The Glass Cannon Podcast - Gatewalkers Episode 14 – Chekhov's Zipline

Episode Date: December 22, 2023

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You are listening to the Glass Cannon Network, the premier source for role-playing game entertainment. I wish that you would come sooner. The heroes sifted through the carnage. But then seeing that there's just stillness, like nothing is moving, she slowly signals behind her and walks into the room. You walk into the room. That stench is now overpowering. And freed the weary survivors of the gnome slaughter. Please, before you flee,

could we ask any information you could give us about Bolan or his lieutenants? Any information that could help us? Where we might find him, hold up within. He has been using us as some test subjects. One battered gnome provided a clue to the dark druid's plans.

I did hear him say something about a unicorn trying to overcome the natural defenses of the unicorn. I have a theory. I think that he's trying to adapt the natural poison resistances of the unicorn so that he can use some sort of poison to kill everyone else except his people. It is extremely interesting.

And led the heroes into a life and death encounter with the dark druid himself. Who dares to enter my domain? You are interlopers here. The adventure continues. This is awful. Curse this inevitable conclusion of this narrative. No. Thank you. It's Christmas time

and Astoria Queen's Joe's cooking scrapple and collard beans. Do you like, we found this out right before we started recording that Joe likes scrapple, which is a Philadelphia trash food. That's not true. It's all Pennsylvania.

That is true. It's all Pennsylvania. And Jersey. You can Scrapple at your local grocer. Not my local grocer. not only is it just disgusting, but we're shocked that Joe would eat it because it is, I mean, it's so gross and so complex in its grossness. But yet we go to restaurants with Joe and be like, can I, what is this capers thing? You know, like literally everything on the menu is like, what's that? Like there'll be a word he doesn't know.

What is that? Like I would just order it. But you eat, this is what, what is scrapple? It's like pig feet and ears and shit. It's the grinded up scraps after you finish getting every piece of the pig that you use to make, you know, bacon or pork shoulders or, you know, all of the ham. All the prime cuts are out. sweep it into a corner, and then they just put it through some processing, add about 500 or 600 pounds of salt, and then they just

stuff it into bricks that are just these vaguely beige bricks. So gross. And it is fantastic. Fantastic. It's such an old man food. It's not an old man food. It's just sausage.

Was it your great-great-grandfather? It's not sausage. It's not sausage. It's mixed an old man food. It's not an old man food. How did you get- It's just sausage. Was it your great-great-grandfather? It's not sausage. It's mixed with cornmeal, too, and wheat flour. And it doesn't have an intestine casing, so technically- Whoa, I looked up- I suggest everyone looks up a photo of what Scrapple looks like. Don't do it. Don't do it.

I'm looking at it. I regret it. This is like a poor man's pate. What is it? It says it's an ethnic food of the Pennsylvania Dutch. What the hell is pate? I mean, listen, if you like Scrapple. Don't talk down to me.

Fuck off. I don't feel quite as judgmental about Troy as Scrapple. I mean, it grosses me out, but to each their own. I just can't believe the complete the the complete like utter bewilderment you experience when you look at any food that isn't like white or yellow Joe has the same dietary habits as like a stevedore from the 1920s

anything that person would eat like unloading ships that's what Joe would do yeah well you eat this but was it given to you as a child? here eat this or we'll hit you. It's just. Yeah.

That was it. That's the stevedore upbringing. Yeah. The Irish way. I mean, I remember growing up. I remember my. It's all. It's all learned.

It's all learned. Right. Because I ate Scrapple when I was a kid. And my dad just reinforced to me over and over and over when I was a kid that. This is what men eat. Every cuisine that wasn't Irish-based was disgusting. And mayonnaise is disgusting. I didn't eat mayonnaise until I was like three years into college or something. And I had a sandwich with mayonnaise on it, and I was like, this is fantastic.

I was always like, oh, it's just- How did you eat tuna growing up? What's that? How did you eat tuna growing up? Well, there was apparently a little bit of mayo in there. Yeah. Yeah, snuck by. But in terms of just like spreading mayo on a sandwich, my dad would be like, that's like just putting curdled milk on a sandwich.

And he tells you this when you're five years old, you think like, oh. That is not what that's like at all. I'll never eat it. But Scrapple is freaking fantastic. You've never had Scrapple? No, I've watched old, old men eat it. If I cooked you up a slice of Scrapple and you had a little bit of eggs, you would be like, this is delicious.

I'm sure with the salt content alone, there would be a flavorful taste to it. But knowing what's in it, I can't. You do eat hot dogs. Yeah, I was going to say that. But I eat organic, uncured, all-beef frank can't. You do eat hot dogs. But I eat like organic, uncured, all beef franks. Do you ever eat at a McDonald's? What is that? Oh my god.

I mean the pink slime. He only eats foie gras. He only eats the foie gras. I go to a French McDonald's when I want my slime. I fly to Paris. You don't fly to Paris every time you want to eat fast food? I think this is a cultural food thing that I might have been poo-pooing at first, but looking at photos,

I would quite like a Scrapple sandwich. Ew. It looks like Scrapple sandwich is out of this world. Cindy, it looks like someone cooked a mitten and shoved it in a casserole dish. Like pork bits aren't bad or anything. It's just the way that it looks in all these images, they just make it look as sad as they can.

But I think of other cultural breakfasts like a traditional Japanese cultural breakfast where it's like fermented vegetables and raw fish. And to somebody else, they might be like, that is disgusting. I don't want to eat that. That's because it is disgusting. And they might look at your scrapple and be like, that's disgusting. It's an abomination. To me, both would taste delicious.

I would try scrappling. It's possible that we are being slightly racist towards the Mennonites and the Amish by saying their cuisine is gross. I don't think the Amish eat scrapple. So Matthew, I think you should tone it down a notch. I'm sorry. Before we get phone calls and emails from the Amish.

Anti-Mennonite politics. There's no place here. I'm still hung up on the fact that you didn't eat mayo. I know plenty of people who mayo grosses them out. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I like mayo. But you just didn't engage.

My food journey is preposterous. It is. My college roommates had to tell me that just try it regarding Taco Bell. Oh, my God. When was the first time you had? I've never been to a Taco Bell. When was the first time you've been to a Taco Bell? When I was in college.

I was like a sophomore in college. And I was like, I have never been to a Taco Bell. When was the first time you've been to a Taco Bell? When I was in college. I was like a sophomore in college and I was like. I have never been to a Taco Bell. This is going to be a problem. You haven't? My first time was this year. What? Wow.

Did you like it? I had a Crunchwrap Supreme and I was like, this is it. Yes. What did you. I found it. What did you order when you went? Six soft tacos. Can you like.

No cheese. Just in case one. Just seeing all my buddies go to everybody and be like, six pack. went six soft tacos looking back it seems preposterous that is hilarious but yeah we would eat them all there'd be no leftovers uh do you guys have a certain food that you eat on Christmas Day? Like, for example, I, for the past five years or so, I've been making Gordon Ramsay's Beef Wellington. A Christmas Beef Wellington. And I've got it down to a science. It's become like a bit of a tradition. The whole making of it is like part of the day

now. But that's only like five years. How's your duck cell, bro? Duck cell's pretty alright. Gotta sweat those mushrooms. Gotta sweat those shrooms.'ve got to sweat them out. You've got to wait them out. You've got to sweat those shrooms. What kind of, what are we doing, like a tiny dice?

Or you do a rough chop to get a different variance in texture? I do a rough chop, but then I've got to put it in a food processor, so it's getting all chopped down anyway. Oh, you take the... Yeah, because it takes forever to get the liquid out of the mushrooms. You've really got to wait. That's the thing. You don't want your duck's fell to be moist.

Otherwise, it'll make the puff pastry moist. You'll get what's called a soggy bottom skid. Trust me. You do not want that. In your beef wellington. Do you guys have a Christmas traditional food? I have in recent years, and I can thank you for it. I now do Mississippi pot roast every Christmas.

And the reason is because I apparently like Christmas more than you do. That is poor people's Christmas food. No, that is set it and forget it Christmas food. That is true. So that you can do other shit on Christmas, not cook for seven hours. I did have one recently and I was like, this is pretty good. This is like a once a year kind of food. But it is poor people's food.

But I mean, so is pot roast. It's not just Mississippi pot roast. It's true. But yeah, I love it. It's a year kind of food. But it is poor people's food. But I mean, so is pot roast. It's not just Mississippi pot roast. It's true. But yeah, I love it. It's a cheap cut of meat that you just get up Christmas morning. You're doing the Christmas morning thing. You're like, let me just dip in here for literally three minutes. A little butter, a couple of packets of salt.

You're right back opening gifts. If you have salt by the packet in your house. You don't have any salt. From McDonald's or something. Are you a caterer? Why if you have salt by the packet in your house you don't have any from McDonald's or something are you caterer why do you have packets of salt

I think he's making a joke about the ranch seasoning I'm saying ranch seasoning and au jus are very fun ways to just say salt and more salt

but yeah it's delicious and easy and then it cooks itself and then Christmas dinner you're just like you're still in your PJs you didn't have to do

anything all day do you guys do cinnamon buns in the morning yes orange cinnamon buns or regular I just do

well you know we were just doing Pillsbury cinnamon buns but now we do Trader Joe's I was going to say Trader Joe's they're like cheeseburgers

Pillsbury has Big Macs new flavors though they have pumpkin ones they have hot chocolate ones we spend enough time on you Matthew do you have a Christmas dish

that you like we do there's like a Feast of the Seven Matthews we used my child used to do the Feast of the Seven Fish hot chocolate ones. We spend enough time on you. Matthew, do you have a Christmas dish that you like? We do. There's like a- Feast of the Seven Matthews. We use, my Italian side, I used to do the Feast of the Seven Fish on Christmas Eve, and that was amazing. I bet.

