Hello, Boyles and Ghouls,
and welcome to another exciting episode of A Playing Games
of Strangers. And I am your DM tonight.
My name is John and boy,
do we have a show for you this evening? Oof.
All right. Uh, with me as always,
we have the lovely and beautiful Dave Clements.
Hi.
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No, see. Hi. Really? Hi.
Uh, Celeste Mora. What's up? Uh,
squid.
Uhoh.
Hello.
Zinsky. Uh, we have everybody's favorite author,
JS Earls.
It's a very weird definition of everyone, but thank you.
Um,
and then a guest appearance from Dave's
sister-in-law, Amanda Clements.
That is still your last name, right? You didn't change it.
You are still Dave's.
Sister-in-law. She spells it differently.
Uh.
She spells it with a.
Question to, just as a reminder as you weren't up to,
you haven't been trained up on podcasting shrugs, don't convey an audio format.
Shrug.
You have to bang your, your face on the microphone or something.
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Oh, I made the mistake of being Facebook friends with my.
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Out a lot. There's your first mistake.
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All right. Anyway. Who wants to be Josiah tonight?
There you go. Amanda. You could roll in the music.
She, she said she would do.
I didn't Josiah roll this voice though.
Well, you can at least introduce the music. It's not that hard.
All right, let's roll the theme song.
Playing games with strangers. There's no
strangers.
Ss.
Alright, squid.
Why don't you let us know why we're on a one-way trip to hell and back.
Well,
what an exciting time It was last time we recorded Emron so
nicely,
went to Southern TowerFall in order to find some recruits for a revolution
of sorts. It was very successful. Unfortunately, upon returning home,
most of my family has been killed. My note for that is, something is wrong,
which I think is an understatement. Um, I called on Tom.
We had a little talk.
Got to hear about some very interesting people that were involved in this
process. He suggested discretion,
which I think is interesting to say to a woman that doesn't know what that
means. Couldn't find Ethan. Couldn't find Kaia.
Used the YouTube for a little bit.
Found mom hanging out with some of the younger siblings.
Fun and exciting family reunion coming up. We'll see.
The other party returned to the castle. The open door was there. Uh,
but the daylight had been burned out and there was a flesh pit inside that.
I'll just leave it. That we managed to close it all up. It was great.
It was good. Um, after very minimal game plan,
which is par for the course or bug and poo met up with me. I threatened or bog,
but only a little bit. And before anything could be accomplished,
tentacles erupted from the sky. And that's where we're at. Oh,
also Wilder prayed to sayos.
The ground from the ground.
Whatever. That's it. It's fun. Good days. Everybody.
Left out the tentacles in the descriptions of what happened.
Oh, yeah. There were a lot of.
Tentacles. Tell her about the on, uh, onset of the A apocalypse. Dave. I.
Mean, everyone's been very vague about this, and I'm like,
I was supposed to be there. I need to know more info.
You'll figure it out. It's like.
Osmosis. I thought I mentioned, but.
I mean, if you actually showed up, I was sick.
Uh, to be fair though, we did get you out.
So you're with us and you haven't been kidnapped or disappeared or anything like
that this time. Congrats. That's good. That's good. And, and I was,
you and Callum are hanging out. Oh, that's gonna be full of sass.
Well.
Hopefully your third time through high school will be a charm.
For, for, for your reference. Callum and Aileen,
were getting people down to the Drow city to safety from the castle,
I believe is where we were headed.
All right. Wilder.
Mm-hmm. .
We last left off with you calling out to Sayos. Mm-hmm.
as you were calling out to XOs several.
And when I say several,
I mean thousands of yellow recluse spiders.
Pour out of the stonework in this room and begin
to bundle together into the form of
a humanoid,
wearing a tattered yellow cloth robe that is semi
conjoined with a tri lobel
flesh bud that has teeth on the flaps, on,
on the skin flaps of this thing.
And tentacles oozing out of what looks like a tri lobel mouth
that is at the top of this flesh pod.
I would like to take a couple of steps back in shock and gross.
Gross gross .
You rang.
