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And Kira. I'm Kira and I'm playing Ingrid Pike, a gnome sorcerer. And La'Ron. Hi, I'm La'Ron and I play Cole Dufang, a long-toothed shifter druid. And Karen. Hi, I'm Karen and I play Evelyn Haywood, a human ranger. And Valerie. Hi, I'm Valerie and I play Sor Greywing, a halfling ranger. And Sarah Beth. Hi, I'm Sarah Beth and I play Arren Blue-Collar, a human bard. And I'm at Disney. The listeners fucking knew. Sarah Beth thinks she's better than you. Is there anything you guys want to do or talk about before you get to the town proper? I wanted to see if I could pry some teeth from the dragons, possibly.

Do me a favor, roll a nature check. Sure, I'm good at those. 20. 20. Okay, so you're going to harvest a few things. The teeth are pretty much the only really valuable thing on these because, as we discussed last time, their scales aren't really hard enough to be used for armor or anything like that. They're really young. They haven't hit puberty. No, no, no, no. So it's not going to be the quality of, say, a Strahd or a Kaelthorn or something like that. Right. But, again, teeth, sharp, bitey. So you got you some teeth. Awesome. How many? I would say you pried 20 or so out.

Yes. Okay. These are on the smaller side, but sharp. Okay. Anybody else want to do anything? So Ingrid is going to go to Cole after the battle and just ask, so those were babies that we fought. Do we need to worry about the mother? Well, from what I can tell, we're pretty far off. They shouldn't actually be here. So unless she's trying to fucking look for them, as long as we get the fuck out of Dodge, we should be good. Okay. That was my concern. I don't really want to be fighting a fully grown dragon. Preach to the fucking choir. I feel like Aaron would be very interested in going and just kind of scoping things out, by the way.

I would just kind of like go and poke the dragon. I don't know. I just I don't know. I just like I mean, this is very all new and fresh and such. So I yeah. Okay. So it is obviously the sort who desecrates corpses. So are you okay? What are you trying to get from this? Just just to see if they're just checking them out. I'm just checking them out. I'm like, holy shit. It's a dragon. Roll either a nature check or perception. Oh, God. Ooh. Eleven. It's a dragon. Yeah. So Aaron's going to walk over and start kind of lifting the wings up and just just not play with the body, but just just like.

However, Hunter did scamper down my arm and he is like crawling alongside the dragon. He is he is playing. So just kind of giving it a sniff, looking around, just just, you know, so Aaron's not going to really notice anything super interesting about them. Just just kind of mainly the fact that they're dragons, which is something your characters have probably never seen this this close. This is this this is kind of a big deal. I mean, they could have done a lot of damage to you and the caravan quickly. They could have burned down that lumber in seconds.

So that is a good thing that that did not happen. I'm going to attempt to get Hunter to focus and get back over here. Who would like to make a flat D 20 roll for me? Not me. I want to. No, that's OK. You can. Yeah. All right. Here we go. We got this. I feel it. Here we go. Eighteen. This is going to be a really uneventful trek the rest of the way to Durn Hollow is going to be very clear weather, smooth sailing the entire time you guys have arrived in the town of Durn Hollow. Everyone do me a favor. Give me a perception check. OK. Twenty eight. Nat twenty. Sorry about that.

Nat twenty twenty six. I might have actually perceived something. I got a seventy seventeen. That's almost a crit. I forgot. Ingrid has no modifier to a perception roll. Nope. Let's see. Cole and Cole, Aaron, Ella Rath, Ingrid. OK, so you guys are entering the town of Durn Hollow and you are going to notice that there are a lot of stories surrounding this town. None of them great, but some noticeable improvements have been made. One, the the famous or infamous, depending on the stories you've heard, whorehouse has been pretty much rebuilt. It appears as though a large amount of work has gone into to rebuilding that and giving these these lovely ladies a place to work.

And guys, there's there's a couple of guys that work there. So the honest harlot is pretty much back up in running condition in the town of Durn Hollow. A hell of a lot of of effort has been made to clean up this town. There is a tiefling woman wearing one of the white raven armbands standing in the center of town talking to two other individuals. She has not noticed you yet, but you are guessing that that is the tiefling woman that you are supposed to get in contact with. Totally up to you guys how you want to play this. I was going to say I have fairly high diplomacy in case we need it.

Why would we need diplomacy? Never know. Do you want to roll perception to see who she's talking to? I'll do it. Well, hold on a second. You got Ella, Raph and Cole would have the two highest perceptions. You're not going to recognize the two people she's talking to. You will recognize that they're ravens, though, and it would appear that she's delegating something to them. She's telling them to go do something. Humans? One of them is human. One of them is Elvin. OK. I think I'm actually just going to walk over to her, say, "Hi, we're bringing you a delivery." So she's going to focus in on Ingrid and then sort of look behind her and see that the caravan is at the edge of town.

You must be one of the groups of ravens that they sent out from the Overwatch. Yes, Poe sent us out. We've come to bring you some building material. She's going to reach down to Ingrid to shake her hand. And Ingrid will shake back, give her a friendly smile. Uh, Blairn, I'm in charge here for a while. How many are in your party? There are six of us, including myself. We could set you up with a place for the night. If you want, you can you can all get some rest. Was there any trouble getting any of the the building supplies here? Well, we did run into some baby dragons, strangely enough, and they were really not where they were supposed to be.

