2026-8-10 — Akasha

Jorge:Yeah.

Jorge:Hello.

Tanner:Yes.

Jorge:Hello.

Tanner:Hello.

Tanner:How are you?

Jorge:Doing well, how are you?

Tanner:Pretty good.

Tanner:Oh.

Jorge:Great, Mike.

Jorge:you sound different than normal

Tanner:Yeah.

Tanner:I don't know.

Jorge:oh

Tanner:It's named Mike.

Jorge:different now

Jorge:maybe you need to wake up

Tanner:I was a little farther away from my mouth.

Tanner:I moved it.

Jorge:yeah

Tanner:Could be.

Jorge:I wasn't sure when people were going to log on so I was starting up rivals

Jorge:for five minutes but

Jorge:I turned it off

Tanner:Yes, of course.

Tanner:Of course, the five-minute match.

Tanner:That we all know exists.

Jorge:Blood Hunt. It's Blood Hunt.

Tanner:Oh, I don't know what that is. I haven't been on.

Jorge:It's a PVE thing.

Jorge:So you can fight Dracula.

Jorge:It's fun.

Tanner:Blood Hunt.

Tanner:That'll do it.

Jorge:Yeah. How are you?

Tanner:Yeah, I'm pretty good. I'm

Tanner:hopefully ready for this we see I never really know going in how it going to go

Jorge:you well this whole group plays marvel rivals so if we finish super early we can just do that

Tanner:yeah

Tanner:it's true

Tanner:that is true

Tanner:yeah

Jorge:but i've found whenever i've prepped uh the few times i've dm'd if anything i just do way more

Jorge:than I need.

Tanner:Which is probably good, and then you could skip

Tanner:something maybe if you have to.

Jorge:Yeah, but like, it's not even...

Tanner:I feel like a lot of times

Tanner:the ends of our one-shots

Tanner:kind of get hand-waved.

Jorge:Yeah, because like...

Tanner:It's like, okay, and you've done it now.

Jorge:I feel like...

Jorge:So I don't know if you've prepped this in your one shot,

Jorge:but I feel like there's just not enough time

Jorge:for our group to do two different fights.

Jorge:and maybe that's different i don't want to say like i found that like every time i try to plan

Tanner:Hmm.

Tanner:Mm-hmm.

Tanner:Yeah, it has to be

Jorge:to we just always just it takes way longer than i expected

Jorge:but when it is pulled off it's fun yeah

Tanner:a small

Tanner:earlier fight,

Jorge:yeah did you know that dnd's partnering with wow

Tanner:if anything.

Jorge:that's crazy

Tanner:Yes.

Tanner:That's interesting.

Jorge:that is crazy

Tanner:it

Tanner:they're making like a bunch of

Jorge:oh

Tanner:content related

Tanner:to it like I think a bunch of like

Jorge:Hasbro

Tanner:classes and subclasses

Jorge:yeah

Tanner:yeah

Jorge:forgot their Hasbro and they sold out

Tanner:we're all about that cash now

Jorge:vacation

Jorge:had you looked at the

Jorge:Necromancer?

Tanner:uh

Tanner:no

Tanner:I

Tanner:I looked briefly

Tanner:at the other one

Tanner:the rune knight or whatever I didn look at the Necromancer Now you mentioned last week that maybe I should do it

Jorge:Yeah yeah so it the same

Jorge:so it's a

Jorge:it based

Jorge:non full caster

Jorge:um

Jorge:it's

Jorge:flavor wise

Jorge:it makes no sense

Jorge:for Anzu

Jorge:uh

Tanner:Right.

Jorge:yeah

Tanner:Yeah.

Tanner:Necromancer is like a total...

Tanner:Like vibe that you really gotta go for if you're gonna go for it

Jorge:yeah yeah um but i was thinking of making a character for a little bit for a couple of

Jorge:sessions but then i was just like this just doesn't fit into the party there is a there's

Jorge:different flavors of necromancers so there's like a blood necromancer that like the thralls are made

Jorge:of blood there's like a like more like flesh bag one um and then there's a spirit one and i feel

Tanner:Oh

Tanner:Ah

Tanner:right

Jorge:like the spirit is the only flavor you can play if you're not an evil character um yeah yeah

Tanner:but yeah that's the tough thing with the necromancer

Jorge:yeah

Tanner:also

Tanner:several of our current antagonists

Tanner:are necromancers

Tanner:so that makes it tricky as well

Jorge:the spirit one's funny

Jorge:because with certain necrophiles

Jorge:you can become holy

Jorge:and then your spirits

Jorge:can also do spirit damage

Jorge:but then also when they die or use abilities

Tanner:that's interesting

Jorge:they can heal your teammates

Jorge:which is cool

Jorge:and I feel like

Tanner:there's something

Jorge:you can flavor spirits

Jorge:to make yourself seem not like a necromancer

Jorge:like either like

Tanner:that can be done yeah

Jorge:like even i'm not saying franzi deuce but like it could be like psychic creatures you know like you

Tanner:hmm

Jorge:can kind of vibe it out but like the other feats that are just like the flesh from your thrall

Jorge:calcifies and you like all right there no way I can make this a good person

Tanner:yeah how do they flavor conjuring the spirit hold on is it

Jorge:So that necromancer, it's coined in the book as Vitamancer.

Tanner:I don't have the book download

Tanner:yeah that's not terrible

Jorge:I think it's like almost like Valhalla style things where you're summoning warriors and stuff.

Jorge:so this is um you can also flavor it so that the necromancer will give you like a lot of

Tanner:Whoa.

Jorge:like harm spells but you can take a feat that you can use harm to heal living creatures

Jorge:um and i was looking yeah and i was looking at it and i realized the necromancer

Tanner:Well, that's just backwards.

Tanner:Oh, calling on the ancestors

Jorge:the spirit necromancer was literally just the character lev pretended to be inside that dungeon

Jorge:where he's just like

Jorge:yeah and i was like for a moment there i was like i could flavor our gal as this but then i was just

Tanner:Well, that's what I was thinking

Tanner:is like the morally good way to do that

Tanner:is you bring your ancestors into battle with you

Tanner:or something like that

Tanner:impossible magic

Jorge:like it wouldn't fit

Jorge:it'd just be bad for the team comp

Jorge:because then we'd just

Jorge:we'd have no divine

Jorge:spells

Jorge:we'd have no one good at religion

Jorge:and

Jorge:we'd just have

Jorge:another int person I was like yeah we don't need this

Tanner:is that the book

Tanner:oh I do have it downloaded somewhere

Jorge:yeah

Jorge:You can also ask pf2.workacove.work to, and you can select the impossible magic one and

Tanner:oh well

Tanner:hmm

Jorge:then ask it about vitamin answers.

Jorge:I swapped it to use OpenAI models instead of Anthropic, and I think it's worse, so I'm

Jorge:going to swap it back.

Jorge:it was slower and it didn't seem to do as like second order thinking like i feel like opus was

Tanner:It was not giving as good results.

Jorge:asking questions like what are good healing spells it would find me spells but also find

Jorge:me potentially like oh you could take a harm spell but then like use this feat to then make

Jorge:it healing so it's like secondary thoughts well i think that the open ai ones i've been seeing are

Tanner:Mm-hmm.

Jorge:largely like first order thoughts but yeah i don't keep i don't keep track of your sessions by the

Tanner:How are you, Michael?

Mike:Huh?

Jorge:way in case anyone's wondering i don't look like when mike when mike was just like oh did you see

Jorge:it i don't see it i don't know what it is so if you ask it how to kill i probably could just add

Tanner:You could if you wanted.

Jorge:I can't as is. I'd have to change it to be Snoopy.

Mike:I'll write a report. Here's what people asked today.

Jorge:I have a classifier. See if they're doing anything.

Jorge:Do your best.

Mike:You have your own model safeguards?

Mike:I have a class about how to try to figure out if anyone's trying to fucking kill Argyle.

Jorge:Suddenly it goes, don't. Arndell's a great party member.

Jorge:And it's the last one you should try to hurt.

Jorge:what happened to Tiananmen Square

Mike:It's like the tests when you're talking to Chinese models.

Mike:and you're like,

Mike:was Taiwan a country?

Tanner:Oh, jeez.

Mike:And it's like, no.

Mike:You're like, okay.

Jorge:they made it better

Mike:I don't know if you've talked to them.

Mike:They answer that way.

Mike:Taiwan is a

Mike:territory of China.

Mike:Always has been.

Tanner:I have heard about that, yeah.

Jorge:yep

Jorge:They used to which was also funny was their classifier was lazy so like runs as it responding because it streaming so if you ask like what happened in tanneman square

Tanner:Kind of crazy.

Mike:Yeah.

Mike:Thank you the the open weights ones also they not live they have it in their training

Tanner:you I feel like I saw a clip like that too

Jorge:it would start answering and then all of a sudden stop and then it would delete everything it wrote

Jorge:and it goes sorry i can't answer that yeah no i saw it firsthand

Jorge:yeah

Jorge:yeah it's really funny

Mike:you can see in their thought trace

Tanner:Stop making up historical events.

Mike:they're just like

Mike:this guy's asking about fucking nothing

Mike:nothing happened what are you talking about

Mike:is that for real

Mike:I didn't realize how nice it was inside

Jorge:yeah

Jorge:Mike's gonna go get a job at JP Morgan

Jorge:so he can visit the office

Jorge:just for that reason.

Tanner:Oh.

Tanner:You're.

Tanner:Are you sick and tired of your useless cut workers?

Mike:it's very dangerous

Mike:now

Mike:what the hell is this

Mike:look at my page

Mike:now

Mike:no

Jorge:I just saw a clip of The Office

Mike:I didn't realize they had like a whole floor

Jorge:and I was like, this is really nice.

Jorge:Mike, you need to go get this job.

Jorge:I now

Mike:that's just a fucking gym super high up

Mike:that's fucking sick

Jorge:I now know why

Jorge:the owner or the CEO was so mad

Tanner:And don't go home.

Jorge:when people didn't want to come into the office

Jorge:he's like I built a fucking luxury hotel

Jorge:yeah

Mike:this is like the coolest

Mike:vertical campus that you've ever seen

Mike:fucking come into the goddamn

Jorge:Okay you Thank you

Mike:office, you assholes.

Mike:It's also

Mike:super awkward

Mike:with this one dude on my team

Mike:because he's had like

Mike:three PRs since he

Mike:joined in like

Mike:December of last year.

Mike:He's doing a lot of research, which

Mike:means I think he's writing Jupyter notebooks or whatever

Mike:and then making other people write the actual code which I don know when they going to be sick of him or if they even feel like they can hire someone else it very difficult for us to hire in new york um but he

Mike:also the second highest user of ai on our team which that one like the first highest user who

Mike:in the last 30 days blew fucking ten thousand dollars on credits i don't know what he's i don't

Mike:know what the output is. I don't know

Mike:what he's doing. The other guy

Mike:who has 3PR has spent

Jorge:I do a good amount

Tanner:I think

Mike:$5,700. Where's

Mike:the output? You don't write

Mike:code. You don't write

Mike:you don't even merge code.

Mike:Who is

Mike:where is this going?

Jorge:I only do AI coding

Jorge:and I do a good amount of work

Jorge:and I spend around like 5 to 7k a month

Jorge:and that's hammering it

Jorge:I don't know what those people are doing

Mike:That should be the max.

Tanner:maybe they're using

Tanner:the AI to create movies

Jorge:I mean, I...

Tanner:for their own cinematic universe

Tanner:they're developing.

Mike:I.

Tanner:Just completely AI-generated films.

Mike:I struggled to get to think of how you get to that, that.

Mike:It just doesn't compute for me.

Mike:I ask it to do big shit.

Mike:I literally go, here's a here's a random message that I pulled off of Kafka.

Mike:There's something wrong in it.

Mike:Here's the entire repo.

Mike:Figure out what's wrong with it.

Jorge:Well, do you want to...

Mike:And it works for 10 minutes.

Mike:And it's like GPT Sol, extra high, fucking Mr. Meander.

Jorge:Yeah.

Mike:And then he comes back to me after 10 minutes with the answer.

Jorge:is there an extra high

Mike:And I'm like, how much does this cost?

Mike:He's like, $4.

Jorge:okay

Mike:I mean, we have it on our internal.

Mike:They probably have to have some sort of universal mapping.

Jorge:i thought it was yeah i don't remember off the top of my i just know it has a

Mike:Because I know Opus has an extra high.

Mike:I don't know if Sol does.

Jorge:low medium high and then there's a maximum ultra i just don't remember if there's an extra high in

Jorge:there if there is an extra high that's ridiculous how many fucking settings do you need i mean

Mike:Maybe extra high maps to max.

Mike:I don know I feel like a DJ picking DJs just fucking touch shit out of the board They don even know what they doing I like ah medium extra high I don know I don know

Jorge:you know yeah Well what I tend to do to get

Jorge:and this is how I get some more token burn,

Jorge:is I use an ultra model,

Jorge:and then I have it spin up for every task,

Jorge:three parallel media models

Jorge:to spin up different implementations,

Jorge:and then have the ultra pick the best one,

Jorge:and also prefer the simpler,

Jorge:more human-readable, less-code options

Tanner:It doesn't say you're muted, but you're not making any sounds.

Mike:10 grand.

Jorge:when possible.

Jorge:And that still... And I do a lot

Jorge:of coding, and that still

Jorge:burns 5 to 5k

Jorge:max. And honestly, I spent

Jorge:more this month because I was making my own editor.

Mike:50% of my team uses 2% of the token budget.

Jorge:You're muted, Josh.

Jorge:Oh, I can't hear you.

Mike:I can't hear him either.

Jorge:But I'm making my own editor.

Mike:Maybe Tanner can hear him.

Mike:Tanner, can you translate?

Tanner:I think he said

Mike:Tanner, you must be able to hear him.

Jorge:He thought the psychic was still too low,

Tanner:I've decided for next session

Mike:just once

Tanner:to level

Tanner:Tanner's character Anzu up

Tanner:I just get it plus one level

Mike:he's struggling

Jorge:so he's going to let you be a level higher.

Tanner:compared to everybody else

Tanner:oh

Tanner:that was an

Mike:but

Tanner:exclaim of anguish that we just

Tanner:couldn't hear right there

Jorge:Have you...

Mike:the guy

Mike:the guy that uses like 5500

Tanner:Oh my god.

Mike:tokens and has merged

Jorge:I

Mike:three to five PRs his entire tenure on the team.

Mike:He is also in the office six days a week

Mike:for like 12 hours a day,

Mike:just on the phone with, I can only imagine, his relatives.

Tanner:where is all the money coming from to

Mike:And he just eats the free food 12 hours a day,

Mike:no code gets merged, and boom, 5,000 in tokens.

Mike:I don't know who is managing him or what's going on,

Mike:but that's what I see.

Tanner:pay these inefficient workers

Mike:Great question. Let's ask my boss who I've heard is notoriously

Jorge:Well, Tanner, the other issue is that a lot of these companies want on their earnings that they're spending a lot on coding agents to show they're not falling behind other people who are also spending it.

Tanner:but it's all like just junk expenditure right isn't it all just fake

Mike:load of fire people.

Jorge:So there's like some incentivization there.

Mike:Oh, for some people, yeah.

Jorge:So some people, for example, I actually feel like I'm 10x my output.

Jorge:but I don't know how sustainable this is.

Tanner:Oh.

Josh:Oh.

Jorge:Oh, there's Mac.

Jorge:And Uber, there's a famous case

Jorge:where the CTO of Uber in April was just like,

Jorge:so we've spent all of our AI budget already for the year.

Jorge:And then the CEO of Uber in like July was just like,

Jorge:we spent millions and millions of dollars in AI coding

Jorge:and we don't see that in revenue.

Jorge:So like, what are we doing?

Tanner:Yeah, I was using Uber a month ago, and it didn't really seem any different from the year before or the year before that.

Mike:didn't this spotify ceo go on a podcast be like we're we're deploying to prod

Jorge:Like, sure.

Jorge:So he's just like, I don't know why we're spending this because engineers are doing more things.

Jorge:But like, what is these things do?

Jorge:I don't know.

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:Yeah.

Mike:5,000 times a day now because of AI.

Mike:And it's just like, are you guys

Jorge:well yeah spotify is a horribly managed company like they they wrote the book on how to use agile

Josh:I'm Agile certified.

Mike:uploading it for every new song released?

Mike:Is there a code change required

Mike:to update the songs in Spotify?

Mike:Why the fuck are you

Mike:releasing a prod 5,000 times a day?

Jorge:horribly and they had to cancel it did you guys ever work with agile

Jorge:spotify took it to like new levels they had like you had like your squads and then you had like tribes and then they were like warrior factions and then they were like cross wanderers and then

Mike:Thank you They had like

Tanner:you Oh my god

Jorge:they like wrote books and then they quietly just got rid of it because they didn't get anything

Jorge:done people were just what the fuck was happening all day there were councils

Jorge:it was just

Mike:guilds and shit

Mike:and it's like, what guild are you part of?

Mike:guilds are at War again. It's like,

Tanner:I like their LARPing over there.

Jorge:yeah yeah so they had yeah yeah she had she had tribes and then in the tribes this was like a

Mike:are you guys shipping anything? It's like, what the fuck

Mike:do we have to ship? It's a music library.

Mike:People sign in, music gets

Mike:uploaded, we get a shitload of revenue.

Mike:I'm gonna go play ping pong with my guildmates.

Mike:Lots of love.

Jorge:team there were also like

Jorge:chapters so like different

Jorge:people from different sub teams across

Tanner:Oh, of multiple tribes?

Josh:I mean, it doesn't sound like a bad time.

Jorge:teams and then there were guilds

Jorge:that then mapped across chapters

Jorge:and tribes

Jorge:it's like alright this is ridiculous

Jorge:the fuck are you guys doing

Jorge:oh there was alliances I forgot there were alliances

Jorge:in charters

Jorge:uh yeah yeah

Jorge:so

Jorge:this is just

Tanner:Now I'm feeling like they're playing Survivor.

Jorge:laughing

Jorge:You know they got nothing done because they were just

Josh:they didn't like this

Jorge:brainstorming.

Jorge:Thanks to...

Mike:my god.

Jorge:Uh...

Tanner:What the hell?

Josh:this was bad

Mike:Wait, did you get

Mike:the picture that has the guild included?

Josh:yeah no there are guilds here

Mike:This is what I'm seeing.

Jorge:Oh, I...

Josh:cause there's the agile coach guild

Jorge:Yeah, yeah.

Jorge:Yeah.

Jorge:Yeah, no, it's just like, what the fuck are you guys doing?

Mike:Why are there

Mike:targets? How did

Josh:okay

Mike:this get through any

Mike:woke fucking

Jorge:What the fuck is this?

Mike:anything?

Josh:Oh this one makes more sense Yeah I get this one

Mike:Jorge what is this one You know what No no this one makes sense

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:No don say that

Mike:All of these make sense if you just replace all of the people with agents.

Josh:So, this particular organization sucks, but I'm just going to, one second, I'm just going

Mike:Then I think it probably works, but only because you can put agents in a horrible system and

Mike:they'll probably produce something reasonable.

Jorge:Yeah.

Jorge:No, it's like...

Jorge:uh

Tanner:I like this chart.

Josh:to paste.

Josh:The chart that Jorge most recently did, when I saw the bit in the top with the agile whatever,

Josh:it immediately made me think of this

Josh:which I don't know if that's what they were going for

Josh:it's just

Tanner:I like the chart where you can fall into the category of

Josh:with low autonomy and low alignment

Tanner:does not know what to be done and cannot fix it.

Jorge:uh

Tanner:How do you end up there?

Jorge:yeah

Mike:uh

Josh:that's why you need to increase your alignment

Josh:as you can tell by this umbrella

Josh:which inside of the umbrella are all of the squads.

Jorge:yeah

Josh:Also, is this diagram recursive?

Jorge:oh yes

Josh:In the autonomous squad section,

Josh:under relevant stakeholders,

Josh:is that the whole thing just squished?

Jorge:This looks like it...

Mike:How many product backlogs do they have?

Mike:Is it just the two?

Mike:It does look like it'd be just the two.

Mike:But no, those are the enterprise architects.

Mike:They come up with this horse shit.

Josh:Yeah.

Mike:So if you're wondering who the most important people are,

Mike:it's not even managed.

Mike:What are all these arrows?

Mike:The arrow from agile coaches down to the alignment umbrella.

Mike:I don't...

Jorge:It looks like it was made...

Mike:Who are they talking to?

Josh:The Agile coaches are the ones helping with alignment.

Josh:Does that not make sense to you

Jorge:This looks like it was made by like a school UN Team UN group This is so ridiculous

Tanner:Hmm Mmm

Mike:Thank you What

Josh:Yes, that is ridiculous.

Jorge:Spotify, they're the Swedish ones.

Jorge:Or the Norwegian ones?

Josh:What?

Mike:I think so.

Mike:I think they're Swedish.

Jorge:Swedish?

Jorge:Are they Swedish or Norwegian?

Mike:Same thing.

Jorge:from Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden, yeah

Tanner:Whoa, hold on.

Mike:is Spotify down?

Jorge:European countries are so funny

Mike:I told you the same thing.

Jorge:I love hearing about like

Jorge:tech companies that have like European branches

Jorge:and they're like, yeah, you know like

Jorge:when comes summer

Jorge:they don't work

Mike:No, that's the thing.

Mike:The thing is Spotify makes a lot of money

Mike:and was founded in Europe.

Mike:and you're not allowed to do that.

Jorge:What?

Mike:So they have to come up with this insane org chart

Mike:to make it feel like a commune.

Mike:They have to be like, no, no, no.

Mike:The guys that make all the decisions and all the money,

Mike:they're in the top left here.

Mike:That's not, look at all the circles.

Mike:Look at, everyone's a stakeholder in this.

Mike:Look at the puzzle pieces.

Mike:And we have a backlog.

Mike:Guys, look at all,

Mike:do you want to be part of a guild and a tribe

Mike:at the same time?

Mike:If you just create such an overbearing corporate structure,

Mike:You can obfuscate real capitalism going on so Europe doesn't stop you from doing business.

