then the Battle of Champions is day two, which is what you all got into.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:So you guys are because you're in the Battle of Champions, everybody that got to the Battle of Champions is invited to the King's Tournament ball. And it's not really a ball so much as just a gathering with food and drink. Just an introduction type thing.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. I thought this session was the battle. It's just the ball.
SPEAKER_08:There will be fights here. We are the elite. Yeah. Uh I would like to. I I plan for about 30 minutes in the ball. And then uh and then the rest of it is gonna be fighting.
SPEAKER_03:So I understand what happens in the first minute. What's the last 29? Is that cuddling?
SPEAKER_06:Pillow talk, baby. Alright. Okay. Sorry, my mind is still blown that you wore that you have a shirt about us, and then that somebody recognized it. I'm still oh sorry, just that's pretty awesome.
SPEAKER_10:It was uh well I I made the shirt, but it was like as I said, it was like when he came up and started talking to me, I was like, oh shit, oh my god. I was like, I couldn't even think in the moment of like more shit to ask or anything else. But it was also it's like so it's Mega Ran. He's uh he's like a pretty big he as far as like nerdcore uh artists go, he's one of the like the bigger, bigger names. I'm not gonna uh Instagram, uh yeah, he's on all the socials. Mega yeah, like Mega Man, but Mega Ran. He's actually from Philly and everything. He's Kara's age. Raheem Jarbo. It's actually Yarbo. He's from Philly, he was a teacher.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. I'm gonna message him.
SPEAKER_06:That's super cool.
SPEAKER_10:I'm gonna slide.
SPEAKER_06:I knew we had a present in Philly, but I assumed it was for people you knew, Brandon. Famous people.
SPEAKER_10:Right? Nerdcore rapper. What's it called? Um, he's actually got a song, if you beat the new Ninja Turtles game, like the the new side-scroller that came out, uh, his song's the ending credits of the song. Like Capcom like flies them out, sponsors them and shit. Where did where'd you run into him at? Uh he had a show here in Philly uh at the uh underground arts with uh Stark, I think it was like Starkillers and Magisword.
SPEAKER_06:Right, we need to make sure it's fight.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, we do.
SPEAKER_06:I'm embarrassed.
SPEAKER_10:I mean, I'm excited, but and if like I mean, like, if uh if nerdcore artists are peeps to talk to, I actually uh did like a bunch of like promo art for a few people back in back in Z-Day. They actually have a song called like Bardcore. And uh I'm the friend when they talk about uh their friend who's doing a DD game. Nice. Yeah.
SPEAKER_11:You wanna do our podcast real quick?
SPEAKER_08:I messaged him. Nice back to me.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. I think my head's getting in the right now.
SPEAKER_03:Alright. Did we have notes from last session?
SPEAKER_06:I did take notes. It was mostly combat though. Uh we did the crowd, get the crowd all hyped up. Um under Bill 1 said it was Oathbreaker. Oh breaker.
SPEAKER_03:So how do so we went from session three to session 4.25 to session 4.5?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. Well, because Maddie made the split, so that would have been like 4-1.
SPEAKER_03:This would have been 4-2, but what maniac numbered these?
SPEAKER_08:Not this guy. I have you guys as four and four point five. Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Can we rename this?
SPEAKER_06:Uh yeah, probably.
SPEAKER_03:Uh edit post.
SPEAKER_06:This string came right out. I spent like an hour getting the other way.
SPEAKER_03:Save. Done.
SPEAKER_06:I changed this session before.
SPEAKER_03:Oh shit.
SPEAKER_10:What is slow? There's something called slow mould would you, Brandon, say we have long rested? No. Oh shit. R like's dead. What's your health at?
SPEAKER_08:Uh 13. Uh you'll be able to long rest before the end of the party at the end of the party, because you'll have a night's rest before. Alright. Sounds good. Alright. Let's jump into this. Okay. Okay, since you guys are asking me directly, he is not dead, but he came fucking close.
SPEAKER_12:Oh man. I thought he was I saw the group chat thing. I was like, oh my god.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, and Andrew is like, hey, watch this, play along. I'm like, alright.
SPEAKER_12:Oh man, what an asshole.
SPEAKER_08:Welcome to Oathbreaker, a DD story. I am Brendan the Irish Wookiee and with me today is Justin. Hi, Brendan. Hello.
SPEAKER_06:Uh hi, everybody. I'm Justin, and I'm playing Nelvax, the male human monk Wave Shadows.
SPEAKER_08:No, that's it.
SPEAKER_03:And Bill. Hello, I am Bill. I play Zayn Umbralite, the half orc warlock of the male variety. Who is like a hex blade or something.
SPEAKER_10:And Ray. Hey, I'm Ray. I play Harlick, the Kanku barred warlock. Wonderful. I did the whole thing, and then it was like, who's who's muted? I was like, damn it.
SPEAKER_06:It was a good rehearsal.
SPEAKER_08:Alright. So I want to thank you to everybody following us like and it's giving us ideas. It means a lot to us. Um, we you know, we got some pretty exciting news today from Ray about running into uh what are they called, Ray? Mega Ran. It was a nerdcore rapper. Nerdcore rapper called uh Mega Ran. So check him out at his Twitter handle at Mega Ran. Um and so that that's exciting for us, which means we know you people are listening. Come and talk to us, please.
SPEAKER_06:I think it's even more than Ray made a shirt about our podcast, and somebody recognized that shirt about our podcast. How fucking very true.
SPEAKER_08:That is that is really cool. Gone. We need to just start, we need to market that. It's been nerdy. TM.
SPEAKER_06:Man, I can I made those stickers, but it's been years. I stick them everywhere, but yeah, same. We don't have the same cast mostly.
SPEAKER_08:No.
unknown:God damn.
SPEAKER_08:Me and you.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:I mean, Brennan's. Maddie. Maddie was there, Mr.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. I am more of a director. I wouldn't say I'm the cast.
SPEAKER_06:You're everyone who's not a that's fair. Why does Maddie have a 11,000? Because it's fucking I don't know. Let's get away with that shit.
SPEAKER_10:Alright. Is that personal notes or is that added to his sheet somehow? You can modify your ability.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, you can override your stats on DD Beyond. Anyway, make sure you give us a like and a follow at facebook.com slash ad story. Retweet us on Twitter or AX at ad story2. Uh follow us on Instagram at Instagram.com slash ad story. And finally check us out on Blue Sky, a BSKY.app at ad story. Uh this is our second split session. Uh so you if you listen to our last session, you know that we just had Andrew and Maddie's session where they went off and found some awesome things. I don't want to spoil it for our players in case they want to go back and listen to it, but they made a huge bonus for all of our players here that they will soon find out about. And uh also got into a lot of trouble and almost died. We had our first character down of the uh uh of of this campaign, and it was real close to true death. So um it's just a reminder to all of my players that this is not as as as forgiving as our last campaign.
SPEAKER_06:Did he die, Brandon?
SPEAKER_08:It was real fucking close, man. It was real fucking close.
SPEAKER_06:I also wanted to joke, but this might be like the third or maybe fourth episode that Bill will have ever listened to.
SPEAKER_03:I've listened to all the episodes that I'm not in.
SPEAKER_06:Right. Which is that many.
SPEAKER_03:No, I've been in almost all of them.
SPEAKER_06:Almost all of them. Like four or five episodes that you have listened to, is what I said. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Like the Christmas episodes, one on the episode one recap.
SPEAKER_08:Oh god. That was fun. No. This is a new campaign, we don't talk about that.
SPEAKER_03:Oh. So I just want to ask, did you say retwit us on Twitter? No, I said retweet. Or X? No, you didn't.
SPEAKER_08:Did I say retwit? Retwit us. Um, alright. So let's roll for some recap.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, I thought you were gonna give us the recap.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, so did I.
SPEAKER_03:I don't have that built on here.
SPEAKER_10:I will say, I I do not recall last session very well. I got a 12.
SPEAKER_08:12?
SPEAKER_01:Is that good?
SPEAKER_08:I mean, it's more than average.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah, it is.
SPEAKER_01:Not by much.
SPEAKER_06:That's the way you measure something.
SPEAKER_03:A six? Uh-oh. I don't stupid thing. Oh, there it is.
SPEAKER_08:14. 14. Looks like it's all you, Ray.
SPEAKER_10:Harleck, give me that recap. Oh man. Well, going by Harlec's notes, which are about as good as my my school notes. Uh, we have to win some games to get into the big fight. Battle Battle of Champions, yep. That tipsy tunes, John. These are all the notes that I have written down, by the way. Uh got 20 gold and a scroll of question instant tent underline.
SPEAKER_08:So let's back up here. So you there's a couple skills. Now you're fine. There's a couple skill challenges that you'll have to perform on. The first one was a uh charisma and constitution-based skill challenge that Harlec won, right? Yes. Okay. Do you remember what the second challenge was?
SPEAKER_01:That the die? No, that was the get the fan type, right?
SPEAKER_06:Yes. Like seeing some.
SPEAKER_08:No, no, no, no, that was the first one. That was the first one.
SPEAKER_01:Oh.
SPEAKER_08:Yep. The second one was the strength test. Boulder third one was the dive. Leap of death. Oh, the the leap. Yep. So who won the second one? I think that was Justin. That was Justin.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:It was me? Oh, I won this dive too, and then I went too.
SPEAKER_08:I thought Harlech won the third. I have Harleck winning the dive.
SPEAKER_10:I have I have third place as as uh no.
SPEAKER_06:My paper notes were not so good.
SPEAKER_03:Zane was second, Nelvex was third oh no. That's the first round. Hold on. Nelvex was first, Zane was second, Harlech was third in the dive.
SPEAKER_08:Okay. So Nelvax won two then.
SPEAKER_03:I think it's yes, Nelvex won two and invited Zane to take one of his spots. Yep. And Zayn for some reason decided to do it.
SPEAKER_08:Yes, yes. Did join the Battle of Champions. So uh yes, Harlach won the first one, and then Nelvax won the second two. Uh then the second one and the third one, and he gave his uh the third winning spot to Zane so he could participate in the tournament or the battle of champions in the King's tournament.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_08:I don't know why Harlak's in this fight. This is not good. Alright, so that's where we're gonna start off. I'm I'm not gonna give you inspiration for that, right?
SPEAKER_10:No, I'm just uh I feel like I feel like I have to roll my first roll at disadvantage.
SPEAKER_08:So alright, so that's where we're gonna start off. We have uh heart all five of you, including Xanover and Voss, are um standing around as the crowd is beginning to disperse on day one of the tournament of the King's tournament. Uh Zane and or sorry, Voss and Xanover um both look at you and they they uh they say their goodbyes and they start walking to the or that they turn around and you hear uh Voss say to to uh Xanover, you wanna go get drunk? Or not Voss. Yeah, Voss says to Zaniver, you want to go get drunk? And you see Xanover nod and they they walk off. Leaving the three of you Um standing there. As you're standing there, what's that?
SPEAKER_01:You guys wanna go get drunk?
SPEAKER_08:As you're standing there, a uh a goblin in very fancy clothing walks up to you all, and uh he hands all three of you a sheet of paper and just walks away without a word. I don't take it. Okay. He drops it on the ground in front of you and walks away without a word.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I kick it into the air and grab it.
SPEAKER_10:Harley's gonna like enthusiastically grab it. Oh, thanks! So like reading it immediately.
SPEAKER_03:Uh so uh um Zayn will uh use his mage hand and hold up, pick up the sheet of paper and hold it in front of him.
SPEAKER_08:Okay. Uh all three of your sheets of paper say the same thing. It says, Congratulations, champions! All champions are required and formally invited to attend the uh to attend the champions ball. Uh, where we will refresh, introduce one another, and just mingle prior to our fight and our and declaring our tournament champion. And then it at the very bottom it has an address. And a time you're supposed to be there. Which is approximately two hours from now. You guys are.
SPEAKER_03:Um Sure. Let's let's go uh grab a drink at some ball wait, the ball is in two hours? Yes.
SPEAKER_06:Uh is the address someplace that we would be familiar with? Like recognize it.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, it's in the it's it's right next to uh the King's Guard that you ran into earlier.
SPEAKER_03:Uh General Did you finish that sentence?
SPEAKER_08:He's looking at the name. I was also looking at it.
SPEAKER_06:Oh.
SPEAKER_08:Uh throwing a baby. Lord Seidmonder. It's in it's right next to the uh the estate of Lord Seidmonder. So yes, you've passed it a few times. It's a large ornate building that the Royal Crown uh uses to entertain guests.
SPEAKER_06:Alright, so we would be familiar with it and the area around there? Yes. Do I know of any drinking establishments here?
SPEAKER_08:There is. I mean the the the uh Lucky Leap is not too far away. It's only a few blocks.
SPEAKER_06:Well, boys, you know, uh he'll pat Harlek on the shoulder. I think we worked up a good drink. Loosen up.
SPEAKER_03:Uh Zayn nods says, uh not real sure how I feel about drinking after that performance, but alright.
SPEAKER_04:Celebrate the dog that bitch here, right?
SPEAKER_10:What dog? Oh Harleck got like really sick after all that, didn't he? After the Tipsy Tunes thing.
SPEAKER_06:The conchects. Yeah. Uh I mean, if is there anything else that we should stick around this place for? A little more prizes to give to us?
SPEAKER_08:Nope, there's nothing. All of these skill challenges are done for the day.
SPEAKER_06:Are our adoring fans waiting us?
SPEAKER_08:No adoring for fans are around you. You get a couple people that obviously recognize you, but you're you're common sight in the town. I do have reputation.
SPEAKER_11:You're a common sight.
SPEAKER_08:Thanks. I do travel a lot.
SPEAKER_06:Brandon is both the sights and the sears. Ayy.
SPEAKER_03:Alright, yeah, so I guess we'll go to wherever that place is, or head towards that direction and stop at a bar.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, so you all start heading towards the Lucky Leap. You as you get there, you see that there's a line out the door. Uh, it is completely backed. And they're not letting anybody in. They've got two large men at the front of it. There's uh the tavern across the street. Doesn't seem to have that many people in it. I mean, it's still busy. All the patrons, all the are sorry, the entire crowd from the Kings Tournament, everybody's that's gathering around, they are swarming all these taverns, and Lucky Leap has a very good reputation. So it's it's one of the first bars to get filled up.
SPEAKER_03:So do we know what the name of I'm sorry. Do we know what the name of the proprietor is?
SPEAKER_08:Yes, you do. It's Reseo Tain.
SPEAKER_06:Are we familiar with any of the bouncers to these establishments in the blocks range or so? Like maybe we know maybe we'll like fist jump and get through a lot.
SPEAKER_08:Uh you do recognize both the bouncers. They're bouncers that have been uh used by Risio for a long time. For our listeners, he take off he took off his headphones, so we're just gonna stare at him.
SPEAKER_06:Make sure that something else. Oh hey Bill, we weren't talking about you. I don't think you can hear us yet. I think they died, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Oh no, he can hear us. I see his smile. Oh, he's trying to work. Maybe not.
SPEAKER_03:Alright. Um, sorry about that. My headphones went wackadoodle.
SPEAKER_01:That's a weird sound.
SPEAKER_03:It uh it sounded like uh old 288 modem.
SPEAKER_06:Yep.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know who was trying to connect to me from the past, but I was just watching Tron, maybe it was me. Sorry, what did I miss?
SPEAKER_08:Do we know the bartender or the bar you know the bartender, it's Rcio Tan, and the two bouncers are you you you know them, they they're they are employed pretty uh they're they're employed continuously by Risio.
SPEAKER_03:Do they know us?
SPEAKER_08:They do know you. In a good way.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, you guys establish you guys are patrons of this bar.
SPEAKER_03:So would Zayn think that he would be able to BS his way in saying that, hey, we just won this competition and we want to try to or we we're supposed to meet somebody here or something like that.
SPEAKER_08:On any normal night, yes. Uh, it would not even be a doubt, it wouldn't even be a challenge, right? But tonight, uh, with the line outside and them not allowing anybody in, they're likely already full to capacity on the inside. Because Risio does not hold uh possible patrons and possible money outside unless he has absolutely zero room to serve.
SPEAKER_03:So they don't want to violate fire code?
SPEAKER_08:Probably. I mean they have a straw roof. Light it on fire and go across the street.
SPEAKER_06:How long did it take us to get to these taverns?
SPEAKER_01:Half an hour, five minutes? Fifteen minutes.
SPEAKER_08:It's pretty close.
SPEAKER_06:We still have a long time to go. We're not gonna drink.
SPEAKER_11:Um I could uh put on a free show, maybe. Uh let us in, and the whatever coin gets tossed goes to the house.
SPEAKER_08:Are you saying this to the bouncers?
SPEAKER_10:Yeah. If they kinda know us, they know I'm not at least terrible.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. One of the bouncers, real gruff uh looking man, uh human he's a human, he's got very large arms. I mean, his arms are the size of watermelons, like the exaggerated anime watermelon arms. And he says, Oh, Harluck, any other day, you know I would let you in in a heartbeat. But we've already got a performer in there, and it's I you believe it? We got Lady Goo Goo in here. Haven't seen her around these parts in a long time.