Do you mean drakes? No, dragons. Baby dragons. Where was this? We were in the mountains. We were heading towards Sternhollow. They were really not where they were supposed to be at all. There shouldn't have been any dragons there. At least that's what Cole said. And Ingrid will, of course, gesture back to Cole when she mentions him. Yeah, you're not kidding. That should not be. OK, well, we'll talk more about that later. You feel free to get some rest. Do you need food? Anything like that? Sure. After the trip, I'm sure everyone would be happy to eat. OK. Have you guys checked in with home base at all since you left?

No, no, we haven't. It's just been a trip here. It was fairly uneventful except for the dragons, but we haven't really had a chance to check in. OK, well, we'll get you all set up and anything you need. Just come see me. And then she's she's going to look over the party. The brothel's back in operation, if that's something you're into. We'll keep that in mind. Thanks for letting us know. And Ingrid will just give her a grin, I guess. Smile. Hey. Sorry, at the mention of a brothel, my errand's eyes will sort of widen for a moment. OK, let's do this. So you have officially dropped off those building supplies, so that is done.

That is no longer your responsibility. Would you guys like to do anything in Durn Hollow while you're here or are you just pretty much waiting for your next your next assignment? Because that is not going to take long. I think I'd probably look around since I've been through Durn Hollow before when I was traveling. So I think I'd want to see how it had changed. I have never been here, so I will probably look around. I'd like to make a streetwise. God. 15. 15 is going to pretty much get you very recent events. So Durn Hollow is pretty much going through a shift of leadership.

A few weeks ago, this town was pretty much under the jurisdiction of the Overwatch. That changed when the Ravens came into town and helped Ellis Arroway drive out the Overwatch. Unfortunately, it ended up costing him his life and the lives of a good number of Ravens. And that's that's kind of been a sticking point with them. A group was going to take care of things and they ended up, you know, saddling Poe with it. And yeah, but the end result is that the town is, you know, it was no longer under the jurisdiction of the Overwatch. They can they can feel free to do whatever they want with it.

And thanks to a generous donation recently from a group, they have the money for building materials. They have money to sort of invest in the economy of Durn Hollow and hopefully open up a few different businesses in here. Maybe diversify the economy a bit so that they're not just about whoring and slavery. The Nuval have been driven out as of about three weeks ago, three and a half weeks ago. Merle and Jeb were two pretty famous individuals in town, both of which have been murdered. And as a result, the Nuval don't really have any influence here anymore.

Their entire operation has been shut down in this area now. That doesn't mean that they'll never come back. But for right now, it's not a problem that that anyone here has to worry about. The whorehouse, the honest harlot, sort of got burned down about a month ago ish. And thanks to things like that, that sort of building materials and some round the clock effort, they have rebuilt small portions of the town that have burned down. The whorehouse was the first thing to be worked on. Do you want to check out the whorehouse? I mean, we can. I'm good. Oh, come on.

Let's go and take a peek. Oh, okay. Elorath is going to decline. She's going to walk around town like, "Y'all have fun." Someone just kind of wants to go somewhere to rest. Just kind of chill out. Elorath will probably go with you if that's cool. I'm going to go with Tora. Not the rest. Not the whorehouse. So let's split the party up a little bit. Yeah, we're splitting the party already. It's Dunhollow. That never goes poorly. Oh gosh, yeah, no. No, not at all. So let's... Who's going to the honest harlot? It's going to be Ingrid and who? I'll go. Okay, Ingrid and Cole.

This place, you can tell, is going to be pretty swanky when it's finished. There's a pretty large first floor. It kind of opens up into this big bar area and sort of a lounge. Still being furnished, but a lot of the woodwork is done. A lot of the structural stuff is done. And there's going to be a young lady that greets you as soon as you walk in. Human lady. And she is going to walk up to you. Hi, I'm Eva. Welcome to the honest harlot. What does she look like? So Eva has long dark hair and... Do me a favor, give me a perception check. Can do. Both of us or just Cole?

Both of you. What's the length of you? Please. Because I got 12. I mentioned my lack of modifier on perception. Okay, well... I foresee nothing. Yeah, she... Okay, so the only thing... It's a girl! It's a girl, everyone. The only thing that you're going to notice about Eva is that... How to put this lightly. For someone who is a prostitute by trade, it looks as though she may be a little on the heavier side. Slightly? Just ever so slightly? Mm-hmm. A little, maybe. It looks as though she may have a baby bump. Ah. Oh. But we're not going to ask about that, because you never want to ask about a baby bump.

You don't want to be the... No, I wasn't going to do that. Yeah. But... She just said hi, right? Yeah, that's all. She's just kind of welcoming you in. Okay. I'll say hello and hold out my hand to shake if she wants to. I'm Ingrid. This is my friend Cole. We're just visiting town. We thought we'd come in and see the famous... Harlot? She's going to give you a smile as you're pausing to find the right word. How about we set you up with a drink? That would be wonderful. Thank you. And she's going to welcome you over to the bar. Again, largely empty. The place is still being worked on.

