Mayday Plays - Ironsworn Session 1 (Live Audio)

Episode Date: February 8, 2021

Ep. 1: Ironsworn - Eye of the Storm Join Zakiya as she creates our first Ironlander named Haf. Haf is a hawk loving, thunder bringing, trickster who feels out of place in the tribe. When Haf decides to set out one morning on his own to make a name for himself his luck leads him to an interesting haul. However, Haf’s confidence may get the better of him and things don’t turn out the way he hopes. This is an audio only version of our twitch stream for you to enjoy. Please note this episode had lots of audio drop outs, which we have cut out, but be prepared for a hot mess. This episode contains profanity. This work is based on Ironsworn (found at www/ironswornrpg.com), created by Shawn Tomkin, and licensed for use by © Mayday Roleplay under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0) CAST • Zakiya • Sergio MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS • “Eye of the storm” original theme by Aaron A. Pabst IRONSWORN LINKS • Ironsworn (https://www.ironswornrpg.com/) MAYDAY ROLEPLAY LINKS • Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/maydayrp/) • Twitter (https://twitter.com/maydayroleplay7) • Mayday website (https://www.maydayroleplay.com/) • Patreon (patreon.com/maydayrp/)

Turn it up some more folks, but we are playing Ironsworn and today our first player to start to kick off the campaign. You may know them as Asian Warp from our podcast Doom to Repeat. They do all of the incredible artwork for us. It is none other than the incomparable...companion...alright let me try to do this...actually Zakiya you have roll 20 up right? Okay I'm going to walk you through this. Hit select and choose companion because for some reason I'm having a hard time on my end.

On assets and choose companion. You can justify that you are resupplying by hunting for small game or you're undertaking a journey and following game or something like that you can add plus one. So if you want to check that box you can and the only other thing worth knowing is that at the bottom there's that series of numbers 0 to 3 and what that means is this represents your your companion's health so it'll start at 3 and any time you ever have any any damage or any harm that is done to your companion...hopefully never it will reduce and if it gets to 0 there's a possibility it'll die but it's kind of hard so you know I think your companion will be

just fine just don't throw it into combat too much okay but there is an ability that if you if you upgrade this asset using the experience you gain with your vows you can gain something where I think you can secure an advantage plus one using the hawk so it can be used in combat all right so we've added our first asset it's time to pick another one why don't you hit add in the bottom left there of the character sheet cool also it looks like our audio may have dropped out again okay I'm taking a look check one two check one two I see you and give me a check Zakiya check one two all right you are there I do see Zakiya's levels when she speaks as properties it says we have a little bit of

I see so okay my audio is coming in I think yours is too but it's at a little bit of a lag are you plugged in or are you wireless right now okay let's see how do we simplify this because I wonder if you can close I don't want you to close roll 20 I don't want you to close zoom there's nothing else open right no I mean I could just try like replugging my mic in real quick I don't I don't think I don't think that would be the issue it's a matter of just getting the right amount of kilobits and nonsense from you everything on my end is very stable so it's a shame but I think we're just gonna have to kind of continue for now and hope that it gets a little bit better soon I'll keep an eye on it so let's

move on we need to add two more assets and these are going to be at random so we're gonna hit add okay and then you're going to decide you're gonna tell me whether you want what asset you want next I think there's combat ritual oh sorry no thank you I was looking so there is a ritual which are is like magic there's a combat style or path and then there's actual path and then there's another companion maybe you just want to have nothing but animal companions with you okay this is a long list of things now here's the thing that long list of things is random I just want you to choose do you want to combat talent because that will be random what combat talent you gain will be random okay yeah I think we'll do combat okay so in roll 20 let me switch over

so that we can see this I want to see just the rolls go ahead and roll a d20 and let's see what you get we're gonna ignore anything above 14 okay so we are picking assets right now you guys haven't missed much I'm just rolling for combat talent and we're rolling a d20 flat you said you're rolling a flat d20 and we're ignoring anything above 14 cute okay that do a thing should have did I rolled exactly a 14 interesting let me make sure that you can see it oh it's at the top of course I said it so that everyone could see it at the bottom and that's not how roll 20 wants to work so we're gonna come in here just rolls huh you should see it that's what this is also thank you everyone in the chat for keeping us yeah we are oh I know I was there then I got it I solved it here we go

I'm solving it right now if I can just get it to play nice with me there we go okay there we go alright first roll of the game 14 there it is so beautiful good just rolling along so now under combat talent go to the very last option because that's number 14 and that is the combat talent you have gained alright so I wheeled a mighty hammer okay when you face danger secure an advantage or compel someone by hitting or breaking an inanimate object add plus one and take plus one momentum on a hit so when you do any of those things you can get a plus one if you just do the flavor of you smash it against an inanimate object okay that's amazing my passionate already it might terrify your hawk but still cool they don't like that okay maybe they're just always in the air like kind of away