SPEAKER_11:Well, I'm no match for that.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, so I I unfortunately I I think you can get in across the street if you really want to, but uh in here we're just packed to the rim. If I can I might be able to get you in in about an hour. And if you want to wait, I will you'll be the first in.
SPEAKER_10:I'll just give a thumbs up and look back to the uh to the the other guys, just kind of like shrug like I did my best. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Well, Brandon, uh, I don't know. There's a tavern across the street if you want to go to grab a drink. Or you can start heading to the ball.
SPEAKER_03:How far away is the ball in walking?
SPEAKER_08:Twenty minutes.
SPEAKER_03:So I guess we could grab a drink and then go. Sorry, I was supposed to be more subdued. So I guess we could grab a drink and then start walking down there.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I'm all for a drink. If is it a bar that we have any kind of uh history with? Like Harley and I spend a lot of time hanging. Like we know where it's where we're cool and where we're not, like a cool place for us.
SPEAKER_01:A little seedier, but not so bad.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, it's a little sedier. It's not as well known, but they serve a fine owl and a fine ale. And a fine owl.
SPEAKER_04:And a fine ale.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. So yeah, right across the street. I mean, you've been there plenty of times. It's uh it's called the wasted wavern. Wyvern.
SPEAKER_06:So let's make like a wyvern. So we we walk over to the wasted wyvern. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, you walk in, uh though it is crowded, you can get in pretty easily. And as you walk up to the bar, people part ways for you. There, you know, they a lot of these individuals were around during the skill uh during the skill challenges, and so they've seen you all perform. And you know, Nelvax, you notice that most of them are are staring at directly at you.
SPEAKER_06:Yes. Well, I am uh great at diving in, so I have a reputation as a pretty good thief, too. Just give them uh a little finger gun. A little smile. Are you them uh I'm a I'm a human. Are them cute ladies of the human variety?
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, there are plenty. You could have your pick if you want it. Racist.
SPEAKER_06:Novex has got fake. Take an hoof, but he figured. His chances are best with his own kind.
SPEAKER_08:Yes, there are several fair maidens staring back at you. In particular, you notice a redhead and a uh brunette staring at you.
SPEAKER_03:Stay away from the redheads. They're evil.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. Whichever one is a little uh tremor, more athletic looking. Uh double acts of slide up and uh make a casual move, just his arm around her waist and pull her to the bar with him. Like care for a drink with the winners.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, the redhead is enthused. Uh she's she walks up with you to the bar. She's a little timid, a little shy. But she comes up to you and and she's she's avoiding looking at you, but she you can tell she's very into this, very excited. And the bartender comes over and says, What can I get you all?
SPEAKER_06:Uh how how how many people does this tavern hold?
SPEAKER_08:Fire code safety-wise, 95 people.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. And uh, I'm I'm familiar with this place. How much is a pint? Like five coppers? Uh yeah, five coppers. I'll I'll reach in my pocket and pull out like ten gold, dress drop on the counter.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, the bar just starts cheering, and you just hear no vex, no vex, no vex.
SPEAKER_08:And that goes on for a few minutes.
SPEAKER_06:Right, as long as they serve us first.
SPEAKER_10:To add to that, can I use uh silent image uh with the whole Misty Visions thing, just to do like fireworks popping up behind Nelvax, just like extend like just completely exaggerating the whole thing.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, absolutely. As soon as those fireworks start going off, the redhead around Nelvax's arm, she she puts her hand on her chest and it's just she's swooning. She's ready to go.
SPEAKER_06:I'm a very lithe monk. I catch her gracefully and like let look it more like a dance move as she falls, and I bring her back up and I kind of rest her on my shoulder gently, her head on my shoulder, crazily her body so nothing got damaged during the fall. The gentleman, rogue thief, gentlemen, everybody.
SPEAKER_03:So uh Zayn will quietly, discreetly add sound to the fireworks using minor illusion.
SPEAKER_08:Yep. Yeah, you got a full show behind you, Novax. Anything you want to say to the crowd? They've quieted down now that they see you holding a very beautiful woman on your arms, and uh hey, you bought now bought the entire bar a drink.
SPEAKER_06:You guys are already done? I'll shift my weight over and grab my beer and hold it in the air.
SPEAKER_08:Uh everybody raises their glass and starts.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I think I'll mosey to a table and like ask the guys to follow, and I'm sure someone's gonna give them a seat. Beer, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. Yeah. You see a four-seater that you all that looks comfortable, you walk over, it's in the middle of the room, and as you approach, uh a couple young looking or older teenagers get up from the bar and just kinda uh and one of them stands up and he very awkwardly goes to shake your hand.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I'll shift the weight over to like this young lady. Is she still like passed out? Like no, she's not passed out.
SPEAKER_08:No, she's just walking with you.
SPEAKER_06:Uh yeah, yeah. Totally shake this strapping lead hand.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, he he just stares at his hand and uh he just looks up and he smiles at you, and then he walks away. And you hear him whispering excitedly to his friends, I touched them.
SPEAKER_06:Good kid. Uh we have a seat. And uh smile at Tarlik and Zayn, like that was a little over the top, guys, but it worked real good.
SPEAKER_11:You know me, uh flightless wingman over here.
SPEAKER_06:Or higher than the eye can see, my friend. That's good.
SPEAKER_03:Uh Zane will just kinda half smile, chuckle.
SPEAKER_06:Well, I pull out my uh nice little magic-powered sundial and take a look.
SPEAKER_08:Waiting to see what you're gonna pull out. Yeah, about about 90 minutes.
SPEAKER_06:You guys wanna sit here and drink or got anything you wanna do? Well, look at my clothes.
SPEAKER_10:Seems like you have a fan club, so I'm trying to find out how how I took the damage I did. Cause uh did I did I like fail miserably at those dives? Yes.
SPEAKER_01:You could dive like that's yeah, but I thought they they healed him, didn't they?
SPEAKER_08:They did heal him, but only partially.
SPEAKER_10:Okay, I'm just making sure because uh my my notes are terrible. I'm trying to be much better about the notes this time.
SPEAKER_06:I usually do a decent job in the the group, but all right, absolutely awful. Uh in the do you see what I'm talking about? In the Discord on the on our server, Bill wants it, and then split session. Four point four point better. That's where we're particularly I can even at you if that helps.
SPEAKER_03:It actually makes it easier because it pops up as a a sub a title.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you get? Uh so while you're all sitting there, the woman looks up at you, Nelvax, and she says, I've I've been a huge admirer of yours for for weeks. Oh, tell me more. I I know you don't know me. I j I'm I'm the daughter of a uh a baker in town. My name is Brandina.
SPEAKER_01:Brandina? Pleasure to meet you. What's the name of the baker your father owns? I think I must have been. Oh, yeah, it's called Brandina's Buns. Brandina's Buns. Oh, that does ring a bell. They're quite unforgettable.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah, they're they're lovely.
SPEAKER_01:I should say.
SPEAKER_07:It's of going to another campaign, but you will have sex with one of my NPCs. Keep trying.
SPEAKER_08:Kind of weird, but uh listen, I live out my fantasies here too, Bill.
SPEAKER_07:Don't keep shame.
SPEAKER_06:Again, what if I'm gonna do that? Um, I think uh that does ring a bell. It's over. It's uh uh I got nothing to do my uh creativity ball today.
SPEAKER_08:You're fine.
unknown:You're fine.
SPEAKER_06:You think I am?
SPEAKER_08:I just named an NPC Brandina.
SPEAKER_06:But it works. She was redheaded after all.
SPEAKER_08:That got me so good. Alright, so yeah, you guys sit around, you you drink a pint, uh, you hang out for about 40 minutes. The bartender comes and and brings another round to you all after after you finish your first. Brandina and you are talking things up, Nelvex. She offers to uh to see you the next in in the coming weeks if you'd like. That sounds lovely. Brandina's buns. And yeah, after after I would say about an hour, uh, you look down your sundial and notice you have about 30 minutes before the ball starts.
SPEAKER_07:Ooh, gents we should get rolling.
SPEAKER_11:Oh, good call.
SPEAKER_10:Or like like cleans up and stuff and gets up. I imagine a bird drinking a pint of beer is a comical thing to watch. I was thinking about the like the logistics of it. Like he's not gonna be pouring, he's gonna be either like pouring it at a distance into his mouth or just like dipping his beacon into this thing.
SPEAKER_01:Maybe there's a special bird straw.
SPEAKER_10:Maybe, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:I was just like, but yeah, I was just imagining that like dipping a nose.
SPEAKER_10:That's exactly what I was thinking. I was like, how is Harlack sitting there drinking with these guys right now?
SPEAKER_08:Alright. So you're all gonna start heading towards uh the champions ball? Yeah.
SPEAKER_07:Yes.
SPEAKER_08:Alright, so as you arrive to the champions ball, 25-minute walk-ish, uh, the sun is just dipped below the horizon. And the the the champions ball is being held in House Elevane's famed garden of moon petals. So uh Justin?
SPEAKER_06:Oh, I don't mean to interrupt. After you get done with the Okay.
SPEAKER_08:As the sun starts dipping below the horizon, the garden just bursts to life in its true form. Uh, starlight and spell work kind of blend together to make this garden one of the most beautiful things you've ever seen. You've got petal-strewn marble paths that curve towards and through towering hedge mages. You've got lantern shaped like glass roses hovering in the midair, obviously being held up by spell work. And those those lanterns are pulsing in time with the music that's being played by a quartet of silver-stringed harps. The trees in the garden aren't quite normal. Their leaves are shimmering with a slight bioluminescence, and their branches sometimes lean a little too far towards conversations that are happening. As if they're being attract they're they're attracted towards lively music in good times. Um, noble guests, and and some that you recognize, some that you don't, float between the fountains, and you can see that they're whispering, talking, having a great time. Uh, you have servers going around with silver plates, serving smaller d'oeuvres, and drinks being handed out to anybody that doesn't have a drink in their hand. Most are wine. There are uh some some mead nails as well. And then at the very front of it, you see the king and his wife, and his uh king and his wife and his small child sitting at the head table, and they are having a great time while one of the noble lords is talking to them. What is your question, Justin?
SPEAKER_06:Uh so these games happen frequently enough in the city, right? Fairly enough?
SPEAKER_08:They happen, they happen once every every five years.
SPEAKER_06:Uh so what would uh we know about the King's Ball in general? Just like mental.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, so it's it's generally a that's a good great question. It's generally a because it happens so much, I'm not gonna make you roll history or anything. It's generally just a ball or a party, really. They call it a ball, but it's really just a party where smaller derbs are served, they and drinks go around, all the champions are there, it's a chance for them to talk, make alliances, or uh even you know find out who their arch nemesis is. The goal of tomorrow isn't just to win, but it's also to put on a show for the the crowd. People travel in all over the kingdom to see this this tournament. And so nobody, while there may be injuries, there are clerics around to heal, nobody is meant to die, right? There's it's not life alter, it's not life-ending, but it is life-altering. Um, typically the king will give out a boon as a final win, it whoever the champion is, though the king has won less three kings tournaments. Interesting. And and not because he was given the crown, it's because he legitimately won it.
SPEAKER_06:What do we know about his uh performance? Is he magic? Physical? He is physical.
SPEAKER_10:So do we do we know the rules of the fight?
SPEAKER_08:Is it just kind of like use whatever you got? Or it changes every year, and typically during the King's Ball, they announce the rules. Okay. Cool. Does that answer your question?
SPEAKER_06:I think so. So this is really a social gathering getting hyped up for tomorrow.
SPEAKER_08:Yep, that's all it is.
unknown:Cool.
SPEAKER_08:So uh a couple uh servants walk towards you all, and they have glasses of wine and smaller d'ours, they look like a small piece of meat on some kind of bread, if you all would like any.
SPEAKER_06:Uh yeah, I'll take my dirty fingers and stick them right in that plate.
SPEAKER_08:And it is very clear who are the champions and who are the noble family here. All the champions are still in their adventuring gear or still have their fighter garbs on. No weapons, but they still have their fighter garbs on, and they they obviously have come from a uh an adventured life. Whereas the nobles are dressed in very fine garments and are walking around and excitedly talking about the skill challenges that happened today and the tournament tomorrow.
SPEAKER_03:So the adventure how what kind of what's the mix? Adventures to noble?
SPEAKER_08:There are a total of 15 champions.
SPEAKER_03:And those are people that competed today, or those are people that just competed over the years?
SPEAKER_08:No, those are people that that compete at today. There are a few of the champions of the past have requested as a boon from the king to become nobles, and so a few of those individuals are here. But for the most part, all the noted champions are from today's challenges.
SPEAKER_06:Is the crowd more noble nobility or more?
SPEAKER_08:Much more nobility, yeah. There are dozens of nobles.
SPEAKER_06:So we walk in and because we're today's champions, everyone knows the eyes turning out of us.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, everybody's staring at you. You see a couple whispering excitedly as you all walk in, and you can tell that you're quickly going to be uh either surrounded or at least people are gonna come up and start trying to have conversations with you.
SPEAKER_06:Uh Novak's looks at you and he says, I'm very glad we got a head start. Oh yeah. Cool. All right. Um that has like a like a view, like a little raised dais or anything. I think that's where Novak would try to make his way to to get a view of the There is.
SPEAKER_08:Uh there is a uh raised platform that overlooks a small waterfall into the garden. Uh it's it's as you look over that raised platform, you can see uh crowns of roses all around, uh roses in the shape of crowns all around the garden. You can see a excuse me. You can see a couple of those taller trees down there, and the the water is flowing, and it looks like the water just stops. It doesn't go anywhere, but uh just disappears and stops flowing after about uh after about 300 or 400 feet. This is definitely a magical garden. There's a lot of magic here. And so, unless you have any other questions, I'm gonna continue. Uh okay, uh Ray? Or sorry, Arlek or Zayn?
SPEAKER_10:Arlec's gonna grab some of the snacks off the tray and follow Nelvex. Okay. Like a possible amount of snacks.
SPEAKER_08:Has anybody uh have have any of your characters been around nobility before? Is this is this a common thing for you? Do you fake it till you make it? Is this just a very uncomfortable situation? How do all your characters feel right now?
SPEAKER_03:Um Zayn is sorry, Zayn is familiar with nobility. He's not from nobility, but he's familiar with it, and he has spent time around and he's not uncomfortable. He's more leery and uh suspicious of all of them because he's doesn't try well, it's leery and suspicious pretty much states that he does not trust any of them.
SPEAKER_08:Sure. Makes sense.
SPEAKER_06:Novax is uh wary but comfortable. These are a lot of the people that he is given jobs to steal from. But then he gives back by having a good time in the same places that they hang out until he runs out of money again, and then he's gonna uh so he's you know kind of on edge, but he's also aware that some of them might pass and future.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_10:What about Harleck? Uh Harleck spent most uh like a lot of his time in the circus. He knows probably how to conduct himself a little bit more than he should, but he he plays the bit of being the the goofy, the goofy clown a little bit. He know he knows what where the line is and he dances it a lot just because he can get away with being the the goofball. Okay. It makes perfect sense as a bard.
SPEAKER_06:Uh does that mean that you stacked all your snacks? Or are you juggling them as we just?
SPEAKER_10:Oh, he's got them like between the fingers and like one hanging out of his beak. Like our hour. So does he have fingers or flippers? So I uh uh it depends on like the I think the the variations of them. Some of them they have like like full-blown like talon hands, uh like same thing you'd see on like their feet. Um, and then other ones I've seen where they have regular hands and they're just really small feathers so they can't fly. And that's kind of how I envisioned him. You know, he's got hands and stuff, he's just kind of covered in smaller feathers. But he only has four fingers? Uh that's the AI image. I meant to update that. I drew it out, yeah. I drew it out, I'll swap it out. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Alright, so the as you're all having a good time, you're you're staring at the garden around you, uh, a couple nobles start walking towards you, and as they start walking towards you, the music softens, and the fairy lights the fairy lights and that were in the grass and the lantern starts spiraling upward into the sky, uh, just under the just under the canopy of the trees. And as as soon as they get right under the canopy, an individual steps forward from where the king is sitting, and you all recognize him. He is a beautiful elf man that is only known as the king uh the king's voice. And he steps onto a floating dais that is shaped like a lily pad, and he raises a crystal goblet, and he he he speaks, and his voice is magically uh boo it is his voice is magically uh projected? Yeah, projected, thank you. His voice is magically projected into the garden. And he says, Noble guests, honored champions, and whispers of destiny, lend me your ears and your ambition. He then bows low to the king and continues. On this eve, beneath the gaze of stars and blessings of the crown, you stand not merely as contestants, but as chosen ones, hand picked to dance upon the edge of legend. The king watches, the people cheer, the fates themselves lean in. He gestures towards the garden and the champions all uh down in the garden itself, and says, Tomorrow the tournament shall begin. The king's bloom, a contest of valor, brilliance, and bloom best fortune. You shall choose your path from among three mighty trials, each a petal of fate's unfolding flower. The three trials shall be the bloom of blood, where chaos reign and many fight is won. The king's gambit, where bonds are tested and tactics rule, or the trial of the thorned crown, a duely worthy of a duel worthy of the king's champion himself. So he raises his goblet high in the air, and nearby servers present similar drinks to every competitor that does not have or every competitor, not noble. And he says, Drink deep, dear champions, rest well under moon and magic, for at dawn the balloon opens, and only the worthy will flourish. And he raises his glass and drinks deep. Are you all drinking from the cups that were offered to you? Yeah, I raise a glass and yes.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_08:And as he finishes, he stepped off, he steps off the raised dais, uh Dais, and the fairy lights spiral downward back into the grass and into the lanterns, and the music's uh and the music swells once once more. So, based off what he said, you know that the you know what the three trials are. They're pretty common uh as as far as King's champion uh king's tournaments goes. The Bloom of Blood is a free-for-all tournament or free-for-all a free-for-all fight, a free-for-all melee, yeah, where there are typically six or more individuals all fighting as one or fighting together, and last man standing wins.
