[SPEAKER_04]: Hello, hello, it's Rob here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Some folks have been ever so slowly changing in Casamero over the past several months, and our heroes reach the heart of a certain ground zero this episode.
[SPEAKER_04]: And we're finally back to some good old fashioned gory dark nexasic combat.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you are one of our friends looking to avoid the ongoing suicide and uthanasia content for the moment, I would suggest skipping the last 10 minutes of this one.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, here we go.
[SPEAKER_04]: On to Harrogans Warehouse.
[SPEAKER_04]: Welcome back to Dark Nexus.
[SPEAKER_04]: Tonight, it's Act 4, Chapter 157.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's around 630pm on the 24th of Farast, after Nightfall, in a mostly abandoned section of the shipyards district, we're standing outside Harrigan's warehouse.
[SPEAKER_04]: the abandoned structure of this bankrupt ale and spirits whole sailor gloomy mostly boarded up building three sets of double doors leading in one of which one of the larger delivery doors has had its boards prayed off and it seems as though at some point in the recent months there has been some traffic in and out of this building.
[SPEAKER_04]: as you all join back up with Bash.
[SPEAKER_04]: What is our plan here?
[SPEAKER_05]: So we enter under in visibility sphere?
[SPEAKER_02]: Sounds good to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I...
[SPEAKER_02]: Deaths.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Me too.
[SPEAKER_05]: So the next 11 minutes?
[SPEAKER_05]: Because of math?
[SPEAKER_05]: be a ray within ten feet of me will be an invisibility sphere.
[SPEAKER_05]: If you leave it, you're out.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can't see us and we can't see you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Casting me, Jarmantou.
[SPEAKER_02]: cracking several extracts.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gravity gun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Shield.
[SPEAKER_02]: Iron skin.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's that?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a new one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tell us about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Your skin hardens and takes on the color and texture of rough iron.
[SPEAKER_02]: You get any plus foreign enhancement bonus to your existing natural armabonus.
[SPEAKER_02]: This enhanced with bonus increases by one for every four castor levels above fourth to a maximum of plus seven at 15 level While you're under the effects of the spell if an opponent confirms a critical hit or sneak attack against you with a physical weapon You can dismiss this spell to negate the critical hit or sneak attack and treat it as normal damage Oh, neat Disposing this spell in this way is not an action, but you must be conscious and aware of the attack to do so So it just makes on a
[SPEAKER_04]: Interesting, so of course the these four characters never met the last chancers back up in in Numeria, but they're sort of like picture in your heads that the Leo the metallic is a little bit of that almost Constructi subtle almost Constructi appearance about batches.
[SPEAKER_04]: They take on this metallic hue to their skin And is it dark now?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes dark vision as well great
[SPEAKER_04]: and cast blend that's Bogartre that's grippley that's grippley form grippley form great cast blend and slate skin taking on this the particular hue of slate of your hometown
[SPEAKER_04]: And blend is the one that lets you make stealth checks without cover or concealment, as long as you move slowly, and it goes away if you attack, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just like invisibility.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: And what spells does grip cast?
[SPEAKER_04]: Huh?
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're all staying within 10 feet of each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: got to be actually judicious about my use of both strength potions now because they right they actually get used.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we do have 15 though.
[SPEAKER_04]: So don't be too judicious there enough.
[SPEAKER_04]: So uh bash to the door first.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: the character.
[SPEAKER_05]: Not the action.
[SPEAKER_04]: So your characters will bash through the door.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: So bash will be at the door first.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dabs in grip are behind.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dora in the rear if we're staying in sort of a 10 foot clusters.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's all right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Pandora in the rear.
[SPEAKER_04]: Anything at the door?
[SPEAKER_04]: My friend, Johnny.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right before we go in, I will be popping a channel vigor.
[SPEAKER_04]: the door opens into a hellish space.
[SPEAKER_04]: out of a horror movie.
[SPEAKER_04]: Two story tall warehouse space with no second floor in the area that you are in, as though yet one point had held very, very tall piles of casks and crates.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can see a few lingering remnants of old casks over a decade old, all rotting and split
[SPEAKER_04]: Creeping through the cracks of these boarded up windows.
[SPEAKER_04]: The air is just thick with spores.
[SPEAKER_04]: A combination of yellow and black and then psychedelic swirls in some places of what looks like a purple and black cluster of like there's like different kinds of spores in the air,
[SPEAKER_04]: You're looking at a main storage space that runs about 80 feet straight ahead of you and turns to the right about maybe 60 feet down.
[SPEAKER_04]: The left wall is the east wall of the structure, it's the outside of the building.
[SPEAKER_04]: The right wall here is an interior wall dividing this space.
[SPEAKER_04]: And this wall is the height of one story.
[SPEAKER_04]: So only goes up about half the height to the ceiling and pouring over the top of that wall immediately to your right bash is
[SPEAKER_04]: a tangle of yellow and black vines creeping down the walls mixed in with some purple and black vines like two different kinds of life forms are.
[SPEAKER_04]: taking over the interior of this space clearly from a spot kind of at the heart of the building right on the other side of this wall and you also see 25 feet ahead of you bash
[SPEAKER_04]: Growing out of this wall of carpety, I-I-V-like fungus tendrils.
