These Scars Run Deep

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Have you ever wanted to watch a YouTube channel about movies that blurred the line between recap and review with videos so stupid? They pretty much fail at both? Well Jason asked me to tell you about Dr. Jordan breeding. He's not actually a doctor, but he talks really fast. Only on YouTube. And I guess a few other places too, but mostly on YouTube. Let's do that thing. Where we go around the table and introduce ourselves. I'm Jason. I'm the dungeon master going around the table. Starting with New Jameson. Hi, I'm New Jameson. I am in a snowboard. bank out in the woods right now.

I play Lager and Craigborn. He is a Dwarven Marshal. I love commitment to a bit. I just, I just do. It's that in the D12 thing. That's like, that's just it. That's all I have, man. And Ian. Hey, I'm Ian. My pronouns are he, him, any, and I am playing chimera, the Tifling Warlock. And Susan. Hi, I'm Susan Spanater. My pronouns are she her, and I play I'm a realist, the elven rogue. And Jasper. Hey, him. I play Ruby Pedigrew, the half-org, gear slinger, adept. All right, guys. Kind of left you. I kind of storiedged you last time. And I recognize that. And I apologize.

And I apologize. Tonight, let's just get to every secret. How's that sound? Let's just do it. Oh, good. All right. No. No. So. I love it. Yeah. This is it. So let's, let's pick up exactly where we left off. We got chimera and Logren going into. Oh. Yeah. No, I'm sorry. I wasn't raising my hand to say anything. I was just. You were just string as it was coming in because I was feeling it in. Because I was feeling it in my body. Oh, okay. Yeah. You were, you were conducting. Okay. Yes. Got it. I got it. I thought I fucked up. No. Thank you. Thank you for being attentive. Thank you for being attentive.

Thank you. Plus one for being in the energy. Yeah. No, I just automatically assume it's like, okay, what happens then? Tell me. I can just talk. Can we take over that easily? Is that? Yeah. I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know how much. You just have to attack his insecurity. That's it. That's all. That's so easy. I'm every boss fight with big red sores all over it. Like just to shoot there. Like it's a yeah. Read the pride. Uh. Okay. Logrid. Kamira. Entering the church, you, you're going to finally run into Ruby and 9th era. So let's do this reunion. I want everybody.

Do me a favor right now. Everybody, give me a D20. I already know what's coming. You can't know. Oh, yeah. I keep growing high. I'll stop when it stops working. I'll stop when it stops working. All right. So, chimera. You see Ruby and ninth era, I imagine that there's some relief there. You're also going to see Vetti. And in the room is Baz and chat. You don't know that. So you guys run into each other at this big church. What do you? What do you say? Like, how do you, like, how do you express that? We also have to get to the thing you overheard. Yeah. I was just thinking about that.

Yeah. Because that's something he just overheard. So that's like, it's like one of those things where you're like walking by and you're like, wait, what? Oh, oh, oh, hello. You know, because it's like, yeah. But I mean, Camer was going to scan. He's going to see. I mean, it's been a while. But I don't think. I don't think Kimera ever thought that Nythera and Ruby were in any kind of danger. I think there was nothing. There was nothing like that. If I remember correctly. Yeah. No. In game. In game, it's been nearly 24 hours. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So it's been almost a full day.

So the last time Nythira saw you, you were running that little tournament in the pub. Right. And you hadn't seen Ruby like, you know, like you guys have been split up in game for almost a day. Out of game, it has been several. Like, it's almost been months. So. Yeah. Okay. So Kamira is going to scan for aura. That's who he's looking for. He sees vetty. No. He's scanning for aura. And when he doesn't see aura, he's going to walk up with with Lagrin. and be like, um, good to see you. Ruby. Do you know about the gear heart? Yeah, you probably, before you even start talking, it's probably nice here and Ruby like, like, oh, God.

Yeah. Yeah. She would be coming up towards you when you came up to her and you'd say, oh, you know, just very clinically like, oh, did you, what about the gear heart? she's going to shove you in the chest and say, where were you last night? She's going to look at Logren. He was asleep. And out of character for Ninth year, she's going to like rush up to and like go to like reach out to Kimer and then pull her hand back. But then like reach over and put her hand on Logrin shoulder. Like she needs to touch you guys to make sure you're okay. kind of thing.

I think that's Ruby's shove as well. In a way, she's not, she's not mad. She's brother's sister like. Yeah. Elaine. It's like Seinfeld. It's like, bam. Like, where were you? All of this terrible stuff has happened over the last 24 hours. Ruby just went to work on the Gearheart. Some stuff happened with Thane and they got out of it. But she was mostly worried about chimera and Lagerin and thinking that this terrible thing that happened in the middle of the city. and she was just really worried about everybody. So she's just really relieved and she's just letting it out by shoving in and yelling at you for a minute and just saying, you know, where the hell were you?

And then she's kind of over it. She's just like, God, there's so much that happened. I can't even. Yes, I know about the Gear Heart, except I don't know about the Gear Heart. There's a lot to talk about the Gear Heart. But first, what the hell happened at GrizzleBits? It is a crater. We'll look a little confused because she didn't even know what was called grizzle bits. The sign's gone. Vettie would probably raise her hand like kind of timidly. Um, that was probably me. I, I, I'd never driven a thing like a thing like that before. And I kind of just. lost control of it and plowed into it a little.

