The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 63 - Bullets Ogre Broadway

Episode Date: August 9, 2016

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This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast To reach the bell tower The heroes must first face off Against gruesome enemies Hogers are the most Perverse, wicked Filed, depraved creatures They're very satisfying

To kill Baron and Della light it up But he's going to shoot a flare cartridge Into these guys From her position of safety right now She's going to shoot a flare cartridge into these guys. From her position of safety right now, she's going to catch shocking grasp. Who do you think you are? Galabras takes to the sky. I said cast fly on myself.

Giant Galabras. And Barry Connick Jr. gets viciously, mercilessly, ruthlessly. He'll stay. Mocked. I'm afraid he's gonna die. I have, uh... Like everything else I've loved. The adventure continues.

I just want Barry Connick Jr. to be, like, an important character and not a complete waste like a plane. Now. What's up everybody, this is Troy coming at you live. That's not true, this is a pre-recorded intro. Actually, Matthew was supposed to do the intro this week, but I didn't like the quality of it, so I threw it out because you, the listeners, deserve better than Matthew's over-pronounced P's. I want to give a shout-out this week to Ryan Stone, Garrick from The Endorsement, and I'm probably going to butcher this, but Stefan Lukacs. Isment, and I'm probably gonna butcher this, but Stefan Lukacs, is that right?

I'm sorry if it's wrong, for all the amazing artwork you've been sending us. I never thought people would send in artwork, but yet here we are, and it's blowing our minds. So if you have any artistic talent whatsoever, please keep sending it to us because it's our favorite thing that we get. We wanna send some good thoughts out to Andrew,

who just went through some adenoidal tonsil surgery recently. He is a DM to his great uncle, George Pendergast, and we're sending you good thoughts, buddy. May all your fortitude saves be natural 20s. Another shout out to Brian Spickerman, and again, I'm probably going to butcher this, but Peter Boch, Boch maybe? Peter Boch? I like that one better. For the amazing analyses you've done of the podcast. They went through and they figured out all of the kills, all of the damage done, all of the channels, bits of luck, etc, etc, etc.

Really amazing stuff. We'll eventually get it up on the Tumblr, but right now it's on our Facebook page, so check it out. That is above and beyond the Call of Duty. Some surprising numbers in there. Who knew Lork had as many kills as he did, as well as as many natural ones. Thank you guys for all the house rules you sent in

for our core rulebook giveaway contest. That has closed, and we'll be announcing the winners pretty soon and putting the new house rule into effect. But make sure you keep sending in your ultimate intrigue entries because that contest will be closing soon as well. All right, I've rambled long enough.

Let's jump right into this. Episode 63, for all you Woody Allen fans out there, Bullets, Ogre Broadway. I am amazed you guys have got this deep into the fort without a single rogue in your party. The only way this was probably possible was to make some sort of alliance with the orcs.

And now here you are. Yeah, what kind of alliance is it? Tenuous? Tenuous at best. Deadly alliance. So now you guys have... You went through the secret doors. You avoided, as best you could, those traps,

although Baron caught a little scythe to the face. Zink. And then you went up to the top of the guard tower, kind of checked things out, came back down, and now you're in the inner courtyard where you hear screaming. Della vanishes, goes over there, and looks around the corner

and sees four ogres torturing an orc by pulling its arms and legs off. It's just like, ah, ah, ah, God, why? And you would think putting two and two together, this is most likely one of Kargik's men that he sent in as a spy, and they found him, and they're torturing him. It's like a lullaby for that sleeping giant on the roof.

It's like... That's right. There is a giant, a hill giant that Galabras saw, and you guys saw as well when you went to the top of the guard tower, drowsily sleeping next to a pile of rocks on top of the center buildings in the fort, which you guys don't know what's going on in there.

You know there's a keep to the southwest. You know there's a bell tower to the northwest. You know east is the Barbican and the bear fighting pit. But what's going on in the middle of the keep, you're not quite sure. There are what looks like, you know, four or five rooms from your map, but that is to your right, off in the distance around the corner. And now that I have

the map out here, you see not terribly far away are the ogres, and they are basically blocking your pathway to the bell tower, which is your immediate goal to try and reconnect with kalyan blix's ancestor the ghost of her ancestor as it were we should explain too uh ogres and pathfinder are unique um to other previous iterations of them they make very clear that ogres in this game are the most perverse uh wicked vile vile depraved creatures uh i've i've played in games with them a lot and it's it's they're so disgusting like beyond stuff that we should probably even be doing on this podcast. It's like stuff we'd probably get in trouble for describing. But I mean, you can do the math.

Those ogrekin that you fought up top are the inbred results of what these ogres do. Yeah, yeah. There's like, there's incest, there's, oh, it's just, oh, they're awful. So they're very satisfying to kill right i find personally yeah lork finds yeah yeah um in case we were anyone was having misgivings yeah yeah so now you're uh here you are della baron galabras lork and bar Barry Connick Jr. Who brings a bear into an orc fort? We could have brought a horse.

Imagine if you did bring the horse. Bring Reggie. Del is just sitting on horseback in the middle of the courtyard, going through the secret doors on horseback. Cancer. Trot, trot, trot. It's a weapon's honor. Cast silence on his hooves.

Clip, Clip clap Clip clap And now Here you are Let's do this Roll for initiative Oh I wasn't prepared for that I actually wasn't

I just rolled a natural 20 Oh On your neon die On my neon die Where is my neon die There she is There's the old lass. If you guys are ever thinking about something to buy me for a national DM day,

buy me new dry erase markers. We're actually going away for the three-day weekend that weekend. Damn it. So I won't see you. We're going to Hilton Head Alright Hang with the family Who got over 20? 27

Della got a 27 Alright 20 for Lork 20 for Lork Anybody else in the 20s? What'd you get there, Baron? 15. 15 for Baron.

And Galabras? I got a one. Oh, Kel. No initiative bonus? No, so there goes my plan. Knock yourselves out, guys. I'll catch up later. Knock yourselves out, guys.

Literally. In Lork's case. Now, depending on how you guys want to do this, it is, I would say you were going to get some sort of surprise round if you could pass the stealth check. But most likely, at this point, you know, they're distracted,

so I'm just going to say you guys have a surprise round. And knowing what we know now, you can either do a move or a standard action. And here we go, Della. So for the surprise round, Della is going to cast Shield. Oh, a little AC bonus? A little AC bonus. Okay, so just boom.

Like a glowing shield appears between her and any interposer. I like that. Lork, does he have a clear shot at these guys? I would say he certainly has a clear shot on the foremost ogre. Okay. And I would assume that I can't do a full attack action, so I can do one shot. Correct.

