S4 Ep3: The Seed

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Sam [00:00:30] Speaker B: y' all listening to Apotheosis A Mutants and Masterminds Actual play by Hallowed Haven Studios well after our ghost call, me and the gang decided it was time to investigate. Heading to the burnt down house. And with the combined efforts of the group, we were able to figure out that whoever came with the wolves was able to mess with the runes and magic that the scions here used to protect themselves. And this white staff may be more worrying than we first thought. From there, we got some information from the deadbeat Loki. They had taken the yet to be awakened scion and we needed to move fast. As such, we used the power of Blythe to teleport to an abandoned mall where we had been told she was being kept. There we ran into a fuckton of Fenris wolves. And after our initial brawlings and spreading out, we saw the child of Fenrir and the biggest of the fuckers, Garm. After some expert diplomacy and rescue skills on my part, we retrieved the unawakened Sion, who turned out to be a 20 something woman in scrubs, and brought her to the roof. There, Blaidd attempted to teleport us away as the Fenris wolf golf storm descended on our group. With the bird held high and death rapidly approaching, the teleportation failed and we were left to fend for ourselves. God, I love being back. [00:02:12] Speaker C: I'm Claire Allison and I'm playing Blythe Young, the scion of Odin. [00:02:15] Speaker A: Hi, I'm Gavin Cash and I'm playing Clint Abrazus, scion of the Morrigan. [00:02:21] Speaker D: Hi, I'm Heretic. I am playing Stefan Vargar, the scion of Loo. [00:02:27] Speaker E: Hello, I'm Gary and I'll be playing Oliver Bright, the scion of Oghma. [00:02:32] Speaker F: Hello, I'm Solomon and I am playing Andre Briscoe, the scion of Hephaestus. [00:02:38] Speaker G: And I'm bloodied porcelain. And I'll be your storyteller for the evening. Hello players. [00:02:45] Speaker E: Hello. Hello. [00:02:47] Speaker G: How are we feeling? [00:02:49] Speaker C: I'm gonna die. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Well, we're gonna go. [00:02:53] Speaker G: Well, for those who may have forgotten, you are standing on the roof of an abandoned mall, not far from the biggest wolf you've ever seen. Which is saying something, because at least one of you has seen some pretty big fucking wolves. 60ft away or so is Garm, who is the greatest of all of the Fenris wolves. You have tried to teleport off of the off of the roof, only to find your way blocked by some sort of force that seems to be unwilling to allow you to leave. And it was as this was happening that Blythe remembered. In the the face of her confidence in this mission and her abilities, she may have overlooked a warning given to her by her companion, Lucky. So we find ourselves here. I believe it is technically Stefan's turn first. He's not on the turn order because I had accidentally removed his token. But I do remember him having top initiative. The way this is going to work is this is going to be kind of a skill challenge with combat thrown in. There is a way to find your way off of the roof. But you're going to have to. You're going to have to figure out how you get off of the roof while also defending yourself. Because there is a huge wolf that seems intent on devouring as many of your hearts as he can, who is slowly advancing on you. So, Stefan, what would you like to do? [00:04:46] Speaker B: All right. [00:04:47] Speaker D: Well, I will try to demoralize them. [00:04:50] Speaker G: You want to try and demoralize Garm? [00:04:53] Speaker D: Yes. [00:04:54] Speaker G: Okay, sure, you can try. [00:04:58] Speaker D: All right. We'll see how this goes. [00:05:03] Speaker G: For those who may be unfamiliar with the system, would you like to explain what demoralize is and what it does? [00:05:10] Speaker D: Yes, I am demoralizing them. But I am using taunt, so I'm using my deception rather than intimidation. Demoralize either gives them a minus 2 bonus or a minus 5 if they roll. I believe 4 worse. 4 more degrees worse than I do. [00:05:29] Speaker G: Or if I roll each degree. Each degree is five sick. [00:05:33] Speaker B: Alright. And here is my roll. [00:05:36] Speaker D: Well, I thought that would be my role. [00:05:41] Speaker G: Well, he gets to insight, deception or will. Well, okay. All right. So he's at a negative two. [00:05:54] Speaker D: Yes. Stefan will shout out to him. [00:05:58] Speaker B: You always were my least favorite nephew. [00:06:03] Speaker G: Which is wild. He's so much older than you. [00:06:07] Speaker D: There are a minus two circumstance penalty until my next round. [00:06:12] Speaker G: Ah, yes. I am being reminded we forgot to do this at the end of last session because I did not expect to end in media res. And I'm starting in in media res. So everybody at home is aware because they are trapped on the roof. Each player gets one hero point. We have not reset our injuries or our hero points from last session. That will happen after the fight is over. Thank you for the reminder. [00:06:40] Speaker C: Okay. [00:06:41] Speaker G: Stefan is gone. Blythe. It was at that moment that she realized that she'd fucked up so bad. [00:06:51] Speaker C: Okay. Lucky. I'm so sorry. Oliver. [00:06:56] Speaker E: Yes? [00:06:57] Speaker C: I need. I think the place has been warded and I can't get us out of here. [00:07:03] Speaker G: Oh, you think? [00:07:03] Speaker C: Can you? Oliver, please. You can see magic. [00:07:07] Speaker E: I can. Let's find the wards and get them not existing anymore. [00:07:13] Speaker C: Right. I'm going to have Lucky help you on this, and we're just going to move as fast as possible, and then we all go, just like we did before. [00:07:20] Speaker G: Right, sure. [00:07:22] Speaker C: And then I'm actually going to have Lucky use his magic sense. [00:07:27] Speaker G: Okay, well, that's on his turn, so what would you like to do? [00:07:30] Speaker C: I forgot he has a different initiative. I can't do anything. I'm gonna hold my action. I'm gonna have to hold my turn. [00:07:35] Speaker G: What are you. Okay, what are you gonna do? I'm assuming you're gonna wait until his turn. [00:07:41] Speaker C: I'm gonna wait until Oliver. Lucky can find sense magic and then use my turn to move them. [00:07:50] Speaker G: Okay, I will allow that. I don't think technically you can do that, but I will allow it because this is as much a. As much as skill challenges. It is a fight, Andre. They're talking about magic, which is not your thing. [00:08:04] Speaker F: It's really, really not. [00:08:06] Speaker G: And there's a big ass wolf who looks like he wants to eat you. [00:08:09] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:08:11] Speaker G: And an innocent right behind you who has not had her awakening. As far as you can tell. You can't feel any legend coming off of her. [00:08:18] Speaker F: Oh, this is all kinds of fucking pear shaped. I in a last ditch, in a attempt at doing what I did when we were fighting servers, just trying to lull the Beast to sleep or at least like maybe get it drowsy, I'm gonna pull out my morphic device and start working on buttons. But instead of hitting what I usually do to create the music, I'm going to hit in. I'm going to miss a few buttons and see what happens with another random effect. [00:08:52] Speaker G: Okay. Just to be upfront with you because we've talked about this a little bit, none of the effects that are going to come off of the morphic orb are going to be overly powerful. So if you still want to do that, I'm happy to do that. But I just want to remind you because it is unlikely you're going to do anything that's going to like up the giant wolf that's nearby. [00:09:14] Speaker F: Yeah, actually, I think I'll wait and try that later than. I didn't figure it would be anything that would be like kill wolf button. But, you know, I think instead Andre is going to move a little bit, try to get its. Get Garm's attention. And he can move a lot because he's able to fly real fast and will attempt to basically trick Garm by. He is going to attempt to Use trick by hitting a. A maybe like an old steam valve or vent and trying to get. Basically get him, like, steam and such, getting it right into his eyes and right into his face. [00:09:57] Speaker G: We could try that. Well, with your strength, I'm not going to make you roll to. To destroy it. This seems like a luck thing. Roll me D100 and pick. High or low? [00:10:19] Speaker F: I'm gonna go with low. [00:10:22] Speaker G: Okay, [00:10:24] Speaker F: well, that's just 100 on actual dice. Hold on. [00:10:27] Speaker G: Okay. I was just like, hold on. That seems wrong. [00:10:29] Speaker F: It's a 10. [00:10:31] Speaker G: Huzzah. That is quite low. All right. You lay into. Part of the infrastructure of the roof, knowing that this place hasn't been in use, in use in years. You are relying less on there actually being anything active and more on kind of divine luck. You're just like, come on, something's got to go our way. Something's got to go our way. And you lay into this and you just pray really fucking hard. Thankfully, your dad is kind of a God who interfaces with making physical things do what he wants them to do. And as it happens, you feel this kind of, like, influx of not even power, but like a blessing that kind of passes through you and into the labras. And when you hit into what are actually just H vac vents, that shouldn't put off anything. When you break them, this huge gust of steam comes pouring out and spills across the area. And this will. I'll say that this will Give GARM [00:11:47] Speaker A: a [00:11:49] Speaker G: negative 2 on any visual perception checks. [00:11:53] Speaker B: Okey dokey. [00:11:54] Speaker F: Every little bit. [00:11:56] Speaker G: Every little bit helps when he's as powerful as he is. [00:11:59] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:12:01] Speaker G: Anything else? [00:12:04] Speaker F: I think that will pretty much be it. Aside from, like, flying up to keep a better look on Garm and not let the seam affect me. So I'm just, like, going straight up to keep an eye on him. [00:12:16] Speaker H: Okay. [00:12:17] Speaker G: Let me throw a wing on you so I know you're in the air. Cool. Hey, it's Lucky's turn and Blythe's. [00:12:27] Speaker C: Do I need to roll for heightened senses to find. To detect magic? [00:12:35] Speaker G: You need to roll his perception for detect magic. [00:12:38] Speaker A: Yes. [00:12:39] Speaker G: Okay. [00:12:43] Speaker H: How. [00:12:45] Speaker G: One second. I'm. I'm double checking Lucky sheet to see what his range is on things, if there is one. No, it's just olfactory coins. [00:12:59] Speaker H: Cool. [00:13:01] Speaker G: He can tell that there is something magical on the towards, like, the northeast corner of the building. It is too far out of, like, too far away for him to, like, see where. Where exactly it is. But basically he is saying that it is, like, somewhere in this area. Or in this direction. [00:13:24] Speaker C: Thank God we got rid of all of those wolves earlier. All right, come on, Oliver. I'm gonna grab because I have moved by action. I'm gonna move Lucky. Blythe is gonna move Lucky and then come back to grab Oliver. [00:13:39] Speaker G: That's fine. [00:13:39] Speaker C: This is why I kind of wanted to move the. Turn there. [00:13:42] Speaker G: Drop things where you want to drop them. [00:13:44] Speaker C: Oliver, where do you want to go? [00:13:45] Speaker E: Presume we're going in the direction of where your dog is sniffing out the magic. [00:13:49] Speaker C: All right, I can't move you. [00:13:51] Speaker G: You'll have to move your token Boo Boo. [00:13:53] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:13:55] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:55] Speaker C: I assume the rest of the guys have figured out what we're doing? [00:13:57] Speaker G: Yes. I mean, the. The decently intelligent ones probably have, yes. [00:14:03] Speaker A: Where'd they go, Ian? [00:14:07] Speaker G: I don't know. She disappears. [00:14:10] Speaker A: It's going to be hard to keep track of them this way. [00:14:13] Speaker C: Should we have taken the girl? [00:14:14] Speaker F: Huh? [00:14:15] Speaker G: It's too late now. [00:14:16] Speaker C: I mean, I can still go back. I have so much movement, you know? I hope you don't mind. [00:14:24] Speaker E: We're still on the roof, right? [00:14:25] Speaker G: You. You are still on the roof. You should be able to see where you are on the map. [00:14:28] Speaker E: I. I can. I'm just making sure that, like, yeah, we weren't playing with the layers or anything. So I can, like, turn around and still see the rest of the guys over here, right? [00:14:37] Speaker G: Yes. [00:14:38] Speaker E: Okay, in that case, look around at my area for a second and then turn back to look at the team, put my fingers in my mouth, and whistle loudly to get their attention. All right, listen up. Shang and I are going to figure out where the warts are, cut them, and get us out of here. In the meantime, you need to hold off that wolf. Do whatever you need to do. Remember, you're not three individuals. You are a team. You are a unit. So work together. And in that moment, Oliver looks pretty authoritative, commanding, inspirational, one could even say as his jaws sets, there's a bit of a gust of wind that billows the coats dramatically. And I will use that hero point to activate Inspiration 5, which means everyone that I consider an ally is going to get +5 on all rolls they make until the start of my next turn. [00:15:37] Speaker G: Do you consider the innocent an ally? [00:15:40] Speaker E: Yes. [00:15:41] Speaker G: Okay, cool. She may, at some point, have to make a roll, I would assume. [00:15:48] Speaker C: No more. Do I pick one up as well? [00:15:51] Speaker G: I would assume Blaidd is considered an ally. [00:15:53] Speaker E: Yeah. You're gonna get the plus five as well. [00:15:55] Speaker C: I had to check. [00:15:56] Speaker G: All right, anything else? [00:16:00] Speaker E: Might regret this later, but we will extra effort to Do a secondary action to activate. Unlid eye to start looking at magic. [00:16:07] Speaker G: Okay. Make me a perception check. [00:16:09] Speaker E: Oh, I'm so good at these. That's a four. [00:16:14] Speaker G: You don't see shit. [00:16:16] Speaker D: Fuck, bruh. [00:16:18] Speaker E: Does Lucky still have luck point? [00:16:20] Speaker C: Lucky does still have a luck point. You could pet Lucky right now. [00:16:24] Speaker E: I'm gonna pet the dog real quick. [00:16:25] Speaker G: Okay. Remove that luck point from Lucky. I think that's it, isn't it? He's out. [00:16:30] Speaker C: He regenerates. I don't know how long he regenerates them. Or does he just give me mine. Give me his. [00:16:34] Speaker G: We will assume that he is done for the. For the scene until after this fight is already his time to rest. And that it's probably at least for now until we can look it up more specifically. [00:16:44] Speaker E: Well, it's a seven, but it's actually [00:16:46] Speaker G: a 17, so that's a 17. Okay, that's fine. Oliver, You are casting your gaze around, and as you were looking, you realize that there is a lot of ambient magic coming from behind this little like h. Like H vac building unit thing. And if you move towards it so that you can actually look my movements, you do. [00:17:21] Speaker E: Void fatigue won't kick it until the end of the turn. So, yeah, I can move another bit. [00:17:27] Speaker G: You can see this kind of aura of magic that looks like frost that has formed around this rusted out H vac unit in a pattern that doesn't make any sense. And the frost really shouldn't be here because it's Georgia and it's warm outside. But you could see wires and roots and strips of white bark are wrapped around and inside of this machinery, forming a crude crown. A white staff mark is burned into the metal casing of the H vac unit. Not carved, but like the kind of burn that you can get from something that has been, like, hyper frozen. And the mark pulses anytime you get or as you get closer to it. [00:18:23] Speaker E: Would I be able to size up if this is something that it's just like we just need to kind of like break it and it'll go away. Or will some sort of negation magic need to be done to get rid of it? [00:18:35] Speaker G: You have. I will say that I will allow you and Blythe to make, like, a teamwork check to see if you could figure out how that works on Blythe's next turn. [00:18:44] Speaker E: Okay, Sounds good to me. [00:18:46] Speaker G: Because you've done so much this turn already. [00:18:49] Speaker E: Yep, fine by me. [00:18:51] Speaker G: All right, it's Garm's turn. Huzzah. I'm so excited. Is nobody Else excited? [00:18:58] Speaker E: No, girl. [00:19:00] Speaker D: I pray a minus two saves us. [00:19:02] Speaker G: You guys watch. Oh, no, you don't, because there is steam between you and him. Andre sees this as somebody who is up in the air and watching from above. And I think Ian would too, because Ian is also up and flying around. I assume you guys watch those two watch as. As some of Garm's injuries begin to knit over and heal. Visibly regenerating Wolf and he. Unfortunately for you guys, his primary sense is olfactory, so steam isn't going to stop him from being able to know where you are. It just might make it harder for [00:19:48] Speaker A: him to hit you. [00:19:51] Speaker G: But considering that one of you has peeled off from the pack and he can fly. He jumps up into the air and closes with Andre and is going to. He's going to bite you, Andre. [00:20:08] Speaker F: I'd rather he didn't. [00:20:10] Speaker G: That's too bad, man. Well, it's a 29 to hit. [00:20:16] Speaker F: Yeah, that'll 29 will definitely hit. [00:20:19] Speaker G: So I will need a. A DC27 toughness check, please. [00:20:23] Speaker F: Okay. [00:20:24] Speaker E: Don't forget you get plus five. [00:20:26] Speaker F: Well, that would be a 25, which doesn't cut the mustard. [00:20:30] Speaker G: It does not. So you are bruised, so you take one injury. [00:20:34] Speaker F: Got it. [00:20:35] Speaker G: And I also. I also need a strength or a dodge check, Whichever is higher versus DC22. [00:20:47] Speaker E: This also gets a plus 5. [00:20:49] Speaker D: Indeed. Remember the minus 2 circumstance bonus for karma. [00:20:54] Speaker G: Okay, well, you passed that, so now give me an athletics or an acrobatics check, please. Oh, no, wait, that was risk. There was this. Never mind. You don't need to do that. You already passed. That's a. That's the escape check. Sorry, too many things in my head. You manage to kind of. The Daedalus device ends up being weirdly, almost kind of weirdly acrobatic because you manage to kind of like slip back and whatever. He does manage to bite you, but it allows you to move in a way that you were able to kind of wriggle free from his teeth before they can properly close on you. [00:21:35] Speaker F: Works for me. [00:21:38] Speaker G: Now you're just. Now you're just bleeding. Okay, Braum's turn. Braum. Braum only has so much he can do. See, it's not as big as you guys are. He is pretty strong, though, and he's relatively intelligent. So seeing that the innocent is still on the goddamn roof and nobody seems to be, like, protecting her explicitly, Brahm is going to come over and attempt to scoop her up because he can't fucking talk to her. So we are just gonna make a We're gonna make a fighting check. But understand that he's not actually trying to hurt her. He's just trying to grab her while she's actively kind of freaking out because there's a goddamn dragon trying to pick her up. [00:22:31] Speaker E: As opposed 5 [00:22:35] Speaker G: with a plus 5. He does manage to scoop her up. She is screaming just bloody murder. It's it. She's convinced that she's about to die and become a very crispy critter. And he is going to start flying her away from Garm. [00:22:55] Speaker A: How much? [00:22:55] Speaker G: What is his movement? I don't think he has special movement. So it's just 30 and he can fly. So they're gonna come over here and get away. All right. Clint. [00:23:11] Speaker A: Yep. I have an idea. Mr. B was on about team attacks and working together. So I'm gonna eat my spear, but not quite at Garm. I'm going to throw it over as a way to delay my turn. And my plan is to yank that spear back with the returning to use it as an attack on the way back to help whoever is doing the main attack. [00:23:38] Speaker G: So you want your. You want to start a team attack. [00:23:42] Speaker A: Correct. [00:23:43] Speaker G: Okay, I'm gonna need you to decide who's doing the team attack. [00:23:47] Speaker A: That's a good question. Because I have. My understanding is that we delay until it's that person's turn. Correct. Together. [00:23:55] Speaker G: Correct. Based on. On initiative. Your best bet is probably Andre. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. [00:24:04] Speaker G: And if Stefan wants to jump in? If Stefan wants to jump in, he can jump in, but he has to wait for Andre's turn to do it. [00:24:11] Speaker A: Well, that's what I'm planning. The toothpick has gone sailing. For now. [00:24:18] Speaker G: Okay, well, unfortunately for you, you guys did kill a bunch of wolves, but you didn't kill all of them. So you hear howling from within the mall and I have to figure out how many of these wolves you have to deal with. [00:24:35] Speaker A: Could it be zero? [00:24:37] Speaker G: No. [00:24:38] Speaker D: Unfortunately, wolves don't know how to use stairs. [00:24:43] Speaker G: That's not at all true. [00:24:46] Speaker A: Aren't they afraid of stairs? [00:24:48] Speaker D: Yeah, they're not domesticated. They don't. They don't understand them. [00:24:52] Speaker C: Can we close the door and lock it so that they can't unlock it? Because, you know, thumbs. [00:24:56] Speaker G: It's cute. You think. You think that a lot could stop them. You have to remember that these are size of them. These things are size. These things are the size of, like vehicles. At least some of them are. Okay, so that means that there are this many of the big ones pop up onto the Roof over here. Oh, come on, let me do the thing. Stop trying to spin. Let me size you up. [00:25:28] Speaker B: There we go. [00:25:32] Speaker G: So two of them come bounding up the stairs and make it about 25ft or so and are headed around there. And then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. There is another round of howls as several more come pouring out of doorways onto the roof. Onto the roof. [00:26:08] Speaker D: Okay. [00:26:09] Speaker G: Yeah. You guys watch as the doors on either side of the roof burst open. They just get shattered. And in a number of Fenris wolves, both the. The rather large and aged ones and the younger ones that are about the size of a human man, pour out onto the roof and you can still hear howls from inside. [00:26:32] Speaker A: Inside. [00:26:34] Speaker G: Blythe. [00:26:35] Speaker C: Stefan. [00:26:35] Speaker F: It will be Stefan. [00:26:37] Speaker G: Oh, yes, Sorry, Stefan. [00:26:40] Speaker B: Would you like me to roll just so I'm on the turn order? [00:26:44] Speaker G: That would be helpful, yes. Hold on a second though, because I'm not on the right part of the map. I am removing all of these wolves that just popped up on the roof from the other side. [00:26:53] Speaker D: So. [00:26:54] Speaker B: Alrighty. You tell me when. [00:26:56] Speaker G: All right, now you can do it. Cute. 99 so that you always pop up at the top and we will sort. There we go. Huzzah. You're at the top. [00:27:09] Speaker B: Alrighty. I will delay and hold the cold iron nail. [00:27:14] Speaker C: Okay, Blythe, Hilariously, I realized I have enough movement. I delay and I will join in on the teamwork. [00:27:22] Speaker G: The team. I. I said that the teamwork could. Oh, wait, are you going to try and join the attack? Because if you do that, you can't. If you do that, you can't help Oliver with the magic stuff. [00:27:34] Speaker C: I think Oliver and Lucky can break. Whatever is it Lucky doesn't have. [00:27:39] Speaker G: Lucky doesn't have my expertise, babe. [00:27:42] Speaker C: God damn it. I have to stay with Oliver. Let's look at this thing. [00:27:46] Speaker G: Okay. I would like Blythe and Oliver to both make expertise magic. Charts, please. [00:27:51] Speaker E: All right, Teamwork. So plus five, [00:27:57] Speaker G: assuming that you have the teamwork thing. [00:27:59] Speaker A: Yes. [00:28:00] Speaker E: Yep. [00:28:01] Speaker G: Yes. [00:28:02] Speaker C: I just really should have got all [00:28:04] Speaker E: the help of the deck. That was fine. [00:28:06] Speaker H: Did that. [00:28:06] Speaker G: Did that add the plus 5 to it? Add. [00:28:09] Speaker C: I don't think. [00:28:10] Speaker G: Okay. You didn't put it into your thing then. [00:28:13] Speaker C: I did. [00:28:15] Speaker H: Oh, you did. [00:28:15] Speaker E: You have to, like, put it in and then click elsewhere so it inputs. [00:28:19] Speaker C: Oh, that's why. [00:28:20] Speaker G: Okay, so that's actually a 15. No, that's a 15. That's fine. [00:28:23] Speaker C: There we go. [00:28:25] Speaker G: Okay. What? You were. [00:28:28] Speaker C: What? [00:28:29] Speaker G: You can figure out between a 32 and a 15. There are a couple of ways that you could. That you could, like, stop the effects of what it is doing. You could destroy the unit that it is tied up in. You could explicitly try to get rid of the white staff mark that you expect that There is probably. Probably. There is a decent chance that if you go specifically for that staff mark, because it is where the culmination of all the magic is, that there's a chance that there's going to be, like, blowback. It's the fastest, but also the most dangerous way. Or you could try to make it like a focal point. If you guys wanted to do, like, a counter ritual. However, with as high as Oliver rolled, I will tell you. You can also tell that this is not the full ritual. This is one part of it. You would have to find the other pieces. [00:29:27] Speaker E: This isn't the only piece. We're going to be quick about this. [00:29:30] Speaker C: Yeah, well, quick is not the problem. Can we just. Do you want to destroy it or counter ritual? What? [00:29:34] Speaker E: That's what I'm saying. The counter ritual would take time. We need to just destroy to move on. [00:29:37] Speaker C: All right, I. Can I stab it? That seems like a terrible idea. [00:29:42] Speaker G: I'm going to stab it. You can absolutely stab it if you would like to. [00:29:46] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Let's do that. [00:29:48] Speaker G: Okay. Blythe. [00:29:51] Speaker C: Yes. [00:29:52] Speaker G: I will need you to make me a will save, please. I'm not gonna make you roll to hit it. This is how well you were going to deal with the blowback. [00:30:02] Speaker C: Oh, man. [00:30:03] Speaker G: Oliver, I'm gonna need you to make a toughness check. Boo Boo. [00:30:08] Speaker E: Oh, okay. [00:30:09] Speaker G: That's a really good will check. [00:30:10] Speaker E: God, I'm not terrible at these. And 23. [00:30:16] Speaker G: Okay, Oliver, take a bruise. Blaidd does not have to roll a toughness check. So you drive the point of your spear into this mark and you feel at it. Almost feels like like you left your staff out in, like, sub zero temperatures and have tried to pick it up with bare hands or spear, not staff. But it. It's like somebody took cold and made it, like, electric because it shoots up the length of the spear and it hits your hands wise. And it takes a sheer act of will to, like, kind of ground yourself against it because there is so much ambient power that shoots up through this thing. And you know that had you failed that will save, it would have been bad. Like, really, really bad. Like, your toughness check would have had to have been in the 30s to. To not take damage from doing a direct assault on it like that. [00:31:20] Speaker E: Right. Next time, we're gonna distance. [00:31:22] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh. Stand at A distance. That's the problem. Maybe we can borrow Clint's toothpick. [00:31:31] Speaker H: Yeah. [00:31:32] Speaker G: So, Oliver, you get the feeling that you standing at a distance when she was doing the damage probably would have gotten you like, out of the line. You basically just got like an ambient blast of the energy. But, like, whoever tries to hit this, especially if they are. If they are. If whoever tries to disrupt this has to deal with the magical blowback regardless of where they're standing. [00:31:56] Speaker E: All right, correction. Whoever is the one breaking it's gonna have to deal with that no matter what. But no sense in both of us getting hurt over it. [00:32:04] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:32:05] Speaker C: Stop that. Your. [00:32:08] Speaker G: Your. Your coat of the Dragonbringer, Oliver has frost clinging to like the edges of it after that ambient magic hits you does. It's not damaged, but for a second there, you could see like ice crystals forming along the edges. [00:32:26] Speaker C: Oliver, you see Blythe, like, take her, like, peel her hands off her spear the way you do when you touch something really cold on accident. [00:32:34] Speaker E: Right. [00:32:35] Speaker G: Well, on the next one, just point where we're going. [00:32:38] Speaker C: And I think that's all I can do. [00:32:40] Speaker G: Well, that's. That's a lucky question. So unless. Unless. Unless Oliver wants to try a thing. I'm gonna move this to the token layer so that you could see that I had it marked. [00:32:56] Speaker H: Boom. [00:32:58] Speaker G: Okay, that's that. Andre, you are set up to lead a team attack. My guy. [00:33:07] Speaker F: All right, so what Andre is going to do is seeing the toothpick going like, past and seeing that Stefan does have the iron nail out. He's going to basically fly straight up and then he's going to. To drop straight back down, basically corkscrewing to have himself like a gyro to swing the labyrinth into Garm's head as hard as he can. [00:33:29] Speaker G: Okay, make your attack roll. [00:33:34] Speaker I: All right. [00:33:35] Speaker G: If you have teamwork, you should have [00:33:38] Speaker F: a bonus double checking. I believe I do. [00:33:42] Speaker G: It's under advantages. [00:33:43] Speaker E: You'll have plus five from teamwork and then plus five from inspire. [00:33:47] Speaker F: I do. Fantastic. [00:33:49] Speaker G: That certainly hits. Okay, I am going to need Clint and Stefan to do it as well. [00:34:03] Speaker A: There we go. [00:34:03] Speaker D: Also hit plus five on top of that. [00:34:06] Speaker F: So 24 for Stefan. [00:34:08] Speaker G: Okay, that's gonna hurt. [00:34:13] Speaker A: Okay. [00:34:15] Speaker G: I hate doing the math on team. Team attacks, I believe. And it's been a long time since I've run this, so if I it up, I'm sorry. I believe on team attacks, for every hit, the DC for the toughness check goes up, so. Oh, boys. Okay, so he is bruised and dazed, which is good because that Cuts down on his like, movement and stuff. [00:34:52] Speaker J: Yep. [00:34:52] Speaker F: Yep. [00:34:53] Speaker G: Cool. I'm opening the wrong sheet. I gotta close Yalls character sheets. I gotta stop looking at them. Okay. Oliver. [00:35:04] Speaker E: Oh, I thought Lucky went before me. [00:35:06] Speaker G: You and Lucky are on the same turn order. I guess it just resorted you so that he was after you. Okay, Lucky's turn. Sorry. [00:35:13] Speaker E: Because I know where to go without him. [00:35:15] Speaker G: I had to resort because I added Stefan and it. It changed who was. Who was in what position. Okay. Investigation 14. Are we not doing a perception? [00:35:29] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, Sorry. [00:35:30] Speaker G: Because this is his sense. His magic senses. There you go. [00:35:34] Speaker C: I. Real bad. [00:35:36] Speaker G: Okay. Lucky can tell that the next piece of the puzzle is coming from inside. [00:35:45] Speaker C: We're going back inside. I feel weird leaving. Oh, well, Brahm's got the. Brahm's got the girl. Yeah. If I will let Oliver know. It's like we're headed inside and I have to wait till. Can Oliver use my movement if I'm. Would you let us do that? [00:36:07] Speaker G: I mean, he kind of uses your movement anyway. On your turn. So basically, Oliver will have a turn here where he can move around a little bit and do something. And then on your turn, you can teleport him and Lucky inside. [00:36:22] Speaker C: Got it. All right, then Lucky is. I think like Lucky's done. That's what he can do is identify where we're headed. [00:36:30] Speaker G: Yep. He kind of indicates that you should go in through this open window. Oliver, you have one turn on the roof before Blythe is going to grab you and go inside. [00:36:48] Speaker E: Yep. Going to get there on my own movement. Peek around the corner, see what's going on around here. My options really quick. I have many things I can do. I just gotta think of which one I want. Yeah, sure. I will look at Garm and then call out Andre. He lifts his paw up every single time he's about to attack. And that is going to be a tactical feint. [00:37:20] Speaker G: Okay, remind me what that does. [00:37:23] Speaker E: Oh, gosh. What does faint do? I remembered and then you asked me and now. I don't know. [00:37:27] Speaker G: Tactical fate to know is special. It uses something different from normal. [00:37:31] Speaker E: It just means I use technical expertise instead of the usual roles for it. [00:37:36] Speaker F: And faint makes that they are vulnerable to my next attack. [00:37:39] Speaker E: Yes. There it is. That's getting in Garm's head. [00:37:44] Speaker F: Living in there rent free, so. [00:37:47] Speaker E: Well, that's not gonna do it. [00:37:49] Speaker F: I really need you to hero point [00:37:51] Speaker E: that I don't have any more. [00:37:53] Speaker A: Well, God damn it. [00:37:55] Speaker E: Gar might roll one as well. I don't know. [00:37:59] Speaker G: That's highly Unlikely, but okay. Insider deception roll one. [00:38:14] Speaker E: Likely, my ass. [00:38:16] Speaker G: God damn it. [00:38:16] Speaker E: Still passes. [00:38:17] Speaker G: I said it was highly unlikely he wouldn't pass because I knew that his insight was crazy. [00:38:24] Speaker F: Sadness. [00:38:25] Speaker G: Sadness. [00:38:27] Speaker E: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Is he still disabled? [00:38:30] Speaker D: He's the end of my round. [00:38:31] Speaker F: There's days. [00:38:32] Speaker E: Well, I've been from stuff and doing demoralized. [00:38:35] Speaker F: His round came and gone, so he still got that. So he's back to normal. [00:38:38] Speaker E: Darn almost. [00:38:39] Speaker G: I hate this dog. All right, GM's turn. [00:38:43] Speaker F: That's not what I wanted to hear. [00:38:46] Speaker C: No, thank you. [00:38:47] Speaker G: Actually, Andre, there is this curling of. Of Garm's lips to, like, bare his teeth, and you would think it was a snarl, except that you are almost positive that you can hear the faintest hint of a deep, rumbling chuckle after you guys did all of that work. [00:39:06] Speaker F: And then he healed. [00:39:08] Speaker G: He hasn't healed yet. Okay, you guys are getting off a little bit, like, because I forgot that he had regeneration last week, so I did not reset his injuries like I should have. So he is. He is still two injuries down, but he heals every two rounds. [00:39:24] Speaker F: Got it. [00:39:27] Speaker G: He's mostly amused that you guys did all of that work and got so little for it, so. Especially because you were still right there. 22 hits you, I believe. [00:39:39] Speaker F: Yeah, a little. [00:39:39] Speaker G: All right, give me a DC27 toughness check. [00:39:43] Speaker A: You're so far away. I can't interpose with so far away. [00:39:49] Speaker G: Oh, no. [00:39:50] Speaker F: I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna hero point that. I've. I've got the hero points for it. [00:39:54] Speaker G: I've got one left. [00:39:55] Speaker B: You rolled too fast for me to remember. I can interpose. [00:39:58] Speaker E: 21. Still 21. [00:40:00] Speaker F: You're still 21, so it's better. [00:40:02] Speaker G: It is better. All right, so you are bruised and dazed. So take an injury, and if you need to look up what dazed means, you can look it up in the list on the. The discord. [00:40:14] Speaker F: Yep. [00:40:15] Speaker G: All right, it is Braum's turn. Braum is still struggling with the squirmy human, but he's working on it and seeing the wolves, he is going to work to get a little bit further away. I'm actually gonna make an athletics check for him, see if he can double his movement. He can go Braum. So they get to here. Okay. For people at home who are trying to watch, Brahm is all the way up here. I hope you guys can see it. Yeah, you can. Okay, Lint. [00:40:57] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm gonna go ahead and reposition myself a little bit closer. I'm gonna use my return to toothpick, to vault over these here winders and get close to my friends. [00:41:11] Speaker G: I would like you to make an acrobatics check. [00:41:15] Speaker A: Could I do athletics instead? [00:41:17] Speaker D: No. [00:41:18] Speaker A: Okay. Will a 16 do? [00:41:24] Speaker G: Roll me a dodge check. Oh, no. [00:41:31] Speaker F: Right back into the mall. [00:41:33] Speaker G: Clint, you are sure that you are going to be fine? [00:41:38] Speaker C: You are. [00:41:39] Speaker G: You are kind of hopping very carefully along this glass and you think everything is cool and groovy, and you kind of forget that you're a big guy. And you get, like, right to the edge, right about here where the glass is broken. And your boot comes down a little too close to the edge and your leg go straight through. And you failed your dodge, unfortunately. So you are going for a ride to the second floor. You are going to fall in right around. I should probably actually put you on the correct map, huh? [00:42:20] Speaker A: Oh, here I am. [00:42:23] Speaker G: You are going to fall in right about here. If you would like to place your token. [00:42:30] Speaker A: Checking to see if I already got a token. I don't see one. So I'll plot myself right there. [00:42:36] Speaker G: Oh, I should remove all of these. Hold. I wasn't planning for any. Anybody to be on this. This level of the map for. For a hot minute. So I hadn't removed everybody else's old tokens. Okay, Stefan, you watch as Clint goes, like, kind of, you know, dancing over this glass. And you're like, oh, man, he's actually gonna make it. Then he gets to the end and he just falls. You guys hear, oh. And then he's gone. [00:43:01] Speaker B: Are you kidding me? [00:43:07] Speaker G: Okay, mature. Fenrir's turn. So it's the Biggins. Okay, so they have 250ft per round. So you guys are up in the air. So they're just gonna bypass you. Yeah. This one will come here. This one bounds across the rooftop and squares up on Braum and is going to attempt to demoralize the innocent. Oh, no. That's quite high for her to try and encounter even. I'm a little bit nervous now. Insight or will. She has a plus 12 to insight, so we will go with that. [00:44:06] Speaker F: Does she still get that plus five from Oliver? [00:44:08] Speaker E: Inspire ended. [00:44:10] Speaker J: Yeah. [00:44:11] Speaker G: Oof. That's a 17. Yeah, she is. She is not in a good way. I think she's only impaired, though. I don't think that's quite enough for her to. Yeah, not quite enough to get her to disabled, but it does do a thing that I'm gonna. I'm gonna pop right here. We're gonna do enough red. Why are you not doing what I want you to do, please. Sorry, guys. Hopefully that is somewhere people at home can see it. Oh, number two, indeed. [00:44:52] Speaker C: Are we out of tokens? What am I looking at? [00:44:54] Speaker G: I don't know. It's a thing. Now we are going to do another thing. Hey, Clint. [00:45:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:07] Speaker G: Sweet, sweet Clint. [00:45:09] Speaker A: Uh huh. [00:45:11] Speaker G: Your life is about to get real. Your life is about to get real. Real interesting. I have to change the view so that people at home can see what's happening. And hopefully the map will actually load on your end. It's blurry at the moment. I'm not sure why. Where are the. So up here. [00:45:35] Speaker A: Oh. Why are they. Why are they moving? [00:45:38] Speaker G: They're popping up from various places. They were running to try and get to the top floor. You just happened to be on this floor. You hear howling and the thudding of paws. This is me realizing that I don't think this map has proper like stairs. So we're just going to imagine that there are like escalators in the area. You hear the thudding of paws and howling. And four massive wolves come up from the bottom floor. And one of them, or two of them. No, one of them for sure spots you. And that's this one here. And bears its. Bears its teeth. Unfortunately. That's their turn. Gonna go back to the roof. Stefan. [00:46:26] Speaker D: Yes. [00:46:27] Speaker G: You're about to get bit maybe. [00:46:29] Speaker D: All right. [00:46:30] Speaker G: See if it hits you. [00:46:32] Speaker D: It does. [00:46:32] Speaker G: 28 hits D.C. 25 toughness check. [00:46:36] Speaker B: Nope. [00:46:37] Speaker G: You are bruised and I'm going to need an athletics or acrobatics check, please. Okay. You managed to not get. Not get knocked on your ass good enough for now. All right, baby wolves, turn. There's a lot of these guys and they have a movement speed of. Movement speed, movement speed. 120ft per round. 90% certain. Oh, yeah. I can absolutely get over here. We're just gonna move the whole pack over and I will adjust their position. Hi, Blythe. [00:47:20] Speaker D: Hey. [00:47:21] Speaker G: That's. [00:47:22] Speaker C: That's crazy. [00:47:24] Speaker G: We're gonna move Clint over here so he doesn't get taken off the turn order. But nobody thinks he's on the map. Uh, and these guys. Oh, I need to track movement. Oh my God. Stop it. I don't think they can quite get to you yet, Stefan, but they are closing. All right. Blythe. Hi. Hi, baby. [00:47:47] Speaker C: Hi. I will remind you, Lucky has interposed. [00:47:52] Speaker G: That's up to you to use it. [00:47:54] Speaker C: Yes, that. That is the plan. Anyway. Continue what you're gonna do. [00:47:59] Speaker G: They are going to start taking shots at you and they have teamwork. [00:48:06] Speaker C: Why? Why would you do that to Me? [00:48:09] Speaker G: Because they're pack animals, doofus. [00:48:14] Speaker C: I hate it here. [00:48:18] Speaker G: Plus five circumstance bonus to your check. Excellent. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. [00:48:25] Speaker B: 5. [00:48:26] Speaker G: This sucks. [00:48:27] Speaker A: Sucks. [00:48:29] Speaker G: I. Oh. All right. So it looks like two of those hit you. [00:48:34] Speaker C: Yeah, well, one is going to be stopped by Lucky, I think. [00:48:38] Speaker G: Well, it's a. It's a. It's a team attack. [00:48:39] Speaker E: Boo. [00:48:40] Speaker C: Boo. Oh. Nuggets. [00:48:42] Speaker E: It. [00:48:42] Speaker G: It raises the DC of the top one. So I need a DC 26 toughness check from Lucky, assuming that he is going to try and interpose. [00:48:54] Speaker C: I'm so sorry. To my dog. [00:48:57] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:48:58] Speaker C: 21. [00:49:00] Speaker G: Lucky takes a bruise. Okay. Lucky throws himself in front of you, valiantly snarling the whole time. And Oliver is struck by the fact that, you know, he sees Lucky as a wolf. But Lucky frequently acts like a dog, like he's acting like a wolf right now and sounds a lot like a wolf. And then we're gonna pop back to floor two as all the baby wolves that were on the ground floor start making their way up. That's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 11 baby wolves making their way upstairs. Zoom out so that people can see. [00:49:52] Speaker E: See. [00:49:52] Speaker G: As I start to drop baby wolves onto the map. Fun. [00:49:58] Speaker A: That's plenty of wolves. That's enough slices over here. Oh, it's okay. They can go back down. Oh, dear. [00:50:09] Speaker G: One more. A bunch of these smaller wolves pour up the stairs and they can. You can tell that they can all smell you because they've all got their noses to the air. Hey, that was a fun turn. Stefan. [00:50:25] Speaker D: Hello. Yes. Can I see my friend Clint through the glass? [00:50:33] Speaker G: Uh huh. [00:50:35] Speaker D: Coolio. Can I see Oliver up here? [00:50:38] Speaker G: No. There is a building. There is like wall between you and Oliver can't even technically see Lucky because he really shouldn't be on that side. He should be like, over here. [00:50:49] Speaker A: I see. [00:50:51] Speaker D: If I flew 100ft up in the air, could I see them? [00:50:55] Speaker G: You as Stefan don't know. [00:50:57] Speaker B: All right. I will fly 100ft up [00:51:02] Speaker G: from up in the air. Yes. You can see kind of. You can see them. It's really hard to see Blithe and Lucky because there is a mass of wolves and Lucky is like in active melee and Blythe is kind of like kind of half cowering under Lucky. Lucky is like covering her the way that male wolves do to female wolves when there's a fight. [00:51:25] Speaker D: I see. All right, I will yell out, all [00:51:28] Speaker B: right, you dumb bastards, stop trying to play with them and actually fight. We're going to die if you keep messing around. [00:51:37] Speaker D: And I will inspire them. [00:51:42] Speaker G: Lovely inspirational thing. Okay, cool. What does inspire do? [00:51:52] Speaker D: I have Inspire? 5. So they're going to get a plus five circumstance bonus until my next turn. [00:51:58] Speaker G: Okay. Anything else? [00:52:02] Speaker B: No. [00:52:02] Speaker D: 100ft up. I think I am good. [00:52:06] Speaker G: Okay. Blythe. Christ, you are surrounded. It is a mess. You feel weirdly inspired by the tough love you just got from the guy you hate? [00:52:23] Speaker C: Yeah, Wild. [00:52:24] Speaker H: All. [00:52:24] Speaker C: All kinds. Listen, we're going through a lot right now. I am going to take aim for the nearest wolf and just start killing again, okay? Oh, we know the next thing is inside. [00:52:40] Speaker G: Yeah, you know the next thing is inside, and you're kind of the only way they're getting in. [00:52:44] Speaker C: Yeah, actually, I. Oh, man. I really want to. [00:52:46] Speaker E: I think you're the one that can clean up as well. [00:52:50] Speaker C: Yeah, I can drop you off and then go back. I think that might be the plan. I'm so sorry. I feel really bad, like, doing that, but yeah, I'll let Lucky and Oliver know we're going to. [00:53:03] Speaker G: Okay. Who are you taking first? [00:53:08] Speaker C: Oliver. Yeah, Oliver. I. I. Either way, I leave both of one of one of you behind for two, like a second. Uhhuh. Yeah. So take Oliver. Oliver. [00:53:18] Speaker G: A hand kind of pops out from underneath of this weird, like, morass of wolves and teeth and fangs and grabs your ankle, and the next thing you know, you pop up in a different place. And I will. I'm just gonna drop Gary onto floor two. Gary, you can place yourself as you like for now. [00:53:44] Speaker E: Did Lucky give us any, like, idea of where on the second floor it might be? [00:53:47] Speaker G: He just said he could smell it on the second floor. He's like. Without seeing the layout and being there, it's of kind. Kind of hard for him to. To tell. [00:53:55] Speaker E: I'll be close to Clinton. [00:53:58] Speaker G: Are you doing the same thing with Lucky and then coming back? [00:54:01] Speaker A: Yep. [00:54:02] Speaker G: Okay, we're going to move Oliver over here. I will be right back. And then. [00:54:13] Speaker H: Okay. [00:54:15] Speaker G: All right, Bl, it's your turn now. [00:54:18] Speaker C: I'm going to start killing wolves. [00:54:21] Speaker G: All right, try and stab. [00:54:23] Speaker C: I've got two sheets in front of me. [00:54:25] Speaker E: Remember that. Is [00:54:28] Speaker G: that hit 28. I don't think they can pass this, but they will try. Why is your DC so high? [00:54:35] Speaker C: It stacks on my punching action. [00:54:38] Speaker G: Okay. Yep, that one's down. [00:54:42] Speaker C: And then we're gonna use take down two to take out the rest. If I can keep going. [00:54:47] Speaker G: Nope, [00:54:50] Speaker C: I do, but I'm not using it on this. Wait, hold on. They're gonna move before I do. [00:54:55] Speaker E: I think it'll be worth It. [00:54:57] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm gonna use my hair. No. [00:55:01] Speaker G: 28. [00:55:02] Speaker C: Yeah. Plus five. [00:55:02] Speaker G: Plus five. [00:55:03] Speaker C: 13. 18. [00:55:04] Speaker G: That one's down two. [00:55:05] Speaker C: That one. 15. [00:55:07] Speaker G: Nope. Miss it. So you got rid of two. That's not bad. I did. [00:55:12] Speaker C: And then I'm gonna go. And then I'm gonna get out of range of these wolves, and I assume into range of the wolves downstairs and join Lucky and Oliver. [00:55:22] Speaker G: All right, you can position yourself where Lucky and Oliver are, which is, I believe, near Clint. So you guys pop downstairs and Clint is there. He wasn't there when you left. [00:55:33] Speaker E: I got teleported here. How did you get here? [00:55:36] Speaker A: I kind of fell down. I was trying to clear the gap. Pole vault miscalculation simulation. [00:55:42] Speaker E: Great. [00:55:43] Speaker G: Andre, you have the sneaking suspicion that you're not gonna get a whole lot of help up here. Maybe Stefan could help you because he can also fly. [00:55:54] Speaker F: Yeah, [00:55:56] Speaker G: but Clint's gone. You can't see Oliver anymore, or Blythe or Lucky. So you assume that that means that they have moved on to the next state, the next stage of whatever it is that they're doing. [00:56:07] Speaker J: Yep. [00:56:07] Speaker G: And you can see the innocent and Braum cornered by one of the big wolves. [00:56:12] Speaker F: Stefan, help Braum. And Andre's just going to work on keeping Garm busy. So he is going to try to just, like, get around him and try to go for, like, attack at a haunch, like, at a blind spot. [00:56:26] Speaker G: Go for it. [00:56:27] Speaker A: Your point? [00:56:29] Speaker C: Okay. [00:56:30] Speaker G: That certainly hits. I think you rolled a what on the die? Yes. [00:56:35] Speaker A: Six. [00:56:35] Speaker G: Yeah. [00:56:35] Speaker D: You're good. [00:56:36] Speaker G: You are good. I press the button. Why is nothing happening? There we go. [00:56:41] Speaker H: All right. [00:56:42] Speaker G: Garm takes an injury at the same time, you watch an injury heal. [00:56:46] Speaker F: Well, I put. I kept it there. [00:56:48] Speaker G: So kept him at solid where he is? Yep. [00:56:53] Speaker F: And I can't move because I'm dazed. [00:56:55] Speaker G: Correct. Lucky. [00:57:00] Speaker C: Lucky's gonna go look for it. We're gonna go look for that item again. [00:57:04] Speaker A: Okay. [00:57:06] Speaker G: With a 15. [00:57:09] Speaker A: Not great. [00:57:13] Speaker G: He can tell that it is in this direction somewhere. He's a little disoriented from, like, the teleport. And there's all these wolves here, and it's not open air anymore, so his olfactory senses are kind of all over the place. [00:57:30] Speaker H: Yeah. [00:57:30] Speaker I: Which direction? [00:57:33] Speaker G: East. [00:57:34] Speaker C: I will move Lucky as far as he can go in that direction. [00:57:39] Speaker G: All right. You can't go very far because, you know that's this way. So there's just a wall. There are shops around here. So he is having to sniff through walls and things like that. So you are welcome to. To have him move Around. He has his own movement, so. [00:58:01] Speaker C: Yeah, I need. Again, I can't tell where we're going, so Lucky needs to point out that direction. Unless. Unless Oliver can do it because he has unlikely. Well, we're a team, so as of right now, Lucky. [00:58:15] Speaker G: Lucky looking around and sniffing at the ground or the floor can tell that he thinks it's in this room. But he walks in, and there are all of these, like, old. There's everything from, like, old play doh. Like, oh, what are they called? Jars and paint and all kinds of stuff in here, so it's really confusing to his nose, but he's 90% certain it's in here somewhere. [00:58:44] Speaker C: I love this dog. Yeah. That'll be Lucky's turn then. Unless he can keep looking, finding it. [00:58:49] Speaker G: No, that's as good as he's gonna get with a 15. Oliver, it's your turn. [00:58:56] Speaker E: Yeah, I'm. I'm fatigued, so I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. I get there. [00:59:01] Speaker G: Oof. Okay. [00:59:04] Speaker E: I'm only gonna be able to get in there. So here's what we're gonna do. We'll athletics check to see if I can double my speed 21. So I believe I achieve it. [00:59:14] Speaker G: Yeah. [00:59:14] Speaker E: And then on my turn, I'll double move as, like, my main action. [00:59:20] Speaker A: Okay. [00:59:21] Speaker E: So I get inside. I still have unlit. I activated. So can I try to get a better idea of where it is? [00:59:27] Speaker G: Yes. In fact, as soon as you walk in, you see in the spot that I have highlighted. Let me pull up my notes. You are in a store that you realize after you've been in here for a while is used to be a children's store there. There are, like, soft play mats on the floor. There are, as we said, like, everything from. There's art supplies. There's broken toys everywhere. The storefront is covered in faded pastel murals. There are torn foam mats and little plastic play structures. Everything is filthy. It's been sitting for so long. The small slide has a big crack in it. The ball pit in the corner is empty except for dust bones of small animals that have fallen in and gotten stuck, and a few scattered colored plastic balls. The anchor is right in front of you. A circle has been made from broken toys, baby teeth, bits of animal bone, white thread, and strips of hospital wristbands. And there is a white staff mark pressed into the floor in the very center of it, but it's kind of under a bunch of these things. [01:00:47] Speaker E: Lovely. Found it. [01:00:50] Speaker G: Would you like to make an expertise magic roll to see what you can tell about this particular anchor, I would love to. [01:00:57] Speaker E: And I get a plus five from Stefan being inspirational. That's not magic. That's mythology. 26. [01:01:07] Speaker G: There are a couple of things you can tell. This anchor is designed to listen for and identify the unclaimed quality in divine blood. That is why it has callbacks to childhood and innocent and innocence and vulnerability tied into it to disrupt it. You could scatter the circle. You're probably going to deal with some backlash there. It shouldn't be as bad as the as the staff mark. You could try to scatter the circle. Basically, you'd have to make another expertise magic roll. You could try and burn the white thread, which you can tell kind of like holds all of the spell work together. Or you could break the staff mark, which is the quickest way. But again, you will face magical backlash. [01:02:01] Speaker E: I think I have this one. Help out with the others, you say? [01:02:06] Speaker G: So back up onto the roof. Keep having to zoom out. Sorry, guys. Braum is facing a wolf and has limited places that he can go where that wolf can't chase him. So he's gonna have to switch tact and he's gonna do something kind of stupid. He is going to try and latch on to this wolf and bite into him and force him to pay more attention to him than he is to the human next to him. He hits Coco Braum. Braum is a secret badass, as it turns out. [01:02:51] Speaker F: Well, we knew then. [01:02:52] Speaker G: Kicking Shadow gone. [01:02:53] Speaker E: Yes. [01:02:55] Speaker G: All right, so that takes out that wolf. [01:03:00] Speaker B: That way someone's paying attention. [01:03:02] Speaker E: Oh, Bromwolf had a plus five as well. [01:03:05] Speaker G: He didn't need it. He's fine. And then he is going to scoop her up and they're gonna fly over here. Try and get as far away from the nearest wolves as they can. Can I get Stefan and Andre, since you are in the air to make me insight checks, please? [01:03:27] Speaker B: Love to, of course. [01:03:29] Speaker D: Is this perhaps a give me a second resistance Resisted insight check? [01:03:36] Speaker G: No, no, this is. This is to try and get a read on what's on on Braum's current state. So it is worth noting you guys have been around Braum for a little while. Braum is young. Brahm is not an adult. He is at best a teenager. He is also, from a mechanical perspective, only a PL8. And his wings are not made to carry another person, especially one who keeps struggling because she is freaking out. You could tell that he is getting tired. Oh, also three. [01:04:13] Speaker H: Okay. [01:04:13] Speaker G: Clinton. [01:04:15] Speaker A: Yeah? [01:04:16] Speaker G: What you gonna do, buddy? [01:04:19] Speaker A: Man, I'm not entirely sure. Looking around, I got all sorts of wolf problems and not a whole lot of solutions. But my friends need help, and I'm stuck down there. I'm gonna do my best until my friends can help me out or get the help they need. So I'm gonna scurry up a little bit here, and from there, Clint taps his toothpick on the ground and starts waving it to get the wolves attention. And he's gonna try and fascinate him and play fetch. [01:04:53] Speaker G: Okay, cool. [01:04:55] Speaker A: Just to see if he can. Come on, boys. Come on, Come on. I believe I'd be using his persuasion, if that is allowed. [01:05:06] Speaker G: Sure. [01:05:08] Speaker A: And would I be benefiting from the Plus 5 Inspire, or was I a little too low to get the. The inspiration from the young that was [01:05:17] Speaker G: not targeted at you said? No, you don't get the inspiration from it. [01:05:21] Speaker A: How about a flat 20 against? I believe it's a. [01:05:28] Speaker G: Well, they're not great at either of them. At least the young ones aren't, so. Oh, yeah, the young ones are very distracted. The mature ones, not so much. [01:05:41] Speaker A: That makes sense. [01:05:43] Speaker G: So the young ones all kind of, like, perk up, and you can see their tails kind of starting to go. [01:05:50] Speaker A: Who's a good boy? Come on, you big old pack of wolves. Who's a cute little set? Come on, go get your done. [01:05:57] Speaker G: As if to answer, the big one leaps over this opening and lands directly in front of you and just growls. [01:06:10] Speaker F: What? [01:06:10] Speaker G: Am I not a good boy? [01:06:13] Speaker A: You're a big good boy, too. Oh, and your friend, [01:06:19] Speaker G: this one can't get to you, so he's gonna come over here. All right, first we're gonna do an athletics check just to see if this other one can double his speed, which he can. So he's gonna close with Blythe and the other two going to team attack against Clint. Does an 18 hit you, Clint? All right, so you need to make a D.C. 30. Tough toughness check, please. [01:06:52] Speaker A: All fingers crossed. [01:06:54] Speaker G: Oh, no, Clint, I'm gonna go ahead [01:06:59] Speaker A: and use that here when I've been over mounted. [01:07:01] Speaker C: Okay. [01:07:05] Speaker G: All right, so you don't get the Plus 10, but you only take it. You only take an injury. [01:07:13] Speaker E: Wait, I don't think you had to use that hero claim because you have a plus five from inspiration. [01:07:17] Speaker A: Oh, you're right. Thank you. [01:07:22] Speaker E: You still have taken a bruise, but you would. [01:07:23] Speaker G: Yeah. [01:07:24] Speaker A: Okay. [01:07:24] Speaker G: Okay, okay. [01:07:25] Speaker C: Okay. [01:07:25] Speaker G: I was just like, wait. What? [01:07:27] Speaker E: Up to you. Decide if the bruise is worth it or not. [01:07:30] Speaker G: All right, Stefan, you're in the air. So the mature Fenris up here can't get to you, so he Is going to. He and the baby wolves are going to turn and start heading for Braum. Oh, and he can make it. That's not good. And the baby wolves have how much? 120ft. [01:07:52] Speaker A: Yep. [01:07:53] Speaker G: Okay, cool. As if they think she might try to run away, they close in on the other side. The good news is that only three of them can. Can actually get to Braum. The bad news is, is three of them can get to Braum. So we will have the mature one lead the attack. It's a 28. [01:08:16] Speaker D: I will be interposing on Braum. [01:08:18] Speaker G: Okay, you're gonna have to give me a minute so that I can tell you what you're gonna have to roll [01:08:22] Speaker B: against [01:08:25] Speaker G: what is Braum's dodge. [01:08:28] Speaker D: Okay. [01:08:28] Speaker G: Braum is okay on the second one, not so much on the third one. [01:08:34] Speaker C: Okay. [01:08:35] Speaker G: So if you're gonna interpose, you're gonna have to move your token over there and I'm gonna need a DC30 toughness, please. [01:08:44] Speaker D: Oof. [01:08:45] Speaker G: All right, that is a bruise and a dazed. So the young Fenris souls aren't really doing anything, but they are kinda. They are moving and waiting for Clint to throw the stick while Clint is busy getting eaten. So they're like, throw the stick, throw the stick, throw the stick. Oh, actually these guys did not get hit. So they are gonna move closer or they were not in. In sight for you to be able to do that to them. So. All right, Stefan. [01:09:22] Speaker B: Alrighty. I am going to grab both Braum and his little princess and fly straight up. [01:09:33] Speaker G: How far are you trying to fly up? [01:09:37] Speaker B: We can go 100ft again. I believe I can also carry 25 tons, so I'm not too worried about weight. [01:09:47] Speaker G: Yeah, that's not what I'm concerned about. Roll me a D20 and add your ranks in flying, please. [01:09:54] Speaker B: Not good because I have only four. [01:09:59] Speaker D: Not great. [01:10:00] Speaker G: Okay. You make it about 60ft and it's like hitting a wall. And it takes everything in you not to plummet back to the. Back to the roof. You barely manage to hold on to them. She is screaming and freaking out. She's both clinging to you and it looks like she wants to get away from you. At the same time as this happens, Andre and Stefan can both make me. Perception checks, please. [01:10:36] Speaker F: Stalker. [01:10:37] Speaker E: I don't know if you noticed it, guys. [01:10:39] Speaker G: I think I missed it. Andre's busy. Andre does not have time. Stefan, [01:10:52] Speaker H: how many? [01:10:53] Speaker G: Hold up. I need to look at your sheet real quick. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. You don't have. You don't have an injury. Marked like you should, babe. [01:11:03] Speaker B: I regened it. [01:11:05] Speaker F: Ah. [01:11:06] Speaker G: Okay. [01:11:06] Speaker D: I regen one every round. [01:11:10] Speaker G: Stefan. You smell clean water and sweet flowers and warm grain. And you notice that her skin looks ever so vaguely like it is glowing. [01:11:27] Speaker B: Motherfucker, not now. [01:11:29] Speaker G: You have seen this happen before. These guys should have moved. They won't do anything. But I am going to move them. Okay, so I news you don't know if it's good or bad news. Well, I mean, you can decide whether it's good or bad news to you, but you're pretty sure she's going through her awakening. She's starting to go through her awakening. The freak out and the. [01:11:55] Speaker E: The. [01:11:55] Speaker G: The sheer level of desperation to. To survive has triggered that. That process, which is a process you were intimately familiar with causing in other people, unfortunately. Okay, Blythe, Sorry. [01:12:15] Speaker C: I'm reeling at the fact that this woman is going through her change in Stefan's arms. [01:12:19] Speaker G: Yep. [01:12:21] Speaker C: Jesus Christ. [01:12:23] Speaker G: With Brahm beside her, no less. Oh, man. All right, Stephanie, Both Brahm and this poor girl in midair [01:12:32] Speaker C: has no idea that's happening. So [01:12:36] Speaker H: I think. [01:12:37] Speaker C: I think if I. It's a dick move to leave right now. I'm gonna see if I can start taking out wolves. [01:12:44] Speaker G: Okay, well, you have a big one right in front of you. [01:12:47] Speaker C: Yeah, let's start there. God, do I have a plus 5 from anything? [01:12:55] Speaker E: So it's gone. [01:12:57] Speaker C: Okay. That's really all I can do. [01:13:00] Speaker G: That sucks. [01:13:01] Speaker C: Okay, well, here's a stupid idea. I'm deciding whether I leave you guys right now just to check on everyone else, and I don't have interposed. Never mind. I'm stuck here. Okay, I can't help upstairs. [01:13:19] Speaker G: That makes it Andre's turn. Andre, you are tangling with, like, the biggest of the bigs. [01:13:27] Speaker E: Yeah, you got Andre. You're doing so well. [01:13:30] Speaker G: Honestly, you're not doing awful for being honest about it, keeping him in check. [01:13:36] Speaker F: On the plus side. Actually, there is no plus side. Never mind. [01:13:42] Speaker C: Why is the number going up? [01:13:44] Speaker F: I think. I think I just have to try to set up for the next one because I don't think I can get anything really working off here. So I'm going to try to just re. Just like, look at how I've been tangling with Gar and just try to, like, see a pattern and try to make a tactical feint here. [01:14:04] Speaker G: Okay, go for it. Insight and deception, huh? Unfortunately for you, he's really good at these. So unless I roll really poorly, which is admittedly always an option. No, no. [01:14:19] Speaker F: Fuck. [01:14:19] Speaker G: Sorry. I'm not rolling as badly as I [01:14:24] Speaker F: was last week, Clara is going back to her standard rolls. [01:14:29] Speaker C: Why are you coming to me? [01:14:35] Speaker E: You're the only one with take down. 2. [01:14:36] Speaker F: We're drowning here. [01:14:38] Speaker C: One Dr. I made it here. [01:14:43] Speaker G: It's Lucky's turn. Boo. Boo. God damn it. [01:14:47] Speaker C: Okay, Lucky's going to look for the. Is gonna run out and I guess look for the next thing amidst all [01:14:53] Speaker G: of the other chaos. All right, make a perception check for Lucky, please. This poor dog, Wolf. Not bad. He could tell that it is. It is on the lower floor. [01:15:04] Speaker F: Of course it is. [01:15:07] Speaker H: Yeah. [01:15:07] Speaker C: Lucky's conveyed that to Blythe. Blythe tells the other two. [01:15:11] Speaker G: What is Lucky's movement? [01:15:14] Speaker C: Lucky moves at 60ft. [01:15:16] Speaker G: Would you like to have him move and start getting there now, or do you want him to stay where he is in case something should happen? [01:15:23] Speaker C: I need him to stay where he is. I'm not doing. Blythe isn't doing very good, so I need him to be able to interpose. [01:15:30] Speaker G: All right, Oliver. [01:15:32] Speaker E: Yep. [01:15:33] Speaker G: Oh, I need to move this thing. All right, what are we doing, Oliver? [01:15:38] Speaker E: What's your finger? I'm gonna try to scatter it with using the expertise magic. [01:15:45] Speaker G: Okay, roll me an expertise magic. [01:15:49] Speaker E: That's a 32. [01:15:51] Speaker G: That's a 37, I think, because it's a natural. It is. Okay, make me a toughness check, please. Or make me a will check. [01:16:04] Speaker C: Sorry. [01:16:04] Speaker E: All right, any bonuses from a natural 20? [01:16:08] Speaker G: No, but I am dropping the DC, so. [01:16:10] Speaker E: Okay, I'll take it. 22. [01:16:14] Speaker G: You take a bruise as you reach out and kind of channel your divine energy into this thing. Looking to banish whatever sort of strange supernatural forces woven into all of this. You do get blowback. You basically have little bits of frostbite on your hand that you were using, but you can feel the magic dissipate afterwards. [01:16:46] Speaker E: All right, second one's covered. [01:16:48] Speaker G: Feel free to join us outside. [01:16:51] Speaker E: Working on it. I'm slow right now because I'm fatigued. I'm assuming that was my action, right? [01:16:58] Speaker G: That is your action, yes. [01:17:00] Speaker E: Yeah, that's all I got. [01:17:01] Speaker G: All right, back up onto the roof. It is Braum's turn. Braum is being cradled by Stefan at the moment, so I think Braum is just going to take his turn to try and recover a little bit and get rid of his. I think he has dazed, Clint. [01:17:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna scoot on back to be near my friends just in case something goes sideways. We're gonna go 30 here. [01:17:33] Speaker G: Just so you know, that fascinate's gonna wear off. This turn. [01:17:36] Speaker A: Yeah, that's why I was gonna keep it going. Clint starts spinning the stick as he wanders past the big boy. We're gonna keep the stick for flowing and moving. And. Come on, boys, we gotta move it this way. We just felt a big chill. Come on, let's go. Sniff it out. Trying to get them to follow you. [01:17:56] Speaker G: All right, do the thing. And this is against their what? Insight. [01:18:02] Speaker A: This would be against their will. Defense. [01:18:05] Speaker G: Only their will. Okay. Pretty sure that we did like insight [01:18:09] Speaker A: last time, so, yeah, I had to check. Fascinate is only against their will. [01:18:13] Speaker G: Real defeat noted. Okay, well, I don't think they can pass this, so. Yeah, they can't. They are locked in on Clint. [01:18:23] Speaker A: All right, I'll just keep them entranced while y' all go and do the important stuff. Come on, doggies. Come on. Keep following the stick. [01:18:31] Speaker G: Okay, Bl. The one that was dealing with you climbs up and over this, like, seating round thing, and its huge tail is going side to side. [01:18:47] Speaker C: Just duck the tail. [01:18:49] Speaker G: Yes, you do have to duck the tail. Also, it's a little freaky because the others start closing in as well, and you're starting to feel a little claustrophobic. Take a hero point as you start to feel. No, not you, blind Blythe. As you start to feel a little bit trapped because you were surrounded. [01:19:10] Speaker C: Oh, I should have taken it way earlier. I realized. [01:19:14] Speaker G: No, I get to choose when you get it. This is the first time you've been, like, well and truly surrounded to that degree. [01:19:20] Speaker C: Oh, I was thinking about the fact [01:19:21] Speaker G: that I can't leave Mom. You got a hero point for that. Everybody got a hero point for that. You don't get an extra one, Stefan. [01:19:32] Speaker B: All right, ma', am, please start breathing a bit more calm. [01:19:38] Speaker E: So good, so good. [01:19:40] Speaker F: Perfect bedside manner. [01:19:43] Speaker B: Breathe in for five, out for five. Let's go. [01:19:48] Speaker G: You are welcome to try a persuasion check. The DC is very high. [01:19:53] Speaker E: I think he's got it. [01:19:55] Speaker D: H. You know, no, I'm just gonna. I'll. I'll fascinate her with deception. [01:20:03] Speaker G: Wild. That's not gonna do anything. You realize [01:20:09] Speaker D: that's fair. [01:20:11] Speaker C: Trick this woman to calming down. [01:20:15] Speaker D: I think I'm just gonna fly at my 60ft barrier further away because I. Well, I healed daze now, so I can actually do something. [01:20:27] Speaker G: Yeah, I mean, they're like, further away is relative. You're. You're. It's kind of like being inside of a bubble. [01:20:33] Speaker D: Yes. Then I'll just shout it. Shout at Garm and try and hit him with the demoralize. Again. [01:20:44] Speaker G: Go for it. [01:20:45] Speaker B: The other Fenris wolves think you suck. [01:20:51] Speaker G: So cute. [01:20:52] Speaker E: She got him. [01:20:56] Speaker D: Stefan's a bit preoccupied. [01:20:59] Speaker E: Well. Huh. [01:21:01] Speaker G: He is. He is impaired. Jeez, Garm. [01:21:05] Speaker F: I'll take it. Thanks. [01:21:11] Speaker G: Hey, Blythe. What are we doing? [01:21:14] Speaker C: Boo boo. I'm so stressed right now. Oh God. We're gonna try a takedown chain again. [01:21:23] Speaker G: I mean, you can try and take down chain. You do know you need to go downstairs. [01:21:27] Speaker C: I know. I. I kept. Actually we destroyed that last one. I'm gonna round everyone up and we're headed downstairs. [01:21:36] Speaker G: Are you taking Clint with you? [01:21:37] Speaker C: I'm taking Clint with me. Okay. [01:21:42] Speaker G: All right, cool. I just had to double check that there were no. No more active wolves on the first floor. And they're not, thank God. So I'm gonna go here and we're gonna move U3 here. Now that doesn't mean that they're going to continue. Is Andre down there? [01:22:05] Speaker F: I wish I was. [01:22:06] Speaker G: Where is his tokens? [01:22:07] Speaker E: Down here on the far left side. We're all there. [01:22:10] Speaker H: Oh yeah. [01:22:11] Speaker G: No, that's just where you guys like pulled it. Where I. Where I thought you guys were going to pull it originally. I thought you guys were going to drive in on the first. First thing. So just grab your tokens from over there and ignore the others. [01:22:24] Speaker E: Where is live dropping us? [01:22:27] Speaker G: I will reloading the roll 20 for people who are watching at home. So give me a minute. [01:22:32] Speaker C: Probably wherever I could have seen us, have seen us so directly below. [01:22:37] Speaker G: Just pick a place. [01:22:39] Speaker C: I already did. We've moved. [01:22:40] Speaker G: Okay. Oh, it's still fucked up. One moment folks. At home. I don't know why it's being difficult. Just gonna move you guys to a different layer real quick and then back on this fuzz. [01:22:55] Speaker A: And that brought to you by roll [01:22:57] Speaker G: 20 and then back to round four. It's still fun. Fuzzy. Why is it doing that? [01:23:07] Speaker C: It takes a second to clear up, but it cleared up on our end. [01:23:12] Speaker A: But not that. [01:23:14] Speaker G: Yeah, I don't know. See, that one's clear, but it doesn't want to. I. I don't know, guys. I'm sorry. I'm not gonna keep messing with it. Cool. You guys are on the ground floor and for now out of the reach of the Fenris wolves. [01:23:31] Speaker C: Thank goodness. [01:23:33] Speaker G: Andre. [01:23:34] Speaker F: Oh, here we are again. I am. Andrey's just going to try to. He is just going to try to keep Garm as busy as possible and just really, really hoping that the others get the ma. That trap taken care of quickly so that way they can get out of here because he Is just now running on fumes. But he's gonna keep Garm busy because he resigned himself to make sure that the Garm does not go after the innocent. [01:24:01] Speaker G: Okay, what are we doing? Are you trying to hit him again? [01:24:04] Speaker F: I am going to try to hit him again. I'm going to try to hit him right on the fucking nose. [01:24:09] Speaker E: Let's go, Andre. [01:24:11] Speaker F: Well. [01:24:11] Speaker G: Well, I'm pretty sure that does not hit him. [01:24:14] Speaker F: Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is it. [01:24:16] Speaker G: Does not hit him. [01:24:17] Speaker F: Yeah. Yeah. [01:24:18] Speaker G: You have a hero point. [01:24:20] Speaker F: No, I'm out. [01:24:22] Speaker G: Oh, I'm sorry, Boo Boo. [01:24:23] Speaker F: Yeah, well, can't win them. [01:24:25] Speaker G: All right, back to the ground floor. Hey, it's not fuzzy anymore. Great. [01:24:32] Speaker C: Lucky's turn. Yay, Lucky. Do a sniff. [01:24:35] Speaker G: Do a sniff, Lucky. [01:24:37] Speaker C: 16. [01:24:38] Speaker G: Not great. [01:24:41] Speaker C: Lucky, do you also get hero points? [01:24:44] Speaker G: No. No, he does not. Looking at a thing. [01:24:52] Speaker C: If Lucky licks his own butt, can he regenerate? Can he take one of his own points? [01:24:59] Speaker G: Lucky can tell that it is to the east in somewhere. Somewhere to the. Basically to the right of you guys, but he's not entirely sure where. It's very confusing down here. [01:25:13] Speaker C: I'm gonna use all of Lucky's movement then to have him start sniffing. [01:25:18] Speaker G: Okay. [01:25:19] Speaker I: Oliver. [01:25:21] Speaker E: Hey, it's me. Take a walk over here. Unlit eyes, technically still up. So I guess I'll try to peer around and see if I can make a perception check. [01:25:31] Speaker G: String, do anything make a perception check. [01:25:35] Speaker E: 11. [01:25:37] Speaker H: You. [01:25:38] Speaker G: You not sure you believe Lucky that it's here, but you don't see anything specific? [01:25:45] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [01:25:46] Speaker E: I guess I'll double action move to get closer in there. [01:25:50] Speaker G: All right, we are back up on the roof. Stefan, if Braum tries to wriggle free, will you allow him to? [01:25:58] Speaker D: Yes. [01:25:59] Speaker G: Okay. Braum gives a little wriggle and snaps his wings and huffs. I am not a child. Let me go. [01:26:11] Speaker B: Neither is the girl next to you. [01:26:13] Speaker E: I don't know if you can understand him. [01:26:15] Speaker G: She is. She is absolutely a child. [01:26:18] Speaker D: Can I understand him? [01:26:20] Speaker G: No, but I think it's funny. [01:26:23] Speaker D: So then it changes to chill out. [01:26:29] Speaker C: All right? [01:26:29] Speaker G: You let him go and his. His wings snap open and he. He is going to dive bomb. Actually, you know what? You guys are in the air, which means he can dragon fire things. So he. Yeah, he's going to dive bomb back down. I'm going to move her and you over here just to get you out of the way. Dive bomb. And he's going to put off a big gout of flame. [01:27:01] Speaker F: Do you love a draconic strafing run. [01:27:04] Speaker G: It's not a great attack because he's only PL8, but he is going to try. So we will start with the babies first. DC18 Dodge Pass. All right, one of them fails, and then there's one more. Two of them fail. Okay, so we will do the ones who failed first because it's easier. Come on. Toughness. Okay, so that's one that's out. Two that's out. [01:27:41] Speaker H: Ooh. [01:27:42] Speaker G: Oh, these are up too. And now we do the mature one. It makes a dodge check. Oh, yeah, that one's fine. Oh, but still goes down. God damn. Prom is the secret MVP in this game. [01:28:01] Speaker E: He really is. Oh, I love my dragon child so much. Oh, he's so good. [01:28:06] Speaker F: Good to send him this way. [01:28:09] Speaker E: I can't control him. [01:28:10] Speaker G: He will go back up into the air. He doesn't have a lot of movement, unfortunately. Like, he's kind of. Kind of stuck with what he can do. He could probably get to about here. And we are back to Clint. [01:28:25] Speaker A: Y. Well, down here, I'm not entirely sure what to do, so I'm gonna scoot up to do with my friends and see if I can't look around as well. [01:28:35] Speaker G: Make a perception check. Can't say magic, but maybe you'll notice something useful. [01:28:39] Speaker A: Will a 17 do? [01:28:41] Speaker G: Nope. [01:28:43] Speaker A: All right, it looks like you got a store there and a store there. Which one would go. [01:28:49] Speaker C: You know what, Clint, you're great. [01:28:51] Speaker G: Back to the wolves. So I have good news and bad news, guys. [01:28:57] Speaker C: Oh, is the good news the wolves give up and the bad news is that you wanted this fight to go longer? [01:29:04] Speaker G: No, the. The. The good news is that not all of the wolves are coming to the first floor after you. You. The bad news is that the big ones can smell the awakening scion, so they're headed for the roof. But the little ones are coming after you guys cuz their noses are not quite as strong. Oh, you guys can't see what's happening? Sorry, guys, I wasn't zoomed out enough. [01:29:33] Speaker E: Oh, they're back. [01:29:35] Speaker G: One more. All right. Stefan. [01:29:41] Speaker B: Yes. [01:29:42] Speaker G: What are we doing? [01:29:44] Speaker B: Well, I think Andre is having a delightful time with Garm. [01:29:51] Speaker F: We're actually becoming really good friends. [01:29:54] Speaker B: I will attempt to daze Garm. [01:30:00] Speaker G: Okay. [01:30:00] Speaker B: With the daze advantage, [01:30:05] Speaker D: which is. [01:30:06] Speaker F: Isn't he already dazed? [01:30:07] Speaker G: You did daze him last. Last turn. Yes. [01:30:10] Speaker D: Is he. Oh, if he's already dazed, then I'm gonna demoralize him again. [01:30:14] Speaker G: Go for it. [01:30:15] Speaker B: Meatball has bigger feet than you. [01:30:21] Speaker G: Oh. Oh, that's problem. Not karma. I was just like, those are really low. He's fine. [01:30:28] Speaker D: So close. [01:30:30] Speaker E: Barely. [01:30:30] Speaker G: He just sort of. Andre, you could see Garm roll his eyes. [01:30:35] Speaker F: Andre and Garm both roll their eyes at the same time. [01:30:39] Speaker G: All right, back on the ground floor. [01:30:42] Speaker C: And do you want to go upstairs? [01:30:43] Speaker A: Wherever you think I'm most useful. Here come all the dogs. [01:30:47] Speaker C: Never mind. We're gonna try this stupid chain one more time, okay? It's gotta hit at some point, right? [01:30:54] Speaker E: It'll work this time. [01:30:57] Speaker G: It's only the babies, so surely against [01:31:00] Speaker A: babies, you can always. [01:31:01] Speaker G: Oh, thank God. [01:31:02] Speaker E: There we go. [01:31:03] Speaker G: Well, that one's down automatically. [01:31:05] Speaker C: 23 passes, bruh. Yeah, I hate it here. [01:31:13] Speaker G: I hate it here. All right, Andre, was there anything else you wanted to do? [01:31:19] Speaker C: Sorry, Gavin, speak now. Forever hold your peace. [01:31:22] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Take me up if you can. This is. Our friend needs help. [01:31:27] Speaker E: I'll be fine for the moment. [01:31:28] Speaker C: If you're gonna be okay, you've got Lucky, and so I'm gonna deliver Clint upstairs and return back to upstairs. And actually, I'm gonna hang out there for a second. [01:31:39] Speaker E: Also, contrary to popular belief, I can take care of myself. [01:31:42] Speaker G: Well, enjoy proving it. [01:31:44] Speaker C: I'm going. [01:31:45] Speaker F: Tactical techs and incoming. [01:31:48] Speaker G: Tactical Texan. [01:31:51] Speaker C: You moved Oliver. I think. Never mind. [01:31:53] Speaker G: No, I didn't. [01:31:56] Speaker C: Never mind. I'm a liar. [01:31:57] Speaker G: I need to move. [01:31:58] Speaker C: Put yourself where you want to go. Clint and I will drop you off. Where is Stephan? And. Okay, there's the innocent. [01:32:07] Speaker G: They're up in the air. They're about 60ft up, which is thankfully pretty out of reach. [01:32:12] Speaker F: So Andre is going to see that Clint is appearing on the roof under them and is basically just going to be, like, setting himself up to join Clint in a team attack this time? [01:32:25] Speaker G: Team attack. Okay. [01:32:27] Speaker F: Yeah. [01:32:27] Speaker G: You also see Blythe. Would you like to wait until Blythe's turn to kick off the team attack? Because it'll allow her to be a part of it too, actually. [01:32:35] Speaker F: Yes. That'd be awesome. [01:32:37] Speaker C: Okay, thank you. [01:32:40] Speaker G: All right, Lucky's turn. Make me a perception check. Please roll back. [01:32:45] Speaker C: I also can't see Lucky anywhere. [01:32:47] Speaker G: I know. That's fine. Okay, I will move him for you. [01:32:51] Speaker C: 28. [01:32:52] Speaker G: Oh, it's much better. [01:32:53] Speaker H: Okay. [01:32:54] Speaker G: I can actually move the viewers over to the right thing. Lucky is sniffing around this area to move Clinton Blythe out of. Lucky is sniffing around the area, and he circles and circles and circles. Oliver. And you see him stop in front of this round thing in the middle. What you realize is an old, old, old, like, fountain that people way back in the day would have dropped coins into this Is in the middle of. Of the ground floor, one of the ground floor atriums. It's an old, dry fountain. The fountain has been dry for years. It's full of coins that have gone green with age. Cigarette butts, broken tile, and leaves that have blown in from outside. At its center is a cracked decorative statue. Maybe a cherub, an abstract dolphin. It's hard to tell. There isn't much left of it [01:33:58] Speaker C: because [01:33:59] Speaker G: it has been perceived. You can see it now. The anchor is in the bottom of the basin of this fountain. A white staff mark has been driven into the tile at the fountain's lowest point. From it, thin roots have begun to spread through cracks, like through the cracks, and they look like veins. The roots are pale, almost bone colored and slick with condensation. Despite