Convoy

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I'm the Dungeon Master. Going on the table to start with Kelsey. Hey, and I'm-- [LAUGHTER] Strong start tonight. It's a curse. It's a curse Jason passed on to me. OK. I'm Kelsey, and I play Aria Lethea. And Robert. Hey, I'm Robert Weaselhahn. I play Malchus Grimnus, Tiefling Warlock. And Rachel. I'm Rachel, and I play Tavine Brightheart, Minotaur Shaman. OK. My brain just shut off there. Minotaur at large. We're in good shape today. It's going to be a fun session. Oh, yeah. Great. OK. So last time on the show, you guys-- let's see here. You guys made it to the town of Aubrey.

You just were kind of just staying at the inn. You wanted to stay the night and everything. But it occurred to you that you knew a young lady there named Clarissa, who might be able to help you with a certain noise you heard in the middle of the night. And essentially, what you found out that it was probably a dragon. There are very few flying objects that could be that large on the mainland. So that is obviously a major concern. Theo offered to kind of stay with Clarissa and kind of search through books and maybe be able to find out a bit more information.

And I believe the rest of you guys were pretty much just taking it easy, getting some rest. Aria was doing the research. Oh, yes. Oh, that's right. I forgot. Wow. OK. I am so sorry. It's been a week, but OK. You know what it is? It's group one overload. I'm not used to doing this much with group one. One time we play a week after, you forget about me. OK. [LAUGHTER] No, it's fine. Yeah, I think we were going to go get breakfast and bring it back. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. OK. So there's like, super-- So let's have a little bit of time pass here. Let's have a little bit of jump forward.

Because I remember it was very early when you heard the dragon. And you guys got to all breathe early in the morning. And yeah. So let's have some time pass and some research get done. Let's do this. Let's have Aria do me a favor, run a history check. Let's see how-- let's see what we find here. While she's doing that, we still got one in the can, right? Yes. OK. So the listeners haven't heard last episode yet. But if it comes to this and you guys let them done it, I'm still counting on you guys to ship Theo and Clarissa. OK. This is art, stories, whatever you got.

I rolled a 26. 26. Oh, let's see. What would Theo have rolled? Let's see. Theo. Theo. There's Theo. Hi, Theo. His history is a plus 4, everybody. Oh, no. Yeah. Wait, that didn't go in the box. He's really helpful. He's going to be super helpful. Yay, Theo! He got a 17. Yay, Theo. Theo's helping. I love him. So some time's going to go by. And you guys are going to-- you're going to find out some helpful things. Just in general about dragons, though, because no one really got a good look at this thing. No one really got any help from it. Not even a color, like nothing. Rub it in.

Well, I'm simply stating that it's a little tough to chase down a lead when you don't have-- you know, much in the way of it. It's like, well, what did it look like? I don't know. It sounded big, though. Like, that's basically what you're going with. Basically what you're looking into are sizable dragons, right? So you're looking into your very large red dragons, which essentially would just be Strahd. That's the biggest red dragon that anyone has any record of. You know it's not Strahd, so any mention of Strahd, it's like, eh, skip this part. White dragons, which most of the time are found predominantly farther north, like up near Drax Tomb, that type of stuff.

Kind of wasteland-y type things. And unless there's a freak occurrence, they're really not spotted anywhere further south than that. You might see them on the horizon in Winterhaven, something like that, but they don't bother towns and cities. They're mostly kind of passive. Black dragons, which are small and most of the time most-- they're extinct for the most part. And then blue dragons, which are found more in desert-type climates, and they don't grow to be crazy big. So a lot of basic dragon knowledge. And you're going to come to the conclusion that without getting a really good look at it, there's no legend or anything like that that would kind of lead you to a clear-cut conclusion.

So your options are chase after it and find out-- get a good look at it, which in the daylight would probably be very easy because if it's still-- if it's out and about, you're going to see the thing. Or try to forget about it and hope that it doesn't kill anything. I mean, are we-- I'm sorry, that wasn't in character. Am I even there? Maybe I'm not. Well, OK. Here's the thing. Are we dragon-capable? I mean, like, are we-- every time we've run into a dragon, it has not gone well. Yeah, that's what Arya would be thinking. Like, if it's that big and everything, that sounds scary.

It sounds real scary. So let's do this. Let's say that some time would go by, and shops would have opened up and stuff by now. And Tavina and Malkus went to go get some breakfast. They kind of brought back the equivalent of, like, your coffee and donuts-type thing, you know? Like, here's for research. And thank you. What's Theria's McGriddle? Oh, god. Well, OK. You're in Aubrey, so it would be this combination of, like, really thick cut of ham on, like, toasted bread with melted cheese and some eggs. Yeah. Oh, it's savory as fuck. Like, it's really savory. And then I, like, go by a pastry shop, and I throw out the bread, and I just put out, like, a pastry on either side.

A croissant, which-- Stick a donut on either side. Yeah, no, it's the donut burger. Right. And in theory, it's called the-- well, there's probably not going to be a tomorrow, so fuck it. So-- It's called the Three Dragons Special. That's canon. That is canon. It's called the I'm Not Making It to 30 Anyway. I love it. I love it. By the way, we've already had people commenting on the St. Louis sandwich. Oh, yeah, I saw that. That was kind of funny. In the forum? I believe so, yeah. We got a message or two about it, too. It's like, I need a picture. And they'd Google it, and it's like, why?

It's the worst spread. We already asked the question. So yeah, you guys would get back to the temple and find this trio kind of studiously looking things up. We come bearing breakfast. Any progress? Aria will kind of jump a bit. She was completely absorbed in the books and stuff. But so sort of look up and take a few seconds to sort of ground herself again. Breakfast frightening? Sorry, no, you startled me. Breakfast, that smells amazing. Have at it. Tell me what you know. She will kind of like she'll take a book with her while she goes to get the food. She has a finger in it to keep her place.

But then we're in between bites. We haven't really found anything specific about what it could have been. I mean, it's a bunch of stuff about dragons. There's a lot of stuff. I mean, if you're going to be traveling, it's pretty important to know about them, I guess. So it's kind of a lot of stuff to wag through. But she'll kind of shrug. Nothing like this is the giant noise that you heard last night in the sky. But so nothing less dragony that it could have been. No. And if it was a dragon of that size, it doesn't bode well for wherever it might be headed.

So, okay, it was to the south east? Yes. All right. So to me, so, okay, so we heard large flying thing, presumably a dragon. What to the southeast, though, would be large enough to make a metallic sound, though? Is there anything we can find that would help like narrow it down? Something that might specifically target said large metal item? Clear's words, Peek-Up. I don't know anything metal, or at least not that large. I either any like does anyone know of any like large metal towers or something? I mean, it would have to have been pretty big. The the sound wasn't the dragon itself, but like the thing.

Well, I would place it somewhere over the mountains, maybe as far as Esterhold. It depends on how big this thing actually is. And if no one got a really clear look at it, it's going to be tough to narrow it down. I can give you a list of options, but none of them would be good. And I'd hate to rush to conclusions. Yeah. I mean, we can we can stay here and you can continue studying if you like for the time being, or we can keep our ears and eyes open. If something more menacing and immediate comes of this, face it as we see fit. Where did you say you were going again?

Oh, we're headed back to Winterhaven. Oh, OK. I was kind of hoping you'd be heading south. Um. What what what's south? Well, whatever you heard sounded like it was southernly. I mean, it might be nice to get a good look at this thing and see what it is. I'd love to know more about it. But if you're not heading in that direction, it's fine. We could maybe maybe we can get someone to ride south and see if they could find something. The other thing, too, is if we do ride south and get a good look at it, we may not be riding back north if it's as large as it sounds and as large as we think.

Or if it is as large as it sounds, then you might not have to be that close to it to see it. Well, it's optimistic. The good news would be if it is a dragon of that size, it would probably think you're completely insignificant. You would be wrong. You know, like appetizers. She's going to give a little smile at that. But what I'm getting at is, I mean, if we're talking dragons here. We do not have the arsenal. No, I suppose not. I mean, if you're don't get me wrong. I've been part of a coalition before to get bigger things done. I'm not rejecting that premise.

But if it's just the three of us going in blind dragon. I mean, we're we're walking into trouble. Oh, gods, no, I that would not be a good idea at all. Four of us. I'm sorry, I didn't count Thea. Thea would just be sitting there kind of like kind of half paying attention to the conversation, just like looking at some of the more frightening images of dragons in the book. Well, there's really not much more I can do until we get some kind of description about it. So maybe maybe I'll ride down with someone eventually and we'll see if we can spot it from afar.

But there's really not much sense in keeping you guys here. If you do be careful. Wait, you guys, Malchus, you said that you had fought a dragon before? What was that like? Thea was going to start paying more attention. Thought would be generous. Got scattered by would be more accurate. But I've been in proximity to a dragon, yes. What what color was it? Where were you? It was a red dragon. Uh, I mean, it was it was terrifying. I mean, we've I've been through a lot adventuring around Theria, but this this was nothing that a small band of adventurers could hope to face down, at least no adventures I've ever met.

Wow. Self-included, as much as it pains me to say. Thea would speak up. We had some pretty heavy hitters in the party at the time, and we barely took it down and it kind of took one of us with them. Oh, I'm I'm sorry. That sounds horrible. Uh, if Thea would speak up, I would really rather not do that again if we could avoid it, maybe. At least not without greater numbers. That sounds like a very good idea. I'm not opposed to that. Perhaps we go to Winterhaven and assuming things go well there, we see if we can get in touch with anyone we used to know. Maybe get some more muscle behind our dragon hunt.

