Finding the Key

Beetle is dead. They carry him to Diamond Hands McBlark's safehouse in a beer crate and bury him in candlelight. Gray breaks. Heart goes quiet. The chalk on the wall writes back in Talim's spell book — make it whole, you're running out of time. The key is at the old blacksmith's home. The blacksmith isn't what's waiting there.

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all right everyone are you excited for another amazing episode of the rot goons
that kind of works i like how salty was the deadpan one this time i love in chat there's just a bunch
of people who are just like no no i refuse to celebrate you killed the marketable plushy one
how dare you but hi chat you take us away hi chat let's do this intro for the 50th time it's good
to see everybody with another amazing episode of the rot goons i want to introduce you to the
amazing players of who they are and who they're playing starting off with minerva hello this is
not the second time i've done this my name is minerva aka party demon s i'm a variety streamer
on twitch and full-time problem for everybody uh yeah i play gray crocus the gnoll ranger at level
seven and yeah i i miss beetle every day next time the one who's also dead in the party it's cabal
it's me i'm also dead you're pre-dead though i came prepared i knew the assignment but yeah my name
is cabal uh i am a horror vtuber and a youtuber you can find me over at uh youtube.com forward slash
cabal uh i deal in all things spooky and horror related and i am playing talim shibura the level
seven ghost mages and of course we have looks at the screen we used to have beetle
we used to have him he's a little guy he's he's gone now
anyway off the better off the better uh lights and stuff we have right we have salty
after looting beetle's box that's me i am schnaughty schnob i do funny he who art
i play as heart the biggest character in the group and therefore the one that should have died
i was the easiest target and i didn't fucking die i got a shot at the back of the head i didn't die
that's how bad i am at dying um he's a level seven monk for the moment and uh uh so far uh heart's
favorite memory uh of beetle is the moment when he and beetle discussed the fact that both of them
didn't think that they were that strong and then heart convinced beetle that he was way stronger than
he was because he was smart how'd that work out for beetle yeah yeah not that great not that great
if i'm gonna be honest but of course i can't believe you gaslit beetle to his death how could
you i can i can believe that i did that so chat chat as much as i understand all of you are celebrating
beetle's death um one of the things you can do to help our players not die or potentially help the rest
of the party parish is that you might wonder what these bars are under our uh under the characters
names and in mine these are our hero point bars if you really want to help out the stream uh basically
this is one way you can do to interact with the stream itself uh if you are on the twitch channel
at least in the chat unfortunately it doesn't work on the youtube side of things um you can do uh you
can do exclamation point hero point or hero points get a description of what you have to do which is
you basically look at the name of the character say for example you want to give points to talim
you do hashtag talim along with your bits donation and it takes 2500 bits to fill up the bar because
we don't want people to re-roll their d20s too often which is what they can do with each hero point
they gain every single time you fill up that bar so every time that bar fills up you give them a hero
point to re-roll a d20 it will either help them help them get a crit or it might become a natural one
which means they can't re-roll it and that means there's a complication that people on patreon
submit and that means everything goes horrible but of course a little tiny bit of the total
goes to be the game master which means i get to re-roll villain points which involved beetle's demise
you wouldn't do that again oh seriously you wouldn't do that again
beetle has all of the hero points despite being dead yeah and and fun fact fun fact
this may be you know spoiler warning um beetle had hero points when he fucking perished
oh yeah also we have a funny we have a funny remnant of the i believe that's where froggy's
supposed to be but we have a little circle in the middle of the screen oh do we oh we do yes
it's the ghost of froggy that's my job i'm supposed to harm things get out of here
i can't believe froggy stole your bit come on i'm shocked oh wait no i'm not
but of course that's one way to help out the show along with subscribing or doing membership
on youtube and stuff and remember and uh and during our break we'll do some q a segments and
stuff but everyone thank you so much for coming to watch and as much as i would offer the players
to get a hero points i want to make sure everyone actually chat has already got you all with a
hero points thank you chat thank you awesome amazing but of course i'll take the recap this
time oh thank you just because i understand i understand a lot happened yes a lot happened
before you all basically yeah as well yes basically as a recap or as a reminder for our players and for
you chat last time left our intrepid band of gooners we we saw that they went into croc's den
into pretty much a gambling den and bedded their way gambled their way all the way to croc himself
the gang leader of the crocs and he basically put up some wagers with the team and through there to
try to ambush them brought them deep inside where they found out through the instructions of kurdanan
who wanted the party to investigate the gang to see why they have not delivered the key the kurdanan
ordered from them after finding what the key was a chained up giant holding a sacred flame instead
of its chest who is now imbued into heart they now have acquired what they needed to find the rest of
the items possibly at a building they'd been before now with the information in hand they tried to
leave but unfortunately croc ambushed them not wanting to lose or pretty much like sword loser in the
gambling thing croc tried to kill them there knowing that no one else would see or possibly even remember
these folks but of course they defeated croc but not at the expense of the friend beetle
out of rage to lean in a ghostly haunting ghostly haunt of vengeance burned down croc's den and they have
all left and that's where we're gonna start with our party that everybody is standing near the fires
of croc's den and i'm gonna have to ask everyone who is holding beetle's body
i imagine heart would be yeah he has a little guy wrapped up in his uh in his cloth belt
like a swaddled baby except he's beetle shaped so you know not that not that easy to swaddle
his feet are huge
moment ruined
it's like holding beetle stuff you guys suspect that uh that a lot of people probably aren't going to be
happy about this burned building but of course i have to ask you guys you're looking upon pretty
much to lean the destruction of the place using all these people just pretty much just rush out of
this shambled half airship that uh the croc's den pretty much built up for it
where do you guys want to go where do you want what do you want to do at this point
get away as far as possible from the scene of the crime honestly
we did exit through an underground passage rather than a staircase of some kind so and where do we
exit do we exit out that's right or do we go to a safe house what is happening that's right for that
detail you've you've been out of that cave area so far you're able to maneuver your way through and
get out so that's why you're you're standing and seeing the fires from a distance
oh
um
so
last we discussed uh was you know like yeah burn the place down but the vault was okay
uh is the place still on fire has it successfully like burned down at this point
uh it's still on fire it's a fairly big building and this is like recently right off the hills of
you all escaping hmm okay okay well the lean has his uh and his
the keys for uh said vault yeah really in hand and uh i i guess he will uh follow the
press of the party if they go to a safe house but it's definitely an annotation you know just a little
bookmark right there it's like come back for uh my money money yes the reason for my existence to
continue tethering to this realm all right so you're basically just following everyone else's
lead to lean yeah yeah after like after to lean because they come out the uh the side
interest is to lean comes out the the front doors and it's just like
just basically fire around them everywhere all that jazz um and just stands there and just watches
it burn
are you still holding on to croc's skull
yes he does have croc's uh severed head
ah that's right we did take i did take that i forgot about thank you for reminding me
would you forget you just take a skull it's quite the visual it is uh amongst the fire and the
burning and the ash uh would gray be able to sniff out if morla got out yes roll me a perception check
see if you get any hints with all the fire and ash there'll be a high dc but uh you can definitely
try oh that was a straight up 11 for a total of 24 you you get a hint of their presence but you don't
know if they got out all right gonna have to deal with that okay trauma trauma trauma trauma trauma
of course i'll have to ask the question where would you guys like to go
where do you think you can go if you want to go anywhere away from here
we could maybe go to the helma's probably not with a skull yeah probably not with a skull in fact
you know what yeah leave the skull in front of the uh the burning inferno yeah we'll leave that right
you could stash it somewhere you know like yeah leave it there it's a it's a symbol you know this is
my town now this is my home um oh hey look beetles on the map we not anymore i mean technically yes
technically yeah yeah oh wait hold up oh we'll just take this icon and uh you know i'm saying there's
like a like a dying condition right yeah dead there you go dog cheese me yeah that'll do it
uh so as per the rules of pathfinder second vision the system that we are utilizing uh i will put
beetles body into my inventory as he's now a corpse and therefore an object yeah you're an item now
that you're dead sorry to objectify your character froggy but he's he's dead i'm gonna i'll add that to
you um we'll put it in we'll put in treasure
there you go thank you i've now added yeah there you go oh my god um oh my god but what we could do
is we could uh i want to take some back alleys uh could i actually uh oh wait i accidentally closed
buying sense of uh foundry whoops whoops tell me what you want to do i'll help you out oh um i
want to use my uh underworld lord to see if there's a place that we could uh lay low for a bit before
maybe returning to the elmas place where like nobody's going to ask questions absolutely whenever
your thing gets loaded i can roll it for you if you want as your thing loads but uh yeah sure yeah
if you want to roll it for me that'd be fine awesome yeah this foundry gives you a good old slip
your all came out on a 14 on a dive or a total of 27 nice yeah with that you believe
that from your interactions with mcblart the shopkeeper that you saw pretty much blow up the
the the dog shops you believe he has a safe house underneath his thing you've from from your
downtime activities and from various rumors and stuff and from just looking at his shop last time
you were there you believe that he might have a solution for you okay
but you might think it might come at a cost it might come at a cost but we may also
need a fence anyway it's better it's better than getting god immediately
everything was zoomed out um so yeah talim will actually you know will look at the uh
rest of the party it's like i have a suggestion on where we can go possibly lay low in the meantime
yeah it's like you remember mcblart the individual who's very business oriented
yeah i remember him more than likely a individual of his caliber is going to have a place i'm sure we
could have a negotiation with him we're not in any position to really have any other ideas right now
we can't just lead this back possibly lead this back to the elmas
uh talim will uh look up at heart uh to get his opinion on it or uh get his feel for it or if
he's just checked out uh he's checked out his eyes are distant uh and you can see the texture of his
eyes if you ever glimpse through his his hair that uh the sheen of them looking like normal eyes
is gone and it looks like two just you know unpolished rough uh clay eyes instead like two balls
he's got sad anime protagonist eyes yeah sad pupil yeah no
it's just two spheres in his skull staring and he just nods
uh talim will you know like will dust himself off and he'll uh look over grail's like if you would
please you know uh he'll motion the heart uh bring heart with us i will lead the way
yeah grail kind of waddle on up over to uh to heart and wrap an arm around uh around
part of his waist she'll try just kind of come on we can mourn in quiet yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
let's go yeah and he follows
i guess we're heading to uh we're heading to mcblart's
so as you're on your way
don't worry about that rule um as you're heading on your way to mcblart's
you uh so how are you holding beetle's corpse you're just kind of cradled pretty much with
you heart yeah um since hearts uh cloth belt is as big as it is beetles literally tucked
at at his stomach like a um he's he's a fanny pack uh hold at the moment
on on your way there uh you go through various streets or so are you trying to stay in back
alleys or you are going to take any uh more public roads
um i'd imagine we'd take back ways yeah i'll take back ways and um gleam will actually
scout ahead uh and uh i'll use my uh
i forget if it's stealth or if it's hide i can't remember it's uh it's stealth if you're trying to
like sneak through it so if everybody wants to sneak through the back alleyways to try to
be undetected um everyone can roll me a stealth check you got it
that's three for a total of 16 um okay that's for gray
is this going to be grouped up together uh pretty y'all have to make separate checks for
everyone to like follow the leader sort of thing that's a feat okay uh okay i rolled a
uh i rolled 16 for a total of 24 awesome and i rolled a uh 12 for a total of uh 21
i don't know if i feel comfortable with my roll
oh no you could re-roll you have a private a private roll of the dice oh no oh no indeed
