The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 36 - Gorilla Warfare

Episode Date: February 2, 2016

A living nightmare unfolds below deck as the heroes face off against the simian Bakkara, the horror from the Mwangi Expanse! For more podcasts and livestreams, visit glasscannonnetwork.com. To become an official member of the Naish, subscribe today at http://www.jointhenaish.com. Want to be a part of Glass Cannon Nation? Follow us at twitter.com/glasscannonpod instagram.com/theglasscannon facebook.com/glasscannonnetwork tiktok.com/@glasscannonnetwork Get the best apparel and gaming accessories in the biz at https://glasscannonnetwork.com/store If you enjoyed this, we have several other series featuring Call of Cthulhu - Time For Chaos Delta Green - Get in the Trunk Pathfinder 2E - Glass Cannon Live! Strange Aeons Pathfinder 1E - Legacy of the Ancients Traveller - Voyagers of the Jump and so much more! Join us every Thursday night for Campaign Two of The Glass Cannon Podcast – a playthrough of the Pathfinder 2E Gatewalkers Adventure Path! Videos premiere on YouTube Thursday nights at 8PM ET with a companion podcast available at midnight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast. Mwangi Expanse is the equivalent to darkest Africa, basically, so Congo. A creature from a distant and mysterious jungle breaks free of its bonds. It is the horror, the horror, the horror. Roll for initiative. Oh, man. Lork must stand his ground. It's more for the listeners than it is for me. I just want a clear picture of what the cowardly half-orc is doing.

Galapagos. Gormley must exhibit her growing power. So remember, if you're listening at home and thinking about playing Pathfinder, create a witch because they're the greatest characters in the game. And Troy must do battle with the dice gods. Yeah! I fainted on my titties. Can you open the window so I can chuck this D20 at the nearest old person walking down the street?

The adventure continues now. Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties, because it's cold out there today. It's cold out there every day. Happy Groundhog's Day, everybody. It's Troy, the much-maligned DM of this podcast. We've got another doozy coming at you today. I mean, we've had some cliffhangers in the past, but man, was that a humdinger last week.

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Episode 36, Gorilla Warfare. Pow, pow, pow. I say we just start with that. Let's skid scattin' on Mike before he knew we were recording. That's gold. That is your opening. We've had a lot of cool endings, I think. I hate to toot my own horn, but last ending is one of my faves.

I hate to toot my own horn, but I'm going to do it anyway. No one ever says, I hate to toot my own horn, and then doesn't follow that by immediately tooting their own horn. I hate to toot my own horn, so I won't say anything else. I just won't. I'm done. Toot someone else's. Good evening. So yeah, last episode we ended with

Baron stealing the ledger from the chart room. Couldn't read it. Brings it down to Galabras. Says, hey, me and the cargo. Oh, this looks over. Galabras, with his crazy linguistic skill, figures out that there is some weird cargo on there entitled Bacara, the Horror of the Milwaukee Expanse.

And we all freak the fuck out. And then simultaneously in time, Gormley and her strong, luscious locks of hair and Lork and his incredible dice rolling skills were just doing their best to earn the ire and disrespect

of Coxswain Howrex in the rowing bays. When all of a sudden the wall on the other side of the room, when there was a door there, you guys never knew what was in this room. It has yet to be... Explored.

Explored. The wall next to that door bursts open and a giant, four-armed, gorilla-like creature comes banging through, maybe 20 feet away from Lork. My question to you, and this is a very important question, where is Ben Vereen in all of this? He's always by my side.

By your side. So he's helping me row, yes. He's helping you row, okay. I thought he was steering the... He's extreme. He doesn't know how to attack yet, but he has learned the row command. How many points does he have in profession, Sailor,

at this point? Yeah, right? Yeah, I assumed he was... I didn't want to min-max him, He has learned the row command How many points does he have in profession, sailor? Yeah, right Yeah, I assumed he was I didn't want to min-max him So I dropped some points in profession, sailor Yeah, I assumed he was at the tiller I assumed he was steering the ship He's got four scale points in perform stringed instruments Just to do something different

I thought he was back in the green room I thought he was back in the green room Knocking back potatoes Now, why is that a green room. It's a fantasy world. I thought he was back in the green room knocking back potatoes. Now, why is that a green room? Just because it has potatoes in it? You know, our Irish Americans are some of our biggest fans. Now, I should tell you,

and I mentioned this back when I was telling you about the boat. Below deck here in these rowing stations, the ceilings are only five feet high. Now, there's the middle

of it that stretches the whole, I don't know, 80 feet, we'll sayings are only five feet high. Now there's the middle of it that stretches the whole, I don't know, 80 feet we'll say, that's 10 feet wide, 80 feet long. And that's where Coxway and Halorax is going back and forth, barking orders. And then there are four sets of stairs that just go down like, you know, a few inches into the row. Like a stoop. Yeah, a stoop that goes down into the rowing decks where you sit and row. So consider the ceiling is five feet high and then like five feet, two inches if you're in the rowing decks. The point is, in Pathfinder terms, you're considered to be squeezing. What does that mean? Three things.

One, every time you move, each square costs you two squares of movement because it's tight quarters. You're squeezing through. Even the dwarf. Baron, how tall are you, 5'4"? No, I'm four feet. You're four feet. Well, then, looks like Baron, how can we... No, no, no, and this is a point of contention for dwarves. When people make fun of dwarves for their heights,

they're like, fuck you, I'm the best height possible. And this is just another example of why dwarves are the Uber race of Galarian. Well, this is the one time. We can debate this later. The one time you want a gunslinging dwarf on board. Now, obviously, you and Galabras are in a room with normal-sized ceilings, but...

Yeah, so the first thing is movement for everyone except Baron and Ben Vereen. Slippery, he's slippery. He can dance freely up and down the aisle Just tap dance Joe just gave us a gift that keeps on giving Jazz claws Every square of movement costs you two squares of movement

And also Because you're You know, you're having trouble maneuvering through You take a minus four to your AC And a minus four to all of your attack rolls. Brutal. What? Yep.

That is the Pathfinder squeezing condition. So minus four to AC. And the condition is the same for a large creature, like a creature that's way bigger than us in that five foot space. It's just minus four, minus four. I have what his is, and it is slightly worse. And then does this mean that his is, and it is slightly worse. And then does this mean that no one is able to take a five-foot step anywhere

except for Baron and Ben Vereen? Correct. Correct, yeah. I didn't even think about that in my preparation until you just said that. You just made it a lot harder for everyone. Sorry, guys. Except Ben Vereen and Baron. Troy, can you please answer yes to this question? I beg of you. I beg of you. Oh, boy. Sorry, guys. Except Ben, Farina, and Baron. Troy, can you please answer yes to this question?