They were saying at the scene that there were multiple bodies torn apart. Did you do that, Fuddy? That wasn't you, Betty. There's a look on her face like, oh my God, did I do? Did I do that? I did fire off a lot of explosives. Did I kill? dozens of people? So Ruby's just tamping it down really quickly as much as possible. But we don't know. Like Ruby and I don't know. Right. She genuinely, it's like she drove away from the scene. As far as we know, all we know is a car crash into the building. Maybe that was Betty. I mean, genuinely never thought of that. That'd be horrifying for her.

Yeah. Yeah. I can give you an explanation about that. But Vetti, I need to know. Where is ORA? I don't know. She was. I thought she was. with you guys. She was, and, but I'm looking for her. Do you know? If she needed to go somewhere to be alone or safe, where would she go? Do you know? Um, well, how mad was she? She just matter-effectly. Like, yeah, just just matter of fact. It's like, well, how mad was she? I don't know if she was mad, but she seemed scared and she was very hurt. I, and if you say bonzo's dark, but... I... I get it, but... She, like, quickly, it's like...

No, no, no, she'd want to be alone if she was... Me too. I've only seen her, like, really sad. One other time, she usually just gets angry. So, I might know, but... She'll probably... She usually wants to be alone, but, you know, sometimes I like to check on her just in case, because she gets... Betty, where? Okay. Is she okay? Is it okay? Is it urgent? Yes, it's urgent. She's okay, but I have to talk to her. Well, she might be at the crossroads. Not above the crossroads. She likes to. look down and kind of watch people. What's above the crossroads? Oh, man. So there's this really tall building that used to be like this research tower.

Some old guy owned it at some point. He's dead. So there's a bunch of old books and stuff. So we kind of broke in one night to look around. Just to look around. We didn't steal anything. But she really liked sitting up near the gargoyles and just kind of looking down. And, you know, sometimes she just wants to be alone and she'll go there. There's a place kind of like that in Aubrey, too. Gotcha. I see. Okay. Thank you. As for what happened at Grizzlebits. Well, I don't have all the answers, but... Something happened to me. And I hurt some people. I turned into something.

Something that has never happened before. And things got out of my control. in a big way. I think things got out of control for Kolgoth, too. I haven't talked to him yet about it, but... Is there anything we have to do to ensure your safety? I don't know yet. It has to do with the werewolf bite. God damn it. With everything going on, didn't even dawn on us. We should get him some help. Well, I thought I was getting help, but... I don't know. I don't know. But I ended up losing control. And... hurt Lachrin and her aura. And I don't know when it'll happen again.

Fettie's gonna start to talk and then really lower her voice, but it's almost performative where it's like, kind of a loud whisper type of thing. Did you kill people? Like, people? Not like rat monsters and stuff? Yeah, there were some unnecessary violence. But again, I wasn't in control. And that's not really happened before. officially there is a werewolf attack. That's what the balladins all think. Oh, wow. Yeah, Ruby will look at Nythera for just a second, back and forth about. And, yeah. Nighthera will look at Ruby. Well, that kind of complicates the situation we were involved in.

But it also helps it. Oh, it's perfect, actually. Sorry, I shouldn't like this at all. But yeah, I think it actually kind of works. But it also gives him more power. And then this, you know, like, would just be a nice here, right? Forgetting about chimera and logrin. Who are you talking about? Oh, your buddy. We found out Dane, Silver Fox is a serial killer and frames all his victims as werewolves. allegedly. There's a kind of proof. I'm not bad. You've been to step to? I just want to throw a little letter can and allegedly, like just someone walks by us in the Who the fuck are you?

Who the fuck are you? Who the fuck are you? In a disguise. We're not a mustache. Good day. They'll shake it off for just a second. Yeah, there's a lot. We should. We should probably sit and like, can we have a drink? Just some. And let me go check on chat to make sure he's still breathing. Yeah. Wait, what happened to chat? Bill? That's just a check factor. The whole kind of thing. This latest one was your guy, Dane, and his long line of killings. This is the newest or the most recent try. Let me go check on Chet. Thane shot Chet? Oh, yeah. Oh, man. We got so much to talk. about.

So much happened. Oh, damn. Well, that sucks. Who am I going to fuck now? Cut two minotars coming into the city. Right, right, right, right. And 12 to 13 cents waiting to meet you. I. The look on Betty's face where, It's like, oh, man. And she probably thinks, like, you're either worried about chat or worried about. And it's like, who am I going to fuck now? I hope is canon. Just like, just like, loading screen on her face. Like not. It's like, oh, this is the adult world. I think you can't have enough to be. I don't know if I want to be there. Yeah. So the longer is just like, ah, all right.

So we got a, we got a find or we got a patch up chat. We got to deal with Thane. Is there anything else? Because I really need to leave this down. I hate it here. I was not to ask you. Do we need to get out of here? She's going to sort of motion over to chimera. Do we need to get out of this place? Like now? That's kind of a handle. We got half-deck on it. He's all right. That's where, you know, the half-deck, the paladin. with the half dick. No. You know him. Yeah. I don't. Y'all, we need a drink. Listen, it's fine. That's where we stayed last night, Mrs. Halfdick's house.