It's a lot of work, and my grandmother eventually was like, I'm not doing this anymore. I always wanted to be Italian because of it. It's so good. On Christmas morning, we'll do, there's a coffee cake recipe that has been passed down in my family.

I love coffee cake. A sour cream coffee cake recipe that has been passed down in my family. Sour cream coffee cake. That is, uh, and my, my, my dad, uh,

took over the making of the coffee cake from my grandmother. He, uh, decided to double the goo as he, as he likes to do extra, extra crumb filling. Yeah. It's double the goo.

Double the goo. That's shocked and frightened. It made a lot of sense though. I liked it. It's a saying. And usually for dinner actually recent of late we've been doing a mushroom wellington for me and caitlin there you go um so you're making it yourself uh my father the trained chef makes it makes it is he like just looking at you like can't put meat in this you no son of mine of mine. The whole time he's making it. No, because he also makes beef.

Every time you happen to glance from the family gathering out into the kitchen, he's just looking at you while he's working the night. Or he's sliding some meat in there when you're not there. I don't want him to get sick. He puts the meat in the food processor, so it's real small.

I just sprinkle some ground beef. Mushrooms are cheaper than the beef, so I think in the end, he's actually very happy about it. I don't know why he needs to get his eye on. Look at him, he's spindly. Kate, what do you do at your goth Christmas? I mean, it's not wrong, though. I don't have, like, traditions in that way,

especially with food. But one thing I do do, do do, is when there's holidays like this, I like to use it as an excuse to just have a lot of cheese. So I'm always making like a charcuterie board. And I have like this gifted, very long, big charcuterie board. And I just like buy lots of different things and just spend probably a couple hours just like, where am I going to put everything? And just take all my anxieties on that. And sometimes I'll use it as an excuse to bake a pie because that's fun. But I'm not really a chef.

It's like apple. I don't know. I don't know. I don't like cooking. I like get sick of it. Michael is the cook in our house. She liked to bake a pie here and there. Sometimes I like it halfway through. And then I i'm like i don't want to do this anymore

everyone's left with a half cooked which is why i'm in charge of charcuterie and then michael cooks everything else like a fire in the kitchen i'm done that's literally what happens though especially on thanksgiving michael cooks the entire meal and i make charcuterie in the morning for breakfast. That's called teamwork, where I come from. Breakfast charcuterie. Breakfast charcuterie. Respect.

A little breakfast coot. Do you double the goo, Sydney? What just happened? I always do. Let's just let it go. A little breakfast coot while you double the goo. I always double the goo. Too much goo.

Never, no, not enough goo. What's going on? You got coot, buns? Stop saying coot. No breakfast coot, but we got all the goo. Coot, boo, buns. I switch it up for dinner because I don't do Christmas Day a lot with my family because everybody's kind of spread out. So being in the city- You're all estranged and hate each other.

Yeah. And we fight. So you hang out with your Satan friends? No, no. Some of them live in Florida, some live in New York. So everybody's like too far away unless we plan it. But the same tradition that I do every morning is Christmas cookies left over because we have all of my grandmother's Christmas cookie recipes. So we do a butter cookie with buttercream frosting. I do a sour cream crescent cookie that's like dipped in chocolate on both sides. There we go. And we do an anisette cookie and then the thumbprint cookies with like a Hershey's Kiss.

Oh, yeah. Classic. So there's like traditional Christmas cookies that are my grandma's recipe. What was the second to last? I've never heard of that. Anisette cookies. It's like anise. I think it's anisette.

Anis? I think it's anisette. Addis? I think it's anisette. It's not the pronunciation that scares me. Anisette? Am I saying that right? Anisette cookies? I just like to say it. Anisette cookies. He's just messing with you. Yes. Okay. Yeah. It's an Italian

thing. He's just trying to find an excuse to say anis on the air. Get it out of your system now. It is. But that with coffee in the morning is the thing that stays the same. And then for dinner or lunch, I'll switch it up. But I do really like cooking.

So normally it'll be like a new recipe. I'll try something out. Well, I'm excited to try some of your cookies. I'll bring some in when I make them. They are really, really good. Please. I don't want to hype them up too much, but they're really good.

That sounds like you're hyping them up. I'm excited. I'm a big cookie guy. Do you like buttercream? Do you like the frosted traditional buttercream Christmas cookies? Is it in the shape of something Christmassy? Oh, of course. Then that's all I care about.

It could taste like shit as long as it evokes the feelings of Christmas. Style over substance with Troy O'Reilly. That's our next podcast. Skid, do you have a... Style over substance. The Troy O'Reilly Show. Do you have a, uh, the Toronto Valley show? Do you have a, a Christmas go-to Christmas meal?

Uh, I'm gonna try a new tradition this year. Here we go. Uh, we're going to, uh, pint of mezcal and a couple of Ambien. Oh my God.

By the time I call it a sleepy time, actually rolls around. I'm not going to want to experience it. That's not true. There's going to be so much time. There's going to be a nice gap in between. There's going to be so much time between now and Christmas you'll get back in the spirit, except for when you're...

Because you're not going to mention it at all in the interim? I won't mention it on the show. Yeah, but in our lives. In our lives, yeah. I can't help it. When you log on to a show to record with me, I'll be listening to music in the background. Just hear those sleigh bells jingling.

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norse foundry and they're incredibly rare instance of a useful role randomly generated randomly generated this is uh this was pretty hairy so you started out last week by going into the room with all these gnome corpses, and you find out that some of the gnomes are still alive. These are the green leaf gnomes that were, quote unquote, displaced, because that's what Cori Mona thought when you captured her after breaking up the unicorn sacrifice ritual. unicorn sacrifice ritual. It's clear that they weren't just displaced. They were being used as experiments, as what would you call them? Lab rats for some poison that Bolan is making, something to do with subduing the unicorn for this ritual. Buggles thinks maybe this is part of what they're going to do to bring back this curse, kill everybody, create a poison that will affect, if it could affect a unicorn who's immune to poison then maybe it could affect a larger population either way you free parva and the remaining green leaf gnomes they flee to the eternal grove where they will meet you one day you then say let's check out this door actually all of you except joe said let's go to the north

and joe said hold on i want to check out this door to the west. My gut's telling me weest. You open the door. There's nothing of import in there except a trap. Luckily, you all safe, which was amazing because that was a pretty nasty trap. And I was so psyched when you said, let's check out the west door. Yes. There's nothing a GM hates more than a trap that can't go.

Yeah. Oh, it's the worst. It's the worst. What's the point? Then you go to the north. An untriggered trap is like an unopened Christmas present. There it is. See?

Somebody's getting in the spirit. You go to the door to the north, and you open it, and there is a living sunflower creature in there. Sunflower Lesh. Not anymore! And Bolan Nagaso. Bolan tells you you are trespassing on his domain. You are interlopers.

And that the forest has chosen him to hold civilization accountable. That's why he was given powers. The powers of plant necromancy. The forest knows how special he is. The gate knew as well. And now you're going to find out. And then a fight ensues that had three of you at dying

one slash dying two within by round two. By round two. Yeah. And then he ran away. And then he ran away after Sunward his sunflower Leshy went down. He grabbed the zip line and swung down. I wish. I've been thinking about this ever since last week, and I wish we could have foreseen it.

I wish somehow we could have been like, this could be used by an enemy. And we should put a giant bear trap right at the bottom of the table. I wish one of our characters mentioned it again. I think we did mention maybe cutting it, but we decided not to. I think we did mention maybe cutting it, but we decided not to. I said, what if I go around to that? And you said, do you want to climb upward on a zipline? And I said, I could do that.

And you were like, no, that's stupid. It is stupid. You would have come into this room by yourself. We would have timed it and came at the same time. Oh. Chekhov's zipline. Chekhov's zipline. We saw it.

We knew it was there. That's what they call Chekhov's zipline. If only we had just cut the zipline. Chekhov's zipline. We saw it. We knew it was there. That's what they called Chekhov's zipline. If only we had just cut the zipline. That would have been hilarious. That would have been pretty funny. I think we didn't because we thought we were going to use it. Yeah, we thought maybe we would use it. Yeah, we just thought we were going to use it. But if we would have had that foresight to be like,

maybe we can trap this zipline. So we cut it just enough so that it looks like it works. Oh, that would have been great. And be like, just don't use it. If an enemy, but how could we? If only we were playing Blaze in the Dark, I could have just said, flashback. Exactly.

And done it. That would have been a tough roll, but not impossible. Can I retcon something? Well, I mean, if anything, this gives you a brief respite. Now that he has lost his ally, he is fleeing, but you are in rough shape. Like, you are wounded two, Brother Ramius, and then

Lucky and Talitha are wounded one, and you're still unconscious. Yep. How are you still unconscious? Because all I did was make my, I made my death throw, but then... He stabilized. Ah, okay, I gave you the wounded condition. You should also have the unconscious condition.

That's true. I'll help you up. Boom, give you the unconscious. You'll help me up. There, now everything you see is in gray. Well, the bigger threat is that Kate is about to kill us all. Oh. Yes, Kate is confused for this round.

