[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Hello everybody and welcome back to Tyrant of the Dark Star. I'm Aubrey, here's Yem. I'll tell some of my players to introduce themselves who they are, who they're playing, and then I think we have a fight to get to. Hi. My name's Aki. Tyrant of She/Her and I am playing Gravewing, who is our Monk Kinesist. That's it. That's all you get to know about her. Oh, also use the She/Her pronouns. Hi y'all. I'm Alyssa. My pronouns are they/them. And I play Laith Idrisi, our Dampir Dandian Rogue, who uses she/any pronouns. It's me. Hello. I'm Dusty. I use they/he pronouns. And I am playing Eurodough. Just Eurodough for now. They also use they/he pronouns, and they are going to be our Blood Hunter. Hello. I am Ferts. I use she/her pronouns, and I am playing Aruwett Verr, the Nestlem. I think that's what they're called now. A Thermaturge, who also uses she/her pronouns. Hello. I am Sparlach. I use he/him pronouns. I am playing Alistair Whisker Field, the renowned wizard and investigator who uses he/him pronouns also. Well, one last thing before this fight. We have another question. This one posed by Alyssa in our headghan and chat was, "Where does your character feel most at home?" And of course, because I'll ask this question, I will make them answer first. Yeah, the answer that I wrote for Laith is nowhere. She does not feel at home in her body, so how would she feel at home in any sort of place? And I will pass it to Ferris. Fine. I think I said, "Oh, Lou is at home." And her in her home, the ancestral Valer house that she has lived in all of her life and spent 98% of her time in because, obviously, what else would be home except for the only place you've ever been normal. Oh, Dustin. Sorry, it's a Dustin. How is this? OK, OK, I understand. No, no. Gee, look, in the first passes, OK, because you were dropping my fucking government name, like, two of them. OK, as if people can't guess that one anyway, but yes, sorry, Dustin. So, I think Yuri, Yuri, though, doesn't really feel comfort. It doesn't really just feel comfort. So, I feel feeling comfortable somewhere. I don't think it's a thing. Not to riff off Alyssa's answer, but they also maybe don't feel comfortable in the skin, but I'm assuming for a very different reason. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. Aquino. One, I accidentally bit my bun into the shape of a butterfly. The rest of you can't see it, but it is very butterfly shaped. Unintentional entirely. Two. Moth mom. Feels like home at our home. Specifically, home is where her family is. So, unlike these sad motherfuckers, my home is great. I got issues, but like I don't bring them home. That's a lie. I bring them home. It's just everybody knows how to handle them because we communicate on like the three people that just spoke because there's something we're going on. That should also maybe be brought to light eventually you could do a pirates of the Caribbean thing and just do it mid fight. Um, you know, like, not like with fucking what's her name. Those are the twang and will. Yes. Yes. I wanted to say Amazon. That's the wrong one, bitch. Wrong, long bitch. That was in the pirates. Somebody take this. Yeah. So, Alistair, I was going to go like at home with a book, but I don't think that's quite the right. Like feel. So I'm thinking less at home with the book and more at the bar trivia night with the book. Does he participate in the bar trivia he's just listening reading his book. No, no participating in the bar trivia, but and like half of the answers are wrong, but in a way that they're kind of right. That's true plus you, the government's corrupt. We know this, Alistair, you're not wrong, but that's not what we were asking. It's not the answer this time point for participation. Okay, where. Who would like to take the reins of telling, telling everybody what happened last time. I got you. I got you. Last time we had combat. No, wait, yeah, we had combat, which is alarming because we're about to do the same thing. We had a battle of ghosts, nope, ghouls and ghasts, the other ghosts, ghasts, which are worse than ghosts, maybe? It was bad. We survived though. We didn't die. If you want details, that's what the episode is for. Importantly though, we learned a new fun fact about braveling lore. Again, you want to find out what it is? That's what the episode's for, but it was cool lore. It's like the coolest lore, and you're going to be sad you missed it, so like go back, I guess. Nobody died. Alistair almost died, but he did it, and then we finally had some conversations. Niall admitted to be a cannibal. That's not a spoiler. You all know this. And Yuri and Laids were interesting. Also, Alistair probably had school beaver, and we're not going to ask about Yuri, who is told to be okay, and we're certain that role meant that he's fine. Anyway, we all went downstairs. Things were fine and normal until we opened the doors, and things were not fine or normal. There's a lot of baddies in here. There's a guy in here. I think I have the other half of his horns. He's going to kill us. He's mad at us. We're fine. That's what happened last time. Yes, and we're going to get right into this because I made my players roll initiative before we started. And yes, everything will start off with the dread doctor himself, Talis. Stop it. As Talis, the last thing he said before everything was, "I knew that Akos would betray me." Do you see this tiefling with purple skin standing in front of you with the broken horn wearing a mask in a long coat? And he is going to spend his first action to stride forward. And as he goes, he reaches down and pulls off this cylinder from his belt and twists it. And he is using his second action to do quick bomber. As he throws bottled lightning at all of you. As he twists this cylinder, you can see the crackling of electricity and he just throws it at, we'll say, "Laith." Hey, we can say something else. And that is a 25 to hit you. That is a hit but not a crit. And so, Laith, you are going to take nine electricity damage and you will become off guard until the start of your next turn. And Nile, Gravewing and Lu, you will also take one electricity splash damage. And for Talis' final action, he pulls another cylinder off of his belt and twists