[SPEAKER_04]: A giant, like, six-foot tall, roughly mushroom-shaped, fungal pod, quivering on a bed of rusty yellow tendrils.
[SPEAKER_04]: Everybody roll initiative, and I'll take you to a map.
[SPEAKER_04]: First the door, bash what you get.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got a whopping nine, and I think that I'm totally, really upset with what I'm seeing because it's really horrifying.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, then right behind him is Grypper, 20.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, wow, smell Grypper.
[SPEAKER_04]: Next to Grypper, Debwick.
[SPEAKER_00]: 19.
[SPEAKER_04]: Very good, and Pandora behind Grypp.
[SPEAKER_04]: Four.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, hum.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, so top of round one here.
[SPEAKER_04]: The grip is about 30 feet away from this fungal pod as he's standing kind of in the threshold of the doorway that bash just passed through.
[SPEAKER_02]: And bash is kind of like still in frozen and sort of like shock and horror.
[SPEAKER_04]: So the wall over when I'm pinging right here on the west side of this room is the wall that is covered in vines of
[SPEAKER_04]: horrific wet, slimy, yellowen black, and purpleen black fungus.
[SPEAKER_04]: Got a fungal pod here, right next to a pile of old lumber, it's looking like on this map.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so like, so we all rolled initiative, but do I have a sense, like, oh, this is a thing I need to go attack now?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and I think that is triggered by this gigantic mushroom.
[SPEAKER_04]: All of the tendrils of ropey fiber beneath it are...
[SPEAKER_04]: Quivering on the floor and it's slowly raising itself up as if it were amulatory Meat takes you kind of back to Jane's cave a little bit We're all of the animate fungus that you dealt with in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's easy to different creature here, but it looks like same kind of vibes Based on how it looks does it look like it couldn't have reach
[SPEAKER_04]: Impossible to say it is Tangled in and amongst so many 20 30 even potentially longer fiber is strands You don't know which belong to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not along to something else.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not a definite note.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not a definite note All right, well then I guess it's time to start hitting things What's your what's the haste radius?
[SPEAKER_05]: No two people can be further than 30 feet apart.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I can keep that intact.
[SPEAKER_05]: And that will depend on everyone who goes off to you, but yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, grip is going to, I feel like I've got movement enough to go to here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, would you agree with that, Rob?
[SPEAKER_01]: I do that 100%.
[SPEAKER_01]: To just north to the northeast of the pod.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, slide and pass, bash, closing with the fungal pod.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he will do that, and then he will, we're just going to start with fists.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a 26.
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hit.
[SPEAKER_01]: For eight points of damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Eight points of bludgeoning, magical bludgeoning damage.
[SPEAKER_04]: And your fist sinks into this disgusting infestation mushroom pod with a filthy squelch releasing as of course.
[SPEAKER_04]: burst of spores all around you.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're already infected, so it doesn't seem to do anything more to you, but there is a trippy hallucinatory moment where you sort of feel
[SPEAKER_04]: overlaid with another consciousness in a very different way, almost like Cashew, you all aren't in a hive mind, but maybe this thing is somehow, oh, and I'm...
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm very creepy, trippy feeling.
[SPEAKER_04]: Does it take the damage though?
[SPEAKER_04]: It takes the damage.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's all I really care about.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can save the rest of the flavor, Rob.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dad, look here up next.
[SPEAKER_04]: Behind Bash, staring into this chamber filled, while he filled with spores.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dubuque starts casting a full round spell.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can bring another life form into this chamber and expose them to Jaman door.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was thinking an error element told.
[SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_04]: OK, has a body?
[SPEAKER_00]: Has a mind?
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, would you like another moral conundrum, Paul?
[SPEAKER_04]: Who else do you want to have to kill when this is all over?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[SPEAKER_00]: Devok takes a small, smooth river stone out of their pouch and flings a stone-discuss at it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hurls?
[SPEAKER_04]: Stone-discuss at the buckle pot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stone-discuss.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two.
[SPEAKER_04]: Stone-discusses.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, give me that first attack.
[SPEAKER_04]: These are against AC, is that correct?
[SPEAKER_02]: That is correct.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, are you moving yourself into the room or are you throwing it from outside the door?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I gotta move into the room to do this.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, Paul, I think from the angle, I think you do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe find a spot between Dash and Grip like there for sure all right attack number one stone Discus number one 15 to hit keep it it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a hit.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's 11 points of damage First of more spores takes damage Discus two 18 to hit that's hit that's eight more points of damage
[SPEAKER_04]: more spores.
[SPEAKER_04]: And at that point, you see all of the tendrils that are connected behind it to this wall of tendrils that are coming over the wall.
[SPEAKER_04]: All of them around, like a 40 foot length, all of them start quivering as if alive and feeling this happening.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are they attached to something bigger on the other side of them?
[SPEAKER_04]: I can't wait till you find out.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right here!
[SPEAKER_05]: Burn it to the ground.
[SPEAKER_05]: Where are we in here?
[SPEAKER_04]: The fungal pod adjacent to grip.
[SPEAKER_04]: Rips, tendrils out of the cluster on the wall and begins wielding them like arms.
[SPEAKER_04]: Four tentacles coming at you, gripper.
[SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Big the map is.
