[SPEAKER_03]: Hello, friends, Rob here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Happy New Year to all of you from all of us.
[SPEAKER_03]: The final episode of 2025.
[SPEAKER_03]: One year ago, we were on the Akronos River, just about to start the fight with Fadrack and the Bloodwind.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were going after the tricorn hat, which meant that they had only two of the seven gifts for the mad poet, and since then, we've traveled to the ceramic city of Arventon and were swarmed by womps out in the dreadfields, we fought dogs in the plaza of bones, we lifted
[SPEAKER_03]: We took in the sights of die-lath lean, we met the boogie man, we flew a purple dragon to the moon, we let go, face the past, and remembered.
[SPEAKER_03]: We hung out with pumpkin, and the stardust augers, we did a prison break, we rumbled with pirates, we all went a little mad, and now in Casimir we're finding out if this is the kind of story where any of these characters will ever really get to go back home again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much for taking this journey with us, whether you've been with us from the jump, or you're one of the many that have found us only recently.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're so glad to be playing this game and sharing these stories and memories with each and every one of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Health and warmth and hope to you in yours.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back to Dark Nexus.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tonight, it's Act 4, Chapter 163.
[SPEAKER_03]: So our exploration of this old prison infirmary turned rich dudes creepy man cave has brought us through the first floor, ton of books and trinkets and weird art, most of which has only been quickly searched.
[SPEAKER_03]: And through the second floor, we're a large collection of paintings and anatomical drawings have been removed from the walls
[SPEAKER_03]: And up to the third floor, or at least bash is up on the third floor in what appears to be Myakni and Mons grew some laboratory, and let's get a little more specific about what bash is seeing up here.
[SPEAKER_03]: single room 30 feet by 40 feet.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are 90 total feet of horizontal work space in this room with full cupboards of drawers below covered on top with books, jars, bottles, tubes, beakers and other glass containers of a wide variety of sizes all containing chemicals, liquids,
[SPEAKER_03]: Unidentifiable sludge, pieces of dissected bodies, some, non- terrestrial and appearance, a veritable rainbow of slimes, molds, and fungi.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's even a long table in the northwest corner of the chamber, right next to where Bash is currently standing, of what seems to be even larger containers.
[SPEAKER_03]: loosely draped over with a filthy brown cloth.
[SPEAKER_03]: The overpowering stench of bleach, ammonia, and other eye-watering chemicals are filling the air.
[SPEAKER_03]: And of course, there's these two so-called skin stitches that have been waiting at the top of the stairs, which bash snuck right past.
[SPEAKER_03]: is hulking, ogresized, patchwork creations of rotten cloth and skin, so many nearly complete humanoid faces, in fact, seemingly stuffed with straw and something else, writhing below the surface.
[SPEAKER_03]: Both of them are massively burnt by Dabbwick's fire snake after their vulnerability to fire turned the 27 damage that Polly rolled into 40 points of damage to both of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now they are making any sounds like out of their mouths, but as the flames overtook them, there was a near explosion in the air, it's like a swamp, and an eruption of noise at the two constructs flailed around trying to put themselves out smashing into beakers and bottles and crashing all sorts of glass against the floor and walls.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here what I'm saying, it's noisy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now I had forgotten that bash had C invisibility going and I won't want to remind her of everyone's current buffs in a sec, but I think this works out fine here, so let me fill you in Johnny on something that bash finally catches sight of after getting clear on the other side of the giant constructs.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're had seemed at first to be no ladder to the fourth floor, but there is one on the east wall along with a trap door in the ceiling, but both the ladder and the trap door have been rendered invisible.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, Bash does have eyes on a way upward.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like right behind one of these skin stitches, which makes sense while you didn't see them when you first got to the top of the stairs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like sure, they just were out of your line.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll do your line of sight.
[SPEAKER_03]: And before, let's remind me of your buffs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Remind me, what's everybody got going on?
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's start with you there, Johnny, because it's a laundry list.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, it actually isn't because a lot of them were off because they were just minutes per level and at this point they, they're not on.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, I still have dark vision, bloodhound, scene visibility, heightened awareness, tears to wine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: What at the next down the bottom of the stairs is dead, but what do you have going there?
[SPEAKER_04]: Real simple.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just the Slate Skin and Mage Armor going and Alt herself.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm in the grip reform.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is the Father's Depth Master going?
[SPEAKER_04]: That should be yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, and what was the there was a remove fear buff going on was that's gone now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so just a group of everything left besides the further step 10.
[SPEAKER_07]: I believe the house wisdom.
[SPEAKER_07]: Debwhat cast should still be going.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: We also have the what is the Hunter's Blessing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hunter's Blessing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: And four Pandora false life.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hunter's Blessing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now before we roll initiative here, for this fight, starting with the party split between two floors, Bash does hear something else, Johnny.