from you because they know you're gonna bring the hammer at some point okay time for our last asset go ahead and hit add again okay and you just tell me what what asset you want ritual feels weird okay do a little magic also but I want to find before we do magic I want to find out where I am we don't have time for like a gap year in this place so I want to I want to do path first I see now here's the thing you can only have three assets so if you choose path then it's that's it that's the three of them that you've chosen but paths are good too they give you abilities and a whole bunch of stuff so if you want a path you can choose one and if you want a ritual at a later point maybe your character gains enough experience that they gain some kind of magical ability yes

yes I will save the ritual for someone else gotcha but yeah so so what if you want to choose a path you may either roll 1d20 or 2d20 we're gonna ignore anything above a 34 1d20 do 2d20 nor everything above a 34 okay okay I will all right go down 28 I don't it's gonna take a little time but I got you I got you 9 12 18 21 24 27 trickster then okay trickster is that the one oh interesting yeah all right let's read this one so we're getting some words that we can't see roll 20 or the people the people meaning us we gotcha first roll first roll so no they can see us they can't see yeah they can't see roll 20 I do see that okay so that makes no sense because let's transition here okay but just so we're clear so far I have a hawk best friend that is unnamed I

am a thunderbringer which pretty much just seems like my hammer is where my confidence is coming from just fine and I am a trickster which means when I face danger secure an advantage or compel by lying bluffing stealing or cheating I can add a plus one which is really good for the people that are gonna play this game an amazing character so far I have to agree oh yeah okay so yeah it's plus one for lying bluffing stealing or cheating when I face danger secure an advantage or compel this is the kid who absolutely like whatever the iron sworn equivalent of like should be playing football but chooses not to that is them they are like physically intimidating they are a large child but they just refuse like they find a lot more comfort amongst the birds with their

friend now maybe not Charles but yeah yeah they're an absolute unit but they are they can't fly unfortunately so okay so we're looking at the skills and I can't remember sorry do I get one how do I divide the skills again also we just we just went through what each skill represents fam we'll get you back in a second we were just talking about the five ability the five um what are these attributes edge heart iron shadow and wits we are going to put a three into one of these we're going to put two twos into two of these and two ones into two of these so with the knowledge of the assets that you have what do you think are the appropriate things to go into so for instance you are a trickster and I believe

having good shadow because shadow involves deceptiveness and sneaking around and that kind of thing it would be advantageous to have a decent shadow however you also are a little aggressive uh with your hammer and see when you face danger security advantage or compel you know you you you could put it something in iron and that might uh be good but but uh wits or heart might also be good for when you try to compel folks oh oops sorry am i still out uh let's see isn't it i mean it's very evocative uh

this is still out and i think it might be oh oh hey hello oh man it seems like we're just like super lagged behind which is such a shame um oh boy yeah okay well you're back i'm back yeah so i'm explaining to them what's happening for whatever reason we're just super lags but let's just continue on okay so i think um shadow would be good to have three in for everyone's sake um i don't think our our lad is super smart maybe one for wits okay i want him to have a lot of heart a lot of hustle out there on the field um hmm okay edges like combat centered and iron one more time edges like the dex iron is like the strength

oh but he's he's he's a strong boy yeah but they have the they have the uh big hammer so maybe iron is appropriate yeah but he's chasing hawks all the time um i don't know let's see you're chasing hawks but yeah yeah i see what you're saying i see what you're saying do you want to be able to kind of nimbly move around and stuff yeah i mean i kind of like wilt wilt he'll he'll earn his his hawk chasing i think we'll give him a lot of iron i think he was born with this yeah okay good and we're both awesome so we've chosen our five stats um yes everything when you begin health spirit and supply these are always at plus five and they represent uh supply for instance stuff that you have on you uh your spirit is kind of your

endurance and your ability to keep going and obviously health is your health so they all started five your momentum starts at two we've talked a little bit about what momentum is if you have any questions about it don't feel free to ask but it's basically a way to cancel a challenge die if things go wrong and you will gain momentum as we start making moves so next we need to choose some background bonds these are bonds that you have that are important to you people i think that i would allow a bond to be the the entire tribe but we need at least three and i'd like kind of a a little bit of a summary as to who these people are okay um i think they have a bond be

i feel like because hawks or birds like this are so important to forecasters maybe there's like like one body like one forecaster that they know uh that they're super connected to but also they're kind of a scrub so it would also probably be maybe the youngest or the newest forecaster um and they just sort of that's my best friend each other so they've kind of come up together maybe you know they're both maybe the same age or something yes however old yes yes however old they end up being whatever yeah but they're yeah i think at the same age i think maybe it was like super important that this person like got them their first hawk and it was maybe like a parting gift i don't know maybe they're just yeah they're just good

distant friends okay i i like where this is going i even like the idea of maybe them having a little bit of a rivalry or something maybe we can play with that but let's let's first roll to find out their name go ahead using uh roll 20 let me make it so that we can see the rolls go ahead and roll a d100 pick an iron lander name okay d100 is a number oh it's 17 okay all right so let's see i want my my nemesis enemies to lovers name your um that's not canon yet right you're gary oak to your ash catch them let's see okay there we go is it bad that i have also haven't seen pokemon oh my gosh