But, yeah, they're really trying to drum up business and get people spending money and coming in here again. And one of the first things to do was to make sure no one would get hung. Little things like that, little events like that would scare off clientele. Are we going to sit at the bar? Am I going to need a boost to get to a bar? You might need to. I'll help you out, Ingrid. Thank you, Cole. That's very kind of you. No problem. I help Ingrid up and then I sit next to her. Let's catch up with the rest of the party really quickly. What would the rest of the party like to check out here?

Just sort of looking around town, just taking it all in? Yeah. Yeah. I'd probably like pop a squat somewhere and start playing some music. OK. Do me a favor and give me a perception roll. All of you. Yeah. Ah! Ah! Ah! I crit. Oh. I wasn't sure what that sound was. I was me. Oh, I love how I'm the lowest with 18. We rock. Durren Hollow is pretty much a town that consists of one road. You're going to notice a lot of children running around. You're going to notice the place has a slightly warmer vibe than it's been built up to be. You expected it to be seedier or angrier or something.

But the ravens seem to have done a really good job of cleaning this place up in the very short time that they've inhabited it. They've only really had the town for about two and a half, three weeks. And they have done a remarkable job of straightening things out. You've heard stories of drunks lining the roads and lazy guards who don't patrol anything. They'll hang out in the bar all day and get drunk. But you see people out and about. People are talking to each other. People are bartering, buying things. It feels like a regular small town. It's a lot quainter than it's been described to me.

You are going to notice something else. And there is a bird circling overhead. Oh god, don't let it poop. And after a few moments, it is going to fly straight at Aaron. Oh my god, wait! No! I'm sorry! Hunter! No! Oh my gosh. Hunter was in my lap and now he is in my cloak. He knows. He's seen some shit. I was about to say, this is probably terrifying for Hunter. This is not... But this bird is not after Hunter, but it takes you a few moments to realize that. It is going to perch on Aaron's bracer. Oh, okay. So it's going to hover for just a second and then just sort of plop down on Aaron's bracer.

You are going to notice this little thing around its leg. And it seems to be used for transporting messages. This is most definitely a white raven. Does it have a message? It does. Oh, I'm going to, after my moment of shock is over, I'll take the message out and read the message. So this is from Brianna Ebelmayer and it says, "By now, you should have reached the town of Dernalo. We hope that your journey was a safe one. After you drop off your supplies, I would like to meet you in the town of Aubrey." Okay, so I'm going to, after reading the message, I don't know what to do with this bird.

Do me a favor and roll a history check. Okay, I don't want to offend the bird. Like, "No, no, I'm done with you now." Don't ever ask me to roll anything. I can't roll for shit. I can't roll for shit. You would know that the ravens are a messaging system almost based on ceremony right now. But it was a necessity when they lived in the evergreen. But yeah, you would know that these birds are used to transport messages back and forth. The bracer that you're wearing is actually sort of a guidance system for some of them. That little thing around its leg, that helps the bird hone in on you.

So I'm going to, yeah, because I'm not exactly sure if I should send a message back, I'm going to ask, since I'm sitting with Sora, Evelyn, and Elorath, I'm going to turn to them and ask them, "Do you think I should send a message back saying that we're on our way?" Or should I just carry the bird with me to go get Ingrid and Cole, and then once we have them, then send the message that we're on our way? That might be a better idea. Okay, all right. Okay, yeah, I guess I'll... I mean, I can go fetch them or something and bring them back. Yeah, I'll just hold my arm out with this bird.

Just stay there. Well, I've got my bow, like I was playing music, so I've got my bow in the hand that the bird is on, and my violin in the other, and Hunter is cowering at my cloak. I'm kind of like, I've got my hands full. These are very well trained birds. It's not going to attack Hunter for any reason. Well, Hunter doesn't know that. Right, exactly. Elorath's going to poke the bird. Really? Yeah. Oh no. Just to see what it does. Are you poking it with your finger or like a weapon? Yeah, my finger. She wouldn't touch it with her flail. She'd be like, "My flail's bigger than your face." Poke.

So the raven's going to sort of flap its wings and flutter for just a second, and then kind of give a look over to Elorath and then settle back down on the bracer again and not move. Standard bird stuff. Okay. Standard bird stuff. I'm going to, who went in there to get Ingrid and Cole? Evelyn, I believe. Okay. Yeah, so I guess we'll just wait outside because we have a bird. Yeah, so how about we cut over to them real quick? Okay. Did we already order drinks? Oh yeah, yeah. Yes, we have drinks. You and I are chilling on our barstools having a drink. So... So dragons, huh?

Yeah, I don't know what the fuck that was all about. We were supposed to be fine after we left the mountain pass, and all of a sudden, red fucking dragons. How does that even happen? I don't fucking know. I've traveled through that mountain pass at least three times. Never ran into any of those fuckers before. I don't think I've ever seen a dragon, and I can't imagine why we would see them now. Your guess is as good as mine. So I guess, um, Evelyn's just gonna go inside the Honest Harlot and look around to find Cole and Ingrid. Do I have to do, like, a perception for that or do I just go right over it?