[SPEAKER_03]: In response to the gout of flame and the roar and smashing around of the skin stitches,
[SPEAKER_03]: You hear the sound of another Myakni and Mun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Seemingly, either right above or right next to this invisible trap door up on the fourth floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: You hear him cry out.
[SPEAKER_02]: No!
[SPEAKER_02]: What are they doing down there?
[SPEAKER_02]: Thought the lab.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's mine.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's all mine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Little friendship.
[SPEAKER_04]: Plus two on that initiative.
[SPEAKER_03]: Plus two from the hundred blessing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so actually on the third floor with these things.
[SPEAKER_03]: Would you get bash 15 total bottom of the stairs?
[SPEAKER_03]: Debwick 11 then gripper 20 and finally Pandora 15 all right
[SPEAKER_03]: top of round one here, an enormous swarm, 10 by 10 by 10 of hideous buzzing insects that look like wasps except they are black and green in color and they have glowing hungry red eyes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just gigantic swarm bursts out of the first skin stitch.
[SPEAKER_03]: It goes down the stairs.
[SPEAKER_07]: I would have preferred snakes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was the one we were rooting for.
[SPEAKER_03]: It goes down the stairs and completely covers and encodes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dabwick, grip, and Pandora.
[SPEAKER_03]: At the end of their move.
[SPEAKER_03]: The three of you take 12 points of damage and these wounds burn insanely.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need a couple of saves from you.
[SPEAKER_03]: One is a fortitude save against the poison you now feel coursing through your skins and the other is a fortitude save against the distracting effect of being covered in thousands of hellish insects.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's start with Dabwick.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dabwick, you are the first to be mulled by these insects.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's make the Savi Against Poison first.
[SPEAKER_04]: I rolled a natural one.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a 13.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, buddy.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Dabwick is...
[SPEAKER_03]: made sluggish on the Dexterity poison track.
[SPEAKER_03]: The poison coursing through your veins has left you with dulled reactions minus two penalty on every single thing dexterity based that is reflex saves AC range detect rolls acrobatics checks if it's got if it's powered by decks you're minus two.
[SPEAKER_03]: And now save against the distraction effect for the two
[SPEAKER_03]: I rolled a 21 keep in that yes, let's move on to gripper gripper What'd you get against the poison for the poison save?
[SPEAKER_07]: I rolled the two For a 15 I used an action point for a 21.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got a six on the action point and Against the nausea against the distraction That was a fucking natural 20 for a 33 very good and what about Pandora let's talk about the poison safe first
[SPEAKER_03]: 25.
[SPEAKER_03]: You like it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: What about the distraction?
[SPEAKER_03]: 26.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So nobody is distracted and somehow only dabwick managed to be poisoned, but this poison feels pretty bad, Paul.
[SPEAKER_03]: The next thing that happens
[SPEAKER_03]: Is a second swarm, erupts out of the other skin stitch.
[SPEAKER_03]: Comes down the stairs and joins the fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's remake all those same saves again.
[SPEAKER_07]: But we can use the rules we have.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is that one snake, please?
[SPEAKER_05]: Please, is it snakes?
[SPEAKER_07]: It is more of these hellish wasps.
[SPEAKER_07]: And this is the same round, yes?
[SPEAKER_07]: This is the same round.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep, that is a real good.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what, the way this pan's out, dab with you don't need to make these second saves, only Pandora and Grypper are covered by overlapping swarms.
[SPEAKER_03]: Grypper, let me just say it against poison.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was a 16 for a 29.
[SPEAKER_03]: And just against the distraction?
[SPEAKER_03]: A 15 for a 28.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pandora.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do we like a 16 on the poison?
[SPEAKER_07]: Hmm, I didn't like a 15 on my first one.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a 19 with an action point.
[SPEAKER_01]: And against the distraction.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's an 11.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pandora is also sluggish on the dexterity poison track on the distraction.
[SPEAKER_03]: or I failed, you failed both, so you are sluggish on the dexterity poison track, so that's minus 2 to everything dexterity based.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you are also indeed distracted, so you have the nauseated condition.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you are unable to attack cast spells, concentrate on spells, or do anything requiring attention.
[SPEAKER_03]: The only action you can take is a single move action per turn.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's the fatigued.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, that's the nausea.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the distraction from this warm.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's what happens when you're covered by a thousand hellish wasps.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll write next up is gripper and the middle of just absolute hell down there.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, let me tell you about what you see.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've got some experienced fighting swarms.
[SPEAKER_03]: We talked a little bit in the previous episode about like, hey, how big do these things need to be?
[SPEAKER_03]: These things will not take any weapon damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: They are so tidy.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, so tidy.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that says I should be able to smash like 30 of them in my big meaty hands.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It just has no effect on this one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Swarm.
[SPEAKER_03]: And as you're standing there amidst these two swarms, the buzzing of their wings is actually producing what sounds like words.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you speak infernal Pandora?