SPEAKER_06:Together maybe in the same time, not as a team.
SPEAKER_08:Yes. Yeah, it you all three of you are allowed to join that, but you'll be f facing one another as well. There is the King's Gambit, where it's a 2v2 match, and it's 2v2 tournament style. All the way there are typically there's typically uh one round of 2v2, and then the two victors of that move on to the final round. Or the Trial of the Thorn Crown, which is a 1v1, and the final or or sorry, the the winner of that faces the king in the final tournament challenge. You each of you have to select one of the uh one of one of the events to enter, but obviously both of you, two of you can enter the king's gambit, which is a 2v2, and all of you can enter the melee.
SPEAKER_06:We can only do one of these, I imagine.
SPEAKER_08:One of these, that's correct. So the only time you have to fight the king is for trial three? Yeah, it's correct. If you enter trial three, the if you and you make it all the way, the final fight is with the king.
SPEAKER_03:So trial one and trial two don't fight the king.
SPEAKER_08:Correct. You get a you get a prize for each one of them. Um, but the only the third one gets the boon from the king.
SPEAKER_11:Either of you two think you could take the king? I know I'm not taking him down.
SPEAKER_06:Uh also size him up, but what does he look like? Does anybody have a skill to actually like competency of an enemy? Maybe that's not the skill. I don't think I would really do that.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, historic I mean, how how you said that the king has won most of the time.
SPEAKER_08:He's won the last three kings tournaments.
SPEAKER_06:This kind of starts to get into like the deep stuff we know. So kings led armies, he's made deal with witches, he's a physical dude, but he's like the way Sauron's a physical dude. He's empowered with magic and shit.
SPEAKER_08:That's correct. Yeah, he is a he is a large man, about six and a half feet tall. Uh he's uh I mean he's he's faced one-on-one with barbarians and strength contests and won. These stories have been told throughout the the kingdom. You all have heard them. He is a large, impressive man.
SPEAKER_06:Well, uh, I mean, if I had to fight a battalion, I would. I'd rather not. I think and he kind of looks at uh Harleck and Zayn. I think our odds might be best if you two team up and I go against the other five in a royale. What do you think?
SPEAKER_03:Um, so yeah, Zane says I don't uh I know my strengths, I know my weaknesses. I don't think I can stand up against the king today or tomorrow. But maybe someday I agree, I think we should two of us should fight the gambit and one should enter the free-for-all. I would agree that it's probably best for our for Harlick if he was in the 2v2.
SPEAKER_11:Yeah, that's probably best suited.
SPEAKER_03:I I mean your your fighting skill is good, my fighting skill is good, he's good at support, so I think either way, either you and you and Harlike or me and Harlike. I think either way, we stand the best chances.
SPEAKER_01:You wanna go solo? I won't.
SPEAKER_03:No, that's not that's not what I'm saying. I'm just agreeing with you. I'm just saying that either way, I think our that's our best chance.
SPEAKER_06:Although I wanna spend uh a few minutes just watching the king and see how he moves and try to get a read on his of like is he always fluid and ready and try to get is it more like a magical like temporary enhancement, or if he always is always that way? Nox is kind of thinking now, like, maybe like he didn't win, like at least like I could hold him off for a couple minutes. Yeah. That's fine.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, so the king is the king is having a conversation with the the king's voice at the moment, and it's whispered conversation, but you can see that his eyes are very casually just keeping a a watch on the entire garden while he's having the conversation. He's very comfortable where he's sitting, and without looking, he is reaching uh reaching to the left side of him as he's staring to the right, grabs his glass and brings it to his mouth. Um obviously not a very impressive feat, but knowing where everything is seems to be uh a an ability or at least a strength of his.
SPEAKER_06:Is he in just like spilks or does he have some kind of armor on as well this evening?
SPEAKER_08:Roll me a perception check. First roll of the session.
SPEAKER_06:First second roll of recap.
SPEAKER_08:Oh yeah, that's fair.
SPEAKER_06:I perception. I mean I using my I'm using my eyes on this.
SPEAKER_08:Yes.
SPEAKER_06:I have advantage from eyes of the eagle. Whoops Well, first roll's a 19 plus five, second's a fifty fifteen plus five. So twenty-four advantage of perception.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, so it does not look like he's wearing any armor, but he does seem stiffer than he would be if he was just in clothing. It seems to be like some kind of reinforced cloth or some maybe a chain mail that's underneath his his clothing. He's not moving as fluidly as he would if he was just silk ropes.
SPEAKER_06:Um the other question, do what would we know about the boons that have been given out before?
SPEAKER_08:So the boons uh the boons are not always public unless the champions have uh unless the champions have have disclosed it. But basically, a few of them have asked to be nobles, rich, famous. A couple have asked for plots of land, others have asked for magical gear. There was one that asked for a ship so he could sail the seas, in including a crew. Basically, as long as the king can grant it, he will. But, like I said, this king has been in place for the last four tournaments and he's won the last three.
SPEAKER_06:You have to beat him to get the reward?
SPEAKER_08:You have to beat him to get the boon. Now there are prizes for the other two events, if you win that. But you only get the boon if you win the the the trial of the thrown corn. What do we know about the other throwns? They're typically large. Uh either a lot of gold or some sort of magical item, or a some have been given a a house or a plot of land in the the kingdom. They're so they're they're they're pretty they're they're large prizes, but they're not anything like you'd be as a as a normal adventurer, you'd be able to accomplish this yourself for five or ten years on the road. Gotcha. It just speeds up your retirement, if you will.
SPEAKER_06:So while Nelvax is watching, uh, I think we're still gonna be chatting about what we want to do. I think I think in my head, Nelvax is talking himself out of it. Because that's not that's not really anything that he wants. He's just living, you know, taking every day, post, trying to have a good time.
SPEAKER_08:So, Nelvax, as you're watching this uh the king and just assessing him, uh Zane, an elderly woman walks up to you and puts her arm around yours and starts to guide you away from your group just by a few feet so she can speak with you. Or are you gonna go with her?
SPEAKER_03:An elderly woman leads me away from the group?
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, it's just a couple feet. Just a couple feet.
SPEAKER_03:Does it look like her teeth come out?
SPEAKER_08:No, it does not look like her teeth come out.
SPEAKER_03:Um so Zane will kinda look askance, but walk with her. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Um, so she looks at you, and as you meet her eyes, you can tell that this is a magical being of some sort. Her eyes are they have a soft glow behind the irises, and she looks up and smiles at you. What's up?
SPEAKER_03:Sorry, I I have to pause. So when Brandon said irises, he pointed at his eyes in case I didn't know where the irises were.
SPEAKER_02:Sorry, I had to I I normally tried not to interrupt you in your description.
SPEAKER_08:It's for the listeners. I speak with my hands. There's no one over here. You're good.
SPEAKER_03:But I had to.
SPEAKER_08:So there's a soft glow behind the irises. And and she smiles at you and she says, Oh, hello Zane. I know of you, and I know of your kind, and I know that you're going to be entering the tournament tomorrow. I'd like to help. And I I you already belong to one master, but what if you borrowed from an older master, a more powerful one? Just for the games. And as a r as a as as compensation. You give me part of your winnings.
SPEAKER_03:Um let me in my head in Zayn's head, he's thinking that Is she asking him to cheat on his patron?
SPEAKER_08:Uh she's offering you more power. Um so taking a second master, if you will. A second patron.
SPEAKER_03:Just for a day? Is that what she said? Yes. Um so Zayn will say who who would refuse more power?
unknown:Ha ha ha!
SPEAKER_08:I knew I liked you, yes, yes. I have offered many champions uh this bargain before, and uh everyone who has taken it has won. I I would gladly give you some extra powers. And if you want it after tomorrow, if you want it after the games, we can make a deal. But for now, uh just some gold will suffice. Granny's gotta keep her living.
SPEAKER_03:Oh she's asking for something now?
SPEAKER_08:No no no. If you win, you give her some gold.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. So that's what I thought. Um so Zayn nods and uh I says, I look forward to using you.
SPEAKER_08:Oh I haven't had a young one like you. I look forward to using you. I got I got Justin with Brandina and Glenn's gonna have sex with Granny Willow.
SPEAKER_06:Man, you like what you like. What can I say?
SPEAKER_08:And she pops her teeth out. Um so she she extends her hand as uh as a shake. For a handshake. She extends her hand for a handshake.
SPEAKER_09:Is it a shaky hand?
SPEAKER_08:No, it is steady.
SPEAKER_03:Um, so you don't know how much effort it takes me to say in so Zayn will reach his hand out and not a different name. Um Zayn will reach out and shake her hand. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, Zayn, you feel power just surge into you. And where you grasp her hand, green tendrils start flowing from Granny Willow's hands into yours, and it crawls up your right arm, and after a few seconds it doesn't burn, it doesn't hurt, but after a few seconds it subsides. And you don't see those tendrils anymore. And uh the power is still there, but it fades. It's like it's sitting, it's sitting in your mind waiting to be used.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_08:So from there, Granny Willow releases and she says, I look forward to working with you, young one. And and she releases your hand and walks back into the crowd.
SPEAKER_03:So, um Zane will say, Um as do I, and turn and walk back towards the group.
SPEAKER_08:Awesome. Uh Nelvex?
SPEAKER_06:Uh I do have a pretty good passive perception. How much of that did I see?
SPEAKER_08:You were focusing on the king.
SPEAKER_06:I was. It's like it's more peripheral. I mean, I'm not like not around, but I mean big green tentacles snaking their weight on my buddy's arm seems like that might get me away from home.
SPEAKER_08:No, you you were in uh search, you were focusing on the king for this. You do not see this. However, Harlak, I will let you roll a perception check at disadvantage.
SPEAKER_10:Uh 20.
SPEAKER_07:At disadvantage? Yes, 20 or 13. Damn.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, right. So, Harlak, you while you didn't see it all, you did see the handshake and you saw you saw Zayn's right arm glow green momentarily and then vanish. Not the arm did not vanish. The green and his arm vanished. I said it and I was like, fuck this group, I've gotta correct my word.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, but you said Okay.
SPEAKER_10:Oh, okay. Uh so I guess when Zayn gets back to the group Oh, hey, everything okay, Zayn?
SPEAKER_11:Looks like uh you met a colorful character over there.
SPEAKER_03:So Zayn looks at Harlick and says, just another debt to be paid.
SPEAKER_10:Alright. I'm not I'm not gonna press him. Yeah, I didn't yeah, I'm not gonna you know, I don't know what Zane's doing. I know he works a little bit for the tower and stuff like that, so this could have been something he has on the side, but um keep it to myself for now. Okay.
SPEAKER_03:So just out of curiosity, would Zayn have recognized anything that happened, the the power that is transferred, or I mean he know I know that it's waiting for him. Do you recognize the spell work or anything like that?
SPEAKER_08:Uh it's a feel familiar. It does not feel like the power that your patron gives you, uh, where your patron normally focuses on strictly destructive magic um and and and ways to change the environment around you. This is something different. It feels natural. It feels like it it it the power comes from nature itself. So though the power itself doesn't feel normal, how you obtained it is very familiar to you. Uh, it seems almost like the same deal you made with your patron.
SPEAKER_06:Okay.
SPEAKER_11:You guys are just meeting all the ladies.
SPEAKER_03:Harley probably wouldn't know that that's an old woman. No, no, I have no idea. But uh I mean Zayn's a half orc, so different opinions on things. Not saying that he would go after an old lady, but just Yeah, maybe she put on a good dance.
SPEAKER_10:I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Hopefully she doesn't have osteoporosis so I don't break anything. Regenerate.
SPEAKER_08:Alright. So um we're going to wrap up the the ball unless you guys want anything want to do anything else specifically here.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I think uh we don't know what we're doing. So uh Nelvax and Turner Rack Ramon after Harleck mentions the ladies like oh yeah. So uh Harlick, uh you want to go doubles, I'm sure, right?
SPEAKER_11:Yeah, uh I I think that's probably the best way to go. Uh I I can't see what else we would do tonight.
SPEAKER_10:Uh I mean for the not tonight, the uh for the I can't yeah, I'm trying to trying to go along with the whole thing. He's throwing hits, Brandon.
SPEAKER_03:I think uh I'm pretty sure Granny Willow's down for that.
SPEAKER_08:Granny Willows is ready for you.
SPEAKER_01:She might give more than she gets.
SPEAKER_03:Um real quick, uh before I continue the conversation, uh would I have noticed or would Zayn have noticed um Nelvax sizing up the king?
SPEAKER_08:It's pretty obvious. I'm gonna say no because you were you saw him start to to look at the king, but no. You were you were pulled aside before you could see him actually start doing it.
SPEAKER_03:So would I have been able to figure out that he's thinking about going solo? Like, is that in your personality?
SPEAKER_06:Actually, can I take that back? Basically case in the joint, so I would have been pretty streptitious.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
unknown:Alright.
SPEAKER_06:Like staring off over the balcony, like turning my head, my eyes would still be peripheral. Peripheral vision always locked up, not dead contact, otherwise his guards might try to tackle me. That weird fighter over there just staring at the king for an hour.
SPEAKER_04:Right.
SPEAKER_03:Uh Zane is not super, super he's not perceptive. He's just average perception. Okay. So okay. I just wanted to know how I would respond to the question he's about to ask. So go ahead.
SPEAKER_06:You said you already continued. Say again? You said you had a question before you continue the conversation. So now that was the question, yeah. That was your question.
SPEAKER_03:So now you can continue the Well you said so before you you didn't finish your question. You said uh so Harlak, you want to double up. Was that the end of that? Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_10:I think we I think we just agreed to do the double up thing, but um all the all the other champions and stuff are here though, right? Like all the guys that we would potentially be fighting and yes, all the other champions are here. Yes.
SPEAKER_06:Were there any noteworthy attendees? Like people maybe champions that we'd know from the past, or people that struck us as capable or menacing?
SPEAKER_08:There are a few that's that kind of stick out. There are uh Gorza Skullmane, who is a large orc, male uh male orc f uh fighter, uh Sir Thornwell, which is a knight it wizard. You've got uh Bessa Strongarm, a dwarf barbarian, uh Glub, who is a Hexblade Warlock, and the only other one you really recognize is Knoll, who is a half Goliath monk. So, yeah, say these are all notable adventurers, some good, some bad, but all in it to make coin.
SPEAKER_06:So, and I'll to be clear, I was not asking Harleck to team up with me. I was asking making sure his intentions were to be with one of the Oh yeah, ha, I'm not taking anything solo here. Well, one of us will definitely be with you. And I look over at Zane. How are you feeling, bud?
SPEAKER_03:So Zayn says I I can team up with Harlick or I can do the free-for-all. I'm good for either one. Whichever one you feel stronger in, I'll take the other.
SPEAKER_06:Well, I suppose that depends on if it's a straight-up fight or if uh I'm playing to win. Do we know are these gonna be like a normal, like sandy gladiator style arenas we're fighting in?
SPEAKER_08:Uh it is a it is a uh typically a gladiator pit, yeah. Sand. How big? At its widest point, it's a hundred feet. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:And it's narrower?
SPEAKER_08:At its narrowest about twenty feet. So it's basically a a corridor. It's a circle.
SPEAKER_06:It's okay. It's not huge. I got it. Um okay.
SPEAKER_08:So it's a circle. Its diameter is a hundred feet.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, so my question is, uh my other question is, is is this gonna be like a series of fights, or are we each gonna do one fight? Do we know?
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, you know, you're based off time and everything else, you're just gonna do one fight. Okay.
SPEAKER_03:So Zayn says that uh, well, if we fight the two two on two, I know that between me and Harleck we're gonna win that.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. I think I'll do just fine in a six-man free-for-all in a while. He's like kind of rolls of shoulders.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, because Zane's response to a six uh a six-man free-for-all is gonna be launching two fireballs. Fireball.
