Critical Role - Horizon of Promise | Age of Umbra: Sallowlands | Episode 3 Part 2

Episode Date: August 4, 2026

Part 2   The five wandering heretics clamber throughout the great towering city in search of a way out...   DAGGERHEART: HOPE & FEAR Explore new Daggerheart content seen in Sallowlands with the first expansion for Daggerheart! Hope & Fear comes out August 25th and features new classes (Witch, Warlock, Assassin, Brawler), transformation cards, adversaries, campaign frames, and much more. Visit https://www.daggerheart.com/pre-order to learn more, or head directly to Critical Role shops to place your pre-order! US: https://shop.critrole.com UK: https://shop.critrole.co.uk EU: https://shop.critrole.eu AU: https://shop.critrole.com.au CA: https://canada.critrole.com   AGE OF UMBRA: SALLOWLANDS A group of outcasts and survivors brave blasted lands in search of answers in Age of Umbra: Sallowlands. This 6-part Daggerheart mini-series features Game Master Matthew Mercer and players Laura Bailey, Jennifer English, Abubakar Salim, Vico Ortiz, and Zachery Renauldo. They’ll form an unlikely band of companions, who venture off the beaten path in search of answers in the Sallowlands, a new region of the Halcyon Domain filled with cracked badlands, dangers, and awe-inspiring secrets. What fragile hopes dare they cling to in this story of desperation and survival? Learn more at https://critrole.com/umbra   BEACON Curious what happens when the camera turns off after an Age of Umbra episode? Watch the Cooldown episodes with the cast discussion after each episode, exclusively on Beacon! Start your 7-day free trial today at https://beacon.tv/join and get unparalleled access to the shows you love completely ad-free! You’ll receive NEW Beacon exclusive series, instant access to VODs & podcasts, live event pre-sales, merch discounts, & a private Discord.   CREDITS See full cast and crew credits at https://critrole.com/sallowlands-credits/     Starring: Game Master Matthew Mercer | @matthewmercervo Jennifer English as Dillywin Hellekin | @jenniferjenglish Abubakar Salim as Mercy | @abubakarsalim Laura Bailey as Sister | @laurabaileyvo Zachery Renauldo as Alphonse | @zachthebold Vico Ortiz as Cagauma | @puertoricaninja   Art by: Key Art by Daniel Jiménez Villalba | @Danieljimenezvillalba Character Art by Strange House | @strange_house Sallowlands Map by Marco Bernardini Miniatures Painted by Keo Lacebal, Angela Basset, and Erik Lonnquist Main Theme Song by Omar Fadel Set Design by Shaun Ellis Set Fabrication and Production Design by Noxweiler Berf   FOLLOW CRITICAL ROLE! Website: https://www.critrole.com Newsletter: https://critrole.com/newsletter Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/criticalrole Twitter: https://twitter.com/criticalrole Instagram: https://instagram.com/critical_role TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@criticalrole   HEALTH & WELL-BEING Due to the improv nature of Critical Role and other RPG content on our channels, some themes and situations that occur in-game may be difficult for some to handle. If certain episodes or scenes become uncomfortable, we strongly suggest taking a break or skipping that particular episode. Your health and well-being is important to us and Psycom has a great list of international mental health resources, in case it’s useful: http://bit.ly/PsycomResources Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Greetings Wanderers of the Wastes. It's Laura Bailey here, and you're listening to Part 2 of this episode of Age of Umbra Salolands, our Daggerheart miniseries. If you're enjoying this tale so far, consider supporting the show and showcasing your fandom with our new Age of Umbra T-shirt and Mb's metal-inspired dad hat,

or enhance your daggerheart games with our stunning new Daggerheart Duality Dice Set. Find all this and more in friendly local game stores and critical role shops. If you haven't checked out part one, yet, pause this now and head over there first. Otherwise, let's return to our tale in part two. And welcome back. So, friends, as you've now gathered in your shown dual bed chambers, this sweet, if you want to call it, comparatively from many places you've stayed before,

beautiful dual window view up to the eastern skies. If it weren't so dark at this point, you'd probably be able to see the sorrow heart sanctum from here. But the clouds are thick, and the mists are starting to roll in. But here you are, to converse and plot. We spoke to Bowen. He is coming. I've learned there's another way out through the barracks, through the barracks, and past all the guards. I've learned there's another.

way out through the crypts. I think I'd rather take that if it comes down to it. Maybe we'll just take the elevators. That's a good point. As of right now, no one knows that we're plotting some sort of escape. Not that we are. Yeah, should we look at, can we look around the room? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Can I, can I? Can I? Can I? Can I. Just let you at the door like. It doesn't even left pass. We're having your luggage sent off. Yeah, I can dilly have a little look around while they're all chatting.

Just double checking for holes in walls. Is there a fireplace? There is not a fire. Okay. Yeah, these particular towers, even though it is decadent in its own right, this is more of a guest chamber. as opposed to the, likely the grand ordinance who once held this place, those chambers above are opulent of maintain as they were in the old world

from the rumors and stories you've heard. And if this is just, even these chambers are better than any place you've ever stayed. You keep an eye out kind of glancing through the interior of this chamber, it's empty, it's quiet. You seem to be alone. I'm going to the door. You see, stepping in, helmet off, half-armored Bowen.

Hello, Marcy. Steps in, closes the door behind. Susan walks with you down the stairs to where, are you guys meeting in kind of the central main area? Are you meeting down in the bed chambers? Where are you meeting? Bed chambers. Bed chambers.

Sure. All right. So you head down, then there's two different rooms that kind of are side by side with three beds each. So we'll say you meet on the one closest, I guess. I don't know. Was there a difference? Does one of them have a spy in it?

I don't know, you tell me, which one are you pick? The one on the left. One on the left, okay, that's actually really blown over, okay. Yeah, so you guys all kind of filter in there, the window kind of view out there. Bowen, else to everybody. My friends, I was told to, I was told that you had interest in traveling beyond this.

And I think that's, I do wish you all for luck. I don't know what I'd do beyond this place. What will you do in this place? I have familiar legacy to maintain. There are good people. people here that rely on folks like me to protect them in the same way that you've protected me. Speak your mind. I question many things tonight. And I guess what I ask is do,

must I be faithful to still protect those here of the faith? I don't know. Honestly prayed in two years. I don't know if it's disillusionment or just a little spruce. lack of rebellion in my heart against some of the crueler folk. I see the good it does for many. I just don't know what it does for me anymore.

Do you know of the horizon speakers? I know of them, yes. Do you think some of them might need protection as well? Oh, to what those paths is towards demise. In this life lead to demise. It is up to us. to decide what we do in that time beforehand. You can keep your faith, let it waver,

so that you can protect those that are here that you've grown up with, or you can adapt to what the new world is. Whether or not you accompany us to this new city is for you to decide what you value and what change you want to see in this world. I suppose I... Is that a knock at the door?

Right. What was that? I'm gonna go out. You go and start heading toward the door. And you hear a number of voices in the opposite side saying, I've looked at. Break it down. I head over to the window.

I'm gonna start looking out to see if there is way out the window. You look out the window, and it is, just a sheer drop about 70 feet up before you hit one of two possible spires, and then after that a drop off into the Salon leg. I grab Bowens by the chest and I will look at him and I will say sometimes fate is decided for you. Where do we go? The door that you were heading towards bursts open as you're kind of stepping back hearing impacts as it shatters inward across the way you see fully armored from this point the exemplar Archon Petra and another exemplar knight at her side. It says, heretics.

Where you are here to be judged? Put down your arms. There's only two of them? There's two of them that you see like stepping through the door. But I mean you guys are all down in the bedchambers right now. They don't see us yet. They don't see us. They just see you right now. Oh, God. You see me.

There is, so there's kind of the main, kind of entryway kind of area with the statue I was telling you, there's candle, candelabra. Down the stairs, to the left, there is the two bed chambers and a secondary hallway with two other double doors. Have we been down to the second hallway? The hallway, we've got to go. Mercy.

Well, mercy, run, run, run. Run, mercy. They have entered the chamber where you're there. I'll be right back with a map. No! Did Bowling rat us out? No. Did he rat us out?

No. That would be so mistaken. Bowen. Goodness. Or did somebody see us? Oh, I don't know. Oh. It just seems like a coincidence.

Okay, okay, okay. Oh, there's wait. What's the door over there? This is where you were stepping in, Mercy. This is such a fancy. We were doing okay. We were doing okay. And for this one, you watch as

this night and Archon Petra, full blade sheathed and tome in the other hand, stepping forth. The rest of you had gathered over into this bedchamber here, and for this I'm saying, using this as Bowen for the time being. So these doors have been breached. What would you like to do? I'm gonna raise my hands and kind of of like try and channel what I've learned from you, and kind of be like, is there an issue? The Templar starts approaching from that side and Patch says on your knees, put them in shackles.

The rest of you as well, whenever you are, lay down your weapons or you will be smited where you stand. As she says that, this. feeling of rage runs through me, and I go to launch that table into both of them to push them back. All right, make a strange test for me, please. I'm going to channel my experience of Savage as well while I do this, which is a 17 plus 19 with hope. 19 with hope. That is a success. You rush forward.

You slam the table forward. It pushes them back. This is a lot. this way as the central altar itself kind of falls backward, they get pushed into the doorway where you can see other figures are like starting to come in from behind them. They both, I'll say, mark a stress from that. All righty. You can move if you can. Yeah, I'm going to use this time, sorry guys, to come running to go to see you. Yes, please. Yes. I do you want to try the agility roll to go full far range or just close range. Agility roll. Let's go. Let's do it. You got this. Can you run to the edge of the normal range and then agility roll to go father? Dang it. That is 15 with hope. 15 with hope. That's great.

Oh, purple die. I'm telling you, man, this purple dye is lonely. You rush all the way down there. The rest of you can hear the impact and splintering of heavy furniture and candles off from the other chamber. The impact and shower. The impact and shower. of armored soldiers pushed back, and the heavy footfalls would definitely come running out of the room. I'm gonna grab Bowen, and I'm gonna be like, Ah, dude. No. So much fear. As these doors here,

and with that, another exemplar, and a series of Templar soldiers start bursting through on that thing there. Now you can take your spot. Okay, I grab Bowen, I say, what did you tell them? I'll tell nothing. I just came to see you. You told me to come to see you. They'll kill you if you don't come with us. Make a presents full.

I quit. Grain a hope. Clear stress. And you know what? You can go ahead and take care of Bowen sheet there for a second. So he has two features on there. The top one has a loop three countdown. That means whenever an action roll is rolled, that counts down when it goes to When it goes lower than one, that triggers. And the other one, you'll figure it out. But go ahead and put a dice with a three on that that you're likely not to use.

Cool. Wait, but how are we gonna get out of here? Because there's windows, that's it now. I guess we just have to kill him. No, Bowen's on our side. How, wait, how many, how many? There's another fear. Oh.

Oh, God. Oh, Mimau's on, North. To activate this one that just came in, I'll say he's gonna charge into this chamber here and block that space off there. I'm gonna spend another fear. To activate the. There's, I think, three that came in,

that lower door? Yeah, three. Activate Petra, comes rushing forward aggressively. Yeah, she can't. She's so cool. Even over that, can't quite even get to you. She can get to the bottom of the stairs and goes, Beast, we know you've been with the horizons.