how warm it is. Old coins near the mark have turned black, as if the metal itself has rotted away or is rotting away. And it's your turn. Oliver. Oliver. [01:34:40] Speaker E: Oh, sorry. I was muted. I did not realize it. Yeah, I'll step as far as I can get. Which is right there. For now. See that? There's a mass of wolves right here. [01:34:50] Speaker G: There is. [01:34:52] Speaker E: Pull up the tome of stories, Flip to the right page. How about we all just take a breath and relax? At the word relax, my voice will begin to echo and resonate out as I cast a peaceful meeting. [01:35:07] Speaker G: Would you like to throw that up on the chat so that we can see what it does? [01:35:13] Speaker E: Oh, Lucky will also have to make this. Because I presume Lucky can hear me. Yes. [01:35:19] Speaker G: Yes. Okay, let's do Lucky. First. Lucky needs to make a DC20 dodge check. [01:35:28] Speaker E: As he tries to cover his ears. [01:35:31] Speaker G: 18. Now. Now make a DC20. Will check. [01:35:35] Speaker C: Are you putting my dog to sleep? [01:35:37] Speaker E: No. Have everyone taken a breather? [01:35:42] Speaker G: Oh, no. [01:35:43] Speaker A: Hey. [01:35:43] Speaker G: Lucky has interpose Lucky. It doesn't work that way. So Lucky is compelled at the moment, just so that. Just so you know, because you were in a fight, this is only going to last one turn. As soon as it gets to their next turn, they will not be under this effect anymore. [01:36:01] Speaker C: What does it do? [01:36:03] Speaker G: It's. It's a. It's. It's like an enchantment. I don't know if you remember in the home game, Nikto had it where she would try and cast it on people to try and basically mind control them a little bit, and it would. It would fade because they felt threatened. [01:36:19] Speaker E: I think entranced will immediately fade because it's threatened. Compelled might be different, but I could be wrong about that. [01:36:28] Speaker G: Okay, so the wolves have to do this now we're just gonna do one. [01:36:33] Speaker H: Okay. [01:36:34] Speaker G: Oh, no. Okay, they are transformed. Explain to me what that looks like [01:36:42] Speaker E: in this case. They are just transformed into a version of themselves that doesn't want to fight [01:36:47] Speaker G: because it's a peaceful meeting for one turn. They all just sort of like. They'll do this. They'll do this. They all just sort of like, start piling on top of each other. It's. It's literally like a puppy pile at the bottom of this escalator right now. [01:37:04] Speaker E: Question. If I'm not fighting them, do they still feel threatened? Because I haven't attacked anyone yet. [01:37:09] Speaker G: Yes. [01:37:10] Speaker E: Okay. I tried. [01:37:11] Speaker C: Lads, like, checking in on Lucky, like, what's going on down there? He's just like, hey, great time. [01:37:18] Speaker G: Back to the roof. We are so close, guys. So, so close. It is Braum's turn. Brahm doesn't have a ton of movement, so he's gonna go here, which will allow him to hit these two little wolves. Dodgy. Dodgy. Okay. One passes, one doesn't. For that, they are both out. [01:37:45] Speaker B: Good job. [01:37:47] Speaker G: I'm rolling obnoxiously well with the dragon. [01:37:51] Speaker A: All right. [01:37:52] Speaker G: Oh, you guys didn't get to see it. Sorry, guys. I'm trying. I really am. I hate that it re. It resets the view. All right. Clint. [01:38:02] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm gonna delay to do the team attack with our friends. [01:38:07] Speaker G: Yes, yes. Sorry, I forgot that that was the thing you guys were doing. All right, so there are no more baby wolves on this level of the map, so we're just gonna deal with the mature ones, which are going to. You know what? Sorry, Blythe. You've been a problem. [01:38:27] Speaker C: Okay. [01:38:29] Speaker E: Hey. [01:38:30] Speaker C: Hi. [01:38:31] Speaker H: Hi. [01:38:32] Speaker C: I feel like Oliver's the one downstairs doing all the real problems right now. You should go get him. [01:38:37] Speaker G: 27 to hit. 35 to hit. Jesus Christ. 30 to hit. So they all hit. [01:38:47] Speaker C: Oh, man. [01:38:48] Speaker G: I'm Gonna need a DC35 toughness check, please. [01:38:54] Speaker D: Am I getting this one, or are you getting this one? [01:38:56] Speaker A: Yeah, go three, four, down. [01:38:59] Speaker G: No, I'm on the three floors. She's on the roof with you. [01:39:03] Speaker A: Oh, I had my character sheet over you. Yeah, I will go ahead and interpose. [01:39:09] Speaker D: All right. [01:39:10] Speaker G: 35 toughest check, please. [01:39:15] Speaker F: No, I think you're appointing to be a good idea. [01:39:21] Speaker G: That's okay. It's a 22. It's a 22. 22. [01:39:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:39:28] Speaker G: You are bruised and staggered, and I'm going to need a. You should be fine. But we will see. Athletics or acrobatics, please. [01:39:38] Speaker A: We'll do athletics. Goodness. [01:39:43] Speaker G: You Are also prone. You just get knocked on your ass. [01:39:47] Speaker A: All right, good news is I got instant up, so that won't be a problem later. [01:39:52] Speaker G: Okay, that was funny. Back to the ground floor. The puppies are not going to do anything for this turn. But you do see, as their turn passes, Oliver, they all look a little confused and then more than a little angry. [01:40:11] Speaker E: This is 100% your call. But I checked the wording. It just says entrance breaks at the end. If they're friends, compelled and transformed does not say anything about that. I think they get to repeat the save, though. I think they get to keep trying to save until they pass. [01:40:25] Speaker G: Okay, okay, fine. [01:40:30] Speaker E: I'm alone against 10 wolves. I need to do what I can. [01:40:33] Speaker G: But they're all going to get to try and save. [01:40:35] Speaker E: Yes. [01:40:36] Speaker G: Instead of all all. Instead of me rolling once for all of them. If this is how we're going to do it, they all get to roll. Well, there's one of them. All right, one of them is up. This one closest to you stands and snarls. Looks less than pleased. All right, back to the roof. [01:40:57] Speaker B: All right, ma', am, hold on tight. [01:41:00] Speaker G: Oh, boy. [01:41:02] Speaker D: I will hold for a team attack to throw my hammer. [01:41:07] Speaker G: Blythe, you are leading the team attack. [01:41:10] Speaker C: Wonderful. We go on three. I guess it's just I used to get to use my stabbing attack. And then I add five. [01:41:18] Speaker G: Yes. [01:41:18] Speaker C: I'm gonna roll so bad. [01:41:20] Speaker G: Wait, if you have to. If you're stabbing, you have to move up toward Garmas, by the way. [01:41:23] Speaker C: Oh, okay, I'll move. [01:41:25] Speaker G: And I would like an acrobatics check because technically you're gonna have to jump into the air to reach him because you don't have throwing. [01:41:32] Speaker F: Or she can just teleport above him. Fall on him. [01:41:34] Speaker G: That was good to teleport. Okay. That lucky. Hold on. [01:41:37] Speaker C: That was lucky. [01:41:38] Speaker G: Oh, okay. [01:41:39] Speaker C: Sorry. 31. [01:41:43] Speaker G: Basically, what is going to happen is you are teleporting on top of him so that you could stab him, and then you're going to have to, like, catch yourself on the way down, so. Which you will be fine. Because it's a 31. That's crazy cool. [01:41:53] Speaker C: All right, And I just add the plus five? [01:41:57] Speaker G: Yes, I. Before you do that, I would like the other three to do their roles. I think technically they're supposed to go first. So you do the last roll. [01:42:05] Speaker H: Whatever. [01:42:06] Speaker A: I get a plus 5, cuz. Team attack STS. [01:42:09] Speaker G: Anybody who has team attack? [01:42:11] Speaker D: Yeah, I do not. [01:42:16] Speaker G: Stefan misses. Andre hits. Clint hits. Now you can go. You add your plus five. Did you add Your plus five. [01:42:28] Speaker C: I did. [01:42:29] Speaker G: Okay. And then so dc, I was plus seven. All right, Garm. [01:42:36] Speaker C: Are you kidding me? [01:42:38] Speaker G: Oh, I'm sorry, guys. That's rough, bud. [01:42:41] Speaker C: I'm like, I haven't. You can't use a hero point to make that. [01:42:45] Speaker G: No, you cannot. [01:42:48] Speaker E: If I was up there, I. Luck control or luck points left. I could make it, but I don't, and I'm not. [01:42:53] Speaker C: Pet the dog. Wait, no, you already took it. [01:42:55] Speaker G: All right, Andre, it's your turn. [01:42:58] Speaker F: Just see her fall on him and he just, like, shakes her off like. Oh, fucking damn it. Just getting angry. And I'm just gonna swing at him. Okay, I'm just starting to see red. [01:43:09] Speaker G: That hits existence of suffering. Oh, my God. [01:43:16] Speaker E: Beg pardon? [01:43:18] Speaker G: Stop. I'm not doing it on purpose. Last week I couldn't roll for shit, and this week I can't seem to miss. [01:43:25] Speaker C: Okay? [01:43:26] Speaker G: Lucky is still down with Oliver. [01:43:30] Speaker E: Lucky's compelled, so I think I get to tell him what to do. [01:43:32] Speaker G: Oh, yeah, no, that's true. What would you like Lucky to do? Would you like him to take on the wolf that woke up? [01:43:38] Speaker E: I'll be like, lucky, do me a favor and handle that one. [01:43:42] Speaker G: Okay. This will break the compel on him, by the way. Yeah. Because he will officially be in. In combat. I need Lucky to roll me an attack, please. Blythe, that's pretty good. [01:43:55] Speaker C: Oh, my God. And it's. It's the same as the other dog's bite. [01:43:59] Speaker G: All right, so that one is down. Lucky leaps on it and sinks his teeth into its throat. And it goes down. [01:44:08] Speaker C: I'm double checking if Lucky has takedown. Oh, my God. He does have takedown too, does he? Yes. [01:44:16] Speaker E: Pinky gone. [01:44:17] Speaker G: Okay, but the. The command that you gave was to take. It was to take that one down. [01:44:23] Speaker E: That is true. [01:44:23] Speaker G: I. I said this turn, he will be. He will be able to use his takedown. This one, he can't because he was only told to use the one. But he does start to snap out of it. And you see him give his head a little shake, and he looks a little bewildered. And then, Oliver, you swear to God, this wolf turns and gives you the dirtiest look over his shoulder. [01:44:38] Speaker E: Hey, my hands up. Hey. That's Odin's spell, not mine. [01:44:43] Speaker G: Your turn. [01:44:46] Speaker E: 15ft go up and look into the coin pond there. And I get a good look at the anchor at this point. Right. Could I attempt to scatter it like I did above, or is this going to take a different approach? [01:45:01] Speaker G: From what you could tell, you would need to break the Marked tile. So you would have to hit it directly. You could try to flood or cleanse the basin, but you don't have a source of water right now. You could try to tear up a the roots, or you could try to counter spell, which would be a ritual. Or you would have to offer a stronger symbol of life or fortune to. To override the corruption. [01:45:25] Speaker E: Do I have an idea how long the ritual would take? It would be a while, wouldn't it? [01:45:29] Speaker G: It would. It would take a few rounds at least. [01:45:31] Speaker E: Yeah, I don't have time for that, so. All right, let's see how we handle this. And Oliver's going to wind back up. Punch it. [01:45:40] Speaker G: All right, you are not a strong bean, so I would like you to roll your punch, please. Your attack string six. [01:45:49] Speaker A: Well, [01:45:53] Speaker C: please tell me Lucky is reporting this back. [01:45:57] Speaker G: Lucky is busy. [01:45:59] Speaker E: Supposed to be good at punching now, man. [01:46:02] Speaker C: Lucky glances over shoulder. I don't know what's happening. [01:46:08] Speaker G: What you hear in your head from Lucky is, what the fuck is he doing? Okay, it is Braum's turn. Braum cannot make it all the way over there, so I'm gonna roll for him to see if he can double his movement. He cannot. So he's just gonna move his 30 and then stop. Clint, you are surrounded by wolfies. [01:46:33] Speaker A: I sure am, and this is not a good position. But even with all that being the case, I'm a whole. I'm getting ready to do a team attack. Hopefully with psych. Andre. [01:46:46] Speaker G: Okay, well, that means that the three get to, like, maneuver around you and set up for their own team attack. [01:46:54] Speaker A: Who's a good dog? Oh, good. Why are you getting behind? What are you doing, boys? Oh, dear. That is enough to hit. I will roll my toughness. [01:47:05] Speaker G: Hold on, that's. Now roll your toughness. [01:47:10] Speaker D: I could interpose for you. [01:47:13] Speaker G: You could, but you'd be taking the innocent with you. [01:47:16] Speaker A: Yeah, [01:47:18] Speaker G: that's not good, Clint. [01:47:20] Speaker A: Yeah, it's not good, but I ain't got much. Much better. [01:47:23] Speaker G: That's bruised and staggered, bud. All right, the young fenrir can't do because they are compelled. So they're just gonna roll. What's the DC on that, Oliver? Is it 20? [01:47:34] Speaker E: It's 20. Yeah. [01:47:36] Speaker G: And there are 10 of them left. [01:47:39] Speaker E: Nine of them left, I think. [01:47:40] Speaker A: Yep. [01:47:41] Speaker C: Nine. [01:47:42] Speaker G: Nine. Okay, [01:47:44] Speaker E: the 10th one. [01:47:45] Speaker G: Five, six. So eight. Nine. Well, okay. [01:47:49] Speaker E: Three of them. [01:47:51] Speaker G: Three of them are up. Cool. Next round. That is going to be a problem. For you or for Lucky? [01:47:58] Speaker C: Really, Stefan, Please don't kill my dog. [01:48:02] Speaker B: All right, ma', am, we're Going for a ride. Lost my hammer. [01:48:08] Speaker D: I will be flybying Braum, giving him a boost to get closer. [01:48:14] Speaker G: Okay. [01:48:15] Speaker D: And very politely asking, can one of [01:48:18] Speaker B: you fuckers go get my hammer? [01:48:20] Speaker G: So where are we going so that I know where to move Braum to? [01:48:22] Speaker D: Going right above the other wolves, still 60ft up, but now with Braum over them. [01:48:30] Speaker G: Cool. Our secret weapon. That. That glow coming off of her is getting a lot more intense. And you have high enough perception to spot this without an issue. There are vines or not vines. The tiles of the roof kind of warp and look a little bit like water. And for a moment you see like what looks like a lotus flower in like that is formed from the cracks in them. [01:49:06] Speaker B: That is very cool. I hope your parent comes and speed things along. [01:49:11] Speaker G: Flies. I know. [01:49:13] Speaker C: What? [01:49:13] Speaker H: Oh, fuck. [01:49:14] Speaker C: Shit. I. Oh, damn it. Lucky, what is happening down there? [01:49:20] Speaker G: You are on the ground. Lucky said that Oliver is. Looks like. It looks like Oliver is trying to beat up a fountain. [01:49:28] Speaker C: Okay, first thing I'm gonna do is get Stefan's hammer and get it to him. [01:49:33] Speaker G: Okay, Easy enough. [01:49:35] Speaker C: There are wolves down. There's no reason bringing the woman down to the ground floor is going to be any safer based on what I'm seeing here. Correct? Or what? I know I left. [01:49:46] Speaker G: What? From what you know you left? Probably not. Ah, okay. [01:49:52] Speaker C: I guess I'm going to go after Garm again. I'm going to die. [01:49:56] Speaker D: You could doom attack. [01:49:59] Speaker C: Yeah, I can wait for the team attack with Andre. [01:50:01] Speaker G: Okay, we'll go ahead and roll because Andre is next. And then I would also like Clint to join the team attack. And Stefan, are you joining the team attack? [01:50:12] Speaker D: I could now that I have my hammer, but I didn't declare it, so I don't think so. [01:50:17] Speaker G: Okay. Live missed Clint. Of course I miss Andre. [01:50:22] Speaker D: Is Braum joining the team attack? [01:50:25] Speaker G: No, because I didn't declare it. Oh, and he went on his turn. So he did things on his turn. That being said, for the sake of expediency, we will say that you two push Blythe up over the 20 that she needs. [01:50:41] Speaker C: Thank you. I did return Stefan's hammer. [01:50:45] Speaker G: Yep, I know Garm needs to make it 28 toughness check. It does not. Oh, but he did heal, so his injuries stay where they are. But he is now staggered and I think given the time, actually we're gonna pop down to Lucky and Oliver one more time and see if they can fix this. Oliver, go ahead and do your thing. [01:51:15] Speaker E: All right, we're gonna try to punch it again. This time we're gonna do it with an accurate attack. Accurate. Let's say three, because I want to hit it. 28. [01:51:26] Speaker G: Cool. Make me a Will safe, please. [01:51:29] Speaker E: Got it. 15. [01:51:33] Speaker G: Not great. Okay. Make me a tough disk check, please. [01:51:36] Speaker E: Okay. 16. [01:51:39] Speaker G: Great. So as we're about to go to break, what Lucky sees and nobody else does is Oliver drive his fist into this section, into this tile of this fountain. There is a massive outburst of cold magic that hits him square in the chest. Oliver. It's like you can feel your heart seize when it hits you. And you are beset with. With. With the kind of cold that you. That you would normally expect. You could only get if you had fallen into a frozen lake in the middle of winter and you fall incapacitated. [01:52:28] Speaker B: Thank you for listening to Apotheosis. If you enjoy this story, please make sure to subscribe and review wherever you're listening to our podcast. You can find more of our actual plays on our website at www.hallowedhavenstudios.com. please consider supporting us on our Patreon at patreon.com HallowedHavenStudios. Your support helps make more stories like this possible. [01:53:06] Speaker G: Here's what everybody becomes aware of, except for Oliver, who is unconscious. As soon as that final seal breaks, you all hear a deep, grinding, rumbling sound. Those of you whose feet are on the. Are on the ground or on the floor, roof, whatever, feel the whole building start to shift and rattle. Stefan, with your high perception and Andre, with your engineering knowledge, you are 90% certain that this building is starting to crumble. From the sounds that you can hear and from the pieces of the roof that you could see falling down into the inside of the mall. [01:54:17] Speaker F: Oh, fuck. [01:54:20] Speaker B: Time to go. [01:54:22] Speaker F: Yep, time to get the out. [01:54:28] Speaker C: Do you need me to roll anything to go grab everyone? [01:54:37] Speaker G: I feel like I probably should have you roll because you were on a really heavy time constraint, even with your movement speed. Make me a. Make me an a raw intellect. Check and add five because you have Lucky. I'm effectively having Lucky. Kind of give you the temporary effect of. Of eidetic because you are tied to him, so you kind of can sense where he is. Well, it did not add your five, so that's a 15. That is good enough. You are able to remember even with all of the chaos around you where Lucky and Oliver are and you were able to get you. You get down there and you realize that there are, I want to say, five more of the young Fenris wolves that are there. Lucky is. Is squaring off with all of them. He has put himself between an unconscious Oliver who is coated in frost. He's put himself between them and him and is snarling. And you hear in your head, get him and go. Come back for me later. [01:56:07] Speaker F: I. [01:56:08] Speaker C: If I have to do it in two jumps, I'll do it in two jumps. But I'm grabbing Oliver. [01:56:12] Speaker G: Yeah, you'll have to do it two jumps. I love my dog, but your dog's a badass. You know he is. He's built to do this. [01:56:22] Speaker C: How many can I take in the first jump? [01:56:25] Speaker G: What do you mean? [01:56:27] Speaker C: I'll grab Oliver. So grabbing Oliver, getting him to the roof and the other boys together, I guess. [01:56:34] Speaker G: Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Okay, so. [01:56:38] Speaker C: And I will burn my last year, my hero point to do that if I have to. [01:56:41] Speaker G: Okay. Burn a hero point and I will allow you to get Lucky and Oliver onto the roof and even bounce around and grab the boys to get them all together in one move. And then the hero point, I will allow for you to extra effort to be able to use your long form teleport on the same turn. [01:56:59] Speaker A: Yep. [01:57:01] Speaker C: Yeah, that's the plan. [01:57:06] Speaker G: As a reminder, you did leave a number of bodies and the car at that old safe house. [01:57:16] Speaker C: I was going to head to the safe house, not all the way to Damon's, because. I know. Because the car is still there. [01:57:23] Speaker G: Yeah. Okay. [01:57:25] Speaker C: Unless anyone has any other reason not to. That's what I'm. I'm communicating that as we start moving. I know. Oliver's out. [01:57:30] Speaker G: Nope. [01:57:30] Speaker F: We need to go there, get the bodies and get the out. [01:57:33] Speaker G: Okay, cool. Well, in that case, we are going to get off of the roll 20 layout and go to the normal big layout so that everybody can see