I beg of you. I beg of you. Oh, boy. Here we go. Has it been less than two hours since we went into the cave with the Alpha Drake?

Has it been less than two hours? What's the answer that you want? The answer I want is yes. He wants yes. It's been less than two hours.

Hey. I give you guys too much. Yeah, yeah. So we sprinted back from the cave. I want is yes. It's been less than two hours. I give you guys too much. Yeah, yeah. So we sprinted back from the cave. I rode a horse. I rode a horse. He was riding a horse, to be fair. A horse that was just like a nice under 10.

No, I'm kidding. With major armor, it's 13. 13, okay. I told you that. I gave that one for nothing. It Mage Armor, it's 13. 13, okay. I told you that. I gave you that one for nothing. It's not like it has four arms and a bite. So you should be fine. Any other questions?

Oh, so, yeah, I mean, just for, this is not for Lork, it's more for just me. Where are these guys? Where are they? Where did we leave them last episode? I don't know where the, where are they reading the? The other side of the door. They're on the other side of the room behind those doors. Oh, same deck.

You don't know that, but I'm sure they heard a giant splintering of wood. All right, so they're not like up. No, no, no. How convenient that they went down there. What direction is that on the boat? That would be aft. Who's been studying? 50-50, yes.

Oh, you know what? One other thing I want to talk about, because it was the one thing that I know Skid and Joe lamented at the end of last episode. We mentioned Bacara, the horror of the Milwaukee Expanse, and you all went, oh! But we kind of took it for granted that everybody knows about the Milwaukee Expanse. Let's get a little nerdage in here.

Nerd! Skeet's got something plain to do. It is time for Nerdage! Sorry, I just, I want that played at my wedding. It'll be the shortest mother-son dance in the history of weddings. That's perfect. Love you, Ma. Quick kiss. Is Harlan Ellison coming to your wedding?

You mean Dad? What was the question? Milwaukee Expanse. Oh, okay. Milwaukee Expanse. Yeah, so you remember probably the last time when you said the Mwangi. It's actually the Mwangi Expanse. Oh, Mwangi.

Sorry, Troy. We all freaked out. And the reason why is from other adventures we've played, Mwangi Expanse is the equivalent to darkest Africa, basically. So, Congo. So, it's just, it's something very exotic and very unexpected.

Something very far away that they don't, don't, it's like, yeah, it's a gorilla. So, there you go. And I believe, I believe his name was the Terror or the Horror of the Mwangi Expanse. Oh, you know what? It might have been the Terror.

But that's not good. It's both terrible and horrible. Yeah, I mean, considering that in these former adventures that Skid mentioned, we've seen things just like ancient artifacts that have horrible magical qualities, evil old cult magics, and then you have stuff like this like like this congo-ish like beast of a creature that they've apparently caged on this ship i guess and like for money they're gonna try to sell it somewhere yeah and now it's going to kill gormley which is so sad yeah he had a good run she had a good run um but yeah so uh it is the horror The horror Roll for initiative

Oh man Is our initiative minus four? Might as well be Alright, you know what? They'll all be minus four All of us Natural 20 Get out of here Just so you could sprint out of there

Die first Alright, what's everybody else looking at for initials? Wait, are we really taking a minus four? No. If we all took a minus four, it wouldn't affect anyone. What's your adjusted AC, Matthew? Adjusted would be 27. Ooh.

Whoa. I have a 19. 19 initiative? Mm-hmm. Okay. Anybody, what do you got, Lork? 15. 15, and Galabras?

Nine. Let me roll Old Benverine. Anybody, what do you got, Lork? Fifteen. Fifteen, and Galabras? Nine. Let me roll, oh, Benverine. Oh, I forgot. Twenty for Benverine. Hey! Round one, Gormley. Oh, man. It's a good thing you got a quick reaction to this.

I'm gonna head for, I'm gonna head back. So am I on a bench? Like, do I have to... Can I just walk back along the... You can just stand up and move back. Yep, but every space counts as two. Okay, so you move me back. No, no, no. Just straight back. What's your movement? My movement... Well, I'm just going to go back

six. No, he wants to go backwards. I can't get to the ladder. Not onto the deck. I can't get to the ladder. So you can move back three. One, two, three. Yes, exactly. Okay. Does that make sense? No.

I thought that these bays were like bays. This is a whole other deck below this? It's bench, bench, bench, bench, bench, bench, bench. That's why it's treated as difficult terrain because it's full of benches. Because of the benches. Yes, you're like stepping on the benches. So there are not four rowing windows. There's a bunch of them.

There's a bunch of them. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. All right. Got it. And then I'm going to windows. There's a bunch of rows. There's a bunch of them, yeah. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. All right. Got it. And then I'm going to hex. What's his name? Bakara.

Bakara. Bakara. I'm going to hex him. Evil Eye for attack rolls. Going to do Evil Eye for attack rolls. Here's his will save. Nine. Yeah.

All right. All right. So for six rounds minus two to your attack rolls. Nice. Six rounds. Woo. Okay. That ought. So for six rounds minus two to your attack. Nice six rounds! Woo! Okay. That ought to buy me one more round. And, uh,

good move, because now it is Bakara's turn. The Harrah of the Mwangi. Oh, where's Halrax? Halrax is on deck. Well, she was, like, pacing back and forth. She went to the bathroom on this episode. Naturally. Now, the laziest

crew ever. They don't do anything except for yell at you and call you misogynistic terms. Bakara takes two steps forward towards Lork and attempts to bite him.

Ah! Minus two to your attack total. Fumbles. Yeah! What a great start. There we go. Wow, and it is a named character. Oh, he better not crit.

Natural. Because he's named. That's right. Natural attack. Overthink it. Your target. Oh, man, this is good for you guys. Your target's armor and natural armor bonuses are doubled

against you for three rounds. What? Whoa. Holy shit. So, Lork's AC, excuse me, armor bonuses and natural armor bonuses, if you have any, are doubled for the next three rounds against Bakara. Wow. That's insane. That's great for the frontline fighter.

That's pretty sweet. Just do me a favor, Lork. Don't overthink it. It is now Ben Vereen's turn. Ben Vereen is going to... Yeah, see, okay, here's a question. If your creature rolls higher than you in initiative, what do you do? Because it's like basically I have to push him as an action, as a free action on my turn. You know, it just seems to me like...

So does he just hold? It's a free action for you to do it. Yeah. I mean, he can't act without you doing it, so I feel like either he takes your initiative or you just, as if he was a summoned creature, or just to make things easier, you use that free action during your turn. If it was a standard action for a lork to do it, then Benvarine would have to wait. Or we can just decide that Benvarine goes on your turn.

