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The Naturolls is your seat at the table for a Daggerheart TTRPG actual play. Listen in as a group of friends from around the world tells campfire stories (and puns) in The Shatterlands, a once-divided kingdom whose 100 years of peace is unexpectedly ended by a dangerous threat.
I I've got a list of like holiday themed curses and things. Like like I'm not gonna be like You know, believe it believe, I'm gonna have to say something that's very crazy. Broken ornaments. That's amazing. Broken ornaments. Holy broken ornaments. Um how many how many animals would you say are um Chili's favorite before polar bears? Is it dozens? Is it hundreds? Is it thousands? Like what what's the like what Throw a number out there. Well he didn't say uh he didn't say before, he said along with a long with, okay. They're all on the same If we were doing if we were doing a um a ranking a ranking uh grasp, they'd also this is like how a five-year-old thinks of favorites. So like that's my favorite, and this is also my favorite. And I have Forty-seven other favorites that are all the same the exactly the same favorite. Yeah. If it is there and it exists, it's my favorite. Perfect. Okay, so as we come back, the party finds themselves around what used to be a a symbol of the joy. Of the season surrounded by spectres The one that is leapt closest to you is a giant spectre sheathed in a gown of green holly, carrying a torch Off to your left, you see another spectre that is of indistinguishable age But flickers like a candle back behind them, almost peeking out from behind a building. You see what looks like a spectral grim reaper with a long scythe dripping with dark energy There is a fourth spirit off in the distance, bigger than all of the ones that you can see. But you can't currently make out its features. And since Chili Chip's role was with fear I am going to take us into combat and attack first. Oh no! The giant spectre, right in front of you, Chili Chip, reaches into his robe, and from it. Pulls out a chain of spectral metal And attempts to wrap it around you. I thought this comment was going somewhere very different for a moment. If can I quick uh from the sleeve of the robe. The sleeve of the robe. Did we just go into the other kind of roleplay for a second? What's going on? R revealing quick clarification if I can. Yeah, okay. So it and I I have to ask it first this way, is is it fair to say because of where Chili, cause you're uh the Spectre's going after Chili Chip, right? Currently, yes. But chili chip was also Correct me if I'm wrong here, Chili Chip is also near um Krampus and Dosef, too. You you all are pretty kinda Close together. Yeah, close together, tight together. I have I have a question. Can I can I use um my ability if if there's no turns, right? Because it's not D. Right, yes. Okay. Because I would like to use the I'm your shield ability. I was gonna do the same thing. Um but I would also like to use um use my holiday sweater knitting specialist experience. Um Combined with that, basically to to use the sweater that I knitted for chili um as a shield so I'll take the damage instead. um or like or whatever effect this attack is going to take. I don't know that we know there's gonna be damage. Well that's what I'm saying. I'm just trying to like um So you were you are essentially uh swatting chili chip aside with your antlers to try to to try to get in the way of this giant specter that's trying to wrap chains around Chili chip, is that correct? Well no, I want what I want to do is I want to okay, well maybe I'm trying to figure out how this would work because I want to use my holiday swi knitting specialist basically as the shield. Okay. So like basically the the that means that um Chili's sweater will start to glow blue. Okay. Um and then act as a shield. against whatever attack and then that or whatever happens and then it'll happen to me instead. Okay, so through the power of holiday Through the power of holiday knitting Okay. Okay, let me first of all I gotta roll to see if this attack even is going to hit Chili Chili. Okay. And then from there, we will decide what uh what happens. Okay, well go ahead and save your holiday knitting specialist ability. Okay, I'll save it because that is That's a five to hit you, chili chip? But let's let's calm down. I have no control over the naughty list. Perfect. And uh with that Horrible role for my first. I think that's my first roll of this. With that horrible roll, uh, I will now hand play over to the players, and as mentioned, there's no turn order We are attempting to just tell an interesting story. So whatever you think makes sense, share the spotlight between you, and there will be moments when I jump back in. Okay. Can I Sorry, go ahead. Can I figure out what they are? With uh holiday is some type of are these like potentially beings that are against the holidays. Are they are they an anti Christmas beings? Are they one of those, you know, horrible horrible villains that are sent from the uh island of fit toys? Very good. Um you absolutely can attempt to see if you can determine what they are. Um, I'm sorry to ask you for this again, but this is the kind of things that keep coming up for your character. So that's gonna be an instinct roll for you. Um and I believe Dosif, while while that is resolving, was wanting to go as well Well well hold on. Oh I just hold on a second. Just just questioning here because I know we're all we're all still grappling with the rules. If if Chili rolls an instinct roll with fear Does it not give you the opportunity to take the spotlight back? And should we not resolve that role first before it goes to Dose of? I'm not too worried. Go ahead. Alright, fair enough. I want to give the players uh some time to have fun. So, you know, w what will happen on my end will happen. I I understand I've been rolling a lot of fear. He's like, listen, I'm full up, all right? I got I got a fucking ball of fear over here. Right now, right now, because I just rolled with hope. So right now it's it's every other one. So I gotta make sure whatever I do next It's not gonna be too horrible. I wanna make it like a very big did I like this can I tell what kind of food was in this in this dish? Anyways, I rolled a um 16 with hope. Okay. Well, take a hope. Uh that's on the right side of your character sheet. That's the thing that I know for sure. So not the left side. Well, start on the left, work your way. It's that's just that's just how we read. So I'm at the bottom left of the page. Bottom left, and you gotta go upright. Yep, perfect. Um so um you As this as this being is attempting to wrap a chain around you and uh I think it miscalculates just how short you are And just kind of just basically like right over your air. You know what? Actually, let's make this let's make this a little more thematic. Um the the the specter actually wraps the chain around your sweater. But just due to the the fine fabric that the sweater was knit from slips right off of you The fine Corinthian l yarn. Uh so um you can tell in the moment that the chains fall off of you, you can tell That these beings are not against Christmas. Or I'm sorry, not against Cormus. These beings are for it. And now Dosef was gonna do something. Dosef was just going to position um position himself in front of um Humble and sorry Chili and Krampus. Okay. Yeah. Kinda just kind of making a large presence in the world. Yeah, just kind of like trying to block as much as possible. Yeah. Point of question for the point of order here. Um point of question question of order. Um I think Krampus is still on Dosef's back Which is great. That's fine too. Yeah, that's great. I'm a big fan of that. Yeah, that works out. Yeah. Mounted combat time. All right. Mounted combat, absolutely He's got a staff out like a lance, just like tucked under his armpit, you know, ready to go. Um Okay Um well if uh if so yeah go ahead. Yeah, if if Dosef is just uh uh positioning himself in a way to kind of protect the rest of everybody, um Well no, just the two small ones, because Joseph knows that Bumble can take care of himself. Bumble Bumble is like in like in close to far range, like thirty, forty feet away. So Bumble is is not too close in investigating the tree. So Okay. That might be that might be a little far. More like twenty feet away. But b Bumble is is if you were trying to position yourself in front of Bumble as well, that would be a whole mess that we Um in that case, uh in the same way that that uh Krampus kind of pulled like reached out into the snow to pull little snowflakes into fireflies. He does so again, but the fireflies like start to shiver and flicker and light up stronger. And they descend on the Spectre. Um and he's gonna use Fireflies, not Fireflies one, fire space flies, um, to make a spell cast roll against this uh Spectre. Okay. And that is a twenty-two with hope. Take a hope. And that is absolutely a hit against the Spectre that is in front of you. Um, and that is Oh my god, the worst I could possibly do. That's two ones on the die. So five magic damage. Um but as these like fireflies kind of coalesce out of the snowflakes, they come like they kind of rain down and speed down into the Spectre and explode. And like little pops of light. I love that, first of all. Um it almost looks like a string of Cormus lights that are that are descending upon the spirit. And as the lights hit the spirit, spirit disappears Ooh. The giant clock