The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 158 - Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Monk

Episode Date: June 5, 2018

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast... You there, the female half-orc that was in front of you here, where is she? The search for the missing half-orc begins. But when the dust settles after all this nonsense, you see a few things. But with a deadly encounter fresh on their minds. And really, what could you have done? Anything to protect them, sure. But at the end of the day,
Starting point is 00:00:27 they're now dead. Paranoia infects the party. Troy LaVallee. Here we go. The man, the man who brought us a Wigga. The man who brought us Malira. Yep.
Starting point is 00:00:38 The man who has double-crossed us and played with our expectations every step of the way has officially gotten inside my dome, folks. I'll take that. And when they're faced with a difficult decision. Do you risk it
Starting point is 00:00:52 and try and stay there? Or do you push further down the mountain and like out of the area? A new companion may present an interesting solution. My friend, not only did you fight well, but you may well have saved the lives of your fellow freed people. Tell us, what is your name?
Starting point is 00:01:12 The adventure continues now. Hey everybody and welcome to episode 158 of the Glass Cannon podcast. I'm Skidmar. I just got back from PaizoCon, as we all did. I am sick, as I always get whenever I go to one of these conventions. But I'm still feeling great because we had one of the best weekends of our lives. We had so much fun. The guys at Paizo were amazing. Just had so much fun with those guys.
Starting point is 00:02:02 They were so nice to us. All our panels, our live show, a lot of that stuff will be available on our cannon fodder feed and our patreon feed respectively for all this different material we got some great stuff i hope you guys are going to enjoy it and all the old friends that we've met before and the new friends that we met it was just so much fun hanging out with you those of you who were there know how much fun it was. I personally got an average of three and a half hours of sleep, and my blood content was about entirely adrenaline and craft beer by the last day. But we just had the time of our lives.
Starting point is 00:02:39 And next year, I hope to see you. Those of you who didn't make it, this year we hope to get to see you in future. If not at PaizoCon, then one of our live events at which we have so much fun. But you know what? That's, I'm going to die. So let's jump right into this latest episode of the Glass Cannon Podcast, Bringin' Da Noise, Bringin' Da Monk. A few episodes ago,
Starting point is 00:03:01 I can't remember the exact episode, but it wasn't too long ago, Baron went to do a little recon, looked in on the slave pens, and saw quite a scene, saw a small humanoid figure with its food for the day, get the food knocked out of its hands, spilled to the ground, and that small creature went and seemed to meditate on this. Shortly thereafter, that same creature that bumped the small creature, that same humanoid...
Starting point is 00:03:36 Well, he stole her food. Stole her food. Went to steal the food of a child after having that food knocked out of its hand. The smaller creature then comes back, beats the shit out of the bully, and returns the food to the child. Baron comes back to camp and, correct me if I'm wrong, says something to the effect of,
Starting point is 00:03:59 there's an enemy in the sledge. It's a very powerful enemy. Helping children. That is the most failed sense motive check of all time. Grant, defend yourself because we were laughing at you before we went on air. Everybody but you. This was positive. This was a hostile creature.
Starting point is 00:04:25 Troy LaVallValle Here we go The man whom we are still not sure who hurt Someone hurt you in your past We don't know who Everyone's asking around town The man who brought us a Wiga The man who brought us Melira Yep
Starting point is 00:04:37 The man who has double crossed us And played with our expectations Every step of the way Has officially gotten inside my dome, folks. I'll take that. That's a good answer. I've been, well, I think it works for Baron in general, but, you know, who is to know
Starting point is 00:04:54 what type of things have happened to these people and who can you trust in a giant camp? That's true. So Baron's the idiot. Yeah. I was saying before, I was saying before that grant and the rest of us to a certain extent have ptsd yeah post troy stress disorder so that excuses pretty much everything that's fair that's fair well looking on the bright side you guys took you two episodes but you kicked some serious ass again we're live this threat yeah i was really, as usual, pretty cocky.
Starting point is 00:05:25 I was really feeling good going into this. And I mean, it did take you two episodes, but man, you guys just dole out damage and you were tactically sound as well. We rolled well. You rolled well. We had good strategy. That's the thing.
Starting point is 00:05:39 You can't control the rolls, but obviously that helps. I wasn't that way. I was rolling shit. Yeah, I don't think we had a natural one. Yeah, but i mean tactically sound the things that for feyraza did to just block those guys so they can't charge so they can't get out of difficult terrain slowing those enemies down changes everything because it
Starting point is 00:05:54 allows you to stay back and just pick them off now when they hit you know the kind of damage they do but if it takes them five rounds to get up in your business to hit hit you it doesn't matter so i've been thinking a lot about your use of obscuring mist, and I bet that's gotten a lot of discussion. I think you wanted to keep your guys alive for another round, but it also hampered them from doing some of the things they could have done. It was a pickle. It all came down to Feyraz's battlefield control. Because the obscuring mist would have bought me a round, and then I could have charged out of it. But not being able to get out of that difficult terrain uh it then i just i
Starting point is 00:06:29 screwed myself and i'm not going to take another standard action just to dispel the mist and then get pop pop pop by a gun and 19 arrows stop screwing yourself fire arrows fire arrows no less to boot um but when the dust settles after all this nonsense you see a few things you see that you have lost a uh a dozen or so of your own slaves from these evil creatures that just rain down your choice of language here semantics aside can we stop referring them to them our slaves? They were your personal slaves. As far as they're concerned, they just had new masters. Lord is furious because four of his died. Four of his personal.
Starting point is 00:07:17 We're like Roman centurions coming home from Gaul. We absolutely did see these slaves and immediately make them go on a forced march down the side of a mountain. That's true. They would have died anyways just from the forced march. Hail Caesar. Is it a march if you literally run down the side of a mountain? I mean. You should have brought sleds.
Starting point is 00:07:39 That would have been fun. A baker's dozen of former slaves dead. And really, what could you have done? Anything to protect them? Sure. But at the end of the day, they're now dead. Who knew the GM was going to wrath of God the slaves? Just pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop from the cold riders.
Starting point is 00:07:59 But more importantly, as the mist clears and you've killed this hag and the riders and the mammoths, you see the rest of these slaves, or now former slaves, chained to this wagon. And where Lork glimpsed a view of what may very well have been his daughter, his estranged daughter, that shackle is now empty. is a strange daughter, that shackle is now empty. Also with you is a very capable warrior who emerged from the former slave nest, probably just at the right time. Before, nest did I say?
Starting point is 00:08:38 Former slave nest. They do often exhibit nesting behavior. Slaves. Is this creature who we have not even met? We don't know her name. All we know is she's played by Kate Micucci. There is a lot happening here. There are dead bodies.