I'm not 100% sure it's worth it, but... Yeah, whatever. I'm going to shoot him with an arrow. Okay. All right. Lork draws back the bow. And we should be clear also, these are large creatures. So you guys, just looking at the map right now, you look so small in comparison to these ovaries. Yeah, they are very creatures. So you guys, just looking at the map right now, you look so small in comparison to these ogres. Yeah, they are very large. Alright, Lork fires

natural two. And alerts them all to us being gone. Come on, man! How do you miss a giant ogre that doesn't even know you're there? That does bring up a good point. There is a sleeping ogre on the top of this roof next to a pile of rocks.

Sleeping hill giant. Sleeping hill giant. Correct. Do we want to deal with him first? It's too late. Too late. Too late. Lork hates ogres.

So much. Guys, I'm sure this battle won't make a ton of noise. Barry Connick Jr. He'll stay. Stay. Stay, Barry. Stayick Jr. He'll stay Stay, stay Barry, stay Baron Baron's going to Empty one of the barrels of his gun As a standard action

And as a free action He's going to load one of the barrels With a flare cartridge Ooh, okay And that has the area of effect That might dazzle everyone. I'm already dazzled. And as the last person in the surprise round, Galabras, what would you like to do?

So I take it we're not going to try to keep this a secret. Yeah. Sounds like it would be very difficult to do that. I mean, Lork might have missed so badly They don't even know they were shot at But I was going to cast I was going to try and cast silence On the foremost ogre I'm down

Whatever you want to do It's worth a shot I'm going to try that Alright, so you're going to cast silence On the ogre itself Yeah And now does it get a save? Yeah, it's a DC 15 save. Will?

Will save. 13. Yeah. Alright, so then... So what happens? It can't... Everyone in that radius, that 15 foot radius, they get a save as well. 20 foot radius. 20 foot radius. Yeah, so that's pretty much all of them. So that one fails.

That one is immediately silent and now all the rest around them are trying to see if they're going to be silent as well. Right. They don't know. Pass. They know. Fail. Pass.

So basically the foremost ogre is silent. And the one in the middle who is closest to the bell tower is also silent. All right. Making use of Galabras' new favorite spell. Round one, Della. I should let you know, when Lork let loose that arrow, it turned around and now sees you. No.

Della is going to move up 30 feet. Okay. And cast Longarm. Longarm? What? What? What is that? The long arm of the law? My arm, it grows 5 feet and now I have 10 foot reach. What? Ew, that's a

gross image. That is a weird thing to picture. She's already super tall and skinny. It's like It keeps getting weirder and weirder. You're like Manu. Oh boy. Long arm. The long arm of the law. Lork. Lork is going to do a full attack action rapid shot.

So that's three shots with his bow. Three shots with the bow. Okay. Three chances at a one. Three chances at a one. At the foremost ogre who I missed, he turns. And I'm like, oh, crap. And then I pull out three arrows.

First shot, 23. Hit. Nice. Hit. Does 11 points of damage. Oh, that's nice. Oh, baby. Next shot, same roll, 23.

Hit. Does eight points of damage. Oh, man. And then third shot, miss. Natural two. Pretty good, 23. Hit. Does. Eight points of damage. Oh, man. And a third shot. Miss. Natural two. Pretty good, though. Yeah, pretty good.

Pretty good. 20. Yeah, like 24 damage or something. No, 19. Nice job. 19 points of damage, and it looks pretty hurt. Yeah. This thing, you know, they got warts on their head.

They're these big, burly creatures. I'll put some pictures up. I have two different ogre Pathfinder pawns there. They're pretty cool. They're so awful. And then I'm going to take a five foot step closer to them. These are gross. Barry Connick Jr.

He is going to stay for the moment. Wow. You know, it's interesting. Ever since Ben Vereen died, I noticed you basically. I'm very cagey about sending you. You don't let Barry do too much. Yeah. Okay.

Is it just for fear of him dying and your curse rubbing off on him? Yeah. Well, you know, I think back to the... Not the Owega fight. The Bramblebrite fight. That was a large creature with reach. It got two attacks of opportunity as Barry closed on it, and he just immediately went unconscious.

Yeah. You know what? Someone, a couple of our listeners pointed out a while ago, and this is something I keep forgetting to look up. I don't think the same action can provoke multiple attacks of opportunity for someone that has combat casting. Combat reflexes. Combat reflexes.

Yeah, you cannot get more than one attack of opportunity against the same move action. Oh. Even if you're moving through two threatened squares? Yeah, right. Oh. Yeah. Two separate actions can two different actions. Yeah, so if you move and provoke and then like

draw a raw bow. That makes so much sense. I never knew that. Yeah. That changes everything. Yeah. You know, the whole point of combat reflexes is that you know, you can get attacks of opportunity from multiple people coming at you. Like, if Baron runs in, boom, attack of opportunity. And then if Lork runs in and it has combat reflexes, it also gets another attack of opportunity.

You shouldn't be able to, you could outright kill someone if you had a super high dex score and you have four attacks of opportunity and they're just trying to move in on a huge creature. Hit, hit, hit, hit, dead. Right. So that does make sense. That's what happened to Barry, yeah.

But, well, now I know that. I'll send him in. That's happened to Gwilym. I just want Barry Connick Jr. to be, like, an important character and not a complete waste like you're playing. Well, you also have to realize that we are still very far from them. So, you know, I send Barry Connick Jr. in. He is really alone with four ogres.

I'm waiting to see what they do. I've made the opening salvo, hit him with an arrow. Let's see what they do. Where do they form up? Oh, I'm going to use Barry. Don't worry. There is a really good feat for high-level barbarians called Come and Get Me, where you put your

chin out, and if an opponent attacks you during their turn with a melee attack, you get to resolve an attack of opportunity against theirs before they hit you, and you can do it as many times as they attack you, and as many... So I have a barbarian that can strike someone

five times in a row as they hit me. Wow. That's a cool feat. Baron, you're up. Baron moves 20 feet closer. Okay. Baron's far away at this point. This is not his prime place to do some gunslinging, but he's going to do his best. So

I'm outside of my first range increment of 20 measly feet, so Baron, knowing that they are still coupled up and unfortunately his flare will be a little bit quieter than a normal bullet, but he's going to shoot a flare cartridge into these guys.

Okay, so you're shooting at the first one, or you're shooting in the middle of them to try and blind them? I don't see how I could shoot it. I mean, it's going to be a 20-foot radius around the first one, so it's still going to hit them. Right, right, right. Yeah, I think that'll affect. So this is a negative two.