SPEAKER_11:Just make sure we meet up right before uh everything gets started. I want to make sure that you go in there with as much H you know, as much uh vitality as you can.
unknown:Of course.
SPEAKER_06:I hope you're rooting for me, and I'll be rooting for you as well.
SPEAKER_08:Bets will be able to be placed, and you can bet against your friends.
SPEAKER_06:Oh man. Brandina, come back here. I got a task for you.
SPEAKER_08:Okay, so is that the decision? Are Zayn and Harleck gonna be doubles? And Novak's you're gonna do the mealy.
SPEAKER_10:That's fine with me. I'm fine with that.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, I'm just supporting whoever's team I'm on.
SPEAKER_08:Great. Alright, so uh you the the ball starts to wind down, and everybody starts dispersing, and you are all given rooms in the garden estate that is there. And uh the garden inn, if you will. And boo boom! And it you you each have your own room, and you're able to go in there, relax, and take a long rest. Is there anything you want to do before you go into your rooms?
SPEAKER_03:Um no, uh well, Zayn will just say, um, looking over at Nelvax, knowing Nelvax, he will tell him you should probably rest before this.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, is the room windy down or is it just our no?
SPEAKER_08:If you want to take Brandina to your room, you're more than welcome.
SPEAKER_06:I didn't know if I got I already used my guest past a lot. Zane's staying with me tonight.
SPEAKER_07:Here, put this wig on. Disguise self. Oh god, even better.
SPEAKER_06:Uh so I guess like as the evening went on, is anybody else approaching the king, or is it only the people, like his advisors and royalty?
SPEAKER_08:Only his advisors, yeah. Nobody really approaches the king unless he summons you.
SPEAKER_06:You won't get a chance to rub elbows with the king very often.
SPEAKER_08:That's right. I mean, if you did the one-on-one, you could rub elbows with them literally.
SPEAKER_06:You may not like that.
unknown:Alright.
SPEAKER_10:Take that.
SPEAKER_08:So you all you all get to your rooms. Harlike, when you walk into your room on the table, you notice a well-worn bag with a silver coin next to it.
SPEAKER_11:Hmm. That's strange.
SPEAKER_10:Do I it does it seem like it's from like is it recognizable or is it just a random bag with a silver coin?
SPEAKER_08:So you're level five. Yeah, I would say you've seen these before. This is uh this is a bag of holding.
SPEAKER_11:Oh snap!
SPEAKER_08:Uh go over and check it out and all that. Okay.
SPEAKER_10:Is it filled with deadly scorpions and crap?
SPEAKER_08:No. Uh you you look inside of it, there's nothing inside of it. Uh all that's next to it is a silver coin.
SPEAKER_10:Oh, awesome. Uh I wanna like. I'm not gonna. I'll I'll bother it with them tomorrow.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_10:I'll add that. Thank you, thank you. There are no scorpions inside. Wait, don't write it down. Just gotta make sure that it's not filled with scorpions or something dumb for me to die with tonight.
SPEAKER_08:Okay, when do I ever trick my players like that? There's no way this bag of holding is gonna come back and bite you in the ass.
SPEAKER_06:The way you asked us, are you gonna drink a toast with the king's voice? Oh, yeah, I'm fine. We're all dead tonight. When do I ever trick my players? Fuck you. Get the fuck out of here. Just walk into the ocean, it'll be fine, Brandon.
SPEAKER_08:I mean, you were all fine.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, it's like drowning to death.
SPEAKER_03:That part's like Glenn didn't have any problem with it at all.
SPEAKER_06:Making all your friends watch all your friends walk out in the ocean and kill themselves.
SPEAKER_08:That's fine. I told you I live out my fantasies too. I know. Trickery. Alright. So yeah, you guys get a long rest uh before the morning. Um how I I plan on doing this. I'm gonna do the 2v2 first. So, Justin, you're gonna have about 20 minutes where you're not doing much. Uh, with only four people, I only expected to go three or four rounds. And then we're gonna do the six man. Uh, I know sometimes Ray has to jump off a little early, so that way there, if Ray has to jump off, we can do that. But I would like to take a yeah, that's true. I would like to take a five-minute break before we start so I can get a refill and use the restroom.
SPEAKER_06:Before that, uh did you just introduce us to Harleck's new girlfriend?
SPEAKER_08:The bag of folding. What's it are are there hundreds of scorpions in there? No, just a lot of semen. Uh so much semen. There's so much semen in that bag of folding.
SPEAKER_06:It's actually alarming.
SPEAKER_10:I mean, now now we do enter my real nightmare.
SPEAKER_08:All right, I'll be right back, guys. Yep. You all wake up in the morning and you feel long you feel long rested. Let's start. Yep. Sorry. Uh you feel long rested, and and all your spells are restored, and your HP is max health, and uh Zane, you that power seemed to build in you through the night. And uh please add Blight and Giant Insect to your spell repertoire. You can use them once per long rest, and they do take up a spell slot.
SPEAKER_03:If I have to use a spell slot to use them?
SPEAKER_08:Correct.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, well, that's problematic.
SPEAKER_08:Blight and what? Blight and giant insect.
SPEAKER_01:It's only for the duration of his partnership with his skill.
SPEAKER_08:Correct. Um, you do get the sense that this power will grow the longer you have it, but this is the initial power that she's given you.
SPEAKER_06:Do Do we as players get to know if that was a representative of the entity or if that was the entity's avatar fear?
SPEAKER_08:Or is this to learn as you you kind of broke up there, Justin. Can you say that again?
SPEAKER_06:Uh are we as players allowed to know? As we, the audience, allowed to know what is going on here, or are we gonna find out later if that's the like a representative of whatever deity power, or if that's the power itself come to the ground? Or just gotta read into it and learn. Go on.
SPEAKER_08:Uh I'm gonna say you're gonna learn over time, but based off the conversation that Zane and the individual had, you get the sense that she is giving the power directly to Zane.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know how to add a spell to my spell sheet, because when I did a manage spell and add, it it didn't show up.
SPEAKER_10:So probably easier to just make a spell scroll and add it to your item list. Yeah, that's actually a good idea.
SPEAKER_06:A ring works too.
SPEAKER_10:Ooh, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:That's my favorite. I had one.
SPEAKER_10:Oh, I didn't know that.
SPEAKER_06:Andrew showed me that. He's quite he's a wizard with that stuff. A wizard over the wizards of the cooks.
SPEAKER_08:Alright. So you all get up and breakfast to serve to you all in your rooms while you're getting ready. Uh it is a uh thick pieces of greasy bacon uh and some uh duck egg, which is which what the the the kingdom is known for is their duck eggs. And um and a large piece of brown bread with some butter. So you are all felt fed very well, and the the you hear an announcement in the garden in that the king's tournament will start in one hour.
SPEAKER_06:Uh are we uh we're all in the same wing? Like we can I'll hear them when they get up.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, you guys are room, room, room. Like all three of you are in the same corridor.
SPEAKER_06:Just uh hang out at the end of the hallway and that's not true. Now the X wouldn't wake up until they brought the room. So he's he's a little grog in the morning. He's a late night kind of guy. Makes sense. So he's trying to be out.
SPEAKER_10:So Harleck's probably trying to be like wait until a polite time to go and bother anybody, but he's just kind of like been up bouncing around his room for a little bit. But I'll probably excitedly make my way to the hallway and start uh clambering around trying to get people up and see what's up. Perfect. Is there anything you would all like to do before you go to the King's tournament? I want to cast eight on everybody. It's low level still, so it's only five extra points, but five five HP added to your max, and you can heal that back throughout the day. Nice.
SPEAKER_03:Is that sorry, is that temporary help hit points?
SPEAKER_10:So it's a temporary increase to your max. So you can since you can heal it back and you can use temporary hit points on top of this, um, yeah, you should just be able able to do like a modifier to your max HP for a little bit.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, that's pretty sweet. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:I want to rely on you guys to take that away once it the eight spell's done.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, like once the long once you go into the like after eight hours. But um, but yeah, it's uh it's five right now.
SPEAKER_06:That's pretty helpful. That's like 10%.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, especially at these low levels. Uh any bet is good.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, yeah. 33 and 38, yeah. Five HP is uh Alright.
SPEAKER_08:So uh the King's Tournament. Anything else anybody wants to do?
SPEAKER_10:Uh no, but right before I split off. Like, so uh would I be able to see uh each would we see each other before each thing starts off? I I would like to be able to give Nelback Spartac inspiration since it lasts an hour or something like that in the new version. Uh I'm trying to make sure he has like I'm trying to I can't support him in his fight while we're doing our thing. So I'm trying to make sure he goes in there with like as much extra help as he can.
SPEAKER_08:Yep, so how the King's Tournament is uh the the King's Tournament is running this time is the 2v2 is first while in a separate a is a separate uh uh fighting rink, the 1v1s are going on, and the melee what hap will happen in the 2v2 or in the 2v2 uh fighting pit after the 2v2s are done.
SPEAKER_10:Okay. So yeah, if I know I have time to catch up with him later, at least see him within my range of bark inspiration, I'll hold off. But as long as everyone's got aid going, I'm all set. Alright. And show off the cool bag of holding, like, oh hey, this is just in the room. Yeah, this way everyone knows it's available.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, did you uh add the silver coin to your inventory as well?
SPEAKER_10:Uh will. Okay. That's gonna bite me in the ass later. Uh I'm sure.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, I never trick my pink. It's a mimic! Who would have known? He's rubbing his hands like a fly. What did you do?
SPEAKER_10:Damn it. Oh, it's like delicious than dungeons. It's gonna be one of them treasure coin biter fuckers. God damn it, it was scorpions! Scorpions that inject semen.
SPEAKER_04:Oh no, but you're a weird dude.
SPEAKER_10:Brandon's just building my absolute worst nightmare.
SPEAKER_08:You know what those scorpions are called? Alaskan pipelines.
SPEAKER_06:Um I did think of one thing. Uh it was a kind of late night. Is there anybody at the bar? Oh, two questions, I guess. Is the bar manned?
SPEAKER_08:Staffed? Uh yes, the bar is manned.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I would like a drink, please. More morning beer with an egg in it. And is there anyone any competition hanging out at the bar as they are want to do?
SPEAKER_08:Uh, there is a large male orc there that you recognize as Gorza Skullmark.
SPEAKER_06:The monk?
SPEAKER_08:No, he's a few.
SPEAKER_06:That was a goliath that much.
SPEAKER_08:He's a fighter.
SPEAKER_06:Uh so raise my my mug to him and see if he'll toast me.
SPEAKER_08:Uh Gorza raises his ale and he toasts you.
SPEAKER_06:I'll take it back all at once because there's an egg in it. And as I let that settle on top of the fat bacon spices I had. Ask him what he's what's he doing today. Is he which of the events is he changed?
SPEAKER_08:I uh I recently got into a new uh alliance with a uh notable wizard where him and I are doing the 2v2s.
SPEAKER_06:2v2s. You trust this guy? It sounds like he's new.
SPEAKER_08:He's uh he's uh he's not that new.
SPEAKER_06:Uh new to you, and watching your back is all I mean.
SPEAKER_08:We've we've seen some shit, if you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_06:I believe I do. Very good. Do you know what uh he looks around, he doesn't see any conspiratorially, it's like, you know what anybody else is doing today?
SPEAKER_08:I know uh I know a few people that are joining the melee. Um I know a couple, including that Goliath guy that's gonna try to take the king on. I think he's got a good shot. He has a big fucker.
SPEAKER_06:He's quite a big man. I'm glad he's not phone spicing up against me.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, uh same here. I uh I'm pretty confident in my own abilities, but as a big dude.
SPEAKER_06:I'll slap him on the shoulder and give him a size weapon. He's like, Yeah, it looks like you know how to hold your own once you got any special moves. I'm in the solo, so you know, no harm done.
SPEAKER_08:My style?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, you just wait in there, chop chop, or are you more a little elegant with the sword?
SPEAKER_08:He reaches behind him and grabs a two-handed battle axe and places it on the uh on the bar in front of you, and he says, I take this and I cut him in half. That's a good style. I call it chop shoey.
SPEAKER_06:I know a bard who can make that into a great song.
SPEAKER_08:Oh. I wish you luck today. And he uh he he pats you on the shoulder as he gets up.
SPEAKER_06:You're in the winner's circle. I give him a pat too as he walks away. And then uh I'll go immediately go rat on him to my buttons. Share all of that right away.
SPEAKER_08:The the last thing before you leave the garden in and start the actual tournament itself, you can place bets for or against uh yourselves or other individuals in the party to win. Uh you only get payout if the individual wins their specific event, and it is a 3-1 payout.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I will drop 50 gold on myself. Is it 50 gold on the team for the 2v2s?
SPEAKER_08:It's it's per individual.
SPEAKER_06:Then I'm gonna drop 150 gold.
SPEAKER_00:Damn!
SPEAKER_08:Okay. Subtract 150 gold from your inventory. Anybody else?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I'm gonna do the same thing.
SPEAKER_10:Harlex's only gonna do 50 on each because uh Harleck's not confident in his abilities. That's what we did, isn't it? Uh I thought I thought Justin said 150. I was like, damn, he just broke in money on the eye. Total. 50 per. Okay, okay. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
SPEAKER_08:Alright. So that will triple to 450 as long as each of you win your specific events.
SPEAKER_06:And it's not all cumulative, right? That wasn't like a trifecta. That was triple 50 triple on me if I win. If I if I lose, then they lose my money, but they can still win on their own. Correct. Yep, that's true. Just making sure. Sweet. Uh as the as they uh they go into fight, like uh whatever rounds happen first, uh, as they go into fight, I'm going to uh pat Charlick on the shoulder uh as he's going in, and I'm gonna cast guidance on him.
SPEAKER_08:It only lasts a minute.
SPEAKER_06:They're going in right now. That's still any rounds away.
SPEAKER_08:I mean it's not certainly for it doesn't hurt or anything there. Yep, you cast guidance. I'm gonna say a minute's gonna pass before the fighting starts.
SPEAKER_06:Oh do a force performance. Maybe he gets a crowd super in. I don't know.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. Anybody else want to do anything?
SPEAKER_10:Alright. Uh uh, yeah. I give uh a quick like tap to uh Zane, like, uh, here we go. And give Zane a Bardic inspiration really quick. Nice. Alright. What's that again? Plus 1d4?
SPEAKER_03:It's a D6. To a hit spell?
SPEAKER_08:To one they change it slightly.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, uh add the number roll to potentially turn it. What can they use it for? God damn it. They do change it around too.
SPEAKER_08:As a bonus action, you can inspire another creature within 60 feet that can see or hear you. That creature gains one of your Bardic Inspiration dice. Once within the next hour, when the creature fails a d20 test, the creature can roll the Bardic Inspiration die and add the number roll to the total, potentially turning the failure into a success. As the bard levels up, they can start using it for specific things. But because making sure. Nope. Right now you can only use it for a d20 check.
SPEAKER_03:So is is that a skill check or a yeah, a skill check or a save.
SPEAKER_08:But not a to hit. Because it says test?
SPEAKER_10:I don't think so. In pre- in what's funny, the 2014 rules, I think, used to be able to add with Tasha's stuff, used to be able to add it to like spell, smites, and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking at the rules right now to make sure. And I'm playing a different type of bard than I normally do too, so it could also be I don't have the same like actual Bardic abilities, uh, inspiration abilities. Stupid rule changes.
SPEAKER_06:Only get like all the knowledge and one fucking thing, everything changes.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. So D twenty test in a twenty twenty-four rule book is shorthand for an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw.
SPEAKER_06:There you go. Attack roll. Is that is this single use or is that a plus D four every single use. Yeah. That would be fucking awesome too.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, there is there. I think there is a bar that gives you unfailing inspiration. So any any if you fail still, you just get to hold on to it. But I don't think that's this uh this bar. If so, it's not at this level.
SPEAKER_00:Okay.
SPEAKER_08:And alright, so if you would all join the maps. Um and as the Kings tournament starts, the uh you know the the crowd is the crowds are cheering, they're all going crazy. There's banners and flags. Uh you each see a few of your a few signs with your names on them. Uh Nelvax and Zane, you see a few more than Harleck does. Um but Harlec, you have your own little crowd section, and most of them have just your name painted across shirts or across their backs, and they're flipping around at the same time to spell out your name. Uh you recognize some of these people as the drunk patrons from the bars that you play at.
SPEAKER_10:Marlox gonna like finger guns and like do like a whole bunch of like allusions to like giant finger guns behind them to the crowd.
SPEAKER_08:As you f start finger gunning, the H falls down from one of the guys, and he just falls over, A falls over, R falls over, L falls, and it just goes down the line every time you finger gun.
SPEAKER_11:Oh man, I just finger blasted that whole row.
SPEAKER_10:Like he's excitedly designed. That is your clip, Ray.
SPEAKER_08:I just finger blasted that entire row.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, we need that with a point emoji, Andrew.