[SPEAKER_03]: I do.
[SPEAKER_03]: They are saying flash, flash, flash in the infernal language.
[SPEAKER_03]: The rubbing of their wings is saying that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Back to gripper, what do you do?
[SPEAKER_07]: There's nothing I can do to the swarms here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like standing here to try to help defend that book in Pandora.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, there's nothing for me to do, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't do anything to them that I'm aware of.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, like the only area effect thing I have is an alchemist fire, but with them standing here, that doesn't seem like a viable choice.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I feel like I should go upstairs and try to hit things I can hit.
[SPEAKER_07]: Alrighty.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think I can help you fucker this down here.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna go upstairs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, that's 15 feet, the top of the stairs you are facing off with two skin stitches who are still flat-footed so as you move into a space they have been standing in weight to make an attack on, they've been so distracted and burned by this fire snake that you're able to slide in there without provoking.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is it safe to assume the second one is in this area?
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't have line of sight on them, or are they stacked on top of each other?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, so they are squeezed into these narrow walkways between the counters, which means they're a little bit easier to hit.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they're a little less effective with their attacks.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would say the smell and the motion and the creaking and groaning of the floor right around the corner to your left there would be unmistakable.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can't see it, but you can tell there's another one there.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Bash told you there were two.
[SPEAKER_07]: and in my is it safe to assume one five foot step to the north is going to provoke at the moment their flat foot it so you can go where you want.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'll take that five foot step.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we're doing attack, let's bunch it.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I've only seen what I have a sense of natural armouredness of the flesh.
[SPEAKER_03]: It seems like it's made out of hides and faces.
[SPEAKER_03]: Seems pretty thick and also, you know, your tenth level, you face enough like constructs and gollums, they tend to be, they tend to be big attacks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not oozy.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm trying to decide on power attack.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think I won't.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's see how hard they are to hit.
[SPEAKER_07]: Always be part power attacking bash as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're looking at two mindless oversized things.
[SPEAKER_07]: yeah if i don't if i don't hit it i'll turn it off yeah we're gonna put it on so uh one uh and i'm gonna use the in the hopes of hitting it the hardest or the with the highest attack i'm gonna hit it with the damn bang awesome and remember to add your bonuses from deadwicks hunters blessing plus two on the tack rolls and plus two on the damage rolls right plus 15 ohms.
[SPEAKER_07]: for a 29.
[SPEAKER_07]: You like it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let's see.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Great.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a 1D 10 plus 12.
[SPEAKER_07]: uh... for uh... only a two on the dive for fourteen points of uh... magical four-note for it out sixteen points of damage thank you Paul uh... sixteen points of magical bludgeoning damage it does not seem to take all of that like it seems to absorb some of this bludgeoning damage but it's been fixed the court we know it has the r5 slashing
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I know better next time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Next time the fists.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is good with just surrounded in wasps.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, he's got a lot going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll write Pandora.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can you still take a swift action now to to make your fists be slashing?
[SPEAKER_05]: So you have the swift action next round?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have a lot by the action economy?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you can.
[SPEAKER_07]: Then that's a good call, Johnny.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will go ahead and do a Swifty.
[SPEAKER_07]: and we'll take weapon versatility slash it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Up next is bash across the room on the other side of the skin stitches.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next to this table with the intriguing cloth covering.
[SPEAKER_05]: Quick question.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_05]: I had been planning to drink and extract during the surprise round.
[SPEAKER_05]: And since I didn't actually get a turn during the surprise round, would I still be able to do that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Go for it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then now I have gravity gun.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just plan on doing it when that happened.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then I will study skin stitch number one and level vanity at it and make a full attack with rapid shot.
[SPEAKER_03]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the one that grippers face an off-way.
[SPEAKER_05]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_05]: Does a 23 touch hit?
[SPEAKER_05]: Colossalty.
[SPEAKER_05]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_03]: You shoot the giant tub of flesh and straw on the back.
[SPEAKER_03]: 15 points of damage and it collapses to the ground in a heap heap of flesh and the wasp Warms that sustained it dies Don't you wish You don't bend or you aren't a colossal heap of trouble.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know they persist You got more shots left.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm gonna take him but I got to take off my Buff of study combat because I can't do it
[SPEAKER_07]: You killed them too quick.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's too quick.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, honestly, dab it, kill them too quick.
[SPEAKER_05]: Dab it, kill them, dab it.
[SPEAKER_05]: We all killed them too quick.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, the party killed them too quick.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you said 23 touch shit.
[SPEAKER_05]: for 12 points of damage?
[SPEAKER_03]: Takes a little more than half of that 12 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_05]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_05]: A 31 touch?
[SPEAKER_03]: A 31 is a hit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, garbage.
[SPEAKER_05]: Only 11 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: Takes some of that and it collapses to the ground.