Starting point is 00:08:54 There are alive bodies. And there are new friends, perhaps. Not as far as Baron is concerned. Not as far as Baron is concerned. I'm going to keep Baron away from any new people. Just shoots her down. Bang, bang. It's far as Baron's concerned. If I'm going to keep Baron away from any new people... Just shoots her down. Bang! Bang! It's free action, rapid reload. I don't trust someone that doesn't use
Starting point is 00:09:10 a weapon. He's dead. 213's got to regulate, man. What the hell do you guys want to do? Well, first I think Baron would like to help unshackle the slaves and kind of pull uh lork and firaza next to him and he nods off the gnome for one minute and just gives calming words
Starting point is 00:09:34 that we have everything under control we're going to get y'all down the mountain to safety my friend lork iron tusk over here my friend firazza and i are going to get you to safety um and just generally let them kind of rabble rabble and talk amongst themselves before we immediately turn to cape makuchi also we probably should see to the slaves that have been injured yes yes yes yes during your speech three more times. Just bled out. From hailstones and a feather in your skull. Everybody remain calm. There was a moment in the back
Starting point is 00:10:10 he's like, he's choking to death on his own blood. Hey, I like, we're going to talk to this gnome and then we'll get to you. Quiet down, slave.
Starting point is 00:10:19 I don't give you permission to die. You live, you son of a bitch, so I can kill you. You're no slave of mine. So assuming that, yes, maybe Feyraza goes and tends to the wounded. What do the rest of you do? Lork is making a beeline.
Starting point is 00:10:36 He doesn't go to any of those other slaves. He goes straight to the, immediately when the combat ends, he moves to the broken shackles and the people that are shackled to the wagon. Yeah, there's probably a dozen or so. Almost the exact amount that you lost in that hail storm. Nothing ever happened. You broke even. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:10:59 Slavily speaking. So awful. Slavery is a zero-sum game. so awful slavery is a zero-sum game um it seems like the ones that are chained to this wagon or as you're unchaining them or trying to unchain them uh are a little bit more able-bodied than the ones that you saved so they were being used uh for their strength so they were hauling this cart is that is that what's happening no they No, they were kind of pushing it along, and the mammoths were helping as well, but they were just chained to it so they wouldn't run away. So like Conan.
Starting point is 00:11:32 Yeah. Like pushing. Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah. Awesome. And you see behind that empty shackle is a middle-aged guy. He looks like he's in pretty good shape, but he's wearing rags.
Starting point is 00:11:44 He's covered in furs, but he's wearing rags. He's covered in furs, but there are holes, patches, and you can see frostbitten skin underneath. He's got a heavy beard, and he's just kind of looking down as you come over. Lurk comes up kind of
Starting point is 00:11:59 frantic. He tries to bend down and make eye contact with the guy. You there! The female half-orc that was in front of you here. Where is she? I don't know. She was here a minute ago and then... She's right in front of you. What do you mean you don't know?
Starting point is 00:12:16 She just disappeared. Lork is going to look at the ground for tracks quickly. 32 survival. You do see some tracks uh so right where she would have been chained up uh you see tracks and they go behind the wagon and how are they chained are they chained by their wrist are they chained to their like their leg they chained around their waist around their waist um and hers it just seems to be Like it was picked open. Like it was picked open.
Starting point is 00:12:45 Ah, okay. Interesting. So she's probably not a ghost. Any of the rest of you here, did you see the half-orc break out of these chains? And he's slowly making his way back toward following the tracks, but asking if anybody saw anything. And no, everyone just kind of shakes their head. He continues following the tracks. You follow the tracks around the back of the wagon and you see they go over to the lip of the mountain and then end.
Starting point is 00:13:15 Jumps. That's ridiculous. Uh, all right. He hustles over to the edge of the mountain. Uh, what does he see when he looks over the edge? Uh, a pretty sheer drop. Not impossible to scale down, but you look down there. It hasn't been that long.
Starting point is 00:13:33 If someone was climbing down there, they would have to be climbing at an incredible rate to make it down to the next path on this winding road up the mountain. Roll a perception check. 30. And you perception check. 30. And you don't see anyone. The tracks just end. Either someone
Starting point is 00:13:52 jumped, down, fell. He'll snap his head back around to the people. Shael! Was her name Shael? Yes. The man that was standing kind of behind the other man. Yes, I knew her.
Starting point is 00:14:12 And none of you saw anything. It looks like she picked this lock. Do you know her to be able to do such a thing? I've only known her a short while, um... But... I figure her quite capable of doing such a thing. Why? Why do you think she's so capable? Have you seen her do it before?
Starting point is 00:14:36 No, I... To be honest, no one really knew much of her. Uh... I could say I always knew of her. Uh... I am from the town where she grew up Skelt, have you heard of it? Aye, we came through Skelt
Starting point is 00:14:51 That's how we heard about you I am just a simple merchant from Skelt I was part of a group headed to Corvosa I was just heading there myself to trade goods and hopefully come back with exotic spices from across the inner sea. But our party was overrun by giants.
Starting point is 00:15:13 And here I am. Shia was one with us. We must find her, he says. And he makes his way past them back to the group. Briefly explains the situation, and then, Feyroza, is there any way you could fly over the edge of the mountain there? Can you see farther down the mountain? See if she fell or if she left on purpose? I can do this.
Starting point is 00:15:39 Will you guard the slaves? Former slaves. I'll keep... I'll watch your personal retinue of slaves. I'm not helping you at all. No, he's like... Keep an eye on my property. Of course I'll watch them.
Starting point is 00:15:53 Please, do your best to see what's happened. He's just... He's frantic. I mean, he has no idea what to do. So I saw her, right? Like, in the retinue at some point before the battle started. I'm sure whether you really took her in or not you know i know what's a lot going on yeah looking for a person over yeah and lord points out exactly where that you know the tracks end right over there
Starting point is 00:16:12 and then off the mountainside they go okay so ferrazza will wild shape into an eagle and uh fly down fly down start scanning where where she might have been. Roll a perception check. Watch out for flavor tricks. Get you at any moment. 37. Yeah, I mean, it's night, but you have eagle eyes. You should be able to see what the hell's going on,
Starting point is 00:16:36 and you don't see any trace of anyone. Is there? Anywhere. I can't detect magic, but if someone else can, maybe we can see if there's something happened here. The other thing is, I can't detect magic but if someone else can Maybe we can see if something happened here The other thing is I can scry Tomorrow morning I can try to scry her If I got a look at her Not the best chance in the world but I might be able to get a glimpse
Starting point is 00:16:53 Of where she is Lork is really the only one that got a good Glimpse I can still scry I could give a good description Um Yeah and scrying works. Like, if you could draw really well what you saw, that would help.
Starting point is 00:17:08 But I doubt you have profession artisan. Yeah. So that wouldn't really... Did she leave anything behind? If we leave a garment behind, that helps. Or a piece of something. He'll go back over to the chains. Maybe, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:19 And rooting through the snow. Anything. Any sign of any... The first shackles were there. I mean, wouldn't that count? I don't know. It's the snow. Anything. Any sign of any... The first shackles were there. I mean, wouldn't that count? I don't know. It's the shackles themselves. Is this possession or garment?
