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Join Vin, Varren, Mia, and Freya on an extraordinary journey through the mysterious Missing Moment in the captivating Pathfinder 2e adventure path "Gatewalkers." Get ready for thrilling encounters, epic quests, and unimaginable discoveries. Don't miss a single moment of this thrilling show!
Pete/GM: Physical manifestations various.
Items 5 D through 10 D.
A loose handful of human teeth,
clean and yellowed with age.
The startling aspect of these is not that
the patient possessed them, indeed the
practice of carrying the teeth or bones
as magical totems has long been documented
in cultures all across the world.
Rather, The reason seems to be
connected to the event that each
tooth is roughly the size of an
adult humanoid fist, approximately
four inches from root to tip.
It were not for the ossified
veins and root canals.
I would have assumed this was merely
a mineral of some odd similarities.
Welcome to Ash and Snow.
Paizo made some really cool announcements,
least of which is Starfinder 2nd edition!
I am so
Misfit/Mia: excited.
Oh my god.
I can't hold my horses.
Don't tell me to.
Don't, don't even try that.
Aubrey/Freya: These horses are wild and
Chris/Vin: running
Pete/GM: free.
Look, Soldier looks really cool
Archedas/Varren: for the 1 5 range we got
to see in their little playtest thing.
I'm
Aubrey/Freya: so glad
Soldier got her buff.
Pete/GM: Like,
Archedas/Varren: The only thing,
The only thing that has been on my
mind consistently since the Gen Con
previews, was the art they showed
of the new Salarian iconic catfolk.
And the only thing I want to do is now
play a Salarian that just summons a sun
so he can nap in the sun wherever he is.
Misfit/Mia: Oh, that's so good though.
Why didn't I think
Pete/GM: of that?
That would be cool.
I have always been extremely interested
in the Starfinder lore gameplay.
Not so much.
So the fact that this is coming to my
system of choice is just So perfect.
Very excited to
Aubrey/Freya: learn.
I'll have a lot easier time convincing
people to play it because it's been
one of those ones I want to run more.
But it's just being like, okay, we're
gonna have to learn Pathfinder 1.
5.
Misfit/Mia: And that scares
Pete/GM: people.
Archedas/Varren: The other cool
thing, apparently one of the like,
core deities is going to be gone.
Gonna go down to 19.
And I kept hearing the name Zahn Schellen
said with no context, and was very
confused, because those are very different
kinds of very personal relations.
They're
Aubrey/Freya: Zahn Schellen.
I mean,
Archedas/Varren: there's relation
there, but I wanna, the only thing
that all of the UGT side when we
discussed it was, Everyone's default
was just, oh, Zon Shalen is now just
the god of Hot Topics and Emo Kids.
Pete/GM: Exactly.
Art is pain!
Aubrey/Freya: I, I, I wonder
if anybody has any theories
on who this god is gonna be.
Misfit/Mia: I've seen so many theories
fly around, but I have No theories
of my own, and I don't really want to
regurgitate everyone else's theories.
Archedas/Varren: I mean, going off the Xon
Shalen thing, my thought is it's either
Shalen sacrificing to fix Xon Kuthon, or
Xon Kuthon taking over after something
happens to Shalen, or vice versa.
But that's just, that's based off a
name that they just kept saying and
refused to elaborate on, which angers me.
Pete/GM: It could be a red herring, too.
Yeah,
Aubrey/Freya: I wondered if it
was, like, anything that was,
like, connected to the OGL stuff.
It was, like, a god that was a
little too close to one that already
existed, so they're, like, not good.
Asmodeus.
Pete/GM: Asmodeus comes really
Aubrey/Freya: close.
And Torag.
Torag was the other one I heard I was
like, some of my friends were talking
Pete/GM: about.
I bet they killed Caden
Calian just to Stirrup.
Archedas/Varren: They get rid
of him just so that he can go
hang out with fucking Aroden.
Chris/Vin: Yeah, I think, I think what's
fascinating about all of the, the,
the Starfinder announcement though, is
that wouldn't it be interesting to see
Starfinder subclasses for Pathfinder?
things.
What if they came up with like a, a Magus
Starfinder concept or like a champion of
spaceships or something like that, right?
Archedas/Varren: Champion of Triune.
Chris/Vin: Right.
Or, or, or vice versa, right?
What if you, I mean, soldiers
probably not going to, not going to
change or have a subclass for it.
I want
Misfit/Mia: to know how they're
going to do Technomancer.
Chris/Vin: Yeah, Technomancer.
What if they did a fantasy
Technomancer option?
You are
Archedas/Varren: hard restricted to
Pete/GM: being in Numeria.
I'm excited for the ancestries.
Imagine getting to play
in a Ruxy in Pathfinder.
So cool.
You can't do that already.
Archedas/Varren: You can, you
can already play in a Ruxy.
That's just a lizard folk.
Pete/GM: We're coming very close to that.
Maybe even closer than you all realize.
Let's get back to the show.
We enter back.
into a blackened room, where
Varin finds himself seemingly
alone, but also not alone.