[SPEAKER_04]: It could be a lot of shit going on in here, Katie.
[SPEAKER_04]: The first one's a miss, second one's a miss.
[SPEAKER_04]: The third one at 15 is a miss.
[SPEAKER_04]: Fourth one at 20 is a miss.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, Gruper is, so is this like, talking behind the shield dodging out of the way.
[SPEAKER_04]: This thing seems kind of slow moving.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it's a combination of the shield and this breastplate.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me just let them do their work.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're doing their work.
[SPEAKER_04]: And as it is lashing at you with its tentacles, you see another similar fungal pod that had been hidden behind this long row of old lumber, tear itself free from the wall.
[SPEAKER_04]: and begin shambling forward.
[SPEAKER_04]: This mushroom is moving towards your gripper, and here comes another fuggle pod from around the corner down at the end of this rip this with this room takes a beer to the west.
[SPEAKER_04]: and you hear a squelching sound almost as if there is another fungal pod down there that may have just ripped itself out of the wall and begin moving towards you but because of its speed might not come quite into view oh no, maybe you can see it yeah, just coming into view
[SPEAKER_04]: Bash is up next, so, Bash, you are still about 25 feet away from the first pod, 30 feet away from the second pod, and as Moor Pod's approach it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bash kind of shakes himself out of his reverie of like what the fuck.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, first of all, he wants to make a knowledge check on these things, if that's a possibility.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nature.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can make a knowledge nature check, but I don't have ranks anymore, so it's just...
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just knowledge, I just...
[SPEAKER_04]: Although a 24 is still pretty good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Very good.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is not something you are aware of existing, but it seems to be perhaps a mutated form of a violet fungus.
[SPEAKER_04]: So this indeed has all the plant traits so immune to mind-effecting effects, paralysis, poison, polymorph sleep, and stun.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you know that the thing with this particular, the way this thing works is,
[SPEAKER_04]: If they land a hit with any of their tendril tentacles, their particular spores get into the bloodstream and cause flesh to start rotting away in the form of strength and constitution damage.
[SPEAKER_04]: but that this airborne stuff that they are doing, unless something's going on, you're not that you're not aware of.
[SPEAKER_04]: As far as you know, this particular kind of fungus is airborne stuff doesn't carry a physical consequence, other than maybe the Jomador and Pestation, which you are all currently carriers of.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, you know, slow moving, easy to hit, kind of beefy amount of hit points, but if they don't hit you with their tendrils, they're not going to harm you too much.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, he's going to take a move action to switch his channel vigor.
[SPEAKER_02]: Originally, it had been in his mind, and he's going to put it into his,
[SPEAKER_02]: torso to give himself a bonus against fortitude saves because he's assuming that when that thing hits you, any kind of damage that it does like that's a fortitude save to try to beat it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's going to take a swift action to study the one that is about number three.
[SPEAKER_02]: The one that's about 45 feet away, he takes a five foot step.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: so that he is right next to dabs and aims at the very bulbous head of it yes and taking one shot with gravity gun there's a there's a 41 touch hit yes it does
[SPEAKER_02]: only 9 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, take it, release is a cluster of spores.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's your firing cartridges into the plant.
[SPEAKER_02]: Question, am I also able to make a knowledge check on the wall of tendrils hanging over, or do what I need to see more to be able to get an idea of what that might be?
[SPEAKER_04]: Your immediate clocking of it is rapid growth
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, you're not detecting signs of, oh, there's a mutated assassin vine, or oh, there's a mutated this, or oh, I'm aware of a certain plant creature with this much stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: You would clock it as, wow, maybe something is rapidly growing, all of the fungus that may have existed in this room.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then perhaps infusing it with a certain sense of connectivity.
[SPEAKER_04]: But it doesn't look like a creature to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just reading like... Like a network.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like a network.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, so not necessarily something that's gonna reach out and grab us and attack us.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not what you're reading it as.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: More like a hub of information.
[SPEAKER_05]: A data center.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is my turn.
[SPEAKER_04]: Next up is Pan-Dora.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do a little mathematics in the air.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's maths.
[SPEAKER_05]: I just made it.
[SPEAKER_05]: So everyone gets 11 rounds of haste, and what are her components for that one?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't remember.
[SPEAKER_04]: So the agitated or annoyed or something?
[SPEAKER_05]: The thought component is Re-nard Darding between people's feet and failing agitation at it.
[SPEAKER_05]: But as that's happening, She's cast this a few times.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's something about it that no longer feels quite right.
[SPEAKER_05]: But it still works.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's mentally putting a pin in that.
[SPEAKER_04]: She clocks it.
[SPEAKER_05]: She clocks it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Doesn't feel quite right anymore.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you're staying still.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thirty feet away from grip just outside the door.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can I see them?
[SPEAKER_04]: You can absolutely see three and four.
[SPEAKER_04]: The two that are just coming around the corner at the opposite of the room.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think from your position right now, the doors are blocking your sight on the ones that are either next to grip or closing on grip.
[SPEAKER_04]: One and two are out of your sight.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who can I see in my party?
[SPEAKER_04]: You can see bashing tabs.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think grip is just out of your left side.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then I need to move in to be able to cast, taste and see grip.