[SPEAKER_03]: Skins ditches down, y'all.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't look at the flated balloon.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can see, oh, and you are so much gold.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I am no longer invisible.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you lean, note it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Any other action at the end of the round there?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, no, I will stay where I am.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, Pandora.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just have to get the help.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have, uh, you can only take a single move action this round.
[SPEAKER_03]: The first thing you're going to do in your turn though before you move.
[SPEAKER_03]: Katie, Pandora has to make a save against this poison that is racing through her system.
[SPEAKER_03]: Another fortitude save here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pandora falls to the stiffened condition on the dexterity poison track.
[SPEAKER_03]: She feels numb and stiff through her whole body.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are now considered flat-footed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Denied your dexterity bonus to your AC.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even if you had uncanny dodge, which you don't, you are unable to make attacks of opportunity.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, at least that particular level of the track would really screw some over, but not too bad for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: 5, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a 16 on the die for a total of 28.
[SPEAKER_04]: Keep it in it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is one successful save.
[SPEAKER_03]: However, the poison is still in your system.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is that a save you have to make every time you start a turn in the swarm, or is that only after you fail the first one?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, they have to fail the first time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Gotcha, thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, Dads, you're in the swarm.
[SPEAKER_03]: What can you do, Betty?
[SPEAKER_04]: Damper is going to move to the top of the stairs and cast a flame strike down on the wasps.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh nice, great, you can catch both of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, reflux save.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's correct.
[SPEAKER_03]: Natural one for the first one.
[SPEAKER_03]: And 28 for the second one.
[SPEAKER_04]: So that made the second one made the DC so that only take half damage.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's 32 points of fire, half fire, and half divine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the flames of understanding, shoot down from the ceiling, blast, and fry these two swarms.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I'm gonna do some math, so it's 16 and 16.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I want to do, I want to do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you want to do that?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I want to do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, I think you have to do it before you cast your spells from the future.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, do it for now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, but remember going forward.
[SPEAKER_03]: Go do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That'll have to be reminded of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, let's see.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's 16 divine takes that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Does not take all of the fire damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is there fire wasps?
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, oh, there's something.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's see, it's like one is eight and eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the second one takes the divine damage and none of the fire damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they both seem, once the smoke and flame of understanding clears the air, they both seem almost largely unaffected on impeding.
[SPEAKER_03]: The tragic end of our first round here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Top of round two, we're up to gripper on the third floor, the top of the stairs, right next to Dabwick.
[SPEAKER_07]: Please, don't, don't, please don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't
[SPEAKER_07]: But I don't have any way to help dispel the swarm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: But nobody does the tap.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, all right.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will come down and go back down and meet shield.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, heading back down the stairs.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're looking at a giant wall of hellish black and green wasps with red eyes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course, fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: But now I'm in the swarm with devs.
[SPEAKER_07]: Tell me what I need to do to end my move.
[SPEAKER_07]: Where I'm pinging there rub just to the north of us forms.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's a single move To clear of the swarms down the stairs around the corner up to the north just through the swarms That's a single move there and then I'm just gonna plant Oh boy Up next is Bash up on the third floor
[SPEAKER_05]: Ash is tracking the telepathic thoughts they're being shared with him that fire doesn't seem to be doing anything to these wasps seems to be doing a little bit like yeah and he's looking at this crazy lab and wondering I wonder if there's anything in here that might be able to hurt them and so he's going to like take this time to be perception check look around and see if there might be anything in here that could help for urban environment
[SPEAKER_03]: God, I'm freaking too, so I got a 21.
[SPEAKER_03]: This room contains a massive collection of alchemical items, many of which you would find incredibly useful, and I would say with that within easy reach, you can easily spot seven or eight, let's say seven vials of acid.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are a whole number of vials of alchemist fire as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: You probably wouldn't be too interested in that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Something that you're not sure what it does.
[SPEAKER_03]: You'd have to probably take some time to check it out, but the acid vials are handy and visible to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: How many can I grab at a time?
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's save... to any chand.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got a gut.
[SPEAKER_05]: You got an alchemical torch in your hand.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm dropping the alchemical torch.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then I will simply grab what I see.
[SPEAKER_03]: Excellent, so you can grab two vials of acid in each hand and can I then still move that's an action Yeah, you can take a move great then I will move as far as I can to As far as I get right all right making your way most of the way back to the top of the stairs Yep, all right back down on the good old second floor all the way across the room We're back to Pandora top of the round still got poison in the system.
[SPEAKER_03]: Give me my dude.
[SPEAKER_03]: So distracted you are no longer still distracted
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, that's something.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can use an action point.
[SPEAKER_01]: 24.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is one successful save.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great, Dorik has placebo effect on herself to suppress the poison condition.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: For how long?
[SPEAKER_01]: With a little bit of math.
[SPEAKER_01]: 11 minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: It runs out in that time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great, I've not had to figure it out then.