Our eyes have been on all of you. We were wrong to trust and let you in. She cannot get close enough to you. So that's going to be her spotlight. I'm going to spend another fear to activate this one. It's also going to charge down behind her over to there. And that's going to be that there. So I've spent my fear to be.

to interrupt, spotlight's back to you. Can I retract now and be used as like a weapon? Is that a thing? I haven't. You can use your weapon. You can be all of them. You can be a weapon. I do have a good weapon.

I do have a good weapon. I just panic. And look, you're great. You're great. You can do it. Oh goodness. I haven't fun in quite some time. As this thing calls me a beast, by turn,

and I square up and I essentially do the same battle cry that I did at the bird to them, which is essentially spent three hope to intimidate a target within close range, making them temporarily vulnerable. And I'm gonna, and can I, because I've got six hope here, can I do this twice to do it on both of them?

If you want to. Yeah, I'm going to basically do it on both of them as I scream, with pure rage at them. I'll use this marker here to contact them both being made temporarily vulnerable. So what does vulnerability mean?

Temal vulnerable means attacks against them have advantage. Great. So as they come rushing down the stairs towards you shouting as you turn around and describe to me how you terrified. So yeah, they just shout beast and have their whole spiel

and I just kind of, as I was running I was kind of running as a bumbling sort of, you know, big thing, but as soon as I hear Beast, my back sort of comes up and my head turns, almost like dislocating. And as I, like, as the head turns, my body just follows afterwards, like the fucking Terminator I am. And I just, like, scream at them, spittle and spores just coming out of my mouth. It shakes the stone, and all of you hear this. And something inside your fighter flight trigger is even just being present. Even though you know it's a friend that you can't fight that primal reaction.

Both of them kind of like, even Petra, with her tome out in front, with the various holy edicts of Geria, right in front of her, goes like, Stop then! I'm going to charge and attack her. Let's go. Can I mark a stress and do my umbral veil? You can when it comes to your spotlight. So let him finish his go and then we'll get a chair. I'll say sure, go ahead and do it. Okay, thanks. I'll let you do it.

I'm going to say that I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to use my knuckle blades, so my knuckle blades are on. Let's go. Let's go. And that is a crit. Oh my God! How many die do I roll here? 2D10s. So you roll 2D10 and then add 20 to it. Okay, cool. Right. Is it that D10?

Where's my D10? Here it is. Is this a D10? Yes. Oh, wait, that's an eight. Here's a 10. Oh, brilliant. Okay, so one, nine, seven.

So 16 plus four, plus three is 23. And then I roll six, right? Right? Well, two, ten plus number, and then you add 20 to it. Oh shit. Yeah. 43 damage.

Yeah. Holy crap. That cross. Sorry, that was with hope, by the way. Oh, no, there's a crit. So yeah, go on. Get a hope, clear stress. That definitely crosses Petra's severe threshold.

So Petra marks three hit points, even though she is heavily armored, which doesn't really help in this instance. So as you just go wild, like, are you, this is just like punch after punch after pun. Petra's like, like, pushed onto the stairs and it's like trying to resist. The other Templars, like, so shocked by the ferocity of this,

doesn't even think to try and intercede and Petra just like, ugh, eventually gets her foot up between the two of you and kicks you off and you gotta back, the beast is there, she gets back up, kind of flexes herself. There are massive dents and gashes in the armor, and you can see like,

Wollon shoulder, the Tome is kind of hanging a little lower. There's a bit of breath to her. That was a nasty start. Amazing, cool. Spotlight's still on you all. So yeah, yeah, do you on move, yeah. Yeah, I'm available, and then I'm gonna,

Mark another stress and I'm gonna hex the guard that's in front of us. You got us. Do you need a hope for that or do you- No, I'm good. I just mark a stress for that one. Fantastic. And then I guess I'm just gonna hit him with voice of dread. No, I'm gonna attack him with my staff. Let's go. All right. Okay, uh.

12? 12? With hope? Unfortunately misses. You gain a hope, but as you try and get your staff ready, you fire right towards it, but it puts the shield up and just blasts across it with no impact. You see the symbol of the open hand of Jureta on the front and just pulls it down. The skull part of the helmet kind of peaking over the edge, keeping itself in a defensive pace as it gets its mace kind of swung up.

All right, so since that was a failure, it's spotlight. Oh, no, it was a hope. I was like, no. From Bowen, or no? That was one. One, two. Oh, it needs to be three. It needs to be three.

Okay, gotcha. Three, two, one, and then it must be zero. I'm so sorry. It was a hold, though. So it was a hold. Correct? It took down twice, technically, because they both rolled. Oh, whenever they do.

Okay, great. I guess what it says in the sheet, right? It says when they miss an attack. Oh, they miss an attack. Oh, sorry. So it was just down once. So it should be a two right now. Good.

So with that, okay, Petra is going to activate. Uh-uh. I'm going to spend a fear. Keep using those. She's going to, she's like, what you do. I should have known. I saw the corruption in you are when you walked in. Time and time again, I'm proven right.

Oh, I hear. Jereida, we'll smite you down! She raises her blade up, like, begins to speak this edict from her tome. The blade ignites with white fire and is going to attempt to smite the heretic. That's going to be 13? Oh, minor. Well, 13 to hit you. Oh, 13 to hit me? To hit me?

Yes. Oh yeah, no, it's gonna, yeah, that hits. Okay. That will be, oh, those five's gonna be 23, but it doubles the damage. You take 46 points of- Why is it double? Magic damage.

Because I'm, is it because I'm reanimated? No, it just has the ability, this smite action, if it hits, it does double damage. What's you that? Okay, all right, cool, that's fine. Can I spend an armor to resist to knock it down by... I'm gonna knock it down my line.

Yes. What's your threshold? My threshold is like 13 to 29. 29, so it does not double your severe. So you only take three hit points, so you can knock it down to two. Yeah, so knock it down to two, yeah. And then I don't forget about your... Oh, can I do both?

Can I do the talisman and an armor? So the talisman does what specifically... It takes away one of the hit points that you get hit with. And he's got three uses of that. Yeah. So you could mark... So I can mark that one and do my armor as well. Yeah, so it's just one hit points.

Yeah, just one. Yeah. There you go. Oh, great. Incredible. Okay. Fantastic. I'm gonna spend another fear to, let's see here.

I'm going to, all these guys here are gonna move in to try and block up in space. Oh, no. There's four of them? Three and the fourth and the... Oh, no. Two more come in. What? No.

Oh, we've got to jump out a window. Right? It's a straight draw. It's a strike run. Okay, I've go. There's more now. Jesus Christ. Okay, I've got.

We're gonna get all hundred and something Templars coming in here after us. We're gonna have to put up the pyre. Dude, I have another shot. It's gonna have to be the magna. Maybe we'll rush in. Maybe we do run for the two openings. We'd go to the barracks and the crypt.

Oh, and split up? This one here, that was hexed, is gonna go ahead. Maybe somebody jumps out the window with the fucking wings. You have the wings. Don't you? Don't you? Yeah! You can jump out the window, though.

If you're like fucking surrounded, run and jump out the window. No, I'm not gonna... That's crazy! No! No, we got these guys. Don't worry, don't want it. We can't get us. We have this one here.

It's gonna shift around this one. Oh, no. Don't walk him in. The other side looking around the shield, and is going to go ahead and use its shield bash. It's going to mark a stress to make Amelia Roll against you. That does hit. does hit, oh sorry, that's a melee roll.

You have to make a strength reaction roll contesting it. Okay, cool. It rolled a 17. Old of 17. Yeah, that doesn't beat it. I got 14. Okay. You take more. Six points of physical damage.

Okay. And you get pushed up to, you get pushed close range this way. Oh. Cool. That's fine. I got this. All right.

That's my spotlight. It's back to those of you who haven't gone yet. Okay. I think I hear your struggle that's happening out here, especially since your scream and then the eruption of white fire. And I'm going to look at you all and say, it looks like you have a grasp on the situation. We'll figure it out. I dissipate in sand and shadow. And I will move right here to get a shot. All right. As I use my, yeah, order of specter.

Yeah. I, yeah, as I like, move through this. You see me like, you look out the window. I don't have the glider. Bye! I line up a shot and my tube starts a pulse as it literally rips out my life essence itself

as I'll use my crimson right ability, marking a hit point. Great. That'll get me a trigger on Let's see, on my power through pain, I'll put a blood token there. As now I'll add an extra D1D6 as I siphon my lifeblood. Extra 1D6, when you have damage increase, tier 3, or tier 2. Okay.

I'm going to, because you messed up the main paladin, I'm going to take a shot at her from here. And I don't get disadvantaged because no one's in Marshall. So, can I? For your close range, which is the far distance there, you do not have line of sight on 4th, I don't think. Okay. You can hit the other night if you like.

But you could scooch over, you could move over one square. Or did I use my movement? That was, I mean, if you want to make that agility rule. No shot, no. I want to be smart. I don't think it's worth it because then he'll be able to. Yeah, he's vulnerable. I will take a shot over at this guy.

That's with an extra 1D6 on the attack roll. Correct. Got it. That is going to be 20, yeah, 22. With fear. With fear. But 22.

That definitely hits. Go ahead and roll damage. All right, second. We'll roll this guy and this guy and this guy. And I'll use a blood token. I'll take it off to add an extra D6 of this attack. As I take a shot at this guy here. Holy moly.

31 damage as I take a shot as I siphon this arcane crackling energy. Yeah. Mercy, pretty much you see yourself backed again this wall. You're feeling good. But all of a sudden, you see as this guy like slams his... Weapon against his shield, just a pulse of arcane lightning shoots into his back for 31 damage. That is a severe wound. You blast into it. Heavily armored, but an enchanted, like, blood magic bullet rips through the paldron.

The spatter of their own blood across the stonework. Severe wound on that exemplar knight who turns around and sees you, like the dust still forming after you had transitioned through, kind of like the spectral aspect just finally coming in. The gun and the torso hitting first. Looks back, just see the rest, and goes, and just further cementing what they should have thought you were.

However, it does come back to me at this point. With this, I'm going to go ahead and activate Petra once more, who's going to go ahead and charge in... And it's going to spend another fear to try and like, You must stay down! And it's gonna try and swing back hand to you with the blade. Natural 17, it's a plus year, it's 20. Not a crap, but at a 20.

Spend another fear on this to have been the, or no, I already spent the fear, it was just the activation that I got, so I keep that. So this is going to be 38 points of magic damage. Spend another, I'm gonna spend another charge. Every time he hits just double now. I have to spend a fear to do it. And you've got a lot of fucking fear right there, bro.

I was holding them for a bit. Yep, all right, that's fine. That's all good. So you could spend another armor. You could also use another. Yeah, I just did that. All right. I'm going to spend another fear to activate the,

let's see, activate this fellow who's going to push in through on this end. Get out of here, fella. And is going to Shield bash. Oh, don't hit Bowen. Okay. No, it's going to shield bash you. Oh.

How about it? That's a natural 19. Fuck. Plus two. It's 21. I need you to roll a strength reaction roll and beat it 21. What's your shield? Oh my God.