tower off in the distance in the town chimes The spirit reappears right where it was. Um I didn't hit it that hard Um and it was gone and then boom picked the clock tower and then it's back. Um I don't know, you seen this before, Bumble Fraggle Fraggle? Mmm. Limpy Wimpy. Oh shit And I will say this is this is a common thing that I find I say when I'm When I'm GMing Daggerheart, it is still the player's turn because that was a success with hope. But if you wouldn't like to go, I'm happy to do some stuff. Go Humble Bumble. I was throwing it to you. Go. How far away is the clock tower? Uh Clock Tower is very far. Like you can see the hands because it's so big, but it's very far away. Past the tree. So the um Oh sorry, Chili, you go ahead. No, no, no, no, no, no. No. I was I was going to do something if the clock tower was close. Ah. Sorry. Listen, when when Humble Bumble could throw either of us several football fields, everything is close to us. Yeah, it's true. One of my experiences is yeti eating. So Perfect. So we've got Groot and the Fastball Special all at once. Yep. It's perfect. So there was a there was the specter that was near them that we saw f kind of fade in and out. There's two others in the vicinity. So And there there's a larger one further down, is that right? Right. So the for your positioning, uh Humble, what I want you to picture is Um, you have the three you have the you have Dosef and you have Chili and you have Krampus kind of all bundled that's sorry, that's a weird word with your name. It's messing with my messing with my head here. Um you have them kind of grouped up Maybe maybe 30 feet or so away from the tree. In between you and them is this giant specter. Um Not as big as you, to be clear, when I say giant. Um still still smaller than you. Um pretty big to their left, your right, is another specter that kind of looks like a flickering candle. And then to you their right, your left. Wow, this is Maybe I sh maybe we should use a map because this is breaking my brain, but it's fine. Um there there is another spec the no actually I'm sorry that's There's three additional specters, right? There is besides the one on you, there are three types of things. There's the Holly one, there's the flickering candle one, and then there's the one that you can't see. Okay. The one that you can't see is clo is off in the distance towards the clock tower. Okay. Okay, can I as much as I'd want it to be is not a back to the future reference. Okay. Can I try to talk to the Spectre? Sure, what would you like to say? Well hello, I am hello, I am Joseph. I do I do not know why I do not know why you are trying to put chains on my friend or my family, but it is the holidays. And maybe we could be friends. It is nice to meet you, Abn I am Joseph, but please do not put chains on my friends The Spectre laughs a surprisingly mirthful laugh Hello, do you do you like sweaters? I like knitting sweaters. I do not know if you could wear a sweater. You look like you may not be able to wear a sweater. But I would knit you a sweater. Maybe we could be friends. Well I can knit you a sweater. And if I don't want to jump in front of anybody, but i if I I wanna I wanna let Humble Bumble go, but I have a thought for how um We might be able to spend three hope, me and and uh Dosef to do a joint attack on this Uh Spectre. Okay. Um so to resolve Dosiff's attempt to uh to speak to the Spectre, the Spectre laughs very jovially. and then uh then says I know you now. Know me. Oh. Well hello, what is your name? I would like to know your name. I'm Dosef. I have had many names and he laughs again. And then because Krampus kind of uh like his his attention shifts from you, Doseph, to Krampus on your back and he recognizes that this is the one that sent fireflies after him and his Mirthful appearance sours quickly, and the laugh that you hear from him this time is much darker. Oh, uh-oh. I do not like the sound of that. And now, uh, I believe Humble was going to do something. Is that is that correct? You just were kinda getting a lay of the land. Yes, if if that's still okay. And then depending on how your role goes, we might we might go to Krampus' idea or maybe I'll get to have some fun. Based on the interaction that's happening there, do I feel that do I feel that dosive? Um And Krampus are in immediate danger still. Um I would say you get the sense that Dosef's attempt to uh to offer this the Spectre a sweater. um would be met with the I like the idea that like, no, I've already got these really cool clothes, thanks. Let's keep let's keep at it. You know? So I I would say that you you don't You don't get the sense that they are they are de escalating the situation. Because I don't want to mess parentheses. Yeah, I was gonna say whether or not that's the most pressing danger, that that might involve a role in in some more attempts, but uh that like some more Negotiating I guess. I guess what what I what uh the the reason I ask is I think what what uh Bumble would do is he would go after what he thought was the most immediate threat to his to his newfound friends. So if it's if it's that one, then that's probably what what I we would do. But if there's something that feels more sinister, that's where That's where I would want to do my thing, if that makes sense. And if I need to roll for that, I'm willing to. But like just it just passive instinct, what feels like the the dominant threat here. Does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely. Let me let me tell you the two most pressing things in your mind and then you can make a decision. So obviously you have a giant specter, um probably bigger than even Dosef. uh kind of right in attack range with with your three new friends, including the one that just knit you some lovely gloves. Uh fingerless as they may be. So you see that, but you also see this, as you're noticing that, you also your eye catches on this specter that looks like the Grim Reaper, and you don't like the looks of it. It is it this is a this is a very boring word to use for a ghost, but it looks haunting Um it's uh it is No, that's it's good, it's good. It is it is menacing might be good. Like it it looks it looks scarier than the other two, but it's also uh further away. Okay. I I think then based on that, I I think Bumble has enough like trust in in Dosef for his character um like the the presenting character, not like I like character the character sheet character. Um I think He's like, okay, you got that one, I'll get this one kind of mentality. So Bumble is going to If and I don't know if the how far it is, but if it's close enough, I'm basically going to shoulder check the Grim Reach Proof I can. That's what I'm going to attempt to do. Happy to have you try. You can clear the distance between you and that spirit pretty easily. So it's just a matter of can you hit it with your attack? Okay. Uh now I do happen. I don't think that no. Well, okay, yeah. What is shoulder neck? So yeah, so I'm going to attempt to Uh I'm gonna yeah just try to shoulder check him into the building, I guess. Um so I just need to roll in uh an attack, is that right? Yeah, that would just be your unarmed strike. This motherfucker's a hockey player. Full stop. Missing teeth Shoulder checks, just aggression against every it's like, who's the biggest guy here? I gotta hit him. It's listening. Oh my god, he can throw the gloves off if he wants to What I'm saying is, not the gloves. That's why I'm shoulder checking. I don't want to use my my my hands and dirty these this wonderful gift I've been given. So I'm just gonna shoulder check instead. So we have to protect the gloves. Uh okay, so I think everything that I can do depends on if I hit the thing. So, all right, so let me roll this. Uh boop. Okay. That's a 16 with hope. Take a hope? Take a hope? Okay. Unfortunately. The spirit sidesteps your shoulder check. Wait, does that mean he shoulder checks a building? Yeah, I'm full for I'm full forcing, so I was gonna say you can either shoulder check the building or you stumble past and use the full force of your momentum to kind of roll off into the distance. I will leave that one up to your decision. Oh. That's someone's home, bro. They got they got a mortgage on it. Yeah, I know it's a good idea. I was gonna say because of Humble has already gone through like his his story of meeting other people instead like he knows he he knows the he knows the em like he's been very careful, like gentle in the town. So I think what he would do is if he missed, uh He would just face plant to try to like like take the brunt of it to like avoid hitting anything. So yeah, so I would just kind of stump try to stumble out of the way if I could avoid doing any um any immediate damage to any of the buildings or anything like that, but try to stay within like range of the Grim Reapella. Okay. It's okay, Humble. Just pretend they're on the the holiday days or the mistletoes. You'll get them next time And just a mouthful of snow. The Grim Reaper looking specter, I want to be clear, it's not actually the Grim Reaper, just That's I'm just trying to have distinguishing features for all of them. Um, the Grim Reaper-looking Spectre swipes its scythe in the air. And points to you with just a outstretched finger humble And suddenly your upbeat spirit seems to be weighed down. Wait a minute. Is he is did that seem like a spell? I think you would get the sense that it was a spell, yes. Counter spell? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let's go further back than that. I don't even know rules lawyer this, but Okay, lawyers. Even though you missed? If uh if a attack fails The GM can take over. Also, if I want to, I can spend a fear and take over anytime I want. Fair point. Fair point. Alright, fair. I thought narratively, this specter who had been lurking off in the shadows might might get a little upset that something tried to attack it. It fits. But I will allow. Chili chip. What's the range on counterspell? It doesn't serve. It doesn't have click on it. Okay. Yeah, there's no range. It literally says you can interrupt a magical effect taking place by making a reaction rule using your spellcrass trait. Full stop. Okay. It does not generate hope or fear though. And if it's successful, you lose that card completely. Goes in the vault. Oh. Interesting. Well, hold on. It doesn't say permanently. You do have to move it to your vault though. So just be aware. But that's okay. This sounds like a good use of counter spell. So go ahead and make your reaction roll. Against this spirit. Well, it is it is. Well, it doesn't matter because it doesn't roll with fear per the thing, but this is a great time to roll eleven. I'm on either spectrum here. Like it's it's 20s or a three and a four plus four. Eleven. You reach out to this spirit. With your magic chili, unfortunately, you cannot get to it in time. And The spell effect lands on Humble Bumble. Humble. I'm gonna tell you what happens now Well the fear doesn't count because it can't roll with fear or hope or a GM move. Right. Yeah, no no no. But your counter spell f your counterspell failed. Your counter spell failed, so the the effect that I hadn't applied now applies. Does that make sense? Okay. Yep, yep, sorry. Okay. No, you're good. Uh, so what I'm gonna need you to do, Humble, is your duality die? Your hope die is now a D eight instead of a D twelve. What? Dang Oh, no, what happened? No what happens? Your D your your D twelve, that was your hope die, is a D eight Your spirit is weighed down by the effect of this. Or sorry, your I guess we'll say your soul is weighed down by the effect of this spirit. And you find yourself struggling to generate the hope necessary. So your d12 for hope is now a d8 until you clear this condition. You can clear this condition in one of two ways. One way is you can make a roll with success. Or sorry, roll a success with hope. And the other way is you can spend two stress to clear this condition. Holy cow. Alright, I lost the plot. I think I think Humble rolled with hope. Was then affected by something that is definitely not hopeful. Despite a counterspell effort by Chili. Is the play still in the party's favor? I'm gonna do one more thing before I give the uh give the give the give the play back to you. The spirit I shouldn't have said shit. I should have just shut up You would have been like, no, what do you want to do? I should have shut the fuck up. This is all your fault. God damn it. Alright. Fair enough. The the spirit that is directly in the f in front of the three of you. is going to take his flaming torch and he is going to swing it at this tiny goblin on the back of this majestic blue deer and attempt to Baseball club it off of the back of the deer. That's fun. That is not great. Uh, that hits. Okay. Oh now I can do the sweater thing. I'm gonna do the sweater thing now. I am wearing a sweater. Sweater time. During this sweater time. So I'm gonna do the I am your shield and add the um exp the holiday knitting sweater specialist experience. So do I have to roll? I don't know how that works. Uh no, you are you mark a stress to stand away stress? Okay. And you are the target of the attack instead. I don't think you have I mean, for flavor, you can use your holiday sweater knitting specialist, but I don't think you need to spend a hope or anything to use that because you're not- you're not rolling anything. So I need to tell you how much damage you take. Okay. And because because of who this spirit is, you will be knocked back. Can I can I throw something into this Massive roles. Yes, absolutely. I just want to say, by the way, I love that all of you, whenever I do anything have like, all right, I just want to do three things real quick and then we can resolve that. I love it. I love it. That's you that's because we're You're talking to like experienced like people. Like this is we're like I have this ability. I legitimately was like, I was like, they are gonna mess up everything I have planned. I'm excited to see how they do it. So what do you got? So my mine is only damage reduction, so do all of what you're gonna do, and then I will roll at the end. You can do damage reduction for somebody else? So this is this is why I was int introducing it now. Okay, yeah, okay. So So you go for damage for him and then he can reduce it for me? Is that So that's that's why I'm throwing this in here is there's a little bit of an interesting interaction with I am your shield versus what I was gonna do. So I was going to use Rune Ward. You have a deeply personal trinket that can be infused with protective magic and held as a ward by you or as an ally or an ally. Describe what it is, why is it important to you, blah, blah, blah. The wards holder can send a hope to spend a hope to reduce incoming damage by 1d8. The damage is coming at me. She's taking it for me. But it's still coming at me. So like can I if you are willing to hang your rune ward from one of Dosif's antlers, then we can we can count that. You know what? I think we would do that. I think and that we'll be able to do that. You know what we could even say? Do you remember the snowball you packed? Sure do. What was it? Holly? What was it? I don't remember what it was, but it's so I said it was I said it was twine and snow. Twine, that's what it was, yeah. But at the core of it actually was A very, very small leather bag of buttons And these are buttons that have like popped off or been lost in the the like warren that he grew up in, um, that his mother and his aunts had like sewn onto and had fallen off of like various vests and pants and stuff. And he just had come to collect them and he gathered them into this little bag. And they had been his like form of carrying his family with him, uh, as a measure of protection. And it pulses out of this snowball on your antler. So it whatever damage you take will be reduced by one D eight. So as you take this hit, um your sweater protecting Krampus and your well, the sweater you knitted, protecting Krampus, Doseph, and the sweater you're wearing instead taking the damage The the snowball that was so gently kind of looped around your antler uh breaks away. Like all the snow breaks away, and there's just this bag that um was just described for you. And you would, if not for uh this rune ward, take 21 damage. But you get to roll a d8 Now for me, uh dosage and tell me what that number is. Okay, let's see. That is a seven. Perfect. So you that is fourteen damage instead Okay. And because of the, by the way, just a little rules thing for people listening or for those of you playing, typically when you take damage, you can only mark one armor slot to reduce the damage. Okay. Um by one severity. But because of I am your shield, Dosef can mark as many armor slots as possible. So looking at your character sheet. You you just took you were originally at 21 damage, which would have been major damage for you. Uh it was reduced to 14 damage, which is minor damage for you. So you can either take one HP, mark one HP slot. Or you can mark one armor slot and take no HP damage. Um, I'll mark an armor slot. Sounds good. Yeah, let's go. Huge. Cute. Nice. That was a good moment. We brought back the snowball. That was delightful. There we go. We love a good snowball. And I have taken a few actions in a row, so I am going to let. You go. So being all right. That is that is not a very nice thing to do. Joseph offered you a nice holiday sweater and still you tried to attack my f new friend. I do not like this very much. Dosef is not a fan. This is not in the holiday spirit And Joseph is going to try to um get close enough to boop um the s the spirit with his glowing nose. Okay. Which is flavor for just for people. Flavor for Advanced Glowing Rings. Yes. The the weapon. The weapon, yes. I was just happy that you came up with that, so I wanted to share it with people. Thank you. I thought it was I I think we did it together. It was a combined effort. So do I roll the duality dice? Yep. Anytime you attack or do a check or anything. Yep. Okay. During Dose of speech, I'm pointing, I'm looking at the spectrum pointing at Dose of going, You need to listen to this. This is this is correct information. That was so bad. Um I I rolled a three with hope. Oh dear. Total Yes Wait, what wait, hold on. You have plus one from uh from your agility, so what Did you roll two once? Then it's a four. Then it's a four. I rolled rolled a two and a one. Okay, well that was with hope or with fear? I'm sorry. With hope. With hope. Okay. Well, take a hope. That's on the right side of your character sheet. Fun fact. Well, thank you very much. Not the left. Okay. Yeah, not the left. Start from the left. Anyway. Boy, if I cut the initial instance of that joke out, I'm gonna have to cut every other instance of that joke out. Ooh, buddy. Anywho. Um, I I regret to inform you that a four does not in. Oh, Dosef Dosef's nose glows, but you know what, Dosef's heart really isn't in it. anyway. Like Dosef is not