Starting point is 00:17:31 I think that's a nice accessory. Shackle. The shackles possessed her? The guy says you do. Do you know her? I don't know her. But she may be... Well, she's very important to someone I met in Skelt, and it's her mother sent us this way.
Starting point is 00:17:51 Her mother, yes. I know her mother. She's a bit reclusive and always kept the girl hidden away for most of her youth, but Shia begged her to go on this expedition. Then all of a sudden this beautiful young woman emerged from her mother's house. We'd only seen her in cloaks from time to time be ushered around under her mother's garments. She appeared to be smart, fierce, strong, capable, but... You say you don't know her?
Starting point is 00:18:32 Aye, I've never met her myself. May I speak freely? Of course. To be completely honest, she also seemed a bit touched. I must admit I've only known her for the better part of a month, but our captivity brought all of us closer together. Facing death on a daily basis,
Starting point is 00:18:55 hearing stories of people you've known your whole life being eaten, or worse, you grow close to those around you quickly, do you understand? Aye. It was clear when I met her that she was a woman on a mission.
Starting point is 00:19:15 What that mission was or is I do not know but even when we got captured she never she never seemed fazed by any of it. While others stayed up at night weeping and screaming at the stars, she sat there, calm, almost a woman possessed.
Starting point is 00:19:37 There was a bit of madness in her eyes, and all she would ever say was that everything was going exactly according to plan. That the prophecy was coming to fruition right before her eyes. The prophecy?
Starting point is 00:19:59 Did she ever speak more specifically of what this was? I do not know, no. She would often speak in riddles. It's funny now, it's all coming back to me. As we came up here, she said to me that this is exactly how he said it would happen. And she wished me good luck and disappeared into thin air
Starting point is 00:20:28 do you know anything of her abilities things she's capable of I mean could she magically disappear could she fly I wouldn't put it past her I never saw her use any magics.
Starting point is 00:20:48 But she seemed as if she possessed great powers. Why she wouldn't have left before if she had these abilities, I do not know. But just now, now, something seemed to have struck a chord in her, whether this was just a lucky diversion for her to make her move or it truly was exactly how she knew it was going to happen how he said it was going to happen
Starting point is 00:21:14 I do not know, I do not understand well for now let's get you all down to camp you're beaten and tired and exhausted. We need to get you somewhere warm and get a good fire lit. All of you, we're going to take you all down the mountainside now and get you to our camp on the lower reaches of the mountain where it's cooler and we'll get you warm and hopefully get you fed. And then he goes back to this guy and he says,
Starting point is 00:21:43 What's your name? My name is Fruend. Fruend? Fruend. Fruend. Fruend Fletcher. Lork will put out his hand and say, I'm Lork Irontusk.
Starting point is 00:21:56 Shakes his hand. He does that thing with his finger where he tickles my palm? He just scrapes the inside of your palm. Lork pulls away. He's like, gotcha. You had that on the ready. Good to meet you as well. Thank you for saving us.
Starting point is 00:22:20 We'll have more to talk about at the lower camp, but I'd like you to get some rest first. All right. And then, you know, Lork, when he said that, he was just saying that to, like, the people right at the stagecoach there. So he's, you know, figuring what's going on with you guys since he went away trying to track her down. Faraz will land and say, I saw no trace of anyone. Nothing at all. Nothing at all. This is deeper than I had expected.
Starting point is 00:22:45 This man over there says that she's capable of some power and that she's had some visions or something. A prophecy. I don't know. It sounds a bit uncanny to me. So it's possible she's not even
Starting point is 00:23:00 didn't fall off the mountainside but went on her own. She might be quite a bit more powerful than I expected. Interesting. Well, after feeling Pembroke teleport me halfway across Galarian all the way back to Minderhall's Valley and back again
Starting point is 00:23:19 I believe in magic's power more than I ever have in my life, so I have faith in your girl. Can we do a spellcraft check? the on the shackles to see if or or no that she looks like she disappeared off the side of the mountain yeah like if you if she had cast some sort of spell and you saw her go through the motion totally but without seeing her if this guy was had any casting ability maybe he could do it but yeah all you have is Lork's footsteps to go after. And Baron says, but there is some good news.
Starting point is 00:23:50 It's been a while since we've had good news. We have this new ally, or what I think may be an ally. Seemed like an enemy at first from my first glance at her. So I think we should get to know her. Why don't we roll out the welcome carpet And Baron opens his duster And you see like the bottle of whiskey He hasn't been drinking from as much these days
Starting point is 00:24:10 Since he took Torag But let's give her a little taste Steps over 12 dead slaves And says Farazza don't worry This wasn't a chosen one He's already dead Out of the way Grouch You
Starting point is 00:24:21 You fought Good job Grouch You You fought well You're properly trained I see Out of the way, Grouch. You. Get a job, Grouch. You. You fought well. You're properly trained, I see. So, if you guys, anyone who watched her, like, when she ran into battle, like, she became this kind of elemental force.
Starting point is 00:24:41 Smooth, graceful, determined. Moved like a hundred feet in one round. Yeah. And then the minute the fighting was over, she seemed to, anyone who saw her, like she seemed to draw into herself. And this is to the point where she's almost like hugging herself for comfort and her eyes like cast downward. And she's just looking at her feet just kind of standing awkwardly
Starting point is 00:25:06 and if you look closely like she's clearly like hasn't eaten in lord knows how many days and i actually had the like fatigued condition on her the whole time because she's just she just hasn't eaten and anyone who knows fey creatures knows that there's there's the bleaching as this happens as well um and uh she when you talk to her she just like you see she just well why don't you explain for a second what that is bleaching is so ordinarily uh gnomes uh they're they have to kind of always grant talked about this in his uh disorganized play character but uh they they have to always be experiencing new things like going on adventures um to keep themselves kind of vibrant connected to the world and if they stop then kind of their essence is kind of drained out
Starting point is 00:26:00 of them and they become it's what they call the bleaching so there's something a little different going on with her but that's if anyone who knows anything about fake creatures that's that's also happening what greater adventure could there be than to be trapped in a pen full of slaves up at the top of a mountain being forced into hard labor greatest adventure of all right you know it's good for an empty stomach uh dwarven whiskey right so so you see So she just She just Like her eye Like the moment Lork talks to her Like you can see
Starting point is 00:26:29 Like her cheeks get flush Like she just starts blushing And she just like looks down And That's all the response you get Farazza would like to go up And attempt a diplomacy check Okay
Starting point is 00:26:43 My friend, not only did you fight well, but you may well have saved the lives of your fellow freed people. I can see Skid laughing as I stumble for that one. You are quite powerful
Starting point is 00:27:02 and we are grateful for you. Tell us, what is your name? You want me to roll the blumper? Yeah, roll, please. Eight. Matthew! She's now hostile. So she lunges at you.
Starting point is 00:27:18 Glory of blows. Hey, at least we got a reaction. Elemental fist. So she, like, tilts her head up ever so slightly. She still refuses to make eye contact. And she just kind of like still swaying just out of weakness, exhaustion. And if you listen closely, she just. Man.