If it's a standard action for a Lork to do it, then Benverine would have to wait. Or we can just decide that Benverine goes on your turn. Well, the thing for me that's been bugging me is, so if he's not pushed or trained by Lork, then he acts on his own accord, right? I would think so. Right. So, I mean, I think you have to bear in mind the natural aggressiveness of a Wolverine. And he clearly has a sincere affection for Lork. So if he's threatened,

it's going to treat him like a member of his pack, of his family. I think in a situation like this, anytime Lork is threatened, he will absolutely try to fight Lork's attacker. Lork would have to push him to not attack the attacker. You know what I'm

saying? Right. I mean, theoretically, he's not just to not attack the attacker you know what I'm saying right I mean theoretically he's not just gonna stand there you know what I'm saying right but he also could attack Gormley or Howlix

but it's like because he's only been with Lorik for 48 hours Wolverines aren't stupid that's the other thing like I just well that's one of the things that I'm thinking is like

do you think that it might be like whoa this thing is way too big and just run away you know but that again that goes against that I'm thinking is like, do you think that it might be like, whoa, this thing is way too big and just run away? You know? But that, again, that goes against kind of Wolverine's what they are.

Right. Unfortunately, Pathfinder doesn't have it built in there for that yet. But you can only have, you can just have it do come, is all it knows, come. Right.

It's developed that sort of relationship with you where it'll come. Right, so fine. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to push it to withdraw do me a favor and push it real good Jesus Christ I'm trying my best

tip your waitresses here we go failed, failed by how much? failed by two actually so it just does nothing no result bullshit fucking bullshit you guys have no respect for the natural world no no the thing all right we'll say like it goes it goes to attack and lorik's like oh no go away and it just sort of like hesitates for a second doesn't buy it but also doesn't attack you know i think that that's

a okay middle ground i buy that bar 60, 70 feet away or so, you hear the splintering of wood as the boat shakes. And you, what do you do? Baron walks up to the door and opens it. Okay. And what does he see? Not going to roll perception on that door or anything?

Check for traps? Check for traps. No, we have a short night tonight. So he opens the door and sees a giant, four-armed, gorilla-like creature standing and going to bite Lork. And slowly closes the door. Those guys are fucked. Let's get out of here, Galabras.

I'm able to see that this is indeed prime dwarf fighting area, and that this gorilla looks at a disadvantage. And I've traded against giants and large creatures, so I'm ready to go in. But not only that. Wait, before you make any attacks, it's a standard action to open a door.

Oh. Yeah. Is it really? Yeah. Wow. Debbie Downer. He really wants his character to die. I just don't want to I don't feel like

we're in another standard action to open the door the fans would be all over us I'm pretty sure 90% sure well the only good thing is

I mean you're going to want to get into that room and be in a better position if you're going to start shooting your magic handbanger so if it is a standard action

on the door you still have movement speed you only move what 10 feet yeah so I'm going to move another 10 feet in and that's the extent of my movement speed all right do you want to stay on the uh the uh sort of plant gangway i don't know yeah i'll call it a gangway take a diagonal step so i'm not directly if he decides to charge down into the banks exactly okay so you just kind of hop down into the banks and uh it is arguable it may be a move action.

Oh, here we go. But I'm saying he moved to the door and then he opened it. Can you do two move actions at the very least? Oh, yeah. Oh, right, because it moved... It's not a free action to open doors, which is correct. Okay, so then it is a free action for Lork to take his turn. You're up, buddy.

Oh, sweet, the whole thing's... Okay, so you have the minus minus 40 AC, but then because of this absurd fumble by the Gorillan, you get... What is your new AC? Tell me about your AC. Walk me through your AC. Well, basically, when we got back from the Drake thing, I had

mentioned this before, that he was like... I couldn't just wear metal armor around on deck, but since we were under attack, basically, by somebody on the ship, he's now kind of changed his tune a little bit. He's not going to be able to row wear metal armor around on deck, but since we were under attack, basically, by somebody on the ship, he's now kind of changed his tune a little bit. He's not going to be able to row in metal armor, so I had talked to you about, look, is there a spare set of regular leather armor

around that he could wear? And you were like, yeah, sure. So I just put him in leather armor, which is plus three armor bonus. And so I took minus four, and so my AC was 10 okay and then walking into this beginning this combat yeah and then so you doubled it to six so basically i just added three more because so i would oh no uh yeah so i made it 13 13 okay yeah so it's not great but it would be 17 against

this thing not in a squeezed situation we're just gonnaid, we just got to make sure when Joe fumbles, uh, you don't give him the same card. I put it at the back of the deck. Okay. Okay. You are a true piece of shit. All right.

Lork is, uh, but he does, uh, as a matter of policy, he never rose without a falchion. So, uh,

falchion at his side. Falchion at his side. So he's going to take a swing with his, uh, with Screed's falchion. Falchion at his side. Falchion at his side. So he's going to take a swing with Screed's falchion. And it's minus four to attack, right? No, down in the bay it isn't, right?

He said it is. So it's 18 to hit. 18 hits. Beautiful. Yeah! It is 11 points of damage. Whoa! Nice, nice.

The lork is back in town. And then I can't take a five-foot step, so lork is going to move back his full move, and he'll roll an acrobatics check to avoid the attack of opportunity. move back his full move. So... And he'll roll an acrobatics check to avoid the attack of opportunity. Because he's just taking a swing and then trying to back away from this thing.

Okay, so you're rolling a d20, adding your acrobatics bonus, and you have to beat the CMD of Bokara plus five, or just the CMD? Just the CMD, so that's 18. You do not beat the CMD of the giant, four-armed, magical gorilla.

Oh, okay. So it goes to a claw you. And fumbles. Yeah! I fainted him, I threw it out of him. Can you open the window so I can chuck this D20 at the nearest old person walking down the street? That's karma, man.

Don't make fun of Lork's rolls. You've got to be kidding me. Tripped. The gorilla is knocked prone. I now stop moving backwards, and I stand directly over its fallen body. Oh, my goodness. This must be like all the banana peels he was eating earlier, like leftover from his meal.

Oh, man. I don't think I've ever been in a situation where someone fumbled on an attack of opportunity. Well, now he did. And it is Galabras' turn. Can I just clarify? We are not confirming fumbles until we have multiple attacks. Right, so six levels. And then the monsters will do that as well at that point.

