Welcome to the Good Good Table: S1 Ep. 05 - Bad Medicine

The party finally confronts the Humming Hag underneath Havenwatch.

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Content Warnings:
Course Language
Not-So-Missing Children
The Occasional Bit of Innuendo
Being in a Cave
Skittering
A cat in the background sometimes, just doing cat stuff

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SPEAKER_12 0:00

Welcome to the Good Good Table is a podcast for grown folks with swears and violence and stuff. Content warnings can be found in the description.

SPEAKER_11 0:06

Last time at the Good Good Table, you are there at the f at the yawning mouth of the hole. Now, whatever's down here, we want to bring it in alive, kicking, if we can. You end up in a room that looks pretty clearly like somebody's inserted effort to dwell in the cave. And then behold a prop. A worn leather journal.

SPEAKER_12 0:28

I've been working in triage at the hospital for the past few weeks. I was so happy to get the chance to help people, especially all these children. One of the hospital administrators visited me on in the war today, asking if I needed anything. He mentioned there was a touch of enchantment involved, and that all it required to work was that I was willing to accept it. This entry uh starts with it's working. It took a lot longer than I had hoped, but whatever the administrator gave me has completely turned things around for me.

SPEAKER_11 0:54

Uh there's a raised area in the northeast with several cots and bed rolls, along with odds and ends the children that are running around in here. Sorry, I kind of buried the lead there. There are kids running around in here. There is one of the children. He does look to be a little more aware. They call me Pickle.

SPEAKER_13 1:13

Pickle Iron Wick at your service. I I don't think she means bad, but it hurts us all the same.

SPEAKER_08 1:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_13 1:18

They will leave while she's still humming.

SPEAKER_07 1:21

How does the bridge look? It's pretty narrow. Is it sturdy? Looks like it, maybe. Delos is very wary of this bridge.

SPEAKER_12 1:30

See you on the other side.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

And what a missus that I believe I will turn into a bat.

SPEAKER_11 1:36

Okay, so you turn into a bat, and then you flutter over.

SPEAKER_08 1:39

And that's over here, like, how could I possibly use my arm?

SPEAKER_11 1:45

And your arm detaches. Oh! And flings over to the other side and grabs on a rock. Oh! And pulls you bodily across the cabin. Alright, yeah, this seems fine. Okay. And he gets across the other side, no problem.

SPEAKER_08 2:00

Fucking it's a good thing. No problem, no problem at all.

SPEAKER_13 2:05

You're not little.

SPEAKER_08 2:06

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_13 2:07

You're not hurt.

SPEAKER_08 2:08

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_13 2:09

Why do you come here?

SPEAKER_08 2:10

We're doing a wellness check. So I'm gonna go, I'm gonna pick up some rocks. What do I have to roll to throw rocks at my friend's head? What?

SPEAKER_11 2:18

Hallelujah.

SPEAKER_08 2:19

I got a natural one twice in a row.

SPEAKER_11 2:22

So yeah, you're you're trying to throw with your prosthetic arm, and you're just like, okay, I'm just gonna bean one of my friends with a bag of head, like, fucking wake up. Your arm suddenly kicks into like high gear and real loud. The rock flies across the room and hits the nest, and a thrum shakes the room. And you see yellowish green skin stand up and look down at you.

SPEAKER_05 2:48

Very well. We will be allowed together.

SPEAKER_11 3:04

Welcome back to the good good table, everybody. My name is Alex. I will be your host and DM again. We're just going right into combat. Some stuff happened. We found the bad guy. And well, she I mean, maybe she's a bad guy. What do you think? Is Maris a bad guy?

SPEAKER_01 3:20

She really brings the energy down in the room.

SPEAKER_08 3:26

What she is is a fucking bummer.

SPEAKER_11 3:28

For our initiative, we have Jenova, followed by Maris, the humming hag. Uh, and then we've got Galos, Venaria, Dromash, and Huni. Jenova, you are first up. Okay, so at the start of your turn, go ahead and make a wisdom save.

unknown 3:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

Uh 28.

SPEAKER_11 3:51

Wow. Okay. Fuck you, saving through a roll. So uh yeah, at the start of your turn, you hear this this humming coming across. But instead of giving in and and just slowing down, because it seemed you wanted you to just stop walking, but you overcome it, and and you actually are totally fine with the humming now.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

Alright, so Jenova, since no one is in the vicinity, I think I will uh conjure lightning. Yes.

SPEAKER_08 4:28

I think I will blow it the fuck up.

SPEAKER_12 4:30

Yes. To make them make that deck safe.

SPEAKER_11 4:33

Oh yes, yes. Bam bam. I don't think that's gonna do it. That's a seven plus. Yeah, no, that that's no, she she rolled an eight.

unknown 4:45

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

Okay, so Genova rolled 27.

SPEAKER_11 4:48

Alright, so 27 lightning damage.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

Yes. And then I have the stuff with the dreamer, so we'll add two to that. So 29.

SPEAKER_11 4:55

So 29 lightning damage comes down on the hag. Uh feel free. How how how would you how would you describe this? Describe this lightning and what'd you do? Paint us the picture.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

So I direct, I start to build up this energy in my hands, and my hands begin to glow, and lightning begins to kind of shoot off of them and kind of bounce between. And I just hurl that in her direction.

SPEAKER_11 5:23

Like like storm in X-Men. Yes. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

And the and the clouds build and lightning just starts striking.

SPEAKER_11 5:32

Hell yeah. See, you get you get the lightning bolts flying down on her, and and she so far you don't think that you've heard her actually make noise with her mouth, but she kind of makes this guttural like as she's getting hit by the lightning. Not a big fan of that.

SPEAKER_13 5:47

That's not quiet at all. That's quite noisy. I thought we talked about being quiet.

SPEAKER_07 5:54

She said, she said we all get to be loud.

SPEAKER_13 5:57

Oh, that's true. Wait, no, you're right. Okay, we're all being very loud now. That lightning was quite loud.

SPEAKER_11 6:03

We can assume that you summoned your wildfire spirit again at some point. So before all that, at the beginning of He's gotta run. At the begin. At the beginning of his turn, he needs to make a wisdom save.

SPEAKER_01 6:14

So then that'd be 19.

SPEAKER_11 6:16

Wow. Um, yeah, you you see Fritter kind of stop for a second and tilt their head and then shake it off and then go about their business. Yeah, they they they pass that save, no problem. Nice. Fling the flame.

SPEAKER_01 6:30

Alright. Uh that would be 18.

SPEAKER_11 6:32

18 to hit?

SPEAKER_01 6:33

Yes, eighteen to hit.

SPEAKER_11 6:36

Just hit. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

Alright, I'm rolling my d6. A six.

SPEAKER_11 6:44

So ten, fire damage.

unknown 6:46

Ten.

SPEAKER_11 6:47

Excellent. Now for her turn. So yeah, Fritter Fritter goes and does that thing, and at the end of Fritter's turn, a legendary action happens. She gets up on way too many limbs coming out from under her her kind of just cloak thing. And she will just kind of climb sideways down the side of the little rise that she's on and down to the level that you all are on, just kind of off to the side. And then her turn begins. And a line and tone and shit. Yeah. You remember when you were fighting that other big nasty thing, how you would do damage to it and then its body would kind of rearrange to adapt to that. You see her body doing that same thing. And she will regain 20 hit points.

SPEAKER_07 7:36

Oh, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_11 7:37

Damn. Not quite all, but Yeah, we did one.

SPEAKER_07 7:41

About half of what you did.

SPEAKER_11 7:42

Yeah, you you all had done about 40 damage and she just got back about 20 of that.

SPEAKER_07 7:47

Hey, one character's turn though.

SPEAKER_11 7:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 7:50

That's terrible.

SPEAKER_11 7:51

We did pretty well. Top of her turn. She is going to. Wow, all the big tough guys are like right in front of her. Uh-huh. Everybody with the most endpoints is the same. We've got a wall.

SPEAKER_08 8:04

We've made a wall, guys. It's called the Don't Die Wall. Where we all try to not die.

SPEAKER_11 8:09

Everyone stand behind the meat.

SPEAKER_12 8:12

And or the clockwork.

SPEAKER_11 8:13

So, um.

SPEAKER_08 8:15

Honorary meat. I guess I really. Honorary meatbag. Honorary meatbag indeed. I need to get Yu. I need to make that P.