all right we won't say anything about that let's move on okay so you rolled a 17 on the iron lander namesheet wulan w u l a n wulan is the name of this this forecaster and i'm also going to mess with our progress i've got like a little uh sheet here that your bond one of your bonds is called the wulan the forecaster same age maybe a rivalry okay so that's one bond let's um if you wouldn't mind and roll 20 if you wouldn't mind adding uh that person's name and i think if you click details it probably allows you to add some detail oh did it go away yeah no you're fine i think i'm just like yes okay so if you roll on oh yeah if you save it it'll probably go about there you go great great

forecaster or probably rivals maybe frenemies frenemies yeah okay good okay so we have one bond let's come up with another one can you think of another you know uh logical bond that your character might have okay so we have connections to the outside we need connections on the inside tribe somewhere it might be worth deciding whether your character is a part of the iron mongers the the historians yes or the uh or the court cartographers um let's i don't think they care

much for the for the behavior of spirits and gods so maybe not the cartographers um but oh i think historians i think they're super into like what like how they can be a better hawk person falconer sorry and how like people who've done it in the past how they can excel at it they're a huge nerd about that i think okay cool so add a new bond and let's see let's um i think it might be worth having a particular person amongst the historians that you uh feel closest to right so give me another d100 roll and let's find their name and then i think we should also decide their their disposition we'll figure that out after okay i like the idea of having like a like a um a comforting english professor

that i key key with if okay so this is the rolls 38 awesome so with 38 their name is uh oh i saw the wrong thing here uh mona mona mona and once you've added them m o n a mona okay cool and then once you add them give me another uh d100 roll to determine their disposition okay cool 13 they are friendly so feel free to describe them as friendly it's nice to have a friend yeah i think they're they're the confidant that they go to maybe when like people are on them too much or like maybe if they if they do the thing with the hammer they just kind of get a little

aggro i think they go visit mona she like brings them down with their theory and while we're at it let's also add the the descriptor for our friend wulan why don't you enroll another d100 let's determine what they're like oh cool you could either choose disposition or a descriptor of them um flesh out of characters personality or uh define the initial tone let's go with descriptor let's go with descriptor because it's kind of the overall personality yeah okay cool that's a 47 let's see 47 so close to where i don't have to move this all right 47 remorseful they are remorseful that's very interesting

something went bad now now remorseful means regretful right so what are they remorseful of that that they still have a beef with you okay okay well hmm i mean i don't feel like this person is like living it up on top i i think like it has to be one of the few things that this character has that they wanted or maybe that they like broke the rules maybe they shouldn't have been a forecaster um maybe we just had a really good thing going and they messed up so the remorseful of becoming a forecaster that could work at the same time based on our last conversation about forecasters life is hard yeah like they might all locate be remorseful about that

but yeah i think maybe how they got there is maybe not all up at the table they're remorseful maybe because they maybe they took your place or something maybe yeah i like that okay because we haven't established anything about what forecasters look like i just assume they look like track stars but um i like that i like that they so definitely write location wise i guess you should write that they are let's see if they're the newest if they're new forecasters i feel like they'd be more towards the anvil right they'd be more towards or is it safer in the front i guess i guess it always changes it always kind of changes depending on what direction it's moving let's just say that let's just say that they're found at the at the

wall right at the storm wall and let's change their descriptor i guess you could include new forecaster but also add remorseful remorseful exactly something something small like that i think they took my juice box that's yes maybe it was an ultimate juice box i'm sorry okay so they're at the storm wall new forecaster is remorseful um and then we have mona who's the story in and friendly we have one more yeah yes we need one more bond maybe somebody that's just in your family maybe it's um a relative i know that's the same thing yeah but maybe um i like the idea of like uh like a matriarch okay of their family or

something like a grandma a grandma makes sense grandma makes a lot of sense uh why don't you add that to the character sheet and once you've added it roll the d100 let's determine their name you and grandma what do i call you with a 40 40 with a 40 their name is a vela a v e l l a a vela that's a good that's a good grandma name well all right now let's let's roll another d100 let's determine their descriptor this is a good support system i'm glad to be with a with a 90 she is fervent f-e-r-v-e-n-t she is fervent what is she fervent about

i think um let's see i think maybe she's really maybe she's not as hmm i wanted to be an iron monger that's one thing interesting fervent about like oh man what is she i mean she could be fervent about being an iron monger about uh you know she's fervent about you being in the wrong position you're doing the wrong thing oh yes but she doesn't maybe okay so i think she's on my case about being in the wrong place and maybe she's like picking at the truth maybe she doesn't know what happened between me and moulin but um she's like something's wrong something's wrong there you shouldn't be here maybe she's a little spooky and that's going to be a source okay cool make sure to write her location i assume

we should put uh uh in the center of the village or you know in in your home yeah and yeah yeah now did you say that she she you're you're going with the idea that she wants you to be something else okay yes she doesn't have to be abusive about it but she's pretty fervent about no yeah no she's not a jerk but she's she's the kind of person that just acts like what are you doing nowadays even though she like they've been doing the same thing every day since they've been at dates so yeah so she wants them to just do something else for life okay cool chill about it though is chill about it that's nice cool okay great so we have chosen our three bonds there should be three little uh check marks on uh if you see your bond progress

