The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 47 - Circle Jerks

Episode Date: April 19, 2016

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This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast Moving on The heroes seek the Vault of Thorns The Vault of Thorns is a living dungeon With new companions The Good Now you've got Ingrahild Nargrimikan Say that three times fast

The Bad Raging Benverine Yeah, he's about to rage, son Those who rage together, die together. And the useless. Am I right, bro? Let me know if there's a Dairy Queen in Ghosts Like Mosh. When tensions run high. I'm busy killing my character. Just give me a second. Can I have a second? Troy starts to lose control. He wants so badly to cut this out. I'm editing this episode. I'm waiting for a good pause.

The adventure continues. Pause for edit. Now. Well, hello again, Glass Cannonites. Fancy meeting you here on this Tuesday morning, or whatever day you decided to listen to this. It's Troy, Troy LaVallee, your faithful and demonic DM. We had another close call for Lorkmaster Flash last week. Maybe next time

Joe won't be so bold in shitting on my hydras. If anything, I think last week's near-death experience is enough to clue the party in on the fact that they ain't in true now anymore, and things are about to get a lot more difficult. I want to send a huge thank you this week to Heather Mason, who wrote a great article

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I'm not just saying that. It is true. All right. The journey deeper into Ghost Light Marsh continues this week in episode 47, Circle Jerks. Enjoy. A lot of times we get those crit cards and we'll read it to ourself and make a face like, oh, man. Oh, man. We're like, all right.

What is it? It must be pretty bad. But I just had my mouth hit the floor. Double damage and dead. Fortitude negates. I thought you were kidding. I was sure you were kidding. That's the worst one I've ever seen.

I've never seen that card before. And, of course, you draw it. The DM. It's funny how that works. Yeah. Funny. How convenient. There must be some in there that's like, you lose an arm or something like that. It's funny how that works. Yeah. Funny. How convenient. There must be some in there that's like you lose an arm.

Yeah. Yeah. Like that. I got to shuffle these. I've never shuffled them ever. Yeah. Well, if Decapitate comes up again soon, we'll negate it. All right.

So you guys are now deep, deep into Ghost Light Marsh. You have a companion, not just Ben Vereen or Howie the Green Sting Scorpion from Southie. How you doing, Howie? Am I right, bro? Yo, you still know tongues, dude. Let me know if there's a Dairy Queen in Ghost Light Marsh. Yo, you want to hit up the Dunkin' Donuts? We've got to check in with Howie every once in a while.

Every once in a while. Every once in a while. How do you feel about the situation? I just want a regular coffee and a manager special. Oh, man. But now you've got Ingra Hild Nargrimikan. Say that three times fast. You have, even though she almost took off Lork's head,

cooler heads have prevailed and realized she was under a terrible curse. Luckily, she had a potion of remove curse on her body. In her state, she didn't even know she had that, so she wasn't able to use it on herself. Calabras at one point tried to calm emotions, but it even says right here, the only spells that can get rid of it are Greater Restoration, Heal,

Limited Wish, Miracle, or Wish. Well, those are very high-level spells that we do not have access to. Or Remove Curse. Or the potion that she's carrying on her body. So even, because we were talking about how maybe even break enchantment might have worked but that's that's a fifth level spell it wasn't even anything yeah wouldn't do anything um yes i think technically remove curse she has to roll it re-roll the will save but

um i rolled a will save for the hell of it let's at the DC. And she rolled a natural 18 on the will save. But moving on, she says, Oh, you're looking for will-o'-wisps. I know a clearing. My brother and I found this when we were looking for the famed tomb of my ancestor,

Nargrim Steelhand. We came upon this clearing camp for the night, felt like we're being watched from time to time. I saw some will-o'-wisps appear and disappear. She takes you there. You guys hang out for a little while. It's not long before you feel like you're being watched. And then all of a sudden,

right next to Galabras, he hears, where did you get that? Your theft will not go unpunished. Give that back to us. As a surge of electrical energy runs through him. That's the surprise round. So before I roll to hit

and for damage, roll for initiative. All right. Who rolled higher than 25? Who rolled higher than 25? Who rolled higher than 20? 22 for Gorm. 22 for Gorms. Okay.

Anybody above 15? 16. 18. 18 for Galabras. 16 for Baron. And Lorcan Benverine. 15. Rounding out. Rounding out the bottom.

You see this glowing skull right next to you, Galabras. That is terrifying. 27 to hit with the electrical damage. Miss. That it now does. This is the surprise round, so. Five points of electricity damage. And now it is round one.

Who goes first? The same creature. By the way, this is a touch attack. 25 against touch. Miss. Alright. So, yeah, this damage wasn't that impressive. Here we go.

Okay, 13 points of electricity damage. And then it disappears. Fuck that. Goes invisible. As Lork knows, it has natural invisibility. Where it moves after that.

What was the other thing that I learned? It's immune to magic. That magics that have spell resistance. Okay, it is now Ingrahild's turn. We'll call her Ingra for short. What do I do? I can't even see it. She runs over there and just swings at the space

where she saw it appear next to Galabras, and it just swings straight through, and nothing happens. It is now Gormley's turn. So will Glitterdust have any effect on this? Try it. Well, who are you asking? It is now Gormley's turn So Will glitter dust have Any effect on this? Try it Well who are you asking?

I'm asking you guys You all the players Well I mean I would think that it would be immune To the Blinding effects But I mean it's just a physical Dust that would cover anything

Does glitter dust have spell resistance? That's the only question Well Well that's what I was saying The blindness would Yes But the But the dust is a physical effect Right have spell resistance that's the only question well well that's what we're saying the blindness would yes but the but the but the dust is a physical effect right it's immune to any spell that has spell resistance i mean it's pretty clear but it's not exceptional ability immunity to magic but it's not really like being affected by the spell it's just yeah it's actually one of the

dust yeah it just basically the dust is an ingredient of the spell. It's a component. It just gets magnified and like spreads out all around this area. Right, right. Yeah, it wouldn't be blinded. It actually does not have spell resistance. That makes sense because it has these ancillary effects.

Gormley is going to cast Glitter Dust, although we'll say that she says a code word So everyone knows to close their eyes Okay so you Attack it By casting Glitterdust On the area where

I don't attack anything I just cast Glitterdust On the area it's got a It's got a range Of it's over 100 feet It's a long range But... It's over 100 feet. It's a long range. It's, yeah. But what's the radius? 10 feet.