it. And this one starts to crackle with flames. And that is his turn. Is he ready to throw another bomb at you? Yuri, it is now your turn. Hello, hi. So, weapons ready is now very concerned for this safety. I, with my first action, would like to use Study and Me. Recall knowledge, I get to use my Monster Lore for this, I don't know, would that be as applicable? Sure. That's a five on the dice, so that's a ten. That's a two. The main dude. It's a recon knowledge check, so I think that has to be a 15, right, for a success. Yes. Okay, so that's not going to get you anything. But it's not a critical failure, so you're not going to get false information. How, from our position, can I just, do I just see this guy? No, you see cages all around the laboratory. There's a massive one filled with a winged creature, and most of the rest seem to have ghouls and ghasts and of the type. You are certainly not alone in this laboratory. Who's next to me? Who's next to me? Okay, so Aubrey, I have a thing that I normally couldn't use while fatigued. We discussed outside the game that for this fight, you'll let me use it. I'll just get one level of dune. That is an offer I'm going to take. I think Yurido is going to look at Alouette and just say, be careful of the things in the cages. I'll distract the big guy. And is going to take their coat off that has their weapons in it. And for listeners, just a quick warning about some body horror, I am going to use my hybrid transformation for my blood hunter. It's one action. And as soon as the coat drops, Lou, you'll be the first person to see it because you're right next to me. Yurido's hands start to elongate, and you see that their fingernails are turning to deep silver claws. And Yurido starts to grow taller. They think I grow from their five foot four, I think they're now growing to like eight feet. You hear bones cracking, their horns on their head are twisting and sprouting new branches as they get closer and closer to look like a stag or a deer. And their face is becoming distorted and the long nades to that closer of the deer as well. Mouth growing jaws, opening wide, sharp, sharp teeth. And they look like a combination between the werewolves. And what did I say that, Hans Yurido, the king stag, I think that's the look. And they grow to this field and they kind of just let out this like snarl. And I'm going to use my first action to run up to the dude. Oh, my first action, my last action of this rounds is that you try to. I failed to study enemies of 25 feet. And that is Yurido's turn. They dropped her weapon by the way because they can't use it. Yeah. Well, next is one of the ghouls in the cage. They move over and sort of start bending the cage and they're going to attempt to force open the door. With the sound of sort of bending and breaking metal, the door opens. And then, let's see, what is there? And then they will spend two actions to cross and stand in front of Nile. But that is all of their turn. And then somewhere in the back of the laboratory, you hear skittering sounds. As another ghoul has to spend their entire three actions to move closer to you. This one looks fresh. And that'll bring us to Laith. Laith does not have time to process whatever the fuck just happened to Yuri. I think that her, like, is this the ghoul fever? Is this what happens? But her instinct, I think, is to confront the doctor. And so she will run forward past the horrible, gary stag. Let's see. Sorry, I'm having technical difficulties with moving my token. Okay, there we go. She will move to one side of the doctor. She will use her dagger sort of faint at trying to actively... Maybe this isn't a faint Aubrey, but it's possible to use a disarm to, like, or just to try and attack his bandleer and cut that rather than attacking him. Even if it just, like, drops on the floor and he has to spend an action to, like, take shit up or something, or possibly everything explodes in late eyes. Luckily, they're slightly more stable than that. That's why they're kind of in the cylinders. They have to be open before they're considered unstable. Yeah, you could attempt that. I would say it'll be a crafting check. Versus his reflex decayer. Okay, I've got a plus one to crafting, so I'm going to go ahead and not do that. I think that she's going to faint as if she is going over the bandleer and then redirect at the last second and try to stab him in his facial region near the gas mask. So that is... 22 on the faint versus his perception decie. Uh, that will succeed. Okay, cool. And then for the stabbing... Should have gone for the crafting check, fuck. It was a nat 20. Uh, but yeah, a nat 20. That's going to critically hit. All this is very shitting. It's called hand wound. Uh, until he healed the target as clumsy too and can't use one of its hands. Let's go! So, yeah, I think that she aims for his face and sort of is by instinct, like, raises his hand to block. Uh, and she sort of stabs the rip for 18 damage. Okay. And I'll bring us to grave wing. Hello. Okay. Um, let me see here. Nile, nile. Okay. Great wing is going to use her first action to run up behind the ghoul that is attacking, um, nile. Um, as she does this, I think she could catch a glimpse of wave, basically stabbing the fuck out of the doctor. And so, as a free action, brave ways to be like, nice staff. And, um, then we'll turn on to the ghoul. We will have a flurry of blows, is what we'll do. What is my... Oh, okay. It's back there. Um, does a 18 hit? Sorry, does a 19 hit? Uh, a 19 will hit. A 19 will hit. Don't. And... Oh, imagine you're doing your, um, stunning strike. Yes. All right. Uh, I did roll four to two thinking you were doing that. I got a nap 20 for 28. Yeah, key. Does a 17 hit? Uh, see. A 17 will hit. 17 will hit. Um, sorry. Keep looking at my freaking arm. Um, do, do, do, do, do, do. Let me roll all the damage together. Pretty good. Pretty good. Four 14 points of bludgeoning damage. Okay. Boom, boom. Uh, it doesn't get stunned. I got one more action. Uh, I don't know how you're, how do you think you can go in for call of knowledge or just go good fishing. That... Do I want one second? Once again? Don't want to attempt it. You do have a flange right now. I do have a flange. Could I maybe attempt to... Try it. Instead, I know it still counts as multi-attack. It's still going to have a penalty, but yeah, you can definitely attempt to trip it. It'll be an athletic check versus it's a reflex DC. Mm-hmm. Oh, an athletics check straight up. Yep. Yeah. Okay. With the minus 10, because it does count as an attack. No, wait, minus eight because... Yeah, it's finesse, right? I was going to say about 10. Actually, that is the better thing for me to do, so yeah, I'm tripping. 