Flash Mob

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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 Ian. Hi, I'm Ian. He him, Annie, and I play Camera, the Tifling Warlock. And Susan. Hi. I'm Susan. My pronouns are she her. And I'll be playing Nythera Rihilith, the Elven Rogue Assesson. And Jasper. Hey, everybody. I am Jasper. I play Ruby Pedigrew, the half-org gear slinger, adept. And last and certainly not at least, Jameson. Hi, my name is Jameson. I have shaved off my eyelashes. I play Logger and Cragne. He is a Dwarven Marshall.

Let's Maxin. I love it. Oh, no. And why do you save them? I've gotten them. Because they resemble a venous flytrap. Those are too feminine. The name Venus. Pretty. Fennis. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, if they were Mars fly traps, then that was a right. Yeah. If they were Biff Barfster flytraps, then. Brick, Alston. Please, can we meet an MPC name? Mbivarfster. He's a flytrap. He's a flytrap. He's a flytrap monger. That's actually a black of character, so copyright many of you guys can't take that name. Fine. Fine. We'll see them in Theria next year. Yeah. Well, speaking of which, we're a couple of days outside of Odysia, which means I need a travel die.

And who didn't get a chance to last time? I did not. Oh. Could you give me one, please? I will. D100, correct? Yes, sir. All right. 47. 47. 47. Okay. Hmm. Hmm. Interesting. Okay. Okay. Give me one moment. It's the one where we get money. I bet it is. Yeah. It rains money. It's rained so many things in this campaign, but it has yet to rain money. That's true. I feel like money would be the most dangerous. I was going to say, it's going to be some monkey paw thing where it's just in pure gold and it's just shattering. Terminal velocity, like, drop it. Yeah, like, that'd be terrible.

Like breaks through the gear heart. It's coming down so fast. Just our artillery fire at that point. Oh, we can give the Gere Heart any more blood? There was no blood to give it. I know. Yeah, we're cutting one of it. Loggering was like upset, by the way, about that. Like, he got it back in the car and was like, I don't want to talk about it. Like, don't touch anything. Like, he thinks that they're all going to be like that. So. Maybe. It's like, just don't touch him. Just give me. what they want. It's not worth it. As you're driving, you are going to every once in a while.

You'll hear noises, you know, shifting ice beneath you, the gripping of the tires on snow, like a hard, crinkling, crinkling, like, a hard, crinkling, like, you know, that compacting of, of powdered snow into something a bit more tactile. underneath the tires. But you can hear something like a... Almost like thunder. Anybody trained in perception? I want a perception check, please. Hmm. Okay. Okay. Nythera 11, Ruby 13. Thankfully, this isn't to... This isn't like a hidden thing. It's more just... Oh, I didn't expect that. So as you travel down south, the weather patterns change a bit.

I wouldn't call this warm by any measure, but there's a big difference between heading to one of the most southern points on this continent and then starting in Winter Haven, right? You'll notice you haven't been hit with a ton of snowstorms and stuff like that. Part of that is very nice. Some of it is going to make your job tougher. One of the things is you're going to hear this thunderous shifting and cracking and you'll feel that the ground kind of tremble a bit. And as you're craning around just kind of looking, it's like, okay, something falling from the sky, is it the ground again?

Swallie. You're going to see up on a cliffside a frozen waterfall, cracking, and as deluge of water. is just going to come rocketing all of us. Like a dam has just, you know. So what we're dealing with here is a flash flood. Now, okay. One of the biggest dangers is you're fairly close to a cliff. Not super close. You're not like, you know, you're probably at most, like, like a hundred feet. away from it at all times, which is still too close, you know what I mean? But you have to avoid ice drips and bits of snow and stuff like that. It's not like there's a road.

At best, in its prime, this was a path that, you know, people went around. So, we're going to want to try to avoid that. Now, anybody trained? Actually, no. You don't have to be trained. Give me a survival. or nature, whatever's highest. This is going to be the first part of the skill check challenge. We're looking for 14 or higher. Oh, shit. What a good start. Loggerin stops the water. Oh, good. Oh, you didn't know I could do that? He goes, no. Not today, water. I don't want that. Oh, man. Logger rolls of crit. That is a 23 chimera 17 and Ruby 19. So that's a survival check from all of you.

You have precious moments to do math. Can you outrun this? Would it be safe to? Would it, would it be smarter to try and get near rocks and and try to anchor yourself to that? Would it be, you know, what's the best your best chance of survival. Literally, that's what you're checking for, right? The way you see it, you have three options. One, you could start driving inland as far as you can, because this is water coming up from a cliff just bursting out, and it is about, so it's coming down with not only the tremendous force of water, but gravity too. It's going to, it's going to be like a tsunami, coming in and just wiping away trees and rocks and stuff like that.

So one of the things you could do is just drive inland, tank it, head on, and just hope it doesn't push you so far back that you go over the cliff. Option two is you try to outrun it. There's a couple of things you could do with the gear heart to kind of get some more speed out of it at the risk of maybe damaging components, but for a temporary burst of let's get the hell out of here. option number three is you try to anchor yourself to something that you don't think is going to be swept away. Something that, you know, is just too sturdy. That's at the very least, even if go ahead, I just throw logger and out and just tie up to it.

He's just hugging the car. Yeah. Yeah. So whatever you decide, that's going to change. a skill check challenge. I was initially thinking of throwing out. Maybe we could find like two trees that we like wedge the car against. So if it gets pushed, it has to rip the tree roots out. That's always going to pitch. Flash fluts are scary, man. Yeah, I'm not. I would not be happy. I don't know. I mean, Ruby's instinct would be to. to flip a couple of her switches. She's got one called more. She's got one called more, more. And they both draw on the forge core. And like you said, yeah, it would, she'll be like, it's sort of Han Solo-ish, you know, like, this is going to, I'm going to pay for this later, but this is what it's for, is kind of how she would probably approach it.

Yeah, I think that's what's longer going to be like, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Like, he's not going to want to try to weather this thing. We'll fix it later, basically. Okay. You want to do that? I kind of feel like that's... Ruby's instinct. She probably just want some sort of confirmation from somebody, like, loggering just saying like, yeah, she'll be like, let's do this. Here's what I want to do. Let's picture that Forge Corps. as having a number of hit points. Let's picture it. And the number of hit points is 100, let's say. If you reach zero, it stops.