She's wonderful. She's nice. Well, she has some learning, some growing to do, I think. That's true. When I say she's wonderful, I mean, that she's got issues, but. She's not watching the bad buddy concert. We did get a flyer, though, that this guy Thane apparently has unilateral authority now over. So that was this, that was what happened there. How did that happen? How did that happen? He shot Chet in the chest with a very rare and targeted poison. for vampires. And I kind of chased him down and tried to kill him. But Ruby de-escalated. Well, to be fair, I didn't want to de-escalate it, but there were some guards in front of us.

So I kind of had to do a little bit of a switcheroo. He's no doubt he's up to something not very good or maybe a little bit ugly. But I feel like it's going to be okay. She's going to wink over at Nithera. Yeah. I do have this whole book full of proof against him. I think maybe just give this to Mother Duskward. And let her deal with it. Oh, so we're not going to give him the Nithera special. I mean, I would love to, but he's very high profile. I'm not. I'm down. Just so you know. I mean, I was down bad earlier, but I'm down for this now. Well, good to know. Again, sounds like we all need a shot of something.

I've got to find aura first. Okay. Hey, Vetti. You said you never driven something like that before. I want to be honest with you, nobody's driven. than something like that before. Just me. So you did a heck of a job. I mean, I don't know about that place, but it sounds like it could have seen better days. The Gearheart's going to be fine. I don't want you to worry about it. But I do have a question. Do you feel like it's going to be safe back here? If we just leave it where it is, you feel like this is an okay place? Oh, no. I don't think anyone's going to vandalize it or anything.

Half the people are scared of it, to be honest. That's what I want. maybe we could regroup everybody. She's going to turn back to everybody else. Maybe we could regroup figure out what our next plans are. We got too many threads going on right this second. I'm going to throw something on top of this. She's going to try to eventually her plan is to find a tarp or a, you know, some sort of canvas and do what she did whenever it was up towards the gates and just sort of covered it up. I got regroup. Come here. I'm going to turn to Lagrin and like grit his teeth a little bit.

And he's going to say, I've got one more thing, too, and you're not going to like it. Before all the preface given. Well, that's where we're at. Lager just kind of stares at him. It's like, it's in his eyes. He's like, I already don't like it, but go ahead. Before everything happened. Colgoth had asked me to get something here in the city. I don't know what it is, and I don't know what he wants with it. And I'm not inclined to help him out in any way, but I am deeply curious about what's hidden here. So before we leave, I need to check that out. And I can go alone if that's what everyone prefers.

But I'm just letting you know. I would prefer not to separate again. And then maybe it would be picked up by Logrin and maybe even Kimira. Aether has taken her hand off Logrin shoulder. Like she needs to make sure that you guys are real and you're here. And maybe you even feel the slight change. Trumbull in her hand. Oh. Can I make an insight check or? I want to see if I can clock the mask. What's your? Okay. Well, okay. I was going to say, what's your passive insight? That'd be an active one. But let's do it. Let's see. My passive. Oh, no, that's not. Yeah. So I don't know.

What's your. What should I be rolling against, Susan? What do you think? It's not against anything. It's more just like how perceptive you. Because she's not actively trying to hide anything. She's not. Right. And I still have disadvantage on Wintzdom and charisma checks. So if she thinks she's hiding it, she's not. Yeah. Frazzled. I see she's frazzled. Yeah. Gotcha. All right. Well, here's my insight check. Oh. Fucking sound of everything. He's usual. Yeah. You would probably even notice that the mask is put on to a different like hoop or something. Like at the very least, it's been moved, which is very odd.

Some Sherlock shit, right? Yeah. Well, I think the thing that gives it away, oh, sorry, go ahead, Susan. I was just going to say more Sherlock shit. Maybe like some hairs tucked behind her ears that's only done when she puts the mask on. It's still like an imprint there or something. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think he clocks the like shaky hand and he kind of goes, huh, that's not like Night Thera at all. What do we got going on here? Oh, Mask is in a different spot. There's hair going on. Oh, maybe there's like that scuba mark around the face. Yeah. Masquez or something.

I don't know. It's just like, okay. So, all right, Camir is just going to like clock that and put that away for now. But Night Their had just said, let's not separate. I'd much rather us all to stay together. Vetti kind of piecing stuff together, especially after she probably gets why or is upset, right? And waiting for a moment to kind of jump in. Maybe we should go get a drink. And, you know, maybe give her a couple hours. And then I'll take you to where I think she is. Just let her cool down a little. I am pretty hungry. I hear you, but she was also injured.

Physically. I want to make sure she's okay. How injured? Part of grizzle business. It's collapsed on her. Her eyes go wide. It's like, you're just mentioning this? Like, this just came up number 43 in the docket. Like, I think Ruby, Ruby would be, her face would have that same reaction. Hang on. Like, what do you mean? Hold up. How much of gristle bits fell on her? I said she was hurt. Did I not say that? Okay. Kate. She's just going to malfunction, basically. It's just like, that doesn't cover it. There's a really good chance that she's disfigured right now. She was really messed up.

So. We need to find her. If she needs some time alone, I understand, but I need her to tell me that. because we need to make sure she's okay. Vetti is usually a very apologetic, kind of like, oh, I didn't mean to step on your toes type of thing. For the first time, it is just the drive to get chat there. Hearing about all this stuff second hand. And it felt like it's like, so we split up for one day. And Ora might be disfigured. And Ora is a person who cares very much about her appearance. And Fetty would know that. They're kind of close. So like for the first time, like, she's probably just walking away towards the exit.