[SPEAKER_03]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: That brings us to DABOOK at the end of the round, as I noticed that the Swarms fell off the initiative, so I guess they were, even though they didn't take a lot of damage from the flames of understanding, they took a lot of, uh, they were stymied, momentarily stymied, as you all are stymied by their existence.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry about that, but hey, we're back to DABOOK.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a six on the die for an 18 total, it's not enough.
[SPEAKER_04]: The debit's going to not use an action point on that 42th save, and instead cast neutralized poison on one's health.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, all right, so they do go down to stiffened on the dexterity poison track and then read out how neutralized poison works, I don't think we've actually against this one yet.
[SPEAKER_04]: You make a castor level check against the DC of each poison affecting the target, which says that means the poison is neutralized.
[SPEAKER_04]: A cured creature suffers no additional effects from the poison, any temporary effects are ended.
[SPEAKER_04]: The spell does not reverse instantaneous effects such as hit point damage, temporary ability damage or effects of don't go away in their own.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, give me the check against the DC here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Was that a cast your level check?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a cast your level check.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's against the DC of the poison itself.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Come on, buddy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a 23 cast your level check.
[SPEAKER_03]: You like it?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to use an action point.
[SPEAKER_03]: 24 neutralized.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, so there's no more poison in your system, so that's a standard action on your part.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you want to move anywhere or are you going to hang at the top of the stairs?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to move to... Bash.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I would like to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's the end of round two.
[SPEAKER_03]: Top of round three.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not going to forget him this round.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the two swarms.
[SPEAKER_03]: The first one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sores up the stairs and goes to surround.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dablic and Bash, the second one, engulfs the gripper.
[UNKNOWN]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Really, they do, really do.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so, Dablic and Bash, you take 13 points of damage, and I need those two fortitude saves from you, gripper.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, you take just six points of damage, and I need those sails from you as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: So just having had the poison that you already had neutralized, Debwick, let's start again.
[SPEAKER_03]: What'd you get against this new round of poison?
[SPEAKER_03]: Twenty-two, and what'd you get against the distraction?
[SPEAKER_04]: Twenty-four.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bash, poison.
[SPEAKER_05]: 26.
[SPEAKER_03]: Destraction.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right now it's at a 20 and I'm going to spend it was I got a 16.
[SPEAKER_05]: I added a Point of inspiration to get to 20.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and I'm about to roll twice to add an action point to it because I do not want to be distracted and nauseated 25.
[SPEAKER_07]: Grypper poison
[SPEAKER_03]: With an action point twenty three for the poison and distraction another fuck you natural twenty for a thirty three everybody saves Oh Nobody's poisoned nobody is distracted Phew Alright Back on the second floor in the middle of a swarm Group are you are up?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well great for me I guess Um
[SPEAKER_07]: me swarmed fighting feats.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_05]: You have to have you have to have a point of knowledge dungeon airing before you can get the swarmed fighting feats.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, prance and swat is the only method I know and it doesn't work.
[SPEAKER_07]: The old france is what see.
[SPEAKER_07]: But better on me right now than on Pandora, I think.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, he's just buried in her hands.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm going to, I'm going to move through the swarm and stand just to the north of it in the hopes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they'll do the same thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're trying it closer.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, they seem to stop and swarm around him, at least.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Very tough.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next time, I'll go a different direction.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm going to go up.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're at the downstairs, aren't you?
[SPEAKER_01]: First of all, I do bash.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not how I'm going to get there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bash, you are in the middle of a swarm, but you're not distracted and not poisoned.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got to, you got a bunch of acid flask in your hand.
[SPEAKER_05]: What you're doing?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_05]: And these things can't take attacks of opportunity, anything like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: 100% correct.
[SPEAKER_05]: I am going to go ahead and take a five-foot step.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then am I able to rapid-shot these things since I have one in each hand?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then I will do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've got to keep you a penalty or am I going to do improvised web end because you're not throwing at the way it's designed to be throw so minus four on those those touch attacks on the second one Who are on both on both?
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, fair enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean you have two in each hand.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean I guess I would say you can throw You a number equal to your base attack bonus plus your rapid shot just take the minus four on all those attacks because you're kind of awkwardly trying to throw one when you've got two in your any chance But you can still do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've got them loaded in your hands
[SPEAKER_03]: So if that's two attacks, plus the rapid shot, go ahead.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, first one is a 21-4 for a 17 touch.
[SPEAKER_05]: And are you, okay, let's see.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm basically throwing it right in the square right next to us, because I know it's gonna splash and hit both me and dabs no matter what.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's not a place to throw it where it's not gonna hit, where splash damage isn't gonna hit us.