[SPEAKER_04]: Great.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think can you probably, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: If I can do a five-foot step to a position where I can see him.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is not a five-foot step.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's a 10-foot move, because gripper was- And then I'd rather go there on this side, too.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you're good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, so band Pandora, so does sleep in the room.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm asked.
[SPEAKER_05]: I hasted.
[SPEAKER_05]: I moved into the room.
[SPEAKER_04]: Then from around the corner Coming behind, fungal pod number four, you hear a Freaking and groaning of like floor boards Experiencing some Pressure in a way they may be haven't for a while and you hear kind of a
[SPEAKER_04]: And you see, like a 12 foot diameter rolling ball of yellow and purple fungus, come on, rolling around the corner.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like the size of the boulder in Indiana Jones and the temple of doom.
[SPEAKER_04]: Come later, so the last arc comes rolling around the corner.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, it's heading your way.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh gosh, comes rolling around the corner.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's the center of, well, like a perfect hallway like as though the party is a set of bowling pins and it's just gonna head to head and right towards you.
[SPEAKER_04]: And as it reaches the end of its turn, it shoots a cluster of spores out the side of it, which lands right next to grip and goes,
[SPEAKER_04]: up into the air, filling the air all around grip and its grip feels these particular spores, which are noticeably different than the ones being released by the fungal pods.
[SPEAKER_04]: I do need a fortitude
[SPEAKER_04]: They're getting into your lungs and coding the interior of them pretty rapidly, but you know, our pal gripper is tough.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's toughen it out for the moment.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then this is the point where you start to hear feeble wimpers and moans from the other side of the wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, somebody.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ah, fucking me.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can you hear multiple, multiple people, whimpering and moaning?
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's get around one, step around two.
[SPEAKER_04]: Gripper, you're up, you're in a cloud of spores, facing off adjacent to one fungal pod and 10 feet away from the second one, which is zooming in on you as fast as these slow moving mushrooms can.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sure, sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna take a five-foot step.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so that I am adjacent to both of these pods.
[SPEAKER_01]: That will trigger pugnacious.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_04]: Remind me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a hot sack.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's odd that I've remembered.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pugnacious.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, a plus one on attack rolls win threatened by two or more enemies fantastic So he's gonna do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to activate power attack.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, and We're gonna do a Dan Bong Flurry of blows.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, it's starting.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to get exactly a fungal pod one.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right Attack number one against fulgified one 24
[SPEAKER_01]: Hit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's Stan Bong.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's 110 plus 12 y'all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, I like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: For a 22 points of damage, max damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: It collapses into sludge.
[SPEAKER_06]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep going.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stan, I will unleash, so no more plus extra plus one, but I will now take my remaining three hit attacks on Fungle pod number two.
[SPEAKER_01]: Crazy funnacious now.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a natural one for the second attack.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, third attack?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's because your feet are all wet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it's gross.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's gross.
[SPEAKER_01]: So with haste, I'm at four attacks, is that right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Five.
[SPEAKER_01]: Five, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because you, because of here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number three.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, 25.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: Four, 18 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fourth attack.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, that's, um, uh, that's an 11.
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep in that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not going to use an action point on these guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a miss.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: And final attack.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're just slipping in fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just sludge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, that's a hit for a 27.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: For 15 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it collapses into sludge.
[SPEAKER_04]: You've sludge two of them, my friend.
[SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_04]: Fights probably almost over, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, probably.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's matermed.
[SPEAKER_04]: Very good.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, Debwak, you are up next.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are right in the path.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are a bowling pin in the path of what is approaching.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes Remove around What?
[SPEAKER_04]: You just ran right up there and into the action.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, all right.
[SPEAKER_04]: So the topic runs and almost closes with Fungal pod three and the giant ball of rolling fungus and does what cast fires make.
[SPEAKER_04]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right one two
[SPEAKER_04]: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, yeah, okay, so easily able to send a trail of fire blazing out straight in front of them through fungal pod 3 through the giant ball of fungus and ending in fungal pod 4.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, I owe you some reflexes, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: That these plants are great at that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, roll a natural 20, you never know.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, here's for
[SPEAKER_04]: 14.
[SPEAKER_04]: Didn't make it and for fun to put number four Two And the giant ball of lunges Okay, okay Five oh Full damage.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that's 31 points of fire damage Question is it more than 31 since their plants?
[SPEAKER_04]: None of them seem vulnerable, but- They're too slimy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, they're too wet.
[SPEAKER_04]: As evidenced by a fungal pod number three, and fungal pod number four, being charred to a crisp and attempting to melt into sludge, but just kind of melting into awful yellow purple ash.
[SPEAKER_03]: 31 points to the rolling ball of flungas, boom, boom, boom.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can't stress how impossible to read.
[SPEAKER_04]: The effect that is on it, it's just so big.
[SPEAKER_04]: Definitely took the damage, but this thing doesn't seem to be slowing down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alrighty, bash.
[SPEAKER_02]: Since his studied target of fungal pod number three has now been taken off the board,
[SPEAKER_02]: He, uh, rather than narrowing his eyes, his eyes get quite wide as he's this giant ball of fungus rolling towards him and possibly stupidly, but this is what he's going to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: He makes it a study target and, and unloved on it, nope, that possibly vanity will do something to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, right.