I mean, show is an attack or damage, it said. It's Marcus, when LA is within very close range would take damage, you can mark a stress to stand in the way. Okay. So yeah, you can do that if you want to. You want to mark a stress and pick it? Okay, okay, mark of stress, margousress. So I see this night coming in with the shield, and I take a step, put my back up right in front of you,

and take the hit. All right, so I need you to make a strength reaction roll then, because you don't, you see the shield coming in, and in the moment you try and feel in for it, you watch a turtle shape get in the way. It is nine plus eight, it is, plus eight is, thank you with hope. Well, reaction will, we don't get a hope.

No, just dang it. But it's strange. But it's 10. So 20? Yeah. I has a 20. 20? Wait, 17.

18. Thank you. Unfortunately, that's a failure. Dang it! What? No! No, can you use a? Can I use something?

Comforting. A little something, XP? No, but I have to use it. Before I have to say it. Dang it. Take 12 points of physical damage. It's right. Me.

It's right. Oh, no. 12. Tobama does. And you get bashed. But I'm just going to do a... And you get bashed back into the chamber from the shield. And you get shoved back behind the other soldiers.

And now there is a line of soldiers between you and the others. You could go out the doors. Yeah, run. Run! Run! No, no, no, no, no. I'm staying. I'm staying.

And I'm going to spend... I'm gonna spend one more fear to have this one charge in. No. No, not mercy. And going to, right now, you have made them both terrified and focused. Great. All right. I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm rolling really good. Actually, I'm gonna say 21 to hit you.

How are you looking? I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I believe you on that. Okay. I mean, now this guy just double fucking damage. He does not. 20 points of physical damage, are you? Okay, that's good, that's fine.

I'm gonna take an armor and reduce that to one. Alrighty, that's gonna finish my spotlight. It's back to you. Right, okay, so first I'm gonna use my Rangers' focus. Take a hope, and then make an attack on. Right, who have we got here? Where am I? You are right there.

Right there. I'm gonna just like hop over sister and just get to the other side of the room, so I just got a bit more distance. Yeah, on the bed, fine. And then I'm going to attack the man with the ring on it. Go for it. Great. I'm going to go for just a good old pew-poole. I forget about your ability as well. Yeah. Yeah, a special magic ability where you can hit more than one people. Oh yeah, no, no, right, yeah, my vicious entangle with that one. That one. Or there's also the volley from the arrow.

Yeah, the volley. Oh, yeah, spend hope to target a group of creatures. They take half damage, but I kind of want to get full damage. I want to like get rid of him. Fair. So great. I'll roll. Yeah, go for it.

Am I doing, is it agility as well? If it's with your arrow, it's agility, yeah. It's agility, so that's 20 with hope. 20 with hope. That definitely hits. Go ahead and roll damage. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes.

All right, it is going to mark a stress to use faithful shield. So when we're hit by an attack, it can mark a stress to have physical resistance against the attack, so it takes half damage from the impact as the shield takes the brunt of it. Let's go ahead and roll. Right, so quit. Oh, well, for the damage.

The damage? For the damage. Okay, so the total in that is... Oh, right, okay. It's, uh, oh yeah, no, it's not a crit, is it? Damage! I'm so excited! Um, so it's 12, 12 plus, uh, six.

is 18, and you've got to mark a stress. And he has a mark of stress? Good to know. That stress is helping and giving resistance. So 18, that is going to be a major wound. So he marks two hit points. So the shield deflects some of it, and like lodges in the helmet

and actually like carves into part of his forehead. He's like, ugh, knows with hope, so the spotlight's still back to you all. I am inspired but what is happening right now. After hearing Mercy's war cry, savage cry, seeing Alphonse splitting, dissipate. Fuck off and run. The gunshot like that.

I know I am terrified of my own magic, but I am in front of three opponents right now, so I'm going to use my divine wielder spellcast and lift my quarterstaff and hope that it windmills and hits all of them. All of them. Amazing. So I first gotta do this thing.

And before I go, oh, oh, oh. I am so terrified, but I'm just comforting on myself for a plus two. Sure, use that hope and give you some plus two. Let's roll. Okay, oh God, it's, okay, I'm using my hope. Let me just make sure I got this and then I have to do math because I can't do everything at the same time.

Nine plus four is 13, plus two is 15. Thank you. And my strength is one. So 16. 16 with? But it is with your quarter stuff? With my quarter stuff, yeah. It's an instinct. Oh, it's an instinct for it? Oh, it's a two. Oh, it's 17. All right, with. It is with fear.

Okay. But that is a success against, it's an additional target or all, what's it say for the? I'm going to mark a stress so I can do an additional targets. Great. We're in the range. And I'm pretty sure I'm close to point. Oh, yeah. That hit, Two of them, to go ahead and roll damage.

Sweet, we're 10. This, two D10. Two D10. Two D-10. Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and do that. Plus six. Yeah. It is a nine and a four, so.

Nineteen total. Beautiful. 19 total? You, describe to me how you let the staff roll free and knock out two of these exemplar recruits. Okay, beautiful. I take a deep breath in. Close my eyes.

Live my core staff. and then just throw it at it and hope for the best. You close your eyes and you hear, and you catch it and look up, and there's just two bodies unconscious and the other guards with their palms going, do they really go unconscious with those hits? Yeah, these are minions.

Bless! Oh, goodness. It's unusual, right? It is a few. If you want to stay put, do you want to try and move anywhere? Do I, can I try more? There are soldiers right in the way. You could try and push past if you want to.

Actually, no, because you just roll with fears. Yeah, so I was like, can I do that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. But if I roll with fear, I can do one of these guys. Yay! That's true. Oh, no.

They're all going to, oh, actually on that, the reinforcements countdown finishes. Two more of these soldiers. What is this reinforcement count down that we're not communicated to? Killing everyone. But we may have to do it. So these all move in here around you.

Oh, no. So I'm going to go ahead and spend a fear to group attack with them. Excuse me. So all these minions rush in. Excuse me. In a room spotlight, all recruits within close range of you. Those minions move into melee range with you, but they have pole arms. They can go with them very close.

And with that, I'm going to roll to attack and see if I hit you. That is going to be... 10. Can I do I'm a seven, but I can't use a shield on myself, right? No, you can not unfortunately. Well, I guess I'm gonna take a hit. Okay, so they each deal four damage that adds up. So it's four, eight, twelve, sixteen, twenty,

twenty points of physical damage. That's okay, I can use an armor, so I'll be fine. Nothing hits me. Oh, well, no, you know, it does. You take one. Yeah, you take one. Mark the arm. If you mark the arm, yeah.

Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it, got it, got it. Great. I'm going to go ahead and spend a fear to, and these guys also move forward over here. Oh, come on. That's part of that activation there.

They all move in to try and swarm in. I'm going to activate Archon Petra, who's going to mark a stress. Right. To force a for, say, forgerado. I'll say, Forgera! To spotlight 1D4 plus one allies. That's gonna be three plus one, so four.

So the other knight and these three soldiers are all going to rush in here to just push you in the corner and they're just like jamming and treating you like the beast they called you. Oh, man. In a very frustrating, familiar display. So with this, the,

The one, one, well, I want to say the three recruits come in to stab. There's three of them. Very close range. That's the 16. Yep. It hits. You take four points of physical damage. Okay. Four points, yeah? Correct. Okay, cool. The next one. 20, not a natural 20, but 19 plus one. Another four points of physical damage. Okay. These are separate each. I'm going to take my thing down there and then there's nothing. Last one is a natural 20, but it only does eight damage, since there are minions. Right. I'm gonna take another one there so it doesn't do anything.

Okay, cool, that's fine. Okay. You're talismans. Yeah, all my talismans finished. And then now the exemplar knight is gonna go ahead and attempt to smash you with its mace. What the fuck? That's gonna be a 16 to hit.

Okay. This deals, uh, one. Can't get out of here. 18, 18 points of physical damage against you, as it just rallies forward with its mace and scrapes it right across your shoulder and torso. Yeah, you can see I'm pretty fucked.

I'm like my arm that I just worked up is hanging. My jaw is like dislocated. No. Yeah. Taitra's gonna go ahead and start shifting back, feeling this is comfortable and confident and start to find the others. That's gonna finish my spotlight.

I'm, we go on. You want tag team it? Yeah. Great. Yeah, let's do it. That's fucking good. But now Petra's out of your range, right? But I can run up to her.

Is that a- Yeah, she'll move close range. So you, yeah, I know she left the gap. She was like stepped away and was like, they got this. Watching you like be hurt and bluddyed and it's not gonna go try and turn the corner and there's just enough of a gap. I say the soldiers start closing in,

but you can like push past and make the rest of that space for you. That's one I'm gonna do. I'm gonna charge in. Yeah, as she turns on and like, starts walking, she just sees the barrel of my gun pointed at her. Actually, here's- There's an interesting point of order. The exemplar knight has an ability, a reaction called,

You're Going Nowhere. When a PC attempts to leave very close range, they have to succeed on a strength reaction roll. Okay, cool, that's right. What am I beating? Uh, 14. Okay. Great, I beat that, 16.

Woo! Oh, man. The other night pulls forward with its shield and you just, describe to me how you knock this. So as they pull force with the shield, My loose arm just sort of like, I use my momentum to just smack them in the face. It just kind of as I kind of run and charge at them as we tag team. Yeah.

This fucking annoying. Dumbass! Let's go. Yeah, as like I pull the hammer back, you're like winding up to punch. Are they vulnerable? They are. They haven't dropped it yet. So you both get out of D6 to it. Why crit?

That's the tag team's about. So with that, you both quit. You both get a hope, you both clear a stress. Great. Yes. This is my day. I spent the three hopes, so I'll mark that and I'll get another hope, and then clear stress.

And then both of you roll your crit damage, which is max damage plus your die. And then we add that together. So going down, bitch. Oh my God, okay. One ten. 19, I get a roll an additional die when I roll max on that. 4, so 23 plus 20, so that's 43 plus 750.

Cool, 50 points of damage. 48 damage. That definitely doubles Petra's severe. However, Petra is heavily armored, so when they take physical damage, I reduce it by 3. It's just by three. Okay. Oh my God. So it's three last damage.

Still way past her. So she marks four hit points. Yes. Petra's looking wrecked. So describe to me how you both combine this attack on the exemplar archon. So as I kind of whack this person by, I'm running towards Petra knowing that she's going towards your direction. and I kind of clock eyes with you. As I see you just get this thing ready,

and I just like push her towards the... using my, what you call it, overwhelm ability, to push her closer to you. Yeah, you literally see as like the life force from the bottom tubing of my legs. Literally travel around my body as arcane lightning begins to swarm around, and I will say, tell Jaredaya we sent you.

Oh, shoot. The impact, Petra, like, Here's the, she wasn't expecting from behind, tries to turn back before, pivv, gets tossed to the air. Like, the arm goes wide with the blade, the tome goes wide, and it's just a straight shot of the breastplate.

As you, red lighting arcs around and pitch, like rolls on the ground, and it's like, you hear a coughing, but the mask is in front, and so instead red just dribbles from underneath that. Oh, I love it. She gets up on one.

knee and like holds the to her chest where the wound is just this, the armor is impacted inward. And you can see blood just drizzling out of the gunshot wound. Right. Guys, can I take this one shot in again? Yes, yeah, yeah. As I see this, I see her go down to me. I'm going to spend a fear. Ah!

