With a band of armed Dol-El approaching, the gang must quickly decide whether it’s best to face the threat head-on, or maintain their cover by braving the spider-infested fields.
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Episode 126: Fight or Flight
With a band of armed Dol-El approaching, the gang must quickly decide whether it’s best to face the threat head-on, or maintain their cover by braving the spider-infested fields. Like what you hear? Find more of us here: https://linktr.ee/rerolegaming
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- 1h 3m
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- 14 Jul 2024
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Welcome to the Re-Roll Gaming Podcast, where I, Tanner Prentice, guide five of my closest friends through an original adventure playing the tabletop role-playing game, Pathfinder's Second Edition. In the World of Rail, five strangers brought together a resistance under the shadow of the Blackery Empire. Until everything changed. A villain and former lover named Hogoth fractured the plains of existence, ushering in an endless night and an era of undeath, all in the name of an undying dragon, Zarox. Now the fate of rail is left to these five adventurers. My name is Ayla and I play Bo-Cantrell, a fallen Asmar and cleric. With Cosmios, the God of Fate as my deity. Hi, my name is Zane and I play Cinder Lafayette, the halfling investigator with a dicey past. My name is Octavia and I play Starlet Moonbow, Star, as she's better known by her companions, is on a mission to save her true love, Faya, from the Maiden of Spiders. Hi, my name is Latara, and I play Chiarin Nimone, the sadistic, the Dolell champion of Emmon, who yearns for that redemption that is so far out of her reach. I'm Brendan Geier, and I am Frost, your new favorite cobalt, Bot-Barian, honor bound to protect and serve Grass Party, and oath bound to finish its mission. These five heroes are the last best hope to save rail, but can they overcome this darkness that spreads under the shattered sky? Find out now on the re-roll gaming podcast. Welcome back to the re-roll gaming podcast. It's Spreadsheet's debut. Your number one's source for Excel jokes. Did you know that there's like Excel championships? I really know. This is my day job. I don't want to talk about it. It makes my tummy hurt. Cell championships. If I pivot one more table, I'm literally going to throw up on my keyboard. I will. I will. I'm not kidding. Well, I did want to open this up with a little bit of mechanical pathfinder talk here. We do mechanics in this game. We try very hard and succeed roughly 3% of the time. We usually set precedent about stuff like really specifically and then forget about it completely two episodes later when that same thing comes up again. Yeah. Or you just stop asking Tanner about it and do what we want. Well, you guys are right outside the city of Nagatov. You are going to be going in pretty quickly, I imagine. So I wanted to talk a little bit about these potions of disguise. These potions of disguise will change your body shape and you can adapt whatever form you like. Obviously, you'll probably be going DOLL or something of the nature. However, and we might have mentioned this last episode, but only three of you speak relevant languages, so Frast and Star. You guys are a little bit in the dust and these disguise potions last for 2D12 hours. I know we don't usually do secret checks because I like to have... I was wondering if you were going to let us know when it's going to end. Very... Do we get a sense like, "Oh no, I'm tingling and it's going to run out." Or we're just constantly on edge where people are going to see us? I think you're going to have to take the first potion and see how it plays out, but this will be secret roles for each one of you. I'm going to be walking down the street and somebody's going to be like, "Hello, sir." And you're like, "What? What's wrong with me? Something wrong with my eyes? Am I a dwarf?" Or half a half? You're a half a fucking dude. I have an important question. How big can I make the boobs? That's as big as you like. Does it come with the made-out fit or do I have to pre-order them? In hands. In hands! It's not like we need some for ourselves to shut up. Sorry, Mom, when did you think straight through this? I'm missing a lot of blood from my body. Have you guys seen anything strange from the city? Yeah, we saw DOLEL with gigantic breasts. Huge! Actually, to be fair, we didn't see the DOLEL at all. We just saw the breasts. Just the tits. It's like tits and legs. Maybe arms. I don't know. There's somewhere, maybe. It's where they're face. They're just rolling down the street. I think she's dead. Nope, no, I'm fine. It's hooked up to an aura, just dragging her. Wait, an aura is still with us, right? Oh, shit. Quick, can we disguise an aura as a DOLEL? I think we should disguise an aura as the boobs. Did disguise self-eposions work on animals? I don't know. You can disguise her as a spider by adding roughly six more legs. Disguise our goats not allowed in the city? You could have a goat in the city. It might be somewhat strange. It's a king's goat, though, like it's a pretty specific breed, right? Yeah. It's interesting. We still have this house. Leave it in the house that we're in. The ones that the raiders are heading towards? Sure. An aura is about to go started. Put her in the little cauldron that walks her in. An aura can slow them down for us. You come back and an aura is surrounded by nine corpses of DOLEL. Covered in the mud. We'll save that for another day. Let's go, Nara. This is my kind of one and only out of character question. Well, you only get one, so make a count. What do you, I'm the wamp one. Oh, shit, I just wasted it. What do you look for? What's interesting? Do. Let me probably do that. I was thinking Frost might just not disguise himself. If you're going to be disguised