Fucking shit. Like, just like. It's like, jeez and pissed. It's like church. Probably that goes really well. The acoustics are for it. So everyone's talking about like. It's like, so this thing guy is trying to kill. Just for a second, it's like, oh, God. Like, what? They were arguing. They can't clutch their pearls about it. No, it's worse. Like, all right. Like, poof. So she's leaving. She is going to the spot right now. And she would probably call over her shoulder. It's like, let's go. Come on. Yeah. So as we, as we, I assume we're all turning to walk, but Lager and will like turn back to the room where he assumes chat was.

And just like, is that all set? Does anybody need to stay? There are people. There are still other folks in the clerics and stuff. They're just sort of like. Okay. If this were a hospital, he'd be in the outpatient recovery. Okay. All right. Ruby's already trying to find something that she could cover the gear heart with. Just she's going to go double time. She's going to try to grab something, whatever. She's going to race out there. She's got to go to the gear heart. because when she covers this up really quickly, and this is like a half-ass, like I'll catch up with you in 30 seconds kind of a job.

She's going to throw this thing over, and she's going to get underneath where the steering wheel is and where all these, all those switches are and everything like that, and she's going to be pulling out whatever the equivalent of whatever wires would need to be. Like, no one's cranking this. This will not run. She's just grabbing whatever sort of dyeing out. wired thing. She's just she shoves it in a pocket. She's like, uh-uh. Hell no. You know, a lot of times when somebody doesn't want somebody else to access something, they'll make a key. Something we ought to think about in the future.

No, it's the one thing I didn't think about it, everything else. It's just, I mean, of course. Of course. There's time. I know. Notes for V2. Like, we're going to... I got it. She's been thinking about it nonstop, but she's probably distracted herself with something cooler to do. Yeah, I think we'll probably spend a little bit of the time, like, talking over, like, well, how would it work, you know, realistically? It would be just like... This is the walk away from the gear hard. This is the... Yeah. There might be one thing. It's like, you put buttons in for fireworks before a key.

Like, just like, that would be a vetty thing. It's like, why fireworks? Like, why? Like, I thought I killed... 12 people. I thought I was the only one who could drive it. So I just figured it. I was the key. I guess. I don't know. I imagine like an ignition sequence a la like Furiosa, you know, when she's driving the truck. You know, like, that's Ruby. She's got like a sequence that she does to actually make it work. Otherwise, it just dies. That was in my mind the whole time about whenever she finally does this. It's not going to be a key. It's not going to be like a crank in the jetta.

It's going to be like a, yeah, there's a whole thing that nobody else. It's a secret knock. You got to be a tune to it. Yeah. Actually. In D&D terms, right? Yeah. Like, yeah. Yeah. It'd be like a key fob. You have to have. Yeah. But it will do that. And more fireworks. Yeah. Of course. On the way. On the way. Got to leave the gloaming district to get to here. Right. And on the way, Betty was very upset and everything. And she kind of realized she's stormed off. She's going to hang back to be with everybody. Hey. Another question. And I don't want to add to things. You said, you said the palatins, the heralds were on it.

The whole werewolf attack thing? Yeah. Which paladins? Out of character, I don't know. I assumed it was both. So, half. Well, haptic belong to, if you remember, they have a bit of a turf war going. So they have a, they have like. Yeah. So there are the ashbound, which are the, uh, the, let's call them proactive, a little violent. And that's the people, that have to belong to, and then the sentinels, which are tempered and measured and probably a little too tempered and measured. Did they have different colored armor or tabards or something? Let's go red and blue for now.

Red is just a little more violent, so yeah. It's the red ones. She's just kind of like close, right? I was like, oh. They're going to be looking real hard for, for. a werewolf, I guess, but like, they're not going to be subtle about it or gentle. So. We might want to avoid that area. When I'm in a position to do it all over again, I'll make sure to do it better, right? Sorry, I didn't cover up my murder appropriately. I kind of worked with what you had, which was everything. I know exactly one paladin in this town, and his name is sick, and he's with the murder cult.

So that's what we're going on. It is very like, okay, everyone's learning. Everyone's being handed stuff. It's like, here's what we have. It's like this is not the best. It's not the best. Like, no. So Fettie's going to lead you to a part of town that's not deserted, but not used. Kind of like a warehouse district and stuff, like storage pods, basically. And there is a pretty tall tower, like, like, you know, five stories tall. And for here, that's, that's fairly tall. And there's a key. And she's going to like push over some boxes and like grab the key. found this last time.

Just trying to knock anything over or break anything and be quiet because she's going to turn and look at chimera. How bad was it? How bad was what? You'd be specific. I'll be specific. You said a building fell on her and she's disfigured. I also blacked out. And like grab your shoulders. It's like, how disfigured? Are we talking like a scratch? Or I haven't seen her. I blacked out. She's going to look over a loggerin. Yeah. It just kind of shakes his head a little bit. It wasn't good. Was it? Was it? face. Yes. Okay. Let's just be really, really calm when we go up there, okay?

Just. Everyone do me a favor. Give me a stealth check. Not because you're sneaking. I just need to see if someone grossly fails. And we've already had a crit tonight. One role we've had. Our first role, we have a crit. So that's... To start up the stairs, Logren's going to give everybody else like a 20-foot head start. Like, he's going to... Yeah. Yeah. Well, wait. I have a trick, a skill trick. And I... When your party makes a group stealth check, you may play your result to myself and one ally. Hey, Logrin, I'm going to show you where to step. I should say, if you can claim that, Tell me how that looks.

