 Hello everybody if it's Friday night, then it must be time to play soulbound I will not normally be hosting this normally that will be the you will have the The honor of viewing this over on mr. Mephisto's channel And but unfortunately meth had a little technical trouble tonight, but that's okay We got it back up. We're running and now we're over here, and I am very excited So I am now gonna shut up and by the way if you want to sub up to meth The link will be in the description, so do go check that out in the future. We will be over there We're gonna play some soulbound We've obviously got our cast of characters here, and I'm gonna turn it over to our DMF who will take it from here Go ahead buddy. All right, dude So we're actually gonna be dropping the party right into the action because I like to start some camp I actually like to start campaigns out usually on like an action scene You know literally an explosion oftentimes But before we do that we're gonna set the stage with like what our like who our characters are and what they're doing So we're just gonna kind of go around the table quote-unquote Starting with my top left, which is actually Chuck gonna be Vince Hey, whoa, and then down to Tom. So what's your character? What you're gonna be playing if you want to give a little bit of a You know, you know like premise, you know plus the character what you look like For everybody that'd be swell. So Chuck. What do you what are you playing? I don't I think the helmet's misdirection, right like this is your Yeah, I'm I'm playing a free-gold general now. Um, so I am playing a witch elf As you can tell yes, I spent I spent part of today making a nice witch off-ground like getting character But my character's name is Lannisa blood patch. She's an actually a native born and raised Thanks for the thumbs up So born and raised in anvil guard And she was a member of the tarrathian cult which go figure I have to force my narrative into everything I do So she set off Essentially in join up with this group to be soulbound in search of a shard of cane to bring it back to tarrathi in order to You know gain some influence games and power and accomplish a couple goals. She has her but as far as looks Nothing too outlandish long blonde hair typical with witch elf fashion Can't really go to outside of norm on that but she is much more into the I guess performance version of it, so let me maybe a little bit more Delicate on her feet a little bit more dancy Like very much like a dervish start like sort of vibe. Yes. Yes And that's all you get right now. So you get what are you are you brandishing a like a classic pair of daggers? Dagger in a whip. What's going? Oh, no, no, sorry. Yeah, it's it's a pair of daggers It's it's always gonna be a pair daggers. I mean, why would I I could take a shield and be the group's tank But I don't think Don't you have a don't you have a third dagger on your hip that is rarely unsheathed I Well, it's I'll unsheath it. I just it's not for stabby. I have two daggers for stabby one dagger for not stabby Right, right. So religious instruments. Oh Oh I store all my What's it? No, no, no, well bloods everywhere. I just put that everywhere, but what's it aqua Uranus just such no I do put that in my bra. Okay, so my money is in my bra Just so you know, yeah, yeah the awkward and I thought it was gonna be the hair Like you have the big 80s like David Bowie Labyrinth hair, you know, like yeah like up in the hair. You don't touch the hair I get that perfect and you just you don't touch it anymore. It's that's how it works. Got to respect it Get respect the hair. All right, Vince. What are you gonna? What are you gonna be playing tonight? so my character is skig and Skig is a skaven Skig is was a former storm vermin who Had a religious experience. He was touched by sigmar He saw the light literally he was visited by our great and beneficent god king who came to him in a vision Visitation from the comet itself a mighty light shown down from azir upon him And he did see the truth the light and the way he immediately then saved the people He was with killing the other skaven who were guards with him and led the people to freedom and safety He has been tasked with this with a holy mission to protect Sigmar's humans, which he will happily do and as he's begun to travel in human lands He's learned that humans are very strange and that they're all extremely wealthy Every single one He's mystified by this the opulence in which they live where they have multiple bowls of gruel per day Most of them own buildings they live in the even even the lowest of them seem to sleep no more than six to ten in a building Which is madness that the level of wealth that these humans have is hard for skig to wrap his head around But he's trying his best to be to be helpful everywhere. He can even though he doesn't really understand human culture Right on right on Hey, well, what are you playing tonight? well like Chuck I too am breaking from tradition and I'm playing a beast claw ogre He's an ice brow hunter He's 10 foot 10 with a gray blue skin with big red tattoos of maws and teeth made up like snow capped mountains Their tattoo artist Huskar drew them who fancies himself a high artist Who named himself humongous Rembrandt does all of our art and tattoos? the character's name is fjormar big winter and That says almost everything you need to know about him. He was part of the alpha stun from the story in the malign importance that got hoodwinked into going into shy-ish and trying to kill Nagash to break the curse of the everwinter and The he was a bit recalcitrant on the scouting missions and got quote-unquote punished having to stay back and guard their six to stop ambushes so that he could watch them win and learn how might makes right and then they got completely destroyed to a man and then resurrected under Nagash's control and sent off as an army and so he watched his tribe Destroyed and sent off and said okay and turned around and left Real since hmm. Go ahead. No finish. Oh, yeah since then him and his animal companion a blood vulture have traveled the lands hunting and eating and ended up to human lands and Got soulbound Which is what the game is called which has pacified the everwinter chasing after him a bit which he's found to be nice What he hasn't found to been nice is how hungry he is all the time and He really needs to hunt and capture food with the quickness Otherwise all of these humans dwarves and elves walking around Look more and more tasty and that really wouldn't do for his delicate situation, so We missed a description on on skig I believe Vince. Oh, yeah, I look like Yeah, I'm five foot ten pure white fur. I have horns unusually, which is normally a gray seer trait, but I have horns and I But I'm in like fairly decent armor as I have my storm vermin armor still shield and a pick again storm vermin weapons And I wear a holy symbol of sigmar around on the on my backpack and have a sacred book of sigmar's teachings that I've rewritten Warning the sacred teachings of sigmar that every written may not be exactly accurate You need sacred sacred teachings do not steal. Yeah Fantastic and then Tom Sure, so I am I'm fear grim Grim huraz of the of Barak czar, which is my fire slayer. You know, I'm true to form like everyone else here Playing somebody from one of my armies. So my my my fire slayer KO hybrid people my lodge And he he trained as a battle Smith. So he's true and true. He's a he's a traditionalist amongst the Fire slayer of the fire slayer breed. He's not one of the the young upstarts He trained as a battle Smith. He's a lorekeeper and in amongst the the the market of Barak Thringy under a rune lord he actually began to find that the the dwarven people's stories rhymed and that was something that deeply deeply intrigued him and so he actually saw it out rune magic from this rune lord dispossessed rune lord and and Saw it to to dig into the deep holes He didn't feel like searching in their own deep holes or even recovering their homeland was going to find this Of like the truths of their of their people and so he set off into the mortal realms He looks very very very like a fire slayer. Bam fire slayer Just maximum fire slayer just maximum fire slayer. That's right here. Yeah, and so He set off out into the mortal realms And he was out he adventured for a number of decades And what ended up happening was actually he he he became sold out to another party Which ended in tragedy and in and he was ended up being rebounded to another group he was actually in fact unconscious in In the midst of this rebinding that that took place and found himself in the midst of this mess of a party Rag tag would be a yeah. Yeah, like this probably Yes, there was trauma that happened and he doesn't know What all happened in in the unbinding and rebinding? He he actually like some of his own memories Much like the reforging of stormcasts His own memory some of them slip slipped away of his past companions and so now He's been with this group three months on and he's trying to make do with life Yeah, and they were all bound by you I don't believe y'all will meet her directly this adventure, but her name is she's essentially a she is the best description a rogue Rogue stormcast she fully is on the side of sigmar believes in sigmar's teachers it teachings and so things But her methods are unorthodox and she's become a little bit of like an outcast amongst the orders of The like orders of sigmar now she presents herself as like a almost like a more long lines of like a vanguard hunter with like like capes and and like Like a crossbow and stuff like that, but the party knows directly that she knows some magic so She maybe it's the like she she kind of lives a little bit of a life on the lamb always kind of out She's she's picked up this this like vanguard ask quality to her, but so you know a raya a rune heart Was was who bound you and she plays by her own rules Apparently a good looking rogue who plays by her own rules. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah to turn in her staff and her sword so you know Yeah, she's had that she's had to do it a couple times And it's a it's a crossbow and a staff. Thank you O'ryo rune heart, um, you have you haven't been in direct contact with her for a little bit She she doesn't seem to be an anvil guard, but she performed the binding to save your life Feargram to help ease the everwinter to help you on your quest and That term I guess that goes for both both skig and and Lanesa but the party currently finds themselves Finds themselves in a little bit of a Like a cavern on the outskirts of anvil guard Just beyond some of the some of the farmland It's uh You're in the employee currently as you recall You're sort of in like a dank room the object you were sent on is just ahead of you on a pedestal Seems to be some sort of a small Mahogany chest a mahogany colored chest because maybe mahogany doesn't exist in this world But some small mahogany colored chests About yay high and yay wide exactly as Cassidy described it the person who him in the trade pioneer who employed you to go find this So the party being Uh Just gonna stick with rag tag the the party being Unique has caused them to have to try to work a little extra harder to earn the Respect and trust of the local townsfolk You have been on a number of quests and you find you happen to find yourself on the latest fetched quest Which is for Cassidy Polnir a trade a human trade pioneer back in anvil guard You're not quite certain what it was he described the chest Said go get it and would it would help a great many people if you did this and You've been as a party sort of collectively questioning just exactly How much this will help anybody? Delving a dungeon to get one stupid box and yet here you are in the middle of a a dank sort of Dusty tomb that hasn't been kept in a while You're not any Descriptions as to who may have been buried here is like long since lost to like time in the elements You just followed the directions to the to the weird pointed hill Sort of northeasterly and here you are in the middle of it You've already traversed the traps you've already you've already You've already traversed the traps you've already sort of killed a couple like ambient Undeadlings that were just kind of left around and and there it is finally the object of your quest this Box sitting on a pedestal in the middle of a circular room It is gray. The stone is unremarkable I Wouldn't say it's suspicious, but it's weird. Why is this box here? It's just in here There's a single like hole in the in the in the ceiling You can see the sunlight outside of midday piercing in a single sort of sheet That kind of cuts the room in half Very Raiders of the Lost Argus Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay Thank you, thank thank Kane. This was an easy one. Let's just go get it and go You know what I think you're both right Okay, who's gonna get silent ogre speaks and then I wait for her to go get it I Walk up to the box. I scoot behind the ogre. I Would like to pick up this Unremarkable box on this unremarkable stone pedestal in this dazzling sunlight, right? I will let them proceed. I will let the elf do this thing Yep All right, all right to attack after the trap kills her So what I shout when she dies For my death, all right So you just scoop up the box. I scoop up the box. Okay, it's it's you know, it's a Roughly the size of a football except cubular rather than oblong. You just like pick it up And everyone in the entire room you hear like a little bit of like a Creaking and a craning of like the room above you. Yeah, I'm a mistake and Then just nothing I Toss the box Towards the door. I catch it and then look towards the room entrance all right, you turn you you turn to exit and Ketch pick out two like red beady eyes right in your path Meanwhile The entire room just sort of echoes with this clink as a dagger bounces off of the gut plate of the ogre and you suddenly find yourself surrounded by some You know what grots are by a head by about half a dozen grots That you had it noticed sneaking into the room This will be fun rule for initiative The ogre like doesn't even like it just hits the armor and he just kind of like looks to the side and his whole body swivels after his head, you know Okay So using for those of you at home, we're gonna be using what's called dynamic initiative. It's an optional rule We're using the d6 version. You can use 2d6. So you're fixed initiative score plus a d6 Linda has a six. Okay Yeah, just drop them on me whenever it's fine. I like four of you the gobblers will go at four. Okay feargrim six as well and Fjormar six Okay, this is easy your job is easy Vans Very simple our players determine ties if you tie with each other Don't mind if I do I'll rush ahead. Oh, that's fine. You're you're not on first. Don't you slow your roll there? Oh Scavener first to fight my friend or in this case first and not fight. Okay, so You found yourself surrounded perhaps lured in by the the promise of a trap or the notion that this was too easy You met you managed to overlook the goblins just kind of Perfectly sneaking around the the sort of circular room in all directions to have you surrounded And then meanwhile you have this this pair of red eyes slightly larger and slightly higher up than the than the grots Kind of blocking the passageway. It hasn't yet revealed itself. Okay, so there is something big with red eyes in the tunnel and how many how many? Five grots in total surrounding you. Okay, got it So I'm currently behind the ogre and the the grots are around us right like literally in a circle, right? They're kind of scattered about In like no further than medium range. That's fine Are they are we all in the same zone with them at the moment? Yeah, pretty much Okay, so I would assume like this room is a zone and the hallway where the red thing is is an adjacent zone basically correct Okay, cool My action then so I'm I'm first I will take the for my action. I will take the dodge action As would be befitting and I will step farther behind the ogre like I will attempt to make sure the ogre is in between me and The closest grots and especially the big red eye thing So that's where I'm trying to position here and then my shield is on the other side of whatever he is Yeah So you with the way though the rooms laid out and stuff because it is like kind of circular You'd have to expose yourself to a single grot to put the most distance between you the rest of the grots and the big red eyes That's fine. I have my shield facing toward that grot perfect, okay and as I as I like hug close to the ogre I'm like When did you last change these I pull on your pants and that's my turn, okay? So that brings us to our pack of sixes I am just gonna say that I got a drill bill. So oh there you go guys on some bonuses right away I might do that first if that's all right your mark bonuses The keeper of the initiative I've decided if you're Mars first all right I Look at the dagger that the grot has thrown at me. Oh Dinner has given me a utensil to eat him with I look to my blood vulture Why don't you pick a meal from this menu and it it goes off And probably since it's just a creature it probably chooses the biggest one Okay, the big the big red eye one has the has the step has the steps is disadvantage and that's my action Do you spend metal to go twice? Yeah It's going to come back every round like if you spend your every single round But I guess everyone just has action surge every single turn so yes, I I will spend metal and Then okay, it selected a target Let's go Yep, we're running up I selected a target the pike is going first and I am shortly after This will be my first time rolling any dice for this game. So this is My melee ladder is great And I have a pool of six. How's its defense looking? Are you attacking the huge? I'm attacking the huge which is the one of the that the blood vulture is harassing, okay? So you as you sort of surge forth You know that that veil of sunlight you just kind of like wiggle into the into the range of it You notice this bulbous this mighty bulbous red All teeth sort of gaping maw in front of you with these two glowing. I'm gonna eat you And it is It is good. So you're two steps up on the ladder. Yeah, I'm great I'm one step up. So that's what threes threes are successes. Yeah, these are successes. I have six dice and I can add two to Any number of them totaling two correct? Yeah, one and one because I have Yep, all right, and I'm looking for threes So we got one two three four After my after my plus two so I got four successes and Do you care about natural sixes with these proc effects or not? if you have like Specific abilities like brushing blow or like they'll they care about sixes, but there isn't