Dice Shame - 2-145 | 'Yak It Up'

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

Confronting the remaining Yak folk doesn't go exactly to plan as the party fights their way into Ironslag________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Imagine your best game of D&D. The shocks, the twists and turns, the moments that can’t be caught because you just had to be there. That’s Dice Shame.Join our DM Jo, her husband Harlan, their brother Alex & their friends Nic & Timm as they experience those unmissable, gut-wrenching, heart-aching, joy-filled moments.This legendary AP releases a brand new episode every Thursday morning at 1:20 am!Content Warning: animal death, swearing, violence, claustrophobiaPart of the Rusty Quill Network Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The loosing of the baboon. And where's when it? All bessie, not me. Dig deep, darned. You vindicated in the worst way possible. Gah! My spell! Not my spell. Wait, just walk me through it.

Just a little... It's a love hate. Blood all over my hands. Oh, no. Uh, that's on me. Because he's a baboon. Now where I stand. I'd say pretty clean.

I was going to show off at the end, but this makes more sense. Wow. Fuck yeah. Amazing. I hate how many sound effects you make me create. I'm so sorry. It's a love hate. Don't apologize.

Like all the plates on my arm are ripple. I'm like, It plays out several copyrighted tunes as it powers up. And then we want to you guys. Welcome back to Dyson. Shame. This is season two, episode 145. Yack it up. MVP, this week is Kell Banks. Kel's been hanging out with us in the Discord, and they say, I just caught up to all the episodes of Dice Shame. I am so addicted. Thank you so much for joining us, Kel. You are this

week's MVP. Hopefully it's a healthy addiction, like my addiction to Jackie. All right. Should we play some D&D? Yeah, let's do it. Ow! Woo-hoo! Okay, so the party is in the east side of the yak folk village, the smaller of the two sites, and you're all gathered around the mill hut, ready to set your planned into action. Throw yourselves down on the map where you want to be prior to the loosing of the baboon. The loosing of the baboon. I remember when Reds Rovers loosed the baboon for the first time.

Doran takes the position on the west side of the door, which I guess Tamil's taken the east side of the door. Yeah, fantastic. Perfect. Wim is on the rooftop of the datched hut just to the south of this main mill hut. And where is Witted? Unknown, up in the sky somewhere, he said. Ready to quote unquote light him up.

Ah. And Red, you're far to the south with your bird's eye view. Yep. I'm about 100 feet away. Beautiful, beautiful. Okay. We're beginning with a baboon loosing. Absolutely.

Baboon loosing. Yes. So the baboon kind of like lumberes over to one of the windows and then, you know, checks in with Tamil. Tamil's like making eye contact with everyone she can see. And if it looks like everybody's ready, she just goes, have that. And the baboon launches itself into the window and then just goes fucking nuts.

yeah absolutely I feel like there's a moment where the baboon is looking in the window and then we see a shot from inside of the hut where these captive elves are looking and they see the baboon and the baboon sees the elves and then the yak-pook sees the baboon and the baboon sees the yak-folk

and they all just share like a beat together and then it just like pounces through the side of the building like there's a shattering of wood We all don't really see what happens inside of the hut, but there are smashing sounds. There's some muffled screaming. Let's accentuate muffled.

Yes. Because I don't want to sound scrape all that. That's fair, that's fair. But I can do it behind a filter like a wall, like we hear from the outside. Yes, yes. Like that. Some muffled baboon screaming noises, some other people screaming, clattering, crashing of crockery falling and smashing on the ground, something wooden breaks.

And then the two doors on the south side of the building opened, and one of the yak folk appears chasing the baboon out of the hut. Everybody roll for initiative. Hey, what do we have to? I don't have my dad. I don't have my dad. I don't have my dad. I don't have my Nice with me. It's a D20. So this game uses D20. All right. Let's start with Mr.

Tim Woods. What did Witted get? Witted got an 18 because I roll with advantage thanks to my helm of awareness, aka the inside of Widdid's helmet, which is doing all of the Iron Man targeting computer stuff right now. Oh, I love that. Little calculations happening and trajectories being measured. Got a new nickname for your Wicked Witted. All Bessie.

not me um nick what did you roll for tamil tamil's a little distracted because she's suddenly filled with a little bit of doubt of like what does rafi actually want to do this uh i rolled a five okay whim rolled a six for her initiative harland what'd you get for red red rolled a 17 lovely red rolled a 17 oh my yes i can hear you get for doran uh six Fentagot. Do you want to go before Wim or after Wim? I will go before. Marlis?