A voice echoing through the room
as his hand is coated in ash, and
he feels wood surrounding him.
Well,
Archedas/Varren: are we going to talk,
or are you just going to leave me
here until you deal with the others?
Pete/GM: I did want to talk.
You see, I believe that there
has been some confusion.
Of course, this was By my design,
in thinking that Mia is the
one that I am interested in.
Yes, I have quite for you
all to follow to lead there.
And of course, I will end up
using her power to plunge the
world into darkness and shadow.
So that I may become a
ruler, an eater of all.
But Varyn, from the shadows.
And if your nose wasn't
always So deep in a book.
Perhaps you would have noticed.
You see, we are very much alike.
We both have a purpose and
yet are trying to find it.
You know what your purpose is, whether
you are conscious of it or not.
And it is very different
from the rest of your party.
We go back to the hallway
where Mia, Freya, and Vin are
recovering from their injuries.
You guys want to do?
Chris/Vin: I know Barron said no drugs,
Pete/GM: but
Misfit/Mia: I'm I'm gonna say no!
I think this is just a situation
where that might just be a bad idea.
Pete/GM: Okay, okay.
Chris/Vin: Pete, what
where are our options?
Where can we go next?
Do we see we came through
one doorway, or one hallway.
Is there another new direction that
we haven't seen yet, that we can
Pete/GM: potentially go?
This room is different for you all.
You are in the surgery room for You
are in the surgery room for Lyco.
It's unique enough from the other rooms
that you've been in in that there are
There's the surgery table, there's
stuff set around it, however there
are still The general four different
hallways, the one that you just came out
of, and three others leading different
directions on each wall of the room.
Mia?
Chris/Vin: Where would she like to go?
Seems
Aubrey/Freya: only fair,
you did just get stabbed.
Well,
Misfit/Mia: I don't know if that's
such a good idea or not, but She like,
sits, she just kind of plops her little
butt down on the floor and takes a
moment to just Feel what direction is
Pete/GM: right.
As Mia is sitting there trying to
figure out which direction to go,
there you can see this, as a window has
kind of opened up in your room, where
you can see the rest of the party.
You can see that they are battered and
bruised, but ultimately still alive.
Archedas/Varren: So you're showing
me this to torture me, or is this
some sort of game you're trying
Pete/GM: to play?
Both in their own way, but first
to make up that you are not
like them Are you I wouldn't go
Archedas/Varren: and say that
far, but we have our differences.
Pete/GM: No more than differences
you are Fundamentally different in a
way that I in my old age had it easy
Ever even assumed was simply myth.
You are on a distinctly
different road than they are.
And yet you travel with them.
Why?
Archedas/Varren: Hard to get
places on your own sometimes.
Good to have extra pairs of hands.
They're of interest.
Similar fate to my own.
If it's degrees different, of course.
But come to enjoy their
company to some degree.
Besides, they all have their own
individual little mysteries to
Pete/GM: unravel.
They are curiosities, but for a
different reason than you are.
You see, they have been cursed,
whereas you have been blessed.
It's odd.
You
Archedas/Varren: think forgetting
everything of who you are is a
Pete/GM: blessing?
He lets out a croaky laugh,
and therein lies the irony.
That you don't even realize
how different you are.
Which is why I show them to you now.
To give you a choice.
I can help you with your memory.
I can restore the reason that you
search for something that you don't
even know that you are looking for.
I can even tell you the name
of the one who did this to you.
Because I can smell them on your friends.
All I have to do is open
up one of these doors.
Your friends will face a horror that
they cannot survive without you, and
I will give you this information.
So you must now decide.
Are your friends more important,
or is your mission, your
real purpose on this plane?
And we go back to the hallway
where Mia, Freya, and Vyn are.
Mia, you're not getting any closer
idea about which way is Right.
No way smells different.
No way has any different kind
of sounds coming from it.
It seems to be a totally arbitrary choice.
Misfit/Mia: With all confidence, Mia just
gets up as if she knows what she's doing,
and she picks a direction and just starts,
Pete/GM: I'm gonna, I'm gonna
You're gonna pray a follow?
Chris/Vin: I'm going to intentionally fail
any sense mode of check and just follow.
Pete/GM: Okay.
She's
Misfit/Mia: just struttin Head held
up high, tails swimming around, having
a grand old, I'm going this way.
Kay, this seems right.
Pete/GM: Varen, you see them
starting to pick a direction.
Where will that door open to now, Varen?
Archedas/Varren: Well, I assume
you'll keep them in a loop
until you get your answer.
That or you're going to try and
rush me to it, one of the two.
Just kind of talking for a
brief moment to keep a breadth.
So he can start thinking
on what Kanepo said.
Can I do a sensitive check on that?
Yes, absolutely.
See if he's actually being
Pete/GM: true at all.
You think he could be telling the truth.
There is not a lot of reason
for him to lie to you.
And if he is lying, you're not
sure what the endgame would be.
So you
Archedas/Varren: say they
can't survive without me.
But you're not going
to let me get to them.