like a generic So one of my sixes is natural one of mine was a five that I made a six Doesn't matter doesn't matter. Yeah, it's a six six. I got I got four successes and Two of them are sixes. So I ignore two of its armor Okay, and so the damage is two plus s which is four so that's six Okay, you rush up with this pike and like it's just menacing you with its it's great maw And you skewer all the way up inside the pike comes out the back of its head And uh, I mean you're already halfway towards having a feast at this point. The thing is not moving The glow the red like glow in its eye like Like simmers out as you have spat it upon your great your great spear here I will keep it on the spear for this whole combat You gotta send a message you all right you'll you'll you'll find your melee combat reduced by dice pool reduced by one Because this is difficult to do completely worth it All right, uh, next up who wishes to go No, that's me. No, no, no You seem eager the cowardly dwarf who would not pick up a box I'm gonna drop the box Shade coming out immediately My sling shield, uh coming off the shoulder. Um, and I'm gonna begin, uh Talking about how I'm gonna how I'm going to, uh Gather up their shrooms when they're all dead As I as I advance forward, uh Uh grumbling, um I'm uh, I'm gonna use my metal to entertain Okay, so uh, you roll the actual entertainment and then based on the success you you pick one of your three things. Okay, yep Yep, uh, and that is on. I don't know how this works awesome three Oh, oh, uh So I have two successes on this Um, uh, my focus doesn't change anything. Uh, so everybody in the zone is going to get plus two to damage So anybody that starts their turn in my, uh Zone will add plus two to their their damage. That's that's the party. You're all in the same. There you go I'm liking these these teamwork buffs. We're getting I like this I'm gonna be like going last I like that somebody's got a hit buff and a damage buff within the party. I think that's pretty pretty Yeah, and those two go before the witch elf. It seems like everything is uh, everything in its right place here Oh, yeah, it's all coming together Uh, and so I'm gonna I'm gonna advance to the nearest clump of god grots and start swinging away Okay, yeah, uh, you can you can like be literally like body to body with about two of them. It's really Really congestive. I'm gonna do that um, and uh, my defense against them is going to or you don't need to know that My uh melee is Average and it steps up because of the no not the drill ball. Nope. So just average Look at that Uh, they are poor. So you enjoy there So is that a plus one? Yeah, you're going over. So that is on threes threes fool Oh my gosh, all my dice just so They're gone forever, man So I'm on threes. Uh, my focus doesn't matter. So I have three successes Um, so there you go. Uh, I'm gonna splat one Oh, yeah, it's wicked splatted. Is your is your damage zero plus s or what is it? We should just go through this and be clear. So my damage is one normally. So I did six damage. There you go. Thank you. Yeah Yeah, uh, you you splat this grot you law. Uh, what's your weapon an axe? I assume Uh, it is a uh It is a war hammer actually a war hammer. You you bash its skull in I do that and I also knock him down because I like it's just you go full gallagher. It's gone Had he lived he would have been thoroughly knocked down. Yeah, he would have But he didn't so Okay His body like just kind of like goes full on like uh ragdoll physics and just like Just like tumbles just like losing as if a puppet had had its strings cut it just like had some momentum forward and just like flops about and lands in an awkward crumpled origami position um You're up lannessa lannessa uh So let's see. We use embedexterity I'm gonna add whoo six more to my dice pool here No, it's just one d6. No pool. No. Oh, all right. I was like Okay, so they're much when you attack you the total pool you make increases by d6 That's still a really good bonus though. Okay. That makes sense. Okay, so I I'm gonna I'm gonna try and take on two goblins I'm gonna split my tax. Okay with three and one during the other um What is My melee is it's a five. So it's good. So it's up to six. So it's still good, correct Currently, yes, you're still you're good, but they're poor. So you're hitting on twos and twos. All right So for the first one, that's three six three Uh, you just slash its throat and then uh Two for the next one one to six Uh, you similarly slash its throat So you're just in this sort of like whirling dervish sort of like tornado style attack Just dance between the two and just slash two throats with a flick of the wrists Only but two grots remain. I would like to use metal I Mean, um, well no hang on you finished an attack action. So roll your d6 real quick. Is that turners that attack? Uh, I think I said that All right, so d6 grace grace grace Nope, it's a five. Nope. Oh So you use metal anyway All right first attack Uh, that will be three with one being a six And these are all plus two damage, right? Yeah, I'm zero plus s. So yeah And then uh two on the next one Uh, you just you sort of like do a like a nice little like sort you continue this this twirling motion from the The two that you just slashed and kind of whirl around the outer ring of the room And then just stick the other two in the back of the neck I uh, I give a little pure wet and uh I see our uh a big winter Uh, I think he's got the big guy. I won't use any more metal. Oh, no, they're all dead. That's it. That's it He's keyword on the pike dead. Oh, he's he's dead. Okay. All right And as you all in fact, I take a I take a bite of the Of the squig that's still on my pike Like a like a corn on the cob Some trap I will I'll I'll walk back over and pick up the box that was dropped Um, it's about this time that you all find your your memories cast back to meeting Uh to meeting the uh sort of meager rather elderly casady pole me or trade pioneer and remember There's usually a band of a band of goblins that patrol that or band of grots that like to raid around those parts Their leader's head is worth a small is a worth a small a small bit Oh Your eyes are suddenly drawn to the uh to the one whose head has been splattered by a hammer Oh that one. Okay, and you see that he's like He's much well like better dressed. He's currently like he's wielding the the fight Like he's actually wielding a real sword instead of just like, uh, you know sharpen Twist twist a barb of metal, you know He looked at me funny. Did we get half for the body? Can we can we just put these clothes on another goblin? I mean, they're goblins They're grots I mean, he has a good point there. Do you want to undress one of these naked goblins and changes clothes? I got the box. I'm sorry guys. I the hands are full I was gonna put them in the pot anyway, so sure Take out my barrel that I bought Does the miniature mop pot to start putting them in Some clothes might change bodies, but you know thank you I'm gonna ignore everything that's going on right now And uh begin looking around at the stonework Okay, that's down here. Yeah, okay. Um Let's see go ahead and uh What I guess what are you looking for? Is this kind of a general scan? Are you trying to go in depth? Yeah, I'm just kind of curious as to what what we can find out about what this was Like was this a tomb was this and what what can we find out about? Uh any more information about the context that we're in right? Okay Like how natural was this how old was it? Do I see certain? Designs like from what age was this, you know created? Yeah, I gotta I'll give you your choice of either nature mind or or a awareness mind I'll do a uh sure. I'll do awareness mind Okay, this will be a A difficulty Four and then extra successes will get you further details three successes. All right. Um You said you went with uh with nature. What was it my awareness awareness you went with awareness. All right, so, um The first thing you kind of notice is like the the Uh, I mean it's certainly a man made. This is not a naturally forming case um But like it's more of a form It's more of a function over form. Um As you kind of like taking it in you you're like, oh like that Where like the sunlight comes through is like kind of purposeful, but it wasn't quite on like the the pedestal near the center You know, is this some sort of weird agricultural thing is like what kind of like comes to your mind Uh Were there any mushrooms around here? Uh, Yeah, I I did promise to steal mushrooms. Right. Yeah, and uh, exactly. Um, you've you sort of like You kind of like You know, the the light draws your eye to like the center of the room But when you as you move off to the side, you notice that there's Essentially like these rows and terraces of mushrooms built like kind of growing out of uh, essentially Uh, uh patches of mulch that have been uh that have been planted essentially In winter Seasoning seasoning I'll I'll I'll do a head nod to the mushrooms Oh, I'm gonna nature these. What are these? I got uh 3d6 for nature. Oh, they're like, uh, um, what's my death gas? It's my target here. Yeah, these are uh, these are uh These are cayenne caps. They're a particularly spicy mushroom that grows around here. Yeah Yeah, they they have this like sort of weird sort of twisted Um, usually like you expect like sort of a flashy style mushroom They actually seem to have some somewhat of like a skin or a Thing to them. They they grow in highly curated and specified conditions. Well quite like this Come to think of it They're supposed to be a rarer form of this mushroom that has to be tempered and uh heated But it needs to be kept in the dark to truly mature I'm gonna kind of look around and pause once did we just raid somebody's garden? Maybe he's successfully just raided So are we supposed to open this box? Or are we paid to open the box? Did they say don't open the box? Um, go ahead and roll a mind to recall The specific wording. Yeah Yeah Well, I have one die for that and I got a five. Do I remember? Yeah. Yeah, um, uh, it was not it was uh, It might have been implied that maybe you shouldn't open it, but it wasn't explicitly or it explicitly stated Okay, I will go open the box. I'm gonna go look in there. I want to see what's in here You see in the box over. Yeah, you see a mushroom like the size of your head And uh Where are you standing? I don't know the center issue of the room probably Okay, so near near the sunlight you see it begin to shrivel as the light like kind of catches it. I'll close it No, just a big mushroom. I re-close the box I guess uh, we're we're really getting the mushrooms. Okay. Well, let's get all the rest of those and go All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna try I'm gonna try one of the mushrooms just real quick Just a taste Yeah, one of the ones off the like off the cave. Yeah, um It depends on how much you enjoy spicy food, but like it's uh, it's got that like pungent sort of earthy Uh quality to it that mushrooms tend to have Um, it's a cayenne pepper mushroom. It's spicy. Yeah, but it's got a it's got a this weird sort of like Effervescent spice to it and it seems to have like absorbed the death in the area So it's got this like extra pungent sort of kick to it I mean as as far as actually going in the box level go as far as actually goes That's that's just like salt and pepper. So you should be fine. Yeah. Yeah I have a I have an ingredient section in my equipment And so I'm adding and pepper mushrooms and one squig to it You could easily just you could easily harvest a pound of these like whilst the conversations and the analysis and stuff is going on I will And off of your previous successes from your survival, you just know how to harvest them properly Okay Yeah, my survival and nature are the same. They're both 3d 6 plus 1. So I suppose it could have been Either of those Yeah, both the relevant take the uh, the quote unquote leader guy And put them up. Well the leader guy was the one whose head was smashed in Yeah, that's why I said quote unquote leader guy. Yeah, exactly. He was until we switched his clothes in accoutre mon All right All right, um, yeah, so the uh, the you you know the way back out the tomb It's exactly the way you came in you already kind of like had like went through the hardships of getting here. Um, and Using the word tomb feels More underwhelming now than before Uh, I would I would like to know Upon the entrance, I would like to carve Te Rathi's rune to uh Consecrate and bless this place in Cain's name since we have cleared it out of all the villainy Uh, do you have devotion? I have I have one devotion. Yes He's a devotion soul. He is devotional Uh, dn dn dn five Five I have one six Okay, uh, that is one success. So you successfully carve the ruin But like as you like are admiring your handiwork, you're like, I think you got a little something extra on that And you just like you're kind of admiring your own handiwork and Well finesse As he walks away, I scour and then uh, and and immediately go chip a rune of the the twin tail comet in below it Well Dn five as well whose devotion is mightier whose god cares about the tomb Uh, two successes Extra prayers for me tonight You feel twice as convinced in your ruin as uh, as lanesa did in hers I look upon that and smile I like I I stroke the little you know the little fur coming out of my chin and like good And then we get a little like head cannon sidebar of like 10 years from now somebody coming here like Fighting a bunch like the goblins are twice the size now and like they retreat to the they retreat to the tomb and they're like Oh sigmar help me and they actually successfully summon a comet like fucking kill a dude In 10 years, uh I am going to Try to figure out Um, I'm gonna try to like scour my memory Okay to see like what I know I'm gonna I'm gonna try to use some of my lore Like what are the usages of these mushrooms? Okay, like do they have any special function? Other than like, uh, like you said that they're fairly like they're rare. They're needed. They need to be cultivated Um, and so lore as the skill like really picks up just random bits of knowledge across all the realm Yeah, it's bardic. It's bardic knowledge. No, it's bardic knowledge And so I'm gonna just try to I'm gonna lure to this bitch and see what Um, what I can remember about what I've heard about these mushrooms. Yeah, these these cayenne caps. Yeah, go ahead These cayenne caps. Sure Uh, I don't know what I'm looking for. I have two sixes and two that I are meaningless So, uh, I wanted a two that aren't gonna do anything probably probably be about a four Okay, well, I have two sixes. There you go. Okay. Um So they're they're actually quite coveted in some regional, uh, some regional, uh, uh, Cuisines like quite coveted like they're the difference between a proper anvil guard gumbo And just soup Like the they really do They really do kick it up to that next level But you've heard some obscurum that they might be used in certain potions um of a sort of like, uh uh a a You've heard like of sort of like sort of an accelerate some sort of accelerant type potion. You're not quite certain what with two well two sixes um Some some sort of like potion that that that's been like linked to speed or or motion or something along those lines So you're not quite certain the particulars, but you you've heard some some obscurum Well, I will uh, I'm gonna take a couple I'm gonna cut maybe two and throw them in my bag just so I can do some inquiry later when we get back to town Okay, okay So so you you you uh, you grab some of the the others yourself Yes, all right. Um, you you could grow you could snag about uh, you could snag about a pound as well like and Over the course like you you would have been doing this simultaneously, you know Sure. Yeah, sure. I'll grab a pound a pound of Cayenne shrooms. I just assumed that you have burlap sacks. They're they're uh, a requisite of being a uh of an being an adventurer Um, the trip back to anvil guard itself was relatively uneventful None of y'all have like mounts or anything So you just kind of go through the like the specific path that that cassidy pulmere Told you about like the that only we're not that rich Yeah, we're yeah. Whoa. I yeah, I know Yeah, you only get horses when you're rich enough to buy maybe a small keep so right. Yeah, yeah So, uh, you managed to make your way back through sort of like the hidden path through Not through the wilderness and then you you end up sort of on the trade route The main sort of merchant road heading back into anvil guard itself Um, you're in route to anvil guard heading towards cassidy pulmere who's Promised not only again, uh, he's a trade pioneer So he's got some sway with the the sort of merchant guilds and uh, he's even got some of the years Years of the the various uh privateers That like to make harbor so gaining favor with him Will help people like okay, the this gave any ogre people They're legit like that. They're they're truly heroes. You can entrust them to do some of your more sensitive stuff, right? um and you're kind of beginning to realize that this was Was only for that. This was a quid pro quo Just to get your name out there. Uh, he made it sound He embellished it to sound far more heroic than perhaps it was Uh, it's it's become apparent to you on the road back to anvil guard That you just got him ingredients to make perhaps potions or some alchemical agents to sell And he was non-specific as to if that this this tomb was his or Arrivals or anything else Uh, as we go through the city like when we get into anvil guard proper to meet up with him and do this handoff, okay? Uh, as we go through and to like random people, I will of course be Uh, minorly proselytizing like at gate guards All uh, I I I make my hand into the into the twin tailed comet, which is this This is the twin tailed comet, right? It's upside down. It's like the spark thing, but upside down And uh, and you know, I always I give them like, uh, don't worry the god king watches over you You have been faithful in your duty, you know that kind of thing You've got some you've got some classic like pantaloons and like feather like the big sort of uh, the the wide sort of brim The wide sort of like the bigger beret thing with the huge like feather coming out With spears and breast plates, and they've got like the striped pantaloon standing Like at the outside of anvil guard as you approach And like the one who's new and hasn't heard of you guys quite yet Goes to like like sees the scaven and like readies his spear and the other one just goes like, you know Kind of waves the hand to him just like no no We let him in and like you come up and like And you like they're the first victims Mm-hmm Sigmar will be with you. He will bless you