The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 125 - Raz to the Occasion

Episode Date: October 17, 2017

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This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast... This is gonna be fun. The companions are reunited. Things get weird at night when you fall asleep. I got a lot of stories. Yes, yes he does. And decisions must be made. What is the plan?

Motivated by revenge. I'm gonna kill them for what they've done to me and to Orphos. And we need to attract Brander. Yes. Or curiosity. The odor of this tent, if nothing else, is staggeringly awful. It would be nice to get some fresh air. Or bloodlust.

I have not murdered in weeks. This is killing me. A daring plan comes together. Oh, let's go inside and kill something. The adventure continues. What the hell is this thing and where did it come from? Right now. What's going on, good buddies?

From the West Coast to the West Coast and back again, it's Troy LaVallee here with another episode of the GCP, episode 125 to be exact. Can you believe we've done 125 of these stupid things? No one really enjoys this anymore, do they? I know I do. I love it. I love every second of it.

Actually, this episode is so much fun. I don't remember the last time we had as much fun recording an episode as we did in this one. It is crazy. It is wild. And we'll get to it in just a second. We got a fun week this week. It starts with this episode right now, which is a blast, and then tomorrow, for all our Patreon

subscribers at the $5 tier and up, we've got another installment of Disorganized Play with special guest Eric Mona. If you liked last week's episode, Joe edited this one this week, and he texted me while he was editing it and said it's the best one we've done yet. Now, Joe has terrible, terrible taste. He's an Eagles fan, after all. But I tend to believe him when it comes to disorganized play. So get excited for that one. And then Thursday, we got all five of us knuckleheads on Cannon Fodder. This is a jam-packed week.

And it's about damn time because things are about to heat up. Business is about to pick up in this podcast. This is such a fun week. Why don't we just get straight to it? This roller coaster is climbing up, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, up, up, up, up, up, up, and it's about to come all the way through the end of book three, and it starts this week.

So please enjoy episode 125 of the Glass Cannon podcast, Raz to the Occasion. I've had this image in my head all week ever since last week's episode of the entire party, like stealthily rushing along the rock walls of Minderhall's Valley up to the palisade with like Umlo flying on a broom above them and becoming invisible seeing this rift drake come in and you guys eventually making it but I'm seeing like if this was in a cinematic sense like all of you rushing towards the palisade it like closes in on Sir Will's face and Lexington on the floating disc Nest Nestor's face, steely-eyed. And Baron, all determination.

Leader of the pack, um-low, wondering what's going to happen next. And I see Della kind of rushing along as well. And I close in on Della rushing, and I see her having a moment. Like she's done this before. And then I see Della as a little girl rushing through a forest. But it's not so much that she's rushing, it's that she's being dragged

and trying to keep up. And you see this like branches whipping by, slapping her in the face, slapping her along the leg, drawing a little blood from her bare ankles and from the sides of her arms. And she's rushing along. And you see the figure that's pulling her

through the woods is her mother. They're rushing along and Della is just trying to keep up mentally with what's going on, and this woman is pulling her and looking behind her to see if she's being chased or whatnot, and then they get to a clearing,

and the mother stops for a moment, says something to Della like, stay here, don't move, don't leave my side, and she goes up ahead because she hears like a noise in the distance and wants to make sure it's not something dangerous. And maybe there's even like spells being cast while she's fighting against some wild animal or some creature.

Undead, giant, who knows? Della, meanwhile, just looks behind her, looks up ahead at her mother in the distance. She can see her fighting through the trees. And Della turns around and takes off back the way the mother came. And Della's running and running and running and running.

Moves forward in time, and now it's later at night and Del has just been running for probably hours and she gets back to a small little house. The door is wide open. She walks inside and looks around. Doesn't seem that anyone is there. And all of a sudden,

you hear like huffing and puffing from behind, and a man comes up, enters the house. Della whips around and sees her father. He grabs her, holds her tight, and says,

You did well. You did well to come back to me. But now we must flee. We must flee before your mother returns. Grab your things. We'll go now. Della grabs her things. They rush out the door.

And Della is now back, rushing along the palisade wall outside the cathedral of Minderhall as visions of moments from her past start to become clear and clearer and now

the entire party is back in the invisible tent. Pembroke welcomes everyone with open arms. It's a little bit of a homecoming, but it's not like, ah, so good to see you. The fight is over. We did it. Mission accomplished.

What the hell goes on here? I'm just going to sit back and have a glass of water. I don't even know where to start. Well, yeah, I guess Pembroke is... Tell us, what happened on your journey? Were you able to procure the items that you were told to get? What happened? Have you found them? Yeah, no. Oh, man.

Yeah, we got... I think we got everything. How's it been lying on your backside out here? We'll be doing all the real work. I's it been lying on your backside out here? We'll be doing all the real work. I haven't been lying on my back. You are now. Sort of sitting up now. What's that? Oh, backside.

Like sitting like that. That's your arse. You've got a clever tongue, but I think you'd be surprised to see what Pembroke has been able to do. I've been off my backside quite a bit. Yes, Nestor, I've actually been quite productive while you've been gone. We can get to that. Della wants to show Pembroke the clay.

Ah, yes. Fascinating. And he, like, pulls out, like, a little pair of reading glasses and puts them on and just, just like kind of inspects it. This is very ancient magic. Very ancient. Yes.