Just put the least creaky per forward on each step. Yeah. Like she literally points to it with her finger. Got it. All right. Damn. That was almost a one. Roll over 19. So that's 27. Again, it's not that you're actively seeking sheets. Oh, dang. Oh, that's not the both sides to die. It's funny. Yeah. 32. So, 32. So. make it make sense for me that you and Logren get a 32 for stealth. Logren, take off the stone boots. That's going to look ridiculous, but all right. I don't care. You're going to take off the stone boots. Barefoot, like Fred Flintstone, barefoot, just telling up to stay.

That's scary. That's going. And she's literally going to, like, hold your hand to guide you up the stairs. Hates every second of it. Oh. And Kimer got a three. Total. I should have been. Minus two to dexterity. Yeah. I don't know. It feels like, it feels like, it feels like, like, chimera is just, just, oh. Oh. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. What would it be? I don't think it would be shouting because Nitha or ORA said, you know, or I mean, Vetti said be quiet, but, man, it's dark in here. Like it's not, it's not like lit up or anything. So you might have knocked something over.

I don't know. But if he caught a glimpse of anything that suggested that Oro was up there, like a light flickering or something like that, he might have just said, screw it and just scrambling. up some stairs or something. I think what it is. Oh, sorry, go ahead. I think what it is is he's leading the charge. He is going ahead and that means he's going a little bit faster and everyone probably means he's not, I mean, he's obviously not being as still-be as everyone is as everyone are being quiet and he's being very determined. So, yeah. He wants to be the first one.

All right. So you get up five stories, right? And there's this rooftop access. And getting out here, there's kind of an area set up that, like, there's a little desk out here and stuff. Like, you get the feeling that like someone like to work outside. But like looking around, there's little pillars. And then there are gargoyles at the top of them. So it's a weird layout for. for a rooftop. And towards the edge, it's slant it over. And you're just going to kind of like look around really quickly. And you're going to see aura facing away. Arms kind of like spread down to her side.

And like very close to the edge of the roof. Forra, we're here. We're all here. Are you okay? Give me persuasion check, please. Oh, God, that almost rolled over to a five. Okay, 23. All right. So, you're going to see. One of her hands is kind of covered up. like you can't it's kind of obscured there's there's like a pillar near her but she's going to like clench her other fists like it you like kind of get the feeling like she's tensing up and she's not going to turn around what do you want like just kind of like very stiff very you know kind of yelling so that you can hear back but she's not she's not looking your way Camar is just going to like put his hand out to everyone just like hang on, hang on, hang on.

And he's just going to walk up to her. But like walk up right next to her on the edge. So. the second, like, you start walking, she's going to yell. It's like, stay back. Just please don't come any closer. And come here, I'll stop. Give me a perception check. Yeah. So I imagine you're like, you know, like, you know, like 30 feet away. 17. So, like you saw her arms like kind of tense earlier, right? And when she tells you like, don't come any closer, you're going to see like her right arm kind of tense earlier, right? Like, reflexively kind of shake a little.

Because I rolled that crit, this thing is called vibe check. And I automatically determine the creature's current attitude towards you, friendly, and different, angry, et cetera. So what's the vibe I get from aura? About me specifically. It's not great. Um. Okay. You've hung out with ORA a lot, right? So if this is someone you just met, this would be a much more difficult thing to describe. But you and ORA especially in the last, you know, 24 hours or whatever before, before I hung out a lot. And this is the most upset you've ever heard her. Like, she's gotten, she'll get. get angry and stuff like that, but she doesn't, she's not a feeling person most of the time.

And this was like you're going to pick up some vibes like the rat infection stuff. It's like, oh, my life is over. Like that's like I'm not even old enough to legally drink yet and my life is over type of thing. Like how she presents herself to the world is a huge thing. The aura, how she dresses, how she looks. And recently, some decisions have been made for her. And then there's the whole murder soul thing. and like it's a lot. She feels completely responsible for that because she gathered those idiots. So there's a lot of pain and there's something else there.

Though you're picking up that she's angry and everything, there's something in her voice that's like worry or concern for you. Specifically about you getting any closer. And before we continue the scene, I legitimately think, want to get as close to her as possible, maybe like on the other side of a gargoyle and a position to grab her without her noticing. Because I had that 32 stealth. I didn't know if you want me to use that from before. Or use her science. Yeah. Silent shadow. What's that? I mean, I can guess. Well, that's like a success I got from my 32, which is I get an advantage on my next.

Stealth check. Oh, yeah. Don't you get advantage on stealth? You rolled it. You rolled advantage last time because you rolled a one and a 20. I think I get it from something. I'm not wearing. the mask. I know it doesn't come from that. I can't remember. Hide in the shadow. I get expertise from a lot of things. I don't know where that advantage is coming from. Yeah, we could trace it back. Yeah. I need to go back to all of those feeds and features. Yeah. And that's totally fine. When it comes to like, okay, if, if Chimier's lying to someone and he tells me, it's like, yeah, I get triple inspiration and fuck you.