That'll affect the other two, not the one around the corner if it hits. Right. So this is a negative two to my roll. We turn off deadly aim, so I'm gonna be a plus ten on this roll. Plus ten. Misfire. Oh no! And a possible

fumble. Alright, so roll to see if you fumble. Twenty-two. Alright, no fumble, but a misfire misfire kill the son of a bitch now what happens

with a flare cartridge and a misfire it's the same thing does it explode in your face and blind the entire party and now Baron's blind again so his whiskers are on fire

boom what a great image. Made his face. If Baron gets blind again, Matthew better start rolling up another character. Yeah. Okay, misfire. I can cure it now.

Oh, right, right. All right. It's the ogre's turn. Oh, man. So silent but deadly here comes up towards Della. So silent but deadly here comes up towards Della. So let's see here. It's within 10 feet of Della, and it swings a great club at Della.

10. Miss. Miss. Actually, you don't hear anything because it's silent. Now that. Oh, you have to roll a will save now to not be silenced also. Oh, so that aura of silence remains around it?

Remains around the, yeah. 20. Okay, you're good. Okay. Oh, wow, that's crazy. All right. And now once you've passed on it, you don't have to keep rolling on it.

No, no, no. But I think Baron might be within range of it as well. Can I voluntarily fail it? No, it's... Anything, like your gun will be silent. Okay. Yeah. You would make a save to see if you could speak. Great, great.

Okay. And the other three ogres, now they see what's going on, they're going to start closing the distance. And it is Galabras' turn. Oh, God. I'm going to load my crossbow as a move action. As part of a move action. And I'm going to fire at the silenced man.

Okay. This first guy's getting all the heat. 20, 20. Hit. All right. All right. Calabras. And five points of damage. Five points of damage.

Nice. That's crossbow? Yep. Hits it. Bolt. And no one hears anything. Alright. Round two.

So far, so good. But now, if you look at this, this looks horrifying. These four huge creatures are coming at you. The first guy has taken the brunt of the damage, but now his three buddies are behind him, one of which is silent, and they're coming after you. Della. Am I within ten feet? You are are with that long arm. Long arm.

I'm going to... What a great use of that spell, because now you don't have to provoke by moving up into it. And you know what, Matthew? I'm going to give you a bottle cap. Oh! And it's time, I think. We've had this for a little while.

Yeah. And, you know... And you never give bottle caps. I give out far too many bottle caps. So it's about time that we have these beautiful, professionally made ones by one of our listeners. Mr. Jeff Allen. Mr. Jeff Allen.

These are beautiful. We have some with the exploding die from our logo, some with the actual glass cannon logo itself, and then some with the pictures of the characters and one with a picture of Tom Exposition just for me. So you get

this bottle cap. He also sent us an autographed picture of Paula Poundstone with a personalized message from her to Galabras which is a very obscure early reference

and he also sent a Blu-ray of Jurassic Park addressed to Troy. This is all to celebrate our one-year anniversary. That's what we've been seeing out of it for a while because Troy won't actually give up all kinds of stuff. I gave the DVD to Joe, though. Nice try, Jeff. He's never going to watch it. All right, Del.

Your heart was in the right place. Thank you. Swing away. I just imagined this like, you're like a comic book character now. A flaming scimitar. Right. I'm also going to use a swift action to spend an arcane pull point to keen my scimitar. What?

Who do you think you are? You're positive you can keen, right? You're of a level to use keen? Yeah. Okay. Oh, wow. Peachy Keen. And is it for a minute?

For one minute. The reason I ask is I think there's like, you can use Flaming and you can use Ice and whatnot, and then you get to a higher level. Keen is just a plus one bonus. All right, then Keen away. This is going to expand its crit range. I'm also using a brand new die

that my students Sean, Nick, and Dan got for me as a gift. Natural one on the way. If this is a fun goal, they're fired. Oh my god, you're a prophet. Natural one.

I knew it. You cannot script this stuff. You could tell it was coming. You could see it a mile and a fucking way. I knew I knew that was You cannot Script this stuff That is amazing Yeah they're fine You could tell it was coming You could see it a mile Fucking way You're worthless students

Do you have You don't have multiple attacks I don't have multiple attacks Roll to confirm the fumble Oh right I'm using a different deck That decapitate card Is still out there somewhere

24 Does not confirm the fumble Wow Just a miss Give me that bottle cap back Okay And then for my move action I'm going to flee

With all haste I'll take a five foot step back Five foot step back Okay Interesting move I'm trying to draw him in closer to Baron Yeah, you're pulling him back to the party So Baron can get a clean shot.

Lork. Lork is going to move into position and get a clear shot at the front guy. So since he has to move, he can only take one shot. Miss. Right past him. All right. Now, Barry Connick Jr. I'm just gonna

I'm gonna tell him to stay I'm afraid he's gonna die I have Like everything else I've loved Yeah what a baby Stop being such a baby Everyone you've known

And loved has died Now boo hoo Get over it Move on Move on with your life What a baby. Stop being such a baby. Because everyone you know and love has died. Now boo-hoo, get over it. Move on. Move on with your life. Barry is going to continue to hold, but he's going to come closer to me. Okay.

Rousing combat move by Barry. I didn't know you taught it follow. All right, Baron, you're up. Heal. Baron is going to use a Grit point to quick clear his weapon As a move action Free action Swift reload it

After clearing it So you can see him kind of Turning his gun over And clearing it out And then reloading it Right because if you don't clear it And misfire again It explodes

We've seen how that happens The last gun in Galarian The Terminator 2 thing Where he like Flips it around on the motorcycle. That's what I really needed as a mount, a motorcycle. It's very Dwarven. I've seen Terminator 2. That was a good movie.

That's a good movie too. I don't know. It was the same era. I saw it recently. Yeah, it was the same year. Same year, isn't it? I think. What, you mean you saw Terminator 2 for the first time recently?

Just a few years ago. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. Baron is going to the... Unfrozen caveman DM. I'm just a DM. Your modern movies frighten and confuse me. Your modern movies frighten and confuse me.

Baron, Della has drawn it closer to you. It is now within your up close and deadly range. Quick clear of the gun. He's going to get up close and deadly. He's going to shoot at him. 26 to hit. 26 hits. Do it, Baron. Take it down.

Oh! Oh, that feels good. That is 25 points of damage. Oh my god! Baron's loading flare cartridges, trying to hit, misfire,

quick clears the gun, fires away, kills the first ogre. Oh! Right in the fucking forehead. Right in the fucking forehead. Oh, yes! All right.

That was awesome. And it was very quiet. But, if an ogre falls in a courtyard and nobody can hear it, it doesn't actually fall. All right. Now. Oh, my God. That felt great.

That's awesome. Good point, Beck. I know. Good point. In the commotion of this. Oh, yeah. Of course. Yeah.