as a noble who's not necessarily from the city. If your frost might be like an oddity possession of a piece of sentient property, I guess, I got with it. This is our game. All that kind of stuff. How common are non-no slaves here? Uncommon, I would say, but not entirely unimaginable. Gnomes are probably actually not the most common. The most common slave is definitely DOLEL, male DOLEL. Yeah, I mean, I meant outside of the DOLEL, but. Gnomes, because it was probably some gourage dwarves. It would definitely draw attention. Draw attention, but it's not entirely impossible to explain away. Well, I was thinking if we're trying to get an audience eventually, potentially with any kind of nobility. Or Frost would just do what he does best and be a guard in the presence of nobility. You know, both is. You could still do that, but disguised as a DOLEL. Yeah, I think that would probably be the best way to do that. Yeah, I could do that, in my opinion. Just be a weird-sized DOLEL. No, the disguise, the disguise potion, at least when we bought it before the. Remaster. Remaster, which it did allow you to increase your size by one. And Tanner said he'd let us still do that. Yeah. You guys crafted all those with the assumption that you would be able to change. So you will be able to be a medium-sized half-elf with not half-elf DOLEL with gigantic. Tits. Tatas, yeah. Tanners. The moves. This language. Shugs. Gigantic tanners. Chugs? Tanners? Yeah. Chugs. Octavia, just remember to produce a great deal of milk whenever you become aroused, otherwise they might know something about it. Hey, man, so true. Call that. You're not horny. With that, what a- What a hydrant. What a- What the blood is that here? Wait, it's a segue back into our game. We recently left off with, I believe I said two silhouettes. Three, I think. Three silhouettes. Fourteen. Fourteen silhouettes of DOLEL coming down the pathway that leads to the abandoned farmhouse you guys are residing in. So please tell me, what would you like to do? I think Senator React in this would probably turn to Kiaran and just say, Kiaran, fight a flea. It's your call. We should- we should flee. We tried to negotiate too, but I don't know if that would be the best option. If we come into contact looking like this, we would likely need to kill them. We can't get everyone to leave. Okay, I think also quickly too she would turn to Benjamin and say, "Bengen, what's the best way towards the city from here to avoid detection?" Uh, I mean, the best way is cutting through the fields here, going around, but you'll have to go through the webbing and there's lots of spiders. I think she'd probably turn back to the rest of the group, especially Kiaran, to try to make that judgment call. So go on. Senator is peeking out of the sliver in the wood that's cracked in the second story of this farmhouse and she's like, "Well, we could kill them. You'd have two more dola identities." Three, if I count correct. Are they bandits? Didn't we have enough outfits? It's identities. Identities. How many? Going through the webbing you said would be the easiest way to lose them and hide? Yes. And not be seen by them, hopefully. Very dangerous in its own right, I imagine. Correct. Because I think they're gonna pipe up here. Kiaran's no coward. I don't think we necessarily have to spare these people. They're not exactly good. Just because they were raised in the society doesn't mean they don't have the possibility. Oh, I see your point, but they just lit people on fire out there. I'm not. I don't have any sympathy for these people. They've had their chance to turn. Their goal is to cause chaos. I say that we leave and let them continue their rampage. It can only help us. Yes, it does not help us to kill them. Let's go. We're out of time. Okay. I'll leave more people to die if we do that, but as you wish. Okay. Okay. So tell me what your next step is. What would you, how would you like to act upon this incursion into this spiraling field? Are you going as fast as possible? Are you going stealthily? Is Benjin coming with us? Um, that's a good question. I think Benjin. Yeah. I think Benjin just says to you, like, I'll follow and I'll disappear. I'm not going to go closer to the city, but they've got blood in their eyes. I think as we're getting ready to leave too, and he says that. Yeah, whatever. At some point before Brendan, Brendan, uh, breaks. Benjin breaks off. I want to say something to him kind of for flavor, but we can get to that when we get there. There's no time and he sprints into the spider waves. No, come back, I need to say something cool to you. Why don't we break in Benjin? Star will turn to him and, um, press a small, um, walnut that's been wrapped with some cord and has a necklace into his hand. Um, and she'll say, just in case we get separated early. Remember to hold strong. Your freedom waits ahead of you. And he grasps the walnut in his hand. It's somewhat cracked and the hinge doesn't exactly work. And he says, it looks like you rolled a nine under a crafting tray. I did, unfortunately. On the couch. This is a walnut. Wait, yeah. And it has a little. What do you have? I love it. I love it. Because she made it just enough. I don't know. Yeah. And then inside it says, I love you. Oh, that's cute. That's a little note on this. So it's never going to be relevant ever again. So okay. What are we doing? Stealth athletics. They're on close on at least. I don't know if we're running or stealth in, but. I think, I mean, there's a lot of fair amount of chaos going on, right? If we just ran, like, how likely is it that we would be seen? If we have close up, would they recognize what we are? I mean, you at this point, you kind of have two options. Something that's going to get you through the fields faster, but you might be seen. You do have close on. Or taking it a more cautious and careful approach, but you're not going to go nearly as fast. And if they