Bad rolls. Five, six, six? Woof. We're just chilling. We're just taking our time. Do better. No need to rush. We got this.

You and I do. Look, Witted said, wait until I do a thing. And so, Tameel's like, I respect my party member. I'm just kidding. I guess he meant wait until I die until all the yaks go too. All right, guys. top of the round and happily, also based on what Witted had informed you earlier would be to everyone's advantage. Witted, you go first. As people are getting their attacks ready and the

yak folk are coming running out, you see Witted materialize in the air, about 30 feet in the air roughly, as long as that still lets me target the entrance right inside through the open doorway. with a fairy fire spell. Hell yeah. You see a, from out of one of his arms, it's changed into a cannon at some point and is launching kind of like a grenade launcher. It's like a kachunk motion.

This little grenade that's a glowing green ball, an orb almost. It seems solid, except it's spewing all this green energy as it lands in the midst of the first two yak folk. It detonates and green flames go everywhere. They don't get hurt at all. They're probably surprised it doesn't hurt, but it sticks to them,

and they have to make a dexterity saving throw. Hell yeah. Okay, wonderful. I've rolled an 11 and a 9. Here we go. Absolutely. So both of them are limed in these flames as your fairy fire takes effect.

What color of light do you like to outline your targets in? I'm going with green on this. It's kind of giving a, but a very neon, like, radioactive green. It's giving very, like, a chemical warfare analog kind of thing where he's just, like, douse them with this, and they're like, oh, it's not hurting us, but everyone now has advantage aiming at them. Wow.

We love it. Nice. We did irradiated them? Seems like an advantage to them. They'll either be easier to hit or develop superpowers, he says, as he shuts the helmet again. Hopefully it's not gamma radiation. Oh, they've hulked out.

It's growing stronger. Fantastic. 80s brand neon green. Yes. Great stuff. Red, your turn. Red pulls back any fires at the one in front with advantage. 23 to hit.

You hit. That is 15 damage. Nice. Excellent. To the first one. Mm-hmm. And Red will pull back and fire again. Yep.

Ooh, with a 24 to hit. You do? And because he's... Hit, I'm going to do Colossus Slayer damage. Oh, extra D8. This is actually a she, by the way. Oh. How dare you assume?

I don't know the difference. You can see her udders roiling from underneath. Okay. This is a family show, so. Something who's awakened in Redd. If you thought this is a family show, you'd be utterly disappointed. No. Oh, does.

That is 20 damage. Excellent. Yes. two arrows fly through the void between your position and this yak folk warrior, both of them sinking deeply into her chest as she staggers back, but stays standing. Blood trickling down, making a pool on the ground. Oh yeah, baby. Fantastic. Get them, Wim. Unfortunately, it's not Wim's turn. Fuck. And the Yack folk begin to act.

guys from within the hut you hear a scream oh see this is why I said we have to wait till they get out split no yes fuck that's what he warned us he said when it gets you know they usually just kill the prisoners oh man you see a dark shape from within the recesses of this hut move up to the doors and close them

behind the yak folk that is outside So the doors are now closed. I feel vindicated in the worst way possible. So you can no longer see what's going on inside the hut unless you take position outside one of the windows. And finally, for its part, this injured yak folk that has now been locked outside of the mill, looks left, looks right,

is no longer interested in this rascally baboon, but instead takes a step towards the closest person, our own Doran Iron Fist Oh, he sees me? What the hell? She sees you. She takes a step towards you, this huge yak folk. She is dressed in these like ceremonial robes almost, and she has two of reds-fledged arrows

sticking out of her chest, blood pooling on the ground and she walks towards you. She's carrying this great sword. She pulls out from a scabbard on her waist, and she takes it up into. two hands and just swings down at you with him. Alright. A first attack is a 22 to hit you.

Oh, just barely. With 15 slashing damage. That takes out my temporary HP from Temi. Thank you, Temeel. Second attack with a 23 to hit you. Yep. And you are going to take 25 damage. Yay.

This great sword. sword. The blood from her chest wounds are like frothing and bubbling out of her nose a little bit as she takes these labored breaths. Doreen, it's your turn. Doran's arm takes the brunt of this blow, putting his gauntlet and butt of his axe against this great sword. Luckily, it didn't take off his entire arm. He turns back to the yak folk. And sort of this, he's, he's He's kind of been, you know, a little bit jostled. He thought he was hidden enough, but things sort of went differently than he expected. He was expecting this yak folk to continue on, and he was going to scoot in.