I I did. I probably shouldn't have, but I did.
Mm. I'm a very.
I can.
What can I do?
What does it take for this to end?
That is no,
and that's the cruel trick of the universe.
Existence is eternal.
It all just depends on how you wanna spend it.
Well, preferably, I would like to spend it with my
daughter.
He, he is also creeping towards you as he,
as you are talking to him.
What do you want? What what can,
what can I give you to satiate you
and convince you to leave my friends alone?
,
it is a little bit late to be asking that you've already been
a thorn in my side.
Okay. Then.
I had what I wanted initially,
you took the piglet from me.
I, I, I took.
My swine.
You're gonna have to use more descriptive words because at this point I think
you're talking about livestock.
At this point.
He is right up like in your uncomfortably close personal space.
Mm-hmm. . And,
and he's running his hands down your arms as he's talking to you.
I'm gonna ask again, what do you want?
He leans in real close to the side of your face,
and as he's coming up to whisper into your ear,
he licks along your cheek with this
long split slimy tongue.
And then he whispers in your ear and he goes,
is over. Oh,
that remains is the hunger.
I'm going to put my hand on?
Does he have a chest?
Well, yeah. You remember that picture I sent you, you guys in Discord?
That that is what you're looking at. Okay.
Well,
I'm going to put a hand on him and I'm going
to cast if I can find it. Shocking grasp.
Oh, are we doing this? Okay.
I mean, he's threatened, obviously. Yeah. Essentially,
uh, lightning shoots out for my hand at that 24.
Okay. Yeah. That hits.
That's 15 points of lightning damage. Technically.
I mean, I don't know. Are,
are you officially gonna say this is combat or would I be able to do anything
else?
Depends on what you want to do.
I would like to mo uh,
use Misty step and attempt to get out the door.
I will do this.
You can choose either Misty step or Shocking grasp,
but you can't do both. And that's actual D and d.
Okay. Um, I'm just gonna stick with shocking grasp then.
Uh, all right. So you watch as lightning crackles across his body,
um, and it seems like it almost absorbs into him.
It does some damage, but not what you would expect for such a hit.
And he goes, is this what we're doing now?
And he reaches out and he just kind of touches you on the forehead with his
finger. Uh, does a 27 hit?
I believe it does, sir.
Okay. And so he reaches out and touches you, and you get
hit with just this wave of power that
comes off of this finger.
And you take 15 points of nerotic damage and another 15
points of psychic damage as he makes contact with you.
Okay?
And he, he goes, silly boy, you invited me here.
I invited you here because I had questions and I wasn't getting answers from
anyone else.
How am I standing in your way?
You and your friends?
Man, if you are so powerful, then
how are we stopping you? It makes absolutely zero sense.
And maybe I am a stupid boy,
but I have questions and you are giving me no answers.
I have no reason to give you answers. You lesser left form.
You are an aunt beneath me.
You should respect those of a higher being than
yourself.
You have brought me back onto this plane,
and now it shall be consumed.
Well, it seems like you're doing a wonderful job so far.
And I would like to cast Misty step an attempt to get out of the room.
What level of spell is Misty Step?
Um, yeah, it's a second level spell.
It is? Yeah. Okay. As you are casting Misty step,
he waves his hand and a blue wave of energy comes off
and your misty step fails.
Again. Why? Why stop me?
Why, why stop me from leaving the room? I'm nothing to you.
How am I stopping you from accomplishing anything that you're trying to do?
You could just walk past me out this door and
go, go find your piglet of whatever it is.
He goes, I could and I will.
But quite frankly,
it's been a boring day and I do find you
very entertaining.
And then a wave of energy shoots off of him. Um,
you take 14 points of psychic damage, okay?
And I need you to make an intelligent saving throw. Please.
That is an 18. Yeah. That's not gonna save. Um,
so your intelligence and charisma become one.
Um, and you can no longer cast spells, uh,
activate magical I items understand language or communicate in an intelligible
way. Uh, you can't, however,
identify your friends and follow them and even protect them. Um,
and he goes now to yield greater purpose,
he grabs your lower leg with one of his tentacles,
and he starts to drag you out of the room and down the
stairs. Uh,
we are going to take it down to,
okay, who is down in the lower corridors of Castle?