Correct. Gotcha. Will my agile feet ability apply to this situation? An agile feet allows you to ignore difficult terrain. Yes. It will apply to,

if you're in the rowing banks, but it will not apply to the, what I'm calling the gangway. The raised area. The raised area. Because you don't have benches to jump over. But in terms of the benches, yeah, you can agile feet right over all those

So the back room The aft Room that I'm in now Is that also low ceilings? Nope, that's normal ceilings Alright, so I move regular up to the door And then Yeah, it's already open

Did Baron close it behind him? That was another move. He's like, I'm going to spend a bottle cap to close this door. God fathered me. So can I move at a diagonal into the bay then? Can I do that? Or would I have to move out one and then do it? Where there's a wall there, you'd have to move out one and then do it uh where there's a wall there you'd have to move in and then you can go they've been done

on you like i let baron all right so so it's one two three four five and then move um no i want to move into the the other side yeah yeah um can i see the prone ape oh Oh yeah, it's big. Then I fire my crossbow at it. Alright. Now where it's prone, it's still in melee combat, so it would still be a minus four to attack? It would be minus eight. Because it's prone. Oh, right.

Oh, jeepers. Yeah, because it's laying on the ground. So ranged attacks are a smaller target. Yeah. Well, I miss. But that's all I'm going to be doing. All right, Galabras. I got to get these sound effects going. Did you roll in this? Or did you hit?

I missed. Oh, I didn't hit. I'm sorry. I didn't hit at all. What are you waiting for? I was too busy talking over you. He literally said it into a microphone. Something wrong with my cans.

Put your headphones on. Speaking of cans, round two, Gormley. Oh, my God. So offensive. Oh, man. Oh, God. Moving on. Newly married man.

Talking about cans all day long. Gormley's going to throw a Tanglefoot bag at the ape. Boy, okay. Same deal. It's going to throw a Tanglefoot bag at the ape. Oh boy, okay. Same deal. It's going to be minus eight to hit it. Minus eight? Yeah, because it's prone. Oh, I thought that... Something wrong with your cans? Just

disgusting. Alright, well now here's my argument. It's a large creature. It's just lying there. It's harder to hit because it's on the ground. You have to hit its feet. Do you remember when I used Gunslinger's Dodge when he threw a javelin at me and I just hit the deck and it increased my AC by

four because I hit the ground. It's just like a melee mechanic or a range mechanic in this game. That's stupid. I'm not going to do that. Just hex him again. I'm just going to hex him again. Alright, I'm going to hex him for his saves. There you go. Hexing him for saves. Where's that D20 I threw? You know what? Fuck it. I'm just going to hex him again. All right, I'm going to hex him for his saves. There you go. Hexing him for saves. I always hate...

Where's that d20 I threw? You know what? Fuck it. I'm going to use this shitty, shitty dwarven one that I hate. Please pause for time reading. Okay, we got a 13 will save. Fails. Fails the will save.

So for six rounds, you're... This poor gorilla. I feel so bad for him. You don't even stop to question it. He's been planning this escape for weeks. They're like a bunch of poachers. And then I'll cackle to extend both hexes. Cackle to extend both hexes.

So six on one, seven on one, six on the other? Yeah. Six on one, half dozen on the other. It is now the prone... This poor bastard. Shane Goodall is going to be so pissed at us. Okay, it

stands up. An attack of opportunity from both Lorc and Ben Vereen? Yeah. Yeah. Alright, so we'll go Lorc first. Miss. And then Benjamin Vereen, 14 to hit.

Hits the stupid ape. What? Yep. With flat-footed AC. Minus AC. It's got a minor. It's got the hex. I hex him for attack rolls.

No, but you did for AC. Attack and saves. Attack and saves. But the point is, it's huge and it's squeezing. So AC is not as good as it normally is. Hey, you should hex his AC. I'm getting to that.

That is one claw for two points of damage. Oh, chipping away at the old tree. Yeah. You're my boy, Wolverine. Now let me ask you this. Standing up

is a move action? That is correct. Right, so he my boy, Wolverine. Now let me ask you this. Standing up is a move action? That is correct. Right, so he cannot do a full attack. Things are working out well for the gang. You guys have a name for your little band of adventurers? Think about it. Answer next time. I don't think we've earned it yet. The Apple Dumpling Gang. The Apple Dumpling Gang.

The Wet Bandits. Wet Bandits. Sticky Bandits. Sticky Bandits. The Hope Springs. It goes to bite Lork, and it rolls a seven. Nice! Hey! It's a miss! Oh, you have some spectacular diet. Ah, Ben Vereen.

You know what? You get a bottle cap for that. Ben Vereen's turn? Yeah, it's Ben Vereen's turn. He will do a full attack action. Oh, boy. So claw, 11. 11 misses.

Claw, claw, 19. 19 hits. So that claw does three points of damage. And now where is it clawing him? Like at his feet? On his toe? Yeah, like on his Achilles. Okay.

And how many points of damage was it? Three. Okay. The gorilla is dead. And then he will bite Miss. All right. So one claw got through. Let it be known that Ben Vereen has done some damage.

Yeah. There you go, Ben. And now it is Baron's turn. Baron is in the room. Baron's going to move 20 feet closer. Okay. And he is still... Unimpeded by the small ceilings.

And he is still not within 20 feet, so his... He's going to throw his gun. No, his gun will not resolve against touch AC. It'll be regular AC. Ah, okay. He's going to go for it. And he is using deadly aim. It's going to be like a 32.

Tough shot. Yeah, that's a really tough shot. So it's minus six? Yeah. Miss. Hey, that's a really tough shot. So it's minus six? Yeah. Miss. Hey, you know what? Bam! Bang!

Well, Lork hears the comforting explosions of Baron's handbanger. And the soothing whiz of a bullet going right by his ear. Well, he trusts Baron. Sorry. He hasn't accidentally hit him yet. I'm sure that gunshot didn't scare your wild animal. Yeah, by the way, that card, Not My Pony, has a lot more concern for me now. Oh, yeah.

It's in that deck. Oh, Not My Pony. Don't hit Ben Vereen. Stack the deck with Not My Pony. I'll give you five dollars. I'll give you a cool five spot. All right, Lork, you just had a bullet come whizzing past your head. Benverine, very upset.

Sorry, Lork. I don't know if you know this. There's a gorilla in front of you. Yeah. Sorry. All right, so I will attack the gorilla. 15 to hit. It's a hit.