SPEAKER_03:Just uh Okay, before the fight starts, I'm gonna activate my wing boots.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. Is this is this Gorza the he's the one I I gave them the intel on, right? Yes. Is it helpful to them in any way?
SPEAKER_08:Not really. The fanfare starts to die down, and the king's voice steps forward again on a raised floating dais. And it it's almost like the sunlight focuses directly on him to form a spotlight. And he says, Lords and ladies, champions and charlatans, bulls and future legends, welcome to the king tournaments. And the crowd just goes crazy to start erupting. By decree of his radiant majesty, keeper of the thrown corn, today begins a tournament not merely of muscle, magic, or might, but of will, heart, and destiny. And he he sweeps towards the fighting pits as champions start walking in, and you see a large orc creature, or large orc, and a human uh with a an obvious uh a staff, like a wizard staff, walk into the the middle of the the pit. Now, the king's gambit, a contest of unity, two versus two in a shifting arena where trust is tested, and betrayal is but a breath away. The crowd seems to like settle for a second, but they're obviously stirring with excitement.
SPEAKER_00:They're they're they're all leaning forward on the edge of their seats, and you you hear some of them start chanting names, and one name starts breaking through, and it's Thornwell, Thornwell, Thornwell.
SPEAKER_08:Choose your bloom, brave souls. Let your steel sing, your spells soar, and your stories be carved into the very bones of this arena. Let the king's tournaments begin. And behind him a large thunderous boom and a lightning bolt crashes down on top of the king's voice, and he disappears. Alright. First up, he yells. Harleck and Zayn versus Sir Thornwell and Gorza Skullmark. Let's roll some initiative.
SPEAKER_03:Ooh. Uh 26. Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_10:22. Damn!
SPEAKER_08:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:I think we're gonna go first.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. Sir Thornwell rolled a 21, too, so and he's third. That's ridiculous. Initiative bonus plus six, that's wild.
SPEAKER_06:Yep. Do we know Thornwell for some right? It sounds familiar.
SPEAKER_08:Uh he was a hero that I used in our last tournament, in our last uh campaign. Alright. Zane, you're up first.
SPEAKER_03:Alright. So um are are these five foot blocks?
SPEAKER_08:Yes, they are. Okay. Oh, sorry. I measured. You guys are supposed to be starting right there. There you go. Sorry.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. I I measured from Harleck to Gorza. I was like, oh no, I want to see how far I am for Zayn. I was like, shit, I need to measure. Okay. They're exactly the same. Um anyway. Uh so Zane will as so does it take an action or does he automatically have a sword? I can't remember. It's a bonus action, I believe.
SPEAKER_06:You're a spellblade?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:I think you can just do it. Okay. I don't know the new rules for warlock.
SPEAKER_03:It is a bonus action, but I can't imagine starting, but I didn't say that I was not gonna that I was gonna have it out, but drawing a weapon's like driven.
SPEAKER_08:No, drawing your weapon was never an action. It is if you wanna it's a drawing a weapon is a free action. But for Hexblade specifically, it's a bonus.
SPEAKER_03:It's a bonus action because I can summon it. I normally would have it out in the middle of a f or the beginning of a fight, but I didn't say it, so whatever. Um so Zayn will look at Harlick and he will uh he'll tap his shoes together to kind of let him know that he's about to fly. Um, and then he will point at Sir Thornwell and summon a power that was loaned to him and hit Thornwell with Blight.
SPEAKER_08:Okay. Uh Sir Thornwell casts a reaction and counterspells you.
SPEAKER_06:Can you tell us about Blight too while you're casting?
SPEAKER_03:Well, it didn't happen. So Well So yes, so what Blight is, is well what what started to happen that's bullshit.
SPEAKER_06:Um Random, hit him with the magic missiles.
SPEAKER_03:So what would have happened had Brendan not been a dick, um Necromantic energy would wash over the creature and he would take damage. A lot of damage, 88 damage. It doesn't fucking matter, does it?
SPEAKER_06:You can only do it once around.
SPEAKER_03:I can only do that spell once. That's true.
SPEAKER_06:So he won't counter spell you again? Look at the bright side, Bill.
SPEAKER_03:Huh? I still didn't hear you. Yeah, you're gonna be able to do it. There you go. I didn't hear because Brandon was talking.
SPEAKER_08:Uh look at the bright side, Bill. Yeah, I hear you. Is your recording going through the mic, Justin? I no, I think it's going through your headphones. Oh bitch. Hold on a second. That's good. Uh you know, two hours into the session. Sorry, Andrew. Hey, look at that.
SPEAKER_06:Sounds so much better. Why didn't you tell me? I didn't know. Okay, sorry, Andrew. Recalculate.
SPEAKER_08:Recalibrate. Uh, is there anything else you'd like to do, Zayn?
SPEAKER_03:Um, sure. So Zayn will use his bonus action and summon his sword, and then he will move 30 feet straight up. Okay.
SPEAKER_06:You mean vertically? In the air. Yes.
SPEAKER_03:And he will say, You're a fucking dick.
SPEAKER_08:Is he saying that to the DM or Sir Thornwall? The old lady who wasted. The old lady. Okay.
unknown:Alright.
SPEAKER_08:Harleck, I think you're up.
SPEAKER_00:Uh, yeah.
SPEAKER_10:Uh, I am going to use unsettling words on our orc friend over there. Cause I I don't like him, and he he looks like he's gonna beat the shit out of me.
SPEAKER_11:So har Harlec's just gonna um Oh, hey, look, buddy, your shoes untied.
SPEAKER_10:Uh, and then I'm going to try to cast uh Levitate on him. Ooh. And that would be a con save of 14 with a d6 off the roll. He gets a plus four to con.
SPEAKER_08:Oh fuck. What is it? I rolled a 10. A 14. Oh, and he saves. And then I got a d6 off that roll. Look at that ten.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, minus d6.
SPEAKER_10:So six of unsettling words. Yeah. Yeah, so six off of that, so he fails, right? Yes. So then I'm I'm just gonna launch him 20 feet straight up. Okay. And then keep him there, and then I'm gonna run away. Okay. Does he get another chance to save on that? Uh I gotta look. I think he's gotta try to hurt me. But I gotta look. One creature or loose object of your choice that you can see within range rises up 20 feet and remains suspended for the duration. This spell can levitate the object that weighs five hundred up to five hundred pounds. An unwilling creature unwilling creature that succeeds on a consultation save is unaffected. The target can only be moved by pushing or pulling against a fixed object or surface within reach, such as a wall or ceiling. Uh you can change the target's altitude by 20 feet per turn, uh if you are the target. Otherwise, you can make a magic action to move. Uh no, it does not say he gets another save against it.
SPEAKER_03:What's the duration? Concentration?
SPEAKER_10:Uh concentration uh 10 minutes. Damn. And now I'm gonna run away to the back corner as far as I can. Are you still in spell range? Probably. But I can't really get much farther. I think you are. What's the range?
SPEAKER_08:60 air 60 feet for Levitic, okay. It says he's gotta maintain within 60 feet. That's why I was gonna go.
SPEAKER_10:Oh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah. Did you have a question, Lvex?
SPEAKER_06:Uh I did. It was about counter spell. Uh did did Zane get a save on that? He did not. What level did your well you don't have to tell me. Did he did he cast it at a h at a higher level than normal? Level four. Start level level three. So at level four, it does. If the interrupted spell has no effect if the level is equal to or less than the spell you chose. So that was cast at what level? The blight?
SPEAKER_08:Four. That's a level four.
SPEAKER_06:Uh less than or equal to. Oh fuck, that's a straight dad. Never mind then. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:I appreciate the backup.
SPEAKER_11:What was that?
SPEAKER_06:Counterspell, you get it, it starts at level at third level. Yeah. And then for basic level at level third level, it only flat out cancels third level spells or lower. And there's a save you get to make.
SPEAKER_08:Otherwise, you get a save. Okay. Alright. So Thornwell seeing his companion up in the air, um, Harleck, he's gonna point his staff at you. And he is going to Oh yeah, okay. He's gonna cast magic missile at you.
SPEAKER_10:What an asshole.
SPEAKER_08:I know. So uh three bolts come at you and slam into you. So would it should it's each time they're damaged, each time they get hit, they have to make a save, right?
SPEAKER_06:Each instance of damage. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Okay. So it's only one D4 plus one, so that is three, five, and two. So that's nine damage to you. I need you to roll me three uh saves to make sure you maintain your concentration.
SPEAKER_10:I have an advantage on that as well. Wonderful. Nice. Yeah. Uh so that's con saves.
SPEAKER_06:Is that a like a feat you took?
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, it's um an eldric invocation. So I got a 20 on the one. Damn. Harlic's got his rolls tonight. Uh eighteen. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:And a twenty. Yeah, he stays floating.
SPEAKER_03:Nice.
SPEAKER_08:Nice work. Alright.
SPEAKER_03:What's fall damage from 20 feet?
SPEAKER_08:Uh so if the spell ends, he just floats to the ground softly. Okay.
SPEAKER_06:Uh, I think it's a calculated like a d6 per 10 feet or something for the Yeah, it's there's specific rules for it.
SPEAKER_08:I can find it.
SPEAKER_06:I'll look it up if I got something else too.
SPEAKER_08:Thank you. Okay. So uh Gorza 20 feet in the air. Need some Pythagorean theorem going on here. It is one d6 per every ten feet before a resistance. Uh he's gonna take out a small axe and chuck it at you, Arlek. But he's got disadvantage on that. Because of the distance.
SPEAKER_03:Did you do Pythagorean theorem or did you just guesstimate?
SPEAKER_08:I guesstimate it. But it should like it'll work, but it's like right on the edge of if it will be a straight roll or a disadvantage. So I just took the disadvantage one. Alright, so the first roll is a four, so that's 17. And a 15 plus four, so that's a 19. It's alright. We're gonna take Jesus. Seven points of damage. And I need you to roll me a count save. 13. Is that save? Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Yep. What is a save?
SPEAKER_03:His save is still half damage or ten, whichever is lower. Or sorry, whichever is higher.
SPEAKER_05:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, sorry. I'm quoting 14 rules. I don't know. I'm assuming it's the same.
SPEAKER_06:Uh verifying.
SPEAKER_10:I'm look trying to look at it now too.
SPEAKER_06:Ten or half the damage up to a maximum of 30.
SPEAKER_10:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:I didn't think there was a maximum before. I didn't know.
SPEAKER_10:I don't think there was a maximum before.
SPEAKER_06:I think that's new. Which I mean you're probably not living through the attack anyway.
SPEAKER_03:So what was what's the range for the disadvantage? Just out of curiosity.
SPEAKER_08:Uh it's uh 30. 30 feet. Anything within 30 feet is within range.
SPEAKER_03:Oh yeah, he's obviously with because he's 30 feet horizontally away from him, and then 20 feet up in the air, he's 36 feet away. But regardless, he's 30 feet away minimum. So adding one foot would be outside of 30.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, maybe disadvantage.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Not that it mattered. Not that it mattered. Um So back up top, Zayn, you're up.
SPEAKER_06:Did you make two saves?
SPEAKER_08:Just one. Why would he make two?
SPEAKER_06:I thought you hit him twice. No. Oh you rolled this one. You rolled a disadvantage. Disregard. That was silly of me.
unknown:Alright.
SPEAKER_08:Counter spell. Totally kidding.
SPEAKER_00:Oh no.
SPEAKER_03:Welcome back. Uh Zane.
unknown:Nope.
SPEAKER_03:Oh no. Alright, so Zane will look at the wizard with detest in his eye. And fire the he will point his uh hex blade directly at the wizard and uh see the the shadow building around his hex blade and two eldris blasts barreled towards Sir Thornwell.
SPEAKER_08:Alright, give me some attack rolls.
SPEAKER_06:Have we talked about which extra feature things your Eldris Blast does?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it's a bla pushback. Pushback. Um, so nine. That's uh that misses. Oh, that's the wrong one. Alright, it's the same plus. Oh yeah, it is.
SPEAKER_08:Give me a second one.
SPEAKER_03:Uh 21. That hits. So seven points of damage. Alright. And he will move back five feet. Alright. And Zayn will close with Sir Thornwell. And basically be within melee range at a diagonal to his his left and up, but within melee. Understood.
SPEAKER_06:You say he dashes in?
SPEAKER_03:Well, he walk he floats in, flies in, he flies in.
SPEAKER_06:Swoop in. I forgot you were floating in the air too.
SPEAKER_03:Yep. Yeah. Except for I'm in control of mine. True. Anything else? Uh no.
SPEAKER_10:Alright. Harlek, you're up. Barks, uh, one. I can cast a spell as a bonus action and then a cantrip as an action, right? That's the whole how it all works. Uh, I've never actually used barkskin before. I'm trying to make sure it works the way I want it to. Yeah, it changes my armor class to 17. Okay. Is that a concentration? It is not concentration, that's why I'm looking at it. Um so I am going to cast Barkskin on myself to try to keep myself a little bit more, you know, alive in this fight. Uh, and so my my feathers will all turn from their soft black featheriness to like little flakes of like I look like a pine cone version of a Kenku now. Uh and then I feel like I'm gonna get attacked again, so I should probably heal myself. But I can't do that. So I'm gonna Eldic Blast the Wizard.
SPEAKER_06:Um What does your Eldris Blast do?
SPEAKER_10:Hold up.
SPEAKER_06:Uh Yep. Yeah, the new rules, I was just double checking. One, you can cast one spell that uses a spell slot and a cantrip.
SPEAKER_08:Oh 2020. I was making sure one of them was bonus action speed. That's all.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, oh, I see, yeah. Good call. Alright, go for it.
SPEAKER_08:Uh in his bonus action.
SPEAKER_10:Cool, cool, cool, cool. Alright, so Elgric Blast. Oh, my Eldric Blast is uh Harleck puts up like uh finger guns and then uh fires off like feathers from his fingertips, and they just go flying like like arrows pretty much. But uh, so he takes aim and hopefully hits. Oh, Nat 20. Damn. And a 12.
SPEAKER_08:Uh yeah, double damage for the first one.
SPEAKER_10:Nice, nice, nice.
SPEAKER_08:Or double dice, sorry.
SPEAKER_11:Get out of here, fucking thing.
SPEAKER_10:So that'd be six for the uh Oh, it's double dice. Yes.
SPEAKER_05:Double dice.
SPEAKER_10:Okay, so it would be it would actually be nine. Alright. And the second one? I'm sorry, the second roll was a twelve. Oh that misses. My bad. Yeah. Uh but that'll be my turn. So what did you say your Eldritch Blast does, or did you not get uh because you st oh no no no, I didn't take any of the added uh things for Eldra Blast.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, you probably did spells or something, huh?
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, I took uh like the uh mmm advantage on concentration for maintaining spells. Uh and then Misty Vision for silent image and uh disguised self. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:That's great.
SPEAKER_10:Absolutely. Anything else? Uh nope, I want to stay within range of my levitate spell, uh, and my AC is a little beefier. Uh hopefully I stay alive.
SPEAKER_08:But that'll be it for me. Alright, so Sir Thornwell, uh seeing all this happening and being very nervous, uh, with Zayn here and his big beefy friend floating in the air, he is going to slam down his staff and cast uh magic missile at level three. I guess just one extra or something room. Who's he casting on? Yeah, sorry. Just checking on.
SPEAKER_06:I think you can multi-target.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, you can multi-target. He's gonna send you what he's sending all five to a tarlek.
SPEAKER_09:Oh my god! Fucking fuck.
SPEAKER_06:I should have healed myself. Maybe they'll be all ones, you know.
SPEAKER_08:It's maybe maybe they will. Let's trade a guy. It's one d4 plus one for each. That's a two plus one, that's three. That's three more, six. Oh, that is oh I'm sorry. I'm rolling a d6, not a d4. That would have been bad. My bad. My bad, my bad. Alright, let's start over. Two plus one is three. One plus one is two, that's five. Uh, eight, twelve, and fourteen. You're gonna take fourteen damage there, Harleck. And I need to roll me five contains. Oh, seven. Ooh. And Gorza floats down to the ground.
SPEAKER_06:Is it um immediate? Or does it have like a uh drop duration?
SPEAKER_08:Hmm. Check. I didn't see one when I was looking at it.
SPEAKER_06:It probably means to be like he's freed from C C, but I would like it floating slowly.
SPEAKER_03:So I know when the boots expire, they travel to the ground at 30 at a move speed of 30. Levitite. Levitite, levitat.
SPEAKER_10:It just says um when the spell ends, the target floats gently to the ground if it's still aloft.
SPEAKER_06:Hmm. Yeah. I think that makes sense.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Dread.
SPEAKER_11:I'm in trouble!
SPEAKER_08:You with your eight life, your eight health. Yep. Alright. And Sir Thornwell is going to uh he's gonna move away from you, Zane. And you get an opportunity attack if you would like. Yes, I would.
SPEAKER_12:Second.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Ten. I'm gonna use the six. It's a d6 or is it six? It's a d6.
SPEAKER_08:His AC is fifteen.
SPEAKER_06:I think Harlech still has a reaction too.