Uh, man Lagar.
Me and Alene.
Okay, where is Orach right now? Just so I know where he's at.
The tower?
Yeah. We're up, uh, Emran or Boger outside the tower.
And that's who is inside the tower, I think.
I think Poo was running to the.
North. Yeah, poo was running to the north.
Okay. All right.
So Callum and Aileen, as you are ushering people
down into the under dark,
I'd like you both to make a perception check amidst the chaos of everybody
trying to flee the oncoming destruction.
Dirty 20.
Okay. And Aileen got a Nat 20.
Uh, alright.
So out the corner of your eye,
you guys see a very vivid,
much like actually the same color as Dave's hoodie right now.
Uh,
shroud shrouded individual coming down the stairs in the
castle as you are ushering people into the under dark, uh, Callum specifically,
you know who this is?
Big fan, best friend. Love that guy.
Except, uh,
he does seem to have a Tri Lobel flesh pod as his
bottom that has several tentacles coming out of it. Um,
and one of those tentacles is dragging a very enfeebled
wilder behind him, uh, down these stairs.
And he is making sure that Wilder is getting hit by every stair as
he is dragging them down.
Cal.
Do you see? Do you see that?
Yeah. I think our day just got a little more interesting.
Because it wasn't already enough.
Yeah. Uh, well, I don't know about him, but I'm model hostile.
How about you?
Uh, you know, I'm, I'm gain for whatever as always.
Wonderful. Then I, I think I'd like to be hostile in his direction.
I'm going to you start the hostility.
I'm gonna make sure all these people are away from the hostility.
Wonderful.
And Alien is gonna yell, Hey, move y'all. But
to everybody.
I would like to cast a spell if I.
May.
Okay? Uh, feel free.
Uh, I'd like to cast Spiritual Guardian, please. I'm sorry. No,
I'd like to cast Guardian of Faith.
Okay.
So similar, so different. Um,
so a large spectral guardian will appear and hover for the duration in
unoccupied space that I choose within 30 feet of me.
So I'm gonna put it in front of me.
Okay?
Uh, and I would like it to look like stumble foot, please.
.
Okay.
And thank you.
And if anyone moves within 10 feet of it that is hostile,
it'll go ahead and take a little, uh, dexterity saving for all. And if it fails,
it'll take some damage. In fact, even if it succeeds, it'll take some damage.
Okay?
That's handy.
You do believe it is.
Okay. So, uh,
you have cast this and now there's a spectral stumble foot standing before you.
There it.
Talking about savings on dice at.
That's a weird thing for stumble foot to talk about.
He's never talked about that before. He's talked about savings,
but never about dice.
and, uh, Soen,
you're tell you're trying to part the crowds as they're rushing towards you.
I would like you to make a charisma check
to see if you are able to get the crowds apart in the midst
of all this chaos as Tower Falls is coming down.
15.
Oh, that's not gonna do it. This is chaos and pandemonium, my dear. Uh,
so you guys are fighting your way upstream in this, uh, when.
We were, we were behind them.
Yeah. I was just trying to get everybody to go faster.
You were behind them.
Mm-hmm.
be behind them as in between Zao and them as we were guiding
people in. You know what I mean? Not like leading them.
But.
Everybody that's Oh, kind of way.
Okay. I I got it more as you were rounding people up and bringing them in there.
So there would be like a crowd of people in there.
That you more like hurting.
Hurting is the correct word. So not in the midst of them, but Okay.
Come along everybody. She was trying to speed them up, not get between them.
Okay.
Plain stewardess.
The exits are here, here, and here. Exactly.
Will you please use them?
So
here's what happens as you screen this out.
Aileen.
Mm-hmm. .
You watch as this hooded face looks towards you,
and at that moment you see under the hood and you see this
leather mask that he's wearing that looks to be like it was stitched out of
human skin.
So like, book from Hocus Pocus.
No idea.
Oh.