No, they're sitting right at the bottom. Okay. I'm sorry, I'm just gonna go up to... That means... I'm sorry. That means we don't have to roll perception to notice her either, right? No. Okay. I'm like, she's not a tiny person. Hey, Evelyn. Come on, we were just having a drink. Hey guys. Do you want to join us? Well, we actually just got a message from the White Ravens. I didn't know if you guys wanted to... Like, there's like a bird and it won't go away, and they want to know if you want to... She's really awkward. If we wanted to send a message back, something about meeting someone in Obrate?

The bird knew we were here? Yeah, it came right out of the sky and landed on the bracer that Aaron had. Ah, that makes sense. Wow, that's some pretty decent magic. Well, I suppose we better go and... We just bought these though. Well, drink up and she'll just knock back the rest of her drink in one. Shit. Because I see that and like, okay. That's that look Cole gives Ingrid. Like, okay, all right. I will do the same. Then we'll follow Evelyn out to meet the others. I will wait for Cole to help me down off the barstool. Yeah, I will help Ingrid down off the barstool and pay for my drink.

Ditto. Thank you, Cole. Do me a favor, you two. Okay. This is to establish canon. I want to know how well you handle your liquor. Now, that was one drink. But there are some people in the world who are monumentally bad at holding their liquor. Some people are really cheap dates. So do me a favor, both of you roll an endurance check for me. All right. 21. Shocking that I would get a 12. Turn up is not real for me. So Cole can handle his liquor pretty well. Ingrid is going to be a little tipsy after one drink. Tiny, tiny bit. Three feet tall. Yeah, that's... Perhaps you should not have drank as much as Cole.

Do I notice this? She'll probably sway and bump into Cole a little bit as they're following Evelyn out. All right. I'm going to attempt to stabilize you and go. Maybe chugging that beer wasn't a good idea. Maybe not. But, well, we just bought them. Don't want to waste good liquor. You know what, Ingrid? You're all right. Let's go. So, yes. So I've got the bird and I've been bonding with it. I'm actually like touching it and petting it now. So I'll relay the same message that this bird landed and we got a message that we're supposed to head to Aubrey. Do you think that I should put another message on it and send it off saying that we're on our way?

Do you think you'll know to do that? Well, it knew to come down to me. So, I mean, I'll tell it. I don't know. I'll tell it to go to Aubrey. I don't know. But do you know anything more about the system of communication that the ravens have? I don't fucking know. I don't speak bird. I was going to say, I could give it a try. I'm a little tipsy, so that might seem like a good plan to Ingrid. Wait a minute. Would my nature check allow me to do that? To speak to birds? No. I'm not asking you guys to speak to birds. I'm asking if you guys know more about their system of communication.

How would we determine that? Is that like history or? That'd be history. I shouldn't even attempt this. I only have a plus one, but sure. I have a plus two, so I know a little bit. I'm still afraid to try. I'll do it anyway. Go ahead. Go ahead, Ingrid. It's all yours. Ravens and birds. Ingrid would know that traditionally the way the ravens are trained is they'll fly back and forth between two positions. Each raven would be trained to fly to an outpost and then back. They would train a couple of backup ravens in case something were to happen to one of them. The interesting thing about the way the bracer works is that that works as sort of a mobile hotspot, where they can send a message to you and you can send one back to the person who was holding the other bracer.

That is the way that little bird just sort of instinctively knows to go between the two. Instead of training them to go to a spot and painstakingly getting them to do that, which is the system they've been using, that little bit of magic allows them to sort of link two spots together and then you guys are obviously mobile. So it's a vast improvement over the old system. And I will of course share this knowledge with the group and say it will head right back to where it's supposed to go if we send a message. Oh, okay. Then let's do it then. So I'll write on the thing that says, I'll write on a piece of parchment that says, you know, we're on our way.

And I'll hand it back to the raven and I'll give him a little pat and I'll say, off with you. And then kind of like lift my arm up so he can fly away. This raven is going to spread its wings and take off into the sky and start heading toward the direction of Aubrey, which is sort of north from here. As soon as the bird is gone, I will like reach into my cloak and just kind of like pat Hunter's because he was kind of, you know, because he was so scared. I feel bad for him. So, oh, so, yeah. So I'll turn to Colin Ingrid and I'll say, so have you guys been to Aubrey?

Yeah. It's okay. Is there anything that we need to finish up here before we head that way? I don't know. Do we? I don't think so unless you want to check in before we go. Like, do you guys want to want to rest? Do you guys just want to wait until the morning? It's probably a good plan. What time is it? It's, it's, it's a good evening here. Aaron questioned God. And we did fight two dragons. Yeah, might not be the worst idea in the world to get some sleep for the night. Yeah, let's rest. I'm sure it can wait until the morning. Yeah. So, of course you'd be sleeping here for free.

This is a raven operated town and you guys are ravens, so. Perks. Yep. That is the perks of having to fight dragons and shit. Like that's, so you're, yeah. Let's pick things up the next morning then. You guys are gonna, you guys are gonna get some sleep in town, maybe get a little bath. They have a decent little, a decent little inn. Tiny gastropode. Tiny gastropub. Yeah, well it's basically attached to the harlot. They've made some improvements, so instead of there being seedy, seedy little rooms with holes bored into the walls, everything's, everything's really new and nice.