It doesn't necessarily mean it breaks permanently or whatever, but it's just going to stop output and power. If you get into the negative, then you have to start worrying about cracks in the container that holds it and stuff like that. And so what I want each of you to do, is roll a D50. One at a time, we're going to roll a D50, and we're going to take that many hit points away. D50? Okay, wait, why are we rolling this? Before I roll, what are we rolling? Why are we rolling this again? So you're taxing the engine, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. What I want to see is how much this impacts the engine.

Right? Low rolls are better. High rolls mean it's really taxing the engine. Yeah, we're going to be shaving. It's all that. Okay. Do I just type it in there? Yeah, I do. In the chat, I believe. Yeah, we did it. Oh, I don't like that. All right, what do we have? We got a 45 and a 36. All right. So we're... 81? 81. 81. Oh. Come on, Lagerin. Now, it's gonna go. One! Oh, Lorgren! That's phenomenal. E.1, that's 97. Yeah, Chimer was 45, Ruby was 36, Night Fierre was 15, and Lageren. Holy Macro. Damn. So, okay. Obviously. This thing's going to... So I picture this. You see this water coming and it's this massive tidal wave.

As it's coming down the mountain, it's going to pick up rocks. It's going to pick up ice sheets. It's going to... It is a mess. And you kick this thing into high gear. You're going to feel in the back that forge core heat up as you're going. To a hurrying degree. Yeah. The sound is... She knows. She knows. I feel like, and like kick something over to, like, release an air vent or something like that. Like, no, it's got a little. And just like get that last little like Noss boost. So your, your, this thing's get up and go has got up and went. Like it is just rocketing down.

So you're probably going to get this thing somewhere into the equivalent of like, you know, 80, 90 miles an hour, which is insane for a vehicle that like this that is not built. for speed on not roads and you know what I mean? Like a few problems. Control is a thing. I would like Ruby to give me a dexterity saving throw, please. Okay. I... Trying to keep this thing on any kind of path or, or, you know what I mean? Not just plowing through obstacles. Yeah. This is where she's going to be in her element of hyperfocus. I'm going to add her daily expertise die on top of this.

Yeah, please. Good stuff. Good, good, good, good. Shit. Okay. Well, that being said. Okay. It's still a 15. It's a 15. That's not bad. So you're going to hit tree stumps and bits of logs and stuff like that and plow through them. You're just, every, every bit of this is like, fuck, I'm going to have to buff that out later. I'm going to have to pay for this. I'm going to, this whole thing sucks. It'll be so much. And behind you, you're going to see the worst of this. The worst of this, completely wipe away trees. Take them complete over the cliff. There are boulders.

There are sheets of ice that, that, that, that. You know, it is incredibly destructive and probably washed out any semblance of a road for a while. You'd have to, if you were coming back this way, you're going to have to figure something out because there's probably a few miles of just debris. Everything. It's all a mess. So you will avoid this. Almost immediately down the road. It's going to overheat. It is. You're going to hear, like, a sputter. And it's probably going to get to the point where you have to get out of the vehicle because the forge core is underneath.

Yeah, it's underneath the seating. So this thing is radiating. And it's essentially you're in an oven. It's cooking. Like, it is a problem. Yeah. Yeah. And some of its nerve, some of it's got to be like, holy shit, that just happened. And some of it's got to be. just, it's like, oh, it's like a hundred and twenty degrees in here. Let's get, you know, like. So Ruby does have, she does have more. She has more more. If you were to, if the camera were to pan to this panel, both of them are up. She also has one called yes. And it turns out that yes opens up the hatch automatically.

So as it's starting to, do, do, do, do, she's like letting the air out. And basically just stopping this thing so that people can jump out. Like, racing cold air hitting. Like, it's such a, like a juxtaposition of, yeah. Oh, I bet there's metal just like, like, you're hearing like, oh. Oh, yeah, as it's like heating up and cooling down. Yeah, like expanding and contracting. Um, I would, I whisper to the gear heart. Good job, Jesse. Yeah. There's got to be some complications to this, obviously. And some repairs are going to have to be made. So you might need to make camp.

So let's talk about, let let's let's let's let's. It is now the 10th. 10th of a matter. Can you place a marker on the map too, just so we know where this is when we're coming back? Oh, for the debris. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah, that's going to be. It's going to be an issue. Because we're going to be in and out of Adisio. We're not going to spend any time there. We're going to grab what we need and then leave. It's going to be Of course. They're going to be super helpful. And you guys are going to make a great impression. Yeah. This is kind of a random question, but I do have this feat.

And I want to see if it comes into play at all because I can sense if there are portals. active or inactive within, I think about a mile radius of where I am. So can I just like feel and see if there's any portals out there somewhere? It's pretty rare. But it depends on what you, I guess it depends on what you classify as a portal. I would say. I think anything that leads you from one area to another that is it. Like, okay, one of those little rifts that take you to the Fay Wild, that's a portal. Anything that, you know, any, any, it doesn't have to be like a formal archway, you know, type of thing.

So yeah, if this is helpful, but the exact wording is portal or gateway to another plane. That is in, that is active, inactive or malfunctioning, but not destroyed. Can't, if it's destroyed, can't see, can't sense it. I'm gonna. So, no. However, you're going to get this weird vibe. And what it sounds like, it's almost like, like, magically. It's like you're just trying to commune. It's always a thing where you're almost leaving your body, right? You were so focused on, you know, the magic around you and how that might. look and feel and taste because there's so much of it and it all feels different.

And you're so focused on that, like touch, sight, smell, that kind of fades into the background. And you are going to pick up on some sort of magic that is malfunctioning. Like, it, it, you get the sense that it behaves a little like a portal or gateway, but it almost like a guitar string broke as they're trying to pluck it. Like it's, it's this, this like, oh, that is not how that's supposed to go. But it's a, it's a vibe. It's a feeling. You're like, okay, that, that is a spell gone wrong or someone used the wrong regions in a, in a ritual or something.