in your guardianship of this city You do his will by protecting the people may your faith keep you strong and safe and then I move on All right, as you walk as you walk through the gates, uh, I'm gonna go ahead and give you Give you the awareness like you hear the one whisper to the other one I ain't never seen a rat talk before Like I never seen a scaven worship signer sigmar before says the other one I I shake my head in agreement and then move on Haters yeah, like look at the garg mean either So you're you're basically directly en route to to kassie polmir who's who's you know closer to closer to the docks and stuff um You don't quite make it there when you notice a large crowd Sort of blocking the streets and making it difficult to navigate And uh, you can hear like voices sort of whispering back and forth amongst each other In the crowd, but you can hear sort of like one sort of point of of You can hear sort of like one Voice sort of booming over the rest you can't quite make out who it is because I mean everyone's like eye level Even even the ogre just from your vantage point. It's such a large crowd Have has difficulty, but we'll get to this you but you pick out who the source of the sound before the rest of the party does Uh, but we'll go with what is heard first and then we'll go with the description Can I pause here to interject one question? Yeah, go ahead. There's something we would have already had established Uh Fiora fiora mar what's your uh, what's your policy on climbing on you? Oh, I don't care. Okay, cool. All right Then at which point then if I can't see I like the the first time you ever did it in the past You like started climbing on me and I was eating something And then I realized like you weren't trying to take it and okay, I was just shrugged There we go at which point if I can't see I scamper up on his back And uh and stand on his shoulders to try to peer up to see what's going on like, you know, do the tall rat thing Perfect perfect. Um like almost like a meerkat. You've got like Yeah, yeah Like spine like sort of like straight slanted for and just like the head and yeah, perfect Um, so what you hear first in this the voice seems to carry almost Uh, I mean preternaturally this this was someone born to give speeches to crowds. Um, and you hear booming out over Uh over the this quite the gathering Um, you hear choices always were a problem For society Which you need Someone strong to guide you Lest you give in to your desires impulses and chaos The deaf the blind the dumb born to follow I Strong enough to guide you and uh, this is when you see Uh an individual in these sort of gossamer robes with this, uh, son at the center of his chest on a medallion With 11 points 11 rays coming off of it Um, he wears no hood, but he does have a simple leather cap Uh, he has sort of like tufts of of curly red hair coming out from under the cap and um And otherwise sort of jovial Blue sort of illuminate illuminated eyes. Uh, he's dressed rather meager Um, but of good material if that makes sense. So the robes are very good good material Even if there's they're not particularly like ostentatious um, uh It's around this time you see people in similarly, uh, these similarly gossamer robes with uh, rather than like a medallion with the 11 pointed Son on it. They're they're they're son is stitched onto the robes and like sort of a you know, like a brown yellow sort of like straw colored Um, actually stitched onto the robes and they're handing out little like scrolls To the crowd as he continues with this speech Uh, i'll i'll take a scroll okay I would like to intimidate the closest one To know to step off You see a wispy a wispy sort of young much much younger human Uh, like curly cherub blonde hair like pudgy features, but otherwise life and thin Uh, go to hand like hand to scroll like to you and then you roll the intimidate All right, this guy's gonna learn real quick. You don't profit this eyes to worshipers of gain Yeah Let's see Two threes a four and a five Uh, the four's in the five we'll get there. Um Oh, no, this person has like no will, uh, the twos will get there He he so like chuck would reasonably have advantage on the opposed check, right? I mean, that's what happened there So he's six Immediately powers, but uh, sorry miss. I didn't mean I just and then just continues to the crowd Oh spineless Um Do you listen in further or do you continue on your path? I'm curious. I'm ready. I'm ready to go, but if you guys want to stay sure I wasn't curious, but now I am so, uh from there If you stick around, uh, you're gonna actually have to roll a It's not will anymore. It's, uh Determination You're going to have to roll a, uh A determination while standing in this crowd. Okay Uh This would technically be opposed. So I need my dice now Where did I set them? What target number are we looking for? Um, just force One second Assuming we're all staying even if we're not listening sure I'm interested in this guy. I was going to move on, but then you successfully bullied him You're like you have my attention. Yeah I go Not very determined, is he? I want to see where this goes you're looking for two successes each Okay, I got I had two successes on my determinant. I had two as well. I also had two I had one uh You're uh You're you're you're kind of picking up with this with this What this guy's laying down here You're right might makes right People do need strong people to lead them You're kind of you're kind of buying buying into this gap strong people should You know like you need stronger people to kind of like lead you um, if you sort of surrender Uh, you know chaos wins when you give into temptation, you know excess Sadness temptation when you give into all these baser emotions Um, that's when chaos gets in But if you don't have to make the decisions if you let a strong leader guide you Then you're pure And then like you also get this sort of like unit unitarians tell your backstory is about a strong leader Leading people to ruin You're like that that checks out. Well, clearly the leader wasn't strong. Maybe it had you wasn't truly strong. Yeah Yeah, yeah, remember how it's more than strength is more than just strength Well think think about how um like if they had listened to you would they have all died This is actually starting to resonate maybe had Like you've been the strong leader You know the ruin wouldn't have occurred like you're you're like you're you're making these connections like Yeah, like you're kind of like i'm not saying you're indoctrinated or anything, but it makes sense to you Yeah, I started like eating one of the mushrooms. Mmm um, and then you kind of get this sort of like uh, basically a spiel and um You know if you'd like to uh make yourself, uh If you'd like to know more make yourself, uh, uh clean of chaos um The 11th dawn will be holding a service uh this evening and then there's uh, uh, you know food service I like ask how loud over the crowd your voice booms out uh food service One of the people in the the planer sort of gossamer robes standing to the side of the one that's been giving the speech the person giving the speech like Stops him like looks at you and like locks eyes of you like a sympathetic face the person next to him answers um, yeah, there will be a meager, um Uh, uh buffet meager i'm out I I would like to while his attention's grabbed I would like to shout As I assume there's a small murmur to actually raise a voice over this crowd and ask Why a a group who is called the 11th dawn will have their service in the evening? Find out in the dawn Oh, yeah, he has a good point. I mean you need to make it through the darkness to see the dawn Without missing a beat I like lean over to the Maybe they just serve breakfast The crowd all like looks to each other and they do the inverse of rabble rabble They're like, oh, yeah, we make it through the darkness. Uh, yeah, like I shrug breakfast All right, um, all right, somebody remind me to go to that. We've got to turn this stuff in though We should go. This is boring All right, uh, you continue on to uh, where cassie pole mirrors, uh, a shop is um Tom do you like inspect the scroll along the way? Yeah, I just currently it's at it. Um, it's basically like It it basically, uh, you know just mentions the 11th dawn and uh strength through unity and uh And uh chaos will be defeated by purity And then it's got like the location on it where you should go on time Does that scroll say anything about the buffet and then it's got their symbol pretty pretty pronounced Like uh, like uh has like a watermark uh in the top. It's the the sort of like sun with the 11 rays coming from it No, uh, no no food on here Hmm I don't like these people. I don't trust them preaching about other religions when clearly the god king is who protects us all So this just seems ridiculous and unnecessary starting up these separate cults Obviously only faith and sigmar will protect us. I mean, I don't even know why they're they're doing this It seems almost heretical to be honest I don't like it I just heard of this gaven and give him a just a A nice long hard look What is uh, what does linessa think about sigmar saving everybody? She puts her face in my hand and just goes Marathi's bleeding heart Why am I here still? Why why am I here and I look in a direction of where Tehrath these temples at the city even though it's out of sight and just wish hope um You make it to castity pole mirrors, uh Uh place it's still kind of earlier on in the afternoon. You started out in your quest pretty early You you made it back and so so you still have like a good chunk of the day left So the the shop is still open. Um cast me a pole mirror is a fancies himself a A sort of a general wears type merchant Uh with an eye for rarities um So the the shop is a rather eclectic collection of various like, uh potions meeting with like utilitarians or like shovels and Water skins on the on the top shelf by the way, those will cost you 25 aqua gyrannis. They're they're uh Those those don't come cheap. Um Water bottles contain the same amount of liquid though. Those are real cheap Yeah, along with like Various bottles and stuff like that. Uh, you've heard tell that like Cassidy is even known to come into the occasional horse for trade Why? Ooh I'm told that's a delicacy around these parts Can I imagine the horse meets just as valuable? I mean, it must be I mean, we haven't had doomfire warlocks in the coven and Ages Perhaps their horse leather, that's why they're Yeah I mean just wait till the ghp. Maybe the horses will get cheaper. Who knows Oh All right, um Cassidy, uh lights up an older sort of a uh meager meager man Uh lights up immediately upon seeing the party. Do you have it? Do you have my chest? He rushes over Yo, we got the box You didn't open it. Did you He's like looking to round and like yeah, we did kind of like take it. Yeah Uh He huddles it under one arm and he goes and like pulls some uh Some these lighter sort of like veiled drapes shot over the like open windows that make up the It's just like slots cut out of the the walls essentially So not no glass nothing like that, but he pulls these little like uh dusty drapes over them And he he rushes into like a darker corner and he opens it up It's still good. It's still good. It's fine. Uh, you'll find your payment here. He says So Do you like mushrooms? Yes Okay, why did we risk our lives rooms? You're a rare dealt. Did we really risk our lives? That seems that seems like you're overstating it There was like five goblins in a red ball There was a scary box in the center of the room. He wouldn't touch though. Oh, there it is. Watch out Yeah, it's true. That did happen Oh Fulmar, do you have the squeak or grot? Sorry Oh, we should turn him into no, I ate the squeak. I got the grot though. You got the grot. That's a yes Is this the guy that wants him? Is it this guy? I said he would he would fetch you a fine price with the with the bounty's office. He says you see Okay, no bounty's office. I like put the thing back in the all right I will uh pick up the payment since no one else has grabbed it yet Yeah, no, it's just you know, it's it's I guess it's aqua guy ran us in a satchel You can get them in globes. I would assume. Yeah, actually a globe. Yeah, and like a little globe globular whatever. Um About a hundred of them cool So a little yeah Yeah, you get a single drop and then a file and then globes and then there's like the big giant containers that you don't Generally trade around right, right Yeah, so you've got like an assortment of globes that add up to to a hundred um He's like, but we all know that's what you really came for he said It was a good reputation Prices and I'll be sure that everyone knows your names. What were your names again? I'm skig. It's very nice to meet you Skig skig. Yes. Yes. Yes Can we meet already? We did we did we did we did uh in in Yeah, I mean they all do look the same if you're having trouble with memory You should pray to sigmar every night before you go to sleep. He helps lock your memories in your dreams I will uh, I will try this I will try also a fish liver oil. It kind of smells bad Yeah, yeah, but it's good for the brain. Do you think you does Did you spill some of that on your pants? Is that what I was smelling? Oh, yeah a lot of other stuff too Very well, uh, if uh if if well It's strong some of some of that squig some of the grots few meals I had a lot of memories in those pants Is that what you I just trail off and just shake my head. I uh Don't I'll raise my head to the which oh don't do it Um, you'll find that the the witch elves uh garb is quite pristine Uh from her sort of light her her her sort of life and and and rather dynamic movements She managed to like avoid all the viscera Um It is in stark contrast to the to the ogre Sure Makes sense Art is that stuff to be avoided as a witch elf? What do you like basking it? What's the what's the go to? It it depends on the uh on the type of blood grots. Oh, yeah, they're not worthy It's it's too much to wash off for the the the feeling of blood frenzy you get from them. It's not It's not a good return on the investment really. Oh, yeah Yeah, low exchange rate for like blood frenzy to to actual blood Yeah, yeah It makes sense Sounds well as our name around. Let's turn in this dude. Yeah, why don't you go get him? Yeah. Yeah, um Go ahead. I'll say does he have any any blood potions here? This is the thing I should know about I I turn I turn just turn and look at her Um, I I suppose Uh I mean, I do I do catch the occasional pig Oh, oh, okay. No And they sometimes don't know no non animal blood potions I'm afraid not Sit yourself safe. Otherwise, I would have turned you into the uh terrathian colton He would come get you because you are not allowed to do that without a proper proper hag priestess I'll keep that in mind. I would like to I'd like to intimidate him Oh, uh four five and two sixes Um, yeah, he's just like I will Right. I will uh make sure to make a donation to the terrathian uh church In the morrow Very good See you converted him right up You're better at preaching than that guy With the meager buffet Yeah, that's not it. It doesn't have a swaying audience. Yeah Stop your foolishness All right, um, I will be right back in one second and then we'll we'll continue you guys make it to the bounty office essentially, um Just walking about the way. Um, you do notice sort of like throughout the journey throughout your sort of uh kind of winding through the city towards like this this this uh This bounty office that um, there's other smaller crowds Gather around less convincing members of this this 11th dawn mostly just like the The ones in the sort of meager robes just handing out the scrolls and just just kind of like the pamphlet on the street style thing and you notice them When you left this morning They they were about but they hadn't started like, you know, pa uh, like uh, actually like preaching and doing that You just thought that they were You know passing through as many people tend to with anvil guard maybe going to get a catch a ship and then beyond their merry, um But they they seem to have kind of like To say set up shop would be an over an overstatement, but they you can't you can't not You can't not see them at this point um, you probably catch about a a dozen of them in uh, you know in a Yeah, a dozen of these like sites in about an hour like an hour walk or so do Do I see any groups of children Scamps running about anywhere in this city. Oh, there's there's certainly some urchins about I would uh, I would like to like spot a few urchins. Um, and the group will notice that my face goes from its traditional um Resting bitch face will call it uh to a very serene traditional menace. Yes Yes, very very serene and innocent type look and I would like to approach a group of kids. How many how many are there? In one second here There's about six of them like playing with a stick and like some like, uh Corpse of some weird like action squirrel Okay, I'll all in rags and all that sort of stuff There's no there's no rich kids in this group. Is there? No, they're urchins All right, I'm sorry. How many of them were there two disguised rich kids amongst Yeah, yeah, and it could be it could be the prince and the pauper. We just don't know. Yeah I just want to make sure let's make sure. Yeah, there's six of them I would like to I would like to give each of them a single aqua Guy around us out of my own not the groups to Go run around and just mess with those Guys in the white robes steal their scrolls push them down kick them run away Oh, they're more than excited to do this one one's like finally I can kill my gout and like begins to drink the aqua guy guy Gout That one an extra gout when you're like seven It's a rough it's a rough life here Yeah, yeah in the mortal realms you have child on said gout One yeah, you make sure that they do this and I ruffle his hair and let them run away Uh, I just uh, I look over at uh, lorissa and just kind of shake my head Approve Approve All right, I will be right back. I'm probably just gonna I uh, I'm not I'm not real impressed by these cultists I don't trust it. No, sir. Not one minute. They clearly have some bad intentions about them. Look at how many of them are out here That's a cult. They're stealing faith from sigmar. That's that's inappropriate They're talking about might makes right usually Well, not everything they not everything they said was wrong but Yeah, their methods aren't very good We should go check out this in the morning Yeah, we should they said they had a buffet and Should we blend in if we go to the service or I don't think that's what you do you really think that's possible? We could try Blending in is probably like the thing this group is the absolute worst at I just