Starting point is 00:27:41 closely she's just name name did you say your name was Nim and she's like you can see like she's struggling just even to speak and Ferraza will pull out her pack of good berries
Starting point is 00:28:04 and Ferraza will eat one to show that they're good and then she'll offer one because it will be like a feel like a full meal yeah okay so she she takes she uh very hesitantly like still like holding on to like her right arm with her left hand she She just kind of reaches out, still refusing to make eye contact, and takes one in her mouth and swallows it. My name is Nim Nim. Well, hello, Nim Nim.
Starting point is 00:28:43 My name is Faraz Al-Said, and I'm glad to know you she just looks away she's blushing like furiously she just kind of like looks away are you cold no the
Starting point is 00:29:01 the others are cold. I think. Well, I'm Lork Irontusk. It's a pleasure to meet you as well. We couldn't have done it without you. Thank you. And she's just like... And just...
Starting point is 00:29:24 Kind of like looks up, like past all of your all of your faces like up at the sky and just looks back down. You may not know it, Nim Nim, but you not only helped save all these slaves here, but you might have saved a whole heaping bunch of lives all around Galarian. In my eyes, you're a hero, and I thank you for what you've done. She, like, just kind of, her toe is just kind of like
Starting point is 00:30:00 twisting in the snow. She's just looking, just staring down at it and she just kind of nods without looking at you. Do you think you can get down to base camp with all of us? Can you walk the rest of the way
Starting point is 00:30:15 under your own power? I can walk. Yes. Alright, I'm going to go help the others then. And he claps Baron on the shoulder and he's like Gives him a nod like let's go we have to help And she's beaten up too cause she got trampled By the thing so she's like
Starting point is 00:30:31 She's got like broken ribs and You know Yeah but she uh You just got one hit point back buddy Oh yeah I think you're fine Road to Wellville Yeah I feel like if we're reading the room, we should probably let her come to us. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:30:47 Exactly. So let's search the bodies. Classic. So, I mean, Lork's intention here is to get all these people up and moving, but it's also to, if possible, to get these bodies in the wagon, the people that died, and bring them with us as well. Yeah. Is there a these bodies in the wagon, the people that died, and bring them with us as well. Yeah. Is there a way to move the wagon?
Starting point is 00:31:07 Or is it too heavy without draft animals to move it? My friend, I am all the draft animal you need. Oh! That's actually how Matthew met his wife. In a bar one night. It was his pickup line. That is a great line I don't know why like every six minutes
Starting point is 00:31:27 I forget that you're a druid Yeah so when we're ready I can Yeah yeah gotcha Can we play the Rolling Stones Beast of Burden As soon as he starts pulling Anyway cut that out But I was serious about searching the bodies Alright you searched the bodies
Starting point is 00:31:43 Obviously the woolly rhinoceroses did not have any magical weapons on them. Damn it. They don't have any cash. Any cash. Find three gold tucked in some fur near the taint. It's a massive beast. Where else would you keep them? That's where they keep them.
Starting point is 00:31:59 Keep your coin purse next to your coin purse. It's the most massive taint I've ever seen. Exactly. Right back? Oh, yeah. Thank you, Grant. The cold riders had these beautiful magical glaives that
Starting point is 00:32:12 melted when they melted as well. So they're left as just puddles. Now this hag, Shades of Iwiga, does have some juice on her. She has what looks like a magical mask and a magical bracelet.
Starting point is 00:32:37 Ooh. Let's do some spellcrafty on that? Yeah. Sure. Do it. You do it. I'll do it separately if you don't want to hit it. 24.
Starting point is 00:32:48 24? That'll do. The bracelet is known as a verdant vine. Consisting of a vine with five green berries. A verdant vine is worn tied around the wrist.
Starting point is 00:33:02 Once per day on command, the wearer can pinch a berry off the vine and throw it up to 30 feet away like a splash weapon. When you do so, viciously thorny vines erupt in a 20-foot radius from the point of impact, even if the berry misses its
Starting point is 00:33:18 target. Creatures in the area must succeed in a DC-16 reflex saving throw or become entangled, as the spell entangle, as the vines coil around the creature's legs. The vines persist, but at the start of the affected creature's turn, it gains a new saving throw against the effect. If it fails the saving throw, it also takes 1d4 points of damage. Nice. Blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:33:40 It goes on what you need to do to get out of it. That sounds very Druid-y. Yeah. Actually, I'll read this next part. blah, blah, blah, it goes on what you need to do to get out of it. That sounds very Druid-y, this number of Druid-y. Actually, I'll read this next part. It's going to go, A DC 20 strength check made as a standard action allows an affected creature to break free and end the effect. Failing that check causes the vines to constrict,
Starting point is 00:33:55 dealing another 1d4 points of damage. Oh, that's cool. Holy moly. Very cool. Then you look at this mask that she had, like, in a little bag on her person. And something about it seems very familiar to you, Feyraz, even though you've probably never seen this specific mask.
Starting point is 00:34:13 But something about it, you feel very connected to it. It is a lesser mask of giants. This wooden mask depicts a leering humanoid with an oversized nose and ears. If the wearer has, let's say, the wild shape class feature, the mask allows her to use wild shape to take the form of a humanoid with the giant subtype. Whoa! Oh my god! Wow! Oh my god. The forms allowed by a lesser mask of giant are ogre, troll, fire giant, frost giant, or stone giant. Wow.
Starting point is 00:34:52 If the form has any of the following abilities, the wearer gains the listed ability. Dark vision, 60 feet. Low light vision, scent. Light vision, sent. In giant form, the wearer gains a plus four size bonus to strength, a minus two penalty to dex, and a plus one natural armor bonus. That is a game-changing item. Don't we have another disguise?
Starting point is 00:35:15 The helmet. The helmet. So like that and beard. Yeah, so that in conjunction with the beard is pretty sweet. And Firmier's Beard just allows you to appear like a frost giant. I'm a frost giant right we could have two it also two giant creatures yeah it also has a like lovers
Starting point is 00:35:32 on the way to Earth's capital exactly it has a really cool ability that I forgot to use against them well I don't think it could have worked your mammoth had reach right I think so yeah yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:45 The Terminator's beard also will animate, and thin metal rods of the helm's beard reach out and grasp the weapon of someone across from you, and you can, like, disarm them with it. Oh, very cool. Yeah, it's a pretty badass thing to have on. Lesser Mask of Giants, though. Pretty sweet business. But those are both head slots? Can you not wear them at the same time? Unless you wear bracelets on your head, they're not both head slots.
Starting point is 00:36:07 Correct. The mask is a bracelet? The bracelet is a bracelet. Oh, I'm talking about pairing up Thremier's beard with the mask. Yeah, no, both head slots. I was thinking one of us goes enlarged with Thremier's beard and the other one... Nice. And the other of us goes as a giant.