SPEAKER_11 8:21

So let's move her up about five feet away from you, Venaria. Oh god, why does she get so close? Actually. Why would she get so close? I don't like this. She again kind of lifts up on the way too many limbs coming out from under that cloth and and will rush up on Venaria. The way it looks is one of those weird limbs coming out from under the cloth hurls itself at you, and it it becomes kind of this mass of reconfigured flesh. That's a phrase. Uh 25. Okay, cool. So make a constitution save for me while I roll this damage. 22 on the save. Okay, you do save, but you feel like you your muscles hesitate for a moment, and and your movement kind of slows down for about a split second before before you recover after this hit. Gathering up all the dice here.

SPEAKER_07 9:20

Guys, I'm doubting my plan. She can move a lot more than I thought.

SPEAKER_11 9:24

So she does 15 bludgeoning damage and then 20 psychic damage.

SPEAKER_04 9:31

Shit. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 9:32

And then as she's making that attack, you didn't quite notice, but another one of those arms was reaching kind of behind your back and gets you in the back of the neck. I need you to make a wisdom saving throw.

unknown 9:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 9:50

19. Okay, you do make that, but you are now incapacitated until the end of your next turn. As she grabs you by the back of the neck and forces that feeling of calm directly into your brain. It tranquilized me. Yeah, it's like it is time to be quiet again.

unknown 10:10

I'm scared, guys.

SPEAKER_07 10:12

Guys, I I'm scared. My my plan is no longer. I don't think it's gonna work.

SPEAKER_11 10:17

So that was her turn. And now the layer action happens. So the air in the cave stills to the point where sound doesn't sound like it's traveling right anymore. Everyone is now going to have disadvantage on wisdom saves against her. Until until the Against the Tranquilizer.

SPEAKER_12 10:43

Is that a spell that's being cast?

SPEAKER_11 10:45

That no. Okay. Just something about the cavern changes. Uh so that's going to be Dalos. Make a wisdom save. Yeah, I know. At disadvantage. I know. But with a plus three.

SPEAKER_07 11:00

Okay. Uh that is 21.

SPEAKER_12 11:04

With disadvantage?

SPEAKER_07 11:06

I rolled an 11 plus 3 plus 7.

SPEAKER_12 11:10

Or protection for the wind.

SPEAKER_11 11:11

Okay, yeah. You you save. Fuck her up. Uh, and yeah, and you you you're not bothered by that humming at all anymore.

SPEAKER_07 11:21

I would like to cast Beacon of Hope in the center of us. It's a third-level spell, it guarants advantage on wisdom saving throws.

SPEAKER_11 11:30

Yeah. Wow. Okay, cool. So everybody is just rolling great wisdom right now.

SPEAKER_07 11:37

I was gonna cast silence on her to see if the noise would stop. She moves too much. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 11:45

I think she's just vibrating the rocks in here. What's the range on it? 30 feet. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 11:49

Uh I'm putting it in between all of us, in the middle, as close as I can get.

SPEAKER_04 11:53

Yeah, kind of there in like the center of the room, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_07 11:55

So pretty much everyone everyone's in it right now. Uh, you have an extra 10 feet. It goes to here. It's pretty much the whole place.

SPEAKER_04 12:01

Excellent.

SPEAKER_07 12:02

Uh, but I get to choose any number of creatures. I'm only choosing us.

SPEAKER_11 12:07

Oh, you don't want to give it to her too?

SPEAKER_07 12:08

Yeah, I know, guys. No, fuck her forever. Okay. Uh, but yeah, you will now have advantage on wisdom saving throws, death saving throws, and you regain the maximum number of hit points possible for many healing. Nice.

SPEAKER_11 12:20

So currently, because of the layer action, everybody is rolling just straight on her wisdom saving throws. And then after this round, it'll be a good one.

SPEAKER_07 12:28

I'm glad she did something that I could counter because Yeah, that was that was well timed.

SPEAKER_11 12:31

Yes. So you cast Beacon of Hope. Is that is that your turn?

SPEAKER_07 12:35

Uh that's an action. I don't really have bonus actions, so yeah.

SPEAKER_11 12:38

Excellent. Okay, so then that brings it to Vinaria and make a wisdom saving throw. That is well no, not at register regular one. Straight. Just straight wisdom throw. Uh it's twenty-two. Okay, you save.

SPEAKER_12 12:51

You were not bothered by the humming. But I'm incapacitated anyway, because she fucking trainked me. Oh, that's true. Um, okay. For incapacitated, I can't make I can't make actions or reac take actions or reactions until the end of my turn. Is that like can I do a bonus action at the end of my turn?

SPEAKER_11 13:05

Like she tried to just straight up stun you, but just kind of basically shook your brain a little bit. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you you can do a bonus action.

SPEAKER_12 13:11

So yeah, I'm gonna bonus action shift. I'm gonna gain uh nine temp hit points. Um, and I'm gonna fucking bite her. D6, and I'm gonna have a smite ready because. That's a 19 on the die, so that is a 27. That would hit. Okay, second level smite.

SPEAKER_08 13:33

Can I get a uh bite smite?

SPEAKER_12 13:36

Bite smite.

SPEAKER_08 13:36

Bite smite! Is it bite smite or smite bite?

SPEAKER_12 13:40

What did we say? Wolfie Paladin. It's it's it's it's it's bite smite. Bite is the adjective. Bite smite! And then I lost and then I lost the damage calculation because I had I got inversion. 23 points of damage on me.

SPEAKER_10 13:55

Woo!

SPEAKER_03 13:58

Ugh. Rich! How rude. Gonna get you cancelled for that.

SPEAKER_08 14:03

Gonna get you cancelled on Twitter.com. I've been already misogynist when. Right. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 14:11

That's my turn. So, yes, uh, now it is Dromash's turn. Oh, and Dromash needs to make a wisdom saving throw. Uh, you may guess. He's not super great at those. Yeah, well he was he wasn't.

SPEAKER_07 14:23

But he does have a flat roll now. Yes.

SPEAKER_11 14:26

Yes. Oh, oh no. Oh no, no. No, he did he didn't make it. Uh buddy! His speed drops to zero. So he you see him kind of like pick up his stuff like he's about to like charge over and do some action shit, and he just kind of goes, uh. Does he have a bow on him? Why would I have a bow? I have a sword and shield.

SPEAKER_12 14:48

Yeah, you could be a bob because you could be a bobro. I don't Oh, a bobro.

SPEAKER_08 14:53

I have a bow.

SPEAKER_11 14:56

So yeah, that's he has that conversation instead of actually doing anything because he thinks it's okay.

SPEAKER_12 15:04

So does this effect last like the one turn and then he's gonna re-roll again?

SPEAKER_11 15:08

Yeah, yeah, that's basically just at the beginning of your turn. Um, unless you have saved against it. Except for you were incapacitated at the time, so that's fine. You you're still gonna need to get to it. Uh, so that was that was dromash, you just kinda went, ugh.

SPEAKER_08 15:23

I can't believe this all happened just because Lunette threw a rock a little too hard.

SPEAKER_11 15:27

Yeah, we were considering like I have skipped you this whole time, and you were supposed to go a while ago. Dude! Lunet, take your- I'm sorry, I didn't have you in the list.

SPEAKER_08 15:36

I've had this shit ready, man.

SPEAKER_12 15:37

Do the thing.

SPEAKER_11 15:38

Yeah. Earlier I was trying to remember one of you rolled above 20. That was you. That was me! God damn, man. Yeah, so you were supposed to go between before the layer action. Oh well. So you do need to make that wisdom saving throw, but do it straight. Don't do it at disadvantage, because you would have been doing this before the layer action.

SPEAKER_08 15:56

Uh 15.

SPEAKER_11 15:57

Uh, so yeah, you you have disadvantage on attack rolls this turn.

SPEAKER_08 16:03

You hate me. You skip me, you skip me, then you nerf me because you hate me.

SPEAKER_12 16:07

But okay, though, if you land the hit, you will get sneak attack, because I'm right there.

SPEAKER_08 16:11

I wish it was March. So that way I could say really during Women's History Month. Like, cause Yes.

SPEAKER_11 16:19

Really. Even even during Women's History Month. You you failed to save.

SPEAKER_08 16:23

I was gonna use sneak attack, my steady aim. I was gonna do that with my crossbow. Okay. Okay, so doesn't I have to? Okay. Yeah. Okay, and then sneak attack.

SPEAKER_12 16:32

Roll the beautiful beam with it.

SPEAKER_08 16:37

Okay. Why? I rolled. So it's a 14?

SPEAKER_11 16:42

14 damage total. Yep, yep. And this is coming from a non-magical source?

SPEAKER_08 16:46

Yep.

SPEAKER_11 16:47

Alright, he takes seven damage.

SPEAKER_08 16:49

I hate it here. I hate it here so bad.