[SPEAKER_05]: 17.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, that is a miss.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, so a 17-touch does not hit this form.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so give me a Well, then give me a D-8 roll.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right That is a six give me a D-4 roll
[SPEAKER_05]: that is a four.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you actually end up tossing it down into the corner at the top of the stairs behind which Debwick is shielded and you and the swarm will each take one point of splash damage which turns into a little more than that for the swarm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good to know.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then I can then knowing that it's just plus 50% so it takes one point.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Give me a D8 No, I'm gonna spend I'm gonna spend another point of inspiration Okay, to see if I can get this thing up high enough to actually hurt it after roll I have to roll six If I can all try Six that's a that's a 22 minus four is an 18 miss Only a D8 Rollin' well, Johnny
[SPEAKER_05]: Am I rolling well?
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, these are like threes and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe without the rapid task.
[SPEAKER_05]: It really is the dice.
[SPEAKER_03]: The dice are fucking right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's just really bad.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just really bad.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, that is a one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, you basically, you're so distracted by this giant wall of bugs right in front of your face.
[SPEAKER_03]: You basically dump it on the ground near your feet by accident.
[SPEAKER_03]: So same situation, one to you, one to the swarm.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, it's just one Oh, could it's plus 50% you got to get at least two points in there.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think that should be three every two hits.
[SPEAKER_05]: You should be Okay, now we're talking like this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I do like this.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's a 27 minus four is a 23.
[SPEAKER_05]: One D6 acid damage Come on give me something good come on
[SPEAKER_03]: six nice all right so that's nine points of acid damage to the swarm and one point of acid damage to you and to dabwick does it take more than nine it took nine instead of six yeah yeah so yeah it did do do good thing okay okay who all right anything else on your turn that's a lot of action that's all I can do
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, Pandora, you are up down on the second floor.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I have thought I would dimension door up there to try to grab some acid and help, but knowing that you haven't been getting really high for a long time to hit these touch armor glasses.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not even sure that I would be able to do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to extend an olive branch.
[SPEAKER_03]: It suggests you do a thing you do in every fight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Make a check.
[SPEAKER_03]: What the fuck are these things?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, what?
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought we already made a check on these things.
[SPEAKER_01]: 26.
[SPEAKER_03]: You made a check on the skin stitches.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody has made a check on the wasps.
[SPEAKER_03]: These are hell wasps.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, the only reason I didn't make a knowledge check was I thought that we had already made a check.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's a Dungeoning check.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: same same same number was that same bonus 26 26 these are hell wasps You pretty much know what's going on with them can't take damage They resist the first 10 points of fire damage that they take They are said to be given a hive mind essentially like
[SPEAKER_03]: these hellwasps contained the dispersed soul of greater devils torn apart by their enemies on the planes of hell.
[SPEAKER_03]: So like these thousand insects each have one thousandth of the mind of a devil.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they have Katie and intelligence score and are subject to mind-effecting effects.
[SPEAKER_03]: The only swarm in the history of the world.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but their single they target single creatures these swarms can be targeted by mind-effecting effects as though they were a single creature Because as far as their mind goes Psychically just one mind.
[SPEAKER_03]: Psychically it's one mind.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a thousand creatures but one mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, but if you want to if you want to tell me Stupid anyway
[SPEAKER_01]: Do I cast mine thrice for on this dumbass fucking swarm in front of her that's not even gonna hear grip are you gonna do any math?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah And I have to actually roll this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, oh, no, I don't I'm not gonna do math I mean, I am gonna do math.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not gonna roll.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I meant to say I don't need to roll, but I'm doing the math for Well, it starts there, but it's one more D8
[SPEAKER_01]: for 61 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, oh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, okay, I owe you a save, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Will?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: 17 bail.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: 61 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if they don't die, I'm walking out of the studio.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, prepare to walk out of the studio.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna die.
[SPEAKER_03]: They do not die, however, that is a massive dispersal of these insects, and you do see a substantial portion of these things starting to fly around kind of aimlessly, like they seem to be losing connection to each other or like you killed like 600 mines in the course of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: That looks like that, that spell going off in them.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's still together, but that was uh, it wasn't- Does this make them less dangerous, like less, like- No, just make some closer to dispersing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Closer to dead.
[SPEAKER_03]: You bloody them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because in Fiby, they get less dangerous.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not going on here, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you want to move anywhere?
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, no, okay, I just gotta ask.
[SPEAKER_01]: I gotta ask.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, oh, oh, oh, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, I was like, oh, I could do combat advice.
[SPEAKER_01]: The two for what?
[SPEAKER_01]: For what?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't know that I did that necessarily.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't know that it was me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they do have a mind so they would have otherwise if you did normal components.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, they have no idea where they came from.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, maybe just to make them very mad at the gripper.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, back up on the third floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's Debwick in the swarm that is slowly being acidity did did did by bash Swarms are fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's still worth it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I Think probably to try something with fire damage even though it doesn't take the first 10 It's only half fire damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: The divine is still the divine is still good.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got another flame strike.