[SPEAKER_02]: He'll see.
[SPEAKER_02]: Does a 37-touch hit?
[SPEAKER_02]: It does.
[SPEAKER_02]: For 10 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_02]: First one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Takes it.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is rapid shoting and doing everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, trying to get as many shots as possible.
[SPEAKER_02]: 29.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, natural one for only seven points of damage.
[SPEAKER_02]: Terrible shot.
[SPEAKER_02]: A graze, a graze, an unknown.
[SPEAKER_02]: Your door jamming.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not back to the grazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: The grazinging.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's a 25 touch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's good.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is 12 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it explodes in a decidedly dry manner filling the air all around it with spores almost extending to dabwick 15 feet away, but not quite getting there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yaza.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yaza indeed, Pandora.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yaza indeed.
[SPEAKER_04]: Pendora, you are up, having just said yousa.
[SPEAKER_05]: What to do?
[SPEAKER_04]: You hear the sounds of mones of people being paid on the other side of that wall?
[SPEAKER_05]: Might as well take the action now to dismiss this pointless invisibilities fear.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's a standard.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just going to just creep along the wall over here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sort of making a way down.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, down the east wall the opposite side from where all the funguses at the moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is the cloud of spores still around it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it like hanging out?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's dissipated.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: With the understanding that the air is lousy with spores in general.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't see anything else.
[SPEAKER_04]: But this particular thick thick cloud is dissipated.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, thinking to the others, you should proceed carefully.
[SPEAKER_04]: Then you hear a cry of agony and pain and it sounds like, imagine what it might sound like if someone like walked up to you and ripped your arm off.
[SPEAKER_04]: Both the sound that you might make if that were to happen to you and the sound of pieces of your body ripping out of your body that are transforming into.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's what you hear and then you hear a,
[SPEAKER_04]: a wet, squelching sound, and you see two hands on top of this ten-foot wall, the grip and debit are very close to, and you see a man pull his head up to look over wild look in his eyes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Heiser, yellow and bloodshot, and his the entire cavity of his mouth is overflowing with an oozing fungus that is pouring out of it, yellow and black, dripping like sludge.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's like puffs of nauseous, fluff, belched into the air when he breathes through his nose, which is the only place he can breathe from at the moment, pulls himself over the wall
[SPEAKER_04]: Hmm, oh god.
[SPEAKER_04]: Drops himself onto the floor right next to Dad, but let me get him on the map.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is this a thing in on its way to becoming a fungal pod?
[SPEAKER_05]: We're a different thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: This looks like the endgame.
[SPEAKER_04]: This looks like an undead creature driven by fungus.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is what happens when you don't stop.
[SPEAKER_04]: And one of the first things that Tabwick notices as this squelchy, undead, fungal corpse puppet lands right next to them is, I think I've seen that guy.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's one of the guys on the aurora.
[SPEAKER_04]: Remember you you specifically pegged two or three dudes on that ship This is one of those guys.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, this was one of those guys Pick them from when from the last time they did the scribe right right right right yep
[SPEAKER_04]: and following the sound of more screaming and agony, two more similarly dressed sailors, fungus erupting from their mouths, crawl over the top of the wall and drop into the next room.
[SPEAKER_04]: How many waves of shit do you have?
[SPEAKER_04]: I've got waves all day, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, so the second one lands 10 feet away from dabs and 15 feet from grip.
[SPEAKER_04]: The third one lands further near the end of the rooms about 15 feet away from dabs, but they're kind of in a cluster.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's the end of round two.
[SPEAKER_04]: Top around three gripper.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are now five foot step away from
[SPEAKER_04]: The second seated sailor to climb over the wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to do a five foot step to myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I will do a full flurry on seated sailor.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number two.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to keep power attack on to see what's what.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number one.
[SPEAKER_01]: 24.
[SPEAKER_01]: Keeping it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a hit.
[SPEAKER_01]: for uh 21 points of damage and this is with the Danbong.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is with the Danbong, magical bludgeoning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Second attack.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hang on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dan Bong slams into it, you crack his head off, which goes flying, and then the thing, he rubs in a ten-foot-wide burst of spores that again give you this uncomfortable moment of hallucination and connection, and you can tell if anybody else were in this space, the amount of fortitude says that would be being enrolled would be outlandish, but you're already infected.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're already fucked up.
[SPEAKER_04]: You killed it in a single shot.
[SPEAKER_04]: You single shot at a
[SPEAKER_05]: Nice save that for next round.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can I yeah can I can I save what I rolled for my second attack till the next That's probably pushing it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a natural 20.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, but then since I Your pugnacious trait lets you extend, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: You can do that once a day where you can just attack the next thing
[SPEAKER_01]: You're absolutely right.
[SPEAKER_01]: All you're happy to hear.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't extend my reach.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Johnny.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, attack number two.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's an actual 20.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, oh!
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a 10.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's 15 plus 24 is probably enough to kill it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the Dan Bong probably passes through its body as you cleave it in two with a bludgeoning weapon and as its spinal column snaps and spores erupt out from both halves of its body.
[SPEAKER_04]: It sinks to the floor in a sludge of black and yellow goo right next to Dadwick, who is up.
[SPEAKER_04]: Polly, this is so gross.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are standing in human remains and supernatural fungus.