Of course. It goes right after Barry Connick Jr. You hear a rousing above you. Speak for yourself. I don't know what you're into. Oh, come on, man. No. Pure death. That was 22 points

of damage. I'm sorry. Still dead. Still dead. Man exploded. Sure enough, the hill giant atop there wakes up, but because of Galabras' silence, it is not acting this round. It is just drowsily waking up. But we notice it. And you guys hear it moving around up there.

Three, five, four, five. Three ogres left. One, five, four, five. Three ogres left, one of them, the one in the middle, completely silent. The other two are making, they're fully aware, no silence, and then you've got a hill giant atop these middle buildings that you don't know about waking up,

and it is the ogre's turn. They just continue to close the distance because they don't have the movement speed to get all the way up there. But they are now making a very tight bottleneck situation in the courtyard. It always looked bigger on the map until you put these giant creatures out here. But yeah, they are ineffectual at this point. You guys played it smart by Della going in there and doing a little vanish, check out the situation.

Then you guys pulling back, and now you're saying, come to us. It's so important with these giants to keep our distance as long as we can, I think. Very smart. Because they just do insane burst damage. Right. You know, the swings of those. What do they have?

They have clubs? Great clubs. Yeah, great clubs. I mean. That's the thing that almost killed Galabras. The hill giants outside had a great club. Yeah. They could swing twice.

Yeah, it just... All right. One ogre dead, but a new combatant is about to enter the fray. It is now Galabras' turn. I'm going to reload my crossbow, fire again at the one closest to me. Looks like a female. Nice. 20.

20 hits. Seven damage. Looks like a female. Nice. 20. 20 hits. Seven damage. Seven points of damage! I thought it was eight. Aren't you point blank? Oh, yeah. Sorry, it is eight.

Eight points of damage. All right, Calabras, really working that crossbow pretty well. All right, round... Better than Lork, at any rate. Three. It is Della's turn.

I have yet to sit down this entire episode. I'm liking this. All right, Della, what are you going to do? Della's going to spell combat. From her position of safety right now, she's going to cast Shocking Grasp on her scimitar. Oh, I'm nervous. Five foot step in and swing at the silent ogre.

Five foot step in, swing at the silent guy in the middle. Critical threat. Oh! Is it still keened? It's still keened. Yeah, you rolled a natural 16. So it's still keen oh yeah you've rolled a natural 16 22 to hit so it's definitely a hit so i rolled a roll to confirm does not confirm all right but still shocking grass shocking grass oh man this ogre is screwed

oh man so that so if it was a critic would the shocking grasp have been doubled also or would it just be the weapon damage? I have no idea. I think shocking grasp counts the same way as precision damage. Yeah, I think if you read it, I think it does not get doubled. Needless to say, this thing is about to be... And don't forget the actual weapon damage, too. Right.

29 points of damage. You kill the ogre. Oh, my God! You outright kill in You kill the ogre. Oh my god! You outright kill in one shot the ogre. Hits the ground. Alright, the two silent ogres are dead. But you know who isn't silent? Della!

Lork. Lork, noticing what's happening here, seeing that Della's got it under control, is going to look up, turn to the sky, and fire three arrows at the hill giant that's on top of the roof. That is awesome. Yeah, he turns, draws back, and doesn't aim very well. And miss.

Shoots in the sky deeper into the fort. 22 to hit On the second shot 7 points of damage 7 points of damage Third shot 21 Hits 4 points of damage

Alright, so Roll a perception check Perception 26 four points of damage. All right, so roll a perception check. Perception. 26. All right, your 26 perception. You've seen Della one-shot one of these guys. You've seen Baron, boom, kill her with its gun after Della softened it up.

And those guys went down pretty easy. After Lork softened it up. After Lork softened it up. You just went, boom, boom, hit it with two arrows, and it looks completely unfazed. Definitely did damage, but you just know that these hill giants

are a lot more badass than these ogres, which is why, most likely, the ogres were subjugated by the orcs and the hill giants before everything went to shit.

I apologize. There's an additional eight damage because it's a giant, my favorite animal. Oh! So it's four for each arrow. I take back everything I said. It looks really hurtful. It's dead.

It immediately dies and falls off the tower. I forgot the favorite enemy. Ontical Evers. Now, I'm assuming Barry Connick Jr. is going to rush up the stairs and charge after the hill giant on top of the building? Provoking nine attacks of opportunity. No, he is not. It's a good suggestion. No, yeah, I will tell him to attack one of the ogres

that's on the ground close to us. Okay, you've seen that they're not as scary as they appear to be, so you're going to send... Actually, you know what? I'm going to ready an action. I'm going to tell him to attack basically right after Baron fires. Attack after Baron fires. Attack after Baron fires.

Yeah. Interesting tactic. Well, it is Baron's turn. Okay, so in the interest of having defensive training against giants and having my AC buffed a bit against his attacks, I'm going to get up close with him, and I'm going to double move 40 feet to get on the first level of the stairs from where I am.

Baron is making his way upstairs. I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that he just heard that his family, that he thought was his family, was perhaps murdered by giants. Settle the score. Maybe he just hates giants. Barry Connick Jr. moving in initiative order. Well, I readied the action for him shooting the gun, and he didn't. So can I still go?

Back to lame old Barry Connick Jr.? It's up to you. I'll send him in. No, I mean, you readied an action. Based on a condition that didn't happen. That didn't happen, so. Yeah, you can still act. Okay.

He just moves in the addition order. Okay, then I'll send him in. All right, send Barry in. Barry just knocked you over. He knocked Flork over. He's so excited The fight So the ogre will swing down at Barry

He provokes an attack of opportunes The whole reason why You didn't want to do it in the first place It swings his greatglove And hits 24 to hit Okay This is the first one that's been hit.

And I will bolster him. Be like, Barry, you can take it! Okay, so it still hits, but it's going to do half damage because of bolster companion. Yeah, half damage. Oh, man, I rolled a 1 and a 2. Sweet. On 2d8s. Oh, wow. 2d8?

Oh, God. 10 points of damage. It's 2d8. Halved. Yeah, halved8? Oh, God. 10 points of damage. It's 2d8. Halved. Yeah, halved is 5. That's like minimum damage. Minimum damage. Maximum damage is going to be 23 points of damage. And it's an unnamed creature, so if it crits, it's going to be 46 points of damage.

All right, just letting you know, these guys, if they crit, it's going to get ugly. Yeah, character death. All right, he's going to power ugly. Yeah, character death. Alright, he's going to power attack bite the ogre. 16? 16 misses. Alright, Barry, you gave it a shot. The power attack, that's what did it.