Yes, this will do, I think. Good. Good. We're supposed to coat the forge with it. Yes. Yes. Yes, I see. Well done. Well done, my dear.

Very well done. And Sir Will is going to... He's going to show the plate to Aram and Ymir. This sort of prayer. See if they recognize anything about it or if it has any sort of markings that they could understand. Ymir kind of tries to grasp it, but it's heavy in his hands and he can't quite hold it.

He's like, I do not recognize these writings. This language is far too ancient for me to understand. Brother, do you know? And he kind of hands it to Aram, but neither of them can really hold it. Well, do you know? And he kind of hands it to Aram, but neither of them can really hold it. Well, not just because they're beat up, but because they're just not fighters. They're not strong.

And he's like, yes, I wish my father was here. I'm sure he would know more about this, but it is clear that this is something sacred. So hopefully it is the item you seek. Pembroke could

do a linguistics check on it just to see the actual text. Yeah, roll linguistics. Before you do that, Skid, we have been doing linguistics a little wrong and I think we should try to do it the right way. Unfortunately, it's a little more work on your plate, Troy. You up for that?

No. Did you for that? No. Do you have that exertion grunt? Can that be on the Sirenscape set? I've always had the players just roll linguistics, but actually the GM rolls linguistics. Because you're supposed to not know if the conclusions you're drawing are correct or not. So do I ask you what your modifier is? Yeah, you ask what the modifier is, or a good GM would have the character sheet of his players

and have them all memorized, but whatever. You roll the check, and then if it succeeds, you're fine. If it fails, you roll a DC5 wisdom check. If that fails, they think it succeeded, and they draw an incorrect conclusion

about what it says. Seems like a real pain in the ass for a linguistics check. But the point being, you should always roll twice, regardless of the first one passed or not. So we don't really know. We don't really know. So what's Pembroke's bonus, and then what's his wisdom modifier? My bonus for linguistics is plus 14. Okay.

And my wisdom modifier is plus 3. Adela has linguistics, so can she aid Pembroke? Sure. Do I roll the aid as well? Well, what's her linguistics bonus? If it's 10, then you're good. Plus 8. So you gotta roll to see if she aids. And then you have to roll a wisdom check

to see if her aid draws wrong conclusions to Pembroke's conclusion. Alright. This is great. Hold right. This is great. Hold on. This is great. Fuck 5th edition, man.

This is where it's at. This is where it's at. All right. So plus 14, plus 16 total. Della is trying to help Pembroke out. Pembroke obviously is much more learned. In this language. Yeah.

It's very clearly a prayer called the blessing of Rosag. It actually says blessing of Rosag and then afterwards it's followed by an incantation. And if you start actually reading it aloud, Sir Will, you recognize it exactly as what you saw in your vision.

So her pump up prayer speech was actually that prayer. Well, what language is it in? Because even a successful linguistics check wouldn't allow us to read it. It would just give us the general context. Right. They're runes, so it's more... It's all written in giant rules.

It's runes, so it's nice. It's kind of like an archaic... But is it the kind of thing where we would be able to just read phonetically even if we didn't understand the exact words totally yeah okay you could get the gist of it yeah okay um you would assume that a tenor probably can speak it as rosack did yeah and if you start to say too much of it i would imagine it would make you a little uncomfortable sir will because you're reciting a prayer to me right but our concern here is if we give this prayer over to atena, would we give her some power over us? Yeah, I don't trust her completely anyway.

I know that she was being accurate in her depictions of my past, at least, and I believe yours too. But I still don't trust her, you know? Not completely. I have thought that it makes a lot of sense for them to say that the forge needs to be lit in order for us to be powerful enough to fight. That's the way to get us to light the forge. Why would you say anything less? I don't know. I don't know what purpose you're putting.

Are you proposing that we have to be the ones to say the prayer? We have to light it and keep everything within our power? I'm saying I don't know. within our power? I'm saying I don't know, but the concern is if it is not necessary and someone else can do it, then we just have walked them into their hands.

Maybe we go and see Atena without the items. Tell her we have them and see if she will tell us exactly what must be done to light the forge. I have a working theory on what needs to be done. Yes, please.

Tell us. And as backstory before Baron reads this, it was because I was rereading the Drake Bane's horn description as we were thinking about flying. Perfect. I put it together. I think what's going to happen is that we're going to coat the forge with clay.

We're going to place Nestorers fire geodes in the clay we're going to read the prayer and blow on the horn to call a dragon the dragon we fought already to light the embers on fire and i think that at that point the whole thing's going to be out of our control. So it doesn't matter if we go with them or without them. We still have a dragon that I don't know if we'll have control over. Yes, this is my concern as well. I do have some magic at my disposal that could make the dragon more predisposed to be friendly to us, but there is no guarantee it will work, especially the creature as powerful as a dragon of this sort. Tell them, Pembroke.

Tell them what he told you. Who? Isseus. Isseus. Oh, right, yes. Who? Who's Isseus? Yes, Isseus. Yes, I quite forgot.

Have you had several other conversations in the last week? No, no. With anyone outside this tent? Well, with Razzmatazz. Razzmatazz has said quite a few very disturbing things indeed, which I won't get into now. Things get weird at night when you fall asleep. Oh, yes.