Starting point is 00:36:21 So awesome. I was wondering if you guys were hiring brewers. This is my assistant. We came from a local brewery down the town. Oh, my God. This is amazing. We actually need a brewer. Our brewer just got brutally murdered
Starting point is 00:36:35 by four crazed killers running around this camp. Sorry, things are a little messy right now. We're rebuilding the silo. Don't worry about those mammoths running around. We're trying to corral them as well. And his fox is fine. I just want to allay any fears that you might have had about a potential fox. Do you have a resume?
Starting point is 00:36:55 So, yeah, you did find some gear. Do you want to search the dead slaves? Yes. Don't worry about it. No, I would like to search the wagon. Search the wagon. Inside the wagon. So you look in the wagon
Starting point is 00:37:05 And it seems to have Simple farming implements Flails Sickles Scythes And as you're looking You can ask around At the slaves
Starting point is 00:37:15 And they'll tell you Like they were using these In the fields At the bottom of the mountain They were going on Food gathering expeditions So they would go All the way down
Starting point is 00:37:22 To the bottom of the mountain Gather food Bring it all the way back up. Were they raiding? Were the giants raiding people's farms and then having humans carry it back? No, not necessarily. It's just up on top of the mountain, probably because of the weather, the fields weren't as verdant.
Starting point is 00:37:37 Thriving. As thriving, yes, as the better land at the bottom of the mountain. I wonder if we could torch their fields on the way down. Certainly could. I mean, you've taken away now their, uh, food gathering expedition.
Starting point is 00:37:50 So that helps. And their backup food source and the slaves. Yeah, that's right, man. Things are not looking great. Starve them. In Skiergard.
Starting point is 00:37:58 Is, um, there enough space on that cart to place the dead upon? I think it would. Totally. Okay. Totally. And then just push it off the side of the cart. Light it on fire. Set dead upon? I think it would... Totally. Okay. Totally. And then just push it off the side of the cliff.
Starting point is 00:38:07 Yep. Light it on fire. Set it on fire and push it over the side of the cliff. Can we dress two of them like Thelma and Louise, like in the last scene? Have them holding hands. Oh, I love you. Yeah, no, you totally can. And then, you know, you're going down the mountain, so you could easily push the wagon
Starting point is 00:38:24 down if you totally can. And then, you know, you're going down the mountain, so you could easily push the wagon down if you want to. But you also know that there are night patrols out, and you have a large, large number of people. What do you guys want to do? I'll tell you right now, you probably have anywhere from 24 to 30 of these captives with you, and the four of you and cat benatar well me scared i would say uh i don't think nim nim is going to volunteer any of this but i think just load up like all the injured uh people onto the cart as many as we can and have uh farazza in draft animal form pull us down the mountain as fast as we can go.
Starting point is 00:39:08 For that plan? Yep, that's the idea. But that's still, how many slaves will be walking behind? Because going down, I'm not sure if these patrols are going down and coming up. There's one-way roads, but they could be coming from either direction. So I want to divide us.
Starting point is 00:39:26 We could also ask the slaves, are there other groups like you? Are there other patrols that left before you? Did you leave people where you were when you came up? Were there other slaves or giants? They can tell you that they go every other day.
Starting point is 00:39:41 It's usually the same people. If some people don't do well on the food gathering expedition, like if they're weak or they're tired, they're either beaten or killed or taken away as food. That's the rumors that they hear. So as far as they know, there
Starting point is 00:39:57 isn't another group of people going to gather food down the mountain, but they've seen the patrols. And it's the same patrols that you've seen. Whether or not they are going to be coming up the same path as you right now, you don't know. It's a pretty sticky situation because your group is huge. They're not going to be able to fit in the spike of safe passage. And Pembroke won't be back until tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:40:24 and Pembroke won't be back till tomorrow and quickly just well when people's attentions get turned away from Nim Nim she relaxes just a little bit and anyone who notices she like kind of seems to center herself
Starting point is 00:40:40 like almost go into a mini trance and her wounds on her body just heal up just a little bit and then she reverts back into her like shy like awkwardness well that gives baron another excuse to self buff so bar. So Baron cast Q... No, I'm just kidding. Gosh, yeah. I guess we can... I'm going to take that Mask of Giants, the lesser Mask of Giants, by the way, since I can wild shape. And the bracelet. Well, I was saying I can entangle.
Starting point is 00:41:14 So does someone else want to take the bracelet? It was interesting to me simply because it's longer than my pistol's range by 10 feet. So, like, if within 30 feet I could throw a thing at them and then get them stuck there and then keep them out of melee. But if someone else, I don't want to hoard a bunch of stuff necessarily. Yeah, Lork doesn't need it.
Starting point is 00:41:36 Certainly. So whatever you guys decide. Roll off? We gotta roll off. We gotta roll off. Add your modifiers. Twelve. Twelve! off we gotta roll off add your modifiers 12 12 oh you both get one i keep it seven five oh wow wow a seven takes he's interesting i'm gonna have to look this up later but i wonder it says it comes with five green berries and once per day you're allowed to do it i wonder if you only do it five times i think it's used up i think it's like a necklace of fire yeah i would think so it's only 6 000 gold so yeah that makes sense yeah
Starting point is 00:42:13 this is a pretty cool thing it's really interesting though because if she had tried to entangle each of the pcs a dc20 strength check is pretty rough for most of us. Yeah. Yeah. Even with a giant, it's not the same. Right. Well, you know, it's still, it's not a gimme at all,
Starting point is 00:42:32 but it's still... I considered it. All right, so what do you want to do? Lork, are you going to range ahead and see if there's a patrol, or do you want to range behind? I mean, pretty much, you want to move forward. Yeah, we're confident that they're not, right now, at least coming from behind us. So, yeah, Lork is want to range behind i mean pretty much you you want to move forward yeah we're confident that they're not right now at least coming from behind us so yeah lork is going
Starting point is 00:42:48 to range forward i mean we have no choice we have all these people we have to move we have to get down the mountain and we have to get to base camp and spike tent or no spike tent you know we'll just have to defend the camp as best as possible and and do it you know make do with what we got. So he, in the effort to try to keep more people alive, he's going to range even farther ahead than he had before so that there's even more time to warn everybody and maybe take the fight further away from any... But don't go too far, because if they come up from behind or something,
Starting point is 00:43:21 we'll have that same situation that we had before a long time ago. Yep. But you weren't there and we needed you, man. Just saying. You showed up right at the end of the fight. Yep.
Starting point is 00:43:32 Right outside Red Lake Fork. Farazza will become a woolly rhinoceros and start pulling, hitch the cart. Start pulling. All right, so the infirm are lying with the dead
Starting point is 00:43:43 in this wagon. It's kind of a grim scene. It's like the Grapes of Wrath. Yeah. They all have dysentery. And you begin going down the mountain. Lork, you've ranged far ahead. Roll a perception check.
Starting point is 00:44:00 Perception. If it is not giant related, it's 39. If it is giant related, it's 43. Okay, so very high perception. Very high, yeah. Natty, 17. You're going ahead, and you would travel down the mountain pretty far. You weren't far away from your original camp.