It's like, yeah, probably. Like, everyone gets at one skill check where it's like, yeah, that defines your character. It's like Ruby gets engineering. You get stealth. Like, I get it. Like, you know. I wanted to make sure I checked. I do not have Raven's breath mask on. I know I get advantage from that. So I don't, I really couldn't tell you right now where it's coming from. Where it naturally comes from. Well, give me a stealth check then. Okay. Where is that coming from? I guess we should figure it out. Yeah. Oh, I guess whatever. I have advantage on this one. on you.

Oh, 2.13. Double 13. So. Oh. For 19. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So passive perception? Because she's not actively trying to find Nithera. She's not actively trying to find anybody. Like she was very much wanted to be alone. And yeah. So, yeah. that you're slowly. Like, imagine throughout this scene. Like, you're slowly working your way around the outside of these pillars and stuff like that. So you're just being very, you know, as the scene plays out, very slowly, you're creeping around. Okay. I just want that established that if it gets to an oh, no point, I want there, there.

Okay. Continue soon. So Camere is going to stop. And. And. He's gonna say... What I want, Ora, is to apologize to you. And... And... I'm very sorry... ...that you... ...got damaged... because of me. You can tell she's crying openly, and she's actively trying to cut you off. Don't. You don't have to apologize. It's fine. Just don't. Just go. And again, like that arm reflexively jerk thing. Like, it's... It's odd. No, I... It is something I have to do because... I hurt you. And... I care about you, Ora. And that means I care about the impact that my actions have on you. and I want to hear from you what I can do to make it right.

And if you need me to leave, I can do that. Jesus Christ, dude. That's another crit. 20, 28, I believe. You want to roll on that table? I come in handy. A convincing argument. You have advantage on your next persuasion roll. There's a moment. Where it looks like she shuffles closer to the edge. Just for a second. and she's going to, like, whip around, like, very quickly. And you're going to see on the left, left-hand side of her face, there are three deep scars that go from right below her left-eye all the way down to her neck. And as she spins around, Just get the hell out of it.

And then she gets pulled back. That right hand is being gripped. And you're going to see a teafling hand grip her by the hair and pull her towards that edge. And Thane is going to step out from behind. And she's reaching for this. And like, he's got her. back here with his left hand. And he has the, you know, he has a crossbow in a second. You just do not take no for an answer, do you? Never have. Doesn't suit me. What are you doing with ORA? Well. I've been. And given a bit of a promotion. And, well, city wants a werewolf. And I need to talk to your, your female friend, the one with the knives.

And I know she's up here somewhere. I want to make sure I know how much of this Ruby is aware of. Yeah, no. You guys are. Right? I would imagine. It's right. No, no, no, no. No, no. So you were like. Kimira said, hey, hold back. So I imagine you're like five or ten feet behind him. Yeah. Yeah. So from your angle, you would see just ahead. Like, there's the ledge. There's two of them. And he was standing on her right side the entire time. So now has her by the hair and is actively holding her over. Not lifting her up. Like her feet are still placed on the rooftop. But he's very much threatening to push her up. out.

So Ruby is going to, as soon as she sees Thane as a reaction to seeing Thane, like whatever else is going on here. She's going to arc around, not secretly, staring him in the eyes, arc around and away. Rispolyista immediately, just, you know, like, if I get a shot, I'm going to take it kind of a thing, but not about to shoot, you know, of course, with everybody else there. But she's tracking on Thane. and importantly, tracking on the other side away from where Nitha is. She wants to see her. Sure. Of course. Yeah. It didn't strike me as like a stealthy type of, yeah.

No, no, no. Thane is going to look to his left and just like motion his head and two city guardsmen are going to come out with crossbows ready as well. And kind of get in front of him a little bit. Everyone put your weapons down right now. And Dane's going to actually taunt you from the back. You should probably listen to them and put your weapons down. Am I being detained? For what crime? Eating a meal? A sacked in Chinese meal? I'm sorry. Get your hand off my penis! Ruby does not put her weapon down. She's not moving until anybody else tells her that it's okay to do so.

I mean, Camero will. He'll take out his boomerang and just like put it on the ground. Logren puts himself in front of vetti. And then he kind of just looks to the guard. Are these guards not part of either of the paladin orders? No, these are just with a city guard. Imagine that city with two paladin orders and you're a city guard. Oh, no, it sucks. They really sucks. Yeah. Couldn't hack it on the other side. Okay. So, Loggeron just looks at the, he looks at them and he's like, you just heard him explain that he's framing this girl for the werewolf that he can't catch.

He just said that out loud and you were there. Could you give me a persuasion check please? I would love to. Roll persuasion. Oh, fuck. I do have inspiration. Okay, because that couldn't get much worse. That was a two. No, that was a two. That was terrible. I think it's only up from here, baby. This session should be called Matt 20. You want to roll on the table? I would love to. Yeah, that's a 25 total. What a good use of inspiration. Clever bribery. You're not afraid to grease your palm or two to get. It will flat out be like whatever he's paying you. I can double it.

Because the only reason these guys would be on his side. It's the only reason. Well, yeah. Like, okay, he does have some. Yeah. Yeah. He's pain us quite a bit. Are you officially just doubling anything? Listen, if you want to haggle, maybe put the crossbows down and we can talk about it. All right. Come on over here. Like to jingle a coin. And he sits down. Like he's about to pour it all out. All right, let's talk. Do you know how little we get paid in a city with two Harold institutions and it's not a lot? Like it's our retirement. I'm not a whole five for months and I need to follow.