That's what I can do. Uh, Petra. Petra, Petra, God's preserve us. And he's going to look up and clutch the to tomb there. there, she's going to mark a stress to clear a total of 1d4 plus one hit points on herself or any allies in very close range, only three, so she clears three hit points. Oh, my gosh, she can't really do that once.

Yeah. She's marked three stress, and it costs of stress to do that. And so with that, she's going to turn and shift it this way beyond the wall to try and get out of the range of your gun, but keep locked in on you. That's gonna end that. I'm gonna keep those two fear for now. Who wants to take the spot? I'm gonna go, go, go again.

Go to go, go, go, come on, come on, I'm pissed. I do, oh fuck, that's not enough. Seven, uh, uh, 10, it's with hope though, so we can still keep going. So seven. No, if we fail. There it goes back. But can I use hope to like, can I use hope?

It's too late to use hope now. Yeah, unfortunately. Oh. I should have out. I gave it. Yeah, we should have done it. Oh, yeah. I've only got, it's 13.

13, unfortunately, does not. No! You rush over to try and finish this, as you watch Petra, like, magically mending her wounds with some sort of innate divine energy. One of the relics of the old world still remains, whether it be from in her or something she carries.

As this glittering light kind of flows through the wounds and through her eyes, you rush up to punch, and that renewed invigoration, she holds up the toome and deflect your blow with the book. And with that, she's gonna go ahead and take the next activation. I'm gonna spend a fear. Spotlight, what I'm gonna have?

Almost out of fear. To smite the heretic on you. No. That's gonna be 12. You have the thing, right? You can lower it, right? Don't you have the thing you can roll it with a D4? What did you mean?

Ranged attacks. Oh, is it right? Oh, yeah. So it hits. Okay. Go on. Come on. Sorry.

That's what we do. So with that. Oh no. That's okay. Two, that's me 32, 34 points of magic damage. Oh, dude. Explain to me something here. Okay, okay.

What does risk at all mean? Okay. Oh, are you, have you marked your last 10 point? Yeah. So friends, hold on, so friends. No! So now we're going to get to death moves. No, not now.

As Mercy has, mercy has hit the threshold, you have three choices. You have three choices. You have blaze of glory, which means you immediately choose an action in the moment that's an automatic critical success, and then you're dead. Or you could go unconscious. You could just choose to, it's called, avoid death and face the consequences. You go unconscious until you're healed, or the scene ends and you get brought to a long rest. I get to describe how the situation worsens with your first. You get to describe how the situation worsens with your fall and you roll your hope die to see if you might take a scar, which is a permanent loss of a hope. We'd have to defeat everybody in this room in order to... Correct. Or risk it all. You roll your hope and fear die.

If the hope die is higher, whatever number you roll, you get to distribute amongst, you get to clear that many hit points or stress up to that number. If your fear die is higher, you're dead. I'm risking it. No! No! Just go down! We're still a chance! Want to roll it up here?

Keep it on the table. I'm doing it. Oh my God. No, no. Oh, my God, my, right, right, right. So that's my fear dies higher. However, what you see as this strike hits me, the fungus grow, and I essentially use my won't stay dead trait as reanimated, and I can permanently mark a hit point off to succeed instead. Oh, my that's what that's as I kind of a thing.

As I kind of, as it kind of hits me, it tears my arm off. And from my arm just falling, suddenly you see this fungal growth just grow and this new arm forms. And I clear all of my hip points and look at her with fucking rage. And I'm like, yep, that's it. So come back. Minus one permanent hip points.

Yeah, minus one, but that's fine, baby. Let's fucking go. Holy, what? I'm holy creature. She is locked in. This is her heroic moment to bring down the most blasphemous entity that just walked in these sacred halls.

I was like, I want you. My heart rate is through the move. Right now, go. Oh my God. You're little shit. Spotlights back to you. Get her, get her. Fucking good.

Ready. Fuck yeah, 19. 18 hits. You gotta hit, that's it. That's it. Thank you. And because I've lost my arm, I'm gonna use I am the weapon here.

So I'm gonna initiate a combo. Okay, let's go. Can I give a hope? Unfortunately, you're a bit far away. Oh, but you already hit. You already hit. I've hit, I've hit. So I'm gonna use my 2D8 plus 1D8 plus 3.

And then I'm gonna roll some D6s for the combos. So that's six plus one, plus one. So that's eight, that's fine, plus three, so that's 11. Right, now we gotta roll some combos here. So remind me again, it's when it goes lower than the before not late.

Yeah. Yeah, so we are at 11. We're at, right, 16. Okay, 17. So 17, 18, 17, 17, 17, 17, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's 18 points of physical damage. That is over Petra's major threshold,

so she marks two hit points. Okay. So describe to me how you combo this already wounded Arcon of Oxidus. So what happens is I kind of look at her and my already dead hand kind of grabs her head and my kind of new fungled hand starts just punching her chest where you shot her,

just kind of going in and like you can see marks of spores just leaving themselves in her as I, as they do. And now, because I've done this, with my juggernaut trait, I'm going to spend a hope to throw her into the group of, like, people over here. Over here? Yeah. Okay. As a whole. So, yeah, that's what I'm going to do. All right. So, you toss her, like, overhead as she crashes on the ground and gets back up around. Stop them! And, like, just shouts fury. Blood, like, spills from under. the scream itself, you can hear the gurgle of the damage that she sustained through the shout.

Now, that was with hope. So come on, guys. Let's go. Who wants to? If you guys want to move over here, otherwise I can take a shot at her. It's just up to. Take a shot at her.

All right, great. Unless we have buffs or anything you want to do. Well, I'm gonna do. He only has one fear, so. No, it's still, it's still a role. It's still a role. I know I was gonna do voice of dress. dread to like take one of the fears down.

Maybe when we get, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, I'll move close just so I can get line of sight. I think I can get line of sight from here. There you can. Yeah, and I will attempt to take a shot at her. Let's go. All right. Let's go, let's go, let's go. If Petra is down, like, the rest, I don't know. No, I don't know.

Maybe you can put your forehead against someone. Yeah! 17 to head. So many hits? Yes! Yes! Was it with hope or fear? Oh, it was with hope. It was with help. Yeah.

21 points of damage. 21 points of damage. How do you want to do that? Yes. Oh, my gosh. I, like, walk up and I go, it sounded cooler the first time. So describe how the bullet impacts and downs your opponent. Yeah, I think it's like you throw her as I,

walk through to see, expecting you to be dead, and to see instead not your body being thrown, but hers, and I see her get up and say just a few more spiteful words, before you feel this warm arcane energy on your arm as it illuminates past you and straight through her chest. There's just enough life in her to look down at the gaping, crackling red hole in the central, breastplate. The tome tumbles from her fingers, spayed on the ground. The blade kink, kink,

king. She goes to take a step before just full body face plant onto the ground. Yes. Let's go. My barrel's smoking. As you can see, like blood is dripping down my pant leg from using my own life to take her out. And then I will make eye contact with you. And I go, I don't know. Well, she did. Okay, let me see where I'm at, because I can't, I'm like, oh, so little. Okay, there's, oh, there's more. I'm gonna, oh, four?

Okay. That's crazy, I had no idea. What gave you that trait to? Because I'm reanimated. Oh, okay. So, wow. That's literally insane. Yeah.

It's so fucking wild. Oh my goodness. Okay, I look at you and I say, is she dead? Yeah! Ooh! And I, I grab my staff again. And it's better to use the Devine Wilder again. Devin, Devine.

The other said, Devine, Wilder again. I like to build Deveen. He's a good man. I look at all four of them. I can only hit two, right? You only hit two. Oh, goodness. I love the warm weapon.

Fuck it. I do it again, but this time I keep my eyes open. I use my comfort for just plus two, and I look at the two in front of me, right in front of the ones and the sides, whatever. And I just throw my stuff again, but I'm staring at them and really going for it. It is a...

A 16. A 16 plus instinct, which is 18, and it is with hope. Yeah! Alright, you'll take that hope. That's a success. I did. Yes. And now I gotta do the tens, which are over here,

and it's two of these plus six, which is a 16. 16 damage? Yes. The ones kind of far across from you just, just, pumple to the ground there. I'm so proud of my beautiful magic light, but I'm a little scared still, but yay! Fantastic.

You're going to go your bow, man. Come on. All right. So, I'm still with y'all. So I'm still got Rangers focus, so I'm still going to go for this guy. Let's go. And, yeah, I'm just going to go, p'l, p, p'o, p'o, but I'm going to do it with a little jump because I'm really excited. Okay.

It's a little way. Yeah, it's three with hope. Okay, well, you get out. Hey, okay. That's fine. Hey, that's fine. Hey, describe to me. how this fumbles.

So she's on the bed, she just kind of gets her little clawy feet, which they've got, like, she's got really long toenails. And they just kind of get, they kind of get caught in the duvet. She goes, she goes, and then kind of flips the blanket over herself.

And she ends up accidentally swaddling herself. And then as she's like trying to, trying to get herself free, like she just gets caught more because she's got really shot. thinking he was like she just bundled in a little blanket. Amazing. I have a trigger on Templar Bowen. I don't know if you take that priority or if I go.

You go. Okay. Yes, you're like freaking out in the corner. Like when a cat gets a cloth stuck. Yeah. You see Templar Bowen is already within melee of this guy. Yeah. Yeah, he's gonna, well, he's gonna use

smite the wicked. So that's what I've been counting down since we missed three or more times. He's gonna make an attack on this guy here. Let's go. Cool, all right, I'll roll for that. Do I... I roll for that here in this one.

Oh, perfect. Or you can roll a D20. Go roll D20. Oh, second, why not? It doesn't say it doesn't attack. It just says it deals 2D8 plus three, so I don't even... Oh, no, then it just doesn't.

Okay, so yeah. Am I rolling that or are you rolling that? You roll it. Second. I don't know if I have 2D8s, actually. I think I'll just roll it twice. That's true. Actually, I don't even think I have one at the moment.

I just appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah. Oh, eight. Plus three, 11. 11. That's an math. Plus, um, yeah, 14 damage altogether.

14 damage is its major threshold. That's two wounds on that night. That night is now, as bones sitting there, slams them from behind and is like, you always were against us, weren't you boy? And looks at the rest of you, the night kind of grins and goes, well, you might as you. Well, you might have your choice. Using off of your failure to activate that night, that night's going to go ahead and mark a stress to use shield bash.

To shield bash you, sister, that is going to be an 18. You have to make a strength reaction roll and beat an 18. Okay, he has to take a penalty to his damage rolls or difficulties. Okay, so that would be 16. Yeah. And I had to make a strength higher than 16? Right. Okay, can I use hope?

My hope? To up that? For the reaction roll, I'll out how you help. Okay. I'm so far away. I see the shield coming at you and I yell, watch out. Think of your sisters.

They're with you. Can I add a hope to that as well? If you'd like to, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm like underneath the vying, look at the door. So they're both warning you of the impending Shield badge. Tis four.

Tis also four. Okay. Thirteen. Unfortunately, that's a failure. I'm sorry, guys. So you take eight points of physical damage reduced by two, six points of physical damage to you. Six, okay.