Starting point is 00:44:19 I don't know how far ahead you want to go. We're talking hundreds of feet or thousands of feet. No, no, no, A couple hundred. A couple hundred feet. How many leagues do you travel? You don't see anything. There are tracks going every which way. Obviously. The tracks are
Starting point is 00:44:36 all muddled together. Can I do a survive? This expedition just came up the same path you're going down. Sure, sure. But like you, Troy would look at it and just see a bunch of mishmash of tracks. Right. but an actual tracking professional might look at it and say there are fresh tracks here that were going down that haven't come back up yet right possibly with a extremely high survival roll troy your thoughts go ahead and roll that think about like aragorn when they came across like the scene where the rohirrim right you know ambushed the orcs with the hobbits.
Starting point is 00:45:07 To Gimli, it was just a mishmash of grass. Right. It was a crazy battle here. How could you possibly tell? But a trained ranger. But a trained ranger. A skilled ranger. Who rolls a natural 18 for a 38 survival.
Starting point is 00:45:18 38 survival. So you dig in there and you really crouch down and you look and you see the wheels. His face in it. Really sniff it. Lift the snow. The woolly rhinoceros poo. Definitely the rhinoceros. How warm is it? Hmm, pee-pee, yes.
Starting point is 00:45:34 Fresh. Rats. This woolly rhinoceros had a vitamin D deficiency. If he hadn't tagged it with fresh I wouldn't have slammed the table When he said fresh I know that pee It doesn't appear
Starting point is 00:45:52 That there was any other creatures Besides the ones that you guys just took out Okay And the wagon full of captives Okay Then he's going to slowly keep moving Until we get to camp He's not going to head back until he sees the base camp.
Starting point is 00:46:07 Rolling over that perception check, you go as far as where your original camp was. Okay. And assuming they're moving at a steady pace behind you and you're giving them the come on, come on, come on. Yep. And you don't see anything. Now, however, your original camp was like in a little nook like a little copse of trees remember that you were a spike tent yeah the four of you and a little cleaner on a small clearing yeah and that's where noxi mara found you right um it's too small i mean there's just nothing you can do
Starting point is 00:46:37 there you're still you've been completely exposed uh if the slaves were out plus you've got a huge wagon so you've got to decide do you risk it and try and stay there? Because you could camp here. It's much warmer comparatively. Or do you push further down the mountain and out of the area? Well, can I do a survival check to determine if we're getting into like a really rough like force march territory like do I think that we have a good
Starting point is 00:47:10 chance of people dying if we continue uh-huh sure 31 yeah I mean you remember having to climb up that mountain and fighting those frost trode to frost toads and like there's going to be some circuitous routes
Starting point is 00:47:26 you're going to have to take to get them out of there. You look ahead and you see now the paths are starting to go all over the place. So you could continue pushing forward but at a certain point these people are going to have to rest and eat and be healed. You don't feel confident that everyone is going to survive the night
Starting point is 00:47:41 regardless of what you choose. Unless there's some amazing magical healing available. Do we get a sense... So Lork is going to wait at the lower camp until Baron and the wagon get down there to decide what to do next. Wagon, wagon, wagon comes. And Baron says, Lork, what do you think we should do? Should we rest here for the night or go ahead?
Starting point is 00:48:03 I think we should rest here. do? Should we rest here for the night or go ahead? I think we should rest here. It's a small, exposed position, but you and I can just... We'll just stay awake all night. We'll keep an eye out for any danger. I mean, pushing forward, I think we're gonna kill
Starting point is 00:48:15 these people just from the stress of the journey. Well, I think it should be up to, um... Faraz and I to maybe split it with our dark vision. We're able to see in the dark a little bit better than you, my friend. So if you need rest, I'd love you to have it. I'm a bit tired myself.
Starting point is 00:48:36 Says the draft rhinoceros. Yeah, seriously. Did that rhino just talk? He just pulled all that weight down the down the hill um also i need the eight hours to get my spells back ah yes i need eight hours too yeah and also you know i don't want to overthink it but i believe that that journey up there was a lot of like kind of steep paths and there was some icy ice flowy kind of stuff where we fought those toads and there was an avalanche and like you know it's it's dangerous territory right now we know we have a place that at least geologically speaking seems to be stable
Starting point is 00:49:10 enough the weather seems to be stable enough the only thing we can't control is enemies coming out of nowhere also pembroke is going to meet us here so if we were to push on we have to go figure out a way to send him forward so well the die has been cast in that uh scenario can i do a well you could leave a note or something always leave a note that's why you always leave a note um is there uh oh like a wisdom or a memory check based on us uh coming um tell me about this memory check is that from ultimate campaign that was my first i was like grant is gonna get savage for that one you know it's all about that shit this is a secret new pathfinder pathfinder 2.0 i found memory lapse a first level bard spell yeah you actually cast that on me before i came in here no i'm just trying to personally remember and i don't, but we weren't trying to gauge them in this way.
Starting point is 00:50:05 Are the rest of the roads the way down that we came up wide enough to accommodate this carriage, this cart? The roads you came up to get to this camp, no. You're going to have to go down another path to take the wagon down. It basically comes down to, like, if you're going to camp now or continue looking in the night for a fresh path you're gonna be exposed either way you just gotta hope that a patrol doesn't find you we do have the spike tent so that'll help a little that'll like you can probably we could hide we could probably hide the wagon in the spike that's a good point yeah could hide the wagon and just have the people huddle. Yeah. Yeah, that's true.
Starting point is 00:50:49 What, yeah, so just decide right now. Do you want to stay here in camp and just keep a watchful eye out for a night patrol? Or do you want to try and push on to find an area that is less likely to be hit by a night patrol, knowing that you're going to have to find a path for the wagon. I kind of want to push on until someone dies. Some of the freemen say that they absolutely can't go any further. But again, we have Pembroke. We're going to have to leave it up to Pembroke.
Starting point is 00:51:16 Yeah, Pembroke. But then he's going to have to find us. Right. Yeah, and if we don't know where we're going, then that's kind of hard to leave instructions. I vote we stay. We camp. Let them rest.
Starting point is 00:51:27 I try to do as much healing as possible. Set up a perimeter. I can do... Give us a little bit of protection from the natural world. I vote with Feyraza. Sorry, Baron. Let's... No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:51:38 That makes total sense. Since he's not going to be able to find us. So I'm on board. All right. We'll be comping here for the night. Set yourselves up as warmly as you can. Are we... We're not going to build a fire,
Starting point is 00:51:51 Feroza. You think it's too dangerous? I think the die is cast. We are in danger either way, and we must warn these people. Yes, I agree. Let's light a fire and keep our eyes peeled for danger. Who's super damaged i'm pretty far down okay um i'm actually okay not that you would ever tell us not that not that she'd say anything
Starting point is 00:52:19 um i have i mean i have I have all cure light wounds left Of my own And I have I could use up the wand I mean we could Dull out the Charge on the wand But we're gonna be
Starting point is 00:52:33 Maybe if we get a Shopping list To Pembroke and Skel To pick up a Cure light Yeah Well if he's as Intelligent
Starting point is 00:52:41 Text him As he seems He'll probably pick one up regardless Yeah Five points of healing to you. Thank you. And six points of healing to myself. Terrible rules.