bar uh make sure that there are three of those little check marks and that that is going to reflect kind of when the character is ready to retire however many bonds you've you've earned will uh you you're going to roll against that and that will determine kind of the outcome of your character you know how they retire etc so this is kind of its own uh experience kind of progress track okay cool so we've gotten the the bonds out of the way time to choose the vows the iron vows now there needs to be a long-term vow that if you go to summary you'll see that the the the difficulty of these vows are kind of labeled from troublesome all the way to epic we need a long-term vow that is on the extreme or epic side and then we need a more short

short-term vow that is closer to like troublesome dangerous maybe even formidable something that will take a little bit of time but can be solved sooner than later okay i think they they want one of their hawks like i i think they want one of their hawks to be able to be like the one that sounds the alarm for like an amazing hall for the tribe like if one of their hawks gives word about an obelisk or something i'm just thinking ways that they could make their grandma proud quickly and what she cares about oh i see and yeah i want i want that that's not like a super lofty goal no but they're trying to be the yeah so it's kind of like you you want to prove yourself you want to prove that you're in the

right position right you're doing the the right thing you want right and it needs to be something relatively achievable so it's like it's like a rite of passage it's like a it's like a more short-term goal so maybe we can frame the vow like you want to see just saying you want to impress your grandma is not a it's a little too nebulous something a little more concrete like i want to uh uh succeed on my rite of passage i want to maybe we decide that you want to catch something or you want to prove useful with your hawk yes yeah i think they want to prove prove useful with their hawk but specifically in i don't know oh okay gotcha gotcha so in your but yeah yeah finding an obelisk is a challenge but

maybe it can be finding something that will benefit the tribe yes finding out finding a hole is yeah so prove themselves by finding a hole a hole a hole h a u l you're saying right okay gotcha yeah okay so we have our vow go ahead and write that down uh this is let's see it's not it's not impossible to come across these things i think as as we have decided in our lore coming across them can prove to be dangerous i think formidable implies that formidable kind of implies a little bit too much danger maybe dangerous is the appropriate level yeah i mean i feel like maybe their idea of doing it is like speed training as many birds as

possible so that they are outfitting as many people as possible just like just casting a very wide net so if like 80 of the tribe is using their birds whatever they find with those birds could be credited to them gotcha gotcha so then yeah click it uh to dangerous and what is important to understand is that because it is dangerous it changes the amount of progress you gain every time you successfully make a move towards progressing in this vow so because it's dangerous every time you succeed you're going to mark two progress uh uh boxes so there's 10 just below that dangerous um every time you succeed you're going to mark two progress and what's going to happen is that you're going to eventually get to a point where maybe you have seven eight ten

progress marks and you are going to roll against that and if you succeed if you have a strong hit or a weak hit then you will complete this vow and and you will gain whatever experience is appropriate for that level of challenge so a dangerous uh dangerous grants you a certain amount of experience that i don't immediately see but you get the point right okay yes that works so we have our short-term iron vow we want to prove ourselves by finding an interesting haul bring something back to benefit the tribe what is a more epic extreme long-term vow your character could make i want to i'm wanting i want to get room do i want to get revenge on hulan because they don't want to be a forecaster but well maybe no they don't but maybe

this is just shitty enough that they just want to get it back but that's not very yeah it's not that big is up particularly uh it's hard for me to like a character that just is going after revenge right that's just being i mean you know think about your character's situation and the situation of the tribe i mean an obvious vow for many people i'm sure is to you know keep the the tribe alive help find a way out of the storm you know these are huge uh uh vows um you know for your character being somebody who's like an outsider maybe maybe there's an injustice within the tribe that they want to rectify but no they it will take a lot of time and kind of you know swing people to it um oh you have an idea yes yeah yes okay so um bear with me there is a

maybe another like brute in the tribe that symbolizes this like this like systematic wrong and the only way that they could probably defeat them is with force using this like hammer mechanic or being a unit yeah um but they insist on being this falcon person because it's cute and that's what they want to do um but maybe the big thing is maybe finding a way to take them down what they represent here it would be really problematic if they were someone that was in charge whoa if they were in charge of the iron bunkers and that would inherently piss off definitely definitely that would be good okay so so less systematic wrong and how it gets done i think i'll leave that to the people of the future

okay so so so reiterate one more time what is this more long-term vow so it's it's to right a systematic wrong that is being perpetuated by the head of the iron mongers i see so something the iron monger leader is doing is unjust yes okay um let's see made a Caleb says maybe we want to free our little forecaster friend from their position somehow yeah yeah that's cool that's cool um uh that is definitely a a vow um i don't think it's a particularly epic vow uh or extreme vow i i do think changing the mindset of the of the tribe makes a little more sense i i like this path you're going on of the uh the leader who just has bad policy maybe it has to do with maybe it has to do with all old people like grandma have to become