see you, they can probably catch up or at least pursue. Well, I think to Kieran's point, our goal right now, if I'm not mistaken, is that we could totally kill these guys, but it's much more beneficial to us to just, like, maintain as much of, like, our cover as we possibly can now that we're getting closer to the city. So, like, even though this is chaotic and these guys, like, wouldn't be missed if they were dead, engaging them just opens up more of the possibility that we could be compromised. Yeah, I mean, that am just anyone seeing that there's non-dolle running around outside the city. Yeah, that's what I mean, yeah. Only without saying, Frost is going to find our egress. Okay, give me a perception for us. Okay, my vote kind of is we just book it out of here. If they decide to, if they see us and or follow us, then we can, like, maybe engage them a little bit further in the spiderling fields, which would be really easy to get rid of bodies that way, too. I'm just, yeah, I'm just thinking about, like, open combat maybe invites more attention from other sources than we need right now. 18 perception. Not great. Yeah, you are looking out maybe through another dilapidated collapsed wall on the other side of this property, and it's just dense fielding. I'm going to attempt to stealth just a little bit ahead, maybe 30, 40 feet. Okay, give me a self. What's everybody else doing? I mean, I don't know if we have time to be stealthing right here or not, unless we're going to sneak you out. I mean, a few feet, like, what's, uh, how far out are they? Do we have time for him to look ahead real quick and wait there? About a half mile out and come and come and they're walking. If we're going to run, we need to run now, probably. You've got maybe a little bit of time, but as time's closing and they're getting closer, your window of opportunity is shrinking. I vote we just know let's run out the back, keep visual cover in between us and them. We just hope that they don't see us and if they do, they'll chase us and we'll kill them. Yeah, okay. I'm going to take out the back. That was pretty much my whole goal was even if you guys are running, I'm going to stealth out and just kind of try to cover your, your, uh, okay, your exit. If we still do, we don't see yet. If we still do have Benjian with us at this point, I definitely want to tap into his knowledge of how to, like, expert, more expertly navigate these fields because he's been working these for a long time, I imagine. Okay, Karen, I'll just be like, pull your hoods up and go. I'll hold the back. If they see me, it's not as big of a deal. That's a good idea. Okay, so, Frast, why don't you give me a stealth check? The rest of you give me either athletics or acrobatics checks as you are trying not to be slowed or hindered by these webs and also how are you going about cutting them? If somebody wants to, who has an idea of how to, uh, get through them because you're not going to be able to just brute force run through. Frast might, but the rest of you probably are. Frast probably can't take the lead once we get home. Yeah, both of you talked at the same time, and I heard roughly zero words. Yeah, well, you should have gotten all the words more, like, yeah. I was just saying, Star has, like, a razor sharp fan. I feel like that would be kind of cool. Yeah, so in that case, Star, why don't you give me an attack roll instead of acrobatics or athletics check? Okay. I hope I saved you from a bad roll and didn't squash a good one. You did. Which one? Exactly. Okay. No, saving from a bad roll. What was that, Dan? Thank you. Do I just do it with the? Yeah, do your strat, your fighting fan. Yeah, just like, yeah, go ahead, hold over, okay. Yeah, well, that wasn't really that much better, but that's okay. Uh, 26. Okay. Frost, what did you get on stealth? That's a 15. I hope they really are half mile away. Okay. Can I buy? Not anymore. Taking up the back, is it possible for me to, like, light the webs on fire behind us to deter them from following? You frost actually had a similar covering tracks. Like, I won't be able to see which ones were cut, at least. I like fire, though. I think that's a good idea. I'm just too scared from following, since we're not really being sneaky. Yeah, you know, we have a great idea of lighting the webs on fire clear them from behind us. I don't really... As... Would it clear the path or would it make it, like, more difficult, like, damn it, like, they take damage? It would... I mean, Star has a good point of it, would probably burn through, um... Quickly? Pretty quickly. I mean, how quick does this silk burn? And, like, disintegrate, I guess, the other question? Yeah. Like, looking at what they're doing, it looks like it clears the path. Yes, I mean, they... That's also a good point, and you would know this. Raiders in the Spider-land Fields use fire to destroy the silks. So, it would probably burn through pretty quickly. Bo, did you have something you wanted to say? Yeah, I was thinking of using my spiritual weapon and just keeping it at a distance in front of us, so it's just slicing through to make it easier. Okay. That's cool idea. Yeah, go ahead. Give me an attack roll for your spiritual weapon. And then, Cinder, you roll a... Did you roll the acrobatics? Yeah, I got a flaccid 20. Flaccid 20? Okay, and then, Karen, what are you rolling? Athletics, 26. Athletics. Okay. Um, you got a natural one, so... Nice. Okay. I'm gonna add one on what the... Is this spiritual weapon attacking? Okay. So, I think how this plays out. Interesting. First things first. Frast. You... crouch down and begin to lurk in the shadows, trying to find a spot of egress here and to cover your allies escape. And as you do, you see that these two doll elves, after all this time and debate, are roughly a few hundred feet away. Give me a perception check. While this is happening, Star, you run forth with your fighting fan. You