SPEAKER_11 16:51

Well. Okay, so after correcting for that, that was Lunette. Now Hoonie would be who's actually supposed to be going next.

SPEAKER_08 16:58

Uh, can I give the help advantage to Venaria?

SPEAKER_11 17:00

You absolutely can. Does Hooney have to make the wisdom saving throw or does Gina can? Oh, wiz uh actually, yeah, Hooney does. I'm sure Hooney's very wise.

SPEAKER_08 17:08

He's a baby!

SPEAKER_11 17:09

It's a wise old bunny.

SPEAKER_08 17:10

He's f he got five. He doesn't know shit.

SPEAKER_11 17:12

He sits exactly where he is and just kind of nosing at the ground.

SPEAKER_08 17:16

Buddy! I'm like yell like go Hooney! Buddy! Go! Go, help Anaria.

SPEAKER_11 17:24

I'm just just ignoring him. He's entirely.

SPEAKER_08 17:27

No, I'm like, I know like I nudge him with my foot and he just rolls over.

SPEAKER_11 17:30

Yeah, just just uh Okay. What's happening? Oh yeah, she's gonna take a legendary action. That's what it was. Yay! So everybody within 30 feet of her. It's gonna be everybody except for Lunette and Hooney. I need you to make a wisdom saving throw.

SPEAKER_08 17:51

Well, thank God we were spared, because we do those so well.

SPEAKER_11 17:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 17:55

Okay, 20 dirty.

SPEAKER_01 17:57

I rolled a 28. Dang.

SPEAKER_11 17:59

Okay, cool. So you're good. Yeah, Venaria rolled a 22. Venaria is also good. Taylor.

SPEAKER_07 18:04

20.

SPEAKER_11 18:04

Dromash rolled a 9. So Dromash uh is now restrained and takes 9 psychic damage. Everybody within 30 feet of her has this sudden feel like like the weight of everything seems very extreme.

SPEAKER_12 18:22

We just get hit with the point of view good.

SPEAKER_11 18:23

Yeah, yeah. The rest of you are going like, okay, no, things are not great right now, but it's fine. Uh Dromash goes, oh fuck, and like collapses for a second. She's goes, oh.

SPEAKER_08 18:36

Not a happy camera. Oh wait up, he already went.

SPEAKER_11 18:38

Uh so yeah, that was her legendary action.

SPEAKER_08 18:40

Maybe I need to help Dromash. Her legendary depression is clinical depression.

SPEAKER_11 18:44

It's not it's not so much like depression.

SPEAKER_08 18:48

It's existential dread.

SPEAKER_11 18:49

Yeah, yeah. It's existentialism. She she hit she hits everybody with existentialism and and dromash falls for it. After all of that, it is Jenova's turn.

SPEAKER_01 18:58

Jenova is going to cast.

SPEAKER_11 19:01

Do you want to drop the lightning on her? Yeah, did you still have that going? Because you just spend an action to just move it.

SPEAKER_08 19:06

Light her ass up. There you go.

SPEAKER_11 19:08

So you spend an action, so she needs to make a deck saving throw?

SPEAKER_08 19:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 19:16

Yeah, no, uh, believe it or not, she did not make that. Get the god smack.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

Alright, Genova's doing 17 damage on her.

SPEAKER_11 19:25

Excellent. Oh. So yeah, you just you just 19 damage.

SPEAKER_01 19:30

Yes, 19. I keep forgetting about the stuff.

SPEAKER_11 19:33

Excellent. So you shock her real good and she again goes, ah! That's that's not my voice. That's drum ashy.

SPEAKER_07 19:41

See, I'll always think all I can think of. Bruce. Oh, that's good.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

Fritter is going to uh to throw flame seed at her.

SPEAKER_11 19:54

19, yes, that does it. Alright. And you do how much damage?

SPEAKER_01 19:57

He does 10 damage. 10 right damage. I'm a seed. Yeah, Fritter.

SPEAKER_08 20:05

Fritter is a little ass.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

Get his ass, Fritter. Get her ass. He does the utter thing where he bounces it around in his little.

SPEAKER_12 20:18

And then like tosses it up and like spikes it with his tail. Hell yes.

SPEAKER_11 20:22

Thank you. Yes, that is that is good. Yeah, Merit is coming up, but she's gonna do a legendary action at the end of Fritter's turn. She's going to like get up on her legs and skirt around a little bit again. Uh opportunity attack? Nope. Damn it.

SPEAKER_12 20:39

Where are you going? Come right here.

SPEAKER_13 20:42

No, no, no. No, thank you.

SPEAKER_11 20:45

Ew, ew, ew! She doesn't like that like that guy from Jurassic Park.

SPEAKER_13 20:50

Like, uh uh-uh.

SPEAKER_11 20:51

Uh-huh. Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_08 20:54

I don't like that. I don't skitters away. You're too big to skitter.

SPEAKER_11 20:59

She like moves around like one of those like grafted creatures from Elden Ring. Like, like any weird Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 21:06

Hey, Alex. Royal Revenants. I hated that, thank you.

SPEAKER_11 21:11

So yeah, that was that was her legendary action, and then it actually becomes her turn.

SPEAKER_04 21:16

Yay.

SPEAKER_11 21:16

And she's going to again bring one of those giant limbs up, and it just distends like a giant club, and she's going to swing at at Dalos.

unknown 21:27

Yay!

SPEAKER_11 21:27

You are loud, and you sound like metal. You're very clanky.

SPEAKER_13 21:32

Oh, that I rolled that wrong. I was talking. I gotta do that again. Hold on. Uh that is a that is an 18 to hit.

SPEAKER_11 21:42

Dalos tries to tank it, and it's just a little too much. Okay, so I need you to make a constitution save.

SPEAKER_07 21:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 21:49

That sounds like a ceremonial drum every time you drop that. Right? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, no. So you are now slowed as the slow spells uh move. Movement AC limitation only. Essentially, you are affected by the slow spell, but only in relation to the movement and AC stuff.

SPEAKER_07 22:07

Okay. Effective target speed is half. It takes a minus two penalty to AC. Okay, so that's it.

SPEAKER_11 22:14

Minus two to AC and your speed is half.

SPEAKER_07 22:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 22:16

And then you're gonna take twenty-six bludgeoning damage.

SPEAKER_07 22:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 22:20

And then this is 14 psychic damage.

SPEAKER_07 22:24

Okay. You said 26 and 14. Gotcha. So 40 total. Thanks.

SPEAKER_11 22:29

Yeah, as she just slams you with this blob of flesh that somehow makes you you Okay, you're not fleshy, so your muscles aren't hesitating. It's like it interrupts the little strings of sowl that that help animate your chassis. They they kind of stutter for a minute. So you have a hard time like moving properly.

SPEAKER_07 22:51

They shudder like how we were talking about skin crawling.

SPEAKER_11 22:53

Exactly, yeah. Um, and then yeah, while she's doing that, that another creepy limb kind of slides real fast on the floor but down underneath your legs and reaches up and grabs you by the back of the neck. Make a d uh make a wisdom saving throw.

SPEAKER_07 23:11

Natural 20.

SPEAKER_11 23:12

Damn. Okay. So you are incapacitated, but you are not stunned.

SPEAKER_07 23:16

Okay, so uh until the end of my external.

SPEAKER_11 23:19

Until the end of yes.

SPEAKER_07 23:21

I don't get you to do anything.

SPEAKER_08 23:23

Wait, um the DM says we don't get to have any fun right now.

SPEAKER_07 23:28

What's concentration check again? Constitution. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 23:31

No, no, like like DC. DC equal to 10 or half the damage taken, whatever is higher.

SPEAKER_07 23:39

So it's yeah, I've still 20. Yeah. I rolled a 15.

SPEAKER_11 23:44

Okay, so yeah, you you you drop your concentration.

SPEAKER_07 23:48

Now I get to lean capacity before in the next round.

SPEAKER_11 23:51

Yeah, that that's her actual turn. Now it is Lunette's turn.

SPEAKER_07 23:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 23:56

Going in the proper order. Uh make a rhythm saving throw with disadvantage.

SPEAKER_12 24:02

The beacons are no longer there.

SPEAKER_08 24:07

Damn, that'd be a six.

SPEAKER_11 24:10

Okay, yeah. Disadvantage on your next saving throw. It makes this- you make this turn.

SPEAKER_02 24:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 24:16

Uh, I would like to use Shadow Blade, and I would like to see if I can throw my arm again.

SPEAKER_11 24:22

Okay. So you you consider it. You consider the idea of throwing your arm, and you feel it respond. Like it's kind of shifting to get ready for that.