10 foot spread. 10 foot radius. So around, 10 feet around me. So you want to cast it where it last was or around you? I guess where it last was would be better, right? Yeah. Okay, so you cast Glitter Dust in the area right where Ingra Swammer is there, and it covers ten squares.

I mean, excuse me. Ten-foot radius. Ten-foot radius. Okay. Nothing appears. Okay. Still invisible. Still invisible.

Now, that Glitter Dust dust Does that stay in that area Or it only coats Something It just coats Coats everything Okay So Ingrid probably Is covered in dust

Right But you told her And Galabras to Close their eyes Shield our eyes But yeah They're covered in glitter dust And sticky

And now it's Galabras' turn I like I take the lantern and I put it down on the ground. It's like, it was Silvermane. Silvermane gifted this lantern to us. Okay, roll a diplomacy check. I'm gonna give myself a bit of luck.

Damn. Yeah, 25. Ooh. 25. All of a sudden, you see the skull appear bathed in like a bluish light. And it

sort of transforms into the ghostly image of an old, old human with a bushy beard sort of appearing behind this glow of the will-o-wisp. And he says, Silvermane,

I knew that name once. He was a brother of mine. My name is Mossmoon. I am a former member of the Council of Thorns. What is your reason for having a presence within this swamp? We seek the Vault of Thorns. We are... We have been told that there may be weapons therein

that may help us in the fight against... against the orcs. Which orcs? Which orcs do you plan on fighting? We seek to infiltrate the headquarters Which orcs? Which orcs do you plan on fighting? We seek to infiltrate the headquarters of the Twisted Nail and the Twisted Heart tribes. Where are they? They are at Red Lake Fork.

Almost got a spit take out of Joe. That was incredible. He's trying to time it For what he was drinking You were being so serious As you were to do it And then you just Over enunciated it Really hit it home

Really I spit on myself That was perfect And you see the The man Like a big smile App appear behind his bushy beard. An excitement in his eyes. He says, you plan to invade a fort filled with orcs?

Then you must go to the Vault of Thorns. Do you know where it is? We were told that we could place a husk of a willow wisp within this lantern and it would point the way. Yes. It has been so long, I do not remember where exactly it is. It is deep within the heart of the marsh, but I do know that the lantern will show you the way. heart of the marsh, but I do know that the lantern will show you the way. Long ago, when we druids of the Council of Thorns stood against the ork holds of Belkson, we made our last stand here, close to death, and with the majority of our powers exhausted, we knew that defeat was imminent.

But we also knew that if our bodies could not defeat the rampaging orcs, then perhaps our spirits, reborn and rejuvenated, would stem the tide. Feeling we had no other choice, we sacrificed ourselves in a powerful ritual. I will now take you to that place.

Oh, yeah. Follow me. And he just sort of... I will now take you to that place follow me and he just sort of glows away into the forest and he's moving he moves quickly at first so you see like oh that's why he missed glitter dust that guy can fly perfectly but then he stops

and you can kind of see him going off deeper into the forest what do you do? follow him I will follow Mossman okay he takes you through and you

follow him for could be half an hour, could be an hour time sort of loses all meaning as you're in the presence of this ancient spirit. And eventually you come to another clearing, and there is a strange collection of pale, spongy spheres piled up, all about one foot in diameter, piled on top of each other. Somebody roll a knowledge engineering check.

Oh, I can do that. Baron, I think that's you. 19. It is indeed the dead will-o'-wisps. And in a very solemn way. Did you mean knowledge dungeoneering? Yeah. When I say engineering?

I was like, how? Is it some sort of clock? How did they construct this pile of dead will-o'-wisps? I'm looking right here. It says dungeoneering. This is fine Swiss craftsmanship. I was like, why didn't Joe roll it? I thought he was the Dungeoneer.

Anyways, well. What a sturdy pile. You already knew. This pile is well made. It was. Oh, Troy feels so bad. He wants so badly to cut this out. Don't hurt her.

I'm editing this episode. I'm waiting for a good pause. Somebody roll a knowledge dungeoneering. Would you get Joe 16? They are in fact dead willowists. It's going to sound really weird when we crack up. You nailed it. Knowledge dungeoneering.

You nailed it, Joe. Good thing you didn't roll engineering. That wouldn't make any sense. You're in a fucking forest. Oh, man. So, so, he brings you there,

and he kind of hovers over the pile of spheres, and in a solemn whisper, he tells you, this is the resting place of the fallen members of the reincarnated Council of Thorns. You are the bearer of the lantern. I think you should place one of the spheres very carefully and gently into the lantern.

I solemnly kneel. I say a prayer to Desna, and I gently, reverently take one of the husks and place it within the lantern. You lift up this spongy thing and put it in there. The second it's placed within the lantern,

just boom, the lamp emits a beam of light that just goes straight through the forest to like the northwest. Just a path, a beam of light, like out of fucking the Dark Tower. light like out of fucking the dark tower and uh moss moon just kind of closes his eyes and puts his hand in prayer and says

good luck have you any other questions i will now pray over my brothers uh pardon me uh what's in the vault of thorns I will now pray over my brothers. Pardon me. What's in the Vault of Thorns? The Vault of Thorns is a living dungeon. It is there where we came to the decision to do what we did. There are all manner of things within the dungeon. But we are no longer there.

Thank you, Mossmoon. Defeat the orcs, kill them all, do it in our name. And then he dissipates. Nice. So, Return of the King. All right. So we have the way pointed. Yeah.

I hold the lantern high and begin marching in the direction in which it leads us. Okay. So, you guys are now very, very deep within the forest. You guys are now very, very deep within the forest. I'd say probably a mile in, if not more, into just this thick, thick, heavy vegetation. So you keep just following the light. What's nice now, even though it's tough to maneuver around, you have a very definite path. So, Galabros, if you like turn your body to go the wrong way,

you know, the light always points you. So you guys are just directly following the light. Um. Okay. Uh. It's getting later, but it's not night. Do you want to rest, or do you want to push on?

I'd really like to get my one bit of luck back. And my glitter dust back. Yeah. I mean, I vote for pushing on. Yeah, I think we should push on. Do you need to heal yourself before we go forward, Skid?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. pushing on yeah i think we should push on do you need to heal yourself before we go forward skin oh yeah um yeah i'm actually gonna sorry to always be worried no no you're so i forgot i even got hit um yeah i'm gonna uh use the wand on myself uh for 10 how many charges are left on that 410. How many charges are left on that? There's like 30 plus. Oh, oh. Oh, that's right.