draw it, the blades are shimmering, and you hear this shink of the metal as you expand the fan, and you're running in a pretty fluid method. Almost like a dance, you are cutting through these spider silk panels and walls that would otherwise, in web, you would slow you down and bow you. I think this is a good idea. You go to cast spiritual weapon, but you find that very quickly, your spiritual weapon does not keep up with the speed, and it slows you down to sustain it and move it with you. So, unfortunately, you think that it is better to abandon that plan. Meanwhile, Cinder, your short little legs are trying to keep up as you're running through this path, but Star is going incredibly fast and it is dark. Even though you have dark vision, this is tunnels with webs and webs and webs, and you see these dog-sized spiders. You tumble a little bit, rolling on the ground, but you're able to kind of use that inertia to pop yourself back up and barely lose any momentum and stride. Kiara, and you are in the back. You have your hood up, just like your allies in front of you. You know Frost has... You can see Frost actually stealthing around the corner of the house. Yeah, it's an issue. But he's got his own plan and you continue into the forest behind him. And, in fact, you're running very quickly. Since you are the last one, you do notice, however, Cindra is right next to you, but poor Benjin, who also rolled on that one, is caught on a web. And a spider is coming very quickly towards him. I run back and pull him out. Okay. Try it too, at least. Give me another athletics check. What did you get for your perception? Frost. That'd be a 25 this time. Okay. These two raiders get close. You can see that while they are raiders, they are dressed not in a overtly noble way, but they are dressed finally. Their leathers are spider silk, their weapons are sharp. And they bear an interesting sigil on it. In fact, you recognize the sigil from Cindra's armor. It is the sigil of House Nemone. Now, you also notice they are quite intoxicated, stumbling with bottles in their hands. And one of them takes a big swig off of this elven wine bottle with her scimitar in her other hand. And she drops it and she belches him. And then in her sway, sees you. She says, "Little spider." And she starts dragging her blade on the ground. What do you do? Depends on my... I'm now probably fairly far behind my friends, right? Yes. By the rest of the party. I'm going to run in a slightly... Yeah, she's a sea to me. I'm going to pull my winless molars out as I run in a slightly different direction than the party is gone. Okay, so I'm going to give you... Give me an athletics check. This is going to be considerably harder since you don't have somebody cutting the webs down for you. Okay. Kiaran, what did you get on your athletics? I got a 34. Okay, you rip Benjian free of the webbing. As you do so, this spider that was darting towards him sinks its fangs into his wrist, just as he is being pulled away. And of course you would know, the real danger here is the poison. But you have him free and he stumbles to his feet and he looks up and is in disbelief and doesn't entirely know what to say. And you share this single second of awkward silence before both of you just start darting back into the fields. So he took damage like he looks like he's pretty hurt? You have no way to assess that right now without stopping. But I mean, he was hit. He got bit, but he's able to get to his... As I push him in front of me, I'm gonna cast lay on hands and say stay in front and I'll make sure I don't let him fall behind. Okay, great. Frost, what did you get on your athletics check? I'd be a 32. Okay. Running through and I think as I kind of somehow foreshadowed earlier, you are able to just kind of tear through these webbings. However, oh boy, okay. You're able to tear through these webbings and you're sprinting through just breaking it and you see the silhouette of a figure behind you at the edge of the spiderling fields and she just kind of... Run little spider, run. And you're looking back and you see this drunken figure sort of reveling in your what she assumes is fear. You don't see that as you break through the next webbing, a spider is directly on it and it hits you with a natural 20 attack. Ouch. So I'm going to need a fortitude save from you. Oh shit, I bet her long rest, huh? Did we... No, we didn't make it in that long rest. No long rest. No long rest. That's a 28. Okay. You take 20 points of piercing damage as the spider sinks its fangs into you for the brief second and is on you before it is tossed the size in your furious charge. We did spend time healing before though, if you weren't at bull hit points. Yeah, you could, I accidentally left my rage thing on so they were showing me a scary looking stats. I just switched it off and it was okay. I thought you were done Tanner, sorry. You're good. You look down and you see two puncture wounds but luckily the dribble of poison is running from the wounds and looks like you were able to sort of resist it which flexed and push it out. So gross, like my growth before me. He was always flexing and pushing fluids out. Nasty. And probably an hour passes as you guys are running through these fields. You see pretty quickly behind you the farmhouse you were in go up in flames. Star, you are the first one through the other side of this field. You slice through and you can see as you're running and slicing with your fighting fan, you can see through these thin silk barriers, open space on the other side and you cut through breaking out of this and maybe just taking like a breath like whoo, and right behind you comes Bo and Cinder right on his heels before maybe 30 seconds to a minute passes as Kiaran stumbles forward with Cindra and Toh and in front of her Benjin. A frost is nowhere to be found. Did anyone see Frost come in with us? Is he still back there? He stayed behind. I