Yeah, power attack. Straight up bite. Nice try. I'm trying to picture what a power attack bite is. I mean, yeah. You're giving up accuracy for a more ferocious bite. I like that. Okay. Hill giant's turn. Now it's ready. It picks

up one of the large rocks next to it and just hurls it down at Lork. Oof. Ten to hit. Yeah! Lork deftly steps out of the way. Smashes into the wall behind him. Slowly waking up. 10 to hit yeah Lorca deftly steps out of the way

smashes into the wall behind him slowly waking up boom shatters on the keep and makes no sound and makes no sound

alright ogre time we got two ogres left and the hill giant the ogre that's standing in front of Barry Connick Jr. swings

again hits okay use bolster again giant. The ogre that's standing in front of Barry Connick Jr. swings again. Hits. Okay. You use bolster again. What was it? What was the hit? It is a 23 to hit. That is a hit. Okay. It's going to be 13 points

of damage with a great club. Just boom! Okay. And I'll have that. Okay. How does bolster command where you just do it as much as you want or is it tick away? I have to look but it's either damaged with a great glove just boom okay and I will I'll have that okay how does most of the man where you just do it as much as you want or is it uh take away I have to look but it's either

four or five times a day I can do it oh it's something yeah okay it's a yeah limited it really makes no sense free and ability immediate action but it's totally

necessary for an animal companion uh and then the other one comes up and swings at Della none of the heroes have been hit. And it misses Della! These guys wasted their energy torturing an orc. And it is now Goliath's turn.

I'm going to step up. I'm going to step up within 10 feet of the ogre that's fighting Barry. Uh-huh. Dropping my crossbow and drawing

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10 points of damage Nice Alright, it's hammer time. All right. Round four. You guys are doing pretty well. Barry is the only one taking a licking, and he keeps on ticking. Della, what do you do?

Della's going to swing her flaming scimitar. Della is faced with two ogres. Miss. Or 12. And you were swinging at the one that came up on you now that Barry's in the way. Yeah, that's a miss. We were swinging at the one that came up on you now that Barry's in the way. Yeah, that's a miss.

And then five foot step back. Five foot step back. Okay, keep drawing them back into that corridor. Draw them away from safety. Lork, you're up. Lork is not going to let Barry, uh, in there alone. He's going to drop the bow and do a charge at the, uh, the ogre that's closest to him. The new one.

The one that just came up from the back. Yeah, drawing the Gorum's thorn, the greatsword, off his back. Runs up. And we know that this does powers if it crits as well. It gives you the option to trip for free. Right. That's right. You fall for it.

And he will do a power attack. So charge. Drawing Gormsdorn. Power attack. Charging power attack. I like it. Natural 20. Get out of here.

Get out of here. No. Yes. Holy shit. That's awesome. Confirm that here. Get out of here. No. Yes. Holy shit. That's awesome. Confirm that. Wow. That's insane.

All right. So roll to confirm. It's like so excited. I don't know what to do. Max damage. I don't think I've ever seen the 20 on this die. I know. It's so weird. It looks good.

It looks real good. I just assumed it didn't have one. All right. To confirm. 24 to confirm. Confirm. Yes. Card.

All right. So you get a card. You're gonna do damage, and then you have the possibility to unlock these powers of Gorim's Thorn. Oh wow, god. Do you remember what they were? I remember about the trip thing, but that already came with it, or?

Yeah, I think you get the option, and the reason you get the option is because if it fails, I think you fall prone. But you may just outright murder it with the damage. So the crit is Severed Tendon. Normal damage and 1d6 dex damage. Oh, wow. That's going to make its AC garbage.

Oh, it's max damage, right? No. No, because that's if you don't confirm it. Not too shabby, though, for the Dimash. He does... Power attack. Yeah, 19 points of damage on the swing. 19 points of damage on the swing.

Okay, roll the dex damage. Oh, right. Dex damage is... Four points of dex damage. Woo! Severed attendant. Nice. Its dex is so bad. its dex is so bad

its dex is so bad it was already like just a lumbering ogre and now it has the lowest dex I've ever seen tendonless slow minus two to its AC

so you know what I think but Lork provokes actually yeah I'm charging up before that so unless it kills you I'll allow all this

to go through but here's the thing I'll roll that and then you can let you decide if you want to do Gorim's Thorn's power. So it is a plus one keen greatsword. You know that. You gain additional ability.

When you confirm a crit against any creature with a giant subtype, you can attempt to trip that target as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity and ignoring any size restrictions related to the target. But if the trip attempt fails by 10 or more, you're knocked prone. Oh, it's got to fail by 10 or more. So I'm going to roll its attack of opportunity against you. The trip doesn't provoke.

That's a separate thing. So it saw you coming, and it just battered up, boom, tries to swing at Lork, 22 to hit Lork. That hits. It hits Lork, boom, 14 points of damage. But not before Lork answers back with 19 points of damage. And a severed tendon. And a severed tendon. And are you going to attempt to trip it?

I am, yes, I'm definitely going to attempt to trip it. I like it. Bold. So he severs a tendon in his leg. And he tries to pull him down with it. Oh, God. Oh, no. 13. 13. to pull him down with it. Oh, God. Oh, no. Thirteen.

Thirteen. Does not trip it, but you do not fall for it. Oh, okay. All right. It's a good move. You slice its tendon, then you try to sweep its leg out from under it.

Right, right. But it got slipped up and didn't work. Imagine if you're fighting some bosses later and you roll to trip some boss. I can only roll to trip on a confirmed crit. On a confirmed crit. Got it. Okay.

But it's a free thing without provoking, which is amazing when you're fighting giants. God, if that was successful, this thing would just go onto the ground. Changes everything. Easy target. You guys are holding your own, though, right now. Barry Connick Jr. It's not Barry's turn. It's Baron's.

Oh, that's right. He moved. That's right. You're right. Nice try. Oh, it's not Barry's turn. It's Baron's. Oh, that's right. He moved. That's right. You're right. Nice try. Baron moves 20 feet closer towards the giant. All right, so Baron's going upstairs. Dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk.

Giant is around the corner in this little area here. You want to try and take a little shot? Yeah, he's still 30 feet away, which is outside of my touch AC resolving area, but I'm going to take one shot. Okay, and it doesn't, even though it's around the corner, it's a giant creature. It's not blocked, so you have a clean shot,

and it's not going to get a cover or anything. Partial cover. Regular AC. Headshot. Natural 20. Back to back crits. Natural 20. All right. Converge crits. Natural 20. All right.

Confirm it. With a gun. 19 to confirm. Confirmed. Wait. Natural 19. You rolled a 19. Oh, natural 19?