15 hits. Sweet. And that will be seven points of damage. You sure, or do you need a Joe recount? For right now, I'm pretty sure. Oh man,

I forgot about power attack. You know what, I'm just going to do that whole attack action over. Hey, I rolled a 20. Whoa, look at that. All right, Lork. I am going to,

yeah, I'm going to move away. Jump on its shoulders? I'm going to move Jump on its shoulders I'm going to move away, I'll provoke an attack of opportunity Well, I will do an acrobatics check And fail Okay, and it goes to claw you Fumble, fumble Seven, again

Miss, okay, great, so I'm going to move back I can move ten feet, basically Okay, so you have ten feet back Because of the cramped ceilings. Oh no, actually, I can move... Leave Benverine to die? Benverine has an AC bonus against this guy because of their

two sides. And I'm going to move 15 feet back because with my leather armor, I can move more than I could before. Didn't you get something magical that allows you to do an extra move per day, too?

Yeah, so I'm sitting on that, too, in case I need it. So just to be clear, you're leaving Ben Vereen right up next to a four-armed creature that also has bite. Just want to be sure we're clear. Yeah, you know, what am I going to do? I can't get him out of there. It's more for the listeners than it is

for me. I just want a clear picture of what the cowardly half-orc is doing. Galabras. Wolverine don't give a fuck, I'll tell you that much. Yeah, exactly. Much like the honey badger. Exactly. You think honey badgers are bad? Alright, so I'm going to step up. I'm going to

move my maximum six squares just straight forward. Thank you, Joe. He's agile feeding along. And I'm going to fire my crossbow once again at the thing. Now, is it considered melee combat with a smaller creature?

It would be up for your discretion. I would probably say no, because he's so large, and it's a small creature next to him. We'll say instead of a minus four, it's a minus two. Well, I would probably say no because he's so large and it's a small creature next to him. We'll say instead of a minus four it's a minus two. Well, I rolled a two anyway, so. Oh, damn it, Calabras. Your point is moo. Your point is moo.

And now it is round three, Gormley. What are you gonna do? Misfortune. There we go. DC15. Can I have another? You can do it twice on a deck.

Give me a D20. I can do hexes as many times as I want. Oh, I thought misfortune was different. The highest I've rolled on this is a five. I can't hex the same creature more than once. Minus two to save. Oh, okay. Yeah, minus two to save.

Minus two to attack. But this misfortune and we're good to go. It's got to be a fail. Ten. Oh, man! Gormley just possibly saved Bedmarine's life. Oh, God.

How many rounds is this? Twenty rounds? Six rounds. No, I'm sorry. One round. But I'm going to cackle to extend it to two. Misfortune only lasts for one round. So this round and next round. You've just been standing by where you were rowing and just like hexing the shit out of a gorilla. That's amazing. That's so good.

And laughing a lot. And now do the other saves, the other hexes, do those go an extra round as well? Yes. Yep. So remember, if you're listening at home and thinking about playing Pathfinder, create a witch,

because they're the greatest characters in the game, next to gunslingers. Yeah, I like the witch-gunslinger combo. This is brutal. We'd freak out everyone. Okay. That was Gorm's move. The Bakara will now do five attacks on Ben Vereen.

Oh, come on with this. So I will be rolling ten dice. Oh my god. You knew. You knew what was going to happen. First... Oh, four arms. So I will be rolling ten dice. You knew. You knew what was going to happen. First, I'm going to roll two die every single time. Take the lower, and then minus two

because of the first tax. Wait, what is the bonus that he gets? To his AC? Yeah, is it two or four? For the size class difference? I think it's two. Because you have giants. Is it two for you? Or it's four for you? But that's a feat. It's not just a size thing. I think it's two. Because you have giants. Is it two for you? Or it's four for you? But that's a feat. It's not just a size thing.

I gave Ben Vereen a feat. I just decided. It's defensive. It's plus four for Ben. I have defensive training against giants of type. Giants are plus two. So it's not just a size difference.

Okay, plus two. So he's got a plus two to his AC. Are you familiar with Ben Vereen's AC? I am. Okay. Four attacks. First attack is a bite. I'm rolling two die

because of his fortune, taking the lower and also minusing two. Okay. I rolled a 14 and an 18. Oh my God. Unadjusted.

It's going to be a hit. And it's minus four to his attack? Or minus six to his attack? Oh, wait. So the attack takes a minus? Oh, you mean just for squeezing?

Yes. I've added that. That's already figured in, as it were. So the first attack hits. Well, what was it? What was the total? 18. Yeah, that hits.

Sorry, I assumed. Three points of damage, and Vendorine is now raging. He is enraged. Not unlike my boner. God, man. No, that's engorged. First claw of four. This is ridiculous.

A really good one and a bad one. I will give you the adjusted. I'll tell you this to make it quicker. If you roll anything under 14, it's a miss. Okay. First claw misses. So the second claw misses. Second claw. Oh, that was a bite. The first one was a bite. Second claw

misses. There we go. Third claw hits. You rolled two dice over 14. Yeah, I rolled a 15 and a 17. How dare you question me? Wow. I was just clarifying what was happening. Okay. And that was for

Six points of damage I have one more claw And just to let you know If this claw hits It will then rend Really Any two of the four Any two of the four

What if it's the two On the same side Come on We can rip Up and down Ew gross I rolled an 18 Holy shit

And an eight Yeah Yeah Orly is the best To have in your party I rolled an 18. Holy shit. And an 8. Yeah! Hardly is the best to have in your party. Ben will live another day, and now it is Raging Ben Vereen's turn. Oh, it is so angry. So furious. Okay, so now he gets a little bonus here. So claw, that's 13 to hit?

13 misses. 13 misses. Okay, so claw, claw, miss, bite, hits. Just seeing if that crit, but it doesn't. So the bite hits four. Five points of damage. Whoa! He's so angry. Wolverine! Wolverine! Okay. And now it is Baron's turn. Baron will

quickly move 20 feet closer. And how far away am I from the horror of the Mwangi Expanse at that point? Looks like you are... Within 20 you are within 20 feet. But you will take, because you're a smaller creature, you'll take the full

minus four for shooting into melee. Right. But nothing beyond that. Nothing beyond that. And it's to touch AC, right? Well, you'll take a minus eight to attack now because of the... Oh, no, you're not squeezing. I'm sorry. Minus four. Okay.

Touch AC. This is a plus. I'm going to turn that off. I'm going to back it. So point blank shot. No deadly aim. Four. There you go.

Twenty-three. Yeah. Boom. You have fired a gun at the four-armed magical gorilla. And hit it. And I do eight points of damage. Nice.

Yeah. See, that's why you gotta bring a gun to these fights. He brought a gun to a claw fight. And as a swift action, I reload my pistol. Okay. Nearing the end of round three, Lork, the worst pet owner ever, is up. Yeah, but you weren't taking into account that Lork will, oh, damn it! Raging.