Without what?
Abandoning them in the process?
Self fulfilling
Pete/GM: prophecy then?
No.
You are either going to abandon
them, or abandon the last hope
that you have to find yourself.
You see, I brought you to
this room, my hate room, to
exemplify how similar we are.
It was here that it took me
millennia to uncover who I really
was, my true destiny in life.
That I wasn't just some abnormality
of nature, that I was destined to be.
To end the elves, once and for all.
Do you have a millennia, Varyn?
To sit in quiet contemplation?
To search every corner of a world?
To uncover something?
Or do you take it now?
Oh, I
Archedas/Varren: suppose either I take
it, Or, uh, I presume, In order to ensure
that your plans go along, I'll be facing
you on my own while they're doing whatever
monstrosity is within that doorway.
Pete/GM: And inevitably we both fall.
I will send you right back
Archedas/Varren: to them.
Certainly surprising that a man
in shadow is as brave as you are.
Go that far and not take the opportunity.
Give me a moment, have them wander.
And Baron's just going to take
a moment to think to himself.
Doesn't, hasn't seen Kniepo in
here at all, so he just pulls out
one of his small little journals
and starts to write something
Pete/GM: down for a moment.
Freya, Mia, Vin, the door that you go
through I Ultimately goes back to the
same kind of room that you've seen before.
It's just fluorescent lighting,
drab carpet, boring walls.
Leading again to another room
that has the same hallways
going off on different sides.
Misfit/Mia: Does it look like
there's a hallway for each person?
Is there three hallways?
There
Pete/GM: are.
Because I'm about
Misfit/Mia: to suggest something real
Pete/GM: stupid.
There's the direction
that you just came from.
And there's ones to your
left, right, and forward.
Misfit/Mia: Hey Freya, you
remember how you were saying
you think we should split up?
Aubrey/Freya: I didn't
say it was a good idea.
No, but
Misfit/Mia: I think that's the
thing we're supposed to do.
Aubrey/Freya: And then SIGH
and be like, You know what?
I was having a bit of a
moment when that happened.
I was freaking out and I may not have been
in a sound Just a sound mind at the time.
you
Misfit/Mia: So you are now and
you think it's a good idea still?
Aubrey/Freya: No, not really.
Can I take a look around to just perceive
Archedas/Varren: anything?
Does anything look
Aubrey/Freya: weird?
I should have prepared Detect Magic today.
I didn't.
Misfit/Mia: Meos is just
like pawing at the ground.
I really wish Viren was here because you
kind of know what to do in this situation.
Pete/GM: What's Vin thinking of?
Is it
Archedas/Varren: drugs?
What's Vin's thinking of
him, why is it platelet?
I
Chris/Vin: think Vin's headspace is Vin's
headspace is more about not freaking out.
Mia did nearly die in that
encounter, for better or for worse.
And then Vin stabbed her with a
syringe that was a healing potion, but
did it pretty much without thinking.
And now, maybe I should
think a little more.
Maybe I shouldn't.
just run forward.
So I think he's in his own head
quite a bit, kind of paying attention
to Mia and Freya as they, as
they talk about their next steps.
But since he wasn't addressed
specifically, he's just kind of
like, maybe falling behind a little
bit, thinking about what can he
do to make the situation better?
How does he keep his cool?
How does he
Pete/GM: not freak out?
It's at this moment when all of
you are trying to compose yourself
and figure out what you should do.
that you start to hear a noise.
It's like a echoing click clop.
It's like you're hearing a horse,
but doing a kind of drunken stagger.
We go back to the hate room.
Tick tock, Varyn.
Will you go help them, or
will you help yourself?
Archedas/Varren: Varyn's just gonna,
having written something in his
journal, close it up, set it into a
pocket a moment, and take a breath.
I'm gonna hit you with something
interesting here, Pete.
Can I?
Have Baron roll a Deception
check against his own Perception.
Ha ha!
Or would you prefer me to try a Perception
check against my own Deception DC?
Because Baron's trying to
lie to himself right now.
Pete/GM: Do a Deception check,
still make it private, and I will
compare it to your Perception DC.
Archedas/Varren: Okay,
Perception DC is 17.
Okay.
Plus 8 on Deception, so
let's see where this goes.
Pete/GM: Alright, so what do you view
success or failure as with this role?
So,
Archedas/Varren: essentially Varan
is trying to convince himself on
whether he should continue trying
to be, like, the knot that holds the
party together, keep trying to engage
the others, keep trying to keep them
on the same track, or, if since that
hasn't been working, say, grew it.
double down, start taking dumb risks, and,
well, Vin's already yelled at him once,
Mia's gotten herself into some situations,
having overheard this conversation now
through this weird window about Rhea
having been the one to suggest splitting
the party, he might just start blaming
other people and, like, essentially
either if he manages to lie to himself,
start kind of pushing himself away.
What if he fails to do so, kind
of pushing himself, well, pushing
others away from himself rather than
pushing himself away from others?
Pete/GM: Okay, so I know the outcome
of your role, but what do you say?