How much muscle? Much more than we have at the moment. Okay, that's a good idea then. Okay. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'd hate to see it. I'd hate to see it attack a village or city or anything like that. It's just if it's that big, I don't see what we're going to do against it. Right. We don't do anyone any good dead. You see, that's what I was thinking. Um, Thea's gonna start rocking forward like he wants to stand up and he's trying to get that momentum going. Um, Clarissa's gonna look at that like, "What are you doing?" Tavino reach over and yeah. She's like, "Come on, guy.

Come on." He'll give a really warm smile at Clarissa. It was really nice meeting you and we should probably be getting going then. Because not really equipped for a dragon hunt, but I hope you get a good look at it. And she's going to shake his hand. Aria will hand the book back to her. Thank you for helping us with that. Yeah, I do hope you managed to figure something out. Good luck and stay safe. It didn't sound good. Well, there's been a lot of excitement here recently, but I might need to get... I might need to run this past somebody before I make the trip, but hopefully I can go south and check this out.

And if you guys are ever back through, I can maybe give you some good news. What sort of excitement? Well, between the earthquake and the attacks, they've gotten a little worse. Aria will blink, link. Oh, vampires. Vampires? Yeah, kind of always been a thing here in town. It's okay, we can handle our own. I mean, it's very rare they actually come into town. And as long as you're not walking around out at night, it's not usually a problem. Well, keep that in mind then. Thanks, and good luck with everything. Thank you. You too. Good luck on your trip to Winterhaven.

I hope everything goes well. She'll smile. If you're really bound and determined to go after this dragon, just take every precaution. It's not a deed undertaken lightly. Trust me, I don't want to get anywhere near the thing. I just kind of wanted to see if I could get a better look at it. At least get a color, you know? Yeah. Oh goodness. Okay. Well, be safe, and we will follow up on things once we finish our business in Winterhaven. Well, I'll probably be here by then. And she's going to reach over and kind of hug Malchus really quickly. It's nice seeing you again.

Good seeing you too. Far too many people have scattered to the winds. It's nice to see someone familiar. And she's going to start packing up books and stuff and kind of get some of the larger ones on the table. You're not going to need them right now. So let me ask you guys a question. Are you pretty much just taking off for Winterhaven? Is this the big push or is there anything you'd like to do in town while you're here? Oh, god. Wait, is it daytime out? Because after the thing about the vampires, I don't think we should go out. It is very daytime. I would place it somewhere around like 9, 10 a.m. somewhere.

I'd say it's early morning still. Yeah, super early morning. That's beautiful. I would say that you guys could make the push to Winterhaven probably within the day here. It might be dusk depending on weather and stuff, how it treats you. But yeah, you should be getting there by nightfall. Okay, sounds good. That is if you take off now. It's up to you. Slowly able to really see the torches and the pitchforks. Like get that full suspense and everything. You are assuming a lot. Shall we load up into the Malchusmobile and take off? Sounds good. Okay. Thea would drive this time.

Thea would take a turn. Turbines to charge. Engage. La la la la la. Their four-year mission. To dodge blame wherever it arises. To cause chaos. To stay ahead of the problems they create. Who would like to do me a favor and roll a flat d20 to see how things go? Boom. Wow. I love you, Rob. You're my favorite. Wowza. 18. Holla. Funny story. 18 and the dragon on the list. Oh boy. Okay, you guys are gonna start riding. Wait, is it at least a really nice day? Yeah, it's actually, it's getting cooler out. It's definitely getting cooler. Because it's like early winter or something, right?

Yeah, it's a lovely little seasonal change. You guys can check it out on the Therian calendar on the website and stuff like that. But it's a lovely time to be an adventurer because you guys wear that heavy bulky armor and you know, you kind of always got to be at the ready, especially while traveling. And a nice cool breeze really helps with that. The dead of winter is not so fun, but we'll get to that eventually. I'm furry. Yeah, you're fine. Yeah, so you guys are going to continue to, you're going to leave from Aubrey and start your little wagon journey and you're going to be on the road for a couple of hours.

And I would like everybody to do me a favor and roll a perception check. Oh, that's nice. Oh shit. That's not your strong suit. Here it comes. Say what? Oh God. Oh wait. All right, Theo. Theo, yep. Let me get in. Theo. And what about Faye Wynn and the other horse? Your horse, your horses do not. Don't even remember their names. Vinny. Wow. 21 from Theo. Wow. All right. Get the top one for the rest of the night. You know what? I think you guys, I think this really just does prove breakfast is the most important. That's Vinji one's problem. No breakfasts. No breakfasts. We need to roll for bacon.

Exactly. Not a single roll for bacon. We haven't been living right. So you guys are going to, there's this lovely little winding path. It's kind of the scenic route, right? From Aubrey to Winterhaven, there's this gorgeous little bend in the path where the mountains are really in view. And it's a nice sunny day, just a bit overcast and gorgeous little breeze continuing to cut through the carriage here. And you guys, it is a cozy journey. Kind of sitting there in your voluptuous velour interior of this carriage as it gently rocks back and forth. And you hear the clip clop of your two horses carry you along.

I Instagram it #soblessed. Question. Jason, since Tavine does so, could she be fixing the stitching? It would be some effort, yeah, but you could get it done. It's not like we're doing anything else. Well, let's see. Okay. If she's fixing the stitching while we're riding, Malkus is sitting on the other side and he's looking over her shoulder, to the left and to the right. Because in his mind, he can't imagine big sausagey minotaur fingers doing stitching well. And so he's just like, he is watching with skepticism, but he's not stopping. Wow, that's racist.

Thanks. Thanks. All right. How big are the needles? What is it? Just like, so with chopsticks? Knitting needles. I'm like, yeah. So, okay, this is interesting because what we wanted to implement now for a while is a crafting type system, because there are characters like Orden and yourself who have some sort of like secondary, like they have a skill type of thing. And since the skills in the game don't really directly correlate to that, we've had to sort of adopt a different thing. So it's kind of a combination of things. So while you're working on that, I'll come back to you in just a bit and I'm going to ask you for a role.

But let's just say that while you guys are traveling, Tavine is going to be kind of ripping out old stitching and working on some new here and fixing stuff up. The outside of the carriage can be worked on in time. About two hours into your journey, Theo is going to tilt his head and sort of call back. Hey guys. Yeah, what's up? I think you might want to see this. Question. Yes. Does the carriage have a sunroof that we can pop out of? Might be easier for some of us than others. I would say unless that was something in Malchus's original design, I don't think that that would have been because of the Eleven.

I don't think that those let's call those optional accessories that might not have been purchased at the dealership. All right. Tavine will not lean out of sight because she doesn't want to tip. Malchus will crane his head out of sight. Okay. Yeah, so are you. And Theo is going to be pointing toward the mountains here, like toward that general. And there are several large hilltops and sitting on top of one of the hilltops, you're just going to be able to make this. Well, some of you are just going to be able to make this out. I would say actually Theo would have just been able to make this out.

Everyone else would very clearly see a warband of orcs sitting on top of horses, very large horses, and they're far enough away that you can tell they're just kind of staking out the area. Like they're looking for something, but they're looking down and the odds of them not seeing you are kind of slim. But you're going to see them well before they would be right on top of you. Now, here's what we're going to do. Okay. I want to get the party's input on this first before any roles are to be established, whether or not these orcs see you for sure. But what would the party's reaction to that be?

Oh, by the way, let's see. 3227. Arya and Tevin are going to get a very clear count and it looks to be seven orcs. And so they're between us and Winterhaven? They're kind of over to the side here, way off the road, up on top of a hill. But if they did see you and decide to ride after you, it could be quite the harrowing chase to Winterhaven. Did Theo stop? No, not yet. Okay, then Arya is going to call out, not like scream, but like, Theo, can you stop the carriage, please? Yeah, sure. Sure. And he's going to pull back on the reins. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Kind of friendly.

Like, just, you know, and the carriage is going to stop. These orcs are going to be just a bit ahead of you, but way off to the right here in the north. So what do we do about that? For reference, what does Tevin, like, does she know anything really about orcs? Well, let's see. Okay. Give me history check on orcs. Every actually, Malkus knows. Malkus knows. Let me get that big old plus four for... I'm going to add a plus three to Malkus's roll because you have had orc experience. And let's get that big, sexy plus four from Theo. No. That's an eight. Arya would have some limited...

Okay, Tevin would know orcs as a concept, basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those things that we all kind of avoid. They don't really have a town or city to call their own. They have a civilization, but we just all know to avoid them. That's kind of what Tevin would know. Arya would know just a little bit more in that they have a very large encampment somewhere above Donhurst, and again, there is a very good reason the forest, the Deadwood, is called the Deadwood in the Divide, because it is famous for orc raids and people, merchants specifically, caravans getting caught in that.

Malkus would know them as, from his experience, being pretty much purely savage, almost completely unable to be reasoned with, bartered with, diplomasized. They will hurt themselves to show strength to outsiders. They hurt each other to gain a leg up for power or leadership, something like that. They are pretty much unrestrained rage. Yeah. A question. So Arya knows that they're usually around Donhurst, this is far away enough from that where it would be kind of odd, right? Oh, yes. Okay. So what are orcs doing here? I thought they were usually more to the east.