I, it's been so long since I've seen that movie. Um,
but he looks at you and you hear him mutter a word that you have
never heard him heard in your life before,
but it strikes something in you
and reverberates in such a way that
you feel something come over you. Uh,
what's your current hit points, by the way?
67.
Yeah. As you hear this word,
everything goes black and you fall over.
Oh, no.
Uh, Callum,
you wa you watch as Aileen just falls to Lifelessly to the ground,
and then your BFF totally looks at you and says,
do you want to get reacquainted?
No.
All right then. And he proceeds to walk towards the door again.
Well, I'm not letting him leave though. That sounds like,
that sounds like a no for me, boss.
All right. So what are you gonna do?
Um, first gonna give a little, uh.
Actually at this point, being asked spells have been cast.
Yeah, I figured. Maybe.
, what was your, uh, what was your, uh, initiative? Role?
Not great.
Mine wasn't either. Um, also Alien. Go ahead and roll initiative as well.
Even though I'm passed out. Yeah.
Well, no, you're not, you're not passed out. You're dead.
Dead dead.
Not dead yet.
Yeah. He, he cast power word kill.
Feeling quite better.
No, you're not. You're dead. You are. You.
Can go for a walk. I don't get death throws. Well, nope.
No.
23. Okay. Golly.
I had 12.
For a dead person. I have a lot of initiative.
All right, well, we're already in order. So Aileen, you're dead. Sorry. Uh,
squid, you're up.
Yes.
And sure wants to like two.
I would say you're probably about 50 feet away from him right now as he is on
some stairs heading towards the front door with wilder in hand, actually Wilder.
Go ahead and, uh, make an initiative roll for me as well too, please.
Great. The first thing I'd like to do, s knock a little arrow,
please. Mm-hmm. ,
say a little divine word and then shoot him with an arrow if
I could.
What does the divine word do? Let me.
Ask you. Uh, it turns it into a divine strike. So if it hits,
he'll take some radiant damage as well.
Okay.
A natural 18 plus eight. So some math in there,
but I'm gonna guess that hits.
That's 26. Uh, yeah, that's gonna hit.
Okay. So that will be
10 piercing and two radiant.
And then I will flip him off and then go over towards
Aen just to position myself in front of her.
Coming for your wilder in a minute. I gotta take care of this one first.
I started it. It's okay.
Uh, Wilder, what was your, uh.
22.
Initiative? 22. Mm-hmm. . All right. He is,
uh, Wilder. Go ahead and take your turn. You should have gone before, um,
you should have gone before, uh, squid, but.
Okay.
Uh, so from your perspective right now,
you recognize the dead lady on the ground
and you recognize, uh,
the guy who just shot an arrow at the guy who is dragging you.
Uh, you don't really remember what their name is,
and they seem to be saying things back and forth,
but you don't understand the words that are coming out of their mouth. Okay? Uh,
you do know that the guy who is dragging you is probably not a good guy.
And these two, you feel the two down on the floor. You have,
you feel like you have a very close relationship with them,
and it seems as though the man dragging you intends to do
them harm.
You also don't have the ability to speak in intelligibly, right.
Pinch him.
Uh.
You stop wearing green . Oh, true.
How do I, gosh, it's like I've never played d and d before. Um,
can I fight against his? I I assume you would consider me grappled.
Uh, sure.
Yeah. Can I go ahead and fight against that? Just what is.
You're welcome to try.
Try check. Is that what that, that is?
Uh, yeah, I think that's strength. The strength.
Oh, that was, that was a winner. Come on computer.
Tell me or not. Don't. Oh, uh, hold on.
Uh, yeah, that was a, that was a two.
Yeah. You are unable to break this grapple that he has on you at the moment.
Okay. Uh, he looks at you ca at you calling. He says,
I don't have time for this. I've got things to do today.
And he waves a hand and this purple door
about his size open this purple portal about his size
opens up before him
and he steps through it and disappears with wilder.
I love purple.
Helene, why? You gotta dead? You know,
am am am I dead, dead or am I undead? Oh,
see, I could come back for you. Um, ,
it's not like I'm going anywhere. Would you see Wilder's in there?