Starting point is 00:52:51 Let me get myself, too. Eight points for me. All right. So are there people... Do we have any more healing? Who are the people who look like they can't get through the night? That's who I'm going to hit with the magical healing. It looks like there is just one person that is knocking on death's door.
Starting point is 00:53:13 Not like the other ones are in great shape, but there's one you think, Oh, boy. That one, you might have to make a call here. Can I give them a couple hits on the C like wounds one sure i will do that all right go ahead and hit them with that want i mean they look to have like afflictions as well so can i do a heel check to determine what oh yeah well now wait wait yeah let's make yeah let's make Call here. 14. Natural 20. Gotta be 29. Oh! 29 on that deal check.
Starting point is 00:53:47 Nice job. Damn it, Barron's always right. I spent a lot of time in whorehouses growing up. I know all the afflictions. I was just... That got real. I was the janitor. I wasn't a proprietor.
Starting point is 00:54:02 I just... I observe and report. Is this canon? No. Not at all. It appears as if they've contracted filth fever. Yep. Exactly my point.
Starting point is 00:54:15 We've had filth fever before, right? We have. Yeah. Yeah. What was the, what do you need to heal that? Is it just constitution check or remove disease? Yeah. Got it.
Starting point is 00:54:26 I do not have that. They're slowly dying from it. There's probably like rats running around the slave pens and biting the legs of these poor, barely clothed people. Well, they should get saving throws once a day. Does a successful heal check give you a plus four to that or does it have to be like a spell? Well, imagine they already rolled their check for the day and failed it again. Yeah. They're probably down to like one con.
Starting point is 00:54:47 Maybe they'll die tonight. Yeah. Do we need, based on that heal check, to worry about quarantining them from the rest of the weakened slaves? No. Okay. Good. It's not a communicable fever. You lay with the dead tonight.
Starting point is 00:55:00 Right. Just to be safe. Yeah, they're already traveling with a wagon load full of corpses. All right, well, Faraza will go around the slaves just making sure that everyone is, you know, obviously not in tip-top condition, but enough that they could... Survive the night.
Starting point is 00:55:16 Survive the night. They're used to these conditions. Obviously, trekking down the mountain, they're not used to, but you've done your due diligence. There's just one person you're worried about, and it'll be a percentile roll to see if they survive. Unfortunately, I don't have Bear's Endurance prepared.
Starting point is 00:55:31 I don't. So you guys wait. And wait. We're in the night now. And wait. You've been in the night. Oh, we're in the middle. Now it's going.
Starting point is 00:55:42 I was going to say, Faraz is going to use Plant growth To kind of make the area Around the camp Difficult terrain Ah okay Just in case Someone was To come running up Yeah
Starting point is 00:55:52 And then she's going to Go to sleep And as you wait No one Comes and finds you As the sun rises Or at least Has not
Starting point is 00:56:02 Yet Alright You take your shifts To make sure you all sun rises. Or at least has not yet. Alright. You take your ships to make sure you all get your eight hours and again now it's getting into the later morning and still no one has come. But Lork, you've been
Starting point is 00:56:18 on these raids before. You know how these work. There's no reason to think they're not going to be here. Yeah. Any minute. All right. Pack up. We're leaving. And eventually, Pembroke appears.
Starting point is 00:56:35 Sorry. Sorry. He's wearing a new suit. Wearing like a three-piece suit with like a watch chain. Sunglasses with dollar signs. What's up, my homies? Hello. It's good to see you.
Starting point is 00:56:54 Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear. These look to be... Oh, my. You've had... You seem a bit worse for wear. I hate to say it. Well, this might help. And he did buy a wand of cure light wounds.
Starting point is 00:57:05 Boom. Nice. While he was at the thing. And he says, I was able to inform the authorities of everything that's happening here and alert them to the fact that they might have some refugees on the way. And what was
Starting point is 00:57:21 the authorities' response, Troy the GM? You asked them what? i told i told the authorities that like of what's happening like at the camp that we're freeing these slaves and right we're going to try to bring them to them so and they said basically like if you can get out of my office you have an appointment you'll take those sunglasses off right now, old man. Take off that eight ball jacket. He basically said like, okay, if you... Look at the eight ball.
Starting point is 00:58:02 If you can start bringing them back, they'll send out a party to meet you and help um so then that's up to you guys and what you want to do there are some able-bodied people among them but like they need they need guidance yeah yeahance that you can't provide right now. Right. Can't provide? Ticking clock is Skirgard. I mean... Oh, so we can't accompany them. But we can't just send these people unarmed, unprotected, across this wilderness to, like, randomly meet their people. I mean, we can say, you know, stay put until the people from Skelt arrive. Yeah, but Pembroke is saying
Starting point is 00:58:49 they're going to meet them halfway or something like that. They're not going to be able to come all the way to here. I believe they're going to. And the giant patrol is going to come here eventually. They're going to follow the tracks of their missing wagon. Well, we could also see if one Nim Nim might be willing to take command.
Starting point is 00:59:06 Pembroke, you've often had a way with words when our own words of the group have failed us. So I'd like to introduce you to a friend of ours. She doesn't talk much. Her name's Nim Nim. Pembroke, meet Nim Nim. All right, so as you say that, you see that Nim Nim has been just kind of wandering around the perimeter of the camp.
Starting point is 00:59:28 And you see a couple of times she'll lean down and she'll pick something small up off the ground and examine it and look at it very closely. And kind of slip it into a little belt pouch that she has. And she starts humming kind of discord it into a little belt pouch that she has and she starts like she's just humming like kind of discordantly to herself and she's just doing that so pamuk says i ah i see um one moment and he walks over to say pardon me uh nim nim was? And she doesn't look at him, just kind of like keeps her eyes looking down. And he kind of, he pops open his cane so he can sit on it, like opens up the leg stool and plants it down. He says, I hate to interrupt you,
Starting point is 01:00:17 but I was told that you handled yourself quite proficiently in the battle against the giants. Is that true? And she's blushing. She just kind of, like, looks away and says, Mm-hmm. So, yes. Well, I don't want to place any more of a burden on you.
Starting point is 01:00:41 I know that you've suffered greatly along with the rest of these people, but my companions and I are, well, you're in a position, more of a burden on you. I know that you've suffered greatly along with the rest of these people, but my companions and I are in a position where we have to return to the giant's camp to finish them off. And
Starting point is 01:00:57 these people, there are forces from Skirgard that are on their way now and they will meet your companions and take them to safety but they they will need an escort someone to protect them as best they can along the way and well not to put too fine a point on it we were sort of hoping that wouldn't might be you and the minute he suggests that she just like looks terrified like way more terrified than if she was than she was to fight the giants and it's the thought of having to interact with
Starting point is 01:01:39 that many people is paralyzing her and she just like kind of like looks down and she's like shaking. She said, no, no, no, no. It's all right, my dear. I can see you. Perhaps it's been a while since you've had a friend. And she sort of like nods. And she sort of like nods. Sifu.