SPEAKER_08 24:34

Okay. So Lunette's like, I I don't know how to feel about this. She has had no she has had next to no time to get used to this.

SPEAKER_11 24:43

I don't know what the hell this is, but uh it's working, so I'm just gonna go with it.

SPEAKER_08 24:47

Are we in dim light or darkness?

SPEAKER_11 24:50

It is dum.

SPEAKER_08 24:51

Yes. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So I am going to use Shadow Blade with my arm to like throw it at her. And uh to start, and by doing that, the way that I do that is uh essentially Lunette's hand kind of becomes like her metal arm becomes kind of like a blade situation. It is encased in Shadow Blade, and because we are in dim light, I actually get advantage on this.

SPEAKER_11 25:18

Like on the attack?

SPEAKER_08 25:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 25:20

Heck yeah. Love it.

SPEAKER_08 25:22

So uh I just need her roll to hit.

SPEAKER_11 25:26

Do it, yeah. I am I am excited for this cool thing that you're doing, yes. Oh, well, what's it?

SPEAKER_07 25:33

Okay, okay. And you get to roll again. Yeah, that was that was a 10. That was a 10.

SPEAKER_08 25:39

That's a Nat 20. Hell yeah. Okay, so does that hit?

SPEAKER_11 25:44

Yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_08 25:46

It does. In fact, hit. Yippee yahoo whoopee!

SPEAKER_11 25:49

So max base damage and then roll again on top of that.

SPEAKER_08 25:52

Okay, two, eight. Got a 14, so it's 57 plus 14. At 62 plus 14, it is 76.

SPEAKER_07 26:02

76? You rolled two sixes on my dice. Just two six. You rolled one time on your dice.

SPEAKER_11 26:09

76 damage total coming from a magical source, so she takes all of that. That she screeches like out loud, but also the telepathy that she's been using to speak with you. It sh it sh it it is it shreds the inside of your brain. I need everybody to make a wisdom saving card. Even if you have already saved at disadvantage.

SPEAKER_08 26:31

That's another natural 20. Oh, that's such ass. That's an eight.

SPEAKER_12 26:36

Ten. Okay, with like my regular roll would be a 23 with disadvantage, it's still a dirty 20.

SPEAKER_11 26:41

Okay. That saves.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

25 for Jenova.

SPEAKER_11 26:45

Jenova and Venaria save. Everyone else does not do not die.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

What about what about Dromeche?

SPEAKER_11 26:49

Oh yeah, Dromash does.

SPEAKER_07 26:50

Drome Sh needs your roll. Come on, Dromesh. You're strong.

SPEAKER_11 26:53

He rolled 14 twice. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a high enough wisdom saving flaw to do anything with that. So So everybody who failed is going to take.

SPEAKER_07 27:04

I wish I had my emboldening bond up.

SPEAKER_11 27:07

Yeah. So that's 11 psychic damage, and everyone who failed is restrained.

SPEAKER_07 27:13

Damn it. Well, Dromesh is already restrained.

SPEAKER_11 27:16

He's just more restrained. He's he's just still like, oh god. If you succeeded, you just kind of had that same issue of like, oh jeez. So that was Lunette. Um, now it is the layer action.

SPEAKER_07 27:29

Does the disadvantage go away now?

SPEAKER_11 27:31

The disadvantage goes away. The air stops feeling oppressive and deadening. She is going to regain 25 hit points as she seems to absorb some of the the the damage that that you all were dealt.

SPEAKER_07 27:48

Yay! Drum Ash, we need you to lock in, man.

SPEAKER_11 27:51

Oh, it's all too much. I don't know what to do with all of this emotion. That was the layer action. It is now Dalos.

SPEAKER_07 27:59

I'm restrained and stunned. So I have a bonus action though.

SPEAKER_11 28:03

Are you stunned?

SPEAKER_07 28:04

Or not stunned, incapacitated.

SPEAKER_11 28:06

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 28:06

So I can't do any actions, but I can do a bonus action. I'd like to cast Sanctuary on myself.

SPEAKER_11 28:13

So just real quick, what does it remind us what sanctuary does?

SPEAKER_07 28:16

Uh sanctuary, you ward a creature within range against attack. Until the spell ends, any creature who targets the warded creature with an attack or harmful spell must first make a wisdom saving third. On a failed save, the creature must choose a new target or lose the attack itself.

unknown 28:27

Irony.

SPEAKER_07 28:32

And uh yeah, it doesn't protect from AoEs. Sorry, explosion of a fireball. But it does. If I attack, it it drops. If I cast it, it's just like somebody trying to specifically. It's like invisibility. If you do anything but walk, it goes away.

SPEAKER_11 28:48

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_07 28:49

But I can't move. So.

SPEAKER_11 28:51

Just gonna stand here and pop my invulnerability.

SPEAKER_07 28:54

My my minor, more less vulnerability.

SPEAKER_11 28:57

Okay. Well, that will bring it to Merit. She's gonna scuttle. I don't like the scuttling. It sounds like you're mixing mac and cheese.

SPEAKER_08 29:09

That's what never mind. I had to hold that one in.

SPEAKER_11 29:13

So she kind of gets up and scuttles around the party until she's behind the uh Dromash and next to Lunette.

SPEAKER_08 29:21

Why are you mad at me? I didn't do anything. That was Hunie. Why did you cast that spell? Hooney, why'd you push that button? You don't know what it does.

SPEAKER_11 29:30

There we go to Venaria. So I finally get to have a regular ass turn.

SPEAKER_12 29:35

So I'm gonna make my two attacks. Woo! Uh 23 to hit. Yep. Second, second level smite on that. 26 points of damage. Um swinging for whatever the for the spider legs. I'm trying to kneecap like all the way across with a big ass hammer.

SPEAKER_11 29:56

That is 25. Yep, she saved. Second hammer attack. Is it 27?

SPEAKER_12 30:04

That does hit. 20 points of damage. And then the bite.

SPEAKER_07 30:13

I'm just not a spur.

SPEAKER_12 30:16

Hammer, hammer, and then like to aim for the torso or whatever looks like a torso for the teeth.

SPEAKER_07 30:22

It's it's reverse uh Romulus and Remus.

SPEAKER_12 30:25

27 to hit on the bite attack. That does hit. 14 points of damage on this. Oh, I will not calm down. You calm down!

SPEAKER_02 30:33

Calm all the way down.

SPEAKER_08 30:34

She said Hakuna, your tatas, and you were like, bitch!

SPEAKER_13 30:37

You're so loud. You're going to wake up the children.

SPEAKER_08 30:40

They're already up! They've been up!

SPEAKER_11 30:43

Okay, at the end of your turn, make a uh strength or deck save.

SPEAKER_12 30:49

Pretty sure it's gonna be strength. That's a three on the dice for uh ten.

SPEAKER_11 30:56

Oh your speed is reduced to zero until the end of your next turn. I'm I'm up in her business right now, so hey.

SPEAKER_04 31:03

She go move.

SPEAKER_11 31:05

Where's the don't you Don't you run from me? Don't ooh, that's yeah. Anyway, excellent. So that brings us to Dromash.

SPEAKER_07 31:12

Dromash! Come on, dromash! Yeah! Dromash, drill!

SPEAKER_11 31:15

Dromash just like uh like hand over his eyes.

SPEAKER_12 31:18

I can't do it. Add the plus three. Feel the warmth of the bro code. And all three bros!

SPEAKER_07 31:24

All three bros bro trinity for the win. We're all ten feet apart from each other.

SPEAKER_11 31:34

Okay, so he's getting plus three from your aura. Anything else? Is he possibly getting anything else? Uh he's a special boy. He just lays down on the ground. Okay, I can't do it anymore.

SPEAKER_12 31:50

Yeah, it's like this is both. Why am I even here?

SPEAKER_08 31:54

Why are we here to suffer? Just to suffer.

SPEAKER_12 31:56

Dromash is going to therapy after this.

SPEAKER_09 31:59

I'm a big boy.

SPEAKER_07 32:01

Well, my concentration got broken before he could fix it. And then this is when I'm I'm feeling like I'm feeling like some emboldening pod could help him. Maybe 1d4 would be the difference.

SPEAKER_11 32:14

So unfortunately, Dromash doesn't really accomplish much. That will bring it to the show.

SPEAKER_07 32:17

Dromash hasn't done anything! Dromash!

SPEAKER_12 32:23

Canie, can the help action help on saving throws?

SPEAKER_11 32:26

If Hooney can stop failing in his own thing. Oh, that's true. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 32:29

Roll for Hooney's depression.