ironsworn have to be put out into the storm and you want to change that you don't think you want your grandma to do that i don't know what do you think of that no but that works okay okay um ooh yeah okay okay so they um there's a bullshit rule about like after a certain age you inevitably become ironsworn um maybe they're involved i'm just trying to think yeah if they're involved with maybe carrying this out or helping like escort these people to the edge of the storm and ooh what if they just don't one time but i'm thinking there's not really a whole lot of place you can go and people wouldn't find out that you didn't make it to the edge of yeah i'm starting to think maybe our maybe we set it to like extreme or epic or you know we

set it to like extreme but we do leave it a little vague uh until it kind of hits us it's okay if we don't have something super concrete yet but i like the idea of like basically the big vow is there's an injustice within the tribe that your character wants to rectify right i think that we can definitely write down cool okay yeah that's all right we can figure it out later maybe this session maybe another session that's fine uh we have chosen our short term and long term vow i think we have created our character what's left is let's name this character and then and then we'll take a short little break so let's let's come up with a name do you want to roll for it or do you have something in mind

uh no i want to go for it give me that d100 and let's find out what it is perfect that's a 22 hey interesting your name is half h a f half oh that's so cool yeah half you because you're kind of like half and half you're like half in one world and half in the other i don't know yes look at my little indecisive baby yeah okay so go ahead and change the the character sheet to reflect the name i think you can hit edit and change it name of my hawk as well and it's going to be char char and i really i realized that and then i remembered the pokemon thing so it's separate um but how do i do that yeah go back to

assets and you would change it that way so all right so we have our name we've have our character let's take a quick break to kind of gather ourselves and then we'll actually attempt our first major move into our ironshorn game we'll be right back guys for nearly a century delta green has fought to keep the horrifying secrets of our world at bay it's april 18 2020 six agents with troubled paths must come together under the covert operation perennial while the world quarantines we will be gathering intel can the agents complete the mission and make sense of delta green's sordid history i am agent merit i know this is a bit of a formality but is there any way i can get all of your uh handles you can call me boomer we'll be able to get in and

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easier to accomplish and uh when you make any kind of progress in this vow you're only going to check off two ticks so it's like you'd be making a little x and you'd have to basically do that twice in one box to fill that box so that's how much more difficult this extreme vow is okay but we're here we've got our character now it's time to just decide you know let's have you set the scene what what is your character doing to accomplish one of these two vows okay right thank you um starting off they are cool okay so they are definitely an early riser half and they have started the day the way they always do which is running drills with char they're putting as of now they're putting all of their stuff into this bird be the greatest bird there ever was

they already believed that but we have to show the people that char got you so they're running drills outside um just like flying them to either like check in on different people to like touch different things they're just running drills back and forth through the tribe you know what we also need to decide is what the what direction is the storm currently moving so roll me a d8 and let's figure that out uh yeah so just within roll 20 roll me a d8 and let's see what we get a one so it is moving if we look at the map uh one is northwest yes so northwest so it's currently moving in a northwesternly direction i'm not going to move the actual icon that represents the storm in two days time we will do that we just know that the whole tribe is kind of moving northwest

and audio just dipped again let me check in i see zekia i see me uh so i'm not sure why they're saying that uh count to ten real quick one yep i see your level you can stop okay let's just see what happens okay we're good now uh all right so okay uh we we know that the yeah so we're moving northwest now what's dangerous about that is you know the tribe would know is that the the mountains are to the north and the more north we get the harder that trek is going to be you would know that to the east and to the west are the supposed shorelines of the iron lands and to the south is a lot more kind of grassy open land and if we look closely on the map uh according to this hex which is provided by a reddit user named thredis th-h-r-e-d-i-t-h thank

you thredis for this very cool map but if we look closely it looks like kind of in the southern portion of the eye there are uh uh forests and to the north looks like they're starting to be some hills and whatnot so you're kind of in that middle ground between light forest and and the hills we we know what your character's doing what is the first kind of step that they want to take towards completing one of their vows i think and that would be based on the the moves let's yeah that would be based on the moves but more importantly what you just logically think your character would do first to accomplish the first vow which is to impress your grandmother to kind of prove your your place in the tribe to complete your rite of passage how would your character

go about doing that i think they're gonna flex by um whatever whatever you know you you gotta do something to impress the entire tribe we mentioned bring back a call you could if you want to kind of go out and see you can find anything that castors didn't notice or no one else has noticed you know there's there's over 20 miles of in diameter of of eye there's plenty of land to kind of explore yeah i think i want um okay we know that the forecasters tend to live in the north south east and west quadrants of the eye so perhaps you're heading to like northwest maybe in fact in directions you want to be ahead and see what there is all right yes yes also um we iron speak half is going to signal to char that we're going northwest by the incredible um in-game uh sign language

created by iron speak created by uh elixir amazing sounds three fingers is going this just west and very good to know okay cool so yeah you you signal to your hawk to do that it it's trained enough that it knows and kind of flies off so it sounds like you are going to well you could undertake a journey when you travel across hazardous or unfamiliar lands or let's say maybe gathering information is another possible when you search an area ask questions conduct an investigation or follow a track so which one to you sounds like a good idea i like gather information okay i think they're following the track i don't know if your character sheet i i don't remember if your uh if your companion gives you a plus one to this or not