So he sort of re-catches himself in the moment and using his great weapons master feat. I'm going to attack. Yeah. And you have advantage to attack as well. Exactly. So I'm going to do, so that's going to be a 16. So that's going to be a 27 to hit. But if you're using a great.

Oh, oh, right. So a 22 to hit. 22 hits. Nice. 27 damage, Doran hits the yak. What does it look like when you kill this yak folk with or something? Oh, man. Doran, you know, coming out of this daze,

realized that he's just been attacked with this massive axe. And you see this like rage enter his eyes. And with this really sort of out of reach swing, the axe comes swing. across now in one hand and just takes the whole neck out of the beast standing before him as he's splashed with another bucket of blood. Fantastic. The ground around you almost shakes as her huge mass hits the ground and you have felled your first yak folk. Nice. Great job. Nice. Uh, thank you. Well done. Dorn kind of runs around to the door and pushes on it with all his force. Make a strength

check for me. Doran. Doran. Doran, push the door in. Oh, man. That's going to be an eight? No. No.

Doreen, as you push your body up against this door to try to open it, you hear on the other side, a bar clunk into place across these double doors. It seems like not only are you. unable to open them but that you've been locked out. So Doran pushes on the door and it, you hear the bar and he turns around and runs over to Tamil, quick.

Throw me through the window. I don't know. I'm not sure. Just walk me through it. Just a little. Why not just climb through? Why not just go through? We're missing the whole exciting adventure scene. Come on. The action scene.

Come on. Come on. Well, listen. I'll tell you what. If the thing that I was going to do doesn't work out, then I will definitely throw you into the window. Okay, deal. Great job killing that other one, by the way. Good. Real, real, real solid work.

Let's see what you got up your sleeve. All right, Doran. You've moved a little bit. You've done an action. All done. Thank you. Whim's turn. From her perch on the edge of the thatched roof of this southern hut, she's not really able to see the yaks that are now closed up inside of the hut.

hut. With an acrobatics check, she hops down from the roof and sort of does like a roll. You know how you like see people doing parkour? She like takes a shoulder and just rolls up. None of us. Cool people. Come on, come on. And makes her way to the window where she looks inside through the gloom in the interior of this mill. Through the like moving, churning bits of machinery. She spots one of the yak folks' large, hairy form inside, and she's going to direct a spell

against it. She casts charm monster. Fuck, yes. Charm that monster. Also, side note, fuck these yak. True. Who the fuck? You hear a commotion. Yeah, your friend gets attacked, and the

first thing you do is kill the, like, they're not even hostages. Tim can back me up. That's How it's written in the book. They're brutal. They're really vile, hey? Because they don't want them to either turn against them in a bid for freedom, essentially, or to escape. Oh, I'm just saying total dicks.

First action in combat, they kill all of their slaves. That's fucked. That's so stupid. This is why we don't feel bad about killing these people. Yeah, exactly. Truly. Truly. It is nice when it makes it very black and white.

You're like, yeah, nope. Not only are these slavers. but they're like super quickly murderous slavers. Yeah. Okay, so this lady, yak folk, is going to make a wisdom saving throw with advantage, unfortunately, because we are currently in combat with it. Wisdom saving throw, let's see it happen. Guys, it works.

Yes, an 11 save. Wim. Wim. My roles are low across the point. Wim. Yes, yes. Yeah. Wim just, from her shoulder.

Holders, brings her arms back, and then pushes some unseen force through the window towards this yak folk. You guys don't see it, but from the interior, the yak just takes like one big step back on one of its dark, stained hooves, and then kind of looks around the hut, confused. That's Wim's turn. Tamil, what do you do? Okay. Yay. And we don't care about the door opening? Open the door if you want. Do it? Do you want to make like a baboon and jump through a window at your...

I can throw you. Still standing there waiting. It's all right. It's all right. So I think that the first thing that Timil will do is she'll command Rafi to the baboon to jump into the far window that's not next to the one. Again? He's like, I was just in there, he says. Yeah. So Raphael jump back in and basically. again start trying to make a commotion, basically trying to draw the

attention of the big boy by the door. And actually let's go ahead and say, Raffy's going to just run up to him and just take an attack on him. Okay. You have advantage on that attack, thanks to Ferry Fire. All right. Right. Du-to-do-do-d-bite, plus one

to hit. He's just a little god. And you get rabies. Okay, so that's a 16 to hit. Probably not going to hit. It does. Oh. What the hell?