really interested. Dosef would rather be friends. Dosef is just trying to protect um, you know the new people that that he met, but he's he's it's very half-hearted attempt, I would say. How much hope do you how how much hope do you have? Um, I have four hope. Uh, Krampus is gonna lean down and whisper in in Dov Dosef's ear, Hey, um Just like start knitting and uh he's gonna cast uh vicious entangle on this like Spectre in front of them. But the things that burst up out of the snow look like yarn. Oh cool. And like to it like entangle this thing, like wrap it up in yarn. Okay. Um so I need to make a so this is a this is actually an above the table question. I know that we can do we can do um combined roles, but are they purely on attacks or can I do it on a spell? Like, can she help me or like can Tidley help me on a spell? If Dosef has a way to help you with this attack, then you can absolutely make this a tag team roll. So that's why I flavored it as yarn. Well yarn, yes. It's it's yarn bursting out of the snow to like enrap en wrap this thing. So let me let me kind of go through the rules specifically for tag team role. So anybody listening knows or y you all playing know. Once per session, each player can choose to spend three hope and initiate a tag team role between their character and another PC. When you do, work with the character's the other character's player to describe how you combine your actions in a unique and exciting way. I think we're already on the way there You make separate action rolls, but before resolving the role's outcome, choose one of the roles to apply for both of your results. On a roll with hope, everybody gains a hope. On a roll with fear, I get a fear for each PC involved. And then they're especially powerful attacks. When you succeed, you both rode roll your damage and add the totals together. So do we think this works for a spell versus a physical attack? I I have no uh I mean it says if the attacks deal different types of damage, physical or magic, so absolutely it can work for a spell in my And and is it three hope for both people or for the person who initiates the tag team? Person initiating it. Oh, okay, just me. Okay. So it just be math. player can be a good idea. And I can I can have an opportunity to initiate the tag team. Okay. That's that's great. So so Joseph is going to um pull out his custom knitting needles and and the yarn. And uh and and start knitting and then the the yarn is going to magically start floating. Is that what's happening? I think I think the yarn like dives into the snow and like travels in the room. Okay, great. And Joseph is Joseph is just amazed. Joseph has never seen Yarn behave in this way before. It is he's oh m oh my goodness, what what is happening? This is the most amazing sweater I have ever made. So, uh uh Krampus is like standing up on Dove Dosef's back, like one hand on the antlers, the other like guiding these tendrils of yarn through the snow. Um and then we both roll, right? Yes. I know before like outside of the flavor, Dosef just needs to decide, is it just a another nose boop attack or is it are you using a different ability? It is up to you. Yeah, I would say so. I would say so. But maybe maybe like what we'll do is we'll have the Um the yarn start to glow from like Doseph's nose will start imbuing the yarn with kind of like a a blue glow. Um like yeah, something like that. I love it. All right, go ahead and both of you roll your attack. Oh boy. So I I rolled mine. It's twenty-two uh hold on. Spell casting uh is plus three. So twenty-five with fear. Okay. Or uh I have 13 with hope. I think we take the 25 with fear. I think we take the 25, yeah. Yeah, all right. Hold on. For for just to just to add for um revealing is fun is I'm going to have some stuff in here. I'm within co close range of them, right? Oh yeah. Clos like as your attack as your attacks going off and you're you're you're sensing a potential a little bit of that of the not holiday spirit, that fear. Um A snowflake will pass down past your eye and and and just make the tree seem like it's lit up just a little bit more. And I will use my once per rest Holiday aura, which is also known as Hollowed Aura, and when an ally within close range rolls with fear, you can make it roll with hope instead. So uh twenty-five with hope. Okay, well each of you take a look at the highest. Each of you take a hope. 100% that hits. Both of you roll for damage. Right. I have to re I have to reduce down to one. You also hear a little bit of that jingle from potentially a sleigh. Okay, so this doesn't do much damage, at least from my side. Um our our our our friend my friend is going to do more damage, but from a vicious entangle It's just 1d8 plus 1 for a oh shit. That's really good. Uh a rolled max. So nine physical damage. Okay. and temporarily restrains the target. Okay. So this sweater swarms up it and and Wraps around it and holds it in place. I love that you ended up knitting a sweater for the guy who didn't want one. Fantastic. Non-consensual sweatering. I know it's eight damage, but it's like eight love. damage it's like eight hug damage you know what I mean oh my goodness how much damage from you doses yeah so the blue glow is um Going to um Yeah, the the the spirit of the holiday sweater, the Christmas spirit of the holiday sweater is going to cause 30 points of damage. Holy shit! The holiday spirit is strong for Doseif. Thirty-eight. Thirty-eight damage. 30, 30. Well, plus plus eight nine. Oh yeah, you're right. Sorry. Yeah, no, no, no. It's it's yeah, exactly. So yeah, 39 total. 39 total damage. Yeah. Wow. The sweater climbs up from the ground and crawls over this spirit and he tries to like fight it off, but it is it's overwhelming. And it actually reaches the sweater, grabs the spirit, pulls it into the ground. The clock strikes the spirit is back. No In the sweater still. Because I'm not gonna take that away from you. Very finely tailored sweater. Like this is a really good looking sweater. I mean it's glowing blue too, so it's like it's a it's a Jacob by Mark Jacobs for Jacobs by Mark Mark Jacobs. Is it is it an action to add a spell? I know I know it costs stress, but is it an action to me for me to just add a spell back into my if you want to take something from your vault, mark a stress. I'm adding blink back. I'm adding blink into my spell slot. Okay. I will take a note that you uh marked a stress. Yeah, I think we uh me and at least I I have expanded my turn, but we are we rolled with hope because of our very good friend Chili Chippy. Um so it's still in our corner? Yeah. I mean unless you want me unless you want me to go. I'm I'm No no I I I think Crampus Kramp is looking at like we we've now killed this ghost twice. Oh my goodness. And Krampus is like, it's I I should note I should note that the ghost looks More fortified now. I when I chop down the strong plants, they're not big trees, but at least they fall and they stay down. This one keeps getting back up And then he looks at he looks at Humble Bundle. Fragle Fraggle Oh. Yeah, were you about to do something? I I d I I I do have a thing, but but Chili, if you have a thing you wanted to do first. I think Chili should go. You both just have to succeed or if one of you succeeds, the other one can go too, unless I'm a real jerk, you know. I I do not know what is going on, but that is a very nice holiday sweater you have. Very nice. And you said you did not want a holiday sweater, but it looks very nice. With that with that role that I had on um understanding what these guys were, I have no clue why they keep reappearing other than I'm hearing a the bell toll, right? Right. Okay. I am going to blink to the clock tower. Okay. Um and when I do this, I just I just disappear in well, let's see if I make it right. Let's do that first. Uh 21 with hope. Dang. Good rules. Right. Let's go. Take a hope. You are at the clock tower. Well flying. I I I disappear in snowflakes. Uh it's it' my element is frost, so I disappear in snowflakes and I reappear in snowflakes right in front of it. Um Humble, do you have something to do? If not, I will I I will go again. Um Krampus looking over to Chili be like, hey Chili, can you and they're just like like snowfall. Snowflake kind of is like a gust in your face and you're like, oh. Oh. That was that was cold. With the so the the effect of the the blink is just Like oh like we don't do we do hmm I'm trying to try to think of it. If you can see the tower you might see me appear there. You're pretty small, so there there's probably some like They can see the tower, but I'm not sure they can see the three foot thing in front of the tower at this point. Listen, humble humble bum humble bumble got his bifocals on. Okay. But I I will s I will say before before Humble goes, uh Chili, now that you're over here, you are much closer to the fourth spirit that was kind of wavering in and out of your vision. You weren't quite sure what it was. This is a bigger spirit than all of the other ones. Sheathed in chains and tattered robes. It has cloth wrapped around its head from top to bottom. Okay. And it doesn't look excited to see you. Say less. Happy holidays. And just for my my understanding as well, if I if I If I mark the two stress to clear up whatever this effect is, is that effectively like my my turn? Is that the way that I would treat that? It doesn't have to be. So the way that that the way that moves work in Daggerheart, it is whatever fits with the story is the