[SPEAKER_04]: What does dad look do?
[SPEAKER_04]: Dad look, the cries of people on the other side of this wall ringing in their ears.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, it's just terrible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dad look takes another riverstone out of their pocket and stone discoses the remaining sailor.
[SPEAKER_00]: first discusses a 16 to hit keep in that yes that's a hit that's 14 damage and you drop it
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, this heavy stone disc comes flying at it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Pins it back into the wall behind it and then cuts through it and the top half crumples over on the bottom.
[SPEAKER_04]: S, spilling, goo, and sludge all over your feet and spores into your mouth and nose.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's good day for dabs.
[SPEAKER_04]: Good day for dabs.
[SPEAKER_04]: You wanna take a move there, my friend?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Dad Blake's going to move south through the corpses.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, Dad's the wall of undergo corpses there.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it's just extending like 25 feet that I agonized so much
[SPEAKER_04]: to Abwick heads to the south and slightly around the corner.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm guessing to just hoping to get a view of what's going on down there.
[SPEAKER_04]: You see that this, what does now revealed to be basically an L-shaped room that extends along the east and south walls of this building, continues further.
[SPEAKER_04]: At the opposite end, there is a door looks like it probably goes into, maybe like a manager's office at some point, and a flight of stairs that goes up to a second level,
[SPEAKER_04]: No, a set of stairs goes to the height of the second level and then a walkway goes over this wall that's only half the height of the building and presumably down on the other side.
[SPEAKER_04]: No doors or windows to any interior space over here.
[SPEAKER_04]: But the sounds of the people in agony are fairly close to your dabs.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like maybe they're just on the other side this wall right here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you see this thing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's probably where they're at very close to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, Bash, you're up.
[SPEAKER_04]: All that happened since your last turn.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, this happened.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_04]: Shit's going down really quickly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, do we hear the sounds of anything that sounds like it's climbing over the wall?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because these things are not stealthy or anything like that, like they have been kind of shambles, shambles, shambles, pulled themselves up kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do we hear anything else like that that there's another wave of them coming or anything?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's more coming.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can tell.
[SPEAKER_02]: That shares that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, uh, I mean,
[SPEAKER_02]: Then he's just gonna save his turn until something else shows up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very good.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's not gonna waste his time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pandora.
[SPEAKER_05]: Pandora will take a five foot step back and this little... Well, cubby behind these barrels.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's right in the old cash.
[SPEAKER_05]: She will ready and amplify magic missile for the next thing that comes over the wall.
[SPEAKER_04]: Very good.
[SPEAKER_04]: The next thing does indeed come over the wall.
[SPEAKER_04]: She'll damn.
[SPEAKER_04]: Almost immediately.
[SPEAKER_04]: this one not dressed like a sailor no, it's a full-grown person it's just another citizen of Casimir but it's a seated citizen oh yes, it is an undead corpse puppet it's in the map it's making a religion check to find out more about these things
[SPEAKER_04]: it is.
[SPEAKER_04]: If there's anything that I feel like I could parlay into a visual assessment rather than a knowledge assessment, but then a lower assessment, because you just don't know the lower of these things.
[SPEAKER_04]: You just don't.
[SPEAKER_04]: But given the role, we'll see if you can visually determine anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is literally not something you could have read about in a book.
[SPEAKER_04]: Boredy.
[SPEAKER_04]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the way their bodies are constructed, they're feeling, they're looking and feeling a little zombie-ish, as though probably has some DR overcome by bludgeoning or slashing.
[SPEAKER_04]: you would assume they probably have all of the typical undead traits except there is an element in the air here of these things feeling a little bit like they're connected oh so maybe they are maybe not hard to tell you
[SPEAKER_04]: I think your eyes are quick, your mind moves rapidly.
[SPEAKER_04]: There wasn't much opportunity to observe this, but I'll throw you a bone here and say, you were seeing their bodies were knitting themselves up as they were taking damage.
[SPEAKER_04]: They just couldn't do it fast enough against these attacks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Great, well, doors magic, missile goes off.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep, these are not void missiles anymore.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ooh, they're a little more.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hopeful, they're a little more gold and a little more celestial as if some Part of her from which they were originally drawn is no longer there nice and how much damage hopeful missiles of death Do hopeful doom missiles For 19 forest damage this undead commenter is crawling over the top of the wall
[SPEAKER_04]: spores and goo and fungus dripping out of its mouth and you blow its head off with magic missile setting it flying back into the room it just was crawling out of never even into the room and she um shares the what she's worked out with everyone top of it five minutes down
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you just used a, uh, ready to action.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, all right, right, right, right, right, right.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then Bash, you do indeed see another sailor making his way.
[SPEAKER_04]: His undead way over the wall.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like a zombie in a horror movie.
[SPEAKER_04]: Shhh, ump.
[SPEAKER_04]: And Burl's himself down into the goo amongst the three sailors that have already been destroyed.
[SPEAKER_02]: getting within range, making it my study target, and this time rather than aiming for the head, he's going to be knee-capping him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Take a shot.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a 36-touch hit.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: For 10 points of damage, and I'm going to go ahead and spare my thing now because there's no reason not to.
[SPEAKER_02]: Plus another 36, that's one.