Like, you played that poorly, you know, magically. Gotcha. I sense a disturbance. Is there any kind of general direction that I can sense it from south oh okay so kind of where we're going uh sort of yeah hmm hmm yeah send something disturbing in the weave that way I sense something disturbing right there she's going to point at the gear heart and she's gonna she's just it is it looks like it's been like a cross I'm humbled up tin can. Like, uh, that's all Ruby's thinking about. Uh, my zero will turn to logger in. Should we hunt? I mean, I think we only have one Russian left.

Well, if you guys would carry food, maybe. No, I can't. I don't have any room left in my pack. Right. I forgot. I can't carry it. It's too heavy. I've got everyone. Completely flat face. It's okay. Just unamused, not entertaining it. You guys are going to walk out of Odyssey with Lifeeld pouches everywhere. Just full of jerky and like, you know. Buying this, it's a fanny pack. You're going to wear it. It's going to take off fashion-wise, I think. It's either food or poison, and I only have enough room for the poison. And I don't want to. ruin this silhouette. Ruby's not paying any attention to any of this.

She's kind of like looking at the gear heart. She's clearly eating a granola bar. It came from chimera stash that she made from. Oblivious. So after a second longer, I'm like, yeah, I guess we should hunt then. Yeah, might as well. Is there anything left after that huge torrential avalanche of water? Yeah, there are any dead mammoth just in the wreckage? Right. Not behind you. Anything, let's count anything behind you as over that cliff. Anything that is called in that, it's gone. It's gone. In front of you, if you travel a bit south, like it, you know, so here's what we're going to do. do.

The gear heart is in a bad way. It has been banged up. It's got to cool off for a while first. Luckily, you're in a great spot for that. It's got to fully recharge. You have to make sure that that seal isn't broken so that you don't just bake alive. The frame got so hot that you're in danger of the axle like warping and bending. So you're, like, you're thinking about all that while everyone else is talking about food. And you're like, all right, we're probably want to slide that Adamantine out of there because, well, that's 800 pounds of pressure. We don't need to be putting on the frame.

Like it's, so you're, you're concentrating on all that stuff. And here's how we're going to do. Every eight hours, we're going to have you. Essentially, a day's. worth of work-ish. We're going to have you roll in engineering. And every time you roll in engineering, we're going to add all of that back to the hit points of the camera. Okay. And you have a great engineering. Pretty good. This should take almost no time at all. So how about we hunt? And while they're hunting, we'll have you do that. Sounds good. What's Kimmer going to be doing while people are hunting? and fixing.

I am going to assist. This time around, I am at least going to help. And in that way, probably, yeah. I mean, I've got a, I can fling a fireball or something at a rabbit or a squirrel. As we've discussed, you have the best survival. Which is instead. Oh, I like the scene like we're walking through and we think we're on a trail. and like Lager and Nithyra like, okay, we got to head this way. And Kimer looks down and he sees these tracks and he's like, well, if you look at the twigs broken here, you could see that thing that's heading that direction. It came from that way, but it's heading that way.

Oh, scat. Go ahead. Camarra, what the hell? It's hungry. I think Lagerin's actually going to assist Ruby if Nithera and Kamera. are going to go hunting. Okay. So here's the way I think we should do it. This is probably three days of you being out of commission. If we're being honest, it's not good. But you have a space to get warm. You, you know, you have time to hunt and get supplies so that you have meat. And yeah, but normally it wouldn't be this long, but that really took a a toll. So here's what we're going to do. Hunting and gathering is easy. So if Nithira would give me a survival check with a D4 because, because chimera is helping.

And we're going to see how well this goes. 15. Okay. So that's enough to get everybody to supply over three days, right? It's enough to, you know, wildlife's probably a little scarce due to the natural disaster that took place behind you. So you're, you know, mammoths and stuff are going to be a little slim. But you probably caught enough rabbits and wolves and stuff like that. So let's work on the gear heart. If you can give me an engineering. And Logrens assisting. So give yourself a expertise die. Yeah, bump the one up you already have. Exactly. Yep, it's a plus one.

With a plus one. Oh, because teamwork makes the dream. Because teamwork. Well, I'm just going to add that one manually after this rolls. Sure, I could do that, man. I got that. Don't worry, baby. Thanks. Woo! Okay. All right. Next. Okay. You didn't do the math. I didn't. You're right. And that was the easiest method. I'm a failure. I'm fraud, guys. That's 20. That's not terrible at all. And you know what? Because it's cold down everything, let's just say, let's say we got the Gearheart back up to 30 pit points. So far. Right. Give me another one. We need two more. for the three days that you're saying.

So that's day one. Then we're going to give you a choice. Yeah. And to be clear, Ruby is focusing first day on maintenance. Like, let's get this back in running order. So that if it were to run again, nobody would be in any sort of danger. That's day one. And let's see what day two is. She never know what's going to hovel out of the forest or attack you from the mountains or something. Right. Oh, nice. 22. 23. Sorry. You have one more chance to get this right. One more chance. Second day is making sure that everything else is in roadworthy condition, not just not going to kill us, but also, you know, we could get wherever we need to go.

Might not be. Maybe it's a little louder or maybe it's a little bumpier, but it'll work and it's in a good shape. Coming back from hunting day two, Nythera has like this wide eye look. It's just going to be like, you guys will not believe this, but Mira is kind of a savant at hunting. Stop. I just learned some tricks I picked up at the witchlight cabal. My circus days. Longerins like wiping grease off his hands with a rag. He's like, good, you got yourself from now on. No. Oh. She should have feigned incompetence. No. Yeah. Ah. Ruby hasn't eaten all day, not because food wasn't around, but because she was just not thinking about it.

Water was given to it. Lager and handed her like a water skin. No water had been done. So she just, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, you drink like a husky. Okay, cool. That's just like a dog. Just like a dog. I picture Ruby is the type of person to eat a sandwich with their greasy ass hands and not worry about it. She would not. It would not even occur to her. That was a thing. That's a lot of what loggering's assistance is. It's been like, Ruby, drink water. Ruby, you got to clean your hands first. Ruby, what are you doing? Your grease intake is alarming. We need to work on that.

I don't need that. Oh, wait, day three. Go ahead. Hold on. We're up to 53 hit points on the gear heart. So to put that in perspective, that's like your, your Camry or your Ford F150, whatever, right? It will get you to the destination you're going because it's not all that far. However, there are a lot of lights on that dashboard that are a light, no sensors work. A couple of mirrors are hanging off like that, you know, it, that the ride's pretty, nasty. It will keep moving forward, but it's not super comfy. So like, if something bad were to happen, it will take this thing out of commission longer.