There's a full one. Yeah. And we can make more now. That's right. All right. All right. We'll push on. You continue pushing on.

You eventually start to see the moonlight trickle through the boughs of the trees above you. You march on into the night, and eventually, after a couple hours, you come to a clearing. Oh. A circle of monolithic standing

stones surrounds a central menhir covered in a layer of thick, thorny vegetation. Druids. In all, there are eight separate formations surrounding the central stone. Five of them are intact, and another three have crumbled

and partially sunk into the swamp's soggy floor. To the northwest, you can hear the soft sound of a large pool gently bubbling. Hot springs. We're in Little Rock now. The stones that are still standing are eight feet tall. Hot springs. We're in Little Rock now. The stones that are still standing are eight feet tall. There's lentils on top of them. And the central menhir is 12 feet tall, as far as you can see.

Can I ask what a lentil is? It's a cross beam. Oh, okay, got it. Think Stonehenge. You see this. You've got Lork and Benverine pretty much up front. The dwarves behind him. The casters behind him.

Without actually doing anything, tell me what you're thinking about I'm thinking that did she say this is where they encountered the witch that hexed her yes she's like this this is the area this is the area where we attacked

by the witches by the coven by the witches um I mean Lork doesn't really know how to steal himself against that kind of mental control, so he's definitely nervous about it. I think I'm going to ready an action, and if I see a witch,

I'm going to imbibe that ale. Okay. That Baron made for me. If you see a witch, you will imbibe that ale Okay That Baron made for me If you see a witch You will imbibe Jisan Light Jisan Light, yes It's a heady brew

Jisan Stout Jisan Imperial Stout I intend to cast Protection from Evil On Lork Oh, well if he does that Then I'm not going to do the ale protection from evil on Lork? Oh, well, if he does that, then I'm not going to do the ale. Yeah, that's the reason for it. So, yeah, I forgot you could do that.

And meanwhile, Galabras is holding the lantern in front of him, and you see the beam is going straight to this. The center stone? The center stone, yeah. It's very cool. This is super cool. The beam has also become much dimmer now that you're at the uh central location right so you're readying that action skid i want to do it yeah can can we

just do it sure yeah okay i cast it on lork and on ingerhild all right so you touch lork and ingerhild yeah okay okay only wants to use the wand to do cat's grace on baron cat's grace boom wow and we'll sheath the wand well well be aware that cat's grace is only gonna it'll auto calculate it yeah but it only gives him a plus one no gives me a plus two your belt takes half of it i know you're talking about the bonus i'm talking about the dexterity bonus i'm still getting plus two dex. It doesn't stack, but it buffs it. Plus two, yep.

And then I'll cheat the wand. I'm actually looking still for Ingra's brother, so I just want to look to see if there are any dwarven footprints. Okay, so you want to roll a perception for survival. 28 on perception. okay so you want to roll a perception or survival 28 on perception

make that a survival I'm sorry just use the same roll and put to a survival 24 24 survival you see tracks going every which way, signs of a battle.

And you can see on the other side of the standing stones what looks to be half-devoured corpses. Oh. Cannibal witches. Oh. Whew. Oh, man. Lork and Ingrahild have protection from evil.

Ingrahild, do you say anything about the corpses? Do they look dwarven, or? Can't say it from there. You just see tracks of signs of a battle, half-devoured corpses. I whisper to the group, there are corpses, but I don't want to say it, like, loud to where I could be heard. Ingraholt says, I'm low! And she starts... No, no, no,

Lurk tries to grab her. Okay. Roll to CMD to try to grab her. Not like you're fighting her, but just to actually grab her. 15. Okay. Was your plus two from your belt? Yup. Does not be

does not be rolled a five so she just she uh begins running over there slips through his grasp slips through his grasp and gets about

to there do you run after her um let her do sort of static movements yeah just to kind of yeah

I mean I'm going to move cautiously so I'll move like 10 or 15 feet not all Yeah. I mean, I'm going to move cautiously. So I'll move like 10 or 15 feet. Me too. Not all the way to her. But I'm keeping an eye on these stones here, telling Ben Vereen to follow. Yeah.

Okay. And Galabras, you're kind of following behind. I follow as well. And I'm going to. Sure, I'll follow too. Can I try an intimidate check? Can I say, they'll kill you if you cross any further.

Gromley will hang back. Gromley will hang back. She stops. any further. Gromley will hang back. Gromley will hang back. She she stops. I just I want to see if it's my brother. I have to know.

I have to know. We'll do it carefully. Slow down. We stick we stick together. Everybody roll a perception check. 20 14

23 16 23 Gorms 23 20 14 23 16 23 Gorms 23 who rolled above 26 nobody nobody I'm sorry I wasn't

I was listening I was mainly just wanting to hear what Gormley rolled because from behind Gormley so far away from us a

giant comes out of the woods oh it's the marsh giant a giant? a giant who looks like this oh shit oh

it's like a sloppy looking It's like a stick with a hook at the end of it Known as a gaff And just goes to swing it down on Gormley Looks like Jabba the Hutt with a spear Roll for initiative I bet you that thing has times four crit My guess

Oh and you have a pawn for it He has an actual pawn for it Thanks to the giant slayer pawns Oh. Thanks to the Giant Slayer Pawns. Oh, that's right. The Giant Slayer Pawn John. Gormley, no! Who's that racist cook lady who got in trouble about saying... Paula Deen.

She looks like Paula Deen before she gets her makeup done. It is a female. I will tell you that. Oh, it is Paula Deen. It is Paula Deen. It is Paula Deen. Yes, the Marsh Giant is played by Paula Dean glad she's getting work tough tough time for her bad initial

and Ingra is like way far away from where she can help. We're all scattered. Well, my concern is, well, she can like double move to move 40 feet, but she's got dwarven moving speed, which is fucking terrible. Yeah. I'm glad I'm where I am, actually. All right, who's got above 20? 23 for Gormley. Damn, Gorms.

Good job. Great. Gorms. Okay, 23 for Gorms. And anybody else? Who's above 15? 19. 19 for Baron.

Lork, what'd you get? 17. I thought it was a good roll. I can never act before Baron. Cal, what'd you get? Call me Luke Skywalker, because may the four be with me. Boo!