So yeah. Those holes had purpose, Jason. Oh, I, I. The holes are still there, but now there's glass in the peepholes. Some of the holes are glorious. So I take it you guys are, are, are pretty much on your way? I think so. Yeah. Here is what I'd like one of you to do. Wait, we did, we did establish that we did tell, we tell, what, what was her name? Larren. Larren, yeah, we told Larren before we left that we were headed to Aubrey. Yeah, yeah. Okay. She would know. Cool. Alright, cool. Who would like to roll a flat d20 for me? Me, me, me, me. Okay. Go right ahead, Val. 13.

Yeah, not too bad. There's a map. Making your way walking down the road, and this is going to be, again, hours and hours on the road, you guys. It's, it's about a day's trek from Duranahua to Aubrey. If you're walking at a pretty brisk pace, you could, you could get there. Some people it takes a day and a half. Usually there's a camping. There's a, there's a camping site halfway between. You guys are going to hear this guttural growling. And it seems to be coming from all sides. At first it, it seems like it's, it's coming from just, just up the road a little bit.

And then you're going to hear it behind you and then off to your flanks. And after giving a cursory glance around, you're going to realize that you are surrounded by dire wolves. They appear to be fairly young, but they also appear to be very hungry. Nature check to see if this is normal behavior or if they're normal to the area. Okay, I'll let you get one in real quick. Go ahead. Nevermind. You have no clue. Nope. Fuck. All right. Everyone do me a favor. Roll initiative. Evelyn's first. Wow. Okay. I guess I'm just gonna go up here to dire wolf number one. Basic melee and then damage.

And then I think that'll be it for now. Oh, yes. Offhand attack. My bad. It's all good. That will hit. Okay. Doing real good. There you go. Much, much better. Okay. Now I'm done. Ingrid, your turn. Oh, I'm sorry. So I'm targeting dire wolf number three with lightning strike. Okay. That is going to miss, sadly. Darn it. And I am also going to shift one and move there. And that should be it. And Sora, your turn. Okay. I'm going to go here. And then I'm going to target dire wolf one. Careful attack on it. So there you go. That is going to miss. Okay. That's it. Hungry dire wolf four.

Run up to Eren. Target and try to bite. 28. That'll hit. 21 damage to Eren. So that's nasty. Dire wolf two is going to run on up. Target Elorath. Boo. And miss. Totally missed with a lunge. I parried. Let's see here. Dire wolf one is going to target Evelyn considering she's right there and try to bite her and miss. Yeah. That'll bring up Elorath. All right. Well, I'm right there. So let's go ahead and activate the defender aura. So it gets a negative two to attack my allies. And then we're going to try. Let's do let's do rundown. It hasn't hit yet, but I have a feeling like today's going to be a deal.

Yes. You have chosen wisely. You've chosen wisely. Okay. So there's an effect on this one, I believe. Yeah. The target is slowed until the end of my next turn. And Cole, your turn. All right. I am going to move one, two, three, four. And I am going to target. Dire Wolf number four. There we go. And I am going to do grasping claws. And because I am flanking, that does what? I get my flanking bonus. What's my flanking bonus? Plus two. And grasping claws. Not even plus one for thing is speedy. That's a 12. That's still going to miss. Okay. Well, you know what? Action point.

Okay. Action point. All right. We're going to try that shit again. I'm still flanking. So there we go. And. Much better. That'll hit. Yes. Awesome. So one D eight. And. All right. 13 damage. All right. That went on my turn. And that'll bring up Aaron. Okay. All right. So let's see here. I'm going to target. Let me see if I can remember how to do this. Target this guy. That's me. Target him. Did it target? Yes. All right. So I guess I just do a melee basic cause he's right in front of me. And nope. That is going to miss sadly. Did you hide your combat advantage? It's 11. That's not going to.

Okay. So I am going to use a majestic word upon myself. Cause yikes. Yeah. So wolf number three is going to advance on Sora. Jesus. No. That'll hit. 26 and bite. 17 damage to Sora. Damn. Yeah. These wolves are not around. Evelyn. Your turn. Okay. So I'm just going to basic melee dire wolf number one. That is going to miss. Yeah. Sorry. I was just thinking it was contemplating if I should just, if I should use heroic effort, but I don't think that's going to work. I guess I'll action point. Okay. And try it again. That'll hit. 25 will hit. And then damage. Five damage. And then offhand.

That'll miss. Whatever. I guess I'm done then. Ingrid, your turn. Okay. So I am going to try targeting dire wolf number three again with lightning strike. Maybe this time it might actually work. That is a crit. Awesome. This is why I fucks with you, Ingrid. And then since lightning strike will target the two of them, it's also going to target, I'm going to target hungry dire wolf number four and do some damage to him. And I am going to shift one. Okay. That'll bring up Sora. Okay. So let's see if I can get this right. Okay. So here's, here's my fun, my fun thing that I do.

I'm going to do evasive strike where I get to move three squares and then cause we have running attack, I get a plus one to my attack roll after moving two or more squares and it's, it's shifting so I can shift three and then attack. So I'm going to do that. So I'm going to go one, two, three to here and then I'm going to, let's put Hunter's Quarry on dire wolf two. And then I'm going to attack that with evasive strike. Okay. 24 hit. Yeah, it hit. Okay. So let's see. It's, Oh, I see. Cause it's an encounter power. That's why it's okay. 12 damage and then Hunter's Quarry damage.