So you're just, you're trying to get as many hit points and then we need to make a decision. So. Okay. Day three, please. Day three. Yeah, this is, again, whatever's necessary for sure. But here, she's going to take a few minutes here to sort of try to hook up some components, make sure that it's going to be warm inside with, you know, flip and making sure that things aren't terrible. And that it's actually not so bad inside. All right. All right. 22. I was going to say that. I was totally going to say that. That gets you up to exactly 75. Not terrible. It's not terrible at all.

This is basically like, okay, she needs maintenance, but like, she's load bearing. She's stable. I mean, obviously don't run into anything, but that's always, you know. So here's the, here's the decision you have. Do you take one more day and, and try to get this up to a hundred before you roll in? And maybe impress some elves with your, you know. I mean, Mechanical isn't exactly their thing. It's obviously magical. But showing them something they've never seen before, it's like, okay, all right, fine, you know what I mean? Or do we just take off and just get to the city as quickly as possible?

There is one modifier, and you should know that before you make a decision. Obviously, you guys have been camped out here for three days. And I thought, man, that would be lame to have you roll to have something happen every day or to see if something happened. So let's say that you guys are out here three days. And we're going to have each of you roll. And if we pass a certain threshold, we're going to add all these D20s up. Each of you are going to roll a D20. And let's say if we pass 30, something happens. If we pass 40, okay, it's a bit more of an aggressive. something. 50.

Then it's a... Lower rolls would be appreciated. But if we don't reach 30, nothing aggressive happens to you guys at all. But it's a role for every day that you're chilling here. Beyond what we've already done, you mean? Or... No, we're doing that no matter what we're doing this. No matter what we're doing this. Cool. But as to impressing the elves, I think we may have discussed this. We may have, like, as it's being fixed, We're not taking the gear heart into Addisia, are we? Hell no. Hell no. We saw how that went at Estherhold. Where are you putting it? Probably a day's hike outside of town.

Yeah. Cover it in some brush. Not like right outside the gates with a tarp on it, but like... Imagine they see us drive up, hide it under snow and then... Yeah. I agree. It would be a... Like, let's camp out. Okay. You know, like far enough away that we have to get there in the next day, leave it there, and then walk, get there, you know, whatever midday. Maybe a few hours. So it's not like we have to plan a day out to get to it. Sure. To leave in a hurry. The question related to that also is in three days we've been here, because we are on the road, even though the road's washed out behind us, we are on the road now.

Have there been any travelers on this road in that time? Not a single one. You're in a pretty desolate area. Yeah. So I think we're okay to. Basically, so Loggeron's vote is to not wait the extra day, get there, park a day outside, hide the thing, get in. Because if there's any more supplies we need to fix the thing better, I know it's not a mechanically inclined civilization, but we might be able to get things we need, and then we can fix it before we start the trek back, is his argument. The only amendment to that plan, Ninthierre would say, is if we're just trying to get in and out, we may want to have it closer than a day, maybe a few hours outside of town in case we have to leave in a hurry.

Let's let's keep a half a day outside and walk. Get there by midday the next day. Yeah. Why? Just in case. Why don't we want them to see it? I mean, I know it turned a lot of heads in Esther Hold, but nobody really bothered except for the kids. I think it's just a hand we don't need to show. There's a lot of value in that machine, and I don't need to end up being greedy. I just don't want by touching it. I don't want me by touching him. I got you. Okay. So. D20s. Yeah, I think the vote sounds like we're not going to stay the fourth day. We're going to do three out.

Yeah. It sounds like. Yeah. Ruby's not precious about the gift. She's like, it works. Let's go. So 13th of a motto. And I feel like Jasper's had to roll enough. So, a reminder. of this little mechanic. Ian, Susan, Jameson, you're going to roll a D20 one at a time. And we're just going to add these up. If we get past the threshold of 30, it's probably going to be combat. The higher we get that, though, it's going to get nastier, nastier. So we're looking for low rolls. So channel your inner crit ones. 3D20s. Let's go. Susan, you first. So we got. Oh! No, I was joking.

Camara 20. That doesn't count. That's a crick, baby. All right. Well, Susan, you're up. I didn't mean it for real. I didn't mean to roll. I was just testing it. I was just cleaning it and it went off. I rolled. Well, we're up the 33. That is a 13 from Susan. Jameson. That's a D12. That is a D12. I know a D12 and I see one. You don't know what he uses those. All right. Here I go. This one's for real. Oh, no. Cool, cool, cool, cool. Guys. Oh, guys. Oh, my God. Guys. Well, that's a 19 from, uh, well, that puts us well, that puts us well over 50. Hang tight. I got you. Do you guys not know what a joke is?

This is all your fault and no one else's. 2019, 39, 39, 49, 49, 49, 52, yeah. He said well over 50 and I panicked, but... You're right. No, you're right. I'm stupid, though. Like, I don't know. I just saw... Did you hear how long it just took me to... I'm still not confident in that. I'm still getting the calculator in. Oh, shit. See what's in the area. Man, it... Is this on the third day? That is going to happen now? Yeah, I'd say. Yeah. I'd say. Yeah. Okay. Well, I guess that would be the 12th, right? So if we're there, if we're camping the 10th, 11th, it's... 12th and then we were going to leave on the 13th in the morning.

Would this be happening on the 12th or like as we're getting up on the 13th? Yeah, I guess so. I, I guess I didn't count the day of because it's like, okay, let's recover. Let's get. But yeah, you're right. Okay. I'm just, I'm just, you know. No, no, no, it's your game. You tell me. No, I'm just. He said it. He said it. You can. Yeah, we heard it. I heard it. That's binding. That's binding. It's binding. it's as good as law. Why am I prone? Excellent question. That's that mammoth. Well, here's hoping whatever attacks us has lots of meat and lots of blood. Man. I was going to ask if you want to meet a when I'm skinning the rabbits to like drain the blood on to them.