Boo! Boo! That was really good. Okay. If I do say so myself. Alright, it acts in a surprise round. It does one attack, power attack, vital strike.

At Gorbs. Remind me what vital strike does? It does a lot of damage. It does your full attack round in one roll. So if you roll, like I roll 46 when I have a great sword when I use it, but you don't have to use a full attack round to do it. Okay. You get double damage.

You double the damage of your... So you put it on one roll. At your highest base attack bonus. Yep. 24 to hit. That surprisingly enough does hit. Gormley gets hit. Four.

Oh, this is going to be bad. 28 points of damage. Holy shit. This thing just comes in. Giant. Marsh Giant just comes in. Giant. Marsh giant. Round one. Gormley.

I mean, I gotta get out of there. No kidding. Fly, you fool. I wanna fly out, but I'm gonna provoke. Yeah, and does it have reach? Just do a full withdrawal. I'll just do a full withdrawal i'll just do a full withdrawal but that's only one threatened square doesn't that do two it does have reach so it would attack well

hold on a second does it have reach so that it wouldn't be right next to her because if it's reaches with its weapon then it can't attack that's a good point that's a great i see what you mean um so it would have had to attack her from 10 feet away. Its reach is 10 feet. Okay. So should we back it off from her? Yeah, just back it off 5 feet. Okay, you can get out of there. So you can withdraw.

Yeah, I'll full withdraw. Fly! Back towards Galabras. Okay, so Gormley runs back. Baron, bleeding. Baron's going... Badly, very badly. This thing's got a big triangular mouth just full of teeth long pointy teeth

i'm gonna let this be dungeon master's call um leaning towards now yeah it's fine i'm going to assume that i have my barrels loaded with the flame arrow enhanced bullets because of the speech I made, but if you want to say that I would just have normal up to this point, that's fine too. I didn't say it out loud, so I'm giving you the. What speech? I don't remember the speech.

I gave a speech to everyone about how we're fighting all these crazy magical creatures and we should use this potion of flame arrow to give each ourselves this added damage against these people. Right, so it would make sense then that... I would have them in? I'm okay with that. Okay, so... Who says

I'm not benevolent? Everybody. Rapid shot, deadly aim, point blank shot up close and deadly. Okay, and you are at the head of the pack there, so you don't take any... 18 against touch AC.

Uh, that is a hit. That is, uh, 13 regular damage and five fire damage. Okay. Second attack. That is a 16 against touch AC. That hits nice but the purple dies fire for the listeners

for everyone listening at home nice that is 15 regular damage plus six fire damage for a total of 21. Okay. And I free action reload both my barrels with fire enhanced. I'm sorry, would you say 15 regular and how much? Six fire. Okay. Lork. You see Gormley get slashed with the gaff and then Baron. Yeah.

All right, Lork is going to shift to the side and take a clear shot at this thing with his bow. Okay. 22 to hit. 22 hits. And he hits him four. Nine points of damage. And hit some floor. Nine points of damage. Nine points of damage, just

What happened to the old bow and arrow sounds that we all used to know and love? Yeah, they are hard to find sometimes. They kind of sound like web swingers. You can find it after Ben Vereen's attack. Right, Ben Vereen. Alright, I'll tell Ben Vereen to attack and Ben Vereen. All right, I'll tell Ben Vereen to attack.

Brend Vereen. Brend Vereen. Brend. You're my only Brend. I hate giants. Ben, take him out. So he'll go run up and bite. 18 to hit.

18 misses. Okay. So now Ben Vereen is directly up in front of the Marsh Giant. Well, I guess it would get an attack of opportunity, actually. It would. Yep. And it has multiple. Thanks for that tip, Ed.

Yeah. Good to know. Okay. It will vital strike again. Can it vital strike on an attack of opportunity? Nope. You can't? Nope.

You can make a single attack that deals. Okay okay you can't power attack either nope okay wait no yeah he has to power attack yeah because if he had a power attack it's a whole round every attack is a power okay 30 to hit ben varane uh all right i'm going to enact my ability to increase his ac by plus four and the attack will still hit obviously, but he takes half damage Okay, cool ability. Yeah bolster companion 20 points of damage. So it'll be 10 who points of damage Wow Raging Benvry. Yeah, he's about to rage son It's his attack and he's gonna to make two attacks at Ben Vereen so he's going to move but he can't move back

oh I see because Ben Vereen's right up in his stuff and he's real tiny so he's not going to be able to do it now here's the thing it's not a reach weapon but it doesn't matter because his reach is 10 he can't attack things up against I think it's different for natural weapons it's not a natural weapon it's that big hooky thing

maybe he can hit right in front of him if it's not a reach weapon is. It's not a natural weapon. It's that big hooky thing. Maybe he can hit right in front of him if it's not a reach weapon. Yeah, I think that. You know it's not a reach weapon? I don't know. If it's not a reach weapon, I think it's just his. What's it called? A gaff.

Well, I just thought that you can make a good argument that Ben Vereen, at his feet, is really tough to hit with a huge weapon. How do you spell it? G-A-F-F? Oh, I don't see it. I don't know. I don't know anything about that.

I think this whole reach thing, it's, it has to do with what you threaten, but the reach in terms of what you can attack is based on the weapon, not the size of the creature. That's what I think. Okay. That's how I understand it.

The creature's reach is its threatened area. The weapon's reach is its own thing. I mean, this is a, I'm looking it up. That's fine. Yeah.. The creature's reach is its threatened area. The weapon's reach is its own thing. I mean, this is a... I'm looking it up. That's fine. Yeah, I mean, either way, he's got to attack Benverine. There's no one else there. He's not going to run past Benverine.

Well, he could run past Benverine. Is it a boarding gaff? That's the only gaff I see stats for. Here, I'm going to make it easier. He's going to take a five-foot step. Two attacks on Baron. Baron? Yep, he moved to attack Baron.

First attack, 24. That is, hold on, exactly by AC. Holy shit. Oh, because it's a giant. Yeah. Okay. Plus cat's green. a giant. Yeah. Okay. Plus cat's green. 22 points of damage.

Ooh. Jesus. Second attack. Hits. 26 hits. Oh, my God. For 21 points of damage. Oh, my God.

Was that 40-something points of damage? And that was without Vital Strike, obviously. So when you use Vital Strike, you can only make the single attack,

It's a single attack, it's your highest base attack bonus, but it doubles your thing. So if you do 2d6 damage, you do 46, plus whatever the bonus is.