It's unsettling no matter why they are where they are. I've never found an opportunity to parlay with orcs. Is there any way we could double back a bit and go a slightly different route or something? That doesn't look good. There's very few of them. Perhaps they're on a patrol of some kind. Maybe we can hang back and keep an eye on them for a moment, see if they move off. Do you want me to just stay still? Let's pull the carriage back out of view, and then maybe we can creep forward and look around a tree or a hillside. Okay. Thea is going to look around and there is kind of a small package of bushes and trees and stuff like that, where it might be possible to just sort of pull around and maybe hide back there.

And it's about 50, 60 yards away somewhere in there. So it's just like kind of bring the horses around and park. So here's what's going to happen. We're going to do a flat D20 dice roll. Oh no. On a 14 or higher, these orcs are not going to see you. And you will just kind of take things from there. That's super duper unlikely. On a one through 13, they will spot you and will take things from there. We ready guys? You're rolling it? Sure. One of you guys could roll it if you'd like. If you don't trust my dice. Jason rolls. I'd let's blame it on him if we have to blame it on anyone.

Wow. I think that sounds fair. All right, here we go. We're praying for anything over 13, guys. 14. So 14, holy shit. Bad belief. Theo's going to pull this carriage around and he is going to pull behind these bushes and trees and such, and he's just going to park. So I guess we're just kind of hoping they go away. Everyone just stay back for a moment. And Malchus will basically just move literally to the lip of whatever hillside or the edge of whatever tree and just one eyeball around from as far away as humanly possible, just to see how they behave over the next few minutes.

Aria is also going to kind of... I assume Malchus got out of the carriage. Yeah, yeah. Oh, no, no, no. He's not in the carriage with him. Yeah, but that's... I thought you just never said... Yeah, so she'll also get out and also be like... Just her eyes do not sway from the orcs. Like she's watching them very closely. Is Theo already in all of his armor? While riding, he kind of took off the bulkier, like the legs and chest piece type of thing. That's a good idea. Yeah, he's trying to reduce it, but he's figuring it's like, well, we're in the carriage. Nothing.

Yeah. All right, Tevin would probably try to be quiet and maybe like, "Hey, do you want to put armor on just in case?" And he's thinking like, "Yeah, yeah, let's do that." Okay, she'll help him put it on and get him okay in case we didn't hide successfully. Right. All right, so while you're doing that, let's have Aria and Malchus roll a perception check. I'm on it already. All right. Nice. 35, baby. Nice. It's a good thing I also decided to look at the orcs. You know what it is? It's those elven eyes. That's... There you go. Aria and Malchus are gonna be kind of like...

Kind of like... I picture like wartime type thing, like just kind of like crouched down next to a hill and just like, you know... And Malchus is going to still see the grouping of orcs down off their horses now. And there is movement. Aria is going to see where there is clearly a larger one in charge of this crew. And he is sort of shouting orders to the other ones, and it looks as though they are hammering something into the ground. Uh... Just... That is so fucking weird. Something is up here. And after a few minutes go by, what it looks like they're hammering into the ground is some sort of flag.

Like something to denote that perhaps they're claiming this territory or they're either... It's either something to signify for people to stay away or this is intent for them to... It's like this is ours now. And I just like thinking like as Aria trying to piece this together. So like Donhurst is like away away. Miles away. It's not like connected at all. So like that's like very... This is weird. And as... Here's the thing. As quick as Orcs would be to expand territory and like they don't care about peace treaties. They don't care about other people's land.

This is like if they think they could take it, this is ours. But this is not a large force and this is not... This is really like way outside their jurisdiction if they have some. So it's very strange to see. Aria is also going to see... This would be miles back from where you guys were. There is another small caravan setting out from Aubrey. But it would be a while before they would be in any direct danger from the Orcs. Once they finish hammering in their flag, do they move on or do they just like hang out? It actually looks like they're settling in. Oh, okay.

So once she sees that, Aria will kind of tug Malgus and like motion back towards the group because we need to talk about shit. Yeah, he'll follow. That's fine. Okay, so I sort of moved up again. So I have no idea what they're doing, but they put like a flag in the ground and it doesn't look like they're going anywhere. And then she'll kind of motion back towards Aubrey, towards the caravan. So I don't know what we want to do. Do we have maps where we can see what the next shortest route around this is? Sure. Well, I mean, there's the general map, but yeah.

You... Let me see. There's kind of one big road that would connect Aubrey and Winterhaven because it's the most direct route. That being said, you can go off the beaten path. There would be... You could travel alongside the river and just cut through 10,000 horns and then head to the nearest road that would just connect to Winterhaven, which would just go straight north. It's way out of the way and it obviously would take some extra time, but it's totally doable. Are we closer to Winterhaven or closer to Aubrey at this point? Let me rephrase that. Between those two towns, whose turf are we on?

Does Winterhaven have larger reach and would this be... Winterhaven's a huge city and would have a larger reach and has stepped in to provide protection for Aubrey in the past, especially after this whole big war thing that just happened. They're sort of indebted to everybody in the surrounding vicinity. So yeah, that kind of... It's sort of... You're much closer to Aubrey, but it sort of falls under the jurisdiction of Winterhaven. And how did... Did you see how big the caravan was? It would have been one wagon and two horses up in front of it. Like the two horses pulling the wagon and then two additional horses in front.

Not really big, but I just... I don't understand what the orcs are doing. This is so far away from where you usually see them and then they're like claiming territory or something. So there's seven of them and I saw one bigger one. I mean, I'm pretty sure that was in charge, but it just doesn't make any sense. I mean, especially if we just heard that there's vampires in this area, but none of this adds up. Malchus kind of looks off into the distance for a minute and then he turns back to the party and he says, "This would be within the reach of Winterhaven's responsibility.

And as far as I know, my knighthood was never revoked until I know otherwise. Yeah, I say we ride forward and if they come at us, we fight." We fight in defense of Winterhaven. Yeah, we can't let other people like that caravan just run into the orcs, but should we maybe leave the wagon here until we know for sure they're not going to fight us? I don't know what the best option is. Thea would raise his hand just like he had a question. Big guy. I've only heard stories about orcs, but it wasn't really a problem in Brightpoint. So how likely are they to attack?

In my experience, 100 percent. Oh. Do they attack specifically for money or do they attack for honor? Like what do you know what maybe drives their motivations? Why does a why does a rock slide fall on something? Orcs attack out of, yes, sometimes to loot and do, you know, enjoy the spoils, but also just out of pure savagery, out of the glorification of violence. Okay, so we would... Sorry. Just go, just go. All right. So we'd be no other likely target than the caravan or, you know, a band of 10 armored guards, basically, everybody's equal gain. Unless something were to look so big, furious and powerful that it struck fear into them, perhaps.

Well, do you think maybe combining with that other caravan could help us? I well, if they do attack, then we might be putting them into danger. Did they look like I'm assuming I couldn't tell that, like, if just out of curiosity, could I tell if they look like they had weapons or anything? It looked like the two horses up front were there for maybe like kind of provide a little protection or a little mobility, something like that. So it's not just a big fat, you know, carriage driving around. But no, no, maybe you're right. If we could group up with them, leave the vulnerable stuff here.

They did seem to have at least one or two people that might be able to fight and that could help. How far away are they? Again, they were a few miles back from where you were. So they'd be catching up, like, within the next half hour, something like that. I could wait half an hour. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. You have nothing else to at least stop them and don't let them go through. And if they want to lend fighters to the cause, we'll, yeah, I mean, we'll go up and we'll, well, because here's my other thought. My other thought is like, if we're just like riding along and they don't charge down the hill to attack us, which I think they will, but if they don't, they haven't done anything wrong yet.

Yeah, yeah, we don't want to... You don't want to just murder orcs for the sake of murder. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, we're not, we're above orc murdering. Not far, but above. Also, I would suggest if we're going to meet up with this other caravan, we go towards them because if we had to pass a check of 14 for the orcs not to see us... That's true. I'm just like, like, like, they're just, I mean, thinking from like in character, this is going to be like, this does feel a bit close to be, and we don't want the orcs to spot them too. So like, maybe if we just, I don't know, but like, I feel like we should like go towards them as well.

Like, not just... They've got altitude, they've got a vantage point, like they've got a pretty good view of things. Yeah, it feels too risky for the biscuit. Yeah, we can, we can walk it back a little ways and kind of tag them before they get here and yeah, let's do that. Yep, yep. All right. So are we taking our carriage back that direction or are we just going on foot? Okay. Tevin would offer to drive so that Theo is free to be clunky. At all. He would pile into the back with everyone else. I feel like Arya would be like glued to the window by the way. Oh, I, I, yeah, I would imagine it's something everyone would be keeping an eye on.

So who wants a fun, who wants some fun facts about orcs while we're, while we're going back toward the, towards the other caravan here? Are these like loading screen tips? Yeah, like, it's like, it's like the Skyrim, like, here's a character model of an orc and here's some things you might want to know. So the smallest orcs that would be designated, like worthy of traveling with, with the large orcs from the encampment, you're, you're still floating around the, the six and a half foot range and they're usually, these are the smallest ones, they're usually around 250 to 300 pounds of like lean like muscle.