I've got a lot of stories. Yes, yes, he does. But so I was able to procure the services of one of the stone giant guards named Isseus. And he has told me that tonight there is no sermon scheduled. And thus the cathedral will be empty. We'll be able to enter very easily. Why is the cathedral going to be empty? Because there is no sermon tonight.

Are they gathering somewhere else or are they just going back to their tents? No, there is no gathering within the cathedral walls. Well, then perhaps if we are extremely careful and do not let... Assuming, of course, just being careful that Atena is what Nestor says she is and deceiving us, if it's only her we have to worry about, and not a legion of giants, we shouldn't be too concerned walking in there with those items and talking to her. We can defend ourselves. We should be able to defend ourselves against her, if it is only her.

Though I am down on spells, I've used most of my prepared spells for the day, especially my more powerful spells. I've used most of my prepared spells for the day, especially my more powerful spells. This creature, Pembroke, how long can it be under your control? Well, we should have... How long has it been? It has been... Four days?

Let's see. Ascendance day, level up. One, two, three days. Three. So I have three more days until the spell is expired. Did this giant tell you anything else of use?

No, he is unfortunately quite low on the totem pole, as it were. Very little information. Useful information other than that. But he may perhaps be of more use to us depending on what

happens next. You know what? We're back at the cathedral. Let's go back to roll 20. And let's look at all of you guys on the map. Whoa! I still haven't found it yet.

This map is enormous. That is a big map. Yeah, zoom in on the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 people huddled there. Oh, my. Just south of the... Isn't that cool when you zoom in? Oh, wow. Oh, my God.

They're so tiny that like the ants... There's Raz with Taz, see him? And there's Nestor with his bow. That is Ymir with the gray head there, followed by Aram as balding. There's Lork with his bow. And then we've got...

You are aware that Della is not entirely blue, right? That's my only option. There's Baron, and then Pembroke with the staff leading the group here. This is like a Google Maps thing, where it's just like, hey, it's my car. Is Baron holding a shotgun? He is holding a shotgun. And then there's Sir Will, Umlo, with a great axe for some reason,

and then a fully blue Della. How cool is that? That's really cool. I was thinking of how a few weeks ago, once again, we had another good Aliens reference. And this one, it's like looking at that giant blueprint you know where they're trying to find them like oh they're down here and it's this tiny little thing smoking or non-smoking right exactly now if you zoom way the hell out and look i've covered up the cathedral again yeah spend some time and look at the size of that huge

i can't believe this doesn can even fit in a book. It's enormous. Every square is 10 feet, right? Every square is 10 feet. It's ridiculous. You should see the Order of the Amber Die did it in a full-size map and it looks unbelievable. Don't go looking yet.

I should watch that. Not you too at home. Especially you. You know who watch that. No, no, no. You skid. Not you too at home. Especially you. You know who you are. And the cathedral, the side door to the cathedral, is that the one that's just north of that tent? Yes, that's the one that Nestor peeped in on the sermon a couple nights ago. And now Pembroke is saying, no sermon tonight. Yeah, so we can get in tonight.

If we're going to do it, tonight's the night. Pembroke has a vague idea of the sermon's schedule as well. But, yeah, your goal right now is to get into the forge heart to see a tenant. Yeah. Yeah. God. Like, what in the fuck? Will's heart is pounding out of his chest.

He's sweating. His palms are sweaty. He's sick with nervousness. Are we going to light the forge? Yes, we're going to do it. Baron! You said you wouldn't do it. You said in Torag's name you wouldn't do it.

We just have to keep on marching forward we have to see if we could sabotage the forge itself afterwards and keep the power to ourselves we have to see if we can stop this evil army from encroaching on the rest of the world. And the only way out is through. And we need to attract Brander. Yes. Nesta, you? You know, I've been thinking about it. And I'm willing to do whatever it takes to kill this fucking bastard. Right? So if it means giving homage to whatever this thing is, I'm going to fucking do it.

I'm going to fucking light that forge as well. I am Adirondack, Adirondacks, whatever the name is. I am that person. I want to embrace it, and you should be too, because this is very fucking important. And Sir Will.

Della is very confused by this. I've had a change of heart. It's been a week. Sense motive. Sense motive? Skid is eagerly awaiting your score. Not saying that I am lying. 15.

But I rolled a 40. Stella is very impressed. And Baron turns to Sir Will and says, The Inquisitors of Torag have a different viewpoint on things than you paladins of Iomide must. We believe that we can take the weapons of our enemies and the powers they have and turn them against them. And that is what my hope is.

That would be my hope too, but how can you trust it? We've already done it. And Della points to heart's spit. That's a good point. It's a single spear, Della. It is not the power of the gods. The powers you play with here, it's not to be taken lightly. I don't take anything lightly.

And it is with weary feet I will tread to the forge. But it is a journey that I think I must make. I will speak to Atena one more time. And then I will decide. And as things are winding down Baron approaches Lork and in this very cramped little space

can we have a moment alone can we have the tent please he drags Lork to a corner. Why do these briars come from? There are 1D4 briars on the path. You're hurting me. You're hurting me.

Baron pops a squat right on his keister. Gets eye to eye and he says, It's been a long time since we've had a heart to heart, Lork. Aye, it has. I'm glad that you're still with us on this fight. And I can't wait until we get out of here to see if we can help you anymore. We will, Baron. I'll get back on my feet.