um you you go through the streets of the ponds palaster un unhindered and undeterred all of your
roles were good enough to kind of go through the general populace and not be disturbed
one thing happens however as you continue your way through the various alleys here and outset
you see that there's an individual kind of sitting down he has like a piece of cloth under him you see
he's in in racks but he has like a assortment of items around him um you see him you see it's a
just a normal uh peddler as you're crossing by he'll kind of like snap a little bit at you all
and go hey hey hey i uh you got something nice over there you want to just say you want something
to trade you don't i could i can you know he kind of jingles something in a in a cup that kind
of rattles a couple coins there and he's like hey you want to you know you want to trade a little
something there you got something you got something nice over there i kind of i kind of want to look
at well we we're very busy
like what is he what is he motioning at like what is he like you got something you got something nice
he's motioning he's motioning towards heart uh he's mistaking the banny pack of beetle for something
nice i to lean will
kind of stiffen up and you know like kind of you know like stiffly like turn his head at the guy as
he's like harassing them and he will like with the hand motion uh for uh gray and heart to to keep
going uh as he'll like float over and kind of like loom over the man uh it's like this is not
something for you to haggle with you should have a sense of business
roll me and intimidate
i'm untrained in it
that's a 19. a 19. like that is a 19. you see the guy hey
i just you know you're like you look you had something tasty over there you know that i was
wondering if i could trade you a couple bubbles for something for the food you got you know it's like
you know it's like it looks like a nice lizard you got there and he's he points to uh a potentially
exposed tail of beetle and he's like yeah i mean i could kick it up real nice we could i'll share
come on come on man like i got all this type of stuff and he'll he'll bring out like a little
uh ramshackle like beer box of of bubbles and stuff and he'll like ruffle through them and kind of show
various shiny things initially like come on man come on it's just you know i'm hungry here
great greatly gray and uh and heart are like shuffling on like uh you know talim basically like
hey just keep going gray is trying very hard to not turn around and yell at this man because she's very
upset so she's kind of bristled yeah salting i pick up a rock
you pick up a rock i pick up a rock it needs to be a little bit of a heavy rock not super heavy
heavy enough brick sized that's not a little rock
and then heart then heart walks over most of the color in him is drained not like a person
not like a human being not that when you're tired or scared or sick you look a bit pale or maybe a bit
ashy heart looks like he is a clay pot that hasn't had a good glaze on him or been put into an oven
in years he looks like he is covered in dust even though he is just a few moments ago he was fine
uh and he stares at this person with a rock in his hand and he
burrows his eyes into this begging merchant
and he asks
did you want something to eat
during this moment hard you kind of see the guy he's in similar kind of rags and stuff uh
similar to probably what you might have beetle bundled in probably found some scrap or so and
as as he shifts around uh you notice you notice that uh it looks a bit different or the guy sitting
there looks a little bit different to you as it kind of looks like beetle all of the sudden
as it looks up and you're going like i mean you wouldn't let me down right i don't know how to do
beetle it's just like it seems the face of beetle will look up at you and you see that there is a a red
gem in beetle's chest look up it will look up at you heart and go he's like you wouldn't you
wouldn't let your little brother get hurt would you you'd help your little brother you know i'm awfully hungry
heart's lip uh starts to twitch but not only does it start to twitch it cracks a little bit
uh and a seeping of a little bit a little bit of a black liquid starts to run down his nostril as he
stares at this person you're not him he's dead you're not him you can't be him i mean what do you mean i
mean i'm i'm i'm here i'm you can't be him he's dead he died he died i'm right there i'm here he died
i'm right here uh heart will break the rock in his hand and he will grab whoever is in front of him and
lift them up into the air and not like you know a few inches but more like his full arm raised into
the air looking up at this person at this point uh and he just screams from the top of his lungs
he's dead who are you why no oh and then his uh forehead starts to crack as well
as like small pieces starts to ship off from him gray is now rushing over to try and defuse this
uh it's a little beyond saving at this point but she's gonna try really hard
it's like for for talim and gray you don't see uh
pretty much the situation that hard is seeing
uh for both of you you just see that hard is now grabbing this poor individual
you're like yes yes that's that's basically yep but for for you heart
uh you basically see that like beetle just has no reaction just going like
you know like in a cartoonish way and it's
uh but beetles the head will turn towards you and say it's just like you will turn towards you and go
like hey you wouldn't let me down especially now that you have the key
you can make it whole again
make it whole you want to make you to make it whole again don't you heart
i want to make it whole if you make it whole
maybe you'll get me back and then as you blink hearts you will see the guy you're strangling
like tapping on your arm so does heart uh say like make it whole like out loud he he whispers to
himself like i will make it whole i agree to leave is standing right next to him if he hears that he
will actively try and like push heart uh like stumble him so he drops the fucking dude
he's been trying to like pull on like uh like his side or something just trying to snap him out of it
uh at the at this point uh when he sees this uh when he no longer sees beetle going
in his uh in his grasp uh he doesn't let go of this guy he uh he like just
chucks him off as in he moves his hand forward so this guy will be dropped with some momentum
yeah he just turns and he starts walking can can we can we go now okay can we go yeah yeah we can
come on breathe yeah yeah yeah yeah that sounds great as they uh as they walk off to limo like stand
and loom over the man uh just a little bit more and uh he'll lean down just like next time realize
that you could be the food and he like will stand back up and uh float after them
as you all leave the guy like you hear is all he hears is coughing because as he's like trying to
you know you know prepare himself for being manning out of my heart he's like
and it's cause revered as you continue down the pathways and you and you slowly but surely make
your way back to mcblart's
you stand in front of the shopkeeper's uh establishment and you can see through the clear
lovely maintained windows of mcblart's establishment uh you see him inside uh just
taking care of his little shop no one seems to be inside what do you all do is the is the spot right
across the street uh burnt down and refurbished oh it's all messed up yeah it's all messed up like
there's like some uh you know some yellow tape here and there that says like it's like uh like
i don't know um a mutton king opening soon sign near like there's there's all sort of just like
preparation but no no clearing out or construction has started yet there was like remnants of like a
crime scene thing but there's like nothing else you know just see some stray coins on the ground
yeah like half burns all they're all actually been wood
uh grail following behind follow up behind uh behind talim just kind of like all right
talim will uh you know of course you don't float in uh mage hand open the door and uh kind of you
know get himself looking the the best they can uh we all seem to be in pretty good condition
this the science what we went through and uh as he uh floats in uh as he sees uh what was it mcblart
yeah diamond hands mcblart diamond hands mcblart so as he floats in uh talim will you like flourish
both his hands to the side he's like diamond hands my delightful business associate hey how are you
going i'm doing wonderful oh it's so good to see past you oh all right yeah it goes like shake you
know like uh and then just talim just politely nods at him he's like how is business going for you my
friend uh you know i mean i've been sent out of money now that the competition's gone so you know
everything's been absolutely wonderful so i have a business proposition for you oh i like business
is this a front of the store or is it a back of the store i believe this is something we should discuss
behind closed doors ah good good come here come in and he will uh motion to everyone the the step
inside he holds the door uh like talim you're already three hope it's the door uh gray i assume you enter
in yep and uh heart do you enter in yeah as you enter in like he'll wait a second look down and then
he'll look outside for a second shrug and then he'll close the door
and then he'll brush you all like ah follow me follow me and he will uh go into the back and what
you see in the back you see the back is just shells and just random things assortments baubles uh pieces
of jewelry here and there just haphazardly just kind of put to the side and uh he'll have a little table in
the back of his shop where he'll just kind of sit down it's it's just cluttered with a bunch of
random stuff and with dusty chairs he just pulls up random stools and chairs for you all and you're
like ah yeah sit down sit down and he sees that he'll just go into like this like big like just dumb
looking manager chair that has like a little little like cut out hall in the back for his tail
heart sits down in a normal size chair oh he looks ridiculous yes it's like sitting like a like a
children's stool like yeah his knees are touching bray will just kind of stand in back like she usually
does they will actually uh take a seat the best that he can um he kind of like hovers yeah he like he
like hovers in the chair um but uh to him will be like he's like it's so good to hear that business is
going good for you you know our past experiences with you have been so wonderful you know you were the first who came to mind when we uh
had some opportunities but also issues arise tell me do you provide certain services
perhaps a place for individuals to square themselves away from the world for a little bit
oh you got your seven in trouble yeah and he will uh he'll scratch his sort of neck beard
his rotund tiefling form and his little and his little like demon-like wings are kind of flutter in
anticipation his uh his although he'll kind of adjust his hat so uh so his horns kind of like
stop getting in the way of it a little bit and he kind of leans over towards you and he goes like
what kind of business did you uh you know want to find yourself disappearing from if i may ask
uh we have recently come into the uh acquisition of some assets uh at the expense of another
it's uh is that is that it right there and he points to the bundle hearts uh cherishing
our loss yeah to lean kind of like looks down he's like that is
our companion
you see he does uh like an o kind of thing but not letting any words out
he kind of takes his hat off a bit and puts it up to his chest and goes
my condolences thank you anyway back to business yeah i can help you out so
especially you want to hide away a little bit obviously whatever scrap you got into
i can help you up but it uh you know the servants isn't free and he'll like rub his uh greedy little
fingers together as he says that to lean will pull out the uh ghostly or now ghostly a ring of keys
from inside his robes and so of course no good business deal comes without the cost
you remember those assets i told you about
i assume that you're also quite capable of um
making sure wealth can change ends on the scene yeah yeah i could do a little bit of that
like uh to lean will lean in and he's just like army what do you know of gambling bins oh well
there's crocs and i used to gamble there ever so often were past tense yeah there were crocs then what
what what do you mean where lean jingles the keys you've ever had access to a vault before
you see him fucking pog and so he basically goes he goes oh how'd you come across those
to lean uh you know as he jingles the keys he's like unfortunately mr croc was
not very good at sticking to business agreements
we've solved that problem for him oh you mean to deal with them i mean i'm very surprised you could
not mean he can get a good one up on old croc well let's just say he'll be the last one up that anyone
will ever have on him and all of what was once his is now and to lean more like
motion also to uh to diamond hands hours if you're willing to do business
i'm had stops it was like he's like you uh you didn't kill him did you i did
he doesn't plug this time he goes oh
like well i'm afraid uh hand your way is gonna cost extra
i was originally going to propose 10 of the vault contents what do you say 15 percent
make it 20 it is like you never existed but and i'll even try to bring food to you sometimes well not
to you you frenzy perfect and also find that ever so generous cut of only taking 20 i'm sure that
we will also want to expend some of our uh gains in your wonderful establishment as well so you'll
benefit even more roll me merchant tile you're trying to establish a lot with money you do not have
uh what do you want me to roll for mercantile uh so you have like merchant war or something right
or anything i have underworld underworld okay sorry i thought you had uh
uh richard tower or something i have my bed different campaign my bad um you could try diplomacy
okay so diplomacy they're gonna convince him like hey this is a good idea or if you're just flat out
lying to him like you have no intention of helping him out here you can do this no no i absolutely do
you know like if he's gonna give us shelter and everything like that you know like i i will spend
a hero point to reroll that okay that was a 14. thank you chat for supporting us oh it's worse
what'd you roll cab uh i rolled a wait was it worse oh no it is better by two my bad okay i saw a seven
i thought it was 11. my bad all right yeah so i rolled a total of a 16.