Well,
Archedas/Varren: suppose if I at least
want to get the chance to die fighting
you, I need to go back and help them out.
How's about a trade?
An agreement between gentlemen
of sorts, since we're
Pete/GM: so similar.
What do you have in mind?
Should we manage to
Archedas/Varren: meet again?
He was kind of Pat's a
little bag on his side.
We'll make things fair.
I won't use the cold iron.
Before you go, you give me a hint.
Worst comes to worst, you
don't have to tell me anything.
I'll be a corpse on your domain.
Pete/GM: Set your iron
Archedas/Varren: down.
Just gotta undoze the bag a moment.
Drop it.
Pete/GM: Very interesting.
I will give you a name.
We've been squared.
Archedas/Varren: If you say
Riddleson, I'm just going to leave.
I don't care that this
is your domain name.
If you say Riddleson, I'm going
to find a way to leave on my own.
I'm tired of people
insinuating that it's his
Pete/GM: fault.
We go back to the hallway, where
we see Vin, Mia, and Freya waiting
to see what is coming towards them.
Can
Aubrey/Freya: I make that
perception check now?
Pete/GM: Yes.
Okay.
Aubrey/Freya: Perception.
Oh, that's not great.
It
Pete/GM: isn't.
The sound that It isn't great,
but the source of the sound
becomes more apparent to you.
From this distance, it
looks like a centaur.
The body of a horse attached
to the torso of a human.
But something is very wrong.
They are not supposed to be together as
a centaur would be, perfectly melded.
Rather, what you can see is that
They seem sticked together, and
are starting to lumber towards you.
Aubrey/Freya: Shit, I
think we have company.
As I say, as I have pulled
out my sword, and I'm going to
stand in front of Mia again.
Pete/GM: Alright, let's go ahead and
have everyone roll for initiative.
Eight!
Fourteen.
Chris/Vin: Got a twelve for Vin.
We We didn't roll very well,
Pete/GM: you guys.
Not a good
Misfit/Mia: I never roll well.
Mia never rolls well.
Has anyone noticed that?
Or is it just me?
I don't know
Aubrey/Freya: if you've noticed this whole
adventure path, we haven't rolled well.
Misfit/Mia: No, not really.
One of these days we'll roll really
Pete/GM: well.
First in the order is this abomination
of two creatures trying to form
something that you know to exist.
The centaur makes this really gross
sounding neigh out of its human mouth.
And runs to trample over all of you.
So I need a reflex save
from Vin, Freya, and Mia.
What is a
Aubrey/Freya: 30 20 from me?
Chris/Vin: I, I, I critically
Pete/GM: failed.
Oh no.
Do you want to
Aubrey/Freya: spend a
Misfit/Mia: hero point?
Want to die on that hill?
Do I want I promise you it's not fun.
Chris/Vin: I want to die on that.
I will, I will spend the hero point.
Pete/GM: 15 instead.
Your critical failure goes up
to a normal failure instead.
So, out of the 12 damage dealt, Vin,
you will take the full, whereas Mia and
Freya, you both jump out of the way just
a little bit in time to avoid most of the
damage, but still get hit a little bit.
I like to
Misfit/Mia: think that Mia is
so small that she just kind
of slips between the hooves.
Pete/GM: Then you
wouldn't have a reaction.
Okay.
Nevermind.
Traya, go ahead.
Aubrey/Freya: So, I am going
to look at this centaur
Pete/GM: ish
Aubrey/Freya: thing, and I'm immediately
going to, I'm going to attempt to
tumble through to get to the other side.
So, and that's, what's that?
That
Pete/GM: is a acrobatics
versus their reflex.
Chris/Vin: Okay.
Aubrey/Freya: Yep.
Gonna do that to try to tumble
through and gain panache.
Okay.
That is a dirty 20.
Pete/GM: Alright.
That is a normal success against their
reflex DC, so you will gain panache as
you duck through their horse legs and
come out the other side to flank them.
Aubrey/Freya: Cool.
So that is my first action, and my
second action is going to be moving
into a, let's do a, we're gonna
do a produce flame spell strike.
As I run a hand along the
blade and it catches fire.
Go out and try to like
run it along their side.
So it is a
Pete/GM: 24.
A 24 is a regular hit.
So it is
Aubrey/Freya: going to be 4
slashing damage and 4 fire damage.
As I run, break this blade along
Pete/GM: their side.
Excellent.
It takes it.
And that's my entire turn.
Vin.
Vin.
Archedas/Varren: Hoot.
Chris/Vin: Finn took the brunt of that
attack and he finds himself dusting
himself off trying to get his wherewithal
within this situation and he decides
that this creature walking and running
around like that is probably going
to put the creature at an advantage
over us so we're going to go ahead and
take this five foot step to get into
a flank position with Freya and then
we are going to attempt a trip attack.
With my Titan Wrestler feat, it
should negate anything I need it
to, because it's a large creature.
So, we are going to attempt a trip.
We are going to look at my tail.