Yeah, I thought, I was planning for a charge, realizing that you probably can't do a charge in difficult terrain. Oh, not through difficult terrain. Oh, shit. All right, so he'll just move up and attack. Should have had somebody cast Agile Feet on you. He's going to do a power attack this time, though. Okay. And hope that he crits.

We should have cast Agile Feet on the Gorillan so he could charge. Do 14. 14 hits. Fucking awesome. Nice. All right, so that was power attack. So that is

13 points of damage jeepers okay the the Giralon Giralon I don't know how to

fucking pronounce it is reeling Galabras Galabras is going to move up another 25 feet. Oh, actually he's going to, yeah, and then jump up onto the gangplank.

And fire again with the crossbow. Minus eight to attack. It's just, oh, because he fucking, he lorks stuff up. Squeezing. Yeah, I missed. Galabras Shooting crossbows Missing But

Living to tell the tale Unlike Benverine Round four Gormley Alright first off Cackle to extend all the hexes Including

Including misfortune Yeah And then Gormley's going to Ear piercing scream The gorilla Whoa Talk to me about ear priesting Ear priesting? Yeah. And then Gormley's going to ear-piercing scream the gorilla. Whoa. Talk to me about ear-priesting. Ear-priesting?

No, we're not cutting that. Damn it. I thought if I paused, I could do a cut. Damn it. I saw right through your thoughts. Talk to me about ear-piercing scream. So I can scream at a single target, and nobody else is affected. I would deal 2d8 points of damage.

You get a fortune save to halve the damage. Which I'll fail. Because you're hexed. Minus two. Right, and because I can't roll anything above a four. If you fail the save, you're also dazed for one round. Oh my god. This is some siren shit, right?

Holy shit, dazed is bad. I think dazed is you can't do anything. No, stunned is one worse than dazed. I'm sorry, it's actually two dsets. Dazed, you have no impact on your AC. You can't take any actions, but your AC remains the same. Okay. So you want me to roll my save?

No, I'll tell you right now, it's nine points of damage, and now you can roll your save. Nice. You're a fair man. And I rolled a natural 20 Nice On the save Did you roll that twice?

God Son of a goat For the listening audience Troy looks so happy He's turning red My poor gorilla I'm having so much fun I rolled On the second, I rolled a 21 adjusted.

All right, so you save. So you take four points of damage. Jesus. And no dazed. And no dazed. But I am confused. Dazed and or confused. It is now the Giralon's turn.

Giralon. And I will just hold my 2d20s, so I can roll them for all five attacks against Lork, then Vereen. We'll see what I feel like doing. First, he's going to bite Lork. I want you to know that I'm channeling my anger at Gormley towards Lork.

God damn it. Because I'm taking on the spirit of the Guralon. Yeah, this always happens to the front line guy. So, yeah, that's great. I rolled a seven and a one! Another fumble!

Motherfucker, the same die! The same fucking die! This is, this is fabulous. I have never seen Troy so angry before. I bet all,

you spent all week thinking about how tough this fight would be. I thought this would be a two-part episode. I have something that'll cheer you up. It's a fumble card for your fucking girl. Son of a... Alright, natural attacks. Here we go.

Your arms fall off. Oh, fantastic. So he goes... He goes to bite Lork and just hits his head on the ceiling. He is now blinded for one round. Oh, man.

This horror might have a family. This is the least scary horror I've ever seen. No, the horrific fighter of the Mwangi. Let me just... Apparently the Mwangi expanse is not as bad as we thought it was. Let me tell you what Blinded does for this one round, and no, Gormley, you can't cackle

to extend by Blinded. Minus two to the AC. And it also loses its dex bonus to AC. What? And a minus two penalty on strength and dex based skill checks. And perception checks, but you know what? I don't think it's going to be doing any

percepting. So its AC is now down. Good lord, I need like 17 pieces of paper for all these taxes and fucking AC taxes! Okay, it's got four more attacks. So it doesn't take a minus to its attack rolls, but it can't see what it's trying to hit?

Oh, you know what? I stopped reading. So now I've got to, let me just get 17 dice here to roll for misfortune. Fucking concealment! Mother fucker! Oh, man. Alright, so I'm rolling two d20s and a d100. This is insane.

All four claws are going at Lork right now. Alright, this is, I've never done this. Okay, I rolled a 10, a three, and a 93, so awesome, that's a miss. Even though we're gonna hit the concealment. What's your bonus with the three? With on the 10?

My bonus, it was a three. With minus two to strength, right? Oh no. No, but I rolled a three. Misfortune. Right, because of misfortune. I was thinking you were taking the higher, duh. That was the first claw. So three misses.

Second claw, this is just absurd. Twenty dice. Second claw, uh, ooh, the second claw, second claw would have hit, but I rolled a forty-six on the concealment. This is absurd! Alright, third claw, there goes my rend, and my fun.

Uh, that's another miss. And an 82 on the concealment. That would have been a hit. And the last claw is a... This might be a hit. And I rolled a 60. It would be a 14... So, 16 to hit?

That hits lurk, yeah. One claw hits for six points of damage. Everybody, big round of applause for the worst gorilla in Pathfinder history. Love this guy. Hopefully it makes for good radio. Ladies and gentlemen,

Mr. Ben Vereen. I think Ben is going to run up the side of this thing's body and just go for its throat at this point. He can smell weakness. Do it. Here we go. He'll never see it coming.

So claw 15 to hit. That hits, right? 15 hits. So one point of damage. Second claw hits for one point of damage. Oh, I'm sorry. He's raging. So he did

another two on each one. So five. Let's add another four. Four more. Okay. And then a bite. Ten to hit. Ten misses.

Okay. After he lost his dex bonus and a minus two. Let me just see. Oh, nope. Losing the dex bonus, ten hits. Just wanted to make sure. Unbelievable. I forgot about that.

And then. I feel like a fart would damage me. Four points of damage on the bite. I'm just interested to see if this combat's going to end this round. Baron, with your magic handbanger. Baron says, it's time to get up close and deadly. Oh, I remember that. It's been a long up close and deadly Oh I remember that It's been a long time

This could be a grit point Point blank Up close and deadly With deadly aim That is a 11 against Touch AC That is a hit And that is

11 16 points of damage Jesus Christ And Bakara The horror of the Moangy Expanse, dies. Wow. You're going to have to fill up 15 minutes of

content for this episode. That is fantastic. I think we might have to pause because Troy is currently in the raging state. Now I'm fatigued. Let's do a 15 minute intro to this week's episode. Oh, boy. Like I said, that was pretty fun.