and like clean is being completely honest he's like he's like hey you know you take your cut uh
you give a shelter everything like that it's like we're probably gonna spend more money here
i mean it's true we do we do buy things from this man yeah yeah he goes yeah well
no i will be well here's the thing i'll hide you for the 20 percent
all right i just keep you away if anyone comes asking for you though that 20 is it good enough
for me to just hide you you know if anyone comes looking for you starts knocking at my door inquiring
about you then uh you're gonna have to give me a lot more percentage to stop me from just handing
you away because hey you gotta understand i gotta run a business and of course if i don't want you to
be putting me in jeopardy huh you're taking a risk it's understandable so what are we looking at here
diamond hands about 40 percent 30.
okay he kind of strokes his neck beard he's like 35 go ahead and roll me diplomacy
anybody else who wants to help out with this can also help make points
and roll diplomacy as well to aid talim if they would like
i absolutely a total of a 26 that's a good roll yeah i will also roll god help me well what how
are you convincing though uh she needs a place oh god that was a five a total of five
oh that hurts uh she needs a place to uh think about uh it without fear uh how she's going to tell
peedle's mom about this no no what i'm meaning is that how are you helping with the negotiations oh
oh well she's just going to basically be like listen i we need a place to grieve in silence without fear
like she's she's trying to plead to any kind of sympathy and it's not apparently going to work very
well because that's a total of a five go for the emotion angle i got it heart how do you uh
uh had to convince park pleads uh on diamond hands angle and goes with the fact that no he is
picking up a um quite a risk in doing this so it's understandable that he wouldn't get 20
he should get more than 20 he should get uh 30 maybe 35 wait i'm an idiot i have a hero point
uh you could re-roll it uh and that uh they will be thankful that he is such a graceful host
so he tries to butter him up and i got a total of 21 on that diplomacy shank i got i re-rolled i got a nine
ah damn it so with all that suffering
you say that mc blart does not hold the same emotional toll that you are having nor does he
care in his face she's she's accepted this she's fine with that she's tired he'll uh you know he'll
he'll scratch his chin and go i can do about let's just make it 30 huh i'll go in an extra two percent
32 just for your graciousness how does that sound oh you're too kind but hey you're part of his money
you don't got yet we'll see uh we'll see how acquiring that vote for you works out
is like do you do you need uh do you need someone to help you obtain those things we recently got in
contact with a guy who needs work yeah yeah some pirate ants is always pretty good who you got mine
uh well if you go if or if you have someone send a message a letter if you will to uh this establishment
and he uh writes down since heart now can write and he's really good at it he has a unique skill for
writing uh he just writes down uh el um the position of elma's place but he doesn't mention
that it is elma's place and that uh he should ask for chunkers
like ah man all right i'll look for him how will you describe this fella uh big previous experience
with running a business uh a business that was focused on obtaining valuables in dangerous areas
worked with delvers i believe delvers good people they bring me a lot of stuff
smarter than smarter than people would consider him to be uh an underdog in the business world i imagine
all right i'll give him a shot now let's get to your new digs and so he will stand up
and uh and as he kind of goes around he's like hey you need a box for the little one
if you could provide that would be
a vera bro he will he'll kind of do like a little like a little tiny bow to you and then he
will uh he'll get like a little little beer crate box he'll put some like but he put like a little pillow
in it and some blankets and stuff you can like cover it or not he'll hand it over to heart
heart heart makes a little bill shrine of him
i don't know somebody chat it's a mimic
so um so now with that you will now you now have beetle all tucked away in a little beer beer beer
crate bed uh mcbillard will escort you all to like a hidden like shelf thing that's on the walls like
he'll like pull on the latch thing and open up a door which will lead downstairs and you'll see
there were like a bunch of valuables are kind of stored behind some iron grates and stuff but he'll
kind of lead you all in here and he'll open up one of the uh bar doors it's like it's like a prison
cell but he won't latch it and stuff for you he'll be like he's like all right you can just chill in here
thank you do a slight pound he's like yet again thank you for your graciousness uh he'll nod he'll
hand you all some candles for light and he'll go like all right well how long you want to stay
uh tell him we'll look at uh the two of them and it's like uh only a bit when we need to get the key
from the blacksmith's place shouldn't be too long we say like a week maybe two if we would
be willing to do that otherwise we could in theory go grab it and then come here it's up to you
believe it will be best after we obtain that to
go to our normal residence um perhaps if we stay here for
two to four days enough time for diamond hands here to of course uh acquire things and you know
process him as need be so he is sure in his payment and uh but uh i suppose him and i will take care of
that if you two would like to rest yeah i'd i'd like a moment um and uh clean looks at uh looks at
diamond hands and he's like could we draw up some contracts like yeah yeah absolutely and uh we can
so we don't have to make the entire session contracts contract simulator i assume now at
this time for like just for a time uh this is a time uh acceleration you and mcblart sign various
contracts we're just like hey this is what we're doing this is the terms and stuff are there any like
particular terms you want to like super specify for mcblart of like under this clause you know if
you do this you you explode yeah you know like you know like uh because uh you know like under the
terms of receiving you know like the the 30 of the cuts of you know like profits of assets attained
you know like uh you'll be providing you know like shelter and housing or you know like shelter
and uh discretion um you know the violation of said discretion you know like forfeits yeah uh you
know like obtaining you know that percentage um also uh actually you like giving the rest of the
percentage to the party uh in uh in hard assets not store credit
um basic stuff like that you know like i said we don't want to get in the contract simulator but
you know yeah i'll just summarize it without me literally asking you to write a contract which
if you did that'd be neat i'll actually put up as an asset but um i'll just say that you did it to
where you're protected uh and he's protected and stuff right um so well you from what you
understand of your knowledge um in fact actually you can roll me an underground or uh underground
lore just to make sure he's not going to swindle you oh gladly honest is how contract with your 17
perfect even for you oh okay
and with that as time goes i'll allow you guys to have a moment so you're now sitting in your your
barred room you notice that all the other uh little barred iron doors or so are just kind of like
it looks like jail cell doors but he pretty much uses this like protect very important assets um
and like in some cells or so you notice that there's like remnants of like animal fur
or so maybe he trafficked animals or so but you all are now just kind of sitting there
potentially in the dark just holding out mcblark will bring you guys food
ever so often whenever he goes out to go get food here and there
but you guys are now there just sitting alone in the dark i can't believe me block mainly eats out
a bunch of mutton king bags you can see mutton king burgers all the time you go with the back of
a shop it's just mutton king bags he goes across the street buys modern king from the newly established
modern king across the street and then he comes back in and goes i got you the six piece and then he
throws you like chicken which is the worst thing on the mutton king menu hey chat what's mutton king's
menu oh no give me some suggestions and then maybe they can the players can take from what you suggest
that that's what they got in their food no he he stole my sandwich from earlier because my door dash
driver stole my sandwich man you're really tickled by that aren't you
i thought it was funny how we've incorporated cobalt cuts uh cobalt on a stick has to be a thing
for like some imperious motherfuckers out there absolutely someone who goes i don't care if they
have rights the meat is actually ran i love demolition man i love demolition man demolition
man is great so you guys are you guys are sitting there but there is the uh unfortunate issue of
beetle's body yes great no sitting there very quiet but every so often every so often in the silence you
just kind of hear a gray is crying
he is not okay
neither is heart heart is quiet heart is very quiet as he erects a beetle shrine in the corner of uh the
safe house room where he puts a blindfold on beetle's huge ass eyes uh and he uh uses his um
his bull uh his lantern that he has to just uh actively have a little light next to him as per the
the burial rites of his homeland um he cannot actually keep this corpse forever he knows that
and therefore there are two things that one can do but heart has only heard about one of those options
in legends and that is the ancient rite of mummification he will not attempt such a rite for he has heard
enough bad things that happen if you fuck up a mummification so instead he um he will place
uh the the oil resin from his lamp on beetle's body uh as he has wrapped it in his uh little funny
cloth belt heart is no longer wearing that that's now beetles
uh so beetle doesn't stink uh up the entire room uh and then he he pours beetle a cup of wine every day
and then it you know evaporates and whatever but but but you know but i want to know how quick that
evaporates it's not a big cup it's beetle sized it's just a little tiny like a dollhouse cup
like yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly and when that shit evaporates across the day uh it it's it's you
know thematically it's beetle taking his chair one last time uh and beetle is uh heart is very quiet
he sleeps and doesn't talk to anyone really if someone talks to him uh he will talk to back but
otherwise he will be very quiet and sleep in a corner um and i was going to say uh zoran as part of uh
hold on i need to look this up how can i help you uh i'm was looking to purchase a second level scroll
while uh while uh while talim was upstairs uh from uh uh from diamond hands and it would be a scroll
of gentle repose yeah what does joe all right so gentle repose is a second level spell of the arcane
divine occult or primal tradition and everyone has it the targeted corpse doesn't decay nor can it be
transformed to an undead if the corpse is subject to a spell that requires the corpse to have died
within a certain amount of time for example phrase dead uh do not count the duration of
gentle repose against that time the spell also presents ordinary bugs and pests such as maggots
from consuming the body and the duration is until the next time you make your daily preparations
let's see yep that'll do it it will uh he'll have in
in relation to your contracts and deals so you get that crawl and you i assume you cast it on beetle
well actually talim will uh take a day to uh learn the spell and add it to his spell book
absolutely you can add that spell to your uh thing do you need me to do that for you or
i got it awesome uh checkmate every theorist that thought the beetle will come back as an undead
it's over now but bam um talim uh i assume you i assume you'll still cast a spell though on beetle
yeah um he's gonna take like uh you know he takes a day to learn it in the meantime he uses frigid touch
to kind of like make ice and keep it around a little beer box bed and preserve the corpse the
uh the best that he can until which time he can add the uh add the spell to his spell book
and then cast it himself over the several days that they are there
gray is normally very quiet about these things but like she is just ultimately broken down during this
because not only did she learn like she learned her children died on top of this children she thought
she were well and fine uh so she's kind of broken down and using their hideaway time to kind of try and
mentally and emotionally recover uh but good lord she is she is disheveled like you know when uh when
when animals have like their their eyes kind of leaky like they get the eye boogers and stuff and
like how it stains yeah it seems they're screaming crying cat picture yes no no uh gray's like eyes
like the fur around her eyes are is like just super super stained right now she's like she is
a mess she's just like on the floor um well good news in that case since good news everybody if talim
learns gentle repose that means that heart doesn't have to tend to beetle's body all the time
and that means that heart won't be super depresso uh from handling his little body his little little
brothers well his big brother he's shorter than him but he's older than him um
corpse all the time uh he will instead try to do the one thing that he has felt that he has not been
able to do and that is to protect his friends since he obviously failed at that no he is going to try
to do that in this dire moment of need and he will then be there for gray uh since talim could uh help
with the beetle case um art will then be there for gray and be there to talk to her in case she wants
to talk about anything as um as talim as you uh kind of help cast the spell in beetle's body and you
guys have been you know just still laying low in the room it's been it's been about a week and a half
now uh you guys have been chilling out or a desired amount of time you've been one of the way at this
point yeah um you've noticed kind of on the walls of this uh this pretty much stored cell uh that
there were they're like like kind of like drawings or so maybe mcblart has written some things like
this this plus this or this or this or this like with chalk on the wall right um maybe they're like
going through your spell book or preparing some things or so uh you you've noticed like a like a
like some movement on the wall like something like like just something just a bit shifting on
it a little bit
is you know like gleam sits there you know like he does you know like go through his spell book you
know he's very studious with it he's basically he's reserved himself to you know like the caretaker
of uh ito's body while the other two mourn because it's it's like let's be honest he is a
ghost like his driving force is greed and that is most of what he feels which
but you know he's like i can do this for my companions i can give them the time that they need
even though you know i don't and so like he occupies himself by either studying the spell book or you