My tail does not give me bonuses
in this particular roll, so we're
going to roll with a plus eight.
A seven on a die for a fifteen.
Pete/GM: I can't imagine that would do it.
That does not do it, unfortunately.
Chris/Vin: Okay, with my third
action, my second attack action,
we will swing with his pull arm,
and that will be a miss with an 11
Pete/GM: total.
Yeah, unfortunate.
That is all three of your
actions, so we go to Mia.
Mia
Misfit/Mia: looks around, and is just,
well, I don't, I don't really fancy
getting hurt again, so she, she takes a
good five step, foot step, kind of just
backs up, and then, Thinks to herself
and thinks back about what the scary
lady who stabbed her said, and starts to
wonder if she can command these creatures.
So I'm going to use the spell Command.
Okay.
Which, it all depends on a will
save, so they get a will save.
All right, three.
Ooh, definitely beats me.
Aubrey/Freya: But does it beat
it, does it, is it a regular
success or a critical success?
Um.
You might still get
something for a success.
That's true, that is
Misfit/Mia: very true.
It says, success, the
creature is unaffected.
Pete/GM: Okay.
Any other actions?
Misfit/Mia: No, because that was a
Aubrey/Freya: two.
And you spent an action step back five.
Yeah,
Misfit/Mia: but that
was a two action spell.
So Mia just looks at it
and she's just like, STOP!
And looks around, was I demanding enough?
Did that work?
That's my turn.
Pete/GM: I bet you hear a familiar
click come from one of the hallways.
As Varyn steps out.
Just in time!
Oh,
Archedas/Varren: hi Varyn!
Welcome back!
How do I feel upon
seeing everyone in person
Pete/GM: again?
We'll have to find out later.
Right now, your mind is concentrated on
the creature trying to kill everyone.
Well,
Archedas/Varren: step
one, look at this thing.
Gone leveled already.
Give it a quick look over
with some esoteric lore.
Or, I actually like to do it this way.
This is a blind roll.
Esoteric lore on this thing to figure
out what it is and what might be good at
Pete/GM: killing it.
This creature is unknown to you.
So you can use a personal antithesis
to figure out or to try to do
some kind of extra damage to it
based off of your best guess.
And that
Archedas/Varren: one is, I
just believe, a flat head.
But, well, doesn't even say anything after
getting back in here, just focuses on this
thing and fires off an immediate shot.
First shot's just gonna be a 15.
Kinda in a rush of trying to figure
out everything of having stepped
out of this room and walked into
here and just kinda shakes himself.
Gonna be more annoying than I
thought to deal with this one.
He's just going to kinda cock his head
past to the side and look at this.
Centaur thing.
I hope you know Kniebo let
me come here to help them.
I don't think you're in his favor anymore.
And that's gonna be a
demoralized check on this thing.
For a 20 total.
Pete/GM: A 20 against its
will be seen will succeed.
That's gonna be frightened one.
As you find out that this creature
is Not a mindless undead, but
a thinking, feeling creature.
It's eyes, more than anything,
communicate the fear that it feels.
That all of your actions?
That is all three actions.
Y'all didn't get a great look at it at
the other end of the hallway when it
started to trample you, but now that it is
very up close and personal with you all,
You can see that it doesn't have hands,
rather the longsword and shield that
it's carrying are fused onto its arms.
What?!
Its first action is to stab at Freya.
That'll do 22 points of damage
as Freya goes unconscious.
Yup, my turn.
Freya's initiative will move
right before the centaur.
It then does a back hoof strike.
At Mia.
Oh,
Aubrey/Freya: I know we were joking
about A TPK in the beginning, but
,
Pete/GM: I don't really want
Misfit/Mia: a tpk.
Pete/GM: That's a miss.
The last action that it'll use will be
to raise the shield that it has on it.
So, sh in, you're up.
Well, my
Chris/Vin: flanking partner
is down for the count.
I, I am checking my inventory real quick.
I never know.
It's always the last tab
I click is the tab I need.
I do not have anything for you.
So, we are going for that trip attack.
We are going to, once again, using
the Titan Wrestler, going to Gwynise
Blade, which has a trip trait, and
try to knock down its feet to try
to buckle buckle itself underneath
to attempt to knock it prone.
Now.
This time, I'm going to remember my
bonuses, and because I have a plus
one weapon, I'm gonna have a plus one
to this athletics check, because I'm
using the weapon to push him down.
We are going to roll a 28 to trip.
He has also demoralized, so that might
Pete/GM: do something.
It does!
That is actually a critical success!
Yes!
I do
Chris/Vin: 1d6!
Take one point of
Archedas/Varren: damage!
I think for all of the damage
rolls we have rolled so far.
This combat, we have
exclusively rolled the minimum
.
Pete/GM: Well, it is now
frightened and prone.
Well, actually it's frightened went down
after its turn, so it's at least prone.
Chris/Vin: Okay.
We are going to attempt second action.
We're going to reach out.
That purple flame is going to extend.
We're going to do a touch of
Pete/GM: corruption.
Okay.
So that has to make a fourth save.