SPEAKER_08:I do. Six. Nice. So give me some damage. Seven. Alright. Sir Thornwell's not looking great. Uh Gorza sees Sir Thornwell hurt, sees Zayn, but this Harlech character pissed him off.
SPEAKER_10:Great.
SPEAKER_08:And he's gonna run straight at Harleck, raising his two-handed axe straight in the air, slamming down on him with two strikes. Oh, fuck me. Oh, fuck me. First roll is a 15 plus three for 18. It's an 11 plus three for 14.
SPEAKER_10:I'll say, can I still breebar one?
SPEAKER_08:Uh you should be able to. Let me look at the ruling. I don't see why you couldn't. Alright, so it's just he has to re-roll the the ball. Okay. That's fine. 15 plus three is 18. Alright. Oh no. And he's gonna come down with uh but one of the misses. One of the misses. He's gonna come down with a two-handed strike. I was out of trouble seeing the D8. There it is. That is 10 damage. Like it's down. And that is He's gonna take another five feet towards Zane. And he will end his turn there. Zayn, you are up. Alright.
SPEAKER_03:Um, so Zayn will fire an Eldritch bat blast at Sir Thornwell. Jesus Christ. And apparently another one. Jesus!
SPEAKER_08:13 and an eight will not do it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I know. Alright, so Zayn will move basically 30 feet straight up. Okay. Not basically. He will move 30 feet straight up.
SPEAKER_08:Got it.
SPEAKER_03:Fly. Fly 30 feet straight up.
SPEAKER_08:Alright, Harleck, give me a death saving throw. Oh boy. 19 for a save. Good save. Good save. Alright. Uh yeah. Sir Thornwell is going to. Uh Sir Thornwell is going to point at you. And he's gonna cast magic missile at level two. Okay. Uh four plus one is five. Seven, nine, and fourteen.
SPEAKER_03:Um, I'm gonna. Nope, I'm not. Never mind. I'm gonna eat the fourteen.
SPEAKER_08:Alright. And Gorza is going to run right here and throw an axe right up to you. Right up at you. Okay.
SPEAKER_10:So is he? Zane has Sorry, you'd have advantage, because Arlech would have to give off the advantage from Silvery Barb. So you have advantage on your next, I think, D20. I forgot about that whole bit with Silvery Barbs. Wait, I'm sorry, what? So in Silvery Barbs, when you cast it, um you cast you cause disadvantage in the whoever's attacking you, and then you give advantage um to the next uh attack roll or ability check saving throw. Um so Zane, you have advantage whatever next role you have. I just forgot Silvery Barb's rulings. Or the whole rules. Sorry about that.
SPEAKER_03:So is that against Gorza or just in general?
SPEAKER_10:Uh it's the next whatever next 20, uh the next d20 you have to roll within the next minute. Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. So one of them would have been an advantage, but that's fine.
SPEAKER_01:Right?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Uh really gonna need it from a next turn, but okay.
SPEAKER_08:Fair enough. Uh so Zane rolled a 12 plus 3, which is 15, and that misses. Or not Zane, Gorza.
SPEAKER_03:Oh wow. Cool. Well, that's good. Yeah. Because I didn't want to get hit with an axe.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And Zane, you're up. So Zane will look down on Sir Thornwell and Gorza and kinda tilt his head, point with his sword, and drop a fireball.
SPEAKER_08:And I'm assuming that you are going to.
SPEAKER_03:It's going to drop it. Yeah, it's 20 feet, right? Yeah, I don't like both. So it's basically gonna be right here is gonna be the center.
SPEAKER_08:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:So basically between them to hit both of them.
SPEAKER_08:They both have the nice deck saves, right? Yes. Uh Sir Thornwell rolled a 9. So he failed? Yep. And Gorza rolled a 19.
SPEAKER_03:So Gorza takes 26, and Sir Thornwell takes 13.
SPEAKER_08:Gorza passed. Sir Thornwell failed.
SPEAKER_03:Yep. So Gorza takes half, Thornwell takes full.
SPEAKER_08:Okay, so he takes 16.
SPEAKER_03:13.
SPEAKER_08:13. So it's 26 was the damage roll. Got it. And Sir Thornwell is damned.
SPEAKER_06:That's gotta be a beautiful visual. Like you're floating up in the air. I'm seeing like spirit bomb energy, just like launching this.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, so um, yeah, so he just kinda looks down and off the end of his sword, because he uses a sword for his spell spells, you would see a small red ball start rolling down the edge of the sword, and then as it hits the tip of the sword, it It expands rapidly into a roiling ball of flame that smashes down and spreads across the arena. I forgot the word. Alright.
SPEAKER_08:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:And yep, that would be it. And uh so Zayn is going to be looking down on Gorza from He will actually go up ten more feet. Okay.
SPEAKER_06:That works. From the from the bleachers are healed Novak saying, make him run! Just make him run!
SPEAKER_08:Gorza looking up to you is gonna smile and reach on his back and he's gonna pull out two javelins and toss them straight up at you. Actually, Harleck, I need you to make me a save first. Yep. Oh uh. Not good. Not good. A six is not safe. Alright, so two javelins coming at you, Zane. You can draw and throw two weapons? For javelins, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Drawing is free, maybe.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:He would have to drop his axe.
SPEAKER_08:Yes, he does drop his axe. Well threw his axe. Well, he threw a hand axe. Not his battle axe.
SPEAKER_06:If he holds his two hand axe in one hand, he could still draw and throw.
SPEAKER_08:Uh the first roll is a 17. Okay. And the second is a 21. Okay. Both of those hits. That's going to be seven damage and four damage. So eleven damage total.
SPEAKER_06:Okay.
unknown:Alright.
SPEAKER_06:That gets you, Zayn. Are you doing Zest saves for your wizard man?
SPEAKER_03:Yes. So Zayn. So Zayn will point um point his sword directly at directly at um shit, Gorzak, Gorza. Gorza. Gorza. And fire off two Eldritz blasts in rapid succession. Give it to me. Can I please get a decent fucking roll? Nope, I can't. I got a uh 14 and an eight. Yeah, those are not hit. Um so. Oop. How did Harley get over there? I'm I'm playing with shit. Alright, so Zayn will move to the opposite corner of the um the co opposite corner of the circle. Got it. He will move to the opposite side of the circle. Okay. Jesus fucking Christ. Such shitty rolls.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, they weren't great. Alright. Uh Harleck, give me another death save. You're doing great. Jesus. Nine. That's another fail. Oh no. That is one save and two fails. Alright. Gorza uh runs over.
SPEAKER_03:Sorry. I forgot. I have uh eight temporary hit points.
SPEAKER_08:Okay. Uh Gorza's gonna run over, and he's gonna chuck his last two javelins at you. At disadvantage.
SPEAKER_03:Oh shit! I had advantage.
SPEAKER_08:Uh dead. You wanna give me one more attack roll, go for it.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. 23.
SPEAKER_08:It misses. I'm just kidding, it hits.
SPEAKER_03:Uh, five points of damage.
SPEAKER_08:Okay. Uh Gorza's looking hurt.
SPEAKER_03:And he will also push him back five feet. Not that it matters that much. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:He's gonna chuck his last two javelins at you at disadvantage. So that's a- What's the range on a javelin?
SPEAKER_03:Okay, never mind.
SPEAKER_08:30 feet with 120 being uh up with up to 120 at disadvantage. Okay. So it's nine for the first and 19. So one of them hit. Okay.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Zane, you're up.
SPEAKER_03:I'm at 18 points with one temporary left. It's probably actually 19 with one temporary because of the order in which I got my temporaries, but um I don't think it matters. Um Zane will look at Harle or nope, look at Harlik shaking his head. Why is Harlick over- is Harlick actually over there? Or is it the same thing? No, I deleted the wrong one.
SPEAKER_08:I deleted the wrong one. He's over here.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. Um, so Zane will look at Harlik and shake his head thinking he should have been able to should have probably stood in front of him, but it's not really how he fights. Um, and then he'll look at Gorza kind of annoyed and point his sword at him and cast two more Eldris Blasts. Do it to me. Jesus fucking Christ. Jesus Christ. Bro.
SPEAKER_06:Not great. The parallax error, man.
SPEAKER_03:You just gotta so uh an eight and an eleven, both of which miss. They do not hit. Um and he will just stay where he's at, I guess. Or maybe he'll be flying around, who knows? Yeah, he'll move over.
SPEAKER_12:Two, five, six.
SPEAKER_03:Thank god. So he'll move down to the Southern Southern? Southern. Alright.
SPEAKER_08:Uh Harlek, uh, you did make a death save and you passed it. Um as you're sitting there struggling, the gate right behind you opens up and two clerics walk out and they drag you through the gate. And the gate closes and you are back up to one HP. Or sorry, you're back up to full HP, but you now have to watch the rest of the fight from the outside.
SPEAKER_03:Yay. Yay. I don't even remember. How do you can I could I have raised him up?
SPEAKER_08:I don't even I don't have any healing, but you can you can heal him or you can take a an ability check on medicine to stabilize him. But he's not up. But he's not up. You can also make a death saves.
SPEAKER_06:You can use an action to force feed a potion for get a mugle. Or that.
SPEAKER_08:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:Swallow this, you'll feel better.
SPEAKER_08:And uh two more clerics pop out from the northern side and pull sword throwing oil out. Okay. Um Gorza pulls his last hand axe from his side, and he runs over and chucks it at you. The 14, and that misses. Yep. Uh he then just stares into the sky and screams at you.
SPEAKER_03:Zane, you're up. Okay. Uh so Zayn will shake his head thinking that maybe he made a mistake making this deal, that now his patron is withholding his power. Um, and he'll give it another shot. And uh shoot him with two more elders blasts. Uh 17? I got a if it needs it beats. And a 17.
SPEAKER_07:If it needs it beats.
SPEAKER_08:Jesus. Maybe you're better going to Granny Willow full time here, buddy.
SPEAKER_03:Wild. Uh, and eight damage.
SPEAKER_08:Alright, tell me how to take out Gorza.
SPEAKER_03:So the first one, uh as the first Eldritch Blast fires towards Gorza, um, it misses the mark and blasts into the sand. And Zayn is thinking, I uh what is wrong? I've made a deal, and my patron is not holding up his end of the deal, and from somewhere uh his patron has reinvigorated his power, and the shadowy Eldritch blast seems to have more more spin to it, so that it flies straighter and slams directly into the chests and drives Gorza into the sand. And uh and uh Zane basically walks down not fly, he'll just walk down like he's on steps to the sand and walk off, shaking his head. Okay. Alright, yeah, you guys won. He will go check on um Harleck.
SPEAKER_11:Oh, good job, Zane. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
SPEAKER_03:No, no, you you helped. Um you at least got helped me get a couple of the hits, and you did what you could do. Uh I should have been better at protecting you. Actually. You did what you did what you're supposed to do. I should have been better at protecting you.
SPEAKER_11:No, I I probably should have healed rather than uh doing this little number.
SPEAKER_10:And just flake off all the weird bark bits all over me.
SPEAKER_03:Alright. So I guess it's time for us to cheer on our Yes.
SPEAKER_08:You need to bounce off, Ray? I know it's late for you.
SPEAKER_10:No, no, no, I'm good. I'm in I'm in like summer hours, so I'm I'm pretty flexible right now at work.
unknown:Alright.
SPEAKER_10:No one's there except for me, so. Alright.
SPEAKER_08:So, uh, leaving, uh you are each awarded each of you are awarded with 400 gold pieces.
SPEAKER_09:Oh shoot.
SPEAKER_08:And Zayn, as your 400 gold pieces uh enters your hand, you feel your the load in your hand lighten, and a hundred of those gold pieces disappear. So Okay.
SPEAKER_03:But Zayn's thoughts are this isn't his money. So he didn't actually win anything.
SPEAKER_05:What?
SPEAKER_03:Because this is Nelvax. This is Nelvax's spot, so the prize is his. Which is why he didn't have any problem offering up the gold that he was gonna win, because he wasn't gonna win any. It's all Nelvax's because Nelvax's gave gave him the spot. If you don't want to play that, that's fine, I don't really care. But but my thoughts were that it's not Zayn's thoughts are he was just fighting, it wasn't his prize to win. He was just winning money and was gonna give it to Nelvax.
SPEAKER_08:I will I will say that you can I'll let you roll to try to keep the money, um, but there will be consequences if she does not get her gold.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. Well, we'll I'll RP it with Nelvax to see what Nelvax says after the after he's done with his fight.
SPEAKER_08:Okay. I will just say you each get 400 pieces for now.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. Plus the bat.
SPEAKER_08:Not just yet.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:Novax has just he's just been hanging over the the railings, just cheering. Hit him with your balls.
SPEAKER_08:Hit him with your balls. Alright. So Novax.
SPEAKER_06:That's a 15-foot reason. No reason.
SPEAKER_02:It's not magic missile.
SPEAKER_03:Reading Justin's notes.
SPEAKER_06:Look. I had to keep myself busy.
SPEAKER_03:Alright. Yeah, but you put Zane does more magic missile.
SPEAKER_06:It's magical missiles. Look, if I didn't capitalize it, it wasn't the actual spell. I did some I wasn't consumed. I lost track of which round it was.
SPEAKER_10:If only I was also looking at a mixture of cheering and worry as as Kenku's just getting cooked on the floor with fireballs.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I was like, he's going for your wishbone. I'm not okay with that. I'm gonna have words with that guy later. Alright. When uh hold on a second. When Harlow goes down, Zayn yells, I told you about the axe!
SPEAKER_10:That's good. Oh, I never get to pull off Levitate like that, too.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:It lasted for two rounds, right?
SPEAKER_10:No, one round. Oh man. That's yeah, it was like a toss-up. It's like, uh, do I heal myself now? It's like at twenty-two, I might be okay if I buff up my and then I was like, fuck, I didn't think about upcasting magic missile. Goddamn wizards.
SPEAKER_03:That pissed me off the counterspell shit.
SPEAKER_10:Oh yeah. All fun in games. Oh my uh I saw a meme as like uh the can't the DM counter spells revivify or some shit.
SPEAKER_06:Like, I was like, oh, that's diabolical. I mean, if you're gonna do it, make sure it's impactful.
SPEAKER_09:Right. Like, oh, can you imagine? Just wasting that.
SPEAKER_06:It's only I mean, the real the real cost is your friend's soul. It's not the 5,000.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, do you know what?
SPEAKER_06:What's that?
SPEAKER_03:Uh oh no, I guess I couldn't do it. Counter his counter. Because I cast a spell, so a counter spell is another spell. Yeah, which is the one.
SPEAKER_10:Like I I never know, because I know some DMs just like ah fuck it. You can do it because it's this. But yeah.
SPEAKER_06:You get a counter a counter spell on your friend's turn. Friends don't let friends get countered.
SPEAKER_11:Yeah, like I can't cast it yet.
SPEAKER_06:Alright. So, um yeah.
unknown:Oh.
SPEAKER_06:I like these names.
SPEAKER_08:Goblin D's nuts. Goblin D's nuts.
SPEAKER_04:Alright.
SPEAKER_08:So, melee round. Voice of the king uh comes out again and he says, Now the melee. Six enter, one leaves. The prize? I'm not really sure. The the king has to decide that one.
SPEAKER_03:I thought that was the king speaking.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, it's the king's voice. The voice of the king. The voice of the king, yes. Almost the same. It's almost the same. Give me some initiative, Melvax.
SPEAKER_06:Me. Uh yep. A 17 total.
SPEAKER_08:Oof. That's a good one. Oof. There's only one person that rolled higher than you.
SPEAKER_06:Uh, can I get a quick read on these? Like, are they introduced or anything? Or I'm I'm looking at get a um, but what am I looking at? I don't need like Yep.
SPEAKER_08:Uh so uh so the uh Goliath is a uh is wielding a two-handed axe. Uh the dwarf is wielding two short swords. Uh the goblin is uh holding a very large crossbow. Like it seems comically large for him. Uh Ron Weasley over there is has a staff. And this this creature that you've not seen before, but that is named Arkonekin, has no visible weapons. Alright. So starting off is Ron Weasley.
SPEAKER_03:No. So he has a sna a staff, not a broken wand?
SPEAKER_08:He has a snatch. I gotta score for a snatch. Score for a snatch. I got a score for a snatch. No, he does not have a broken wand. He he his he broke up with his girlfriend because of that. Broke his wand. He said at least like land it wrong. JP wells on there. Alright. So he is going to cast uh he's gonna point at the dwarf and the goblin. And he's gonna cast uh a fireball.
SPEAKER_06:Ooh, I like Ron Weasley. This is how big that glass is. Uh that's only 15, right? How big is it supposed to be?
SPEAKER_08:20 feet.
SPEAKER_06:That's 20 feet.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, he's gonna encompass the dwarf, the goliath, and the goblin.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, he can hit freaking.