right thing to do. So if clearing two stress as you do another action fits with the story, that that's okay. Like it's You could theoretically do five things in a row, that just wouldn't be very fun for your other players who are like, all right, he's been going for 15 minutes. Can can I go? So Um, as long as you guys are doing great at passing the spotlight, all those things. Uh so as long as that's happening, do what you need to do. Okay. Um Hmm. Uh then I g uh cause if if I don't sit so 'cause the clock tower is it doesn't feel like an immediate threat. So I wouldn't probably worry about that and and uh Chile hasn't it doesn't appear to be in danger yet. So uh and I'm seeing the the amazing Krampus and Dose of tag team knitting combo here is uh handling business there. Uh I guess what I would do then is since I I goofed my first like um attack a shoulder check. Uh I guess I'm gonna like you know, get up, shake my head, and then I I'm not upset, but I'm like I just I have a I now have a point to prove. Um so since I'm not trying to mess up my my gloves, I guess I'm just I guess I'm just gonna tr try I I'm gonna what I what the way I I think it thematically is I'm just I'm gonna kinda like when I shake off like the snow uh is how I'm thinking about like burning the stress of the whatever that like shake this effect off of like um what I'm feeling and then just follow it up with a people's elbow. Okay. On the Grim Reaper? Okay. If that makes sense. Happy to have you do that. So you are marking two stress to clear the condition. Okay. You are back to using your D12 for hope. Okay. I really I really wanted you to try to to roll with hope with that. I was really hopeful, but it's okay. It's okay. I I was You know what? Actually, let's do it. Let's see what happens. Let's let I I'm gonna I'll retra let's just do it. I'm gonna keep the effect. I'm just gonna need your help because I don't know if there's a way on Demi plane I don't know how to change the duality. Oh yeah, that's a good point. I don't know that you can't I don't exactly know how to do that Yeah, you can just roll just click the little roll thing in the bottom left and just click the little over arrow and then just roll a d eight and a d twelve. Makes you start from the right side and then go down to the bottom left. Yeah, so so start start at the right side and then go left and then come back to the right. Bottom the bottom left of your your character sheet has a picture of two dice. Got it. And then click the arrows there. Nobody who's not used to watch to playing this game should listen to this episode. I go I go to the bottom of the sh Sheet and then go right? Like wait. What? You gonna you can ignore that 18 with hope because that was rolling with both two D twelve. So this is the actual roll. So I'm gonna roll a D eight, which this is my hope roll. I got a four for my hope. Okay, so a three. Come on, baby. A three. Three or less. Three or less. Three or less. There we go. And I'm going to roll a D12 for my fear. Twelve. Oh. Okay. So that's a so this is an attack, so it would be sixteen plus Four? So eight. That's I can't mask, sorry. It is a twenty with fear. Okay. That it's tell me how much damage you do. Okay. Well so there's a lot of people. Yeah. So there there's a there's a couple things that can happen when I when I get an attack. Do you want the damage or the effects? First. Let's start with the effects. Okay. Uh what an amazing question. Uh so first of all I get body basher because I use my entire weight. So I'll add my strength to the bonk Um I'm going to burn three hope to stagger you. Perfect. It's gonna force you to mark a stress and you have disadvantage on any attack rolls. Okay. Put it in the back. Oh my goodness. Um adversary sheet. And the last thing I'm going to do, because the other thing that I could do is give like give other people hope which aren't close enough, which is fine. So now I'm going to roll the damage. So it's going to be this. Did that uh oh oh it just does a thing and then it's gonna be plus eight if I understand correctly. Okay. Okay. Uh twenty-nine people's elbow damage Is that a specific kind of damage? Yeah, there's three there's three types of damage. There's physical magic and people's elbow. That's right. The third secret type. Okay, perfect. So Um, I think the the Grim Reaper-looking spirit, the stagger wouldn't even necessarily come from the damage that it took, but from the surprise. of this enormous thing just falling onto it and I don't know if anybody would see this, but maybe Humble would feel it. Spirit disappears. The clock tolls spirits back. Oh. It is still staggered Okay. Uh I guess I would shout back to um The Krampus. Fraggle Raggle. And since she said Raggle Fraggle. I do not under is he saying north again? I don't understand. Should we go north? No, no, uh um uh yeah uh he kind of waves at uh humble bumble and then um whispers down because he doesn't want to be like overheard even anybody to like the the ghost overhear him. Um he's like, hey, um he says that it doesn't seem like it makes much difference how much How hard we hit them, we just need to touch them. Just it can even be a nice touch Um, he was very eloquent and I'm having trouble relaying it in this language, because this is not my normal language, and not his either. But like, just um, just poke him. Oh. I think The Since that was a success with fear, I'm gonna go ahead and take over for a minute if y'all don't mind. The Grim Reaper looking spirit disappears Again. This time it is not as if it was defeated and vanquished and returned. It simply just vanishes from your sight. And suddenly it is right behind Doseph and Krampus. Well well hello would you like a nice holiday sweater too? Don't say hello to him, he's trying to hurt us But he might just want a holiday sweater! Then hug him, I don't know. I do not know. As it reappears behind you Chains reach out from its Spectral Scythe and attempt to grab Krampus and pull him from the back of Dosif I'm gonna go ahead and roll for that. Okay. This is is this an attack roll? This is an attack. Okay. That is a seventeen to hit. So I'm gonna mark a stress to make you re-roll that. Okay. Yeah, that was a very good choice. That's a five. It misses. Let's go. That was One of the worst rerolls I think I've ever had to do. Krampa said I said no. No. So Krampa said, well like Can like lightly batting Joseph on the head, like, no, don't hug him, um, senses this like scythe coming underneath his leg to like yank his ankle out. And just like grabs the antlers, but like in a cross grip, and then pops over to like turn around and face this thing that has appeared behind them and avoid the crab. Okay. Because you guys have gotten to go a little bit, I'm gonna go ahead and keep the spotlight for a moment. And the ghost that looks like a flickering candle. is going to float up to humble bundle. I'd say float, it's it's just moving, you know. That's that's not like a special thing. It's a ghost, so it floats. Uh it is going to float up to Humble Bumble and attempt to memory delve you. Angel Robinson. Does Humble Bundle have a memory? I gotta throw these dice away. That is uh Nine? Nine to hit, humble? Uh let's see. A nine. Uh is that based on my evasion or just armor? Evasion. Evasion is yeah, evasion is essentially armor class in this game. Okay. Uh mine's a 12, so that will miss. Okay. Um I that cost me a fear. Yeah, pain. Okay. From from Humble's from Humble Side. It's your birthday! Make a wish! Blood all Um and I am going to keep the spotlight one more time and have the towering spirit that is near. Chili. Oh, chili. That wasn't to you. Make an attack make an attack roll against you. This is different than attempting to grab you with the chains, but this spirit has essentially what is like a mace, which is chains with a large lockbox at the end. And it is going to attempt to swing the chain and hit you with the lockbox. And I am spending so much fear because I'm trying to have something hit. Goodness. Okay, well I think that one's pretty good. That's a twenty? How's that? How's that? Chili's so we'll hit. Okay. I medicate this at all. Shit. That is twelve magic damage as the lockbox is swung around crashes into you. And you must mark a stress. Must mark a stress. And I'm taking one HP, but I can mark an armor. Let me take a look at your character sheet. So it's all dependent on thresholds. So your 12 is below your major threshold, which is 14. So it'd be one HP or one armor slot. No take an armor slot. Yeah, yeah. So, yep. So there you go. You mark no HP. Man, I don't know if I've done damage to any of you yet. I'm trying so hard. Throw the dice away. No, keep them. What do you what do you mean? Keep those nice. I'll hand it I will hand it back to all of you. Um I mean, do we think there's something going on with the clock tower? Like maybe if we do get the clock tower, it'll like stop the spirits from reoperating. I would like to um Take take this uh let me let me let me run this and then we'll s we'll see. That's where I'm sort of going. So It's it's a little loud right now. We just we just need a minute to talk to your friends down there. That was very rude. But if I just need this to be a little bit quiet, I'm gonna cast hush on the clock tower On the clock tower. Talk to him, chili! I love that. Oh, uh, hold on, I'm looking at your character. Did you move counter spell out of your hand? It I currently um yes and and blink is back up blink out back out of my hand is