That sounds correct.
And that is a failure.
Only rolling 14 against the DC 18.
It's
Chris/Vin: gonna take another one damage.
Pete/GM: On my d6.
Chris/Vin: It's gonna take a
minus two to ac for one round.
Archedas/Varren: Death by a thousand cuts.
Aubrey/Freya: I'm
Chris/Vin: going to second strike, use my
next action to strike with my polearm onto
this creature that's prone and corrupted.
Okay.
15 plus 4 for her 19 to
Pete/GM: hit.
That is a 19.
A 19 does hit now that
their AC has been reduced.
But they are going to shield block that.
Of course.
So they'll take I rolled
Chris/Vin: a ten, ten damage.
Anything go through the
Pete/GM: shield?
So the shield absorbs five
damage, and she'll take five more.
Alright,
Chris/Vin: that's three actions.
He goes in there, takes the
polearm, trips on the floor.
Uh, the purple flame extends and
begins to envelop this creature's body.
Weaking it, doing one whole
point of necrotic damage as I
use the momentum of the shield.
The creature falling to take the polearm
and do a downward slash right into the
Pete/GM: blank.
Alright, Mia.
Misfit/Mia: Me!
Can I take a moment to just, from
where I'm at, see how bad Freya
Pete/GM: is?
Yeah.
I mean, absolutely.
You have pretty good
eyes for your friends.
And, Mia going, er, Freya going
down, and Freya going down is
very apparent and very troubling.
Okay.
Misfit/Mia: I'm Gonna run over there.
Mia's just gonna scamper over.
I'm probably gonna incur Attack of
Pete/GM: Opportunity.
I'd already used a Reaction, so even if
it had Attack of Opportunity, you're safe.
Oh, what?
Misfit/Mia: Perfect timing!
Yeah, I'm gonna run over there and just
kind of field dress and do whatever I can.
Took that
Pete/GM: feat.
Battle medicine.
Perfect.
Battle medicine.
Sure did.
All right, so there is
a skill roll for that.
Medicine, do you
Archedas/Varren: roll?
A medicine roll.
Yep, DC is 15 for the normal trained
Pete/GM: one.
Fuck!
Oh no, that is a no.
You
Archedas/Varren: absolutely
need to hero point that.
Please, please.
You have
Misfit/Mia: to hero point that.
I am hero pointing the crap out of that.
If you
Aubrey/Freya: didn't, there's actually
a good chance you just straight up
Archedas/Varren: kill me.
Oh no.
On that one on medicine check, you take
a d8 damage, aka go to dying three.
Pete/GM: Guys, this isn't
the final boss here.
Which is still a failure, but at
least you're not making Freya worse.
Worse.
You can't.
It's
Misfit/Mia: my first time.
I'm sorry.
I'm trying to be really gentle.
Pete/GM: However, she will be immune to
your battle medicine for the next day.
I'm
Misfit/Mia: trying.
Do you have a health potion?
I don't, but I can heal
Oh, can I heal you?
I
Aubrey/Freya: have
health potions in my bag.
Pete/GM: You do have Can I
spend the rest of my actions?
Misfit/Mia: I do have heal as a spell,
but I I can really only use it once a day.
And I would rather wait and use it so I
can use it en masse if everyone needs it.
But can I spend the rest of my
actions pulling out a healing
potion from Freya's bag?
Yes,
Pete/GM: absolutely.
You can use the interact
to grab the potion.
She
Misfit/Mia: totally does that.
She goes tearing through the bag, kind
of rips everything out and goes, Ah!
Found it!
And shoves it in your mouth.
Archedas/Varren: You have
to use it on this turn.
The interact action to get it.
Pete/GM: Yes.
And then an accident.
That's what I'm gonna
Aubrey/Freya: be doing.
I didn't, I didn't have it on a bandolier.
It was just in my bag.
Varan.
Pete/GM: Well,
Archedas/Varren: Freya, as far as Varan
can see is just like barely visible
around the corner here and has a
very large thing between him and her.
So only real option here
is gonna be to go ahead.
He's already intimidated it.
Gonna go ahead and just fire off a shot.
Just having some real
issues with accuracy here.
He hasn't.
fought anything a little while
going through this place and got
a miss with a 12 on the first
Pete/GM: attack.
Yes, even with prone and the
touch of corruption, reducing
the AC, that is a miss.
Archedas/Varren: He's gonna get himself a
little bit less stuck in the doorway, and
then from a hopefully better position, try
and fire off another shot at this thing.
That's all he can really do at this point.
He is trying to squeeze in that
little corner, isn't going to help
much, but a nine's not going to do it
Pete/GM: either.
Unfortunately, no.
Freya reactions as you are not yet
returned to life, you can either
roll the death saving throw, or as
part of the stamina rules, you can
use a resolve to remain unconscious
for this turn and come back on
your next round with one hit point.
No,
Archedas/Varren: I'm gonna
Aubrey/Freya: make the recovery check.
Okay.
We'll save those resolve points or not
Pete/GM: as a five.