Ooh, I need some sexual healing. And he's only holding this one-handed. So you just would enact that when you're not doing a full attack, actually. Right, correct. Or if you just want to do a kill

shot. Okay, so it is going to be Ingrahild's turn, and she is torn. She's like, I need to know if it's my brother. There's a giant! She pulls out her composite shortbow and fires through the crowd

natural 20. That's probably the only possible roll that would hit. shortbow and fires through the crowd natural 20. That's probably the only possible roll that would hit. She shot through two people. And he's got a plus four because of Benverine or whatever. Natural 20 and it's a named character. Let me roll to confirm. Confirm, confirm, confirm.

She won't. No chance. It's minus 12 to her attack. Minus 12 and she rolled a 13 on the die. Yeah. But she does max damage. She won't. No chance. It's minus 12 to her attack. Minus 12, and she rolled a 13 on the die. Yeah. But she does max damage. She does max damage, which is nine points of damage. So hits for nine points of damage. Nice.

Okay, and now it is Galabras' turn. This is round one. I'm going to channel. Thank you. You're my main man. Seven. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Ben Verreed is furious. My man. Seven. Ben Vereen is furious!

Okay, so round two, Gorms. Gormley is going to levitate 25 feet up in the air, and then she's going to cast Ill Omen on the giant. Okay, so his next d20 roll, he rolls twice, takes the lower one. Yep. Baron. Baron's going to move 20 feet away from him. So a total of 20 feet, so 15 feet backwards.

And he is going to shoot at him with his fire ammo. I'm looking at it right here creatures can attack anything within their reach five feet away or ten feet away it depends on the weapon if a weapon is a reach weapon like your lorx spear in those early episodes right that can only attack something

that makes sense the gap I just looked up is a reach weapon it's different but it's different for a huge I mean a gap is the thing you use that was I'm looking at is a reach weapon. It's different. But it's different. It's different for a huge weapon. I mean, a gap is a thing you use. What I'm looking at is what the pirates used to hook onto the ship. So you know what I think? I think he should be able to attack 10 and 15 feet away with that weapon. Oh, because he's got a larger reach.

But he can't attack the space right in front of him. That's what I think. It makes sense. A big weapon like that and a little Wolverine is at your feet. How's he going to hit him with it? Right, just stab it down. But if he is reaching 10 feet and the weapon has 10 feet reach,

I think he could swing 10 or 15 feet out of the way. If you're enlarged and using a reach weapon, you threaten 10 through 20 feet. Wow, Jesus Christ. So I think that makes sense for him to do 10 through 15 feet. So you can attack people 20 feet away with a full attack action. Oh, man.

Oh, buddy. All right, Baron. I'm really glad we looked this up. Yeah, it was great, too, because he went from attacking Ben Vereen to Baron. That was the best. So thanks for that, too. Look, we just want to make sure Ben Vereen is safe. He has such high damage output.

He is the true protagonist of this story. Cannot let him die. All right. Baron's going to shoot at him. Okay. Baron steps back, takes a shot. 16 against, or 18 against Touch AC. That's minus four.

14 against Touch AC. 14 against Touch AC. Still hits. Yeah. Fire. Fire. Fire. That is 15 points of regular damage and four points of fire damage.

Oh, man. Baron is doing 19 damage on the reg now. Every round. Yep. Thought we weren't min-maxing. Okay. Lork, you're up. Lork is going to go right at this guy.

So I'm going to charge and quick draw my Falchion and do a charge attack. Okay. And a power attack. Charge attack and power attack on this monster. You will provoke an attack of opportunity. Yep. And that is just

a regular attack, right? Yes. Hits. 30 to hit. Oh my god. Hits Lork. Good thing it wasn't vital strike. Hits Lork for a measly 19 points of damage. Oh, God.

He stabs at Lork. No! Running at you. You're going down, giant. He charges in 25 to hit. Oh, that's a hit. There we go. Fuck.

Yes. 16 points of damage. Good. 16's great. Why are you mad about 16? Because it's minimum. 16 points of damage. Good. 16's great. Why are you mad about 16? Because it's minimum. That's minimum damage. Stinks so bad.

I rolled two ones. Maybe Ben Vereen can make that for me. Ben. Ben now in a rage, doing a little extra damage if he hits. Claw, miss. Claw, miss. Claw, miss. Bite, natural one. Fucking got to be kidding me.

Ben Vereen just fumbled? Ben Vereen just... Confirm Ben Vereen's fumble. All right, Ben Vereen confirms fumbles. Confirmed. Okay. Oh, God. Ben Vereen also provoked an attack.

I rolled a four, a six, a one, and a four. Did Ben Vereen take a five-foot step, or did he... No, he's already in melee range. So, Ben Vereen also provoked an attack. I rolled a four, a six, a one, and a four. Did Ben Vereen take a five-foot step, or did he? No, he's already in melee range. So, yes or no? No, he does not provoke. Okay, no. Space. Natural.

Final frontier. You become entangled in your gear until you spend a standard action to free yourself. So, that's his nutsack then, right? That's under a natural attack. Why would it have gear? Yeah, that's really weird. Maybe you action to free yourself. So that's his nutsack then, right? That's under a natural attack. Why would it have gear? Yeah, that's really weird. Maybe like when to punch somebody or like.

Well, he just got flipped around. He's on his back. Yeah, yeah, exactly. For one round. Oh, Ben. Hey, you know what? Some days Ben can make it happen. Other days, not so much.

Okay, it is Gripwort's turn. Oh, his name. Because that's her name. Gripwort. She's in. Okay, she will obviously take a five-foot step back. And she's going to go ahead and full attack. Wait, there was a roll in there you were supposed to roll twice on.

Yeah. So that was Lorc's, the attack on Lorc, the attack of opportunity on Lorc. Attack of opportunity. So the first one was a hit. Let's see if this one would have been a hit as well. You tell me 21. Yeah, it's a hit. Okay, so we're good either way.

So that was Elulman. Thank you for reminding me. Sorry, I forgot. I was waiting for your turn. I didn't even think about it. She won a vital strike. She's going to vital strike one attack on Lork. Vital strike, power attack.

Jesus. There's just no point in getting close to these things. We've got to just run away. I don't know your AC. 20? That's my AC, exactly. 4d6 plus 14. Oh, wait a minute.