back in my vault too. Okay, because counter spell doesn't have to be. You didn't it was only on success you have to move it to your vault. Yeah, you can if you fail It stays with you. Yeah, you're good. Well it uh I would've I would have had to do that. I would it doesn't matter. I would I would have had to swap it for a different At any d at any point. Well, I guess I would have swapped it for hold on, then I'll keep counter spell on there and ru Reign of Blades will be gone. Okay, that's fine. Um okay, so you're casting hush, you're making a spell cast roll against the clock. Um, go ahead and roll. I actually don't know this is a good idea. Twenty-four with fear. Every other role. I will take that fear. Uh great news. It's a clock tower, not very resistant to magic. So yeah, you as far as you are aware. The clock tower is silenced. I have to spend a hope for that. Okay, go ahead and do that. Okay. We've done that. Um yeah. I can keep going unless you guys got something to do if you guys want to start taking some people out. But um So because you're old with fear, DM has a chance to jump in. I just did like three things in a row. I'm happy to let you go. So here's a question for the jam. Um would we have heard any like would there have been any kind of effect of the muting of the clock tower? Like Sound coming out in like a blank like ming like any kind of like something of that nature that we would hear. I don't know. Or is it just does does hush make a sound, do you think? I imagine probably not. Probably not. Given the successfully it stops all sound. Fair enough. It goes to my vault, right? Because you cast what? I'm sorry? Because I cast it successfully goes to my vault. No, that was that's just counter spell. Counter spell is the only thing that you have to move to your vault when you cast successfully. Yeah, it's only th there are only a few spells that that counts for. There's w there's like one or two cards in Daggerheart that if you y like reser like there's like a resurrection card or something that you can only use once ever. That sort of thing. But then then to make sure everything works out, I would have had to switch switch out switch out Rain of Blades with Blink Out if Counterspell stayed in my thing. Okay. You're good. You don't have to like you don't have to take more stress to do whatever like Yeah, I'm I'm fixing that. Okay. Yeah, you're good. You're good. So Do you let do they have any way of knowing from far distance that you just hush the clock tower? Um, I mean what you heard what pretty much what I said. I was like, my my we're just trying to have a conversation and I just needed to get quiet down a little bit. I would have there would be no other thing to do. Yeah. Okay. Um I will let the the other players interpret that as they see fit. I think uh Krampus would could not have possibly heard that, but he's got a specter behind him. uh him and uh Dosef he's got two in front. I think the we've got big tall way off in the distance Spectre. We've got Grim Reaper Spectre. We've got Bigger Spectre right by um Humble. Are Big Spectre in front of Humble and Grim Reaper Humble or Grimreaker um Spectre kind of floating around in the same area? Just to be clear, you still have Giant Spectre in front of Dosif. Okay. You have Grim Reaper Spectre behind Dosif. And then off by Humble is the more candle flickering flame looking specter. Per that one difference. Would you say that the specter in front of me and behind me Are both within close range. Yeah, close range is in like twenty feet. Yeah. Lovely. No, I wouldn't. I take that back based on your reaction. Sorry, just kidding. Go ahead. Uh Krampus is going to look back, look forward, um, and whisper down into Dose of Sears. Do you like Christmas lights? And he's gonna reach up. And in just the the way that Uh all of this party had seen him draw snowflakes down into lights. He's gonna take all of the snowflakes above him and draw them down into fireflies. Um to attack everybody, all of the enemies in close range. Which is both of these specters. Both of them, yep. You will be attacked by the giant specter and the Grim Reaper. Yep. And Dosef is going to is going to use three hope to tag team. Okay. Ooh. Okay. And try to imbue the imbue the snowflakes with the blue glow. So as the as the snowflakes light up in yellow and orange and as they descend they d they turn into blue, like the the hottest of flame that like blue fire as they descend. Um so I think we both make spellcast rolls here. We both make attack rolls. Oh, I do have one point of order. I I'm sorry, I just forgot. Thankfully, when the Grim Reaper spirit attacked you, it missed because I was supposed to roll that with disadvantage because it was staggered by Humble. I forgot about that and I'm sorry. I just saw my note and I Sorry. Anyways, it missed anyway, so it doesn't matter, but just a reminder for myself. Extra missed. Thank you for being honest. Yes. All right, here we go. Ooh, okay. Um so I have a seventeen with fear. I have a twelve with hope. Okay, I think we've got the same thing. Yep. Okay. Seventeen will hit both of them. And so It's a re is there an effect on the damage or is it just the role likelihood? Sorry, what do you mean? So we've hit. If we if we're hitting, is there any effect from a joint attack on the damage or is it just to make sure the damage is? You both roll damage and then add them to the bottom. Okay. Um so tidly you need to roll two D eight. Plus you whatever your um Well you you roll two D eight plus three, right? Right, I do for your for your fireflies? Yes. But what does she roll? Three D ten plus eight. Yeah, so. Okay. Yeah, roll that instead. Uh forget what I said. Oh shit, that's bad. Okay, uh five. So I have eight magic damage from me. And twenty-five damage for um Dosef. Ooh! Damn! Dose of B. Glowy for real. Oh 33? Is that correct, Matt? Everybody good on that? Yeah. Okay. So 33 damage the the Spectre with the scythe disappears. You don't hear anything. Reappears right where it was. Oh okay. The giant specter Looks hurt, but is still standing. Hmm, I hate that. I hate that too much. Um, so GM, we rolled with fear. You sure did. You sure did The giant spectre raises his torch, swirls it in the air, and a Hayes surrounds both Dosif and Krampus, and it looks like sparkles in the air, and it smells like gingerbread cookies and pine needles. Hey, that's my gig! Oh I like that very much! That does not smell like my farts. Both of you are overwhelmed by the scent. And dizzied. Dizzy means that you each have disadvantage on your next action roll. Oh, I hate that. That's terrible. It's really bad. Oh I that smells like um how the stall was supposed to when we were getting bread and cheese, but the cheese was stinkier. This smells really nice. Uh And the candle looking spirit is going to reach into Humble's mind. What little of it is. There's TV static. And what little of it is there. Mind the singular brain cell. And attempt to attempt to haunt him. Good luck. It's like trying to trying to haunt a fumble. That's exactly what I rolled last time I tried to attack Humboldt with the geez, that's a Uh nine again? That's literally the same role. Listen, the dice are telling that that Humble doesn't have a mind to be haunted. Like I said, you need to be TV static. I've made a mistake. So I'm going to spend. You know what? No. I'm gonna hand it back to the players. Shelly help us! There's something I wanna do, but I don't want to do it too early because it's not fair. Humble? Uh Lurpy Derpy. Yes, yes, hit them hard. What we we were you asking to humble something chili, sorry. No chili was done asking. I uh I was asking if you're if you've got something on your docket. I do, but if you want to go ahead, that's fine. I'm I I okay. Are does it look like from my position, um Dosef and Krampus are under a magical spell effect? Um And could I counterspell that? No. This is a this is more of like a poison type thing. It is a chemical in the air. We're also super far away. Actually I mean if it I would have said I I I you know what I take that back. Had I not kind of resolved that turn, probably If you if you would like to try to counterspell that, you can. Well the the the way counterspell s says I can use a reaction roll for, but it says you can interrupt a magical effect taking place. It doesn't say that it has to be it doesn't say that it has to be in response. Oh I see I see something magical happen. Counter it. Instead of I guess there's no dispel magic. So counter spell sort sort of does both or that's what it seems like. Okay. I don't know. I could be wrong, but that's I don't mind that. If you if you want to try that, sure. You know what? That's a that's a good that's a good justification. What's the range on powder spell though? I don't think it says. There's no range. Damn, you're right. Holy shit. Counterspell has no range. If I see a magical effect, it looks like it looks like it's line of sight Yeah, I was gonna say I was gonna say I think as long as you can see the effect is the bigger magical effect. Sephiroth is summoned Meteora. I see Meteora coming, I'm countering Meteora, Sephiroth can't do anything about it. That's crazy talk. That's that's crazy talk. I love it. I'm just a better Aerith. I'm just saying Okay, sorry. Talk to him. Thanks. Um I look at the camera. I know sorry, from from the from Grant isn't there. But I do look good. Could just give me a second! And then I counter spell. I'm talking to the guy in front of