Like these guys are, you know, pretty, pretty big. They are bred to fight. That is their entire purpose. Male and female alike. That is what they do. The largest orcs in that encampment tend to float around the 7'3 to 7'6 region and they are about 350 to 400 pounds of just solid muscle. They will in, to intimidate if they're just trying to scare somebody off their territory, they will hurt themselves to show how powerful and strong, basically in a sense showing you it's like, if I'm willing to do this to me, think about what I'm willing to do to you. That is the closest thing to diplomacy an orc usually will, will put forward.

Especially if you don't speak orcish and are outside of their, outside of their, you know, their encampment, their tribe. Orkans, the big orc encampment is made up of many different little orc tribes that have come together. Their leader is chosen through a series of nasty bits of combat. Basically at the end of several weeks, whoever's left alive that is put in for orc leadership is the leader and that leader is the leader until it is either dead or someone else beats them. Their, their combat style is pretty much all in. They don't really use shields.

They don't, they don't, they don't really believe in magic so much, which doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's just that for the most part, they would put their, they would put their, their, their, their trust in a big ass axe or sword or hammer, something like that. They tend to use two handed weapons or come at you with something like two regular size weapons. It is all go, no quit, swing, swing, swing, swing, swing. They do not retreat once they're in combat. Usually they don't, it is pretty much just a hundred percent bull charge at you. So just fun facts, just something you might want to know.

And that is all stuff that would have been through the history check. Theo wouldn't know any of this, so I didn't know if that would be something that's like "Fio, fun fact!" Like, I feel like we shouldn't tell Theo. I feel like that's more of the, maybe like after if we all live and we beat their asses just to make him feel even better about himself. But like right now, it's kind of like, keep that on the down low. Right. So after, I would say after about 15, 20 minutes, this caravan is going to come into view. And they're going to be, they're going to be two humans, one male, one female riding horses ahead of this, ahead of this wagon.

Everyone else do me a favor, actually, everyone do me a favor, rule of perception check. Yeah, yeah. Don't screw this up, Theo. Nice. Not terrible. There is a dwarf driving this carriage forward, and it's gonna, the carriage itself is gonna sound like there's a lot of large, like metallic objects kind of rummaging around, just kind of shaking and stuff in the back of his carriage. And before you get near them, he's going to stop and the two humans are going to ride forward and kind of like stop in the middle of the way. Malchus gets out and extends his open hands to show that he's not wielding anything.

Okay, good. Yeah, this is pretty standard, by the way, in general, just like, you here to kill us? No? Okay, cool. Hey, how you doing? Malchus extends his open hand, which can totally not summon a sword on him. Yeah, that's what they don't know can't hinder diplomacy. Just kind of, I'm not a warlock. So they would, they would stop and the man is going to jump off of his horse and walk forward just a bit. Can I help you with anything? We spotted you behind us and orcs ahead. They've got a high vantage point. We figured we should warn you. Orcs? This far west? We were surprised as well.

He's going to immediately start craning his neck around. Where exactly? Uh, Malchus explains where they were. I don't know how to say it. Right, no, it's yes. I should have having the map on and I don't want to load it up because I think we've done that on this table before and everything died. Yeah, everything might have happened. That might have been the thing that happened. And years later, there's a Kelsey still saying, "What did you say?" Nothing, if not the salt in the wound. So pointing it out, he's going to turn around and signal to his partner and she is going to ride back to explain that to the dwarf in the carriage.

Why does it look like they're setting up camp? Our question as well. We thought we might see if you could lend an additional hand if you had any capable fighters with you. I'm a Knight of Winterhaven and Malchus kind of like straightens up as he says it. It's my duty to protect this trade road. Since when? I've been making this trip back and forth from Brightport for years now and there's never been a dedicated protector. Well, no, I don't mean dedicated, but I mean, I'm a knight. I see a problem. I'm preparing to solve it. Oh, well, my name is Ville. Rocka, Rocka Kinreaver.

And he kind of like looks back at the party like, just go with it. Pulling out the old alias. It's not a bad idea. That's my partner, Leia. We were hired actually from Brightport to escort this lovely dwarf all the way across the Divide, which has been an adventure in and of itself. Hopefully you're being paid well. Not well enough if you ask me, but I'm not the one who negotiated the deal. So, is Winterhaven your final destination? As far as we're going, yeah. No. We'll try to make it a safer trip. Are you willing to assist us? If we have to, if we're under direct assault.

Yeah, we're not planning on going into the hills and attacking them yourselves, though, are you? If need be. My initial plan was to ride forward and see if they charge down to attack us, but after some consideration that seemed so likely that we had best inform you first. Well, my main concern would be, and please don't take offense, we appreciate the assistance, but your carriage may attract some attention that we might not have gotten on our own. We can leave it back while we deal with the issue. Let me consult with my partner really quickly and see what she wants to do.

And, and Rocka, I'd like to speak with you a moment. I'll be back with my party. And he's going to, he's going to walk back here. So my concern about leaving the carriage behind is, let's say we get up there, we start walking past and they let us walk on by, how awkward is it going to be to go, Oh, hold on. I forgot my carriage in the bushes. True. We may be better off just facing them directly. I think that's going to be our best approach because if they don't attack, we just go on our way, come back later with maybe a few more people, or if they do attack, we just deal with it then.

I like it. When he comes back, come up there with me. You can chime in and we'll look like a intelligent, organized operation. Like a good cop, bad cop? More like a... Minotaur and a tiefling. Like knights. Okay. I can do that. By the way, Rocka? And she's going to put her hands up like the shrug. Like what? You know, I'm reluctant to say my real name the closer we get to Winterhaven until I know how I'm received. Okay. Thanks for understanding. I will do my best to not mess it up. I trust you to be. Ville would be walking back here and sort of meet in the middle, just if you guys are walking back.

Yeah. My partner brings up an interesting point. Essentially, how awkward would it be if we did get past and you would have to come back for your carriage? So she says, why don't you just bring it along and we'll deal with whatever comes up along the way. Best case scenario, we get through, they don't look at us as a threat, don't want anything that we might be dragging along, and we get to Winterhaven together. Does that sound all right? I like it. Strength in numbers. I don't think the dwarf is going to be much of a asset in combat if it does come up, but we'll lend a hand.

Would you like us to take up the rear or the front? Oh, sorry. This is Tavine. I'm Vilna, full name. Nice to meet you. Just hold out her hand. Wait, wait, did he just say Vilna full name? That's not his last name. No, I mean, Vilna, he introduced himself as Vil. Vilna is... Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. I thought that was his last name. Vilna full name. Good to meet you. Pretty fake name, but okay. We got this guy, not sure. I'm Francis Glitterbox. That's how you know I've truly given up. All right, so he said we would be in front of them or behind them. I'm sorry. Um, he would offer to ride side by side.

Like, if we're going to provide... Like, people who can fight sort of up front. Um, may I make another suggestion? That the dwarf's carriage rides on the side away from the orcs as if we were to go past them? Uh, yeah, that would be... Yeah, they'd be fine with that. Okay. I'm okay with continuing with this plan. All right, let's rally up. And Malkus actually goes back to Arya for a moment. Okay. She's been kind of like half paid attention to the conversation, but mostly like, still looking back just to, you know, be super extra safe and everything and keep eyes out.

But yeah, she'll glance at him as he approaches. Well, it's showtime. Are you a fighty one or do you want to guide the carriage while Theo, Tevine and I fight? I can fight if we have to. Glad to hear it. I guess we'll plan on just stopping our carriage if the case comes to it? I mean, they've got the dwarf to drive theirs. It's not a perfect situation. They also, the orcs had mounts, so I mean, even if they do come at us, they could probably chase down the carriage anyway. So it's probably best to just make our stand. Agreed. And I would like to drive and just kind of stick a hand up because it's not very easy getting in and out of carriage for somebody of my height.

So if I'm already out on the front, then we'll be good. Also, I'm ranged, so. Question, Jason. Have we noticed Theo having difficulty getting in and out of the carriage when we've been shooting that? Getting out isn't so hard because you just kind of like jump out of it. Yeah, climbing into it is a little harder. It's like, you don't have to worry about that. Yeah. Just give him a boot to the back. Like, have you ever done that fire bus safety? That's fire bus. The school bus fire drill safety thing? Chinese fire drill? Yes. So you get out and run around the car at the stoplight?

Yes. No. Exactly. So picture, yeah, picture something like that where it's just kind of like jumping out of the back. So it's kind of a drop, but not, yeah, it's not terrible. So then once they've got their plan settled, Malchus kind of looks to see if like the other team is close enough to hear them and he's like, all right, then we've got our plan. Positions. Just like projecting nightly authority as much as he possibly can. He sounds like a movie director. You guys are going to ride forward and minutes are going to tick by. Who would like to do me a favor and roll a flat d20?

Oh, it stands. I'm ready. My body is ready. Okay. No, I thought that was a one at first. Okay. That's not. That looked like a one on the dice roll. That was like, I mean, you heard me. Worship favors the bold. I'm ready. I'll pass that as a one. It's seven, but it's not. We're fucked. We're fucked. Oh, God. Don't jinx it. Man, Jason, this theory of thing is really traumatized. Kelsey, I feel bad. Like, I feel like there's going to be therapy for years. Oh, that's the root word for therapy. There. It's just language at work. Minutes are going to tick by nervous silence minutes as the clattering of horse hooves sort of rattle along, and these carriages are going to rock.