Oh, never mind. 29 points of damage. Jesus Christ! No, that's like he's... Steps up. Are you in a rage? Oh, yeah. I'm in a rage.

29 points of damage. So plus plus 10 let's look on the bright side you didn't get decapitated it's just there's just can't get ahead you gotta learn how to fly all right do we want to get some battle music going for this I feel like one of us is gonna I'm busy killing my character just give me a second can i have a second ingrahield uh shoots into melee through lork why isn't she using that sweet plus one battle action uh and uh her second shot misses and now it is Galabras' turn. Uh, alright.

I'm gonna come up behind Lork and cast Cure Moderate. Ooh, nice. Galabras comes up. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Nine. Jesus. Okay, okay. I'll take it. I'll take anything I can get.

Round three. Gormley. Gorm it. I'll take anything I can get. Round three. Gormley. Gorms. I got a lightning strike. Lightning bolt. Sometimes you got a lightning bolt. Lightning bolt.

17 and a reflex save. 17 and a reflex save. Decent reflexes for a big thing, but I rolled poorly. 11. Fail. Yeah. Fail. What's the damage? 17. 17! Reflex save, decent reflexes for a big thing, but I rolled poorly, 11. Fail. Yeah. Fail. What's the damage?

17. 17! Okay, still standing, but for how long? Baron. Baron's going to take a five foot step so that he only takes the minus four melee penalty, and so that he is able to rapidly shot this guy with his gun. And he says, you're the disease and I'm the cure. Nice.

22 against touch AC. 22 hits. That is 18 damage plus 4 fire damage 22 total How many of these fire cartridges you got? 13, we divided it up How many do you have left? I have, after that one

I usually do it at the end of the battle, but I have 9 left He is reeling Lork and Benverine have a chance Rapid shot Oh, rapid shot Nice That is an 11 against Tetjese Lork and Benverine have a chance. Rapid shot. Oh, rapid shot. Oh. Nice.

That is an 11 against Tetjese. Miss. The reason I said nice on a three is because that is not a misfire. Two is. I know, I heard Skid go, ah, and then you were like, nice. If you're gonna miss, hopefully not misfire. Here's what's gonna happen.

Lork and Benverine, you have a chance to kill him. Yeah, Lork's gonna take the opportunity to kill him rather than try to run away. Otherwise, I'm doing something crazy. That's not gonna, yeah, that's not gonna happen. Giving you the option. Kill him, kill her, or you're gonna hate the consequences. This is crazy that Lork is gonna like five foot step

even closer to this fucking thing. Giving you the option, Lork. It's up to you and Benverine. Killer, or the consequences are going to be hard. Well, he's in a rage, so he has no choice. They're both raging right now. They're both raging. Yeah, they're both raging. Pet and owner are raging right now.

Those who rage together die together. Yeah, exactly. So raging power attack with the falchion. 20 to hit. Miss. Are you shitting me? 21 AC. Ben Vereen hits with a claw.

This is like, I'm so infuriated I can't even roll dice. His hands are shaking. Literally, my hands are shaking. I was thinking I was either going to do the cure or give you a bit of luck. I should have given you a bit of luck. Three points of damage from Ben Vereen on one claw. Next claw, miss, bite, natural one. Oh, wait a minute.

He can't do any damage. He's spending this turn freeing his entanglement from last time. So he does no damage? No damage. Okay. If you had hit him, you would have killed him. Yeah, I have 2d4 plus 17. That's my damage roll.

Did I not say something? Fucking 20! Did I not say something horrible was going to happen? I gave you the option. We've got to up the stakes here. Fuck you. Grip wart, two hands. It's gaff.

Takes a five foot step back. No, it can't. It can't. It's in. It's right here. Okay, well he's still five feet from Lurk, which means he can't attack Lurk, or he can. It's a reach weapon.

He's attacking Ben Vereen. Oh, okay. Power attack, vital strike, two-handed weapon. Oh no. Fuck your Wolverine. Oh my God. Troy decided. 15. Fuck your Wolverine. Oh, my God. Troy decided. 15.

To hit? Yeah. I think it's a... Sorry. I think it's a hit. Oh, I love this music. It is a hit, but... Yeah, because he's raging, but I will spend the point for plus four, so it's a miss.

So it's a miss. Would have been 46 plus 21 damage. Oh, yeah. He'd have been miss. So it's a miss. Would have been 46 plus 21 damage. Oh, yeah. He'd have been dead. That would have been it. But thank that little ranger trick. Yeah. All right.

Ingrahild begins moving up. And tries to take another shot with the crossbow. Natural 20. Yes. There she goes. All right. Natural 20 to confirm 18 to confirm

She confirms on the Oh Alright so ranged Ranged Piercing Piercing Normal damage And 1d8 bleed

Oh nice He takes 7 points of damage And then the bleed on his turn On the bleed on his turn It doesn't matter Because the arrow pierced Straight through his heart I keep saying him It was she She died his turn on the bleed on his turn uh it doesn't matter because the arrow pierced straight through his heart i keep saying him it was sheer she died all right two natural 20s boom nice shot

nice shot 46 plus 21 with a two-handed uh attack vital strike power. I almost want to yell at Ingra for not getting up in there, but I guess she did finally fall him, but... All right. Do we still need to be on guard here? I mean, I didn't see any witches, so can you hit me with that wand or something real quick? Yeah. In case something's on the horizon.

Grommi's going to descend a little normally he's gonna descend uh four healing three more healing nine healing i could also use healing at some point so could i well then we should channel yeah i'm a channel uh eight i'm still down half i don't know if we're going to rest or... Well, what are we going to do? Well, yeah, I just want to get this in quick in case something else jumped out at us, but yeah, we can't rest, so we need to check out the... Can I check out the body? Yeah.

Alright, so if we're out of combat, Gromley's going to land. What's on the body? A gaff. That's it? Actually, Gromley's going to stay up in the air for now just to keep an eye out until the levitate is used up. So the gaff is all we find?

Yeah, you find a gaff and 48 gold pieces. Is that gaff something a normal sized person could use? Mm-hmm. I turn to Cormley and I say, is this magical? From up above, can I detect magic on it? You can detect

magic, yeah, and it's not magical. Okay. Can I appraise it? Yeah, it's just a normal, worthless gaff worthless calf okay then i leave it in the swamp or the marsh um all right could have been could have been rough ended up um being okay. Oh, man. That feat you took for Ben Vereen, or was it the feat you took for yourself to give Ben Vereen a plus four? Yeah, the ranger trick. Bolster companion.