That was fun. So, yeah, now you guys are all in this room. That monster just got devastated. Holy shit. You know what was crazy, though? The magical ability he had to make all of the rowers and the cockswain vanish off the deck. The moment he came through the wall.

You want a really realistic campaign here, Troy. He's got a lot of attacks. I was rowing six die. Can't control the NPCs. You get your grip point back there too, Barrett. I didn't want to rub it in. Do we want to heal him

and hear his story? I imagine he had a pretty rough passage here well the only good thing is that he uh just as he was about to die his sight came back so you could see his murderers so uh galabras stands over the fallen corpse of this uh creature and he says looks like we're not going to be able to gorilla him for information. Give me back Gary's bottle cap. Sorry.

I'm glad we did the Glass Cannon Podcast It was a fun A fun few episodes It was a bit 36 now So Yeah You're gonna step down now I think After that embarrassing display

Yeah You guys wanna play Mage Knight or something? Checkers Okay so This This giant creature You guys were in there

You heard a rattling of a cage Followed by the splintering of wood As this four armed Magical Creature Okay, so this giant creature, you guys were in there, you heard a rattling of a cage, followed by the splintering of wood as this four-armed magical creature smashed through the walls of the rowing station and attacked you guys very poorly and died. What is the team doing? Well, is Hal Rex there? Is she actually there? Hal Rex was knocked unconscious by the splintering of wood hit her in the eye and she fell to the ground

for exactly four rounds. I run over and heal her. And yeah, so I want to, so when she comes to, Lurk wants to say, what is that you've got in your storage hold there? You'll have to talk to the captain about that.

Oh, you don't oversee the storage. I'm a cocksway, not a storage girl. You had a four-armed monster in your hold right next to where you stand you didn't even notice? Watch who you're calling monster witch. Calling the gorilla the monster. Who brought that gorilla on board? He's part of the cock. Let me get...

Rag! Rag, get down here! Eventually, Blood Tusk comes down, and he looks just in shock that this happened. What? How did he get out? He burst right through the wall. This doesn't make any sense.

Who was drugging him this morning? Who brought him the meat? Oh. And, uh... Where's Urag? There's, like, no other orcs, half-orcs around. So Calrex and Rag are just kind of kibitzing.

Do you know who's in charge of bringing him the drugged meat this morning? No, I don't know either. We need to bring all the men together and find out who fucked this up. Is it Gaznak, the cook? It's always the cook. It's always the cook with the wrench in the kitchen. But who's hurt right now? I'm down a couple.

I'm down a couple. Ben Varinas really hurt. While they're talking, I gather everybody around and I channel. Wait, wait. Are you going to channel? Yeah. I have something for you. You do? I gather everybody around and I channel. Wait, wait. Are you going to channel? Yeah. I have something for you. You do?

I have a small token. Okay. I know you have to present your holy symbol, Desna, to channel. I do. Oh, cool. It's a little tiny butterfly keychain. That came out of a Christmas cracker. Oh, perfect.

I've been waiting to give it to you. Yeah. Yeah, so I hold forth my little plastic holy symbol, and I roll my precious gold-plated Roman dice. Seven points of healing for everybody. Nice. Rag says, I don't know how this happened. I didn't bring this up to you because, frankly, it had nothing to do with any of you. This is part of my cargo.

I was going to bring him to the gladiatorial arenas of Urgir, where I used to fight myself, and they were going to use him in the gladiator fights. But now he's dead. Not blaming you for that. This should have never happened. We've been feeding him drugged meat every single day to keep him docile. Someone must have screwed it up. It was quite obvious by his fighting that he was drugged up.

Yeah. Can any of you check his condition? I'll check his condition. I'll do a heel check on him. 24. He was sickened as well As squeezing through there So whatever He did have something in his system

But clearly it wasn't enough This four armed gorilla was clearly squeezed and sickened Yes well this is what we do How was he bound Was he bound or caged There's a cage in there He's locked in the cage and drugged Every morning when we feed him

I'd like to examine the cage and drugged every morning when we feed him. I'd like to examine the cage. So would I. All right, all right. Go ahead. Go in there and examine the cage. In the meantime, I'm going to find out who was on food duty. Is that all right? Sherlock Holmes?

That's a lot of hostility. We just saved the boat. You did, and I appreciate it. I'm torn between being upset that I lost all this gold that I got from selling this gorilla, and my ship is a mess, and there's a dead gorilla on here as well. I understand. I have a lot of emotions. It's a very unusual situation.

Please go ahead and check out the armory. All right, so Lork walks over and opens the double door. Or actually, I mean, he could just kind of go peek through the hole that he came through. The door's locked. Was his cage right up against the hole, or was his cage somewhere else in the room, and he got out, then busted through that It sounded like he came running across

the cabin. The first noise you heard was jing-a-jing-a-jing-a-jing-a-jing-a-jing-a-jing-a-jing-a-jing of a cage rattling. And then you heard the, or saw, rather, the inbuster. So when we walk in, what do we see? So he obviously, the gorilla didn't open the door and walk out, but you see just a pair of iron doors that are at the end of the gangway. Next to that is the hole in the wall.

You peek in, and you see various cargo of, like, you know, chain mail, battle axes, spears and stuff. It's probably stuff that he's going to be trading with, a trading post along the way. And then there is an iron cage and the door is swinging open. Not like off its hinges, just swinging open. Somebody just left it open. The same person that fucking fucked with the railing. Is that true or is there any damage done to the...

Are you still peeking in, or do you go into the room? Yeah, yeah. I walk up to examine the door to see if he bent the metal, or if it's just open. The lock is laying on the floor, and the door is wide open.

And the lock is not busted. It's just unlocked and laying on the floor. Yeah. So someone did it. Okay, so we'll dust for prints. Okay, roll print dusting. Kind of do a perception on the room

to see if there's any evidence of somebody that's been in here. They left behind a footstep or maybe a survival check would be better. So what are you looking for specifically? You're just looking for footprints and stuff? Well, I'm looking for evidence of something that they left here

or like some indication of who was in here. They dropped their wallet. Dropped their wallet, yeah. I could also do a survival check after that for that kind of stuff, leaving behind footprints or something. Okay. 19 on perception. It looks like the lock fell off when the cage shook,

but it's just laying there completely. You could still totally use it. It's unlocked and laying on the floor, and the door of the cage is just ajar, but you don't see any traces of anything significant. Okay. Is there a log down here that checks what time people come in to feed them so we could calculate how long and then maybe tell how long it took for the drug to wear off?