So come on over here. Thane is going to pull Ora in and hold the crossbow like just a couple of inches from her head. I will execute this girl if you do not put your god's damn weapon down barefoot. In front of two city guards that don't work for you anymore. I don't think anything's been sight. fellas. You know I'm good for the money. Can we just complete the one job professionally? Please. You know what? Fuck it. I think he's got a roll. Oh, persuasion now. Right? He does have a plus eight. But I'd still have to roll. Can they hear him over the jingle jangle of Robin's 1,000 platinum in a bag?

Oh, shit! Whoa! Oh, that is a 19. So that would be 27 against your 25. I do still have a gun. Advantage. I'm a little chain. I do you want to try and beat it? Yeah, I'll try to beat it. Fuck it. So. It's going to be the most costly. hostage negotiation. So now, like these two guards, like, huh? Huh? Huh? Now there's kind of a bidding war going on. It's like, oh, wow, this good. This is great. We're special. Yeah. So not only is he admitting that he's going to frame this girl because he can't find any real werewolves. But he's also trying to undercut you for far less than what you're worth.

And I'm going to give you what you're worth. are worth and you're going to be the one who brought him in because we have evidence that he hasn't killed a single actual werewolf the entire time he's been here. Fane's going to look hurt at this. It's like, how dare you? Do you know how many monsters I've slain in my day? I know how many have slain in Asterold. It's none. Oh, he's going to be so fucking pissed at that. Like, it's like, you motherfucker. Like, oh. I got proof. And all you have is a hostage. So why don't you give her to us? It will give you the proof.

And you can keep your reputation if that's what it means to you. Why don't you give her to us? And I'm going to cast suggestion. Ooh. So I'm going to tell you there's a risk to this. Okay. Okay. I'm just telling you there's a risk to it. That's it. That's it. Okay. Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. Is a saving throw, I believe? Wisdom? Yeah, I think it's a wisdom saving throw. It doesn't say on the spell, which is weird. I know it's a saving throw, but I just, I can't find if it's wisdom. It's usually wisdom for like my control type stuff. Yeah. What am I shooting for? He has advantage.

You are shooting for 16. That's pretty high. That's pretty high. What is his wisdom? Good Lord. Saves a plus five with advantage. Oh, boy. Okay. Come on, fail it, you sexy motherfucker. Oh, my God, I'm 19. Oh. Oh. So, in theory, if you fail to influence somebody like that, they know. Most people who they know their arcana or they know their way around a spell or two. And being Tifling, he kind of has an inherent connection to that a little bit. He's going to be able to like, like there's flies buzzing around his head. It's like, did you just try to suggest something to me? and his fingers going to like, kind of like clutch around.

Did you have any idea? Who you people are fucking with here. I have kept the city in line. He's waiting for you. Almost to, like, it's like to apologize or something. Like, he's just waiting for you to, like, make amends or something. This, he's got a crossbow, right? He does. What's the trigger made out of? That's an excellent question. That's an excellent question. So he has his arm wrapped around or like, like, or is very close to him now. right. And you can see that there is something in his left hand, but you can't quite make it out. It's not a knife. It's something.

It would be a metal trigger. Can I think it's about time. Okay. So here's the thing. We know that you're very stealthed at this point. So this is almost, shit, it's almost like the rules for invisibility. No one knows you there until you attack. So if you're going to do something, it's got to be a good something, right? Okay. So I was looking up videos on how to handle a hostage with your gun to your head. So Nythera is going to from behind quickly push his arm forward so it's no longer aimed at ORA. And then with her off hand, put that against his neck. So even if he pulls the trigger, it just goes out into the room.

That's how you do it. So there's like, if there's a gun against your head, you push it forward. I can envision that. Like that I'm, so, okay. So the way this is set up is they're now standing against like there's nothing. It's just the roof, right? So are you climbing underneath or something? Are you assassins creating it? Or? Because like, there's no pillars, right? And she was going outside the pillars. Yeah. So like they're sparse, right? So there'd be gaps where someone, I mean, it doesn't matter how stealthy you are. You're still opaque. So like, you know.

But he's facing Ruby in the room and then Nithier is coming. Like if he's over here, Nithier is coming from over here. Like behind his field of vision. What I would need is because there's still two guards, right? So that's like the Metal Gear solid cone of vision thing. There is a pillar on this side. You're coming around the outside of it. So what I would need is some sort of like dexterity save or something so that you can, there'd be one last gap to close. And that would be almost like a, Jesus Christ, I'm so fucking like. It'd be like a Batman take down thing, like an Arkham asylum.

Like, you know what I mean? So. But he is going to be able to try and. resist it. Okay. Because I just want to use my moment of surprise because he can't like, he won't know I'm there. So he can't like prepare for me to push his arm away. So even if he like pulls the trigger, it's not going to be at aura. Because he'd be, the arm is push forward. Okay. Okay. Um, but I'll do a dexterity saving throw to make sure he doesn't see me coming or or I don't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There'd be a, there'd be. So it's basically moving fast enough, but not loud. Um, but not loud. enough.