think if we can find a place to lay low, he hopefully knows which way we ran. Cinder's looking around both directions and like what I'm assuming is kind of a big long stretch of open space on either side. Right, give me a perception check. Fuck me, 19, or flaccid 20. Can I try our perception check as well? Totally. Correct me if I'm wrong, Tanner. I imagine Nakatav to be a place. Probably enough torches there that it's like lighting the ceiling itself of this cavern. Is that fair to say? I could probably anytime I find a little open clearing, I could probably at least see the general direction it is. Yes, totally. You cannot definitely see Nakatav in the distance. It gives us this sort of eerie faint blue glow from what you imagine is glow shrooms, which are also used in bronze hammer. I'm on my way, if I'm on my way. What'd you get for perception there? A natural 20 for a 35. Nice. Great, great. With that natural 20, you hear the distinct sounds of a god, not a goblin. You see here the distinct crunch sounds of a cobalt huffing through and maybe about a quarter mile down. You see him break through his last barrier, skidding out of the fields. But I'll give you a little bit more with that natural 20. You are oriented pretty well here. You were able to keep your head on straight as you traveled through that maze of webbing. And you know you're probably about halfway through the Spiderling fields at this point. Nakatav is much, much closer and in fact, you feel like you can see the gates in the distance. Star will kind of turn to everybody huffing a bit. I think we're probably about halfway there. I'm pretty sure I can see the gates up ahead. Nice work with that fan star. Thank you. Bo, will you look at Ben Jin while we have a second? He was bit by a spider. What? Where? He's by his arm off. He's turning. Bo, go ahead. Oh, Bo will definitely take a look. Give me a medicine check. 25. Okay, you look at his arm where he was bitten. The wound has been closed from a lay on hands, but it doesn't look like there's any poison running through his veins. He's not showing any signs of fatigue or pain, so he likely was able to resist. Okay, that's good. Bo will just say, I think he'll be all right. That was too close. Yarden, you could have got yourself killed going back for him. I don't know if I would have been killed. I'm sure we could have taken them if we need to. Perhaps, but it could have endangered your whole mission. For what? No offense. For our life, sister. Not to consider, Syndra. He was wielding your blade. That may have looked bad. That's, there's an excellent point. I didn't think of that. Does Frost close enough to hear that? Yeah, Frost, you have found your way back to the party. I assumed Star was like, get over here. You're kitty, kitty, kitty. I don't believe that finding your blade on a victim is a big deal when the purpose writers are your family. How's Nemo Day? I could have expected. I was completely surprised. I had not. Well, all the houses do their business in the spattering fields, and I suppose as time passes and we grow in power, we are getting a little more reckless. So was the implication there that they were, were they responsible for setting that fire, or were those two incidents like kind of not totally directly related? They were responsible. They're on some sort of. No. Raid. Interesting. Rich kids doing rich kid shit. So do they likely were members of the family. We don't stoop so low, but those who serve for maybe distant cousins, but you want to find feral out here doing this grubby work. So is this like. That would be a sight one, isn't it? I would give all the silk in these fields to see it. So like, is there political kind of like in fighting sabotage going here? Like the different houses have different claims to like certain parts of the spiderling fields or something? Yeah, and I think you're starting to sort of piece together, especially with what Benjamin said about how this is currency. So these are essentially. Almost like a money printing factory. The more silk you can harvest, the more money you have, the less silk your enemies can harvest. Gotcha. So they're probably torching like a competitor competing families like land essentially. You think that's probably likely. Cool. It is cool. Karen's going to start looking for a place we can hide the finish resting. Give me a survival check. Perhaps it's going to take up a post somewhere between the party and where he popped out of the bush. It's just in case his path of destruction was followed. Okay. 28. 28. Ironically enough, you spot a torched field right on the other side of the road you're on. This torch field is full of these rods that have been sort of dilapidated over time and left and it's covered with ash and soot and you get a sense that nothing of value in there. It's sort of hiding in plain sight, but you're likely to not be so disturbed. That area over there may not be as hidden, but they would have no reason to go to it. They are what I believe you call white gutter wasted. Should be enough to avoid notice. Is that a fucking spider over there? It's got a tail. I miss my dad. All right. Time for a tellsy. All right. So you guys spider silk burn. So you guys set up to finish your rest in the middle of this charred field. Can't remember whose watch it was. I think it was stars. No, it was bows. It was bows. It took 15 minutes waking us up for fire. No, that's no way. He was like, I got to wake everybody up and I really have to poop. First. Okay. We'll kind of wave hands a little bit here, but the remaining watches go by without a hitch and you guys are able to salvage your rest. And now a new day doesn't dawn because there's no sun in your underground. But you wake up in the shadow of Nycatov. What's your next step? So is it like an hour walk from here? Probably take you about an hour to get to the city. Probably should use potions from this point on. I mean, is there