I don't know any other way to tell you than just to come out and tell it. Barry Connick Jr. is dead. And he was killed by our own hands. What? He was abused. He was mangy. He had been taken in by our enemies and was being used as some sort of scent animal

to track down any of their foes. He wasn't himself. He was a shell of what he was. I only hope that his passage into the other world was one of respite and peace for him based on the state I saw him in. When? When did this happen? During our journey about halfway through. I knew it. I knew it was something. I could feel it. Your own hand.

Why? They'd driven him to attack you. Yes, he was on his way to kill us. And before we knew it, he was gone. And he was unrecognizable in his state. he was gone. And he was unrecognizable in his state. None of us had the time nor the knowledge to speak up otherwise to try to snare him or trap him and bring him back to you.

We would have done it, Lord. You've got to believe me. I believe you, Baron. He puts a hand on his shoulder. I knew something had happened. And now it's... I'm glad to know what it is. And if Barry had to die that way, then that is what it is.

But I... I don't know if I can forgive myself for what they did to him. To make him do that. I should have never let him go. I should have never been captured by these fiends. I hate them, Baron. I hate them all.

What they did to me. I need your help. But if I can get back on my feet, I'm going to kill them. I'm going to bring justice to them. For what they done to me. And to Orphos. And to Barry.

And whoever else is gonna die before the end. And for Abria. Aye. We gotta bring justice to all these people. And for Abria. I'm sorry I can't be more of a help now, but I will.

I will. And Lorc, even if you aren't able to fight with us now, you have one of the strongest hearts out of all of us. I'd love it if you'd say a word or two to Della about this. She seems to be taking Barry's loss harder than anyone. Was it her? It wasn't her. Did she kill him? No. Who was it?

I have to know, Baron. The killing blow was landed by Nestor. I'd steer clear of him because he's a real son of a bitch. He's not going to make you anything but piping angry. Aye.

He's a thief and a murderer. I know the kind. All right, I'll talk to Della. I'll talk to her before we leave. In fact, before you drag me back through the thorns, could you just send her out here? But before he leaves, Baron hands Lork a new bottle, a stout, and it has a drawing of Barry on it.

And he says, One of these days I'm going to give you one of these ales for a good reason. But until then, drink to remember, not to forget. Thank you, Baron. Please tell Della I'd like to talk to her. And he's looking down at the bottle, and he just wants to pound it immediately. When it's clear that you guys have finished speaking, Ymir comes over to you, Baron, while you're still with Lork, and says,

I would like to come with you. If I may, I might be able to provide some sort of healing. I'm not as strong as my father, but I can help. He's been doing well, Baron. He's been praying. He's been practicing. We all have. doing well, Baron. He's been praying. He's been practicing. We all have. I don't like the idea of a citizen being in the line of fire. That's what we're here for. I'll stay

in the back and just provide healing should anything go wrong. And at that point Aran comes over and is like, no, absolutely not. You're brave, Ymir. But if anyone will go, it will be me I must do it for our father

For if I should die You will go back to Shinran's fortune And raise it up strong again And that's kind of been the dynamic Lork that you've seen between them It's like a Roger Cursed Sort of thing And so Ymir doesn't even like

Question it, he just nods silently. And Aram looks to you. I am not my father. But if I can provide any help after what you've done for my brother and I, I will provide it. I don't like it, but I know that you saw your entire town

get destroyed by these bastards. And if you feel like the only way to get your revenge is to help us, welcome aboard. Thank you. I shall stay in the back and channel positive energy. Della would like to request that Razzmatazz come along. Hey, what's going on? The blue-haired girl wants me to come What are we doing?

Pembroke, what's this all about? No, absolutely I think Razzmatazz here could be of some use to us If things go badly Oh, I've been itching for a murder Yes, but of course things might have a greater probability of going badly if he does come with us as the other problem.

Well, I'm just here to help. I have not murdered in weeks. This is killing me. On the balance, I think it's better to keep him with me. Are you... Are you not coming with us? No, I'm coming, right? No, I'm coming, right?

No, I'm here I'll keep close to you Who did you talk to just then? How many people were in this tent? I wouldn't miss this for the world Yeah, it must be so exciting for Pembroke Yeah It would be

The odor of this tent, if nothing else is staggeringly awful It would be nice to get some fresh air. It would also be refreshing to adventure with someone of intelligence. Yes. Such as yourself. I wish we had more time, Della.

I'd love to talk about magical theory. It's been too long. I did have some questions for you. Maybe this is a conversation for later. Soon enough, perhaps on a cannon fodder at another point or something. Raspitas leans in to you, Pembroke. Do I kill her?

No, no, no. Listen, here's a general rule of thumb. Him? Anyone you can see right now, don't kill them. Don't even try to kill them. Just a question. I can't really see that guy in the back too well, so I can kill him. No, no, no. Points to Baron.

Baron's just sharpening his gun. I need a new... Anyone you can see right now or who is armed with a firearm do not kill him. All right, so don't kill most of the people in this tent. Baron, sorry, I had something to say, yes? Baron looks directly at the red cap and says,

I've been needing a new cap for some time now. You just give me a reason and I'll take it off your damn head. Oh, all right. All right. This one's feisty. Do you dip your caps in blood, too? This is going to be fun.

Should be interesting. And then, you know, Baron brings Della over to Lork. Della, I know what you think of me, and I don't think you're wrong. I'd apologize again, but I don't think there's much point in it. You should know that I did what I thought was best.