know like he does start to like look at the wall he's like huh and uh he will actually like look closer
at it and kind of as he's sitting there like meditating you know thinking about arcane things
or just money or just gold uh you know he will kind of like watch the symbols as he lets his mind wander
a little bit you see the letters and numbers that are scrolled on the side of the cell begin to
kind of morph and move a little bit if gray and heart are also uh not embroiled in their mourning
and also looking at the wall they too will also notice this i definitely imagine that uh gray would
be zoning out at time to time and looking at the wall she would notice that yes
but would she really process and comprehend that i that's another thing
the letters and numbers on the wall kind of form a little figure something familiar to you all
sort of like doing a walk over and it kind of walks over on top of beetle's body and it looks down
you know and as things shift it's sort of like there's sort of like an animated drawing
basically that's on the wall that kind of looks down and like how they're like
animate cave drawings yeah on some shows yeah yeah kind of in that sense and i looked down to you
and you and only you to lean kind of hear as if it kind of this drawing kind of talks a little bit
going like he's like wow it's like this one doesn't seem to be whole will you make it whole
like as he you know has his spell book open he's kind of like letting his mind wander and it does um
like he he keys in you know like it's the gym at this point it's like
and he he slightly thinks to himself um because i guess he can surmise that this is you know like
mental communication more than anything else uh he'll think to himself it's like
like like we already have the key in all in due time we will need moments all right
as you uh as you would blink basically a reaction of your lifetime uh you notice all the scrawlings
and stuff on the wall are gone but as you look down at your spell book the spell that you're probably
looking at is gone and you see that there are words kind of scribbled together saying
you're running out of time
and he closes the book and he like kind of like looks up uh and like he'll he'll
set the the ghostly book in his lap and fold his hands on top of it and he's like
and he'll think to himself it's like what do you mean we're running out of time
does your book have a title on it or is it empty it's empty it's it's a a leather bound tome
uh but like it's you know ghostly and everything like that it's basically what he used in life to um
like keep his spells and everything in uh but it's pretty generic like he hasn't like
made it all ornate magic it's like and uh you have like a bookmarker page you're like a little ribbon
on it yeah uh you notice when you close the book you're so you see that it's dripping
the bookmark is dripping yeah as if it was soaked in something it's just like little red stuff just
bloop bloop bloop it's like it was like you know when you like soak like a piece of cloth and start
stripping like liquid that was in it's just dripping now
to lean will like will like rub or like take a his uh his middle finger and his thumb and kind of
like you know stroke the like the the nasal bridge of his visor and he's just like must you always be
so cryptic i don't know what type of entity you are or what your goal is but don't you think it
would be easier if you were just forward with your dealings
there's no response the book is no longer dripping
but you see beetle's corpse is looking at you
no one else sees this only you to lean that beetle's corpse is looking straight at you
eyes are like eyes are still shut but as if you know someone's closed their eyes and they're just
just looking straight at you
then we'll just slowly blink and uh you know like and as he continues to like mentally talk to himself
it's just like all of your mind game all of your cryptic visions these things like this like
would you not just say what you want must you continually try to toy even with the dead
you see the chalk drawings will still appear around beetle's head
saying make it whole again
you're running out of time as the final bit of chalk things form together as it does that and after you blink
it's all back to normal beetle's body is settled the numbers on the wall still says how much in
inventory there used to be in this room most of it now kind of rubbed off or decayed the time
and you're still back in your hideout
so it's been
about a week about a week we will
you know like kind of stand up and do his right you're gonna like dust himself off
um and he'll look at art and he'll look at gray and uh
like in this period of time has uh
diamond hands been able to get the assets of the vault and everything like that or
is that still an in-process thing it's an in-process thing um
how many updates that you've got like you you may have updated you go like yeah yeah there's a bunch
of tyrant people around and you know you know people can picking up some of the stuff in the
records but the vault's still safe you know we're just trying to make sure people
uh kind of scatter out before we start you know accessing it all right um
clean will look at uh hard and gray and uh
he will kind of fold his hands in front of himself and it's like how long will we stay here
heart instinctively stands up and goes i'm ready to leave
whenever yeah gray will push herself up she's a little shaky and a little ragged
uh she's got them old bones it's kind of showing right now
uh and she's just yeah i'm i'm good to go
could we go to the animals yeah are we going there first or are we going to get the key first
lean will look at uh you know the little you know box with a beetle in it and everything like that
i think it is perhaps best that we go there first my spell will hold so long as i do not take time to
clear my mind of the space it once held so we can go we can put beetle in a safer
place a more familiar place and then we can do what needs to be done yeah it'll give them time to
visit him as well as i know we have friends who might not be aware
we'll have a tavern wake yeah i've heard of those i'd like that yeah we'll put them on a table and
everyone whoever liked him can come by and say their final goodbyes that's that's what people do
here right yeah that sounds good yeah yeah yeah yeah uh hart has probably been talking to gray for like
a week he's been talking to gray and talim for like a week and just tried to be the person who wants to
to make this a not just a sad period but also make things like hey remember when beetle did funny
uh and also ask gray about her kids like normal things like hey oh she would talk his ear off
yeah like hey so how was this person when you raised them and stuff like that yeah exactly
yeah yeah yeah yeah and he asked the recovery he asked really awkward things like oh no uh he asked
really really awkward things uh since he has he doesn't know about kids uh he he only has his own
perspective so he was like so how many how many other moms and dads were there and things like that
uh this is when he learns that gray got around yeah and think and other things like uh for example uh so
when did your kids try to you know flee from home and go into the sea on a boat and sail off to
adventure like other kids to adventure like other kids do and and stuff like that you know yeah
so uh the summarize is you guys are ready to basically pack up yeah and head to elma's
and hart has beat has the beetle shrine on his back like a backpack um yeah talim will basically uh
uh go upstairs and let the diamond hands know um and be like you know like this is where you can
uh contact us when all the assets are secured you know like we'll quietly leave out the back
um so there's nobody you know sees us all that jazz he'll get rid like yeah pledge to do a business
with you and like hey you know he's like be careful out there still want my money
uh get out of your kids and uh he'll uh he was just like ah of course it's like um
and uh he'll come back downstairs you know like uh and as they're you know conversing getting ready
it'll be like i have in the form diamond hands we will be leaving out the back so as no one will see us
we'll make our way to the animals
sounds good sorry great plan you all pack up and head over to element yeah we do
you see that you see that inside that it's been it's a bit busy with some of your regulars uh you
begin to head over to the entrance and there's there's a bit i want to do it or so i was like
oh they have like all these party favors like he's like yay beetles gone or like like yippee
the disco is happening yeah they're all celebrating like double lizards gone
but now you got this perished the rot is cured finally i was i was gonna say did we want to go
in the front of the almost or did we want to you know like go in by the back you know like
probably the back way yeah probably you know tap on holic and just be like you know like you know
hey can you let everybody know that we're here and yeah went sound here eyeball get you guys prep for
that one moment yay yay get break yeah you'll be on the top left there these guys head over you'll see
uh you'll basically see uh you'll basically see tonkis uh talking the good all your fellow potato mancer
you see that he is helping him peel potatoes
aww
the holic's kind of working in the back with his cart and uh you see the holic will turn to you
all see you all come on he's like oh hey long time no see on the map it looks like the cart is crushed
holic oh no uh sorry on my thing like uh the token's over my bed so yeah he's like oh hey fellas
it's so good to see you
to lean will nod is like uh hello holic how are you my friend oh you know business is booming
everybody needs a concoction for something or another
and uh and uh he will nod is like it's always good to hear the news yeah
hard looks like shit by the way i think everyone everyone except for to lean kind of looks like
shit yeah yeah uh uh heart smiles awkwardly like he still looks as shit as he did when after beetle
lied it's just that he has spent an entire week talking about other things so he's just mourning on
the inside
uh holic will um well we'll get the read of everyone's condition and see the box in the
lack of beetle and you'll see the holic will nod um you go ah
he'll take off his hat and you see that he just has like big poofy just hair it's like uh like one
side white one side uh black just like afro hair and um you're gonna put his hat uh to uh you're gonna
put his hat down i got hold and go it's very unfortunate but it'll be even more unfortunate for
and uh you'll see holic will motion to the side there is a there's a side window thing that kind of
exposes to the stables a bit but uh he'll holic will most of you have to not be in view
uh but you can peek over and notice that beetle's mom is in elmo's
of course she is
that uh his mom's almost just sitting there just enjoying some soup with her kids
and holic will go i wouldn't recommend going into elmo's it's so good to see you but
people have been asking for you
understandable various other gangs have been inquiring the order has been upset a little bit
so it seems there's been a little uh disruption going around i imagine you had something to do
with it we tried to lay low for a week we actually did it all in one evening
rad
uh to lean will like fold his arms in like i thought this head is one time uh to one side
he's like he's like so the order of the underworld has been upset understandable with such a big player
being taken out of the scene yes tyrants the tyrants killed is just doing what they can they've been
actually pretty polite as of late they've been not using the pond's plaster as a hunting ground as much
they've been doing a sort of they all campaign in a weird way i heard there was an incident lately of
a gang of misfits messing with a uh an announcement some giant thing attacked everyone and the tyrants
killed according to the news vaguely defended the populace so things have been interesting
and we missed it because we've been hiding of course and mourning i'm very tired holic
it's just a day and that's another day and outside my dear i
i i assume you're here to return the emotions the beetle's body but not saying anything
yeah i would not recommend going in almost being seen around but i can help facilitate the transfer
it thank you it would be preferable if you would my friend of course anything for friends
and you see holic holic reaches uh his delicate hands out to uh receive beetle's box yeah he he gains the
the beetle shrine yeah just sink you see uh holic not as strong as heart kind of struggles a little bit
but but holic manages just fine with an easy face and uh here we go like legendary backpack obtained
yeah uh holic will will carry beetle um over and he goes i don't know if you wish to stay and watch but
i don't imagine the news will be pretty i do recommend that you try to not be around elmas for a little while
it is probably for the best please let them know that we will return in time but there is still work we must do
he will nod and you see he'll he'll enter inside he will travel through uh elma's space there
and through the window you will see um holic will come up to the table
and you see beetle's mom auntie dancy and the kids look devastated
and with that we're going to go on our break
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there'll be people coming and going like people gonna be good in here
why did they why did they why did they know what a gooning is huh yeah yeah
uh-huh yeah that's kind of weird kind of weird of you sponsor shan i thought we were going like
like thugs you know like yeah like we're going out and we're we're being miscreant
exactly that's what we were doing we're being goons yeah yeah boss yeah speaking of the gooning
i believe you all i have decided to leave elmas after seeing the distraught face of beetle's mother
you see everyone through the window everyone uh is mourning
of beetle's body you believe beetle's beetle's body is in good hands
we're doing we're doing the one thing that beetle would want us to do solve the solve the mystery
and to solve the mystery i believe you're on your way to the blacksmith's old home
yeah yes good let's see i'm going to set it up for you all get everything right and whole
oh no wait hold on oh wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait you all arrive
but it's very dark yeah turned it i didn't agree to this sure you did you're here aren't you
but you're here now
and it is dark outside you're here who here would like to uh maybe light a torch or set up anything
we will uh she's gonna listen around first here if anything's maybe in the vicinity before she
goes uh lighting a torch all willy-nilly i'll do that light just for chat members that are not
completely in darkness but uh feel free to roll me a perception check would anybody else have to roll
a perception check just checking out what's going on yeah i'll roll a perception check since now i
have crazy ghost dog vision uh i've rolled a total of 27 awesome
uh heart will not light a torch he has sadly you know used it in the beetle shrine uh so i will just
roll a perception and not buy the torch or anything like that hands heart is ever burning torch question
mark yeah everybody's forever it doesn't worry you can do that you can wield it on your own i rolled a 15.