And I'm supposed to pop that man. It's not wilder. Mind you, but the other one,
. Let me roll for this to see how stupid I feel like being right now.
Hang on.
. I think this is the first time I've had squid at an impasse.
Oh, Calum is so stupid.
Can I make it in it before it disappears through the doorway? Ah, if I dash.
This is a dimension door. I don't think it works like that.
What if it did?
But it doesn't.
But what if it did? What if you, you're the dm, you can do whatever you want.
I know I can do what I want. And I'm saying it doesn't really work like that.
Well, that's not fun, is it? I.
Mean, you, Callum can certainly try.
I mean, I'd like to try .
Go for it. What do you, describe to me what you're doing?
I think he would, uh,
fly like wings and fly. Okay.
As best you could to try and essentially either tackle him through the door or
just go through him with it.
I'm gonna do this for you.
Yeah.
I'm going to, I'm gonna give you, because of your lineage,
I'm going to give you a possibility to break
how the spell works. Okay. And I would,
I would like you to roll a percentile di a percentage dye for me, please.
All right. I can do that. I have those, I have two of those.
In fact,
that would be a 96.
Seriously?
Yeah. Would you like me to take a picture?
No. Okay. I I've not known you to be a liar. Pants.
That's cuz you can't see my dice.
Like, literally.
Just kidding.
He literally had.
It at 90. So between 95 and a hundred? Yes. .
Okay.
I mean, we could also say I stopped time momentarily just to get there.
Nah.
No. Break the time barrier.
. No, because you've already used that spell once today already. Um,
it's.
True. I had a nice conversation.
Um, okay, so you are,
you ba outside and you are outside of the tower.
Great.
And he turns and he looks at you as you are not supposed to be here.
Neither are you? Technically. So, uh,
and then I'm gonna reach out and touch him if I could.
Okay. You can touch him. Go ahead and touch him.
Oh boy. All right. I do .
As you make contact with him. Uh,
I need you to make a dexterity saving throw for me, please.
Okay. Chris. Can't go bad.
18.
Not good enough. All right.
You start hearing a whispering and as
you, and every time you look at 'em,
you get distracted as you start to hear whispers of
very unpleasant truths.
So just my voice huh?
About the bleakness of the universe and
uncomfortable things about your parents.
He's saying a lot of things that you don't, and it's not him.
It's just you start hearing whispers saying all these things.
And so what's happening now is going forward,
you have disadvantage and all saving throws against spells,
n effects created by him or any undead creature
that deal psych, uh,
psychic damage causing exhaustion or confusion or charmed
or frightened conditions.
Great.
But you touched him.
I touched him. I sure did.
Did you wanna do something with that touch or?
Yeah, I would, I would like to do that. I'd like to cast a spell if I could.
What spell?
Um, haven't decided yet. Uh, , hang on. I haven't decided.
I just haven't decided what part of it I'd like to cast. Um,
I'd like to cast contagion. Pardon me? I have to make an attack for that.
A 21 to hit.
Uh, that does not hit.
A 21 doesn't hit him. Oh boy. Okay.
Well, that's a shame.
being as we are outside the tower, I'd like or bog, um,
Amin and Mara to roll perception checks please.
19 For number.
All right, so what were you, what was y'all's perception?
I got a Nat 20. Okay.
Uh, 1926.
All right. The two,
the three of you noticed this yellow being on the
southern side of the tower, uh, Mera,
you actually were heading north to northern tower fall from Southern
Tower Fall. Uh,
as these tentacles came up as the central,
uh, tower.
The fallen tower is something of a crisis center when things
like,
should the land be under attack or if there was a hurricane or whatever,
uh, this is where the community,
one of the three places the community would normally congregate in order to seek
safety and shelter. Um, and as you're approaching the tower,
you see this yellow,
this yellow tentacled figure dragging a man fighting
with a another, uh,
gentleman as some pretty gnarly magic stuff is happening.
Uh, Emron and Orbach. You recognize this, this, uh, person. And.