wanted a comedy of errors of us trying That would be good. Yeah I mean We have a lot of devoted to in the party actually and we can We can go if you want, but I can't guarantee that there won't be any sacrifices to cane during their religious ceremony If they're if they're up to no good, then that would be appropriate because again Well, that just means they have to respect you doesn't it? I mean my makes right If they're up to no good, then there'll be lots of sacrifices If they're up to good then just just some small cuts just a little bit of blood flow nothing major the elves, right? We should look for an excuse I'm I'm just to find any excuse. I'm not voting still unrest No, definitely not we just need to make sure that they that these people are put back the people who are there who are innocent these Cult members whatever they are they're they're leading The the innocent people of anvil guard astray from the one true light and faith in the world Cain, you're right. Yeah, absolutely, right Everyone at the party is like yes, you're right and thinks of a different god when they say It's it's sigmar That's who it is. I pull I hold up the book See I I do I do respect your book and I won't push it any further I'm impressed you you can read Yes, yes, I can But there's no need for us to double check that at this point in time I mean we can check again I know I know I've tested you about every week that we've been together Has the witch elf killed somebody yet? Like? Well, he's not planning to only talked about it. We were talking about now. It's more of a potential minor bloodletting We did decide we're gonna go check out this this ceremony later because we're pretty sure that there's Uh, this is through my own personal narrative. We're pretty sure there's heresy about And you can't just go killing and eating people in human society But if they're troublemakers, apparently you can do whatever you want. So I'm game plus I I made it very clear that I do not promote civil unrest I'll remind you that I just paid kids to go push priests over And take their stuff. So it was a smart move I'm super aware of that. We get a we get a cut away to like children running through the streets And like throwing the scrolls in the air while they're being with it With healed. Yeah, like the scrolls the scrolls like triple in length when they're like thrown over a building or something So they're just like literally TPing some of the places um Getting chased by these folks in gossamer robes all right I think we are um in the midst of our conversation on the way to Turn in the corpse of a not leader goblin that's dressed like a leader goblin. I think that's the accurate summary Yes, how much do we get for the body? so uh Hey, we killed this guy So it's like essentially like the the militia this sort of like the the militia uh Basically to deal with and compensate with the extra violence that occurs in the mortal realms Higher on folks to take care of things along these lines. Um, and so you have like just this like this really uh, sort of like, uh I don't put this like sort of like really neutral almost eore-esque individual behind the desk with a like a breast plate The feather on his cap is forward rather than back Like the plume is forward and like drooped off to the side and yeah, I'm just like So you got a bounty head he says and he looks up. Oh, it's a goblin farmer Oh, just the just the head Uh, well that tends to be how you there or that tends to be how you verify those and he points over at the at this like board just cat with cascades of like wanted posters and like uh Like just parchment of like of like caricatures and like of various like nair duels As well as like really minor and mundane stuff that that the town guard just will not deal with um All right Just pop his head off. Here you go. Skink. Uh skig go ahead and roll a perception, please Sure, uh dn4 Awareness Yeah, awareness. Sorry. Yeah, sure. I it'll take me a bit to break some dnd lingo here You're okay Yeah, and he's just like That'll that'll do it. We'll get to that in a second. Um You you basically lay the head on the desk Is that what what happened? Yeah, he only wanted the head. I'm just pop All right. Well, you go and he's just like He doesn't even show emotion like just It goes in the slot below he says He sounds like brian posane, you know like Put it in All right, uh, there's just like a little drop box She like this this wooden box like opens up the head goes in it's like all It was once like a proper sort of brown wood and now it's just turned stained to this dark ruddy mess And he just like pulls it in and then he like That drawer over there. He says and like, uh, you see like another drawer like open up and there's a little deposit of uh of uh Of uh aqua gyrannus as well as rations Oh nice I'll grab the aqua gyrannus Grab the rations total Yeah, and so the rations are were for like what would have been a three-day quest So it's like three times the party 12. There's like, uh, 12 days of rations there So the three of us each take one and leave nine for the ogre Catching. Yep. All right. I have 39 in my inventory right now Should ask me Collecting that I'm gonna study the the board so, uh Whilst this conversation was going on skig you actually noticed, uh, you've got your very own wanted poster uh, which uh Which uh, uh, fear of him will very soon be noticing because he's you know, he's kind of like He's kind of followed but you are you're you're naturally aware. I mean you're not you're a scaven. You you were already like wise to this Yep, um, but what you notice about What you specifically notice about this poster is like some common iconography that only you would notice Okay, something's a little bit off about this poster Uh, it stands apart from the rest in terms of like just the language is a little bit off and there's these little Just often this off The subtlest would look like just paper imperfections. You know are not imperfections. They're deliberate Okay, like I called Okay, yeah Interesting and only you notice this gotcha. Uh, uh fear of him you notice that skig has a wanted poster on the wall Hey, look I I walk over to an inspector. So two things how much how much uh, d did we get out of out of uh Out of out of the bounty. What was that? What was that worth on the d5 25? Oh, sorry. Well, let's make it a uh Yeah, 25 25 d's fine. Okay, cool. Yeah, and then all right. I I step over to the wanted poster and I look at it Uh, inspect it carefully. What's my bounty? Uh, you're worth 100. Oh nice. Ooh Oh, we got one piece action going on. We got to make it a billion I uh, I take it off the wall And so usually they they say like like, you know, if it's the the bounty office is the one that's going to recoup it Or if it's an individual like or a private contractor type thing. This one is private I take it off the wall I assume it's just like tacked up there nailed up there or something, right? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, you just tear it down No problem. Who is the individual that it says is here to go see with with my head so, um Uh This is where it gets peculiar the address doesn't exist Like, you know, the directions to a place it gives you directions to a place that doesn't exist in in anville guard Like if you were to follow the directions like from various landmarks or however, like if they have addresses or whatever whatever their their system Of deciphering where you are and where you should go. I know they talk about like going toward. What is it? center versus Outside the core word versus edge word or whatever. Yeah, core word versus edge word If you were to follow these instructions, you would basically be in the middle of the in the middle of the water Like out of one of the docks. Gotcha Uh, I take it off the wall. Uh, I look angrily at it I I peer real close to it and I'm looking for like the way that claws would scratch the ink like especially and I'm Expecting this to be like basically the night runners who who work for the claw lord 100% that is what this is. Okay The iconography you recognize is essentially scathing code Um, and you're quite familiar because you're gonna have your own dialect and your own Your own subtleties within your own clan. It this is your clan Okay, I uh, I roll it up and put it into my I put it into my bandolier And of course this hasn't escaped this hasn't escaped the attention of the uh, the ever The ever grumpy dwarf. Um You notice him like tear this off and he seems a little bit furious in his in his demeanor uh, furigrim as he as he puts it in his robes Problems I think he was asking a question of the dwarf No, he said to you he said problems problems. Oh to me. Sorry. I thought you were I thought you were talking Does the oh, okay. I'm looking at you did the guy behind the counter notice or care No, no, this is this is the guy who uh, like he is He is just like the the bounty collector it like the the secretary version of it, you know, like he doesn't care Okay. Yeah, got it with you Long story I'll explain later. Should we be concerned? One through ten six right now You can even count i'm impressed Turn back to the wall, you know, I just I have to admire tom. You are destined to play a dwarf Turn back to the wall. He's only worth a hundred can't be that bad Right, um What do any of these stand out as just truly unusual outside of the scaven one? So, uh, I have a homebrew, uh rule I call luck check Okay, um, it's it's a lot easier to gauge on a d20 because you know 10 11 9 But uh, we'll go ahead and go with a luck check and it's just a simple d6 Okay Do you want a scaling luck check meaning like if I roll 3d6 that'll skew high or low like it'll average It'll be a lot closer to the d20 Well, we'll do two we could do two die six because then that because your average on two die six is seven That's a lot easier to calculate the skew on so we'll go with standard crafts Yeah 10 six and a four Okay, um, yeah, there's there's a uh, so like a lot of the a lot of the the bounties Are rather middling, you know 25 ranging between 25 and 100 on the on the top end really Middling basic stuff like there's you know, there's some beast that's destroying my crops kill and I'll get you 25 You know like stuff like that. That's a lot of what's on this on this board, right? um The the skig thing was actually kind of kind of in itself unique Uh, but like it was it was buried and there was some subtlety with it. Um You uh, you notice a uh Um, you notice a a poster for um For uh, it says like essentially this one is like the full-on wanted You know and this one is issued by the city guard itself and it says, uh uh door ga Dorgon blade boss Uh, and it's actually like a particular Uh I hear a particular like orc very specific. You can see a scarred like mug Um for various raids throughout the region a whopping thousand Uh aqua gyrannus are being offered for for catching them Uh, I will pull that off the wall. What was that name again for my notes here? Yeah, dorgon blade boss Blade boss if he commands other blades what to do if you Had subtitles on you could just scroll back up My skype doesn't offer that uh, amenity But I can change my background You can And um, it basically has a like a last scene and then it's got a position on the map. I can I can give you Um, sort of this is a uh, one of those downtime quests type thing because indeed noted Cool All right Hmm Hmm So we eat fungus we little fungus now big fungus later Yeah What what time is it presently like how much time what time is it right now versus when it sounds like it's time to drink So you've got you've got some time between uh between like when you're supposed to be at the if you wanted to go to this meeting You've got some time between between the meeting uh enough you've got time for supper basically Oh, that's what I was just going to recommend. We should go somewhere and eat. Yes should we go down to the docks? No Okay, no somewhere else for a restaurant I mean, it's good. Yeah anything around here. Anywhere but the docks or anywhere but the docks. It's fine all right, so there's uh Within the the quarter you you happen to find yourself in there's a particularly well known tavern slash, uh, restaurant It's right off the like port side So it's it's like got like a little bit of a scenic overlook to some of the the ships coming in to anvil guard and and leaving It's called the brazen steed Uh, so name because horses have a certain Yeah, they've got a They're known they're known, uh, they're known for uh for their gumbo Uh And they're supposedly ogreish ogreish proportions. I'll be the judge of that Perfect. We can go there. Yeah, all right All right, you can already see me arguing the sign said I wrote this joke immediately by the way Like like you go through a burger king like drive through and you have like king size It's like ogre size and then like you get in you just frown because it's not Like this would seem like so much food to a human and you're like busts out a laptop that looks like it's the size of a wallet and he's just like It's like yelp. Yeah Not ogre sized one out of ten But still would eat there again All right, so so the brazen seat isn't isn't too far away I mean, it's it's a few blocks over you kind of jaunt on over Um, it's uh approaching dusk go ahead No brazen steed trot on over and yeah trot on over. Okay. Yeah, um, it's uh, it's it's, you know, a few blocks over, um You head over, um, it's it's approaching dusk at this point Um, not quite there, you know, but the sun has crested. It's it's on the other side of the sky Or rather a zeer is on the other side of the sky, right? Because it floats above like like the fucking high High sorry high. I'm sorry. I don't know what you just said, but okay You knew what I meant Yeah, yeah, hish has crested. That's on the other side the plane just crested So we talk about the cosmology for a minute. How many know we cannot talk about this It makes no sense through here. It's fantastic. How many it's fantastic It's it's crazy. I'm pretty sure at any one time. There are d6 moons. Yeah Yeah, well, they'd be they'd appear as satellites They they would like it'd be like seeing seeing venus and martin squiggling all over the place Yeah, it's amazing. Well, that's the thing is like When you realize that the mortal realms are actually a solar system It just it fixes a lot of stuff For like being sweet and like and uh and realm gates are mass relays for mass effect It's it makes perfect sense To me. Oh and chaos is the reapers Did you just discover my entire plot of the campaign shit? It doesn't wait easy on notama. Yeah. Yeah, we still got the she called notama subplot. Yeah, uh beer What do they got? All right, that is a great point. Hang on. Let me uh go ahead and turn back to my character notes page here um Real quick. So the the the brazen steed is uh, it's got a weird cross section of of like the the sort of like, uh, transient and You know like the corsair population Uh, as well as like the local fair and adventurers. I mean, this is the place right, I mean like and uh Unlike your your sort of standard sort of surly hole in the wall place They pride themselves on being the place. So they elevate everything. There is music you can hear from a block away being played by you know some Proficient entertainers, you know, this isn't just noise This is you can hear it and like you can hear the raucousness coming from down the street The light the the the lights are already lit around it even though the sun hasn't fully crested You know, it's hasn't begun to set yet. They've already got the lanterns lit. They're even they even uh have some like Aetheric magics going on to like power them and stuff like so they're giving off like dazzling color effects rather than just your straight straight flame and I mean, yeah, uh, you have expected any given moment walking up to it Someone to just get punched through the like window and that never happens uh Well, even still I enter Yeah, um That's right. I remember So, uh for beer or something or no, no, so you go in and uh, so you go in and there's a um a uh A retired storm cast a uh, uh woman with a crossbow under the under the Under the fire Huh? Whoa, wait a minute. You just rocked my worldview. They retire This one did no one's arguing um If question she'd say that uh that uh, sometimes the chaos you got to fight is the chaos within folk and that nothing Nothing war nothing fights back the fat fights back the darkness like a warm meal and a good story and some direction Um She's undercover, okay She's known she's actually she's not uh, she's got some uh, she's not actually rocking the sigmarite armor right now But she is nine feet fucking tall Language by the way maf. Sorry man. Sorry Um, she is nine feet tall and has crackling electricity in her eyes Uh, these these robust curls of red Like pluming out from her head and like falling down her shoulders and and uh midway down her back um She's uh built like a greco roman champion of wrestling, um Her name is mara, uh Stern uh stern shield And uh, she has been known to defend the gates of anvil guard Basically constantly So She might run a tap She just runs a tavern in the downtime between when things attack this place, but she's basically standing Quote-unquote retired is a A misnomer She's just like always here Is really what it is But hey man stormcasts are people too and they got to pass the time. So she uh, she started a business um This might be the reason that somebody didn't get punched out a window though Because mara keeps an ever An ever crackling eye Across the entire Tavern You walk in and you can see the casts and barrels of various liquors Wines and other and other decent beverages stacked up behind her um You uh, she's got the uh, like I said, there's sort of the bar top. There's an elevated stage opposite her uh, and a sort of a an inter uh a uh Almost like a beer hall style where a lot of like the sort of long bench style tables and stuff like that with the occasional pillar Having a like its own little mini mini bar top wrapped around it um For the beer I'll the house the ogre real quick. Yeah all about the ogre She's uh, she's your size that amazonian guys Too skinny like a little meat on him What's that just a little Uh This is no way for you to be talking about one of sigmar's chosen. This is bad. That's very rude I'm hypothetically talking about someone else. No. No. I'm talking to him. You're fine. My character says in ogre Which probably didn't use the that big of words, but all right No him you you Poke the dwarf Very rude. She is one of the she is one of the sacred ones Oh, you need a drink rat Real quick. It was stern guard not stern shield, which is what I said stern guard stern guard um So the the house special is a stout called son of a gun stout um Um It's said to uh, it's said to be uh to to be uh, uh brood by a uh by a dwarf of unknown Oh really unknown review. Yeah, um But otherwise there's a there's a handful of uh, you know very slow It's just like ales meads wines stuff like that things that are like rapid aged and in big vats. So they They don't have a ton of flavor, but they'll get you to do that any magmalt brack thuring dark ale bugmans Of course, there's a bugmans Bugman stout right like the bugmans, uh, how many how many x's after how many x's that's your real question here How many axis axis axis axis five x three x four x it's three x it's bugmans three x still bugman It's still bugmans. Do you any magmalt? Uh Just sold my last one. I'm afraid dairy. She says who I'll start over on the room like You see some like you see some uh, you see some like uh, uh, you see this uh, this elven corsair draped in like in like gold and purple and brandishing uh Uh, like a rapier and a and a pistol uh crossed on his belt with a plume coming out of his trifold cap Him I'll walk over Stick a finger in his chest You got me ale Oh, and he spins around Do I Come on paulence hand it over I'm afraid it'll cost you and I seem to have the supply and you have the utmost demand And he just gives a rise smile And he like holds it above your head, which for him is just like kind of holding his arm out straight Going price on this by the way is 8 d a pint So just so you know for your negotiations with him that you're about to rake him over the coalsmith Thank you Hand it over you posse bastard No, no, no, see it is oh, sorry. No, go ahead I was wondering if this was in intimidation yet Or if he had not truly begun to intimidate No, no, no, you see Uh, what happens here is I Hold this aloft like that like so you offer me Uh some very fine d he says And uh, I will sell it to you D is the abbreviation for the coin right for the d is the abbreviation for the coin Yeah, I got all technically d is the abbreviation for okay. Thank you Uh, it sounded awkward when I said it, but I'm like no, I'm saying the correct currency. Okay All right, uh So I repeat thus what is it worth to you my friend? I I punch him in the jaw All right, uh We're going here. Uh, what is this that these are literally punching him I I'm I am literally punching him So like uh, you're using your fists, which are quote-unquote ineffective, right? Parable. Yes. Um, but it would be a body melee so Cool. So ineffective weapons, right? This is one I didn't memorize before we started. I didn't think we were gonna This is gonna happen We just think the window would break either, but it's gonna I wanted to start the party in a tavern To see what type of party I had But I'm happy we ended up here. So I know thank you Yeah, we have the window breaking party. It is here. It turns out. Yeah Okay, so the the important part here is the targets doesn't change your dice pool at all. Okay Uh so But the target's armor is doubled And if you actually clock his toughness and get him into wounded if he actually had wounds if we got into that kind of a situation You can only deal minor wounds with an ineffective weapon. I doubt that'll matter. So it's not deadly I'm literally just punching. Oh, this is a good honest fight between folks. This is good. Yeah. Good We like this. I'm totally getting kicked out. Um On his fight it's a sucker punch. It's totally a sucker punch. Um Uh Well, you need to know what his defense. Oh, yeah, what is his defense? Uh, he is he is great By the way, oh, so he's too higher than me. So you're looking for sixes. I'm looking for sixes. I have two sixes Wow Okay, I was at one six and then I modified one to six. All right. Um, you uh, you uh, you catch him like kind of Flush in the jaw and he takes a step back. He's sort of surprised Can I can I catch the beer before it falls with my metal? Yes I find use of metal dwarf. Yep. Yep. All right. Um, he uh draws his rapier and points it to your chest and says I accept Okay, bring it Mara's just like size Take it outside one of the only establishments with actual glass for windows. I don't want y'all fighting over The mid the mid shelf bugmans Can I get I need to watch this while i'm drinking can I get three beers really quick? I like lean over to her Uh, I I walk outside. I honor what she's asked Uh, and I make it a point to drink the drink it on the way out of the tavern So the by the way the standard ale I would assume Uh, as it started the most the the common ale of the realms, which is what I order while this is going down Is appropriately named twin-tailed ale, which of course would be the only thing I would ever order Uh, that's 3d 3d per pint. So there you go. Oh, yeah, but it's it's happy hour So they're one a piece. Oh, great. Okay. Well, I order my one and I I my tail holds it What's the one that comes in the biggest glass? Uh, I don't care what's in it the barrel The triple d they're all sold by the pint normally. So in here Yeah, but that's what I I understand that but that's what I asked. Okay Uh, she uh, uh, she's like, oh you again. Uh, she's like, oh you heard about you. She says, uh, Cook this up special for you. She grabs a barrel and just like no effort by the way She grabs a barrel picks it up and sets it on the table and it's got a handle Oh How much I gotta watch this fight 10 uh, no, sorry, that'll that'll be 12 drops. She says 12 like pick up the barrel and like Go outside to make sure I get to watch Can I can I put in the meal order before? Just We're going outside. He's gonna get a fight. She puts a hand she puts a hand on her apron hip Uh, this is the first time you actually catch that she is in fact wearing her sigmarite press plate under the apron And uh, she doesn't have the pauldrons on Or the grieves and the the stuff, but uh, you catch that from like the the posture. Um, What do you what do you have dark? What do you what do you have in darlin? She says, uh, I will take the, um, Uh, the the line flank steak with the side of actually in Uh, actually in leaves. Uh, can you make it bloody please? Uh, and a nice a nice white nice white wine for the side, please And don't worry. I'll make it red myself that I know I'll pair it right. Don't worry. Just make I need you Give me white. I'll pair it right. Yeah She calls to the back she says One witch special bloody as hell She just like shouts through the window. Um, and uh, I need a fork. I don't need any knives She just like turns around uh six drops she says is she's like goes off to somebody else's order I'm outside. I'm outside drinking this barrel and I just turned to someone. I hope that guy punches that guy I I also join outside Uh, so So what was it? Dual to the first blood. Do you like to go unconscious? This this Come on. You're pretty paunt. I don't even get out a weapon. I just like, uh, on shoulder right shield Okay, uh, I lean over to skig. I guess it means first blood Because I'm uh, I'm more convinced initiative Got a six. Oh, I got a nine nine since it's just the two of you. I assume you can basically just know and go Yep. All right, you're up Uh, I am going to throat punch him Again, he is great Uh, uh, no, and I'm gonna I'm gonna begin to lecture him on his uh on on why He needs to stop being so prissy. Um, and so that'll be my uh, that'll be my My entertainment role. Okay. Yep Here we go Tom just punched that dude for the halibut My uh, my my entertainment does not go off. So that is not successful. Um, I do not have any successes But then I throw punch him Okay I don't I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what my target numbers are I'm just go punching him. He's great. You've got a you've got a six. Are you legitimately attempting to like, uh called shot? Is that what you're sure? Are you just sure? Yes. Yes, okay. The rules are there. Yes, that's what I'm doing Here we go. Surely that's found in the rules section, right? Mmm Yes, uh, I got a five The short answer is you're gonna need sixes. That's the answer given if assuming his defense is still the same Cool. Yeah. He's still great. Um So like you uh swing past him And missed your punch and we cut to one hour later and he's got the five exes out and you guys are Laughing and uh on the verge of blacking out I like that that's a good kind Like arms are like arms over each other and he's busted out the good stuff and you don't remember how you got here You just know You're both like bloody as you're both like like bloody as hell and stuff like that His like his rapiers nowhere to be found. It probably went on a really long time I'm pretty sure he needs sixes on me. So yeah, no at this fight would have went forever Yeah You determined that you each need sixes for everything Yeah, everything. Yeah, right. I got a bunch of play empty plates stacked up next to me. Oh Good time Yep, and I'm out of all and I'm completely broke. So we need another adventure No, luckily tonight had an all you eat buffet Uh, so it was uh another another 12 and then you just got to eat by the way Oh, yeah, I've seen those and when when I'm walking up they try to switch the sign real quick, but I'm fast I got plus two moves when I'm hungry I can't deal with it Um, so we we cut to a scene. We're like we're we're uh skig would you have continued to imbibe? You have perfect recall by the way of the entire fight. No, I yeah, I would have just like I don't Skig doesn't like to be drunk But he did but he enjoys twintail ale because he's worshiping sigmar appropriately by drinking the ale So he would just you're the old go ahead. He would nurse a beer over most of the night Yeah, so so skig, uh, you have you're the only one of the party who knows exactly what happened this night I watch with interest. My tail actually holds it in drinks. Like my hands don't ever act. It's just like the tail comes up and it's like Yeah, at some point like at some point, uh, lanesa would have gotten bored with like kind of like a very Like it's a fight to first blood which at first intrigued you But then was super boring because it was just Fake was done. I also learned that the first blood means just blood once and that's just why I even bother What was yeah, so at one point like the meal was ready and you walk back inside Yep, from a witch health perspective fighting to first blood. It's like But that's when the fun starts like why are you stopping? Are you guys just training? I mean just teasing It's all teasing. It's just teasing. I enjoyed my steak. Yeah and salad so Like, uh, so I get a low quality soup or something which I consider to be the finest meal One of the finest meals I've ever had in my life There are actual solid chunks of food in this. This is incredible. They don't even they don't even charge you for it This is like they're switching out the kettle from the buffet, you know And there's like some swill in the bottle of it in the bottom of it and they just like pour it into a bowl for you I guess if you want this absolutely There's like a hunk of stale bread with it Yeah, they were just going to let it solidify and turn into some grease to cook with but I guess you can eat it I eat it greedily and happily So, yeah, we do that. We do all you each of you guys were all right Linesa, uh, you get your meal, um In the the time skip. Do you do anything else of note? Probably just finish a good a good hearty decent meal Uh, yeah, yeah, I knock back a few uh a few things of wine I I I take one of the glasses of wine when I'm a little bit drunk and I Take my knife and I cut my hand a little bit puts some drops of blood trying to make some hag brew Trying to learn the ways of that and praying over it and really what I did is just made Want bad wine worse, but uh Someday we're gonna have a sippy cup in this party. Oh, boy Oh You kind of already do though Except it comes from like the tambourine man dwarf and the and the blood and the blood vulture, uh Like you've you've kind of got parts of it and there isn't really a warm and a warm meal talent We got a lot of sippy cups Yeah, I mean they their characters might not Have the fortitude to want to eat the warm meal, but Yeah I I think with your with your adventuring together now Whilst they're weird to you You know, it's like you still make the meals like you're not going to feed them like goblin femurs Yeah, I understand the concept that different races eat different things. So like You know, I'm not trying to poison them. I understand At least at a basic level that like ogres can eat anything and other races aren't quite So tough, you know, so I'm like it's why I Know that all I'll put some blood in it that ball. I'll put some beer in it, you know That one I'll just call something that has to do with sigmar. Everybody's happy Basically the leavings like old parts of entrails Uh, rendered fat that would be excellent for me. I'm good with that Yeah, I'll put some yellow food coloring in it. Eh golden fees. There you go. And then everybody's happy So we do that we do like like the cut too and like it's just it's just It's just grim near and this, uh, uh, this, uh Corsair that you've learned their name to be avander at this point captain of a alleged captain of of a ship And you just like kind of like stumble into the like into like the road out of the tavern You've got like the jug of like five acts like slung and like slung in your like Like between your knuckles, you know, uh, he's like, oh Oh, if anyway, oh if you ever need a ride, he says Uh, he's like, uh Oh, I got my own ship. Like I said earlier We'll see about that He's like no no my own ship as I mentioned many times earlier. Yeah, he's like no no it's right over there behind the uh Uh behind the building any points and like our our camera view sees only the building and like nothing, you know But didn't you say you had someplace to be my friend? Um Yes And like it's like everyone's like coming like the stack of plates are on one side of uh are on one side of Of the ogre and which office is like I'll go to the empty stack of plates I've learned just to look for the empty stack of plates So I stumble that direction. Yeah um, the rest of the party actually kind of like Is behind you at the door and very like uh states of like having I'm gonna put it this way skig is the the uh second most sober because the ogre is just like uh You enjoy the experience of it, but like you because you're immune to poisons and like you can just eat anything Like alcohol is just like fun for you and it's not like there's no detriment to it. You can eat anything Like I just like to see how fast I can drink it Like nurgle rot is like nurgle rot won't like if you just eat like a like a like a like a blight king You're just like fine. So alcohol is meaningless As we start walking skig his tail snakes around and draws the symbol of the twin tailed comet on uh on lannisa and feargrim and I'm going to use uh, I'll use revitalize on them, which lets me remove any one condition I want I will I will remove the intoxicated condition Sigmar must bolster them and then I draw my tail draws a twin tailed comet. I cure their drunkenness See you've got a role actually to uh to cast your your miracle, right? No, this one requires no role. This one just works. Yeah, beautiful. A literal buzzkill Blasted rat Hey, weren't we supposed to go to some buffet in the morning? Uh, it's now. That's where we're going We have to go to the morning But they're the rising dawn They had some kind of silly in the evening In the evening Let's go All right, can we can we still possibly cut them a little? I don't think we should unless they're actually heretics in which case Then don't cut any of the innocent people who've been brought under their sway. Those are just faithful Just a little yeah, like the rat said we're just waiting for an excuse But we have to find one. Okay. All right You both find yourselves like, uh stunningly sober I just shake my head like just this is not the first time We've been down the throat before uh, if if you uh, if you are keeping track of context You can add a legend captain avander rail to your list of contacts. Yeah, I did course there Yep Alleged it's it's important. Yeah. Alleged is important. Yeah Um, I got a I got like a party list of stuff we've acquired like just like d, you know, yeah, yeah It currently it's 125. So it's not like a big deal but Uh, you can just hold are we doing like a party document where it's just this is the loot everybody has or are we Yeah, we'll use the we'll we'll I'll write up the party goal sheet after this too Like after this week because you actually keep a party goal sheet with party everything on it. So it'll have like the party Yeah, we put all all that stuff in the same spot. Okay. Is someone's got that then I'll take it off mind To be clear. I asked for short term and long term goals to help me write one short term The campaign, uh, I didn't realize they had codified them in the rules Uh, when I asked that and then I read the book Um, it's all right. I mean, it's a nice idea Yeah, we can we can discuss our long term and short term party goals because you have to have individual goals and party goals And like we can figure that out over the course. Oh, yeah I was I was waiting for the party goals to just talk to everybody. So yeah That can involve organically right as we get to as we we personally get to know each other's characters or whatever We the players All right, um, so you you head to this this sort of appointed place on the scroll um And uh, it's sort of like a meager, uh, like a warehouse again still in the in the docks area Uh, that they have converted essentially into um a place of worship like it it shows that they've they've tried like they've got like little little like, um Like tapestries up on the outside to identify that. Hey, this is you know, this is a place they've um You know, they've cleaned it up the you know remove boards off the windows and actually like opened up the Like open up the open up the the Open up the area so like you can actually see inside and like light comes in and so on and so forth um He's sort of approach. There's one of these One of these ones in the like the sort of planar, uh, basic robes with the stitched on With the stitched on sun outside just kind of greeting people and um Just sort of greeting people and when you look inside, uh, there's a bunch of like sort of cushions on the floor Uh, strewn about Lining one wall is a table with a buffet with various like, uh, pastries and breads and stuff With a with a meager I want to say a meager display, but uh, there's like some dips and stuff like various like, um, You know like actually just having butter here is kind of a big deal. So there's there's actually like fucking butter They've got some very like some something like a something like a pesto where it's like an herb and Urban like nuts that have been ground up with some