me, but I'm I'm in that higher voice. I'm I'm doing it from the perspective of Joseph and Krampus So I'm just off in the distance. It's it's perfect for the podcast that we couldn't hear 70% of what you said. Right. Oh no. We we could not hear 70% of what you said, which is perfect, because you're just like counter spelling. I'm like, yeah, fine. Perfect. Okay. All right, what do you got? 18 with hope. Oh, that hits. The two of you are no longer dizzied. Woo! And now it goes into Now it goes into the world. Because that was a success. So. You are no longer dizzied. And I believe Humble was about to go. So just just for understanding as well, there's uh I know That I think we know that hum um sorry, that Chile is on the um i is is on the clock tower, but there's been no indication that like the clock tower there's like is a problem, right? No. From what you've been doing, Chile, just just confirming. I I think there was a moment where you probably would have expected to hear a bell toll and you did not. I think we had that moment at least. And yet and yet and yet this Spectre resurrected. Still. I'm so trying so hard not call it the clock tower because of that specifically, but what else do you call it? Bell tower? Yeah. But it it's a clock. That was the it's just has a clock. How's a simple Yeti. He he he doesn't know much. Did does he know that that this he was attempted to be haunted just now? Yeah. I mean like he saw the okay. The thing is right in front of you as he was doing it. Well, okay. you. I'm going to then I guess what Humble would do is assume this is some form of like ritual and he'll do the same thing and then just headbutt the c headbutt the thing back. So he's going to attempt to hop with his face uh the the flingering creature, yeah So matter of her mind. Krampus would be jumping up and down on on dose spotlight COKRAMBO BAMBLE! CORKRAMBO BAMBLE! And like Fuck him up! So so while while you're yeah, basically you see like uh anime eye like shine and bam as already to get hit i am not gonna use my stretch for this i'm gonna i'm gonna keep this going so it's gonna be an eight hope Twelve fear, because the effect is still going, right? Yes. Okay. So there's my hope die An eight, eh? That's good. And then my fear die Which is a five. So that would be a seventeen with hope to hit You're not gonna believe this, but that is a success with hope using a D8 as your hope. Unbelievable. So take a hope. Okay. Go ahead and roll your damage against this candle flickering looking creature. Incredible. Okay. So And so what what I'm gonna if I can, uh I'm going to spend a hope Okay. To basically like really haunt this thing. So Juggernaut gets an overwhelm that if I get a successful attack, I can burn a hope to like it's it's basically you can throw them within close range, but I'm just imagining I just I hit them hard enough with my head they just they kind of like stumble back. I'm gonna try to like hit them towards the tree. Um Okay. And that's gonna be do-do-do-do this plus eight. Bah thirty-nine hot bomb head damage You headbutt the candle ghost, the flickering ghost Disappears. Ooh googa booga. What would you guys like to do now? Wait, disappears Completely? Does it reappear? Period. It's gone. Oh. Um Uh oh what'd you say? Ramble Vrample? Ramble Vrample! Um I I think Kravis was on the on the cusp of like leaping up into um a bird for him to go fly over to Chile to see if if he could exchange information with him about what is happening here. Can I popping back up. Can I I'd like to share something with Chili. If he Chili, are you looking at the clock tower? Mm-hmm. The hour hand? As the candle spirit disappears, you might not know that's happening. I don't know how much you know about what Humble just did. Has moved to one. It blew out the candle. The hour was at midnight twelve and it moved to one. I hope you made a wish! Oh shit. Okay. Bramble Bramble! Shit. Okay. So we've still got uh three specters in front of us. You got two specters around you and one over by Chelly, who is like probably about 60 feet away, 60, 90 feet away I think Krampus uh Krampus would pat um Joseph on the back and go, I'll be right back. It's gonna be really weird. Um, but just don't freak out. And he leaps straight upwards Um and he's gonna be form into a snowy owl Ooh, that's fun. Cool, yeah. Dose if do you freak out as your new goblin friend turns into a bird Oh my goodness, you are a beautiful bird. Oh my goodness, maybe I should knit a sweater for the bird on the bottom. He's still got the sweater on. Like he's very much the same. Oh you look amazing! Wow Like Joseph is not. Joseph Dove Joseph is amazed. Joseph is not. Um great, great, great. He is going to like hop up into the air, ride the updrafts, into like the wind, and then cruise over to where um Chili is and like maybe park it on wherever the minute hand is. Um just like perch there um and look down at at chili Um and kind of flap his wings a little bit and go, What is happening? Like the you you got here and then uh one of them disappeared, but uh they keep coming back. And now this thing it was bonging before and now it's not bonging. I what do you think we should do? You are so alpha cute Thank you. I have no clue what's going on and this guy's got a wretching grinch face. Um he's like, What do you think we should do? I I'm not sure. I made the bell tower not make sound, but I don't know what else to do. I the the we just hit one I don't know what that means! Is it um have you been watching the hands as they go? Have they been moving at all? Yeah, you have. I I can give you more information about that if you would like. Yes, please. Okay. So You noticed See, this is tough because I don't know how much while you were watching the clock tower, I don't know how much you know about what was happening. But as you were watching the clock tower, you saw the hour hand Move to two. Move to two, not one, okay. And then move to three. And then back. And then move to two and then back. But then the hour hand moved to one just now. That is correct. And has not moved back. That is correct. Um, I would say I caught a l okay, so at least from my perspective, I I don't think I've put anything together on candle disappear the one thing I think that's too much t to see at one time. So I'll probably didn't see the candle disappear permanently, but I can say so what I'll say is The hands are stuck and doing weird back and forth things and then the hour just moved to one and hasn't moved back. Um, but I'm not real sure what that means. But it doesn't make any more sound If if I uh if Krampus flies up kind of into the bell tower, like I, you know, I can kind of the big clock face kind of flap up into the bell tower. Can I get a feel for um If there's any magic at work here, if there's any kind of um I I don't I don't have any kind of divine sense. I don't have anything like that in my character sheet. Um You can still try to you can still try to check. Yeah, I I I think there's uh there's an element of like, is there anything natural or unnatural happening here that I can try to feel out as a druid? Sure, go ahead and roll a instinct roll, see if you can uh sense anything. Uh it's crit. Amazing. Let's go. Critical success. Double LL. Yes, our first one. Let's go. The first crit of the the one shot. Take a hope. Clear a stress. And I will tell you so much more than I was going to tell you. Talk to me. First of all, you absolutely can sense magic here. The magic that Chili cast to silence the bell. Fair, fair, fair Second of all, in investigating, you're kind of you're in tune with the natural world Because you're a druid and you know that when the natural world is out of order, the space around it responds It is you get a sense from examining gears and the minute hand and the hour hand and the bells that What you are seeing here and exploring is not controlling what's happening out on the battlefield, but it's responding to it. And if you'd like to dig a little deeper, feel free to ask me something because you rolled a crit. So Can Krampus detect and kind of flapping around through the bells, can i can he feel any tether between Anything in the clock tower and these wraiths? Like a some kind of tie, some kind of tether. Um or is There an absence of it such that the clock is merely acknowledging what is present in the world. Wow, that's a very interesting way to ask that question. Um You being a druid of renewal, know that all things in this world are tied together. The link between this clock and the spirits is not one of Of magic or or anything physical, it is more a link Of symbolism in the same way that when you When you're in the woods and you look down into water and you see yourself You are reflected in that water, but you are not in that water. You are not tied to that water. I'm trying to make it theme thematic. But also, I'm like, sorry, I'm I'm not trying to be I'm not trying to be vague. I'm trying to be poetic, I guess. So what I will tell you more bluntly is that The clock tower is simply a hint, might be the right word, rather than a solution. Is that like I again I'm I'm not trying to be vague on purpose, but it's more fun to be it's more fun to make it flowery. No, I th I I think it is um I don't th I don't think you would be able to tell everything even with a crit, but I I've given you I've given you a good I like the abstraction. I like the abstraction and I like the the there's a tie clearly There's a connection here. And so um like weaving