Do I.
Emron, um, has Emron.
Just kerick, right?
They, no, this is XOs.
Yeah, I know. I'm saying, but Emin's only seen.
And I think I've already.
Seen Kerick, um, actually Emin roll a history check, uh,
because they have talked about XOs in front of you,
but whether or not you'd be able to put that together.
Is debat. I mean, I guess maybe not based on that role. Yeah,
that's just a solid nine. Okay.
Well you see this,
you see this person slash thing dragging wilder behind it. Great.
Should we roll initiative ? Should I add some initiative in there?
I mean.
How far away are they? ? Maybe? I'll say that.
Uh, I'd say they're probably 20, 30 feet away from you guys.
Oh yeah. Great. Do you think I'm not gonna wanna fight
? Nay. I say nay.
I, I'm trying to think of how we do this with, because
like both emer and I were kind of facing the tentacles,
like how do we keep an eye on that end? And you know what, like,
can we hit as we.
That doesn't sound, that doesn't sound like my problem is all I'm saying.
Oh no. I just don't know how we would, how to describe that or what we.
Do. I like, I like simple solutions and the simple solutions.
I see a problem and I'd like to go fix that problem. Please. Yeah.
Simple solution. Yellow.
For me is just layer effects. So, uh,
a what was your initiative?
17.
Mero. What was your initiative or bog, what's your initiative?
16.
Uh, 11. You got that Good, good initiative role there.
First up, we has Wilder.
You are still being drugged by this individual and you see
two other people that you recognize as being friendly.
Okay. Um, yeah, I'm gonna attack him with my dagger.
Just try and like stab the, stab his arm.
That was, uh.
21. Okay. Uh, 21 does not hit. Sorry, I.
Knew that. I'm just playing.
Okay. Do you have a bonus attack or nah?
Nah, I'd have sneak attack if anybody was close, but I.
Don't Gotcha. Gotcha. Emron, you're up.
Uh, I'm gonna charge this guy.
Okay.
Probably not gonna hit this guy, but we'll see. No, I do not,
but I'm gonna hit him again.
Okay?
Ooh, that's gonna hit as it is.
A 31.
Yep. 31 will hit.
. I hope 31 hits.
I will cry if it does not .
So that is hi 6, 7, 8,
slashing magical damage.
The slashing is magical.
Yeah, it's from my grave, so I'm assuming everything from it is magical.
Okay.
I'm guessing I could be wrong, but I would guess that this, uh, yum,
yum grave. Just magic damage.
. Okay. You, you,
you make a solid hit to against him with this yum, yum grave.
It doesn't fe like, like, you know, violence.
Yes, I do.
Uh,
it doesn't seem to really hit as hard as you thought it would.
You know what? That's fine. I'm gonna hit him again.
You can hit, you can hit three times.
Yes, I can.
. Okay.
I may not hit as hard,
but if I hit as much makes up for it.
24.
Okay. That hits.
Four. Not a lot,
seven plus nothing. But I will mark him. So.
Okay.
Get wrecked by my seven points of damage. That doesn't do anything .
Oh, right. So you, so, uh, wilder, you,
you see this person that, you know,
come up and swing this grave at this man several times
and it makes contacts a couple times,
but he just seems more irritated than he does injured
Mayra. You see this fight happening, uh,
and these people are starting to swamp this guy who,
this creature that is dragging, uh,
this other individual whom, you know,
given your profession to be the, uh, leader of the, uh,
thieves Guild.
Yeah. That's not my problem.
Cool. All right, moving on. I.
I'm getting out of the way. Um,
trying to get into the castle or the tower.
All right. Uh, Callum?
Yes.
You're up.
Wonderful. Let me switch to my other sheet.
I love when both of my characters are in fights together.
, it's so fun. Uh, great. Okay. Okay. All right.
Well I'm going to stop touching Sayos cuz that did not go
well for me. Uh, I have basically just disadvantaged on him stuff. Correct.
Or any other undead casting his stuff. The casting those spells.
Wonderful. Then I'm just gonna reach out to Wilder.
Gonna cast greater restoration.