Jorge:what what social media company was based in france that was like it blew up like wildfire

Jorge:but then it had some bugs and then summer happened and then all of the engineering

Jorge:team was just like well it's summer so i'm not gonna work and then it just like collapsed

Jorge:I think it might have been

Mike:Let's see.

Mike:Be Real was a photo sharing app.

Mike:Yubo.

Mike:Global...

Jorge:was it Bria?

Josh:Be Real kind of sounds like it. Be Real was very popular for a very short period of time

Jorge:I don't know

Jorge:I think it was Be Real.

Tanner:People got pissed at the

Mike:Yeah, what the fuck?

Josh:and then dropped off the face of the earth.

Jorge:I was going to say Be Real, so it's definitely Be Real.

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:Ark Raiders devs for going on

Tanner:Christmas holiday for

Tanner:two weeks. They were like,

Tanner:where's my content updates? What about all these

Tanner:cheaters?

Mike:I'm at home,

Josh:How dare they?

Mike:and I just have a fucking Xbox.

Mike:I want to talk to my family.

Mike:Can you up this game?

Mike:Fucking.

Tanner:I need more endgame content.

Jorge:They sucked.

Tanner:Hmm.

Mike:I played 80 hours in two weeks.

Josh:I enjoyed Ark Raiders.

Mike:I found no fun endgame content.

Jorge:People, I don't know.

Jorge:I found like, I liked Dark Raiders for a little bit,

Jorge:but I was like, I just don't,

Jorge:these people are taking it way too seriously.

Josh:I got a considerable amount of time out of it.

Josh:I figure I will revisit it in like two years

Josh:when the devs that have had time to like catch up

Jorge:Yeah.

Josh:and chuck new things into it.

Jorge:and and like the thing is i think for me at least i'm just not the biggest fan of extraction

Jorge:shoot like it's just it's just a genre thing for me and like when they were talking about

Jorge:there isn't that much end game content for me i'm like it's an extraction shooter the whole point is

Jorge:to be a squirrel to just to just pack it out and then sometimes take it out but like i don't know

Jorge:i don't know what what do they want an extraction shooter story

Jorge:yeah

Josh:Yeah.

Josh:I want a story.

Jorge:yeah

Josh:Like Marathon.

Tanner:Oh.

Mike:Marathon is a story.

Jorge:what

Josh:Marathon does have a story.

Jorge:did they disable it yet

Josh:They did fire the lead dev.

Jorge:yeah

Josh:Disable Marathon?

Josh:No, but they're hard pivoting.

Jorge:okay

Jorge:to what

Josh:Well, so this past season, for the rest of the season,

Josh:they announced PvE roguelite mode.

Jorge:okay

Josh:And next season they apparently focusing entirely on improving the PvE experience by which I mean making a PvE game mode permanent Coinciding with the fact that they fired the original lead dev

Josh:because he was super PvP focused.

Josh:And given that Marathon is now Bungie's only IP,

Josh:I guess they're looking to salvage it.

Josh:I don't think it's going to work.

Josh:But, you know, they're trying to...

Jorge:

Jorge:if they make a PVE

Jorge:I really love PVEs

Mike:Holy.

Josh:We'll see.

Jorge:I will definitely hop back

Jorge:if it's a roguelite

Jorge:that'd be so fun

Jorge:love roguelites

Jorge:I

Josh:They're really good at making shooters.

Josh:They're also really, really good at ruining whatever they make

Josh:with the most brain-dead decisions I have ever seen a corporation perform

Josh:over and over and over and over and over again.

Josh:They're talented like that.

Jorge:yeah

Mike:Dude, I can't believe I'm about to block a fucking recruiter from calling me.

Josh:We'll see.

Jorge:uh i also two other games i want to flag that i want to play so i'm gonna play i've seen small

Mike:No.

Josh:What?

Jorge:clips of the uh you you're running a gas station and there's doppelgangers that coming in

Jorge:do you guys know this game

Jorge:um there's like potential doppelgangers and you have to serve them you have to decide if they're

Josh:That doesn't narrow it down. There are a few games that are like that.

Mike:No.

Josh:Yeah.

Jorge:like real or not and then um yeah that one looks fun um and i also the problem is i really like

Mike:I've seen that one, yeah.

Jorge:pve with friend games which is 100 the ai slop market right now so i see so many clips about

Jorge:random games like this and i'm like oh i wish it was good i really wish one of these was good

Jorge:there's one where like a train it's like snowpiercer where like you have to drive the

Jorge:train and if you stop too long your engine freezes and it won't restart but you have to like scavenge

Josh:There what is it Is it the Long Walk is the current big friend slot game No not the long walk What is it What is it Walking game That just came out The big walk

Jorge:for supplies and like, oh, this looks fun.

Jorge:Ratings are bad.

Jorge:There a spaceship one Ratings are bad They just like Raft with other things

Tanner:you No

Mike:you That so good

Jorge:Tanner, have you played Lethal Company?

Tanner:My brother bought it for me.

Jorge:We should play!

Tanner:So I believe it.

Jorge:We used to have to get some rando from Buffalo to play,

Jorge:but now we can play with Tanner

Tanner:Leave.

Mike:We got several randos.

Josh:We did.

Jorge:and Redfish.

Mike:I can't believe when Kyle played with us.

Jorge:We can have Redfish.

Mike:Did you guys play with Kyle, or was it just me and Redfish and a couple other people?

Josh:I think so.

Jorge:I think I played with Kyle, but I'm not sure.

Mike:I think that was the one where it was either Kyle or Redfish.

Josh:Yeah.

Mike:They were talking.

Mike:I was the only one alive, and they're like, nah, he's got this.

Mike:Because Jorge was like, I think he's going to die.

Mike:He's like, nah, he's got this.

Mike:And then I clutched up.

Mike:And you're like, yo, they were like, nah, he's got this.

Mike:And I was like, dude, I got that.

Josh:For context, Tanner,

Mike:But no, there was Kyle has a mechanical keyboard and his mic was set up like to too high of a gain and the dogs got him.

Mike:And it literally said, you know, like the death message because their mod death messages says like, you know, sucks about your mechanical keyboard or like maybe you should get acquired or mechanical keyboard.

Mike:I'm like, oh, my God, he did die from his mechanical keyboard.

Mike:Yeah.

Josh:there's an enemy in the game that if it can hear you if you're speaking in in-game voice chat

Jorge:and there was one time where they were coming back and i was with the man in the chair

Tanner:yeah yeah

Josh:and his keyboard set it off which is where that comes from

Jorge:and i called down a cheap item to get flown in to make a bunch of noise to draw the dogs in

Jorge:and i was like this will buy them time but then they thought i was buying something that they

Jorge:should get so they all like ran into it and then got murdered by the dogs i was like i bought like

Tanner:yeah

Josh:Okay Okay

Tanner:yeah

Jorge:a tic I was just trying to distract them I thought it was clear I done it with other people

Tanner:That sounds like a strategy you gotta set up ahead of time And I guess

Jorge:There's also...

Jorge:Do you know anything about the enemies?

Tanner:Uh, I did once upon a time, but I don't really remember.

Tanner:I did know that there is, like, a noise component.

Jorge:Yeah.

Jorge:One of them is a...

Jorge:There's also mimics,

Jorge:which kill someone and then look like them.

Tanner:Hmm.

Mike:Oh my god.

Josh:Oilheads or Brackens.

Jorge:It's funny being the man in the chair

Jorge:and then seeing someone walking and then an enemy

Jorge:and then they just disappear

Jorge:and then you see an enemy moving around

Jorge:and then you're like, there's Mimics!

Tanner:Hmm.

Mike:The mimics are so scary.

Mike:What else?

Mike:I forgot what they're called.

Jorge:The Giant?

Mike:The fucking neck snappers.

Mike:The Giant, yeah.

Jorge:Oh, um...

Mike:Yeah, the bracket is fucking great.

Jorge:Brackens, Brackens.

Jorge:With the backers.

Mike:No, the coil head, the mod bracken is fucking crazy.

Mike:So the coil heads, Tanner, are like, are these mannequins that have like a coil and then like their head is bouncy.

Mike:But the thing is, when you're not looking at them, they just sprint at you.

Mike:So you just hear super loud footsteps like da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

Mike:And they are insanely fast.

Mike:I think they're about the same speed or maybe a bit quicker than someone running.

Mike:And they immediately kill you if they get close enough to you.

Mike:If they touch you, you just die immediately.

Mike:I remember spectating Josh once.

Tanner:Oh my god.

Mike:And I think he was the only one alive in, like, the mansion level.

Mike:And I'm like, I can't believe Josh doesn't like horror and we left him alive.

Mike:And then he just turns around and you just hear boing.

Mike:Because when you look at it, it stops moving and its head, like, makes the boing sound.

Mike:And he's just like, oh, my God.

Mike:And I'm like, oh, dude, he's fucking dead.

Mike:He's so dead.

Mike:This is the scariest thing to face alone.

Mike:And then he just, like, turns and starts running.

Mike:And you hear the da-da-da-da-da-da.

Mike:And then he turns around at the last second and it's right there.

Mike:I'm like, how is he clutching up right now? I would have shit myself like what's going on. What am I watching and then?

Jorge:Yeah.

Mike:And the Bracken would kidnap people in the non-modded mode.

Mike:It's like this guy with all these feathers going out.

Mike:And you just see him in the back.

Mike:He's not really aggro.

Mike:You'd just be looking around, and you'd see white eyes down the hallway.

Mike:And you're like, Bracken, Bracken, guys, this is a Bracken down the hallway.

Mike:And he would just grab people.

Mike:You would just grab your friend.

Mike:Not kill him instantly, but grab him.

Mike:And then you hear him like, no, please help me.

Mike:As they're being pulled down a fucking hallway.

Mike:And the modded version created a minigame.

Mike:So after the Bracken takes you away, it puts you in a hallway and you have to outrun the Bracken like dodging pipes.

Jorge:There's also the gesture.

Tanner:I feel like

Mike:And then you get to an exit door.

Mike:And if you can open the exit door in time, the Bracken doesn't kill you and you just spawn back up.

Mike:So if you see your boy get taken by the Bracken, you're like, do we wait for him?

Mike:I don't know. How good is he at the game?

Mike:And then you're just standing there like, God, I fucking hope he makes it, dude.

Mike:And then he just pops out like, let's get out of here.

Mike:Let's get the fuck out of here.

Mike:The Bracken's still alive.

Mike:Let's go, go, go.

Mike:It's so scary.

Tanner:I'm going to pee my pants playing this game.

Jorge:there's the jester yeah no there's there's a jester that starts once you see it and it sees

Mike:Oh my god the jester

Josh:For what it's worth,

Mike:Or when your friends sacrifice themselves

Jorge:you it starts winding and there's just a timer you don't know how long it's gonna go once it

Jorge:pops it just kills everyone there's nothing you can do and you just have to leave so like you're

Jorge:like oh no we gotta get out of this level that's a terrifying one

Mike:Yeah

Josh:I am a naturally very scared person.

Jorge:Gideon.

Josh:The game is 98% of the time only goofy.

Josh:And then 2% of the time, like, you get caught in the dark on your own.

Josh:You hear your friend say, ah!

Josh:And then, like, cut out.

Josh:And they're stomping in the distance and it gets very scary.

Josh:But for the vast, vast majority of the time, you're walking through a bunch of hallways with a toy robot that's, like, doing this.

Jorge:Gideon.

Josh:Being chased by a slime that moving very slowly on the ground Like I you know it

Jorge:Yeah you yeah there been times

Tanner:Alright we give it a go at some point

Mike:But it so scary when you like the last one to enter like say they like they were able to do

Mike:a jumping puzzle take a shortcut you're like fuck whatever i'll take the ladder and then they're all

Mike:in and then you open the front door and you're like guys

Mike:guys because you've been in this because you've been in the same position

Jorge:there's been times

Jorge:yeah

Mike:where you're the one that goes first and insta-die

Jorge:oh and then also one other thing that yeah yeah and the other thing two other things before you

Tanner:As if you can't hear anybody, there's two reasons why.

Mike:and like three people insta-die and you're like

Mike:oh he doesn't know and then you watch them open the door

Mike:and they go guys and you're like

Mike:he's fucking completely dead there's something that's gonna

Mike:insta-kill him in like five seconds

Mike:so you're like are they just too far

Mike:to hear me or am I going to get insta-killed

Mike:if they don't respond

Mike:yeah

Jorge:good play but you also need to get a certain amount of items because i think it's like every

Jorge:three days you need to hit a quota and the quota's like increasing so you have to go deeper into the

Jorge:procedurally generated maps to like get the better items and there's the longer you stay the more

Jorge:dangerous it gets um and then the other funny thing is you can spend some money you're like

Jorge:is this worth it i might not make the deadline um oh and there's a teleporter so if you have a man

Jorge:in the chair and they see something's happening they can zap you out but you drop all your items

Mike:You gotta buy it.

Jorge:but then like if you're a man in the chair you'd be looking and they're like there's a red dot is

Tanner:you don't got like a radio connection to speak to them

Jorge:does he see it there's a fucking spider following him does he see the spider does he see the spider

Jorge:and then like you're watching this and you're like do i zap him out uh but yeah

Jorge:no so the guy in the the guy in the chair can buy a one-way message so he can send messages

Jorge:to other peoples.

Mike:No, no, you can buy walkie-talkies, too.

Jorge:Oh, oh yeah, I forgot.

Mike:No?

Mike:yeah

Jorge:You can buy a walkie-talkie,

Jorge:but keep in mind,

Mike:that is also very true and you have to have it out yeah

Jorge:if you have a walkie-talkie on

Jorge:and someone talks it can let enemies know where you are Oh and then you also need to charge your walkie you have to you have to have it out and you have to charge it because if you forget to charge it

Tanner:Thank you Uh

Jorge:it's not there and then with the teleporter oh you need to charge your flashlights too and then

Tanner:This is very logistically complex.

Jorge:with the teleporter i've done this by accident a couple times because i was usually the man in the

Jorge:chair you could accidentally teleport a mimic in because it looks like your friend then there's a

Tanner:Oh my god.

Mike:got it yeah

Mike:oh no the mod the mod records all audio in the session so the mod like you'll walk by and you'll

Jorge:murder machine in spawn

Jorge:and then everyone that walks

Jorge:in just sees someone and the

Jorge:mimic will copy your voice and be like

Jorge:hello there and they're like what

Jorge:and they're just like

Jorge:what

Mike:hear me go hey did you get that lamp and you're like no i didn't get that and then you're fucking

Mike:dead because i've the mimic has already grabbed you and now there's two mimics or whatever and

Mike:And then yours will walk up and be like, hey, guys, I have a chip on my shoulder or whatever.

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:when you say the mod

Josh:their view of the game

Mike:And then they'll be like, and then it'll just trick.

Tanner:are you talking about like a mod to the game

Mike:Yeah, it's not in the base game.

Jorge:Yeah.

Josh:is very heavily skewed by the

Josh:fact that like a day after we

Josh:started playing this I put together

Josh:an 100 mod like

Josh:mod pack and we played the majority of the

Josh:time off of that mod pack

Josh:well

Mike:And the best mod.

Jorge:And there was gritty dances.

Tanner:hmm

Tanner:so you're not playing the base game

Mike:Oh yeah, we could gritty. That was the thing.

Josh:We haven't played Lethal Company in months, so we're not playing anything.

Jorge:Oh, no.

Josh:But at the time, most of the stuff they're describing is vanilla, but some of it does come from mods.

Josh:We did play very heavily modded.

Mike:The best mod...

Josh:Mostly to add things.

Josh:It didn't, like, change vanilla too much.

Mike:The best mod was

Josh:Yes, sorry.

Mike:the CRT TV.

Mike:that you could paste a YouTube link into,

Josh:I knew you were going to say that.

Josh:you Dracula flow

Jorge:or the boombox I kill a flow

Mike:and it would grab the video and play the YouTube video on the CRT TV So at that time I was listening Yes I was playing Dracula Flow

Tanner:Oh you were playing the stupid I heard about this

Jorge:you're playing on the boombox

Tanner:Yes.

Josh:Yeah.

Mike:So you'd walk up to the ship

Mike:and you'd be like

Mike:I don't give a shit.

Mike:I've never given a shit.

Mike:Whatever the fuck he says.

Mike:That was absolutely

Mike:killing me. And that would attract

Mike:the dogs if they were on that level.

Tanner:Uh-huh.

Tanner:Yeah, you can never give Mike too much power.

Jorge:What was the last time we played?

Mike:Oh, and the modded maps also, like secret labs, absolutely terrifying.

Josh:I mean, who knows what the actual landscape of modding is at Lethal Company nowadays.

Mike:There's so many dead ends and secret labs.

Mike:You can see so far down a hallway.

Josh:It's been years.

Mike:Probably have AI.

Jorge:How can you check that on Steam?

Josh:It's all AI.

Mike:Year and a half ago?

Josh:I'm gonna check and Steam's gonna say

Tanner:Oh, that is a long time ago.

Josh:you played this yesterday, what are you talking about?

Jorge:Last Online?

Mike:That happened to me when I logged into my GeoGuessr account.

Josh:I don't even think I have it

Jorge:42 hours ago?

Josh:last

Josh:played January 28th, 2024

Josh:yeah

Josh:hmm

Josh:if you if you guys actually do want to play should i see if there's like a

Jorge:Yeah.

Jorge:We should spend this up. Tanner, you should get it.

Jorge:It's $10.

Tanner:I have it.

Jorge:Mods are free.

Mike:He has it.

Jorge:Oh, yes, yes. Play it. We should play it.

Tanner:My brother...

Jorge:Another day. After you run the session.

Jorge:What do you mean pared down?

Mike:Yeah, I pared down.

Josh:more pared down set of modern mods for us to play with

Josh:well because i want tanner if tanner's playing with us and he wants to play with us

Josh:I'd want him to get at least some of the Lethal Company experience

Josh:before it's, you know, Goku peeking his head around a corner or something like that.

Josh:Like, I think the last mod I added in was to replace the Joker music box sound with Free Bird.

Mike:Yeah, well, let's just...

Mike:That was so funny.

Josh:So, like...

Mike:Oh my God.

Jorge:you remember someone running with a shotgun

Tanner:Terrible.

Mike:By the way, this thing runs like hell.

Josh:Which is, you know, it's a good time.

Mike:And you can hear...

Mike:And it accelerates once it pops out of the box.

Mike:So instead, you just hear like...

Mike:And then when he pops out, it's...

Mike:Just sprinting around chasing people.

Josh:I just...

Jorge:as this is happening

Mike:Oh, God.

Mike:I completely forgot about the fucking nutcracker and the shotgun.

Josh:Either way.

Mike:But we'll have him play...

Mike:We'll just play vanilla.

Jorge:obviously yeah

Tanner:I guess we should play Dungeons and Dragons.

Mike:We'll just play vanilla for the first few and then load up as many mods as possible.

Josh:If we want to play... we should also ask Noah if he'd like to play. The more the merrier with this kind of game.

Josh:So...

Jorge:yeah

Josh:Oh.

Jorge:yeah

Mike:Sure.

Tanner:I enjoyed...

Tanner:I received three

Tanner:different levels

Tanner:of character sheet.

Josh:Oh.

Mike:And was one of them correct?

Tanner:Which...

Jorge:was i the 100 or was i the 40 okay great great great great great just double checking i didn't

Tanner:Well, one of them is 0% of a character sheet, one of them is 100% of the character sheet, and then the other one is maybe 40% of a character sheet?

Mike:Wait, but which one...

Josh:I'm so sorry.

Tanner:And really, all forms are acceptable because I'm not using Foundry or anything like that, so I don't really care, but I just thought that was amusing.

Tanner:Yeah, you're 100, yeah.

Jorge:Disgrace my name.

Mike:Who had the correct level?

Tanner:What do you mean?

Jorge:I did.

Jorge:I had the correct level.

Tanner:Right, I received all of Jorge's character, yeah.

Mike:Oh, I thought you said...

Jorge:I had 100% of it.

Mike:I thought you said the other two made incorrect levels.

Mike:I was like, they...

Mike:I thought it was just a reading thing.

Jorge:That's where I got nervous for a second.

Jorge:I was like, I definitely read that wrong.

Jorge:guys

Mike:Well I not panicking to send you it so I didn send you the zero percent can you send it to him in json

Jorge:okay i actually sent 90 percent tenor i accidentally picked the wrong race

Josh:Sorry about that.

Tanner:Oh this is an interesting format Yeah I don really care so It no problem

Tanner:Okay, that's kind of...

Tanner:That's metal as hell.

Jorge:i'm gonna swap that right now i'm gonna swap that right now

Tanner:Oh, did you switch?

Tanner:I was going to

Jorge:I took my

Tanner:roast you for that once we got to it

Tanner:but you beat me to it

Tanner:Yeah, it's a shame that they haven't really updated that to work with the new...

Jorge:from your last campaign strong

Jorge:and then I made him a fourth level

Jorge:changed a couple of things the Goliath guy

Jorge:but yeah

Jorge:D&D Beyond has a terrible way to build

Jorge:characters it's so much better on

Jorge:OrcaPup

Jorge:Yeah.

Mike:Also, they didn't have...

Josh:I mean, level 4 is kind of a low enough level in 5e that it's pretty easy to just do it

Tanner:Yeah, that's part of the reason that I've been doing lower level one shots, just because

Josh:manually.

Josh:That's fair.

Mike:there also wasn't enough

Tanner:it's annoying to build characters, but also it's easier to plan low level one shots anyway.

Josh:talking talking about items um i i didn't ask this because i didn't actually think it was

Mike:cool

Mike:items in D&D Beyond

Tanner:I mean, I just...

Mike:I was like give me this

Mike:and they're like we don't have it

Tanner:Yeah.

Mike:rush out buddy

Tanner:you could have bought those that fine yeah yeah yeah you can just keep it as the goliath

Mike:what the fuck

Josh:important enough i could just throw it out uh for the money that you gave us

Josh:I believe in 2024 edition

Josh:health potions got turned into

Josh:common magic items instead of being like mundane can we have health potions or would you rather not Okay Okay

Jorge:And I just be a Goliath that looks like you

Tanner:no it's fine my feeling is that the type of society not that the flavor really matters but

Jorge:It reset all of my stats and everything, and I just...