Yeah, it's confirmed. Wow. All right. So this is going to probably kill the hill giant. I would think so. So bludgeoning and piercing, and you get standard. I'm going to choose piercing damage. All right.

If it says double damage, you get four times four. Double damage. Oh, man. And target is poisoned. Finally. Treat as green blood oil. I don't know what that is. We'll look that up.

In the meantime, times four damage with this bullet. 37 times four is 28. 28 points of damage. Shot to the face. Boom! Yeah, it definitely hit it right in its cheek. Yeah. A bullet shot to the cheek. Nice.

I can't tell you how huge that is, because this giant has serious hit points, and you just took a major chunk out of them. Fortitude save. Fortitude save from the hill giant. Very fortuitous giant. Rolled low, though. 15.

Saved. Okay. So it is not poisoned. Wait, does it automatically get poisoned? It doesn't say there's a save. Oh, okay. I was just looking at green blood oil. There's no save. So there's no save once a round on its turn for four rounds, one con damage. Whoa!

So it's going to lose a hit point every round. Yeah. It's going to lose... It says cure one save, so I don't know if you get a save in subsequent rounds, but... What does the card say for the crit? Poison as if? Yeah, treat as green blood oil. Okay, so it's at least going to be poison for one round.

Okay. And then it'll roll the save next time to try and stop the con damage. Huge! Huge salvo by Barrett. Because usually the save DC is the result of the confirmation roll, right? Which was a 19. Which he rolled a 19.

Right, but it's the save of the poison itself. It says Axe has green blood 19 right but it's it's the same for the poison itself it says acts as green blood oil but it's and those those DCs don't change like poison's DCs don't like

they just don't change right they don't go up as you go up in level you know great job Baron now it's Barry Connick Jr.

Barry Connick Jr. should have left deadly aim on we'll do full attack action power attack. Claw claw bite. The old fashioned

claw claw bite. And hope that he doesn't die. Okay, so first claw natural one. Oh no. So I'll see if he confirms

17 on the confirmation. No fumble. Okay, no fumble. Second claw. Miss. God. Swipe, swipe.

Can't get any skin. Claw, claw, bite. And then bite. Nope, miss. Oh, Barry. Man, it's everybody's day except Barry's. Yeah, he just can't. Well, I haven't trained him enough in combat.

I'm holding him back too much. The giant. Blood gushing out of its cheekbone. You can see parts of its jawbone sticking out. Grabs a rock. Takes con damage before it dies. Takes con damage and boom, throws a rock at Baron. 18 to hit. That is a miss.

The rock sails past your head and lands on the giant you guys killed on patrol, miles away. And it takes another point of damage, and it takes con damage. It will attempt to save on the poison and fails on the save of the poison. Yeah, alright. So it will continue to be poison.

Orga number two. Man, it's gonna have to attack Barry. Barry's right there. Yep. I blame myself for forcing you into this combat. 17 to hit Barry. That is a miss.

That is a miss. Because you bolstered or it's... No, it's ACZ team. Straight up miss. Okay. And then the other one goes after Lork. Lork stepped in front of Della, protecting this young girl, which means Della's as good as dead.

19 to hit Lork. Hits. Boom, hits Lork with the Great Club. Another 14 points of damage. So Lork's taken 28 points of damage in the past two rounds from this creature. They're starting to,

it's almost like they're doing better now that their numbers have dwindled. And it is Galabras' turn. I'm going to swing again. Galabras now wielding the hammer. Oh, 26 to hit. Hits! Nice.

Symbol of Minderhall. Wait, is that a crit? No, it's a natural 20 and times three. Oh, nice. 14 damage. Dead! Wow! Galavris just, boom! I want to see Galavris crit with this so bad to see an

ogre shrink to a medium-sized ogre. That would have been a little anticlimactic since I killed it anyway. Boom! As you kill it, it's just weird. It'll be so much easier to bury! It'll be really small for 20 minutes. That's great. All right, round five.

All that's left is the hill giant and this last ogre that is... Oh, and I shrank it back down. It's a swift death. Do, do, do, do, do. Okay. Is the one that's been beaten up on Lork. Della, what are you going to do?

Five foot step in, swing with the flaming scimitar. Take it out, Della. Take it out! Critical threat. Strike it together! Oh foot step in, swing with the flaming scimitar. Take it out, Della. Take it out! Critical threat. Oh, my dear! I rolled a natural 19, so it would have been regardless.

Has this one been hit yet? Thank God you're using that d20 your students didn't give you. 14 to confirm. 14 does not confirm. Is this the one you crit? Yes. 14 does confirm. 14 still doesn't one you crit? Yes. Okay. Oh, wait. 14 does confirm. 14 still doesn't confirm because it lost two to its AC.

Yeah. Okay. You don't do max damage unless it's a 20. Unconfirmed 20s, yeah. So this is just regular flaming and scimitar damage. Right. 13 points of damage. 13 points of damage.

All right. It is almost dead. Do you have another attack? No. Okay. All right. It is almost dead. Do you have another attack? No. Okay. Lork. Lork is going to attack with his, with Gorm's Thorn.

Okay. Swoosh. Swoosh. And actually add his favorite enemy bonus this time. I cannot believe I keep forgetting this. All right. First swing. 26 to hit.

Hits. And this is power attack, by the way. And he does 20 points of damage. And it dies. Nice. You still got another swing. You want to give Della a weapon? I'll attack Barry.

Put him out of his misery. Bad bear. Bad bear. All right. Now, since I didn't actually end up using my full attack, I'm going to move toward the hill giant. Try to move to the steps. So to go help Baron out.

Actually, I'm going to enact the ability of my quick runner shirt that I've never used once. That's what you got way back in the Tomb of Usgroth. Right, so once per day, I get an extra move action to move. So I'll do a double move, basically, even though I already swung this round. Okay. 60 feet. And I'll tell Barry to follow me. All right.

Fair enough. You can move more than that, Cain. Didn't you just move 40? 40 feet. Oh, right. Oh, so Baron's going, excuse me, Mork is going the other way around. Yeah. So you're going to try and flank this hill giant.

Exactly. Baron, you're up. Took a big chunk out of his cheek. He's hurting. Baron's just going to move forward within 20 feet of him, so probably three squares. Exactly. Baron, you're up. Took a big chunk out of his cheek. He's hurting. Baron's just going to move forward within 20 feet of him, so probably three squares. And he's going to fire at him again.

Alright. That is against touch AC a... hold on. 15 against touch. Hits. Yeah. You're going to want to kill this thing if you can. Because it's probably tired of throwing rocks. Yeah. You're going to want to kill this thing if you can. Because it's probably tired of throwing rocks.