SPEAKER_07 32:32

Come on. Hooney. He's a muscle hoonie. It was a three. Oh damn. It was a three.

SPEAKER_11 32:42

Hooney like lays down on his back. He's got the feet up in the area. He's like mimicking Dromash.

SPEAKER_08 32:48

He's like, Can he at least can he at least like roll over to mope next to Dromash? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 32:56

He's like he's over by Dromash. He's like, uh. We're gonna have a sad party over here.

SPEAKER_08 33:00

Imagine Hooney like very sadly licking like Dromash's nose. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 33:05

Just like uh emotional support from the You and me, buddy. You know what it's like, don't you? It's so hard out here. You're the only one who understands me.

SPEAKER_10 33:19

Excellent. So that's Hooney that brings us back to Genova.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

Alright. So it may be a little too spicy to bring the lightning over here.

SPEAKER_11 33:31

Because when it get to the case, she's big enough that you should be able to point it like right behind her and it'll still catch her and not hurt anybody else.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

Oh, okay, great. Okay. Go go!

SPEAKER_11 33:42

You will use your action to just move it over there. Yeah. Again. So she will just make a dex saving throw.

SPEAKER_08 33:49

Kill her. Kill her.

SPEAKER_11 33:50

Actually probably didn't do it. Uh I believe that is an 18. Nope, nineteen.

SPEAKER_07 33:57

Then it's nineteen exactly.

SPEAKER_11 33:59

Yeah, still take half. But she's expecting it this time, so she kind of like scuttles out of the way a little bit. Kind of singes one of her her legs and it just falls off.

SPEAKER_06 34:08

Yucky.

SPEAKER_11 34:09

And then there's like and a one grows. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_10 34:13

My, it's like you've nailed the tone of my creature.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

Genova does uh 24 damage. And then half.

SPEAKER_10 34:19

24, so she takes 12 of that damage and goes.

SPEAKER_13 34:23

Ah. Not so shocking anymore. Not so shocking.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

Predictable. Alright, Fritter. Oh hitting. Shmack is gonna toss this one and he's gonna spike it with his head. Oh, yeah. Okay, so uh 22.

SPEAKER_11 34:45

To hit that does, in fact hit.

SPEAKER_01 34:47

Fritter's a beast. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 34:49

Fritter is just consistently great.

SPEAKER_01 34:52

Uh six damage.

SPEAKER_11 34:54

Six damage!

SPEAKER_01 34:55

Again.

SPEAKER_11 34:57

So that was Jenova and then uh Trisket. Fritter!

SPEAKER_08 35:05

Trisket?

SPEAKER_11 35:06

I don't know where I got Trisket. Uh and and then she is going to and scutter away. As a legendary action. Bernara's like, motherfucker! Yeah. Going to turn up behind Lunette.

SPEAKER_07 35:24

Yay!

SPEAKER_02 35:25

You stabbed the shit out of me.

SPEAKER_07 35:27

Now I need to discipline.

SPEAKER_02 35:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 35:30

It's time to be quiet. I was gonna say that makes it weirder. It's time to discipline you. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 35:34

Oh no. Standing behind you.

SPEAKER_08 35:36

No, thank you.

SPEAKER_11 35:38

I do not. So yeah, she she scutters scutters. She scuttles up and around, and as she's doing that, one of her limbs kind of comes out and and distends again and then comes at you with this whipping motion. That's going to be uh 19 to hit.

SPEAKER_08 35:58

You do hit, but a counter armor. I would like to use Stone's Endurance.

SPEAKER_11 36:03

So Jesus.

SPEAKER_08 36:07

Jesus Christ!

SPEAKER_11 36:10

19 bludgeoning damage and 14 psychic damage.

SPEAKER_08 36:16

Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_11 36:18

So that's 33 damage total? Okay, we're gonna roll the D12. Still gonna suck.

SPEAKER_00 36:25

Five! Hey!

SPEAKER_11 36:27

So that's 28. That means your constitution DC is 14.

SPEAKER_08 36:36

Oh, fuck that.

SPEAKER_11 36:38

Okay, so you lose your concentration. Shadowblade drops.

SPEAKER_08 36:42

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_11 36:43

And you you're you are now slowed. So you you take that minus two to your AC and your speed is halved on top of that damage. And then the other arm. Actually, no, she doesn't do that quiet touch thing because that has a recharge. So, uh, whereas she does another slam instead. So that's a 17 to hit.

SPEAKER_01 37:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_11 37:07

I lose. Do you want to do it again?

SPEAKER_07 37:09

You can do the stone's endurance thing again. I'm gonna do the stones endurance.

SPEAKER_11 37:11

That's 30 bludgeoning damage.

SPEAKER_07 37:13

Oh god.

SPEAKER_11 37:14

And 13 psychic damage.

SPEAKER_07 37:17

43.

SPEAKER_11 37:20

Don't think you need to make the con save again because you're already slowed, so there's no point doing that again.

SPEAKER_08 37:24

Oh, it is the stone's endurance? Yes. Yeah. Uh is a six? So it's uh 34.

SPEAKER_11 37:31

34. That was just Maris', so that's a lunette.

SPEAKER_08 37:34

Yeah. Uh then I guess I'll disengage and just shoot her.

unknown 37:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 37:39

Uh I will try to move closer to Venaria and Daelus. There you go.

SPEAKER_12 37:43

Welcome to the aura. You're just gonna shoot.

SPEAKER_08 37:45

Yeah, I guess so, because that's kind of all I've got right now. That's a 19.

SPEAKER_11 37:49

That will hit.

SPEAKER_08 37:50

Seven, and then it's plus five, so it's twelve.

SPEAKER_11 37:53

Twelve damage? Yep.

SPEAKER_08 37:54

Yeah, so she takes six.

SPEAKER_11 37:56

Yes. Okay, excellent. Player action. Fuck. Everybody make a wisdom save. Alright, everyone in the everyone in the aura huddle over here.

SPEAKER_08 38:06

So what is that word to do? Gives you a plus two.

SPEAKER_11 38:09

Plus three to your to your all your saving throws.

SPEAKER_08 38:12

Twenty-six. I got a twenty-two this time.

SPEAKER_11 38:14

Drone Ash got a sixteen saves. Uh okay, this is wisdom save. Wisdom save. Hootie loses their reactions until the next round. Venar got a twenty-four.

SPEAKER_01 38:29

Geneva rolled 18.

SPEAKER_11 38:31

Excellent. So everybody but Hooney is fine. And and Hooney just kind of curls up into a little bulb more.

SPEAKER_07 38:38

Dromash needs him. Wait, does that count as a save for Dromash for the start of the show?

SPEAKER_11 38:43

No, it is a different ability. This is the lair action that would then strip you of reactions until your next turn.

SPEAKER_07 38:51

I am planning on emboldening bonding specifically so that Dromash can do something.

SPEAKER_11 38:59

Yes. Get off the floor.

SPEAKER_07 39:01

I will cast emboldening bond on uh the four of us. Yes. The bro circle. That ended up.

SPEAKER_12 39:08

The bro triangle. The bromuta triangle. Bromuta triangle.

SPEAKER_07 39:11

Yes. The bromuta triangle. That's so stupid.

SPEAKER_04 39:16

Fantastic.

SPEAKER_07 39:16

Okay, uh, well, then that means that on your attacks, saves, andor checks, you'll add a d4 to the role.

SPEAKER_11 39:24

Heck yeah. Drome Ash might actually get off the floor. Okay. Yes, at the end of your turn, she will, in fact, scuttle.

SPEAKER_08 39:33

End of my turn? Calling it scuttle?

SPEAKER_11 39:35

That's what she's doing.

SPEAKER_08 39:36

It's bad. It's accurate.

SPEAKER_11 39:40

So that was the end of Delos' turn. That will bring it to Vanaria. Okay, is my speed still zero? Uh no, that was just for your turn. Okay. Alright, swing on her. Uh 21 to hit. That does hit. He's like wrapped his arms and legs around his shield. He's just like kind of rocking. Like, uh 47 points of damage in his first hammer swing.

SPEAKER_12 40:07

Second hammer swing.

SPEAKER_07 40:10

I I was gonna do warding bond on you. That was what that was my other.

SPEAKER_12 40:15

19 to hit?

SPEAKER_07 40:16

And then dromash camped.

SPEAKER_12 40:17

Uh oh, she needs okay. 19 to hit. Yes, I don't know. Okay. Uh I'm gonna make a constitution saving throw.

SPEAKER_11 40:24

Uh you said constitution? Yes. Uh 24. Cool. She's got she's real. Real con real high constitution.