SPEAKER_08:Almost everyone.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Goblin passes his deck save. The dwarf fails. And the Goliath passes. It's 86. Yeah. It is. Fireball? 86. Okay. And that's gonna be 31 points of damage. F is 16. And the dwarf goes down. Aren't they already down?
SPEAKER_06:Fair. It's a short joke. Alright. Bang. Nelvex, you're up. It's me. Excellent. Uh I was just going through my actions here to know what I was doing. So I was hoping this was a bonus action, but it was just a bummer. Um Vex sees that, you know, he assesses the threat, and he decides he doesn't want to get hit by one of those fireballs. You expend at one key point and spend an action to cast darkness around the dwarf, the goblin D's nuts, and dwarf's down. I also what's that?
SPEAKER_03:The dwarf is down, right? Oh, dead?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, it's down. Dwarf is down. Then I'm going to position it a little bit so it covers half the dwarf, but it's got all of the goblin. He doesn't have any space dark out easily. That's my main action. I'll expend a key. Uh and then I'm going to move into this zone of darkness, which I'm gonna move it to the far side of Ron Reasley, staying in melee range of that guy. And then I'm going to use my bonus action to do an unarmed attack. Uh is a 17 to hit in darkness. Does he have disadvantage on Do I have an advantage on attacks against him?
SPEAKER_03:I don't remember. It's not like blind.
SPEAKER_08:No, it is not.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. That's fine. Does it seventeen?
SPEAKER_08:Uh against Ron Weasley, yes it does.
SPEAKER_06:Alright. Uh instead of doing damage, I'm going to grapple him. Uh that should be a contested acrobatic source or athletics roll. Don't you have to say that four? Instead of dam- Well, I mean, but I can do it in place of dam. Let me see. Uh I didn't think I needed to. I can just punch him. It doesn't bother me.
SPEAKER_08:I don't know. I'm I need a what is allowing you to do that?
SPEAKER_06:Uh anytime you make a melee attack, you can grapple. The target has to be no larger than one size than me. You have to make an attack roll to make the grapple.
SPEAKER_08:Yep.
SPEAKER_06:So then the effect of your attack is damage, grapple, or shove.
SPEAKER_08:What what did you attack him with? I guess that's my question.
SPEAKER_06:Unarmed. My unarmed strike is plus seven to hit. The damage effect of the unarmed strike option includes language about making an attack roll, but the grapple and shove effects do not.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, I see. It's just it's just an option and unarmed. I understand.
SPEAKER_06:So my goal here.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, I this one's fine. I would say in the future, if you're gonna grapple, then you'd probably declare that beforehand.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. Sorry, I wasn't trying to be trickery on you.
SPEAKER_08:No, no, no. It doesn't matter here, honestly. Just so I know. Uh so I'm just trying to get Sorry, go ahead. Holding on to him. Uh so it's uh contested strength. Not good. It's a minus one.
SPEAKER_06:Is it uh straight strength? I thought it was either the choice of athletics or acrobatics.
SPEAKER_08:It specifically says strength here. Uh grapple 2024.
SPEAKER_06:Target Massina's strength or dexterity saving throw. It chooses which or it has a grapple condition. The DC for the saving throw and any escape attempts equals eight plus my strength modifier and proficiency bonus. The grapple is only possible if the target is no larger than one size, no more than one size larger than me, and if I have a free hand to grab it.
SPEAKER_08:Okay. I just didn't update it there.
SPEAKER_06:Um his save is gonna be eight plus my strength plus my proficiency, so the save is only eleven to save the grapple.
SPEAKER_08:But I thought you said it could be dexterity as well.
SPEAKER_06:It's my s the save value is my is eight plus my strength plus my. Oh. You have to do a strength or dexterity. Oh, I get to choose. You get to choose. The target gets to choose. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Well then I'm gonna choose dexterity because I get a plus two instead of a minus one to that. Uh, and that is a nat one.
SPEAKER_06:That's not gonna be net eleven.
SPEAKER_08:Are you sure?
SPEAKER_06:It's only half of a one.
SPEAKER_08:Eleven.
SPEAKER_06:Oh.
SPEAKER_08:Damn it. Sorry, that's all the one I got excited.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. With the rule changes, that's really hard to tell.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_06:Uh great, then he is grappled.
SPEAKER_08:Okay.
unknown:Cool.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I'm gonna go let my dog out. I'll be right back.
SPEAKER_08:Nice being a responsible pedo. I know, right? It's kinda wild. They can see in that spell's area.
SPEAKER_03:So the the rule actually is that well, as far as I I just did a a bunch of quick well, not a bunch. I did some searching. And the since he can see in darkness and the target cannot, the first attack that Nelvax would make would be at advantage. Because the Ron Weasley is effectively blinded because he can't see. So it'd be the same effect as blinded. But once they attack, then their position is known, and if Nelvax is stationary, then he loses the advantage.
SPEAKER_08:I thought blinded was a specific um attribute that or not attribute, but status that you're gonna be.
SPEAKER_03:It is. It is, but since darkness seeing in darkness uh if you can't see in complete darkness, you're Yes, you're right, blinded is a thing, but you're effectively blinded if you're in complete darkness in the darkness spell. Unless you have some way of seeing. That's just my searching that I've done. But it doesn't matter yet anyway, so I will be right back. Okay. You are correct. Actually, never mind, I misread it. It doesn't say anything about them losing advantage.
SPEAKER_05:Thank you for your patience. I appreciate you. Welcome back. Did anything happen?
SPEAKER_08:No, I'll wait for you.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, thank you.
SPEAKER_08:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_10:I'm also back, but just slightly.
SPEAKER_06:So I think that was Yep.
SPEAKER_08:Justin Audger Evans.
SPEAKER_06:13 for what was the thing.
SPEAKER_08:Well, trying to play a goblin here. He's gonna run forward with his uh crossbow. Two by the two. Agreed. He's just running forward with his crossbow.
SPEAKER_06:Doing goblin shit.
SPEAKER_08:Doing goblin shit, and he's gonna run into your leg with the crossbow bolt out.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. Okay. Okay, Brandon. Uh uh.
SPEAKER_08:You what? I'm rolling attack. Fair enough. Does a 17 hit?
SPEAKER_03:It does, but okay. So does that get disadvantage?
SPEAKER_06:It should have disadvantage.
SPEAKER_03:I'm just curious. I'm asking. I'm not saying.
SPEAKER_06:No, yeah. 19. Excellent. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:That was just a straight d20 roll, no actual plus proficiencies on there.
SPEAKER_06:No problem. Yeah. You get me.
SPEAKER_08:I thought you were gonna do something. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Sure.
SPEAKER_08:I'm only doing a d4. Three points of damage.
SPEAKER_06:Uh so I'm gonna use my reaction to deflect that attack. Okay. I get to reduce that attack's total damage by one d10 plus eight. And then if I reduce the damage to zero, I can expend chi points to redirect the attack's force, and choose a creature I can see within five feet of me for a melee attack or within sixty feet for a range attack, and then do two d8 plus three damage of the same type of damage.
SPEAKER_08:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:Uh so I'm gonna redirect that damage. I'm supposed to XT key point and use that to uh poke Ron Weasley.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. I'm gonna take your three damage and cause twenty damage.
SPEAKER_06:It's only thirteen damage, but do thirteen points of damage to Ron Weasley.
SPEAKER_10:And we as the audience just see a large sphere of darkness. And we don't see anything.
SPEAKER_06:It's ventable, you know, it's just absorbs all light.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:You just wear screaming, kill them all, no!
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, that the crowd is kind of silent. They're not really screaming too much here.
SPEAKER_06:It's also a dome, so anyone on the east side of this thing can't see what's happening on the west side at all. Like completely domed out, black. Alright. Uh everyone saw the dwarf die. Or go down.
SPEAKER_08:Everything saw the dwarf go down, correct. Uh, this Arcanison is going to look at Goliath here and cast a lightning bolt. And he is gonna hit 18 points of lightning damage to the Goliath. And then you're gonna see this Arcanine vanish. Well, I guess you won't. But everybody else sees him vanish.
SPEAKER_06:I will.
SPEAKER_08:I can see through the I thought you can only see in your sphere.
SPEAKER_06:Nope. I can see some well maybe. Let me check a look. I didn't think I couldn't see outside of it.
SPEAKER_08:You can see within the spell's area.
SPEAKER_06:Well, yeah, because outside of it you'd see no. Because it's it prevents dark vision, it prevents non-magical light. I can see within the spell's area when I cast it with this feature. Because otherwise, like if normally when you cast darkness, you can't see it without double sight. Unless I can't see outside, that's fine. I just didn't think that was the case.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, that's a cool effect.
SPEAKER_06:You can expend one focus to cast the darkest spell without components, and when you do, you can see within the spell's area. Well, the spell persists, you can move its area of darkness to space within 60 feet of me at the start of each of my turns.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, I think I was taking it too literally as like a magic the gathering card.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, like you can only see within the sphere? Yeah. That would not help me to cast it 60 feet away from me, and then I go blind. Uh whoops. Fuck that one up.
SPEAKER_00:Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Dwarf's dead. Uh the Goliath is not really sure what to do here. Uh he turns towards the crowd and just starts raising his arms and bumping his two-handed axe in the air. And the crowd uh is kinda bored, honestly. They don't they're not really seeing much.
SPEAKER_06:Alright.
SPEAKER_08:So grapple condition.
SPEAKER_06:Let's see. One grapple per hand. A grappled creature can use its action to make a strength, athletics, or dexterity acrobatics check against the grappler's escape DC, ending the condition on a success. It also ends if the grapple becomes incapacitated or if you get out of reach. When you have the grapple condition, you experience the following effects. Speed becomes zero and cannot increase. Attacks affected. You have disadvantage on attack rolls against any target other than the grappler. Movable. The grappler can drag or carry you when it moves, but every foot of movement costs one foot extra. Unless you're tiny or two sizes smaller than me, you can attack me. You'll have disadvantage. Yep.
SPEAKER_03:It's kind of you're right there. I know you're there, but I'm gonna miss you anyway.
SPEAKER_06:Some kind of spellcaster.
SPEAKER_03:Can they cast spells? I can't remember.
SPEAKER_08:I'm just trying. You can cast spells. Trying to figure out which kind of character Ron would be.
SPEAKER_03:I would say he's a redhead.
SPEAKER_08:Because me, Brandon, knowing I'm a wizard and I can't die here because clerics are gonna save me anyway, just cast fireball at my feet.
SPEAKER_06:Do it. Fuck Bon's eye, baby. Well, the clerics won't keep you from dying. They'll just like if you die, you're dead, right? If you fireball yourself, do the fireball.
SPEAKER_08:Fuck it, I'm fireballing.
SPEAKER_06:What could go wrong? Fireball.
SPEAKER_08:Give me a dexterity.
SPEAKER_06:Not till later, maybe.
SPEAKER_08:Are you talking about the half if you save, you don't take any damage?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I don't think I'm high enough level yet. I think it's maybe level seven, I get it. Alright, well, I got a plus seven to save. 22 total.
SPEAKER_08:It does save. The wizard also saved, uh, but the goblin Yeah, horribly failed.
SPEAKER_05:Goblin does fireball.
SPEAKER_03:So it's already taken half of a fireball.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:So that is 86. Hold on, we gotta get that fireball back so we can so the crowd can see this from from nowhere.
SPEAKER_08:How tall is that darkness?
SPEAKER_06:15 feet.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, they would see just fire coming up.
SPEAKER_06:In all directions. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_08:That is gonna be half into the crowd. 13 damage.
SPEAKER_06:Is there a splash stone in this theater or the sample theater?
SPEAKER_08:So you guys can't see it, but the rest of the crowd and Zane and Harleck can see that as the fireball crests up near the crowd, the fireball like goes, it seems to hit like some kind. An invisible shield that just kind of domes up on top of the the the Coliseum. Alright, so you're each gonna take 13 points of damage.
SPEAKER_06:13 points of damage. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Nacks, you're up.
SPEAKER_06:Is that goblin still alive?
SPEAKER_08:No, that goblin is down.
SPEAKER_06:Hell yeah. Uh I'm gonna pummel Everly's shit up on Weasley. Okay. He's uh grappled its darkness, just headbutt him until his Sure. Uh so start with uh unarmed attack. Ooh, natural one. Nice. Uh 16 plus 7 for 23 to hit for my second. That is. For headbutt damage. Let me roll. Uh seven to the face.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I will expand another key point for Fluria Blows, which will let me take Fluria Blow. Uh expand one feet focus point to make two unarm strikes as a unarm strike. Whoa! It's uh 13 to hit? Is it hit? Does not hit. Does not hit, okay.
SPEAKER_03:Is that what's your advantage?
SPEAKER_06:18. Oh my god, none of these are advantage. Uh last one was a 15. Would that have hit?
SPEAKER_08:Yes.
SPEAKER_06:Okay, so either there's two that I need to have a second dice for for hits. Sorry, Brennan. For the first one, seven. So 14 instead of natural one?
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, it does not hit.
SPEAKER_06:It does not hit the second one. Uh 18 to hit.
SPEAKER_08:That does hit.
SPEAKER_06:That's three hits. And I did the damage on the first one already. So here's the second one. That is six more damage.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:Here's the third one. That is uh ten more damage.
SPEAKER_08:Tell me, take out Ron Weasley.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, he's done. I told you already. I'm just BAM! BAM! BAM with my face into his face until I drop him from the ground. Okay. Onto the ground. Uh right next to you. Um and then I will move uh like 10-ish feet uh away from the edge of my darkness and just stare down Goliath. Nobody can see it. This is more for me than for anybody else. I'm just staring him down. He does not know what's coming. Okay.
SPEAKER_02:Giving him an intimidating look that he can't see.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, he's shivering. He doesn't know why, but it's just chill right now. Uh pass the turn. Thank you.
SPEAKER_08:Alright. Um, yeah, this Goliath is still facing the uh the crowd, cheering on. He doesn't really know what to do. He doesn't see anybody. The crowd is silent. They just don't, they're not even cheering. They can't see anything.
SPEAKER_05:What was fire?
SPEAKER_08:So fire bubble up out of the darkness.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_08:Uh you're up, Novex.
SPEAKER_06:The wizard elemental thing didn't do anything?
SPEAKER_07:Nope. Okay.
SPEAKER_06:So it's been uh what, 12 seconds so far? Mm-hmm. I'm going to. Oh, I can't do that one. I'm going to use a feature. Oh, I forgot about my familiar.
SPEAKER_08:Weird. Justin made a f a character familiar. I like my friends.
SPEAKER_09:It's too much fun.
SPEAKER_08:I'm going to kill the shit out of your familiars as much as often as I can. I'm going to squish the fuck out of Bean Sprout 3.
SPEAKER_06:If I don't summon him. Uh oh shoot. I misread the skill. I'm not going to do anything with that then. That's a bummer. Um. So at the start of my turn, I'm going to move this uh giant ball of darkness to encompass the Goliath and myself. Okay. And then I'm going to get a running start and uh flying knee kick him because he's not looking at me.
SPEAKER_08:Sure.
SPEAKER_06:As the start of my attacks on this big one. Uh so two uh attack action for two normal. Whack whack. Attack. Oh, that was so close to natural 20. 15 to hit.
SPEAKER_08:That does not hit. It's not with advantage.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, it's not with advantage. Alright, so the first one's a miss. Second one. Ooh, natural 20. I'll take it.
SPEAKER_03:That does it. Well, that's good.
SPEAKER_06:So that was an attack with my left knee and attack with my right knee.
SPEAKER_05:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:Um, and I kinda, when I was you know, moving the darkness, the parallax error, so my left knee missed him a little bit, but my right knee got right in the back of the temple. Back of the uh back of the skull for the neck meet. And then I come down to the ground and I don't uh I don't flurry a blows him just yet, but I do reach down and I punch him like right in the kidney. Oh, for another attack. That's uh 24 to hit. Uh oh, I didn't roll damage. Oh, for the first one. So crit dam for the first one is 17 damage, and then the second one is.
SPEAKER_03:Did you roll your advantage on the second one?
SPEAKER_06:Uh no, I did because I crit on it, so I didn't need to.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. On the second one? Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_06:On my my last unarmed strike to the kidney. Um and yeah, I'm just gonna I will then back away and you can take an opportunity as I scoot to the south side of my circle and just wait for it. Yeah, I'll take when I get it.
SPEAKER_08:I don't know where that Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh the first one is a 19. Second one is a 17.
SPEAKER_06:Also not good. Okay. I'll use my reaction to deflect that attack.
SPEAKER_08:Uh okay. 14.
SPEAKER_06:Reduced it by 14.
SPEAKER_08:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I think I'm not gonna use a key point. Okay. Mm-hmm. Uh pass turn.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Um the Goliath is going to just try to run out of here. And doesn't really know where he's going, so let's do a random 16. I don't move to darkness, my bad. Get out of here. He's gonna run out of the darkness. Um, but he doesn't see anything. And you still don't get any movement out of or any action out of this uh weird creature that went invisible. Novex, you're up.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I don't like that the creature's not there, and I'm in it to win it. So I'm gonna move the darkness back on this bitch, and then go uh instead of uh knee attack, I'm gonna do a sweep attack. Uh just try to double kick with the legs down below, down low, his knees. Uh first attack. Oh, an advantage. Uh 24 to hit.