Good job, Rafi. He's just scratching the shit. And then he does a whopping 1D4 minus one damage. We love it. We love to see it. One damage.

Listen, every little bit counts. Not even close. Especially when you have a ranger with Colossus Slayer, you know? Two damage, that's enough to take down the Colossus. I totally agree. Good job, Rafi. Short for Rafiki. Because he's a baboon.

Oh, I like it. Oh, I love it. Oh, but... Go ahead. He was a mandrake. I just learned that. Oh, no, you're right. Or a mandrel, right? Yes. I think you're right. Mandrake is a...

Mandrake's a plant. Anyway, so... Sorry, continue. So first thing that she does is she jumps in through the window. She looks over at the one who is standing by the door, and she starts to whisper again this curse. And I'm going to apply my hexblades curse to the one by the door. and then cast Bain on both as the whispers and this kind of dark mist that's emanating from Temeel

begins to spread around the hut. You're kind of scary, you know that, right? Yeah. You know, but like in a real, in a cuddly kind of way. So both need to make a charisma saving throw. Absolutely, okay. Yack folk slivers, the most charismatic creatures in all of the evening. How do you think they get them to stay?

But you should see them dance. So one to the north, crit fails. And only a six from the one of the south. Guys, tonight's not my night for dice. These guys suck. You killed a slave. You don't get to be, you don't get to be. Bad karma.

I did successful. It wasn't me. Who is that? You could have fudged it. Okay. So both of these creatures, they have to subtract 1D4 from any attack roll or saving throw they make before the spell ends. and it lasts up to a minute, its concentration.

Any saving throw? Any saving throw. I love Bain. I was born in a car. I was like, I was like, I was going to make a dumb joke, but you did. You married me. It's your mom. I was more than the shuttle.

I just got it. Whenever a target that fails the save makes an attack roll or a saving throw before the spell ends, the target must subtract 1D4 from the attack roll or the save. So. Phenomenal. And then, Tamil's going to hop back out. the window and she's she's gonna take cover excellent so smart she's gonna press herself up against the wall on the outside of the butt very good not enough concentration users ever do that hey they're

always like and then i'm gonna fight and then they get hit immediately they're like no my spell not my spell i mean as smart as this is the shit like the shit thing about it is now that i'm not i'm not in there to kind of draw attention away from these other guys so that's like that's That's the downside. That's where Dorn and I excel. There you go. Accelerate your death. And that's my turn.

Very good. Down at the bottom of the order, we have our captive elves. Both of them are just going to move to a place in the hut that they can try to take some cover. Get out of the hut. Yeah, actually. Get out of the hut? Yeah, climb at the fucking window. They're so afraid.

Before Temeel leaves, as she's jumping out the window, I think, to meal might have be yelling Follow my lead I'm just like I'm being a hero Yeah definitely Get the fuck out Elf captives

Managed to extract themselves From the situation happening in the hut Excellent And unfortunately you know Naked Yes Covered in just tears Did they're escaping

Not the naked part I was cheering Apologies Hooray! I love a naked elv. Naked escapists. Both of these elven captives make their way out the window through which Raffee had initially made his ingress into the hut. So they are on the southwest side of the hut. And Red shoots them.

Oh, no. Spireball. Dead. Don't worry, guys. Critical hit. Critical hit. I thought they were enemies. There are some naked escapists getting away.

Fantastic. No witnesses. Top of the round, our favorite gnome. Yeah. Absolutely. Now, Witted does not have line of sight to our last yak folk because the door is still shut. Is that correct? Yeah.

That's right. So I'm hovering in the air and there's no way I'm getting to one of those windows with only 30 feet of movement to cast a spell. So at this limit, I am wondering, first of all, and feel free to say no to any of this because I have backup options and I am reaching, I feel like. Number one, is there any chance of witted shooting through the doorway and what if it was like, say, 3D8 or 48 damage? Would some of it get soaked up by the doorway but the rest would burst through or just no shots through the doorway? Talk to me about shooting. Are you targeting a place? And what are you using?

That is actually a good point because I do have more of an area of effect option as a backup option, but let me check the spell itself. I was thinking of using catapult. Okay, interesting. Catapult says the object flies in a straight line up to 90 feet in a direction you choose before falling to the ground, stopping early if it impacts against the solid surface. I mean... That's the answer. Are you catapulting the door, though?