Not Kate, but Zephyr. Not me. And as I said as we were coming off the air, I don't know if it made the show or not, but it made Joe laugh. And now Bolan is no longer a target for her. Right. So now the random number generator for this

includes only allies. So there's no good way. No good roll. I hope you shoot me. I'm actually in the best position. You have temporary HP. I don't want to shoot you. You got temporary HP.

Yeah. I told Kate in the best position. You have temporary HP. I don't want to shoot you. You got temporary HP. Yeah. I told Kate as we came in today, if she crits me, she steals my bottle cap. Basically. Oh, because you have to use it. Because it will permanently kill me. And I told him he needs to let other people around the table roll natural ones.

He cannot be the only person allowed to do so. Sure, previously he used to only be me, but now Kate's wedging in on my action. Here's what I'm going to say. Talitha's still unconscious, so I'm not going to make you a target. But where you can see now Lucky, Buggles, and Brother Ramius, they are all targets. I mean, I can only see a slither of Lucky. Like the slitheriest slither.

Just really great cover. Yeah, and I'll give Lucky the cover if Lucky ends up being the slither. I can't even see Zephyr on my map, if that makes any difference. Yeah, actually, I think that might be incorrect. Because if I click on Lucky, I can't see Zephyr. So it's just Brother Ramius and Buggles. It's three attacks. One, two, three.

Ramius, four, five, six. Buggles. The first one's the big one. Yeah, that's the important one. End of round three. Let's fucking go. Buggles, four. So this is the-

First attack. This is full attack bonus. Highest map. No floor it blows. Oh, sorry. No. Wait. Yes.

You get a save. Sorry. You get a save against- At the top? At the end of your last round. You get a save at the end of every round of confusion. I don't want to re-roll save. Sorry. You get a save against us. At the end of your last round. You get a save at the end of every round of confusion. I don't want to re-roll this. Okay.

It's a good one. What is it? So you... Actually, yeah. This is for the best. You don't have your wits about you. You sure you get that save? It's written in the fan fumble.

Oh, okay. I should have saved that first time. Yeah, we forgot. So roll that to save and see if you might not even confuse. Preserve your attack roll. I am. Head flip. Oh, natural 18.

Four. Math. 13. No, no, that's not math. 23. All right, so you're no longer confused. Yeah. Oh.

I think you just shook out. Yeah. You still want to preserve that attack roll for Bolong when he's in three buildings? No, no, no, no, no. Be silly. How convenient to be a player. Wait, can we stay in initiative? Yeah, you're going to preserve that attack roll for Bolong when he's in three buildings? No, no, no, no, no. How convenient to be a player. Wait, can we stay in initiative? Yeah, you're going to stay in initiative.

Unless you want to just let him flee. She could shoot him through the window. Yeah, she could. We're staying in initiative. So you have your full complement of actions because you should have rolled in that confusion last round. Oh, amazing. So I have how much movement? Oh, my goodness.

This is so important. 25 feet. So I can get like, oh, whoa. Whoa. Oh my God. Whoa, whoa, whoa. So with 25 feet, I can get like, like meow, meow perhaps. So right up to Talitha, past Buggles, and into the room.

Well, which window is the zip line? Yeah. The window is to the north. Oh, it's this one. Oh, I didn't see the road. Oh, it's the one behind the desk. I don't know why I assumed where it was. Okay, so then I'd need to double move up there.

Poop! Okay, she can pull her blows. No, she cannot, I believe. Yeah, it's one... Oh, no, not with my bow, because I need to get into the Manastic Archers stance. And I left it. She was in the Manastic Archers stance.

Oh, actually, also to leave the stance as an action. So just running up to the window itself. Two actions and one action to leave Manastic Archers stance. Well, no, I think Joe is saying you left it when you... No, don't ask me. You know the class. I just knew before you said you had to be in that stance to't ask me. You know the class. When you got used. I just knew before you said you had to be in that stance to do the flurry of blows, right?

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I didn't know you have to use an action to just move. You have to use an action to exit the stance. And then that's how Monk stands. You can move? You can't move until you exit the stance? I could...

Is that an actual rule? I think you can just move and you don't... It seems insane. You stay in the stance until you take the action to come out of it or do something that would exit the stance. Is that an actual rule? I think you can just move. It seems insane. You stay in the stance until you take the action to come out of it or do something that would... Yeah, I would assume you don't lose it just because you move. That seems weird. Hold on.

A stance lasts until you get knocked out, until its requirements are violated, until the encounter ends, or until you enter a new stance, whichever comes first. So stance. It would be wildly. If you read the stance,

you're reading the stance trait. Yeah. Yeah. Stance general comes with you enter by using the stance. It doesn't say anything about moving. Stance lasts until you get knocked out until its requirements are violated. Requirements. Until the encounter ends or until you enter a new stance.

After you use an action with the stance trait, you can't use another one. Yeah. So you're good. You don't have to get out. with the stance trait. You can't use another one the whole round. So you're good. Yeah, you don't have to get out of it. Where did I read this? Okay. It would be a huge nerf. And if I needed to move, I would need to get back into the stance.

That's crazy, because you then have to use an action to get out of it, and then another action to get back in. She's not necessarily saying she needed an action to get out of it. She's just saying if she moves, it broke it. Yeah. So then another action to get back in. She's not necessarily saying she needed an action to get out of it. She's just saying if she moves, it broke it. Yeah. So we need to spend an action. The requirements are only you are unarmored and wielding a longbow, shortbow, or a bow with monk trait. Yeah. Yeah, so unless you use

another ability with the stance trait, or the encounter ends, or you get knocked unconscious. Someone throws a chainmail shirt on you. Right. Okay. That's our kryptonite. Then, loading. That enemy just sneaks up behind you. It's like kryptonite. Then, loading. Then he sneaks up behind you. It's like, oh no, get it off me, get it off me.

It takes up my stance. I'm a monk. Basically, you enter a stance of being in combat. You stay in the stance the rest of the combat. Nice. So you can double move up there and get two shots off on this cat. That's exactly what the monk does. I fought this the entire time that that's how it worked. Okay, well, flurry of blows. That's exactly what the moment is. I fought this the entire time that that's how it worked.

Okay, well, Flurry of Blows. That's crazy. Having to use that extra action like every time you're doing it. I thought it was like a really big hindrance that

I just had to deal with. All right, so you double move up there and then you can see here on the map when you look at Zephyr. Zephyr, you get a shot off on this guy.

Two. Two because I'm using Flurry of Blows because I'm still in my stance. Shit! Natural five. Number two. Natural five.

I'm so mad. I'm so mad. I was a real rollercoaster. It's like elation and crushing rage. You know what? Next time I have a question, just skip me because I'm going to roll like shit anyway. Don't let yourself fall into the Joe despair. Don't say that.

Don't be like me. Past it. Save yourself. Save yourself. It is true, though. Like when we're all debating and debating and debating and debating about how a given roll is going to be modified, a lot of times I'm like, just roll first to see if it's even an issue. We'll figure it out later.

But then we forget to figure it out sometimes. Yeah, exactly. All right, it's Buggle's turn here at the end of round three. Buggles! Buggles. All right, so he's still, this aura around him turns to flame and cinder.

And this is, he's going to move. to the window, get closer to the window. Okay. And, yeah, he can get almost up to the next foot. And then with his mind healing power. He's going to give Lucky back another four hit points. Oh wait, no. I did that to you last time. Yeah, I don't even need it. I have almost up my full.

Talitha. Talitha. Talitha's unconscious body, four hit points. Please come back. Are you going to the window or are you staying there? I'm going to the window. And yeah. And then I am going to raise a shield.

Okay. Can I offer a suggestion? Sure. Could you burn the rope? He's not on the rope anymore. I would not have enough. Oh, he's off the rope on the other side? Yes. He already made it. Oh, he's off the rope on the other side? Yes.

He already made it. Oh, he already made it to the other side. It's one thing down, so you could do the same thing as well. He's in that room. Yeah, you can't see it, but if you look on Zephyr, Zephyr can see him standing in there. Ah. Now, Buggles, did you want to go,

do you have the movement to go up right next to Zephyr or no? I don't. Okay. All right, so Buggles is there. And now... Oh, you know what? I mean to ask you, what was the thing you didn't like about the psychic? You mentioned a couple episodes ago that you finally figured it out.

It's like with my amp, like I have this limited resource, the psychic points that I can spend that is supposed to give you the benefits on, you know, some of your spells, your cantrips. And so for my Produce Flame, when I roll it normally, when I'm in my aura activated and everything, it's a 1d4 plus 6 is the damage. When I amp it, as it stands now, it's 1d10. As it stands now, it's 1d10. But I don't get the bonus.

I get the one point of splash damage, and that's it. So it's a possible 11 points of damage as opposed to a guaranteed 7 points of damage up to 10. So it's like, why would I ever amp this thing? That's weird. You know? Again, it seems like... Well, I'm glad you put it out there, because maybe Professor Eric could be like, oh, you're thinking about that wrong. Yeah, maybe... Sounds right to me, but I'd love to...

Or maybe there's, like, other benefits at higher levels that I'll get from it. But at this point, it's just like, I would just never... I'd never do it. Right. So... Oh, that's interesting. All right, well, something to... I did it for the Ray of Frost last time, because I wanted...

Because I wanted to get the... That's the only way that I could get the temporary hit points back. Oh, okay. Well, that's a benefit. But I don't get that benefit with the fire. Yeah, that's interesting. There's no benefit there. Okay. So this is my problem.