And the shield bashes you into the window. Into the window. I would like you to make one more, I will say, strength or agility reaction rule. Can I hope? I think in this one, this is gonna be on the player. Okay, as I like break through the glass, can I use my experience of dust to dust for this?

Because I'm not afraid of death, so I'm calm in this moment. I'll allow it. Yes. The moment you face the possibility of that threat, you've thought of so many times and watched so many others pass. That clarity brings you a beat. Immediate focus. I thought of it. 14, plus 15.

That's a success. You fall backward. The rest of you watch as Sister just vanishes out the window. And this like, breath just leaves the lungs of those in the chamber. The rest of you hear the shattering of glass from across the different rooms. the different rooms, and then you watch as this mushroom cap lifts up. You climb up. You're still kind of like right on the ledge right there. But that's my spotlight. It's back to you. I've got loads of hope. Can I tag team with someone? Actually, good point. The reinforcements dice just ticked down. So another night appears, actually I've been appearing on this one here. A full night? A full night? A full one.

God, darn it. I'm starting to think that we need to figure a way out. Yes. They just move in, they don't actually activate. So still back on you guys. Can we send Badger to go and get the Rebel Knights? Is that a possibility? There's no.

Badger's asking everyone on the street. Ow, yeah. Can you back? Can I begin? I'm gonna begin running to let me see how many we got here yeah you said I took one hit point from that or two it would have been it was six points of physical damage so it's up to you if you want to reduce it does Bowen's ability reset or is only one it does it does reset resets I'm gonna yeah

I'm gonna run I'm gonna run and try and get into the room with my friends all right Make an agility roll to see if you can make that trek. Okay. Great. That's 19 with hope. With hope? Great. Like that. Yeah. 19, yeah, well, 21. That'll get you right about there. So you're like at a far run.

You move around the corner, come around, and you're just at the edge where you can see everyone in the room. Okay. There's the night right there. You see Sister is just like barely climbing up on the broken window ledge. You see Dillies over there tangled in the sheets. You see surrounded by a number of recruits and Templar.

is Kagwama is currently holding them off, oddly. So how far am I from that, from that guy over there, the night there? Very close. As I come up out of the window, are you going to run in and attack right now? Okay, great. Okay, great.

Essentially, yeah, I'm going to attack him, the night by the window, right? Okay. Oh, beautiful. 16, but not with hope. 16, 19. 19? That's success. Amazing. 2D10s.

These are, yeah. 7, 9, plus 4, 13, 16. 16 physical damage. 16 physical damage. That is past his major threshold. Actually, no, that's the wrong one. This takes him out. So what happens is,

is as I kind of see you climbing, I see like this guy, obviously looking in your direction. I put two and two together. Again, a rage just fills me, and I just charge and like hit him from the back. As I hit him from the back, I shout, dark, and I just, and I just, and it goes, boom,

it disappears into the night. Yeah. The wind and darkness takes him. And I kind of, yeah, look. back, but I did roll with fear, so. Great. Above the table, are we gonna try to run now? I mean, I think.

Should we try to run through this lower door? Yeah. I mean, if we can barrel through. Yeah. Yeah, could we use. All right, so this knight is gonna activate. He's gonna run past. Oh, come on.

To rush to avenge the Archon that you helped slaughter. And so with that, he's going to, yeah, he's gonna physically strike you with his mace. That's gonna be a 14 to hit? Oh, that hits. That hits. That hits. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

20 points of physical damage upon you as the mace cracks in your shoulder. I will take two. That's my major damage threshold. He's at 20, correct? I will get two blood tokens. And then, all righty, all of these. I'm gonna spend a fear to activate these folks here

that are going to charge in on Kukwama. All these are gonna move down over here to far. These all get up in charge and move down. Oh my gosh. Okay, well, fuck. Listen, can we just go? I'm out. I'm gonna be, I'm, I'm, I'm, I know he has that reaction to stop,

but I can use my ability to phase through it, hopefully not make it so he does that reaction. And then I can get far enough where I can move backwards and take a shot at him. So don't worry too much about me. Worry more about leaving or getting us set up so we can leave. Those ones they're going to make an attack on you, Kugamo.

Okay, okay. That's going to be only a six to hit, which I think missed. Oh, it does, it almost barely, but yes, it misses. All right, it's back to you all. Right, I've got vicious entangle, so I can restrain a target, and I wonder if I use that in tandem, because I've got three hope to spend. So can I, should I tag team with someone?

And we do something cool. You absolutely can if you want to. Yeah. Sure, I haven't done anything in a while. So I'm tag team together, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do it. Right, so, fish is entangled.

Make a spell cast roll. So, should roll first. Yeah, well, if you're both are doing this, you're spending three hope to do it, you both roll together. All right. Roll together. So what are you doing? I will do, my voice of dread,

I can only target one person, and if this is a group of people, I mean, either way. I'll just try to voice of dread so that we can run past, I'll try to voice of dread. Can I move forward and try to voice of dread the big guy in that group? as like she vicious and tangles the group with them. Yeah, you can do that.

Okay. Deft maneuver as far as I can. Great. Down the corridor. Without issue, you get up to that point, so you both have a clear view of everything in this chamber. Okay, right. 16, let's go with yours.

16 with? Fear. Thank you. Thank you. Don't thank you. They mark a stress. All right. And they're frozen and terror.

In their head, they hear just an explosion of screams similar to the terror that Templar Petra felt when she died. Ooh. They just hear the echo of her death wail after the, as the shot impacted on her chest, it just plays over and over again. It just like, ugh, kind of tries to shake it from their head. They are restrained. And... It says, make a spell.

A spellcast roll against a target within far range. So I'm gonna pick the two closest, why not? Actually, this is a take to me a mix. I'm gonna hold on that fear unless you decide to use her role. Oh, did you, what was your role? Is this tag team mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, mine.

So then make your roll. No, no, no, I made mine with the same time, yeah, and it was a powerful. Okay, fair enough. I didn't wanna talk about it, okay? So, go ahead and do the damage. So damage, it says, oh, is that my spellcast, That was my thing.

Okay, okay. So 1D8. There we go. That's a six plus one, so seven. Seven points physical damage to the target and who else? And on a success, I spend a hope, which I don't have. So just one.

Okay. But restraining the one. The big knight? Yeah. Great. Oh, well, he's already restrained. Another one. Another one.

Another one. Another one? Yeah. This one, the vines just crush and pull him down. Yeah, lie. Hi, bitch. He has a friend from that form. So it's a little bit of open there. Great. Great.

Coming back to me now. I'm going to go ahead and activate all of these guys. Oh, shit. We're going to. You'll also be the other guy's going on. You know what it's going. So many of them are knocking each other down. I know, right?

All right. This guy is still. They're going to there. Then there. Ugh. I can't get to you. They're going to make a group attack on you. I'm going to spend a fear to do so.

I can take all of you. One, two, three, four, five. Six of them coming at you at once, one attack roll. Okay, that's going to be 13. Hits. Okay. So that's four damage per. So that's 12.

28 points of physical damage as they all just rush in and just start spearing and stabbing towards you and you like feel the impact kind of surrounding you with blading. and points. Okay, I will use an armor slot, bring that down to major damage. Alrighty. I'm going to go ahead, spend it here.

Oh, yay. To activate the exemplar night in front of you, who watching, all stabbing with seats, and they pull back, and he sees his opening as you're, like, getting your gun ready and you look up, like, feeling the pain, and he has his mace in the air. It's his vengeance tonight for our archon.

He's going to swing wide towards you. That is going to be a 12. That just hits. Oh, pretty much, yeah. Well, yeah. All right, with this, that'll be 21 points of physical damage. Oh, great, okay. I will actually spend an armor and bring that down to minor.

So that was just, you said 21, right? Yeah. Yeah, so it was major, bring it down to minor. I'll take one HP. Fantastic. Dude. I want to try an unorthodox. I would like first be just because I don't have to roll for it to get that.

I want to just use an ability to phase out of existence and start running this way. Sure. I'll mark a stress. I will go, that was a good hit, and I'll phase into sand and shadow, and then I'll just try to be on the other side here, so I don't get this guy's reaction.

Sure. And then just move, or yeah, because it's close, right? Because as we said yesterday, just like, earlier. Cool, you can do whatever you need. I'm just, I'm curious because, like, there's this, like, big night, it's the only big one right now.

That one's still out, sort of alive. Dang it, maybe I should. Because I've, can I tag team? If you have the hope for you. I do, I have three hope. I'm on a tag team with you. Mm-hmm. And where are you?

Sorry. I'm right. Dillie is in the hallway right here next to sister and right behind you. Oh, perfect. I want you to fire at those, at that group of people there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who were attacking these guys here,

who were attacking over here. I haven't got any hope though. What to use your? To spend hope to target a group. Can I use my hope? Can we add? I can't use some. Oh, oh, oh, right.

Do you want to, do you want me? Never mind. No, use someone else that can do group of people. I don't know if anyone can. Oh, fuck. Well, wait, you can do them two. You can do two people. I have, I have, you can, I can, I don't know,

are you close enough to like, do, to like, swing me around? I mean, you're fucking bowling bowl? Yes! Yes! Let's do it! I love this idea. We can certainly try. Yes!

Okay, okay, okay. Okay. Okay. Right, so we're gonna tag team. We're gonna do this, yes. So I kind of look to you and you could sort of see this kind of, I like almost like telepathically try to try, like say like, retract and sort of go towards to grab you. I throw my quarter staff, I go in.

I grab the shell and I'm gonna roll to see if this even fucking happens. Supermour 64 is insane. Oh, okay. I was going to get it. Oh! I'm so glad because I was on the I was talking. I was about to say because technically

he is restrained and you were trying to throw Kaugama out, the exemplar knight would get it, you're going nowhere reaction, unless it was a crit. In which case, it's fine. Yes! It's fine. Let's go.

Is it awesome? Do we do the damage? I mean, yeah, sure, because I'm literally just going to try and You're trying to throw Kagwama down here and bowling bowl. Seriously. What's what I'll say. So you using this strength roll to throw you, I'm allowing you to do half of your damage to everything you succeed against that way, which may not as a crit you do. So I would say they all get a reaction roll to try and avoid it. Okay. So roll your damage.

Okay. Wait. Wait. It's a crick. Whoa. So you're doing max damage plus two dice. And these guys, right? But I would assume that Cushy hits them all.

hits them all, she would push, well, they would push them. Well, here's, so here's, so I'm gonna say. Yeah, they get the reaction rules. Those that are hit, get knocked out of very close range that way. And since a lot of their minions, it'll likely take them out. So we'll see. So roll damage. Okay.

It's a crit! It's another, oh, it doesn't matter. That's not damage. That's not your, these are your D20. These are 12s. Oh, where do I do? That's all good. Oh, got it.

Yeah, your staff damage, just go for it. That's all good. That's great, that's great, that's great. That's, that's 12, that's 12, and 6. And 6. Yeah. So. 38.

38. Oh, boy. All right, I'm gonna roll first for the exemplar night to see if it avoids it. It's only a plus, it's only a plus two on this. I'm gonna set this. Hmm. This is the fun, like making it up as we go. I'm gonna say with the crit, I'm gonna say with the crit,

need a 12 or higher to avoid. So for the exemplar, fail. Gone. Oh my goodness. Gold to death. This guy succeeds. This guy fails. Fails, I only get a plus one. Done. This guy. Fails. Done. That guy there. Yes. Succeeds. Oh, no, you're gone. That guy succeeds. All right. So you killed the exemplary. Please, how do you want to do this?