Eight. Yeah. Gorgeous. Max Hunter's Quarry damage. Okay. Y'all done? Oh no. So cause that was my standard action. So I still got a move action, right? Yep. Okay. So one, two, three, four, I guess. Or no, no, wait. I'll go one, two, three, four, five, six. There we go. Gorgeous. That'll bring up the wolf number four. Wolf number four is going to continue to attack Aaron. Oof. That was a terrible roll though. That is going to miss. That's a two. Let's see here. Dire Wolf two is going to continue to attack Ella wrath. 18 will hit. Thanks. 15 damage to Ella wrath. Dire Wolf one is going to continue to attack Evelyn. 22 will hit. 11 damage to Evelyn and that will bring up Ella wrath.

Okay. I'm going to use escalating violence on dire Wolf number two. So here we go. That'll hit. Yes. Okay. And then we do damage. Okay. 13 damage. You have bloodied the Wolf. Okay. Says if I take damage before the start of my next turn, I gain a plus two bonus to attack rolls. And because that was a barbarian attack, it activates my berserker frenzy or fury. So I'm now, I'm in, I'm now berserking, I guess. I don't know how to describe that. Let's see. All right. I'm going to continue wailing on this dire Wolf fucker number four. Grasping claws. My fucking God. Are you serious?

That is going to miss. All right. Well, okay. She's probably. Yeah. I'm just going to stay put. Yeah, I'll stay put. That's it. That's the end of my turn. All right. Aaron, your turn. Got to remember to cut off mute. I am going to target that one. That seems strange, but. If you attack anything, but the one that's right in front of you, it's going to get an opportunity attack. Really? Yeah. Well then I guess you and I are going to hang out then buddy. He really wants to hang out. Let me make sure. 18 will hit. Yes. And there was much rejoicing. Yeah. Woo. Five damage. All right.

So since I did that thing, I'm going to give me make sure that this is what I want because sorry, I said I don't have my sheet in front of me. Yeah. So that's going to go to that's me target the correct person for that one. And here have that have a song of serendipity. That's for you, Cole. Oh, thanks. That'll give a plus one to your tag. Plus two. Sorry. Okay. Never grateful. Right. Let's do you know what? Let's do this. Hungry Dire Wolf number three is going to shift down one, which will put him flanking with his buddy number two and he is going to start to attack.

Thalarath. Oh fuck. 17. Does a 17 hit your no. Oh yeah. You're improved. Yep. Good. Oh, I'm so glad I read my character sheet. Evelyn, your turn. Um, okay. I'm going to continue to attack dire wolf number one because it won't die. It is a pesky habit of living. It is. Oh my God. Wait, a heroic effort. Heroic effort will hit. Yeah. Okay. I was not going to let that get away. What the fuck are these things made out of? Um, and offhand. Oh my God. I'm done. Ingrid, your turn. All right. So can I move without taking an opportunity attack? Um, yeah, because you're not next to any enemies.

Excellent. So I'm going to move first. Um, there. And I am going to attack. Okay. Attack wolf number three. With storm walk. That is another crit. All right. You are on a roll. You're scooping up everyone else's good luck. You're made up to the crit one last time. Sweet. And that will bring up Sora. Okay. I am going to do, cause my quarry is still on number two. Yeah. So I'm going to do a careful attack on number two. Which is this one. That'll hit. Yeah. Okay. So damage. Six damage. And then I'll just quarry damage. Number six damage. There we go. And that'll be it. Yeah.

Uh, let's see. Wolf number four. Good lord. Wolf number four is going to continue to swing at Eren. Twenty hits and that's a bite and seventeen damage. Eren is bloodied. Shit. This wolf is tenacious. Ah. That wasn't even me and I felt it. Two of these wolves have Elorath surrounded and are going to continue to try and bite and snap at her. Seventeen is going to miss because of her improved AC. Wolf number one is going to swing at Evelyn again and that is a seventeen. That'll miss. Good. Evelyn and this wolf are at a stalemate, they just keep swinging at each other and...

Elorath, your turn. Fantastic. Alright, well let's try... Let's try Devastating Strike against number one. So here we go. Devastating Strike. Oh. I'm going to miss. Ooh, hiss. Let's action point. Okay. And we'll try it again. The exact same roll. Okay. We can get a miss. Okay. Yeah, that's going to miss sadly. Cole, your turn. Okay, Jason, question. Hit me. Range. Is that per square? So if I have a range five, that's five squares? Yes. Okay. Okay. Um, if that's the case, then I am going to target Dire Wolf number three. Okay, one sec. If you target anything but the one directly in front of you, it's going to get an opportunity attack against you.