i got a 20 on my perception check
so gray and talim uh
mostly like i'll go bottom-up heart you're not noticing a whole bunch you you recognize the
area you see him like this this crumble statue has not been disturbed all that much yeah exactly
maybe it's the same yeah everything seems very familiar to you this is the angle that you have
not gone at towards the home but um you still you still recognize a lot of things going on with it
talim still same familiarity um obviously things have been shifted around people probably have gone
to and fro of this home by this point uh now that they know like no one's possibly living here maybe
people scam or something maybe taking a stone here and there things are disturbed from your memory
but generally the same uh gray as you're coming up here you're you're hearing as you're sniffing you
smell something rotten you know there were corpses last time you were here uh there was a battle here
last time you remember this is where you even fought uh brug
even the crocs gang members and a lot of corpses were shooting around and that one guy you've all
saved that people probably thought that we forgot but there's a reason he's not around anymore
oh no yeah remember that guy you guys saved and i was took care of him yeah yeah i wonder where he
went anyway so i remember what happened to him he um i spent one hero point to
a narrative declaration yeah that um that he found a big tall orc girlfriend and is now living in a
different part of the town you want to spend a narrative declaration for that yes okay because
if you didn't what actually happened to him is that uh it's like like you guys will never find this
out this is that i'm like taking chat to the side going chat i'm just just telling you the thing
what happened what actually happened um it's like to change the scene of back in the time
um what was basically the story for him is that he actually tried to like
steal from the almost take some things to go back to crocs or so after the party didn't come back for
a while thinking like all right i'm abandoned i'm gonna get my stuff and go um they almost caught
him and turned him to a frog and beetle ate him okay as a part of my thing can he be a half frog
like he's a gripply now he turned into he turned into a frog he was put in the frog jar for later
and he escaped he met that frog he met that big orc lady and i'm not talking like a green woman
i'm talking like that woman is like at least 1.5 his height uh and uh then he holds hands with her and
now they live on the other side of the city now i want to be fevin one fevin one fevin one we can
never be as good as fevin i became bud frog but at least i went out in the end yeah that's him
so sure thanks absolutely
so fevin's now have hot thick orc wife and he's now a gripply he's now he's now he's now a gripply
and stuff and he's ribbiting his way through life that's right buddy and his now orc wife is ribbiting
as well oh i'm sorry very nice so with that i want to see fan out of that i want to see what chat
figures out on that one they're just holding hands everyone's blushing like
so with that gray unfortunately you smell you smell rotting flesh with your roll of a 27
but you also hear activity inside of the old blacksmith's home the chains that are holding
up this house are shifting like this house is you you remember is suspended over a pit with all
these chains just kind of like all together all this pretty much just strewn about in these houses
the house is shifting and the statue that was kind of collapsed on top of this house is kind of like
on the roof of it going in um it's just like rocks are falling down into this pit like chunks of it
it's because it's it's shifting so much so there's some there's something big in there maybe
great's gonna grease gonna hold up her hands and just quietly just there's something in there i can hear it
don't light anything yet we could probably get a sneak on it i don't know
but there's something there
it's big okay i mean we'll just like quietly nod and he'll like
pull his uh his ghostly sword uh out of its sheath
he's ready to sneak be a sneaky guy sneaky guys yeah clean you can see in the dark right
and he'll like uh he'll like he's like he can but you peek if possible
um you know ghosting out
um helene will like nod and he'll uh start to uh not climb because you know you can't touch stuff but
like yeah you float up and like hover up uh around these um these ladders to try and get on top of
this statue absolutely uh go ahead and roll me a stealth check as you go up
where is my stealth there it is and i roll a 14 plus 12 for a total of a 26 awesome damn you sneaky
give me a moment i must yeah do something let's see i'll leave the icon right there right now so
you can see things okay as you get up to lame you can kind of put yourself up as far as you can up to
uh here basically and you'll be you are confident that you'll be obscured
as you see deeper inside there is this hulking mass of flesh and bones you see this giant zombie
like creature he's missing he's missing a hand as he's holding it you know holding his other hand
like a club he adds it to the side as he's messing with the chest you notice that he's now kind of gripped
it at this point and he is like holding this chest like this zombie hulk that is taking up like
pretty much three by three square for reference he's like like he is lifting this chest and it's
heavy to this beast but he begins to basically just dragging it across uh the building you'll see he'll
basically move down south into this room but that's as far as he goes that is what you see to lame
because he's just scooting this chest along
um as it is scooting the chest along uh can i actually take mage hand and he uh
actually can i uh throw a a rock so it will land uh over on this way not to create a noise
absolutely um do you want to try to make sure you're trying to stay hidden as you do so yes
okay so go ahead and roll me another stealth check
there's a another 26 in total that's good that's good
um so just to make sure i understand what you're trying to accomplish for him to stop and look at it
or yeah to basically uh make you think that uh that that something is there or something is moving
around okay distract the zombie yeah you see you see this thing will look over go
and you see the zombie hokul the whole building is like all these chains and stuff around it are just
just rattling um
how horrifying and it comes to here so we're going to skip to you
let's get from you to lean and look at the rest of the party
gray and heart you see to lean go up there and just start throwing rocks
gray's just like squinting in the dark and she's just like
what is he doing like she's just quietly just mouthing
because she she has no idea what like he sees
she's going to carefully and quietly move over toward
the leem's kind of visible figure
i i would say um
if she can see him like up on the statue like
bansman he crawls up there and like he's peering down
and as he's peering down he's suddenly like his body language would be like he's like oh
shit and like he like gets a rock and like throws it um like he's just like oh something's happening
you know that's when he throws her off uh but it doesn't look like he's been discovered uh
he's just throwing rocks okay so gray's going to very carefully walk up and click careful uh
i believe i'd roll a stealth for this so a couple things for you gray what is your vision type is it
just dark vision or low light
i can't remember look at your camera it is low light there is no light around i have a light on
you for chat uh no one has put up a torch yet so you are blind as a bat right i am blind as a
fucking bat listening listening and sniff snorthing so for you to climb up here i'm gonna make the dc
harder on you because you are struggling to even see to lean and you're struggling
to find your footing on places and in the dark complete darkness or to climb up to where you
think to lean is so so i need you to roll me a stealth check and it might be a bit harder for you
that's fine i'll roll god help me
that's a seven for a total of 20. i'm going to re-roll using my hero point oh let's see it
that i saw that one and i almost died
that was a total of 32. almost hit myself
a total of 32. you're confident you're going to get up there and find talim's gusty visage and uh you
two now going over here see the zombie hulk that has now left the chest in the other room kind of
to itself and is now trying to look around to see what the noise was about where the fallen rock was
a thrown rock with
gray will very quietly whisper
what the is that
the wing like looks over short is like i don't know what it is
it's like presumably some sort of necromantic
entity but looks like it's trying to take the chest
i can only assume uh considering our associates
that it may be something in the employ
pertinent or of the creation of his organization
grace get to like pinch the bridge of her nose and just like okay
do we want to try and do this quiet or do we have to do this loud
talim like looks back at her and like looks back at it and looks back at her
and doesn't like i don't know if she can see the gesture he's like
like i don't think we're going to get out of here
quietly yeah i'm just worried you're gonna say that and just as they say that uh as if it is
like a still shot of them talking it zooms out hart is standing right there behind them and go and
whispers what are whispering about
i'll allow it can i roll a stealth shake please no you just win
okay yes roll a stealth roll a stealth for me thank you snoring i roll a seven for a total of 15
but due to due to uh the chat being nice uh i have obtained another hero point so i will
reroll that thank you so much chat uh
oh damn i rolled a total of 26 the same as talim awesome so you all are able to get up there you
two heart see this hulking monstrosity now begin to lose interest in whatever it was looking for
uh and you see a certain emotion it's way back to the chest and hearts you talim and gray will know
that's the chest you're looking for uh the the weird object thing that you found
that's a problem
yes yes it is but it's a problem that we need to take care of if we're going to be rid of our problem
we're gonna have to fight that aren't we he seems like the kind of guy that doesn't care if there's
a wall in front of him probably he'll squeeze through the building coming down to the southern room
and begin to start trying to drag this chest again all right
oh do we have to
look uh talim looks back at gray is like unfortunately looks like this is one instance
where we will have to where he just quietly goes he's like he's bigger than croc
but hear hear me out hear me not hear hear me not hear me out what if what if we think about this
like beetle would what if we uh heart starts to it's so dark but heart point heart points
inward towards this building and he tries to remember like how it's built
and he says this big guy in there he's after that thing obviously the chest with all of all of the
things that we want in it and even though he's moving around right
did you guys distract him in some way he threw a rock but it only kept his attention for so long
so what if there's a bigger bigger distraction
do you think that we could loosen his interest in the thing
i'm going to go ahead and say from my
understanding of the necromantic guards that has been raised by someone and it has been given an order
that is its purpose
uh to accomplish that it so the only way to make it go away is to make it go away pretty much
and we are not uh large enough to simply grab that chest and run it would be easy to outsmart but we
are in confined space uh not a lot of options
what if we take out its other arm i don't like that zorn just rolled some dice
whatever the case it is inhale like like motion to it it is trying to get away with the chest we
let's talk more get could we flank it on onto our side i prefer to be in an open space rather than
in there with it do you think we could get it to drag it outside so we have more space or we could see
we could also get its attention to simply have it chase us out into the open and have it drop the
chest we could get that later maybe we can shove it down a hole not a bad idea i do like hmm
that's a good idea okay well i guess we have to at least do this we could him and haw about this all
day but we don't have time listen it's an expression gray's just like flailing her arms a
little bit now expression what would you all like to do all right let's do it for beetle
my proposal is we get down off the statue and we circle around to a not precariously suspended
uh piece of landscape um wait for it to get the chest outside then dump it yeah like here to the left
like here to the left it's not going that way going back down
yeah it's going south okay but we still have to go around i think we have to go around the house
yeah or get its attention to crash through a wall maybe yeah but if it crashes through wall it could
dislodge the house yeah the house dislodges the chest goes down with it yeah
i will just climb down and get it afterwards don't worry about it you say that but i'm the only one who
the thing isn't really gonna fall victim to gravity if things go wrong well dang i guess we got you
okay
do we just say what is that sorry what's that what's what what's what what's that oh oh no what's that
hey chat could you vote and chat for me real quick no
watch out what is that what do you mean what do you mean yeah sorry this is only for twitch chat only
uh youtube folks
also i'd like to point out you go what's that and you vote for taleem to get shot
what i voted for me huh no you voted two no i thought i thought i put a three oh you did put
three my bad oh i'll vote a two so soren i'll vote a two so soren isn't wrong
so what you see for podcast listeners who might be wondering what the hell's going on if you watch it
on twitch.tv4s narrative declaration on the youtube channel you'll see you'll see that chad
is currently voting who's going to be shot because there's a big crosshair on the screen
and as taleem heart and gray are surmising on top of this hill on top of this bit of rubble looking
at the giant uh it seems taleem gets shot at oh no
no this is bad you know you think because you're a ghost it would just go right through you