Describe to me how this looks as you get bold down the alleyway towards the cluster. I retract into my shell. I can feel mercy lifting me up. I can barely see a little bit through my little more. And I just like, whoo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-hoo. All the way through the hall. And I feel the big chunk of the exemplar,

like right as like it hits one of the spikes and just like rams into it. it. Ah, and I get out, and I pulled a chunk of the exemplar off me. And that chunk of the another night that didn't really matter. Oh, you can't see the adrenaline and Kagwama just like, oh. Most is they're like, yeah. Do they do okay? You're great.

So that, so I guess the spotlight still on us, right? because that was a crit with a role. Indeed, however, there's a lot of roles here on the reinforcement sty ticks down. How many of the importance do you have? A whole town. It's an entire tower. We need to get out.

We just need to get out. So should we run for this lower door? We don't know where that leads, but yeah. We just need to get out. We just need to get out. So I look to Bowen and again, and I kind of shout like, you know, where do we go?

I don't know. Maybe I'll follow. And he kind of runs past, I'll say, over here to try and lead you. The exemplar knight does get a chance to try and tell him, you're going nowhere and put his shield out there. So I need someone to roll for Bowen. Just roll a D20. Sure.

And I'll say, just roll a D20. Why did I do it? Why did I do it? Four. Unfortunately, Bowen gets knocked to the side and like, into the wall, and the shield is like push him against. This has become a pinching point at this point. Can I walk up to the night and just reach out

and grab his face and I'm gonna siphon his life force out? Let us pass. Go ahead and roll. Okay. Can I add an hope to that one? If you'd like to. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Help an ally, go for it.

O.D6. It's a five. 19 plus 5, 24. With hope. With hope. That's the success, let's go. All right, that's 2D12. We're on this.

We're on this. Oh, 25 points of magic damage. Ooh! That is two hit points on him, a major hit. So you heal, is it two marked, right? Is that how much? Yeah, but I don't have any hit points taken away right now. Oh, right, because mark and armor.

So you just hop off a little bit. It's a little treat just for you. Could I just like touch Bowen and just give a little love to him? Pass it on through. So he can... He's winded and... He's not fine, actually. He goes over his shoulder,

the back door there. That does tick down there. You hear other footsteps in the distance from the hallway behind him. Is he still restrained though? He is still restrained. Okay, great. So if they're coming from there,

I know, but they are also coming from both. We've got to like try to go and pass through quickly. I mean, jumping through the window is a stupid idea. Okay. It's a straight drop. I guess I know that, I threw you at the other side, so I'm gonna try and basically get their attention

to help you come past if that makes any sense. So I'm gonna get their attention so they don't keep picking at you if that makes sense. So can I do that? Sure. Okay, yeah, I'm gonna move to where I threw Kukwama. Yeah, you can get there, you can do a full run- Yeah, I'm gonna do that.

Let me do an agility. Uh, shit. Oh, we're finding you. Yeah. Uh, 12. 12? 12? Just out. Yeah. Weird.

No, that's the agility. Oh, that's right, yeah. No, that was succeed. I'm sorry, I bring out. No way. That's enough. You get the, you charge, can you close the distance? Yeah, so I'm going to now start striking at the fucking people.

Okay. Oh my god, shit. 14. 14 succeeds. Oh, shit, great. It's going to be the one at the front here of Cuamma. of Guamma. Yeah, he's a minion, so he just immediately gets smashed. You just, you just like reach forward and, right.

That was hoping. So I'm gonna roll one more time to clear that, just fucking hope this work. As you know, before I, before I do, get the fuck out of here. Yes. So you take your active. And I just move as far as I can possibly move

with my sweet little legs to the exit that we might be making. Make an agility roll for me to make the full distance there. Oh, sweet little guy. It's a 15. With? With hope. Okay, yeah.

Let's get that right. You get to that point? All righty. I just like make my way with my word. Sweet. I'm gonna go and attack another one of these guys. Alright. Because we're here.

Great. That's a 13. 13 hits. With fucking hope as well, people. Yes. Oh, I get to hope. I get to hope. Yeah, so I guess I'd roll a damage and it will.

Yeah. You were just just just, just, just, just, just, just, just, smashing each of these recruits as they come through. Does anyone else want to move? I will say, Mercy, we need to go! Okay.

The guy has been down, right? I mean, can... He is restrained at the moment, so he cannot move. Yeah, let's go, let's go. Let's go. Let's go, let's go. I'm gonna start then moving in that direction. This way?

Yeah. I'm not gonna roll agility, though, because I don't want to risk... A fear. Yeah, right? There? All right. You said they were pinned? Does that mean we can't move past these two?

There's a couple little minions at the end over here, right? And the bigger knight. What do we have over here? Well, we have over here. There's two of the recruits there, and then there is an exemplar. Who's restrained? It's restrained. It's restrained. Okay. I'm going to move as far as I can without an agility roll because I'm rolling so bad. And should I even try pew peopoeing or should I just?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I'm gonna do the, do the vicious entangle to stop them from moving. Let's go. I have a hope as well that I can use. Okay, great. Thank you.

Yes, I got you, I got you. Come on, just roll good. Three. No! She has the worst. Why? What is it? No, wait, that's just my spurt.

So, yeah, it's a nine with fit. Plus, plus three. Plus three, plus three, is that my agility on that one or is that just on the weapon, on the attack roll? Agility's still your spellcast, so. So yeah, okay, so nine plus three, 12, 15. 15 is a success with- Yes, see?

No, but I added a few years. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. You're using your vicious entangle, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, so. On the big guy here? No, because he's already restrained, so. One of these guys here? Yeah, the one closest to the door.

Yeah, he just gets enough. It crushes and pulls them to the ground. The space is opening here. All righty. That takes this down. Takes all the fucking recruit. All right, so on my turn, I'm going to go ahead and activate the restrained fellow. He is going to, well, this guy first.

He moves down and moves to the edge here down that way. That guy right there is going to go ahead and you're the one who's closest to him. That's a natural 20. Is that a crit? Does that mean it's a crit? That's a crit. For me, in natural training, is a critz. I'm your shield? Can I, can I, six, seven, eight? No, it would still.

Can I make it, I'm your shield? Am I close enough? No, but is that to reduce the... No, that's to reduce the... Oh, wait! He's not hexed. You are... I'm, say just within very close range if you want to I Am Your Shield. I am your shield.

I am your shield. They're striped in. That's a grid against you. It's okay. I think. Okay. I'm Marcus Tress. You take 40 points of physical damage. Oh, I can do stuff, right?

You can put armor, you still have the armor. You can spend any number of armor to reduce this because you used I'm your shield. Oh, yeah. Oh, really? What's the say on the card there? I'm your shield. When an ally within critical strange would take damage, you can mark a stress to stand in the way

and make yourself the target of the attack and set. When you take the damage for this attack, you can mark any, beautiful, any number of... So you don't have to take any hit points if you take all arm. Indeed. So I'm gonna go ahead and just, okay. One, two, and then, yeah, two, three. So you take two, three.

And that would give you no hit points. Incredible. Okay. Just negates a complete critical. Wow, that's incredible. Oh, I... lean on my staff. I get right in front of you.

And I feel the hard fucking attack on my shell, and it propels me forward, but I know I can take it. I know I can take it. I have a memory of you touching this flower and healing your hand, and I'm like, I know we got this, we got this, which keeps me there.

Oh, hopeful. The full hit impacts you, and you feel like the pain should find you, but it doesn't. You're made of hardier stuff than you even assumed you were at this age. Oh, yeah. Let's tag you here. Let's do it.

Yeah. Let's do it. As you're ducked in front of me, I'm looking at the eye and say, hit him back. Oh. And as you turn around, I'm going to rear back and hit him with my staff. The magic coming off my staff. Incredible.

Let's go. Yes, yes, yes. Ooh. What's nice. What you got? Wait, wait. That's 15. 15.

Okay, I have a bit more, but it is. No, I'm also with fear. Okay, great, amazing. So, mine, yeah. So it's 11 plus 8, which is 9. 19? 19. 19.

Plus 20. So 21? Amazing. Incredible. 21? With fear. That's a success. Go ahead and roll your damage and combine it.

Which is then with the tens, right? Yeah. Yeah. Sweet. Oh, no, that's a 10. And 14 plus 16, it's 20-something, right? That's 30. 14 plus 16 is.

Where would you have 16? You mean six, right? Plus six. 14 plus six is 20. And then I was, I was, I was, nine plus three is 12. So 32. 32 damage. That is beyond its severe threshold,

so it marks three more hit points. It is extremely hurt. Both of you just kind of blast from each side, it crumbles to one knee. And it's like, Well, that's the rest of you! And it's looking over, and you hear footfalls in the distance, but they're in the distance.

We gotta go. We gotta go. We gotta go. We gotta go. But we rolled with fear. At this point, he's going to angrily spin around and smash back into you. Since you're the one who keeps going to hit, this is going to be. No. Another 20. Oh, no.

It's the beacon die. It's on the beacon. It's right. It's right. Oh, no. You all been rolling with hope for a bit. It's about time to start my way. I don't have any.

All right. Fuck. Okay. 41 points of physical damage. That goes over my severe. Correct. So that's three. Okay, so I'm not doing so good.

It's right, sorry, sorry. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I'm going to spend a fear. Oh, man. To activate this vampire is going to rush back this way. Come to meet both of you on the other side of the chamber and is going to... Is he able to make attack after that?

He just ran full across there. Angrily. and I'm just gonna make a physical attack against you. Oh. Attack me, I've got such good invasion. Jesus Christ. No, are you going to get? No, I didn't.

No, it was in the correct. No, no. It was a natural lane team. The pendulum has heavily swung back in the other direction. It's a 21 to hit. Oh, yeah. All right, so for that you take from its mace. Yeah, and six.

15 points of physical damage from a heavy, whack, on the back of the shoulders. Oh, spend. an armor, get this freak away from me. Get this freak away from me. Can we, I got you, bro. I got you. I'm gonna hold on to that.

Let's go. I'm gonna drink a help potion. Yes, I got it. Yes, take an extra one from that, whatever you roll. Yeah, if you want. Of course I rolled up one. Why wouldn't I? So at least you can heal two.

Yep. I'm gonna- 19. 19 with? With hope. Great, that's a success. Roll damage. I'm gonna take this ivory moss.

Oh, wait, you're rolling action. Never mind. I thought we're doing so soon. I'm sorry. Are you attacking this guy? Yeah, I'm attacking that guy. Oh, okay. We're going to be hunted to the end of the waist, bro.

That's, uh, there's no way. Yeah, 20. No, we are the bad guys from season one. We are. We're going to flip down the side. Push him, push him away from us. Oh, great. Yeah.

Throw him that way. Oh, great. Really? Great. Great. A major hit on him. It falls back and hits the side of the wall. Cool. Picks himself back up. That was with hope.