That is 12 points of damage. 12 points of damage. Alright, still very much alive. This thing is tough. This is a big beefy giant. I mean, you guys have fought now. Is this your second hill giant you've fought? The patrol one? Yeah, you hadn't fought another hill giant that I can remember

off the top of my head. Alright, do you have another attack, Baron? No, you moved. All right, Barry Connick Jr. He's following Lork. Following Lork along. All right, the hill giant steps up and swings its great club at Baron. 25 to hit.

That barely confirms, but can he stand on the five feet worth of railing? Yeah, it's not drawn to scale. So 25 to hit. Hits Baron with the Great Club. Whoa, whoa, whoa, boom! 23 points of damage. This guy's of the same ilk that almost killed Galabras.

Boom! And now that's the last guy that's left in my hold. That makes things a lot easier for me. Galabras, you're up. Galabras is about to make it even easier for you. Yeah, I just looked it up, and I thought it was five total rounds a day that I can use the armor,

but it's once per day I can use it for five rounds. So I don't shrink. I instead cast Fly on myself. Oh! Shrink Galabras. Man, when Gormley died, I was like, I hope one of these guys can fly. That's so cool.

Flying Galabras is back. Round six, sure. Della. Della, you've seen, you've done, you helped get this all started. You drew all these guys back here and then started critting, helping your buddies. Now they're going up to take

up this other combatant. What are you going to do? Della is going to double move after. She's going to go up the same way Lork is going to. Alright, so you're following Lork and Berrycomic Jr. Double move. You're probably a little faster, so you're at least going to catch up with them. I can get 60 feet. Lork, I'm assuming you

just keep making your way up there. Did you make the giant take his other con point of damage? I didn't You should do that It's gonna take another point and then it's gonna roll to save This time it saved on the poison But the damage is done It's taken three points of con damage

Did you lower his fortitude save Because of his lessened constitution? Yeah, I didn't I rolled a clean 14 on the dice okay but that's good to know next time you guys cast something where it has to roll for a toot save but Baron you have a chance to kill it right here so Baron is going to take a five foot step back from him I could step back and he's gonna do something he's never done before oh he's gonna get up close and

deadly uh but you may have remembered that i crafted a double barreled gun which has two triggers which can be pulled at the same time to fire two bullets up close and deadly at him what's the penalty what's the drawback of doing this? Why have you waited so long? Oh, it's negative four. Oh, it's a minus four to hit. But since he's a giant, I should probably still be able to get him with touch AC. Touch AC. And you have your bonus, right?

Because he's a giant. Because he's a giant. That's just the AC. That's AC. I just have hatred against him. Oh, okay, okay. All right. Just don't misfire, Baron.

Natural 19. Oh, you hit it! Ba-boom! Ba-boom! I can't even imagine. That is 16 points of damage followed by... Oh. Two bullets.

Oh! Max! Max! Max! Oh, shit! That's plus 23 points of damage So 16 and then 23 So 39 points of damage

It's next action was to swing the great club Twice at Baron It has huge numbers to hit And does huge damage But it doesn't matter because Baron kills it Yeah Nice Oh nice Holy crap I'm so excited Yeah! Ba-boom! Nice. All right. Nice. Woo!

Oh, nice. Wow. Holy crap. I'm so excited. And that made a lot of noise. Oh, it did. It did. Good job.

Man, you talk about a combat that the team needed. You killed four ogres and a hill giant. And now Baron is atop this building in the middle of the courtyard. You don't know what's going on in there. Lork and Della and Barry are coming up around trying to close the distance, but now they'll probably stop. I don't know if they'll continue.

And Galabras is flying. Just beyond where the hill giant fell, Baron, you see stairs leading down into this middle building. Okay. Maybe something to just remember for next time, because there are doors from the courtyard that lead into these middle buildings, but now you see a staircase leading down.

That might be a good means of attack. Or a Rainbow Six style, both doors kick down, flashbang action. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, brah. And now just past the entrails of the dismembered orc, it is now a seemingly clear entrance to the bell tower.

What do you do? I'd like flying Galabras to speak first. I fly up to where Baron is, pick him up and fly him over to the bell tower. And just drop him. 3d6 falling damage. All right, what are you guys thinking?

I want to do a perception check up where the hill giant was. Just to see what's up there. Sure, I'll do that. Anything interesting.

24. 30. 30, all right. So Baron gets there, is already there, so he's checking things out. Lork's like, let me help, let me help. Baron gets there, is already there, so he's checking things out. Lork's like, let me help, let me help.

Baron's like, I got this. So you see there's like three boulders left up there, precariously placed in what would have been a pyramid. From this vantage point up here, you have a great look into the inner courtyard and the outer bailey, which is had you come in the front way through the east, you have a great look into the inner courtyard and the outer bailey, which is, had you come in the front way through the east, you see that. There's nothing of note up there, like there's no...

Magical armor. There's no magical armor, there's no items or anything, but you do get a view of the bailey that you wouldn't see. Off to your right, you see a kennel. And it looks like there are three direwolves inside of the kennel. Those are fun.

They're really just mistreated, though. They're like pit bulls, you know? They just need to be trained correctly. That's the right side of the... Whatchamacallit? The outer bailey. It That's the right side of the whatchamacallit the outer baleon. So it's basically the other side of the courtyard. You see a kennel. To the left is where the crumbled wall is that you saw when you were atop the bell tower

and it was on your original map so they've never fixed that. You would think probably back when Harkus' blockade fell this is maybe how the orcs got in. How they eventually took things over. They destroyed this and then they just never had a dwarf to fix their walls. And then looking forward, you can see where the Barbican is. You can even kind of see into the bear pit from your vantage point,

or at least you have a sense of where it is. patrolling the top of an area that is sort of between you and the Barbican. You see some ogrekin, like, coming up and looking around, like, where is that noise coming from? I hide from them. Okay. I duck. Sure, me too. So you see that.

They don't see you, but they're looking around, like, where the hell is that noise coming? So I think that... And these are the same weird weird deformed creatures you fought in the bell tower. From a metagaming perspective. I already don't like this question. I would say that. No, I'm saying that I think the best course of action is to talk to the spirit and see if there's anything he can help us with before anyone comes to attack us.

But that's just me. We also don't know that he won't attack us. Right. And Barry and I need massive healing. Barry and Baron. Della, what are you doing? Because you may not have, once you saw the giant fall. Once I see Lork run up, I think Della is just kind of like,

she has a scimitar at the ready. Her long arm is still out. She's just like making sure there's no attacks coming from any direction. Right, right, right. Yeah, he seems to be safe. So right now you're atop there, Baron. You see a staircase leading down into these middle buildings. You've got the drawbridge down,

the platform up leading into the upper level of the keep, and now free passageway towards So many choices. The bell tower. And now you know that there's ogre controlling. Is the orc that they were torturing dead? Has he bled out and died? Oh yeah. In the time of this battle he's dead. Okay.