Tanner:the type of society they have here,

Tanner:a Goliath would fit in.

Jorge:Great, great, great, great, great, great.

Mike:What's a health potion called?

Josh:yeah

Mike:Potions of healing?

Jorge:That's so stupid.

Josh:also

Mike:50 gold pieces.

Josh:before we

Mike:I can't afford one.

Josh:play I do want to mention that I

Josh:changed a lot

Josh:of the backing functionality of the

Josh:dice bot but for

Josh:your sake

Josh:the only real thing that you need to care

Tanner:ADV space.

Josh:care about that's different is it used to be if you wanted to do advantage it was ADV

Mike:Reverse Python.

Josh:open parentheses close parentheses now it's just ADV

Josh:uh sure actually let's let's see if I forget the space nope don't need the space

Josh:um

Tanner:Oh.

Josh:uh correct you just do

Tanner:I see.

Tanner:You don't even have to put the D20.

Tanner:Well, you should a DVD.

Josh:ADV and that's advantage

Josh:well it doesn't know what like

Mike:Did I break it?

Josh:yeah that's

Josh:poop isn't

Josh:yeah I think it just

Tanner:Oh, no, never mind.

Mike:I know.

Tanner:I guess the one in front is probably

Josh:it just didn't know how to parse that

Josh:so it just threw it out

Mike:I know, but it didn't throw it out the way that it threw it out with Jorge's.

Josh:Right because it didn think that you were even trying to invoke it Part of the reason why I needed to do this is specifically for this Which now it supports which is fun

Mike:Oh.

Tanner:oh that's fun

Mike:Thank you Is that reroll ones

Josh:Yes it is.

Josh:Which is a good time.

Mike:I don't know if it works.

Josh:It's not gonna work

Josh:if you keep doing it like that.

Josh:I don't know what to tell you.

Jorge:Josh is using an LLM

Tanner:Just throwing random letters together.

Mike:I am the unit tests.

Josh:It's not... you're not unit testing anything.

Mike:Because I'm not hitting some regex spring.

Josh:None of this is making it to the actual evaluator.

Josh:It's not regex.

Josh:It's like a full LR lookahead parser.

Jorge:he's just asking an LLM

Josh:I'm not using an LLM.

Jorge:hey figure this out

Josh:It's not an LLM.

Jorge:That's crazy.

Josh:Oh, you got just d20! You did it, good job.

Tanner:All right.

Tanner:Are we prepared?

Jorge:We are prepared.

Tanner:Oh, I actually like what Mike did.

Tanner:Can you, Josh, can you make it so that something like what Mike sent works?

Josh:Yeah?

Josh:Um, I could.

Josh:I won't, but I could.

Jorge:You needed an L for that, Josh.

Josh:Yeah, I'm not hooking an LLM up to a fully deterministic dice pot.

Tanner:All right.

Mike:No.

Josh:There's no reason to do that.

Josh:I'm sorry.

Josh:Do you want me to make it so that AGVG means something for you, Mike?

Josh:So that you can type it and it would do things?

Josh:Oh.

Mike:Okay, I'm done.

Tanner:Let's do it.

Mike:

Tanner:Does anyone want to recap the last one shot I ran?

Tanner:No, I'm kidding.

Mike:I'll do it.

Jorge:We're behind schedule, guys.

Josh:I mean, if you want.

Josh:Yeah.

Tanner:Shoot, if you really want to, you can, but...

Jorge:We're behind schedule.

Jorge:to do this.

Tanner:Oh, no, he's right. We're behind schedule.

Mike:I can't remember.

Tanner:All right.

Mike:Yeah.

Tanner:We're not going to do it.

Tanner:So we find ourselves in the city of Blade's Rest

Tanner:on the southern edge of a large, magically imbued jungle.

Tanner:Blade's Rest is a civilization of predominantly orts,

Tanner:couple Goliaths sprinkled in.

Jorge:I'm adopted.

Tanner:And these are

Tanner:orts that have

Tanner:split off from

Tanner:Grumsh. They are

Tanner:not as

Tanner:bound to conquest

Tanner:as some other orc

Tanner:are.

Tanner:That being said, they're still

Tanner:got their kind of latent aggression within

Tanner:and

Tanner:they synergize this with their environment by

Tanner:going big game hunting essentially

Tanner:in the jungle. It's lucrative, it's good to get out

Tanner:some energy, and

Tanner:it's a large part of the culture here in Blade's Rest.

Tanner:Hunting parties are trained

Tanner:as a unit throughout their teenage years

Tanner:and eventually

Tanner:as a sort of graduation

Tanner:they go on their first solo hunt

Tanner:bring back some kind of trophy

Tanner:and become a full-fledged hunting party.

Tanner:And so you guys are of course

Tanner:one of these junior hunting parties

Tanner:on the precipice of graduation.

Tanner:You been awaiting a day like today and we get into it So there a training ground right at the edge of the jungle

Tanner:There's all kinds of different things at the training ground.

Tanner:There's like a tree obstacle course, climbing course sort of thing.

Tanner:There's strike dummies.

Tanner:some of them are

Tanner:enchanted to be

Tanner:elementally resistant

Tanner:to help train spellcasters

Tanner:there's cubbies full of

Tanner:different arcane components to practice

Tanner:with, there's all kinds of

Tanner:wooden weapons to train

Tanner:with

Tanner:and it's the morning

Tanner:and the three of you are all

Tanner:you've all arrived

Tanner:kind of for the day's training

Tanner:but you're doing some of your own stuff here

Tanner:before the day really gets going

Tanner:before Master Killock,

Tanner:retired hunter and head of the training program,

Tanner:calls out to the three of you to gather to him.

Tanner:And you approach Master Killock.

Tanner:He's an older orc man, bald head with a big white beard.

Tanner:He's got one tusk that looks like it maybe broke off at one point.

Tanner:it's a little shorter than the other but then was like re-sharpened manually uh he's got this

Tanner:weathered set of leather armor adorned with all bits of various creatures he's uh killed throughout

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:his day um and uh yes he calls out to the three of you uh to come speak with him uh so if you

Tanner:would like you can say uh perhaps what your character was up to here in the early hours on

Tanner:the training ground and describe yourself as you approach Master Killock.

Jorge:I can go first You guys see A Someone who a lot taller than a lot of his other uh siblings and he uh not super green but kind of uh you can tell is like kind of putting some green like

Jorge:body paint on uh and this is niece niso um he has a large two large weapons on his back a

Jorge:halberd and a maw maw and um yeah so he did a little bit of training but to be honest with you

Jorge:his passion isn't big game hunting it's gardening he really wants to be a farmer and just like

Jorge:cultivate and garden uh but he has to become a uh a hunter just by tradition he got adopted into a

Jorge:a family that's really big into hunting so he has to do that that's him nisa when he walks over

Josh:I will go next.

Josh:So, having found, in what I assume is a relatively open space, a corner, or perhaps a makeshift lean-to or something underneath a tree,

Josh:trying very hard to look brooding and contemplative

Josh:is an orc, as almost everybody here is,

Josh:wearing, I guess, the equivalent of ye olde hot topic.

Josh:Like, black t-shirt equivalent.

Josh:He's got like too many darts hooked up in a fake bandolier that he's kind of rigged up on his chest.

Josh:He is wearing eyeliner in a flagrant misuse of the Warpaint available for the orts You would all recognize him as Tug but he has recently gone around and asked everybody to call him Doom Eater instead

Mike:you My character will be

Josh:And seeing that he's been called over will scoff a little bit

Josh:and then kind of sulk his way over in the direction of everybody else.

Mike:nose deep in a book.

Mike:crisscross applesauce uh and he will require a second call to wretch himself away from

Mike:a leather-bound book titled mushrooms and you and he will stumble up

Mike:and uh weighed down heavily by a backpack he will chuck over

Mike:and i have a picture

Tanner:Oh, that's excellent.

Mike:Oh, sorry.

Josh:So great.

Tanner:The three of you have trained together for years,

Tanner:and so everyone knows the name of your characters,

Tanner:except for us in this moment.

Mike:Might as Zul'Graph.

Tanner:Excellent.

Tanner:All right, as Olgrath finally makes his way over,

Tanner:um

Tanner:Astor

Tanner:uh

Tanner:Killock

Tanner:uh

Jorge:Good morning.

Tanner:greets all three of you

Tanner:alright good morning hunters

Tanner:I've got big news for you

Tanner:today's the day

Tanner:you're going on your first big hunt

Tanner:you've been training for a long time

Tanner:and uh

Tanner:myself and some of the other

Tanner:trainers

Tanner:agree that

Tanner:you're ready

Tanner:and it's time

Tanner:some of our scouts

Tanner:The other day have found evidence of a large insectoid creature known as a

Tanner:chool.

Tanner:storming around in some of the more

Josh:Are you sure that just a tool is going to be enough of a challenge for us?

Tanner:swamp lands in the northeast regions of the jungle.

Tanner:it's a big bug

Josh:I mean, it's basically a big bub, right?

Tanner:it's got big claws

Mike:How can we be sure this is a this is a tool tools have not been seen in the northeast

Tanner:it's got a toxin in its saliva

Tanner:that paralyzes those that come into contact with it

Tanner:yes go ahead Zolgrath what do you got

Tanner:We have taken samples

Mike:corner of the swamp for at least 10 years, according to the recent books that I've read

Mike:on the subject?

Mike:Are we entirely sure?

Mike:entirely sure. I mean, this may be something

Mike:that we want to write down and maybe

Mike:observe for some amount of time before we

Mike:kill it.

Tanner:of some of these toxins left behind

Tanner:on some kills that it has gotten.

Tanner:We're fairly certain it's a tool.

Tanner:We don't know why it's there.

Tanner:They don't, as you aptly pointed out,

Tanner:they don't just walk around.

Tanner:They're not really something that we come across often.

Tanner:So it is a bit odd, I will say,

Mike:Indeed.

Tanner:but we're fairly certain that that's what it is.

Jorge:niso is going to be holding his hand up but as he hears uh mike what's your character's name

Mike:Zulgrath?

Jorge:soul graph talk he's going to instead of raising his hand to the teacher

Mike:

Mike:Well my real concern is that this could be an invasive species I mean plants in the northeast area of the swamp have not been exposed to these for years We could be seeing some sort of destruction of biodiversity

Tanner:Thank you All right

Jorge:turn to soul graph and be like are these like uh cross pollinators like if this was to go

Jorge:out of the system is this going to hurt the vegetation in the area or uh is it fine

Jorge:you all week this thing gotta go i sold i ready i ready he gets some extra green

Jorge:paint and then puts like dashes under his eyes slightly darker than the rest he's like i'm ready

Jorge:i'm green face for this

Tanner:Well, he's ready.

Tanner:Tug, what do you think?

Mike:Doobie, have you considered the absolute clout you will get with a chewed toothed necklace?

Josh:Um, it's Doom Eater now.

Josh:And I don't want to go, but if you need somebody to look after them, I guess I can do it.

Tanner:Right.

Josh:From the shadows.

Josh:I don't need Clout.

Josh:I'm going, people only respect the blade and also the power of your fists. I don't

Tanner:Well, let's look at it this way.

Mike:it demonstrates the blade power

Josh:know what they would care about a necklace for.

Mike:I don't want to be

Josh:That's a good point, I'm in.

Tanner:You come back from this with

Tanner:one of the claws of this tool

Tanner:and some samples of saliva, and perhaps you will be Doom Eater.

Josh:I take, I take issue, uh, yeah, I take issue with you saying that I'm not already Doom

Tanner:How does that sound?

Tanner:very well

Mike:there's only one

Josh:Eater.

Josh:Um, I've already unsealed the seven seals on my chakra, and so I'm Doom Eater now.

Josh:But fine, I'll do it.

Josh:Just to prove you wrong.

Tanner:it seems we all agreed then I do have a minor boon to grant the three of you to aid you in this fight

Tanner:And he kind of pulls from a satchel these three simple leather strap necklaces with a carved wooden cylinder on the end.

Tanner:And he hands one to each of you.

Tanner:And he says, within each of these pieces of wood is a powder that, when inhaled, helps you resist the paralyzation of the chewel.

Tanner:So you can break it, inhale it, and it can actually be used in one of two ways.

Tanner:You can break it in anticipation of contact with the saliva, and it will give you resistance for a brief amount of time.

Tanner:or you can break it under the nose of someone who has already been paralyzed

Jorge:I'll give you immunity after you get it instantly cured.

Tanner:and it will instantly cure them of the paralyzation.

Tanner:So I have one for each of you to wear.

Tanner:No, it works in the moment and then wears off if you're currently paralyzed.

Jorge:Okay.

Jorge:How does it paralyze you?

Jorge:Does the saliva have to touch your blood?

Tanner:I believe it can just contact the skin.

Jorge:and then I'll turn again to Mike's character

Mike:Just.

Tanner:The creature will try to grab you

Tanner:and then kind of

Tanner:rub its tentacles on you.

Mike:Uh.

Jorge:is this like

Jorge:water soluble, oil soluble

Jorge:what if I just wrap myself up in lard

Jorge:am I immune to it

Tanner:We've not

Tanner:tested such a parameter

Jorge:You never larded up a boy and sent him out to fight one of these things He be slicking and sliding He try licking him and it might taste good but he won get anywhere

Mike:Thank you What about the greased hog contest

Tanner:we don't do that here

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:yes please

Tanner:The greased hog contest, which only takes place during our high holiday, they don't

Mike:Have you ever seen a greased hog successfully get poisoned?

Jorge:What if I cover myself in wax, like beeswax?

Mike:Oh, okay.

Tanner:really get exposed to poison.

Tanner:The last bit of information that I have for you is you'll know you're getting close once

Mike:You just see him writing.

Mike:No evidence.

Mike:It might work.

Tanner:you get to, of course, the swamplands, a couple hours travel to the northeast.

Jorge:Okay.

Mike:Very well.

Tanner:So you'll start to see some large gashes in some of the trees.

Tanner:And their saliva leaves behind a pinkish purplish discoloration in the bog water.

Jorge:Okay.

Jorge:Sounds good.

Tanner:So if you see that, you know you're getting close.

Jorge:Okay.

Jorge:Is it a nocturnal creature?

Tanner:I don't know.

Jorge:Okay.

Mike:This will go great with my other vials and stoppers.

Josh:useless

Tanner:a claw and some saliva.

Josh:I'll take that for you

Jorge:So what do we need to bring back again?

Jorge:A cloth.

Tanner:And he actually, at that,

Tanner:pulls out a couple small empty files with stoppers

Tanner:and hands them to Zolgrath.

Tanner:Perfect.

Jorge:Alright.

Tanner:All right, hunters. Well, this could be your big day.

Mike:Well.

Josh:Hi.

Tanner:You've trained a long time for this, so I wish you luck.

Tanner:And we hope to see you back with some trophies.

Tanner:amazing

Jorge:Sounds good, that's good.

Jorge:Let's let's go Zulgrass and Doom Eater.

Tanner:and you guys head off into the jungle

Tanner:in search of a chule

Tanner:you break away from the city

Tanner:parts of the jungle are

Tanner:often traveled by

Tanner:the hunting parties

Tanner:here. So there's a couple

Tanner:pretty

Tanner:constant

Tanner:existing paths

Tanner:beating down dirt and foliage

Tanner:that you're able to follow

Tanner:for a decent amount

Tanner:of time as you head

Tanner:northeast towards the swamps.

Tanner:But they do become

Tanner:less reliable over time.

Tanner:And you leave

Tanner:the city far behind. You're

Tanner:surrounded by the sounds of

Tanner:insects, creatures moving around

Tanner:in the canopy above.

Tanner:And I'll have somebody

Jorge:How'd you get a survival?

Mike:A plus zero.

Josh:I'm middling at survival.

Tanner:make a survival check

Tanner:to avoid hazards

Tanner:and continue onwards towards the swamps.

Jorge:I got plus two.

Josh:Okay, I'm better than you are.

Josh:I going to do a survival check

Jorge:All right

Tanner:Two meter 2 meter please do

Tanner:15

Josh:Uh, 15.

Josh:Which is good!

Tanner:actually yes that is good

Josh:15 is good in this rule set.

Josh:It's not abysmal.

Tanner:so you are

Tanner:traveling through the jungle following what

Tanner:remains of some uh perhaps less trodden paths but you can see there's a little bit of areas where

Tanner:some foliage has maybe been cut and things like that and um you are uh about to continue heading

Tanner:down one of these paths um but you hear somewhat ahead of you uh a much louder uh buzzing of insects

Tanner:than the kind of base level of bugs here in the jungle.

Tanner:And you note that,

Tanner:and you also note that

Tanner:if you perhaps didn't want to go that way,

Tanner:you could, there's almost a more direct path

Tanner:that you think you could take towards the swamp,

Tanner:but you'd have to kind of cut through some foliage

Tanner:and not have necessarily as perfectly clear of a path ahead.

Jorge:Always ready for a fight.

Mike:And the other way?

Josh:I'll turn back and say

Tanner:But you think you might avoid whatever this noise is up ahead.

Josh:are you ready for a fight?

Josh:there's things to fight if we go that way

Josh:and you two can fight that while I watch you

Josh:you know just

Josh:just in the direction of where the things are to fight

Mike:But what's the other way?

Josh:I don't know

Josh:like a different path

Josh:that would get us there eventually maybe

Josh:I don know I don know

Mike:but not things to fight I don know I don

Mike:it is quicker

Josh:There's one path that gives where we're trying to go,

Josh:and you just have to, like, fight a thing or things.

Josh:Maybe.

Josh:But there's another way that maybe goes where we're trying to go,

Josh:maybe doesn't, and then maybe doesn't have a thing that you have to fight.

Josh:I don't understand how this isn't extremely clear to you.

Jorge:Let's go fight.

Josh:It's more direct.

Mike:if we fight the thing

Jorge:Yeah, Squigger.

Josh:I'm just gonna make you guys fight, you're my lackeys, so it doesn't really affect me.

Mike:who wants to

Mike:fight stuff immediately

Mike:would you be okay taking the easy way then given

Mike:if you're navigating you're gonna have a rougher time the other way

Mike:but we're we're tied you're the time break

Josh:Yeah, I think that's probably something the party should decide. I don't feel qualified.

Mike:I don't want to

Josh:Oh.

Mike:it's I mean

Josh:Oh, you don't want to fight the things?

Mike:you know

Josh:I kind of want to fight the things. It seems easier. I don't have to navigate as much if we do that.

Mike:backpacks really heavy

Mike:it's been

Mike:it's a long day

Mike:okay

Josh:we could try and be sneaky

Mike:sneak up on him

Josh:I'm pretty sneaky

Tanner:You did mention being in the shadows.

Josh:I could like be sneaky

Josh:and like

Josh:sneak up on the things

Josh:yeah

Josh:I could sneak

Mike:Yeah.

Josh:am I actually good at sneaking

Mike:We should sneak that.

Josh:I'm

Josh:really good at sneaking

Josh:and by really good I mean fine

Josh:yeah if I were in the shadows

Josh:if it were like nighttime right now i would be the most sneaky person ever so we could wait till nighttime and then i could sneak or we could not wait till nighttime and then I could still sneak but maybe we have to

Jorge:Thank you Now let just go

Tanner:uh Ah

Mike:you yeah what if we yeah but you

Josh:fight somebody.

Josh:I

Josh:Yeah, I could sneak up on him now.

Mike:could sneak you could sneak up on him now

Mike:okay

Josh:Maybe I'll sneak up on him. You never know.

Josh:I could be sneaky.

Josh:I'll sneak. I'll sneak.

Josh:DM, I'll sneak.

Tanner:Okay, make a stealth check.

Josh:I was hoping you wouldn't ask me to do that.

Tanner:That's what you do to sneak.

Josh:It's great so long as I don't actually have to roll something that's random.

Josh:I got a 17.

Tanner:17 is pretty good.

Tanner:You start to take the more established path ahead

Tanner:towards the sound of this buzzing.

Tanner:And you kind of turn a corner.

Tanner:I'll say maybe 50 feet ahead from where you guys were having your discussion.

Tanner:And you see, I guess maybe another 30 or so feet ahead of you,

Tanner:there seems to be some kind of corpse of a creature on the ground.

Tanner:um and

Tanner:uh just an

Tanner:absolute horde of

Tanner:these oversized flies

Tanner:with uh big like

Josh:How many...

Tanner:uh

Tanner:sort of jagged

Tanner:uh what are they called

Tanner:proboscis um

Tanner:uh just absolutely

Tanner:chewing on the flesh

Tanner:of this uh dead creature

Tanner:in the path

Tanner:uh and

Tanner:uh

Tanner:Just like a dense cloud of big bug.

Josh:Like, a swarm of Big Bug, or like eight Big Bug, if I can ask that, if that's not

Jorge:Am I there?

Tanner:It's like a swarm.

Josh:Not too metagaming.

Josh:Okay.

Josh:I'm just trying to figure out how hard it would be to punch it.

Josh:You know?

Tanner:I believe that

Jorge:Okay.

Tanner:Dew Meter has

Tanner:stealthed ahead

Tanner:to get a

Josh:Yeah, I will stealth back to let them know that they're a bunch of bugs.

Jorge:Pull out my halberd and go.

Josh:we could punch a bug

Jorge:Here we go comrades.

Jorge:Are these invasive species?

Tanner:Okay.

Mike:I'm ready.

Josh:yeah I think

Josh:I think so

Josh:oh

Jorge:I hate invasive species.

Jorge:They make me really angry.

Mike:Yeah, these are very...

Jorge:They fill me up with a rage, and I rage, and then I run it.

Tanner:Incredible.

Tanner:Perhaps we'll roll initiative then.

Josh:Seems like a good time.

Jorge:Yeah, yeah.

Tanner:I should do that myself.

Jorge:I gain dangerous

Tanner:Yeah, barbarians do be getting that.

Mike:Oh,

Jorge:slump.

Jorge:It's so funny.