SPEAKER_07 40:34

That's why conjects soccer.

SPEAKER_11 40:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 40:36

I'll just throw another second that'll smoke.

SPEAKER_07 40:38

We're gonna find a single thing that's like a like a gwen if a gwendolin. We just smash it.

SPEAKER_12 40:46

29 points of damage on the second hand of it. And then we're gonna go for the bite. Okay, that's 22 just from the dice. What would that be? 34? Uh yes.

SPEAKER_11 40:59

21 points of damage on the bite. Alright. So, you do all of that nastiness, and something about her posture kind of changes a little bit. And she will rear back. And this is the first time you actually get to see what's under the claw and you don't actually see body, it's all limb. Oh, I was saying. It's all limb coming out from under there like like a frickin', like, like a hermit crab. Limbs all the way down.

SPEAKER_08 41:29

Uh gaping maw.

SPEAKER_11 41:30

Yeah. You actually can hear her body rearranging. And she will immediately regain some hit points.

SPEAKER_08 41:39

What the fuck did the guy give her?

SPEAKER_11 41:41

This isn't even my final form. Um, alright, so yes, she she rears back and does the like horrifying too many limbs, like, and she regains a bunch of hit points. Uh, for the rest of the fight, you cannot gain advan advantage on wisdom saves from any source while in the lair.

SPEAKER_07 42:01

Okay, so you we can't gain advantage. That doesn't mean we have disadvantage.

SPEAKER_11 42:04

That doesn't mean you have disadvantage, but you cannot gain advantage. So that was Binardio. It's actually Dromash's turn.

SPEAKER_07 42:12

Plus D take it.

SPEAKER_11 42:14

So plus one D4. Come on, Dromash.

SPEAKER_07 42:16

He has to, he has to at this point.

SPEAKER_09 42:19

He rolled a 19 on the die. Plus two. Get in there.

SPEAKER_11 42:23

He fucking goes, oh. Oh my god. Okay. Alright. No. I gotta pull my shit together. Okay, guys. Alright.

SPEAKER_12 42:32

And alright, looks back, she sees. You said bring her in alive. We're trying not to die right now.

SPEAKER_09 42:38

Look, it got real hard there for a minute. Okay, so you don't know my emotions. That is what she said. Now's not the time for funny shit.

SPEAKER_11 42:47

So he's Now that he is up and can actually accomplish fucking anything, he kind of gets his shit together, kinda like wipes his nose a little bit, hefts his shield and charges, uh, and ends up behind Maris. It's garbed! And and and he he is going to kind of roar out in frustration.

SPEAKER_02 43:10

You made me feel feeling.

SPEAKER_11 43:12

Like, I'm trying to fight you! How dare you make me cry? And he's going to take a swing with his big old long sword.

SPEAKER_07 43:20

Plus 1d4.

SPEAKER_11 43:21

Yes. Oh yes. Plus advantage. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 43:26

We're giving him so much. Gromesh, this is your time to shine. Yeah, like he he You've been down this whole combat. I need you to deal 70 gigs.

SPEAKER_11 43:33

My time!

SPEAKER_07 43:34

Come on, guys.

SPEAKER_11 43:35

Double DG, double DG. He rolls, he crit! Yes! Hell yes! Dragon Brothers of the room!

SPEAKER_07 43:42

Yes! End her now! Dromesh goes back. Come on, Dromesh.

SPEAKER_11 43:46

Yeah, he he goes around and let's see, so that's 25 damage.

SPEAKER_07 43:51

Okay. Again.

SPEAKER_11 43:53

And as a reminder, because she is a Nechromera and he hit her with his sword, that shuts down her regeneration.

SPEAKER_07 44:00

I was so ready to I was tempted to just steal it.

SPEAKER_11 44:03

And he will then with his massive shield use his bonus action to uh try and knock her prone. He rolled 25 for his check versus her.

SPEAKER_07 44:15

Screw her.

SPEAKER_11 44:17

That's a 16 on the die.

SPEAKER_07 44:18

Uh not a nine, please. Not a nine.

SPEAKER_11 44:20

Plus six. Yes. Yes. So he shoves her ass prone. Yes. Okay. Attack again. So yeah, she does that. She is now prone. And now he's going to hit her again. Oh, that he rolled a one and a three. Plus one detail. Yeah. Not quite enough. So yeah, he he gets her and manages to get her prone and swings again, but you know, he's he's still kind of recovering a little bit.

SPEAKER_08 44:49

Thank God he hit her.

SPEAKER_11 44:50

But yeah, he hit her. Um and he will actually stop with the blade kind of held at her throat. It's done. Stop!

SPEAKER_07 45:10

The next action is hammer sword.

SPEAKER_11 45:16

He's gonna try and make a persuasion check. Okay. What is it? Would anybody like to help?

SPEAKER_12 45:21

I think Venara just leans over and just threw gritted teeth, like this is your one chance to make this right.

SPEAKER_11 45:27

Alright, so.

SPEAKER_10 45:28

That gets him a 21. Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_11 45:31

And she will breathe. Then you will have to carry the noise yourselves. What? And just kinda lay back slowly and calmly.

SPEAKER_08 45:45

Meanolike.

SPEAKER_02 45:47

Well done. You have done it.

SPEAKER_08 45:50

We did it.

SPEAKER_02 45:51

We played out of combat.

SPEAKER_07 45:53

I don't feel good though.

SPEAKER_11 45:54

That's what we're going for. Good. Yes. The idea of swimming in gray areas, everybody should feel a little bad after that.

SPEAKER_07 46:01

Yeah. I don't know. I'm I'm I do not regret. I mean, I do not regret not hitting her, I guess. I wish I had. At least once. I just once. Just to contribute to the No, just once. No, it's it's personal.

SPEAKER_11 46:15

Yeah, so after all that has kind of resolved and it's clear the battle's over. Uh Dromash still with the sword kind of leveled at her. He will swallow and like lift up, and you'll see him put his fingers, two fingers on the lantern pin. Um and he kind of looks off in the distance for a minute.

SPEAKER_07 46:35

Hmm.

SPEAKER_11 46:36

He's and then to the rest of you. Okay. Retrieval team is on the way. We just have to keep her here for the moment.

SPEAKER_01 46:46

Oh thank God. You want me to cast an tangle on her?

SPEAKER_11 46:50

What do you think, Maris? She just shakes her head.

SPEAKER_01 46:54

She's good.

SPEAKER_11 46:55

You see way too many arms wrap around way too many legs. She kind of just holds herself.

SPEAKER_08 47:01

Lunette just goes, Oh, thank god. You just like thank the hells! And she just flops over on the ground. Like she has just reattached her arm at the shoulder, and she's like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 47:14

I knew you tried to take care of them, Maris.

SPEAKER_02 47:18

I was I was trying to help. They were safe here. They didn't hurt anymore.

SPEAKER_01 47:24

What was hurting them?

SPEAKER_11 47:26

You get through, because she's still talking through telepathy. It doesn't look like her mouth really is shaped right. It seems like telepathy is kind of how she can communicate, but she's like duh? Yeah, you you get the concept of like the various horrors that are out in the world from the perspective of a triage nurse.

SPEAKER_01 47:43

She's traumatized.

SPEAKER_11 47:45

She saw the worst of the fall, and she's trying to communicate that she was trying to do what she could to help.

SPEAKER_01 47:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 47:54

But no, she she won't make any aggressive movements. She's just basically like holding her knees and crying in the shower. Except there's no shower and everybody's staring at her.

SPEAKER_01 48:02

Oh, poor. Yeah. Damn.

SPEAKER_11 48:05

Where'd Pickle go? As you you start kind of wondering about Pickle, he actually comes across the bridge, just kind of hurrying because he's a little guy. But uh She's like, you guys are making a lot of noise. He he comes running up and you actually hear from Maris, who's kind of looking over at him first.

SPEAKER_02 48:22

You don't have to hold everyone up anymore. And and he'll I know. I know. I uh thank you. Thank you all for for helping for helping us. Uh I'll I'll I'll help with the kids. Thank you.