Well, yours is a little more gentle than the dwarf's carriage, which is kind of noisy, packed to the gills with things. Looks like he's transporting a lot of stuff. And you can hear the carriage. You can hear that carriage sort of off to the side. You are taking up all of the road, by the way. So this road is wide enough that another caravan coming in the opposite direction normally would be able to travel by and you'd pass. That would not be the case right now, whereas you guys are sort of taking up the entirety of the road. Another 40 minutes are going to pass here, and you are going to hear a horn sound in the distance as one of these orcs is going to blurt out a battle cry, and they are going to start to ride aggressively down from that hilltop and make a beeline for this new caravan.

So these orcs are going to ride in from this hill, and as they're barreling in, the orc warlord here is going to be in the lead. Obviously, he is the biggest, strongest of these guys, at least looks-wise. He's going to come riding in and in one swift motion is going to sort of like swing his leg over the side of his horse and just sort of like hit the ground running. And the entire party is going to feel the impact of this orc hit the ground. Beyond all these horses riding in, it's distinct. It's thump. And it's going to resonate. As he hits the solid dirt and mud, you're going to hear it.

I would like everybody to do me a favor and roll initiative. [SINGING] Yeah, that was pretty good. [LAUGHTER] Wow, that was... [LAUGHTER] Oh, yeah! [LAUGHTER] [GRUNTING] Theo? Everyone else. Working on it now. Oh, god. Let's do the team first. Let's do that. Oh, well, these look scary. Wow! He is itching for a fight. Ready. Okay. Theo! Let's go, Theo. Whoa! All right, respectable. Let's do the rest of these. Orcs here. And the warlord. Wow. Okay. Okay. So right now, combat-wise, this is not terrible. Oh, Malchus. This is not terrible. Malchus and Devine. Okay. Are experienced warriors here, really.

I'm not an experienced warrior. [LAUGHTER] I know. I just moved up, so you're more experienced than I am. Yeah, I was just sitting there, and I was like, maybe somebody's gonna roll below my initiative. Oh, their initiative modifier is my initiative. These guys are bred for fighting. That is what they do. Yeah. Malchus is more adventurer of leisure. Like, if fighting has to happen. Let's see. Vil is going to take a more standoffish approach. Like, the best defense is a good offense type of thing. And sprint forward right here. And he is going to attack the warlord.

Oh, that would help if... Boop. There we go. And he has this big fucking halberd he is going to be wielding. And he is going to try and jab it into the warlord. And he is going to roll... Oh, that's 27. That'll hit. 22 damage. Nice. So as this warlord is just running forward, he's going to jab this halberd into the gut of the warlord. And it's gonna cause him to bleed. Like, it is a pretty good attack. Not bloody, but like, yeah, it's gonna cut him open. He's cool. He's real cool. Uh, let's see. Orc mercenary number two is going to do the exact same thing as the warlord and just leap off the horse and run in.

Almost as if they're looking at these horses as a hindrance. Like, it would slow them down in combat. Which is not the approach most people would take. He's going to charge forward and attack... Attack... Attack Vil. And use a greataxe. And miss. Ooh. Which brings up Theo. Oh no. And oh no, I see how this is gonna go down. Oh no, Theo! Theo is going to look back to the party. Uh, and just sort of... Kind of like, move forward here? Uh, and he's going to sort of bang on his shield a bit just to try and get, like, get someone's attention. Just... No! No! That'll bring up orc ruffian number two.

Who will accept Theo's challenge? No! This orc is going to level his gaze at Theo. And, uh, this... So he's got this big fucking club, right? And he is just going to point at Theo and scream his head off and run charging at Theo. Let's see what happens. One, two, three, four. He's going to get right to Theo, target Theo. That is going to miss. So Theo's going to raise his shield at the last minute and just, blam, catch all of this club. And he's going to, like, stumble back just a bit because the sheer strength of these things is ridiculous. Oh my gosh, real quick.

Can, can Theo's theme song be that "I don't care, I love it"? That'd be the greatest. I crashed my car into the bridge. I don't care. I don't even know that song. I know. There's a lot of, like, electronica stuff behind it. And Rob, it's a really interesting remix. I just got going on it. Okay, so somebody knows what I'm talking about. Yes, I know what you're talking about. Okay, good, good. It's like Jason's just uncultured. That's- I'm totally- I'm not cool. Tostitos, that was their, like, theme song for a while. Well, if it's the theme song for Tostitos. [laughter] Um, the orc warlord is going to...

Hmm. First of all, he's going to be very fucking pissed that this plebe here stabs him. He's going to move forward. Tilted. Reported. And he has this huge double-bladed war axe, right? And he's going to raise it above his head, scream out, and sort of inspire the troops here, right? And he's going to use something called Inspire Bloodlust. Oh, that doesn't sound good. Until the end of his next turn, all orcs within his eyesight are going to get a +2 to attack rolls. Good! Good! And that'll be his miner. That's an encounter power, though. So that's a thing for you guys.

And he is going to use Sweeping Assault, essentially taking two attacks. One against Vil, so let's do that first. And 25 is going to hit, and the second one is going to be against Theo. So here we go. Oh, god. Oh, sorry. Don't look at the-- The crit doesn't count. [panting] Okay, okay. No, the crit doesn't count. Okay, so he was still targeting. Let's first resolve the one against Vil, and that will be 18 damage from the battle axe. So he's going to swing and just slice into the back here of Vil, and keeping that momentum, he's just going to rotate around with one hand and just level at the chest of Theo.

And this axe is going to just run headlong into his armor and cut into Theo here. And that will be 19 damage to Theo. Arya, your turn. Okay, I'm going to do something that's probably going to be real dumb, and it's going to go real badly. Okay, let's go. Okay, so from the start of the battle, so when the orcs started, Arya's eyes went white again, like Tevinter saw last session. That's what happened. And then when Theo is attacked and everything, she is going to run up right next to the guy. And how exactly does this work? And she's basically going to kind of fling both of her hands out in front of her, and this crackle of yellow energy is going to hang this thing out from the other arm.

Good to use. Okay, so you're going to target the warlord. Then... Fuck my life. - Anyway. - Oh my god. Okay. Never mind. And it's just going to go... You have an action point. You have two, actually. Yeah, actually I have two. I feel like I should go ahead and take that because that fucking sucked. I'm really leaning a crit miss on my first attack. So that yellow energy is going to crackle and just land against this orc warlord and nothing. I wish... Like... It's gonna... And so when that happens, so her eyes are going to kind of go wide and she's... Wait, does anything happen on my action point?

Or... If you pop an action point for you, any of your... Yeah, you could pick one encounter power and that would recharge automatically. Sweet! So the one I just used up is going to automatically... I kind of figured, yeah. Nice. Okay. So then she's gonna have like real back of it in shot but then go right back in and instead of both hands just one hand making a fist and hopefully... - That'll fucking hit. - That'll hit. And so that will hit. And so that is a force punch. And that means he's going to take this amount of damage and he's going to be knocked back three spaces.

Nice. Okay. - Surprise. - Yeah. Now we know what she is. - So that'll be 10 damage. - Yeah. - This orc... - I know I'm gonna get Mcfucked. - We'll see. - That's a result of being bloodied. Not bloodied. No, no, no. So he's gonna take this the first time like that yellow energy crackling and stuff like that and he's just gonna take it. The second time she's gonna reel back punch him and he is going to slide back three squares and dig his feet into the dirt and the entire time just these deep grooves are going to fall back and he's gonna just kind of look shocked for half a second and then readjust focus his eyes at her and then just start to like level his axe and just like you can tell like he's about to do something terrible like just criminal.

It was really dumb but that's what she would have done so I had to do it. It's like fucking god I'm gonna die. - Orc mercenary number one is going to run up to Theo. Target and use his great axe. That will most certainly hit. - Okay. - 19 damage! That'll bloody Theo. Orc ruffian is going to circle around and come up on the side of Vil here. That is a crit! 12 damage! - Okay. - Uh Jesus okay Leia's gonna see where Vil is in trouble. Run up to give him some backup here. Target the ruffian and she's got this really highly polished sword. Black hilt to it. Gleaming fucking gleaming sword.

And she's going to whip it around and aim at this orc ruffian's neck. That is a crit! - Yes! - Dies are hot tonight. - Holy shit she is going to lop this orc's head clean off. - I'm in love. - Hey! - I love her. She's best is good. - Are you fangirling Kelsey? - Yes. I want her to chop my head off in this feldsail. - Oh wow. - Whoa. She's got really weird. - Let me see, ruffian number three. One, two, three, four, five, six. So I'm gonna kind of take a wide stance and then whip this hand axe at Tevin. - Oh you bastard. - Wow. - That's mean. - 24 will hit. - Damn. - They have big attack modifiers.

- 13 damage. - Does that automatically go? - No. - Is that right? Yeah I did it. Yeah so this, so he's just gonna whip this small kind of like hatchet at Tevin and it's just gonna like blam right in her arm. Oh wow all of these orcs are pretty much going before, oh man okay. - Yeah. - And let's see one, two, three, four, five. He's going to run up to Malkus. Target, great axe. That'll hit. 14 damage to Malkus. Okay all right. And Malkus's turn. Your rebuttal sir. Yeah. He's gonna do something real cool then initiate me last. - D&D hat. - Second to last. - Just like to note things, second to last.