[SPEAKER_03]: I used an action
[SPEAKER_04]: Do I see any similar looking flasks of acid around?
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_03]: Both counters that are within reach the one inside this warm and the one outside of this warm, you can easily spot an acid flask to grab.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, so how about a five-foot step?
[SPEAKER_04]: Move action to grab a flask?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, and then hurl?
[SPEAKER_04]: And then a hurl?
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Be a range attack.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a 28, plus 2 is 30.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's your target?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's split plus 2 from...
[SPEAKER_03]: These are not constructs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, they aren't constructs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nevermind.
[SPEAKER_03]: 28.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's where are you targeting?
[SPEAKER_03]: Your choice is basically hit you or hit Bash with any splash damage that might result.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, I don't mind being splashed.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm splashed on me.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a hit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Roll 1d6 acid damage for the swarm and take one more point of acid to yourself.
[SPEAKER_04]: Three points of acid damage to those swarm and one point for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Excellent, that is actually four points.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, dabble can bash, are faced off on the opposite side of a swarm hurling flasks of acid.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is the end of round two.
[SPEAKER_03]: One swarm of swarm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dab around three.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: The swarm engulfs dabwick.
[SPEAKER_03]: 9 points of damage from the biting and stinging, you'd afford to save get the poison and fortitude save against the destructed condition.
[SPEAKER_04]: First fortitude save, 31.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Second fortitude save.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is, what was the second one's distraction?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this is the thing that if you fail it, you can take no action except for a single move action.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, rolled a 15.
[SPEAKER_03]: Keeping it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Keeping it.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you are indeed distracted.
[SPEAKER_03]: Left with only the ability to take a move action on your next turn as you are surrounded in golfed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nay, in golfed by thousands of wasps from hell.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me move over the map on the second floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Comey.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha ha ha.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, hi, gripper.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's do a replay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gripper is swarmed for 15 points of damage, so much fighting and stinging, and two forward saves.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, for the poison.
[SPEAKER_07]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_07]: 18 on the die for a plus 13, the 35 or something.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm good on that.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're golden for distraction.
[SPEAKER_07]: 14 on the die for a 27.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're golden.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're you are where you were meant to be get me for the dude saves all day That brings us to your turn gripper in the middle of the swarm Where you go now, buddy?
[SPEAKER_07]: I will in an effort to Throw them off the scent yeah, Pandora is up there.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I was in me him.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm just gonna take a five foot step to there and go
[SPEAKER_03]: Make yourself a nice juicy target even suck in the dog sit direction from Pandora All right back up at the next floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're over to bash again, Johnny.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I've got one in hand You got one left in hand I'm not gonna be able to get more than one attack off this round no matter what I do so I'll throw this one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah Tab books in this form so they're gonna take splash.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, wherever you target.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, but no, no minus 4 penalty that is a since it's not rapid shot.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's actually a 27 That's a hit great and that is one more acid to you, Paulie.
[SPEAKER_05]: Only one Oh boy one hit point of damage.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep
[SPEAKER_05]: And then, as a move action, am I able to grab any acid off of?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, let me see.
[SPEAKER_03]: Two acid flasks within reach if you take a five foot step to the north.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, I will step and grab.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don and don.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey Pandora!
[SPEAKER_03]: Guess what I'm gonna do!
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't imagine!
[SPEAKER_03]: You're gonna do the one thing that's useful!
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah!
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you gonna use your highest level though?
[SPEAKER_03]: What level you wanna use?
[SPEAKER_03]: It seems quite significant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's first thing!
[SPEAKER_01]: Just it, um... Third level spells are so... Holder, so precious aren't they?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not sure a second will do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will use these things.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are hard.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we're discovering that as we should pay for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's a third.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, great.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll give you Will Save here.
[SPEAKER_03]: As you mind thrust the hive mind, 15.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fail.
[SPEAKER_03]: Four.
[SPEAKER_03]: 42.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it disperses.
[SPEAKER_03]: So now it's just 1,000 wasps from hell.
[SPEAKER_03]: I kind of mindlessly roaming around the place and slowly one by one, like there's a little brain just going off, falling to the floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to the floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Raining to the floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: The windows are all sealed up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, Debwick.
[SPEAKER_01]: 15, 20, 25.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you're moving.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, trying to race.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so Pandora then races across the floor towards the stairs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe groups are going for me though.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we're back to dad.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your foot saved my mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got these things wrecked.
[SPEAKER_03]: So dad, you're nauseated in the swarm.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can only take a move action.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to run down the stairs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but runs down the stairs.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've been around three, kept around four, swarm one, follow, nope, and go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm, so are over, on top of Bash, the wings rustling together whispering flesh, flesh, flesh in your ear and a language you do not understand, while upstairs you hear my acne and month pounding on the trap door, no, no, don't hurt the lab, don't hurt the lab, don't hurt the lab!