the full very pretty art of everybody. [01:57:47] Speaker E: Yay. [01:57:49] Speaker G: You guys pop up at the pop up just outside of the safe house itself. Blithe, Your knees go weak and you tumble. You're not unconscious, but you are in rough shape. You pushed yourself hard. You have injuries. You teleported long range twice in one day. It's a lot. You're exhausted. [01:58:16] Speaker C: I'm gonna take a nap right here. [01:58:18] Speaker A: And Clint interposed to keep her from hitting the floor. [01:58:22] Speaker G: You can absolutely catch her. I'm not gonna make you do anything special for that. [01:58:26] Speaker A: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's okay. I got you. Hold on. [01:58:33] Speaker C: If I get like a second, I can go ahead us back to the place. [01:58:36] Speaker A: Oh, no. Take your time. But we're safe for now. [01:58:38] Speaker G: Take your time as the. As everybody pops up. Stefan, you are still holding on to this woman. She has Stopped screaming. But she has stopped screaming. And it looks like she's in pretty intense pain. This is a look that you have seen. Frequently or other unawakened scions when you pushed them hard enough to make them awaken. Her skin is putting off this intense golden glow. Her eyes are glowing almost like a golden white around her. Fresh flowers and vines are sprouting up around her feet. And it is. She's putting off all of the signs of her awakening is actually happening. The biggest problem is that if you hesitate for too long, she is going to become a beacon. So you've got a few minutes at most to do what you need to do while you're here. And she's kind of locked down. You know that this awakening process is. It's intense. It gives them the ability to survive a lot more than they normally would. But it's painful for those first few minutes. It feels like there is lava in your veins. [02:00:13] Speaker B: All right, this is gonna hurt. Try and breathe. Blythe, we don't have time. Get up. [02:00:22] Speaker C: I can push us all the way back to Damon's. Or I can go [02:00:27] Speaker G: in the car. [02:00:28] Speaker C: That was the plan. [02:00:29] Speaker F: Just get in the car. [02:00:31] Speaker G: You see. You see Lucky get underneath of Blythe as she is kind of hanging in Clint's arms and, like, shifting to take her weight. And Blythe, in your head, you hear Lucky go. They need to get the bodies. It's not okay to leave them here. Either a mortal will find them or their parents, some of whom we know might be death gods, are going to be deeply displeased if we leave them behind. [02:00:59] Speaker C: No, I know. And I think Blythe is going to try doing it herself because she's just not used to doing the other stuff. [02:01:06] Speaker G: Helping. [02:01:07] Speaker C: Getting the help. So she's. I don't have them. [02:01:09] Speaker A: Can. [02:01:10] Speaker C: I do have the movement to get us to get the bodies. [02:01:14] Speaker G: You are exhausted. Boo Boo you. And you don't have the hero points to spend, you hear? Lucky, go. Stop being stupid and ask and tell them to get them. [02:01:22] Speaker C: Yeah, I'll pass it along. Just their bottom. Bodies in the house. Get the bodies in the house. [02:01:27] Speaker E: Yep. [02:01:27] Speaker F: Andre is already moving. [02:01:29] Speaker A: Okay. [02:01:31] Speaker E: While I'm getting those, I do have Regeneration 1, so I think I would [02:01:34] Speaker G: have woken up Oliver. I'm working on it. Give me. Give me a second. It's literally been seconds. [02:01:42] Speaker A: I do. [02:01:43] Speaker G: It is around this time as Stefan and Andre are running for the house and Lucky is helping Blythe to get to the car. Stefan, Andre, and Clint are headed for the House. Blythe and Lucky are headed very slowly towards the car. Oliver, you wake up and you are laying on grass and gravel and staring at a blue sky. [02:02:07] Speaker E: Please don't be mog mel. Don't be mog mel. Don't be mog mel. We'll sit up. [02:02:13] Speaker G: It is not mog mel. You are outside of a burnt out house and you see your companions around you, all kind of moving around, doing various things. You also see a young woman who is glowing. And there are. There are plants sprouting around her feet. And she kind of looks like she's locked for a moment in time. And the look on her face is familiar. You saw it on. You saw a very similar look on the faces of your companions the night that the wolves attacked. [02:02:42] Speaker E: Okay, not dead. I'll hurry to my feet. And I guess if I see my. My friends trying to bury the bodies. [02:02:53] Speaker G: Yeah, they're. They, they. They. They're all strong enough. They've picked up a body. Each of them has picked up a body and is moving back outside. [02:03:00] Speaker E: In that case, you know that there's [02:03:01] Speaker G: one left behind because there were four of them total. [02:03:05] Speaker E: Oh, there's four total. [02:03:05] Speaker B: Right. [02:03:06] Speaker E: All right then, yeah, I'll. I'll run and go grab that fourth body. [02:03:11] Speaker G: Okay, you all are able to pile the bodies a little unceremoniously in the back of the van. It's going to need a really deep cleaning, but at least you got the bodies and you're not going to be leaving them behind for mortals to find or whatever. And you are all able to pile into the van. Who is driving? [02:03:38] Speaker D: I think Stefan. [02:03:41] Speaker F: Andre. [02:03:41] Speaker G: Can I do. Okay, Stefan can drive. That's fine. I just wanted to know as. Oh, go ahead. [02:03:52] Speaker D: Sorry. Go ahead. [02:03:52] Speaker G: Go ahead. No, no, no. [02:03:54] Speaker B: Clint, call Damon. If this thing has a way to mess with wards, he should know. Especially if we're bringing her back. [02:04:07] Speaker A: One second. Come on. Start pulling out his phone and get ready and we'll give Damon a call. [02:04:14] Speaker G: Okay. Damon answers. For the sake of brevity. He says he understands. Call him when you are like a minute or two out and he will drop the words long enough for you to come in. And we'll just have to hope that nobody is chasing you or, no, nobody is chasing you that can find you. [02:04:36] Speaker A: Fingers crossed, Damon. Thank you. All right, I'll give him a call when we're closer to it, but we should be good. [02:04:46] Speaker B: All right, let's go [02:04:51] Speaker A: to the metal. Let's go. [02:04:54] Speaker G: Okay, as you are driving, there are multiple attempts to link up people's cell phones so that you can listen to music and not just listen to the sound of the air outside of the car. But it would seem that the ambient energy that the new Scion is putting off is mucking with signals here. Even Andre can't get them to act right, which you know, Stefan, you would know from experience, not that uncommon. It's a lot of really, really intense ambient energy. It's not breaking anything, it's just causing interference. So you end up kind of turning the radio on and hitting the seek button or Oliver does and as that is happening, you all are able to listen to music. I think Oliver ends up on the a.m. side of the radio at some point because again, signals are wonky and you end up listening to an AM like talk radio with news broadcast. [02:06:03] Speaker J: This is WABE Atlanta Public Radio. I'm Mitch Transom. The race for two Georgia Public Service Commission seats this November is becoming a test on whether pocketbook issues and concerns about unchecked data center growth can overcome traditional party lines. Nancy Lubeck, a Twiggs county resident who called herself a lifelong Republican, says she voted last year for Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnson, the two Democrats who flipped seats on the then all Republican PSC because she said she wanted to see things done differently at the commission. She said she voted in the GOP primary last month but will likely vote for the Democratic candidates again in November. A thoracic surgeon at the world famous Cleveland Clinic in Ohio is a person of interest in a series of unexplained surgical deaths. Police Chief Dorothy Todd stated that no warrant has been sworn out and no charges filed. However, Dr. Albert Allnot has been informed that he is not to leave the state of Ohio. Sources inside the Cleveland Police Department say in the anonymous tips have indicated that these deaths may not have been accidental and may in fact be the actions of some manner of serial killer. In other medical news, Innova Health Networks is embroiled in an ongoing dispute with Kaiser Permanente over late and missed payments and is informing Kaiser customers that they may be refused service if the insurance company does not bring its account up to date. Kaiser officials released a statement saying they are compliant with all financial requirements, but Inova has claimed that the late payments are putting some of their operating budget at risk. Georgia Wildlife Resources officials are posting new warnings at parks around the state warning people to avoid any coyotes or wild dogs seen on park lands. Six Georgians have been hospitalized from canine attacks since May, the Highest number in 20 years. Board of Natural Resources vice Versa Chair Randy Dillinger in an interview yesterday outside of his office was quoted saying, y' all think you're good with dogs and maybe you are, but we've got to have some common sense around wild animals. Are the trees seeking revenge? That's what city planners in Moyauk, Virginia are asking this morning after a building collapsed overnight just one week after Virginia safety officials had given the building an inspection and clean building of health in anticipation of the space being purchased by CrossFit Incorporated. Virginia Department of Safety spokespeople are blaming the collapse on the previously unnoticed spread of old growth tree roots throughout the building's foundation. The state inspector general has opened an investigation. Weather this weekend promises to continue to be wildly out of season. The WABE action weather team is tracking a polar vortex that has reached ridden the current south from Canada, killing the normal summer temperatures as far south as Walt Disney World. The forecast is for continued unseasonable cold for the next week. At least don't pack up your hoodies just yet. I'm Mitch Transom, WABE News. [02:09:06] Speaker G: And you all finish the drive back to Damon's farm. Clint calls when you're about a minute or two out and drops the wards long enough for you to cross over. You all feel that sensation, especially those with magical senses, feel that sensation of crossing that boundary and it going back up behind you and creating a barrier. And as far as you know, you are as safe as you can be. [02:09:33] Speaker B: Okay, well, fuck. [02:09:35] Speaker F: My, my, everything hurts. [02:09:37] Speaker C: Remember those seeds you planted? [02:09:41] Speaker I: Yep. [02:09:42] Speaker G: Where'd you plant them? [02:09:43] Speaker E: One was in the middle of basically nowhere and the other one in Greece. [02:09:53] Speaker C: Okay. [02:09:54] Speaker G: As you pull up to the house, there are a number of people who hurry out to meet you. Damon is standing on the porch kind of watching and smoking a joint, but what do you call it? Asterobe natine. Both rush out to check on their man. And when the van opens. When the back of the van opens, they all smell the burnt bodies and the death and recoil visibly. These are creatures and beings of life. They don't do well with death. [02:10:47] Speaker A: Will carry a couple of corpses and try to find a good resting place for them. Really? [02:10:53] Speaker G: Okay, here's my question. When you say resting place, do you just mean you're taking them somewhere until you could figure out what to do with them? Or do you mean that you're going to start burying them? [02:11:05] Speaker A: No, we gotta figure out what to do with them first. There might be clues and information that we can glean for them, but we will also be treating them with respect and making sure. [02:11:14] Speaker G: Understood. I'm just double Checking. I'm just double checking. When Daemon sees what is happening and what you're coming out with, he points at an old barn that is, I don't know, probably a good football field away from the house, having been here before, or having spent quite a bit of time here and helped around the farm. You know that mostly this is storage for. What do you call it, like, tools and things like that. The stuff that they don't use a whole lot of the time. It. It's old and. And worn, but it's in decent condition, which means that it'll, like, keep them dry. And you can probably find like, tarps and stuff to lay them down on so that you're not just putting them on bare earth. [02:12:01] Speaker F: Andre would carry Lyra's body and even though her spirit's gone, he would make. He would put the obols on her eyes. [02:12:09] Speaker G: That's very sweet. Take a hero point, Andre. [02:12:15] Speaker D: Okay. [02:12:16] Speaker G: Or living up to one of your. One of your pantheon's rules. And I forget what it's called. Anyway, yes. Tradition. Thank you. What are Stefan and Oliver and Blythe doing? Blythe, you have had time to. You basically got a nap. It was an hour long drive, so [02:12:37] Speaker E: I'm assuming Brom followed us via air, right? [02:12:40] Speaker G: Yes. [02:12:41] Speaker E: Has he landed or is he still up there? [02:12:43] Speaker G: Yeah, he crossed the boundary with you guys and you saw him kind of head off towards the trees. You imagine he might be going to eat some because he was very busy and had to stop his meal, but he'll. [02:12:57] Speaker C: He. [02:12:57] Speaker G: You imagine he'll be back soon. [02:12:59] Speaker E: All right, that case, we'll wait on him for a bit. Otherwise, probably just like, go amongst everyone, see how they're faring health wise. [02:13:16] Speaker G: Everybody should be recovering relatively well. You guys have had over an hour and your demigod natures mean that your. Your injuries should slowly be either fading or getting to the point where they don't bother you as much anymore. You'll probably still be bruised and sore for the next few days, but mechanically you're healed. Oh, and you all get your hero point from doing your turtles and luck points. And luck points reset. [02:13:44] Speaker E: Yay. [02:13:47] Speaker G: Stefan, what are you doing? [02:13:50] Speaker D: Have we gotten the lady out of the van yet? [02:13:54] Speaker G: No, she kind of had a menti be in the car and is, I don't know, probably huddled up in a blanket that was in the. That was on the back seat. [02:14:04] Speaker B: All right, ladies, would you assist me in, I guess, welcoming a new addition to the scion community? [02:14:16] Speaker D: He'll lean into Natine. [02:14:18] Speaker B: I haven't done this before. Can you help me? [02:14:23] Speaker C: Can I join Stefan before he really fucks something up? Before more trauma. [02:14:30] Speaker G: Natine looks a little wide eyed. Natine hasn't done this either. Asterope is very, very sweet. And between Blythe and Asterope, they can. They can coax this trembling kind of. She almost looks like she's numb now. She's hit that point where she's just sort of in a little bit of shock. But they managed to coax her out and into the house. Now that you can see her, you could see that she is. She has some, oh my goodness, like Middle Eastern, maybe Indian heritage. She's got that, she's got that kind of skin tone. Her hair is, is. Is like that. That beautiful kind of silky black, but she looks like she's probably mixed race. [02:15:23] Speaker C: Does she has scrub. She has scrubs on. Does she have like an ID badge? [02:15:27] Speaker G: She does. It takes a minute to find it. It is tucked into her pocket. And her name is Talia. Talia. I have her written out somewhere. Sorry guys. [02:15:49] Speaker C: As I'm getting Talia in bed and stuff, I'm just. Stefan, please put a shirt on. I do not think it's going to be better right now. [02:15:56] Speaker B: I mean, I can go get one, but I don't think that's the biggest concern. [02:16:01] Speaker C: I just feel like giant tattooed man with the forked tongue. Confronting a newly turned, you know, scion is particularly reassuring. [02:16:15] Speaker G: Her name is Talia Gupta and it looks like she is a. She's a nursing student at a teaching hospital in. In Georgia or in Atlanta. Sorry. [02:16:27] Speaker B: Fine. I'll go get a shirt. [02:16:29] Speaker C: Talia, can you hear me? [02:16:32] Speaker G: It's been. [02:16:32] Speaker C: I'm. I'm gonna. I want to wait for Stefan to get back before we do anything crazy with him with her. [02:16:37] Speaker G: Oh, okay. But would you like to. Oh, go ahead. [02:16:42] Speaker C: I. I am just going to try to like be there and kind of coach her through it a little bit. It's been a while since I think I've ever. I'm not sure if I've ever seen or been around for someone getting their blood turned without. [02:16:54] Speaker G: You have not. Does anybody have treatment that's around? I have it. [02:17:02] Speaker F: I also have it technically, because I can use all things untrained. [02:17:06] Speaker G: Okay, well, you're helping Clint with the bodies, right? [02:17:11] Speaker F: That is correct. [02:17:13] Speaker G: Oliver, make a treatment roll. [02:17:16] Speaker E: Okay. [02:17:17] Speaker G: See if you can help. Oh, yeah. Okay. You guys are able to kind of get her inside? Oliver can. Can kind of coach Bly through dealing with the, the, the effects of shock that, that Talia is dealing with. And she's gonna be in rough shape for a little while, but she's not. It's not likely to get worse unless somebody really fucks up. [02:17:44] Speaker C: Blythe stairs Dagger. Sad that Stefan, when he gets back, don't us up. [02:17:49] Speaker G: Stefan doesn't have to talk to her. You just. You're just assuming that he wants to. Most of the scions he saw go through this process died shortly after. So let me be clear. [02:17:59] Speaker C: So Clara's being polite. [02:18:01] Speaker G: I understand. Stefan, is there anything you would like to do or say? [02:18:07] Speaker B: You did good, I guess. [02:18:09] Speaker G: Who are you talking to? [02:18:11] Speaker D: The lady. [02:18:12] Speaker E: Talia. [02:18:13] Speaker G: Talia. Okay. [02:18:15] Speaker B: You are in the majority that. Well, small majority that stands up to [02:18:22] Speaker D: the wolves and survives. [02:18:24] Speaker B: So big ups. [02:18:27] Speaker G: She is kind of trembling a little bit and looking at you with these, like, wide eyes to stay. Stand. Stand up? [02:18:36] Speaker B: Yeah, you can stand up if you want. [02:18:40] Speaker G: I didn't stand. I ran. And then I hid and they couldn't find me. And then you pulled me out of my hiding spot. And she's getting, like, progressively, like, more and more upset as she's talking. [02:18:52] Speaker C: And you're back and you're safe here with us. And he apologizes for freaking you out. [02:18:59] Speaker E: If I'm me. Just one second, guys. So I'll go up to t. Is she, like, sitting down anywhere? Is she standing? Yeah. [02:19:08] Speaker G: You guys got her onto the couch. [02:19:10] Speaker E: All right, I'll take a knee. So I know this is a lot that you're going through right now. It's a lot to take in. But I want you to know that I was in the exact same scenario. I was hit with a lot of new information, a lot of scary things, those wolves. And I ran, too. And I got away, just like you got away. And that's what's important right now. We'll learn everything in time. But right now, you are alive. You got away. That is something to celebrate. [02:19:46] Speaker G: Roll me a persuasion with a plus five because you used your treatment roll well earlier thing. [02:19:56] Speaker E: 19. I can do better luck point. Okay, 24. [02:20:01] Speaker G: That is much better. She kind of seems to calm down a little bit. She goes, oh, okay, so it is not 29 because he rolled an 11 on the dice. [02:20:13] Speaker E: I also already added plus 5 into the calculation. [02:20:24] Speaker G: Okay, so who is us? And she kind of looks around at all of you. What's going on? Why were there wolves the size of cars? And who were those people that took me to that house? And there was so much fire. And why did I hurt when nothing touched me? [02:20:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:20:50] Speaker E: Like I said in the exact same situation. Feeling like your blood's on fire. All your organs are trying to boil from the inside out. Not a great feeling. But the good news is now you're stronger for it. And in time, you'll be even stronger than that. I'm about to tell you a lot of crazy things. You don't have to believe me, but just bear with me, okay? So do you remember the stories growing up of, like, mythology? The gods, various different pantheons? Whichever ones you might have heard of, yes. So those are real. And you are a child of one of said gods. All of us are. Me. I'm the son of Oghma. He's an Irish God. Big about learning and intelligence and stuff. Were something known as scions. And what you were attacked by were the Fenris wolves. Children of the big bad wolf, Fenrir, from Norse mythology. And they really don't like us. They really want us gone. And there's