Bollocks. Alright. I, alright. I tried Elorath. Alright. I'm just going to move. I appreciate you. I can move, but I don't think that's wise. Okay. I'm just letting you know your options. I appreciate that, Jason. Thank you. Um, fucking grasping closet. Yeah. Aaron needs the help more. Uh, number four, grasping claws, flanking. Yeah. Let me do that right quick. Combat advantage. That'll hit. Yes. Please kill this thing. Nine damage to the wolf. Alright. Still alive. Yeah. Anything else? I don't think so. Aaron, your turn. Okay. Um, I am going to hit this guy. Uh, um, yeah. Action point.

How do I do this? Um, just go ahead and do whatever you're going to do here. Um, wow. That was a really bad roll. That's a six. Okay. That's okay. Mm-hmm. So I just got to act, how do I do it? Action point? Like, I don't know. What are you doing? The same attack again? Yeah. Just do the same attack again. Okay. Please, please, please, please. Oh, good. That will hit. Okay. Seven damage. The wolf is bloodied. Alright, um, I'm going to use another majestic word on myself. Probably a good idea. Yeah. Don't blame you. Uh, and what do you guys think about me, uh, possibly try, moving and taking my chances at an opportunity attack?

What do you think? Or do you think it's best that I stay here so you get flanking? Um, I think we should. Cause that was my last majestic word. Yeah. Um, yeah. Go ahead and move. Mm. Angrid, if you try to- Well, you have damage to you, so I don't know if you would want to move. Yeah. Angrid, if you try it, can you target the wolf that is, that is between us? Um, yeah, absolutely. Uh, and actually I had an idea. Okay. Idea's a good idea. I'm going to stay here then, cause I don't want to, I don't want to die. Alright. Okay. Uh, hungry direwolf number three, um, is going to continue to attack Elorath, uh, and miss wildly.

Bopping and weeping. Yeah. She's a wee. Hey. Okay. I am going to hit, I'm going to hit this freaking wolf. You are going to hit. You hit? Yeah, I am. 25. Gorgeous. Damage and power strike because I'm not letting this thing get away. Eight extra damage. Good. And then off hand. That'll hit. Damage. Four. Okay, good. Nine. Okay. So you have definitely bloodied this wolf. It's not dead yet? No. Not quite. I just want to help my friends. I know. Ingrid, your turn. Alright, so I am going to target hungry direwolf number four and I'm actually going to use one of my encounter powers and I'm going to try using whirlwind.

Two hits. Okay. Why would it be two hits? I don't know. Because Ingrid is selected. Oh, so I hit myself. Awesome. Quit hitting yourself. So you were targeting wolf number four. That hit wolf number four. Okay. So that will do some damage. 12 damage. And yeah, that wolf is not looking so good. Okay. And I had a question. So I have, well, never mind, I will ask at a later date, but I think I'm done for now. What does whirlwind do exactly for the folks at home? For the folks at home, whirlwind creates a small whirlwind that buffets creatures and knocks them off their feet.

So not only has he been hit, let's see. Knocked him prone, right? I believe so. Okay. You want to tick off that little thing to make him prone? Will do. If I can figure out where it is. It's the little zombie guy next to the power. Little zombie guy next to the power. Got it. Boom. He's prone. Sora, your turn. Okay. So first thing, I have a question. If I were to move here, would that be flanking with... No. Do you have to be right next to you? Is that what it is? Okay, cool. That is the penalty for being all the way back there. Okay. So I am going to use, what is it called?

Twin strike on wolf three and wolf two. I'm going to be moving my quarry to wolf three. But there we go. So twin strike is going to do that. They will both hit. Okay. So now we got that. I'm going to deselect two so I can do my quarry on three. Yeah. Four damage. Good. And then that's it. All right. And that will bring up wolf number four, which is taking a beating here. So this wolf is just getting the shit kicked out of it by Ingrid, by Eren and Cole. It's going to use his move action to stand up and he is going to lunge one more time at Eren. And that will hit.

Fourteen damage. Eren is bloodied. Actually, Eren is down to three hit points. Let's see. Hungry wolf number two is going to lunge again at Elrath and totally, totally miss. Number one is going to lunge at Evelyn. That'll hit. Seventeen damage. She is down. Elrath, your turn. Oh no. Okay. All right. Let's try. Oh my God. She's going to pop a daily. She's going to do rage drake's frenzy against dire wolf number two. Oh, thank God. That will just hit. It'll hit. All right. Here we go. Okay. All right. That will kill the wolf. Boom. My fucking God. Oh, I can. Oh, wait, wait. And because I reduced an enemy to zero hit points, the effect of this attack, I can make a melee basic attack as a free action.

So, so Evelyn is going to swing her mace into the skull of this wolf and with a whimper, it's going to crumble to the ground. So blam done. And then I'll make a melee basic attack against the one next to me. Number three. Thank you. That one. Nope. That'll okay. That's a crit one, but that's okay. Oh, a for effort. You're also going to shift. Let's see here. Hold on a second. I entered the effect. You enter the rage of the rage Drake until the rage ends once per round when an enemy reduced the, okay, so that's the same thing you just did. Okay. That's cool. That's good.

Yeah. I'm going to have my turn because I've already used my action point. So all right, Cole, your turn. All right guys, attack this wolf or attempt to save Evelyn. All right. I mean, I do have three saving throws still. Yeah. But if I, if I put in, you'll have four maybe. Yeah. But we had, there's a bunch of people to go before wolf one gets to hit again. That's that's what I'm thinking. All right. I'm going to, yeah, I'm just going to, I'm just going to keep wailing on wolf for then I'm grasping claws. No, not, not color of the dice. Fucker. Combat advantage.