16th trip? Uh, 16 is not going to trip. Worth a shot. Mom, I'm just going to wail on him a little bit. Try and kick at its legs, but it's a surprisingly fortified ghoul. Yeah, it's got a good stance going on. Mm-hmm. It is called a ghoul soldier, right? So, I mean, technically, yeah. And we come to another ghoul of this one. We'll spend its first two actions to flank Lafe. Uh, and then strike out with its jaws. For a 19 on the dice for a 26. That is a hit. Barely not a crit. Okay. Uh, can you give me two fortitude saves? Don't I get special privileges because I'm an elf or something? Uh, you are... No, you don't have to make the second one. You have to make the first one, but not the second one, because you're immune to the paralysis. That's a dirty 20. A dirty 20? Yeah, you're pretty sure you're fine. Uh, and yet you're going to take two piercing damages. This thing just sort of gets you on your ankle. And that'll bring us to Alistair. Yeah, so I walk in here, and the first thing I wonder is what the hell is that big old woman bird-looking thing on the left-hand side. Um, and I will take one look at it and devise a strategy. Um, it's for call knowledge. Uh, are we feeling occultism, arcana, religion? Um, I would say occultism or religion. Alright, so I will go with occultism in that case. Uh, so that is a 17. Yeah, on the dice. Or, yeah, sorry, yeah, 28. Yeah, you asked two things. Um, so... I'm going to ask these in character. And give you, and kind of give you some leeway on how you think the best way to answer that. Okay. Because the thing, what is that, and how do you kill it? Um, interpret as you will. Um, it is something that used to be a person and is now mutated into some sort of creature. You can't tell too much, there's a veil covering its face, and it has large dark wings and long claws. And how do you kill it with extreme violence? Hey, I love that, but maybe I should ask more specific. I mean, technically, I'm answering a, uh, like a beauties or weaknesses. It has none. Okay. Okay. No. Okay. Yes, that I appreciate the... Um, and yeah, I will go ahead and... Uh, say something about it. Uh, but yeah, so my 14 for my device is stratagemoral. Um, and I will use that to... To take a shot at it. Why is, why was that not drawn properly? Don't know. All right. That gives me a 24 to hit. A 24 will hit. And... I've just got off another game in Starfinder, so my brain's trying to use that interface for nine piercing damage. All right. As it is hit, it screeches out a noise. Lou, you're relatively... you've heard this noise in your nightmares. Ooh, that's normal. Normal things to dream about. In fraction three, I'll reload. Sounds good. There is another ghoul in the back, and we'll spend all of its actions to try and get closer. And now it is the Raven Mother. Uh, with these long, like, just sort of bird-like claws, it opens the door. And we'll, with this sort of giant flap of wings, briefly take flight as it closes the distance. Slamming down onto the ground. Um, everybody within five feet of this thing needs to make a reflex save or be knocked prone. And that includes the ghoul that's close to it. Hey, benefits for us. I got a dirty 20. I should save my hero point. I'm going to save my hero point. You should save my hero point. You're more than five feet away from it. You were fine, Lou. I'm more than five? Oh, okay, okay. Yeah. To be honest, I just assumed it was in the vicinity, so... And Alice, you are also... but Nyle will... Oh, good. Okay. Um, one second, because I'm doing the rolls, and now I'm doing the math. And I think I believe Nyle has a 23. Yep, Nyle's a 23. And Ma's mom has a lot. Let me see. Wait, is it good? Oh, oh, it is. It is. It's, um, dirty 20. All right, 30 20 is... You all succeed, but you will be counted as off guard for one round. Uh, the ghoul failed, so the ghoul is laying on the ground now. Yay. Uh, and for her last action, there is a tail that comes out of nowhere and strikes at you, Lou. For a 21. Yeah, that's kind of hit, sure. Uh, as this sort of claw on the tail hits you for 12 damage. Um, that's enough I gotta do math. And Lou, it's now your turn. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Ouch. Um, wow, a lot just happened in that West. Round that's still going on. Um, um, I think Lou's still processing the fact that her cousin just turned into a monster. And there's some part of her brain that's like, "Hey, is this what they meant by family curse?" Question mark? Ah, screaming, screaming, bad, terrible. Um, but there's somehow more monsters in the room and perhaps more crucial things to deal with. Um, so she just got hit. She's standing next to some friends. Um, and, you know, it's combat. It's a big deal of combat and it's Lou's turn, so she's gonna scream as per usual. Um, and she's going to... Uh, I'm going...click. Oh, look at my feet, thank you. Um, she's going to exploit vulnerability on, I guess, the...the bird. The bird woman. Um, so I'm gonna do that. You're tired. You're not allowed to fight in this anymore. That's the third time you've rolled that number. The number being a six. Um, for a total of, like, well, hold on, let me see. Okay, for, uh, esoteric lore, so for a total of 15. Uh, 15. Uh, and that's just the standard DC for your level, right? Yeah, uh-uh. Yes, the esoteric lore of standard DC for its level. Not my level. No, right. I do have, um, all sorts of things that can happen if I fail this, which I didn't realize, and we haven't been doing. My bad, that's on me. I did not scroll far enough, I guess. Uh, it is not going to be a success. Is it a failure or a crit fail? It's just a regular failure. Um, I... Oh, wait, hang on. This may not be so bad. And failing to call a salient weakness about the creature, you instead attempt to explore a more personal vulnerability. You can exploit only the creature's personal antithesis. I do that all the time, anyway. Your unarmed and weapon strikes also become magical if they weren't already. What kind of failure is that? That's incredible. I love this. Okay. Um... Yeah, you just don't get specific information about the creature. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fine, 'cause I don't need it. It's not useful to be any of me. Um, so yeah, personal antithesis. Um, I believe last episode I mentioned Louhead plucked a feather or two in secret. Um, Yuri's distracted, Laid's distracted. Everyone seems super distracted. What a great time to just pull out a fistful of those. 'Cause feathers, feathers, that seems right. Um... Um, and then she's gonna... Attack? Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna attack. Yep. Uh, she's gonna throw a card at it with feather attached. Um, okay, okay, okay. That's better. New dice. Um... 22. Uh, uh, 22? That's 22. We'll hit. Okay, excellent. Um, okay, and then that's gonna be... Um... One. Yeah, that should be seven. Uh, seven damage. Um, she chucks a card and stabs into the bird with a card, um, and rings a bell about it. Um, and then, um, um, I think I'm going to recall knowledge. Can I do that? I know Alistair kind of already did it, but can I do it also? Yes. Okay, um, you, um, we know already has no immunities or weaknesses, um, or resistances, I think. Um, um, what do I roll to recall knowledge on this sucker? Uh, either religion or occultism. Can I roll curse? Yes. Uh, so that's gonna be a 22. A 22? Um, you can ask one thing. Uh, what's its highest save? Highest save is reflex at a plus 13. Sure. Um, yeah, Lou will shout out to the general group. I think, um, the bird is very fast. Um, and that's my turn. All right, and we will come to another soldier who, uh, will spend. Let's see how far is it? Do I have to spend? Oh, they can get there with one action. Two. Put a grave wing in, oh, grave wing was already off guard, but now let's consider flanking. Uh, and this one has a sword and it is going to swing it at you. Grave wing. I don't believe a 17 will hit you. Nope. Okay. First one does not hit. They will try again. Okay. For another 17. Nope. It certainly did a lot on its turn. Now it is on denial. Um, okay. Some questions. Um, the ghoul that, uh, is currently being flanked by grave wing. Um, so the one that came out to Nile at the very beginning. It's prone now. Does that mean? I am technically not engaged with it. As Nile, like if I were to like just, I could just leave. Okay. Thank you. Um, second question because I pay attention to when tick does this. How high are the ceilings? Uh, the ceilings are like 30 feet up. What do you feed up? Additional question. Where the fuck are the walls on this map? Because it's actually a little bit hard for me to tell based on like. The walls are, uh, like essentially, you know, you see, cause it's, it is, uh, imagine this. This, this is two levels. So this is high enough that it's got two levels. It's got your essentially got three levels. It's got sort of a below level where you see all of the, all of these bodies. All the failed experiments and stuff. Yes. And then it's got this level and then it's got sort of a catwalk level above it. Mm hmm. Okay. Dragon Age Inquisition in Hushwisters got it. Um, okay. Uh, I need a double check what the fuck this does. Then, okay. Um, I would like to take now to the nearest wall using the movement speed. But I, I'm, I guess that would wall that I could walk up specific. It would be like the, the sort of the far, it would be like the far walls. Far walls? Yeah. So you, you've got quite a bit of distance. Yeah. That would be quite a bit of just, never mind, never mind. I thought it was a bit more closer. We're not doing that. What we are moving Nile though. We are going to move Nile kind of a bit further out. Uh, yeah. For, for one action. Uh, and as Nile does attempt to move, the Raven mother is going to take a reaction. Yeah. And sort of strike out with the tail. And I, um, intercept with my bell. Yes, you can. Uh, do you need a, it's a will save, correct? Correct. Uh, yeah, I think so. One T three. Sorry, I'm trying to read this. Oh, no, it's a fortitude. Oh wait, ones will save one's fortitude. Um, I will go with the will save though, since you did it already. Would you get a horrible number? Twenty three. That's what I thought. Okay. Have a good time. Have fun. Kill Nile. Bye. Um. For a natural 20. I don't even need to do anything. Uh, and also unfortunately means Nile can't move. Now can't move. This is not just still stuck in the same place. Um, yeah. It is so cursed. Um, so this, this card is called a clocked. Uh, it is triple damage and the target is knocked prone. Oh, shit, you just might kill him. Well, you're not again. Not again with the crit card. Um, so that is. Fifteen times three. He's out. Oh, I thought that was the triple damage. No. Oh. Fifteen, wait, fifteen times three. Forty five. That's not the triple. That is the triple. That is the triple. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I went one further by mistake. Okay. That's, that's so much better because if it, if it was what I thought it was, you would have outright just killed him. Um, he's still out though. Don't worry. Okay. Bam Bam gone. Now drops. Pick if you're, you're not listening to this. So I was going to say I was sorry, but you're not listening. Goodness. I'll tell you what I'm sorry and DMS later. Oh boy. I had a plan. Um, yep. That's it. Yeah. Well, do I get more? Okay. But I have a question. Do I get multiple hero points? Like does brave wing have a set and dial and have a set? Yes. That makes sense. Okay. Thank you. You can if you want just spending Niles one hero point that they have to stabilize so you don't have to make any rolls. Yeah. Let's, let's, let's do that. Let's do that. Let's do that. We're just going to stabilize because we're going to get another point. See what I'm looking at the fucking clock. Yep. You will get ones very soon. Um, so yeah, dial had a very productive turn and they will move up in initiative to in front of the Raven mother. Uh, and yeah, the zombie brute's turn. Who is on this giant slab and sort of starts lumbering forward. Uh, and we'll have to spend both of his actions to move into combat. Cause it's a zombie and it's slow. It's