So we can go. I think you and me without rolling agility, at least need to move close range. Can we do that? Is that fine? Yeah. We're gonna both move. We're gonna both move away. He's so close to dying this guy in front of me. Okay. Do we have any way of like guaranteeing a hit?

I mean, there's not like a, yeah, look out of roll. Just one hit. But before, but wait, before I'm gonna hand you the ivory moss that I and that way you can gain a hope because you've been so hopeless. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Great, so I am going to vicious entangle. And yeah, so I'm going to vicious entangle. And I'm going to go for that guy. Let's go. I would. No. What do you want me to do? I would use your bow

Do you reckon? Because if you, because you would, would she be able to hit all of them? You would. So because if you do. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. And if you hit, like, that will take them all out. Yeah, great, okay, I'm gonna do that. That's an aim for that guy right there.

Yeah. Let's go, make your attack rules. Spend that hope. As you fire a volley, I want you to just, well, first roll the attack. We are killing a lot of people. This whole room is like bodies. Yeah. This is like that scene from old boy, dude.

I've got a 13 with fear. 13 with fear. 13 is exactly what you need. It's the difficulty of the recruits. Amazing. And what is missed if you were firing on the exemplar? So this actually worked out well for you. Fantastic. And spending a hope to target a group. Yep. So yeah. So all of them take half damage. Do you have to spend that hope to use this ability? Yeah, that's the ability. Yeah, that's the ability. Okay. Okay. Okay. Oh, you added it all. Yeah, I added it. I added it. I understand. So how do you do it? So 13 against the group. So that would be taken us all of them. 14 just misses the exemplar, but it hits.

the other three, they all just get. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Nice. Nice. Thank you. Okay. Amazing.

All right, that was with fear. Fuck. It's good though, it's good. We're knocking them. We got to go. This guy over here who's like a strain still. I'm going to go ahead and have him try and finish the job. He's going to go after you go.

No. That's going to be 16 to hit. To hit? It's a, yeah, it hits. All right, with that, that is. 17s. 23 points of physical damage to you. It is, oh, it doesn't go past your major.

Yeah, so it's two. So it's two. But I am not doing so well. Am I allowed to retract into my shell? If you want to. Yes, I am going to retract into my shell. You can't move while you're doing it. I do not care. I cannot die.

I see, I see, I see. I'm withering, I can feel my muscles, my bones, everything is really aching, I'm really taking a hit. I know I cannot die. And as I see this exemplar coming at me, I just took myself in and protect myself until it's over. Oh, fuck! With that,

So you don't take any of them. I don't take a hit point. The drama has vanished into the shell and needs help to move. Okay, great. I can do some actions and I take a little disadvantage on my action roles, but I can't move. Yeah.

So you can still. I can still do other stuff, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because I just hit you. Yes, I just, yeah, yeah. I'll spend a fear. Activate him to rush forward if he's gonna make a strike at you.

Fine. How about it? That's gonna be a seven. It just swings and you're just like, jumping off the wall, dodging it, no issue. It's probably back to y'all. Are we just gonna try to kill this guy and run? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So do you wanna strike or should I? Should you or should I? I feel like you roll better than me. What's- I think for that sake, you should roll just to try and make up the difference. Sure, let's go. All right, so I'm, I'm just taking, all right. Okay, it's with hope, that's great.

Um, 11. 11. Buddy. That's what I said. I said you should do it. I wrote that. You did say that. Yeah, no, there's nothing.

No, I don't think there's anything I can do to. Great. But it is with hope. I'll take that hope. So take that hope as you fire. Unfortunately, you have so many people around you, and there's one guard who's still next to you, kind of slams into you as you have the gun ready, and it just kind of, restrained doesn't give like advantage at distance or anything. That's not, yeah, right. Comes back to me, this guy at the front.

Question, do I still hit? Do I still get the hit points from that first one? Or once I retract, the ones that you hit me are an old? No, the hit points, you take a ball. Okay, cool, cool, cool. But now I'm like, chill. Now you're in the show. Yeah, cool, cool.

He's gonna keep coming down on you. Oh, goodness. That is a six. Great. Oh, sweet, I'm good. And I'm gonna spend the fear to activate the other one from behind who is going to try and

attack you again. It's like swing as you're just going wild in the middle of this area. That's going to be a 13 to hit. It doesn't hit. What's your invasion? 14. Okay. I'm going to be pissed as I see them trying to strike Dilley, and I'm just going to go and fuck him up. Let's go.

You're fighting the one behind us? Yeah. Yeah. 15. 15 succeeds. There we go. Yeah. Hope or fear.

Was that with hope? That was with fear. But I don't give a fuck. This guy's not my friend, man. my friend, man. Oh, and that is 22. Oh, yeah. You smash his, that is.

That was the one in front of us? Okay. No, the one, yeah, the one was hidden Dilly. Yeah. Oh, wait, no. Oh, attacking Dilly, I'm sorry. So you smashed that guy as you move forward into that. Two, that's gonna be two more hit points on him.

He's looking to hurt. So I'm gonna use my overwhelm and I'm gonna throw him towards the window. Yes. Let's see the distance on that would be that'll get them right at the edge. I'm going to go ahead and make a D20 roll, plus two. Same thing, so it's going to be 12, so it needs a 10 or higher. Did he go over the window? Did you go out of the window?

Yes! Exile! Yes! Gone! That was with fear, though, so it's on you, man. Indeed it is. This one here is going to try. It's just angrily trying to carve through whatever is there.

It's going to try and come for you again. But can't I still get hit points? Is that the thing? Never mind. Yeah, I think it just improves your threshold. What's it say on it? It says that, retouched into my shell, while on my shell, you have resistance to physical damage.

So you take half damage. Oh, gotcha, gotcha, I was like, wait, hold up, like. It's 16 to hit you. It does hit. All right, so you would take, 15 plus 6, 21, reduced to half is 11. You take 11 points of physical damage. That's your final hit point.

Oh. My final hit point. That's fine. Fine, you're not. Just go unconscious. I'm not. I am unconscious. I am unconscious now.

You avoid death and face the consequence. Yes, I will face the consequence. Okay. So first, I need you to roll your hope die for me. Oh, goodness. Yeah. Just your hope die. 12.

Okay, so you do not mark a scar. But I want you to describe to me how the consequences worsen in this scenario. Tell me how you fall falling unconscious makes it difficult for everybody. Oh, this is horrible. I'm so... Sorry, what?

That's because everybody rolled for it. No reason. Okay, wait, where are we at? Where are we at? Right there. Okay, okay, okay. So I retract. I'm in my shell.

I can describe it if you don't want to. I'm in my shell. No, no, no. I'm terrified of what you're going to say. Because I've been in my shell for the longest time, and I know in my heart of hearts that I have been feeding hope and comfort into all of my peers around me. The fact that I am now unconscious gives all of them a sense of dread and sorrow and... And... And...

And... And guilt for... Keep adding. It's like, keep going. And that is, that's how it makes it worse. I love that. All of you take a stress. And you. Thank you.

I'm so sorry y'all. Nope, it's okay. It's good. As you see within the shell, the two arms of Guamma kind of loosely tumble out from the sides of the arm shell to connote that one of you is down. So, nevertheless, it's back to you. We have to kill this person.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna just push my staff into his chest and try to boom, boom. Go forward, well. Oh, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. Oh, the 16, 17. Yes.

17 is the success, yeah. Yes, yes, yes. Was it with hope of fifth? Oh, sorry. Sorry! What is that? 11 points of damage. 11 points of damage.

That is a minor wound. He has one. Oh, come on. Oh my gosh, enough. I thought he had gone and I left. I'm sorry, I thought he only had one. I did too. That's okay.

However, with that, the reinforcement styes goes down. No. Another one shuffles in from this. No. Fuck that guy. It's fine. Fuck him. I'm going to spend a fear to have this guy over here go again after you are on the ground unconscious

is going to turn now to you and just hope to the trend of him holding. He already sees in his face the legend that he's carved here as the sole exemplar who single-handedly held this hall That's going to be a 13 to hit? That I'm going to use three of these little gems, and he doesn't hit me. It goes to strike you and describe how your umbrel veil deflects this blow. The magic is going to swirl up from my staff and just shadow is going to envelop his eyes for the moment that he says. The thing goes wide for a second. He has to blink hard before it gets it out of his vision.

He has to push his fingers into his helmet to reach. That's my spotlight. He can barely see my face. see my face. It's just like that. We just need to kill this guy. Yeah. We've got to run. We're so dry and run. I can take a shot. You can take a shot. Anybody can take a shot. Go for it. Anyone wants to do. What do you want to do? Do you want me to? Is there enough? I'm going to just walk past him and let that space open for you guys. Is Bowen good? Like, can he move now? Is he pinned with this restrained guy? I thought that was the problem at first place. Bowen hasn't tried. If he, right now, he's not leaving the rest of you. Yeah. So if you want to tell him to move, he could try again. But

he still has a reaction to try and keep people here. So that's the reason. I'm gonna fucking go for this guy. I'm gonna go and strike him. Go for him. That's what I'm gonna do. Oh, come. Tuck, Tuck, Teng.

Bring it, mercy. The prayer dies. It's really unmerciful. Just slamming people. Great, that is with Hope 20. 20. Listen, listen, I'm one of them fucking blessed motherfuckers.

We're gonna just fucking do this. Call F. F. 8, 11, 15. 15. Yeah. How do you want to do this? Yes. As I see this guy, creating his own hero and legend of himself, my new fungal arm sort of reaches for his helmet.

And it's almost like my fingers are able to kind of bend in and just kind of stab his eyes. The arms just go limp. Like there, and I just kind of toss him away from us. And I'm like, look at you guys and like, we need to go. At the same time, should we start moving? Yes. So at this very moment, I'll say for the purposes of this, we've turned, this is turned into a chase.

As you don't have immediate people in front of you, you hear folks coming. Does anybody have a health potion? I've got a health question. You should give it to Kagwama, I guess. I got nothing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm giving you my house potion, babe. Can we just like pull Kagwama's head out of the shell and like... Are you using both or just one? Because I was already given... No, sorry, that was mine from earlier. I just gave you, yeah.

And we're going to pour this into the Kukwama's mouth. All right, so 1D4, go for it. Do you want to roll it? No, I'm rolling so badly. I'm not. Okay, plus one, so you get four hit points back. Okay, okay. Oh, goodness. Wow. Is there.

Sheld, dazed, as the rest of your friends around you, look at you, and there is a... I'm going to go. Okay. That's the hard gears of what I get up! Yeah! You're running like that? Yeah. That's so funny.

I want to do one last thing before we've run out of this room. I want to look. Are the body? The body's moving in the hallway. Oh, shit. No, why did you think about that? You don't see the movie. Right.

Go! Go! And then they'd run out into the rest of the fucking tower. Oh, we've doomed oxygen. No, I close in our eyes. Oh, we're bad. All right, you're now in the middle of a hallway split, and you can see this goes, there's two sets of stairs that head down.

One of them, footsteps are coming louder. The other one, you're unsoldier. If we don't hear footsteps from that area, we should go back. Yeah, we were going to go to the quiet. Yes. Well, we were leaving. Bowen said he had some place to bring us. Oh, that's true.