Jorge:Probably just hand out advantage in D&D.

Josh:Do you have advantage on your initiative roll?

Jorge:Yeah.

Josh:Nice.

Jorge:Why does this not work?

Josh:I get to heal.

Josh:What does whatnot work?

Jorge:ADV plus D20.

Josh:Oh, because it's just ADV plus 20.

Jorge:Oh, there's no ADV for non-D20s.

Josh:I mean, plus 2.

Josh:No, there is.

Josh:If you want to do advantage on something other than a d20,

Josh:you just use the postfix, kh,

Josh:and then the number of keep highest that you want, or keep lowest.

Josh:ADV is actually a macro in the language

Jorge:I see.

Josh:that is just 2d20 keep highest 1.

Jorge:So I got a crit and it so sad seeing 22 for a crit

Josh:It happens I mean that a very good score

Jorge:What's also funny is I feel like

Jorge:Josh also likes, for a lot of our

Jorge:checks in Pathfinder, above our level.

Jorge:So even our own level checks don't

Jorge:even need anything to boost. Like, oh, it's a

Jorge:24!

Josh:That's not true.

Josh:The average tech difficulty is your on-level DC.

Jorge:The fun stuff that we want.

Tanner:All right, just a moment.

Mike:You're a monk.

Josh:It's just when you ask...

Josh:Yeah, you just remember the dumb stuff that is a higher level.

Jorge:We want the fun stuff.

Josh:I have a better modifier than both of you.

Josh:How did that happen?

Josh:And I'm last.

Josh:I want...

Mike:Oh, bad luck.

Josh:Yo, yeah, no, I understand.

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:I'm going to send a shmepi.

Mike:Didn't someone get fired for that?

Josh:It makes sense that I have a higher modifier.

Josh:I just mean you're both going before me anyway.

Jorge:Yeah.

Jorge:

Jorge:Yeah.

Josh:Oh, you would.

Josh:You would send a shmepy.

Mike:...

Josh:What?

Jorge:Yeah, buddy.

Tanner:Okay, what do we got going on here?

Mike:...

Tanner:22, 21, and 19.

Josh:Ooh.

Tanner:Holy crap!

Josh:I like this background.

Tanner:Yeah, I like that...

Mike:So I'll go out this with a U.

Josh:That's how you spell Nisu?

Josh:Sorry, I apologize.

Tanner:That...

Tanner:So I can confirm that's how you spell Niso.

Tanner:I cannot confirm that this is how you spell Zul'Grath.

Tanner:Yeah.

Mike:Wait, wait, wait.

Mike:This remembers the last name that you typed in.

Mike:What kind of cookies do I have?

Josh:Yep that you Nah

Mike:because mine says four users connected

Mike:and I get to edit Douglas Donald Hugh it douglas donald hugh here we go

Tanner:Wait okay I need to actually write these initiatives down

Tanner:So that 22 was Niso.

Tanner:And then the 21 is Zul'Grath with a U.

Josh:Don't do that, Michael.

Mike:what

Jorge:Yes, I'm going to move there with my movement action.

Josh:Just because it rhymes doesn't mean you should feel good writing it down.

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:So.

Tanner:Niso you kind of charge ahead

Tanner:and rage

Tanner:and are angry about invasive species

Tanner:and

Tanner:it's your turn yeah you can act

Tanner:right

Jorge:that's its own thing here.

Josh:When you make an attack with strength and deal damage,

Tanner:so

Jorge:Then I'm going to...

Jorge:When I'm raging, I can add

Jorge:my strength modifier to this, right?

Tanner:to what...

Jorge:That sounds right.

Jorge:Just damage rolls.

Tanner:You get...

Tanner:There's a rage damage bonus

Tanner:that is probably plus two at this level.

Tanner:I forget.

Jorge:Uh...

Josh:you gain a bonus to the damage that increases

Josh:at your level

Jorge:Okay.

Josh:it is plus two

Josh:no

Jorge:Yeah, that makes more sense.

Jorge:So I'm going to roll a Swarm 2

Jorge:with my

Tanner:Yes.

Jorge:Helmet.

Tanner:No.

Jorge:Does it increase my 2-hit?

Tanner:But you can Reckless Attack.

Jorge:Okay.

Josh:yeah

Jorge:I'm not going to do that with that many things there.

Josh:what kind, what flavor of

Jorge:Thank you very much for trying to get me killed.

Tanner:Sorry.

Jorge:Alright.

Josh:barbarian are you?

Josh:Oh this is a secret Oh you a zealot of course

Jorge:Zealot.

Jorge:Yeah yeah So does a 15 hit OK OK So I can also with the zealot do an extra d6 I believe

Tanner:Indeed it does

Jorge:Okay, okay. Great, great, great. It's going to do radiant.

Tanner:Yeah, that sounds somewhat correct.

Josh:The first creature you hit with a weapon or unarmed strike

Tanner:...

Josh:takes equal damage equal to 1d6 plus half your barbarian level.

Josh:Round down.

Josh:Of necrotic or radiant damage, your choice.

Jorge:So it's going to do...

Jorge:Sorry, so my D&D Beyond character broke

Jorge:because I tried to change it to an orc,

Jorge:but there's no saving feature,

Jorge:so then it just broke everything.

Jorge:It's like, oh, now you have to redo everything.

Jorge:And I was like, I didn't want that.

Jorge:So now I just have to go off a player sheet,

Jorge:like a plebeian.

Jorge:So that's 1d10 slash chamber.

Jorge:1d6 slash chamber.

Jorge:Half my level, which is 2.

Jorge:That's 2.

Jorge:19 points of slashing damage.

Tanner:19 points.

Mike:Oh, yeah.

Tanner:You cut through this swarm of flesh-eating flies

Tanner:and attacking a number of small creatures

Tanner:with a weapon such as that is not incredibly effective,

Tanner:but it does do a good bit of damage.

Jorge:That's sad. That's sad.

Jorge:And then my, even with Radiant?

Tanner:Oh, that's a great point.

Tanner:The radiant does not get halved.

Jorge:Okay.

Tanner:That's a really great point.

Tanner:Okay.

Jorge:The Radiant was

Jorge:the five.

Jorge:Okay.

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:

Tanner:Okay.

Jorge:And then,

Jorge:when I do this,

Jorge:once per turn, if you hit a creature

Jorge:with a melee attack using your Halberd,

Jorge:you can make another melee attack

Jorge:against a second creature within

Jorge:your weapon's reach.

Jorge:So I'll do that.

Tanner:Ah.

Jorge:And then I'll attack five and then I will do a 20.

Tanner:That's the weapon

Jorge:Yeah, she, she, she, she.

Tanner:specialization, I presume, yes?

Tanner:So you're going

Tanner:against Swarm 1. Did you make a new roll?

Tanner:Is that how that works?

Jorge:Yeah, just a 21.

Tanner:21 hits.

Jorge:Okay, and then now I don't get to add my

Jorge:unhit the second creature's damage, but without your ability modifier.

Jorge:Unless it's negative.

Tanner:So it'll just be, what, the D10 of the

Tanner:Halberd? And I guess

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:maybe the Rage damage?

Tanner:I'll give you the plus 2 from the rage.

Jorge:I would like that.

Jorge:yeah

Mike:Yes.

Tanner:I feel like that's a separate thing.

Jorge:so four

Jorge:and then a bonus action

Tanner:Okay.

Jorge:I don't really have any

Jorge:so I'm just going to

Jorge:do nothing

Jorge:yeah

Tanner:That's excellent.

Tanner:That brings it to Zul'Grath.

Tanner:Yeah, absolutely.

Mike:I would like to use a firebolt on swarm to

Mike:I have to roll to attack

Mike:which is

Mike:six

Mike:there's an 11 hit

Tanner:The Swarms have very low AC, and 11 does hit.

Mike:Oh, perfect.

Jorge:Thank you you Leo

Tanner:That's great.

Tanner:Yeah, 11 is their armor class.

Mike:Eight points of damage.

Tanner:Nice.

Tanner:That was against who now?

Mike:Form two.

Tanner:Swarm 2.

Tanner:That is enough.

Tanner:Swarm 2, which had been heavily diminished by Niso's strike,

Tanner:the remaining couple of flies your firebolt just passes straight through and leaves just little bits of ash that fall to the ground eliminating swarm 2

Mike:you Perfect And then I would like to move here What my movement Wait where the hell my move

Tanner:Amazing.

Mike:30.

Tanner:If that is everything, that brings it to Doom Eater.

Mike:Yes.

Josh:Absolutely.

Josh:One second.

Josh:How far can I actually move?

Josh:Okay.

Josh:I'm gonna...

Josh:This is 60 feet.

Tanner:Is that a focus point in this edition?

Josh:So I'm going to use my movement and then also my bonus action to give myself a dash.

Josh:And then I will run up here.

Josh:Not in 2024, no.

Tanner:Oh, you can just bonus action dash.

Josh:So I have step of the wind, which means I can bonus action dash.

Josh:but if I want I can spend a focus point

Tanner:Ah, interesting.

Josh:to make it so that it also is a disengage

Josh:and doubles my jump distance

Josh:but standard without paying the focus point

Josh:it is just a normal dash action as a bonus

Tanner:Pretty cool.

Jorge:What was the point of 2024 rule set?

Josh:similarly patient defense is just disengage as a bonus action

Josh:but then I can spend a focus point

Josh:to also have it dodge

Josh:in the same bonus action

Tanner:Right.

Josh:It changed some stuff.

Tanner:Yeah.

Jorge:Yeah, but like, why?

Tanner:Because

Josh:Balance.

Tanner:key point was racist.

Tanner:It's a focus point now.

Josh:Anyway,

Tanner:And so they had to change the whole game.

Josh:I cast darkness on myself

Tanner:Uh alright Uh sure Uh All right Sure

Tanner:That's great.

Tanner:What is the area of darkness?

Josh:It's a 15-foot radius sphere centered on me at all times.

Tanner:Fascinating.

Tanner:maybe we'll use fog of War

Josh:Sure.

Tanner:or something

Tanner:that's going to be stupid

Tanner:maybe we'll just keep that in mind in our heads

Tanner:I'm pretty sure that gets everything into the darkness

Josh:Sure.

Tanner:all the swarms are enveloped with you

Tanner:with swarm 1 being kind of on the edge

Tanner:I'll allow that, that's fine

Josh:Yeah, I assumed that I was in kind of a position where they can still see Swarm 1 sticking out of the darkness.

Josh:but if

Tanner:yeah

Tanner:okay

Josh:good

Tanner:I guess that's your action, right?

Josh:that is my action yes

Tanner:okay, so you envelop

Tanner:the swarms and yourself in darkness

Tanner:and you brood

Tanner:I presume.

Josh:hmm

Josh:yeah

Tanner:The swarm of insects are going to go next.

Josh:That's so unfortunate. Do they really? That's crazy.

Tanner:I'm truly sorry to inform you that they do have blindsight.

Tanner:They do, which I didn't know, but I figured I would check.

Josh:Oh well.

Tanner:The swarm of insects stat block does have blindsight.

Tanner:Now, are you harried by this darkness?

Josh:No.

Tanner:Okay, so they are not going to have advantage on you, but they're not going to have disadvantage either.

Josh:Uh yeah Can I ask a dumb rules as intended rules as written question

Tanner:Alright so swarm 3 and 4 are both going to make a bite attack as they surround you

Tanner:in the darkness.

Tanner:Yeah.

Tanner:Sure.

Josh:the blinded condition

Josh:means that

Tanner:Uh-huh.

Tanner:You can see anything that isn't behind total cover even if you have the blinded condition

Josh:if you're blinded you have attack

Josh:attack rolls against you have advantage

Josh:and attack rolls that you make have disadvantage

Josh:blindsight I believe

Josh:doesn't actually say that you're immune

Josh:to the blinded condition

Josh:it just says that you can still see things within a radius

Josh:despite being

Josh:blinded

Josh:If you just want to say, like, clearly that shouldn't apply because they can see things

Tanner:or are in darkness.

Mike:Well, it's blind sight.

Tanner:Joe.

Josh:in the darkness, then that's fine.

Tanner:Yeah, my feeling is that it's supposed to counteract blindness.

Josh:It's strange that it doesn't specify that.

Tanner:Yeah.

Josh:But that's fine. Bring it on.

Mike:They should be blind all the time.

Tanner:I think I'm just going to make attack rolls.

Mike:and have disadvantage.

Josh:Yeah.

Josh:That's fine. I dodge.

Tanner:I got a 15 to hit.

Josh:I can't actually dodge.

Josh:Miss! Miss!

Tanner:And a 12 to hit.

Josh:Uh, that also similarly misses.

Tanner:Okay, so it doesn't even matter.

Tanner:Swarm 1.

Tanner:Oh no, that's not what I wanted.

Tanner:Is going to move over here.

Tanner:And make an attack at Niso.

Tanner:that is a nine to hit

Jorge:Ah, does Nung get ahead.

Tanner:pretty bad from

Jorge:All right.

Tanner:Pretty bad showing from the swarms.

Josh:Sorry, I am going to interject and just end my darkness because it's useless.

Tanner:That brings it back to you, Niso.

Tanner:Oh, yeah, sure. Sorry about that.

Josh:I'll just drop concentration on it.

Jorge:That's embarrassing.

Josh:It really is.

Jorge:New meter.

Jorge:All right, I strike.

Jorge:21.

Jorge:All right.

Tanner:Yeah, of course.

Jorge:Oh, sorry, that's 20.

Tanner:That's alright.

Josh:Okay.

Jorge:I added a wrong thing. I was looking at a wrong stat.

Jorge:But I assume it still hits.

Tanner:We've established their armor class is 11.

Tanner:And we don't have plus 10 crits in this

Tanner:tabletop roleplaying game.

Jorge:Alright!

Jorge:18!

Jorge:Points of damage.

Jorge:And, uh...

Tanner:One of which is radiant, it appears.

Jorge:Yes.

Jorge:Well, no, three of which is radiant, because that first plus two is radiant stuff.

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:Oh, that applies to the radiant.

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:So then we're going to half the 15

Tanner:is 7.

Jorge:Oh, I forgot I have free movement actions.

Jorge:I should have moved first.

Jorge:That's all right.

Jorge:I didn't do that.

Tanner:And then

Jorge:and I'll move here because I'm staying within their range

Tanner:another 3

Tanner:is 10.

Jorge:so that doesn't trigger opportunity attracts in D&D

Tanner:Correct.

Mike:I'm not touching you

Jorge:if I go around them

Jorge:yeah

Tanner:Correct.

Mike:I'm not touching you

Jorge:no I should have done that first so I could have used

Tanner:Would you like to do anything else?

Jorge:my cleave on the other thing but I didn't

Jorge:because I'm an idiot so I'm going to stay here

Tanner:I mean, we can allow that.

Jorge:no i made an idiot move and I deserved and I get it

Tanner:It was a brief

Tanner:lapse of Okay then we move on to Zul

Mike:Don grab Uh wait Wait which one of these storms is most

Tanner:Swarm 1

Tanner:has been

Tanner:sliced a decent bit now.

Mike:I'd like to kill.

Tanner:Yep.

Tanner:3 and 4 are untouched.

Mike:Is it a 23 hit?

Tanner:Indeed.

Jorge:All right.

Tanner:that'll do it again

Mike:Eight.

Mike:Points of damage again.

Mike:Nice.

Tanner:you once again

Tanner:clean up

Tanner:the rest of Niso's work

Tanner:and

Tanner:burn away the rest of those

Tanner:flies

Tanner:and that

Jorge:When you guys are eating something like a carrot,

Tanner:Yeah, sure.

Mike:Whose turn is it?

Jorge:have you ever wished you could kind of morph

Jorge:just your face into that of a rabbit

Jorge:so you can go,

Jorge:and then unmorph it after?

Jorge:Or was that just me?

Tanner:I've never considered being a rabbit.

Jorge:No, no, just for eating the carrot.

Jorge:Okay, okay, I'm sorry.

Mike:A little bit.

Tanner:I'm going to let Doom Eater go with that, I believe.

Tanner:indeed

Mike:Giant slide.

Josh:Thank you. I'm gonna punch. I'm gonna punch swarm three. Hopefully.

Tanner:yeah that hits

Josh:That going to be 7 points of force damage My fists are force damage Haha

Tanner:of force damage That is fun They do not resist that

Tanner:You swing your fist

Josh:Nice.

Tanner:and connect with

Josh:Nice.

Tanner:half a dozen flies in this swarm

Josh:Nice.

Tanner:in your one swing,

Tanner:and they all explode in guts.

Tanner:The swarm is reduced,

Tanner:but still standing.

Josh:Okay, well then I'm gonna spend a focus point to do that two more times with flurry of blows.

Tanner:Flying.

Tanner:Sure.

Josh:21.

Josh:for another 7 points of force damage.

Tanner:Yeah, of course.

Tanner:Still up.

Josh:And then again,

Tanner:that'll do it

Josh:23

Josh:for another

Mike:that's the funniest interpretation of what happened

Josh:10 points of force damage.

Tanner:you come in with a flurry of blows

Tanner:and

Tanner:are just punching and punching

Josh:Yeah.

Tanner:and squishing bug squishing bug

Tanner:squishing bug

Tanner:until there are none left

Tanner:in that swarm

Mike:is that a punching he's just

Mike:grabbing

Tanner:amazing

Mike:all of your hands

Jorge:He's doing that kung fu movie thing with chopsticks.

Mike:with like

Jorge:He's like, grab, grab, grab, grab, grab.

Mike:like

Mike:just the

Mike:fucking

Mike:flies

Mike:right

Mike:loop

Josh:Yeah.

Tanner:that's your turn

Tanner:the final swarm is going to try to bite you

Josh:That's fair.

Tanner:they have a plus 3 attack bonus

Tanner:which brings my 6 to a 9 okay Niso why don you go Yeah

Jorge:Yeah you know the drill

Josh:No I sorry No

Jorge:G, B, C.

Jorge:I did too.

Jorge:I really feel like you should be critic.

Jorge:But that's not a thing in this game.

Tanner:Yeah, we don't do that.

Jorge:We don't do that here.

Jorge:Push, push.

Jorge:6 plus D6 plus 2 plus 2.

Tanner:23, that's pretty good.

Jorge:23!

Jorge:And 7 of that's radiant.

Tanner:Yes.

Jorge:And then, uh...

Tanner:Man.

Tanner:yeah that's my bad

Jorge:Yeah.

Jorge:If I was level 5, I would have had 2 attacks, but I don't.

Jorge:So I have 1.

Jorge:We did a little six last time with strong.

Mike:Progress.

Tanner:maybe next one shot will be level 5

Mike:Mm-hmm.

Mike:Okay.

Tanner:we did level 3 last time, level 4 today

Mike:So, I'm going to go ahead and start the recording.

Tanner:you know, working our way up

Tanner:I did a one shot that

Tanner:oh maybe you didn't play in

Tanner:I think you were away

Tanner:for my

Tanner:the Fae

Tanner:one shot.

Jorge:I see.

Mike:mm-hmm

Jorge:I see.

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:Zulgrath, it's your turn.

Jorge:What are the ads?

Tanner:Let's see if we can keep the trend

Tanner:of burning

Tanner:away remnants.

Mike:i know that hits i hope it still does

Tanner:Okay.

Mike:16 damage

Tanner:A crit! Look at that! That of course will do it. These bugs were no match for a party of trained orts

Mike:fireball fireball fireball

Mike:fireball

Jorge:and I smacked him with my reach

Tanner:and Goliath.

Mike:Of course, of course.

Tanner:You guys are

Tanner:skilled hunters

Tanner:and it shows.

Tanner:The last handful

Tanner:of bugs in the area

Tanner:fly away in fear

Tanner:at your prowess.

Jorge:10 foot reach

Tanner:Indeed,

Tanner:you take another one or two

Tanner:as they literally

Tanner:scattered to the winds.

Jorge:yeah i treat them like they're spotted lantern flies and i go for them

Mike:yeah yeah yeah

Josh:Did they have any loot?

Jorge:all right all right now

Jorge:we're next

Tanner:Amazingly successful.

Tanner:You look around at the

Tanner:bug guts and

Tanner:ash

Tanner:in your vicinity and

Tanner:it doesn't really seem to be very lucrative.

Jorge:How do they taste?

Josh:I loot the bug guts and ash as a trophy of our conquest.

Tanner:Very well.

Tanner:Perfect.

Tanner:Great.

Josh:I do not eat the bug guts and ash.

Josh:Do you eat the bug guts and ash?

Jorge:I'd take a bite.

Tanner:You take a bite of some bug guts

Tanner:and it does sting your mouth a bit.

Jorge:I dip my

Mike:Zulgrath will take a single finger take a small dab Yeah No they low in protein That why they wanted this carcass

Josh:Quick, take the anti-paralysis powder.

Tanner:You feel like they maybe have some poison within them.

Tanner:It's not enough in this state to really hurt you in a meaningful way,

Tanner:but it is a little uncomfortable.

Jorge:I dip my

Jorge:Albert and Ma in the guts

Jorge:and I cover it

Tanner:Uh-huh.

Tanner:Thank you I will say

Jorge:Thank you How do you think I keep these delts

Mike:Or sorry, they were low in protein.

Mike:That's why they were all about this carcass.

Mike:Of course.

Jorge:I need a lot of protein.

Mike:Well, how about the carcass?

Tanner:uh

Tanner:sorry geez

Tanner:Zolgrath

Tanner:you have notes about these flies in your field journal

Jorge:Are they pollinators?

Mike:Well, also,

Tanner:these are flesh flies

Tanner:they are not an invasive species

Tanner:they just exist in the jungle

Tanner:say that again

Jorge:Are they pollinators?

Tanner:probably not

Jorge:Okay, okay.

Jorge:I still cover my weapons in guts.

Mike:Zulgrath

Mike:would not have mentioned that these

Jorge:In case that gives me a poison bonus.

Mike:that these were not invasive.

Tanner:All right.

Jorge:Oh, so Graff would have told me?

Jorge:Yeah, okay.

Mike:Zulgrath's

Mike:aversion to

Mike:the violent ways

Mike:of his tribe is enough

Mike:for him to be like,

Mike:nah, they were bad. You guys had to kill them.