basically to simplify a very complicated issue, a big old war between the gods and the pantheons and entities known as Titans. [02:22:10] Speaker G: Okay, but I'm just a nursing student. Why would they care if I were around? Because I was just normal until it felt like my blood was starting to boil out of my veins. [02:22:27] Speaker E: Because it makes them stronger. Believe it or not, once upon a time, I was just a high school teacher. [02:22:32] Speaker G: How does it make them stronger? [02:22:36] Speaker E: So before you had that feeling of everything hurting, you were just a person. You were just normal. Immortal. And that doesn't do anything for them. By forcing you into a situation that you were in, it kind of forces the ichor in your blood, the kind of godly divine magic that your parent gave you into activating. And then you're a scion. You're not mortal anymore. You're a scion. And. And those other people you're with at the house, you know, they died. And that was intentional. That's how they get more powerful. When they kill and feed upon a scion. [02:23:18] Speaker G: Okay. They feed on us. [02:23:22] Speaker C: It's. Think of it like you have a genetic disease that a high amount of stress sort of set off. Except instead of it being something that could kill you, instead of it being a bad thing, you. Your. One of your parents is a God. And that comes with other complications. [02:23:42] Speaker B: They eat your heart to get your power. [02:23:45] Speaker C: God damn it, Stefan. [02:23:46] Speaker G: Oh. [02:23:48] Speaker H: Oh. Okay. [02:23:50] Speaker E: One way of putting it. [02:23:52] Speaker G: They wanted to. They wanted to make me. Okay. Is there a bathroom? [02:24:01] Speaker C: Yes. [02:24:01] Speaker E: Yes. Take as much time as you need. [02:24:03] Speaker G: Gives you all a look. Like where? [02:24:06] Speaker H: I'll. [02:24:06] Speaker C: I'll. I'll Help her to it. [02:24:08] Speaker G: Okay. She goes into the little powder room off of the main hallway in the downstairs, locks the door behind her, and you just hear her, like, lose while whatever was in her stomach for several minutes. If you guys would like to talk, you can do so. [02:24:25] Speaker E: Definitely need to work on your bedside. [02:24:27] Speaker G: Manor. She's a nursing student is the key word there. [02:24:32] Speaker C: Can one of her parents get to her from here or her parent get her from here? [02:24:38] Speaker E: I guess that would be a question for Damon. He's let godson before. [02:24:42] Speaker C: Where is Damon? [02:24:43] Speaker G: Damon is standing over by the stairs, kind of watching. You see, he's got. He's keeping enough of a distance to not get involved. And it's just sort of watching quietly and puffing on a joint. [02:24:55] Speaker C: I don't want to be fate bonded either. Can you. Can their dad. Can her parent get here? [02:25:00] Speaker G: Oh, it's too late for that, Mr. [02:25:03] Speaker B: Bright. Speaking of fate bonds, could you look [02:25:09] Speaker E: to see if you're bonded with her? [02:25:12] Speaker B: Sure. I just want to know where the lines are going at this point. [02:25:16] Speaker E: All right. Yeah. I'll activate a unlit eye and just take a scope around. Look at the. The fate bonds. [02:25:23] Speaker G: Deafen live. And now Oliver. All have fate. All of fate threads going into the bathroom. You all have fate threads tied to each other. Even Blaidd. She's got less than. Hers are not as strong because she hasn't been around you guys for very long. And there is a very, very strong, tightly woven fate thread between Blaidd and Damon. Blaid also has a bunch of fate threads that extend out of the house. You. You can assume that those are to the dryads. And you guys know that congratulations. The baby scion has ties to at least a few of you already, right? [02:26:08] Speaker E: Well, I. I see that the three of us are tied to Talia in there. Clint and Andre might be as well, but they're too far out handling the bodies. I see we're connected still, Stefan. And I see all of Ms. Shang's connections around us here on the farm, but that's about it right now. [02:26:27] Speaker C: Blythe, like, wipes at herself like she's trying to move. [02:26:30] Speaker G: Like wipe a cobweb off you just. You hear Damon snort, stab it. [02:26:37] Speaker B: So are we gonna explain fate to the girl when she comes out? [02:26:42] Speaker E: I think she's taking in a lot of stuff right now, and I think we've already overwhelmed her. So let's let her take a breather, see if we can contact her parent or someone to take her in and let that individual handle some of the rest, I'll turn to Damon. You said it's too late to contact her parent. [02:27:07] Speaker G: No, said it was too late to avoid Fape ponding. [02:27:10] Speaker E: Oh, sorry, I misunderstood. In that case, how should we go about getting into contact for parent? [02:27:18] Speaker G: Figure out who her parent is. [02:27:20] Speaker E: Okay. [02:27:21] Speaker B: I got a smell of her pantheon earlier. [02:27:24] Speaker E: Yeah, which one was that? [02:27:25] Speaker C: Gross. [02:27:26] Speaker G: You did. I have to look at the goddamn chart because I don't remember which book. Which cyan book is that? Power Companion. Companion. [02:27:40] Speaker F: Okay, probably companions. Where a lot of the weirder ones were. [02:27:42] Speaker C: Is it because it's for dogs? [02:27:44] Speaker G: You say weird, but it's really cool. It's one of the best powers in the game. [02:27:48] Speaker H: True. [02:27:49] Speaker C: I do. [02:27:49] Speaker D: Love is what you say. [02:27:55] Speaker F: Whatever you say, Senor Snorf. [02:27:57] Speaker E: Senor Snorf. [02:27:59] Speaker D: Just because my most powerful ability is [02:28:01] Speaker G: my nose sent the vine. She smells like incense. [02:28:14] Speaker C: Well, that could be anything. [02:28:16] Speaker G: No, there's a very specific pantheon that that is tied to. [02:28:19] Speaker B: No, I'm sure she smells like incense. [02:28:23] Speaker D: Do I know which pantheon that is? [02:28:24] Speaker E: Yeah, if I can do a check for that with mythology or magic or something. [02:28:29] Speaker G: You don't have this power, so you don't know what it would smell like. Don't know what the smells mean. Stefan, do you have mythology? [02:28:37] Speaker C: I'm waiting this for Lucky. [02:28:38] Speaker D: No. [02:28:40] Speaker G: Do you have the ability to use a power or to use a skill without it being trained? [02:28:46] Speaker B: No. [02:28:47] Speaker G: Do you have eidetic? [02:28:50] Speaker D: No. [02:28:53] Speaker E: Oh, my gosh. [02:28:55] Speaker G: The most in the world. Okay, just roll me a raw intellect check then. [02:29:01] Speaker E: Can I use the missing stone to do a teamwork action with him? [02:29:06] Speaker G: No, because you don't have the power. You have no source of reference for this. [02:29:10] Speaker E: Well, that's just like helping him. Lending aid, but yeah. No, that makes sense. [02:29:15] Speaker G: It would not have helped anyway. Yeah, because he only rolled a six. [02:29:19] Speaker A: Okay, [02:29:23] Speaker D: analytical. [02:29:23] Speaker G: If that helps it. Only if you have the knowledge to back it up. Which you apparently don't make. You do. Remember you were like watching her and physically holding her when a lot of the signs that she was going through her awakening were happening. Those usually help point the way towards a specific parent. [02:29:48] Speaker B: So it was a lotus flower. [02:29:51] Speaker G: Hold on. Before you start. This is around the time that Andre and Clint return. I'm bringing the boys in so that they can be a part of the scene. [02:30:02] Speaker B: Howdy. She's in the bathroom throwing up. [02:30:06] Speaker F: And. Makes sense. [02:30:08] Speaker A: Do we got food or anything for her? She's gonna date it soon. [02:30:11] Speaker C: We certainly can. [02:30:12] Speaker E: I know that's laid out, so if you want to make a snack Then I guess it's okay. [02:30:17] Speaker C: I will get Hawaiian rolls in the kitchen. [02:30:19] Speaker G: There's plenty of food in the house. Let her get over feeling nauseous before we bring smells around her. [02:30:25] Speaker D: Guys. [02:30:26] Speaker A: Yeah, you gotta get finger foods, cold stuff, small things, salty crackers and a bit of water. [02:30:33] Speaker G: So we were talking about her awakening. What was it like? We've never seen it happen. [02:30:41] Speaker B: Well, a lot of vines, a lot of life, a big ass lotus blossom. [02:30:48] Speaker E: With those details, could I make a mythology check? [02:30:50] Speaker G: Andre and Oliver can both make mythology checks. Anybody else who has the mythology expertise can also make a check. [02:30:56] Speaker C: But not magic. [02:30:58] Speaker G: Not magic. [02:31:00] Speaker E: Would eidetic apply to this? [02:31:02] Speaker G: Yes. Sweet. [02:31:04] Speaker F: The raw intellect with five. So 1318 is the five in that? [02:31:09] Speaker G: Yeah. Okay, Andre, I'm going to give you an additional bonus of plus 2. For reasons that will become clear shortly, [02:31:20] Speaker F: we can't imagine why [02:31:23] Speaker G: both of you thinking it over. Thinking about the smell of incense, lotus blossoms, things like that. You are 90% sure that not only is she probably a member of the Daeva. I'm going to give this to Andre because of his particular tie to the pantheon. Oliver, this is is not me snubbing you. [02:31:48] Speaker E: No, that makes sense. [02:31:49] Speaker G: You have limited interaction with the Deva. [02:31:51] Speaker E: So. [02:31:53] Speaker G: Andre, there is one goddess in particular who is associated with lotus blossoms, and that is Lakshmi. [02:32:00] Speaker F: Okay, well, it's sounding like her ma's Lakshmi. [02:32:06] Speaker G: All right, that makes sense. Comes from Damon behind you. [02:32:13] Speaker E: Might as well check and see if we need to find a way to get in contact with her. Give an offering or something. [02:32:20] Speaker F: She might have been at the cookout. [02:32:22] Speaker G: Clint, roll me a D100. Saul, high or low? [02:32:29] Speaker F: Let's go with high. [02:32:31] Speaker D: Hey. [02:32:32] Speaker G: Damn. It's a good thing you said it like right at the exact moment or had a made a reroll. Right. [02:32:38] Speaker F: Exactly. [02:32:38] Speaker G: Yeah. So, Clint, you do not have Lakshmi's specific number, but you do have someone in your phone named Indira, who in the notes says that she's a scion of Lakshmi. [02:32:56] Speaker A: I don't have Lakshmi specifically, but I got a scion over. If we can give her a call. [02:33:03] Speaker E: Yeah, definitely do that. [02:33:05] Speaker A: I'll. You know, it's. It's always rude. You call out of nowhere. I'll give her a text. Give her one. [02:33:10] Speaker G: I was gonna say worth noting. When you open up her contact card, you have no text message history with this person, no call history with this person. It's just a number. [02:33:19] Speaker A: Yep. [02:33:20] Speaker C: Do you. Did you say the name out loud? Does Damon know? [02:33:24] Speaker G: He does not. Well, he did not. He just said I have A sign on the number. [02:33:28] Speaker A: What's her name? Her name's Indira. At least that's what I got here. [02:33:32] Speaker C: Do we know Indira? [02:33:35] Speaker G: Damon gives a little shake of his head. That's not one I'm familiar with. She might not be us based. [02:33:45] Speaker C: That's not a name I'm familiar with. [02:33:47] Speaker G: Nope. The phone rings and goes to voicemail. Or no, I'm sorry. You send the text. You do not immediately. You do not immediately get an answer. But you do see that she read it and like, what do you. What does your text message say? [02:34:03] Speaker A: Yeah, hi, this is Clint Brazos of the morgue and we happen upon scion who may have just awakened Todd 2, if not your pantheon, your specific parent. We're looking for advice and maybe some help over at Damon's farm. Give me a call when you get a chance. [02:34:26] Speaker G: You do not immediately get an answer. So while that is happening, is anybody else talking? [02:34:32] Speaker C: What time is it in? Well, I don't want to be reduction. [02:34:36] Speaker G: It's the middle of the afternoon. It's the middle of the afternoon here, so. [02:34:41] Speaker D: Cool. [02:34:44] Speaker A: Well, I suppose we gotta deal with them folks outside after y' all learn something. Or two. [02:34:51] Speaker C: I don't want to just wander off [02:34:53] Speaker G: without taking care of her. [02:34:55] Speaker A: Not yet. I'm just kind of trying to plan out the rest of our day. [02:35:00] Speaker G: Clint, you get a text message chime. Indira has texted you back. Who is Damon and where are you? [02:35:11] Speaker A: Hey, Damon, smile real quick for me. [02:35:14] Speaker G: Damon gives you this like half assed closed lip smile with like both eyebrows up and a. And a blunt hanging from his lips. [02:35:22] Speaker A: We'll take a picture of that and send it along with our GPS coordinates, which I'm sure don't mean jack given where we're at. [02:35:31] Speaker G: Well, the gps, I'm assuming you drop a pin. [02:35:35] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [02:35:38] Speaker G: After a few minutes you get an answer. That's not a white boy I am familiar with, but I know where you are now. I'll make some arrangements and call my mother. [02:35:50] Speaker A: Sounds good. As a heads up, this place is warded, so if you need anything, give us about two minutes of award noted. Thanks. And then Clint will attach a selfie his own name and make sure that his contact information is fully your way. Gotta make friends with the random strangers in our phone. [02:36:16] Speaker G: Okay, while this is happening, the. The door to the bathroom opens and Talia steps out and looks around at all of you. So did they get the other girl in the jean jacket? I'm sorry. Everybody talked at once. [02:36:41] Speaker H: I didn't. [02:36:42] Speaker G: What? [02:36:44] Speaker E: The girl with the jacket patchwork no. [02:36:51] Speaker G: No. So there were people, and they kind of pulled up in a car, and there was all of this howling, and they just sort of, like, shoved me in the backseat of the car and said that I was in danger, and we had to go. And then they Dr. And when we got to that house, there were two other people there and another woman who seemed pretty pissed. [02:37:18] Speaker E: What did she look like? [02:37:22] Speaker G: She was black. I don't know. It all kind of happened really fast. It's all a little bit of a blur. But she was black. She was wearing jeans and a really pretty purple shirt. I remember that. And her hair was in braids. [02:37:41] Speaker E: We would know. That description doesn't fit any of the dead bodies. [02:37:44] Speaker G: You are sure that it is not any of them? [02:37:47] Speaker C: Do we recognize that description, though? [02:37:49] Speaker G: Nope. [02:37:50] Speaker E: No. No, we. [02:37:51] Speaker F: I didn't see her. [02:37:52] Speaker C: She went after you? [02:37:54] Speaker G: No, no, she. I think she ended up at that place the same way I did, but she was pissed at the people who brought her there. I was just trying to figure out what was going on, and. And then there was howling and sounded like a blizzard outside. And then there was fire everywhere and screaming. And I hid until one of the wolves found me. And it was huge. [02:38:30] Speaker E: Right? [02:38:31] Speaker G: They have really bad breaths. [02:38:33] Speaker E: Oh, yeah, they do. So this other girl, we don't know where she is. We thought you were the only one that got away. [02:38:43] Speaker G: Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe they got her. Maybe she did get away. I don't know. [02:38:54] Speaker E: All right, well, thank you for giving us that information. It's another thing for us to look into. Is there anything we can do for you? [02:39:02] Speaker G: So I'm. [02:39:03] Speaker C: I'm. [02:39:03] Speaker G: I'm a scion. Can I go home now? [02:39:12] Speaker E: You're still in a bit of danger. We worked some things out. We're pretty sure your mother is. Lakshmi. We're getting into contact with someone. Someone who's, technically speaking, your sister. And they'll be here to help you through this, get you protection, ways to protect yourself. But I'm afraid your life is never going to be quite the same. [02:39:36] Speaker A: Not to worry, though. In the meantime, we've got a blanket, we've got some nice warm drinks, and if you don't mind one second, wipe this off and wipes off the screen of his phone, and we'll pull up Tetris. [02:39:53] Speaker G: I love you so much. [02:39:55] Speaker A: Okay, this should help you a little bit. It's more of a distraction than anything. But we're going to go and take a seat. We're going to relax, put our feet up. There ain't nothing to worry about except for you beating my high score right now. [02:40:08] Speaker G: Okay, okay. What about school? [02:40:12] Speaker A: We'll worry about that later. [02:40:15] Speaker G: I have finals soon. [02:40:18] Speaker A: You're gonna pass. Don't worry. [02:40:20] Speaker E: Some scions manage to make those things work. It's just. Think of it like you now have a job that you can't exactly quit, and it makes juggling your life a lot harder. [02:40:33] Speaker G: What the. [02:40:33] Speaker C: Oliver. [02:40:34] Speaker A: Oliver. [02:40:34] Speaker F: Come on, man. [02:40:36] Speaker A: He's not the best with words. He explains things kind of poorly. Like I said, high school on test, when she grabbed. [02:40:43] Speaker G: Make me a persuasion check. Clint. [02:40:47] Speaker C: She can play in process. That's what it's for. [02:40:49] Speaker A: Exactly. [02:40:51] Speaker G: Jesus. Yeah, okay. She. She just sort of nods and decides that it would be better. It decides that it would be better just not to ask questions anymore and. And looks down at the phone and proceeds to play Tetris. Giving you guys a minute. It is around this time time that there is a heavy thud on the porch and an annoyed little reptilian grunt as Brahm struggles to get the door open and force his way inside. [02:41:23] Speaker E: If you waited three seconds, someone will have opened it for you. [02:41:27] Speaker G: I'm fine. [02:41:28] Speaker E: I know. And thank you. You were amazing. [02:41:34] Speaker G: So I'm going to be a little bit of a dick for a minute, but I have an important question to ask because we were all trapped there for a minute. How did this many beings who know magic and have magical knowledge and senses manage to walk into a magical cage and only notice the bars after the door was closed? [02:42:01] Speaker E: Great question. [02:42:03] Speaker G: Oh, we. [02:42:04] Speaker E: I. I'm the only one using this. [02:42:07] Speaker G: Is. Is Oliver. Is Oliver telling people what he's saying? [02:42:10] Speaker E: Yeah. Well, yeah. He'll say, great question, then turn to the rest of the room. Brahm has a discussion he wants to have, and then I'll convey what he says. [02:42:20] Speaker F: Yeah, it's a great question, ain't it? [02:42:24] Speaker B: I think the boy is right. [02:42:27] Speaker G: And he just looks around at everybody, kind of like, well, hey, what are [02:42:33] Speaker F: you looking at me for? I. I know magic. [02:42:34] Speaker A: I don't. [02:42:35] Speaker F: I don't sense that naturally. Unlike some I should have been able to. [02:42:41] Speaker E: I just. I didn't have it activated at the time. And even then, unless it's right in front of my face, I don't always see it. So I'll, like, wave a hand in front of my bad eye. [02:42:50] Speaker G: And the dragon turns his head towards Blythe and Lucky, because he's not stupid. [02:42:56] Speaker F: Andre's joining that turn. [02:42:57] Speaker C: We were moving fast, and I made an assumption. [02:43:01] Speaker G: You hear Lucky in your head go, I told you told you something was up. [02:43:05] Speaker C: Lucky noticed it, and I assumed that it was him sensing Garm in the area. [02:43:11] Speaker A: To be fair to y', all, once y' all figured out what was going on, it took what, 18, 20, ish seconds or so to. To go from oh, we can't leave to gone. [02:43:25] Speaker F: It was not a fun dance with Garm that I had there, but survived, I guess. [02:43:31] Speaker A: No, but who else can say that they did that? [02:43:37] Speaker G: You see? You see, Braum put off a little puff of smoke because he also tangled with Garm. Not as long as Andrew Andre did, but he's not as buff as Andre is, so. [02:43:48] Speaker A: Hey, give them. [02:43:48] Speaker F: Give Braum his due. He tangled with him too. [02:43:53] Speaker A: Well, I mean, not just you, but all of us. Take a moment, realize what we just did. We're not done. We still got more to do. And, I mean, this might even put more on our plate. But you stood up. Go ahead. [02:44:06] Speaker G: No, go ahead. [02:44:07] Speaker A: We just stood up to. To. Not just one Fenris wolf. Not a small little pack, not a. Not a handful. We stood up to the big bad himself, Gar guy who thought, you know, he'd be eating our lunch and sending us taunting little messages here. [02:44:25] Speaker G: And he. And you barely scratched him is what Oliver hears from