Twice this has saved Ben Vereen's life. Yeah. 4d6 plus 21 damage. Yeah. That would have killed me. That would have killed everybody. Here, I just rolled it for the hell of it. Rolled two fives, a six, and a four.

Oh, my God. What in the math? 41. 41 points of damage. Yeah, Gormley would have been deadorms. Here, I just rolled it for the hell of it. Rolled two fives, a six, and a four. Oh, my God. Twenty in the math. Forty-one. Forty-one points a day. Yeah, Gormley would have been dead. Yeah, me too. Dead, dead. Yep.

So just to let you know, this is what you're facing now. This is deep within Fifth Level Swamp. Oof. Okay, so you are, as far as you know, out of combat. But what would this thing be doing alone at these stones? Like, where did it come from? Can I, well, whatever. Do we want to do bodies first?

I'd like to do a survival check to see where it came from. This is, I remember him. He was, I think he was with the witches. She? She, I think she was with the witches. She must have been, I keep saying he. She must have been the only surviving member. I must go look at the bodies. And she runs over to the bodies. Before she, oh, well, no, I keep saying, hey! She must have been the only surviving member. I must go look at the bodies.

And she runs over to the bodies. Before she, oh, well, no, I channel again. Okay. She didn't take any damage, so she just runs over. Yeah, yeah, 10. Great. And she goes over there, she goes, I can't tell. It doesn't, I don't, I think he's okay.

I mean, I don't see his body. It's a mangled mess. What are the bodies? It's a mangled mess. You can the bodies? It's a mangled mess. You can't tell how many people are there or not, but you roll a perception. 25. 24.

26. No, no better than Baron. And growing with the 26, you would also see that it does not look like there's a body of a dwarf in there. It looks like the mangled bodies of hags and humans. Oh, wow.

Huh. And she said that she had mercenaries with her for this trip. So we'd assume that's, but they're like regurgitated, half regurgitated. Disgusting. Was that this thing? Was the giant eating them?

Yeah. You would think this is like, he was eating them, heard you guys coming. She was. She, was she damn it gripboard is now a male no just like the horse gender changes on the fly heard you guys coming also sorry giant beam of light yeah was like hid back in the trees can i roll this crazy stealth gormley missed it by three because you rolled a 23 rolled a 26 stealth gets a bonus of stealth for in swamps. Came out and just attacked, hoping that you would be her next meal.

Can I do a knowledge? What's the knowledge check? That would be a humanoid. So knowledge local. Knowledge loke, I believe. I just want to know if I know anything about this breed of giant, if they travel in packs or pairs. Yeah, I've never heard of this.

Yeah, go ahead and roll a knowledge local. I'll do it as well. It's DC 18. Fail. Got it. 21. 18. Got it.

Okay. Exactly. They're like cannibalistic thugs that oftentimes cannibalize their own members of their tribe. Wow. Like they're just evil, chaotic evil. So do they roll solo on stuff? They often roll solo

because they have so much trouble staying together as tribes because there's so much infighting. It's just an interesting little tidbit I love reading these flavor things some marsh giants mingle with abominations from the deepest seas creatures they believe are sent by their god this is further contributed to their

racial degradation but the immediate offspring of these unholy unions are powerful deformed with tentacles scales and other aquatic traits these marsh giants are known as brine-born. They're advanced marsh giants with the aquatic subtype. Oh, wow.

It's like Cthulhu. So what we just fought, only advanced. Right, with tentacles. I let Ingrid know that as gruesome as this is, I don't see any dwarven bones in here. So I think he could still be alive. I can only hope.

Looks like my, the men we hired did not, were not as lucky. Umlau, if you're out there, if you can hear us, please, please stay alive. She speaks to the heavens. And I say to her, answer her. I say to her, I'm right here She speaks to the heavens. And I say to her. Answer her.

I say to her. I'm right here. I'm right here. It's me. Tell her. Roll a bluff, Charlie. You've got to calm down, though. You've got to get your wits about you.

You can't run off like that again, or else you put all of my party in danger, and I can't allow that. Sorry, I just, I was torn by emotion. I was in fear for my brother's life. I just had to know. We've got to stick together. I rolled two crits.

You only confirmed one. So, are we going to go to the stone? Or do we need to check around the back to make sure there's nothing else here? I think we should check around and then go to the stone. Let's clear the area. Lork will go over to this path that's on the other side of the stones

into the underbrush. Let us secure. Let's cut through and try to clear the perimeter. So you kind of walk through. Gormley's hovering 25 feet up in the air. Can I do a perception to see, to kind of just take a survey? So you're 20 feet up. You're looking down on the stonehenge here, we'll call it.

Before my levitation runs out. Yeah, you can roll perception. Nice. 16. nice oh uh 16 um so you see the same thing just from a high up view there's eight stones three of them are broken and uh there's one central pillar which is much larger that's 12 feet up you're about eight feet above that and then the stones themselves are eight feet so you're 12 feet above them can can i use can i pick up the gaff the giant is using and didn't you throw it into the sea i guess and i can pick it up okay can i pick it up and just as i walk the other side around hit 10 feet in front

of me with it like for traps or something where are you like walking near the stones so lorik went around this corner i'm going to go around the other side of the circle, and I just want to, like, use it kind of like a blind person seeing sort, but, like, trying to activate. On the ground or in front of you? On the ground, just to try to activate traps or anything. Okay, you walk around, and you get all the way to the same pathway that Lork is taking towards the hot spot.

Okay, I drop it. And, yeah, nothing goes off. So, Lork, you're running through, or no, you're walking. I close my eyes and run down the path. You're at a full charge. Minus 40 AC. No, okay, so you go through. It's very thick, but there is a worn path there.

I do a survival check on tracks on the path. Okay. 30. Oh, dope. If there are any tracks there, they were made a long long long time ago you see nothing um but uh as you i keep walking you keep walking it's very very thick um but you can move through it and you see a bubbling hot spring oh okay um gourmet is going to descend and uh can i can i touch touch the water? Is it warm?

Sure, yeah. It's naturally warm. Do you walk into it? Do you step into it? Do you put your hand in? I just put my hand in for now. Yeah, it's warm. It's refreshing.