- Okay I guess I can't whine. - I have the honor of going last. Okay in that case we're gonna need to stand up. - What you gonna murder? - Yeah I'm just, you know what let's go ahead. I will minor action pop Emerald Shield so my AC and reflex go up by two. So that's active and now when people hit me bad things happen but not that guy because he got there early. By the way yeah every time you say Orc Ruffian I think Mark Ruffalo. And I can't help it. Well you wouldn't like him when he's angry. Yeah yeah it's kind of the same idea. Okay you control click to target and take no I haven't targeted that's not target.

That's a space what am I doing? Control click. Control. All things considered being the first combat in ages I'm impressed it's going this well. It's going smoothly. We're not dead yet. So we popped off the Emerald Shield and then I'm gonna do my encounter. Which is Blazing Doom of the Void. Oh I just need one more level to get stronger. It's always cool. Okay so if he's targeted I should just be able to click. - Crits ladies and gentlemen. - I should just like walk out the door in the morning and crit. - You just like fucking crit. Just like whatevs. Dude the dice are hot tonight what the hell.

Don't jinx it before I go please. Malchus retroactively shouts for Winterhaven before he does that because that'd be cool. Yes. So what is this like a like a sword swing or like what is he doing? Oh Blazing Doom doesn't have its descriptive text. Well then you give it some description. Oh well it says this must use my Blade of Annihilation. So you know my like Blade of Annihilation like I spring it in my hands like all shadows and stuff and it's like he's real shadowy but then when I do Blazing Doom of the Void he does that kind of thing you know like they do in the anime where you hold the sword across in front of your face and then you move your hand up the blade and like burst into flame.

That's what Blazing Doom looks like in the animes. Yep. So he puts the Blazing Doom of the Void on the shadow sword. So now it's shadowy Blazing Doom of the Void and then he swings it and it like because the sword's made of shadow it doesn't connect with armor it tests his fortitude so it just like carves into his resilience with uh with fire and shadow. So this is like I picked your Voltron that last swing of Voltron like yeah it's like why didn't you use that in the beginning but they always wait 22 minutes to do that. You gotta charge you gotta power it up.

So what you do is you press shift you know you hold shift and then press that first blood drop. Hold shift and press it? Yep that that gives you crit damage. Oh okay. Because you crit. Yeah. Holy shit! 35 damage. 35 damage! You cut into it it's gonna bloody this orc. Nice. Yeah. And I have a plus five to my next. So wow okay Jesus yes you got a lot of stuff going on with you. I do. Yeah. But the table keeps track of it so. Okay. This orc is gonna stagger back and just just like he was not expecting that shit like you I mean don't take offense you kind of look a little foofy like a little frilly to be out here like in the muck like fighting so he's not expecting he's not expecting like this rough and tumble he's he's expecting like an aristocrat kind of like between the carriage and then your your outfit he's expecting someone a little like you're not you're not here to fight like and then you do that shit and he's like oh you are here to fight.

And Malchus shouts now do you know what it is to fear you savage. Yeah. He will not. No. Tevinne. Tevinne. All right so. I'd like to I don't want to interrupt I just want to take a second like this is Tevinne's first like it Tevinne's been on the show forever first combat no pressure. Stepping after the plate in her first game. Yep. Straight up to the minus. She's gonna be you know kind of summoning making you know little words in elven and I need a token for my dog. It's a pupper. And I want to put it right in front of Aria Aria sorry for trying it. That's so nice of you thank you that's really helpful.

So I imagine it kind of like you know this like blue swirling kind of like mist starts and then slowly forms into like you know the shape of like a big shaggy dog. We don't have a dog on the table right yet so let's just use a wolf. Okay so that's her her spirit companion. And then she is actually going to continue mumbling in elven and right I can't ping on the map in the stars and nuts but right in front of the orc warlord. A like dark shadowy figure is going to like spring up from the ground as she's casting spirit of autumn's reaping. And then you roll a three.

And it misses. And it misses yes. Okay so it does half damage still. Whoa hey okay. All right so let me see and then me and each ally within 10 squares are going to regain five hit points. Nice temper regular. Regular. Oh okay sweet so that's everybody around you that's all your allies. Okay all my allies. Nice oh Theo thank you so much. I almost gave I almost there you go. I also almost gave the warlord back some hit points guys. Let's look at that. I want to think I'm going to use my action point. Which means oh shoot where did it go? Okay uh when I spend an action point to take an extra action each ally adjacent to my spirit companion can teleport two squares as a free action.

Cool story bros. You can all rearrange. So if anybody wants to teleport two squares as a free action you can. Right now? That's I'm using. A free action yeah. Well I guess I'm the only uh to any of the NPCs. I don't think they would. That's their job. And then yeah I guess I mean well okay if say a giant orc came charging at me right now would the the you can't go through my bear. Awesome yeah okay then I'm good. And then on Theo uh okay control click him I guess and I'm gonna go ahead and cast blessing of the iron tree on him. Okay wait a second one second okay that's for the action point okay cool.

Okay Ville is going to stab at the orc mercenary in front of him. Let's see let's untap these guys and orc mercenary. Using that halberd one more time that's a hit. 17 damage to the mercenary and orc mercenary is going to respond in kind with a great axe swing and that'll hit. 15 damage. Theo oh boy uh. Theo's gonna raise his sword and just sort of he's going to try and take a nice big broad swing at this orc ruffian which is the well the warlord was the last thing to try to really you know get at him but the uh the ruffian is is the last one to charge so he's gonna try and slash at it and crit ladies and gentlemen.

Theo um and he's almost eyes closed going to swing at this thing these things are fucking terrifying they tower over Theo and he is going to swing slice into the neck of this orc and blood is going to spurt out he's going to catch an artery and this thing is going to keel over after a second clutching its own throat and just drown in its own blood basically and that will kill the second ruffian. Nice oh and the and that's its initiative was next so he denied it. Yep um and he that's that's going to catch him off guard like shit oh my god like almost happy like it's like oh my god I did it I did the thing.

Pay attention focus. Orc warlord um so let's see here um the thing that you conjured in front of the orc warlord uh not the not the dog but the other thing that's done now right yeah it comes up and it it's basically it's like a death right guy swings aside and then disappears. This warlord is still really fucking pissed off at Arya and he is going to level his gauge still prepping the axe and he is going to raise it above his head with one hand and scream like it is thunderous on the battlefield and he is going to come charging stomping forward at Arya of course the dog is going to get in the way um so the first thing to get in his way he's just going to bring this axe down twice so it has the same defenses as as Tevin right?

I believe that there's no hit points um so the first time this thing gets hit it is done. It says spirit can be targeted although it lacks hit points if a single melee or ranged attack deals damage to the spirit equal to 10 plus one half your level or higher the spirit disappears it doesn't say anything about what it's like AC would be. Um I believe it'd be the same as yours okay I believe it'd be treated that way. We'll see uh so let's let's let's just have him uh let's see here. 30 yeah murder okay okay he's gonna pop an action point. Almost as if he is not breaking straight he is just gonna come barreling in swing and just cut through this spirit animal and that's not gonna that's I mean that's that's it's always gonna piss him off that he stopped to deal with this and he is going to charge oh see yep he's going to charge at Arya and take an opportunity attack from Vil.

So let's deal with this opportunity attack from Vil first. Get a kill him. He is going to let's see he's gonna jab this halberd again at uh at the orc warlord that is going to miss. Fuck! So back to the orc warlord he's going to swing his axe twice at Arya. 26 oh that wasn't targeting you but yeah 26 would that hit that's my AC. Theo bonds of the clan okay uh any ally within 10 squares of me takes damage I take half of the damage so we split it you're part of her clan okay Theo is going to use bodyguard. No! I swear to fucking god. Theo's gonna use bodyguard and leap in front of this nasty ass axe swing so find to understand Tevin is going to take half of this damage right okay so let's see if the second one would hit Theo as well that is also going to hit so here we go guys first one that would be 22 damage he's going to partially resist some of that and uh half of that is going to go to Tevin so let's.