a route where we can move a lot closer under under cover? Just get anything less than an hour from the city or use our potions. I would say you can. Adversely, you can actually take a longer route around. Go maybe two hours and I'd give you stealth or deception checks to just kind of. Avoid people blend in and perhaps save an hour on your potions if you'd like. Well, we know the potions last at least two hours, so we would have an hour to get to the gates and an hour to find room in and in. Do we have like an actual physical map? On roll 20, are you? Do you guys don't see it? Only on characters have a map. Probably not. I don't think so. But Kiaran does know the general layout of the city, but you don't have an actual one to one map. Well, if we were Kiaran, if we were to secure a foothold in the city, what district do you think would be best for that? Abandoned buildings, really, anything would work. Would there be ends in the outer area? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, probably the outer gates would be the least eyes on us. Once we enter a house's territory, there's going to be many more guards and stuff paying attention. And we will need to find a way past the gates into the inner city anyways. So that writ, is that kind of the implication, as you were saying, that that is more what we need to kind of get access to like the inner city, where all the different houses and stuff are? The writs will get us through the outer gates. We could try to use it to get into the inner gate, but it will be much, they will inspect it much closer, since it is not a, since you forged it, there's a chance they might see it more that gate. There is another way out, or in though. What was that? Yeah, seems a lot more people have business on the outer city than the inner city, so getting inside further would probably be much more difficult, no matter how we choose to do it. Yes, I mean, the farther into the city, the more prestige you must have. It's much more selected. But if once we get into the outer city, we could try to rent some spiders and take the webbed highway farther in. It is a bit more dangerous, bandits, assassins. And I was like, the segues of this universe? Yes, exactly. The lion's scooters, or whatever they're called. Who's throwing the spiders in the river? Goddamn it! That's so funny to me, that humanity is just so dumb. Well, done with this, into the river with you. How was I supposed to have there as a return? The human brain from the dawn of time is like, "Well, I throw my garbage in the river and it vanishes, so that must be good." It's more or less just being like, "Oh, look, an unsecured thing of value." I better throw it in the river to make some kind of point. I don't know. So I can't steal it, because they'll track it. Nobody gets them. That's what I'm saying. We're 50 years self, the same reason half of all killers kill. This is why we can't. So if you destroy something that's valuable to somebody else, then you're worth more. That gives you power, yeah. I think that... Oh, sorry. Oh, I just think that I proved that point, because I was playing a Minecraft style game, and I was just using the lake as my garbage can, throwing all the stuff I didn't want in there. But then I would walk across it and just pick up all my garbage bags, and again, because it doesn't like despawning. Goddamn it! Yeah, it turns out it doesn't despawn in real life either. Yeah. Okay, so the overall plan right now is just get into the outer districts and find a place to hold up. So... That might be the best bet. And what were we just talking about going the long way around versus a shorter way? That's a little closer. Going the long way around to try to wait to use the potion until closer. Or what should require stealth, I think you said. Or take an hour to get to the gate if we take the potion out and just walk openly. But either way, we would have to pass through one of the gates, right? Got to get in the city through a gate. So you'll have to take a... It's just whether or not you want to save an hour. Well, we don't exactly know how long these potions are going to last. It's probably best if we wait till we're closer. We know they will last at least two hours. It should be enough time to get us into the outer districts and find a place to hold up for a moment. Okay, I thought we'd go closer, Gate. I mean, I don't know if it's a different gate. No, it's the same gate. We've been around. Oh, got you. I vote for the shorter walk. I agree, shorter walk myself. I think trying to sneak, I'm not so crate-headed, and it comes with risk. Prostral wrap his tail around one of his legs. Pop the cork on his bottle of disguise. Okay. Well, wait till we're all ready to go. Oh, I hear you drank three. He looks like this. He's not delicious. I think this is where we part ways with our friends. And she's going to go over and give Syndra a hug. Benj, you and me Syndra must leave and make a new life together. Now, yes. Syndra kind of both and save her. Glad I didn't have to kill either of you. Syndra is a bit surprised at first by the hug, and it is maybe a little bit awkward, but she eventually gives you a pretty warm embrace. And she, you guys kind of separate where you have your arms around each other still, holding each other by the elbow, and she just says, don't die. Same to you. If this is all the time I get with you, it was a blessing, sister. I do hope I'll see you on the other side. Oh. Me too. Frost is like all this axe in between starts pulling key arm back. It's like, we really got to go. I drank a bunch of these. Is there a bathroom in there? I have to pee like nobody's business. It's not a bad time to let you guys know I'm lactose intolerant. I don't know how long we've had those in the heat. Well, I'm pretty sure there's five milk in it. Cannon. That might be my blood here, tasting. Milky. And Benjyn walks up to you, specifically UKR, and since you had