Well, speaking of problems... The contest is still open, by the way. Anyone's wondering where my inspiration for the bug was? Ooh. Forgot about that. Now that I have the stage, temporarily. I yield the rest of my time. Joe, you are up with Brother Ramius at the top of round four.

You got effed up pretty early in this combat last week. You stayed behind the wall to make sure you would stay alive. Now what do you do? to make sure you would stay alive. Now what do you do? Ramius, he's going to come stumbling into the room. He sees Talitha is just waking up on the ground out of unconsciousness. Stabs her.

Just finishes her off. What were you, wounded too? You're a waker! I'm a waker. Talitha's awake and watched you do that. That's what I said. I see her waking up. Oh.

And I'm trying to decide what to do here. I hate this. Where is he? Where is he? He's fleeing out the window. Hold on. You're hurt. You're hurt.

I'm fine. Give chase. He is going to do battle medicine on you, on Talitha. So I just don't want to hurt you. Please just don't let me hurt him. I fucking failed. God, I cannot roll for anything. I'm sorry.

I don't have time. And he runs behind. Yes, I tried. I'm going to help you. Well, she said get away from me. But you tried to do it You tried anyway I know

And Ben said you didn't have time I needed more time I needed an actual treatment It's like you were like Uh, eh Fuck Oh, there's no time Yeah

Looking at it Horrible wound And going Ah, ah Yeah, you know what Next time, next time I got you next time You're right

I'm so sick of fucking sucking Fucking everything Same Dice suck They ruin every moment You know what? Next time, next time. I got you next time. You're right. I'm so sick of fucking sucking. Fucking everything. Same. Dice suck. They ruin every moment. They do. Norse founders. Want someone to blame?

Norse founders. I'm going to send an angry letter. Are you done your sad turn? Come on, man. Come on, man. It's Christmas. It's Christmas. It's just the die.

There's nothing I can do about die. Nothing I can do about it. Still waiting to find out if we can get Joe onto Wheel of Fortune. Wheel of Joe. It is Lucky's turn. Lucky, you are up, right? Yeah, I'm up, and I have almost all my hit points back, even though I am wounded one. You live forever.

I live forever. I live forever. And she is going to yowl. And her fur on the back of her neck is like all up and she is pissed. And she is going to run towards the window. So to make it exactly to the window is my speed, I believe, 25 feet. Okay. So could I second action grab onto the rope to

swing? Yeah, it's not a swing. It's a zipline, so it's going to be an athletics check. That would be your second action. Okay. You move to the window. Athletics check on the zipline. He's at the bottom, right? Yeah, he's in the next room. He swung all the way through.

I want to do the zipline, and I want to do a third action when I dismount to try to grapple him. Okay. Yeah, I mean, you basically, you'll just do the grapple action when you get in there. Okay. So you said athletics. Yep. Okay.

Before you do it, Zephyr goes, he's right at the bottom of the zipline. Just so you know, I can see him. He's right there. I'm going to jump on Just so you know, I can see him. He's right there. I'm going to jump on him. I'm going to claw his eyes out. And I go to do something cool on the zip. No. What did you roll?

I got a 10. You got a 10? 10. Come on. God. Okay God Okay okay wait Is it Can you at least look me in the eyes Is it so bad that I'm gonna like fall off or something

Cause I have this But I don't wanna use this if it's a total waste What did you roll A ten It's for you to decide That's not true She is well within her... Well, she doesn't know the total effects,

but she would know if it's a critical fumble or not before spending. You wouldn't know. No, you don't need to know that. Critical failure. You don't need to know that. You know you rolled a 10. I would tell you that if you fail,

you think you're going to fall. So it's up to you if you want to use that. You would know that it's a critical failure Yeah, you can know if it is a critical failure Before you spend a bottle cap You don't have to know the effects of a Can you point me into the rule book Where it says how bottle caps work?

Oh, I have it here On my personal notes Don't get to know It's Christmas It is It's a low roll Actually, I think you are right. I don't know what I was thinking.

Joe! It's Joe. It's classical Brian. Whose side are you on? Christmas! Here's the thing. It's a low roll. You know, you're looking like if you slip, you're going to fall.

Did you think the DC was 20? I don't know. No, but the DC could be 11. And then if I fail anyway, I could fall off. That was such a low roll. If I were you, I would spend the bottle cap. Yeah. And then when you, you'll probably do better.

You land, say something incredibly funny. The funniest thing you've ever said in your life. And I get it right back? Earn one right back. Bing, bang, boom. Easy. Okay. Easy.

I'll do it. Troy, this is for you. Okay. This economy is hot. Yeah. All right. I'm going to use a different. Adam Smith's dream. Different die. Okay. This economy is hot. Yeah. All right. I'm going to use a different. Adam Smith's dream.

Different die. Okay. It's better. It's a 15. 15. You slide down with ease. Yeah, I let you slide. Into the next room.

Oh my God, that was amazing. Did you trigger a slide? No, I just made her slide. I mean, it was like exactly online to the point where I was like, that seems like a an automatic function of the map. You are one-on-one in there with the... So, you know what? Maybe I'm not going to grapple. Maybe

I'll just hit him. You can hit him. Yeah, I'm just going to hit him. Certainly try. Oh, wait, but he had like a... Hit him. Alright, I'm going to try. I'm going to try. With my Kopesh. Kopesh.

Natural 15 plus nine. That's more than that. That's five, six, seven, eight, nine. 24. 24. Look up there. 24 is a hit. I really want to buy you

like an old school Accountant's calculator Like a slide roll With the paper So I can keep track The receipt comes out I can keep track as well She'll get there I'll get there

I get I get nervous when I 16, 17 I get excited She'll get there She'll get there You guys have to do Like arithmetic

Like in elementary school You have to do Like arithmetic Like in elementary school You have to do Like one on one Like you You know Two people would stand up And our teacher would be like Three times seven

And the first person Would be like Twenty one Would win And then you could We had like a round robin No they would say Three times seven

And I'd say Twenty And then a nun Would punch me in the face With all her strength What people don't understand Is we're doing simple math under lots of emotion.

Yeah, and when I roll high, I get excited. There was this one guy I went to elementary school with. When he got up, his thing would be, he would count out loud, out on his fingers,

at the loudest volume possible. That's me. And it would be totally disorienting for whoever he was. Everyone else. He would get there at his own pace, but everyone else would be like, That's my tactic.

That's a hit. Tell me the damage. Confusion. That's an 11. I rolled a 7 plus points. 11 points. Nice. Damage.

I come in with a copesh. Amazing. And then, yeah, she just looks up. She goes, you're going to regret that. Yeah. Let's find out. It is Talitha's turn. Okay.

Talitha will quick tincture an elixir of life and drink it. Second action for one hit point. Oh. And then grab my rapier. And that is my turn. And are you still prone? Yeah. Okay. Tincture for one hit point. Old one hit point O'Brien over there. Grab my rapier And that is my turn And are you still prone? Yeah Okay

Tincture for one hit point Old one hit point O'Brien over there Loves it That's one whole hit point More than Brother Ramius Gave me That's true

That's true Because you gave her none Because you failed This is a fun game I don't even want to say How low the target number I had to hit on that die was. It is such a single digit that's so low it would shock you. It's a single digit?

It's such a single digit. It is so single, that digit. And it's digit both single and double. It's not even close to being double. You would gasp at how single that digit is. You would have so many nightmares. That digit thinking about how how singles is going out. Singles night.

This die roll is getting two for one drinks. What kind of clothing are you wearing? That's an inappropriate question at the office. I'm asking Sydney. HR? This is cotton. No, are you wearing like cotton and hemp? No, no.

She's wearing... Are you wearing a grass skirt? I'm wearing chain mail. Chain mail? Yeah. He's going to try to make your shit come alive with plant necromancy? Is it fair to say that underneath your chain mail is clothing that is most likely made of cotton or hemp? Do you have any cloth on

or do you only wear metal? I will say. I will say. I will say. Okay. So, Lucky is from a desert area. I don't know how many

fibrous plants exist in that area, and I made it specifically her character art. She has, like, these scarves that are, like, wrapped around her. Mm-hmm.

I'll be honest, I don't know what they're made out of, but they are from which she's from. Just say polyester. Could be leather. Are they polyester scarves?

You know what? It's from a desert region, like Egypt, which there's no cotton there. Could be silk. They could be silk. They could be silk. Maybe it's silk. Maybe it's synthetic.

Would you just tell them what it is? I don't know what it is! You don't think they're wearing a single bit of cotton or hemp on your body? Too scratchy. Or linen? She's a cat. Just climb it. I don't know if they like that.

In the middle of winter. First, just pick one. And if you say you're not wearing any, just make sure you can sleep in it. I don't think she's wearing any. Okay, wow. Wow. That's bold. That is bold.

That is bold. That's like me asking Brother Ramius, are you wearing a metal robe? Exactly. My tinfoil monk's robe. We have very specific beliefs. You know what, Troy? This could be up to you. Maybe, maybe, I don't know, maybe a roll. A die roll, maybe. be up to you. Maybe, maybe... I don't know.

Maybe a roll. A die roll, maybe. It's your choice. You've made your choice. And now, no matter what, you cannot be wearing cotton when it would benefit you. I think it's silk. I think they're silk scarves. I like that, Matthew.

And I think that makes sense from a desert community. Like a silk underpants. Yeah, silk underpants. Silky smooth. Really soft. Not scratchy. Not hemp. Alright, that's fair. That's fair. What are you holding in your hand? What are your weapons?