Archedas/Varren: That was a.
Almost a crit fail.
Aubrey/Freya: Why, why did I say
Pete/GM: dying four?
I don't know, you are only at
dying two, but now dying three.
There we go.
So stressful.
Archedas/Varren: Next turn might
be the one to consider using one of
those resolve points, because if you
Aubrey/Freya: fail.
Well, I'm hoping next turn that
Mia has fed me the healing potion.
Pete/GM: Hopefully.
Misfit/Mia: I've got it.
I've got it in my hand.
He's biting the
Pete/GM: top off.
The faux centaur first raises
its, uh, front two hooves to try
to smack Vin with one of them.
It is prone.
Is it going to stand up?
Oh yes, so sorry.
The faux centaur first stands up.
Immediate shot as it goes to stand.
Yeah, anyone who has an attack of
opportunity can use that, or equivalent.
Target
Archedas/Varren: first.
There we go.
Pete/GM: That's pretty important.
Archedas/Varren: Still prone
when that attack's going off.
Pete/GM: Yes, so 17 will hit.
Nice.
Archedas/Varren: First
damage on the board.
One off minimum damage.
Pete/GM: Let's go.
So you see that as your bullet
enters into the creature, that the
piercing damage that you do actually
hurts it more, as it seems like
it is not fully keeping its skin.
and muscles together very
well in this new shape.
Archedas/Varren: I mean, I'm happy
about the extra damage, but gross.
Pete/GM: So now that it has stood,
it's going to raise on its haunches and
try to hit Vin with one of its feet.
It does manage to land a hit.
On Vin with a, uh, 25.
Alright, I will,
Chris/Vin: I will react as that corrupted
purple flame will negate some of that.
Just put enough resistance
against the hooves to be able
to avoid some of that damage.
Pete/GM: Okay, so it does 6 damage, and at
your level it looks like it does 1 less.
2 plus half
Chris/Vin: my level, so 3, it does 3 less.
Pete/GM: Three.
Okay, so you only take
three of that six damage.
Then swipes at you with its longsword.
Okay.
Oh boy.
That is a Not twenty Oh god.
Chris/Vin: Okay, what does this do?
Archedas/Varren: Take the same amount less
damage, so you take twenty one instead.
Chris/Vin: Alright, so my soul flesh
shield is still up, but I'm down.
Pete/GM: It is, yeah, it's not
enough to save you as you go
before the foes and are at dying 2.
Chris/Vin: Whoa, I didn't know
things happen when I go down.
What is this?
Aubrey/Freya: Weird.
Welcome.
Welcome to being a god just
Pete/GM: as Freya and Vin's
ethereal bodies come here often.
Whoa!
Mia, you're up with a potion in your hand.
Misfit/Mia: I immediately stuff it into
Freya's mouth and I kind of like tilt her
head back just enough to make it go down.
Pete/GM: Alright, perfect.
Go ahead and roll the total
healing of the potion.
Aubrey/Freya: So there was
two potions in the bag.
Would you grab the bigger
one or the smaller one?
Bigger one.
Bigger one?
Okay, so then it's the
lesser healing potion, so
Pete/GM: 2d8 plus 5.
Freya, you recover 13.
You're now just at wounded 1, prone,
as you feel whatever flavor healing
potions are go down your throat.
The situation looks dire, as Vin is
also now unconscious on the ground.
Mia's
Misfit/Mia: standing on you.
You okay?
Can you get
Pete/GM: it all back in there?
So Mia, you still have two actions to go.
I'm I'm gonna
Misfit/Mia: do something
incredibly stupid.
I'm gonna run across the room.
Just like Trying to set myself
up to do something very cool.
I have the spell Gravitational
Pull, and I want to get this thing
into my Gravitational Pull and
pull it towards Viren and myself
Pete/GM: for Attacks of Opportunity.
Well that is one of the cool
abilities that is between one and
three actions, so I'm assuming
you're using the one action version?
Correct.
Okay, so it has to make
a Fortitude Saving Roll.
I tried, y'all.
It does exceed.
Let's see, does it have any Does
it have a success condition?
It's just success unaffected.
Just success.
Okay.
So you try to.
You do see the fellow centaur kind
of stumble a little bit more towards
you, but then is able to use its
extra legs To keep itself steady.
Misfit/Mia: I just Come over and hit me!
God, you're so mean!
What's wrong with you?
I'm the I'm the person that
you want in this situation.
I might not look like it.
Fox, after all.
Anyway, I'm the
Pete/GM: one that you want.
Alright, Varen.
Archedas/Varren: The last two people
it hit are on the ground, Mia.
Stop.
Pawntaking.
Shh!
I'm helping.
Freya!
Get up!
Let's finish this quick!
And that's going to be some, a
bit kind of forceful, but some
encouraging words for Freya.
Okay.
Uh, which is gonna let me roll a
Diplomacy check at range to give
you back some Stamina points.
Uh, it's essentially Battle
Medicine, but for Stamina.
So, let's do this.
BC is 15, just shy
Pete/GM: by one.