And if you don't approve, then I understand. But, as you can tell, it's been dangerous, no matter what we've all tried to do. We've only found ourselves in more and more dangerous situations. And this one's no exception. And I... I heard what happened to Barry.

Dulles Stiffens. Baron told me. He told me everything. And you should know that I knew it happened to Barry. Dulles Stiffens. Baron told me. He told me everything. And you should know that I knew it when it happened. I couldn't name it, but I knew it. I knew it in my heart. That creature was bound to me. And he...

He left this world. And since his presence has faded, I know that he's in a better place. Now nothing makes me more angry than what they did to him. And I suspect you're pretty angry as well. And I know you've used your anger to accomplish a lot of things. And I know it's kept you alive. And I won't tell you not to use it, especially tonight.

But remember, more important than anything, we all have to get out of here alive. We all have to walk out with these giants dead behind us. So don't do anything stupid. Keep your focus. Alright? Del

just gives him a curt nod. And then as she starts to walk away, she says, Try not to get killed. She's a lovely girl. She's a lovely girl She's a lovely girl It's interesting too A real sweetheart

I feel like Baron's totally forgiven him After he lost his feet in this bear But Della That wound That set Della on a dark path Alright So you know No sermon going on tonight

Pembroke knows there are guards. One of them is Isseus. What's happening inside the cathedral? You don't know. All you know is it's not hundreds and hundreds of giants who will immediately kill you. What is the plan? For Pembroke,

Nestor, Razzmatke, Nestor, Razzmatazz, Aram, Umlo, Della, Sir Will, and Baron. Ymir will stay with Lork to protect you.

I believe, Nestor, that we should go in the path that you had found. The choir loft. Yeah. If we go through that way, we can get a view over the high ground. Yes, before we descend to the altar. Yes, good idea. I have a couple of uses of invisibility that I can use. I know Dela does as well, if that helps.

My spells are depleted. Well, I can use one on you and on myself and I have one other. Pembroke, do you have access to anything that could silence my magical handbanger?

Let me check. No. Unfortunately, I don't. Oh, wait. Actually, do you know what I have? Just slipped my mind Old man's memory and so forth I have greater invisibility

Which I can use Ah yes, I learned it from your spellbook Yes, that's right I'm not powerful enough to cast it Yes, but I can So that may be helpful What does that do? What's different about that?

Well, I'll read from the description. Nerd! Yeah! It's been too long! It is time for Nerd! Coming soon to Sirenscape. Yes! Well, okay.

It actually may not be that useful because the spell functions like invisibility except that it doesn't end if the subject attacks, which is great. You should give it to Nestor. But it only lasts one round per level. Yeah, so it's a very limited thing. So it can be used in...

It's not used to sneak around. No, no, no. It's used to be a deadly, deadly success. In combat. It's a combat thing. So it's great for Nestor. If you combine that with assassinate... Yeah.

True. Oh, my God. Very true. Oh, my God. Very true. Oh, let's go inside and kill something. That was not so well. And mass invisibility is an even greater spell, or is that available? A sphere of invisibility? Do you have one of those on you?

I don't know. No, I don't. I don't have any of them. The problem is, when I left the university I only took my traveling spell books and I lost two of them on the way. I misplaced them. Just slipped my mind. So all I have left is what I have left.

And that's one of the... I had access to a great many other spells. I don't have them now. Unfortunately. Do you want to do a floating disc for Sir Will in Lexington again? I can use my Pearl of Power to cast it again. Wait, should we go into this without you having any spells? Well, that's what I was asking.

Well, we have to go tonight. Yeah. Yeah, no, don't cast any more spells. Use your Pearl of Power for Fly or Invisibility or something like that. Well, it's a level one, so I could use it. And I also have Spell Recall, so I can use that as well with my Arcane Pool. Got it. If we're afraid of being well with my arcane pool. Got it. If we're afraid of being caught.

I'm not concerned. All right. Especially since, like, literally we could have Nestor go in and look himself now and see if anybody's in there. Yeah. I also love the idea of, like, Will and Lexington not making any noise on this disc, but just being super obvious as they go down a hallway. You know what I was thinking they look like? Trying to creep back behind a corner. They look like they're mini.

Right. On a pond. Pointing ahead. Oh, behind me! All right, so of the ten of you, eight of you are going to go, but are you going to send a scout? Yeah, I think we should send Nestor and whoever else wants to to scout. Sir Will will stay back for a moment.

And I do, yeah, Pembroke has three instances of invisibility, which is one minute per level. So that's seven minutes that he could use. And he could use one on Nestor if he wants to go in and scout and make him as stealthy as any person has ever been in the world. Okay, great. Let's do it. Can you bring, I don't want to screw it up, but just for stonework purposes, should Baron go with Nestor or Nestor just wants to go solo?

No, I think... No, yeah. I mean, he's not going in to complete the mission. He's just going in to see if there's anybody right there. If not, we're all going in. Yeah, then I'll do it myself. Cast a spell, old man. He's always that rude. Don't worry about it. No, no, it's all right.