At this point, like, Ruby's like, oh, please don't actually. I mean, yeah, it's just part of how it works. I mean, it's broken. It needs to be fixed. It was my first thought. What can we throw in there? Yeah, because when you're skinning an animal, you drain it of its blood by holding it upside down. Just do that above the gear heart. It's just part of the aesthetic. It's fine. Yeah. We put a place line above the gear heart. It's just for that. That would be the hardest part to explain. If there was a traveler, they wouldn't be like, What is that vehicle? They'd be like, what are you doing?

I think it should be highwaymen again. I think that was good last time. Oh, yeah. All right. All right. Specifically, yes. I think of them as paper people. Just soft chest. Yeah. Yeah. Crunch. I wonder if we're ever going to get an answer to what the hell happened. I almost feel as better that we never do. That one's going to keep me up at. Like. As far as Lover is concerned, either they're all like that or that was a ghost specifically. There's no middle ground. But how would they have survived the last hundred and something years if they're all just like pop like balloons?

It's a good question. They're very careful. Maybe they're just very, very careful. A bunch of bubble boys. That's a good question. I think it's one of those things that over the past three days, like, Loggerne's been thinking about it constantly. So every now and then he'll just voice one of his thoughts like out of the blue. Like, he'll be like, do you think they hug each other? Like, what would happen? Just, do you think there's just piles of clothes all over the street? Because one of them sneezed and... Night there all the time, you know, when that city first came back, I got so many contracts. from the quote unquote original Laddron to kill these returning ones.

I didn't take it on, but now I know that I could have been a millionaire. Just go in there. Just look at him wrong and then just go. The damnedest thing. He's chewing on the inside of his cheek a lot. Just like, I don't know. What if they nick themselves shaving? That's what I mean. Like, what happens if you just stumble on a root? And then that's it. And how do they make other red laddron? Extra cautious? That sends logging into a crisis. He's like, how does how? You come over to come here a couple times with like theories and be like, I don't know, I heard that if you.

I heard that. He'd fall about it a minute ago. I heard it from the real. We're on the street. It is. Yeah. Now, there's this. Is it a religious cult up north? They do this weird thing where you use like a receptacle, right? And then you know, you've heard. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I've done it. Oh. Oh. I mean, for fun, like more for fun than, you know. So are there little chimeras? I don't think so. There's probably at least a couple. I might be a half-work one. Yeah. That's true. I hope it would be doing well. It's in good hands, if that were the case. Yeah. Do they not cook?

Oh. Just burning yourself. Or even just having too spicy of food. What if they have indigestion? Ooh. Yeah. Or they have a real powerful shit. It's a hell of a way to go. It's a collapse. We've all thought that way. When the role play is too good. Sorry. Sorry, that. Fuck me up. So how careful should we be when we get to town? I'm afraid to touch any of them. If I do it again in the middle of the street, I'm not going to know what to do. I feel terrible. It has to be an outlier. It has to be an outlier. And it's a ghost. It must be. And I'm sorry, Ruby. And then you like ghosts, but that one has a brick.

I don't think these would even be ghosts, but there's nothing left. I mean, he left his money. I mean, fair, fine. And that knife. Did we take the knife? Yeah. Certainly. He flipped it in around. Hmm. Okay. Here we go. Weird way to go. Just poop. I keep thinking it didn't happen like I imagined it. Well, we didn't even see it. We just heard it over the earring. How did he scare all those high women into submission? They just had to take one swing in them. Maybe they were, maybe they really liked him and they were afraid. If they did anything. Exactly, yeah. Sir, don't, please.

You'll catch cold. No. Well, that's a picture. Oh, my goodness. That's something your wife would like. It's like a Grick or something. Yep, it's Grick, baby. And yes, you're right, Susan. Oh. That's Greek, baby. Oh, no, you can stop. Stop adding. That's fine. You actually put two on. I got three. So around you, the snow's going to part, and these carnivorous worm-looking things are going to kind of pop out of the ground. And almost flower-like, their heads are going to part. They're kind of these, you know, they look like bad dragon sponsors. Like they just tentacles all over their beak.

And then they're going to, there are two, there are two what looked to be. adolescence and then one huge adult grick. If you would all do me to favor of please, toggling yourself for combat. It's going to be Ruby and then giant brick and then brick. Okay, well, I'm going to go ahead and pull my quick draw combat maneuver. So I can get an attack here. As soon as this thing pops up, she's going to glance at all direct. directions and see this biggest Grick. She's just going to yell out everybody and just you know if they didn't notice it already. Grick. God damn it.

I'm sure they've come up. I'm sure they've come across something like this at some point. I'll get to the size of that great. God damn. Not actually. It's pretty big. Yeah, probably based one I've seen. Anyway, then she's going to just double shot. Bam bam. Or quick draw. I should say. Sorry, not double shot. Let me see what happens. 2.2. Not good. 12 is going to miss. 12 is going to miss. Not a problem because she is now going to... So she's going to... Boom. Soon as she can off of her wrist ballista. Then she's going to make her way up right over here onto this maybe rock or boulder.

To get a little bit of... a little bit of aboveness here. And then she's going to do the same thing once more time. But for an honest to goodness attack. With her wrist ballista. Okay, better. Oh, that's so much better. Okay. 28 will definitely hit for seven damage. And I'm going to do it again. Bam. Because she doesn't want to get too close to this thing. Oof. Oh, that is a crit one. All right. Let me check that out. Is there a... Give me D6. D6. That is a two. Then you are not rolling on our grid table. Okay. Perfect. All right. She's going to stay there. She doesn't want to get too close to this thing.

But she wants to be a little bit above it so she can take a little bit here and there. But she is going to be focusing on this major Greek. Okay. And that's it. That brings up the major brick. Uncontrolled to major brick. This is the range. I didn't know that. So this brick is. Yeah, it's going to fire at a tentacle at you. Okay. Let's see how this goes. Oh, poorly. Excellent. I'm going to roll a 10. That's not going to hit you. Right? Nope. Okay. Well, hell. That's it. Uh, baby Grick. Gonna move up just a little bit. And it is also going to fire out a tentacle at Nithira.

Get a guess a 23 hits you. Yes. Okay. Okay. Sorry. Not cool. It's not great, right? So these tentacles are going to stretch way further than you think they're going to. So just a couple of these, almost like really long rubbery men. are going to wrap out and just kind of like grip you by the shoulders and pull you in. And it is going to drag you right up next to it. And then that little snappy beak is going to try and attack you to. Hey. As a bonus action. Oof. Okay. Yep. 21 will hit. So right now you are grappled. but not restrained or anything like that. That will end its turn and bring up Logrin.