saved him the night before, he says, "I don't know what possessed you to save me, but you have taught me that not all the dolellar, cruel, and all of you have given me hope. Something I have never truly felt." I hope to make it to this lab. But if I die on the way, it will be a good death. Cinder will approach him, like extend her hand, and just like smile and warmly say, " just remember Benjyn." As you are fighting your way away from the city, I just want you to know one thing. If I see you around here again, I will kill you. He gives him a smile and a nod. Okay. I think Sarwell, she just wants to kind of give him a pat on the shoulder, which we'll say. You're stronger than you think you might be. Just remember that when things get rough. Gives you a silent nod. Oh, yep. That's me hitting the old dusty trail. I suppose I better. Bo will pat him on the shoulder too and cast protection just to give him a little extra chance. He's probably the first and the only time he's walking away really fast. I like how this is the first and probably the only time anybody has ever been nice to him. It's just like Christmas morning or giving him all these presents and for a lifetime of servitude. Magical sword and a blessing from God. Yeah, this guy won the jackpot. Maybe I don't know. He might go die like four miles out of the city. Yeah. So he might get him or something. Yeah, maybe he wasn't stronger than he thought he was. Don't go to know me. Gnomes land. Gnomes. Els land. Gnomes man's land. Gnomes man's sky. No. Cinder. I think you're a little bit better with this kit that I will help apply it for me. I'd be happy to. And actually that I do want to have a conversation with Kiaran a little more in depth about that. So I don't know if we want to do anything else, but we kind of start like heading that direction. I think we're ready. I mean, just applying the kit would be the only thing I... Yeah, roll a deception check or a society. Am I assisting or am I... You're going to do the check, I think. Because she... Society. And you get a plus one from the disguise kit. And Lutar, go ahead and mark another use. Wait, what do you want me to roll? Society. Okay. With a plus one. Thirty one. Okay. And um, Kiaran, while she's kind of helping you apply these like bits and pieces of this disguise too, she's going to say, Kiaran, I have a great deal experience. Diplomacy talking my way through various situations, but you know this place a lot better than I do. Who should I be in there? What would be the most useful to you and the rest of our party? Basically saying like what role would it be good for somebody with cinder skills to fill like? That is something interesting I want you to think about. Are you appearing as nobles, as commoners? Well, I think we were trying to say that I was a lower noble in-house ceremony. Whatever the dead chick was. Sure. So cinder being like your, I don't know, like your representative or something like that, or like your executive assistant, I have no idea. I don't know that she was high enough to like, was she high enough to have any of that stuff? It'd just be more like you'd be probably fellow guards or something. I mean, it's whatever, we're playing a fantasy game. So it's whatever you want it to be. No, you tell me how to have fun. You do it right now. Take a chance up. Financial advisor. Okay, I'm your toilet boy. This is a count manager. Who is this? Oh, this is my lawyer taxes. I keep him on a very hefty retainer. He just follows me everywhere. Okay, so like, I don't know. Yeah, like your, your, your financial council or something like that. Yeah, I know. I'm your intern. All right. What are the rest of you disguised as fellow nobles as guards? And I guess because we, the disguise kit work is that we would roll any time. Someone's like looking closely at me. Yes, they would have to century take this. Same with the potion, maybe. Action. And how does, how does my, how does that, does that just affect like the DC or something? Like how well I roll or don't roll on that. Yeah, interesting. And we've had two uses of the kit. Two uses, two uses of the kit. Yes. And we are using four potions. Okay. For us, what are you disguised as? I think I'm going to actually disguise myself as a dull L. So I was serious. I actually am going to wrap my, my tail around one of my legs. I'm going to coil it around and just make that kind of part of the disguise. If I accidentally bump somebody or whatever, I was thinking I would just disguise myself as like a dull L who is maybe too short and has one leg that's too big or something, but also carries a fucking giant axe and you're like, I don't know what's wrong with that one, but I don't want to find out either. One thing I will say is that I think you're thinking of this as illusion magic. This is actually transmutation. This is akin to a polymorph. Oh, okay. So all of your physical quirks will be changed. Interesting. I do still want to be, like, weird enough to be an oddity. Sure, totally. Too weird to live, too rare to die, but you're a dull L. That has vaguely lizard features. Yeah, maybe some sort of lizard in the gene pool way back somewhere. And I just accidentally got its features again. Yeah, I keep my face kind of weird and lizardy, like the lips all hard and stuff. Okay. Bo, what are you disguising yourself as? I like the idea of the guard, but I don't think I'm going to do that because I feel like that draws more attention if you're like a false protector. I don't know how that doesn't seem smart. So probably, I don't know, just... I don't know, just a commoner, like maybe like a little bit higher status, like by looking so that that might get this access to certain other kinds of... Kind of a lesser noble situation. Sure, yeah. It's kind of a compliment to Kieran's like entourage or whatever. I was going to say we could all just do dark versions of yourself. You could be like a priest of the