I'm well aware that I am an old man. Right, Nestor, sit still and bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop. That is the sound of invisibility being cast. And he is invisible. All right, so he's invisible, so he's just going to sprint to the door? Yeah. Because that gives him how many minutes? Seven minutes. Seven minutes. Alright, perfect. You see the distance there. So he's going to go

full on run past the Oculus tent. Bow drawn, I'm assuming. Yep. Past Ryder Bloodfreckle's tent. You get past that right before you get to the steps. Roll a perception check. Okay. 22. 22.

22. Towards the front of the cathedral you see a stone giant on patrol. You are invisible still. Yes. You see that out there.

I'm going to memorize his description. I'm going to study target, memorize his description, and keep working my way towards the door. Okay. You make your way to the door. It is closed. It does not appear to be locked. All right.

I'm going to make a self- check to try to open it just a crack and to do it silently so that even that giant doesn't notice it. What is your stealth? Plus 40? Well, yeah. With the invisibility, my stealth right now is plus 38.

Save your die roll. You crack open the door, and as you crack open the door, you hear talking. Coming from, like, the middle of the cathedral, kind of between the nave and the sanctuary. Haps. Yeah, haps. That other stone giant just keeps doing its rounds. Doesn't see you. You very quietly open that door.

Do you slip in? Yep. All right, you slip in. You see a lot more. You see across the room that same two-headed troll that was swearing in to ogres, it looked like. Remember they were on, standing on the pews, like boasting of their battles in the fighting pits.

But now you see him just talking to two stone giants. Okay. As far as you can tell, you don't see anything else in the room. And you know that Atena, her forge heart,

is up on the dais in a secret door in the, uh, statue. All right. Uh, I move, uh,

far enough into the room where I can just see everything. Um, okay. Moving around if I have to, just to like, make sure that there's nothing hidden. Okay. Roll perception check. Alright.

38. That's the nice thing with this cloak. The Zorn cloak is it gives me a plus 5 in my perceptions. My perception is plus 18 right now. Wow. I'm sorry you said 30. 38. 38. 38.

It appears to be just those three creatures in the room. Okay. You see around the corner the stairs leading up to the choir loft where you're disposed of Rettig Headstomper and his two goons. On the far, far side of the room are the doors that lead back into the Grog Hall area. But it looks like there's just three enemies in here right now

and one patrolling outside. Okay. And if I have time, I would like to make my way to each of the doors leading out of this room and just listen at them to see if there's anyone, if I

know there's anyone on the other side. Okay, the doors leading to the Grog Hall and to the front of the cathedral? Well, that one I won't bother because I can see out there. Alright, so you want to try and zip all the way to the other side of the room and listen over there. Alright, rolling over that perception,

this is going top speed because you know you want to get back before invisibility ends. Yeah. So you get up there. Rolling your perception over, you hear nothing on the other side of that wall.

Okay. And then you get back. You see outside, that stone giant is just kind of walking around. It's walking a little farther south towards where the party is, but they're hidden.

Okay. I head back to the tent. Okay. Maybe halfway through invisibility runs out, but you've got the cover of the tents and the side of the building

in order to sneak back without that stone giant seeing you. Yeah. And come back in, still invisible. Hello, it's me. don't be alarmed so there is there's one stone giant

kind of doing a perimeter patrol outside and I describe him exactly to Pembroke just to see if this is the same if this is the one he charmed right and it does not appear to match the and it does not appear to match the

description that pepper it's not so no that's not him the one I he's wearing a silly hat all right so apart from that there's two stone giants and that same two-headed troll that's in there this is and that's it

and I check the other doors it doesn't seem to be as far as I can tell anyone like in the vicinity other than them. So if you want to go in ambush them and then head into

the end of the room we can try that or whatever you want to do. Is it feasible to sneak by them or will we have to fight them? We could try. I certainly could.

I don't know about the rest of you lot but I could do it. Deb Barron probably could. It don't know about the rest of you, but I could do it. Deb Barron probably could. It's worth a shot. If we set them off, if they see us, we fight them, we kill them. If not, we get by. Della nods.

She approves this plan. Barron's all with it. Give me the odds, Nesta. Never tell me the odds. I'll never tell you the odds. But I'd say 45 to 1. That they see us?

No, it's just general. Got it. Just general odds. Well, I'm just wondering if Will should just stay back and let you go in and just... Well, you want to talk to Atena again. You have to talk to Atena. No, I know. I'm just wondering if Will should just stay back And let you go in and just Well you want to talk to Atena again

You have to talk to Atena No I know I'm saying like you guys go in Just plan an ambush and just start raining Ranged attacks down on them And kite them and kill them What about that guy over there And what I'm saying is me coming would Blow the cover on that before you could get into position

To like rain down And I guess you could rain more than Baron. Baron has to wait till they're right there. We just send our new friend here up. I could go take care of that guy. Who wants to come? What about you, little guy? I don't...

Sir Will looks at Razzmatazz and just shakes his head nonplussed. He's like, how is stealth an option here? We're going to have to take them out. Beren pulls Pembroke over and says, Pembroke, what if we give the little bugger his wish and let him fight the three people by himself in the back of the cathedral

and sneak in in the back of the statue while he's doing that? Yes. Well, it would make him very happy, at least for a few moments. Until he dies, exactly. Until he dies, and then it would uh, it could help, yes. Rasmusaz?