Okay. So that kind of changes what Logren was going to do. He was facing the really huge brick in front of him. I was going to turn around and look at this little brick behind him. And he's going to move up 510, 15 feet for his full range of motion. He's going to... He's going to... Everybody shut up. It's a normal amount of movement. Respectable. It's respectable, right? It's average. It's average for the time. He will as a free action, plant his tower shield. He will, as a bonus action, Mark Foe, on this thing. Let's see if I can actually get that status. activate Markful.

I marked it. I don't know if that did anything. And then as a action action, we're going to rack the shotgun on top of the shield and fire at this fucker. It's both barrels. Sorry, it's like it's been forever since we've done this. It's not advantage when I roll with both barrels, right? Right. It is just, yeah, it's just a regular roll because it's double the kickback. Right. Yeah, you're just emptying. both. So it should be both damage. For being next to my theory, there's no expertise, either? No. Okay. You have to be flanking first. And you don't want to do that with a shotgun.

No. Also, I can't get over there. It's too far. That's true. Yeah, but we just... Oh, shit. That's way better than the last time. Okay. Yeah. So 20 to hit. 22 for my strength saving throw. And then 12 plus 19 damage. For a total of... Sure. I don't know. Yeah. So you can 400. Yeah. It's fine. 100. So this thing is restraining Nithera, and they have a very single-minded, like a one-track mind here. So it is trying to wrestle and just bite at Nithera, and it's already bloodied her. So like it is, it's very efficient. You come, I mean, I'm just, You don't waddling. You come up here with the shotgun.

Yeah. Mozy. Uh, and, and, and you plant the tower shield, put the shotgun up and just, boom. Just spray green blood. It completely evaporates in front. Just chunks. So the only thing left are the two tentacles wrapped around Nithera's shoulders and just chunks. So the only thing left are the two tentacles wrapped around appendages that don't work anymore. And, you know, the blood covering everything. I like to imagine, though, that this is kind of something that the shield negates, because you're hiding behind it, you don't get covered in blood. Eethera was not hiding behind a shield.

And it just like, yeah? I don't like the word hiding. I don't think we should consider it. You know what? I'm sorry. What do we want to call it? I'm supporting all of these the enemy. I'm supporting all of these boxes between me and the monsters. Supporting this closet. That's a bad inside. Yeah. Exactly. Ian gets it. It's not that I'm afraid. I'm just like. to be safe. Nifer is up and probably sticky. So sticky. Farmer's like, you're all right. Get in there. Yeah. Shrugs off one of the tentacles and now she runs towards the other one. The other one just flops off. So I'm going to move my...

I'm going to move like 20 feet and then I'm going to activate the maneuver charge, which is an action. I fling myself towards an enemy. So what I do is I actually activate these boots as I'm running that Ruby gave her. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then extra burst of speed. So, but the maneuver is charged and I move up to 30 feet in a street line and make a weapon attack. So that gets me all the way to the big brick. Damn. And I will attack with my mind blade because that's in her main hand. I know for a fact. That's going to change what Ian was doing for just a second.

Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. We're sorry. We all saw the template. We... Does that change? Yes, it does. So it doesn't seem they get extra any extra psychic damages, but that's okay because I got an offhand attack. So, NikeR charges forward, attacks with Mind Blade, and then uppercuts with her assassins. got a silvered weapon. I don't know if that does anything special. But not to the Gricks. They're just, oh, that was almost a crit, but we will take a 21. Definitely hits. And that does seven piercing damage and nine poison damage because it was coated in black blade. Hmm.

And then she'll look over her shoulder as the last tentacle falls to ground. Sorry, Kamira. I saw you like scoping out the scene. You were like, holding a fireball in your hands like, ah! Just support something in front of you for a second. I'm on my way. It's going to take a minute. Come here, you are up. Uh, come here, up. Okay, I am going to... I'm going to get up on one on these little rocks. I'm gonna like scrabble up maybe here somewhere. Get a little elevation as well. And the first thing I'm gonna do is on this big old grick, I'm gonna come here is gonna speak some infernal words and lay a curse.

On that, about curse. On the big one? Yeah, on the big one. Yeah, on the big one. Done. cursed so his words like boom out across this thing and then he is gonna try and lay down a fireball but let me just make sure I can do it because I'm gonna have to do it behind mm-hmm and I obviously I don't want to hear so yeah probably somewhere like there to try and get both that just miss this area like it's gonna get warm for a second I get real high in front of her yeah for sure. It's gonna melt her eyelashes straight off. So. No, I need those. I'm trying to appear feminine.

That's right. What? Dexterity saving throws? Yeah. 22 damage. Let's see if we can. Okay, big brick first. Dexterity saving throw. We're looking for 16 or higher. Holy shit. Well, that's 11. That's not going to do it. Little Grick. Major Grick. That is also not going to do it. They're both going to take 22 damage. That tiny Grick is going. Sorry. They'll take 20 damage, but the big guy takes 22. 22. Two. God. Sorry. Not the little guy. Yeah. So the little one. tentacles and all are just going to erupt into flames. And it's going to kind of like shake and wacky waving arm inflatable tube man, then just kind of die off.

So that is one dead brick. However, the big one is just going to be on fire. And yeah, Jason. Yeah. Yeah. What do these gricks sound like? I, it's got to be a cross between like like a low gross between like a low ground. rumble in a high pitch kind of chirping. So something kind of gutterol in the back of your throat. Like, you know what I mean? Like kind of a, you know. Very grickish, I think. Yeah, thank you. That was a good grig. You do a really good grick. Thank you. Those are my snacks noises. So we draw from what you know, you know. That makes sense. DM in the street, Sirekesh, a great.

Sheets. Oh. Oh, what was I doing? I can look at greeking. Okay. That will bloody the greek. Good thing. I'm right there. I know. I'm so sorry. It can only attack when it. Okay. Okay. It's going to try and it's going to, it's going to tend to pull you. It's going to try to and it's going to miss because I'm putting it out in the universe. Ooh. Yeah, Will. See? There you go. You're welcome. Anything else from Canada? No, that is it. Do you still have your eyelashes? Nehira? Sorry. Yeah, can't really check. We'll see. She's dodging and weaving tentacles coming right at her. Are they keeping the snowflakes out?