but if you're going to gather information you're going to roll with wits but check real quick to make sure whether gather information is one of the options for your hawk um no that would be undertake a journey which is one of the options you suggest yeah yeah okay yeah no let's can we do undertake a journey instead i want to give my point i think it's close enough so what we're going to do is we have to kind of decide how difficult this journey is and and i don't think it should be super difficult in fact let's just say the undertaking a journey is kind of part of your vow with grandma so we don't have to worry about creating a new vow let's just have you uh let's see for each segment of your journey you will roll plus wits if you are setting off from a

community with which you share a bond which i'd say you do you would add plus one to your initiative roll so you're going to roll plus wits you just have to click that that wits button and uh when it asks you for the modifier you're going to add a plus one because of your bond with the tribe and i think you'll add a plus one because of your friend char so that's a i think a total of plus two to your wits okay um cool so okay you just click wits yeah you're going to click wits and then it's going to ask you if you want to add a modifier to it and just add two to that okay here we go first roll of the game let's see what it is first actual move sorry trying to navigate okay wait oh yes okay wits modifier plus two

okay all right a weak hit so you rolled a seven total on your action die but you rolled a nine and a two so on a weak hit you reach a waypoint and mark progress but suffer minus one to supply so on your character sheet you're going to bring supply from five to four and you are going to mark progress meaning you are able to add check marks to your uh vow so that means uh because uh it's a dangerous vow you're going to add i believe two yeah dangerous to progress so two uh it's a x and a t so total of four yeah you're going to mark two progress i'm just saying that it's the full progress so we have found a waypoint a waypoint is generally sorry but a waypoint is usually

like a unique place we can roll for it or it seems obvious you can just state it but there are roles to determine kind of what we come on as a waypoint okay let's keep it random let's see we have our place oracles let's do a location descriptor and i think that's i think you're gonna have to roll see coast waters location let's do this roll a d100 we'll determine what this location is 58 village now a location descriptor roll another d100 some kind of village yeah yeah 53 is an abandoned village okay so let's let's set the scene here um you know you come upon an abandoned village

i'd imagine to be pretty small like probably like a little hamlet or something you know maybe back in the day of it was just a house or two maybe one little like longboat house or something but what do you think is here we can roll further if we wanted we could roll on like a theme or something uh or you could kind of decide what what's happening yeah i think okay it starts with them just like pushing forward char is like oh okay gotcha gotcha yeah you definitely come upon an abandoned village so it looks like it was once lived in we can if we want roll for a settlement trouble maybe there's something that defines why this place is abandoned go ahead and roll a d100 let's see what we get 16 a mysterious phenomenon mysterious phenomenon what were you gonna say

we we could we could do it i mean unless something if nothing immediately comes to mind we could we could try to define what that is a mysterious phenomenon okay okay so here we either let's make an oracle roll so what happens is uh when we come to these kinds of crossroads we're not really sure whether it is a bit we something not we can make an oracle roll so what you would do is go to the oracle tab the character uh sheet and then under go all the way down if you scroll all the way down there is the option to ask the oracle click ask the oracle all right so what do you think is the likelihood that this mysterious phenomenon well i realized what i'm saying is probably useless you have kind of already made that decision

suppose there is no need for this if you want you can make a roll to determine whether you think it's very likely that that's what is happening or if it's something else or we can just go with your idea someone sound kid Eli suggests get some black iron i mean that that is an unnatural strange phenomenon maybe the people maybe this place is abandoned in the sense that there's no one alive but there are people here that are like encased in black iron continue so uh all right so you find a place that you said is either covered in char but not burned or you find black iron which one do you feel it's a better idea i like i like uh Eli's suggestion i want to find some black iron i think it makes sense too because

you are trying to prove yourself coming across black iron is certainly a big deal but the question is is it your black iron does it belong to you and if it doesn't belong to you can you figure it out who i don't think isn't it true that like if if the black ironed person is of the bloodline of the person that finds them or something don't they have a say they have a say in it there's no way to know well we we did we did discuss maybe uh people have placards or or like the iron has been etched to determine something you could make a gather information roll to try to find out more yeah i think let's do that gather information roll to find out if this black iron is something

i can make a call on if they're really okay let me pull up gather information so you're gonna roll plus wits so go to your uh summary again you're gonna roll plus wits and i don't think you have any a bonuses to this um no so we'll just we'll just a straight plus wits and let me change to the rolls another weak hit a weak hit okay that's better than a bad hit better than a weak hit or a miss i mean let me move this up a little bit there we go all right on a weak hit the information complicates your quest or introduces a new danger envision what you discover you can ask the oracle if unsure but you will take plus one momentum so your momentum will move up from whatever it currently is might be plus three oh yeah moment all right so it becomes