A bolt of cotton. Do you have a cotton dagger? Plus one cotton dagger? Try to stuff his mouth with cotton. Yeah. It's like I picked the wrong time to wield a hemp scimitar.

It's a kopesh and a wakizashi. Okay, and is there any wood whatsoever? Is the hilt made out of wood? Why are you even asking this question? You're going to find a way to get there. I'm asking. I don't know. Do you want me to Google what it looks like? I don't know. Yeah, there might not be any. You I'm asking. I don't know. Do you want me to Google what it looks like?

I don't know. Yeah, there might not be anything. You can just answer. I don't know the answer. It's make-believe. Waki Zashi can have handles. Handle. Material.

It's wood, I think. I believe it's wood. It's a wood handle on my... Wood, usually with a shark skin wrap. Thank you. There you go. Nerded. All right, so for your Waka Zashi, here's what I'm going to do. There you go. Alright, so for your Wakazashi,

here's what I'm going to do. I hate this. I need you to roll a reflex save. Basically, the handle, he reaches his hand out and the handle of the Wakazashi starts shaking in your hand like it's trying to leap from your grasp. What is this that he's doing? It's not a spell, right?

No, it's not a spell. Just like a supernatural ability. I don't know what the word is for that in Tuohy. Because she does have an attack of opportunity. The question is, is it a manipulate action to do it? Does the action to do it have the manipulate trait? It does not. It does not?

It does not, yeah. Definitively, you know that. Definitively, yeah, because I see what the traits are here. So just give me a reflex save. It's trying to leap from your hand. This is unfair. He's going to Jedi from your hand. It's like controlling. He's going to Jedi the... My weapons love me.

They wouldn't do this. And it's reflex, your best. Oh, that's good. Yeah, that's 24. 24, you hold on to the item with no effect. Nice. Give me that. Rip it tighter.

All right, it's Zephyr's turn. Was he going to make... Sorry. Was he going to make my sorry, was he going to make my clothing fly off? Right? There are children who watch this.

The first thing would be the weapon. Lucky yells, this guy's a sicko. He's got a perv.

He's a perver. Get the perv. He's trying to get me naked. He does that and he's like, ah. And it's Zephyr's turn.

There we go. Can I zipline with one hand? Oh, and the long bow out of the other. Zipline with one hand. And she just used the long. With my bow or something. Like, I don't know how ziplines work. I'm just a girl.

That's real. I'm just a girl trying to ask a GM how ziplines work. Just a simple girl. I don't know how ziplines work. Zip line ask a GM if that's work. Just a simple girl. I don't know how zip lines work. Uh, oh God. I mean, here's what I'll say is yes, the athletics check is going to be slightly harder because you're, you're only using one hand and this is meant to be a two handed zip line situation. But if you have good athletics, what if she were to use her bow as the zip line handle?

That's kind of cool. I think rule of cool. I would keep the DC the same. Yes. Cool. That's what I'm going to do. Going to zipline over there using my bow. Also, you'd get a lot less horrific burns on your hand. Is he wearing gloves?

I have hand wraps on. They're not anything special. Zephyr's the most well-suited to this particular task. Natural 16, so that's a 23. Oh, the bow goes over? Zipline over there, and I kick him in the face. I got good news, and I got bad news.

No. The good news is that is a successful check. The bad news is what he tried to do on you was only one action. With his remaining two actions, he readied an action. As you start sliding, he cuts the rope. And we'll be back right after this break. So it's holiday season, which means gift giving for a lot of people. I'm no exception. I have roughly 40 nephews, so I am no stranger to shopping for toys and fun stuff for them, which is great for me. It's good to get the kind of gifts that I thought that I would like to get when I was their age. their age. But whether or not your family gives gifts during the holidays, you get to define how you give to yourself. And the holidays are a great time to do that. So whether it's by starting therapy, going easier on yourself through the tough moments, or treating yourself to a day of

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Psych. I need a reflex save. You are falling to the forest floor. All right. 15. Zephyr falls 50 feet to the ground. Oh, my God. I am going to lose it.

It takes 25 points of bludgeoning. Oh, my. Zephyr. Brother Amos is right at the window and watches this happen. Zephyr takes 25 points of bludgeoning damage. If his second action was a manipulate on the rope to cut it, I get an attack of opportunity. Would I interrupt him? It's an attack, actually.

You attack the rope. I attack the rope. Damn it! I'm tying it back! So Zephyr is unconscious and dying. Dying one. What does he have in his hands? A dagger. So he had the dagger in his hand and dying Dying one What does he have in his hands? A dagger

So he had the dagger in his hand Alright we can't bring her back up We cannot I'll try We can't I'll die on this zipline She needs to die today I mean

I got you I got you She's 50 feet below on the ground A successful check would have had you land Actually on the bridge below Reflex save It's a very tough reflex save So you plummet to the ground. A successful check would have had you land actually on the bridge below. Reflex save. It's a very tough reflex save. So you plummet to the ground and she is dying

down there. Cool, cool, cool. 50 feet away and now Bolan and Lucky are one on one and you guys are very far from there. So there's two problems. What is your bottle cap situation? No bottle caps. So your bottle cap situation? No bottle caps.

So your bottle cap situation is zero. Yeah. I have been supplying the economy with bottle caps, and I have not been getting any back. It's kind of like the real economy, you know? Yeah. It really mimics the actual economy. It's like, you've got to spend money, but we're never going to give you any. You spend money to make money, and then you spend it, and you don't get anything back. And then your character dies.

Were you planning on using the rope? Were you going to Athletics Town? Fuck no. Okay. Because I was like, this is happening to Joe. I knew it was happening to somebody, but I just assumed it would be you. Brother Ramius, like, building himself up and being like, I'm going. I probably would have if it came.

Slice. If I was, like, the last one, I'd probably do it. Yeah. I'm sorry, Sam. No, you're not. I'm a little sorry. You're having a great time on Christmas. He is having a great time. This is the greatest

Christmas gift he's received yet. You're welcome. Again, it's not even November yet. Let me just put it on the ground there. So Zephyr is down there. I'll see you guys next week. It is Buggle' turn.

Buggles, you just hear, splat. Okay. And Brother Amius is like, Zephyr fell. He cut the rope. There's no way across. So Buggles is stupefied.

He falls out of his... Oh. He's like, no, no. Zephyr, Zephyr! And in his semi-daze, he's going to try to climb down the rope. Okay.

Okay. Looking up climb. Does the rope reach the ground? Is the real question. Is it a 50-foot rope? The rope is as long as it is on the john here. Looks like 20 feet or something. So it won't even get halfway down to the ground.

But then it's certainly less of a, you know, what is it, 20 feet of rope or 25? 20 feet of rope. 20 feet of rope. So, yeah. Then we'd be 15 points of damage, but you could actually do the thing where you, like, try to break your fall. It's 25.

It's 25. It's 25? Okay, yeah. So it would be some damage if you, like, let yourself go, but I don't think it would knock you unconscious. Yeah, I'm going to try, and I've still got the temporary HP, so I'm just going to try to get... crawl down the rope as far as I can, fall from there,

and die next to her, I guess. There's nothing as I can fall from there and die next to her I guess there's nothing else I can do to help alright let me just look here make sure we're doing this by the rules for climb 5 to 5 success or critical

athletics so athletics so it's you move up down down, or across an incline. Unless it's particularly easy, you have to attempt an athletics check. The GM determines the DC. You are flat-footed, and then it's just success, critical success,

critical failure. A success, for example, you move safely up or down five feet per 20 feet of your land movement. What? So if you... Yeah, you can't climb down faster than you walk.

So it's like, if you have 20 feet of movement, or 25 feet of movement, you can only move 5 feet per action. Are you trained in athletics? I'm not. Because if you're trained in athletics... But am I climbing the rope? I'm going down. It would make sense if you were climbing up a rope, but climbing down, you can kind of just

go and stop and go. Do you move up? Down? Yeah, I know what the rule says, but I'm saying it's stupid. As a lot of these Alright, so you move to the window first action. And then we'll say you get 10 feet down the rope. I'm not going to have you roll athletics.

And then, yeah, there's 15 feet of rope left, and then another 20 or 20 feet of rope left and then another 20 or so feet to the forest floor and there really is like well actually that's not true in a little bit there is I can't help alright so Buggle starts making his way down there

to try and save Zephyr thereby taking himself essentially out of this combat against Bola we're all out of the combat I don't know how to get over there taking himself essentially out of this combat against Bola. We're all out of the combat. Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, how are you guys getting over there? I don't know how to get over there. I can shoot across.

Go all the way back down, all the way back across the bridge, all the way back up in that other building. Yeah, by the time that happens, you'll either have killed him or... You'll be fighting a one-on-one, yeah. You'll be dead. Yeah. It's going to be over in a minute. Round five.

First five-rounder in the Glass Cannon Podcast. Is it? Might be. Brother Ramius, what, if anything, can you do? He's useless. Obviously. Yeah, man. I mean, I'm just thinking, you know, I just want to play.

A different game. Reacting the way. Yeah, I just want to play. Sort of play. Anything but this. No, just reacting moment to moment he sees her fall i mean it's it's hard to imagine that he doesn't immediately want to help her i mean he's got to be like uh lucky get out of there something like because we can't help you and uh maybe we can meet back at the middle or something. I don't know.

Then he, just thinking about how to... Yeah, there's another bridge to the south. It's so low level, he can't do anything. You look how far away that other bridge is. Like, you could take the long way around to get into that room as well. It's another option. Yeah. All of you have that option.