Braum. [02:44:31] Speaker E: Says we need to work on being able to actually pack. Bit more of a punch. [02:44:37] Speaker A: Sure. Yeah, but our goal wasn't to kill him. Our goal was to get her out of there. [02:44:42] Speaker G: We could have gotten her out faster had people communicated better. A warning held privately is just a secret with better intentions. [02:44:51] Speaker E: It's a good point that will convey [02:44:54] Speaker F: that we're going to make it through this. We need to get better about working together. [02:44:59] Speaker C: I'm not even scolded by a dragon. [02:45:01] Speaker B: I can't even fucking understand you, Brahm. [02:45:04] Speaker G: I didn't hear what anybody said because everybody was talking at the same time. Stefan, what did you say? [02:45:10] Speaker B: I can't even fucking understand you, Brom. It ain't two way, Andre. [02:45:16] Speaker G: What did you say? [02:45:17] Speaker F: He just turned to Bly. That she said she's not here to be scolded by Dragon. He's like, well, yeah, but you're here to help out. And help it out means working with all of us. We need to get better. [02:45:28] Speaker G: About that, did Oliver say anything? [02:45:32] Speaker E: Nope. [02:45:33] Speaker A: Okay. [02:45:35] Speaker G: At the not here to get scalded by a dragon bit, Brom turns to Blaidd, and there is another little puff of smoke. There is no fire, but there is a puff of smoke, which is a sure fire sign that he's annoyed. I Have the hope in the future of an entire pantheon on my shoulders. You have the expectations of a single God. Maybe learn your place. [02:46:00] Speaker E: Brahm says he's wiser than he looks. [02:46:03] Speaker G: That gets another puff of that makes. That gets another puff of smoke because. And you get nipped hard. [02:46:12] Speaker E: I'm trying to maintain relations here, Brom. [02:46:14] Speaker C: I made up. It's not going to happen again. [02:46:18] Speaker E: Great. Live and learn. [02:46:19] Speaker A: I fell through a skyline and kind of cut myself off from y' all for a few seconds. So I. I could improve too. [02:46:28] Speaker B: Toss my hammer off the roof. [02:46:30] Speaker F: We all earn for improvement. It happens. [02:46:33] Speaker A: Exactly. Let's not get too hook up on it. Solve the problems, you know? [02:46:37] Speaker B: Indeed. And you, my little scaly friend, are quite slow. [02:46:43] Speaker A: I'm not that scaly. [02:46:45] Speaker E: Don't worry. [02:46:46] Speaker G: You got Oliver. Oliver, you hear in your head you can only hit one thing a time, so maybe get with the program a little bit. [02:46:54] Speaker E: Braum thinks you should improve your ability to hit many things quickly. I'm not saying the first part. I look down at Braum. [02:47:05] Speaker G: He again looks annoyed. We've got to find a better way to do this. You're a terrible translator. [02:47:14] Speaker B: Well, I accept. Oh, go ahead. [02:47:20] Speaker A: You go ahead. I was gonna distract us. [02:47:22] Speaker B: Oh, I was just saying I accept his criticism. [02:47:27] Speaker G: And it is about at this is when Brom sort of makes his way over to the. To the couch and climbs up. And you all see as Talia kinda breaks eye contact with the phone for a minute and looks up at him. And there's a moment of like, very mild alarm. And then she sort of relax a little bit. Relaxes a little bit. And they don't say anything. But you could kind of see this moment where there's like this understanding because he was carrying her around and protecting her for quite a bit during the fight where she just sort of reaches up and kind of scritches under his chin and he gives a little church. He looks mildly annoyed because he's being treated like a puppy, but also that feels good. And it's not like he can have a conversation so nice. [02:48:15] Speaker C: And Lucky to also be a good dog. [02:48:18] Speaker G: You can certainly try. [02:48:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:48:20] Speaker G: He is a wolf. He is a wolf who looks an awful lot like the wolves who attacked her. [02:48:25] Speaker C: So I did just remember that he looks like a wolf to her now. [02:48:29] Speaker E: A little bit. [02:48:31] Speaker C: Yeah. In that case, I'm going to give Lucky his pets because he deserves them. [02:48:35] Speaker G: He will happily accept it. [02:48:40] Speaker A: Well, I mean, it's been a few seconds. I'll be right back, y'. All. Clint is gonna Go and make a hot chocolate. [02:48:47] Speaker G: Okay. [02:48:48] Speaker A: And if we've got any. I'm sure we do. It's. It's a Damon's farm. We'll grab a bag of Cheetos as well for our other couch friend here. [02:48:57] Speaker G: He did unexpected VIP as everybody is settling in, Clint gets another text message. We won't be able to be there until morning. Mother says, please keep her safe. If you do, there will be a reward for the host. [02:49:17] Speaker A: Okay, folks, it looks like we're gonna be stuck here for a little while, keeping track of our new friend, Damon. If everything goes well, you get a pleasant surprise. Fingers crossed. Here's your hot chocolate Cheetos. I grabbed a few pop tarts. I mean, I'm not really hungry, but [02:49:38] Speaker G: just in case, as an aside, these. These are not storebred pop tarts. These are homemade pop tarts. Most of you have had at least one. They're really good. [02:49:49] Speaker A: They're not only the traditional. [02:49:53] Speaker E: They're not the warm toaster swirls, so. [02:49:57] Speaker A: Oh, no. [02:49:58] Speaker E: Long story. Another. Another member of the band insisted upon eating toaster roll straight from the box, uncooked. It was a nightmare. [02:50:07] Speaker C: I don't think I've ever had a toaster strudel. [02:50:10] Speaker E: You're not missing much. [02:50:11] Speaker A: Yeah, imagine, like, a very Danish, but it's the cheapest possible combination of ingredients you could get. [02:50:19] Speaker C: All right. Looks like shocked, like, annoyed, but, like, kind of disgusted, but, like. [02:50:25] Speaker G: Whatever, Whatever, whatever. [02:50:26] Speaker C: I'm not going to judge your kinks. [02:50:31] Speaker A: Are you going to be? You settling in? Well, looks like. How are you doing on that school? [02:50:36] Speaker G: I'm okay. I. I appreciate the food. I'm vegan. [02:50:45] Speaker E: Oh, yeah, we should have thought about that with the whole Davis thing. [02:50:50] Speaker B: You found the best guy for it. [02:50:53] Speaker A: Damon, you got anything frozen from. No. Wait, did we bring leftovers? [02:50:57] Speaker G: Damon sort of blinks a little bit. Dryads, guys. We have fruit and vegetables like you wouldn't believe. [02:51:06] Speaker A: You're right. I'll be right back. Y'. All. [02:51:07] Speaker G: Fridge is full. Help yourself. You could literally come out with a proper cornucopia if you took the time. [02:51:18] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, we'll take the time. [02:51:19] Speaker G: He. He is. He. He is a child of Dionysus. [02:51:24] Speaker A: So we're gonna get brie. Also, we're gonna get some cheese and some crack. Oh, wait, we'll get crackers. We'll get some jellies and jams. Maybe a tea set or two. [02:51:38] Speaker C: Talia, do you have. While you're playing? I guess. Questions for us. [02:51:47] Speaker G: Not a lot right now. I. I don't Even know your names. You all told me who your parents were, but I don't think you told me your names. Well, some of you told me who your parents were. You did. And she points at Oliver. [02:52:03] Speaker F: Hi. [02:52:04] Speaker E: Yeah. Might as well start then. It's nice to meet you. I'm Oliver Bright. [02:52:09] Speaker C: I'm Blaidd Zhang. I'm a son. I'm the scion of Odin. [02:52:12] Speaker F: I'm Andre Briscott. I'm scion of Hephaestus, Greek God of the forge. [02:52:17] Speaker G: She looks at Steffen kind of timidly. [02:52:20] Speaker B: I am Steffen Vargar, scion of Lugh. [02:52:25] Speaker A: Who? [02:52:26] Speaker E: He's another one of the God. [02:52:27] Speaker B: Yeah, Basically just an everyman. [02:52:31] Speaker G: And he's from what pantheon? [02:52:34] Speaker B: The Tuatha Dae Danarm. [02:52:36] Speaker G: She looks at Oliver. Like who? [02:52:40] Speaker E: The Irish. [02:52:41] Speaker G: Okay. And the guy with the cowboy hat. [02:52:47] Speaker E: I assume Clint's still in the kitchen. [02:52:49] Speaker A: Yep. Feel free. [02:52:51] Speaker E: That's Flint. He's a sign of the Morrigan. Also related to the Irish. [02:52:57] Speaker G: Oh, there's a lot of you guys. [02:53:01] Speaker F: Yeah, don't I know it. [02:53:02] Speaker E: I'm not quite sure how that happened. [02:53:04] Speaker G: A real white boy buffet. She kind of nods along with Blaise. Okay, well, I guess thanks for saving my life. Sorry I freaked out and tried to run from you. You're kind of scary. She looks at Stefan. And really not good at calming people down. [02:53:25] Speaker F: He gets that a lot. [02:53:27] Speaker B: I am, I think, one of the scariest people in the world for the last decade. [02:53:32] Speaker G: Would he be. [02:53:34] Speaker C: Would he be less scary if he [02:53:35] Speaker G: was wearing a shirt? Kind of looks at him and tilts her head to the side. I mean, that probably might have helped, but I don't. I don't know. I was very fixated on the tongue. [02:53:50] Speaker C: Many people are. [02:53:51] Speaker G: Which made him look like a monster, which was not helpful in the middle of a bunch of monsters trying to eat me. Sorry. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm fine. [02:54:02] Speaker E: It's all right. You went through a lot, a lot of stimulus all at the same time. It's hard to discern all of that. So. Important thing is we got you out and you're safe. [02:54:13] Speaker G: And it is around this time that Clint is able to come back with a veritable cortucopia of fruits and veggies. And you all are able to kind of sit back and relax. Damon hands out blunts as people wish to have them. Nobody got hurt so bad that he pulls out apple juice, which is good because he's very low. And you were able to take a breath. Relax and spend the evening on the farm. I'm assuming nobody is going to leave. [02:54:50] Speaker D: No, but I am going to send a text. [02:54:53] Speaker G: I saw your text. I will pass it on. If you would like to let the people at home know what the text says, you can. [02:55:02] Speaker D: Sure. I am texting the contact in my phone. [02:55:06] Speaker G: Dead. [02:55:07] Speaker D: Beating a dead horse. And it will say, you didn't tell [02:55:14] Speaker B: us there were two. Don't up again. Do your job or lose my number. [02:55:20] Speaker G: Okay. You do not immediately get an answer. And you do not immediately get an answer because somewhere on the far side of Atlanta, in an almost aggressively unremarkable, nondescript townhouse, there is a row or. I'm sorry, the townhouse is aggressively unremarkable. It sits in a row of other narrow brick homes on a quiet street where every porch light works. Every trash bin is where it should be. Oh, sorry, guys. I muted the wrong thing. I muted discord and not I muted me and not discord. On the opposite side. The reason why the the you don't get in in a text immediately. And what none of you see is that on the opposite side of Atlanta sits in almost aggressively unremarkable townhouse. It sits in a row of other narrow brick homes on a quiet street where every porch light works, every trash bin is as it should be, and every window has blinds cheap enough to have come from the same hardware store. There's no divine radiance here, no ravens on the roof, no foxes watching from the alley. Nothing that would make anyone look twice. Inside, it's almost empty. The living room has a plain gray couch, a coffee table with no magazines, a lamp with a beige shade, and a television that's not plugged in. The walls are bare except for one mass produced print of a boat on still water. The kitchen contains bottled water, protein bars, instant coffee, paper plates, a bottle of whiskey, and one clean mug sitting besides a stack of paper cups. Upstairs, one bedroom has been made up with fresh sheets. Another is empty except for a folding chair. It feels like a home. Less like a home than a place pretending to be one. Oh, my God. Can you guys hear me okay now? [02:57:26] Speaker F: Yeah, we can hear you. [02:57:28] Speaker G: Okay. They were talking about a weird, shuddering background noise. I don't know what that is. Sorry, guys. It feels less like a home and more like a place pretending to be one. But it is safe. Or at least it has been arranged to feel safe. The locks are new. The curtains are closed. The air smells faintly of dust, lemon cleaner and cheap fabric. The sounds of someone in the midst of DWINDLING panic echo from down the hall. Okay, just. [02:58:12] Speaker H: I. I need. And she's going to get up, just like sort of stumble off the chair, like, sort end up slightly slamming against the wall nearby and just dry heave for a few seconds. And then after that last heave, she's going to pat down her clothes, wipe off her mouth, even though there's not anything there. And with less stumbling, go back over to the chair and sit down. Okay, well, there are some things that should be said. First, thank you for saving me. [02:59:03] Speaker I: The man walks around and sits down opposite her, passing a paper cup full of coffee and a little bit of whiskey. You're welcome. [02:59:18] Speaker H: She will accept the cup, sort of swirl it around, but not drink yet. Okay, so there's a lot going on. When I woke up this morning, I thought I was just gonna have to deal with another cheating spouse. Who are you? I'm sorry? Why do you look like you're both my age and also twice my age? [02:59:51] Speaker I: So, where I come from, we play a game called questions. And you've started with an excellent one. I am Loki of the Aesir and Vanir, the God of mischief, father of lies, blood brother to Odin, husband to Sigyn, father of Fenrir, the first wolf, Jormungandr, the world serpent, Hel, lady of the underworld, and Steffen, the redeemed scion of Lugh. And I will see all the thrones of man and God smout upon a ruined world before I let further harm befall my kin and kine. Does that answer your question? [03:00:35] Speaker G: Okay, [03:00:39] Speaker H: so you're a God. [03:00:44] Speaker G: I'm talking to Loki. [03:00:47] Speaker H: Okay, okay. So. So you're a God. Okay, you know, [03:00:58] Speaker I: I do. My turn. Do you have people in your life? Family, friends, spouse, kids, Anyone that they would use to come after you? [03:01:17] Speaker H: There's. [03:01:18] Speaker G: You're a God. [03:01:19] Speaker H: There's my mom. [03:01:22] Speaker G: She's. [03:01:23] Speaker H: She's in the hospital. Car accident. Where? I'm taking care of the bills for that, but that's not important right now. Probably there's my mom, and I never met my dad, but he's a tech bro somewhere, I think. I don't know if they'd use him. I've got. I have some friends that I meet up with. [03:01:50] Speaker I: The dad thing. For now. [03:01:55] Speaker H: For now. Okay. Okay. Is there a point where I should. Okay. [03:02:03] Speaker I: Is that your question? [03:02:05] Speaker H: No, no. Give me a second. Give me a second. That's not my question. [03:02:10] Speaker I: All right, the coffee will help. You've been through a lot and you're pretty shy right now. [03:02:17] Speaker H: She will look down at the coffee, and then just knock back the whole thing. And then she'll. And then she'll take a deep breath and she'll say, okay, so why is Loki talking to me? [03:02:36] Speaker I: Another perceptive question. I think we're gonna get along in the immediate. I'm talking to you because I pulled you out of that house and brought you here to be safe from a bunch of wolves. Normally, when two people are in a location together, it's polite to exchange information on a larger scale. I need your help. [03:03:11] Speaker H: Okay, well, you know, it is polite. So I should tell you my name. I'm gozi madoka. But you can just call me z. Everyone does. Z. [03:03:36] Speaker A: Yep. [03:03:37] Speaker I: Well, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. [03:03:42] Speaker H: Nice to. It's nice to be saved by you. [03:03:47] Speaker I: My question. What do you remember from the last six hours? [03:03:54] Speaker H: I remember. I remember fire. [03:04:02] Speaker G: So much fire. [03:04:06] Speaker H: And I know there were. There were wolves and. And I was being chased and they. I know they wanted to kill me. I. I could. [03:04:20] Speaker G: I. I just. [03:04:21] Speaker H: I know they wanted to kill me. And then everything was on fire and. And people were dying. I'm sorry. [03:04:40] Speaker E: You didn't kill him. [03:04:41] Speaker I: So keep your apology. [03:04:57] Speaker H: How can I help you? [03:05:04] Speaker I: Well, the wolves that attacked you operate under structure. The one in charge is clever. Very, very strong. But he's not clever enough to be pulling off what they're pulling off right now. And have been. So we need to figure out [03:05:39] Speaker E: who's [03:05:40] Speaker G: holding the leash, [03:05:43] Speaker I: who's telling him where to go and who to eat and when. That's what I need your help for. Investigating the wolf connection. [03:06:07] Speaker H: You know, if there's. If there's one thing I'm good at, it's investigating. So I can. Can I ask you one more question? [03:06:21] Speaker I: You just asked me one. So it's my turn now. [03:06:26] Speaker H: Yeah. [03:06:27] Speaker F: God. [03:06:27] Speaker H: Trickster got. Yeah, that makes sense. [03:06:31] Speaker I: Next time the wolves show up. Cuz they will be back. Do you want to rely on someone pulling you out of the fire? Or do you want to be able to get out yourself? [03:06:46] Speaker H: If I accept the offer that I know you're going to make me. The next time those wolves show up, will I be able to rip out their fucking hearts and make them suffocate on them? [03:07:08] Speaker I: Big wide grin spreads across his face. You know, personally, I'm more of an avoid threats kind of guy, but in this case, yeah, he could probably fuck some of them up real good. [03:07:28] Speaker H: Then tell me what the deal is. [03:07:31] Speaker G: I know this is a little out of order, but every night we do a reading. Tonight it felt better to do it at the end. Tonight's reading comes from the Homeric hymn to Demeter. It tells of Persephone, daughter of Demeter, gathering flowers in a meadow when the earth itself aids in her abduction. It is the beginning of one of the most beloved mythological tales in modern minds. But it is also a warning. The most dangerous of traps are as sweet and tempting and seem harmless as flowers. Apart from Demeter, lady of the golden sword and glorious fruits, she was playing with the deep bosomed daughters of Oceanus and gathering flowers over a soft meadow. Roses and crocuses and beautiful violets, irises also, and hyacinths and Narcissus, which Earth made to grow at the will of Zeus and to please the host of many, to be a snare for the bloomlight girl, a marvelous radiant flower. It was a thing of awe, whether for deathless gods or mortal men to see. From its root grew a hundred blooms, and it smelled most sweetly so that all wide heaven above and the whole earth and the sea salt swell left for joy. And the girl was amazed and reached out with both hands to take the lovely toy. But with the wide path, Earth yawned there in the plain of Nysa. And the lord host of many, with his immortal horses sprang out upon her. The son of Kronos, he who has many names. He caught her up reluctant on his golden car and bear her away, lamenting. Then she cried out shrilly with her voice calling upon her father, the son of Kronos, who is most high and excellent. But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men heard her voice. Nor yet the olive trees bearing rich fruit. Only tender hearted Hecate, bright coif, the daughter of Perseus, heard the girl from her cave and the lord Helios, Hyperion's bright son, as she cried to her father, the son of Kronos. But he was sitting aloof apart from the gods in his temple where many pray and receiving sweet offerings from mortal men. So he, that son of Kronos of many names, who is ruler of many and host of many, was bearing her away by little leave of Zeus on his immortal chariot and his own brother's child, and all unwilling. And so long as she the goddess, yet beheld earth and starry heaven and the strong flowing sea where fishes shoal and the rays of the sun and still hope to see her dear mother and the tribes of the eternal gods. So long hope calmed her great heart for all her trouble. And the heights of the mountain mountains and the depths of the sea rang with her immortal voice and her queenly mother heard her. Thank you for listening to Apotheosis A Mutants and Masterminds Actual play by hallowed Haven Studios GMing for this actual play is provided by Bloodied Porcelain. Andre Briscoe is played by Solomon Blythe Zhang is played by Clara Allison. Clint Brazos is played by Gavin Cash. Oliver Bright is played by Gary. Stefan Vargar is played by Heretic. Our intro music is by CK Martin. Our art is by Ova, who can be [email protected] LetsGoSpaceman Our editing is by Viren.