Search the body? Find three gold pieces. Yeah. What do you think? I vote bell tower. Me too. Obviously there are four og overs between us and it, so from a metagame standpoint, hopefully it'll be fun. Lork starts limping back down the stairs, bloodied,

to head towards the Bell Tower. And do you want to pop a channel? A lot of us are hurt. Yeah, I can do that. Pop a channel. I like that. Eight, and I'll I like that. Eight. And I'll do it again.

Twelve. Awesome. Twenty points of healing. Do you have any charges left on that wand? I do. Hold on. We're fighting ogres and giants, man. I'm not trying to be...

I will tell you not to rub it in. Della took no points of damage in that combat. You were barely targeted. No points. You were barely targeted. Wow. Because of the long arm and because you missed so horribly when you tried to hit me. Yep, and Barry Cronin Jr. jumped in the middle of what would have been hits against you.

Thank you. I feel better. Thank Barry. You can thank Barry for that one. I'm sorry, Matthew. I wanted to attack you, but Barry got in the way. Waste of shield. All right, you guys make your way over to the bell tower?

Yes. So the door is leading into the bell tower. Well, now that you're over there, as you walk past this dismembered orc, you see they ravaged it. They were slowly torturing it, pulling off its limbs. It still has one of its arms attached and one of its legs is still attached, but it's like half attached.

So it died a horrible death. You get over to the bell tower and now that you're there, as you start walking close, you notice there's a bunch of shit in front of the doors. So sure enough, right when you're there, a bunch of shit in front of the doors. So sure enough, right when you're there,

you see that the doors have been barricaded from the outside. Okay. All right. Just makeshift barricades. Right. Trying to keep... Let's go in there. Yeah.

How long would it take us to clear it? Where you're out of combat, you could do it in a minute eight hours of work all right let's do it i think it's going to be kind of like um i mean even though that guy was crazy moss moon um i think that these all the spirits we're encountering were fucked up by orcs so even though they might be hostile well these aren't orcs now but they might be hostile. Well, these aren't orcs now, but they might be more sympathetic towards humans or humanoids. We also convened with his descendant. Yeah. Right.

Did Calrion give you anything besides a map? I thought she maybe gave us a symbol of the Blix family or something. And you know that Droja, if what she's saying is true, has had communion with the spirit and spoke to the spirit of you okay so if it is not a vengeful spirit um it it knows you're coming yeah possibly but uh so you want to remove the barricade yeah lord we'll start lifting and moving pieces away start piling it away and as you're pulling like a chair and a table and everything, you see there's writing on the door in bright red letters. It looks like it's been painted in blood.

And anybody that speaks giant or orc among you, which is probably all of you except Della, it says, keep out vengeful spirit inside. It's like walking dead. You literally just said, unless it's a vengeful spirit inside. It's like walking dead. You literally just said, unless it's a vengeful spirit, you knew I did. Uh, Oh, that's,

that's a creepy image. Is it blood or red paint? Blood. Oh, this is just like walking dead. This is the first issue or the first episode. Keep out dead inside Can I do a quick heel check to see what kind of blood it is?

No Okay What's the blood type? O negative Blood type is its philosophy Lork is going to Get out Lork is going to look back at everybody

Make sure everybody's good to go Armed, ready He's got Gorm's thorn out And he's going to Slowly open the door Peer inside Door creaks, dust falls from the hinges Like it hasn't been opened in a long, long time

Like a Dark Souls door You open it And it reveals what Baron assumed all along, a chapel. Gotcha. Faded white paint just peeling off of the walls. They're coated in a thick, thick layer of dust. The chamber is vaulted inside, so it's a much higher ceiling than when you were dealing with upstairs when you came through the well.

All those ceilings were like 10 feet tall. This one has a nice vaulted chamber. There's several pews in really good condition, still sturdy, sitting in perfect rows facing west. So facing the way you guys climbed over the wall to get to the sewer grate. And there is a simple altar sitting in the back upon a marble dais. Behind the altar

is a statue that Galabras immediately recognizes as a statue of Desna. Whoa! Holy shit. A beautiful butterfly-esque woman. Holding Holy shit. A beautiful, you know, butterfly-esque woman. Yeah.

Holding. Star knife? A star knife. It has no thorn. It just seems to be standing vigil there against the eastern wall. There is a tangible sense of calm pervading the entire room, which is after that huge battle you just fought,

you can feel, you can taste the calm. Yeah. And I'm definitely emboldened by the sight of the goddess here. Lork walks in. Does a perception check.

For traps. 15 perception. 25. Looking around the pews, looking to the walls, the ceiling. for traps 15 perception 25 looking around the pews looking to the walls the ceiling 23

guys are looking around yeah it's just iconography that is all butterfly-esque and you know you guys

that have been around Galabras long enough know what's going on here knows that this is indeed a chapel of Desna I turn to Galabras long enough know what's going on here, knows that this is indeed a chapel of Desna. I turn to Galabras and I say, this is a holy place for you, isn't it?

It is. I feel very much at home here. I think I'm going to follow your lead on this one, brother. Good idea. Excellent choice. So what are you guys doing are you just kind of walking around Lorca's approaching

uh the altar walking up the middle of the pews and like I said looking around waiting Della is

is sticking close to Calabras she's got her scimitar out just kind of like guarding him but following his lead I'm looking I have my fingers

around my uh holy symbol I'm looking for secret doors. Everywhere. I'm just walking around the perimeter waiting for you to tell me to roll a check. You don't see any secret doors. But it seems like you guys are being pretty reverent as you're walking around. I smash the altar with Gorm's thorn, and I piss on it. I piss on it!

I take my hat off. Ooh. Put it on my chest. Wow. I like that. If I can get up, not onto the altar, but kind of in front of it, he'll stop there and kind of look around,

wait for Galabros' cue or what he wants to do. This is his scene in terms of what to do in a church. Standard catechism of Desna worship, call to dream. I recite it. You recite it. Yeah. worship call to dream i recited you recited yeah and just as you finish it as all of you are standing reverently in this ancient church a ghostly apparition appears behind the altar of a young man probably in his 30s with the holy symbol of Desna on his chest. And he says, welcome, follower of the great dreamer.

You and your companions are most welcome. My name is Fabian Blix, and we have much to discuss next week. Oh! Fuck you, ghost! I mean, wait. I apologize for my language. Sorry, I thought you were Troy. Roll for initiative. you