I just wanted to point that out. Yeah. He certainly is. We can't even run because it's not going to be straight line. So we're going to be just movement speed. It's brutal. Yeah. It's going to take so long that she'll definitely be dead.

Oh, my God. Lucky one-on-one. One-on-one fights. So, again, yeah. So, I mentioned this last week, but, again, you see this. He sees this flash as Lucky falls of a boy broken at the bottom of basically a cliff with these waves washing up against him. And he's just, no! waves washing up against him.

And he's just... And, um... He is, uh... He's gonna get over his fear, and he's gonna jump onto the rope. And he's terrified that he's gonna fall. But he's gonna try to go down there and save Zephyr. The rope shakes so violently from your

weight that Buggles falls and dies as well. He's like, I'm coming! I'm coming! And he's trying to grip on. All right, so you move right below. So you move up, go out the window. You make the same distance as Buggles,

10 feet down a 25-foot rope, 40 feet away from Sefer. It is now Lucky's turn. Now, Lucky, one-on-one fights don't tend to go well here at the Glass Canada. It's a huge, huge round for you, especially because it seems like your friends have abandoned you. Zephyr even killed herself rather than try and help you. That's exactly what happened.

That's what Lucky thinks happened. She knows. That's what she thinks, having watched her one-on-one opponent cut the rope her friend was closing in to get to her. Did he? I watched him do it. But did Zephyr tell him

to do it? I'd like to do a flashback. Lucky he's thinking about all of this. Did they plan it? Was Zephyr in on it the whole time? She's not in her right mind The amount of paranoia that would take I saw her shoot I saw her shoot Buggles at Brother Ramius

She shot two of my friends Why did she do that? Actually, yeah, I guess she could maybe We just talked her into it Alright, I mean, what are you going to do here? One-on-one Boom shakalaka That doesn't scare Lucky

Lucky's not afraid that her companions are far away She's been fighting her whole life You're fully healed too, right? And I'm almost up to my full hit points If you go down, you go straight to wounded 2 If you go down via crit, you will go straight to wounded 3 Dying Well, I have a feeling that the dice were against me before

But I have a feeling they're back on my side. Spoiler alert. The cap you gave me was wasted. It was DC 10 Athletics Chair. Why would you tell me that? Just so you have that going into this. Just so my mental fortitude is shaken.

You're evil. You're evil. Now it seems like Joe and Troy planned that. Yeah, wait. No, I was truly like... Cindy the player is like, is Joe a 10? Do you really think that a 10 is going to result in falling? I just did not think so. Her success resulted in her falling. Well, because the rope

was cut. There was no rope there. Be a hero. I'm going to... Just like the real economy. I'm going to... You didn't even need to give me that bottle cap, but you gave it to me. I'm going to... Just like the real economy. I'm going to... You didn't even need to give me that bottle cap, but you gave it to me. I'm going to double slice at Bolan. Okay, come on, hit.

That's a 13 for the first one. Oh. I don't usually like to. I don't like to usually lift the veil of the enemy's ACs, but I will say his is higher than 13. Second attack. Double sl- Crack die.

Bet. Oh, Sydney. Oh my god. Sydney. 15 to hit. You should have just worn cotton. And now I'm worried. Jump out the window.

I don't deserve the cotton. Should I? I mean, you are a cat. Maybe you can land next to me. I think you might land on all four feet. Well, I have an idea. Break your arms in life. Just shadow your arms in life. Does Bolon... Just shadow your arms in life.

Does Bolon go next? No. No. You can see the initiative tracker, but none of your friends... I'm debating if I should jump through that trap door to escape. I can't.

Well, all you have is Talitha's got her crossbow. Flashback to a moment that happened last episode. Talitha's got her crossbow. Flashback to a moment that happened last episode. Talitha dropped her crossbow when she charged into the room. It is sitting on the floor. This does. Bum, bum, bum, bum! Can I talk to my players real quick? Just jump out.

Can I talk to my players real quick? You don't think I should stay in the fight? I don't think you should. I mean... What do you want to do? I... What? You were intent on that, on those first two actions. Like, this is what my character does.

So what does your character do with that one remaining action? With the result of what just happened. Jump down or just stand there? It's really a matter of are you a hero or a scaredy cat? I don't know. No, that is not true. That's not true. That is a miscategorization. That's the only way in or out ofy cat? I don't know. No, that is not true. That's not true. That's the only way in or out of the building.

Any of the room. No. That's not true. There's a bridge across. There's a bridge. On this level? Yes. It's like around that stuff. We haven't been that way. Yeah, we went that way. We saw it and then we turned around and came back. Yeah, you know what?

Maybe she'll go that route. 20, 25. She doesn't even make it out of the room. You know what? She's going to move away. Probably have an attack of opportunity. She's going to run away. She's going to run around the corner in the room to the opposite side where the door to the bridge is.

Okay. And that's as far as she makes it. Actually, this isn't a bad strategy. If we can draw him out of that room, we can get to you sooner. If I jump down the hole, I potentially am stuck in that lower room, and he could shoot down at me or something. Yeah, he'll have the high ground. All right, so you start running around there. As you move away from him, he does not attack.

Oh, okay, okay, all right. It's my turn. It is Talitha Breakwater's turn. Hand crossbow, 15 feet away from the ground. Talitha, gripping her rapier, will stand up, first action, and then double move, which will get her exactly to the door, to the bridge where we one-shot that 1-0 steward. Ah.

And there's a fox over there. There's a fox. Oh, right. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Foxy. All right, so you go back to the door where you murdered. Oh, man, we are. This is wild. This is wild. This is wild.

All right, so your movement gets you all the way up to the door. Which I lack the action still. Because I had to stand up. You guys love closing doors. Now it's coming back to get you. Actually, you know what? I'm going to stay. So I'll stand back one step.

That way someone can get ahead of me and open the door. Okay. Very good. You're the only one anywhere near that door. You could get there. I'm down the rope. He started climbing down the rope. Never mind. I'll stand. It's just you, buddy. You're alone in this entire wing of the complex. I'm about to fight this fox one-on-one.

Zephyr, give me a DC 11 flat check to see if you go to dying two. Five. Dying. Five. Five. Dying. Five. Having a good time. You're going to be fine. I've been bracing the chaos and the bad rolls.

You try to take me down. How many hit points do you have? Zero. No, like when you're full, when you're full. 19. 19, yeah. Even with the old massive damage rules, you wouldn't have been... Not for this hit, no.

You almost did massive damage to me a few episodes ago. Yeah. Okay, so now you're dying too. Yikes. Yum, yum. It's Bolan's turn. Pickles and chips. He is going to...

Pickle chips? Pickle chips? He's going to move over to Lucky. Ten feet away. And rain down hell on your non-cotton soul. Um, this is real bad. Oh, my God. All right, so I'm going to do the same thing I did before.

The walls and the floor and all the little branches that make up this room start to grow spikes. Give me a basic reflex save. As bad as we're rolling, I'm on the edge of my seat right now. My teeth are so wet. The Christmas

miracle. That's 25. 25. Regular success. You take 7 points of piercing damage. Ow. I will say that transformation stays there. How long?

You don't know. Last time you saw it go away the second he moved, it went away. But right now, it stays there. Good save. It's Buggles' turn. Buggles, still stupefied, his head still swimming as he, back alone in his own skull, keeps

going down. He takes two movement actions to get to the bottom of the rope, as far, as close to the bottom of the rope as he can. Okay, so that gets you, there's only five feet of rope left, because you've moved 20 feet down. Five feet of rope left, 25 feet to the ground. Okay, and then when he gets that far down,

he is going to cast Shield on himself. Shaking for the Ramius on the rope above. I mean, this is amazing. What a scene. Trying to save poor Zephyr's life. We go to the top of round six. Brother Ramius. So where is he on the rope?

Ten feet down. Buggles is another ten feet down. And you're still on the rope. Yeah. Okay. He's going to say, Buggles, hold tight. And he's shaking and he's terrified.

You're telling me I don't have to roll for this, which is wonderful. Yeah. You're a good dude. I feel like it's a controlled situation. It's bad enough. And you can see his muscles are shaking. He is not used to this kind of training. He's like Joe O'Brien if he was on a rope hanging over a 40-foot

drop. He paces down until he's right near the bottom of the rope. And if my math is right, then he went down 10 feet and then he went down another 10 feet.

You're right above Buggles. Yeah. Five feet of rope left. Okay. Well, then he's going to try and look over past Buggles toward Zephyr. 25 feet away. And he's going to cast heal on Zephyr from here. Okay.

He's got a 30 foot range. She should be 30 feet away at this point. She is within 30 feet. And I think that I can't see any reason reading what I saw here on climb that why he can't cast. It doesn't say you can't, you know, have used the manipulate action or whatever.

So he's going to pray and say, I should have done this long ago. Forgive my past sins. Let I be saved. And he stretches his hand down and a healing energy comes toward you, Zephyr, and he'll heal you for 13 hits. Whoa, so she's lying at the bottom on the ground,

face up, I imagine, and with that fail before, I'm just fading out, and then suddenly it's just like... Because that's almost all my hit points back. Out of nowhere. Now he's holding, swinging like with one hand and then he grabs back on with the other hand and he's just like holding the

rope and putting his face up next to the hemp and he's just like terrified, doesn't know how he's going to get up or down now. Yeah. Climbing up may involve checks. Climbing down. So now I'm wounded too. You're wounded too, prone, laying on the ground 50 feet away from this combat.