no it's ghost bullets i assume a 15 does not hit your ac taleem thankfully not basically as you're on
top of there what you hear
what you hear from far away
is a shot is a shot shot and basically onto the side sorry i'll sort of line up like a
sound effect i don't even know it's gonna work anyway
you hear right by you taleem it's the bullet just goes
pretty much right to your side and you see the big zombie hole go
and look at you all uh he's not quite seeing you yet but something just shot at you
oh you've got to be fucking kidding me and the hulk begins to move forward towards your way
okay what would you all like to do
it has left the chest in the room there are multiple things that i want to do
but i feel like if i do it i'm gonna put myself in a shit situation but it would be cool
rule of cool is cool cool it is all right zoran can i spend a hero point to narrative narratively
to clear that the uh that the shot was a headshot but it literally just passed through to lean
i'll just i'll just let that happen okay sort of deal if you just want the cool factor of it
yeah that like he just like pops his head up for a second like turn to them and he goes
like directly through his noggin he's like huh
what was that great fucking fluffs up she's like oh
fuck okay quick quick decision are we going for it now or are we going around
talim just got a headshot he's he's diving in he's like fuck it we go
all right fuck it we ball i guess you're diving in at it yeah all right combat has now started we
should roll for initiative if you don't remember how to do your initiative thing uh right click on
the crosshair thing top right and you should be able to see the uh you see your dice roll thing to
click also make sure your full health spells are stored because you've basically done that but uh
we're gonna roll for this guy big old zombie guy down a spell because i have
kept gentle repose up and it stays up as long as i don't uh
re-prepare my spells all right roll a 19. yeah
uh i'm using stealth as my initiative because i'm jumping out of hiding
and i got a 14. you rolled a 2. hey it's better than a 1. it's true i'll take you know what if we
get through a session without a one i will be happy i great now we're all gonna roll knock on
knock on particle board so with that the initiative it works the initiative is gray on the top and with
19 heart got an 18. uh the zombie hulk got a 15 and talim got a 14. gray it is your turn is um
as this thing's just looking around for for you all uh surprise problems basically would mean that
like you guys kind of got up on the advantage here for instance stealth stuff so okay he was running
perception kind of deal so you guys were able to kind of get on i'm in this so i'm in a precarious
situation yeah uh because gray still has low light she still cannot see jack shit very well at least
yep uh but she does have scent she can smell it and it's a big rotty boy yes would that be would
that be enough to help mitigate he would be in complete darkness which means he is obscured so
you could still shoot at him because you'll have a good idea where he's at but you have to roll a d20
and it's if it's a one or a four nothing happens so if you want to shoot at him roll me a d20 and
let's see if it's actually going to happen or not all right it'll happen 13. oh sick go ahead go ahead
and shoot at him yep this is her hunted prey this is her hunted prey baby uh oh my god i'm so happy
this is her hunted prey first attack on hunter prey this round click click click uh drake she's gonna
shoot from the darkness oh that's a natural one are you kidding me i'm mad i i'm throwing myself on the
ground it manifested it complications i'd be happy if we get through without a run well
mother it is unfortunate that it's you it's me i'm just gonna lay down goodbye
no way is that hunted prey you fired do you want to reload or yeah i'll i'll reload and i'll do it
again oh man i can't believe men roll to one shut the fuck out inner crossbow while standing behind me
did you roll again what what is that okay so you know you can you your first action was to hunt prey
right so that's one action second action was to shoot yeah so you can't fail twice yeah you can't shoot
twice okay but uh jesus christ at least you got the other one out i'm in spade i'm in spade without
the s chat we're gonna take okay men no we can park to wipe and meet up with beetle
i want to take this complication from a patient member uh let's see uh called any jake any jake
whose patron name is called never saw it coming as you're getting ready for your shot or so you hear
something silent in the night maybe the glint of the the tip of your bolt looks like a rodent or
something or like something shiny to steal as a sorcerer just comes by and goes oh that's mine
bitch and then like grabs your bolt out of your crossbow and just flies away and go oh
fuck you she's just staring at her crossbow now like what the fuck hello and so with that thank you
any jake for your uh your patron submission called never saw it coming so we didn't even shoot at this
motherfucker my bolt's just gone nothing happened and with that heart it is your go
yeah so we have a step lower than uh the dark vision and uh dark vision is like the best thing
you can have theoretically and then you have low light vision which is the step down below that
i have a step down below that which is called normal vision like a normal person uh and uh therefore
uh i can see just about like 10 feet ahead of me heart hasn't seen this guy uh he has just heard
this guy and heard what the other people said so what heart will do is that he will take a sprinter's
stance and i will uh use the prepare like i will delay my turn i will prepare my action to use a key rush
focus spell to dash past the big scary thing and into the darkness but he says talim
give me light and then he just gets into the sprinting position that's my turn uh the do that
complicated of a deal um you have to spend two of your actions to kind of like ready my actions yes
literally okay so basically as soon as you get light you're dashing yes okay and the one action that i have
left uh i am going into my team's team it's my turn you'll uh all right so now with that it is now the
hulk's turn and at this point being fired at the hulk going and sees you and i didn't even get the fire
oh yeah hearing the susser go oh bitch that's what that's what it alerted him oh no he is going to
he's going to step up and with this just with his arm basically that he has uh he's going after the
thing that pretty much alerted him which is to you gray and you will go
and since he has a long reach basically he has a uh actually his reach actually goes all the way down
to here so he's gonna go
and basically the swing this honk of flesh at you and he will roll a natural one
the curse spreads the zombie hulk rolls a natural one um just kind of like ducks down she smells it
coming before she sees it but of course chat you all help out the show sometimes right
and i have two villain points turn that's on that one you can't go against your own rules
oh we don't do it for those for creatures like that salty what oh man that's not how it works
i'm afraid it's mostly for you guys zord is the gm and he can't believe he's laid by the rules he
makes the rules it's okay he rolled a two thank god he rolled a two and it missed oh no chat
uh everybody i am afraid boo hostile gm boo we've been doing it a rock ride the entire time
you can't have a standard now chat
but with that there is no standard talim it is your turn um
um so uh
would it be in action to pull out and toss the uh the ever-burning torch um it would be one to take
one out and then to toss yes okay uh in that case uh kalim will um look great and say you know
i shield your eyes and he will cast light behind him uh actually uh on the uh
the buckle of um or like the big like front plate or whatever of uh heart's uh belt
real throw upper cloak yeah and uh there's now a 60 you know uh
uh it the object glows casting bright light in a 20 foot radius in dim light yeah
next 20. go ahead and go and click that spell so it shows up in chat for me
all right i found you i can drag that effect and whoa
right there
how hard you're super super bright that's right that's right baby he's so smart
and uh yeah uh at that point the lean will um
okay you cast light on heart we would like to i think that's two actions you have one action
left i will spin my final action uh to raise a shield and uh from behind it lean will be like
over here you big bastard but with that heart's thing activates heart feel free to rush
uh yes so heart sees this big guy now and in a truly heart-like fashion he just
turns into a wisp of smoke uh as he thunders down this part before you go here count over here hold
up hold up hold up yeah go back that's like i told you hold up five times that far all that's
difficult terrain yes so be sure to count that as i'm moving twice yeah that's fine you still still
count it i am counting don't worry about it uh it's more if i get into his range and if he has a
certain ability for it um so down here uh and then down here down here down there down there and
then i can't slip by because he's blocking the path and that's my action that that that that's my key
rush now i am concealed it's like why do you think you're concealed
because i am key rush gives you just the ability that you're vibrating ah go and click that in chat
so we can see it so i can give you the concealed condition of course um so uh key rush as it has
always been is one of uh hearts and fun little focus belts there you go i'll put that buff on you
kablam there you go all right uh that's the end of tleem's turn gray is back to your turn this
thing's getting ready to swing at you again that's a big boy uh she's going to now that she has light
she's gonna back up she's gonna back right the up a little bit out of his range how far is his range
uh you saw he was able to hit you from that distance which is around 15 feet
she's gonna back up just as soon as that's good just a little scooch so you know if you back up
there to where that ladder is you're not going to be able to quite see him well okay she's gonna move
off to the side then no wait no wait no god i hate this i hate being in this situation if you go back
any further you're not gonna really be able to see i have you on the crescendo on the top of the rubble
yeah yeah yeah i'm trying to she's gonna look around really quick for something to like kind of
duck behind if anything like a part of the statue that like sure i'll allow you more than other i'll
allow you to do the cover action yeah yeah so let's see cover action i got to refresh myself because
not many people use it but uh pretty much you're ready for cover to them you press yourself against
the wall duck behind an obstacle take advantage of cover you have center covered sand greater cover
all right provides plus four ac so basically for this one um you're just going to take an action
you're going to use a take cover action you're going to get a plus two ac to this due to the
environment and stuff to your ac uh in a technical sense like melee wouldn't really help you here
it's mostly just for like uh like like ranged attacks that it's doing it's not really doing like
a range attack it just has a big reach um yeah but i'm going to game master it a little bit like
just just for people actually learning the game this technically wouldn't work but i'm gonna give
it to you anyway yay so gray's gonna kind of like duck behind like more raised and like
broken up bits of the statue uh just to get behind something and she's gonna peek behind around it and um
shoot at him because good christ this is a large lad what else is she going to do with him
i'm scared all right go on aim and shoot yep roll and that is a a miss with a 20 to what the
fuuuuuck you see the bolt is and nothing happens to him you see that the bolt is just barely affects him
her heart is now like dropped into her into her stomach she's just this isn't good
nope that's yeah for your final action that's that's all i could do you already marked him as your
thing your one action's covered second action shoot third action reload all righty heart yay
yay this is like
hey soren could you give me an action real quick uh what's that on my character sheet i would like to
perform the shove action yeah shoove yeah shoove exactly
okay shoove so uh shove much like grappling like uh how a thing that heart has performed multiple
times is that uh shove uh is an attack action where instead of dealing a bunch of damage like you
typically do you roll an athletics against a target's 42 dc and if you succeed they are moved
five feet and if you critically succeed they move 10 feet normally a person couldn't perform that
against a creature this much bigger than them but due to my titan wrestler feet i can yeah
so i will perform the shove action against this big dude all right heck yeah let's go
fucking athletics let's see how it does it but a big but a roll
oh sorry i don't know why i don't worry about it i rolled a total of 31. you succeed and i succeed on
a success you push the target back five feet you can stride after it uh which way would you like to
shove it it has to be away from you uh that way please absolutely it goes like you push one of his legs
and it stumbles that's right soren and then right after that i will slip by
uh you can you could save a movement you stride with it with that action so yes uh so so that's the
cool part about shove everyone if you are shoving you get to follow along that is super cool and you
should actively do that um but what is uh the chest that uh this massive guy was uh logging around is
that what this square is yeah i put it there as a reference for you heck yes so uh my next action
would then be to run up to said chest
soren yes in hark's mind he's like yeah but i got the key i can probably open this
and then he stands there and he goes wait how do you open this
you see this thing is locked tight with a bunch of random runes and various things carved to it looked
like to ordain from a distance from closer inspection it's a hefty chest pretty big pretty huge if you
will uh soren yes can i use my lifting belt to lift this thing you most certainly can try heck yeah
yeah roll me an athletics check yeah uh let's go everyone let's see if i can do this