I have to check to see if that is.
I don't know if it does, but I hope so. Uh, yes.
Any reduction to one of the target's Ability scores?
You said greater restoration? Mm-hmm. . Okay. Uh,
so you cast greater Restoration Wilder. You come to your own,
you come to your mind and it,
it's like suddenly you've had this blockage that's inside your brain
removed.
OB beta now. Oh, things are bad.
And it, it suddenly occurs to you that you literally watched Aileen die
as well.
We're gonna take care of that later. Don't worry about it.
. He doesn't know that.
It's fine. .
Uh, okay, so, or bog you're up.
I can,
I guess I can move fast enough to be able to hit him, right?
Yeah, sure.
I guess. He'll, he'll just Alright. Cast Spanish.
Do you have that?
No, I'm just joking. I just wanted to see your face. Um, .
Okay. Eric.
? Um, no, he's just gonna, he's gonna hit him with the CTAs.
Okay. Roll two. Attack.
Mm.
That's a, or 23.
Barely hits.
Yeah. I not surprised. Uh, 18 with the plus three.
Okay.
And, and I only get one extra attack. Right?
It's been a long time since rb Bach has fought.
. This might be the first time you fought as a drought.
This is the first time I've fought as a drought.
So do I still get since he was a barbarian or does any of that change?
Your class state remains the same.
Stays the same. So I do get the extra attack. Yep. But only,
I only get one extra attack. Not the, unless I'm.
But.
You weren't.
Reaching beforehand, so.
Right. Oh, nice. Uh,
24.
Okay. That hits.
19.
All right. So you,
you hack him up and as you cut into him,
you watch as the viscera reaches out and
kind of knits itself back together as you, as you're, uh,
cutting into him as, uh,
his wounds start to close itself, themselves up.
And he starts to look like he's regaining health.
He.
Goes, I don't have time for this. You want your friend back, fine,
but I've got things to do.
And he swings wilder and he slams him into the side of
the tower. So wilder, you are going to take,
uh, just one point of bludgeoning damage as he slams you into the tower.
Uh, and then he disappears. And Callum,
I'm going to say also say that as,
as this blonde figure runs past you into the tower,
you momentarily feel the presence of Rhoda.
Callum does.
Not. Callum, sorry. Uh.
That's a weird thing for Callum to feel.
emron.
Less weird thing for me to feel wonderful. Love that. For me, both of mes.
I'm gonna take a second to get to my feet so you all can enjoy
whatever you're doing.
Uh, Emron and Kalam are both gonna head that direction,
but for both very different reasons.
.
Rapidly.
You're, you're both gonna head in which direction.
Did they both go into the castle? I forget what you said.
Did you say into the tower of the castle.
Mayra or the, the blonde figure that ran past Emin that had the Yes.
Essence of Rhoda? Uh,
she ran into the tower.
Okay. EM'S going there. Callan's going to the castle.
Okay. Or bog, what's you doing?
Um, he is so what? Dave's just taking his time getting to his feet.
Yeah. Yeah, that's what he said.
I guess he's gonna ask Wilder. Wilder.
Where's Lene?
Oh, Bo, I I think she might be dead in the castle. Um,
we, we, we need to go. I, I.
Dead in the castle.
Zay, I'm a little dizzy. Zao did something to her.
I saw a collapse and she didn't get up.
Just we should go follow Callum. Maybe that's what Callum's going.
Okay. He'll, he'll, he'll give one quick look back towards Emre and,
and just follow Wilder.
Sorry. I'm trying to find something for Aen that Aen
will have, will be seeing at the moment.
So you are in a very dark space and you see this thing as there
are many people around you and it's just grabbing them and shoving it into
its v shoving them into its various MAs with these tentacles that it
has protruding off of it.
Hmm.
I sent you my reply cuz it's not family friendly.
. That's so wrong. I'm so,
that's so right. If I read that in the right, with the right intention,
that not a joke I'd expect from you. Celeste, I, you just shocked me.
I haven't had enough sleep.
. Wow. Okay. Um, now I'm blushing.
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