SPEAKER_08:That does hit.
SPEAKER_06:24 to hit for the first one, and then second one is uh 24 to hit. That hits. Jesus. And then I'll use my bonus action for a third one. Yep, 22 to hit.
SPEAKER_08:Tell me I take out the Goliath.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I know how cool it is. I do the sweep attack, and as he starts to fall, I come back up and I punch him in the side of the head as his whole body's falling.
SPEAKER_05:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:And then I let the darkness dissipate as he's were. Wait a minute. No, I don't. I keep the darkness up. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Goliath goes down. You don't hear anything from the crowd.
SPEAKER_03:So we've seen. The crowd has seen that Ron Weasley, the dwarf, and the goblin are down. Yep. Because the shadow moved and then went back.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. Uh so then I'll uh I'll just like take a couple steps back from his body and then Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Nelbex, it's your turn.
SPEAKER_06:I'm gonna move the shadow over here and see if I get attacked. I'm gonna fanfare a little bit and like hype the crowd and just like uh just hold my hands out and show them like look what I have done.
SPEAKER_08:So uh uh you get polite applause from the crowd.
SPEAKER_06:Excellent.
SPEAKER_03:And then I'll So uh Zayn will cheer, kind of. I mean he'll yell.
SPEAKER_09:Woo! Woo!
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_10:Our likes just you know, same thing.
SPEAKER_09:Woo!
SPEAKER_10:Just going crazy for no reason.
SPEAKER_06:Trying to just be as obnoxiously like supportive as uh yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna leave myself as a target next to my dark.
SPEAKER_08:Okay. Alright. Uh sorry, looking at your repo. Okay. Um so Nelvex, right behind you, this creature appears. Just out of melee range, and she's gonna point at you and cast polymorph. Give me a wisdom save. 14 or higher. Give a shot.
SPEAKER_06:Ooh, that's an eight. Hold on, I might have something. I probably don't. I think I'm in trouble.
SPEAKER_08:Did you use your barbecue?
SPEAKER_00:Oh shit.
SPEAKER_08:If you roll a perfect six, you'll save.
SPEAKER_06:Let's roll a perfect six then. What we got here?
SPEAKER_08:It's a one. No, it is not.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. Um do I have any tricks up my it's not gonna work. That's not gonna work. Those are all too slow. Nope. I think uh what am I turning into, Brandon?
SPEAKER_08:Uh you are turning into a sheep. Your sheep. And your darkness dissipates.
SPEAKER_06:Hmm. I can't maintain concentration as a sheep.
SPEAKER_08:No.
SPEAKER_06:Do I lose my mental capacity as a sheep?
SPEAKER_08:Uh, your mental capacity goes to the sheep's mental capacity. This target's game's the the target's game statistics, including mental ability scores, are replaced by the statistics of the chosen beast. It retains alignment and personality.
SPEAKER_06:Okay.
SPEAKER_08:So I'm gonna say you cannot maintain concentration while you're a different creature.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. My darkness for now.
SPEAKER_08:For now. Um and that is Darkness turn. You're up, Nelvax, the sheep.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I move towards him and I nibble. Uh I do can I do some like sheep? You you can try to ram him. I mean, I am pretty low AC. Am I no longer a monk? Because my if I'm unarmed, I'm a goat or sheep. I'm still unarmed. You know, it's still.
SPEAKER_08:You're no longer a monk. What? Maintain your alignment and personality. You're a sheep.
SPEAKER_06:I don't have that as on my commits here. Alright, sheep 2024.
SPEAKER_08:Your AC is 10, your hit points are three, uh your strength is 12 plus 1, Dex is 10, Khan is 11, intelligence is 2, wisdom is 10, and charisma is 5. The sheep has advantages on strength and dexterity saving throws made against effects that would knock it from.
SPEAKER_06:Alright, let me just whack this guy. I'm gonna headbutt him.
SPEAKER_03:Hold on. His hit points actually he keeps his it says he keep he gets temporary hit points equal to the hit points of the beast four. Yes. So he keeps his hit points. Yeah. And adds the two or three or whatever. So he's still got whatever his hit points are as as nailbacks. So he's still got his 38 plus three, so he's got 41 hit points.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Or whatever you had, I can't remember. Is it 38? Oh, you took 13. That's right. So you have 33 hit points.
SPEAKER_06:My alignment, personality, creature type, hit points, and hit. I get a number of temporary hit points each beast form. Those temporary hit points vanish when the spell ends. The spell ends earny if I have no temporary HP left. I'm limited to actions I can perform. By the anatomy of its new form, I can't speak or cast spells. Target's gear melds into new form. Cool. Yeah, I think whack him.
SPEAKER_08:You make it a little bit. His AC is a 12. So I'll give Yeah, I'll give you for an are you just trying to ram him?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, what's my attack bonus?
SPEAKER_08:He's got a plus one to strength, so I'll say plus one. Proficiency bonus is plus two.
SPEAKER_06:Two, so plus three?
SPEAKER_08:Yes.
SPEAKER_06:Uh okay. So a D20. And I just get the one attack per round?
SPEAKER_08:Just one attack.
SPEAKER_06:Alright, that's a D 20. One to hit. That hits. We just went over this. Give me give me some damage. Uh what's my unarmed attack plus strength? D6 plus three. Fuck yeah. Uh it's five damage.
SPEAKER_08:Okay, and she's got a roll on save. No, you cannot expend a key point. Uh yeah, she saves with a 16.
SPEAKER_06:Uh, does my new goat feature have any features I can use? No. I like bleat many. Sure foot. Oh yeah, if you want to bleed, go for it.
SPEAKER_08:Uh intimidation roll. Bleating. Uh she looks very unimpressed.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, you didn't really roll for it. I've kind of had bad stats as a sheep.
SPEAKER_08:Your charisma is minus three.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, let me roll for that.
SPEAKER_08:Alright, go for it. You know what? Go for it. Roll me an intimidation check as a sheep.
SPEAKER_06:Alright. Two minus. It's all about the headbutt. It's not about the ball.
SPEAKER_08:Okay. Um, yeah, she looks very unimpressed.
SPEAKER_06:Maybe uh maybe I I bleat while I headbutt and I end up butting my own tongue, and I'm like, Alright.
SPEAKER_02:Um The sheep still did five hit points worth of damage. That would kill a regular human.
SPEAKER_08:That's fair. That is fair. I probably should have only given it a D4, but I was like, she has no step two here. Like, what the fuck is she supposed to do?
SPEAKER_06:She didn't think I was gonna headbutt that hard.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:She wasn't watching Ron Weasley learn that lesson.
SPEAKER_08:Alright. She is uh because extra damage carries over. But she is after me in the initial. Yes, she is. The target assumes the hit points of its new form. When it reverts to its normal form, the creature returns the number of hit points it had before it transforms. Are you on 22?
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, my one second.
SPEAKER_06:Uh but I think that was one of the bigger changes. The same way that the druid shapeshift changed a lot. Yeah, for the worse.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:I think all that work was the same. Although, I mean, there's some advantages offensively for attack went through and then stopped. And now the extra so offensively it's got defensively less good.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, because the target's game statistics are played by Step Lana, the chosen beast. The target retains its alignment, personality, creature type, hit points, and hit die. Dice. So he's still he's what a challenge a challenge rating five?
SPEAKER_08:So if it goes. So if your life goes to zero, then you're just unconscious, then you start making deaths with saving throws. Yeah, if you're not.
SPEAKER_06:Right. As soon as you lose, so I get through I get temporary HP equal to the animal's HP. Yep. And when I lose those temporary HP, the spell ends. But damage carries over. So I got three sheep HP. So if you do five damage to me, I will effectively take. Rules are dumb. The spell ends early. So uh target gains a number this is for our listeners. Target gains a number of temporary hit points equal to the hit points of the These temporary hit points vanish if any remain when the spell ends, and the spell ends early if the target has no more temporary hit points. Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, so if he if it he, she, it, whatever the arcaneson hits you for three hit points, you turn back into a human again, or whatever you are.
SPEAKER_08:Alright. She is going to uh take a couple steps away from you. You would like to take a attack of opportunity.
SPEAKER_06:Bah. Give me a back ball. What we say it's uh 20 plus three?
SPEAKER_08:Yep.
SPEAKER_06:Uh 12. Oh, nine to hit. Bad.
SPEAKER_08:That is not it. And she's gonna cast her max magic missile against you. So that's a level four magic missile. Excellent. Six, five, seven, eleven, fourteen, seventeen, and twenty two.
SPEAKER_06:I should not have used my reaction to make a sheep attack.
SPEAKER_08:You're gonna take twenty-two points of damage, three of which temporary hit points, and you're now back to Nellbax.
SPEAKER_06:Oh. That makes way more sense. I was writing these numbers down soon, they're like, I'm not gonna live through this. Because it wasn't 17 plus me, the totals.
SPEAKER_03:That's you were tallying as you went.
SPEAKER_08:Yes, I was tallying it out.
SPEAKER_06:Obviously hindsight.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, so 22 points of damage, three of which are temporary hit points, so you take 19 points of damage.
SPEAKER_06:19.
SPEAKER_08:And you are back to Nelvex.
SPEAKER_06:If I was smart, I would have waited because I knew you were gonna hit me with something. I could have those are bludgeoning, right? Magic missile? Uh force. Yes. Fair enough. Then I wouldn't have been able to send it back, but I would have been able to negate some of them damage. That's okay, that means now I could just use them offensively. True.
SPEAKER_08:And you're up, Nelvex.
SPEAKER_06:I'm up. Top of the round. Uh I'm going to run at Arkonin. Arkonisen. And then I'm going to. Oh, do I have any other weapons that I might want to use? I've just been using my fist so far. You have a cemetery? It's more for show than anything, really. Okay. It lets me cast message. Uh and it makes people scared, because this is what I do with my bare hands. Imagine what I do in the darkness with my blades. Uh so yeah, unarmed strike. Uh time the first one is uh seven to hit. Sorry, fourteen to hit. Seven plus seven.
SPEAKER_08:Uh that hits.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. Um I'm going to expand a key point when I do this damage. That is ten total damage on that first one. I'm going to expand to keep them. Stun it.
SPEAKER_08:Trying to figure out how you have all these items in your inventory.
SPEAKER_06:We talked about them. I used a bunch of cheap shits because I didn't need I'm going to attempt a stunning strike on.
SPEAKER_08:Okay. Do I have to do something for stunning strike?
SPEAKER_06:Yes, I do need you to make a constitution saving throw. Sorry. Oh, okay. I was giving you a moment while I was reading my stuff. Uh, can save. That is a 14. It does save. That's what I was looking for earlier. Dang it. Uh, I'm gonna make my second. That was my second attack. No, that's my first attack. Uh so 10 damage, and she's not stunned. But even though she's not stunned, she does stun uh have her move speed halved until I stuck clicked off of it. That was the target makes a con save. If they fail to save, they're stunned until the start of my next turn. If they're successful, then their speed is halved until the start of my next turn, and the next attack roll against them before then has advantage. So I'll take advantage of my next attack. Monks, right?
SPEAKER_03:Yep.
SPEAKER_06:Pretty dumb. That's a 22 to hit. That does it. That's a roll damage. Uh that is six damage. And I'm gonna expand my last key point to Tell me how you knock out Arcanine. Oh, I will not spend a key point. Fair enough. Um this one I get kind of a jump as I come up to it, and I do uh people's elbow coming down on this. Is it metal?
SPEAKER_08:Yes, she's got a helmet on.
SPEAKER_06:I bonk it on the head with my elbow, and then as I strike the ground, I just do another quick punch into what would be a solar plexus if Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Yep. Uh she falls to the ground.
SPEAKER_06:I stand up and I smile at everybody.
SPEAKER_08:Uh, you get some cheers. Uh the crowd isn't nearly as excited as they were during the 2v2 match.
SPEAKER_06:It's the mystery that makes it a it makes it scary. That's true.
SPEAKER_03:Like it got dark and almost everybody was on the ground when the darkness went away.
SPEAKER_06:It's really good for reputation though.
SPEAKER_08:So, Nelvax, as you leave the uh as you as you leave the stadium or the Coliseum, uh they hand you a bag of gold for 50 gold pieces. And the the king's voice is there and he says, I'm sorry, the like we said yesterday, this is more for the show than anything else. There wasn't much of a show.
SPEAKER_06:Show and tell, I brought bodies.
SPEAKER_08:Bodies do nothing for us. They're here for the entertainment. They just saw a dark cloud move around.
SPEAKER_06:There were plenty of explosions, and he'll like dust some of the burnt charred clothing off of himself.
SPEAKER_08:Uh Nelvax, did you subtract 150 from your thing? I did.
SPEAKER_06:I don't know why I have so much gold.
SPEAKER_08:I don't know where that came from. Yeah, how do you have so much gold? That's what I'm wondering. No idea. Because you have a lot of items and 700 gold.
SPEAKER_03:I think he took the he picked up the gold from the whatever we were doing earlier.
SPEAKER_06:We did. We were supposed to divvy it up. I don't think we did.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, we didn't divvy it up. I only had the my starting gold.
SPEAKER_06:That's why I'm buying drinks from with five gold pieces. Okay.
SPEAKER_08:Add 50 gold to your inventory. And out of the bets, you each get an additional 450 pieces of gold.
SPEAKER_03:Does she take a cut of that?
SPEAKER_08:Do you want to try to prevent her from taking any uh cut of that? No. I'm asking if she does. She she would take 100 gold pieces.
SPEAKER_06:Is that one that Zane thinks is fair? Because that one you can do.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I bet money. That is my winnings. But the I don't think it's oh I I don't know that Zane is fair or he just thinks that's not the I actually I don't know if Zane won the 400 gold or if Nelvax won the 400 gold. I think Zane would be more of a mind of he's just here to fight and the prize isn't his. The bet was his, but the prize wasn't his. So he doesn't think that she should get that money because it's not his. It's not his prize. That's his thoughts.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. Prize but not bet. Yeah, I'm with that. That makes sense. That's what I was asking.
SPEAKER_03:But the bet was mine, and I would and the bet was Zayn's, and Zayn would willingly give up whatever piece that she said that she was gonna take out of his prize money from that. But the other part he would say, and he wouldn't do a huge argument with her about it. But he would state that and see what her reaction would be.
SPEAKER_08:She is not around you. I I will let you I I will let you try to roll to keep it. Otherwise, she's gonna take 200 of the gold pieces that you won. Between your tournament winning and what am I rolling? You would be rolling uh likely Arcana.
SPEAKER_03:Well, he's not trying to forcefully take it. He would just want to tell her because she's somehow supposed to communicate to him to see if he wants to keep his keep her blessing, which he didn't really get much use out of.
SPEAKER_08:Monsters know what they're doing. Changing out my uh battery.
SPEAKER_03:Alright, so Zayn will walk over to um Nelvax and hand him 300 gold and say, here's the prize money for the match. Is what I got. Yes.
SPEAKER_06:Uh what are you talking about?
SPEAKER_03:Well, you won this seed. I was just fighting.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, but you won that fight. That was amazing. I'll floating in the air, shooting those balls down. You earned that money.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. If you say so.
SPEAKER_06:I mean, if you don't want it, I'll hold on to it. I've I've got all your money.
SPEAKER_03:It's not that I don't it's not that I don't want it, it's that I thought it was yours.
SPEAKER_06:Um, I think you earned that. You you guys all those javelins and axes chopped at tossed at you, not me.
SPEAKER_03:So with that being said, then he would if he if Nelvax convinces him that it's his prize, then he's not gonna push back against for taking it.
SPEAKER_08:Okay. Alright, so uh and the matches happen. We uh the the the 1v1 is hap uh is continuing on, and they're on the last fight with the king versus uh the champion that won. And it is a knight that is all dressed in red, and it is about to begin. And as you are all standing around waiting for this to happen, uh you see uh you see Voss and Xanover walk up to you, and they are looking rough. They have seen some shit in the last 24 hours. Uh Xanover is bloodied, Voss is is bruised, and he's covered in soot. But uh they walk up next to you and and stop next to you, and that's where we're going to end the night.
SPEAKER_03:Alright. I mean, I I think all of us are well, I guess Harlick is the only one that's fully healed.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, Harlek is the only one that's looking okay.
unknown:Alright.
SPEAKER_03:Zayn's only at nineteen. I was just gonna say Zayn's only at nineteen, and I think Novak's is what, ten or something?
SPEAKER_06:Eleven. I've got stuff to do. Um if we're about to jump straight into combat, then I might want to do some uh jumping into combat. I mean not not tonight, but like uh then if we're resting, I I'm Hunky Dory. I'm ready to go drink some more.
SPEAKER_08:Nobody's resting just yet. You're about to see the Final Kings championship or the Final Kings tournament.
SPEAKER_04:Okay.
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