[SPEAKER_02]: two and six or a plus another seven.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, eight.
[SPEAKER_04]: What's the total total is 19 and what how is your damage type categorized?
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it budget and piercing?
[SPEAKER_04]: Very good.
[SPEAKER_04]: You blow it away.
[SPEAKER_04]: Drops knee caps off.
[SPEAKER_04]: Face plants forward into another pile of goo.
[SPEAKER_04]: And they're all, oh, God.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're all screaming while they do this.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just that they're throats and mouths are filled with ropey masses of tendrils.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you're hearing just like underwater, howling and moaning as these things are destroyed.
[SPEAKER_05]: One of them says, what have I done?
[SPEAKER_04]: Walking out, top around four,
[SPEAKER_04]: gripper, you are upstanding amidst so much filth and gore, you can tell, so the sounds on the other side of this wall have decreased.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're mostly now at this point just hearing the sound of what sounds like living people moaning in the agony.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to move south down by Debuchadne.
[SPEAKER_01]: and get us get a peek at the beat on the other part of the room yeah this here is the stairway you were talking about no this oh down there okay now I'm gonna double move I'm gonna move further
[SPEAKER_05]: It's with haste.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I have a haste.
[SPEAKER_04]: Shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you can probably close with that stairwell if you want to.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'll get it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Or these?
[SPEAKER_04]: Honestly, if you want to pause for one second here, Robert, this, these walls are very climbable.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you are interested in it, doing a such a thing, they're kind of flatboard.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think you took your first move, but if you want to use your second move too.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm done.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then yeah, I'll where where would be a climbable place like here yeah or or this corner yeah, so yeah, I'll go the corners the easiest yeah, I'll go to this what is the it's the south east corner of this big Uncovered fog of war spot and then yeah, you need a climb check.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, clamber over that wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: Give it to me.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a 19.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, you're good.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, halfway because you're hasty, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you've got so much move.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is probably the end actually of your first move because it was 30 feet down to dabs.
[SPEAKER_04]: Five feet over there.
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to let them all.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sure, let's just say, and if you're first move, you are on top of this wall looking down into a fucking nightmare.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let me move your token into there.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it's an interior space in this warehouse.
[SPEAKER_04]: Kind of like 40 by 30 with a couple of rolling metallic doors.
[SPEAKER_04]: It looks like once upon a time it was a place that they could have sealed up valuable goods or more, you know, more expensive stuff littered with old the remnants of old crates and spills and stuff, but you are looking down onto
[SPEAKER_04]: Basically the almost half of this room is completely coated with yellow and black fungus fibers, purple and black fungus fibers, wet sludgy, ooze and
[SPEAKER_04]: holes in the fungus that would sort of match for our five or they rip themselves out themselves out of and you're looking down on one fungal corpse puppet in the armor of a Kazimire city watchman.
[SPEAKER_04]: who has the whole ropy mass pouring out of its mouth on down onto the floor and in two, two people on the ground, a halfling who is writhing in agony and a young lad that might perhaps be our Nikos the bucket boy.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then there is a third seemingly still living human who does look as though.
[SPEAKER_04]: So the sound you were hearing of things getting ripped out wasn't actually their limbs getting ripped off, but huge masses of fungus that had been embedded in them being pulled out.
[SPEAKER_04]: So there's probably organs on the ground, parts of the interior of their body has been ripped out with them.
[SPEAKER_04]: That guy isn't particularly bad shape as he's twitching and moaning at the end of his life.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it looks like one undead watchman and three dying still living infected people.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a, there is a pond labeled seed in commoner.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that there?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, that's the one that, uh, Pandora just blew back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Got you, okay, I'll put it next time.
[SPEAKER_01]: She don't kill me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and so where is the, Oh, you can't see the map one moment, please?
[SPEAKER_01]: See him.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, do I have- Oh, about the one.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, the guy who's in really bad shape is a dwarf.
[SPEAKER_04]: Who's a half-ling?
[SPEAKER_04]: Bucket boy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Those are connected to the...
[SPEAKER_04]: The Watchman.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then, this dwarf who is... How could he still be alive?
[SPEAKER_04]: But somehow, he is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, do I have enough move left to close with the City Watchman?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_04]: Give me an acrobatics check for a soft landing.
[SPEAKER_02]: kind of jump down 10 feet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you, are you sharing this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would, I would, I'm, I'm, I'm litting, litting, everyone know via the mental connect.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's just what I'm seeing.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's just thinking back to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Take him out at the legs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't destroy his head.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a 16 on the acrobatics.
[SPEAKER_04]: Lending me on your feet, taking no damage, and yes, you can end your move, closed with the watchman.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think this would be the square that would make the most sense for it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Or do I have an attack in me?
[SPEAKER_04]: That was the end of your second move.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Tabuk, you're up.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll just side of this wall.
[SPEAKER_04]: You just saw a grip climb over it and hurl himself onto the other side.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I heard everything that's going on over there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just my client check.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: What is that?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a plus 9.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not bad, I got bad at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not bad at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Frogwick hasted it's going to try and hop up on the wall.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: Give me climb check.
[SPEAKER_00]: 23.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can be up and over.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, then an acrobatics check to land in the other side.