[SPEAKER_03]: You can be supportive to the saves.
[SPEAKER_03]: How about poison first?
[SPEAKER_05]: Got a 19 and I'm gonna spend another point of inspiration You got a 23 and give you a save against the distraction.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep That's a 15 He's not poisoned
[SPEAKER_03]: But he is distracted.
[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: There it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gripper, you're up.
[SPEAKER_06]: Great.
[SPEAKER_06]: And fun with that.
[SPEAKER_06]: I guess I'll run blocker for Pintora.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to boogie back up the stairs.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: These things are like flying into Bash's mouth.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: So like stinging underneath his jacket.
[SPEAKER_03]: They've flown in.
[SPEAKER_03]: I forgot your old damage for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you, friend.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, of course.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like to be helpful where I can.
[SPEAKER_05]: 15.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh Was it 28?
[SPEAKER_03]: That's 36.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's still real Looks like that about 10 feet into your second move.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're up the top of the stairs and around the corner and you can see Back across the way just in golf in golf by hell wasps.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna stand here and and be be a be a Doris shield.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah Doris shield
[SPEAKER_03]: Sounds good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, Bash.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, you're inside this warm.
[SPEAKER_03]: I sure am.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're distracted.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_03]: What'd you give me your friend?
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess I'm going to move out of it just so that it can chase me again.
[SPEAKER_05]: That seems like probably the best thing I could do.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I think at this point he's like blindly because he can't even really see.
[SPEAKER_05]: So he's just between these two staggering- Benches, staggering between the benches, trying to make his way away and he's going to move himself back to the corner where he dropped his gun to blindly walking along
[SPEAKER_03]: And that brings us to Pandora?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's it, you can't see it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Grip can tell me if I should go north of him or west of him, yeah?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you got the mine.
[SPEAKER_03]: What is the telepathic connection?
[SPEAKER_03]: West of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: North of you.
[SPEAKER_06]: I guess I thought you and I have very different Stratters when we run into a room Yeah, that's actually perfect So Ben Dora is prepping to turn to the west Oh no, it's right there That's to the north further away from the swarim.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a single move.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so my interest for on this swarim.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, here we go With the Erathmatsy
[SPEAKER_06]: What did you say?
[SPEAKER_01]: Someone said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_01]: for 56 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the swarm disperses, oh, my effing God, you all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Brutal brutal fight.
[SPEAKER_03]: So in this moment, as the swarm finally disperses and as Debwick and Bash are finally getting the last lingering remnants of the loss that remained off of them sputtering and kicking and spitting.
[SPEAKER_03]: On inside their jackets and inside their clothes,
[SPEAKER_03]: Pandora, you are standing ten feet away from where you hear the sound of my acne and mum on the floor above, pounding with his foot on the floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, in my lab alone, that's my lab, that's my lab, it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't hurt it!
[SPEAKER_03]: There's some chaos going up there.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you did say the name, arithmetic, I would like to ask you my friend after that brutal brutal fight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Talk about something fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, tell us about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
[SPEAKER_01]: When we came back for book four, we had options, and one of those options was to switch out feats with your past.
[SPEAKER_01]: With my past cell.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Eric Mansy is a feat that anathema had, and I wasn't getting a whole hell of a use out of combat casting.
[SPEAKER_01]: since I failed, I have my concentration checks no matter what.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I switch those out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Basically, it is numerology.
[SPEAKER_01]: You find the digital root of any spell, and if you can
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you use that to create a DC based on the level of the spell plus 10.
[SPEAKER_03]: And what she says is you will find the digital route.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not the character, the player.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the player finds the digital route.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's like a code.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you have to sew every.
[SPEAKER_01]: So now all of my spells now have a little note at the bottom that says, Eric, man, C, D, C, 14 or whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you make a spellcraft check.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you beat that DC, you can cast it as one level higher.
[SPEAKER_01]: You try to do that and you fail.
[SPEAKER_01]: You cast it as one level lower.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can at that point choose not to cast the spell but you lose the spell no matter what.
[SPEAKER_01]: you've used it, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I have gone through and figured out the digital room by spells, and this disease and have been doing that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was hoping it would be, I was hoping you would think it was the Daniels influence.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's totally what I thought.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure you can come to this.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's totally what I thought.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it isn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's straight up from team.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we're going to end this brutal episode and that brutal fight on that note.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we will pick up in the chaos and the obviously ongoing nature of the situation next time.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the end of chapter one, 63.
[SPEAKER_03]: See you next week, y'all.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You are, you are a big part of our storytelling as well, and we love it when you know this.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are, in fact, the antagonist.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm also often out.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm pro-tagonal.
[SPEAKER_03]: The story pal.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, you're a story pal.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody.
[SPEAKER_07]: My name's Rob.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm the story pal tonight.
[SPEAKER_07]: Protagonist antagonist and lover.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right?