You wish you had time for a bath. Yeah. You wish you had time to bathe Ingerhild? Because she still stinks. She took a bath and then put her shit clothing back on. All right, Lork will come back, tell him that there's a hot spring down there. Splash party!

Marco, should we be resting before we go into the stone? Where's the light shining? What direction is the light shining? Everywhere Galabras goes, the light shines right direction is the light shining everywhere Galabras goes the light shines right to this circle of standing stones and if you wash the light over the central stone it's supposed to reveal some sort of entrance

so we might want to rest yeah we should rest first should we rest by the hot spring or is there not enough room there? Or should we rest by these creepy sounds? I think we should rest in where it's more open. Yeah, yeah.

All right, so I'm going to use the rest of my channels, whatever it takes. Eight. I'm still benefiting from this, by the way. Still coming back. I was down to three. Six. After the first hit, you were down to three hit points? and then i raged and i got some extra but and four perfect anyone need more healing no i'm good lurks back i'm back okay oh damn dude a couple of close call a couple of close

close calls yeah so can we rest here again obviously keep a watch a rotating watch sure are you resting near the hot springs or are you resting

near the druidic circle I would like to rest near the druidic circle so we can keep our eyes peeled yeah so within the stones or just near the stones

near near I would say within the stones just because anything that might come out of the underbrush we would have cover from at least for a few seconds they might be okay just uh show me on the map where you're all sleeping if you're using the stones as like

leanabouts or anything oh boy i don't like this well what do you want to do that's fine i'll just go we can we can vote for it. I would have just slept outside, but it's probably, it doesn't matter. That's fine. I consider this to be a safe place for us. At least magically speaking, like the magic of the stones and everything, I think it will protect us. We'll see.

Are you guys examining any of the stones? Are you examining the central end here are you i want to wash the light over a collaborator's wash light over and look at it and see i look for any runes we've been looking for this for a long time you know or anything strange in the stone i look for uh no it is uh you know blank natural monolithic uh stone so sorry i heard a bunch of different things are people touching it or are they touching the stones or are they just bathing it in light i'm touching the outer stones touching the outer stones i haven't touched the inner okay roll a perception on the outer stones

outer stones uh 19 19 um yeah the three that are broken look to have fallen and crumbled um but the other ones are pretty uh seem pretty fallen and crumbled. But the other ones seem pretty sturdy. And there's no writing on them? No writing on them, yeah. Does it look like just age broke them? There's no claw marks or anything that would suggest they were destroyed by something? Yeah, no, it looks like they toppled over. So that was just the outer ones.

Did somebody else roll? No? Okay. Is anyone examining the middle stone? I'll take a look at the middle stone. I want to see what happens when the light washes. Okay, what's happening for us? Are you examining it? Before we watch, I'll take a look at what it is so we can...

15 perception. One of the other stones crashes down on top of you guys. What? That's why I wanted to make sure if it was being washed over first or if you were going to examine it. He was just looking at it. I didn't move.

He didn't touch it. But you were perceiving it. He just wanted that to happen just wanted to know well i mean you guys are sleeping within the stone so i figured someone's gonna brush up against it i did roll uh a natural one on the trap oh good roll uh so it is a miss but it crashes down we dodge out of the way yeah you guys dodge out of the way and it crumbles so that's what you guess we're not sleeping no we go we go back to sleep um we all lean back against the center uh stone and go to sleep what is your role in perception 15 yeah i mean it's a it's a trap and so uh that was five

less than the dc so yeah i gotta you know that's why i'm just what triggered the trap touching the stone looking at it looking at it yeah nothing at. Looking at it. Looking at it. Yeah. Nothing at all. Looking at it from far away. It had a mind of its own. And it knew. It'd be one thing if one of you went in there and said, oh, and just kind of leaned forward and peeked at it. But you guys are all within two feet of this thing looking at it.

I had to. I had to assume Ben Vereen touched it. I have to assume at least Ben Vereen touched it. But it did not hurt anybody. Yeah. So, yeah. And then. And then the light over i wash the light over it you wash light over it and all of a sudden the thick vegetation covering the monolith quickly withers away revealing a faintly glowing olive hued Wow. It's just... And that's what you see. We don't see a doorway?

You just see a stone? You just see a stone. Can I do a... So yeah, I said before that it was... The first time I mentioned it, I said it was covered in vegetation, then you asked me, is there anything on it?

No, there's nothing on it. It was covered in vegetation. The minute he washed the light over it, all the vegetation receded, and now it's just this beautiful, olive-hued stone. Okay. Did we rest?

No. Not yet. I think we should maybe rest before we go. We should rest. So we'll go outside of the stones. Yeah. And rest. Check for traps.

In shifts. We'll sleep in shifts. Sleep in shifts. Okay. And Ingrid Hilde volunteers as well. Okay. And eight hours later, you guys wake up. There's some decent light here, even though you're surrounded by trees

because of the opening near where the hot spring is. And the portal is still open, as far as you can tell. Can I do a stone-cutting type of perception on the stone to see if it's a mechanism or if we just like touch it or what happens okay uh uh 19 um you've never seen anything like this it's faintly glowing stone. I'm going to step right into it. Okay.

I'm right behind. Galabras goes up to it, rubs his body against it. Galabras disappears. Whoa. With the lantern? With the lantern. Shit, I touch it real quick.

You disappear. Gormley, right behind. Baron. Gormley, disappears. Baron, disappears. Ingrilled? Where's Benverin? He, right behind. Baron. Gormley, disappears. Baron, disappears. Ingrid? Where's Benverine? He came with me.

Okay. I actually picked him up. Oh, we forgot Howie. God damn it. You relax, Ben Howie. I should have played this beforehand, but before you guys started walking into it, Ingrid said, if this is some sort of active portal, I will stand guard here so no one else can come in after you. All right, well, be safe. My brother returns here to where the attack happened.

I will be here for him, and I will be here to lead you back to your keelboat. All right. This happened minutes ago. And then all of a sudden, the minute Galabras touches it, you feel like a strange

tugging as you're bombarded with mental images of a lush vine-choked realm. And all of a sudden, your nostrils are just full of this overwhelming floral fragrance. And every single one of you experienced the same thing when you touched. And then all of a sudden you are standing in front of the same men here in a

different dimension. Find out more next week. God. Already. Is it a bath and body work? find out more next week oh god already is it a bath and body work I love that smell I love walking in there it's an herbal essence Outro Music