Yeah? How would you feel about going in? I'll do it! Go. Well, that's settled. That sounds like a master plan I shall miss Pembroke you would leave him to die Well I shall miss our conversation

But You are aware of the risks Rasmus has Sure I'm just I'm just itching for a fight Let's do it I'll go right now right

He starts to walk out No no wait wait No okay Hold on We'll settle on a plan so excited and I lean like close to Del I was going to

have to kill him at some point anyway this works out wonderfully alright so Del is

both impressed and a little confused we could have him get that stone giant on patrol and then have him Della is both impressed and a little confused. We could have him get that stone giant on patrol and then ask him to have the giant chase him inside, and then they could all kind of fight right up front while we go in through the side door. Something tells me Razm has not won for conversation

once the combat rounds begin. Yeah, I think we should just go in the side door and let him loose. And we could actually cast invisibility on him also. Just so he could get one good sneak attack in and he could get on them before they realize he's there.

Oh my god, this is amazing. So Sir Will is going to have to clarify with Pembroke that this creature is beyond redemption, right? It, it's not like he can be talked out of being an evil... Oh, yeah, he pulls aside and says, like, you have no idea. I've had many in-depth conversations

with him over the past week, and I mean, redcaps are awful, horrible creatures, and in fact I think he may be one of the worst of the lot. I do enjoy the lot. I do enjoy the company. Razzmatazz. Yes? What's the best thing you've ever done?

The best thing I've ever done is meet my new friend over here, Pembroke. I hope we're friends forever. Oh, yes. No, Razzmatazz, I promise you, we will be friends for the rest of your life. That's all I wanted to hear. You know, a couple weeks ago, I didn't even know you. Now, Brasbatez, I promise you. We will be friends for the rest of your life. That's all I wanted to hear. You know, a couple of weeks ago, I don't even know you.

Now we're best friends. Yes. Funny how life works. Let's do it. All right. Let me at him. This is so horrible. This is horrible.

This is the last paladin I ever play. I do want to clarify, just as Skid, red caps are some of the most evil creatures in all of Pathfinder. This one is friendly to us because we have compelled him to be so for the moment, but we shouldn't let that cloud our judgment here. This is an irredeemable creature. The fact that I made him lovable is not important. Don't let that color

your opinions here, people. It's really just a compliment to Troy's acting skills. Exactly. Let's all give a big hand to Troy for making it. Oh, thanks, guys. Wait, Rasmus,

I have one question. I'm going to miss me. What's... You have three enemies to fight. Uh-huh. What's your strategy? Well, I'm going to go in. I'm going to scythe one, I'm going to kick another one of the nuts.

Fair enough. Sounds good to me. And I'm going to bathe in their blood and bring some back for my new friends. Yes. It'll be a joy to watch. It'll be a joy to watch you doing what you do best. I can't wait. We're all behind you.

Literally. 200 all behind you. Literally. 200 feet behind you. All right, so are all of you going now? Yeah. Well, the stone giant on patrol. We have to wait until he patrols the other side of the cathedral. All right, so if you wait long enough, that stone giant eventually, not unlike Isseus, it comes over there, doesn't notice anything strange like Isaias does,

and he continues back north of the cathedral, or like to the eastern portion, the front door of the cathedral. That's when you guys see your moment. This is ridiculous. You see your moment. We all hustle to the door. And you all hustle to the door. And you all hustle to the door. This is a great idea by Grant.

I can't let this pass. What a great idea. Let's see how it turns out. Before we start heaping praise. All right, so you're all up at the side door. Do you just push him in and shut the door? What do you do? No, you just push him in.

Invisible. Yeah, Pembroke casts invisibility on him. him in and shut the door? What do you do? Well, push him in. Yeah. Pembroke's going to cast invisibility on him. Good luck, my friend. It has been a genuinely interesting experience knowing you. Do you want to cast vanish on him? I'll be right back. Or vanish.

I was going to... I don't know you, but you sound horrific. It's been nice meeting you. That's the sweetest thing anyone's ever said to me. And Della vanishes him. And then Nestor has to kind of gently point him around the corner and be like, right there. And Baron turns to Sir Will and says, this is what I mean by using their weapons against him.

Check it out. Oh, man. So you cast invisibility or she did vanish instead? Vanish. Okay, so there are many ways I could do this. I think I would be doing a disservice to the audience if I didn't play out this fight in real time. Okay.

Okay. So Razzmatazz enters the room. I'm so excited. And just sees three creatures. Oh, I'm gonna bathe in their blood. Might even eat one. And just walks up to the stone giant

while invisible and swings his scythe in a surprise round. And misses. Oh, no way! Really? Troy becomes visible.

And now I'm rolling for initiative. All right, so there's two stone. There's the natural 20. That would have been nice. Stone giant, so... I mean, can we help? by as it's going on? At a certain point, you can come in. Well, I mean, the whole point is to not help.

Yeah, we're not helping. Not to fight, but I might grease the giants or something. No, no, no. That'll totally ruin the surprise. Try to be distracted. No, not now. As we're sneaking by, if we see that he's losing or something. I thought we were just running.

Yeah, I'm just going straight to the camera. Four times speed. Yeah. All right. This is totally cool with Barry letting this guy just die. Well, here we go. Place of play. Yeah.

People at home can enjoy listening to it. You guys can enjoy watching it go down. Round one. I think we've just given Troy his dream scenario. Troy versus Troy in an all-out Troy. The huge, gigantic... Live

from Troy, Nevada. Two-headed troll steps up and attempts to bite Razzmatazz. And remember, Razzmatazz has DR10. Cold iron. That's right has DR10. Cold iron. That's right. DR10. Cold iron. So, Ick steps up.