My goal was simply to lift up a rock and catapult it right through the doorway. And if I didn't think it was just going to ricochet right off the doorway, see if that rock, if it deals enough damage, would maybe plow through the doorway and eventually hit the yak folk. Okay, stopping early when it hits a solid object, I think, is pretty clear about how it works. But I love the idea of using your catapult to break down a door and potentially deal some, like, okay, so your target is the door. But if you happen to like super overkill the door as a target, that some of that like shrapnel

and the remaining kinetic energy. can be dealt on the target that's behind the door in my mind i like that 100% i would totally take that and that should be potentially enough to take uh uh yeah i'm just going to do a first level that's what i'm kind of deciding so you all see whitted still in the air if you're like outside and yeah you're kind of like looking up at him a little bit you see he takes his other arm the one that wasn't uh firing of the fairy fire grenade and it's slightly larger it looks like but it's another gun and it looks like all of a sudden he points at a rock below, not a particularly large one, but still a rock like the size of a like good melon or something like that. And it

rockets up towards his arm and then almost like it's clicking into place. You've never seen anything like a gravity gun or anything before, but it just hovers there in place like some force is keeping it there very tightly and then he loads up a mu-b-boom and just fires it right at the doorway. Wow. Fuck yeah. Amazing. It's 3D8 damage.

I hate how many sound effects you make me create. I'm so sorry. It's a love of hate. Don't apologize. Like all the plates on my arm are ripple. I'm like, it. It plays out several copyrighted tunes as it powers up.

Happy birthday and all of the Beatles catalog. That's right. Sorry, we can't put that in the podcast. 100. Just bang, just a bar. And the 3D8 damage, anybody in the way

gets a dexterity saving throw. But also 11 damage is pretty whack and might not even break through the door for all I know. It's not the greatest damage. There's no role to hit. This is just dealing straight damage. It's just straight damage.

And then dexterity saves for anybody caught in the line. Phenomenal. Fidded. You see as your rock explodes through the doorway, sending huge splinters into the room beyond and through the hole that you've created, you can see the yak folk bristling with splinters on the other side of the door. You have created a sizable hole and the door is no longer locked for anyone who wants to go inside. I'll take that one, 100%.

I'm also going to give 1D4 damage on my side, just for funzies, to this yak, splinter damage. Two damage. It's equivocal to Rafi's bites and scratches. Excuse you, Rafi only did one damage, so. No, he dealt. Oh, it was 1D4. You know what? Double monkey damage.

It was 1B4 minus 1. It's minus 1. We should only deal with damage in terms of monkeys. How many monkeys worth of damage did that deal? 30 monkeys, guys. See if I could do 30 monkey damage. Okay, awesome. What else happens?

That will be a Witted's action, just firing that. He's starting to drift down. Like, I think he's descending down to 15 feet, getting closer and closer to the doorway, like, boo, pew, pew, firing this weapon. And as a bonus action, I would love to send my homunculus just darting through that hole I just created, swooping in on its little glider wings. And I would like Reggie to, I can't deliver a spell because I don't have my action anymore. I would love him to just go in and try to take his little homunculus bite attack against the sky if possible.

Definitely. Absolutely. It's a force strike, but it's so little damage, I am interpreting it as a bite. It is accurate. It's 1D8 plus 9 because it's based on my spell attack bonus. Oh, and I have advantage because of the fairy fire still. 20. Yeah.

Wow. Significant. The damage is only five, unfortunately. I was going to say 20. That's like better than Doran needs it up it here. Just five points of damage and it'll have to stay in melee. Reg, he's going to be flitting around him and trying to distract him. Fantastic.

That's wicked. And that'll be the end of Wittin's true. All right, Red, it's your turn. Red nods to Witted. Thanks, buddy. And he fires at the things through the hole in the door. Amazing. Oh, perfect.

Right, yeah. Knock, knock. Fucker. Very good. That is going to be a 24 to hit. And you're rolling with advantage still? Sure did. Absolutely.

Now I'm saying it. I'm saying it and I'm hearing Tim every time. 28 damage. Fuck yeah. And I'm going to attack again. The arrow does that cool thing as it buzzes Widdid's armor where it like ruffles a little piece of hair the way it does in Lord of the Rings. 26 to hit again. Nicely done.

20 damage. Wow. Nice. Two arrows. sing through the hole in the door, finding their target beyond in the darkness. And Red is going to spend the rest of his turn moving. To a seaside villa.

Red will move 30 feet down. