 and thanks for tuning in. Hope you're having a happy quarantine. If you're interested in spicing up your own D&D games, be sure to go check out our series, There's Rules for That, the last episode, specifically talks about how to make two characters from League of Legends. And we have other episodes talking about how to do crazy things like run up walls and make a character that can wield a gigantic weapon. Ian and Ricky currently live together and they're working hard on that series, producing one every other week, so be sure to go check it out. I'll link to the last episode in the description below. It's been a while, since we put out the first episode of Altered Egos, we recorded this one way closer to the first one, but some crazy stuff happened. And so now I'm basically going through and editing everything that we have footage for and we're gonna be putting that stuff out just as it comes, just sort of as we can. And in the meantime, we're figuring out what our current like quarantine production schedule looks like and working on making some new stuff between all the different houses. So I really appreciate you guys still watching if you can just kind of bear with us for a few weeks. We're gonna get this figured out and we're gonna have new fun stuff coming out for you guys to watch. We will also be recording more Altered Egos episodes over Discord, so more will come out after this as well. So please enjoy and we'll see you soon. All right, so we're in the city of Aviel, which is a holy city blessed by the angels. As long as people keep doing good, it's gonna be good. And it used to have this patron saint protector, a superhero named Excelsior, the vision in Mithril, she had to run in with Caprice's uncle and had her arm ripped off. So she's retired to administrative duties and she has hired our folks to help out some. And they are, they have a sort of a secret base called the Aegis that is located on the rim of a giant thin spot between the material plane and the Abyss called the Caldera, just a ways down the continent. They have a bunch of fun ways of getting there. Last time we played, they were on a quest mission to get the revenant, Geoffrey's character, back up to speed and health because he had taken an unfortunate swim. And how did that go? That went about as bad as it could have gone without dying. I'm pretty sure he vomited on me multiple times. On your nice fancy armor. And then we got trapped in his mind. We had to fight his own mind demons. And I practically died trying to fight the mind demons. That's true. He's not here this time, because he wasn't invited. Yeah. I think, was he the one that defeated his mind demons or did you defeat the mind demons? I punched one of them real hard, but I don't remember exactly how that shook you up. It was a collaborative effort, right? It was really rough. In the meantime, you also managed to lose one of your very best friends in the entire world, Chomwell. No, our very best friend. Poor Lord Chomwell had suffered a blow to the head already and was kind of amnesiac. And the demons thought he was an appropriate empty vessel. So they all leapt into his head and he just sort of hulked out. He jumped away, slammed his head over his head and is just out, you know, enjoying himself. And I'm sure nobody else is at all. So at the end of that, all that, Gallauda also made a new friend in the form of one Jasper. Who is good at medicineing. That's good. Thank God. Somebody needs me, right? And so Gallauda now, at the end of the last session, Gallauda decided to return to the Aegis. I can't reach the floor. Everything okay? Why are you trying to reach the floor? My legs. Gallauda decided to return to the Aegis with a limp lyrim and a Jasper intow. Lyrim is healed, officially. However, he had kind of a rough going of it. So he's sleeping off the vomit. Sleeping off the vomit. I hate that phrase. Gallauda's in there. So y'all returned to the Aegis and you walk in and you find Excelsior, well, she doesn't really call herself Excelsior anymore. She calls herself Talia but everybody else still calls her Excelsior. A somewhat hardened, 40-year-old-ish, Awesomar woman. Now, much more imposing somehow with one arm missing. She is crouched over, doubled in pain. You see, she has one arm, her remaining arm, her left arm, is grasping at her wound on her right and she's here sort of chanting, Yomida, give me strength. Yomida, give me, please, bless me with this. And then there's like a small little section or a tiny moment. There's a small sizzle. You see sort of a blue light flick around her fingers and it goes out and she screams out again, Yomida, give me strength. Yomida, give me, it's not working. Where are we? In the Aegis. What is it? It's like her base, right? Yeah. Okay. It's like a five-story tall knight, a statue of a knight that's a, or maybe 10-story. Oh, that's right. It's like 100 feet tall. How many stories are inside? The number of rooms in it is mysteriously variable. It's clearly not an artifact of mundane construction. I hear the views are great near the left elbow. No. Okay. Speaking of, are you trying to grow your arm back there, or? She turns around, growing it, growing it back out of the question. That's never happening. Just sometimes the pain gets a little hard to handle. Yomida used to take that pain from me. She's not, we're not in great terms right now. But she's- Oh, she's got it, might be able to help. Jasper, oh thank God, she found Jasper. Jasper, please. And so Jasper runs in and says a bunch of things that Ethan would say. I'm not gonna. Wait, so who's all in this area? Right now it is you, it is Silverback, it is Pippa, it is Jasper, and it is Lyrum, unconscious on Silverback's shoulder. Us three, Ragdoll, Jeffrey, and Ethan, who's disappearing fast enough to not have to be voiced by one of us. Okay. It just, we can't do him justice. So he goes back and he's immediately making a tea. And so they kind of screw up in the back and you are left in this room for the moment with someone named Davy. Davy who is a loracian azada, which means she's like a big, she's a fairy. She's as odd as our type of good aligned outsider. So. Should we apologize for trying to kill her that one time? Did we try to do that? I'm pretty sure Jeffrey didn't. I mean, yeah, I don't think I did that. I think the, You aren't watching? Jeffrey can apologize. And by Jeffrey, I mean, Lyrum. Lyrum. Lyrum can apologize for whatever he needs to apologize for as soon as he wakes up. He has a lot to apologize for. I'm going to make him apologize for multiple things. Quick question, am I still dying? No. Okay. You had a nice, the best thing about Jasper and his has been toward to have every tea you could ever imagine, including convenience, strength, restorative tea. Haven't found that one yet. So am I all back to normal? We're going to say yes. Okay. So, Davy kind of looks worried in the room. I'm sorry you have to see her this way. It's, I would say it takes an anatomy. She used to be so strong and she still is on the inside, but she's not as strong on the outside as she used to be. I'm worried. We can't always understand why celestial forces do the things they do. Wasn't thinking celestial about that beast. That's the problem. We need to make, we need to keep the city celestial. We can't let it fall. I suppose you're right. Go, how'd it go? I wouldn't say stellar. Okay. Well, I mean, it's alive, so. Okay. That part worked. Where's Tomwell? Oh yeah, no, he's gone. He had something else to do. Well, he. Turned into a monster. Yeah, that's accurate. And then he ran away. Well, he, yeah. He lives in the sewers now. I could see that. I could see that. I believe. Everything's a little foggy, honestly. Right, okay, well, y'all just chill for a minute. And when, when we, Excelsior, Talia, has something she'd like to go over with y'all. She wants to hear about it and see what the next step is. Just give her like five minutes. Just kind of get yourself back together. Anything y'all would like to do? Just having just returned. I'd like to try to clean off the back of my armor. I thought you were leaving that for Lerum. He's out. I can't walk around in this. I don't worry, I'll get him back. I'll make him do something. You didn't vomit down his back? No. No, I cannot think of anything to do. Cool. We're not going to take him somewhere. Lerum? I think this is about the safest place he can be at this point. No, should we call, I guess, Jaspers. Making tea. Yeah, with tea. Yes. Yeah. You managed to find a, a lightly magical surfactant slash scrub under one of the kitchen sinks. And it scours it right off. Okay. There's now a puddle of gross liquid on the floor somewhere else, but that's not your armor. So the sort of time passes and you see an Excelsior sort of returns in a robe. Her face is very pale, but she looks a little bit more stable. I'm sorry about that. I just can't always do my best. So I hear that you managed to somewhat help Lerum and that Chalmwell's gone AWOL. Can you tell me anything else? Don't seem to remember a lot of it. What was the last thing that happened? Well, he seemed to be infected by, I don't know, some weird demon virus or something. Chalmwell? Well, he'd now, yes. Right. How did that happen again? Lerum had, I don't know. He drank demon water and the tall guy helped us. Right, and then it went into Chalmwell and now Chalmwell is. He started fighting people in his own head. Right, right, right. And then the demons came out and they went into Chalmwell and he turned into a monster and then he ran away and now we're here. And now we're here. Okay, yes. But we don't know his whereabouts. Right, no. Excelsior looks alarmed. He was infected with demons. They were just out there in his head. That's the best way I can think to describe it, yeah. Well, I mean, they were in Lerum's head and we were in Lerum's head and then they were out of Lerum's head so I assume they're gonna be in Chalmwell's head. I mean, demons do move from host to host. This isn't really my area. I don't know how much of this was demonic or whatever. We need to call in some specialists. Vapors were going on in that shop. I have people, I have people, we can do this. Okay, she goes back over and she flips up on her Odex. She apologizes again. I need to apologize. I think I was using an outdated Odex. When I gave you some directions last time, you may have had some trouble finding the place. Oh, yeah. They changed the flags for you once in a while and I haven't really updated in a while so I hope that wasn't a problem. Well, it was an unfortunate error but I think we got through it. We're smart. Good, good. That's why I hired you. Yeah. She flips over. Probably could have prepared better. No offense. You know, it's been a busy couple of weeks. Yeah. She flips over to Rolex. This one doesn't change though because these people have a permanent spot. You are going to look for our resident demon hunters. They are in a spot called, I thought that was the guy that just drank the demons and who we put down over there. What? Drank the demons? Is he not the resident demon hunter? I thought that was his job. Well, he's trying. No, he's a ghost hunter. He's a, he's got a bit more of a specialized path, I believe. These people have a more broad hatred for demons. I would say it was good. Well, he's probably not the residential one. I am in favor of going and finding demoniac expertise as I was not as well prepared as I expected to be given my high position in religious affairs. And I myself would also like to learn from these demon hunters to improve my craft. Well, this is great. I have to warn you, they're a little energetic, but maybe we need some of that. The demon hunters? They were putting on a show and they were nearly brought low by some demons that I happened to be in the area, helped them out, and now they owe me a couple of favors. So you can find them at the synchronized chapel of the Sonorous Backstreet in the Cathedral District. Oh, that chapel. Oh, you've been there? Do you know this chapel? I've been there. Can you tell us about it? What's it like? It's an interesting experience to say the least. There's a little more fanfare and I want to say lights than I necessarily expected to come out of one stained glass window. That sounds nice. I wouldn't say it was bad. It was unconventional, but we are all a little unconventional here. It was loud as well. I'm excited. Yeah, good. Act your leisure if you could. Well, I'm really not leisure. We really need to get this done fast. The problem is demons that possess people aren't the kinds of demons that we're used to dealing with. When you're a physical force leaking through, that's one thing. If they start hopping to people, that's the sign of something much, much worse. We need to get this dealt with quickly. But you know, take your time. No, we want to do it fast. Come on, guys. All right, here's the last thing I have to say about this. It is more important that you rid the world of these demons than that you get Chonwell back alive. Yeah, I'm fine with that. Yeah, okay. Davey looks very worried by this. Tanya, we don't have time for this anymore. We've talked about this. Taking half measures has got us this far. We need to go the full way. Good luck. That's troubling. I don't see this. All right. It'll be fine. Besides, we kill the demons and we get Chonwell back and all. It's all one big thing, you know? I don't know if that's how that works. Well, demons can never be gone. It is the head if they're gone. I'm just worried that the head will also be gone. Oh, we'll try not to do that. I'm all for punching out Chonwell. I think I actually probably am equipped most for doing that, but I admittedly don't have a lot of experience with this whole demonic thing going on. I know you ladies have varying levels of experience with it. What makes you say that? Well, I think it's- Is that a trick question? No. Just curious. I'm just saying, I don't know how any of this works. This isn't what I'm used to dealing with. I'm used to aggressive negotiating with people, humans. Then we can leave you behind. I'm not saying I want to be left behind. I just, I don't know. I was shocked by how much of a physical component demon fighting took at our last juncture. So I support you coming along, of course. We're a team. Yeah, you punched a demon in the face. Well, I tried. Did it work? It seemed to work fine. Great, we are prepared. Let's go. Let's go find our specialists. Oh yeah, yeah. As you said, I would like each of you to choose whether or not you are going out a quote unquote hood up or hood down, which is to say, since we're all vigilantes, remember that when you are in one of your guises, either the social guise, which is your everyday life guise, or your vigilante disguise, which is more like your superhero disguise, you are completely undetectable as the other person. Exceptions apply, but if somebody recognizes you, or it is very difficult for them to recognize you, but if you start talking about your family history or something like, hey, I know that, you get a check to make sure that they don't recognize you, or you can reveal it, but once they reveal it, once you reveal it to somebody, they know. So for some of you- It's vigilante time. Like I imagine for Silverback, you were brought frequently in your social persona. That's because I'm never anywhere I'm comfortable, so I'll probably keep the armor on until I am. I'm also in my vigilante outfit. This is a mission. Okay, psychos here, up. Yes. Yes, and I think that I will wear my social persona. All right, so you just- Actually, that doesn't make sense, never mind. Are you going to go to Aurora? Yeah, I guess. You really want to be seen at this place? For the sake of it, can you describe what happens when you switch from Pippa to Aurora for us? Sure. Is it happening right now? Yes. Okay, so the whole room fills with light, so there's nothing but light in the room. As far as all of you can see, my body rises into the air and goes into a dramatic pose where my head is backward and then ribbons come out of my chest and circle around my whole body and I'm engulfed in flames and then you hear some chimes in the background like this. And then I slowly float down in a very magical looking outfit. This literally never gets old. It feels great. I feel great. You know how when you get out of my car it like dings a little jingle every time? Yeah, it's like that, but 20 minutes long and it turns into a whole new person. I'm over here like- And it never gets tired. I can't get this arm around myself. Which I can do in four minutes according to my sheet. Wow. Pretty good act, really. I took off my normal pants and then I put on my superhero pants. You have makeup, right? That's your face, this guy? It changes and then I put on my makeup and I get my hair did. It's fine. Like a normal person. Do you have to like polish the horns or are they like self-polishing? Never. Okay. They're grungy on purpose. Oh, that's worse. So the easiest way for you to get back to town is to just pick a closet, any closet and walk through it. It is a three day walk back to town otherwise. Oh, I didn't realize we were that far out. If you were in the very first session which none of you have ever seen. You had like caravan there. If you remember there was a, there was some talks about team stealth and all that jazz. That occurred in a watch tower in between here in the Caldera. Gotcha. It's like a solid two or three day journey. So just picking a closet, any closet and going for it is usually the fastest way. The only downside is you show up in a random tavern in Avio. So out of this vaguely night-shaped, what it means explicitly, very specifically night-shaped building, where would you like to try and find a closet? How high up, how down low? Near what body part? Does that affect where we exit in the city? It sure might. I want to go to the neck. I was thinking of the thumb. It just seems like a closety place. Maybe it's the city's tiered, right? So maybe the lower tiers are down lower in the statue and the higher one is higher. Where's the church yard? Not the church yard, the cathedral district. Sorry, where's the yard with the churches? The heart. The yard with the churches? The stomach? Can I consult my knowledge, please? Sure, make me a knowledge local check. The head. That was a 12. 12, what's your knowledge local on your? Four. Four, so 16 total? No, it was actually an eight plus four. Oh, I see, I understand. Okay, so you may remember that the city of Abiel is divided into six tiers, kind of like a wedding cake upwards. You have the church yard down below which is outside the walls proper. Then it rises into the cloister which is the lower residential district. Then there's the corona which is the marketplace, the forum. And then there's a large sort of difficult flight of stairs upwards called the cherubs crossing. It's a solid like 200 foot staircase, very steep. There's a lot of private elevators and things that go up around it just because it's a pain. Or you can do, it's sort of like a pilgrimage for a lot of people. If they ever need to go up higher than the marketplace, it's for something important. So I think this is sort of like a religious struggle for them. And then above that is Koirloft which is the upper residential district. And then above that is the cathedral district. And then up at the very top is the celestial court where your general business is held. But the cathedral district is where this church would be. So fifth tier up. Okay, so what is the second sixth from the top of a person? Neck. Neck is, okay. Shoulder. Okay, sure, neck or shoulder. Clavicle. Can we exit through the clavicle? Can we exit through the clavicle? We select clavicle. You select clavicle, all right. You can go up to basically the area of the clavicle. It's like right where the pauldron joins on. That's hard, I said that. If your clavicle is near your heart, I suggest. They're close. They're close. They're similar. Okay, all right. They're close to my body. Okay, sure. Half a hand span apart. They're all close. All right, let's see what you got. I'll have to be reversed for some reason. Should have gone for the knees. Ribs. It also may make exactly zero difference. I could just be having you on, but as it happens. How did none of us think of butt? One of us should have thought of butt. I am disappointed. You should have thought of butt. That was your job. I didn't, just took me too long. That's why you're here. I'm gonna exit through the butt. I'll do that. Better out than in. Oh, you mean the butt. All right. No, I meant, I mean the butt. You hear a fairly loud hymn as you all sort of tumble, you open the closet door. What's the sound like? You tumble through. It sounds, oh, and then a round goes, oh, that's how hymns work, right? Yeah, that's really beautiful. Thank you. Sounds like we did it. And you're in a closet. You're just stuck in a closet. You can smell, there's a sort of caustic cleaning chemical over to the left, and it smells like a jar of pickles up on your right, but you're all sort of like slammed up against a stout wooden door. Who's first? I'll go, everyone's gonna freak, usually freaks out whenever I walk in anyway. I'm just gonna open the door. You open the door, you find you're like, so imagine a, like a semi-circle, like a, right? Y'all are along this back wall, and then a raid out in front of you around in a half circle is in fact a full blown choir. They're kind of behind a bar. You see in the middle, the area is all, it's a fully functioning tavern. It's just got this sort of live choral orchestra thing going on all the time. People are swimming back and forth. It's a, it looks like it's a very lively spot right now. There's about 30 people in it. Probably an after service sort of location. And as you walk in, how noticeable are you being? I'm not making an effort to not date. Okay. I'm very bright. You see how they hear a, oh, one of the singers sort of like stumbles and there's a ripple effect across the whole choir and everybody just sort of stops it. But like harmonized. I wanna float forward. Moral with my halo on and be like, no, continue. I'll watch from the closet. Make a diplomacy check. Diplomacy check. That was diplomacy. Oh. Okay. Got a 17 plus 12. Yeah, all right. They know who you are. You hear her. She goes, is it Saturday? Is it Saturday in our self? She goes, don't, don't be me. She's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's pretty close though. It's pretty close. Anyway. She's with her people now. Are they tall labyrinth characters in this cathedral? Obviously. You see, you see, I start looking at Dorf's and I go, Bradley, Bradley, I Clive, what are you doing? We have visitors. Somebody get Ronald. And he's just sort of assembled like three dwarves of increasing size, still all door-sized. Can we help you, madam? Yes, thank you for asking. We are looking for the, what is it called? Dine Hunters. We are looking for, what's the cathedral we're going to named? The, could the church? Did any of you write this down? What? Did any of you write this down? No. I don't know. I have a pen. But I didn't. Make an intelligence check. Me? All of you. Well, that hurts. That was a real life intelligence check that we all failed. I didn't even get my dice. Ew. I got a five. 16. 16 is pretty good. I'm smart. Just flat intelligence. Flat intelligence. Nine. Well, Psycho's here. You haven't remembered that it was called the synchronized chapel of the Sonorous Backstreet. Synchronized chapel of the Sonorous. We are looking for the synchronized chapel of the Sonorous Backstreet. Because I, that makes sense. Backup dancers? Yes. Yep. Thank you for noticing. I wouldn't call myself a backup dancer, but. Oh, well, that's contract negotiations for you. Down the street to the left, up the stairs, down the stairs, around the corner, through the loop. Would you believe? Up the stairs, down the stairs, to the left, around the loop. Oh, no, hold on. Down the street, to the left, Bradley picks up, up the stairs, Clive picks up, down the stairs. And then they all say all at once, through the loop. What was your name again? Bradley. Bradley, could you believe this guy? Ballerina. No. Yeah. Give me a pirouette. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. You know, I'm just getting started, so it's not really. It's dangerous for him to pirouette without warm-ups. Yeah, especially in this whole get-up. Tell you what, though. You come back and prove it, free drink for the night. He will be back. Don't speak for me. I'll be back. Okay, so down the stairs, up the stairs, to the right of the stairs, and then through the door. Right? You're the one with the high intelligence. Do you think that one of you would be willing to escort us? I would like to sparkle a little bit. A little bit of a pharmacy. Okay. I rolled an 11 plus 12. Okay, you may pick between Bradley, Clive, and Ronald. Ronald, would you escort us? Wait, which one's the small one? What? It is Ronald. Okay. Ronald, we've had a series of mishaps involving faulty directions, and not that we don't trust you, but we would trust you in person more than our memory of your words. I can see that. It's an important fixture in the neighborhood, so I'd be happy to help them out. They've been going through a bit of a time recently, honestly. Right this way, you sort of like points through the front door. I don't know how you got, it's time for questions for later. Thank you, Ronald. I'll proceed down to the street, and you find that you have been inside a tavern called the Owl Bear and Goblin. The sign has an owl bear flying gracefully, and it's hanging from its mouth, is a sheet that has a goblin in it, sort of like a baby on its back. Okay. And it's very nicely, you're on a cobbled street. We're pretty close to the whole city backs up against the plateau, and we're kind of near it. There's a secondary plateau that falls off of the upper court, so you've got a really, it's a very steep hill in the background. It's a replete with wildflowers. A lot nicer than the bars where I live. And you can see down all the way up to the coastal plateau, where the Bay of Mercy strikes out in front of you, and it's right around the sunset, so the sunlight is twinkling off of everything. It's a gorgeous view. Wow. That's lovely. So as you walk along this, you sort of all fall in line behind Ronald. He starts talking to you like, so how did you all get into dancing? I always wanted to. How did you get into dancing? Thank you so much. Yeah, I'd love to know. You know, how does anyone get into dancing? I don't know if it's so much that you call yourself to dancing as much as dancing calls itself to you. It's a real God given talent. I was gonna say pretty much that, actually. Yeah, that took the words right out of my mouth right there. Yes, I often do that. I wanted to dance for my church. They told me no. I asked why, they said, look at ya. And now I don't go to that church anymore. That's not fair. It's what Toreg wants, what Toreg wants, Toreg gets. One day this guy can teach you how to dance. Make your dreams come true. Anyway, after a brief time you all arrive, you turn around the corner and you see a full blown cathedral. It rises in three tunnels straight back, three colonnades. It is of gothic architecture. It's got the spires, it's got the flying buttresses. It's got this beautiful rose window set in the middle of the top. It looks as though somebody has taken a giant broadsword and just sliced it off at an angle. So the tip of the spire is gone and the entire leftmost cathedral tunnel is broken open and displayed out to the night. Despite all this, it doesn't look closed. It looks like it's still, the yard is cared for. There are still torches flickering in all the sconces. And you see the window is lit up from behind. Like it's still open and welcoming. However, the doors are slammed shut. And you see there's a, from a distance, you see a notice sort of pinned on the doors and standing in front of the doors are two entirely unconventional looking people. Ronald goes, that's them right there. You go better, they'll tell you what's going on. Well, I got to get back. And the late night rush is about to start. Now I just got to figure out if it's a damn first loop or second loop. Turn right and I'll figure it out. The wonder's off. Thank you. In the wrong direction. Oops. And standing in front of the doors, you see two strange looking figures who can introduce themselves now. Hey, welcome into this session. Oh my God, Ricky and Matt. Shellen. Shellen. When did you guys get here? Holy cow, this is such a surprise. Is Ricky and Matt. I don't know who those people are. They sound like losers. I'm lad five. You're what? Lad five. Yeah, let's go through. So Matt, tell us about who you are and what your deal is. Yes. I have multiple monikers. No. I'm lad five. I'm high C. And I am Ty Minotaur. Ty Minotaur is my Christian name. Lad five is my stage name. And high C is my vigilante name. I'm in a band here with this man. Before we move on to Ricky, I need you to tell me how you're dressed. I'm dressed so good. You've got a lot of leather, a lot of classic anime, just belts and studs of various places. Red and black. My hair is black and red. I'm looking down a lot like this mysteriously. Big boots, stuff like that. Great, thank you. That's it. Ricky, tell us who you are and what's up. Evening, Joaquin Rojo, just out here chilling it, spreading the word, getting the love out there and all the girls and the girls with the love and love. How are you dressed? How are you dressed? Like, have you seen the music video for Welcome to the Black Parade? I have not, tell me about it. Okay, well, it's a marching band full on very nice, all the frills and buttons and stuff, except instead of black, it's all white with red as the accent color. I'm just red pants, red slacks, matching his red slacks. How tight? Yeah, and that's also how I'm dressed. Pretty tight. There's a little bit of room for Shailen. That seems worse. Shailen's very free love, this is good. We are just out here, because all the girls out there, their love. We do it for them. The love and the girls, you know? I'm dressed like him as well also, but I take back everything I said. You can be the black with the red? No, but also I like the black parade thing, so I'm black and red and a bit more casual because I'm the bad boy. Okay. So is this your hood up or hood down persona? These are hood down. Yes. That's coughed. That's coughed. Okay, so y'all are standing here, y'all are looking at a notice on your church doors. So this is, of course, the synchronized chapel of the Sonners Backstreet. It's been your home, your stage, your canvas, and your kitchen for as long as you can remember, at least three months. And y'all have shown up to find a notice on the door. And it was awful. So this is neither love nor girls. Nor girls or love. By virtue of the authority vested in us, we, the members of Waypoint, reclaim this property on cause of due back taxes. And you know that these people at Waypoint have been after your property for at least three months. It's not about the taxes, it's about they hate you. They're just jealous. They're just jealous. They're just haters of all the girls. They have no girls at their office. Or the love, or the love in the girls. Where are the girls gonna gather now? Yeah, I don't know. There's not gonna be any love there. We can't perform in the streets, not again. No, it's been so long. It's been so long, I got used to it in there. I know. I like our shower. What do you wanna enter on this? Go ahead. Okay, well good, sirs. If you need- No autographs. Do I look like I need your autographs? I give the autographs. I'll take an autograph. Absolutely. Writes on your forehead. Oh please. I give you kind of a look. Okay. We are looking for two gentlemen with a particular skill set. Could you help us find them? We know a little bit about stuff around here and the love around here and the light and the girls and love. Yeah, if you need someone to spread love musically, if you're looking for that for you. You know, light and love are known to repel demons. Would you know anything about how to repel demons or where to find someone who might know how to repel demons? No, there's no one like that here. We gotta go. We gotta get out of here. I'm sorry, we have a real emergency. Please don't say that. Can I use my power as a girl to get them to help us? Yeah, you can. I'm wearing a really slutty outfit by the way. So we're gonna run right around the corner and at the moment you cannot see us. We're literally going to walk back. But we are now, I have a glass mask over my face. You can still see my face. It's just a lot more prismatic now and definitely shines more. And you don't see how the mask is really being held on, but it's there and it's got like a little bit of a chip. So you can see this eye perfectly fine. But, hello. I heard you were looking for some demon hunters. Wait, do we know that it's them? I know this won't work, but I'd like to roll to see if I can see through it anyway. You may make a perception check opposed to Ricky's disguise check plus 20. That's not gonna happen. I know it won't work, but I wanted to try. Oh my God. So I rolled a 10. So. Add your disguise modifier. My disguise is nine. So you're at 19, so you have a 39 check. Okay. I also rolled a one, so I have no check. I rolled a two. Oh, we are full. I think it's that we're girls. I think they, are you are still hot? Yeah. Obviously. He's the same person, but with a transparent mask on. I rolled a two. Look, I'm in trance. Okay. I don't know if you noticed, I'm a girl. Total, I rolled like a 21, but it's not enough. No. It's your mask. We don't know who they are. I look exactly the same, except I put on colored contacts. One like white, so it looks like one of my eyes is dead and the other is like kind of red, but it's really hot. Wait, your eyes are red now? Just one of them, and the other one's like white-ish. It's like kind of a David Bowie thing. I'm now holding a really thin halberd. Like just now? Yeah. Okay. It's like thin though, it's not like a big bulky one. I think it's still long. And on the back end of the halberd, there's a microphone and every time I stand, the microphone is pointed towards him. Okay. You have text this to me, right? Huh? Have you text this to me? Yes, I'm out of game, aren't I? I will send you all this. That's an insane description and I love both of your descriptions, okay. Anyway. Cam checked, camera checked? Okay. We are looking for demon hunters. Are you demon hunters? Yes. Yeah, we've been known to demon hunt. I like that. We know. Obviously. Can we hire you to hunt some demons that we're having a little trouble with? Hire us? No. No. Oh. However. Uh. What's happening? I could feed you. That was not in character. However. I don't think the mics are gonna pick that up. We're just like suddenly laugh. We could be convinced to help some girls who need some light and love and less demons in their life and love. That sounds really similar to what the other guy was saying. Who? It's completely different. Who was that? Forget it, forget it. We are, we, I am a girl and I need help with demons. Well, you're lucky because I am unbreakable diamond. My mask is clearly broken, but don't regard that. I don't care, I rolled a one against your description. And my diamond is unbreakable against the demons. So what kind of- Perfect. I'm high C. No. I'm gonna do like a high. It doesn't hurt you. I want you to know that I can hurt you. It only hurts the demons. If I wanted to, I go up to the edge of hurting you. Does this hurt me? It does not hurt you. It hurts your heart, but in good ways. We're demon hunters. And then we go pose. What kind of demon hunters? The best. How do you do this? Demon hunting. How does one do anything? Well, first we go and we find demons. Yeah. Girls. About their love. And where demons might be hiding. Yeah. That generally gets us on the right spot and then we have a secret demon holding ritual. But since the tax man came to this cathedral, the plethora of backup dancers is gone. Unfortunately, we cannot complete the ritual without a bevy of backup dancers. Would you guys happen to know any backup dancers? If I take it back, I'm satisfied with what I currently have. I don't need to get into the whole demon fighting world. It's clearly covered. I know, I think they're pretty great. You don't think so? I don't know backup dancers, but I could help you find money to get backup dancers. And can I say, it just hurts my soul that the man is taking away money from a cathedral. Wow. You get us. Oh, I do. We get you. You get us. We get each other. We kill demons. I'm sure you, have you ever danced before? I'm pretty sure you've danced. I've danced. How did you know I danced? This could be the one. She might be. Girl. I mean, look at me. Doesn't it look like I dance? There are ribbons flowing around my whole body at all times and I'm glowing and I float. She does dance. You should actually see her dance. I think she should actually show us how well she dances right now. Could you show us? Yes, you must show us. I dropped to the ground from where I was in kind of a very cute crouch with my arms backward. Not a good start. Then I spring back up and I swirl in the air. And then land like an ice skater in a very pretty way. I mean, you're pulling a lot of focus. We, you know, prefer if it was a little. Backup dancers, you know, we like our girls and we like the love, but they're behind us. Okay, check this out. Check this out. I want to like make y'all's heads glow. I want to like create some light behind their heads. Oh my God, your head is glowing. Oh my God, your head is glowing, what does my head say? It doesn't say anything. It's just kind of like a glow. Does mine say something? No. Do you guys like it? Oh, are you doing this? I'm doing it. Oh, wow. I have a lot of celestial energy. That could be helpful. I can do the hand drive. The what? The what? Hand drive. I don't know what that is. Could you show us? Could you show us? Yo, the hand drive. Shirl for front check. Shirl for front check. Yes, she's doing it. The hand drive is the one thing you can do without a performance check. I require a performance check for this. Before a diamond can shine and be unbreakable. Oh man, this is like a solid, like, I'm not saying you'd get to the finals in a hand drive competition, but you'd definitely be like, you'd make day two. Okay, hand drive, baby. You know, you know from Greece, which is the best thing. Before diamonds can shine, sparkle, and be unbreakable like me, they gotta start somewhere. And I don't think you're a dancer yet, but I think you're getting there. You know what I mean? Girl, love, girl, light, love, love, love, I don't agree. Okay, you guys are needed back at this big statue we live in, so how about we all wrap this up and start heading that way? Um, our home is here, and we have to get it back from the bank. Waypoint. Yeah. Anybody who can roll knowledge local to know about Waypoint? Waypoint, Waypoint. Okay, I rolled a 10. 13. 25. Oh, shoot. Interesting, all right. So, y'all two both know, Waypoint is a fixture around here in a city of freedom and light. Waypoint is doing its best to be that kind of annoying person who has to make the trains run on time. You know that they are frequently, they're sort of like regarded like the HOA of Aviel. Like they just, you know, they're always there like, hey guys, I know it's all about freedom and light, but like, you gotta pay taxes. All that, you know, they just kind of keep the water flowing. If somebody is putting any sort of restriction on something, it's them. You know a little bit more. You having to know, thanks to your background, you learned a lot about the shepherds who are the dark underworld of Aviel that will do whatever is necessary to make things, to keep that freedom going, even if it means murder. These shepherds are most frequently in conflict with Waypoint. Because behind the scenes, Waypoint does a lot more than just keep the trains on time. I guess we have trains. Waypoint does, everything they do is legal. Whether or not they have coerced, bribed, or strong armed somebody into making it legal is another question. They are, Sorry, do I need to be setting timers? Okay. Waypoint is known to corrupt judges. They've been known to occasionally, somebody who has very strongly, who's indicated they're gonna vote one way, will come back with a broken leg and voting the other way. They have made, formatted all the laws to benefit them mysteriously the Waypoint itself pays no taxes, but everybody assures them that it's completely legal. They are a lawful, but troublesome blight on Aviel. And this is completely in character for them. Gotcha. But he only knows that. Yeah. Are you gonna share that information? Obviously nothing up. Sorry? What about Waypoint? They wanna shut us down. They wanna stop the love. We can't live without our cathedral of love and light. Oh, no one can. Thank you for understanding. Why aren't you like her? Can we, can we just, can you all go, we just want her really. Oh, oh. You can have her. You guys can all just hang out together after all this is done. I'm here to recruit you. So give me some more details on what exactly is happening. Are they all hood up? Are they all hood up? Yeah. Yeah, they're all hood up. What was the reason for this shutdown? Is it on the paper? Can I just kinda look at the paper? What does the notice say? No, it says, Jesus Christ. The notice says that they are due to back taxes that their cathedral has been reclaimed and seized by Waypoint, which is a little bit unusual because cathedrals don't normally pay taxes, but they don't normally pay. Do I know that? No. You guys look a lot like less stellar versions of this really stellar person who once stepped into our lives. You guys heard of Excelsior? Brilliant. Yeah. Got us into demon hunting. She's actually the one that sent us. Oh. Wow. You should have started with that. Yeah, I've been friends a long time ago. You guys don't look as stellar as her, but once again, diamonds, they start at a humble beginning before they become unbreakable like me. Isn't that right, I see? That's right. Absolutely. Wow. Well, Excelsior is our role model and confidant and mentor. So we're getting there. She's fine. She's great. How can we help Excelsior? Help us, help us. We're helping her. Great. So we just all work together and then gets done. Excelsior can get us our chapel back. Almost definitely. Yes. And that is what we came here to tell you, actually. Great. That Excelsior wants to help you. Yeah. We want to help her help us find the love of the girls. Yes. Would you boys like to come? I'm starting to bang my head against the wall of the building. Would you boys like to come exercise with us? Yes. Of course. Oh wait, like exercise with humans? Exercise with an O. Oh, okay. We do that too. But you know, it's probably exercise at the same time. Yeah, I'm not sure. I didn't get my pump today. I was upset about the church. The gym is in the church. Yeah, and it's really hard to maintain this body. The protein powder is in the church. Yeah. Do you need inside? We would like that. We would like to break the door. Yes. I'm just rolling for strength. That's all you need to do. All right. Or if it's just a melee attack roll, then that is a 24. 24. You go and you, so there's a, there's a, it's been padlocked like, you know, you pull it and the chains give a little. They aren't off yet, but those links definitely bent. I'll go again. Do you know how to pick locks or something? Not quite as good, but I got a 13. 13? Sorry. You pull it again, and this time they don't really move more. I mean, if you gave it a minute, you could, at this point, you could pry them off. Okay. Would you like to do that? Yeah. You just, while y'all are back and forth, back and forth thing about exercising and silverback, you just kind of stomp over and just eventually pull open. The chains fall to the ground. Thank you. There you go. Thank you, large person. Oh, great. We can get inside our cathedral. My belts. My girls. There are girls in there. You have kind of people in there. It's happened before. It has happened before. It was an accident. We have good security though. At least we did. You didn't ask. This is silverback, by the way. Who? Silverback. That's his name. I don't care. Oh, okay. And I'm psychosear and this is Aurora. Yeah. My name's Aurora. Like the Don, you know the Don. I've heard of the Don. Little light and love. I normally don't get to see it. And glory. Wow. So many girls and love and girls. Well, it's cute when she does it. Would you like to come into our cathedral? Yes. You can be our guests. I have protein powder, as well as demon hunting supplies. Various juices. Various juices. Okay, I'm sold. I'll take a juice. You want a naked juice? That's all I've got. Yep. That's a brand of juice. Is it your brand of juice? It's a brand of juice. No one drinks naked juice? I know what you're talking about. It's a brand of juice. There's a pretty cool band that sometimes plays here. I mean, they have a sponsorship. Yeah, they have a sponsorship. We don't have sponsorships because we're demon hunters. We're demon hunters. Yeah. We're not a band. Did I say I wanted to get in there for my belts? I meant their belts. They're a pretty cool band. We're pretty cool people with the band. Can I have the juice? Yes. The juice and the love. So as you walk into the cathedral, you see it's like normally, so cathedrals have your main hall right with the pews on both sides and off to the left and the right, you have knaves with separate like little areas, usually for worship or chapels or things. This has all been replaced. Instead of pews, there are just rows and rows and rows of folding chairs. Instead of an altar up at the front, it's been replaced with a flat stage with mirrors positioned all around it. You can see that the rose window facing the front has been lit up with all these torches. Their light has been filed into these mirrors to bounce it back up through the rose light. Here's also the last fading moments of sunlight are streaming in from the top right down across the stage at a very stylish slant from the giant chunk of roof that's been sheared off. And then off to the left and right, you have what appear to be recording studios or practice rooms that have been, bless you. That have been sort of retrofitted for vocal performance. Anything else that y'all would like to add about your space? Can I just ask if the giant shear on the building is stylistic or have it as a demon print? To be technical, it is hella stylistic. Well, I know it looks great, but is it on purpose? Well, you got the cathedral for cheap because it was no longer good for services. Fair enough. Definitely, this happened during your demon attack. Okay, awesome. You're performing in a full-blown cathedral. And then when the demons attacked, that's when everything changed. It sheared off the corner and with Excelsior's help able to drive off the demons is also contributed to y'all being able to use this space permanently. Since it was a cathedral of Sheldon to start with and Sheldon is all about the performing arts, the fact that y'all saved it during performance, the priest was felt called to give it to you since that's clearly what Sheldon wanted. Home sweet, not our home. Just a space I like. Mm-hmm. There's some other cool guys that call this place home though. They're so hot. You guys say weird things. We gotta get to work. Yeah, absolutely demons. Are you guys gonna help us or not? Of course. Great, let's go then, right? Yep, that's what I've been wanting to do. We could kind of hang out, I guess. You just have to have the love. I'm sure we're gonna have a lot of time to hang out before, during, and after. No, just during and after the thing we're doing. Okay, just let me get changed. Right. Okay. I think they're great. All right, we're ready. I've put on more belts. How many? They're gonna help. How many belts? Just a few. It's a total out about. I'm picturing like, well, there's like seven up and down my leg. No, God. He doesn't leave the house with at least 12 belts. Well, some of them are functional, most of them are not. I'm drawing your characters right now. And you guys make it increasingly difficult to put details. You get, you're like, my face is a diamond, but it's not and it floats and it refracts light, but in a way that makes sense for face. Well, like whatever, wearing like an infinite number of belts. I'm excited. I have a microphone that like a police baton goes and do a rapier by the way. So I'm just saying. That's hot. Like that. Just for back, just so you know. This whole thing has worked on me. You doubted. It worked. I'm like a teenage girl sort of. Oh, did it work on you too? It worked on you? Girl, love. I thought you were playing around. No, no. The fact that I rolled a one in perceiving who they were and that I'm like, I'm like kind of like, I've lived a very conservative existence. I'm not seeing very cute boys with the groupies. So at this point, you'll do have access to your, your cathedral space, which is the space you need for your ritual. If you would like to return with them to see what Excelsior can do about, deal with my point first. You could go that angle or you could just do it right now. It's up to y'all. Y'all's, y'all's motors, y'all pick. I mean, while we're here, you know, we could do the demon hunting. That's true. Do you think they're ready to dance? Are you guys ready? It's a quick dance. You'll get it real quick. I mean, we just got to restrain the demon that comes forth from hell and then we'll be on our way after that. You need other people to dance? It's like a V, it's like, it's just a ritual. There's no vacuum cleaner series. It's like this dance. It attracts all the love and the light. And the demons like the love and the light. They want to eat it. They want to eat it up. So we're going to, we're going to dance with you guys and it's going to pull the demons into the stance. Real quick. And then we're going to fight them. Why? Well, you wanted demons, you want to kill the demons, right? You want to hunt them? Y'all can't do it by yourselves. We need backup dancers to complete the ritual. To compare to us. I mean, are there like specific demons you're going after or? Yes. Are there specific demons you're going after? I mean, I don't know. No, I'm here for you. I would like to bring you back to the... Well, all right, we can go back first and figure out what demons we're supposed to fight first, but we're generally not too picky. We fight all the demons. I mean, there are demons in the building now. We love all the girls. We fight all the demons. So these are our rules. How magnanimous. What does that mean? Great spirited. Oh, thanks. Thank you. This might be difficult. What do you think we should do? Oh, I think we should tell them to go to the place we want to and we'll dance there and attract the demons. Where was the last place we saw? You've got to have enough dance for both of us, right? I mean, if you want, you can just like hold on to my waist while I spin around. Actually, I'm not very strong, that might not work. This is not... That's not a good idea. I take that back. I don't like it. We know two really excellent choreographers that'll help you learn to dance. We're not them. Not to be rude, but I feel like if you guys are good at what you do, you don't always need other people to dance for you. Just... It's about creating a contrast between the good and the bad, the light and the dark. You said it. Talented and the untalented, so to say. Didn't you just say I was talented? You are. You are. Just less so than us. And that's important for any good group. Look, a diamond doesn't shine if there's not diamonds to not shine. I literally shine constantly. And that's great. My body is made of light. So do I. Look, look, look, watch. I can make my light enhance your light. I want to shine light from my fingers into his mask so it goes like a prism. Do you want to make a perception check real quick? Sure. Oh, is something happening? No, of course not. Not unless you're all high enough. I might have lost the plot. What am I doing? What's happening? The girls. Why am I here? They're asking you to help you perform a ritual to find a demon to ask them where the other demons are. That's right. Why do I want to do this? Oh, because the idea was they were going to help you get back the cathedral, which they had switched to. OK, what did you all get? 13. 9, 7. Cool. All right, nothing's happening. It's fine. All right, you're good. OK. So demon hunting or protein shakes? All of a sudden, you all realize that you all are not alone in this cathedral. And a battalion of troops have walked in, about five of them. One of them is saying there's like four soldiers in a half plate, each with spears. And at their head is someone in full plate with a great sword on her back. Who knows? This place has been reclaimed by waypoint. OK. I need you all to vacate the premises immediately or you will resort to violence. That was fast. No, we have every right to be here. Can I run back toward and like into a closet real quick? So I can transform back? Just me. OK, I do that. My boy here. And I'm going to just do a little spin move. It's really stylish. And you can't see my face during it and the mask is gone. And I'm going to walk up to the officers. I'm so very sorry. They were broken chains on the floor. I didn't know that we weren't supposed to be in here. But nobody's still posted on the door. Don't give me this. If you would like, you have one chance to come with us back to the waypoint office and we can discuss this there. If you do not move, we will fight. Can I come back out? Sure. Excuse me, excuse me. These boys are in my custody. You know me, right? I don't need to introduce myself. Pippa Rose, Acolyte of Grotta. Yes. How do you do, ma'am? Yes. I am doing fine. Thank you for asking. Please do not apprehend these youths if they are in a rehabilitation program right now. And I'm about to take them somewhere for law breakers. So that's a rent break and minister to them. Please roll bluff. You may get advantage on your bluff due to your government. I can give plus one because I'm a team player. Go for it. Can I roll, like, perform or something? You can get advantage so you can roll twice and take the higher. So good. No, it wasn't. OK, I rolled a 10 total. 10 total? You know what, that'll do. Do you get my plus one? OK. Plus one, it's for 11. Oh, yeah, OK. It's not a difficult lie to believe. I believe you also have faint innocence, which we might want to try next time, I think. Oh, OK. But I was trying to faint innocence. I have, like, profession acolyte or something in a very high. If you do, if you wanted to roll a profession acolyte instead, you can have that bonus. But it worked already. It's plus two. OK, plus two. Anyway, all right. Well, who am I to question the availing government right now? As long as you remove them from these premises, it's fine. Don't come back without a notice, without what we are due. Excuse me? Are you talking to them or me? Anyone. This is waypoint property. And while I'm happy to have you remove these delinquents, don't think she does turn back over to them at this point. They are welcome back without their taxes. That's how we present a lawful and orderly society, as I'm sure you are most comfortable with acolyte. We pay our taxes in love and light. Sh, boys, we're coming. We're coming with me. Don't talk anymore. Yes, ma'am. I hear you. Thank you for your service. We late. I want to take everyone out. OK. I'll leave it to you and just maintain eye contact with the front one the whole time. Can they see your eyes? No, I have, like, a metal Jason mask sitting on it, basically. I was going to say, I didn't draw you with any eyes. Um. Just head swivels, I think. Cool. But I'm the creepy one. I guess you know who I am now. Maybe. OK, I don't know. Nope. That's not how this works. Wait, real quick. Does it mess up her reputation at all to be seen with me by these people? Do they know the image of my armor? So far, you haven't any run-ins with Waypoint yet? I haven't. But I wasn't the only one who's worn this armor. Well, we'll have to see, won't we? It definitely depends on who this person is exactly. That's true. And what her relation is with, like, she, this may be her first time experiencing you, or maybe not, we don't know yet. So, y'all exit the cathedral. Waypoint stays. It's harsh. This is not love. I guess we should bring it back, right? I guess so. Where's the, we're missing the other one, though. Oh, she's going to, she'll follow. No, I'm saying there's one of them and then there's the original guy. But I don't know where the face mask guy went. Oh, you also? OK. Oh, he, he has to step out. Oh, isn't it time for you to go? It is. I got rehearsal for the celebration of when we get this place back, because I heard some pretty cool demon hunter guys, like you. Hey, cool. Nice to meet you. I've never met you. I've never met you, but you're pretty cool. Yeah, I'll go rehearse. I'll leave. I'm on to this. Just point it out. I'll make another perception. This is more the second check, I probably, at a certain point, come back with the prison mask again. I feel like I don't need it. I figured it out. I did roll higher this time. I got a 10. I rolled 23 instead of a 21. Y'all are justifying your suspicions. I know you are convinced that this isn't a sus. You're not sure what's going on, but just keep it going. You guys have the exclamation points. You just can't find solid snakes. Bring them both back. See what happens. What's that noise? All right. I'm just going to stay in this persona. For all intents and purposes, I, Pippa, am going to escort you to the place we need to go. Fair enough. Going in. We're back to the tower. This is a youth rehabilitation program, and you're all with me. Got it? Yes, I'm a youth. I'm a youth. Hello, youth. I've rehabilitated before some love and some girls. Perfect. Let's take these youths into a bar closet and get this over with. You may have been reading this last session, but any time we do this in the previous volume, previous before the reboot. No one quote me on that. Oh, no. To get back to the tower, all you have to do is go to a bar, any bar. And as long as you have the intention of entering the aegis from it, when you open the door, the entire bar is frozen in a trans-like state until you get to the back closet. Cool. Oh, I did not remember that at all, but it's OK. If you try and deviate from the past towards the back closet, it breaks the trans. But you can essentially, while entering through the tavern closet is an ordeal, getting back is not a problem. OK. I guess we're falling into the bar. Yeah. We all managed to get through the right loop. All the way back, you get the right, the left, all the right. As you walk in, you see from a small distance that Ronald has just gotten back. But as soon as you enter, you throw open the doors, it is all frozen. And you all just toggle back to the back closet. Yep. And you all are back at the clavicle. Cool. Wow. All of our found in closets was love and girls. Unconvinced. All right, well, there's lots of both of those here. Let's go deliver them to. So far, the only thing they do, they need other people for. So that's OK. I haven't seen them do anything, personally. The only thing they claim to do. Are we sure you have the right people? No. OK. All right. So, you all, let me get back to the easiest. I squirt them back down towards the visor, which is where the central war room is. I guess it's technically up. I squirt them up to the visor, which instantly has something that looks awful, a lot like windows along the back. The visor is itself very much a large circular room. Oh, I would say 40 feet across. And across the back wall of it, there is what looks to be a bunch of arched windows that look out over the caldera. They're not windows. It's a magical effect. But that view is, in fact, on the other side of that stone. So, anyways, you see Excelsior is standing with, well, one arm folded behind her, so her staring out at the visor. We found your guys, maybe. So turn that around. If you tell me we're wrong, it will honestly be a huge relief. She says, lad five. It has been too long. Excelsior. Tell me, how has the business been? It has been so juicy. I would expect nothing less. And Joaquin Rojo, how are you today? I've been great, Excelsior. How have you been? You know, it's been OK. We had some rough times. I thought we were going to have to change how things worked. But luckily, I managed to find these excellent replacements. You see, she almost tries to gesture with her right side before stopping herself and holds her left hand and said, these excellent replacements, I've retired in case you didn't know. But we're going to still on the right track. And in fact, I'm thinking we can bring y'all on to help out as contractors. So how do y'all know each other? That was the funniest thing. I was out actually getting groceries. And I just happened to see a Merolith demon sweep in to interrupt. Have you seen these people perform? They're amazing. They're incredible. Actually, no. Oh, well, you must, if you get the chance. I don't know when your next show is. Well, since we're all exchanging secrets here, I've got one I must reveal. I know. Maybe you have to gasp at a higher pitch. How could someone like me? No, that's the opposite of gasping. Wait. Gallivant at night, slaying demons. And I went. I asked myself. Sorry. I'm going to ask him. I'm going to ask myself again. I don't know. But I do it. Such poets. This is why you're so popular. Well, we held you here for reasons. We have some need of your skills. You have, if I remember correctly, a developed specific demon binding ritual. Correct. We have a problem with demon possession. And we need to ask somebody where we can find the demons and what they're up to. That's going to require asking somebody with a bit more know-how and a bit more power than we're comfortable just tracking down our own. So we're hoping you can hold her while we do it. Well, you know, we've done this before. We could do it again. Yeah. It's going to take all of my love. But we can do it. I only have one problem with it, which is I can't be there to help you. Ever since my injury, I can't be near. Well, I haven't tried. But I think I'd probably do that. I've still got, well, I don't know. I can't be around the demonic energy that swirls in the room. It'll aggravate the wound, and I can't have that. You're one of the greatest backup dancers we ever had. I know. I know. We had some great nights. It's some better victories. But I just have to pass on the torch for the moment. Maybe someday. Maybe. In the meantime, I'm sure these people will be excellent backup dancers. I've seen them not dance. Sometimes it looked a bit like a dance. Sometimes they'll do fine. I just have to isolate myself. We're going to miss you. I know. I'm going to miss watching you. Well, that was weird. I already miss you. All right, then. Oh, wait, I'd do this to her. Yeah? Yeah. OK. She receives the signal and puts her hand over her heart and then backs out of the room. Cool. Um, so you guys know what to do next? Where is this demon? Just put us in the right direction. I don't know. I thought you were supposed to know where the demon was. Sorry? The idea is, so the ritual you all have. Right. The ritual summons a demon. It summons a demon and binds it. It's not necessarily a specific demon. It's a demon of a specific rank. OK. The idea of which being a demon of a specific rank will be able to give you the information on the other demons you need. All right. Here's how it goes. You dance with us. We enthrall the demon. A captain demon. Demon captain, we call them. Yeah. Is that a thing? It's a rank. I, OK. In the world of demon hunting. You wouldn't know such things. It's a very hierarchical. So we're going to summon a demon and question it. You have to question it. You guys don't do the questioning? We'll be busy. Do you want them to do the questioning? No, sorry. We'll be busy holding it. With our dancing. All right. Excellent. It sounds like a pretty decent plan. Door? Sounds like your area, probably. Yeah. Is this supposed to approach the other case? Would dancing have worked? Dancing solves all problems. I've never danced to try. But you have to dance with love? Oh, that was the problem. I wasn't dancing with love last time. How can you not? We fight like dancing, you know? Yeah. Well, where should we summon this demon? Just here? Give a back room. There's a room for arcane rituals located in the left boot. Oh, wow. Let's go there. It's well-shielded from most cosmic energies. And should you fail in the demon escape, the room will lock down and you will not be able to get out. Dang. But it won't either. Fair. All right. Well, let's give the shot. If they can hold it down, she and I can be back up bodyguards and you can do the questioning. I can do the questioning. Excellent. That's what I do. Let's go. Let's go to the boot. Let's go to the boot. We take the boot elevator. From the clavicle. You mean the stairs. Is that what I mean? Because Jesus Christ. Yes. There's a reason Excelsior was in great shape. That's the reason. All right. We will head to the boot. Bring him back. You were aggressively folding paper, I guess. I'm preparing a small supply necessary for this part. Next part, OK. It should have been note cards, but I forgot my note cards. Are we doing break soon? Or are we doing? Pretty soon. OK. We have to do this after this next activity. I love this. Yes. More belts. Yeah, I don't know where to put the belts of this. I'm going out of space. He has been going up his way. Up his leg. His pants. Wait, the whole pants? Like they're like going up your leg, right? Can you see your skin? It's over the pants. OK. Yeah, yeah, it's like. It's just belts. You ever looked at a leg and been like, there's not enough accessories from, like, knee to thigh. Yeah, yeah. Put some accessories. The only way I look at legs. Thank you. Eh? Eh? You guys are great. I love your character. All right. One second. I'll be ready. All right. I'm doing vocal warm-ups. Mommy made me mesh Miami. Oh, no. Mommy made me mesh Miami. We have anything to advertise? Probably something on DFTVA at this point. I don't know what it is. Do you have the mini-movely mesh? I denounce you are still available. We have, so you go down to this room in the boot, and this room in the boot is actually set up. It's already got the pentagram you need inscribed across the entire room. It's actually not that different from the war room. It's a little bit smaller, maybe like 25 feet instead of 40 feet. I feel like this would make me uncomfortable. I mean, it's kind of homey. OK. It is kind of one of those things like, oh, this is the room my people use, except they're using it to, ooh. Yeah. A little weird. Right. It's fine. I'm ready. You have, but this is the idea behind your rituals. Of course, it requires five people in a pentagram, and the rest is up to y'all. So y'all describe how you would like these fine folks to sign up a demonet for your ritual. Getting ready. So we're obviously in the middle of the pentagram back to back. And then we need y'all making a triangle on the other three points of the pentagram facing out, not looking us in the eye ever during the performance. Ever. I want to make that very clear. Noted. It's going to be tough. We're going to be pulling a lot of faces. Being very compelling in general, it's going to be hard not to just stop what you're doing and stare a gog, not the gog. All right, let's do this. I'm preparing you. We'll be at 116 beats a minute. I need hip swivels on the second and the fourth. Watch for key changes. Do not forget the hands, people. Do not forget the hands. I've never forgotten my hands once. They all have hands, right? They're not like slugs or anything. Excelsior had a problem with this, but it's not like what? Like slugs or anything. Actually, you guys are human too, right? Like I'm just assuming. They're both human. They're all pretty much, he's a tiefling, and she's a pacemar, so yeah. Human, demon, human, angel, human. Snap on the first every five measures. And ladies, gentlemen, this is fun. So smile. It's already facing a wall. I'm just standing perfectly still. Yeah, I hope so. As you get this ritual started, go ahead and make three perform checks. I also need to transform back into myself. Go ahead, all of us. OK, I'm going to transform. I have performed dance. Are we doing it too? Yeah. Well, my perform dance is at plus eight, so I guess you can have a perform dance at plus eight. I rolled a 13, so my perform is 12. My perform is a 26. I will add that my number is also three of them, three of them. OK, three. Three separate perform checks, OK? So I've got a 16. So you're going to roll with advantage or no? We're rolling three times. Y'all can definitely roll. I'm not really worried about y'all's rolls. Y'all can roll with advantage if you want. 320s. This is y'all's ritual. Y'all are the ones who get to say whether or not it goes poorly or not. Over here, what are your three rolls? I had a 12, 15, and a 10. All right, did you bet? Psycho-seer, what did you get? What I have, 17, 24, and 19. All right, and Aurora? 26. Rolled two more times. I already did, but none of them were as high. That's OK, how high were they? 13 and 10, so plus 11. They're all in the 20s. I have good news. I was looking to see if anybody was going to get less than a 10 at any point. Y'all do not destroy the ritual in the performing. Please describe how it goes. Well, it's a little bit of this, you know, a bit of that. I'm the lead singer. He's got the vocals. I'm doing a lot of the vocals. I'm harmonizing. I'm pulling faces. Right. Of course, we're always. That's about the dancing for me. Yeah. What about the singing? I've got him. I'm on the other side of him. I'm back on the other side of him. You cannot keep up with my movements. I do this behind him, make it look like he has four arms. The demon's like that for you. And then the chorus to Boy With Love comes on. And you don't know where it came from. We don't know where it comes from. It's part of the ritual. Come from the ethereal planet. Can somebody sing it? I'm the harmony, and he's got the melody. We don't need this copyright truck. I don't think it'll. Don't worry. At the highest note, a demon just arrives squealing in the center of this pentagram. All right. So that doesn't happen. I'd like to add, and definitely there's a light show going on. There are room flashes from dark to light. It seems like stars are twinkling throughout the atmosphere. There's just bolts of purple and green that just kind of flow through. The sound of teenage girls screaming coming from the room. And then boom, lights go up. In the middle of the room, there's a flash of smoke. And inside the middle of this pentagram, I suppose both of you all moved back out, and it was like pointing. There is in fact a succubus sitting in the middle of the room. My hips can't stop gyrating. If they stop, then she'll be free. I've been holding the high note this whole time. Psycho's here. It's up to you guys now. You know the succubus. Yeah. You do. What? And so. I didn't tell you that. She screamed into a distance. Who dares to bind? Hey, girl. You. You think I'll have come this easily? No. No. She begins to fight back. And so for a moment, the room warbles black and purple. And I'm going to need a few things from y'all. I have about two things. First off, what's happening? Paper. Oh, paper. Blank paper. Now I have many mumbling mice stuck in my head. Because of that. I would like one should be black. I would like each of you to write down on one side of the paper the worst thing that has ever happened to your character. OK. On the other side of the paper, I would like you to write down the worst thing that could ever happen to your character. Huh. Don't like where this is going. Do I need to designate? Yes. Get out of here. I don't have a pan of waiting for years. Well. Once this is happening, she is psychically lashing out at all of you. Each of you feel your mind being peeled back as she tries to peer into the depths of all of your experiences. However, you note she's only accessing half of everything you know. She can't seem to get past the wall that separates your person eye. So she's delving into specifically the depths of the minds of Silverback, Sychrocea, and Aurora, not Owen, Caprice, and Pippa. This is the worst thing that could happen to our superhero side? Yes. Tieflings are half demons, right? They have somewhere along in the process of being born, demonic energy is involved in the thing somewhere. You notice at this point that y'all are all frozen. And she is pacing around the room. Oh. This seems to have backfired, boys. You also can't talk. So you see her sort of, well, you think you can hold me? Before you can hold me, I can't even believe you can hold yourselves. Let's see. And she turns to Owen or to Silverback, you. You see the entire, suddenly the entire room goes like, it's like y'all are floating in a void. And suddenly y'all are all witnessing a scene, as if played on a movie, of a lowly thug walking down the back streets. You think you're fit to be a hero? Is that really true? And suddenly you see a shadowy figure. It's you, jump off of the top of a street corner, and you slam this thug into paste on the ground. Yes. Such a hero. How close does this match what you wrote down as the worst thing that has ever happened to your hero? No, nope. Nope. There have been worse. All right. He didn't get the right idea. He was waiting for my pen. I knew what it is, Dela. And I'm a, all right. So in that case, you will have advantage on the same. I'm going to ask you to make it a moment. OK. And she turns, she continues walking around the circle. She comes to your side, goes here. It's hardly a surprise, is it? And suddenly the entire room flashes back and forth. And you are now in a oak-paneled office. You, much younger looking, still has your makeup on, because this is an old style you've worked with. Sulking in a chair. Constantious scrim. Your tiefling uncle sits behind a desk. And he is roaring at you. What did you think would happen? You can't lose control of that for one second. And suddenly you see, you just blast out with psychic fury as you dig into his mind. And he throws his eye back. How close does this match with you? You wrote down as the worst thing to happen to your character. Well, I have a question. Was I close to my uncle? At this point, you were, you had a lot of hope in his mentorship for you. Was I close to my uncle when I found out he was evil? When you found out, you were like, as in like, in an armed game? Yeah. No, you were pretty distant from that point, because he had exiled you. Because of this. You do feel very guilty about this. OK, then it's probably the worst thing that ever happened to me. You will get disadvantage on this stage. Great. Aurora, she comes back down to you. She stares into your eyes. And suddenly the entire room goes flat black, and it stays flat black. And you see a demon with a goat's head charge you with a halberd and slash you across the chest. And you feel all the strength leaving your body. That was what I wrote down, so. Disadvantage on your save. All right. How are you guessing this stuff? This is difficult, OK? We've seen you before, demon. Here's what I'm going for, OK? This is more fun. You're both back to back dancing. You're dancing twice as much. When suddenly a meritless demon screams through the ceiling of your church with a claw attack that shatters your face mask. Just look along one eye. And you lose your vocals for a second. How close does this match up to whatever it may be that you wrote down? Not even close. No, not even close. Great, all right, OK. You all get advantage on the save. She turns back to the middle of the room, and the whole thing, the whole room flashes again. Bright red. Y'all may all please make will saves. If you have advantage, go will save. If disadvantage, roll a twice. Either way. Will we add to my will save? Oh, shit. How many do we roll? Oh, disadvantage, right? Bad. Disadvantage, yeah. Bad. What's our will base? So it's going to be. It's the space that we add to it? It's 10 plus your class base, which is probably, I think, so vigilante has strong will. I think it's, can somebody check on their character sheet and see what the plus the will bonus is at level five? At level five? It should be in your character recording box, your class recorder. It's just a number. Like for vigilante? Yeah, well, yeah, either one, because you all have four. So plus four, so it'll be wisdom plus four plus 10. Wisdom plus four plus 10? Yeah. Oh, sorry, no, it's, that's DC. It's just wisdom plus four plus your roll. All right, so just, so in that case, I have bravery, so I get plus one to will save. Sure. So you're good, you're a good baby boy. Wait, wisdom plus four? I've got a 12 total. 12 total. What about you, High C? It's over 25. I can't do the math, though. Oh. Unless I'm doing this wrong. 16 plus, what's your, so 16 plus four? How are you going to get 16? Wisdom's eight plus four. Okay, so wisdom is eight, which is a minus one, two. Oh, okay, so minus one. What? Minus one. Two down from 10? Two down from, because nine, yeah, okay, so minus, because, well, it's on the evens. Yeah. So 10 is zero, then nine is zero, so minus, yeah, yeah. Eight is minus one, yeah. Eight is minus one, so, then that's plus three, so 19? 19. Okay. All right, so it's 21. 21, psychosear? Minus 22. Okay. Seven. Seven. This is not your zone. No, I got a, I'm so bad. So if y'all could all just mark down, okay, psychosear, silverback, and High C, y'all pass. And brilliant, they're unbreakable diamond. Unbreakable diamond, and, all right, y'all both have, we're gonna put an X on yours. All right, and she goes around the room a second time. Put an X on the way. If you think, just because you've only, what you have done so far is the worst that you can, that you will see, I bet not. She goes through, she'll start back in the back half of the room. You see High C, you're singing in concert, the room flashes, this is a new vision. You're back in the cathedral, there are more lives there ever been, it is more packed than there's ever been. And suddenly you hit a sour note. Everyone stops, gasps, and then they leave. How close? It's not that close. What did you write? I can't tell him, because he's gonna do it again. All right, so here's, here's, here's this half works. All right, here's how this works. If you fail this one, it's just a straight failure. If you pass it, you can have a flat check. You can reveal your greatest fear to immediately pass the check, but she'll know it. So you can keep your secret and just hope that your role's high enough. Yeah, I'm keeping my secret. Okay. And you don't have an X. And when you, am I referencing between the two things? It's just like, this is the worst thing you believe it could happen to your character. Yeah, not the worst thing that did happen. Not the worst thing that did. Yeah, this is a future potentiality. Got it. We come over to you, brilliant diamond. And you see, you dancing, not only do you trip, you fall, you spray across, you knock him over as you do it. Not close. Okay. You're gonna keep your step. So, hold on. So if I, I can reveal it. You can reveal it and then you pass the check immediately. Okay. Because if I fail the last one. You fail the last one, which probably might influence your. My greatest fear is high sea dies because I'm not there for him. Okay. Aw. That wasn't the farthest from what I had. I can, you can see we're on the same plane there. So that's okay. You, she kind of like hisses back. She could float, floats back around or she, she paces back around to, to you Aurora. And you see the entire, the entire, the scene bubbles away and it fizzes back. You're in the courtyard of the charter. The very TV top of Aviel. There's a courtyard and there's a two story fountain that royals over with holy flame. You see you kneeling before it. The whole fountain has run dry. And you're calling out to the gods and none will answer. Right. Yes, that's right. You fail the check. Okay. She cycles over to you silverback and she views, she pierces into your, into your, your mind and you see you're back and you're in a dark room. It's a, it's sort of a, a, a, a, it's a building that has all the windows shuttered. There's a dark closet been thrown across the, any sorts of light. It's a long, narrow hall of a room. At the back, there's a dark altar. And you see a shadowy figure and she says four, come forth silverback. And today I grant you the rank of master of the shepherds. It puts a crown on you. That's pretty much exactly what I wrote. All right. You will also fail the check. Meanwhile, she turns and says, and you psycho seer, I have something different in mind for you. You know, he's not dead. You see the, the face of your uncle rears up of just giant around the entire room. Do you hate him? Yes. He betrayed you. He betrayed both of us. He betrayed everyone. You don't have to let that lie. You could come with me. We can kill him for good. Can I see anybody else? No, it's just you and her and Scrim's face sneering in the void. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'll do that. She holds out her hand. I'll take her hand. You both float up and later there's that sort of and the whole, everything flies away. You're back in the stone room at the bottom. By the way, you should check block 62. Her voice, uh, fits away. Have some fun. One of you was off beat. I feel like that didn't go the way it was supposed to. Also, psycho seer, she's gone. Did we see her go? No, everything went black for y'all. And when your, when your eyes came back up, she was gone. What happened? We should have had more rehearsals, honestly. Honestly. What happened? Where did she go? Step, honestly. I'm going to grab him. I feel like I'm just crying at this point. I'm like grabbing you and like picking you up. What did you just do? Where is Caprice? Demon Goddard. I was going to like slam him against the floor. That's fine. Am I like conscious and stuff? Like what's happened? Oh, you are balling. You are every, every, every possible, uh, uh, failure you've ever felt and every, every insecurity you've ever thought maybe makes you non-hero are now coursing through your head. Okay. I'm crying. We've never done that, uh, alone before. What do you mean alone? There were three of us here. Well, we always had, uh, what's her name? Excelsior. Excelsior was kind of- Yeah, she picked us to replace her. We're here. Why did that happen? You have any idea what just happened? I don't know. Well, you know, girls sometimes. Shut up! Shut up! They're also demons. When a girl's a demon and a demon's a girl, you gotta know if you gotta slay the demon or love the girl. So you could, you couldn't keep it in your pants long enough to save our friend and make this okay? Basically, yes. Hold on. Just one thing I can do is stop a girl from crying and make her cry again. We're all the charm. Will you assist me in this charm? Of course. She'd like to, uh, charm her back to not crying. How would you like to do this? Girl. You were great. I was? Generically, all your insecurities don't matter. And generically, you're one of the greatest girls we've ever seen. We've seen a lot of girls. Yay! You don't know anything about me! I know you're a girl. And you love and you need love and you're a girl. Girl, don't let them haters get you down. We got haters. We also got girls. You could be one of them. We don't like haters. You shouldn't like haters. We're not like the other haters. But how will that help me fulfill my destiny? Girl, we all got destiny. You got destiny. You just don't even know it. I do know it. That's a problem. I think she's immune to her charm. I start dancing. Roll. I'm going to bust out the highest note I can. Is it a C? It's a D. 16, dance. This is good. This is like borderline rehearsal. You fall back into it. 26. Oh, wow. 26, high D. OK. This is the highest D you've ever hit. This is the highest D. I have yet to roll over a 10 on this die. Meanwhile, as all this is going on, you hear like a knock. Like a hesitant knock. I saw the lights come back on. I was about to just go like march up upstairs, actually. I'm going to go just throw the door open. You see Excelsior standing there. Who are these losers and why are they here? Hold on. Where's Psycho's here? She's gone and they don't know why. They never used a demon to summon a demon? That could have been the problem, actually. Two demons? Yeah. Yeah. She wasn't actually a demon. She was a tiefling, you moron. She was half demon. The different, you racist. Hey, we didn't slay her. She should be thankful. Exactly. Well, she might as well be slaying for all we know. She's not gone forever. Did you find out where to go? No, someone was out of step. I don't want to point fingers. It was a very one-sided fight. Did you catch where to go? No. No, nobody caught anything. There wasn't any conversation. This weird demon lady showed up. I mentioned some odd block. Yeah. Which block? Do we hear that? You did hear that. OK, yeah. Block 62 or 3, I can't remember. One of those two. Maybe it was. It was Cloyster. All right, listen. I know you've probably shaken up, probably shaken up losing Psycho's here, but we don't have time. We have to go stop this. Yes, we'll help. We will, because there's a girl. And there's also demons and luck. And when the girl's in trouble, we're on the double. Any chance this can be split up among multiple groups for this mission, please? No, we need him. You don't want any help you can get. However, do we hear that help can be they sum to the demon, didn't they? You found out the information. They succeeded. Let's do this. And sometimes succeeding is more important than winning. We always have an award with you later. That doesn't make sense. Get back first, and then we'll talk. All right, so this would be a great place for a break. All right, that's good. So we'll be right back with more. Are you tired of cramming your precious dice into those little tiny rectangle plastic containers or into bags like a freaking peasant? Well, head on over to DiceDungeons.com, and you can pick yourself up a finely crafted wooden dice case among many other D&D accessories. They also have these really cool cloth play mats that are very easy to transport and store, and they all combine together into one larger area. Dice Dungeons is offering a 10% discount with the code Dormonster during checkout, so yeah, go check those out. Back to the superheroes. Welcome back to the second half of our session here at Altered Eagles. In our last half, we found a boy band. We found a church. We lost Caprice. And now we know where we're going to go. We know what we're going to do there, maybe, kind of. What are y'all thinking about? Girls, mostly. And love. Yeah, I kind of. My old failures. Sorry, go ahead. No, yeah. Yes, we're going to, where is this? What was the place again? Block 62. Anybody know anything about Block 62? Let's roll knowledge local and find out. Or anything else you'd like to roll that could work. OK. I got a 20. All right. I got a 20 total. So you have, as I mentioned before, Aviel is divided into six districts, each called Cores. One of them is called the Cloister. This is the lower residential district. It's where the most people reside. It is the Avalian poet, Nazalene, once described it as all the thronging love and affection that Serenrae attracts and all the smell that comes with it. Nazalene would go on to try and seduce the daughter of the Terokia military general. And she would be executed for it. So sad days. In the meantime, so each neighborhood has its own sort of individual feel. But officially, they're all designated by block number. So Block 62 is a neighborhood in the Cloister. And nothing about the Cloister is terrible. It's just not great. It is just rank and file living. And you find your joy where you can, usually self-made. That's a challenge. All right. OK. Tied. Should we go like in uniform, or should we try to sneak in a little stealthier? Or what do you guys think? I don't want to get swamped by fans, so I'll probably stay in disguise. Same. All right. Sounds good to me. I'm just really upset. So I'm not going to change my appearance. I'm just still glowing or whatever. All right. Yeah, I'll stay in armor, too, then. OK. Are we still in the boot? Where'd Excelsior go? Y'all have reconordered to the War Room Advisor. So which level is the Cloister again? Cloister's a second level. Second level? All right, to the knees, guys. Wait, I want to say goodbye to Excelsior. Excelsior looks there. And she says, listen, you know I'm fans. But right now, I can't say to follow your heart and follow the music. I just need this done. We'll do it for you, ma'am. I believe in you. Anything for you. And she goes back to staring steelily outside the window. Does she have any more dialogue options? Or can I keep pressing A? Press A all you want. I pressed it a bunch of times to see if there's a secret dialogue option. Or she gets annoyed with me. Backhand you with her left hand. OK, I'm good. Have I recovered yet? OK, make a will save. I got a six. You're not feeling hot. Plus one, because I'm a team player. Oh, that's nice. So who here failed both checks? Me. All right. And then you didn't actually reveal your greatest fear, right? I did. You did reveal it to the demon? OK, so. And then you passed your first check. I passed the first one, failed the second one. And then you passed both. And so you're the only one who failed both, OK. Yep. All right. So y'all are heading to the knees. Is that what you're trying to find a closet in the knees? It's amazing how many closets there can be in one room. It's really like the back half of the statue where there's just only closets. Are there things in the closets? Yeah, of course there are. If you ever need to rope any venturing gear whatsoever. Wait, what's the difference between opening the door of a closet to get something out of the closet? You know how most closets have a back wall? Yeah. These ones do not. OK. So there are hallways with stuff near the door. Right. OK. Closets, we call them. Gotcha. I'll say you didn't answer my questions. Are you still crying? You're not feeling super hot. I would avoid things like the notebook or maybe you should watch some emotionally stirring anime to help you kind of like screw it up. So I'm depressed as hell. The back 30 minutes of Titanic. Not so great for you right now. But it's job time. You're OK. Just don't dwell on your failures and try and rack up a win for the good guys. OK, cool. All right. Let's see where y'all end up. So below the churchyard. So the churchyard is the lowest court. And it's, as I mentioned, I think every episode. There used to be, at one point, it was outside the walls or sort of just a bunch of hangers on who kind of had unofficial businesses and things that weren't really technically part of OVL outside the walls. And at a certain point, there became a sort of movement to bring these people inside the fold into the, there was a rather harsh movement to try and moralize these people to make sure they weren't going to bring OVL down with their debauchery. And so many, many, many different religions set up churches out here, trying to sort of evangelize to the people. Eventually, this became a more bigger economic cost than was viable. And so all those churches moved back up and they just left their buildings on there. And all these abandoned churches were bought by people who were establishing taverns and inns and things. And so now the churchyard is sort of a tongue-in-cheek moniker because there's no churches in it, only alcohol and fun. It's now been officially incorporated as part of OVL. This is in times long past. It was unofficial, but it still kind of maintains it's the only official churches there are those of Cate and Cayley and the drunken God. And there are lots. Past that, down further north, you get to the docks or the canals because all the courts have to start with C. This isn't officially, this is just a region. These are where the boats come in through the Bay of Mercy in the north of Ralkeen. And they kind of have this sort of a canal, like a ranch-style driveway almost, where they can unload. This is the economic center of OVL because it's where all their shipping and training comes from. And you can tell that you're in the docks by the smell of salt in this closet is a strong word. You're really in like a lean-to shack, kind of a bodega sort of set up like a, not a bodega, cabana, cabana. Like a lean-to shack up on the docks. You can feel the salt and the wind pushing through them as you're all inside this like, it's like a reed, walls made of like banded together reeds. All right, knees were too low. Gotta go higher next time. We can't go back and try again. You always, can we? I've never actually tried that. You want to try it? I mean, yeah. You don't try again? I don't like walking. You are, this is closer to the, the closer than say if you were up and like the cathedral district can. It's up to y'all, but. You know, I think we can probably walk this one, but I'll keep that in mind. I'm not sure why it never occurred to me before. I don't have any either. Girl, you should always get back up and try again when you're down, you know? No, we're gonna keep trying this one first. I guess so. I'm gonna open the door. As you open up, you see that the, so it's an outdoor bar, really. It's more like a liquor stand with a kind of like supply closet. And everybody is absolutely in full sway party mode. It's a bit strange, actually. Everybody is swaying and rocking and chanting, and they are all painted into sort of a crystal ball that is hanging in the above the bar. Yelling out something called the hurricane. And as it happens, the bartender is going around handing out these big red drinks to everyone, and they're all like ecstatically drinking them down, and then add as one. I'm gonna take one. Oh yeah. Make a con save. Make a fort save. I also wanna take one. Make a fort save. Normally I wouldn't. You've been worse. 11? For the next hour, anytime you make a physical skill check, please subtract one. Anytime you make a Christmas skill check, please add one. Or the, no one will know why. And as everybody drown down these red drinks all at once, there you go. They are all sort of collective. Let's go ahead. You hear the bartender? And that's it for today. Thank you for coming to the Sand Bar. Okay, okay. Every kind of like, sculpts, scatters back. You see the one remaining bar keeper is a dwarven woman who's just sort of slowly picking up chairs, sitting down, and kind of just walking around. It's like a great, I wish every party could be like this. Just show up one big, yay, and then you leave. Absolutely nobody noticed you come in. There was. Not even us. Not even you. You're already. We don't drink. We have to appeal to the mothers of the girls. That's true. That's okay. But okay, but you do something, right? I'm sorry. We love it. I mean, maybe it's not alcohol, but like, Oh, hard drugs. Yes. Oh yeah. Yes, yes, yes. Lots of pills. Pesh, we call it Pesh. Lots of Pesh. Yeah. Y'all are just, y'all are probably about half an hour's walk south of, or north, if you just walk south, up through the main gates, would you like to head towards the cloister? Are there any like petty cabs around or anything? Drunk, drunk trains. Nope, and not that yet. Drunk trains. It's not laying up for that business yet. Ubers. So y'all go through, y'all walk a little bit down to the church yard, and you see ahead of you is a, each cord of Aviel is partitioned off with giant flamboyantly decorated, sometimes austerely decorated, but like four story tall gates. The one that separates the church yard from the cloister is called the wooden gate. And it shows it's as if two giant angel wings had like fallen in place across the entranceway through the walls, but made of, I mean, the craftsmanship is good. It's not, y'all have just been a cathedral district, in the cathedral district, everything it looks like it was, if it took less than 50 years to make, it wasn't good enough. These are definitely made inside the lifetimes of one craftsman, but they are impressive, and it's an excellent introduction to Aviel to the average late person. And they're kind of, they're sort of folded open so anybody can walk through. It's not, the city is not bolted shut. And you go through the church yard, the church yard is, it's actually not too different from what you would like where Renfair looks like. The buildings are scattered left ways, right ways. No real streets. It's much more like just kind of winding paths, beaten by a foot, and each church is sort of oriented wherever it was. There's a huge variation in build quality. There's just lean twos with like a single, holy symbol hanging down. You can tell some of the, some of the, like all the churches of Abadar have a lot more money and a lot of civilization behind them. They're just sort of stone brickwork that isn't very inviting, but it's very solidly built. You all come across a couple altars to Shellen, which are sometimes a little more than just like a tree with a bunch of flowers hanging the branches. And as you work your way through the church yard, it kind of, it, things sort of soap rub a little bit as you get towards the walls. There's a bit more like, it's more like traditional market stalls. Just kind of your average, hey, you're gonna have to spend a day in the city. You need some water and you need some rations. There's a stable along the outside wall. And then you get to these, these giant angel wing wooden gates. And inside the cloister, everything is regimented just by block and lumber, very, it's a grid based city layout. Some of the, some of the, it's like apartment blocks. Some places have yards, some places don't. They all look fine. And the entering in, you're in between blocks 49 or 50 and 51, 50 goes off to the, to the west side going around, 51 off to the east. So this is where our fans live, huh? Awful. Good thing they have us, right? Yeah, it's a great thing. Great thing, great thing they have us. Take them away from this for a while. Are we lost? Is this block 62? We'd like to ask somebody. We'd like to gather information. Are there signs? I mean, everything is like, it's kind of like a, there's just big pillars with numbers on them. So you can see that the 50 is off this way, 51 is off that way. You could just take it and start circling and head to block 52. We'd like to do anything you're asking me about anything before you get there. I don't speak to rabble, so I'm looking for my teammates. If we mask off, we could get a girl to leave us there. Yeah, that's a good point. And then I step into the same tavern or any building. We don't really care. These are poor buildings. So we just sort of walk through the door and find a place where nobody is looking at us and masks off. Okay, and we'll come back out and we'll pose. Just wait. I just watched. Please roll to go watch a Peacock. What do I add to a Peacock roll? You can either use... Oh, Nat 20? Oh my God! Come here. Yes. What do they call it? Glamours? Do y'all have a band name? Do y'all just... Freak lips. Freak lips is what we are this week. Last week we were something else. Lad 5? Lad 5? When you're, is that Joaquin? Oh, you're thronged. By boys and girls alike. Girls? Girls. Girls, calm down. We're looking for Block 62. Block 62. Yeah, we're recording our new song there. Oh, is that where the fight's happening? The what now? The fights. There's been some issues with Block 62. This is like a 40 year old aunt who's like, back on the corner. It's an unstable area. They've told us to stay away. That's why we need to go there. Point is the direction. They need love. They like love. Three people bolt off to the east. This way, this way, this way, this way. And then one of them is like, you're gonna get killed. It's worth it for Joaquin. Please, ladies, give us some space. We must go save Block 62 from themselves. They're here to save Block 62. Oh. We're going to Block 62. I'm gonna save Block 62. So they'll lead the way. Follow along. Y'all lead the way. Y'all didn't really need me to lead you there because it's pretty straightforward. But now you have some information. People know you work here now. Yes, which is very important. The way you described all of the block structure is like, oh, this is a puzzle. How do I skip puzzle? You continue walking. Between each block there's like, it's not like a gate to keep you out. It's more like a division. It's like a fence. The fence is made of various things. Sometimes it's like white pickets. Sometimes it's a little bit of chain link. It's never anything structural. They've been overlocked. They're just gonna divide out the blocks. So you walk along until you get to one, and standing in front of it are two city guards. They don't look like they're particularly thrilled with their job. Like, halt. Block 62 is in, cordoned off. We're here on official business. Do you have a badge of office? Can I go and buy a Honda tent or something and like, untransform? Yes. Okay, I do that. Then I come running back out. Excuse me, sir. They're with me. They're with me. Miss Rose. I see, you're, well. This is a youth rehabilitation program? I really don't care. Go on in. All right. I don't get paid enough. Me neither. We go in. You walk in. Love yourself, girl. I point out to the guard, love yourself. That was a girl? She told me to love myself. Girl. Was that mean I think it means? Hold on, hold on. I think you're gone before that. Would you like to stay bupipid? Yeah. This must be their place because for a long, you hear a scream. Is there anybody around? Is this area really quarantined off? Well, so quarantined in both senses. It is, nobody was allowed in and nobody was allowed out. So you definitely see there's destruction. There's some suspiciously large footprints near the ground nearby. Some windows have been broken in. Drain pipe is hanging off loose. I run toward the screen. Is someone gonna notice if I just put my mask back on? Nobody's here at the moment, no. Can I re-transform now? Yes, I'm already running. Okay, you're already running. Go ahead and make a perception check. Okay. That's a 23. All right. So you sprint down into an open square, kinda hanging back at the edge and what you see is as follows. From a rooftop over actually behind you into the right jumps into view, boom, Chomwell. Oh, very brutified. By the way, before you left, Excelsior gave you a pendant. She was running around in the back room, has crushed this pendant and for a moment, you can disrupt possession. Okay. If you're in within 10 feet of somebody, you crush this pendant, their possession will waver for a minute. Be quick. Chomwell, Chomwell's disease is there. He's just, he's clearly been having, this is where he's been stomping around like a dog that has, like they put up a dog gate and he's like, well, now I just gotta destroy this place. And then he jumps into the square. The square is 50 feet by 50 feet. There's a fountain in the middle. It's not roiling over the fire. In fact, it's not roiling over with anything right now. It is broken in half. It used to be like an angel valiantly pointing a sword, but now both wings are broken off and the sword is chipped down to kind of dagger size. Looks very funny. And then on an opposing rooftop, standing tall, three stories up, white hair streaming in the wind. We have. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. All right. So hello, newcomer. Tell us about yourself. Wow, I've never been here before. So exciting. Okay, so my character's name is Velocity. I am an android. I am six foot two and like 190 pounds. I have half my head shaved. My hair is white. I am exceptionally pale, so much that it looks like you can see veins sort of like underneath my skin in kind of a weird disturbing way. And you can only see like shoulders to fingers and then neck end up. Everything else is covered in what looks like, like almost like robotic armor from just like chest down to my feet. Yep, I'm standing on this rooftop. How lady Yaga ask, is this robotic armor? Not very. Does it look functional or does it look, you know? No, it's entirely fashionable. If anything, it looks very like, it's like, it's a combination of sort of like rugged and pristine. Like anything that doesn't look like glass that looks dirty and sandy-ish. The end. All right. Would you like to make a stirring proclamation of get out of here you mongrels who I'm a trauma who has just invaded. You've been chasing trauma off of various buildings for the past day or so. Sure. And this is the first time you've had a chance to confront him just head on in open space. It's been a lot more chasing air. He'll be in an area and you've been trying to get people out or, but now this is the first time you've there's been a threat to your city block, your city. And Q Kingpin, my city. And you get to meet head on. So, give it what you got. I'm gonna say it like this but you're gonna hear it very loudly. Stop monster. Face me like a man. And then I guess I'll jump to a take. All right. So we all are open. So let's set the scene as best we can with Pathfinder Theor of the Mind. So conveniently our battle space is 50 feet square. We have the middle 10 feet, the middle 10 foot square is this broken fountain. And there are, there's you and so Chommel is that the, the, the, the, the flower Southern end breaks into a 10 foot alley, 10 foot wide alley. And then of course up at the Northern end, there's another 10 foot alley moving along, along the chain of the city to the next block. Well, I would head towards the next block eventually. Y'all are all arrayed in this alley right behind Chommel. Chommel is 15 feet into the, into the arena. And you're standing on the rooftops at the North side. Yep. So do I have whatever this amulet thing is? Let's say yes. Okay. Well, the logical thing to do would be to run up and use that on him. However, I have a lot of pent up rage from the last couple of days. And the one person who can take my punches without just dying on me has showed up in front of me. So I'm going to go hit him. Let's have everybody roll initiative. All right. Hey. Oh. Do I roll for Rody as well? Rody acts on your initiative. Okay. I got a 14. Okay. Let's do this real quick. What is initiative scale off of in this game? I'm counting. Stupid initiative box. Unless otherwise specified, it is just your dex modifier. 21. 21. Okay. It's a natural 20. My dex is 14. Is it a modifier or what? Plus two. Plus two. I got a 22. I got a 22. I don't know about you. But you're feeling like 26 or? 28. Like the lowest initiative? I got six. So no. I want to punch Tom on the face. You'll get your chance. But I'm feeling 22. Copyright strikes. Wait a silence or roomie. Oh, copyright strikes. I thought he was telling us we were really attacked by something. The copyright strikes. Please roll for lawyer. We would just like that. My lawyer stats pretty low. This is so good. Thank you. All right, let's all have you all say these again. So Aurora, what is your initiative? 22. 22. Velocity, what is your initiative? 22. All right. For all the natural 20 on my initiative, I'm not going to go like first file long shot. And Silverback, what is your initiative? 14. Okay. Unbreakable diamond, what is it? 21. All right. And lad five, high C, what is your initiative? Six. Just six. Just six. Okay. Maybe write these now. Six. Aurora, what is your dex modifier? Four. Aurora's dex modifier is four? Mm-hmm. Why? Okay. Velocity, what's your dex modifier? Four. I think instead of, I think I took some feet that lets me like change my strength to dex or whatever. We're going to let Velocity go first because she's fast. My dex is higher than not modifier is higher. That also counts. All right. By a point. Ba-ba-bum, ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I'm adding metal music now, so I don't have to do it later. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. What is happening? This is the anticipation music. The what? Anticipation music. Starting next episode, we're going to have an actual control board here. I'm going to have somebody on it picking music out as we go. There'll be actual background music. What do we play? The only way to add background music now is to go in and like physically add it from here and there's no way in hell I'm doing that. Alright, we all are going to say that I'm a, uh, uh, so, Rick, you do get the surprise round. Oh, okay. I'll take the surprise round. Because nobody else is like, oh, you're so, ah, so, uh, you may roll that. Alright, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to plodge. Ah. Uh, did, did it all right? Um, that's, uh, 16. 16. Alright. Hm. You'll hit. Okay. Roll your damage. Okay. Oops. Uh, let's see. We're going to see is 2d8 plus 4. Where's the d8? It looks like a pyramid twice. I'm not used to using the d8. Alright, it's the 2 triangle. It looks like a pyramid twice. It looks like a pyramid twice. It's like 2d4s. It is. That's what it looks like. Uh, 11. Here's what happens. Your fist connects with Chalmwell's cheek. Um, his cheek doesn't move. You see six demon faces kind of splay out like. Oh. And they all kind of slap back at you. You see his head just like turn toward you. And he roars with six demonic roars all in one. His eyes flair with an intensity of hatred and a, a Bissell low thing that you've never seen before. Um, and he takes zero damage. Felt good though. Briefly it felt good. Um, that was a move and an attack. That was a move and an attack. Okay. So, uh, we're going to start at the top of the, the, uh, the turn order with velocity. Cool. How far am I? You are 35 feet from Chalmwell. Enter your stories up, but you know. Okay. I want you all to know that as superheroes, you get 10 free feet of fall damage. Superheroes not jumping off things is dumb. Um, okay. Cool. Let's start this off with a bang. Do we? Okay. And I'm going to cast. I don't actually know how to call it this. I don't know what to, to call it. What you doing? I am going to, uh, lightning straight to him. You're going to use your elemental blast thingy. Yes. I know if you used to know the name of this too. Yeah. You're going to connect at him. Kinetic, kinetic blast. Kinetic blast. Yeah. The ability and you have to roll a ranged attack. Do we hit him first? Fantastic. A ranged attack that you said? It is a touch attack though. So you only have to hit a touch AC. Okay. And I would say probably. That's a 28. 28. Wow. And that's much damage. I think it's 30 actually. Your tag modifier is 11 on your kinetic blast. Nice. Good start. Oh, okay. So it's 30. Does that hit? Um, can I hit and move? Yeah. That's what you're doing. You're using ride the blast as a. Oh, are you writing your blast? I'm going to ride the blast. You are firing yourself at Chonwell. And hitting him. All right. But yeah. Cool. All right. So tell me how this looks. You have three stories up on a building. Okay. And you're in this glass armor and you're a robot and you're just like, you call out, and then you just do what? And then you will, you will notice that the veins under my skin will actually glow really bright and start to just look like it from a distance. I just glow. And then from my hands, you will just see like huge lightning strikes hit the ground next to Chonwell and kind of explode. And then I will be there on the ground. Cool. Awesome. Yeah. It's just as lightning strikes as it does the damage. Yeah. It's just the lightning strike that does the damage. And then I'm also there. You may roll your damage. Okay. 3d6 plus half your constitution. All right. 3d6. So 3d6 plus two. Okay. Can I have a d6? Sure. Rachel, can I have a d6? Yeah. See, these are all very different weight sizes. Very weird. 10 plus two, 12. 12. 12. Yeah. So Chonwell was to your credit, not expecting this. And you see all the demonic energy in him just sort of like takes a second. Is very surprised. Most of this does, you see it like enter him and sort of like dissipate through like he every time you, every time he moves it's like there's after images of various demons inside of him. And most of it, if he recovers back seems to kind of like glance off around their various shoulders and just sort of splay out some of it get through. Okay. A little bit get through. And you see, like there's one smaller demon on the inside. You kind of like see like it twitches his neck out to the left. And you see like a ghostly form of a horrible demon had just kind of like slide back into Chonwell. Gotcha. And it is Aurora's turn. All right. I want to attack you with my flaming scimitar. That sounds pretty cool. Okay. I need 2d6. Well, you should roll your attack first. Oh, yeah. I think you stay in techniques. I'll get a move after that in the future too. If you ever need to. It's right in the blast. Not a move. No. Okay. I got 8. She has to hit for it to work though. Sure. 8 plus 8. 16. 16. Yep. It hits. Okay. Cool. So now I, okay. Six. Six. Okay. And that's a, is that including your? Is it plus? Six plus six plus four. Six plus six. Sure. I'll include the flame. Is that, I don't wear your hair. I don't know either. I think it's, I probably just put it all in one box. So that's probably the second six. Okay. Scimitar is 1d6. Flame is 2d6. That's 12 plus 16 total. Yep. Wait. No, it's um, wait, yes, it's 16 total. 16 total. All right. Um, so you, you swing your, your scimitar. Um, tell me how you had, how you, you hit at him. Describe yourself. I, um, start with my arm like behind my body. Crouching on the ground. And then I spin into the air and do a little dance. A la dervishes. So there's a spin in there. And then I cut him mid spin in the chest. And then land on the other side. Sort of, you know, those dolls that are like winks. They'd go like. Yes. Like a helicopter. It's like that, but slower and with fewer rotations. But it's ice skater. Like more rotations. It's like crouching tiger stuff. Oh yeah. It is like crouching tiger. You're right. All right. Uh, same thing as, as with velocity, your attacks definitely are mostly dissipated into this, uh, demonic puddle. Um, but there is a little bit of, uh, you see like one of his, uh, what, a goat's arm is kind of like, like slides out from his, uh, muscly mass and his, before like ghosting back in. Okay. That's creepy. Um, next up we have. My bird. Rotodactylis. My yes. Rotodactylis will attack with his, uh, why doesn't he have a bite attack, by the way? Why does he have claws and no, and wings, but no bite? He's a frickin bird. They bite. They're evil. Your bird is not evil. Your bird is good. Well, it still has bite. Your bird is capital G good. Um, it's gonna, he's gonna attack with his claws and his wings. Okay. And he's also gonna try smiting evil. That sounds like a good idea. Um, go ahead and just pick one of the attacks since he moved this turn. I was just the claws, I think, just a claw attack. Yeah, I think claw attack has more damage. Okay. Roll your claw attack. I don't have to roll the my attack. No, it's his attack. All right. I mean, yeah, but you have to roll the d20 first. D20, yeah. Uh-huh. Um, that's eight plus, uh, seven. 15. Plus one. 16. Yeah, you hit. Okay, cool. Um, roll damage. Including that smite. Mm-hmm. Six. Uh, d2 is a coin, right? Yeah. Or just roll a d20. And if it's above 10, say two, and if it's below 10, or it's 10 below, say one. Just roll a d4 and do the thing. Okay, that's two. Two. So six plus two. Plus three. Um, so that's, uh, 11 plus four. Sure. I didn't follow those numbers, but I'm going to trust you because. Yeah. And that was including the, the smite or whatever. Um, so that's a total of what? 15. 15. 11 plus four. 11 plus four? Yeah, that's 15. Those are the last numbers I heard. Yeah. Here's the deal. All of it sinks in. You see this one, this is particularly effective. Um, the, the, all the demons sort of spasm. It's like, it's terrifying. It's awful. Um, there's two goat heads that's flinging out either way. And a bunch of like, uh, little bat wings that kind of like up behind them. How many demons are in this guy? Six. All in it, right? About six. Yeah. Six. Um, and, uh, it's a breakable diamond's turn. I speak Abyssal. Yeah. I sure do. Cool. Um, so I'm going to put on like the best powdery face I have. It's a pretty good one. And I'm going to point my halberd with the microphone facing me, of course, as I'm going to shout, um, in, in Abyssal, I'm going to shout using my intimidation. Okay. Hey you demons, leave that girl alone. She's only for us to love. Please roll. Um, 14 plus my, uh, intimidate, which is a 11. So 25 to intimidate. Um, you see, so this has never failed you before. This is obviously like your, your, your intro, like you trap door comes up. This is your, your stage on move, right? Right. You see somebody just turn around and then scream at you with the power of six demons in a once and just ignore you when it happens. Oh, it's fine. Would you like to take a move action? I do. I want to get as close to people who are close to this guy as possible. You may do that. You may join the huddle. I want to get in the front of the sky if I can. I'm like at his face. So you like to stand next? I'll stand next. You want to stand right next to it or you want to stand? Right next. You are. You're like, fine. You kind of square up. Okay. I approach you approach. I have the full swagger of the Jojo approach. Yes. Low camera angle. Yeah. All right. We got there. All right. So I would like to try to take the amulet and just slam it onto his forehead and try to break it on his face. Right. A touch attack. Okay. A lot of things happening there. What is swift action? Keep rolling low but my melee attack modifier is high. So it's a 16 against it. And it's separate from my, it's separate from my opportunity attacks. Yeah. So attack opportunity, you get one attack of opportunity per round. Those are triggered by somebody casting a spell next to you. Trying to leave your area, all those general things. You have, okay. So the two things are swift action, which is something you can do on your turns. You get one of them. And you also have an immediate action. Okay. Oh, swift action is only on my turn? Yeah. Immediate action, swift action are the same thing. It just depends on whether or not it's on your turn. Okay. It's, if you do it on your turn to swift action, if you do it on somebody else's turn, it's immediate action and you don't get a swift action next turn. Okay. So I have a, I have a thing that says swift action. Yes. So I can't do it right now. What would it have been? It's a team player to give plus one to a role. Is it, I'm not entirely sure how that works. Either, I'm going to say probably just grants it to the next role. Right. You can, on your turn, we can totally say that you like, you can, you can square up with them and you're like, just like a, like, mm-hmm. Cool. 17 then. Okay. Okay. Okay. Sorry. All right. Just smelling drinks, please continue. Smells like cheddar popcorn. Um, uh, would you like to describe this amulet for me? Um, the amulet itself? Yeah. Did you describe it to me before? I did not. So please go ahead. Okay. I want to throw this one to you. I'm going to, I'm going to say it definitely has like some weird demon facing carved into it so that when I hit him with it, it just imprints onto his head and just leaves the shape in there. Yeah. Yeah. Like it. Yeah. And yeah, I just, I just swing my arm back and then just hit it so hard that it just like shatters on his, his, uh, hard caveman head. We'll say this is made of cold iron because that's what you do against demons. Oh, okay. You know, cold iron, it's a, it's a, I'll, I'll take your. Yeah. It's like a goat horn sort of thing going on. Yeah. I just like, I got its tongue sticking out and it's gross. Slams it. Boom. The cold iron shatters across his forehead. And so, um, we're all familiar with, uh, uh, Dr. Strange's, uh, little poof, poof, actual production thing. Like that, except six demons spill out of his back and fling across the square. Nice. Um, you have, uh, you see two larger, uh, like kind of muscly beefed up men with the heads of goats and their halberds. These are the same guys that you attacked you last time. Uh, and meanwhile there are four smaller kind of roundish impolite things that kind of spread out across the, the square. Um, also, you know, uh, just briefly, Tomwell's own form dissipates out and kind of flings behind him for a second. And you see on the left, there is just a totally normal kind of scared looking half elf, uh, who is dressed in clothes that are finer than he treats them. On the right, there's just sort of this amorphous gross blob of, uh, like, uh, sinew and mass, just sort of like this tumor down in gross bubble waves before they sort of snap back together into Tomwell. Ew. Um, and he's lying unconscious on the ground. Okay, still in, like, beast form, though. In the beast form for the moment, he's still beast formed. Okay. And, uh, the other demons have now spread across the square. And give me a second. I'll use my move to run toward one of them also. Cool. It's demons again. Hi, see, are you ready? I'm always ready for demons. All right. We are ready. Actually, no, I forgot. I can also throw things. I'm gonna throw something. I would wait. Would my attack is still hit? Had it been a 15? Yes. Can I call this a full around attack that I'd make two? Yeah. All right. Let's do it. Okay. Um, uh, what do I have on me? I'm gonna try to, I'm gonna chuck something at one of these guys. I forgot that I built this character around improvised weapons actually, so I can technically use things that are laying around. There's lots of rubble. Any part of a house or an apartment or a fencing, anything, if you imagine a bulldozer just went down a neighborhood street, that stuff's around. Okay. Throw your love and your passion. Take one of the big buff demons, then I'm gonna pick up, like, just swoop up a brick just after the first attack and just baseball pitch it straight at him as hard as I can. Go for it. That's, I keep rolling low. I'm doing okay because of the attack modifiers, but I'm rolling low, it's annoying. Um, do I still get a plus from your thing too, or is it only one time? Only once, only once. Okay. I think that is only a 12 then. Only a 12 then. You're gonna miss your brick. Okay. Worth a shot. Agreed. One second. I'm gonna add these back in. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. This is gonna be great. Enough for you all. Um, all right. That's Chomo out of the turn of work, in a place with six or no people. Hey, I see how you doing. Good, how are you doing? I'm doing great. Tell me what you're up to. Uh, I'm there, I guess, at the battlefield. Sounds good. Yeah. First of all, DM, here's my truth. My truth is that my voice is a ranged weapon. I believe you. I believe you, I see. Okay, cool. I can shoot out like voice projectiles. Yeah. That are very concentrated singing notes that damage people. Yes. Tell you what, we'll do it like this. You have a, you can, you have a charisma modifier, I bet you you do. Yes. You can use that in place of your strength or dexterity. Oh. Okay. What are the chances in Thrall will work on a group of hostile enemies? In Thrall, depends. That's a spell, yeah? Yeah, it's like, you know, people pay attention to you for a while. Probably a decent amount. Um, is it, you know what level spell it is? Um, you should really like click on the language to ring it there. Let's see here. Yes. Okay. Looks like a two. A little two. School enchantment charm language dependent mind altering level barred to cleric two. Cool, cool, cool. Okay. Does it have a number of targets? Uh, any number of creatures. Any number of creatures in 100 foot plus 10 foot range. Yep. Yep. That's what it looks like. Cool. I have the full thing pulled up. Uh, yeah, they'll, they'll, they'll need to make a DC, um, I'm gonna say for years and years, it'll be, I believe, what's, it says, Will negates. Will negates. So you'll have a, I think make, put your DC 16. So anybody who makes it, it will save of 16 or so, will be negated to anybody else. What actually happens on a success? Uh, what happens? What happens? Uh, they just become so dang and thrilled with me. It says they become friendly, which is why I was asking if it works on enemies. Yeah, it says they are considered to have an attitude of friendly while under the effect of the spell and, uh, any potentially affected creature of a race or religion unfriendly to yours gets a plus four bonus on the saving throw. It's a, it's a mass, it's like a mass charm person. Right. They will definitely get that bonus, uh, if you have to choose to do. So they have to be 20. And if, I think it's also, there's a DC 12. It's, if charm works like in D&D, it's still like, if you or your friends hit them, then they are not charmed. Yeah. I'll be like, like a sleep effect like, like, hey buddy, what the hell, oh, what was I doing? So if you want to use that, they have to make past the DC 12, uh, check to not be like, totally your buds and stuff. Totally. Yeah. Well, I like those odds of six saving throws. So, yeah, you don't make the rules. They make the rules. I'll make the rules. I'm just saying if they, if they fail them, they actually just stop taking actions as long as he keeps performing. Cool. Wait, I don't know. Yeah. So tell me, tell me how, what's, what's your approach on enthralling these guys? Uh, my, uh, performance obviously. So I take my microphone, whip it out, winks, kisses, twirls. I go to the middle of the arena to have the ultimate, you know, area of effect. Spinning around a couple of times, slam it into the ground. Baby girl, you know. And then I just go into my song and I just sing it and dance. Worked on me. Yeah. Right. I know. Me too. Yeah. All right. And if possible, magic lights. It is so possible. It is. Everyone's looking. Let's see what we got. It did not work on me. I'd like to join in on the harmony whenever it comes in to play. I was presuming. And this is a particularly anti-demon song. This is like a demon-slaying song. I miss you, suck. Yeah, like I would not do this at a concert. This is only for demons. Some loud rolls. There's some rolls, that's for sure. Some big quality dice, probably gotten from a great company. Probably. I guess we can still say this episode. It's sponsored by Dice Dunge. The code still works. You can use Door Monster at Dice Dunge. I was like, sponsored by Company Redacted. Imagine if that was you. Call us. They're sponsoring guest quest this month. But the code still works either way. Go to Dice Dunge and use Door Monster to get 10% off. I tell you what, you got two dretches and one of the sheer demons, which are the goat demons. Nice. That's pretty good. And then do I stun the ones that I didn't get? The other ones are, I tell you what, they are not stunned, but they are fans and they will probably buy your next album. Okay. I got three. Don't kill those guys. We need to sell those albums. We need to sell those shirts. All right. So yeah, I'm doing a show. All right, so that cuts us down a little bit. So the first, you stopped three people from attacking. You're welcome, everyone. Three of the next three people in the turn order are all stunned, are all enthralled, are all stunned, are all stunned, are all stunned, are all enthralled. Except me. What? Tommy. You should have targeted some of them too. Yeah, I apologize for any friendly fire. My hips might, they don't lie. Yeah. So there's these one sheer demon and the turn order, who's, I don't want to alarm you, but they all hate you a lot. You are not their favorite person for a number of reasons. They're alarmed by a lot of you, but you and Rotodactylists are on, you know. Oh, me? No, no, no. Silverback and Rotodactylists. No. I'm staying there like this. No, you don't. You don't do that. Ethan Silhouetteing. You're gonna make like a great noise to go with it. I don't know what. And so, one of them is going to, definitely like, make a squealing sort of goat noise. And run into Halbert, dragging the Halbert just along the ground. You see it sparking. It hits a rock and chips a little, but they don't seem to care. Remember, these Halberds have a putrid smell on them. They do not clean these things. In fact, they probably do things to them that are very much the opposite of cleaning. He's gonna swing it right at your face. Hold on. All right. Huh? I'm gonna use up one of my opportunity attacks the round to a bodyguard and give plus two to your AC. Okay. You didn't say you're gonna box in right and you're gonna everybody, right? Huh? I got specifically right up next to him. Okay, cool. Yeah, he did. And I didn't move. I stayed there because I threw a brick. My AC is 20. Is it? Yep. This round it is. Oh, just this round? Okay. Yeah. And I get two opportunity attacks for a round. Why? Nice. Because I took a fighter feat that does that. Cool. Is that combat reflexes? It is combat reflexes. Yes, it is. Yeah, my favorite. All right. All right. So because of your bodyguarding, it does not hit. I like you more now. I'm just getting ready to take it. I want you to know it was a real close thing. Diamonds are always unbreakable, my friend. So now as we move back to the top of the turn order. It's not. Something you all see around you, you hear screaming. Yeah, we're not the only people in the square. There are three other people. One of whom was hiding behind the fountain. One of whom is up by the northern entrance. One of whom is right over in the middle left of the courtyard. The one behind the fountain and in the middle left are both being harassed by dredged demons. And the other sure demon that is not nearby y'all in the southern half of the courtyard takes notice of the person who screams up in the north. Aren't they all focused on this guy? Some of them are. Remember they spread out all around the... You're right. There are six demons. Three of them are enthralled. So the other sheer demon is in fact enthralled. The sheer demon who's focusing on the person in the north isn't enthralled. And one of the dredges is enthralled. And the other two dredges are the ones who aren't really focused on it all instead. So full count. Y'all are near one goat demon who is not enthralled. There's one goat demon up near the north who isn't enthralled but is nearby a human. There are two dredges nearby humans. One of whom isn't enthralled and one of whom is not. And there are two dredges who are just hanging out ready to hurt y'all. I think there's a fourth dredge somewhere else. It's probably lost. Questions? Clarifications? What's a dredge? You got it. Dredge is a small balloon-like demon that's just real gross through the bottom of the pecking order. They're barely more than abyssal matter that's just kind of formed of will. And that will is just hateful. It is only a picture of the thing from... It's a demon chulala. I don't know if you've seen enough of that game to know what that is but we have a video of me and Ethan playing it on our second channel. That's all I can think of. Third channel? Third channel. Type in the podcast channel as the third channel. He has more subscribers though, right? Probably. Okay. We'll do this later right now. Velocity go. What? I'm sorry. I'm going to go to one of the other demons attacking somebody else. Cool. Which one? Which kind of demon? Big demon, tiny demon, attacking enthralled or not? An attacking demon. The one that's furthest away. So the one that could potentially attack the human up to the north currently enthralled, is that the one you want? What does enthralled mean again? Dancing. Performing yourself. Just watching me. Are you attacking the ones focused on him or are you attacking the ones that are not? Not focused on him. Not focused on him. Okay so there's the sure demon that's right in the big puddle right in here that's attacking. Then there's one dredged demon that is attacking another human way off in the corner. Okay. And then there's two more dredges that are not attacking anybody right now but they're not enthralled and there's one that is attacking somebody who isn't enthralled. Probably I think if you're saying you're wanting to attack somebody that's not enthralled but is attacking, you're looking for the dredged demon in the left. Yes. Okay. You're about 40 feet away from that one. I can get there. I'm just 25. I can get there. Okay. Go for it. You don't have to take one burn to get there. No I have plus 40. Oh you'll move first. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, I'll move first. I thought you were jumping. We don't actually have anything set up for what I want to do. What do you want to do? I want to use my metal bow staff. Sure. With lightning. We will have to set that up a little bit later. Okay, then I will do a lightning attack. Okay. If you want you can have the metal bow staff. You can just point and we'll have it fast for it later. Just use the same numbers. You just want to show me how you do it. Go for it. Sure. Let's see. What's the best way to do this? I guess I'll just reach back and actually just like pull out like a 12 inch staff and I'll just like shake it. It'll turn into this giant bow staff and then I will just slam it into the demon and it will light up and start like making electric noises and like. I like your cartoon. I like it. Like you can see his bones. Yeah this is what it's like. Does he have bones? They're evil. Evil bones. Bad bones. Go ahead and roll that attack. I hope this works. Hey. Damn. What do I add to that again? You're right down there. Oh, okay. 29. I hope that hits. We're in a lot of trouble if it doesn't. It hits. I need a microphone down here so I can like dramatically get close to them. Do I roll 3d6 again? Yeah you do. 3d6 plus half your constitution. 3d6 and 3d6 again. Take it. Welcome to the first character of this RPG that makes me want to do a character on it. 11 plus 2. 13. Making sure that you have all the numbers right on your sheet. She's actually just rolling really well. That's good too. I mean I believe you. I just also kind of says it's just a super. Fifth edition we don't have to audit our characters. Yeah it's because there isn't enough to get wrong. Nope. 13. 13. Okay. So the dretch is not any longer. Can you actually explain exactly how it is not any longer? Yes. I will use the bow staff and I will just like slice through his slimy gross demon body and like it'll get electrocuted and I don't know what happens when like electricity meets sludge. The same thing that happens to everything else. McDonald's burgers. Just fry it straight through. Oh cauterized in half. Wow. Tasty. And it just falls. Tasty. Y'all are down to only five demons left. Yay. How small is the dretch demon? It is small size so think about the size of like. Like a gnome. A gnome yeah. It's about three ish feet in the air but it's mostly round. Think of like somebody took like an imp like your classic like black slimy imp and just stuck a bicycle pump in his mouth and just poof poof poof. Got it. Yeah. It's gross. It's real gross. What happens if you touch him? Don't do that. Don't do that. Jeffrey last time. Got it. Okay. This question has been asked. All right. And answered. You're right. All right. Moving on to Aurora. All right. So what are my demon choices? Your demon choices are. You have way up north about 35 feet away from you. There is a sure demon that is enthralled currently. Thanks to over here. And is a over to the left. You see velocity just poof poof and you don't have to worry about that one anymore. There is one more dredge demon that is harassing somebody behind a fountain in the middle of the arena but is currently enthralled. And then you're next to the other goat demon who is very much not enthralled. And there are two dredges over in the corner just kind of chilling right now. I probably will attack the one I'm next to. Sounds good. Is it close to me? Like will it trigger an attack of opportunity if I leave? It will. Yes. You can also attack that one. Sounds good. You can also be able to, you'll be able to, you'll be able to make his full attack. Yeah. So roll your Symmetar first. Poop. Go away. I roll an 18. So plus eight. So 26. That will hit. Okay. Awesome. Okay. Then I got six plus four. Ten damage. Ten damage. All right. So a certain amount of this does actually, you feel like as you swing your Symmetar and it gets its shoulder, a certain amount of it kind of like shrugs off. It is, it's resisting you a little bit but a lot of it gets through. Okay, cool. So then I'll roll for Rody. Okay. That's 16 or 15. 15? Do I get to do, oh I can only smite once per day, right? You can only smite once per day. However you do get three attacks with Rody. Oh, okay. Two claw attacks and a wing attack I believe. Okay. So that's 15 for one of them. 15? Then 26 for the next one. Just all I picture is just this bird flies in and flails all over for something. No. 26 will hit. Okay. So the 26 is a wing attack. So that's, or I'm sorry it's not a wing attack. It's a claw attack. So. Okay. Two plus four plus one. Two plus four plus one is seven. Okay. And most of that also gets through. Okay. Not quite all of it but a lot of it. Okay. Moving on to Unbreakable Diamond. All right. How close is the team to me? All the team, so velocity is over far left. Okay. About 25 feet away. I'm still next to you. Yep. You are currently adjacent to both Aurora and Silverback. And I believe Hi-C. Hi-C. You took a move actually to get closer to the middle of the field for your, so you're about 15 feet away from Hi-C. I will hold out a hand towards Hi-C to gesture him in closer to us. And I'll begin singing counterpoint to him. Okay. Which is going to be me using team player to give plus one to all attack roles and all skill roles adjacent to me. Okay. Is that just one per person, the next one each one? The next one for each person who steps in my adjacent. Okay. And that takes your standard action then? That takes my full action, yes. All right. And I look invigorated even though I don't have any more health to gain. Cool. Next up is going to be what would be one of the short humans, but the short human is Bob and along. He's clapping off beat. Fans. The human X to him screams. Even he's been to concerts before. He doesn't, he's human screaming in his ear while he's listening to this song is totally normal. The next short human looks around and sees, so this one is currently surrounded on three sides by you, you and you. So currently he is flunked. Flunked. Flunked. Flunked. Flunked. He's going to kind of scamper backwards. All good attacks and opportunity on it. Well, yeah, so all, yeah, so Aurora, Silverback and Unbreakable Lemon, you all have a chance to give an attack of our opportunity against them. I'll take one. Let's break out these roles. Crit. Wait, really? I rolled a 20. I don't think I crit in Pathfinder. You didn't, right? Rolled to confirm. Oh, is it like a risk thing? No, no risk. Okay, all right. The way Pathfinder crits work like this, you roll a 20, you are threatening your critical and you will always hit no matter what. If you confirm against your AC a second time, that's when you get your crit bonus. I got 18. 8 plus 6. So 14 is the second roll. All right. What about you? I got a 25 for Pippa. I got a 26 for Rhododactylis. That's a lot. That was for one of his attacks. Do I roll for all three attacks that he does? No, just one. Okay. Just one. So I will say you, your crit doesn't, you will hit but don't crit. Barely, barely. You hit because you're flanking and both run and Rhododactyl will hit. So what do I get if I crit in this game? It depends on your weapon. Let's tear this guy apart. You normally get every weapon has a crit multiplier. How about it might be a times three? I don't know. It's the only reason I generally fond of the, you get a 20, you get a crit. Except the Pathfinder allows for crit fishing builds where you threaten a crit on 15s. What? Sometimes even with, or you can, I think my favorite crit fishing build involves a Falcata which lets you threaten on a 17 for a times three multiplier. So yeah, I kind of like back it off a little bit. I got 17 damage. I have eight damage. Okay. I got eight damage and seven damage. Okay. Oh no. So. This dude is fucked. I remember that one time your guy, you guys in the, in the construct in that hallway. Yes. Talk to. Yes. So let's get a, let's get a proper Avenger style takedown. Because I tell you this, he does not survive. I definitely like throw an uppercut in there and just get them a nice like. Okay. We're good. Uppercut kind of knocks out these frames of all the attacks. What are you doing here? I think the Halberd straight into his heart and they give him a little. Cause I hate demons now more than usual. I'm going to grin and kind of stab towards the stomachy area. And Rhododactylis is going to scree. But in like a, I guess in like an ego voice like. There's something I don't know. Hopefully that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about your ears. But deeper cause I can't make it like a deep bird noise. Sorry. Audience. The ones to go. Oh. He's, he's punched backwards into Yeltsu blades. He's transfixed through them. Rhododactylis kind of like, like screes right in his face. And suddenly like fire pours out of every, every, every where he's pierced. He goes and still went against like a background of flames. And he just falls to demon dust. Yeah. Parish. Take that. That was my turn, right? Yes. Now it's your turn. Cool. How many more demons are there? We have four demons left. One of which is a sure demon and three of which are dredged. Are any of them not fascinated with his performance? Yes. Two dredged over, over to the, on the right side of the courtyard are, I've been using, I've been, I've been using north and south or up and down and left and right, but you get the point. I'm going to run up and just football kick one. Just like, just run up and just full leg, just boom. Do it as hard as I can. If you're plus one? Yeah. I'll take it. That is a 21. For this distance, but you can also just turn right. There's a charge maneuver. Oh, okay. You can take a minus two to your AC. If you move at least 15 feet, I believe it is, or maybe even 10 feet. No. Okay. Check it out. You move a certain distance, 15 or 20 feet. You, and then the attack at the end, you take a minus two AC for a plus one to attack. Okay. I don't know. Okay. Okay. I don't need it. So I won't use that right now. But for the record, it exists. And damage on that is 12. 12. All right. If possible, I would like them to just fly into the sky and disappear in a little star twinkle. Team RocketM? Yes. You know what? Yes. Okay. That happens because you all got, because you got that surprise around earlier on, you get some, you sunk some damage in. All of y'all got, like, when y'all were, they were all in trauma. They had a lot higher damage resistance, but you still got dissipated some damage into each of them. So it just pushed it over. So just kind of a, awesome. Yay. Now the three demons, two of whom were enthralled and one of whom is not. It is now Lad 5's turn. I'm going to, I don't want to look up enthralled. Make sure how it works. We're just going to eyeball it. Go ahead and make a perform check for me to move action to maintain your enthrallment. Oh, it's pretty good. Teen plus my, like, massive perform bonus. You got in the second verse now. How does the second verse go? Just a lot of more babies, girls. Just a bunch of variations on that. I can't imagine it. Oh no. The second verse is the rap section. Oh, please. Yes. Please delight us. No. Delight. It's not for human ears. It's only for demon ears. But also before, but also, Ram's an abyssal. I've made this character specifically so I could sing so well that it explodes heads. Yeah. You do want to make a ranged attack with your voice? Yes. Oh, you know what? Go for it. Because I have two demons enthralled. They're already, That's true. I was basically a sneak attack. All right, okay, okay. You know what I'm saying? I will allow it. I'm already in their heads. What's your base attack bonus? I don't know. It should be, Aren't you letting him attack with his charisma? Four. Four? Four, because, Yeah, if he's attacking with his charisma, it'd be four plus your charisma. Which I'm going to say is four plus your roll. Christmas 18, so. So that's a four. Okay, so roll and add eight. Roll and add eight? Yeah. A 21. Wait, 20. 