I think so. That might just see the flames. They won't keep those out. Ruby Nithera, Logrin, Grick, Ben, chimera. So, Ruby. All right. Once again, she's going to go for her crossbow, or I guess it's my crossbow on the button here, but her wrist balista. And as she does it, she's going to try to, well, hang on, question. Am I high enough? So Ruby gets an expertise dive from, above if she's attacking. Is this above enough or not really? So, okay. It works like this. If it's above enough for you to get advantage, I would have had to have shave off movement so that you could climb.

I see. Because it's difficult to rate. This doesn't look like that anyway. I was kind of like it anyway, but just seeing what I can do here. All right, great. All right. So first things first. And Susan, where is best for me to go for Ruby to to land next to you or flanking? Yeah, either. I just need you within five feet of the creature for me to get my special stuff. Great. So Ruby's going to run. She's going to flank over here. Is that good? Does that work? Right behind it? Yeah. Boom. And in the process of that run, she's going to be doing her wrist ballista straight at it.

Let's see what happens. Ooh. Oh, that will hit 23. Fantastic. When I'm going to... You fire the wrist ballista adjacent to it? No, as I'm no, like shooting it and then running it. Okay. I'm just flavoring my movement. But I can do that because I have, I can do range attacks in melee. What? Nothing. Just keep just... Everybody's chatting. Okay, great. I can pass in those class and shit. However. Oh, no, that's good. All right. So second attack, I am going to try to... I am going to... Flurry a blows it. Oh, yeah. That's a crit. Let's talk about anything else. Okay. Let's roll on the crit table, baby.

Give me a D6, see if we're doing that. Jesus. Susan's filthy. I just want to put that out there. We're not rolling. The chat is hidden for me. I've been meeting this joke to death in the background. And Susan takes a shot at it. And immediately gets called out as being gross. To be fair, Curse was more gross than mine. It was kind of more gross. But in a fun way. You saw my face beforehand. You were all like, I like that being the running gag in like resurrection where it's like Susan too far. In a in a That time it was. Tom Tyler and Jake. That time, yeah. I almost want you to tell everybody what you said.

Can we just preface it with all the things Jameson said? Two wrongs don't make a right, Susan. And this what aboutism doesn't get us anywhere as a country. I just want to. I just want to go through the seven other things, James and said first. But I don't expect any better from him. That's the thing. There was a time when I used to. But now we just embrace the Greek jokes constantly. Because we're toddlers at heart. I do like big Greek energy. I do like big Greek energy. So it looks like. Oh. So it looks like. That is a dead grit. Yeah. So Ruby, Ruby shoots this thing, slides over to flank.

And it just kind of expires. Probably on fire. Yeah. Definitely smoldering. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do a thing because these were worth a decent chunk of XP because they, because they, They get in. They deal damage real quick. And then get out. So, uh, let's see. Let's check something out here, guys. XP from mammoth and yety. And the ghost. You reminded me of that last time we sat down, guys. And then we did the XP. I don't know. I don't remember things. We definitely had this conversation. Like we definitely did. That's why I'm doing the XP right now. That was probably, yeah, Wednesday.

And those are different people. Those are different people. Yes. Different XP. I don't think we got any XP from the FOP though last time. You want three. You get three XP for that. It's not all combat, right? We talked about that on episode one. They're not going to be all combat, but they are working. They're not. You don't get XP for a crumpled paper. Like you just three. You don't. You didn't. Yeah. It was a social. That was a social encounter up until he just disintegrated. Probably like me. He was just gone. Yeah. We were trying our best. Give yourselves 1,3,375 XP each, please.

Each. Each, baby. Mm-hmm. 13, 335. Except for Camira. I don't know what yours is that. And yours is different. Yeah. 13,332 and you are close. Super close. Super close. Want me throw another brick at you? You want to? Yeah. Stop. What can we gather from this stuff? Is there anything edible? is it like oh oh oh heaven's no don't eat it don't eat it Rupi's like should we and everybody's like no no no no no I'm starving they're hot full of blood though as my fear gestures to herself covered in it I mean they're basically just big blood tubes of blood yeah bloods of tube is where we want I can't watch in the episode title My favorite Romstein album.

Yeah. Bloods of two. I mean, Ruby wouldn't say no to the blood, Nithera. Well, then, Nithira, before she gets herself cleaned up, like, Kimero come up to offer her presiditation, and she'll be like, well, just one second. And she'll lift one of their bodies and toss it onto the gear heart. Shit. So what are you gutting it on top of it? Are you just, like, squeezing it out? It's already bleeding out. So she just. That is interesting. I'm going to stomp on it like grapes. Just. Man, what an only fan. Just like, Lodren's bare feet stomping out of grick on top of the, on a car.

It's like hyper-specific fetish. But, man, it's like when you stop on their brick, you know. Yeah. Yeah. It's full of blood is the thing. Blood. Blood of foods. It's like one of those videos that can make it on to YouTube. Like it's not explicitly sexual, but you watch it. You're like, oh, this is a fetish. Yeah. Definitely fetish, yeah. This is for some. Yeah. You're wearing a motorcycle suit covered in olive oil or something. There's something. Oh, you've seen my videos. I try to support my friends. Thank you so much. I love when you leave comments. You look so shiny.

You're doing great. Keep coming. I love your squeaky sounds as you walk. I don't understand what I'm seeing, but I have feelings. You're good at wrestling. I think you're winning. I think you're winning. Like, I just, you know. What was I doing just now? Grickblood car. Grick blood, thank you. I need you roll a D-100. We're going to see how this affects the car. Well, I mean, Susan's the one doing it, but you know, Gearheart's kind of under your purview. I love adding blood to this car. Go for it. I'm really good to have a hobby, you know. Yeah. I want to see what it does now.

I think generally speaking, Ruby would not stop Nythera. She would not be comfortable with this, but she also is kind of both comfortable and not comfortable. And I rolled a 49. You did. So the outer metal of this vehicle is going to take on a greenish sheen. And it's going to take on a greenish sheen. And it's going to feel different. It's going to feel like skin almost, like a kind of a rough. carapest, like, it's not a hardened shell. But it's like if you took a snake and it ate the gear heart. So it's that snake skin kind of feel, but it's, it's got like little, like little, um, little pock marks all over it.