Uh, 14 as your encouraging words
almost sound more like a threat.
Archedas/Varren: A little bit, yeah.
But this thing is Still standing, he
doesn't have time to brood around and
try and get Ven up for the moment.
It's looking pretty bad from as far
as he can tell, so gonna at least
try to get another shot off here.
He's starting to run low in this weapon.
That's an 18 on the die for a 26
Pete/GM: to hit.
That 26 does hit?
Yeah,
Archedas/Varren: I don't
think that's a crit
Pete/GM: yet.
Not yet.
That's max damage on the die!
Wooo, baby,
Misfit/Mia: let's go!
Pete/GM: So, your original pen turns into
a 13 as the bullet shreds through the
creature's not well held together body.
Archedas/Varren: Just hits a bit
of metal inside it and shatters
shrapnel from the inside.
Pete/GM: Perfect.
It is not looking great
for the faux centaur.
Even though one of your friends is
down and the other one is very bloody.
Archedas/Varren: Gonna have to go for
it, because if this thing gets another
hit off, it's not gonna be great.
Just gonna fire off another
shot, try and finish it.
Okay.
Seventeen on the die, total.
Pete/GM: That is gonna
be a miss, by three.
As the, as Freya is now able to
Aubrey/Freya: So I'm gonna spend
my first action to stand up.
Okay.
Does that incur an attack
Pete/GM: of opportunity?
It does not.
Great, good to
Aubrey/Freya: know.
For my second action, I'm
going to use my Conflux.
spell of dimensional assault.
I blink forward to the other side of this
faux centaur right next to Vin and then I
come through with a slash of the talon and
I will be doing piercing damage with it as
I just try to run it through because the
second time I did get to see that piercing
damage seemed to do something to it.
27.
Pete/GM: A 27 is still not a
crit, but it is a success for
Aubrey/Freya: five.
piercing damage, and then I will sort
of take some of this sort of, this
energy from my dimensional hop and bring
it around me in Arcane Cascade for my
Pete/GM: final action.
Well, you don't need the extra action
because the creature doesn't so much
fall dead as it just falls apart,
as the stitching and the will of
keeping itself together isn't able
to hold up against the piercing
that you and Varyn have done to it.
And the centaur goes down.
Misfit/Mia: I, Mia runs
right over to Vin, and
Pete/GM: he's what's up.
Chris/Vin: Do I need to roll anything?
Aubrey/Freya: Was anybody gonna, anybody
had anything off the top of their head?
Cause if not I'm just gonna
use my after potion on Vin.
Archedas/Varren: Um, Mia was running up
so I assumed she was gonna try something.
Aubrey/Freya: Yeah,
Misfit/Mia: I, I was just going to
Use my heal spell, if I could avoid
using it, cause that's like all I got.
You
Pete/GM: can use first aid now
that you're outside of combat.
Yeah,
Archedas/Varren: you just have to roll to
stabilize him, and then we can read him.
And stabilization is a
lower roll than healing.
Pete/GM: You also have stabilize
as a cantrip, so you can do that.
Misfit/Mia: I just pulled up my actual
Pete/GM: cheat sheet.
So you
Archedas/Varren: can just cast
stabilize and he's fine, then
we can medicine check him.
Pete/GM: Yeah, I will happily do that.
As a 21, that is a regular
success to your medicine roll,
so go ahead and roll the d8.
2d8.
2d8.
Archedas/Varren: I would
Aubrey/Freya: like to do the thing
that lets me recover stamina points.
Absolutely.
I don't remember what that is.
I don't remember how many I
Archedas/Varren: recover either.
You recover all of them.
Or take a breather.
Yes.
Yeah, take a breather is what it is.
I don't know if those rolled or not.
Chris/Vin: I got it.
I healed for 8, and I will also take
a breather and refocus, I guess.
Awesome.
We have time to spend a long time.
Pete/GM: Yeah.
Yes.
In fact, as you all are taking a
breather and doing your medicine
checks, Varyn, you are unscathed.
And we look at these bloodied
and bruised compatriots of yours.
As we go back just a few minutes
in time, back into the hatred.
So you want to name.
What are you offering?
Give.
You the name of the one
who did this to you rather.
I will give you a name that is going
to be much more Significant as you
go forward that is of course if
you survive our ultimate encounter
I can't have you coming in at full
strength after all name It's a soya.
Varen, before you're able to make a witty
retort, or quickly grab your cold iron,
the last ditch attempt at deception, you
find yourself transported back into a
hallway, where there is a centaur seeming
creature, fighting your compatriots.
And there is a moment between where
you, where your instincts kick in
and start to fight, Where you have
to come to terms with a reality
of what you just experienced.
Which is that you really wish you had
said that you would leave them and
find out the full answer to your past.
We'll find out if this group
will meet Canepa the Slim on the
next episode of Ash and Snow.
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Pete/GM: I
just realized I'm not
actually in Forge yet.
One second.
I got enthralled in the story.
I forgot that there's dice.
Misfit/Mia: What?
Dice are involved?