plus plus four no i mean with the plus one it's got you so on a weak hit the information complicates your quest or introduces a new danger envision what you discover complicates your quest or introduces a new danger so a complication is something like this belongs someone this belongs this black iron belongs to someone that is hard to to reach or maybe isn't with the tribe anymore or um something else or uh it introduces a new danger like maybe there's something wrong with this black iron maybe maybe it's been torn apart already maybe someone's already taken a chunk out of this person that would be really bad okay yeah i like i like the idea of either something being wrong with the black iron it's not something that we've seen before or um that this has already been

harvested from recently maybe by someone else and just hasn't been reported or talked about interesting okay so then let's do this let me have you i think we should ask let's see first of all let's see the gather information on a weak hit you don't add progress so that hasn't changed anything but i feel like this kind of calls for an ask the oracle like does it seem likely that someone has taken chunks off of this person uh the the way we do this is let me pull up the oracle which i think is towards the back where are we here we go so if it is likely or do we want to make it 50 50 is it likely that someone has broken this or is it 50 50 um let's see 50 okay so if you roll a 51 or greater on a

d 100 then it is likely that it happened that or it did in fact happen so the answer is yes if you roll 51 or greater on a d 100 yep okay so that's a 24 which means it's so that that means that that's not the case someone did not just come here and steal a chunk off however we kind of have established that something has happened to this black iron um maybe it's animal marks maybe some kind of animal has been tearing this thing apart maybe it almost looks like something has been eating the iron i think that depends on like maybe it's a it's a sign okay so maybe it's a sign of either like acid rain is coming up a terrible animal or um

maybe something spookier within the storm is like ripping at this black iron okay one of those three okay either way either way let's say that you can tell who it belongs to because i think it's it's worth like like you can still tell who it might belong to let's decide um is it someone we know or is it someone we don't know uh what do you think the odds are of that we'll ask the oracle 50 50 i think unlikely likely i think it's likely that it's someone we know okay either i suggested that it's the iron of one of the leaders or yeah that the black iron belongs all right so let's decide does it belong to one of the leaders you feel like yeah maybe likely it is so you're

going to roll a d 100 and if you roll higher than 26 the answer is yes yes okay that's a 40 so you like get down and you're looking at the iron you see etched into it the the symbol of one of the leaders who who do you think it should be you want to roll a d three and find out all right so one one is the iron mongers two is the historians three is the cartographers okay cool i'll roll oh boy um there we go we'll ignore four if you roll the d four okay so the cartographers so someone from the cartographers uh one of the leaders it belongs to them he's kind of i think we decided he's kind of a advisory person but he's not necessarily the leader um okay yes we find the uh the black iron that belongs to one of the leaders we'll say it's a

cartographer um very cool uh so now we so let's say half kind of realizes this he realizes this is the perfect opportunity to impress it's going to be hard to move this iron by yourself what's the logical next step and remember that let's see um go back to your summary because i think we've only made two progress i think finding this black iron is worthy of another two progress so you so you should have four progress total now on this vow yes so now the heart i go ahead oh no i was gonna say i think the even if they are like strong enough to pick up this person and walk you want to find somebody to help you i would imagine though you want to be a little bit careful because someone might steal the glory you know i mean you you want to make this as much

about yourself as possible in in this so you could bring some oh i am the muscle huh no yeah let's try and carry this person in because even if it's a dumb idea that'll be interesting let's pick up this tends to kind of break a piece off it's nothing unless it seems disrespectful worse okay how smart is my my lad he's got a one in wits they have a one in wits so yeah okay okay um yeah let's oh oh that's really disrespectful okay yeah let's let's try to break off a piece probably a hand especially if there's some sort of like jewelry or tattoo or something important um and bring that in okay so let's see how do we want to handle this um

um when you have initiative and attack in close quarters you can roll oh that move called strike which makes sense but a part of me feels like in a way this is a this is kind of dangerous because yeah because like what if somebody gets upset about the fact that you broke a piece of their relative off or something like that it's almost like a a face danger or a secure an advantage that's an adventure move secure an advantage when you assess the situation make preparations or attempt to gain leverage does that make sense i think that does and i get a plus one for trying to secure an advantage using your mace too right

yes yeah so it's it's perfectly applicable so here's the thing you can roll with speed or agility also known as edge or heart or iron so which which of these would you like to roll i want to roll with that makes sense aggressive action forceful defense strength or endurance so go ahead and roll iron and you'll add whatever bonus modifiers you get normally okay cool got a plus one which means go to the rolls opportunity and that that that seems like a concession but what does that mean what do you mean sit oh so interesting this is a strong hit right you rolled a seven on your score and you have doubles of the challenge die you have two threes so what this means is is that something good something very good is

going to happen so it definitely works let's let's uh on a strong hit you gain advantage which is more to do with um combat and stuff but you take control you can make another move now and add plus one to that move whatever you decide to do uh or and you take plus two momentum so you can add plus two to your momentum becomes four now um plus two is five awesome and make another move now um whatever you end up basically whatever your next move is you'll add plus one to that so just keep that in mind but yeah i would imagine it's something like you break the hand off but it's like um maybe there's something on the hand that very clearly that maybe the person that you eventually hand this over to will be like oh that's definitely that person yeah i think maybe it's some