uh 31 for my athletic check you are able to lift it but you are slow too while holding this thing and
you have no hands free i have one action when i'm lifting this shit i it is that heavy i cool
do you have one action left or no i i have no actions left i moved and i tried to lift this thing
yep you are done and that's my turn the zombie looks at you hard oh the heart picks it up like
aha yeah and goes oh no
it will slam down at you with its arm
sorry i forgot to target you uh 33 will hit you correct yes yeah yeah it'll do its damage that's a
total of 15 damage to you heart just it lifts its it lifts its arm up again with it and
and for the second time they try to beat you down
it roll a natural one it sure did soren no unless i spent this here the villain point
no soren i didn't mean i didn't mean it i didn't mean that i when i said get owned
it i didn't mean it snoring come on we're friends it it's okay because uh with all of that
and you're able to step aside or dodge the attack as it brings it down on you but that's all the
actions it can take to lean can i run and jump onto this thing's back and basically latch around its neck
with one arm
i'll allow it on several conditions okay as you try to attack on titan this thing so
what's your highest stat athletics or acrobatics uh my highest is uh acrobatics
what's your athletics number but what are the numbers for both um acrobatics is a 14 athletics
is a 13. i'll have you roll acrobatics for this one i feel it's more acrobatic feed of like getting
on top of a giant and stuff so i i will allow you to jump at him which you can um which is kind
of like a two action activity you want to take some distance and then jump on him so
with that i think you have enough distance to do so but roll me athletics for that
as you kind of go whoop and jump over okay
okay i i'm i'm uh happy with that no
you should be happy with that one though significantly happier with that that's a
31. yeah that was yeah yeah that was my only hero point
all right because it's a 31 i'm going to allow you to basically be on top of him i'm going to put
you here all right so you are on top of this guy for your two actions you have one action left
uh my next action is uh going to be
yeah i i guess you know like i've jumped on this guy i've latched onto him just start stabbing
so i started stabbing so i started stabbing actually wait no that was an action i have two actions
that was two actions a long jump oh okay okay that was okay okay that was two action launch okay i have
one action then then i started stabbing
cab yeah is this the perfect oh
i mean it's also getting the bad guy why did you have to do that man shut the
fuck up
the squeak is so good
i gotta find a complication for you oh no yeah let's see
i'm in tears
oh no oh this is evil oh this is very evil let's see
um oh no i can't do this one never mind that one was going to make you trade
soren if you just want to end the campaign you can tell us
also i'm going to uh measure for time it is around six is everyone still good to go until this is done
finish this off uh yeah yeah as long as we do it like
in an hour or so yeah within an hour i'll definitely be done okay yeah um i'm trying to find a little
skill action for a complication action to try to do a thing uh also one thing i'm having to skip a lot of
these complications for people listening in uh do not do specific characters i immediately pass by them
like any single time so it was like 10 hellsers doing this like i immediately skip by it uh
it has to be generic enough uh because i can't do specific people uh
oh this will work that's all in fact the thing what it says is uh this is from sarah grapes thank
you for this one sarah thanks sarah yeah who says this this will never work clearly issue was a bad
luck but bad strategy make a will save on a failure i mean you may not you may you may not use the same
action that caused the complication for five rounds on a success the effect asks for one round for
example you can't attack with the same weapons cast the same spell or make the same skill check
and so basically roll me it will save i'll make the dc for this one 15. okay
oh thank god you're good i rolled a total of a 29. you're good you uh you just realized basically
the thing that caused a complication was your uh unfortunate you know swinging at him so i'll
i'll have it where you if you try to jump off no we'll do we'll do the swinging thing it's it's
it's gonna be tough for you you can't swing at him with your sword or for till the end of your next
turn i need a super cut of when i said at least we didn't get a one and then it just flashes through
every single one that we've rolled done done done we gotta finish the encounter first
gray it is your turn oh my god okay so while now we have light thank god uh now that talim is on top
of the the brute here uh she's going to reload i think she already reloaded so we're set on that
uh she's going to shoot at this thing's eyes pray pray i hate that every time i pull off something
epic and i go to follow it up i know it's it's just a one it's like oh i go to jump on the
giant welcome to hell welcome to hell you're on there just imagine it is this it's like you
narrative you're all the one i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna all right all right we need that super cut
like oh my goodness let's see let's take this one from let's see we all died in that basement that
day not just we're gonna we're gonna do this one if this one's too weird for you just let me know
um this is from whitechapel thank you so much for your uh for your patron submission called love
at first fail congratulations you felt so bizarrely so amazingly outlandishly and unbelievably
comprehensively that the target npc or britishly innocent falls completely in love with you
this may affect a combat enemy which may cause him to immediately try to protect you all that other
stuff so this uh this zombie for some reason you can tell me if you want me to change this um
this zombie also just looks at you and goes you i remember you used to look like one of my little
dogs all of my dogs sure sure you tried to steal my dog and he just starts grabbing it to lean and
because this zombie hawk is sort of shift and move around and grab you it makes it real hard for you
to stab and that's how we'll narratively have that complication um so gray stop rolling ones
i assume you're reloading yes call heart actually you know you already had it targeted you don't have
to retarget it you can shoot again gray i believe mine as well if you want yeah yeah with the negative
five i almost grabbed a bite if anything else a thing you try to do is you can try to intimidate it
if you want to if you have intimidation uh you can try to recall knowledge on this thing if you've
dealt with zombies before like this or maybe big things like this she is not uh but she is used to
hunting large things i imagine you would you have to probably go in for zombies still
uh no no she could like growl at it intimidate that you can give it a shot and give it get a shot or
literally shot or a literal shot yeah we'll go for it we'll go for intimidate i am untrained on this
but you know what this this entire scenario has been so goofy fuck it why not all right she's going
to growl at him that's a 17 for a total of 19. that will not do it unfortunately he's not intimidated by
you the one thing all right it is your go hi soren yes park sees that this shit is happening yes uh
heart realizes a thing if he has a hard time lifting this thing and that thing had a hard
time lifting this thing uh and i have one action to do anything as long as i'm carrying this object
i will use my mighty and powerful speed
to move up to this guy and for one free action drop it on his foot
that'll be improvised weapon uh i'll let you just do your unarmed attack thing pretty much it's just
your falling stone attack um go ahead and roll that for me heck yeah i'll do it
i roll a nine that's a hit go ahead and roll damage
i roll a 10. and the funny thing where you're falling stone attack it literally is
you do 10 points of damage to this thing he goes
oh my good toe
as you do so heart the entire like you've all noticed this a little bit like the building has
been shaking with this thing it feels unstable like it is suspended over this pit but as you
come up and drop it onto the ground you hear
outside and this thing is
you know just like in pain or so
so would would gray be able to hear that crisp and clear with her senses
would she be able to hear that like no problem but amongst the growing she's gonna look up
quickly dart her head around towards the chains and go we gotta get this we chest out house fall
like she's just bam bam bam
now it's a zombie's turn oh no it is going to look at you heart
let's see let's see let's see let's see
he is going to try and beat you down also you're no longer slowed too i'll take that off you
he'll try to beat you down once more the hunk of me just
ha ha missing actually no hold up i don't know why you're dc i don't know that
either 38 35 hits don't worry about it that makes no sense i don't know either wait
i don't know why that's odd but we're going to update the found you after the thing regardless
yes that will hit you um
dealing 26 points of damage to you that's a lot of damage it is a lot of damage and with that swing
i think another chain outside snaps the building just lurches
he'll take another swing at you heart
it's 30 that hits that 30 will hit
dealing 26 points of damage to you oh my god
it goes you see one the wall so the size bam explode it's one of the anchors i was holding
inside the wall just you see a hole uh outside now
and another chain has snapped that is all that the zombie can now do
talim it's your turn you're on top of this thing i am on top of this thing so i will spend a blue action
to uh put my uh put my sword away because swinging the sword uh is not a good idea but
talim will raise a hand above his head and as he does one of his armored gauntlet
a knife blade pops out of it and i will spell strike and attempt to stab this thing in the neck
with my bladed gauntlet uh with a uh spell strike imbued with produced flame
hell yeah go ahead and roll your attack roll
okie dokie
and that is 16 plus
a 10. that'll hit it for 26 and remember the target next time but yeah you got it wait yeah
no it's 25 i'm sorry you're still good okay um so i will roll the damage for that which is only
one d4 uh plus six that's a total of nine but we also have the fire damage of produce flame which is
a total of 12. awesome that is so 21 uh points of damage in total i think
the cool thing that you notice you don't exactly stab with it just slashing damage you notice this
thing you are tearing into this thing like you see as you slash it you see the flesh just easily
gives way and it takes a lot of damage from that he goes
keeps trying to grab at you um that was some of your actions there i think you have one action left
i have no that was all my actions because it's two actions to do spell strike oh right right right
you're right so an item um but as uh clean basically like takes it in like shoves this blade uh with an
explosion of flame in the zombie uh like he hears the chains breaking and he looks at uh
he looks at both gray and heart and uh he's like take the chest and get out of here i will keep it
distracted sounds good
gray uh grace keeping it distracted you uh as you're looking around unfortunately i can't edit
these chains of the boundary thing here you notice a lot of the chains are now missing
we don't have a lot of time you you feel that in a couple hits this thing's gonna take down this building
yep she's gonna call out she's she's calling out to them we don't have a lot of time move move move
um she's gonna just kind of keep trying to keep this thing's attention because apparently it's weirdly
look it's it's treating her like a dog um she's just gonna keep shooting at it and please god
please god please i'm begging you please why that was a total of 21. you rolled five on the die i'm
fine on the five on the die what is happening you're just rolling real low chat did give you a hair point
yeah they did it's true this could be the one it'll be the one this time oh i love how i'm gambling i
love this we love gamba we are so back turned out so well last time it works so great this is what
happens when you go to vegas oh mother are you serious that was a total of 24 a miss
grace is kind of staring now she's just gonna quietly reload
uh hold up this is weird it's rating dc 29 for some reason on my thing that's not its thing you hit
oh i don't know what's going i don't know what's going on there
we uh for just for clarification everyone we are utilizing a non-updated version of foundry and that
for pathfinder second edition and that might be around with it no it's been normal ever since but
that i haven't updated the pathfinder thing of the foundry at a certain point so should we say
something might be messy for now let's stop targeting it i'll just do the numbers or whatever
um okay you hit this time my bad we'll we'll get that figured out all righty i will uh roll for damage
then i rolled a total of 15 and she's aiming for the eyes still she's still aiming for his uh his his
little eyes yeah unfortunately you do not blind him or anything but he just like right into his neck
he's like poppy why
uh you you shot at him
she's gonna reload and shoot again
why are you so mean straw party not i did not target him so i'm just gonna shoot randomly willy
nilly and you do the map uh roll that is definitely a miss for a 15. yeah it's definitely a miss uh with
that heart it is your turn uh yeah so soren uh will i have one action after i pick up the chest again
uh if you basically walk up to that chest and pick it up you're done okay
uh
but the chest is on his foot soren it's it's not over there anymore i know yes
yes uh but but yeah but the interact action is to pick it up yeah yeah okay cool uh then i'll
use my interact action to pick it up okay um robin athletics check okay
let's see if we can pick this thing up again
i rolled way worse this time 22. you struggle and are not able to lift it you're able to drag it
uh five uh five uh five feet one way but that's it okay uh then i'll drag it five feet this way