[SPEAKER_04]: Did you want to climb down?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll do an acrobatics check.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was a 30, yeah, you're golden.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, I'll drop you in the room here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Paul and you can land in basically any of these squares right here of your choosing.
[SPEAKER_04]: At the end of a first move.
[SPEAKER_04]: The first haste didn't move.
[SPEAKER_04]: This big, this big pink square is where it's all covered in sludge.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm going to drop down right next to Bucket Boy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna do a heel check.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can I do that?
[UNKNOWN]: Kill me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Kill me.
[SPEAKER_05]: The DC of the heel check is killing me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Totally gone, huh?
[SPEAKER_04]: This is- This is gonna be check.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see, uh, modified 20.
[SPEAKER_04]: He is infected.
[SPEAKER_04]: He has the infestation and he is well on his way towards dying and rising as a fungal corpse puppet But he's not on dead yet He's asking to be killed Boy that toward next to you the way I described that I think that guy dies right now.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean like he was filled with fungus that was then ripped out Yeah, yeah, he goes that's the end of him
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, oh, and the other one is a half-ling, so you're examining Bucketboy and then their half-ling reaches out grabs you Pandora, you're up
[SPEAKER_05]: Today was designed for a call.
[SPEAKER_04]: So awful.
[SPEAKER_05]: Pandora cast fly upon herself.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's not climbing any fucking nose.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's not.
[SPEAKER_04]: You want to follow where that last comrade that he was.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can tell that's all the same space there.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: From the sounds.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have a lot of move if I want to keep going and get another spot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can you see inside there?
[SPEAKER_05]: They're all down there.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's surrounding.
[SPEAKER_04]: So Pandora comes soaring supernaturally over the wall looking down.
[SPEAKER_04]: Undabs who's being clutched by a small boy and a half-ling begging them to kill them and grip face and toe-to-toe with a...
[SPEAKER_04]: I noticeably beefier looking armoured on Dead Watchman.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm good.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, gripper here at Combs.
[SPEAKER_04]: The ropey tendrils extending out of its mouth and into the halfling and bucket boy, it rips them out of those two bodies and you, dab like bucket boy, is almost ripped in half in your arms as everything inside his abdomen follows this trail of fungus being ripped out of it.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then, these tendrils last swing around in the air and go after your gripper.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, you bet the roll high.
[SPEAKER_04]: 21 is a miss.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm assuming correct, and 22 is I'm guessing also a miss.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you are deflecting these things with your armor and shields.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so far so good.
[SPEAKER_04]: So far so good.
[SPEAKER_04]: And bash.
[SPEAKER_04]: You were up at the end of the round.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bash is going to try to join this party.
[SPEAKER_02]: Does this look like it's easy enough for someone that has no ranks inclined to climb kind of thing?
[SPEAKER_04]: It looks like DC 10.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, I mean, I'll maybe a capture for you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can he climb over where I went over, like, straight across the sea?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you know, because of, because of all of the vines and ropes there at DC 5.
[SPEAKER_04]: Great.
[SPEAKER_04]: Then I will do that.
[SPEAKER_04]: 14.
[SPEAKER_04]: And do you want to drop down a climb down on the other side?
[SPEAKER_04]: I will drop down.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let me drop you into that room.
[SPEAKER_04]: Welch.
[SPEAKER_02]: And which of these is the thing that's here's the you see that one that grip is facing off with this one right here Yeah, so about 30 feet away from you.
[SPEAKER_02]: See the city watchman.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will make it my study target and We'll fire it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here we go Does a 25 touch hit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes 10 plus I've
[SPEAKER_02]: That's 26 points of bludgeoning and piercing damage.
[SPEAKER_04]: All of which goes through, unlike those others, this one is still on its feet.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you're getting a sense, hmm, I saw, okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: So Pandora, Katie, is clocking this as, okay, good to note, when this happens to somebody, they don't become the same,
[SPEAKER_04]: They, they gain level template.
[SPEAKER_04]: So someone more powerful with better armor, more skills.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe perhaps just have this template added onto them not to reduce them to a zombie.
[SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: But poor little folk like bucket boy.
[SPEAKER_04]: now in almost in two pieces and devilish arms, and round four, top of round five, grip your face and off with the last as far as you can tell of these seated people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Full attack.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to keep power attack on just to see what happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: 25.
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see what happens.
[SPEAKER_04]: This guy's in full plate, but you managed to penetrate his as his AC.
[SPEAKER_04]: 15 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_04]: 15 you say.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, and he rubs in a cloud of spores and ooze and sinks to the ground in a puddle at your feet To have this happened just next to you You've got the now dying bucket boy in your arms and a halfling next to you
[SPEAKER_04]: still living, but begging to be killed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dabwick draws their dagger.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And is weeping.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And attacks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bucket boy saying I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's effectively helpless.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can end his life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what they do.
[SPEAKER_04]: and grip your adjacent to the hafling, you would have a tax left, begging to be killed.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would, I would, I would release them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Standing at the heart of this warehouse, the source of this infestation of Jean-Mendor in Kazimire.
[SPEAKER_04]: We'll leave them amidst the gaur and death.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's the end of chapter 157.
[SPEAKER_04]: Pick up next time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Eat, eat, eat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why does it always feel like even when we lose?
[SPEAKER_04]: Far again, man!
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