Jorge:Alright, alright, alright.

Jorge:Now let's go find this big bug.

Mike:Of course.

Tanner:With that, you continue your trek into the jungle.

Tanner:Oh, I need to check something.

Tanner:Probably it's that.

Tanner:Yeah.

Tanner:um okay so you are carrying on uh the terrain is kind of still remaining the same uh you know

Tanner:still a high canopy a lot of vegetation um uh doom eater uh as you guys are kind of traveling you start to notice another noise

Tanner:above the kind of base din of the jungle.

Tanner:There's kind of a constant rustling in the branches above.

Tanner:But you start to notice that there's a particular kind of almost rhythmic sound in the branches that makes you feel like something has been going branch to branch and perhaps pursuing you.

Josh:I put up my hand, do a series of very complex signals that we did not agree upon before

Josh:and as such they mean nothing to them.

Jorge:Oh, you have to go...

Tanner:You guys see Doom Eater make several hand symbols

Mike:dog breath will get 50 a message that we shouldn't be talking and he'll like

Josh:And I wait for them to respond to me,

Josh:having communicated that something's

Josh:following this in the trees.

Tanner:You're not sure what they mean

Jorge:You have to go take a shit?

Jorge:You want to go shit in a tree?

Mike:start doing the chicken dance.

Josh:And then I will seeing that these ignoramuses obviously haven't figured out my top secret code and both proud because that's the point of the top secret code and also frustrated.

Jorge:All right, here we go.

Tanner:Hmm.

Mike:And

Josh:And so I will go back and I will inform them what each of the little hand motions I did meant.

Mike:do we want to take care of this Yeah why not

Josh:Are we...

Josh:I take out two darts I have them at the ready If I see anything move I just gonna chuck a dart at it

Jorge:I put my I grabbed from my back

Tanner:as your kind of as you are stopped here for a moment

Jorge:my heavy crossbow

Jorge:I bolted up

Jorge:and then we just shoot

Tanner:discussing and strategizing

Tanner:you do start to see

Tanner:a medium-sized

Tanner:bit of movement

Jorge:Does this look like it's a quick movement, like it's jumping out of this, or is it just

Mike:perception.

Josh:All right.

Tanner:coming down one of the nearby

Tanner:trees

Tanner:towards you.

Tanner:Someone can make a

Tanner:perception check.

Tanner:I think that would be cool.

Jorge:kind of like...

Jorge:Oh, yeah.

Tanner:We'll see how this

Tanner:perception check goes.

Tanner:Let's see.

Jorge:Do it.

Josh:Who's making it?

Mike:Oh, actually, I don't know if I should be making this.

Josh:I'm pretty good at perceiving.

Tanner:15.

Josh:I'm pretty good at it, assuming I roll well.

Mike:Oh, yeah, it was zero.

Josh:I have a good modifier.

Mike:Don't worry.

Josh:15.

Tanner:Ian, so you see descending actually relatively calmly,

Jorge:I put away my bow.

Tanner:kind of going dropping down branch to branch,

Josh:It doesn't seem immediately aggressive, so I shouldn't be throwing my two darts at it

Tanner:is a chimpanzee.

Tanner:And it kind of is kind of looking at the lot of you

Tanner:as it gets lower and lower towards the jungle floor.

Tanner:and

Tanner:you don't see aggression in it

Josh:as soon as I see it.

Tanner:and as it gets

Tanner:lower it's kind of on like one of the last branches above the ground

Tanner:maybe 15 feet or so

Jorge:Can I hand it a mango for my supplies?

Tanner:in the air, you see that it is quite emaciated.

Tanner:Yeah, go ahead.

Tanner:You reach into your supplies and hold Mango out in your hand,

Tanner:and the chimpanzee descends the rest of the way to the ground,

Tanner:kind of approaches you slowly,

Tanner:reaches one arm out

Tanner:and grabs the mango

Jorge:Excellent.

Tanner:and kind of sniffs it for a second

Tanner:takes a bite

Tanner:kind of ponders

Tanner:and then starts absolutely devouring

Tanner:the mango

Tanner:and it kind of looks

Tanner:at the three of you, kind of waves its arms

Tanner:jumps a little bit

Tanner:looks kind of happy

Tanner:and then

Tanner:it climbs back up into the tree

Tanner:and you hear it kind of

Jorge:I look at Doom Eater and go, what a terrible person, man.

Mike:I don't think we need that.

Josh:And now I throw my darts?

Tanner:start to swing away

Tanner:through the branches.

Tanner:That's your prerogative.

Tanner:I don't choose.

Josh:But...

Josh:You took your mango.

Jorge:I gave him a mango.

Jorge:Why are you so stingy?

Josh:No!

Jorge:You didn't have a mango to give him?

Jorge:I gave all of us mangoes for the trip.

Tanner:Doometer prefers plums.

Josh:I don't have any mangoes!

Jorge:We all got a mango for the trip.

Jorge:I grew them myself.

Jorge:You throw out a perfectly good mango?

Mike:you understood the mango and uh so i'll graph will flip and it goes they usually prefer oranges

Josh:Yeah, I didn't want the mango because mangoes are too brightly colored and it would give me away.

Jorge:That's messed up.

Josh:And also they're for girls.

Josh:Keeps you regular.

Mike:actually the longest sentence whatever whatever did with sign language was me give me give me eat orange eat orange me give me orange me eat orange give me

Tanner:Thank you Uh

Jorge:Thank you let go

Josh:Thank you I believe it

Tanner:All right.

Tanner:At that, you...

Jorge:wait Tanner Tanner

Jorge:are chimpanzees

Tanner:Oh, yeah, go ahead.

Tanner:I'll let

Jorge:invasive species here

Josh:If you say yes, I'm throwing darts at this guy.

Tanner:Zolgrath do it at advantage

Tanner:because of his field journal

Josh:Just putting that out there.

Tanner:Are we making a nature check or are we going to forego?

Jorge:I thought Zorgraph was doing it.

Mike:oh wait yeah like the nation's trip oh

Josh:I thought Trish was making a nature check.

Josh:Oh, Zul'Greth is doing it.

Tanner:You can do it at advantage with your fields journal.

Mike:holy shit I was a way this is the determine if we're killing the monkey oh my god

Mike:22.

Tanner:It is most certainly not an invasive species. They do live throughout the jungle. You are,

Josh:It's just to figure out if it's an invasive species.

Jorge:that bug's eating everything and disrupting the biodiversity

Josh:Or it just doesn't like mangoes.

Tanner:with that role, a bit surprised to see it so emaciated. The jungle is quite lush, so

Jorge:Let's see.

Mike:Must be the invasive Chewle that eating all of the mangoes

Josh:All right, it was doing that to be nice.

Jorge:No, I love to make it.

Jorge:What are you talking about?

Jorge:Anyway, let's go.

Tanner:You continue your trek?

Josh:So be careful.

Jorge:Yeah let go

Jorge:That's a big cat, Josh.

Tanner:Yeah, they used to be little.

Tanner:Do you guys remember when they were little?

Mike:I remember they were little.

Jorge:Yeah.

Jorge:Owl.

Mike:Now they're huge.

Jorge:it's amazing

Tanner:I'm trying to get my cat to be less little.

Mike:Did they combine into one?

Mike:Is that why it's so big?

Tanner:yeah look at how docile it looks

Josh:No. No, they're both this size. They're both this size. He's a big guy now.

Mike:There's a second one still?

Mike:Oh, wow.

Mike:Do you live in fear?

Josh:Sorry. No, they're cute.

Mike:Oh.

Mike:I feel like they would plot against me if there were two.

Mike:They would have someone to talk to, and then they'd be like,

Mike:when he gets home, we're going to get him.

Tanner:miss kitty does not like to be picked up

Jorge:I would pick up Misha who's behind me,

Jorge:but he looks so comfy in that chair that I'm going to pretend I don't see him.

Mike:where you wear a clown mask and pick her up

Tanner:I've been trying to do exposure therapy, where I pick her up and scratch her tummy for increasingly long periods of time.

Tanner:And we've gotten up to around 20 to 25 seconds.

Tanner:Yep.

Jorge:All right.

Tanner:Okay.

Jorge:So we continue.

Tanner:As you continue, the environs start to shift a bit.

Jorge:What colors the backwater?

Tanner:The ground beneath you gets a bit spongier.

Tanner:There's areas of wetness and puddles and bog water.

Tanner:The bog water here is like a brownish green.

Jorge:Okay Are there alligators in this area

Tanner:green.

Tanner:You don't currently see

Tanner:the telltale signs of the chule But some of the trees start to take on some mangrove type qualities you know the trunk splits it got all these different

Josh:you Sorry

Tanner:you know almost above ground roots

Tanner:shooting down into the

Tanner:the wet

Tanner:land

Tanner:at your feet

Tanner:and

Tanner:um

Josh:I apologize ignore me

Jorge:Starion immersed

Tanner:Someone can make a nature check and conjecture about that.

Mike:of course

Josh:I'm just really amused by

Tanner:All right.

Mike:still with advantage or

Mike:20

Josh:us having to like go to Tanner

Josh:and be like is this thing here

Josh:is this thing here

Josh:Tanner how acidic is the water

Josh:no it's fine

Josh:I just think it's funny

Josh:nice

Jorge:Alligators are actually fairly friendly.

Tanner:There are alligators in the swamplands. You aren't too worried about them in your immediate vicinity. You're kind of bordering into the swamplands right now. You would expect them to be in some of the more deep water areas.

Mike:Okay.

Jorge:If I wasn't a farmer, I'd want to run an alligator sanctuary.

Jorge:Not a crocodile.

Jorge:Those are me.

Josh:Hannah, are there crocodiles in the swamp?

Jorge:Yeah, it's fine.

Tanner:I don't think so.

Tanner:Just alligators.

Josh:Okay.

Josh:That's good.

Josh:Okay.

Jorge:They're not a problem.

Tanner:Yeah, so that should be convenient, right?

Tanner:I have a funny note about that,

Tanner:but I can't share it until later.

Josh:Oh.

Tanner:Does someone want to make a survival check

Tanner:to navigate through the swamp

Tanner:and start looking for signs of the tool?

Josh:Yeah.

Mike:Kind of the Fool, one of my favorite movies.

Josh:No.

Tanner:That is a nine.

Josh:in mind

Tanner:You guys continue traveling into the swamp.

Tanner:It gets a little swampier, I guess.

Tanner:There start to be a bit larger pond-sized bodies of water around.

Tanner:There's gnats that you're kind of swatting away at.

Tanner:and Doom Eater, as you're kind of leading the group,

Tanner:you are kind of swatting away at some of the gnats and mosquitoes

Tanner:and not paying full attention to your surroundings

Tanner:until you look down, you step into a bit of a puddle

Tanner:and you see a distinct discoloration of this puddle

Tanner:it's got a kind of uh uh pinkish purplish hue to it um and you have the thought in your head of

Tanner:oh hey that means the tool is probably nearby um and then uh you look up and you see there's kind

Tanner:of this uh like uh dirt mound uh in front of you and uh uh reaching over the top of the dirt mound

Tanner:and screeching is this large insectoid creature.

Jorge:Thank you you oh shit

Tanner:Its two front appendages are these Giant,

Tanner:almost like lobster-looking claws,

Tanner:and it opens its mouth and screeches,

Tanner:and about a dozen dripping tentacles unfurl from the mouth,

Tanner:and you find yourself

Tanner:in very close contact with the tool And I guess we can roll initiative

Josh:you Yeah

Tanner:against the tool.

Josh:Yeah.

Jorge:if this was a Marvel movie

Tanner:There were multiple levels of

Josh:Yeah.

Tanner:DC for that survival check

Tanner:and you got

Tanner:the less than 10 DC by

Tanner:rolling a 9.

Tanner:So here we

Josh:Right.

Tanner:are.

Jorge:he would have stepped in it

Tanner:19 is good

Mike:Oh, now he's going to roll high.

Josh:Yeah.

Jorge:and they would have said

Jorge:oh no it's right behind me

Jorge:isn't he

Jorge:neat so

Tanner:from

Tanner:Niso

Tanner:oh my gosh

Tanner:24

Mike:I'm the higher modifier.

Mike:I need to be above you guys.

Mike:I need to be above you guys to get the higher modifier.

Tanner:Every roll you get just says...

Mike:I think so.

Josh:What?

Jorge:did josh change the dice roller to only compliment him

Jorge:Thank Josh.

Josh:No, the...

Tanner:No, it's because you guys have all rolled high numbers.

Jorge:From Josh with love.

Josh:The...

Josh:Yeah, the thing that it says is based on how good your role is,

Josh:not on the person.

Jorge:You should make it always blame Mike when it's bad, and then only compliment you when it's good.

Josh:There's...

Josh:The only player-specific change I ever had was I had something stupid, like there was a 1 in 100 chance if Noah rolled that instead of Dawnmonger it said something else that was stupid.

Jorge:cats are such

Josh:I don't even remember what it is and I don't want to go through the git history anymore.

Josh:But other than that, it's been completely independent of what person's rolling it.

Josh:Thank you That was comfy

Jorge:pains in the butts Misha was really comfortable where he was sleeping but Esty got up from her spot to go grab some food or water so then Misha went and took it and is now just mogging her while she trying to go back

Mike:Thank you I like floor duvets

Jorge:to be fair it looks very comfy

Jorge:it's on our duvet that's on the floor

Jorge:that we're going to wash

Jorge:I sent a photo

Mike:I like floor duvets.

Jorge:yes

Tanner:I don't know about your bird problem.

Mike:Yeah.

Josh:I told you guys about my bird problem, right?

Jorge:Oh, they left?

Josh:I've, I...

Tanner:Uh-huh.

Josh:Oh, I can send a picture.

Josh:Basically, I didn't go out on my terrace for two weeks,

Josh:and apparently that was enough time for a pigeon to decide it would make a nest on my terrace,

Josh:and then lay an egg, and then have that egg hatch on my terrace.

Josh:But they finally left.

Josh:it's been some weeks and they finally left

Tanner:Unfortunate.

Josh:yeah and then I had to

Josh:have honestly a terrible time

Josh:cleaning up a month and a half's worth of

Jorge:Did you just throw out the turf?

Josh:pigeon crap off of the terrace

Josh:but they're gone

Josh:I've been freed

Josh:uh no I cleaned it

Josh:I got brushes

Tanner:Okay.

Josh:I had time

Tanner:Okay.

Josh:I cleaned it

Josh:I don't have a spare owl.

Tanner:Let me send

Jorge:You should put an owl on your terrace

Tanner:new Schmippy.

Jorge:so that doesn't happen again.

Tanner:All right.

Mike:Oh.

Jorge:Will they sell it for parking garages?

Josh:But...

Josh:They sell an owl for parking garages?

Jorge:yeah it's just a it's a fake owl that you just put there and it scares it's like a scarecrow

Josh:Yes.

Jorge:yeah well it's a scare pigeon actually

Mike:It's a scarecrow.

Josh:Don do that Ooh What No I was talking to you Mike

Tanner:I sent a shmepy.

Mike:SecondScarapy has hit the chat.

Tanner:Please arrive.

Jorge:all right

Tanner:what happened what What happened What

Mike:Tanner what did you do Josh was chastising you for something

Jorge:you Hmm

Josh:I was chastising you.

Josh:You made a

Josh:9-11 joke, and I said,

Josh:don't do that.

Mike:Well, no one made a night.

Mike:Well, we all live in New York here.

Josh:Zulgraf the Spongebath did.

Josh:Okay?

Josh:And we all

Mike:It's so good.

Josh:heard it.

Jorge:Are you a New Yorker if you don't make 9-11 jokes?

Tanner:Damn.

Mike:I don't know, Josh.

Josh:he's

Tanner:you can't exclude

Josh:I think that Mike is too Canadian

Josh:to make 9-11 jokes

Josh:he

Mike:You think they did it?

Mike:Hey let me get a

Jorge:He's never lived in the city.

Jorge:He's only lived in Canada or Jersey.

Josh:exactly

Josh:he lived in Canada and then he moved

Jorge:He doesn't have a right.

Josh:to New Jersey

Josh:at no point does he get to say that you know

Jorge:Canada, Boston, Jersey.

Josh:exactly

Jorge:He was never...

Jorge:Yeah.

Josh:Mm-hmm.

Jorge:you smear poop

Tanner:Boston from the list

Mike:Let me get a chopped cheese

Mike:And put a little poop on it

Tanner:that guy is an islander fan so i like him um

Mike:Hey, let me get a little blue and orange and put a little poop on it.

Tanner:all right uh we can begin uh doom eater uh despite coming nearly face to face with this

Jorge:alright

Josh:So, I have a problem.

Tanner:Chul, you are

Jorge:Unless you move behind it.

Tanner:very calm under pressure,

Tanner:clearly, and you act

Tanner:first.

Josh:You know, I don't think you guys will be able to fight it if I cover it in darkness.

Mike:Yeah.

Josh:Is that fine?

Jorge:No, I would like it to be in sight for me to see it.

Josh:Right, yeah.

Tanner:I think you'd have a tough time

Tanner:being both in melee and having part of it stick out of your 15 feet of darkness?

Tanner:Does it have to be centered on you?

Jorge:Just 40.

Tanner:Okay, well, in that case, there's potential.

Josh:Um, no, it doesn't.

Josh:Uh, is there, uh, like, so, yeah, that's fair.

Josh:Okay, so I will, I guess I will skirt around it.

Josh:I have 40 feet of movement, so I can go, like, here.

Tanner:Mm-hmm.

Josh:And that's, I have enough, and then I will, I will, yeah, just 40, I'm sorry.

Josh:and then I will cast

Josh:darkness and then center it

Tanner:right

Josh:one square to

Josh:my right

Josh:that should put me and

Josh:most of it in darkness but not all of it

Josh:if you allow that

Tanner:okay

Tanner:so that'll kind of protect you from it

Tanner:but it can still see

Josh:um

Josh:yeah

Tanner:yeah

Tanner:one square to your right you said

Tanner:yeah

Tanner:kind of here-ish

Josh:Yeah, because then it's 15 feet from that point.

Tanner:I don't know if this is really correct

Jorge:I think you did an extra one on the top.

Josh:If that's acceptable.

Tanner:but

Tanner:darn it

Tanner:oh I don't know if I can undo that

Tanner:oh I can

Josh:Oh.

Tanner:oh

Josh:Okay.

Tanner:Alright, we'll say that's the darkness-ish.

Tanner:You are within the darkness, the creature is only partially within the darkness, and that's gotta be good enough for now.

Tanner:Is there anything else you'd like to do with your turn?

Tanner:Are you allowed to do that in this edition Cool

Josh:Yeah, I'm going to spend a focus point.

Josh:Oh, first off, at the start of combat, I regained my focus points.

Josh:I was choosing to do that.

Josh:And then I spent one focus point to cast Darkness.

Josh:I want to spend another focus point to bop bop as it were Yeah it a bonus action to Flurry of Blows

Tanner:Yeah, for some reason I feel like it used to be that you had to attack first to use Flurry of Blows,

Tanner:but I wouldn't be surprised if they changed that.

Josh:Yeah, in this it just says you can expend one focus point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.

Tanner:Okay.

Josh:yes

Tanner:It can't see you, so I guess you have advantage, huh?

Josh:I just needed that to happen once

Tanner:17 will hit.

Josh:okay first attack

Josh:I forgot to add a modifier

Josh:to that it's 17

Josh:nice

Tanner:17 will hit.

Tanner:14 misses

Josh:that is

Josh:11 points of damage

Josh:and it's force

Josh:and then

Josh:I make a second attack

Josh:that is a 14

Jorge:No.

Josh:yeah that's fair

Josh:yeah that's all the things

Tanner:but you hit him a little bit

Tanner:You punch his chitinous body and make some contact.

Tanner:Will that be all for your turn?

Tanner:Okay, the tool is next.

Tanner:it is

Jorge:No.

Jorge:I really hope you don't get paralyzed in the dark.

Tanner:going to

Tanner:attempt to strike you

Josh:That's fine.

Tanner:because it knows you are nearby

Tanner:so

Tanner:it makes

Tanner:it

Jorge:Okay.

Tanner:oh I forgot to say

Josh:I...

Josh:Okay.

Tanner:I'm so sorry

Tanner:or maybe I did say

Tanner:breaking the thing is a bonus action

Tanner:to use the item.

Tanner:Yeah that my bad for not mentioning that sooner It does attack with disadvantage So it going to make its first pincer attack

Josh:Sure Good to know

Tanner:That is a 16.

Josh:Doesn't hit.

Tanner:And then its second pincer attack

Tanner:is a 10.

Tanner:That's definitely not going to hit.

Josh:Also doesn't hit.

Tanner:And then...

Tanner:it uses paralyzing tentacles.

Jorge:I don't have enough actions to, because we didn't see it, rage and take this thing.

Tanner:Oh, you're not grappled, so it can't do that.

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:That, I think,

Tanner:is it for the tool.

Tanner:And it is Niso's turn.

Tanner:I will say no

Jorge:So I'm just going to rage.

Jorge:My bonus action.

Jorge:am I in the darkness here?

Jorge:Alright.

Jorge:So I'll be there. So I'm close to my buddy.

Jorge:And then I will strike him

Jorge:with my maw.

Tanner:yeah absolutely

Tanner:a 16 I believe hits

Jorge:And I'm not going to use advantage

Jorge:because I don't want him to grapple me.

Jorge:D20

Jorge:plus

Jorge:16

Jorge:great

Tanner:let me double check

Tanner:tab please

Tanner:yes 16 hits

Jorge:86

Jorge:plus

Tanner:18 points.

Jorge:86

Jorge:18 points

Jorge:damage

Tanner:Nice.

Jorge:And you need to make a constitution saving throw And the DC is eight plus 2 plus my ability modifier to make the attack which is

Tanner:Ooh I failed

Jorge:Strength.

Jorge:So.

Tanner:I got a 9.

Jorge:You failed!

Jorge:He is knocked prone.

Jorge:Yeah, buddy.

Tanner:Ooh

Tanner:Very well.