There isn't, but Rag and Howard are trying to figure that out. You're under the impression just from what Rag said that someone comes once a day to feed him and to keep this as a drug that lasts for 24 hours. So it doesn't make any sense. They feed him a drugged piece of meat. Right. So whatever he was either not fed today or it wasn't laced with

enough drug or he still had drug in his system from the day before and nobody fed him today. But they obviously had this under control and now this happened. And Rag looks as shocked as as you guys are um is there any is there any can i roll to identify any tracks on the ground sure you want to do a survival check yeah i'll roll to assist i assist uh so with the assist it's 24 um no you don't really you you see several footsteps coming in and out, and that's all you really see.

Okay. As much as I believe it's sabotage, we could also point out that when the boat was attacked today, and we stopped rowing, there was a lot of confusion. It might have been forgotten. Yeah. No. The lock was undone. You can feed the creature through the bars. Yeah, that's true.

Good point. So whoever was supposed to feed him went down and unlocked the lock, didn't feed him, and just let the lock hang there until he knew it would eventually jiggle free. Or somebody else did it who wasn't supposed to come down and feed it. Somebody took the key. We need to know if whoever feeds him has the key when they come down. Yeah, we need to know who has access to the key to that lock. So we should go ask that unless we see something else in here.

Yeah. Should we do any more, any other perception checks in the room or anything? Yeah. Gormley was the only one that did a perception check, right? And then you did survival. Yeah. I'll just do a perception on the stuff that's around. Sure.

And notice anything else suspicious or any other. Can I detect magic around the room? Sure. You don't detect any magic besides the dying corpse of the gorilla. Oh, 25. 25 perception. Alright, so Coxway and Howrex and Rag

are chatting and they're just kind of like muttering to themselves out of earshot of you guys because the four of you are in there. Lorik, you were looking around for tracks and then with your perception you notice that there are some tracks that around a very strange part of the room

with some discolored floorboards towards one corner of the room. I'd like to examine the floorboards. It looks like they can be removed. Yeah. Pull them up.

I'll pull them up. Do you do so subtly while ragged? Yeah, I mean, is it like, do you have to splinter the wood to do it? Or can you just like... You could kind of fumble with it and take a peek in there if you want to. Or you want to be like, snap it right off. Yeah, no, I'd like to kind of as easily and quietly as I can. I see Lork doing this.

Like, I can read him. Knowing him for a while, I can see. Yeah, we can predict each other's moves. We can read each other's vibe. You know what I'm saying? So I see that he's spotted something. So I, while he's doing that, I kind of pull Rag aside,

and it's just like, so is there any kind of record of whose shift this would be you know where is this kept like and i'm just like really intensely like asking him questions about the the the day shift while he's doing that to try to distract him right well he's like well you know it's we have a we have a system but i i let other people take care of that they the boys always just kind of it works for itself uh i'm sure I have it in my log somewhere. You know what?

It should be in the chart room. I can just go up there and get my ledger right now. That's a great idea. Instead of just asking around. And you know that Baron has said ledger in his possession. So he's like, great idea. I'm going to go up there. Halorix, you stay here with the men.

Make sure everything's all right. And I'll go up and wrap the ledger. Baron, why don't you go with him? Okay. Okay. Well, I don't know. I can come up and, like, help distract him while you put it back, but I don't know that you have the ledger, so I can't help.

I mean, technically, Skid would have it last. Yeah, I say Baron. Because he has the linguistics. He was looking at it and then it burst open. Oh, yeah. But I will take it if that is better for intrigue.

I mean, he's been wanting me to horse muck this whole time. Well, thank you guys for looking at this. You heard this go down. Yeah. And then one of you just shoved it in your jacket.

Maybe you said, give it back to me. Yeah. Okay. So I say, Baron Gormley, go with Captain Wragge. I'll stay here with the orc. It's fine. Let me separate you from my crew. I'll go up there alone, and then I'll be

right back down. No, it's all right. We'll go with you. Last time I checked, I'm the captain on this ship. The orc is going to turn around and say, Captain, it has become obvious from the lock here that you've got a saboteur on this boat. That's exactly what I was about to say. You cannot be walking around the boat alone.

Someone clearly is hoping that you or us are killed by one of these saboteurs. All right, Lork and Galabras roll a diplomacy check. So you just got, Lork just kind of drops

the boards that he was lifting up. Yeah, yeah, I didn't lift them up yet. I just, I hear this going down and I, yeah. 26.

14. I'm sorry I snapped at your boy. I'm just a little upset from all of this. You're probably right. We're just concerned for your safety. You know, I, as a former gladiator, I sometimes at your boy. I'm just a little upset from all of this. You're probably right. We're just concerned for your safety.

You know, as a former gladiator, I sometimes think I can do everything by myself. Please, if you'd like to come with me, maybe your magic can help if something goes wrong. Come on. Let's go. Do I detect that they're lying? Can I sense motive on their...

I'm like, why are they insisting that he has protection? No, I mean, you probably don't think anything of it. I turn to... Unless one of them cats whisper and said... I think it would be pretty easy to suspect that we don't want anyone like, alone, you know, like, just because we don't trust anybody.

Right, but only Baron and Galabras know about the hidden... I turn to Galabras as we walk behind Rag, and I say, Oh, I hope I'm having a lucky day today. How about that shot on the gorilla earlier? Huh? I could always use a little bit more luck. Oh, congratulations.

Yes, I meant to congratulate you. I shake his hand and give him a bit of luck. And Gormley is like, what's going on? We're real shady. How Rex is walking the gangplank back and forth and just kind of muttering to herself under a breath. Gormley, what are you doing? I saw Lorik with the floorboard, right? Right.

All right, I'll distract Hal Rex. All right, so you're working on Hal Rex. I'll go over and talk to him. Meanwhile, Rag is climbing up the ladder in front with Galebris and Baron climbing up behind. Baron with the hidden ledger. And Lork standing by the floorboards now. And you know that Gormley has your back watching out for Howrex. What do you do, Lork?

I'd like to try to, as stealthily as possible, pull up the boards that are loose. Okay, roll a stealth check against Howrex's perception. Stealth check. Can I, roll a stealth check against Howrex's perception. Stealth check. Can I aid with a bluff check? By distracting Howrex? Can I distract her? Yeah, roll your bluff check. And tell me what you say to her.

Natural 20 on the bluff check. You can say anything you want. Adjusted 20 on the stealth check. You can say anything you want. Adjusted 20 on the stealth check. You quietly lift the floorboards up and see a staircase descending below. What? Bluff check. Yes!

What a great place to end the episode. No, no, no, no, no, no, no! I disagree, I disagree. Terrible, terrible, terrible place to end the episode. I couldn't think of a worse place to end the episode. Outro Music