Misses. Stone Giant won. The one that he attacked goes to swing twice. I'm gonna get a beer. Anyone want a beer? You guys want anything? Want some wings? First attack, natural 20.

Oh, no. This is Stone Giant with a grape club. Oh, no. To confirm, 20 to confirm. That's a hit. Red cap, he has AC 20. So it's going to be 4d8 plus 24 damage. It's not a fan critical?

Oh, he's unnamed. It's unnamed. Do's not a fan critical? Oh, he's unnamed. Do we have a backup plan? Well, we can fight them. We'll just fight them ourselves. What's our initiative? Our initiative is just at the end of the first round? The whole point was to run as soon as we heard the combat. Let's get a round done and see how it goes. Can he survive a round?

46 points of damage. Which will be 36. Which puts him at 24 hit points left. And the other stone giant steps up.

Has reach. Swings through his buddy so he's going to get a little bonus to his AC. Still hits with an anti-16. Oh, wait a minute. That first club was just its first club attack. Second club on him also hits. Oh, Jesus.

You had the first attack that he made against flat-footed AC, right? I did, yeah. They're flat-footed. It's pretty I did, yeah. Their flat-footed is pretty damn good. So the first one crits and then hits for another 22 points of damage, which is just going to be 10 points of damage.

So he's down to 14 hit points. What's Razzmatazz doing right now? He's just, this was a terrible idea! The other one goes to swing and 22 does hit 16 points of...

Yeah, he's down. And he is unconscious and dying. Well, wait. We had 14 left. We had 14 left and then I rolled 18 points of damage. No, actually, he's got 6 hit points left. And now he does a full attack on the stone giant that came up to him.

Yeah. First attack with a scythe. Get your licks in. 26. There we go. Hits the stone giant. Nice. Four.

2d4 plus. Ten. Ten damage. Thank you, Skid. 13 damage. Thank you, Skid. 13 damage. So that first stone giant takes 13 damage. And then, as he promised, he tries to kick him in the nuts. Kick.

14 misses on the kick. Don't forget, Redcaps also has fast healing 3. That's right. So he heals 3 up to 9 hit points. It's the end of round one. You guys can now act as a team. What do you do? We just all run full speed towards the secret

door. Okay. There is a pretty big whatchamacallit, like the seating is pretty high. And from where you guys are... I think Sir Will could run right under it like they wouldn't see him. You've all got a good chance to get there. I'm going to roll three d20s.

If any of them come up as a 20, one of them sees you. Otherwise, you will make it unmolested while poor Razzmatazz. They must be thinking, what the hell is this thing and where did it come from? Probably dies. Three d20s right between Joe and Matthew here. A 12, a 17 and a 17.

Alright! Make it to the dance! The Ballad of Rasmus! I apologize. He died a hero! He died missing trying to kick someone in the nuts. Giant nuts, I'll add.

Yes. And as you get to the door, and to open it to slip down, you do see the stone giants and the two-headed troll. Killing blow knocks him down unconscious, and then the two-headed troll with two swords just starts chopping him to pieces. And Razmataz

is dead. Raz, buddy! You slip into the stairs. Does he have any final words? I die as I live! That's artwork. Die! Die!

That is artwork I have to see. The battle huge and us tiny in the background running away. Oh, so awesome. Oh my god. So you guys get in there as the sounds of just a brutal beating

echo throughout the chamber. People are going to be so mad at you guys. Just me. You can blame me for killing Rasmus. And the eight of you. Rasmus. He's no longer with us. You think back to that moment where Pemberbuk charmed him.

The fight ended and you were all talking. I should probably introduce myself. No. Can I hold the baby? We're going to be best friends forever. Forever. Forever. Forever.

Oh, no. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. This is the worst in-memory of Montage ever. He gave so much. And you have now made it to the

forge heart as his heart stops beating. Thanks again to Ben Gauthier for the sad version of the theme. Oh my goodness. May it never be heard again. You walk. Razzmatazz, he'll get a GCP tombstone. He will. Right next to all the greats.

You walk down the winding staircase. And see flickering light bouncing off the walls towards the end of the staircase. Assuming you move forward. And you walk into the room and the first thing you see is Farron. Oh, Farron. She's standing by the forge

and way in the back of the room, almost towards the bed, you see a tenor sitting there. Have you retrieved the four elements needed to relight Minderhall's forge?

We have, Atena. Will, like, snaps, looks at Baron like, oh my god, I don't like this at all. Pembroke, like, lays his hand on Will's shoulder just to kind of reassure him. In order to relight the forge, the first two parts are the easiest part. We can do them down here.

First we'll line the furnace with the sacred clay. Then place the fire geodes inside of the furnace down here. The rest we must do upstairs. Once they are lit, we will recite the prayer together. In Minderhall's name. You kind of just glided over the rest there. Atena, could you elaborate a little bit for me, please? In terms of what?

How do we light it? You have Joggerthir's horn, don't you? I do. It's right here. Well, you'll have to call forth a dragon to light the geodes. We've got some work to do. I'll see you next week. Oh, God.

I can't wait on this decision another week. Oh, God. God damn it. That's a cliffhanger. It's a dragon hangar. Forever. Forever. Forever.

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