Jorge:Yeah, buddy.

Jorge:and

Tanner:probably not ideal for Zul'Grath

Mike:well we'll see

Jorge:well

Tanner:but

Tanner:do you have anything else to do with your turn?

Jorge:that's my turn

Mike:this guy he's just he's too big and zolgrath will cast

Jorge:no

Tanner:okay then it is Zul'Grath's turn

Tanner:amazing

Mike:enlarge on niso

Jorge:oh thank you

Jorge:Niso is now partially obstructed

Tanner:um I can do that

Mike:So,

Tanner:hold on

Tanner:how do I do that

Tanner:um

Jorge:in darkness

Jorge:yes

Tanner:Wait.

Tanner:Shift.

Tanner:And a drag.

Tanner:Big!

Tanner:Anything else from Zulgrath?

Mike:Telegraph will say, I really don't want to go back to the old me.

Mike:And he'll take out the thing and crack it and nip it.

Tanner:Very well.

Tanner:For the next minute you have advantage against the saving throws for the paralyzing tentacles

Mike:And he'll move closer.

Tanner:Yes

Tanner:Okay

Tanner:on initiative count 15

Tanner:the tool

Tanner:lets out a screech and

Tanner:Something that you did not notice

Jorge:Oh, no.

Tanner:were three sets of what looked like egg sacks

Tanner:kind of strewn around the battlefield.

Tanner:And emerging from each of these egg sacks

Tanner:is one very small chule.

Tanner:and

Tanner:one of them emerges from

Tanner:this egg sac up here and approaches

Tanner:Zul'Grath. One of them emerges from this here

Tanner:and approaches Niso. And then the other one

Tanner:emerges from here and does not

Tanner:want to go into the darkness and doesn't have quite enough movement

Tanner:so I guess it dashes to also

Tanner:get in range of Niso

Jorge:Bye.

Mike:Mrs.

Tanner:but might 1 is going to

Tanner:it gets to make one

Tanner:claw attack, it's going to make it at Zul'Grath

Tanner:and might 2 is going to do one at Niso

Tanner:we will start with might 1 on Zul'Grath

Tanner:jeez, that's a 9

Tanner:and then

Mike:Mrs.

Tanner:on

Mike:Mrs.

Tanner:Niso

Tanner:oh my god that's a six

Jorge:Yes, I like these dice.

Josh:Um is it worth going after the egg sacs I assume to stop the mites from spawning or should we just be focusing on the tool

Tanner:terrible

Jorge:Never get rid of them.

Tanner:absolutely terrible

Jorge:Unless you're playing in our campaign.

Tanner:that brings us back up to the

Jorge:Don't you dare use this in our campaign.

Tanner:Doom Eater

Tanner:Thank you All right

Jorge:If you get bonus action if you get bonus action give Niso some of that good good

Mike:I be focusing I be focusing Cool

Jorge:He can stay in the tank.

Josh:I don't know what that means.

Jorge:The immunity thing.

Josh:Oh. No, I could do that. That's fine. I'll give you a bonus action.

Jorge:I'll just do it on my turn.

Josh:I'll do a bonus action, snap the thing, and then feed it to Nisa.

Tanner:Well, then, Niso, you also have advantage against the paralyzation for a minute.

Josh:And then I guess...

Tanner:All right.

Tanner:Sure.

Josh:I think I'll just...

Josh:Fine.

Josh:I'm gonna... I'm gonna spend some of my movement.

Josh:15 feet this way.

Josh:Punch, sack three.

Josh:19

Tanner:Sure.

Jorge:They're actually weak to force.

Tanner:You can certainly do that.

Tanner:19 hits.

Josh:deal damage to sac 3

Josh:eight points of force damage

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:That does not destroy.

Tanner:But it.

Josh:I don't have any more stuff, so I'm just going to then spend another 15 feet of movement

Tanner:You smush several of the remaining eggs.

Tanner:In this.

Tanner:egg sac, but it looks like there's still one or two viable eggs there.

Josh:to go back to the tool.

Tanner:Very well It is now the Chul turn The Chul is going to go all in on Niso this turn Okay

Jorge:None None That hits

Tanner:Two pincer attacks.

Tanner:First one is a 21.

Tanner:And the second one is a 22.

Tanner:22.

Tanner:Okay

Jorge:hits.

Tanner:So you take

Tanner:From the first hit

Tanner:7 points of

Tanner:Bludgeoning damage

Tanner:Correct

Jorge:All right.

Jorge:Take three.

Tanner:And from the second one

Tanner:You take 13 points

Tanner:Of bludgeoning damage

Tanner:And you are grappled

Jorge:Take seven.

Tanner:In one of its pincers

Tanner:unfortunately it is allowed to target large creatures

Jorge:Ah.

Jorge:Does it have the actions?

Tanner:that is its size limit for grappling

Tanner:and so it can paralyze

Tanner:tentacles you so you have to make a constitution saving throw

Tanner:you have advantage because you were given the

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:antitoxin

Jorge:80

Tanner:That is a success.

Jorge:80

Jorge:can't say

Josh:Abysmal, how dare you.

Jorge:18

Jorge:that's good in this system

Jorge:all right

Jorge:Great. Did you see him upset about that?

Tanner:All right.

Tanner:So you are not paralyzed.

Tanner:and that ends the chules turn

Tanner:it's now your turn niso

Jorge:Great great great Niso is going to do something fun So he is going to

Tanner:I will say the teleport drops the grapple, yes.

Josh:you No

Jorge:jaunt

Jorge:above this thing

Josh:No.

Jorge:with cloud jaunt

Jorge:and teleport

Jorge:above, which should drop the grapple,

Jorge:I'm hoping.

Jorge:Yes.

Jorge:here and then I will drop my maul

Tanner:Very well.

Josh:.

Jorge:and grab my

Jorge:actually no I keep it for now

Jorge:because now there's nothing else to sweep

Jorge:and then I will strike at it

Jorge:that's why I won't make an attack

Jorge:oh I didn't have

Tanner:I should note that it did stand up on its turn.

Jorge:I have this movement could I have attacked it

Jorge:when I stood up

Tanner:Uh, no.

Jorge:is that how this works in this game

Tanner:No.

Tanner:No, they have to leave your melee range

Jorge:no

Jorge:All right, all right.

Josh:

Josh:.

Tanner:to trigger an opportunity attack.

Mike:I don't think so, but let me check.

Tanner:Which I guess is a negative for reach weapons.

Jorge:Wait.

Tanner:That's kind of interesting, right?

Josh:you have advantage on

Tanner:Anyway, yes, you can attack it.

Jorge:Okay.

Jorge:Wait, quick question.

Jorge:When I'm enlarging, does that increase my reach?

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:That's a great question.

Tanner:What does the spell say on enlarge?

Tanner:I believe it does give you bonus damage

Jorge:Okay, cool.

Mike:Actually.

Josh:advantage on strength checks and strength saving throws

Josh:and your attacks deal an additional 1d4 damage

Jorge:I'm going to do this reckless.

Jorge:BB plus

Jorge:seven.

Jorge:15. Does that hit?

Tanner:a 15 does not hit

Tanner:You teleport to the other side of this creature, and it quickly whirls around with you, and you have to die.

Jorge:No!

Jorge:I have nothing else.

Jorge:The stupid system!

Jorge:Can I step in this system?

Tanner:it's oncoming claws and you're not able to get a good swing at it.

Mike:you can disengage and then move.

Josh:you have disengage

Tanner:There's no step.

Jorge:There's no step?

Tanner:I mean, you can...

Josh:which is an action

Josh:different system

Mike:Yeah.

Tanner:It would get an attack of opportunity if you step away from it.

Jorge:Open system!

Jorge:I'm fine, I'm here.

Tanner:If that is your turn, then it brings us to Zul'Grath.

Mike:yes

Mike:um

Mike:i think i've been accidentally adding my six mod to the 1d10 whatever um

Mike:Zul'Grath will say

Mike:they're gonna make me do it.

Mike:It's too dire.

Mike:And he will pull out his

Mike:rapier

Tanner:Aha!

Josh:What?

Mike:and activate his blade song.

Mike:And then walk up to the chule.

Josh:What?

Tanner:He's a bladesinger.

Josh:I don't even think he's allowed to be one of those.

Mike:He is.

Mike:They let me pick it.

Tanner:I think that technically the old subclasses are allowed.

Mike:someone ported it

Tanner:And they have...

Tanner:they actually made rules about when the levels of the certain feats don't line up.

Josh:That's fun.

Tanner:There's some kind of rule for...

Tanner:Anyway.

Mike:someone ported the old

Mike:blade singer into 5.5

Mike:E on D&D Beyond

Mike:does it

Josh:I actually just generally meant that, like, I thought that Bladesingers were locked behind

Mike:well 5 changes so that racial bonuses aren even a thing you just pick more bonuses does a 24 hit

Josh:elves That fair That fair

Tanner:Oh well that just stupid in my opinion you Yes indeed it does

Mike:five damage

Tanner:It takes 5 damage.

Tanner:You connect with your rapier as you begin your blade song.

Mike:perfect

Jorge:We'll be right back.

Mike:That's it. Fun bonus actions.

Mike:Besides the blade song that I activated.

Tanner:That'll be all, yes?

Mike:Yes.

Tanner:Okay, the...

Tanner:On initiative count 15, the chule cries out again.

Tanner:And another three tulle mites emerge.

Tanner:So that makes things interesting.

Tanner:We'll have these go here.

Tanner:This one will go here.

Tanner:Mite four emerges here.

Tanner:Five.

Tanner:Six.

Tanner:6 will have dash around the darkness

Tanner:it will not get an attack

Tanner:I guess 5 goes here

Tanner:and then 4

Jorge:Oh, wow.

Tanner:can go

Tanner:4 will also dash

Tanner:to reach Niso

Tanner:but it cannot attack either

Tanner:so, might 1 is going to make an attack on Niso

Jorge:Okay.

Jorge:All right, let's do it.

Tanner:I rolled the same thing both times.

Jorge:He has advantage.

Tanner:It's a 17.

Jorge:That hits Two

Mike:you Come at me

Tanner:You take four points of piercing damage

Jorge:Two points.

Tanner:Yes.

Tanner:And then

Tanner:two, three, and five

Tanner:are all going to make attacks on

Tanner:Zul'Grath.

Tanner:While the Doom Eater hides in the darkness.

Mike:Come at me.

Tanner:Alright, I got a 12.

Mike:He's now British.

Tanner:a 7,

Mike:Come at me.

Josh:Isn't it?

Mike:Doesn't it?

Tanner:and a

Tanner:dirty 20.

Mike:That one hits.

Josh:Oh.

Tanner:Okay.

Mike:It barely hits.

Tanner:So, the one gets you

Josh:Barely.

Tanner:a little bit.

Josh:Barely.

Tanner:You take

Tanner:6 points of piercing damage.

Mike:Oh.

Tanner:Um...

Mike:I don't even have to keep track of my health.

Mike:Oh, I have D&D Beyond.

Tanner:That is the end of the

Tanner:Mite's turns. Um...

Tanner:You, uh, hear the, uh,

Tanner:screeching and, uh,

Tanner:other various noises of a chimpanzee.

Tanner:Uh, as, let's say,

Tanner:this bottom left area

Jorge:I raise my earth.

Tanner:of the map has a little bit more

Tanner:tree than

Tanner:is depicted. And emerging from

Tanner:the trees is the chimpanzee from before.

Tanner:And it leaps

Tanner:onto Egg Sack 1

Tanner:and

Tanner:absolutely crushes it.

Tanner:And then kind of looks

Tanner:to the two of you it can see,

Tanner:kind of raises its arms up,

Tanner:you know, like,

Tanner:and then it

Jorge:Woo, woo, woo, woo.

Jorge:Together, eight are strong.

Tanner:kind of retreats back up into the

Tanner:tree.

Jorge:Thank you how is the jewel looking

Josh:you It seems like the strategy we settled on is ignore the sacks

Tanner:But it takes out an egg sack that brings us back up to Doom Eater

Josh:So I'm going to continue to ignore the sacks.

Josh:I'm going to attack the troll three times.

Tanner:um

Tanner:It's been hit, but it is not yet bloodied.

Jorge:All right.

Mike:Ultimately, when we started.

Josh:I did bad so many times.

Tanner:Yeah, that's really unfortunate, but none of those hit.

Josh:How is that even possible?

Josh:That's crazy.

Tanner:Oh, it rolled two ones?

Josh:I got a natural one with advantage.

Josh:it rolled two ones

Mike:the percentile these six roses also ridiculous oh well

Josh:yeah yeah no none of those count i rolled 60 20s and i got a one a one a one a two a three and a

Tanner:Terrible.

Tanner:Oh, those are good, but I think it's a little late.

Josh:Okay, that's fine. I didn't want to do anything anyway. I'm just gonna hang out in this darkness.

Tanner:I'm very sorry about that.

Mike:and one one two three

Tanner:That does bring it to the Chul's turn.

Jorge:No, it doesn't hit.

Tanner:I think it's going to split its attacks

Tanner:between Niso and Zul'Gath.

Tanner:It does have advantage on you, Niso.

Tanner:That's correct.

Tanner:All right, so we'll do you first.

Mike:one

Tanner:Wow.

Tanner:Terrible.

Tanner:A 10?

Tanner:and then it will make an attack on Zul'Gath.

Mike:Let's not hit.

Jorge:Yay.

Tanner:That is an 18.

Jorge:That's a hit?

Jorge:Great, great.

Tanner:Oh, the blade song probably boosts your armor class, doesn't it?

Mike:yeah so uh mage armor starts it at 13 then add my decks of

Mike:three and then my add my into four so i have a 20 ac

Tanner:Yeah, that's baller.

Tanner:Okay, so the Chul misses everybody, and it's Niso's turn.

Jorge:Niso's gonna drop his maul

Jorge:and pick up his claver now

Jorge:because now there's enemies

Tanner:Mm-hmm.

Tanner:All right.

Jorge:not gonna reckless

Jorge:but he's going to attack the

Jorge:cool

Jorge:alright

Jorge:wow

Jorge:uh

Jorge:let me read this

Jorge:okay

Tanner:Do you have to hit to cleave?

Jorge:yeah

Tanner:That's the question.

Jorge:Yeah, you do have to hit.

Jorge:Bonus action.

Tanner:Fun.

Mike:Sorry.

Jorge:I guess I'll use...

Jorge:I'll roll 1d12

Jorge:to get some HP back.

Jorge:I'll roll 2d12, because it has...

Tanner:Fun.

Jorge:Yeah, I'll just do that.

Jorge:13.

Tanner:Nice.

Jorge:Alright.

Jorge:That's my turn, because of...

Jorge:You know.

Tanner:All right, that makes it Zulgrath's turn.

Jorge:What do you do to Benny?

Mike:I asked Google what's the probability of rolling a 14 or lower as a total of six D20 rolls?

Tanner:Very impressive work, Josh.

Mike:Chul.

Tanner:nobody can hit anything the monsters can hit The hunters can hit

Mike:It's payback for what you did to Benny last session.

Mike:Eleven you Eleven

Tanner:Would you like to do anything else?

Mike:No.

Tanner:Yay, low-level Dungeons & Dragons.

Tanner:So exciting.

Tanner:That brings us to the

Tanner:Mights.

Tanner:the mites do not

Jorge:No.

Tanner:generate more mites this turn.

Tanner:But the six that are

Tanner:on the board do get to attack.

Tanner:Niso, did you reckless attack last round?

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:So they're going to make three regular attacks against you.

Tanner:That's a

Tanner:30-20.

Jorge:I have a 15 AC.

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:and then a miss with 12, and a miss with 14.

Jorge:I dare it.

Mike:This is all crap.

Tanner:So you get hit once.

Tanner:You take 4 damage, of course halved to 2.

Tanner:And then the other 3 are going to attack Zul'Grath.

Jorge:Zul'Graph sounds like a...

Jorge:Like a med.

Tanner:16, 11, and a natural 1.

Jorge:Are you on Zul'Graph?

Jorge:Yeah.

Mike:It does, kind of.

Tanner:They all miss with your 20 armor class.

Tanner:The closest I got is a 15.

Mike:Gary.

Tanner:So that brings us back to the chimpanzee,

Tanner:who will crush this egg sack down here.

Tanner:And then back up to Doom Eater.

Mike:Hell yeah.

Josh:Okay this time I actually going to hit every time The whole time I decided

Tanner:Nice Nice

Mike:I watch the chat even though they say I watch chat ever boils oh okay

Josh:22 and 18 and a 27 crit.

Tanner:All three of those hit.

Josh:Excellent.

Josh:Uh, okay.

Josh:I'm just gonna roll all three of them at the same time, that's fine, right?

Tanner:Oh, no, you can combine it.

Mike:No, you have to type it.

Josh:Or should I do one at a time?

Tanner:Yeah, that's...

Tanner:It hasn't resisted your force damage.

Tanner:It hasn't because it can't.

Josh:Good.

Josh:I was hoping that would work.

Mike:I've been trying to type stuff like that all night.

Tanner:These three numbers

Josh:Oh, oh.

Mike:And it's...

Josh:I know why that didn't work. It's because I used semicolons, because I'm an idiot.

Josh:Uh, 27 points of force damage. Yeah.

Tanner:27

Tanner:That's pretty darn good

Tanner:Um

Josh:There's definitely a smarter way of doing that.

Tanner:Yeah

Tanner:It is certainly bloody now.

Tanner:It is not looking good at all.

Tanner:You punch the absolute crap out of it.

Tanner:You cause some cracks in its chitin.

Tanner:And it is looking rather worse for wear.

Tanner:That's your turn.

Josh:That's my whole turn.

Tanner:Alright, it is the Chul's turn.

Tanner:and it once again going to divide its strikes one against Niso is a 19 which I believe hits Niso Yep

Jorge:That hits That hits

Tanner:You take five points of bludgeoning damage, which you may have to two, and you are grappled.

Jorge:Alright, alright.

Tanner:and then

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:I miss

Jorge:That's fine.

Tanner:Zul'Grath

Tanner:with a 16.

Tanner:Unfortunately, this

Tanner:paralyzing stuff does not say a success

Tanner:makes you immune, so you are grappled again,

Tanner:you get hit by the tentacles, and you make another

Jorge:20.

Tanner:save, but you do still have advantage.

Jorge:Dirty.

Tanner:A 26 seeds! You are not

Tanner:paralyzed.

Tanner:Excellent.

Tanner:that is the

Jorge:All right, sorry, I was drinking.

Mike:I'll pretend I didn't hear that.

Josh:I

Tanner:Chul. Niso, it's your turn.

Jorge:I found a great way to get some protein in that doesn't taste horrible if you're sick of whey.

Jorge:It's a mix yogurt and orange juice.

Jorge:Delicious.

Tanner:Yeah, that sounds crazy.

Jorge:What'd you say?

Josh:the fact that you're

Mike:My stomach can't handle that.

Josh:Yet yogurt and orange juice together doesn't sound amazing.

Jorge:i am telling you it is really good it's like a creamsicle style you get no fat um yogurt

Mike:Wouldn't it curdle from the acidity?

Jorge:no fat you get like a skier or greek you mix it with oj and if you use either a shaker bottle

Jorge:or a whisk in a bowl.

Jorge:It goes completely smooth.

Jorge:And it is so good.

Jorge:I gave some to Bailey and her sister,

Jorge:and they're like, it's actually good.

Jorge:And they didn't think it would be good.

Jorge:But it is.

Tanner:What's your ratio?

Mike:You just ask a sequence.

Jorge:Anyway.

Jorge:I don't measure it.

Jorge:I just put some yogurt, mix it a little bit until it's smooth,

Jorge:and then I put more orange juice to how much I want to drink.

Jorge:It's really good.

Jorge:You should try it, really, seriously.

Jorge:Anyway.

Jorge:So the stool is injured.

Jorge:It's bloodied.

Tanner:It is bloodied.

Tanner:It is not looking good at all.

Tanner:Yeah.

Jorge:You know what?

Jorge:Big money no whammies.

Jorge:I'm going to ADV it.

Tanner:Very well.

Mike:Huh.

Josh:He's being reckless.

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:I'm so sorry.

Tanner:It has a 16 armor class.

Jorge:It's okay.

Jorge:I don't want to play this game.

Jorge:So it's fine.

Jorge:I'll just stay here,

Jorge:do the same thing I've done the last three turns,

Jorge:and just do nothing.

Jorge:It's fine.

Jorge:yeah no I'm done

Tanner:Hmm.

Mike:Yes.

Josh:I hate me so from the darkness. Just to spice things up.

Jorge:I'm good it's good

Tanner:That brings us to Zulgrath.

Mike:The tool.

Mike:Does a nine hit.

Tanner:Yeah, that's...

Tanner:Not quite, unfortunately.

Jorge:Thank you you With advantage remember

Tanner:that brings us to the children

Mike:Okay.

Josh:Oh.

Tanner:yeah sorry

Tanner:I just came up with that

Tanner:another might does emerge

Tanner:from the last egg sack

Tanner:again it's too far

Tanner:because of the darkness to really do anything

Tanner:so it just going to dash to continue to surround Niso but there are going to be three attacks against Niso from the other mites and then three against Sulgrath So we start with Niso

Tanner:That's a 23.

Tanner:Oh, yeah, you're right.

Tanner:Still a 23.

Jorge:Okay.

Tanner:Second one is a 19.

Jorge:Hits.

Jorge:All right.

Tanner:The third one is a 9.

Tanner:So you get hit twice.

Tanner:For three halved to one.

Tanner:And then nine halved to four.

Jorge:Five damage.

Tanner:And then we'll make three attacks against Zul'Grath.

Tanner:That's a 19, which misses.

Tanner:A natural 20, which crits.

Tanner:And a 17, which misses.

Mike:He's dead.

Josh:but still misses.

Tanner:So you do get crit on.

Tanner:I rolled pretty low, and so it becomes 6 points of damage.

Mike:I also have to make a con save.

Tanner:Oh, are you concentrating? Yes.

Mike:I rolled in D&D Beyond, which we'll just take.

Mike:It was a 14, and I have a plus 5 to con because of blade singing.