permanently slow. You don't get to do actions. Ah, sucker. And so this brings us to the end of round one. And you all hear the sound of running in the hallway behind you. And then emerging from the hallway is achos with two people in tow. Uh, and. I don't know if that's good or not. Fair enough. It's fine to you. Uh, what do you mean? That's clearly black wall. That yeah, I found out that was actual concept art. I thought for years that was fan art. No, that's black wall concept art. Someone there was thirsty. It's fair. Um, but yes, there is two people you do not recognize in tow with achos. Achos has changed out of the prison clothes. They're in sort of these, uh, you know, that is actual leather armor. Uh, and on the, on their back, they have this segmented site. Uh, and achos runs in with these two people and says. Yeah. I can't believe he started the fight without me. Come on, move really fast. I'm so sorry. It's actually really cursed because. That the white air and anime man. Um, this is what they get for being Italian. This is the public apology. They're never going to hear because they're not going to listen. Devise all of your hate. Topper. Don't tell them until Tuesday. Okay. Why Tuesday? For reasons. For reasons I'll put in the chat. Um, yeah, no, uh, and so that will, uh, I've rolled their initiative. They are in the thing. And so we start with the. Dread doctor. Who, um, is just going to. Reaction drop the alchemist's fire. I don't know. It's not actually going to go off because it's not actually spending an action to use it. It just doesn't need it right now. It would be very broken. If alchemist could just walk up to people and free action drop things. I don't know. I don't know how they work. He's a boss. He could do that. I don't know, but you home-brewing here. Um, and out of sort of with one hand reaches into the coat and is going to slice at life with a knuckle dagger. Oh, important question for clarification Aubrey. Yes. Is he a higher level than us? Yes. Fuck. I don't know. Jesus, that's a natural 20. For a 29. That's your daughter. Doesn't matter. That's a, that's a crit. That's like double crit. Wait. It's a new round, right? Or, or no. Or, I mean, sorry. Yes, it's a new round for reactions come back on your turn or at the top of the round. I never bloody remember your turn. Okay. Never mind. Um, so. This is just your standard double damage, but, uh, like I need you to make me afford it too safe. I'm going to use my hero point. Okay. That is a 21. A 21. You notice a little too late, but the blade seems to be coated in something as it pierces into your side. What? You don't get too much of a chance. You're going to take 12 damage. And still up. Let's go. And so it's two actions and then they are going to spend a third action to move. To put a little distance between you and them. But hey, there's an alchemist fire sitting on the ground. And Yuri, it is now your turn. It is my turn. Um, just look at rules really quick. So this creature is a large creature. Or like a step above that. It is a large creature. They're just like one size larger than one size larger than you. Beautiful. Um, you're a though, and their state is going to run up to now the new biggest thing in the room. Um, and is going to attempt to grapple this one with their, they're going to try to take it down with their jaws. Like a, like a fresh animal because the jaws had the grapple trait. So I get to use that plus one, um, against. I just had it up for it to save, right? I should know this. I do so much grappling. Um, that is. 21. Uh, 21 against their four. Say yes. That is a success. Hell yeah. So yeah, you're a though, like now basically like almost on all fours using their hands to like speed up their momentum. Like basically tackles this thing to the ground right next to late. Um, and is going to try to bite harder down with their jaws. Uh, yeah. So that's going to be the minus five. Oh, that's such a good number. I wish it was a 20, but it's not. Uh, weapons. I just added that. Mike and Jaws. So that's going to be a 22. Plus eight minus three. Twenty three. Uh, twenty three. Yeah. Is a critical hit versus the style. Oh, yeah. My jaws are considered silver. I don't know if that matters for this, but. Oh, what? Uh, what? Is it piercing? Um, I, yes. Specifically, yes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's. Uh, silver won't do anything extra, but. Okay. So is it just double or do I roll twice? Uh, double. So roll into deep. It's a detan. So that is going to be a 22 piercing damage as Yuri takes his thing down and the jaws kind of clamp down harder. Um, like being gross. Uh, yeah. You're he's not going to say anything intelligible. So that's their turn. Yeah. Uh, and we have this cool soldier who will spend their first action to, uh, stand. Uh, and then we'll turn to you. Great way and is going to just attack twice with its sword. Uh, and that is a 17 on the dice for a 28. It's not crits. Uh, so you're going to take eight damage and. Yeah. Oh, man. If now I was here, that would be fun, but I'm not going to do that to them, and they're not here. Uh, and it's just going to attack for a natural one for a seven. Uh, and, uh. Uh, they, the card they have is broken weapon. Uh, as you miss, you hear the sword impact with the stone and snap. Yeah. Can't, can't, can't grave wing, break it. Sure. Yeah. If you want to do that. Let's go. Let's go. It, it swings. Uh, I think great wig scales pop up for a little bit. Hardens it and she's able to just bend the blade and snap it against her forearm. Well, I guess not snap it would fully bend just like it becomes, it becomes a paperclip. Yeah, that is its entire turn. Will come to the ghoul who spends their first action to move up behind a Yuri and they are going to, um, spend their second action to, um, you know, attempt to grapple you. Uh, I'm a person crappling. Yes, they're, they're essentially going to try to jump on your back. Okay. Okay. That is how I'm for a 22. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm all my stuff is lowered. Yeah. That, that, that succeeds. Yeah. And is going to sink its fangs into your shoulder. That's a critical fail. Uh, yeah. No, they, they just can't get through your, like, hide as it just snap, snap, snap, snap. Yeah. Yeah. The Yuri's horns usually go back to the new growth is a kind of like going back as well. Um, and we come to the first of your new hopeful allies, uh, conics. Uh, as they are hefting a war hammer and they're going to spend their first two actions to sudden charge at the Raven mother. Uh, and yep. Let's go. Uh, I'm going to send her a 15 for a 27. That is going to hit. And you hear the sound of bone crunching. For 11 damage. And then they are going to spend an action, their last action to raise their shield. I'm going to bring us to life. Good. I squeeze between the brute and the ghoul on the left without tumbling through their space. Um, like from here. Yeah, because it's not a space that either of them is in and neither of them have a lack of opportunity. So I'll say yes, you can, especially since the brute is currently prone. Amazing. So Lath is going to ignore steadfastly ignore the Yuri stag monster and squeeze around these schools and give chase to the doctor. Um, he is still off balance. So I will attempt. Two stabby stabs. The first one is a 24. 24 will hit. And the second one is an 18. A line 18 will not hit. Okay. Six piercing damage as I think that Lath is looking significantly worse for wear running after doggedly after this man. Uh, but that is my turn. Oh, hey, and that'll bring us to grappling. Hello, the one that's in front of me is going to get a flurry of bloat. Um, if I remember how much I have to hit. There we go. Okay. Oh, that's really high. 25. Uh, a 25 will hit. Nice. I'm using the user hero point on that one. Yucky. Orch. That's really good. Um, I think that's 24. Yes, 24. 24 will also hit. Nice. Let's go damage, damage, damage. Okay. Okay. That will be 17 points of damage total. Uh, 17. Yep. On the, on the one that's still in front of Nile. On the one that's in front of Nile. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, yeah, that it will actually dispatch to that one. How do you want to take it out? Um, so it, grave wing broke number of grave wing bent slash broke the, the, the weapon. Um, and kind of uses that momentum to. To punch the, the, the, the ghoul. Um, real, real hard in the face so hard that they spin once. And then grave wing is able to just lock it with, um, her elbow and just straight up snap the, the neck. Um, kind of with using her whole body to kind of spin. So that way I can get into dragon stance for my next action. Kind of a full momentum spin. Now I got a tail and I have Titan wrestler. So, um, the, um, Raven mother is going to get grappled. Or, well, we, there will be an attempt to meet. Athletics, right? Yes. Mm-hmm. Let's go. Fuck you. Knack 20. You're grappled. You have definitely grappled the Raven mother. Have y'all seen that picture of a snake in the bird? Yep. Yep. Yes. Yep. Exact same imagery as, um, uh, grave wing kind of pushes herself up, uses her entire tail and body to just wrap. To, to, to, to keep, um, the Raven mother grappled. I think she grabbed, she's able to like, grab one wing and like get it tangled with it against its own body. Arms are being grabbed and, um, kind of similarly to the previous goal that was just dispatched. Um, we're, we're, we're using the elbow lock. Um, uh, around the neck area. Um, yeah. Keeping, uh, I think grave wing has like a, like a little, like a, like a, either like a thicker leather or whatever around one of the arms in particular. And I think that is the one that is being the closest kept to wards where a mouth would be on ahead. Um, and that is like, that is like precaution on maybe if I get bitten under vibes. But also that is allegedly if this thing has a mouth. I don't know what you have. You got a veil and shit. It could be anything under there. But yeah, that's, that's my whole turn. Okay. A little bring us to one of the ghouls and they will spend their first action to take a five foot step to put Yuri in flanking. Hey, she shouldn't have. Uh, and they are going to strike out with their claws twice. Uh, for the first one is a 22. Uh, regular hit. All right, roll me a four to save. Twenty five. You will take one slashing damage. Beautiful. Uh, and that I don't think a 13 is going to hit you. Uh, even with flank will not. Yeah. All right, and then that's its turn. It is your turn. Um, yeah, that also has to do with the order I do things in. Cause I do not like, like there's nothing I could do. I don't want to leave Nile just sitting there in front of that evil looking thing. Uh, unconscious might get eaten, which would be an ironic fate. Um, so first I'm going to devise a stratagem on our Raven person. Uh, 13 should do it. Um, I'm not going to do another recall knowledge. And then I will shoot. Uh, it's a 23 to hit. Uh, a 23 will hit. And that is for. Uh, seven damage. Um, and I will release my crossbow with one hand. I mean, I guess you have to reload it with a way. Um, regardless of how you think about the hands, it'll end up being the same either way. Um, and I will yonk Nile behind me. Just to get them out of the way and make sure like they don't become gold feed. That's something that's something hilarious about the smallest person in the party. Yonking the tallest person in the party. Yeah, I was going to do it either way. I did have this funny mental image of failing the athletics check. But how much, how much, how much are you? You don't know. It's you're moved. Oh, okay. Yeah, nothing happened. Okay. That I was, I was confused for a little bit for Nile. Yeah. Repositioning, um, to get Nile out of the way. And it is Ochos's turn. Ochos, uh, pulls off the segmented scythe from their back and unfurls it. Uh, and for their second action, they're going to start whistling and cast inspire courage. With the lingering composition. Old leaders got me bars, y'all. I miss you. I miss you inspire courage. I miss you every fucking day. Right there. So everybody's going to get that plus one to all of their stuff and, um, roll their, uh, performance check. Uh, yeah, it'll keep going for two rounds. And, uh, then they will spend their last action to move up behind the Raven mother. As you all feel a little bolstered by their song. Sort of whistling a classic sea shanty. Uh, and bring us to a ghouls turn, uh, and this one is going to spend an action to put late into flank. Okay, so for the ghouls are lower level than