Can I is it too late to pop can't lose them or? Um for the first one yeah but the second one no okay so yeah yeah that that's yeah okay so let's deal with this first yeah so after the first swing at everything feels like on his last legs here like I mean sorry kind of was shocked that he jumped in front of her and then immediately she's going to kind of yell out and fling her hand forward and with a crack sort of a shield of yellow energy is going to form around him so that means so whatever damage he takes is reduced to half and I take it instead oh Jesus this is all kinds of no I'm the martyr no I'm the martyr we're playing we're playing find the red queen is we're playing three card money basically now with the damage all right okay so there is a there is now a shield around Theo so the axe is going to hit the shield first good lord okay the Rube Goldberg machine and if any of you listeners don't know that google Rube Goldberg there's your next first I gave you a sandwich now I gave you a guy an artist guy homework every time oh every time class dismissed boom 15 damage reduced by half Ari was going to take seven damage yeah so so really when she like flings her hands out makes the show she's kind of kind of double over a bit like that took it out of her but and now it's my turn I'm good she failed to save thank god so question so do I have to charge now because I technically use the powers is that I'm assuming that counts as one or um one two three yep yep okay so um so that's the only thing I can do like I can't even shift or anything oh wait that was a triggered ability yeah um you get uh you get one more okay okay I'm gonna think okay hmm you basically get three offensive attacks before you have to charge yeah listeners at home guess what she is if they couldn't tell the first time we use force punch that one well we haven't we haven't come out and said it quite yet I mean yeah yeah get this just really she's a boxer really all of the salt I know I know just it's all it's another sign yeah shut up anyway okay so fuck um I'm gonna try enough it's enough again because if it didn't work the second time it's probably not gonna work I mean if it didn't work the first time it's probably not gonna work the second time so let's see that again so again so at this wait so is Theo in front of me or is he still in his normal spot it would have been it would have been he's still in his spot okay got it got it just like leap in and like wow so now at this point so like she's kind of like these not looking good and this is uh this is scary so she's almost like kind of like almost like panicking she's gonna do that same thing where she tries like her hands just covered in that yellow sparky stuff that's really elegant terminology and then you see that's right try and hang out against him again and it's gonna miss again okay I'm just gonna shift back over here and cry okay orc mercenary number one uh you know he's gonna target Theo it's crazy 18 versus Theo oh boy 19 damage partially resisted five okay so Theo's not looking great um he has continued to take these swipes he's just like a like a boxer on his last day just fucking like putting both both arms up just trying desperately to to uh to to fend off some of these attacks here um and that'll bring up Leia Leia's gonna step in right here in front of the orc warlord and take a big nasty swing at this fucker yeah you know what she's gonna swing this big sword again and just try to try to duplicate that like maybe she'll get lucky with this one so target the orc warlord here we go that'll hit yes 15 damage to the orc uh orc warlord let's see mercenary one two you know what orc mercenary is just going to run up to to be enough of this playing coy gonna use its great axe that'll hit 24 damage that's gonna bloody to be nice orc mercenary number four is going to target malkus continue to do that he's about to have a bad day you just let me know okay that'll hit okay he's gonna use this great axe uh calculate your damage and i'll tell you all the bad things that happen in this guy okay so the damage still hits right uh yes the damage delivers yeah go for it okay uh 21 to mount it okay things that happen uh as a free action that's not the free action one that's the free action one uh i infernal wrath uh d6 plus charisma modifier fire damage so oh wait no no hold on i am level do yes level 11 it goes higher so i use the middle one uh 2d6 plus charisma modifier oh uh what you just murdered the orc nice yeah uh so he hits me and then my my tiefling fiery uh like devil eyes blaze and then i start him on fire and he will burn alive on the battlefield totally he was not expecting that that was a shocker there's a sound effect nice thank you say this on the foley work anything else the horses are restless behind oh wait that'll bring up malchus yep that'll bring up malchus go malchus you guys i'm free i'm free to move um except like the teleporty move around where i want to go kind of warlock i'm the more eat a couple punches and set people on fire um yeah so again first i gotta cross off that power because i used it there we go um and then i'm gonna i guess i'm gonna step up with taveen here and swing at orc mercenary three give you a little backup um i'm just gonna do my soul leader that's my that's my basic warlock attack here um all right so that's just my standard like necrotic damage sort of annihilation thing um it gives me a bonus to hit on my next attack if it hits that's what that does uh soul eater attack roll that'll hit 31 all right and let's see okay that's right i got all these buttons here uh damage 14 14 necrotic damage as i cleave into his oblique there you go uh anything else uh let's see my emerald shield is still on so i don't want to pop off any more stuff i i think i'm good man i think i'm all right for now all right taveen your turn okay um what i want to do i think i'm gonna do first i'm gonna summon my spirit companion back and i think i'm gonna put it to flunk it provide flanking it can it i don't believe it provides i don't think it does yeah it doesn't say it does so i'm assuming it does not it's more to facilitate powers gotcha um and then okay so i want to put it yep i want it adjacent to all of them okay all right so that's my spirit companion and then i think i'm actually gonna use yeah healing spirit um on on theo healing spirit all right so target can spend a healing surge if the target does so one ally adjacent to my spirit companion other than target also regains 1d6 hit points sorry 3d6 hit points because i'm a little over level one oh nice so um that would either be leya or aria i'm a theo yeah well theo gets the the big one yes oh i get i don't want somebody else also gets uh leya hasn't been hurt yet so i guess yeah okay i mean i'll take it whatever but what's the healing again sir uh he gets a healing surge yes he gets that which what's what's already she'll get 3d6 hit points oh jesus okay uh go ahead and roll but me or her you because you have the thing you are healer i don't know how to roll three at time so nice separate okay that'll bring her back to yeah yeah heart you to being you're the best i can do it um no um that's it all right ville is going okay wow this the mercenary in front of him has been doing some damage but that warlord is a pain in the ass so i feel like i feel like he'd probably try and shore up i feel like he would probably try and shore up this mercenary first so mercenary halberd that's gonna hit 10 damage that'll bloody the mercenary and that'll bring up mercenary he is also going to swing at ville these two are locked into turtle combat that'll hit i got their little thing going on over there yeah they do 21 damage that'll bloody ville the second we'll look over they'll be fucking man i thought it escalated when the orcs got off the horses yeah theo's turn dude you know what he's going to uh take a sword and just trying to like try and duplicate his success with that first orc and swing at mercenary one that'll hit holy shit mvt 1 t 5 damage from theo he's never gonna roll this well again he's never this is either this is either a tale he gets to tell his children or the tale you guys tell about a friend you once had i don't know how this is gonna go yet that's really sad orc warlord oh no he's gonna raise his axe and he's gonna take two swings one at leya one at theo i can't do anything at all first one against leya that'll hit second one against theo that'll hit okay first damage leya is going to take 24 damage theo is going to take 18 damage partially absorbed by luck okay now wait a second is tavin still taking damage from theo no it's just just the one one round just the one yeah it's an immediate interrupt all right so he still absorbed uh tavin's first spell still absorbed some of that so he's still on some kind of like oak skin or something that's working overtime for him yes that dude he that's keeping him alive oh the warlord just saved so he's no longer vulnerable aria your turn so aria looks kind of like she's about to throw up like like she looks like she's kind of wobbly and then like with kind of like a sputter like the the glow around her hands is going to go out and she's gonna sort of like curse and then like visibly concentrate to try and get that back up so let's okay oh that is great so the next time um so on your next round if you swing and hit something you're gonna do 15 extra damage nice okay god i hope i fucking hit drop bombs drop bombs orc mercenary sensing weakness is going to shift and then swing at aria oh bastard and here's his great axe and miss holy shit leia is going to continue to assault this orc warlord with her uh with her sword that's gonna miss orc mercenary three is going to you know what he's going to target malkus instead of to being this time because of the shit he pulled last round and miss everyone misses wait hold up hold up i think let's see did you okay he doesn't have to hit for me to pop off this thing uh he just has to attempt to hit me uh he immediately takes five plus charisma modifier radiant damage so that thing that gave me the reflex and ac boost earlier that's an emerald shield so there's like green mysterious light dancing around me i think you're like almost like just like periodically visible green glass almost oh i like that okay yeah yeah okay so then uh when he hits it uh it sparks and flares to life with radiance dealing 11 radiant damage jesus okay sweet all right um again he is that is not going to add up to him like he takes a swing misses you and somehow gets hit without you swinging at him that's not going to add up to him malkus your turn okay warlocks um okay uh i'm gonna i'm gonna put i'm gonna press the advantage here um i let's see did i get my i hit him last time yeah did i not apply the soul eater plus two bonus thingy um let me see what happens if i do this a lot yeah yeah that's so that should still be there right yes i haven't hit anything since okay so i have plus two to attack again uh i'm gonna use is he bloodied uh yes actually exactly yes oh exactly yep oh uh because of the 11 you just yeah yeah okay i'm i'm over 11th level so i have a second use of um blazing doom with the void per day uh so i'm gonna pop that off here that will have a plus two to the attack roll i'm targeting him so i can click that i can whiff wow hard like real hard um that expires uh so i'm gonna am i gonna action point everybody loves good action point yeah however if you haven't used one already this battle might as well action point explains action infernal no no let me explain it i'm sorry i'm sorry it's you because it's in front of me shit when you spend an action point to take an extra action the next enemy you hit or miss with an attack before the end of your next turn takes fire damage equal to five plus your constitution not a higher well one that's that's true jack black uh that is what happens um come on we can be the band come on come on uh so i pop it and then i stab i stabify him stop the yes with uh my soul feast because that's that's the go-to uh so let's see i did so this gets five plus charisma modifier additional fire damage it's whatever yes yes okay uh and i'm gonna swing it and it's gonna also whiff and malk is just glad that he's standing at the back of this fight and nobody saw that the end of it except for toby who's a good buddy and doesn't rub it in i won't i won't rub it in remember that malk has came over to help yeah um okay so i god okay i'm gonna use i think i'm gonna use uh how's everybody doing on house video could always use more health i'm just i'm just gonna put that out there i'm gonna throw that okay so i can use healing spirit one more time um because i can use it twice per encounter okay so i'm gonna go ahead and use it so he will get another healing surge oh that's so good and then he will uh somebody adjacent to my spirit companion can also get 3d6 hit points so yeah i'm good so okay uh let's see how's leya