Tanner:Yeah, I'm pretty sure the DC was 10, so...

Tanner:You are good in that regard.

Mike:Nice.

Tanner:The chimpanzee is kind of keeping to the outskirts,

Tanner:and he is not able to reach the other egg sac this round So that goes to Doom Eater

Josh:so So I out of focus points

Josh:So, I'm just going to do a regular punch attack.

Tanner:Sure.

Tanner:Well, that hits.

Josh:And then I don't know what I'm going to do with my bonus action.

Josh:21.

Mike:Nice.

Josh:Uh, eight.

Tanner:Okay.

Josh:Eight points of force damage.

Tanner:It is mortal.

Tanner:Mortal.

Josh:Sick.

Josh:If I had a focus point, I would finish it off.

Mike:Okay.

Tanner:Did they get rid of the bonus action single strike?

Josh:But I don't...

Josh:Uh, yes.

Tanner:...

Mike:like with your offhand one or

Josh:So, I'm going to...

Mike:I don't know in mine

Josh:You can't just attack offhand.

Josh:Like, you need a feat that lets you do that.

Josh:So.

Mike:two weapon fighting I just randomly have two weapon fighting on my character

Josh:Yeah, two-weapon fighting will let you do it.

Tanner:nice

Josh:I don't have that because I don't have two weapons.

Josh:Other than darts.

Josh:But I can't use the darts.

Josh:So, I guess I will...

Josh:I...

Mike:um

Josh:Um...

Jorge:All right.

Josh:I disengage.

Josh:I'm not moving anywhere, I just disengage.

Tanner:uh-huh

Tanner:I love it

Tanner:um

Tanner:that does bring us

Tanner:to the chule

Tanner:it's looking bad

Tanner:it's looking desperate

Tanner:but it's very much

Tanner:surrounded by the

Tanner:three of you

Tanner:so it's just going to

Tanner:continue to lash out.

Tanner:It will strike at Niso with advantage

Tanner:for a 24 you are going to take damage 8 damage

Jorge:That That hits

Jorge:I rolled my con saving throw.

Jorge:It's a natural 25.

Tanner:Okay, we will hang on to that, but it is, if it grabs Zul'Grath, it's going to try to go for Zul'Grath with the tentacles.

Tanner:but if it doesn't hit him then

Jorge:Okay.

Tanner:we'll use that roll

Tanner:and sorry

Tanner:what did I say you took 8 points

Tanner:which you can halve to 4 and then it

Tanner:attempts to attack

Tanner:and it misses

Tanner:so yes

Tanner:you resist you are the one

Tanner:hit by the tentacles and you resist them

Tanner:handily

Tanner:and it's your turn

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:the tool is looking

Tanner:terrible

Tanner:yeah

Jorge:Yeah.

Jorge:ADV it, you know.

Mike:Yeah, Josh does.

Josh:He's so reckless.

Tanner:oh my god

Tanner:Jorge I'm very sorry

Tanner:I don't control the dice

Tanner:Josh does

Jorge:It's fine.

Tanner:Josh did not want you to have a good time

Mike:Yes.

Josh:I don't control the dice either!

Jorge:It's fine.

Josh:Do you want access to my source code?

Tanner:tonight

Jorge:yeah

Josh:This source code is public, it's open source.

Jorge:this is

Josh:You can look at it.

Josh:You can have Claude look at it.

Josh:You can do whatever you want.

Jorge:yeah no it's fine

Jorge:it's

Jorge:this is why I appreciate

Jorge:Pathfinder's

Jorge:multi-action attacks

Jorge:and I know

Jorge:it doesn't actually solve most of this

Jorge:because if you roll crummy on your first one

Jorge:you're statistically not likely to make your second

Jorge:anyway because of the map

Jorge:but it feels like you can still roll something here there's just like no if you're like most

Tanner:yeah level 5 is

Jorge:fighters you don't get anything until fifth and it's just like you just have no bonus action to

Jorge:hit or anything

Jorge:It's definitely less thinking.

Tanner:Nice jump.

Mike:Hill.

Josh:I mean, I think it's just kind of tuned for, like, D&D fights are supposed to be faster,

Josh:because you've got less thinking you've got to do for any individual action.

Josh:Okay.

Tanner:Well, speaking of faster,

Tanner:we'll keep it moving, and we'll let

Jorge:I don't know if it's faster.

Tanner:Zul'Graph go.

Mike:Hill.

Tanner:Jeez.

Mike:Does an eight hit?

Tanner:No.

Tanner:Wow.

Mike:I will

Tanner:And you're going to remain, I presume.

Mike:yep

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:Then the

Tanner:mites are going to go.

Tanner:We're going to make four attacks

Tanner:with advantage on Niso.

Tanner:A dirty

Tanner:20.

Tanner:A 21.

Jorge:Great, great.

Tanner:A 22.

Tanner:And a 9.

Tanner:You get hit 3 times.

Tanner:4 halved to 2.

Jorge:All right, all right.

Tanner:3 halved to 1.

Tanner:Oh, and 10 halved to 5.

Tanner:got a min roll and a max roll in there

Tanner:isn't that fun

Jorge:That's very fun.

Mike:We're going to kill Zul'Gras before we can.

Josh:Oh, wow.

Tanner:and then we'll make three attacks

Tanner:against Solgrath

Tanner:that's an 11

Tanner:a 9

Tanner:and a 22

Tanner:you take 7 points

Mike:I don like that

Tanner:of piercing.

Tanner:And the chimpanzee smashes the final egg sack and it Doom Eater turn

Jorge:Thank you He the real MVP here

Josh:you Well I mean I gonna punch

Josh:I'm gonna punch.

Josh:It's punch time.

Josh:It's punch clock.

Josh:This is 23?

Tanner:indeed

Tanner:Nine points will do it.

Josh:Nice.

Josh:Nine.

Josh:Nine points of force damage.

Tanner:Do you care to describe at all how you end the tool?

Josh:Ah.

Josh:Um.

Josh:No.

Tanner:Very well.

Josh:Because I'm in shadow.

Tanner:Oh.

Josh:I want it to be mysterious.

Tanner:Oh.

Josh:I want them fighting the truel,

Josh:and then all of a sudden it just keels over,

Josh:and then when they look over,

Josh:they see just like a fist-sized hole in its armor.

Tanner:Yes, you guys hear a crunch and then a squish

Josh:where I punched it.

Tanner:as the Chul kind of lets out one final shriek

Tanner:and falls to the ground dead.

Tanner:Its children remain.

Tanner:That does not end the battle, unfortunately.

Tanner:But the Chul has been slain.

Tanner:and Niso it is

Josh:What?

Tanner:or well Doom Eater if you have

Tanner:anything

Tanner:yeah sorry

Josh:Yeah, I still got time.

Josh:I got stuff to do.

Josh:This is 10 feet.

Josh:This is another 10 feet.

Josh:That's fine.

Josh:I had enough movement.

Josh:And then I'm going to move my shadow.

Josh:Every round I get to move it.

Tanner:uh-huh

Tanner:very well

Josh:I just haven't needed to.

Josh:I'm going to move it such that it covers

Josh:might 7 and might 6 and me, but not me so.

Tanner:we're just going to say that happened

Josh:Okay.

Tanner:and not deal with any of this on the map because I actually not sure if I can if I erase I don know what happens if I erase the square

Jorge:Help Oh Ha ha ha ha

Josh:Okay That fair Like move the black squares

Tanner:Let's just look for fun.

Tanner:Oh, the background comes back. Wow.

Tanner:I'm not going to make a new black square, but

Tanner:actually it is kind of easy, isn't it?

Josh:That's fair.

Tanner:Something kind of like this.

Tanner:Whatever.

Tanner:Awesome.

Jorge:All right, I will attack my one.

Tanner:that's the end of your turn

Josh:That's the end of my journal.

Tanner:okay so Niso now it's you

Tanner:very well

Tanner:yes that'll hit

Jorge:22.

Jorge:Yay, now we hit.

Tanner:that will definitely hit

Jorge:18 points!

Jorge:Great, great.

Tanner:Yeah, you absolutely destroy this thing.

Jorge:Yeah, and I attack its friend next to him for 23 to hit.

Tanner:Which one? That was might one.

Tanner:Yeah, that hits.

Jorge:I hit 11 on that one.

Tanner:A mighty blow, but it does still stand.

Jorge:That's my turn.

Jorge:Did the guts from the bugs do anything?

Jorge:that's fair

Tanner:So, on your first hit, it would have done one point of poison damage, but the chool was immune to poison.

Tanner:So, yes.

Jorge:appreciate you for looking out

Tanner:Okay that brings us to Zul

Mike:We move Zulgath will move uh

Tanner:There will be attacks of opportunity, depending on where you move, but you have free will.

Mike:I think you're five feet up

Mike:I have free will

Mike:um

Mike:is all got to move there

Tanner:Okay, let me make some attacks of opportunity.

Mike:it thanks for opportunity

Mike:oh thank god and then zolgraf will point his rapier at the might in the middle and said

Tanner:The highest I got was a 19.

Mike:you have bothered me long enough mites actually no you have bothered me long enough

Mike:Bites, and he will cast Shatter centered on Might 2.

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:Uh-huh.

Tanner:I make some kind of saving throw, I presume.

Mike:You make a con saving throw.

Tanner:Okay, I have a plus.

Mike:DC is 14.

Tanner:Oh, they're actually proficient in those. That's fun.

Tanner:Unfortunately, I only rolled one failure.

Tanner:The other two are successes.

Tanner:You said DC 14?

Tanner:yes I got a 15 and 19 and a 5

Mike:Mm hmm.

Tanner:they are not constructs no

Mike:Are any of them constructs?

Tanner:but I assume they still take half damage

Mike:Okay.

Tanner:okay

Mike:They do.

Mike:Half of 19.

Tanner:19

Tanner:that kills might 2 who took the

Mike:Mm hmm.

Tanner:full brunt and then 19 halves to 9 so the other two are made bloody

Tanner:That's might...

Mike:Yes.

Mike:And that is the turn.

Tanner:There's might seven, I forgot.

Tanner:Um, okay.

Tanner:Will that be all?

Mike:Yes.

Tanner:Alright, then the mites will go.

Tanner:Um, those two will now close on you.

Mike:I will attack of opportunity.

Tanner:Um...

Jorge:That doesn't work like that.

Tanner:You don't get to do it incoming unless you have the sentinel feat.

Mike:might

Josh:Mm-hmm.

Mike:but

Jorge:Yeah.

Mike:oh

Mike:it's only when they exit

Mike:who designed this system

Tanner:Yeah, in this game, yeah.

Josh:Mm-hmm.

Jorge:Yeah.

Tanner:Oh, wow.

Tanner:I rolled a 21 and a 23.

Mike:yeah

Mike:so that's going down

Tanner:That's tough.

Tanner:That's four points.

Tanner:and six points.

Mike:The four points brings them down.

Tanner:Zul'Gath falls to the

Tanner:mites, avenging

Tanner:their parent.

Tanner:Oh, and then there's more mites.

Mike:so shrinks.

Tanner:Oh. Okay.

Tanner:Niso, do you have a preference for which square you shrink into?

Jorge:The one cluster cell graph.

Tanner:I will let you pick.

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:Need to shift.

Tanner:And then shrink.

Tanner:Like this.

Jorge:Yeah Yes Yes

Tanner:Cool.

Tanner:Might four is going to go for you.

Tanner:Did you Reckless on the mites Okay That is an 18

Jorge:It's.

Tanner:You take 6.

Tanner:Halve to 3.

Jorge:Alright.

Tanner:And then the other two are in darkness.

Tanner:They...

Tanner:Don't really know what's happening.

Josh:Nice.

Tanner:One of the mites is going to just attack blindly

Tanner:towards where it thought Niso was and miss.

Tanner:And then the other one is going to go for Dew Meter with disadvantage.

Tanner:That's a natural 20 and a 3 for a total of 7 to hit.

Tanner:And then the

Josh:that misses.

Tanner:might 7 is going to

Tanner:exit the darkness, giving you an attack of opportunity.

Josh:Which I will take.

Josh:Because it's leaving

Josh:my range.

Tanner:Right.

Josh:19.

Tanner:19 hits.

Tanner:It is bloodied.

Josh:7 points of force damage.

Tanner:And it is your turn.

Tanner:You may have your reaction.

Josh:Okay.

Josh:5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

Josh:darkness covers me

Tanner:Amazing.

Josh:and Zul and my five and might three I sorry

Tanner:Oh boy Okay Uh Okay I can do this Everybody stay calm

Mike:you That a trait

Josh:I'm sorry.

Tanner:Okay. We're just going to do it like...

Tanner:Alright. We're just going to leave it like that.

Tanner:I don't care.

Josh:That's fine.

Tanner:Very well.

Josh:is it an action or a bonus action

Tanner:Ooh, that is a great question.

Josh:to administer a potion to a fallen friend

Josh:I have both an action and a bonus action

Tanner:If all you have is an action, I will definitely let you do it.

Tanner:But I don't know.

Josh:I just want to know which I'm ticking off

Tanner:Oh, the darkness just moves?

Josh:yep

Tanner:Oh, man.

Mike:is doom eater not doom micromanager

Josh:Heh. Stupid.

Tanner:I don't know if they changed the rule.

Josh:Which would you prefer?

Tanner:I'll let you do it with the bonus action.

Tanner:It's fine.

Josh:Okay, I feed a potion of healing to... to, um... what's his face? Solgraf.

Josh:There's six points of vitality damage, except not really.

Tanner:Yeah.

Tanner:Shoot.

Tanner:Roll the healing.

Tanner:Why not?

Tanner:All right, Zulgath, you get six hit points, and you emerge from an internal darkness to an external darkness.

Mike:What the hell is going on?

Josh:And then I'm gonna punch my three in the face.

Tanner:Very well.

Josh:I forgot to roll advantage on that because we in darkness 11 points force damage

Tanner:Ah yeah that hits That hits Yeah I don think it could have survived any hit

Josh:Good.

Tanner:You slay might three.

Tanner:Oh, no, I'm on the wrong thing.

Tanner:Put the darkness back.

Josh:I slay the darkness.

Tanner:Hake the token away.

Tanner:That's a great turn.

Tanner:It's now Niso's turn.

Jorge:Great. Niso uses bonus action. Sorry, go ahead.

Tanner:Niso

Tanner:just for your reference

Tanner:the only

Jorge:Uh-huh.

Tanner:might that is not bloodied is

Tanner:six

Tanner:of course

Jorge:Okay. Niso uses bonus action to use large form and grow back to his original large size.

Jorge:Yes.

Jorge:yeah

Tanner:that makes a ton of sense

Jorge:and then he's gonna attack with advantage

Tanner:Amazing.

Mike:Oh, that's a good point.

Josh:Oh, I do, I actually have a question.

Jorge:on seven

Jorge:21

Josh:I don't know if I missed it.

Josh:Zul'Greth, did you already, when you went down,

Jorge:22

Josh:had you already used your relentless endurance?

Jorge:20.

Josh:Or orts?

Tanner:You hit, Jorge, by the way.

Mike:Oh, right.

Tanner:Sorry.

Tanner:Oh my god.

Mike:I had not used it.

Josh:Why?

Jorge:20.

Tanner:Yeah.

Mike:So take your healing potion,

Tanner:It's absolutely...

Josh:No, you can.

Tanner:Which one was that?

Mike:right?

Tanner:Seven?

Jorge:7.

Tanner:Seven is annihilated.

Mike:I'll keep it then.

Jorge:Mike doesn't have a 12 AC or lower, right?

Tanner:It has a 12 AC.

Mike:Uh,

Mike:no.

Jorge:Oh, yay.

Tanner:So you hit.

Jorge:one

Jorge:two

Jorge:three

Tanner:Which one is this targeted at?

Jorge:four

Tanner:Oh yeah, that one's going to die for sure.

Jorge:that dies too

Tanner:It had two hit points!

Jorge:Yay.

Tanner:Zulgrath you are awake

Mike:luckily

Jorge:Alright.

Jorge:That's my turn.

Tanner:it's dark

Tanner:but

Tanner:you have trained

Tanner:with Doom Eater

Tanner:you have been in their darkness before

Tanner:you're not entirely caught off guard

Tanner:by this

Tanner:but you are blinded

Mike:can I see enough to just

Tanner:I'll say you could step out.

Mike:Step out of the darkness.

Josh:Right.

Tanner:Yeah, upwards or to the left.

Tanner:Yeah.

Mike:Perfect.

Mike:And then might six.

Mike:What is it saying?

Mike:It's like face meet fist.

Mike:I'm going to firebolt.

Tanner:Right.

Tanner:Oh, yeah, good.

Josh:when they say face meet fist

Jorge:Thank you This is

Tanner:A 16 hits!

Mike:16

Josh:what they mean is fireball

Josh:okay

Mike:4 damage

Josh:okay

Tanner:4 damage.

Mike:I healed it

Josh:okay

Tanner:It is not bloodied.

Josh:okay

Tanner:No, it was untouched previously.

Mike:Oh

Mike:Okay

Tanner:That brings us to the mites.

Josh:Thank you you Doesn hit No

Tanner:who are dwindling quite a bit.

Tanner:One will attack Niso.

Jorge:Hello.

Tanner:That is going to hit.

Tanner:Jeez.

Jorge:Is it a natural 20?

Tanner:Yeah, that's a 23.

Tanner:Not a natural 20.

Jorge:All right, then I don't care.

Tanner:So you take 7.5 to 4.

Tanner:And then the other one is going to attack Doom Eater with Disadvanted That a 16 Doom Eater

Jorge:All right.

Tanner:Does that hit?

Tanner:Wow.

Josh:My AC is 17.

Tanner:Okay.

Tanner:Very good.

Tanner:Then it is your turn.

Josh:Then I will go.

Josh:I will punch my 5 in the face.

Tanner:Right.

Tanner:Indeed.

Josh:Or the...

Josh:Bucks have faces.

Josh:Yeah, in the face.

Tanner:Yeah.

Tanner:A 15 hit.

Mike:Mm-hmm.

Josh:Nope, I forgot an Operator.

Josh:Uh, 15?

Josh:Eight. Eight points of force damage.

Tanner:That is enough.

Tanner:They're little squishy guys.

Tanner:They've just hatched.

Tanner:if that is all from you

Josh:Nice.

Josh:Get killed, idiot.

Mike:Yes.

Tanner:does code in niso

Tanner:Uh-huh. Sure.

Tanner:Sure.

Tanner:I believe it is. Yes, you're doing, what is it, a grapple action, right?

Mike:grapple gives advantage on

Tanner:Grapple action.

Tanner:Oh it telling me that to grapple you make an unarmed strike

Mike:or grappled

Mike:condition gives advantage on

Mike:is it melee attack

Mike:Thank you Yes

Tanner:You grapple the creature.

Tanner:All right.

Mike:What does this get me?

Josh:All right.

Tanner:It is grappled.

Tanner:It is Zul'Grath's turn.

Tanner:It is not buddied.

Mike:Like, how do I...

Mike:Does it advantage on melee?

Tanner:Unfortunately, it just can't move,

Mike:Or nothing?

Tanner:and it has disadvantage to attack anyone

Tanner:besides the creature grappling it.

Tanner:but you don't get any benefit.

Mike:Oh, nice.

Tanner:it's not a successful

Mike:I could, actually.

Mike:I will blade sing again.

Mike:And then walk right up to it and give it a piece of my mind.

Mike:Which is the name of my rapier.

Mike:Here, have a piece of my mind.

Mike:There's a nine hit.

Tanner:one-liner, unfortunately.

Mike:Okay.

Tanner:Oh man, that does mean it gets another turn!

Tanner:Wow! Who would have thought it was going to get

Tanner:another turn?

Tanner:It goes for Niso, because

Tanner:it's advantage against Niso and disadvantage

Tanner:against Zul'Gath.

Tanner:I got a 17.

Tanner:Which I believe hits.

Tanner:And

Tanner:why

Tanner:that so weird 5e tools is like giving me ads in the middle of the screen and blocking the stat blocks

Josh:you Ew

Tanner:Wow, that is 9.5 to 4.

Tanner:Uh-oh.

Tanner:It is the Doom Eater's turn.

Tanner:Sure.

Josh:Yeah, I think moving my darkness over would be annoying now, so I'm just gonna do the

Josh:normal walk up.

Josh:Is there flanking?

Josh:I mean, last time we played like 5e there was flanking.

Tanner:Yeah, I think I did do flanking.

Josh:It's not an unreasonable task.

Tanner:Yeah.

Josh:I don't know what flanking gets me.

Tanner:I think he had advantage.

Josh:Okay, sure. Great.

Tanner:Uh, yeah, that hits.

Josh:I punch him with an 18.

Josh:I deal 10 force damage.

Tanner:That'll do it!

Josh:Noice.

Tanner:He had nine hit points.

Tanner:You crushed the last bug.

Josh:Haha.

Tanner:The tool and its children are slain amongst your feet

Josh:Get killed, idiot.

Josh:Okay.

Mike:he shit his pants

Tanner:And I need to use the restroom so I'll be back in a minute

Mike:on how badly we beat these bugs

Mike:he's waddling

Mike:waddling to the bathroom

Josh:He's waddling?

Josh:I don't like that at all.

Mike:he's not even going to use the bathroom

Josh:Yes, a tool is a real thing.

Mike:in real life or in the game

Josh:Big real life.

Mike:What?

Josh:I had one as a pet for a few years.

Josh:Paralyzed my grandma.

Mike:Oh yeah, no, I've seen one of these.

Josh:Basically.

Mike:It's just a big crayfish.

Josh:Basically.

Josh:It can breathe air and water.

Mike:This is not a bug.

Josh:It's actually a large aberration.

Mike:That's probably...

Mike:Exactly.

Mike:What, Jorge?

Mike:It stands at 8 feet tall and weighs 650 pounds.

Josh:How would it know that?

Josh:Ask it where it figured that out.

Josh:I want to know.

Mike:It's its source DND Beyond.

Josh:Okay, but where did Forgotten Realms get it?

Josh:One second, I'm looking at the citation.