Jesus. All right. God fucking shit. Okay. You rolled a three. Oh, that's an 11. I'm sorry. That is not going to do it. I'm done. In every sense of the word, I quit. Erin, your turn. Okay. All right. I'm going to try and hit this thing. My selected. There we go. Oh no. I'm having trouble when I'm that close to him. It's hard to tell that I hit it. That is going to miss. Wait. One plus one for 50. Wait, wait. You have company advantage. I don't get flanking. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's me. Yay. Five damage to the dire Wolf. Okay. Shift. Get out of there. Can I shift back one and without provoking?

You can shift back one. Yeah, totally. Okay. Is this I'm done. All right. Hungry dire Wolf three. Oh man. Hungry dire Wolf three is going to continue to try and murder Ellorath here. That is going to miss Evelyn. Do me a favor. Roll a death saving throw. That is one failure. A nine. Yes. Ingrid, your turn. All right. I will attack hungry dire Wolf number one and I am going to use lightning strike. Okay. That'll hit. Okay. So I will do damage to him. Okay. Good. 12 damage. And then I am also going to do some damage to number three. And that should be the end of my turn.

Sora, your turn. Okay. So Hunter's Quarry on Wolf one. First of all. And then I'm going to use careful attack against it. That'll hit. Yeah. Almost a crit. Yay. Okay. So damage. That will kill the Wolf. Can I do my Hunter's Quarry anyway? Go ahead. It makes you feel better. All right. Okay. You killed her instinct the Wolf. Anything else? No, that's it. All right. Number four. So he's going to target Cole. Right. 19 will hit. 14 damage. Okay. So not bad. And that'll bring up Ellorath. Thanks for the HP. Okay. She's going to try devastating strike against Wolf number three. So let's try.

Yes. That will hit. All right. Let's see. Oh, sorry. Excuse me. I wasn't sure if it did more damage because of the rage, but I don't think it does. Oh, here we go. Oh, I guess it does. Okay. There is an effect, but since I am raging, it doesn't get the effect because normally it would gain a plus two bonus to attack me. But since I'm in my berserker's rage, whatever, that's my turn. And that'll bring up Cole. All right. We are going to try Grasping Claws again. We are going to miss because life is unfair. That's true. Aaron, your turn. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Then we are going to shift back one space because I don't need to be there anymore.

Okay. Aaron, your turn. You missed because I didn't say what speech I was giving you. I'm sorry. I apologize. And Jason couldn't see it, right? I'm too close for a ranged attack, right? No, you're- No, I can't- You can do a ranged attack. All right, cool. Let's see here. Have that and shazam. Yeah. It hits. Look at that. Seven. And you have killed the wolf. Oh my gosh. I killed it. Yes. You killed wolf number four. Anything else? I will do a song of serendipity. Yeah. All right. Sorry, sorry, sorry. It's okay. One, two, three, four, five. And what can I do right now for her?

I don't think I can do- Yeah. So my next turn, I can get you. So until then, I'm just going to put my hands upon your body and tell you that I am here for you. Well, time to office space this last wolf. Let's see here. Wolf number three is going to keep targeting Elorath. 28 will hit. Second chance. No, reroll. Oh, second chance. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, hold on. Sorry. No, no, that's okay. Don't be sorry. You did a good thing. Yeah, let's try it again then. That'll hit. No, no, it won't because my AC is 19. The net will not hit. Evelyn, do me a favor. Roll a death saving throw, please.

That is two failures. Oh, Jesus. Ingrid, your turn. All right. I am going to target dire wolf number three. I'm going to use storm walk. I'm going to move last. I think I will actually action point and try it again. That's a crit. A third fucking crit in this. Yes. Heck yes. Okay. I could have used that. Let me tell you right now that is going to murder this wolf. Yeah, you have killed the wolf. Die crazy wolf. You guys are out of combat. Okay, so if we're out of combat, so do I out of combat? You're just running a heal check. You're good. You're just running a heal check on Evelyn and you are going to bring her back from the brink of death.

What is with the wildlife? Is somebody wearing some sort of pheromone? I hope it's not my perfume. Guys, I think that's a pretty good time for us to stop for the evening. So what we're going to do is the next time we play, you're going to have some heavy roleplay stuff to do. Okay. All right. Yeah, I think you're going to get a chance to meet some new people and you are going to probably be fighting something nastier than wolves, but we'll see. Nice. The wolves got the drop on you. You're lucky that wasn't a surprise round. Was that what the 13 was? Yes. Of course it was.

What would have a crit missed then? Two more dragons. Two more dragons. Yeah, I tossed dragons at you at level one. Now there's a story reason why dragons would have been in that area, but we're not quite there yet. Your perception role was kind of bad. You would have found out something today if it were a little higher. Damn. Aw. That's cool. Just for roleplay reasons, I got kind of hurt during that, so I'm going to reach under my chain mail and make sure that that hunter didn't get crushed. Because he's got a little pouch that he retreats to under my chain mail, kind of along my back, like side of my back.