You know what I mean? So we're looking for like a 16. Okay. Can I assist that in some way? How? By? Because she's been training on him constantly with a wrist-ballista. And she's going to see Nithera in any way. Or would she even see Nithera? Probably wouldn't actually. Well, this would if it's so like it would be, it's either or, right? If it's open enough that you can see her, he could see her too. So like, it would have to be, like, you know what she's doing, though. So like this would be. She's up to something and giving her an opportunity. This is all this.

So it's like a, she's throwing a dart. What she would do, she's got this, this rispelista, like, right pointed at his head. She's waiting not only to be able to take a shot if, you know, or to have a good shot. And then she's going to say out loud for Logrin, I can take the shot. And she's going to try to get faint to notice. that. She's not about to do it. And she's just trying to... And then wouldn't even know that I'm about to do that, but that's the moment Nithera uses. Right. Got it. Okay. Pretty textbook. So here's what I want. So there's no need to do like a performance check, right?

To like, you know, so I think... What I want. I want. I want an athletic... or acrobatics check from from 9th era. That's a deep saving throw. Is that better for you? Yes. And if you want to, I'm looking up grapple too, and this is kind of like a grapple. I'm trying to get in there. Grapple is a strength or dexterity saving throw to do the maneuver. So if you want a rule-based thing. I'm not trying to hold it. Well, I guess I am. I am simultaneously putting my dagger to his throat. God, this is so dangerous. Like, somewhat. Like, if you don't succeed, this is going to be bad.

But, like, yeah. Okay. But it's already bad. Oh, yeah. No, it's already bad. It's bad. So, okay, here's what we're going to do. Thank you for working. I appreciate you so much. I do what I can. I've had a few beers, you see. You get a real Jersey treatment here. That's my friend. Don't know. Don't make it gross. Okay. Okay. So. Okay. So for a grapple, isn't it like an athletics or acrobatics against a saving throne? Strength or decks against a saving throw? Strength or decks against? Against my maneuver, D.C. Strength, their decks of it. Okay. That makes sense if they see it coming.

Well, here's a thing. Like, in a situation like this, he's almost as highly trained as you are, right? So there would be that, like, if someone jumps me from behind, there's not going to be any training there. I'm going to get hit. But like somebody who's used to, you know what I mean? They're going to have, it's like, oh, I'm going to try that you know, do something to counter. I don't even know what that would be. Because I look like me. So, you know, but someone who trains in martial arts or something like that. So it can't be your saving throw versus his saving throw.

But we can. I don't care. How about that? Okay. We got a little Ruby help. Maybe. Yeah. I like that. Better anyways. Yeah. Give me. Okay. Give me a dexterity saving throw with a D4. Plus one for teamwork. Oh, it is teamwork. Yeah. It does make that dream work. Oh, that was almost a 5. 21. Now, that's a really high bar. But he has rolled quite high tonight. And I'm real, I'm real scared. Guess we'll take a break. Do you want to? Yeah. Yeah. No. What? Fuck. All right. That's his. What's his decks? God damn it. I'm so scared. This is going to suck. All right. So he's got a five. So. So.

Wait. Before you do it, I'm going to use fortunate. When, I make an ability check or saving throw and do not have disadvantage, I may spend a fate point to roll an additional D20 and choose whichever result I wish. Just in case. All right. Well, if we're busting out, if we're busting out, if we're busting out stuff, I might as well too, right? Like, I mean, it's all or nothing. This is the showdown. Yeah. So I'm going to use Monsters Training. And he is specifically like hunting vampires and werewolves. Like it is specifically don't get the drop on me type of thing.

So with a saving throw once a day, I can roll a D6 and add that to. Yeah. No me cuss. 13 is better. Okay. So that's a 17. That's less. So you have a 21 canonically. officially. Yes. Okay. I'm going to roll the D6 first and then just like, you know, I know, right? That's a little fucking asshole. Okay. Who does that? Who does that? That's true. Something they would do. With a plus five, he has seven so far. So that means. He has to roll. 14 or higher to beat Nithira. 16. So you're going. You're going. You're going to come up on them. And I'm going to roll an attack through him.

Oh. Oh, my God. God. Okay. That's a crit one. Maybe I still push him or he's like moving away from to look at Nythira so he aims wide. So I think to make this fair, what we're going to do is like you're going to close the distance on him really quickly. Right? Like he has a split second to make a decision. And he pushes ORA away, like just to get her away. And that thing he has in his left hand. He is going to turn around and try to stab at night zero with it. And you're going to be able to see at the very last second. Well, that's not working. And just kind of pivot.

So now you're in a position where you're both right next to each other. You know what? Here's what we're going to do. Because we're rapidly approaching midnight. I'm going to say the words. And I think that's a good time for us to stop for the night. Is that okay with everybody? Yeah. Mm-hmm. So here's the thing. Jameson's big role. And that'll kick us off for the next episode. I mean, that's cool. I'm okay with that, but I said it. That's how I'm going to introduce myself next session, Jameson, big role. Also, it says Logrens obstructed by what and how and who and like something's.

I mean, he's always obstructed. It's his heart. Yeah. Yeah. Stone armor. All right. All right. Howdy, everybody out there? If it sounds a little weird that we stopped everything just then, that was a week ago. And we were, it was late in the night when we were running into a little bit of tech stuff. So we decided to put it off to give that fight the gravitas that it deserves. And so that we don't end on a fight next time, we can actually roll play afterward. So I hope you enjoy that episode. Please let us know what you think about it. And don't forget to sound off on Discord.