doing how's leya doing she could use it she could use it okay give it home all right so hold on you said hold down three click right click ah oh chalceme to do this she gets 78 hits point back yeah 13. okay awesome thank you that one's down and then as my action i think i'm just gonna use a standard protecting strike against is this the one i want defending strike nope oh he's protecting straight um so okay holy shit 23 damage okay um hold on it does other stuff and each ally adjacent to my spirit companion gains temporary hit points equal to my constitution modifier of plus three okay that's probably a good thing because he bloodied he is now okay three uh three and aria gets three i had a sorry guys you're removed no it's okay one of them one of them was probably gonna hit him before i had a chance though i had the perfect plan it's gonna work perfectly it's okay as a result of being bloodied the warlord is going to raise his axe and take a free axe swing at every enemy adjacent to him i'm so shocked that's what his bloody thing is he's gonna hit things with his axe he's good he's gonna be straightforward guy well it's working out well for him so i can't really blame him for that so you know what let's target ville first oh no hi so cool i'm coming for you 31 that'll hit and 24 damage no 13 damage sorry oh that's gonna drop ville fuck at least think it was an adjacent to him thoroughly sleeping groups here now lay yeah he is he's adjacent to the warlord yeah he is that jason includes oh okay fuck that'll hit leia 15 damage to leia theo i can't do shit he's got everyone that'll hit theo nine damage partially absorbed he got off the best wow our villa's down uh tavin that's the end of your turn uh i can only use one action point per encounter right yes okay or per per round yes oh so i could use one again this round yes i'm gonna go ahead and use one then i'm gonna use the second one okay so since i'm using it first thing first uh each ally adjacent to my spirit companion can teleport two squares if anybody would like to teleport um the npc's are in it for the long haul teleport two squares yep you just pop over wherever you want to go within two squares okay i mean this this isn't i'm still i'm not gonna make that much of it so i'm gonna go ahead and do that and then this is post-burst five i don't know how to tell how far that is but at least the well everything's in five right uh one two yeah okay hey look i did it i copied them all okay all right so i can i just roll it now i want to do yeah okay so the spirit of the great flood appears uh so basically like water is just gonna kind of like rise up and try to drown the enemies oh god oh that's horrific badass defeats the avatar holy shit okay so then do i just hit the just hit the baton oh that was fun all right um i create uh sorry no you didn't um that will hit the orc warlord that will hit the orc mercenary one it will miss mercenary two and hit number three so now just roll damage and it automatically takes out number two who you didn't hit okay uh eight damage to him so awesome and then until the end of the counter each me and each ally in the first regain or gain to regain two while bloodied as a minor action a character can end this effect on himself or herself to regain 10 hit points so wow everybody we're werewolves guys you're breaking up their kills because sorry yeah i was saying we are werewolves now it's no and then i click this one all right look i did it you did it so excited all done i oh yeah that was awesome is that a primal because i could do it is a primal sounds like a primal i can also knock them prone all the enemies prone do it fuck yeah because i used my totem when i cast it so i can knock them okay wait where is this it's my roaring bear totem uh trigger you hit an enemy with a primal attack power using the totem affecting up the enemy prone it's a daily free action okay okay all right let's knock them prone then knock them on their ass all right vil is going to roll a death saving throw all right so he stabilized so that's something he's not bleeding to death quite yet orc mercenary 2 is going to stand up and he's going to stab down at vil monster they're not into taking prisoners it would appear uh so yeah that's uh plus two because he's over top of them that'll hit that will outright kill vil um so he is going to bring this great axe down into vil's chest and uh it is going to be very clear from right off the bat that he is dead uh lay is going to let out a scream after that oh no oh no oh jesus um dia's gonna stab outward at this mercenary again and slash and hit and kill that oh wow he's gonna kill the mercenary holy shit yes you did it that'll bring up the orc warlord oh golly okay oh golly golly golly yeah i i that's not the warlord saying that that would be awesome though that would be awesome oh golly all right so let's just you know what double um double axe swing again one to leo one to uh one to theo he's just gonna chop these trees down what he's got first leia that is a crit oh god oh my gosh anyone doing anything to stop that i can't nothing i have nothing all right then let's do it that will bloody her not dead though theo that will miss theo who aria your turn okay okay so so after that that charge now so she's got so the yellow energy is back around her hands and see if it kind of sparked sparking a bit out of her eyes and she is upside spaghetti so what she's gonna do is kind of and i think if i'm not at the right angle to this i can move and you can tell me i'm gonna pop a little ditty called freight train which is just as cool as it sounds so so she so she is gonna kind of like like almost like like kind of like hunch down a bit and like really kind of like she's just like staring directly at the warlord so she's gonna shoot at the warlord and the the yellow energy is going to kind of completely shroud her body and just almost like you can almost kind of hear sort of like a hum from how like concentrated it's getting and then she's just gonna shoot at the warlord and slam into him the world's tiniest and please your god that's it yes we'll hit the warlord that means it's gonna be an extra 15 damage oh jesus so here's oh my god plus 15 44 plus 15 let's see aria is going to streak forward run and just shoulder block the fuck out of this warlord and that that yellow energy is just sort of encompassing her like a like a tiny barrier hit him he is going to tumble back and over end and break his own neck on a log nice the warlord is dead victory like his body went flying 10 spaces because that's yeah like an unnecessary amount like that doesn't like i'm done with you pretty much physics shouldn't allow for that yes um anything else no that's daily so like that's it that's all she's gonna again go back to looking super pooped so yeah that's that that's one of my favorite powers thank you jason that's pretty cool lay is fucking done lay is going to charge forward target this mercenary that's oh poorville was was fighting swing her sword crit yes appropriate i feel jesus get him um is that two or three yeah that's two uh she is going to swing and murder it nicely done oh that'll bring up mercenary number three who is done targeting malkus for the moment and is going to swing it to veen because that was way easier great axe almost a crit hey not a great but not a crit very important very important 20 damage to devine malkus your turn i don't like any of this uh all right so yeah oh there's plenty of space on this map okay uh malkus is gonna do a little little steparooni back here so he's no longer in melee with this thing and then he's gonna be like wait i'm not just a heroic hex blade i'm a paragon hex blade and accordingly the orc will be confused it's so so malkus begins explaining his game mechanics to the orc now malkus is going to use curse of the fiery soul so remember last time held up his sword and he like made it shadow and fire this time he runs his hand over it and it goes like pure fire okay and then he throws it right he like like hurls it like a fire javelin at this dude um and it goes a little something like this he whiffs so hard he's almost like a five or something do you yeah that missed okay uh yeah it's only hit effect uh okay um but until the end of my next turn any enemy that ends its turn within two squares of me takes five fire damage okay that's hit or miss i i will there's a second action point uh i'm okay uh i think only monsters get to do two action points per battle but i can i can do it is that true well we already let someone do it i'll look into it just to make sure okay are we gonna go with it um uh when that misses uh malkus will pretend that that was like that was like the um the the distracting shot and then he'll he'll go in with his eldritch bolt for the second shot okay uh eldritch bolt is just crackly and purple uh that's just not as cool but not maybe that should have been the distraction shot and yeah well you know hindsight's 20 20. right of course okay he goes for it uh well that'll hit hey okay versus reflex uh and it whops into him for that amount of damage that'll kill the orc 17 finish him that'll just slam into his chest and like slow motion dead that will take the group out of combat as a free action aria is going to turn around and throw up on the ground i feel like that's a good time for us to stop for the night and we'll we'll we'll handle all the fallout from this poor oh poor ville oh no i was so sad i was kind of rough guys i'm surprised that we all made it out though besides him and i'm not gonna lie like i feel really bad that he died but also killing the orc warlord was really cool yeah i feel real bad for redshirt too um do you want to hear do you want to hear a thing were they siblings or were they lovers well um they're they're ville and leia their last name is sog they're a husband and wife team that uh yep yep i knew it was one of the two it's gonna be sad either way that's what i knew welcome to the area therapy i feel so bad but at the same time it's like if we hadn't teamed up with all three of them probably would have done oh yeah it would have been a real mess without oh god that was for us too so like oh gosh but congratulations guys that was your first combat in like a year yeah first combat ever yeah that i feel like it well that we all have the coolest powers i know it's like oh oh i'm gonna summon water and shit yes i hope it comes through like here's the thing about psions they sound tremendously overpowered at first and then you realize they have no armor no hit points oh yeah and that was that was kelsey's biggest attack at all like bar none everything else is like and 10 damage please don't die yeah i mean it's like again i have i have one more hit point than theo like it's it's not that great i just like to know that malkus has the most hit points guys why is he what is constitution based isn't he yep aren't you constitution and charisma as he was explaining to that orc um his character sheet clearly indicates no no i'm meant to like dodge in and out of melee i'm not meant to like stand there forever but i can go in and out yeah you're like an off tank yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm like a not tank like not one of those i have a lot of hit points but the party's weirdly balanced in a weird way although you guys had some help well okay you you might need a little help we'll work on that though listen but you're more you have you okay that was a nasty battle and you guys were more you more equipped for it than what you thought yeah i mean i'm just saying ladies single now so it was a horrible joke but i had to make it give her some time give her some time okay i'm gonna i'm gonna turn this room back over to the cats the cat will fall asleep okay tell the cat that i that i love her please i will i will send everyone's love to the cat i didn't send any love to that i got i got a cat here that that's what happens when you get a fiance is no one else matters anymore it's like i i love you guys it's just like i don't have enough room for the cast and my fiance and best friend and a cat and a cat i haven't even met yet that cat might be an asshole okay look at her she is the most precious thing well i'll see you guys later thank you guys so much this was a great session three in a row guys good night golly guys we hope you enjoyed today's show if you did maybe thinking about giving us a little five star review on itunes that really helps us out or you can pass the word along to a friend share a link on your facebook page or twitter just anything that helps get the word out there or if you like you can go to our patreon page at patreon.com slash d a n d r throw a few dollars in there and it really really really helps us out it helps me and bre do this as our living and you get a bunch of cool stuff in return we just posted a living in theory that's all about drow 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