SPEAKER_11 48:40

And and he'll he'll kind of like hold like hold holding his hands together in thanks, and he'll kind of scurry away and and go um help with some of the kids. They appear to be like waking up from a dream. A few moments later, you see a few people from like where you entered the chamber, or I'm on the other side. You see a few people who are clearly lanterns coming in. There's it's a group of five of them. One of them who wears like the the habit of a nun. Um, she immediately goes out among the children, and she looks to be kind of trying to talk to them. The other lanterns walk over, and one of them, a plainly built human woman, looks probably in her forties. She just walks up right up to Drum Ash and punches him in the arm. Amberscale! Still making problems disappear. Did you finally learn to pick your targets? He kinda he kinda like rolls his shoulder, like, well, some of them. The ones that deserve it. And he smiles and nods at her. It's good to see you, Wick. Alright. And she will signal with two fingers, and the other people that she had with her start moving without saying a word. Lat up the perimeter, slow and steady. And then she'll look back over at Dromash. Nobody touches her until the shackle's ready. I want her the same shape she is now. This is a retrieval. Let's keep it one. She will uh like, listen. Y'all did fine. Well done. Alright?

SPEAKER_08 50:08

Thank you.

SPEAKER_07 50:11

Kildora said that we would be paid based on the severity of the mission, and this went from a C class to an A, and that means our pay went up.

unknown 50:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 50:20

And she's alive. And she's alive, yes. We better get paid.

SPEAKER_11 50:25

No, yeah, no, in terms Yeah, no, this uh this will get uh escalation prevention bonus, this will get live specimen bon like you doubt we're gonna make some money.

SPEAKER_07 50:37

I I am curious, would we possibly get enough money to to imbue our weapons with materium? Because I am tired of having to deal with that revival.

SPEAKER_11 50:48

Well, as as you are all having this conversation.

SPEAKER_07 50:51

Um This is Dalo's cooling off. We're talking about weapons.

SPEAKER_11 50:55

No, you're totally fine. I feel like I feel like he's actively steaming right now, just letting off literal precker.

SPEAKER_07 51:01

He's like, I had to I had to worry about you guys, and and you're squishy.

SPEAKER_08 51:06

And what if you got hurt? My fragile, fragile organics. My dear sweet meatbags. Well, especially drum match.

SPEAKER_11 51:14

So everybody, you're you're having kind of this shop talk moment. Um so Wick will step forward. She takes about three steps into the heart of the room so she can kind of see everything. Uh she doesn't look rushed. She looks like somebody who's kind of like taken the pulse of the room, like how what's going on?

SPEAKER_07 51:30

Um does the room still feel like it's like No, no, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_11 51:35

It it feels like there's a little bit of that remaining, but it it seems to have calmed down.

SPEAKER_04 51:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 51:41

So the people that you saw come with her, just so I give you a brief description so you understand who I'm talking about. There was a Kazan man came in. Uh the sister, the person in the habit that you saw over there, uh, that's a human woman. There is a Sharothi elf male that was with her as well. He seems to have disappeared. And then there is a Grunda female who is holding a notebook in front of her and is just writing constantly while she's looking around.

SPEAKER_07 52:12

What was the name of the the admissions officer? Because she reminds me of Gunter Bloodgorge. Yes, Gunter.

SPEAKER_11 52:20

She places, she kind of gets a feel of what's going on in the room. The Sharathi is already gone, you didn't see him leave, but you do catch glimpses of him at the doorway, the hallway, then behind the party at a weird angle. He moves in ways that doesn't draw attention to him to themselves. Uh, but suddenly there are no unobserved entry points left at all. He doesn't call it out, he just says, Perimeter's clear. And then Wick will say, Alright, drift, fly up the perimeter, slow and steady. Sister Avon, if you would please. Uh, so the human nun that we talked about a moment ago, she's kneeling beside a child, um, just not rushing them with questions. She just kind of adjusts their posture a little bit, steadies their breathing, and then stay with me. You're safe to feel again. And at that point, it really does feel like the room lets out all that pressure that had been building up. And you see while the little glimpses that you catch of the Sharothi moving around, little lanterns are lighting up kind of around the room, and while he's doing that circuit, the room lights up a little bit. Not blinding or anything, but enough so you can actually see what's going on. And then with the dinner switches pushed up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're they're turning up the light a little bit.

SPEAKER_07 53:43

Time to wake up.

SPEAKER_11 53:43

It's okay. Everybody relax. And then without looking, she'll just go, Latch, hold her. The Dwarven guy, he doesn't respond immediately. He kind of looks to be a slow and steady type, but he will crouch at a distance from Maris, kind of studying her. His hand hovers over some tools, but he's not touching them yet. And he says just real quietly, still settling. Not stable yet. And he looks at Wick. And he's just waiting. She will then call out, Ledger. The Grundagirl with the book. She hasn't really moved much at all, but you notice that her hand is on her pin. And without looking down, her her fingers are recording something on her book. But she will speak kind of quietly. All lanterns responding. No dropouts. And then she'll tilt her head a little bit. Outside's quiet. And then at this point, look uh Wick finally looks directly at Maris. Uh she looks neutral. But you can see by the way her jaw is set that she's kind of assessing what's going on. And then without raising her voice, Latch, now. And in a single, unhurried motion, you see Latch step forward. There's no warning, no flourish, just a single fluid motion, and the shackle closes with a sharp click. And just like that, Maris loses all motion. Necromera tend to have this thing where they look like they're always kind of squirming a little bit. Yeah, and all of that stops. And after a beat, Wick will just nod. Good. Smooth. And she'll turn a little bit towards you all. Uh Ledger make the initial. And before she can even finish, Ledger is already crouched next to Maris, scribbling furiously in her little book. And Wick will just put a hand on her shoulder. The Ledger then kind of grunts and like takes a few steps back, but she doesn't stop writing. And she'll look at you all and kind of say, sorry. Protocol.

SPEAKER_07 55:55

We all kind of got quieter and quieter as we watched stuff start going on and we were like, okay. And we're just watching.

SPEAKER_12 56:01

Uh Venaria steps to Wick and and just uh holds out the diary.

SPEAKER_11 56:08

Oh. That uh not sure if this will be useful, but uh seems to have led to this. Yeah. She will she will take it from you and kind of thumb through it.

SPEAKER_05 56:22

Oh.

SPEAKER_11 56:24

Okay. Alright, yeah. No, I bet the archivist will want to crack at this. Alright. Yeah, no, thank you. I appreciate that. That's that's awful good of you. Um, listen, y'all, we we got it from here. Uh you should go report this to Keldora. This this city can't put this off any longer, not now. Uh if Ulot hadn't shown up, we might have seen our first S rank warrant inside the walls. You you all are are free to move on at this point.

SPEAKER_08 56:56

Okay, someone dragged Lunette upstairs. She has 41 hit points, someone dragged Lunette upstairs.

SPEAKER_12 57:02

Venari just like grabs you by the belt and just like sack of potatoes over one's shoulder.

SPEAKER_08 57:07

Like her her real arm, her prosthetic arm, they're both just like dangling and she's just like, thank you.

SPEAKER_12 57:12

Lunette's like hands and feet still like almost dragging the ground. I got it. Bring the Hoobie. Oh yeah, how's it how's how's the rabbit?

SPEAKER_08 57:22

My son! My baby!

SPEAKER_11 57:24

So like you see who's still curled up on the ground, but it's clear there's nothing wrong with Hootie. He's just trying to get sympathy. He just maybe I get treats. Venaria like turns around with you on one shoulder. She's like reaches out to Hooney, I got another shoulder. Like slowly does that like floppy bunny walk-up thing.

SPEAKER_08 57:46

Like, he just, he just, he's like, okay, he surrenders. Or it's like, he's just like, Where's my son? Where's my boy?

SPEAKER_07 57:57

Dayless is gonna walk behind them, like in line, and get dromash, and he's gonna give him one solid like thump on the shoulder.

SPEAKER_02 58:05

Like, the other shoulder.

SPEAKER_06 58:09

Ah, then we got two bruises.

SPEAKER_07 58:11

Dromash.

SPEAKER_06 58:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 58:12

Please, next time, tell us that you're going to need help with stuff like this.

SPEAKER_11 58:16

Uh well, you know, normally they don't act like this. Well. This is new.

SPEAKER_07 58:22

This seems that's co. Dalos is tired.

SPEAKER_11 58:28

He like he like takes a shield and like like up over on his back of his shoulder, like like a backpack.

SPEAKER_08 58:33

Dalos. Alright, let's go.

SPEAKER_07 58:35

Lynette's like Dalos will mirror with his shoulder.

SPEAKER_08 58:39

Lynette, like, weekly offering Dalos a fist bump with her metal arm from Venaria's metal. Dalos will meet you.

SPEAKER_11 58:45

I love the image of the scene of y'all coming out of the the under like under Haven watch, like like a like a like a sports team coming home after like a tournament in the middle. Everybody's like, beat up.

SPEAKER_08 59:00

Hurrah. Venaria's got a rabbit in one hand and a homie in the other.