through these these stolid bells holding it, you know, still for now. I he would kind of and like call out to to Chili to let him know that like maybe the silence doesn't necessarily make a difference, but the bells might. and flies back to um his group to descend upon not Dosef this time, but to to settle on Humble's shoulder and uh whisper into his ear that At least we know that the one ghost, this one spectre we had annihilated before, is not coming back. We haven't seen come back. So we should continue with what seems to work, which is hit everything really hard. Fair. So from the from clarify, can I can I clarify one thing you said? Head it. You don't you don't get a feeling that the bells matter. Okay. So um you uh again, you get a feeling that they are They are simply a mirror to show you like not the bells necessarily. The clock is a mirror to show you the path. but it has nothing to do with the actual path. So can you like, um can I give it if if that's the understanding, can I swoop by the clock tower and scoop up chili in my enormous claws, my talons. Can I just grab him and swoop him back to where we are? As long as Chili agrees. I mean you could make it contested if you really wanted to be spicy. This is an owl with a giant sweater. Yeah. Well I mean I I just want to say like if Chili had other plans, you know, Chili could fight Chili could fight that, but if Chili's fine with it, then you don't even have to roll for that. On their flight. Flying high above higher than uh Chile has ever been, maybe. Um, gazing down at the snowy landscape, homing into this town with this dark spot in the middle. Um, where would Chili want to land? Would Chili want to be on uh ground, on a roof, on Humble, on uh Dozzle's back? Where would Chili want to be? Dosef. Absolutely. Drop uh him off on Dose's back and then flap up like up onto um Humboldt's shoulder again to perch their As as you um go to drop us, uh a th a thought pops into Chili's head, do you think we have to take them out in an order? You have no idea what he said. Oh did I would Oh no no I was saying I was saying he uh uh he's in owl form. And he's like, he just kind of caws out, and I don't think you know what he thought. But it's likely no cause for alarm. Pause. What what what were you okay? What were you saying as an owl? Um, I have no idea. This is scary. I've never done this before. Ah Um keep hitting things because I don't know what else to do Uh as you're landing, I'll just look at chi uh chili and just bubble wobble and nod. Bubble wobble. Sit 'em. So I have a I have a I have an idea if Uh i if if uh Dosef is up for it. Oh oh so We so if I if I just uh play the land, Dose is currently still between the other two specters. And Chili and Um Krampus have both landed on me, right? Or yeah, uh Chili's on Dosef. I'm on you. I'm on Dosef. Yep. Yeah. Okay. Part of me is wondering if we could do a um a tag team attack potentially. You and Dosef? Yes. Because where I'm staged right now, because the fire light the the one that I headbutted is gone, gone still, right? Gone. If I were to like sprint forward and charge, what would I see happening in my head potentially? And Dosa, let me know your thoughts on this as well. is if I were to like l like sprint forward and tackle the specter in front of Dosef with the intent that as I go forward, Dosef goes up with hooves and basically we just we kinda we I we can take one and kind of like launch it into the other specter is the idea. So I don't just I want to So the so the way it would the way I see it in vision is Dosef is effectively attacking the one in front, but I'm diving it with the intent to use that to hit the other specter is what I'm wanting to do. Is this too complicated? No, no, no, no. Let me let me let me make sure I'm understanding. So you will be Dosif will be kicking or booping the the giant specter, and you will come flying into it as that hit hits and send that giant specter past Dosif. into the third specter. Is that am I understanding that? Correct. Yes. Let's that is what I want. All right. I will burn the hope to make this happen. You have three hope? I have exactly three hope left. Let's do it. Okay. The good old pop bop and nut pop nut movie. Yeah. And I'll just I'll shout, Dosef Brosif As I yeet forward into this and I guess I need to do the attack roll, is that right? Both of you roll the attack roll. But mine's at an eight, right? Okay, let me Oh no, you're good. You're at you're at two, you're back. You succeeded with You have lifted the weight from your soul and you're back to full D12s. Okay. I got an eighteen with fear. I got a twenty with fear. Okay. So, I mean, I'm gonna be quite frank. I'm gonna be quite frank with you, both of those hit. So take take your pick. They're both with fear. Oh the Doseph all all you. Also, one one more point of order because you guys made this real complicated. Krampus, are you holding on as this happens? Are you just like are you just like bird wings just just flapping in the air behind? Uh as they attack? No, I think he kind of lifts off. Like I hear he feels the the intense like down motion in the uh coasts off up into the Okay. I wasn't sure if it was gonna be that or if we were gonna have like a like a hang gliding situation of uh Humble was just gonna go float off into the distance on the way. No, not that big. Very small, small owl owl. Oh, I thought you were a bigger owl than that. Okay, that's fair. Not that big. We we each will make an attack. Right for this to work. Each of you roll your full damage and add them together. Okay. Um So I uh as I'm doing this, because I I oh wait, never mind. Nope, never mind, that does not happen. Let me roll the damage. Uh okay, I think I have it. Okay, this is gonna be real interesting to figure out. Oh Nelly! Oh Nelly! Okay So I got forty-seven. You sure did. You sure did. Oh, Nelly. Dosef. Twenty-seven. God damn. Seventy is that seventy f is that seventy-four? That is seventy-four damage. Okay. The giant spectre goes flying into the Grim Raper looking Spectre. vanishes out of existence in the same way that it has disappeared all of the other times that you've defeated it, it is gone. As it strikes the Grim Reaper looking specter It disappears as well. And suddenly the tree seems brighter again. Oh And you hear the sounds of people and Slaybells and clippity cloppites and laughter and music and the smell of the food returns. And you look around, and there's no sign of the spirits, but There is a man standing where the fourth spirit was And he looks like the fourth spirit. He still has the cloth wrapped around his head. But he no longer has chains. Hmm. Just to be clear, I did bring Chili back, right? Like he's back with us? Yes. Okay. Yes. So the Krampus would flap down to the ground. Um, and then transform out of his beast form. Okay. Big ears popped in all directions, all of a sudden all this you know, impetus, all this stimulus. But this thing in front of him, person thing, whatever it is. Um He would draw from his back something he hadn't exposed this entire time. Are you talking about the man with the the the cloth around his head? Is that the Okay. Draw from his back this b something he had not touched this entire time, this big staff. And it's white crystalline. And it's taller than he is by about a foot. But he wields it nonetheless, stabs it into the ground and steps up and says, with maybe a little more courage than he actually feels. Um Happy Winter Festival and Merry Christmas to you And If you mean us any harm, I demand you tell us now. The man Whose jaw doesn't seem to quite fit right. On his skull, looks down at his hands, turns them over Like he's so used to having something in his hands and around his shoulders. And Looks back up at you and says, It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men, and travel far and wide, and if that spirit goes not forth in life, It is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth. And then he looks at his his hands again. I wear And then he at like a little bit of a smile appears on his face. I wore the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard by yard. I girded it of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Learn from me. Does he seem like he's fading in any way? He definitely does not seem like he will be here long. Oh, interesting. I think Krampus would look around and like little nervous chuckle to himself. Huh. Um And kind of hesitantly, he like like one aborted attempt, and then he would he would reach out and snatch the wrist. Of whatever this thing is. Okay. Um, I have not long been in this world, but I know that the things in it are hard. But that there are things in it that are good and that are joyful and that are and he looks back to his new friends. That are meaningful. Even if they end. And then he kind of softly lets them go. And the man who was a spirit disappears like he was never there. And unless you guys want to do anything else, that's a pretty good place to call the winter wonder shot. Bumble will just kind of look around and be like, Well, that was weird. Yeah, Dosef just probably wants some more cheesy bread at this point. Yeah, I was like, well, we'll just go get go get some cheesy bread together. Everybody turns to each other. Cheesy bread? Head off. Cheese bread. It makes everything better. Then we go look for my sister. Yes. Heart. Then we'll go look for your sister. No, no, we will go find your sister. Oh thank you, friends. I like that even better. Beautiful.