oil and some some sort of a fat So various like little like they've got some spreads And then like there's a actually like, uh salted fish Like on hand just uh, yeah Yeah Slabs of them probably like several You know like Like several slabs that are meant to feed a At congregation, but to you it looks like you know a good a good meal if you take this is a solid meal table Yeah, I'm quickly scanning the area for any little folded piece of paper like take one or any limit Limitations. There's nothing like that. There's a person behind the table that is handing things out or no No, it's off to the side. There's not even like there's not like you tinsel's even like there's just like you You're supposed to walk up and graze, you know, it's time Um, and then like there's a there's like I worked up an appetite walking here from the restaurant. We just ate out so yeah So you've got like you've you've got like a uh Just like various like baguettes and loaves of bread under one shoulder like in a big massive clutch And then like you're currently like fisting in like hunks of like not even worrying about like the bones on the on the salted Fish you're just like grabbing fistfuls and cramming them into your face. Um at one point I just want to make it clear. I'm not leaving the table with stuff. Like this is the table that I'm sitting at Like I find it there Yeah, I was gonna say I appreciate all of this this like tolkien s or Uh description of food that is going to cease existing in about three minutes I'm sorry. I mean, it's like over the party. I've been belishing so you're fine. It's good It's like the sand sculptures that those monks make and then destroy like, you know In the creation and the destruction I mean the rest of the party can you guys can talk to people into No, I worked up an appetite and now I'm sober. So I'm eating Right the butter At one grab like instead of like the spreader, I'll grab just the stick and just kind of like rub it on a loaf Yeah, that's good. He's got the whole loaf. This is like He's put the butter over the top and he's just like smashing it into his face So like at one point someone does try to come over but then there's a fucking ogre there and they just like Sorry, man, sir There's a there's an ogre there and they just like Just they don't even say words. They just go back And then like you see like the like someone who must be in like higher rank on account of like they actually have some sort of like Jewelry or something like that puts a hand on their shoulder and just like kind of pats and nods It's better this way Um But uh Yeah, uh, they can still claim there was a buffet. So they're not lying and they're In there, you know salesman pitch, you know earlier in the day, right, right? um, so it's it's it's about this time that um that uh the The gentleman you recognize from the marketplace comes in you know there it's a very It's a very sort of like casual Despite the the attempt at pageantry. It's a very casual laid back People have like little conversations off to the side like sitting on pillows not even facing facing him like there's there is a Obviously engaged devout like Totally buying what this guy is selling group of folks Like crowding up around him not even sitting on the pillows sitting on the floor in front of him type thing You know about a about a dozen or so Various various races. You've got like human dwarf. They're all here. There's there's even like a sylvaneth Uh, like uh, like branch witch, you know, one of the smaller ones like kind of hanging out there standing Leaning up against the wall opposite the buffet just kind of like looking over kind of nodding along and then like again very people had various states have like disinterested the ogre and the dwarf um Fjormar and and and and furgrim are like still at the buffet table because it's just like this is our table now I think it is like munching along Uh skig and uh, lanesa, what are you doing as this sort of speech kind of ramps into sure Go ahead lanesa uh, well, I actually I'd like to Walk up closer to where that priest is giving a sermon everyone's sitting And just kind of stand it and stand near the back and uh kind of keep an eye and see what's going on and and try and figure out where are all the His fault like is uh the other priests at in the room like are they all there they kind of scattered around Yeah, so so like there's a there's certainly like some sort of uh, and how many of them are there? There's um There's about a dozen in total Um, there's about a dozen in total. Um, including him Uh, you notice that they're they're kind of careful not to outnumber the amount of people In the room and itself um, so like there was like some extras that kind of retreated into the into like the back the back room that the everyone came from um and uh You imagine from the layout like I said, this was this was sort of like a retrofitted or or an warehouse that's been retrofitted. So like it's a very uh Sort of thin partition at the back of the room that is like quote-unquote the other space But they they just kind of disappear back there behind some like some stacks of like Boxes and and like a makeshift partition And then you have this this gentleman sort of standing forward with some like candelabras and you've got these these tapestries hung Kind of covering the crates and on the walls around them. Uh, there's little lantern lights hung about and uh, there's actually a an attempt at having like a pretty decent Sort of centerpiece hanging from the ceiling and that quite a I want to quite call it a chandelier But like some sort of like effigy some some sort of big ball Uh, oh reminiscent of a sun with with 11 11 candles on it. Um and uh, and like I said the You have this sort of like devout Dozen sitting up front. So there's probably about 10 people in the in the robes Uh, you said you you made it a point to be at the front but kind of behind that behind the the people sitting I just want to be nearby kind of off to the side and just see what they're doing so so 10 of these 11th dawn are sort of Scattered about five of them standing at the front and then just sort of like five of them transplanted throughout the audience essentially Like they're not like at guard positions no ones There is still one person standing outside like handing out like little Last minute brochures and trying to get people to come inside But there's not really a guard per se Okay Uh, I will be up with her because I want to be I want to be doing what the main preacher is saying basically Two challengers approaching I suppose I'm not uh while they approach I'm actually uh From my vantage point at the back with the um food I'm actually evaluating where all of the um cultists are And keeping an eye on the movement of them All right, right. Oh, yeah, like as Steve and Paul you've got like cool guy like youth pastor Where's the jeans has a guitar like that's who's up there right now? Um, sorry. I saw the chat Yeah, and even though I'm eating a lot like ogres are very used to Eating a lot while still multitasking because it's like most of their life. So I'm I was gonna say reaction for an ogre Really? So you can just you still have your allotment of action. I was gonna say the you know Tom's Tom's idea is good. That's basically what I was doing You know, yeah, you're a hunter Yeah casing the room thinking about ambush points. Like what do I do if this happens? because For at least from what I was getting from the from what I was getting from the rat He disapproves of what's happening here, but he doesn't violently disapprove And I'm getting from the witch elf She does And so I just want to be ready in case You know things escalate I just need to know where I need to throw this table once the fight starts. Yeah, I love that you're presuming Presuming a fight. This is weird. We we have a witch elf in the party Hi I'm an ice brow hunter. All I ever do is scout and prepare for fights Also heresy So he kind of like starts in with a spiel like he actually uh, this this gentleman who's who's actually at this point, uh Brother item He's introduced himself at at some point um So brother item has has introduced himself At some point and like it starts with the just casual conversations Like just talking to like the various like groups of people doesn't go into like the full like, you know postulating mode just really does just like engage people on it like little groups walks around and then goes up at the front and it starts this conversation with this sort of like the core sort of in the in the The process of being like fully converted sort of that core group and like engages them Someone asks a question. You know the funny thing about that type thing You know, it's the conversational coffee house environment. Yeah, exactly exactly like, you know a lot of uh A lot of folks in my position, you know of We've got a lot to say, you know, but uh It you've had a long day. You've worked hard and I find that it's best to Not to say a whole lot, you know, it's it's I mentioned if you're here chances are you've already heard the word You've heard that that the path to enlightenment involves letting go that To remove chaos from your heart You got to remove temptation. You got to remove strife You you've got to remove fear And where's fear come from? I raised my hand Oh, yeah, where does fear come from sister? From the lack of will To take your own destiny in your hand I pull out my knives for emphasis and I would like to do a general intimidation not necessarily him directly Just intimidation in general you're loving this imitation intimidation. I love it. I'm rolling okay on it. So all right A one and three sixes The rule you have the room at this point and not the And not uh and not item No, no, no good demonstration of fear. Look at you Do that fear you evoked in everybody right now. Did that come from destiny? or that come from Someone it came from kain And it came from my abilities learned through the k-night temple the k-night temple that also helps feed the poor That takes care of this city whenever Sigma is unable to and I kind of lean over to skig Yeah Yeah So you do you do shepherd the poor you do you shepherd them But have you saved them? What what god do you call service to? What being of divine that's the beauty of all of them. There's a lot. There's a lot. There's good ones And there's there's also evil ones like But most importantly you're right. There are many evil gods and it's it's hard to tell who's on your side And who's out for their own agenda kain kain certainly taught you a whole lot i'm sure But kain's also What the murder god the god of blood? I'm sure there's a time and place for murder I'm sure there is yeah, I know I myself wanted a murder A person or two he I know it's hard to believe someone mild manner is myself but But the real god I want you to look to Is in here and he points to the sun on his the medallion on his chest Who's what what god? I see self. Yeah, that's self. So the self you know right now Is not your real self It's all this stuff going on All these things getting in the way you're afraid You're afraid of somebody brandishing daggers in a nice casual conversation with a decent Like hand gestures over to like the table where it's like almost gone So the congregation of folk from a wide walk of life This guy called me wide Have you heard the good news of vole? Yeah the good news but What i'm trying to say here is maybe kain i got nothing against kain He's done right by this town and right by these folk as you as you've so clearly As you so clearly illustrated my uh as you so clearly illustrated sister What i'm saying is there's there's more to this We already know there's eight realms Can you name all the gods that are Once upon a time we're all united for the service of mankind, but then Let themselves get in the way Can you name them since you worship them all apparently? That's what you said Answering a question with a question see this Is the movement of somebody who is themself afraid and while you start hearing the crowd Like he's starting to sway the audience against you from your intimidate. Can I help from my table? Can I say something? Yeah, please. I don't think he knows He's pivoting Or wait, he's pivoting to You know, what are them? What are all them gods? Well, you got a larial negash and he rattles them all off Like you don't even know like he goes all the way. Are there are there 11? No, there are not 11. How many are there? It's like eight That's only eight He's like you're right. You're right. That is only eight Well, I'm what I'm should there be 11 He's like 11 dawn isn't about the number of gods. He can count that's a short he's like that is a That is a very I can say earthly that is a very earthly view a very realmy view Of the numbers I don't think any of this makes any sense Are there some kind of other numbers and I'm like kind of asking Uh, the uh, I suppose the rat isn't near me the dwarf. I guess because he just said I can count There's some kind of other numbers. I don't know about Uh, actually go ahead and roll a Um, is there a mathematics? Are we getting into imaginary? No, we'll look at theology religion, yo Oh, yeah, yeah, mind Specifically wasn't thinking about it that way. It is also appropriate to ask that. Yes. Yes. All right feargram Yeah, I'm in Uh, what am I rolling theology? You're you're rolling a theology mind. Cool Uh dn4 I got two successes You know specifically that there are holy numbers of chaos And like I mean there there are numbers that they're associated with twisted beings Um, 11 is not one of their numbers Like the known ones are six seven eight nine 12 and 13 wait 13. I mean, yeah 13 And 13 skank pipes up Yeah So who do you worship like something like like I'm dialed into the conversation now. Yeah What I'm saying is all those gods they once upon a time they did great things for man elf crenothe Um, and he just like mentions it like basically rows off all the races in the room. He's like he's like but But they also abandon y'all to yourself But didn't you just say salvation was in ourself? And that's exactly what I'm getting to my friend salvation is in yourself and then uh one of the sort of like Lackies to the side brandishes this syringe um We went from zero to syringe real quick on this He's had the audience the whole time is what you're not getting like the parties clearly woke to the Cultist shit. Yeah. Yeah Yeah So I see just roll out. Yeah, I there's no point in in we got to get to the main arc. Um, he uh Uh, he pulls out this like this guy like the syringe on this like on this like this, uh, this little like, um Like wooden sort of platform and it's really like done up All of the attempted like the pageantry and the tapestries has crystallized into this one moment um Salvation he says and then like you uh Grim near or sorry furigrim Uh, you don't feel right You instantly this isn't like uh the You know your conscience or not feeling right about the situation and feeling this sort of like utter um Uncanny valouriness of the whole scene that's unfurl. It's not that you feel something more primal Not right when you see this Like something like a like a like a scab or a wound just kind of within your skull like Just opened up Something's wrong. Uh, something's not right and I stand up and I unsling my shield Yeah, and so you see this this this this thing is syringe. It's got this like sort of amethyst I core within it and you swear that you catch this this fleck of like a silver tinsel or something With the faintest gold tip The rest of it's like thing and it's it's otherwise a very like village of the lost children like overt like looking uh very medieval thing, uh You best be putting that down son skig by the way um, I'd say that you recognize some of the Inspiration yeah Yeah Gotcha the the the the technology is that what you're referencing there? Yeah, yeah Yeah, I'd say so okay uh I I point out i'm like, uh, I was right. It's heresy. They're bad guys. You're all bad guys You've turned away from the light of sigmar um How does the party proceed because he hasn't brandished it. He's not like injecting someone actively with it that I uh They've shown this syringe. I would like to lean over to skig and go. I'm about to end this whole man's career and I am going to Sprint towards it to attempt to just knock it over and push it far away and just shatters whatever I can He's never gonna spiritually recover from this I think uh, I think uh I think in athletics is in order All right, I do have a totally spotty if that helps for getting through the crowd at all I'm sure was that I do. I'm a contortionist too if that helps getting through the crowd of people Yeah What's it? Yeah Advantage or something maybe I don't know No, it adds like I think it like double actual like doubles your dice pool or double zero success with something weird like that Right. I did not expect this to actually be coming into use in the round one. So here we go Uh, you have advantage on a post test when attempting to escape someone's grass Silt away from them when grappled or you know, or you can additionally you can fit into unusually small or cramped locations Narrow pipes containers. Basically he gets through small spaces easily So he has advantage on all these these checks or would theoretically, you know You could you could figure out some other bonus as appropriate, right? Yeah, so I mean people are going to try to stop you as you like bound through and you ride like ride the bout and stuff like that Um, I'm just going to say you've got you've got an extra die Okay To your pool for doing this two four three fives It was four is the was the difficulty So five successes five success. Um, I'm not even going to have you roll a follow up You weave through this crowd effortlessly um, like some of the Uh, some of the like these like apostles like try to stop you some are not apostles some of these like acolytes try to stop you and you just like effortlessly Duck under you do the full on like slide on the knees like contort back like limbo champion of the universe Like motion and just like whack this thing flings across the room smashes into the wall It looked way more viscous Well, it's inside the syringe than what it actually is it hits the wall and just Like pretty much just like water flows down and begins to evaporate before it even hits the ground And you swear you catch this side this tiny spark of silver Flip out of existence Somewhere in that chaos Uh, the crowd at this point, uh, especially the people that weren't dissist The ones that were like half like in and luke warm Basically just get up and begin to leave like they're in the I mean now we're going into like, you know snapshot mode crowd Fleeting fleeing you've got the uh, the ones who are engaged stand up and like look