Yeah. So he's like, what? Follow me. And he starts charging down the other staircase, heading down. You all continue, and it's like this like spiral downward for about two floors. There's two stops. And as you kind of go past each floor rushing,

you can see other armored figures just running by, past hallways. You hear other shouts echoing through, and you can hear more footsteps and shots and shots. four foot precepts and shouts coming from below as you're going. Bones... How close are the Crips? The Crips? I don't think they've ever been to the Crips.

How close are they? About five minutes, I think. Let's go. And so you all continue to run. However, as you head down the stairs, a bunch of recruits are rushing up. Spears and small round shields on their side as they come up. shield from their side as they come up. What do you do?

Have you got no hope? None. Go into your shell? I know. I'm just like back in my shell retracting. Do you want to just push through them? Yeah, I want to kind of barge through them. All right, make a strength. Roll for me, please.

Okay. Is nine? With? Oh, that's with hope. Okay, so take a hope. Okay. You push forward and try and barrel through, but unfortunately, Unfortunately, they have, while you have the upper ground,

this is a tight space of like this downward spiral staircase, and you don't have, the momentum can go straight. So as you bash into one, they actually have about three people deep, and they push back and it kind of just holds in place. I need you to mark a stress for you. Oh, fuck. Can you... Could you throw Kukwama at them down the stage?

Yeah. I was gonna use, because I've got now enough hope to, because I keep fucking rolling with hope, just kind of square up and make them violent. Would that help? If you want to? Yeah. I'm gonna, so as I kind of like, as you see me sort of like crash into them, I can feel the resistance back and it kind of this flash of fear sort of hits me.

But at the same time, it's a fear of, that fear triggers this, again, savage nature of mine as I sort of scream at them and hope it just echoes to. down this hallway to these things. You bellow this roar outward and make a presence roll with advantage for me. Can I do hope on that one? You mean help an ally? Yeah. If you want to. Yes.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Three. I got a 19 with hope. Oh, sweet. Plus the three, so you're so fine, yeah. So the soldiers like shakily back up, back down the stairs to the next like open entryway and more or less like step out of the way terrified of you. All of you're going to push down and Bowen just shoulders forward saying,

come on. And as you all run past, you get about 20 feet before they go, Blasphemer! Heretics, this way! They went this way! Hi! Other shouts are happening and people are redirecting now to try and zero and wear that bellowing roar tore through the space. Continued run, and Bowen goes like, this way.

I think, yes. to lead you down a large curved, like marble hallway where they are statues in place of various different saints, various ordinance of the times past the apostasy, and you kind of push past one falls over and shatters in the ground, keep pushing past, curves around. Dude, we've started the plot of 28 days later. We have doomed this tower.

We've doomed so many people. You turn around to a large hallway of echoing marble, and you can see like, high, high archways with painted ceilings here. This, you come into like the small cathedral part of this tower, and he continues like, behind the pulpit this way. And he goes and running down,

and then like every footfall is a massive echo against the hard marble floor here. You push past and you can see that all these faces of ancient religious powers all looking down. Here in the place of judgment, no one smiles. All faces just glare. their eyes, no matter where you run, seem to be following you. As you spill across this mighty area, tripping and pushing as you can, you go past the

day as where there is a massive altar set up. You can see there, there is indeed a lowered staircase and a set of stone doors in front of you that Bowen rushes into is, the chained. Strengths. Yeah, I'm going to go to help kind of break this door. Go ahead and make a strength. I will use a hope to give you advantage. I will use a hope to also help you. All right, so all three of you go charging in at once, just shoulders at the ready, and boom. But that's like 20 of a 20?

Six. 26. You needed a 20 to break this with an impact. Oh, shit. This is a heavily chained entryway to a subterranean crypt. With one end, all three of you slam into it, and the chain splinters, the links of it, just go scattering down the staircase and down,

it's a lightless expanse below. It is just darkness. And Bowen kind of stops. Does anyone have any light? A torch. Yeah. You both ignite torches as you footfalls, getting louder and louder from around the area.

Shut the door. I'll shut the door. Yes. All right, you can decide, pull the door closed. The dual handles on the opposite side, but the chain is wrapped. The chain is broken. But the door is closed. There's no lock on.

Is there any broken? I have a rope. I have a rope. I have a rope. You have a rope. You see a ceiling. Yes, I have a ceiling. things and I can do the thing.

I would like you to make a finesse roll. You can add your sailor experience to it to see how strong of a knot this becomes. Oh, yes, it is, it is, oh yes, eight plus that. 14, 14, plus two, 16, and it's with hope. No, 17. 17. Fantastic.

So you hold it tight and you all go rushing down the stairs, Torch's out, bow and leads you down, and you realize that this, the reason this is closed off as your legs spooosh, spooosh, freezing, cold water reaches up to your waists. This is a flooded crypt. What? I guess because pre-Umbra, that maybe it got stored in there and then, I don't know. You see a lot of it is held off and there are like straps set up and bars to prevent people from going further. And looks like there are some tools like folks were coming through here. That stagnant water smell fills your nostrils as you kind of push through and bone goes, all right, where's the crypt? Where do we go?

Um. And you think back to the memory of this crypt and where this crack was, and you, everything had this kind of faint and blue filter to it, and you realize it's because it was underwater. Oh. And so, as, which I'm spending my fear to have made it. I also, by the way, sorry, I did roll with the fear on my one, so I don't know if you I know. I just spent it as part of that to make this sunken crypt.

Thank you. So as you start trudging through, you see it. There are numerous statues set throughout the space, all kind of facing the entryway, and you see there are stone tombs set up there. You glance around, and you see the one from your vision, from earlier, sister, and you all go rushing towards, schoosh, slush, and the water, like, as it, there's, like, steps down as it does. Some of you are getting up to your elbows. You are, like, now having to swim to keep up, and poor badgers just, like, clung to your shoulders, like, ha! I can swim! You all move through to get to the statue, and looking down, you can see the same marble tiles that you had in your vision, the vision of the past before.

As you're moving, you glance up and can see there's a crack in the skilling with water going to, dripping. There must have been some sort of a storage cistern higher up within this cathedral, and it broke or wore through to fill this space. But you have the marble beneath you. I'm gonna tap my staff on the, where it was. Got out. Oh my. You hear the impact of soldiers getting to the crypt doors. Mercy.

Trying to smash through. I am going to, so I like kind of wade through the water and you, I kind of, you point towards it. And instead of using my like, mushroom arm, I'm using my knuckle, my knuckle kind of blades. And I'm just going to see. just go to push and punch through this. This is a high difficulty on this. Can I use a hope to give him advantage and show him exactly where in my vision it was

that he needs to hit? And I'm gonna use a hope to use my savage experience as well. Very well. So that will be a plus two. Where is it? There's these two detours. I think I'm gonna use my prayer or dice. For something.

One second. Let me play. How high is the water up in here? Right now it's probably, it's up to your mid torso. So like it's gonna take, it's why it's so hard for it to break through right now. It's not impossible. Okay. You're morning at advantage, right?

Yeah. I'm using my prayer dice for an ally to add. To the total? To the total. Okay. Okay, we'll see what he rolls first. Fuck me, man. 16.

Plus two from me. Plus. 18. Four. Four. Twenty. Two. Twenty was indeed the decent. Wow. Yeah!

What the fuck, man. The doors slam open from above. You can hear people breaking through into the crypt. The rope held for a bit, but it wasn't quite strong enough to hold an entire ensemble of charging exemplars and recruits. At that same point, you've been slamming down to the wild waters, splashing. Heavily, all of you are soaked with this freezing water. The marble cracks, cracks inward. Cracks again.

Cracks, and you start washing the water. Begins to, like, filter in. You can feel the pull of it. You slam up one more time. It crumples, and when I say crumbles, I mean about 10 feet just gives in as all the water pulls you all towards this entrance. Like an ambassive whirlpool, you are sucked down

into a dark, lightless, Mediterranean ancient river space. Most terrifying black water slide as your torches are snuffed under the water. Voov, I need all of you to mark a stress. Yeah, yeah. Very stressful. Very stressful. Very stressful. There's the faintest bit of light ahead, this little point, this tiny little sliver, and you're all rocketing towards it. You hit it and it breaks. It shatters outward and you all go gliding out with the rest of the water. Where? How high? About 70 or so feet up. Oh, come on. I am going to. No, wait.

As I'm flying, I'm like, cumbling and I pull this fucking thing. No way we have to do it. Do it. Do it. It unfolds, and you hold on to it. All of you are trying to grab a hold. I need all of you to make an agility or finesse reaction roll. I'm going to do a 10.

Can you do that? A finesse. You can do that. With like both? I'm not vulnerable. Can I use dust to dust to get myself advantage? I'm going to call and cool right now. I'm going to use my prayer dice.

I'm going to use my prayer dice as well because I have one more time for that. for that. Come on. And so, fuck. I am so fucked. What else? I can use one of these. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Math. I am so fucked. It's an eight. Oh, God. What did you get? I rolled a 20 plus one, 21. Okay. I'm on 21 T.

18. All of you reach out and grab, hold onto the arms and legs of mercy as this massive contraption kite, like, the metal of the hinges kind of bend slightly at the pull of the weight, but it is gliding. And you just watch Kagwama. I go into my shell and just like.

Hold on. Can I? Unfortunately, you have two choices. Reach for Kagwama or hold on to this. If you let go, we all. It is rock and dust. Yeah. No, don't that guy.

Yeah, because then we all are. Wait. Oh, dang it, I did this too late. Yeah, if I let go, they're all full, right? Yeah. All of you do. Don't. Don't.

Don't. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. I think it'll be okay. I think it'll be okay. I love after all of that. We could have just jumped out.

We could have went out of the way. Yeah. I didn't think it would carry all of us. I didn't. I mean, we haven't even hit the bottom yet, so we're not even out of the clear. Oh, fine. So.

Oh shit. Kind of, never mind. You plummet, pull it into your shelf. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Crater impact, dust goes flying. You take as part of this. 45 points of physical band.

Oh! But it's half. It's half. It's half. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.

I still have a few left. I want to throw up. I actually want to throw up because I've been throwing a while. The rest of you just watch you know, Just watch Gnora vanish into this explosion of dust while you feel and the glider is lessening the descent, but it is snapping. It gets you down to about 30 or so feet before it snaps. Actually, you know, this is only fair. I'm going to make a fate roll. I need one of you to roll a fear die for me. Absolutely not. Someone else. I'll do it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. A volunteer tribute. 12. Is that good or bad? 12 is phenomenal. I told you! I'm not your BIR! I can't believe that.

It creaks, and you wait for the sound of a snap, and you look up and you can see a crack has formed. This is about to go, and it would break if you didn't brute force the structure together. So it did snap, but you are basically holding it together, with all the strength in your body, just willing it to go as you all.

Mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy. The impact in the dune, you all go spinning, ass over tea kettle, pf, pf, pf, pf, I need you all to mark another stress. So I take an HB from that. Since I- If you are fully stressed, if you do.

You all kind of look up, terrified to turn around and see the impact as you see this shape of an old withered turtle. Slowly climb out of an impact crater. And that's what we're gonna end. Oh, yeah. Oh, dude. We'll keep in with that.

Oh, no. Also, you're now level three. Oh, no. We'll figure that out. But yeah, we'll pick this up from there next time. Thank you so much for joining us. We love you very much, and is it Thursday, good night.

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