So it's got a rough feel. Yeah, more organic. If that is going to extend into the car as well, where if you lean next to, you know, mean like the doors, the outer frame. It's going to like, it almost moves with the car a little bit. Now, metal-wise, I could tell you that things like acid rain won't affect the car anymore. I can also tell you there's going to be weird side effects from doing this to the car. But there's going to be cool things too. So it's just going to be. It's a lot. It's a lot of weird stuff. We're an uncharted territory. Not only have you made the first car.

You've started splicing DNA into it. Because there's a ghost it runs on. And there's a lot of weird shit I didn't plan for. But yeah. I'm standing outside watching this happen. And I think logging after a silence will just look at camera at Nitheringo. I think we've got to stop doing that. It's getting too much. Yeah, I don't like. like this one too much. Maybe we could add more blood to fix it. No, I think you're taking the wrong lesson from this. This is my new favorite thing. Oh my God. The Grickmobile. One of those things we pan across all four of us and we all have very distinctly different reactions to it.

If Ruby's like, oh no, my baby, Lodering is like, I hate this. Like there says, maybe we could fix it with more. and Cadair is just way into it. Who's trained in? I can tell you right now, my theory is already going to spot this. But anybody else who is trained in perception and wants to give me a role, go for it. Can you just imagine Dragon Blood? What would that do? Oh, my God. Oh. At one point, it's not going to be safe to get into it anymore. It's just going to be feeding us to it. You're just getting bored when you jump into it. Yeah. That's a certain point. 24 from Ruby.

Holy shit. So, okay. While Loggerne is genuinely kind of disgusted at this. Like, it's like, oh, I don't like it having skin. Why does it have skin type of thing? The, you know, furry, woolly mammoth seats, the ivory upholstreet. You're going to notice something up about the front bumper. And it appears as though these transformations aren't necessarily instantaneous. As there are two budding woolly mammoth tusks coming out of the front bumper. Yes. That's pretty cool. So yeah, so Cameras like, I love this. And Ruby's going to have this look on her face. Like, no, not my.

She's going to start seeing that. Oh, I do too. Oh, my God. Like, that has a useful feature. If they get full size, like, do they grow back? I don't want to find out. I kind of want to find out. But I don't want to find out. Like, what do we? Why do you? Why is that where you? Well, no, if we... If we smash this thing up and break it again, she doesn't want it. Honestly, the organic stuff has lasted longer than the mechanical stuff. We'll probably feed it something that regenerates next time. Oh, that's good. Dude, there is no. There's a lot of weird tables we can make, guys.

There's no fan. There's crazy shit that we can do that. I was just thinking we don't have enough tables gone. That's true. I have enough tables. book number three. It's coming at you someday. It's got to tables. It's a joke. It's okay. You know what? I'm into it. I love it. I love the tables. All right. It's just a Gearheart book, though. It's just... How to introduce the weirdest travel into your fantasy game? So we're back in the... We're back in. And the car's up and running. Gearheart's up and running. It does work. It is weirder. Lugrin is sitting like on the very edge of the seat.

He doesn't want to touch anything. He's just kind of like, you know, when you sit in the subway car opens, you're like, oh, somebody threw up in here. I don't want to sit or stand on anything. And that's kind of where he's at with him. Relax. It's fine. The skin is moving. It's supposed to move. No, it's not. Really. The skin is not supposed to move. Tell me. Haven't you ever had a massage? I don't see what this has to do with that. You're going to notice it, it changes texture and color just a little bit. As the, like, a blustering wind comes in, it tightens.

Like, it, it, like, tightens a little bit. So it's got that rib, snake belly thing on the inside. And you're going to see those get tighter and pull. And you're going to hear the car just kind of like, eh. It's clutching. Leather stretching. Yeah. It's kind of clenching. It is a little bit. I do that too when I get cold. It's normal. We all do it. Everybody goes. He's just got a permanent, just like, sour face on the whole thing. Like you're hard now. You guys. are going to travel for two more days. And I guess that would be the 13th and 14th. 14th, you get a nice long rest.

You park the car. And then you start hiking. And about midway through the 15th. you're going to see this magical sheen, this dome, kind of peeks out. It's kind of nestled in the mountains. It's very hard to spot from far away. Because it looks as though it's a little cloaked because of all the ice and snow. The city used to stick out like a sore thumb. And there's been a lot of things that have happened to the city that kind of makes, them want to hide a little bit, just a little bit. But as you get closer, you're going to see that there is a very large set of gates and posted all over it.

Are these tiny little, what, look to be like, little, magic droid type creatures scuttling all over it. It almost like little mechanical stuff. spiders with this blue sheen pumping through them as if these little automatons have been brought to life with magic. And I think it's a good time for us to stop for the night. And we're just going to get you inside Odysia. Maybe, I guess. You know, we turn to try. Yeah. Yeah. Into the brick. Like, just. The brick heart. I agree. It's kind of cool. There's kind of little. There's something there. There was probably a moment in the car word.

Night of years looking at the knife and looking at her hand and then looking at the floor. Oh, an assassin machine. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. This is a bit now. You guys are going to keep doing this. And now I'm ready. I'm ready for this. I think Susan's bleeding in them night here too much. But you know what? I'm going to say night theor is about this. It's once you do it one time and you get those instant, it's like, how far does this go? Right. Well, the first two times were just come here and Chad and all it did was fix itself, right? Right. Yeah. But what it seems like so far is, things that aren't human or humanoid have more of an impact on something that isn't humanoid to begin with.

But there is a humanoid soul within it. Yeah. Or Jesse. So I think that we need a campaign pivot. And rather than doing all the stupid shit we were going to do, we need to drive up that Mount Olympus, kill a god, drape it over the car. Drape it over the car. Tie it to the hood. Like a fucking like 18-pointed. Yeah. For the finale. Yeah. That'll be our epic level campaign. I've got to kill God and see what it does to my car. Completely drop with my car. After we get them out in order and we're like level 15. And we're just, you know. Yeah. You know what? Let's get Darmok after all.

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