scared And paralyzed with action and then the ones who weren't paying attention Are suddenly paying attention And so it's you've got about half of the people just like outright fleeing From this whole room probably about probably about like 30 bodies in in total us Not counting the uh, the 11th dawn themselves I uh, I pulled the holy symbol the twin tail of comet off the back of my backpack and hold it aloft and uh, I assume like somewhere in being a priest and capable of miracles Means that I am capable of doing sort of minor things like making a holy symbol be lit up And think of that. Okay. Yeah, there's no specific talent for that No, I mean you can you can glow there. You can probably even like billow some wins like, uh, what's the uh Yeah, thaumaturgy. Yeah, you do the thaumaturgy stuff. Cool. Uh, I hold it all off and I say Uh, I I hold it way up in the air so everybody can see it And I I say the god king will save you all do not fear Leave these heretics behind and get get out of here. You should go now All right, so at this point you're going to try to convince them all Well, I'm saying that you tell me how that's interpreted. I am giving that I am saying that thing Hell man, you can have an extra die because it's the right thing to say in the situation But uh, I mean you you you've got Equal parts like, you know, some people are like frozen in fear I mean your your choice of the social skills really like are you intimidating people to leave? Are you inspiring them to lead or are you convincing them to lead? So guile is probably the most apt I'd imagine because there's a sort of finet like, you know How you say it is as important as what you say, right? Sure. Sure. Yep. That's fine. I'm okay with that all right Uh, I got a because you said the right stuff again an extra die in your pool. It's uh four again again four I did get a success. Yes. I got a six one success um, so any of the undecided folk And like the ones who are frozen Like they're all like you've you've swayed them. They're gone. So you just have this like weird core group of about a dozen Uh, even about half of them have decided it's not worth it and pieced out So you have about six bystanders at this point and 10 10 or nine acolytes and then the the main person Okay, uh I will I will use a metal. Okay And I will uh use the miracle of bolster faith I will target all of the uh, all of the people who aren't the Uh, who aren't the acolytes in the zone Bolster faith doesn't require a check. It immediately removes all frightened and charm conditions for everybody Okay. Hmm. Okay. Uh, so hopefully that moving charmed. It's super important Um, all of us are in that as are any of them. They immediately lose all frightened and charmed conditions. Okay they they be uh, they're still Uh, they are still Collateral damage in the room when initiative picks up. Mm-hmm. Uh, but they are trying to flee. Okay. Yeah This will also create a barrier around us by the way bolster faith doesn't just like allies can pass through it Effortlessly so they can walk out and leave But it literally creates like a barrier around us that that those I've deemed as enemies of the god king cannot pass through without testing That's a really good spell It is a super good talent to hold the might of the god king So i'm gonna go ahead and need you to uh, all roll initiative now because uh Yeah, we found an excuse boys I like stand up from the table You remember how like um as a gm like you think that they're they're like there's a puzzle or there's a problem I'm like And you just expect the party to solve it. Good job Yeah, sure. Good job Fitz. I like there's clearly a problem like how do you Get behind the like layer of like pageantry and you know after it like this perfect. Well done everybody All right, uh feargroom Uh, I'm on a big old 10. Okay. Good roll. Uh, lannisa nine Uh, fjormar seven Look at that. We covered the spread Bad guys bad guys Uh got an eight Okay, they are they are on the same as me Uh, you go first tie goes to players. Yep, that's fine Okay, uh, so then the initiative so I assume at the moment there are 10 of them in the room They don't have a total one note. We're the individual Yep, what are we talking about for zones in this room? Like the area where he is is one zone the sort of back area That they were going to is one zone and the the food table is a different zone. Is that about right pretty much Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right. So lannisa and I would be in like the middle zone Uh, and then feargroom and uh, fjormar will be it would be in the far zone And then we don't know what's in the back zone right now. Correct. Okay, cool All right, I like the zones. They're easy once you kind of get the hang of it It's just like imagine the space and break it up into a couple areas. Good to go Yeah, I was about to say I like zones. I think it's a good. It's a good mechanic Yeah, they were the real standout for me when I was um when I was testing. I'm like I like this a lot If you're not going to use it right away, what's what? How many zones am I away from the bad guy? Well, there's probably some in your zone. The the main bad guy would be one away from you Because it's like you can't see my hands But there's you're in the back of the room effectively the big room we're in would be two zones and then the back room is a zone That makes sense Okay Yeah, there's there's essentially a charge action too where if you close the zone and You can do the thing like there's your offense increases by a d6 or your offense increases with your defense offense goes up defense goes down awesome Sounds great. So i'm gonna uh, i'm gonna begin uh chanting a an old dwarven battle hymn of courage so So as this is sort of as you're beginning to do this is like, you know The awareness that shit has hit the fan has occurred um The uh Oh son now you're done and had to go ruin a good thing says the like the main the main leader guy and he uh pulls the medallion from his neck and it like whips out into a weird sort of blade sword or a sort of weird like whip sword with the uh the son Forming essentially like a knuckle guard and the metal you realize that actually it has become malleable To like sort of get a curvature to it with those 11 Beams sort of wrapping around is like the filigree and the the ornamentation Well Here we go, um, uh, i'm gonna open with my uh my battle hymn of the uh the dwarven people Um with one success gentlemen, I do apologize any step away. Please go, uh Skig it will be dodging on his turn. He would only he would heal if necessary. Okay. Okay. Uh, and then it's so it'll be phirgrim lannisa Uh, and then myself doing that then the bad guys and then if you're on Mars last, okay, right? Yeah So one success for those that start in my zone Uh for damage bonus, um, and then I will charge into um the damage bonus Then is uh that is specifically Uh, that is specifically the ogre that is specifically sure mark. Well, no, it's going to be whoever starts in my zone So When they start if they're in my zone, they're okay fair enough. Fair enough. Yep. Um, and so Probably not him Yeah, right Not this turn, um and so And then i'm gonna spend my metal to charge in and hit the dude in the face main dude Say what main dude? Yeah main dude. Um What's above great? Excellent excellent. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to rage Let me make sure but yeah, I think it's it's excellent. Yeah I'm gonna rage and bring my um My defense down to great and bump my Maylay up to good So I don't know what he's at but I'm you're on lives Okay. Well, hold on. So I'm coming in at good and then because I'm charging I go to Great, which would be against great is force force. Okay. So I'm on forge against him. Yep weapons go Here we go Uh Two successes if you're charging you get an extra d6 Oh Is it is it not a step it's a d6 It's an extra d6 on to the attack. Yeah, it's oh, sorry. I just looked up three successes. I apologize three Yep. Okay, um So you'll note that as you go to swing in your uh, your hammer it like it's sort of like you feel like you hit this Sort of like inertial. Yep, like field or something like that uh, and then Damage is what? four three four three four five And one of those is a six. So he's gonna get knocked down. He's knee-capped Oh, I'm sorry. Not knee-capped. He's stunned. Right. That's what uh, Yeah, yeah, it's done. Not not down. Yeah. Yeah, sorry. I stunned him. What does stun do? With crushing blow Um, so you'll note something really bizarre happens. You hit this like sort of like inertial field. Yep And um, you hit him like kind of like catch him on like the sort of like the side of the chest around his his shoulder area and two of these like uh, acolytes around him just like grip that exact same spot and drop to the ground Hmm This is zg and cultist nice I've seen that spell before Um, although you do you do feel meat underneath the weight of your hammer Yeah, so you you you know you connect with him and he and he like wins this and uh, you you you feel like you got a pretty good Smash in there. Sweet. So it's not like he's totally negated. You you feel you felt meat under it too. Yeah, I connected All right But there are two less cultists Oh Hey, they have defender they got that wound transfer like uh I'm like a necromancer to skeletons. Yep. So the next up is lanissa Uh, you are in the zone. You are beginning in the zone as uh, that's uh feargram. So you you have the plus one to damage Yes, um, there's other cultists in the zone too, right? Most of them are here Yeah, um, it's a good 50 50 split Okay, I'm gonna split my attacks and do three at one cultist three to another cultist. I'm gonna not focus on the big guy at the moment Okay, I just want to see what happens. Okay Uh, what am I aiming for? Yeah, so you're on twos Okay So two successes for the one Yep, gone and three for the other Both gone, uh, you stick one in the chest and like one in the back of the in the side of the knack And like they both go down pretty handily. It's a do anything to uh, the big guy doesn't seem to okay I would like to use some metal Okay Uh, should I roll my my six right now? Oh, yeah roll you six as you have attacked great. Oh five again All right Uh, three successes Nice on the first And two successes on the second both go down All right. Thanks. We got some aoe over here. So that's the kind of um The numbers have quickly turned in y'all's favor Um So yeah, it does the dodge. Nobody needs to be healed Uh, dude goes, um He is going to Uh, I mean you're the tank. What's your defense at right now? Uh, it is let me look it up So I was up at one higher and down. So I'm at great Great And then you have the you you achieved the stun thing which isn't quite as bad as dnd, but still bad Uh, stun creatures Can either take an action or a move but not both Okay, cannot spend metal to take an additional action That's super important for this guy. The speed becomes slow siege page 140. Okay. Yeah. Yeah Uh, second most important after the metal one is stun creatures defense decreases one step Okay, so he goes from great. That's that's the good Um, so I apologize Oh, no, you find you just you just now dodge by the way. We're going on to this person's uh Items turn here Because the witch elf killed four people and the dwarf smashed the guy and he stunned and can't use a At all and he was going to yeah, um, like him not being able to like cast a spell and fight is Really big deal. Um, but he's still gonna go to try to neutralize the dwarf by hitting you with this like weird malleable Like blade whip thing awesome You are what defense? Uh, I am at great right now. Uh, so he is fours fours up. Cool. Okay That die is gone for forever. I heard that one go. Yeah, that's gone gone forever. Uh three successes Okay, that'll be four damages. Okay, uh my runes flare up and absorb two of those damages and uh There were no sixes so you're fine Or their sixes it would have been worse Okay I think we're still a lot. I take two damages Yeah, dude's no joke. Uh And uh, so so you're learning that you're learning, uh, you're learning. This is this is good data. Uh, next up then would be Uh, it would be uh furmar Did the uh, there's the rest of the acolytes do anything? Oh, shit. You're right. The rest of the acolytes. There are three left Um, they're yeah, they would uh one of them is near furmar use my second metal Furmar, what's your uh, what's your uh, great. What's your defense? No, no Oh, no, he's he's a furmar or not. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Yeah Um, my defense is good Uh, nothing, uh planks off your gut plate Uh, two of them am uh, tried to like pile on the elf. What's your defense? Average, uh, it's so they're uh, They were already in this zone, right? Yeah, okay. Yeah. One was far away by the buffet table. So I just attacked the ogre and no issues in off file means continue And then two were in in like specifically with you if you guys anybody try if anybody else tries to enter our zone Who's not already here. They have to make a test. Yeah, the one by the buffet table, right? He can't come out and help Yeah, the one's piling in from the back room, right and and if any leave All right, um, you said you're good or average. I'm average average Okay Uh One hit with one damage As it goes to stab you with this little like ceremonial knife And that goes into toughness first, correct? Yeah, and if you've got armor, it wouldn't negate Like you're wearing light armor as a light armor. Yeah, so you'll say you'll subtract one off So you wouldn't take any if they only did one. Okay, so you take nothing the other one Two sixes nothing special happens on a six, but it is too damaged There we go. See it's a flesh wound The best kind of wound Also, that's it for them and then uh, and then sure mar you go And i'm gonna grab this d6 that's scattered across the room Got it This guy attacked me but he's so worthless that I don't even care and um Oh history question Uh Has skig cast this spell before in our party It's probably safe to say yes Like I I feel like it's probably a go-to spell Then I smile as I rush off or out of that zone and into uh And into combat Yeah, you would know what what happens. You can pass through the barrier of god king's faith without his And so he's he's uh, he's pleased Um, all of faith are there like attacks of opportunity in this game? You have opportunities only if you have the feet. Oh, okay talent. Sorry. All right No, that's that's good. It means the guy doesn't hit me when I run run off Uh, I'm charging And let's you be your escaping of sigmar by the way. This is yeah So there are one there's one or two cultists in the table zone Uh, two in the table zone One in the table zone two in the The uh, uh main guys. Yeah, okay All right in which case yeah, I feel like I feel like me and the dwarf going after the main guy is like usually the right play just because which elf can Yeah, spin a circle and like kill everyone. Yeah, so I I dub this combination pound and town like Yeah Yeah, I'm I'm going to uh, I'm going to stab the the main guy Cool. Uh, I'm using a charge so my defense is lowered And uh, I guess I died. Yeah, my melee is good So what do I need? fives Yeah, his defense is minus one because he stunned is that oh, you're right. No, you're forced. Yeah. Yeah, all right Um, so I have seven guys team tactics. Yo team work. Yeah Oh, I forgot to use my bird, but like it's possible. It's not in the room with me. So I just want um Maybe it hung out outside. I need fours then Yay, right two Two of these threes are now fours. So I have Uh five successes two of which are sixes. So I ignore two armor Okay, so this is a fun interaction. So you ignore two armor on two of two of the damage No, it's just the damage ignores the damage itself just ignores two of his armor This is this pile of damage and the damage is five plus two for the things with seven um He wicked explodes But like the thing is is because you ignored his armor you didn't kill two acolytes Big brain plays big brain plays Yeah, so like you just impale this dude and like you're holding him aloft and uh And like the the two acolytes who are more than willing to die for this cause are just like standing They're like you like hand palms towards the towards the sun and then there's just not exploded and they're like standing around like Oh, shit. So I get to use this sentence. I guess, uh, I kill the main bad guy with my mercy So there are three acolytes left in this top of the initiative again Or rather, yeah, yeah, new role. Yeah new initiative. Yep. Oh, we're just gonna end up killing him anyway. Well, I tried I was I mean it's initiative. It's It's unclear what they'll do, but we're still One of those things initiative anymore on account of the inspiring bad guy. So they're going at threes Okay, got it. They're on three feargroom Two, uh, I'm on a nine Linnisa I'm also on a nine If you're more I'm on a six. Okay Uh feargroom Um, can I like kneecap them? Yes, you can attack the legs if that's your question Is there some dual damage in this game? That's what I want to know like Or do I just punch them? Is that how I I think there is Some sort of you're fairly convinced From the terror in their eyes. They want no part of this now that the leader man is dead Neil, that's what I say Um, they just like drop down Okay I said with y'all What did you say to the widow time up? Uh, you hear some Like clamoring and some like clatter in the in the back room You're fairly certain you heard a door open and slam too Okay, should we persist with initiative? It's or are we just out of combat? I think you're out of combat at this point unless you really want to murder the the defenseless people or give chase I um Okay, Neil no if they kneel Like I look a scant at you at you linnisa when he says tie him up I'm looking very hard at you I would like to split my attacks You don't even need to roll, uh, you just execute them and then I'd like to use my metal Okay, and Leave the last one alive. Oh Pursue out the back. Okay, so you like you stab one of the top of its head Have you just pulled out the room? I killed two. There's three laps killed two got two hands Oh, yeah, I'm out of hands, but I got legs Yeah, there's one by the table So you make eye contact with the one at the table kill both its friends and then run out the back door basically, okay Yes, hoping. Uh, so so movement is still like a full movement. You have a move in an action So like you get to move and then that metal can become further movement Yeah, you're you can move one zone so you can move from this to the back room and see what's going Yeah, without actually spinning a metal Okay, I removed to the back and Is Just in time to see like a chair having been thrown through a window and like somebody fleeing out of That door and uh, there's about four of them that looks like have are in various Uh, various states of absconding Uh, like there's easily one that's like in this room so you could like metal and like stab it Are they all running and fleeing? Yeah, they're trying to get the fuck out of here Oh, I'm sorry. They're trying to get the heck out of here Good, uh Yeah, I'll stab one more. Okay He's just gonna six dice. Yeah, you don't need rolling stuff. Oh wait, wait But let me see if I get my metal metal belt. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's a three. Sorry. Okay. All right Crave crave crave crave strikes again. Wait, so if you keep rolling sixes you can become like a train That's kind of teleports a few times the movement. Yeah, she can Because she's great. Yeah, blame the pain trade of crave Crave's great. Um, so like I'm going to actually kind of assume that you chase down All of them save for one. Oh, I'm real. I'm real good at tracking. Oh god So like you court like you and the ogre I guess if you if you combine Efforts, you're going to be able to corner one in alley and make sure that the rest die Well, you have one in the room with still one living, right? Yeah, there's one in the room with the dwarf in the end this gave in I will not let anybody kill that one Okay. Yeah, so you just like You you're the shepherd book right now trying to defend this man. I'm I'm disgusted by what the witch elf has just done Um, I'm okay with it. I know they were heretics, but I want to make sure this guy stays alive Just like screaming and cheering at the moon Like with the blood dripping down from both daggers and like she is like this is the this is the moment where we're like remember how I was like poignant about how like the blood didn't land on her when she's like no, she is drenched in blood now. This is reverie If you're more just points and I just run Yeah, um, you you corner one in an alleyway and you can like let it live or not like because Fjormir has like caught this one, you know type thing He's tracked the one that like because they all scatter and you could Metal your way to catch, you know the the other scattered bits and like he's got the one that he catches You just like ink it in the alleyway. I've had a lot of fun. So I mean I'll defer to fjormar What do you do? Oh, okay No, what do you what do you do? Smart enough No, yeah, yeah fjormar. What do you do on the question of whether or not to kill this one? Um Smart enough to run right away smart enough to know something So bring him back bring him back alive gotta ask him some questions Okay, so I'll rope him over the shoulder and just start walking back. Okay Uh, you've got two survivors the one by the table. Um, and then like the one that That fjormar is essentially got like lassoed Um, you all collect initiative has officially dropped. Uh, you gathered back in the warehouse Um, no one seemed to have taken notice to the The chaos just yet Just slaughter and the like people screaming from a warehouse. It is a you know It is the pirate city, right? Like so it's probably there's probably some pretty rambunctious nights Yeah Is this the kind of human encounter? That we leave right away I ask No, I think we need to stay and determine exactly what heresy is going on here. Yes I agree Poke one of the ones who sit already is about heretics. Yeah, they'll probably be around in a moment I'll let you do the talking. I poke at one of them Um, you've got the buffet one is completely I don't want to say catatonic, but just in shamp. Just a broke. This is a broken person Okay, they're like crying then they're like just shaking they have the blood splatter across Yeah, like blood like right across like the phase they're they're like Um, I just served the snacks Mm-hmm. Sure. Sure. It'll happen. Uh, I Yeah, I uh, I sit down with him. Okay, like I I kneel down So like as I assume he's down in like a little husk, right? Oh, they're they're on their knees with like their hands bound behind their back I think is is pretty pretty apt. Okay So I like I kneel down in front of him and I take the the holy symbol of sigmar I take the twin-tailed comet in one hand and it or in one paw It lights up and then I put my other hand Against his head and I'm I'm going to use the uh, like I'm going to use revitalize It's mechanical functions that removes conditions, right? But what I'm trying to do is use it because the idea is it's revitalizing their spirit their soul, right? That's yeah, we're going we're trying to go rp with this go ahead roll it. Uh in this case Uh, do roll. I know you said that you don't roll. Um, this one is just check Yeah, do a devotion check in this case. No problem. Uh, that would be four sixes Oh Um, they suddenly like Like they they just like stop mid like sniveling and They seem to have some sort of like peace and just like they look upon your face and almost look beyond you And they seem at peace The god king has brought you peace You must now tell us what evil what heresy has happened here they um They they spoke good, um and they had food and uh Nothing bad at first We just moved a bunch of these boxes and You know one box looks like any other box. You don't really question what's in them, you know I understand You were led astray But that is all right. Now is the time when you can be returned to peace. You can come back You can be welcomed into the light of the god king. It is okay. He does not ever forsake his children Look at me I am but a humble rat and yet he has welcomed me into his arms What do I I feel like I've done something bad as I like eyes are welling with tears You have lad many of us have done bad things But the god king still forgives He knows that he has done bad things in this past as have many of his followers The beauty of the god king is that you can always reforge yourself Just as his mighty storm cast you So can we but we reforge our souls And that's what you must do now What was in the strange Vile He called it It was called He he like pauses to remember The rift animus I love to make sure I make sure that uh, I make sure that fjorgum heard this Yeah, I'm just I'm bewildered. Okay I uh Is there anything else that you feel you must share with us? Where are others like him? Was there a central place you went? We we didn't all Uh, none of us took it he says Um, we weren't allowed to yet Something had to be earned You know it's what would happen when when people would take it We would ascend I it was I mean it sounded like a really good thing, but there weren't It wasn't specific because con men tend to say speak in vague platitudes That resonate with you Oh, yeah, because you've seen clearly now, of course. Yeah, I get it Did you did you see where the people who would take it would go? No, but I know where the last shipment was going he says Share with us There was an island And he gives you like, you know, the best coordinates he would have sure like a destination We could roughly follow out in the sea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If only we knew of course there No, I saw Tom like I'm forward to make the same come But unfortunately that ship at sail It should be noted the whole time the other one is just Like the whole time sure I'll get to you in a minute Uh, I I look at this one and I say You have unburdened yourself now begins the difficult part. You must Begin your own reforging of your soul go leave Imagine you cut the the yeah, yeah bindings and yeah He rushes off into into the night and uh We get a flash forward into the future a hundred years. He is a storm cast eternal Excellent He's done it. He's gone all the way. Yeah full reforging Uh as to this one who's still like who's still there? Oh, just sweating just like Meanwhile, while this is all going on. I'm just pacing back and forth covered in blood eyes rolled back just waiting to be told to kill something and And skig skig is like peacefully like talking these people down while like I'm just back and forward like when can I kill? But we'll get to you This is a very clear good cop bad cop moment. So you're Clear you're like just generally pacing around the room not near them not trying to not trying to intimidate So I'm going to give you an intimidation Actually, because this is intimidating this very act is yeah, you're you're not trying to intimidate, but it's happening You're stalking around like dartham all Like so pissed. Yeah. Yeah, and uh, it's again This is uh, this is actually going to be threes um Uh sure mar and and furgrim both of you can roll uh awareness is Sure, this will be fours dn fours I had three you're not like middle of the action, you know, so you you're you know casing and Yeah, is this awareness or natural awareness? And what's the difference This is an actual awareness because you're like glancing about the room and you're you know successes okay Making sure that people aren't like about to ambush you or like reinforcements aren't coming in. This is an act two successes Uh Both will get there the one will get a specific detail on top um So both of you find your your your gaze drawn to like the sort of shattered Casing that held this this this icor That icor now doesn't seem to as apt a description once you saw it like actually hit the air and become sort of almost effervescent um But the actual like housing of it you're drawn to like the sort of like shattered bits of glass and uh the housing um so you're both Drawn to that you probably both go over to like check it out even to get a closer look. Um, and uh Furgrim with your one higher success. You notice that that gold tip isn't just a gold tip. It is an ur gold tip Hmm Hmm, it's it's trace amounts, but it is indistinguishable to you snap Gotta gotta melt that sucker down um Slime in my body You naturally like witness this uh furum are you like you see him snap snap the tip off and again It's you know like standard like sort of silver steel You know typed and then just that the very bit at the end was that that ur gold right where the point Exactly the point the edge that sharpening that is the ur gold part. It's you know this tiny fragment I notice he does this. I'm not sure if I make the connection You knew it was gold, but you don't you don't know it's All right, uh back to the pacing about to lose her mind And the relatively like uh even keeled skig Yeah, the uh the enlightened skig Uh, I I say this one should have to go to the authorities Someone need to explain what happened here I'm not I'm not taking actions. I'm just I'm just kind of pacing back and forth. So I'm not making any decision on that That that's what I say. Okay. Yeah. All right. Okay We will need to inform them with a witness that there is that there is heresy afoot with an anvil guard This organization should be outlawed Uh, we'll cut to the next morning This organization should be outlawed and you're like holding this human in front of the like board bounty office, man He's just like That's the seventh complaint this morning He says And uh, is there a special slot for them? No, not the alive guy Yeah, uh, there's no special slot for the live guy, but we will call it there. All right. Okay. All right I was hoping for a left in complaints You guys actually I gave you a bonus xp for deciding to turn this one in rather than murder Or like like even fully interrogate because you already like got Pretty much all you need and you just been like You go like that bridge too far where you're just torturing someone for the sake of torture Like I thought there was some good restraint there um I don't even know how to respond to that, but thank you. Oh with a witch off in the party. We showed restraint Yeah, so like let's be honest. This is the mortal realms. Okay, like this is a pretty brutal setting It's true It's we're not this isn't sort of the doesn't have the constrictions and constraints and thoughts of sort of lawful good and stuff like that like life matters And you know, my character is is very much concerned with like saving human life But if you're a evil cultist heretic who's against sigmar like nah, you've done major choice You're on the wrong side of history, son A few unknowing zinch cultists is what started the entire Age of camps, so we probably take that stuff Seriously, you know Hyper seriously, maybe like it it does like if you're coming into it from dnd You're like, oh my god, you're slaughtering these people I guess but It's a brutal world Hercules like use greek myth as a good litmus test You got to keep in mind the heroes of greek myth like killed their fucking Dude, I'm so sorry killed their parents all the time and stuff like sure. Um, it's it's The moral moments will be obvious. I think yes. No, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah um But uh, I will assess the xg. I've got a couple like bonus things here from like some some awesome rp and some like cool moments I'll get those to you in in uh in in our in our chat. I'm not gonna bog the Bog the stream down with it, but uh I had a blast Yeah, like let me just say this was amazing Like I loved this. I loved everybody's character. I love the way this group works together I am excited as all get over this. I hope people enjoyed this and like this and thought this was fun to watch Hey people if you're still watching or if you're watching this at the end, uh Hit like so more people find out about soulbound and see what it's like to play it because I I I want more people to know about this game. It's really wonderful what they put together here and uh As I said at the beginning don't forget to tune in next week the links down below for meff's twitch So assuming meff can get his computer restored Will be on yeah We'll be on meff's twitch, uh next week. He'll have control again You know worst case if it takes you two weeks. Well, I'm all host as long as we will do it here again. Yeah, if I mean I I uh I uh necromancyed This this 15 year old sony vio back to life So, um, Recording is complete. Yeah Report the laptop. This isn't even that bad it the work I had to work a little bit harder because a lot of my notes were like on my on my computer for the What did I say? I said I've got a lot of the I've got a lot of the like what And the and the who and like I have I don't have the where specific names probably Yeah, I don't have any of that correct. Yeah. Oh, that was on my computer. So Um, yeah No, great job meff. I want to say that as well like this was very fine, man You ran it. You ran a great game. So for a game one, this was solid I do enjoy that goblins jumped us and then they were on the wrong side of the ambush I I like the uh the anti climax of that like I love the like the the misdirection and the Um, rewinding back through it and I I already had the intent of like somebody smashing somebody's head For the bounty and just seeing how you'd solve that problem as a little just to see the party dynamic This is such a minor silly problem to have but then you still see how the party thinks through it Yeah, yeah, I'm just gathering information. You're gathering information the first adventure I want to see how people react to stimulus. You know, sure Yeah, and people are settling into their characters and figuring out how to play them Like how dumb is the ogre, you know, like how bloodthirsty is the witch elf like yeah The witch elf I think is like, uh, it's it's like this this like perfect ascent Of bloodthirsty like basic like, uh, this is a worth buy I try to play it to the point of like once it starts I don't want to stop but at some point I have to be like, okay. Well, you guys have probably taught me some restraint at least to the point of Like hey, we'll kill you if you kill this one and I'm like, okay Good old standard blood frenzy. Yeah, five rounds ramping it up And let me just say it's good. We've got tom here with his character as like our ultra straight man It's actually a really important role. Yeah, like tom gets to mean mug everybody. You're like the uh It in the in your your Be Arthur in our golden girls here, right? Like that's a really important like it's not a joke. That's a really important role because somebody has to be the straight man and that's what the dwarf gives the balance against of like Surrounded by this nonsense. He's like an anchor. Yeah, because if there was no straight man There'd be no anchor and everybody would just be wacky all the time and it'd be kind of a mess Right. Yeah, you sort of need you sort of need somebody to Yep to be realistic, you know, yeah Like I mean his his story and he's the tank. So this work in mechanics. He's the tank and then He's the anchor both the panic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but his story makes it It's it's so great because he's like he's like, what have I gotten myself into like I was in a real soul binding. What's that? I had real friends. Yeah If he it's kind of a good thing He doesn't have any memories from his old sobound because he would be like man, remember when I was with Responsible adult adventurers that weren't wacky races with with crazy mental disorders. Well And you guys will see in my background like I pass off the map like there are degrees in which you all are dark shadows Or amalgamations of the other memories. Yeah, very cool. Oh, that's neat. Okay. It was a very cool Angle that's where I thought like you were going to be the emotional anchor I'm back to thinking you will be the emotional anchor after all the the wanton murder from the canite I feel like i'm just dropping off like hints like Hey, let's go eat near the docks. No Yeah, sure. No, that's great. That's all you get Yeah, I think I'm trying to do a bit more of that like I I want you guys to try my story out of me No, no, it's good. It's good. No, I like this. This is a really this is a great session one This is a great first session It was there's so much to build on the relationships or the party dynamics are are like culminating. This is this was awesome um Uh, I did I did some improv for some npcs. I'm very pleased with I like your I feel bad for him. I understand his position Intimately. Yeah He's like the guy from papers, please Right like that's who he is I don't know when you when you brought him up in the scribe. I'm sitting there. You're like, do I have anything in my inventory? I can give him just to make him smile like I got acid and poison now I'm going to develop uh, I'm going to develop officer post saying there a little bit Oh man, yeah, uh, I had a blast everybody. Let's do this next week. I agree. Yeah, tune in next week The continued adventures. Yeah, all right. Oh, I'm gonna Put up the wrong screen accidentally That's for a future. That's for a future hobby cheating video Okay, now I'm gonna now I'm gonna actually stop the stream and uh, thanks everybody for watching. We'll see you next week on mef channel. Bye. Bye