sort of uh like brace or like i want like a really pretty piece of jewelry that starts as as like a bracelet and goes up and turns into a ring and it's like it like this is a lot of iron to put on one person's hand because you can't mistake it for anything else all right awesome so you have gotten this hunk of iron it's time to what what do you think is the the best next move okay so we've gone out we've got a cool thing the next best thing is to probably get cloud like we need to show this to somebody important and like like mark where they're going i mean i feel like they have enough basic skills to be able to find where they went right true i think it would be pretty easy to return from whence you came um let's let's say that you you don't

have to undertake a journey but you do need to return to the village and what find the person that it belongs to yeah i want to go right to the cartographers um and explain what i've been doing and then i have your your daddy's hand and we have established that uh cartographers are the ones that carry the boat they like they had like their tent is is the the boat that can be flipped over at any time right so you head over to them as they're kind of you know marching with i think you need to make a relationship move in the most the one that makes the most sense is a compel move when you attempt to persuade someone to do something and perhaps what you're persuading them to do is to recognize that you've done something for the tribe you've done something

to help them right does that make sense okay so if you're going to charm pacify barter or convince you're going to roll plus heart if you threaten or incite you'll roll iron if you lie or swindle your roll shadow i think heart is the one that makes the most sense right yeah um i'm trying to think if i yeah i don't want to like pack it alive so i get that extra but you do get it you do get a plus one because of your last success uh so just paint the picture for me what do you do when you walk in like how do you present this to the leader okay uh i think after they've been hyping themselves up that entire walk back um it's like way longer strides and there should be like people that are professionally like listening to the ground to see if there's

any problem or thrown off by half stomping his way into camp or stomping the way into camp for the first time they go to the boat of the cartographers i imagine there's some sort of isolated place where like the leaders go and they like whoosh like fly open the double flaps of the tent and conveniently as the wind is blowing and present themselves and then they lose all confidence and just stand there for a moment yeah as all the eyes suddenly switch to them yeah and um keep walking and just take the hand out of their satchel and put it on what's more awkward yeah they just put it in front of the person they think it belongs to hmm awesome so before you make that compel roll let's figure out who this person is let's make

the decision who the leader of the cartographers is go ahead and roll the d100 okay that is a number my m a i my is the leader of the cartographers and let's roll another d100 to determine their descriptor what they're like one they are stoic one so the cartographer leader is this super stoic person my my could be feminine or masculine you know i think it leans more towards maybe feminine but anyway my is sitting there no expression on their face now you you rolled double threes in that last roll which gave you the plus one so they're certainly going to be impressed but let's see what happens with that compel roll when you roll uh plus your heart

heart heart plus one oh oh wow cool okay out okay half that's so even though you roll really well a nine you roll double tens on the challenge die this is a complication this is a critical failure yeah so okay what is realistic i i think we had talked a little bit earlier about like maybe it's a little taboo to yeah that's really offensive yeah so maybe you misread the situation and just thought oh they're just going to be happy that i broke something off one of their ancestors i i imagine like they stand up like stoically from their table and their eyes are just wide and they say something like you know

do you think that they would be i i think they might be angry up to maybe want to start something with you oh yeah i mean if because half doesn't have a ranking if they wanted to do something like i'm thinking in like like period dramas when someone messes up they get just slapped like they have they could do that if they wanted to um it's definitely if they wanted to whatever pressing charges is they would i think it's realistic that they might stand up and they might smack you and say something like i'm challenging you to a duel or something like that and i think that's a good place to end our session for the evening oh my gosh we you were rolling so well until that last one it was a perfect failure incredible incredible i'm proud of them so we're

ending our game i think the next thing we should do or the final thing we should do is roll a d6 i'm gonna ask use a key to roll the d6 and that will determine who the next player is for next session one is amanda two is calib four is erin five is a legra six is elie that's a four that's a four that means erin will be the next person to take on the roll of half the the hawk uh uh wielding hammer wielding person who feels like they're stuck in the middle amazing amazing first session guys we apologize for any of our uh our hiccups our our hiccups were we're trying to fix them we're gonna get through them eventually but i want to thank you zikia for uh being the first victim today would you do you have anything you want to plug anything

you want to mention before we go um no but not that i can think of i mean uh you have a just you have a coffee that i think you did some art for oh i do i do have a coffee okay yeah if you want to i mean if you want to donate if you want to follow you totally can um that's i think it's let me try to find okay yeah it's it's at zack the drak the same thing all my other handles are but other than that it just look at what mayday's doing and that's a good job that's a special thanks to erin who produced the beautiful score that plays at the top and middle and bottom of our show guys if you if you are having fun if you like what we're doing definitely stay tuned for tomorrow for a premiere of a brand new show called heroes you should know with allegra and cable uh and

Caleb yes they are going to discuss real world people heroes that actually existed in our world and they're gonna stat them like dnd so it should be a lot of fun hope to see you there we will see you next time on the eye of the storm thank you guys until next time take it easy bye you who who who who

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