SPEAKER_07 59:06

Whenever Dalos passes by Genova, he's gonna be like, ah, you uh you didn't even need help.

SPEAKER_01 59:14

I appreciate your consistency. I am very surprised this time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 59:21

Yeah, Genova just sailed through that.

SPEAKER_01 59:27

I just gotta blow Fritter. He's my he's my lucky yeah, Fritter looks lucky. He's over there. He's entertaining the uh the kids.

SPEAKER_11 59:36

So, yes, you you all it's this great scene of you all coming out, you know, you're a little beat up, but you got the camaraderie going. And yeah, we we we kind of fade from that to y'all walking into Keldora's office.

SPEAKER_08 59:48

We don't still over your shoulder as we walk in. Until you get still on the couch.

SPEAKER_12 59:54

No, no, no. I feel I feel like we don't because of this. Venaria does not pause for the gate guardian lady. She doesn't stop you. Yeah, just up the streets. She knows why you're there. Jan's up is like upset. Yeah. It's pretty obvious why we're here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:13

Carrying a bloody rogue.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:15

She's just like Lynette on her back, like talking to the uh the secretary. We did it.

SPEAKER_11 1:00:21

She nodded.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:22

You reach to shake her hand from behind from like over Venari's shoulder.

SPEAKER_11 1:00:25

She's like, dirty. Um but yeah, so you you all make it up to Keldora's office. And Dromash being kind of the the oath lantern in the room gives the report. She'll listen. Won't interrupt. But when that's done, she doesn't respond immediately. She exhales once, just and then she looks at Dromash and she'll say, Tier three. And he'll think for a moment. Well she was confused, but she could think things through. I'm not certified to assess it, but tier three feels right. And she'll nod once. Not not like sharply, but just kind of accepting the information. Uh and she'll turn away and step to the nearest surface, like a desk nearby, and there's like a stack of papers on there that don't need straightening, but she's going to try and straighten them anyway. And then she'll pause for a moment. No, she's scary and intimidating. Neurodivergent authority figure. And then then without looking over, and Wick took her as a retrieval. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:43

Good.

SPEAKER_11 1:01:45

And she'll finally turn back to address you all. Do you understand what you stop? No.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:54

Not entirely.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:55

Uh big bad crazy bomb under the city.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:02

She'll kind of gesture slightly, just kind of to the city in uh at at large.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:06

And S. Rank Warren's inside city walls is unthinkable. At that point it would already be too late.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:15

You did exactly what was needed.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:18

Does that mean we get to stay? Can we get promoted?

SPEAKER_11 1:02:22

She you actually see her crack a smile a little bit as you mentioned that.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:26

Did we prove it? Are we proven?

SPEAKER_11 1:02:29

You have done this city a great service. And she's smiling like genuinely. Yeah. It's kind of scary.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:35

I intend to inform.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:37

Maybe for y'all. Uh she said I did good.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:42

Head pats.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:42

You gotta think that, dude.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:46

I intend to inform Victor of my assessment and make a fervent request that a place be made for you within Ogun.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:55

She'll look at you each in turn. And should you wish to take the lantern oath, I would be honored to officiate it myself.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:03

Oh, damn.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:05

Venaria's ready to go on that, but she also is kind of looking around at everyone else like maybe we have a huddle first.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:13

I I and another. Elizabeth wants Daelos to look at the charter before specifically because I want to know how much this ties and limits activity. I think that we are going to one way or another, but I do think that he would be remiss. He's like, I would like to review the contract. I would like to read the charter.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:44

By all means it is available to anyone to read.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:47

Yeah, can I?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:48

But it's a public document.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:50

I'm probably gonna do it. Uh but before that, can I go to the hospital? You can you'll be fine. What do you know about my squishy organic incident?

SPEAKER_07 1:04:01

I seem to be able to sleep just as well.

SPEAKER_12 1:04:03

We we would like to announce this decision when we are uh recovered from this uh adventure if cluster fuck.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:13

She will lived. She will purse her lips and nod. Well if you would prefer to swear at a later time, and she'll look at each of you and just kind of understand like a nod of understanding, like Lina looks at that.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:29

Looks at Genova, goes, okay. Looks at Venaria, but it's like okay. Looks at Dalos is like, mmm, okay. Looks at Luna and was like, yeah, you need it.

SPEAKER_08 1:04:37

Like has to lean over the desk a little bit, and Luna is just on the floor.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:42

And then she will say, well, by rights, full recovery is part of the compensation appropriate to what you have just accomplished.

SPEAKER_08 1:04:49

Yo, we have insurance.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:52

Absolutely. That's part of the standard compensation package for rank A is full recovery. Damn. Uh we have very good medical care here.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:03

Do you have good mechanical care?

SPEAKER_11 1:05:06

They might, they might, yes. They just just get that dwarf that made the magic chain thing. He's just like, I got my tools. She will she will pause and then there's kind of like a shift in her tone, like her hip kind of pops a little bit. There you go. Uh you might try one of the bathhouses.

SPEAKER_13 1:05:21

Or there's a new gambling hall on Cinderway. Uh it's near the nightcap, I believe. Granny good something.

SPEAKER_08 1:05:30

Oh motherfucker. She has a details of the episode in.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:37

Motherfuck. Taking a picture right.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:45

At any rate, your your time is your own this evening. Spend it as you see fit. She'll gesture kind of to the hall beyond. You may see Saren at the front desk to receive your compensation. And then she leans in a little bit. I will see you tomorrow for your oath. You are dismissed.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:03

Hey, boss lady.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:04

She turns around.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:05

The boss lady, please. Just talk. The Sherathy guy, what's his name?

SPEAKER_02 1:06:09

Mmm. Wick's associate.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:12

Yeah, is that it? Is that his name?

SPEAKER_11 1:06:16

That is not name. He has no idea identity of his own. His name is Drift.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:22

He will have a name in two weeks.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:27

That's his nickname. His name is Terran Callis.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:31

Terran Drift Callis, cool. I'm gonna try and talk to him.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:35

Drift is his aim screen name. Well, you will have to find him first. Usually a hard time. But you uh you all head down to the front area where Saren is sitting behind her desk. She is uh not typing because she doesn't have a typewriter. She is writing in a ledger. There we go. Yes, so she she will sit there and write, and then as you walk up, she'll just look up, not say anything. And she will turn around. She's got like a swibbly chair, so she doesn't actually get up, but she just kind of scoots over. And you will hear her pull out five bags of coins.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:15

Money, please. Money for medication.

SPEAKER_11 1:07:18

Um would you hand me the reference book? Yes, actually, she she will do pretty much what I'm doing right now. She pulls out a little letter sound effects.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 1:07:29

Yes, it's very very artistry.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:32

Yeah, yes. Well, let's see. Rank A. Compensated and adjusted upward for escalation prevented. Near rank S.

SPEAKER_13 1:07:42

That comes out to 400 gold each, full recovery care, any replacement for any lost gear or resources.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:54

Uh, nice.

SPEAKER_11 1:07:55

And she will dole out four hundred gold each in little little pouches. Put it on the counter. Nice.

SPEAKER_08 1:08:03

Do I need like a waiver or anything to take to like the healing center?

SPEAKER_11 1:08:06

Oh, yeah. Actually, she will take a look at you after she's done the actual money part and then look as if she's kind of going, oh, and and direct like stand up and direct, like, come this way, we'll take you to the medics.

SPEAKER_08 1:08:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:08:19

Yeah, you all you all get your pay, you get fixed up, you are free to spend the day with only expectation of taking the oath in the morning.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:31

Yay!

SPEAKER_11 1:08:57

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SPEAKER_04 1:10:01

Woo!

SPEAKER_03 1:10:05

Rich! How rude. I'm gonna get you cancelled for that.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:09

Gonna get you cancelled on Twitter.com. Venaria misogynists when? Are you saying Venaria hates women, particularly older women who are no longer who are no longer valued by society for being pretty? Because they're old?

SPEAKER_13 1:10:23

Do I not meet your standards of beauty?

SPEAKER_08 1:10:26

Venaria, do you hate older women? She flips her hair.

SPEAKER_11 1:10:31

It's my move. Okay. That's my turn. Fritter sp fires off a spice spicy meatfall. I'm gonna try that entire shit again. Fritter fire vault. Fuck. Fritter Fritter Mitch.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:52

He did nothing to you and you called him a bitch.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:55

Don't you don't you go muting. Ooh.

SPEAKER_13 1:10:58

I can be loud enough to pick up on the mics anyway. Look at me projecting!

SPEAKER_08 1:11:05

Look at me projecting nuts. Maybe I'm a wheel! God damn.