Starting point is 01:02:14 Gone. Yes, it's all right. It's all right, my dear. It's all right. But this is very important. You can save them. You can help to save them. I believe you can do it.
Starting point is 01:02:33 Do you believe you can do it? And she's blushing, like, furiously, and she just, she kind of, like, looks, glances over, like, darting her eyes in the direction of the of the slaves and she looks back down at her feet and she just like sort of nods it's like i will try this is good good good. Good girl. Right. And he gets back up, pops his cane closed, and walks over and says, She'll do it! And walks back over to her.
Starting point is 01:03:15 Bottlecap! Yeah! All right! Thank you. So you have someone who you've seen is quite capable. Is she capable of fending off an army? No. But you look amongst the group and you see if they had a scythe in their hand,
Starting point is 01:03:33 if they had a flail and a sickle, they have a fighting chance. Is it worth sending you guys along three days know, three days there, four days back, whatever it ends up being, and losing out on the progress that you're making in the village. Right now, the village is on tilt. It's a tough call. Can you put your trust in Nim Nim?
Starting point is 01:03:59 Pembroke wants... Pembroke trusts her. Like, from what you guys described, he kind of has an idea of what's happening. And he feels the need. He's like, this is dangerous. Like, she's one person, but he thinks they really have to strike now.
Starting point is 01:04:17 Not give them a chance. Like, while they're off balance, go back now. Take our chances. And Baron has faith, especially seeing her leap into battle at a moment's notice when danger is actually there um believing in her prowess to defend these people and of course if baron's not going to uh pursue nester the murderer of umlo at this point to pursue the greater good he's going to let these people kind of go on their
Starting point is 01:04:46 own because he believes that uh the needs of the many outweigh the needs of what are you know relatively a lot compared to us but with the whole world or at least all of um true now's fate in the balance and skelts we got to do something you're Vulcan, right? Farazza would like to try to scry on Shael. Oh, man. Okay. It's your party. I was going to say, before we get into that,
Starting point is 01:05:22 I was going to say that Lork wanted to talk to this guy in the morning, like once he was more well-rested, and just A, find out if there was any more information, B, find out if anybody else, you know, there, if he, if this guy, what's his name? Fruand. Fruand. If he knew of anybody there that knew her well,
Starting point is 01:05:40 that she talked to more than him. Or anyone that might be able to draw a picture. Yeah, is that the case? Anybody who kept garments of hers? Pieces of garments? I have a purse. No, but seriously, anybody who seemed to be closer to her?
Starting point is 01:05:57 And he says, she was a bit of a loner, was she? I probably knew her as well as anyone, and I barely knew her. She was, and I don't mean to be rude, she just was, she was in her own world. I don't know if she was always like this because no one really knew her at Skelt. She seemed excited when the expedition to Corvosis began.
Starting point is 01:06:24 But then everything changed when we were captured obviously it changed for all of us but for her it seemed to invigorate her in an odd way as if she was destined to be a part of something greater lorik's just kind of as he's listening he's just kind of like looking out and up the sides of the mountain like looking for trouble and keeping his eyes peeled and kind of squinting against the mountain wind. He's just like, She's my daughter.
Starting point is 01:06:56 I said I never met her and that was true. I knew her mother years ago and when I first saw her in Skelt I knew her mother years ago And When I First saw her in Skelt Just a week or two ago now I hadn't seen her in all those years
Starting point is 01:07:13 And I never knew I never knew that she had a child And she sent me to find her and Assuming you'll get back to Skelt safe I want you to tell her that her daughter still lives and that we're trying to find her
Starting point is 01:07:31 but will you know that only a few days ago she was still alive give her mother heart please would you do that for me? I will did she have any idea you were her father? That she even had a father still alive? I don't know what her mother told her. I think she knows about me. But
Starting point is 01:07:56 I... I don't know if she'll be happy to find out that it's me here especially considering what you've been saying lately about her wanting to be here it's strange to hear and has thrown me a bit off guard if I'm honest strange
Starting point is 01:08:16 well I will relay the message to her mother good luck I hope she finds her way home. Wherever that may be.
Starting point is 01:08:33 Thank you. Do your best to protect these people. It's a dangerous road ahead, but I feel like it'll be a lot safer than where you are now. So keep on pushing forward and... get yourself to Skelton, all right? You got it.
Starting point is 01:08:52 High five. You got it, dude. So you want to try and scry on her. Yes. Do you have a silver mirror worth 1,000 gold pieces? Yeah. Do you have a pool of water? You tell me.
Starting point is 01:09:05 We can create water. Okay. All right, so in this case you can observe a creature at any distance. We rub snow furiously between our hands. Yeah, I'm no scientist,
Starting point is 01:09:14 but I believe once snow is heated up to a certain temperature, it becomes water. You truly are a wizard. If the subject succeeds on a will save, the spell fails. The difficulty of the save depends on how well your knowledge of the subject and what sort of physical connection, if any, you have to that creature.
Starting point is 01:09:35 Furthermore, if the subject is on another plane, it gets another plus five bonus on its will save. In this case, you have secondhand knowledge. You've heard of the subject. I'd like to make a case that we are somewhere between second hand and first hand. I have laid eyes on her. Barely laid eyes on her. I know what she looks like.
Starting point is 01:09:56 How do you know what she looks like? By looking at her. Lork ranged up ahead, saw her, and then came back and then the battle started. There's really no reason to think you would have ever actually looked at her and took her in. I wasn't asking for the plus zero. I was asking for like a plus two and a half. So instead of plus five, I'll give her a plus six.
Starting point is 01:10:14 Wasn't what I was asking for. I got confused. A lot of math. Now, if she's on another plane, it's plus ten. What is the DC? Hurry, get her before she gets on a plane. It is a DC-18. We'll see.
Starting point is 01:10:33 What did I roll there, Joey? Dude, I didn't see you roll that. I saw you set a die in the car and then pass it over. Well, I rolled a natty 19. It's a natty 19. And then pass it over Well I rolled a natty 19 It's a natty 19 So at least for the moment
Starting point is 01:10:46 You Can't quite penetrate Her But as you're trying to penetrate her And you're staring into this mirror I'm not trying to penetrate anybody As you're trying to With a mirror
Starting point is 01:11:04 In a pool of water Matthew you are disgusting It's a family show You See a flash Of something in the mirror That looks Way too familiar
Starting point is 01:11:22 What? It's a face that you haven't seen Since Like That looks way too familiar. What? It's a face that you haven't seen since, like, Minderhall's Cathedral. And we'll see you next week. Oh, come on! Get the fuck out of here. You know what they say, Matthew. You can't hide your scrying eyes. In your smile.
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