Avara. That'd be cool. You get a goatee and everything, too. You could look like a house priestess or something, maybe. Priest, I guess. It'd have to be a priestess if you're going for priests, I'm sure. She could still have a goatee, though. Yeah. Do hell no. Goatees? This one does tea. Are there facial hair on elves in this world? Oh, I forgot to say as Benj and Lucy says, "Thank you for giving me your go." And Nara goes right. Right. So we don't have to worry about this stupid anymore anymore. Or I give Nara an assendra because I'm still hoping she'll be there. Nope, no take action. Nara's going to turn to a horse. It kind of is. What do you think, Bob? I don't know. Sure, the priest. That's fine. You want to do the priest? Yeah, that sounds cool. As long as I have enough knowledge to pass, if I think I know enough about it. I mean, you would be able to use your religion check to kind of help your son. Yeah. And then star, what are you doing? Big titty milk mama. Yeah. No, I want to look exactly like Kiaran. But like not disguised Kiaran, like actual Kiaran. Yeah. There was like, oh my god, is that Kiaran Nemonex? He's her. No, you idiot. That's Kiaran. You're like, which one do I shoot? That's funny. Yeah. I think that I don't know. I kind of want to do the guard thing, I think, if the girl is not going to do it, because I don't know, even though I don't really know the language, I think that I could probably pull off just being silent, but also threatening. I feel like that works. Yeah. I mean, I feel like having guards that are not allowed to speak, unless I allow them is perfectly fine. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's it. She made a horrible pun last week and has not been able to speak since. Could literally be like, we cut out all of our guard's tongues. I cut out her tongue. She offended me with her puns. And she cropped us with a bunch of unforgivable. I could not cut out the whole bow that might have killed her. Sowed it up, though. She hasn't really just. We really just sealed her right up in punishment. Give that. So for us, they're you doing a guard as well? Yeah, I'm doing a silent guard. Something like a, you know, bought from a oddity slaver or something. Yeah, I think that works for both of us. So a disguised Kyara Nimune walking alongside her lawyer and priest, flanked by two guards. One looks exactly like Kyara. That's, that's so goddamn funny to me. To just completely undermine every bit of effort. It's just like you have an obviously bad Nimone mask. I like Kyara Nimone mask that is part of your disguise. But when you pull it up, it's a good. It's actually her. So funny. Kyara, I think for simplicity's sake, we can probably all continue to use our regular names. But what do we call you? B bar. Big A. We got a name from. Did I write it down? I hope you did, because I didn't. She shall be named number one. I feel like it was like barrel or something. But I did not write it down. Bileil, maybe? Bileil, that's definitely it. So we can pull it back. It was Bileil. Okay. Can I call you Jeff? I call you Lile. It's complicated. Well, I was like, yeah, what are all our names going to be? And I was like, we could just do like backwards or something, but then I would just be like, oob, oob. That might work. Especially like a panic situation. Oob, get out of there. Gar's calling in guard two would be fine for Brendan and I, I think. That was actually going to suggest you call me one. Yeah. The gates of Nikotov loom on the horizon, like a thundering cloud preceding a storm. Strange sight befalls you as you get closer. Were these spiderling field cease? It gives way to this. I wrote this word down. I don't actually know how to say it. McCobb Ray? McCobb? Yeah. 80. It gives way to a macabre sight. Hundreds, if not thousands, of severed heads are fixed to wooden spikes flanking the road forward. Dripping with tar, these heads have been kept from decaying, preserved, as some sort of grisly trophy or warning. As you continue towards the gates, a low unsettling cacophony lingers like a stench, as many of these heads have been seemingly reanimated, probably after the fact, and likely in the wake of the shattering. They moan and grunt with dissatisfaction and despondence. I think, uh, it kind of as we're moving through this scene, cinders may be like a little visibly upset and, or upset and just looking at this and just says, "Kiaran, yo, did your mother do this?" "Oh, she may have had her hand in it, I'm sure, but it's all led by..." Chex Notes? Chex Notes on who the actual leader is? It's your believers. Oh, is there not like a, like, a queen or something that's there, too? I don't... I mean, I'm not misremembering that right. It was, there was a thing where, like, the head of house, even, they, like, was found to be very accomplished and necromancy and had, like, a large part in all of this. Yeah, totally. Yeah, I mean, she's definitely had a hand in the end, controlling the end dead. Okay. Uh, was it just the orb weavers? There wasn't, like, a specific person. Yep, just the orb, orb weavers, a seer, um, was a prophet. Maybe, maybe, I'm thinking of all of the seer or something, but... Yeah, but she is dead, because she was old! Gross. But the black gates of Devara loom ahead of you. And this is a good enough place to pick this up next time. On the reroll gaming podcast. Here we fucking go. Time to die in a city. I'm also going to open this door and take my pants off because it's fucking hot in here. Okay, all right. Stay on that note. Stop your recording because you don't want to hear what comes next. That kind of do. Thank you for listening to the reroll podcast. The world of Rel and all characters within are copyright and fictitious. Any similarities to persons living or dead or actual events are purely coincidental. Reroll gaming uses trademarks and/or copyrights owned by Paizo Inc. 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