Tanner:All right.

Mike:Sense magic? The tool senses magic within 120 feet of it at will?

Josh:All right.

Tanner:Oh, I made a top over here.

Mike:Understands deep speech but can't speak.

Tanner:What's up?

Tanner:you could

Tanner:it will take longer than just walking

Tanner:but

Tanner:there really no penalty for that so I think it fine

Mike:you I done

Tanner:And so you guys make a bit of a slower trek

Tanner:back to Blade's Rest.

Tanner:The scouts spot you first

Tanner:as you slowly drag the corpse of the

Tanner:chule through the jungle.

Tanner:And Master Killock

Tanner:is alerted to your imminent arrival

Tanner:before you arrive, and he is waiting for you at the training grounds

Tanner:as you present him the dead chule.

Tanner:He goes, ah, well, that's some damn incredible

Tanner:work. We didn't really need you to bring back the whole

Tanner:thing, but sure.

Josh:Is it paralyzing you?

Tanner:Perhaps we could give it a go.

Tanner:We've never tried it, but

Tanner:we'll send some of it to you.

Tanner:Uh-huh. I guess we'll find

Tanner:out.

Tanner:Well, I

Tanner:must say, this is very impressive.

Tanner:you guys are clearly skilled hunters

Tanner:worthy of being hunters of Blades Rest

Mike:Very well then.

Josh:I'm going to go watch some Hitball.

Tanner:congratulations and

Tanner:good luck on your future hunts, welcome to the team

Tanner:Hitball, yes

Josh:That's what it's called, right? Hitball?

Tanner:They play Hitball

Tanner:Amazing

Josh:And now I'm going to go watch some Hitball.

Tanner:And that it That the one shot You did it You graduated

Mike:That was fun I knew

Josh:Yeah yeah it always fun to

Tanner:It has its weaknesses.

Josh:I think it's always fun to

Josh:jump into 5e every once in a while

Josh:you know see what it's like on the other side of the fence

Josh:it was a good time

Mike:I was going to play a gunslinger,

Mike:but I thought that too much

Mike:an ask or gear shifts.

Josh:are

Josh:Gunslinger's a thing in 5e?

Mike:Mm-hmm.

Mike:The

Josh:Yeah.

Josh:But the Blood Hunter

Josh:was, like, released as part of

Josh:the...

Josh:Like, it's not part of the normal Færrin

Josh:setting.

Josh:Like, it was in their Legends of Vox Machina book.

Josh:What? What?

Tanner:Why does D&D Beyond just have a bunch of

Mike:Yeah, Blood Hunter is under the critical role section in D&D Beyond, but Gunslinger is under Gunslinger class Valdus Spire of Secrets.

Josh:Oh, yeah, Vault Aspire of Secrets is also homebrew.

Josh:That's a third-party thing.

Mike:Sure.

Mike:Mage Hand Press.

Tanner:third-party stuff by default?

Josh:I didn't...

Josh:I didn't realize that it had that.

Josh:Yeah, I backed Full Despires of Secrets on Kickstarter back when they had their campaign in, I want to say, like, 2018.

Tanner:Yeah, I guess that's fair.

Mike:yeah there's not a lot of indication that this is uh uh what's it called

Josh:It was a good time.

Mike:not

Mike:like it's labeled dnd beyond like it's not in the homebrew section of dnd beyond it's one of

Josh:Okay.

Josh:That surprising Oh sure

Mike:the official classes you can just pick

Tanner:You guys were talking about alligators and crocodiles before and the mites I was using

Josh:I'm going to go ahead and do that.

Tanner:the crocodile stat block for the mites with some minor modifications.

Josh:I'm going to go ahead and do that.

Tanner:But, yeah.

Josh:There are crocodiles.

Tanner:I was like, well, there aren't crocodiles, but in a way...

Mike:But yeah.

Josh:There's a chimpanzee.

Tanner:Yeah, you fed him.

Tanner:That was the right thing to do.

Josh:We should have attacked it with darts.

Mike:You had me making that nature roll.

Mike:I was like, I get advantage on this.

Mike:I was like, he really doesn't want us to think.

Mike:Because if I rolled low enough, he'd be like, he's an invasive species.

Mike:He's killing me.

Tanner:Oh, so next to that mound of dirt that I mentioned

Josh:Throw some darts at him.

Mike:The true.

Tanner:was a hole in the ground

Tanner:with almost like

Josh:You have a sneaky comment, where's.

Tanner:baked

Tanner:clay-ish dirt that had hardened.

Mike:Potatoes.

Tanner:And it looked like this

Tanner:chule was just underground

Mike:I hate him.

Tanner:for some amount of time,

Tanner:like semi-preserved under the dirt,

Tanner:and it emerged.

Josh:Yeah.

Tanner:Yeah, of course.

Tanner:I, uh...

Tanner:So I didn't really have any indicator for this, but he was kind of a...

Josh:Wasn't the bug eating all the food?

Tanner:spirit of the jungle kind of thing

Josh:He didn't use any plant powers fighting the bug.

Tanner:that was testing your morality

Tanner:and if you didn't feed him, it would

Tanner:have screamed and some plants would have animated

Tanner:around you and attacked you.

Josh:Should have planted the bug.

Tanner:No, it just...

Tanner:It just smooshed

Tanner:the egg sacs for you guys

Tanner:because...

Josh:was useful because we weren't going for them at all and if that had continued for two more

Tanner:Yeah.

Tanner:yeah that would have been interesting

Mike:a billion

Josh:rounds there would have been 24 mites on the board at one time.

Mike:I was actually doing the math

Mike:I was like we can't even kill mites fast enough

Mike:that they're spawning even if we were to get

Mike:rid of them we would like

Mike:terminate with like 60 mites and

Mike:a full health chule and we would have spent

Mike:all our actions killing the mite eggs

Mike:and like I think we just have to kill the chule and run

Mike:I don't know

Tanner:it worked out

Tanner:yeah I was on the fence

Josh:Oh.

Tanner:about running a one shot

Tanner:I didn't mention this

Tanner:last week but a couple days before

Tanner:our session my grandfather passed away

Tanner:and Liz was like

Josh:Oh.

Tanner:Tanner you probably shouldn't do a one shot

Tanner:and I was like no I can do the one shot

Josh:Oh.

Tanner:and it worked out

Tanner:So there we go.

Josh:Thank you Oh Oh Mm

Tanner:But yeah, I had an interesting week last week.

Tanner:We did a celebration of life.

Tanner:We had some of my family from Colorado staying at our house,

Tanner:which was interesting.

Tanner:We haven't really had a lot of multi-night guests before,

Tanner:so that was new.

Tanner:Correct, yes.

Tanner:Yeah, we have to return the favor a bit there.

Tanner:Miss Kitty is back in a cone I don know if I A couple months ago I don know if I brought this up

Tanner:but she had scratched a wound onto her neck.

Tanner:And so we got a cone, and we're just kind of monitoring it.

Tanner:And it healed.

Tanner:but what I think happened was

Tanner:before it healed it got a bit infected

Tanner:and just healed over

Tanner:because last week she scratched again

Tanner:and it was like it like burst sort of

Tanner:there was like pus

Tanner:and we had to get a culture

Tanner:and there was infection

Tanner:and she's on antibiotics

Tanner:they cleaned it

Tanner:and it's actually like looking really good

Tanner:and she's been on antibiotics, so it should actually heal this time.

Tanner:But yeah, she's in a cone, which is a little unfortunate for her.

Tanner:Yeah, yeah, it was his cat, yeah.

Tanner:Yeah, he was on a mental decline that really accelerated in the last two months.

Tanner:well he was in assisted living

Tanner:and then he got moved to the

Tanner:memory care unit

Tanner:but then he got pretty

Tanner:bad and was in the hospital for a few days

Tanner:and then went to like a rehab

Tanner:nursing home facility

Tanner:and they were

Tanner:somewhat attempting

Tanner:to treat him I'm a little

Tanner:upset with

Tanner:I think the care that he received there

Tanner:and he just went downhill and eventually

Tanner:they put him on what do they call it They didn call it palliative care but it was palliative care essentially

Josh:Outlead of care

Tanner:He didn't last long from there.

Tanner:Yeah, I like, you know, hindsight is whatever,

Tanner:but I question

Tanner:the amount of attention that he received

Tanner:versus

Tanner:I don't know if things could have been handled differently

Tanner:he had been on a decline

Tanner:since COVID but it was like a slow

Tanner:decline so I don't know

Tanner:yeah

Tanner:yeah i mean it's a tough job because a lot of times these people are aggressive and not very

Tanner:nice to you and it's a very intensive job you know caring for full-sized humans like that

Tanner:and they don't get paid very well.

Mike:Yes.

Tanner:It's just a bad situation all around.

Tanner:But thank you guys for playing.

Tanner:Yes.

Tanner:I'll have to boost the level for the next one

Tanner:so that our marshals get two attacks.

Tanner:Mm-hmm.

Tanner:Oh.

Josh:you I mean even if you used

Josh:Well, you would need, like, a specific feed that lets you do that.

Tanner:Oh.

Josh:You don't just get it for free.

Josh:Hmm.

Tanner:Right.

Josh:Well, two weapon... if you have two weapon fighting, then you could have, with your offhand,

Josh:done an attack.

Josh:Oh, you didn't have a one-handed weapon.

Josh:Okay, yeah.

Tanner:You wanted, like, great weapon master or, you know, what do they call it?

Josh:That's fair.

Tanner:There's a two-handed fighting style.

Mike:I don't know how that popped up on my character sheet.

Josh:Oh.

Tanner:I forget.

Mike:It's like, oh, you just get two overfighting.

Mike:It's other shit like, I don't know,

Mike:people talking about using a shield with the Bladesinger,

Mike:and it's like, you can't.

Mike:If you have armor or a shield on,

Mike:your blade song ends.

Tanner:Yeah, 20 is nuts.

Josh:Yeah.

Mike:So you have one one-handed weapon.

Mike:That's it.

Mike:But to be fair, I can't believe

Mike:how high the AC gets.

Josh:Yeah.

Mike:Yeah.

Tanner:Yeah, I would give it a go.

Josh:No doubt.

Tanner:It's less than 2 gigabytes, so very easy to download.

Josh:Yeah, I could pack an extra like 100 gigs of

Tanner:Oh, jeez.

Mike:I'm down.

Josh:there if we're going for it you know i'm also not going to do that one of the mods is just

Tanner:I didn't consider that.

Tanner:But you could, is the point.

Tanner:people do just weird stuff

Josh:yeah one of the mods is just replaces like uh the monitors in the um in the ship with interstellar

Josh:in 4k with dolby atmos just to just bump up the uh the size of the mod pack i i

Josh:Jorge, you, um, your family does, like, Plex media share, whatever, with requests?

Mike:Mediation

Tanner:I don't understand

Josh:Plex. You have a Plex running for, uh, I, I had mine running for a little bit, and I hadn't realized

Josh:that I had somehow removed the filters on, like, what it would, like, what kinds of files it would

Josh:fetch uh i fetched a 215 gigabyte movie um because it came with like 28.3 sound or something like

Mike:That had

Josh:that it was ridiculous i don't even i don't even know where they got like the the rip from

Josh:no

Josh:it's the actual movie

Josh:it was just Avengers

Josh:Infinity War

Josh:but like with all the

Josh:I think it must have been like an IMAX rip or something

Josh:I don't know how that happened

Mike:It had to have been like the North Korean hack,

Mike:like the Sony hack or whatever.

Mike:They're just like, I don't know,

Mike:get the fucking IMAX version of...

Mike:Yeah, like...

Josh:yeah

Josh:it was ridiculous

Josh:anyway I'm putting that in our lethal company

Josh:mop pack

Josh:Mm Mm

Mike:He like Chinese and supports Trump

Josh:poison yeah

Mike:I was about to say.

Mike:3%

Josh:3% probably.

Mike:2%

Mike:I was thinking like

Josh:Yeah.

Josh:3% poison.

Mike:you couldn't do 3% nachos

Mike:that's 6 pounds of nachos

Mike:you're fucking dead

Mike:like

Mike:3%

Mike:that's crazy

Mike:that so fucking crazy does he think a rattlesnake bite fills you with 15 pounds of venom What does he think

Josh:you No

Mike:Does he think rattlesnakes

Mike:are the Giant salamanders

Mike:that they cut up and eat in China?

Mike:Josh, have you seen these?

Mike:These are abominations.

Josh:What are you talking about?

Mike:The Giant Chinese salamander.

Mike:josh they're six feet long and 6d6 pounds i saw my favorite one was uh there was a

Josh:That's unpleasant.

Mike:a post on twitter that was like david attenborough like david attenborough like him speaking like a

Mike:quote from like no no skip this one i don't i don't like this one and then someone quote

Mike:tweet it with a video of a Giant

Mike:Chinese salamander.

Josh:Of course.

Mike:Here, I

Mike:sent a picture of one.

Josh:Oh, that's a big guy.

Tanner:Uh-huh.

Mike:They're fucking

Mike:so big.

Tanner:Yeah, that's a specimen right there.

Josh:It's a big boy.

Mike:They're critically

Mike:endangered.

Tanner:It'll be great friends with Miss Kitty.

Mike:I'm so scared of the fucking amphibian dude

Josh:One of them would terrorize the other.

Josh:I don't know which would be the more aggressive in that situation.

Tanner:Do you guys want to play Pathfinder next Monday?

Josh:Alrighty. See y'all.

Mike:yes

Mike:I'm down

Josh:I guess. If we have to.

Mike:I'm down

Tanner:Yeah, I'm like all in, so...

Mike:Sure That works sure that works he taking shits a lot

Josh:Alright, let's do that then.

Josh:Johnny You trying to kill Johnny

Tanner:Thank you Exactly

Mike:talking about chess piece

Josh:I don't know.

Mike:oh yeah that's right

Josh:Yeah, this is in the transcript.

Mike:give me

Mike:you eat me orange

Mike:me eat, give me orange.

Josh:And.

Mike:We gotta spam now so that he doesn't.

Mike:We all start

Mike:chugging fucking cranberry

Mike:juice. Johnny like rolls

Mike:the fucking

Mike:it's not an insight, but it's a sense

Mike:motive and he could tell that we're all

Mike:just sort of like dumping it next to us and looking

Mike:at him waiting for him to drink.

Mike:my judge is completely

Tanner:Crazy.

Mike:so it's gonna be good

Tanner:Uh-oh.

Tanner:Mm-hmm.

Tanner:Okay.

Mike:sure yeah

Tanner:Yes, Josh, we're going to take our altitude bomb and put it in their plane.

Josh:Sorry, is this... this is Ternion Heavy?

Josh:Or this is... oh, okay.

Mike:take your pick

Josh:I wasn't sure if it was Ternion Heavy or Hildebrandt.

Josh:I didn't know which plane won.

Josh:Okay.

Tanner:Okay.

Mike:oh yeah

Mike:I had a bomb

Mike:I forgot to look at my inventory during this

Mike:because I have it in a different tab

Mike:yeah I had a bomb the whole time

Mike:Mm-hmm.

Josh:in in this session that we just did why don't you

Tanner:We're going to take an antiquated mortar and put it in the plane.

Mike:And I had a noisemaker and a smoke grenade.

Josh:Use a...

Mike:Because you don't need to use a bomb all the time.

Josh:Um...

Mike:Sometimes you just have them.

Josh:No, you should use a bomb every time you have an opportunity to do that.

Mike:I know what I'm doing next session.

Josh:Um...

Josh:No.

Tanner:That's a...

Tanner:Hmm.

Josh:The fundamental biggest mistake I made in Campaign 1

Josh:was the time dilation in the Undermountain.

Josh:Like, by far.

Josh:Because so long as the Undermountain existed,

Josh:your default response to any problem was,

Josh:I'm just going to go into, like, floor 12 of the Undermountain,

Josh:do a little bit of a training montage,

Josh:out level the problem and then pop back out so yeah yeah no that's really cool

Josh:it does hurt like general flow of the game though so that was that mistake

Josh:yeah yeah

Josh:Uh-huh. You had an always-available hyperbolic time chamber to just hop into a little bit every once in a while.

Josh:I don't know. I kind of... I don't know if there were mistakes.

Josh:I think...

Josh:You guys were a little bit out of band, but it wasn't as bad.

Josh:Like, you guys were stronger relative to other things at the end of Campaign 1 than you were at the end of Campaign 2.

Josh:Like, you guys were strong in campaign two, but I could throw harder things at you, it was fine.

Josh:I think I like fully believe that 5e D was not balanced in like from level 15 to 20 at all

Josh:uh just because like play usually doesn't get there um it's fine it's just like at that point

Josh:I feel like the exponential caster versus linear um versus linear marshal kind of really takes off

Josh:and I didn't feel that as harshly.

Josh:I think if anything, really specifically Lev

Josh:was probably a bit further out of band

Josh:than everybody else was,

Josh:but that was just because thaumaturges are ridiculous.

Josh:Like that wasn't a, like I gave you an item,

Josh:I regretted thing.

Josh:I think like, I don't have any,

Josh:I mean, I don't regret how campaign one went either.

Josh:For campaign two, I think the biggest mistake

Josh:was

Josh:I think probably Ashmont

Josh:in that

Josh:Ashmont was supposed to be

Josh:a perhaps aloof

Josh:but generally friendly resource

Josh:to help you guys figure out what was happening

Josh:early on because I expected you

Josh:to go to Iliara

Josh:second. Like, leave

Josh:the starting area and go

Josh:to Iliara. And instead

Josh:you guys spent 16

Josh:levels dicking around

Josh:before you really got there.

Josh:And so it just wasn't a thing

Josh:anymore, and he wasn't in a position

Josh:to be an annoying

Josh:but well-meaning, like, mentor

Josh:and instead was just an

Josh:obstacle. Um...

Josh:And I, like...

Josh:Yeah Not only was that your M on top of that you had been told hey this weird orb thing that you found it came from this city and a guy who might know something about it is in this city and you never tracked down

Tanner:you Were we not supposed to go into the desert

Mike:you We did

Josh:who that guy was, and you immediately disregarded the note that told you that's where it came

Josh:from, and you're like, no, we're going into the wilderness.

Josh:you could go into the desert i didn't expect you to go into the desert immediately i thought you

Mike:What is it?

Mike:The Gulch?

Tanner:...

Josh:would try and learn some information first before going into like uncharted territory

Josh:and you didn't do that and that was obviously clearly fine i just didn't have a good plan for

Josh:what to do with ashmont if you arrived there much much later like you actually did and so he didn't

Josh:really have an in to be your friend anymore.

Josh:Kind of. Like, you could

Josh:have approached him and tried to be friendly.

Josh:The problem is, at that point, you kind of

Josh:took the tech

Josh:ox's side instead of the

Josh:Ashmont

Josh:archive side. It's fine.

Josh:Yeah.

Josh:Tech was, like,

Josh:not a great dude

Josh:in Campaign 2

Josh:like he treated you guys as expendable

Josh:he fully ruined

Josh:Divex's life

Josh:like he just

Mike:I think the fact that he treated us like we were expendable

Josh:he wasn't a great guy

Josh:but tech is tech

Josh:so you know

Josh:true

Josh:if

Mike:made us respect him more.

Mike:They're like, yeah, we'll go and try to get this done for you

Mike:and we might not come back.

Mike:He's like, yeah, you might not come back.

Josh:I don know how much you can hold the bell against him specifically

Mike:Anyways.

Mike:Uh...

Josh:given that, at that time, I think you had broken into his house twice.

Josh:Like...

Josh:I know! I understand!

Josh:I'm just saying, like, throwing stones in glass houses and all.

Mike:This is

Josh:Yeah, through extensive glass houses.

Josh:Either way.

Tanner:Yeah, what are the question people?

Mike:Oh, this is a campaign to.

Josh:I...

Josh:I didn't understand the first half of that sentence.

Tanner:Okay. Yes.

Mike:Yeah.

Josh:Rowan.

Mike:Yeah.

Josh:Yes.

Mike:Yeah.

Josh:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mike:Vaguely.

Mike:I thought it matched

Mike:didn't it match the weird grass on the ship

Josh:I can neither confirm nor deny what it means, but I will confirm that the color of the grass

Mike:when Divex was in the bathroom?

Josh:on the ship

Josh:was the same as the color of the grass

Josh:Anzu saw

Josh:in the vision in the guy's head.

Tanner:But we've got no...

Mike:We have to kill Anzu.

Mike:I thought they were a different color.

Josh:Like,

Tanner:There's no meta...

Josh:yeah,

Josh:that is a crazy poll.

Mike:We have to kill Anzu.

Mike:Luckily...

Josh:I did not remember that at first, Jorge.

Josh:But you are correct

Josh:in that the grass was the same.

Josh:The grass that you saw in the vision was, like, from the Trip the Light Fantastic.

Josh:Like, to clarify.

Josh:Sorry, not the Anzu vision.

Josh:Like, the dream whatever when you were speaking to the Grey Servants in the archive.

Mike:Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Mike:Yeah, we have to kill Anzu then.

Mike:Anzu's part of the grass, the grass impact.

Tanner:No one how to kill me.

Josh:Yeah Yeah I for the for the

Mike:He seen too much Luckily I have a tab open that tells me exactly no no no

Josh:the Grashen Pact

Josh:oh yeah

Mike:that tells me exactly how to kill on

Josh:okay

Josh:sure

Josh:that's fair

Josh:it's like Batman

Tanner:He's got the optimal strategy.

Josh:contingency

Josh:that's

Josh:ridiculous. I think that is

Mike:Godfinder next week.

Josh:one of the better compliments I've ever

Josh:gotten, to be honest.

Josh:But that's crazy.

Josh:Yeah.

Josh:Yeah, that's crazy.

Josh:Pathfinder next week.

Josh:If we actually want to play Lethal

Mike:Godfinder next week.

Mike:oh

Josh:Company, I will put together a

Josh:small mod pack

Josh:if we want to play.

Mike:beat

Josh:Cool.

Tanner:yeah I'm actually also going to be away over the weekend

Tanner:but

Tanner:goodnight

Josh:All right.

Josh:We'll play at some point.

Josh:See ya.