us, right? Ghouls are lower level, yes. Ghouls are lower level. Okay, so I am flanked to the ghoul, but I am not linked to Talis because I have denied advantage. Okay. Uh, and second action to strike out with its claws for a 22. It hits, if it meets at beat, so it would still hit me. Fuck. Okay, yeah, that hits. That's for to take two damage. Okay. We're going to just try one more time to. Yeah, that's an eight. That's critical miss, but it's another one, so I don't draw a card. Uh, and that is their turn. It is Nyle's turn. They're taking a nap. Yeah, that's what we're going to do, right? Yeah, that's about it. Get through it. Someone heals them. So does now the Raven mother's turn. Uh, and the Raven mother is going to, uh, spend her first action to take an athletics check versus the other going to attempt to escape. What is it against? Uh, and escape is versus your, um, uh, acro athletics DC. Okay. And, and that's like just 10 to my, my modifier says 20. They got a 24. Hmm. So they will manage to sort of, they just sort of flap their wings and, uh, in this gust wind sort of use it to, uh, make you take a step back. I have no feet. Or a slither back. Yeah, yeah. I just wiggle off. Um, and so it does escape does count as an attack actions. They will be attacking with their claws at a, uh, a penalty. Uh, and, so grave wing, this is a 24 to hit you. Yeah, it will hit. All right. For 18 damage. Jesus. Yeah, that hurts. Uh, and they are going to spend their last action to turn the table on you and rat their bird-like talents around you and you are now grabbed. Oh, there's no, okay. Yeah. Uh, and that is their turn. Lou, it's not your turn. Right. All right. We got a lot of stuff happening here. Uh, step question one. Do I have to move to heal Nile? No, you're within five feet. Okay. Cool. I wasn't sure if the diagonal made things any funky. Um, I don't know what that sentence was. Don't worry about it. It's fine. I'm going to do battle battle battle medicine here. Using my healers toolkit and my six medicine. As per usual, I will be using a hero point for this role. Much better. Much better. Okay. That's going to be a 19. Maybe plus one. Uh, not for inspired courage. That's just attacks and damage. 19 is success. So it's 2d8. 2d8. Hold on one moment. Thank you. Okay. 2d8. 2d8. I have eight. I can roll 2d8. Bye. Uh, uh, um, so now it's healed five. Um, as Lou does the usual, um, panic as she tries to go through the healers kit. I think every time it is that she's pulling out like a little instructional booklet that came with the kit. And she's just like rifling through trying to find what applies. Um, and she always slips to the wrong page every time. So that's why I'm always using my hero points on these roles. Um, but yes, she does, uh, rouse, uh, rouse them. Um, I think by also calling to schism. Um, who she doesn't know outright is the second person, but has strongly suspected it. Uh, okay. Please wake up. Please don't be already won before it now because everything is terrible. Um, and, uh, good. Oh, look there you are. Um, where on the map. Um, first question. Can anybody use. I'll come this fire once it's been assembled. Yes. We're on the map with that fire at the moment. Literally right by your seat. Oh, my little handy dandy. I can reach that. Maybe we'll see. I'm going to try it anyway. Um, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we was going to be brave and foolish at the same time. Uh, and she's going to run and then, I don't know, baseball slide under the brave. And try to go past her to get to that thing. I don't know if I can go like around by a grave wing and still reach it. I don't know. Oh, I'm going to have to talk really fast. Um, or if I have to go directly under. Uh, if you want to go directly there, you will have to move through the Raven mother's space and that will be a tumble through. Okay, I think in order to reach it. Unless I, unless you think I can reach it by going along the line that very wing is on. I, I'm just guessing at the location a little bit here. So if, if following that line will get me there within reach of it, then I'll go that way. I'm going to do 30, your movement is 30 feet. I think it's 25, 25 standard, right? I would take you right there. Which is that within grabbing range or do I have to be on the same thing? You have to be within five feet of it. So you'd have to be up by like right next to Yuri. Last, which is 30 feet. All right. So no matter what, I can't use it this turn. Yeah. Last. Um, then there's no point going after it. Because too much is going to happen beforehand. Maybe I should, no, I should have healed now. No matter what. Okay. Um. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. That ruins my plan a little bit. Yeah. I'm bleeding. Don't worry about it. Um, I'm having a nose blade. It's fine. Five was the answer to the healing question. Um, I guess I'm just going to throw a card at it. Then what? Mm. Um, shoot. Um, she got two actions. You could definitely get most of the way there and throw a card still. I know. I just got to throw fire, but I. Yuri's going to yell at me if I actually run over there and. And then throw a card, but I could throw it right from here. Um, he's a monster. Exactly. We're ignoring that picture. That is all that is all they could do. Yeah. That's true. Stagnoises. Yeah. I don't know what they're saying. They could be saying nice one. Good job. Great. Um, proud of you. I am going to just, uh, I'm just going to throw a card. Um, at the Raven mother because even if I run past and don't go through her space, she's probably still going to try to attack. I'm going to throw a card. I'm going to do that tail. She's got a reaction. I know she does. That's why. Yeah. I'm going to just throw a card. Then I don't know what I'm going to do for a third action. Nope. Screw it. Whatever. I'm going to run over there and pick it up. It's. It's the same thing. Same thing. I'm just going to run over and pick it up. Maybe. Okay. She's going to attack with the tail. Yeah. Yeah. Or a three on the dice for a 16. That's exactly my AC. How about that? Unless you get boosted, but I don't think so. Uh, not the AC. I didn't think so. I didn't think so. Uh, and you will take nine slashing ditch. Am I stopped? No, because it's not a critical hit. Oh, one second. One second. One second. The Alco's fire is 30 feet away. Uh, yes. I can get it from here. I have a cantor card. And if I recall correctly, this is not one of the ones that Lave has. Because you do not have to help another can, right? Correct. And that's 30 feet. And that's two actions. So I can get that without moving. Sorry. Yeah. We will rewind that. The Raven mother did not attack you. I don't know what you're talking about. You're good. That's my thoughts. I just remembered it as I was taking that damage. Yeah. It's going to go and grab the thing. Uh, yeah. It can move. It can move an object. Can it activate an object? Uh, I would say the thing or is already activated. So it just needs to be thrown. Can I throw it? Sure. I would like to throw it at the big zombie. So that Yuri only takes splash damage. Yes, that is the main situation. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of the same thing would be to throw a card. It uses the same stats. So just roll that. Yeah. In that tray. Blast. That's only a 12. Uh, 12. Um, because this thing is prone is that is a hit. It's not hard to hit. Amazing. Uh-huh. Yeah. Loot, uh, bumbles in place for a little minute. It starts to run. Changes her mind. Remembers the cantrip deck. Pulls it out. Um, grabs the first card off the deck with like a heart of the cards moment. Doesn't even look at what it is. Just pulls it up. Rips it in half. Um, and exactly what she needs. Like wraps around her hand and this telekinic hand shoots out. Picks up the, the vial and then, um, chucks it. Badly. Because she's like, falling as she throws it away on the other side of the room. And then it hits the bruise, I guess. Yeah. Um, roll two D eight plus four. Uh, great. That's going to be 14. 14. Uh, so they will take 14 damage. Uh, you're, you will take two fire splash damage. Yeah. Okay. Uh, and this one is also going to take two persistent fire damage. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Um, is Lou all up in my personal space intentionally or did you move back to the wrong square? Oh, I might have bumped it on accident doing something else. Sorry. Was that your turn? That was my turn. Okay. Um, we see the other new mysterious person, this woman with a scar on her face. She has a short bow in hand and is going to spend her first action to move up so she can get a better line of sight on this. And she is going to take a couple of shots at the ghouls that are on Yuri. Okay. Uh, the first attack is a 21. Or six damage. Uh, and she's going to just turn around and do it again. Unfortunately, A5 is going to miss and it sort of just sails a little high, but she readies another arrow to go when she gets a chance. And we're going to see one of the soldiers. Uh, this one is still right next to you. Um, grave wing and is going to, you are grabbed. Uh, so it starts to speak in necrol. Uh, I need you to make me a will save. Okay. That's new. Um, 18. You managed to shake it off and you're relatively sure you're fine. That's the scariest thing that's actually happened in this combat. It's all I'm going to say. Uh, everything else, the things that didn't speak before started speaking. Uh, and that is just going to hit you twice with its claws. Uh, for a 29 for the first doesn't doesn't crit, but it hits. All right, even though you're all grabbed. Oh, I am grabbed. Then that would become a crit. Right. Uh, yeah, it would reduce your AC by two because you'd be considered flat foot. Yeah, then it's a crit. What? Wait a minute. Yeah. Uh, so take 12 slash damage. Yeah, you are. This one takes you down with a claw to the gut and you are limp in this raven mother's grasp. And then this one will spend its last action to go visit Yuri. And it is now the zombie boots turn and they will spend their first action to stand up. Uh, and then they will strike at you. Gary. They're there. Uh, oh, yeah, they have to do that. Um, yeah. Escape artist. Check. Uh, does a 17 beat your, um. Uh, reflex, your athletics, D.C. Athletics, D.C. It does not. All right. Um, so I'll just do that and, uh, then it's just, it's still going to make an attack at you. That's right. Um, for a 26. Oh, yeah. It's, it's not crit, but it's, wait. I'm flanked technically correct off guard. Um, not because you have this one grabbed, but you are not flanked to this. You are flanked to the ghouls that have you flanked, um, because you have this one. It can't count as a, um, giving, um, can't count with the other, the ghoul soldier for, um, baking you flanked to it. That's not you take 12 damage. Oh, is that, oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Okay. Oh, dear. That's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Let me just read something now. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's, it's, it's, it's feature problems. Uh, and here we find ourselves at the beginning of the third round. And I think this is where we shall end it for this episode. As we come back and several of the people are up and down several, a lot of people looking not great. Will you all be able to triumph? Against the dread doctor? We shall see. Join us next week. Well, let's take us out. That's me. That's me. Thank you for listening. Um, if you enjoyed it, think about supporting us on, uh, patreon. Uh, if not, uh, leave a review. Uh, reviews go a long way. We need many. Otherwise, I don't know what the fuck's gonna happen, y'all. Holy shit. Holy shit. Good deal, where we die. You might be here. Now the song will be so long. To hear it all down the shore. We'll find it all above the star. Do you hear it? It's a distant dream. I'm like a star in the air. Just don't forget the feeling. The doctor fails, it might hurt somebody. Take my head, and we must face it again. And we just turn it all so it works. After days, and one more thought, we are starting to pass. It's a little bit more. After days, and one more thought, we are falling, and one more thought, it's a little bit more. To hear it all so it works. There's my hope that it's far together. There's a distant dream. There's a distant dream. It's a little bit more. To hear it all so it works. It's a little bit more. It's a distant dream. There's a distant dream. There's a distant dream. There's a distant dream. I'm like a star in the air. [Music] [Music] [BLANK_AUDIO]