20. Which demon are you targeting? 21. You're targeting one of the demons that you haven't thralled? Both of them. They're listening to the same song. You have to target this one. You got to focus on one member of the audience at a time. Fine, fine, fine. I point out the cutest one. Are you into goats? Are you into oil-covered balloons? Definitely oil-covered balloons. Good answer. That was your answer. Whoa. Don't die. What happened? I rolled low on my real life. Okay, okay. All right, so you turn your big puppy-dog eyes towards this dredged demon, and you're calling it out specifically. Let's roll 1d8 plus two on that. Okay. Seven. Seven. Seven. And since you already had this guy enthralled, we don't need to deal with the damage resistance here, right? You've already got this guy. And so he's... He's welcoming it, if anything. Yeah, he turns and he's like... Yeah, you. You see him grow redder and redder, and swell with affection, and then he pops. He pops right on my wink, by the way. Ew. Ew. He pops what? You're missing all of this. But I'm enjoying this. That is just more of this. It's true. Yeah, the same thing, I think. Nice. Okay. And is my performance continued? Yes, versus the one thing that's left for it, yeah. Even though we're not sitting next to each other, I'm in a counter pose as well. Always. It just reflects it. Yeah, he's like... Everything he does is kind of on beat to my song, anyway, in a harmony. It's like Beethoven, you don't even actually need to hear it, you just know what's happening, and you're just like... Yep. I can feel it. Yeah. Okay, and... Thank you for being next. Yep. Who have we got left? We have... One troll goat and one non-enthralled dredged demon. Right. So, the non-enthralled dredged demon is going to scream, like he's going to look at all of you and go, abyss, no, absolutely not. He's going to go straight... Abyss, no. For that civilian right behind the fountain. Oh, no. Oh. Excuse me. She's just skirt. Yeah. Oh. How close are we to... How close am I to the civilian? We're 15 feet away from the civilian. Damn. You see the dredge just going... And misses terribly. But it is now next to the civilian. You do. Okay. I'm going to get him. That one's dead. Yeah, you may get him now. I'm just going to shoot lightning at him. Yeah, we're just like... More lightning. Just full on Palpatine. Yeah. He's like snapping just behind your back, just a... Wait for the bass drop of our song. No. Roll it. Music does not affect me very much. Oh, that's a shame. Because I have to be a good combo. Jesus Christ. 22, 23, 23. 23. 24. 26. Going once, going twice. 22. So, okay. Her attack modifier is plus 11 also, because I gave her weapon focus twice. Can you... Well, sorry about that later. Did they stack? Yeah. Should get the same kind of bars we figured out. I can take off half of it if you want. I didn't feel like coming up with a different... A different feet, a third feet. Do I have to do 3D6 again? Yeah. Do I have to roll all this... There's just so many... They're heavy damage dice. I just can't roll them all. Wow. 12. Plus 2. 14. He dead. Tell me how. That's real quick. We're seeing a mosquito net. Yeah. Just like right here. He's done. Just flat line. Done for. Yeah. Just hits him. Just shuffle your feet on the ground. Yeah. Do that. All right. He's... He ain't. All right. He ain't. Got him. That'd be what it says in my gravestone. He ain't. All right. And Aurora, it is your turn. There is one demon left. It is up north. All the way. It'll be harassing this little girl next to him as soon as he's done with his song because the song is a bop. Okay. I run over. Fly over. Wait. Yes. We might need his information to find more demons. No girl. I don't feel that. Look. He's attacking a girl. He's attacking a girl. He's attacking a girl. He's attacking a girl. He's attacking a girl. He's attacking a girl. He's attacking a girl. He's attacking a girl. He's currently enraptured by our performance. But there's a vulnerable girl. Girl. Okay. Anyway. Girl. Are you going to pass an opportunity to not kill the demon? I'm going to kill the demon. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Okay. I go kill the demon with my semi-tar. In a showy fashion with some leaping. Okay. Roll that attack. No. Just kill him. That was a 14. Yeah. He's dead. For once. He does not die. You missed. But you are now like all up in his girl. Also my bird attacks him. Actually by attacking him that does break his. It does break the enthralment. So. Okay. Well the bird will attack now. Okay. I'm sad about that. We can forget. We can. Okay. That one won't hit you either. I guess. That one won't hit you either. I feel like it's one attack because he moved. There's lots of girls but it's not your girl. Nothing. Girl the only girl. Go. All right. So you go over. You get in his face. You flap around some. Well you don't actually have wings. I keep mixing up with the other girl. You get in his face with all your holy rose window halo stuff. And your bird of light and justice fails to hit him also. But it's cool. It's now. Unbreakable diamonds turn. All right. We're going to go to charge at this demon. Do it. And I'm going to look at him in his demon eyes. There's the rectangle. They're like goats but grosser. I'm going to be like. In a Bissell. Girl. Tell me where your demon homie's behind that. Because I got me. And I got my boy. And there's only one of you. And so much love. Is that going to be intimidating? It could be intimidate. It could be persuasion. You're going to want to intimidate on this one? Sure, sure, sure. Oh good. That's not all one. Intimidate is plus 11. So 18. 18. He is effectively a coward. Ironically enough. He's like. So he'll be flat for the rest of this. For any other further attacks this round. And he looks like he's a bit scared of what you're offering. But doesn't. They always are. But that's what makes it fun. That's. What? Hold on. We're going to be able to do this later. This is. Not tonight. Not right now. That's my swift action. I point the mic. To my homeboy. He's going to have plus one. He's going to have plus one on his neck. I've got two mikes now. All right. He's now the demon's turn. He's doing more like so it's not going to attack any of y'all. He's going to kind of stumble backwards and flail around back to that civilian. It was near. With its heavy halberd of death. They think. Wait. Am I still standing near there? Yeah. I would like to bodyguard the civilian. Do you have plus two AC? Okay. I think it didn't work. I can say I tried. Yeah. It's even. It's kind of like flailing backwards. You hear like a spike. It impacts the civilian's shoulder. She screams out. Failing at her job, guys. She'll take four damage. And she has to roll a fort save against disease. What's the average fort score that a 13-year-old girl has? They have 10 con. What? It's a civilian, right? Yeah. 10s. Yeah. No. Yeah. She passes. Hey. Barely. It's because she's kind of a girl who comes out to y'all's concerts and she's used to standing for a long time. Diamonds are unbreakable. A lot of our fans get inflated. Unlike my heart. She is going to fall unconscious though. From looking at me, I know. Scary out here. Back is your turn. Full on body tackle. How many demons are there? This is the last one. This is not low. One muscly goat. I'm just going to full ball tackle him. Okay. All right. Do you have to make a move to do that? Yes. Is that your charge or is it going to charge adds to my attack? Can you plus one attack for a minus two AC? Sure. I'm just throwing myself at him. Yeah. So why not? Oh, hell yeah. 25. That hits. And just roll damage as if it was punch. Yeah. Roll damage as if punch. Is this also like a combat maneuver or something? Do I add? Do I just change circumstances at all? I mean, if you wanted a bull rush or something, but for the damage now, it's just. Okay. I think I will do bull rush just to try and push him away from her, I guess as well. Okay. Roll damage first. 10 plus, that's 14. 14. 14 damage? Yeah. We don't need to worry about the rest. Okay. You take him down and you fall, you hear a crack in his demon spine sort of like cracks down. He's actually not dead. He's just, he's dying, but it's close enough. And he is disabled. Okay. And we'll call that combat done. Sure. I will finish with the. All right. Yeah. Double fist down on him then. It's good that the little girl's unconscious because that was unpleasant. You just, you just could, you could him? Yeah. Okay. That was out of character. You're on question. Um, I think, uh, you know, I killed these demons once in Lyra's head and once in real life. So they're really dead this time. Good. Super dead. Oh, these are literally the same demons. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Who's by the way, uh, uh, unconscious back of the gate, uh, un-beasted. You got to sing my favorite song. Help this little girl. I'm gonna pull myself up. Shining wonderful, perfect girl. Oh, she'd love that one. Yes, she would. Because she is a shining, wonderful, perfect girl. I would like to walk up to Chalmoreland like grab him by, does he have clothes? He does. The by his clothes and start dragging him away. Hey, hold up. This is our guy. Sorry. I got to drag him back to our place. If you're all right with that. Girl, you're really fast and you seem to have stolen my heart. What did he say? Girl. I don't really know what they're saying most of the time. Are you made of, um, what is that? Just metal? Are you made of metal? I am wearing armor. I would like to knock on his face. Hey, hey, hey. What's your name? Velocity. I'm Silverbeck. Nice to meet you. Sure. What was that? Okay. Yeah. This is, uh, an old friend of ours. He had a bit of a breakdown. We're supposed to bring him back to our place to try and help him get better. Sorry for the damage that he caused. Speaking of, you see, somebody is striding into the middle of the courtyard there in that same half plate, or the same full plate we saw in the other waypoint officer, um, uh, Marine. This person is wearing identical armor, but has a big war hammer on their back. Velocity. Funny meeting you here. We've come once again to, uh, inspect the premises. You've had dealings with these people before. Oh, this is Waypoint. This is Waypoint. I would like to run into the alley and change back. Okay. And literally every time I see those, I'm trying to remember my story. I'm on good terms with Waypoint. You're on bad terms with Waypoint. I'm on bad terms with Waypoint. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they know that, right? Yes. You are the sole person who has been protecting Block 62 for the past, right, three months. Yeah. Waypoint has had designs for Block 62. Gotcha. They've been trying to level it and rebuild it, uh, better, but without any of the people in it. They've been looking for any excuse possible to condemn it, uh, seize the property, uh, bit by bit. Um, and so he looks around and goes, well, this doesn't seem safe to me. I think after we call it an independent inspection, of course, they'll agree that all these buildings need to be condemned. I suggest you get your people out of here. Velocity. This won't stand trial. All right. I run back out in my PIPA Brigalia. Um, excuse me, this is under my jurisdiction. It's recently been assigned to me as a project by the council. Please bluff. I can't do, like, perform or something. She does. You three habilitations. Well, so it's, uh, if you're acting in official capacity, you can say, you can use professional acolyte. Can't you use diplomacy? Yeah, this is a lot. It's not a lie. I have been assigned. Diplomacy is also a lie. Oh, okay. All right. Okay. I'm not trying to swindle them. I'm just trying to get them to go away. If you're trying to, if you weren't in such a way that you're making clear that you are, this area's recent, this has been assigned as a project. That's fair enough. You can, you can go out for professional acolyte, I guess. Or whatever you're hiring. Diplomacy? Is diplomacy higher? Yes, it's way higher. Okay. Well, 19. 19. He looks around. Yes, well, you've, your project seems to have failed someone. I think we can all agree. This is mid-requisition. Yes, we are also mid-requisition. If you just want to go to court, then it will. Alas, I feel that we have more friends in court than you do, but I'll hold off for the moment. Why don't you take it up with the twins? What's that? Why don't you take it up with the twins? Oh, we shall. And their barristers. Excuse you. Do you know what the twins are? Yeah, these are referring to the duarchs who lead the city. Gotcha. They are the two, and also are who, who in 10-year stints serve as essentially benevolent dictators over the city. Can I roll Intimidate? Yeah. I'd like to, wait, no, I can't do that. I just rolled a 28 Intimidate. How'd you like to Intimidate him? I don't think it would be wise for you to go to court. I think that a person like yourself would be smart enough to see the wisdom in backing down from the situation. Okay, all right. And a very threatening tone. Maybe I'll glow like backlit by my rose window halo. Like, I'll just, my face will go dark and just see the light in a scary manner. And my ribbons, they normally flow out from my body, but now they're like menacing, like snakes. Like snakes. Like so. Yeah, he kind of, he like, restuffles his feet a bit. Matter of acolyte. I didn't mean to presume to usurp your authority. Of course, I just meant that we should follow due process. However, I understand that perhaps I was hasty in what I meant by court. I will go see what paperwork needs to be done. I certainly don't need to bother you any further this evening. Goodbye. And he kind of stumbles backwards and restuffles his arm and shakes off. I want Rody to slap his wings at him. Do I know who Pippa is? Huh? Do I know who Pippa is? Oh, you know who Pippa is? Oh, I've like, I've heard of Pippa. Everybody knows who the acolyte is. Oh, okay. It's kind of like the governor of your state or something. Like she's, she's a, I'm the Greg Abbott. Oh. No, I'm just kidding. She's the third most prominent figure in politics. There is the, like there's the duarchs who deal with the actual like running the city. The, and then you have the acolyte who is the public face, the PR department for the entire, she's kind of like the, she's the director of communications. Like the White House says, you know, the person who gives press conferences, Pippa would give the press conferences. So you definitely know who she is. I'm the Sarah Huckabee Sanders of What exactly are you doing here? I'm helping you. I didn't call you here. I'm helping everyone. I'm keeping those snakes from infiltrating the district. Is that your friend? Points to Chalmwell. I don't know him personally, but I know of him. And I think he is a person who is need of medical care at this moment. And that's why we are here. I'm going to poise them up, get them over the shoulder. Medical attention, obviously from the, yeah. We have a place we can take him for special cases that deal with things like demon possession. You are welcome to accompany us back. I don't have any problem with that. Thanks. And we're demon hunters, girl. Don't forget about us. Yeah. We hunt. We haven't been so demon attention to us in a while. Yeah. It's been quiet and nice. Can I send Rody to go land on one of their heads? Yes. Okay. Rody lands on... Oh, my God. What are your all's names? Oh. Joachim. Joachim's head? Joaquin. Joaquin? Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know who Joaquin is. He's trying to combine Joaquin and Joaquin. Wait, no, no, no. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't know who Joaquin is. Okay. He sounds like a cool guy. I'll say that out loud. I think he's very handsome, but I don't know him. The bird lands on Ricky. I'm sorry. I wish, you know, that he settles on you fashionably. It adds to your look, bro. Thanks, man. I've been thinking about using more birds. Oh, I was going to use more birds. We could both use some more birds. Start. Use birds. Yeah. We'll have to go hit it up at the belt store later, you know. My bird's going to have so many belts. Girl. That's not a very applicable term. Who are you? Velocity. Sonic. Sonic. I am sweet. Thanks for the help. Appreciate it. Sorry, I have to deal with the other people. Before is, he's... So how do you know who he is? Who? This guy? That guy. He worked with us for a while, and then he hit his head, and then he got possessed by demons. It's been an exciting whirlwind. An unfortunate set of circumstances, I would say. So I've heard. I've been in a whirlwind before. Remember when we were in that whirlwind of love? The other day? I think that was Tuesday? People call it Tuesday. How often do assomars visit block 66 or whatever? 62? Plenty often. I mean, assomars are everywhere. Okay, that makes sense. How often does Pippa visit? That's unusual. Got it. Hey, I gotta go in real life. I love everybody. Good to meet you. Thanks for being here. Lad 5 can't be seen after performances, so... Descends on the trapdoor. You know, like, you know... There's a new trapdoor. He has to get a head start to the hotel, or the girls will swarm. And it's okay that he gets a little bit more girls than me. He's, you know, that's fine. I'm okay with that. You'll find love one day. I get enough love and girls. Lad 5 is my friend. Okay, good luck. Bye. Thanks for being here. Bye. Bye. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I colored it. Oh, my God. Thanks. That's so good. Thank you. Show them at the end. Yes, we can put it in at the end. And we're gonna go ahead and start wrapping it around here, too. So, thank you for being here. Anything you'd like to do before you close this out, we can close it out right here in the square if you want, or pick it up and pick it back up. Next time is up to, I just attempt to commiserate about how annoying Waypoint is. Yeah. And then probably head on back. Me and High C over here are gonna, he's gonna do the heavy lifting because he has the magic voice, but we're gonna healing whatever heal spell Bards have at the girl that went down. Y'all cure her light wounds. That's good. Yay. Sounds good. Waypoint, right? Hey, I think those are the people who want that. I hate them. I hate them so much. I'm really sorry you have to deal with them. I can't hate. I kinda wanna try and take the mask off. That's a no-no. We're not doing that. I'm inspecting you. I'm just from head to toe, just looking at you and knocking on random parts of your armor thing. Look, how about you come back with us? I think there's probably somebody that would be interested in meeting you. Oh, yeah. I have no intention of just having you take him away. He has been terrorizing my block for days, weeks, months, however long it's been. Yeah, no, that's fair. Follow us and when he wakes up, you and I can take turns hitting him. Oh, no. All right, I'll hit him and you can do whatever else you wanna do. All right. It was nice to meet you all. I'm going to stare angrily at you. I won't say anything. But why? Why? Are you displeased in some way? Have my bureaucratic services not been of service to you personally? Can I help you in any way? That's what I'm trying to say. I was a youth once and she rehabilitated me. What? That's... I did. That's true. He is in process. You're no longer a youth. Mid-rehabilitation. Not understood a single word he has said. What is he doing? Winking, I believe. Try and wink. You know, not everyone starts like a diamond, but you know, diamonds don't start like diamonds because diamonds are... They're like coal, you know, girl, but like with love, diamonds get to be diamonds and diamonds are unbreakable. Yes. Okay. Very good. Good analysis. Did we get the money to buy that really cool church back for those two really awesome young guys? I believe we have to return to the headquarters in order to get the money. Well, let's do that. Or I believe you all need to return to the headquarters in order to get the money. Yep. We'll head that way, woman I've never seen, to see somebody. Yep. All right. So as y'all have your assorted purposes, we're all going to go all vaguely trickle back towards the Aegis. And we will see y'all next time on Altered Eagles with some of these people back, some of them maybe new. We got... Thank you for joining us and catch you later.