It is now Lucky's turn. Okay, so with this terrain that he's done, I see you put it on the map. If I try to open the door, you're saying the door has vines on it? You feel like you'd be all right to open the door, door. You're saying the door has vines on it, or? You feel like you'd be all right to open the door, but moving out of this space is going to require careful footing in the form of a reflex save to try and get out of this. Now, the good news is it doesn't extend beyond the door. Right. So once I open the door, I can just step out, close the door. Yes, stepping out, you'd have to roll the reflex save.

Brother. Because you started your turn in the john. This sucks, so I can either step in toward him, try to double slice. Which will make you also have to roll a reflex save. And then I'm stuck anyway. Or step away and get away from it. Yeah. I'm going to step away, just knowing that this terrain... Are you at the door?

Yeah. So you're going to open the door. Yeah. Well, actually, you might be able to get away. Let me see how you guys interpret this. Who are in the affected area are those who move through an affected square. I think you can move out. Out of an affected area.

She's standing at the edge of it. Yeah, you're standing in it. So I think you're not moving through it. You're moving out of it. So I think you're okay to open the door and get out of it. So I'm going to open the door. First action. Step out.

Second action. No, just run. Oh. Okay. Because if you're a double move away then he either has to have the right range, he has to move through difficult terrain or he's gotta you know what I mean? Yeah. Okay, so I'm gonna double move then.

Okay. If you take a, wait, if you open step out, close then I'm stuck. He's then. Okay. If you open, step out, close. Then I'm stuck. He's just going to move up, open. Yeah. Well, that does leave him one action, which is nice. He might not be able to cast something powerful on you. Or he could just wait.

I would just get out of there. Yeah, I'm just going to run. I would sprint. Double move. Yep, I sprint. Got it. All right, Lucky, you sprint. And I make it all the way across the bridge to the other side.

All the way across the bridge to the other side. Oh, but that's, and you might meet Talitha, and there's a fox! And there's a fox. Right next to the body of the- And I have five hit points. The Oak Steward and Mole. You have five hit points? Well, it's your turn, Fivey.

Mole, Fivey. Talitha will open the door. Okay, I can only do that, right? Yep. Boop. Hi, Talitha. Hello! Oh, heyy. Talitha will open the door. Okay, I can only do that, right? Boop. Hi, Talitha. Hello. Oh, hey. Hello.

And then I will double move out onto the central platform. This is a bit, we literally meet there. At moment. Oh, no. You get about 15 feet onto the bridge. No. All right, well, I'm in my first move. The bridge collapses.

No, it doesn't. It does? Oh, my God. Are you serious? I need you to roll a reflex save to attempt to grab a ledge. Oh, no. What's the DC on this? Don't worry about it.

It's a standard DC. I have a DC here. We looked out that door. I rolled a 15. We thought about cutting that bridge. We thought about cutting this stupid bridge. Okay, 19. You grab a ledge.

And you're hanging 50 feet above the ground. Oh my god! And the bridge is gone. Extremely important question. Yes. Which way did it collapse? Am I hanging on the way I came or the way I was going? Oh, that's interesting.

I think you got almost to the end before it collapsed. You said it was 15 feet. You like lifted the far edge. Yeah, yeah. Well, since the trap is set up on this end, I would think your weight swings it to the other side, which is good because now you can climb up to where... I can't help Lucky.

No, you can climb up to where Lucky is. Oh, it's on that side. Yeah. Oh, I shouldn't... This is such crazy timing. Lucky just got to that platform and sees Talitha and is like, immediately the bridge falls. You just saw two traps happen.

Oh my god. Very Temple of Doom. Yeah, this is a very, very, very temple. Thepher, plop. Talitha, plop. I think Talitha died too. I probably think Talitha fell all the way down. That's it.

You hear all the wood snapping in the forest. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. Thep, thep, thep, thep, thep. And you're... Maybe she drops. She like immediately drops to the bridge You hear all the wood snapping in the forest. Maybe she drops. She immediately drops to the bridge and just grabs onto a plank and rides it down. Boom, slams into the wall. Takes five points of damage. It falls and dies.

You actually got there a little faster now. It's a ten-foot climb. A ten-foot climb. It's a net positive. If I only got 15 feet, that was in the middle of my move action, my first move action. It's a 10-foot climb. A 10-foot climb. It's a net positive. It is. If I only got 15 feet, that was in the middle of my move action, my first move action. So I do have one action left.

Yeah, you could. It interrupts that action. So I get one more. Yeah, you get one more action. So I will start climbing up. All right. Give me an athletics check just to see if you can get up there. Only a natural one would have you fall.

Oh, my God. I have a minus one death letter. Oh my God. All right. So natural one or two. Three. Oh my God. Uh,

I'm going to say you get five feet up. Okay. Instead of falling. Oh my God. Oh my God. What a horrible, I'm alive. Oh.

The first one you grab is like snap. It just pours out. Oh, that was a close one. Oh! Splat. I cannot believe how bad we're... I might, like, have a heart attack and die right now. Yours found me.

This is intense. I need to die. I need to die. This is one of my favorite combats we've ever had. Yeah, this is pretty intense. I bet it is. This is thrilling. All right, Zephyr, it's your turn.

You are on the ground. Right. You're on the ground down there. The only way in, unless you can fly, is to walk back to where that first entrance is. Let me see. We're about to drag this combat into the open, and Zephyr has a longbow. Zephyr does have a longbow. You can start picking us.

So I'm 50 feet down? You're the best equipped to be down there. Zephyr does have a longbow. You can start picking us, picking us. You're the best equipped to be down there. You're 50 feet down in a... I stand up. I aim at the bridge because I saw Talitha maybe run. Not Talitha, Lucky, maybe running across the bridge.

I could see her like a cat against the moon. And I knew he was in that room. I'm sorry not to be that guy again. You have to pick up your bow. Matthew. So proud of you. You don't think that a monastic archer wouldn't hold on to it?

I've never died. Would you, after falling 50 feet, die? Sorry. Okay, do you still want to play in this game? I just feel like I only need you to try to play in this game? I just feel like I only need you to like try to sabotage My life and then I've got you You you you

You two actually haven't sabotaged me It's just this left side of the table You know what I should do is I should start awarding bottle caps to teacher's pets Because then we get the rules right And then you don't people don't feel as bad That's something I'm going to think about in the new year Come on Well because then I know Joe won from a. That's something I'm going to think about in the new year. Oh, you too. Come on!

Well, because then I know Joe won from a couple epsico. I'll take it. All right, so you can see the look. That's not an obstacle for us. I'm already confused just thinking about it. I'm not. Pretty clear to me. Pretty straightforward.

Also, I should point out that if I had just assumed that I, in my my death grip and clutched onto my rapier, I'd already be out. Yeah, that's true. There's no way. You fell 50 feet. Is there any? I think it's lucky that the bow's right next to you. I don't know if we have luck rolls or anything like that here. Is there anything I can do?

To see if you're holding onto your bow? To see if, like, or, like, I feel like I can stand up and if it's next to me, just do all that at the same time. You ever stand up and grab something at the same time? Anyone? Anyone? Literally in almost any tabletop RPG you play, you could do that. Just not this one. Not this one. It is an interact action to grab your...

And I think that we talked about this before. I think that there is a feat at a certain point that lets you hold your weapons if you are ever knocked unconscious. Yeah, so when you gained the unconscious condition, you fall prone and drop all items you are wielding or holding until the effect states otherwise or until the GM determines that you wouldn't. So when you fell, you dropped your weapons. Okay. Well, my turn is standing up, picking up my bow, and aiming. And one more action to make sure the bowstring is still attached. Right.

Take out an arrow. Actually, honestly, you know what you would have to do? What? You're out of your stance. I don't need to be in my stance to use the bow. I need to be in my stance to use flurry of blows with the bow. But you have the action. I can still use the bow.

That's what you should spend your third action. You have the action. But if I, like, can I aim at the bridge and ready an action or something? No, because that's two actions. Two actions. Oh, okay. Well, in that sense, it's probably your best. I mean, I can see ready would be great because if he starts running, then you could pop off.

Next round, if he ends his turn on that bridge somewhere, you could have four attacks. And I guess, and then I can also see the platform from where I am also, in case they get onto the platform. You can see the edge of the platform. That's pretty awesome. You can see Lucky, as long as someone is standing either on the bridge or along the edge, you could attack them.

In free action, Lucky would probably yell out like, he's behind me! Maybe this is all a good thing that I'm down here so i can it all works out and that positive it's how the cookie crumbles so yeah stand positivity i think we can kill troy in this way he's not gonna stab you my new plan is toxic positivity this sounds great i'm ready it's great stand up grab my bow monastic archer stance. It's awesome. This is great. I can just see her settling her feet into the soil. I hate myself for the way that Joe has rubbed off on the thing I'm about to say,

but it doesn't feel good to play by the rules. You know what? It does feel good to play by the rules. I like it. Because when you win, purposefully, it just feels good. I don't like feeling bad. I want to cheat. I know.

I'd be fine cheating in this. I want to win. Winning is what feels good. No, Sydney. By any means necessary. By any means necessary. Oakland Raiders philosophy. Hey, there's a guy running on the map.

What's going on? There he is. Here he comes. He comes up running after old Lucky. First action. Did he have to pass through difficult terrain? Or is it not difficult to him?