got it one second i'm trying to do this for you there you go heck yeah lift with your legs
remember hard lift with a lift with your back in a jerking twisting motion no
yeah that was a hernia that was one action from you you were not slowed after the thing you got
two actions still don't try to keep trying to tug it the best you can to lift it yes uh very much so
uh yeah i was gonna say is that an option for heart to drag it it's like uh basically what i'm doing
is every single time like i give you a chance to move it five feet but you have to spend every action
to go you know but this time you do lift it i get a 34. you do lift it so you are slow two now as you
were able to now hold it up yay and since you said that i no longer have actions after that i no longer
have actions that's my turn all right now it's a zombie's turn it looks to you heart you're like
you made puppy mad at me oh no and you're taking my thing master will be mad if you take my thing
and he will whoosh down right down at your heart miss no no no no that's right that 37 will hit
you that's a crit i gotta remember not to do the thing oh that is a crit is it i hate it here it is
your ac's 26 yeah i hate it here with the crit i rolled nearly max damage that is 58 points of damage
yeah i'm down just with one thing
and basically will bring heart down heart you are now dying one that's right like to place yourself
with that um just seeing one now can i go like and you cut me good master won't like that and he will
try to grab at you talim and try to be like just try to uh like take his like like arm that he's
having as this weapon and try to flap it on his back to try to get you
he will roll 13 on diver total of 32. does that hit you talim oh yeah that hits what's your ac here my ac is
currently a 24. okay that does not crit you but it will hurt you only for 14 damage it's like i think
you mean 12 damage here i'll click this damage mode for you bam with your resistances and stuff
but with that one critical hit just gray you see the entire side of this house where heart is just
and basically send off to its side this entire house is now just just the chains just snapped
the chest and everything just whoosh over to the side and for you uh to either tumble to the house or
backwards and he rolled me a reflex save okay you see you know that feeling when you're like
freaking out you've got that feeling in your tummy uh but also your legs feel kind of hollow
that's me right now i'm rolling a reflex that's 14 for total of 31. you're able to do great you're
able to stay on top uh top of the house without like suffering anything or tumbling in you're able to
stabilize yourself right there but you're seeing this entire house is roost slanted and you see
there is one chain left are we slanting towards like bottom right basically yeah bottom right yeah
okay cool uh argument as to why the change uh the the box should be moving heart picked it up heart is
basically a splotch on the ground at the moment with the with the the chest on top of him so it would
just slide on his slick body fluids
i'm gonna be real i'm not being i'm not being brave right now my tummy hurting he he got tom and jerry
flattened by this giant
clean yeah you're still on this thing's back at the end of your turn i'm gonna have to
go in checks and stuff but you're on him right now what do you want to do um
as he's like holding on to this and he watches this thing just splat the goliath of a man that is hard
um and the chains are breaking all out all around this house lists to the side uh
he'll look down at heart he'll look at the chest then he'll look back up at gray um
and uh he will just look gray uh dead in the eyes he's just like run and uh i will spend an action to
recharge my spell strike then my final two actions to basically stab this guy uh in the neck again uh
with the produce flame let's see it go and roll me that stuff okay uh
oh we did that one and then we rolled that one god i hope it's a hit
that hits 23 it hits all right so i do
a total of uh 10 slashing damage and uh
we do the 4d4 plus 4 fire damage for a total of uh 24 damage
i don't know it takes additional damage with your slashing just like
you know this thing is hurting now you've done a lot of damage to this thing and uh
we'd like to do anything to try to regenerate your spell strike so i think you have to do actions and
stuff to try to refresh it and that's why i did the top of my turn i spent an action to do it okay
and that's why i was able to do it again awesome um but talim has basically like a death grip on this
thing it's like it's like if we it's like one of us will live but we're taking you with us you bastard
i'll get you and shoot my dog he keeps trying to grab at you uh i assume that's your entire turn
yeah is the end of my turn roll me an athletics to stay on this house is seemingly going down
from the athletics check okay so i got that 13 plus a 15 14. you're holding on to him like
gandalf is riding the fucking balrog down the pit you're holding down
with all the commotion and all the swinging gray it is your turn
gray sees there is literally nothing she can do in this situation to save this heart is down she
can't get in there to get him back up because if she did it might cause more movement to make things
collapse to lean told her to run she's having a lot of like flashbacks right now to the
shit that just happened and all she can do is just shoot one final time as she backs off
i'm so mad about this let's see the shot all right hunted prey shooting with the crossbow
total of 16 for a total of 32. that's a hit rolling for damage
24. and just you take out a huge chunk of flesh like a like a big the left of his remaining left
arm you pretty much he just flops down onto the ground he's like no that was my petting nub
it's so stay down it's a gray with everything going on with this house and things are crumbling down
you're in a very precarious situation you're able to hold your own there uh but you know
that if you take any actions kind of leaving left right you're gonna have to make some saves very hard
saves because the statue and stuff you're on is crumbling down into the pit
so you can stay and try to finish this thing and maybe like hop through the building
or you can try to hop away from the rubble and try to save only yourself
she's gonna hop in okay she's good she's gonna dive in because she's not leaving them behind
all right move where you wish to or you can stay where you are and keep firing
gonna hop in so i could just stay there if uh if you want yeah she's gonna dive in she's gonna dive in okay
my tummy hurting all right so i can go here
and that also reloads while she goes down not that i think it'll matter i think it will matter
it'll matter
heart we like to make a death save uh yeah i would love to do that or spin your hero point and uh
bloop right back up oh yeah i would love to do that uh i'll spend a hero point to bloop back up as
soren said uh how does that work soren ah god i gotta remember so basically you come up let's see uh
hero points then you come up with basically basically one hp if i remember right let's see
uh you spend all your hero points to avoid death you can do this when your dying condition would
increase uh you'll lose the dying condition entirely and stabilize at zero hit points my bad uh you don't
gain the wounded condition or increase it so you pretty much are unconscious at zero hit points if
you do that you have to spend all your stuff which is basically just one you spend all your hero points
and you're now stabilized at zero yeah that i would love to do that all right i would love to not die
you are good now
so feel free to take the dying condition off yourself
oh yeah baby that'll be your turn there now it's this guy's turn this zombie hulk will look at both
you gray and talim and take one big swing up and just try to like swing it through his back to try to
get talim and bring it down to gray and go and go like i'm tired of you
and he will do an action he has called white swing
that he has a zombie hulk let's see here here here here here here here here here's the attack roll
against ac of two foes each of whom must be within the strikes reach the attack counts as two attacks
i'll be home yeah so basically i think he does like a attack but it's like he's attacking twice
they get both of you um so he will go he will do a swing
does 23 hit either of you no uh no it fails
and so now he will try let's see
as he slams down to the ground just pretty much for it um he will then kind of take a
another swing is mp minus 10 i believe let's see it's a good comparison attack roll it's kind
of those two attacks yep that'll be two attacks he'll now take a minus 10 to you gray
does a 24 hit you gray yes it will hit you for
23 points of damage oh this good hits you there that'll be the end of his turn out of her to lean
with those smashes you could just see on the outside one chain just super strain holding this building
you see the wall that basically is holding that in just crumbling in a circle just
just but you have your three actions
do i have
anything
hear me out cap if we start falling down into the pit you have hero points to spend to make it into a
gandall fighting the balrog moment
i mean like that's a fly you look i already told them to fly but they didn't
i wanted to
not doing that she's just like i i no not again yeah talima's uh talima's set in his ways um you know
that's just it his greed kicks in in these uh he's just like if we can't have the treasure then
neither will your master and i will spend an action to recharge my spellstrike and once again
just slash into the neck and torso of this thing with uh with my bladed gauntlet
let's see it hopefully bring this titan low uh and deny its master its prize
and it's a full of a 19. that will not hit but you do have a hero point i do have a hero point and i
at this point uh yeah
that's a total of a 30. that will hit
so technically you're flanking right let's see why would you be flanking uh well no that's right
you're down everything else never mind you're good keep going yeah that's a total of uh 10 slashing
damage okay and um a total of
uh 11 fire damage
you have meshed this thing up and as this zombie hulk is like
oh it takes a bat foot trying to grab at you with one stop
yes you hear the final snap of the chain oh the final snap of the chain as you all begin tumbling down
it just keeps tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down and uh seeing that the chain is breaking and
you know the ball starts to set in uh heart is down gray has decided to uh stay he is latched on this
thing and basically has it you know buried up to his wrist uh in it uh he looks at gray and he's he's like
a good day to die and he laughs all the way down
you do not own any token with vision i know i know i was hoping no one would say anything
because um you guys begin to descend down down down into the pits below
basically just like all of you just like in a badass moment
like heart i'll even get allow you to regain recon or regain consciousness as you're saying
everybody just if you want to oh yeah yeah yeah yeah he gets he regains
consciousness and goes like oh yeah i need to save people that's my new promise that's what
i've been thinking about for an entire week but he's like legit just a squashed guy on the pay on the
floor the building crumbles around you and falls down into this pit you begin to see pretty much the
the cobblestone and stone everything parts of the statue and everything fall with you all as you go
further further down into this pit and i would like to imagine like gray and talim and heart with any
sort of consciousness heart has left doing this awesome scene of like fighting this like zombie
hulk just like trying to punch at you all these are all beating its ass all the way down oh big time if
he get regains consciousness again fight people yeah i imagine that at some point gray had actually like
managed to like clamber onto it like grab it somewhere and is like just biting the entire way down
soren the entire way down we are no longer bothered by gravity in the sense that we are no longer
standing on anything so heart is pummeling this thing with the chest
there's still there's still weighted momentum but i'll allow it um of course there's weighted momentum
otherwise he wouldn't do that what is talim doing as you all are falling down oh talim you know like i
said he was you know buried up to his wrist in this thing and uh basically you know he just has this
moment of mania he's just like you know i've already died twice uh you know we're cursed by jim
this is apparently the key to it uh some master of this is trying to take it away uh this is like
a final act of defiance and he is pure mania as he is just stabbing this thing again and again as he
rides it down he is yeah he's very much gandalf mode let's go yeah that's why he looked at uh that's
why he he looked at great he's like it's a good day to die she just said that no and uh yeah there is
no self-preservation he's just in the moment you see that there is no no light at the bottom
a lot of people's visions immediately go black as there is a crunch rubble begins to fall
and that's where we're gonna end it until the not next exciting episode of raccoons next year
holy crap and with that
chat you're gonna be in the dark as much as we are
i guess we're dead all right everyone start rolling up your new characters
okay so this time i will be the bill guy yeah that's how you'll be the marketable plushie this time
yeah this chat says you bastard
and so with that that's the end of raccoons for this for this arc i hope you all enjoyed it
well did the party survive will beetle ever come back maybe they'll roll up new characters we do not
know we do not know what will happen why why were there zombies there over at the old blacksmith's home
will they be able to find the key what happened to hearts what's going to be the repercussions of
the pawns plaster with all the gang members you'll just have to find out whenever we come back with
the raccoons later next year i hope you all had a fantastic time watching i like to reintroduce the
amazing players who brought you this episode starting off with minerva that's me i'm minerva you can
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