The minute he moves, it goes away. That's why he moved up to us. It's a burst around him, a radius around him. So that goes away. He has to double move. Running is two actions or one action? I don't know I've been trying to look it up, I don't think it is

I think you just stride I don't know if running exists When you run you can move up to four times your speed Are you looking at oney? Yeah, I don't see it for Dewey So it's just a double move Because you can triple move in Dewey Oh right, right, right

I always forget that. Hmm. Well, that's interesting, because if all I can do is double move... I love rules. Alright, here's what I'm gonna do. This will actually be a lot more dramatic and fun. I'm gonna single move. When I search run on Demiplane,

I just get runes and runelords. Alright, this is going to be fun. I'm going to single move. Single move on to that I will rune up to. They spell run really funny. Demiplane. But I guess I will runes up to four times my speed.

Rise of the runelords. It's just charity fire. All right, so this is a cinematic as it goes. He leaves the room. As he's walking out of the room, all those spikes recede behind him. He gets onto the bridge, standing on opposite sides of the bridge with Lucky.

The windmill just on his side, and he looks at you, wind whipping. He grabs his staff. No! And you see thorns and flowers and everything. He's got the shillelagh, and he is coming for you. And it is Buggle's turn. Is shillelagh a two-action, John?

It's a spell, yeah. That's why he's so, so far from you. So glad I have five hit points. So it doesn't matter to you. A regular one would put you down anyway. That's why he's so, so far from you. So glad I have five hit points. So it doesn't matter to you. You know, a regular one would put you down anyway. That's true. Buggles is dangling at the bottom of this rope. His head is like dizzy from the stupefy.

In an instant, it goes away. His eyes, boom, open and fiery red. The aura forms around him. And this deep voice comes out of him. It's just, Hontan Tashok! Hontan! You see subtitles. It's just like, where is the enemy?

I will burn him! Brother Ravius is just hearing this. Sweat pouring into his eyes. What is that? What was that, Buggles? He's like, Buggles? First, I'm going to cast, use Restore the Mind on Zephyr for four hit points.

Thank you. Awesome. Down below. And then, Buggles, he turns his gaze towards the enemy on the bridge. And these beams of fire shoot out of his eyes towards him. Okay, and what's the range on that? Okay, never mind.

Because maybe he'll just take a penalty if it's true. He points a finger at him and a ray of frost. Okay. With amped, amped ray of frost. Amped ray of frost, which has 120 feet more than enough. 21 to hit. 21 is a hit. Yes!

All right. That is six points of frost damage. Six points of frost damage. Six points of frost damage. And I get three more temporary HP. What is your perception DC? So your perception plus ten. This one, lucky. Fifteen.

Unless you want to add my circumstance bonus for, like, hearing stuff. Sure. Fifteen. Unless you want to add my circumstance bonus for, like, hearing stuff. Sure. Seventeen. At that moment, next to you, you're looking over there. I'm sure you took a look when you came over there. There's all sort of brush. A tiny fox comes out of nowhere and just pounces at you. And you are flat-footed.

Here comes a jaw attack. Twenty to hit. Yes, that hits. You take five points of piercing damage. Five? As this little tiny fox... Let's put him on the map. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do!

Comes pouncing out towards you. It's tiny? It's ti... well, it's small. Small? Small. It actually is tiny. Tiny? That's five points.

Hey, you want to see what it looks like? Aw. Aw. Isn't it cute? Aw. That is pretty cute. It's just going, ah!

Ah! Foaming at the mouth as it chews on your leg. It's foaming at the mouth? Fuck, I got rabid. I got rabid. And because you were flat-footed, you also take sneak attack damage.

Oh, my God. And another five points of sneak attack. I'm down. I had ten points left. I just don't, I don't get it, man. I don't have any,

I can't get an attack of opportunity, I can't get anything on this fucking fox that comes out of nowhere. I know, because it gets two attacks off. It's stealthed past your perception. 17? Yeah, I rolled a nat 17 on my stealth.

They're very stealthy little foxes. All right, so... On the plus side, you don't have to worry about the shalala. Think about the good side of failure. On the plus side... Maybe it'll all work out. I get to leave because I'm done for the day.

Because you were wounded one, you go straight to dying two. On the plus side, I get to get on the bus right now and go home. There was a way that if I hadn't have stealthed up to you, I wouldn't have done the sneak attack damage, but it did.

And then it will... Oh, it sees Talitha there. I'm down. I'm hanging up the bridge. Oh, that's right. It didn't see me at all. Just looking past you. What's going on over there?

And it goes back into the brush and disappears. Make sure you're doing all the movement right. You can't move at your full speed when you're stealthing. I think it's half speed maybe You're fine with all that? Yeah yeah yeah You had all that movement? Mmhmm

Alright let me just put Fox Put him on the initiative tracker Round seven Brother Ramius I'm sorry I'm Um I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry He keeps saying it to himself and he's just gonna

Look up and he knows Zephyr's okay now He doesn't know anything about Lucky Or anything he's just gonna Start climbing the rope He's gotta try to get back up Okay you get ten feet away from the top And then double-all move. Another 10 feet.

Uh-huh. And then you still have one more action. Pull yourself back into the roof. He pulls himself back in. Okay. Okay. And starts to reset himself. Now back on solid ground.

Has no idea what just happened to Talitha and Lucky. No, his eyes are set with determination. And so he's going to go run to the bridge that's definitely still there on the other side. This whole thing is so fucked, dude. It really is the perfect storm of fucked. That moment when you killed the Oak

Steward and shut the door, I thought like, oh, I was trying to draw you out there to get the trap and when that didn't happen I was like, oh, I wonder if that'll come back into play. It did. And here we are. It is lucky, actually, no, lucky, you're gonna move in the initiative order pretty far. To dead.

To dead. We'll just move you to dead. No, you're dying, too, so a critical failure on your death roll would kill you. It is Talitha's turn. Talitha will delay. Talitha will delay. It is now Zephyr's turn. Talitha will delay. Talitha will delay. It is now Zephyr's turn.

Come on. First action. As Zephyr is, like, grounding her feet into the ground to, like, aim in her monastic archer stance, she also, like, I don't know, man, like, some magical aura comes out of her hand wraps, maybe. She's casting Key Strike. One action. Second action, flurry of blows.

Yes. With my bow. Okay. Here we go. With my key strike, I get a plus one status bonus on my attack rolls with the flurry of blows.

Let's do this. Let's do it. Crushing it all day. Let's do this. You're so due for this. My heart is like in my body now. She's like,

it's not where it should be. Sounds unhealthy. Not where it feels unhealthy. Poop out your heart! 20 to hit. Hit. Yes! And then,

because I hit, oh my god, I've never hit with this before. Hold on, let me go back to key strike. I'm shaking. So I get a plus one status bonus, my attack rolls,

and when they hit, my strikes deal 1d6 extra damage. Nice! So that means 1d6 plus 1d8. Plus whatever your attack bonus. Do you have an attack bonus? Not a bonus for my longbow. Four points of damage. Okay, okay, okay.

Alright, alright, alright. Do right, all right, all right. You have more? You have more? It's fine. All right. Two. Ooh, natural 18. There you go.

So that's a 22 to hit. That's another hit. And then same deal, extra D6 with my D8. Five points of damage. Five points of damage. Five points of damage. What else you got?

All right, so that was two actions. I'm like, whoo. You strike four, it blows. You see him, the first one hit him. And then the second one, boom. And he's just like, spits up blood. Go for that natural 20. Hit him again.

Yeah, I'm just going to try to hit again with my longbow for my worst map, but I'm just trying to make sure with my ki strike if I still get the plus one, if I make an unarmed attack strike or flurry of blows. But unarmed attack strikes when I'm in monastic stance apply to my bow, so I feel like I still get the plus one. Yeah, this is your deal. So rather than... Okay. Come on. Come on, Zephyr! So that means... Wait, what does that mean?

I was just so much math. It's like minus ten, then plus one. Okay, so it's minus nine. Natural two. It's not a natural one. Look on the bright side. Yeah, very bright. So he's hit by the first arrow.

Kind of shrugs it off. The second one hits though right afterwards. And he just coughs up blood. He looks over and sees Lucky dying there. Doesn't know her name is Lucky. But sees her dying. He'll never know mine. Didn't even bother to learn her name.

Talitha will act. Okay. I will call it a... Hey, Bolan! Bolan! Is this what it comes to? You're bullied as a child and then you just try

to destroy the whole world? I'm gonna try to draw him to me and then I'm gonna start to climb up. You're gonna start to climb? I'll make that a demoralize. Why not? Okay.

14. I'm assuming it does nothing but I want him to know I'm still alive and I'm coming for him and he should come out and get me. What do you know of my life? We know a lot. You know nothing.

You don't know nothing of what it's like to be me. You think you're the only one who was teased as a child? You chump. He looks down and sees Zephyr with the bow trained on him. Looks down at his wounds. Looks over at Buggles, swinging there. He's just firing spells up at him. Sees Lucky dead.

Hears this voice. Sees you climb up. Looks around. Realizes he has no allies and says, There's no need for anyone else to die here. Perhaps we can talk. And we'll see you next week. Oh, I think we did it.

Yes. We can lure them in with the promise of conversation then murder them. Will Lucky survive? Well, that's true. A critical failure of Lucky's role. I got you. I got you.

Herma. How are you going to get there? Death. I got this. I have a way. I trust in Joe O'Brien. Matthew. As Troy always says. He I got this. I have a way. I trust in Joe O'Brien. Matthew. As Troy always says.

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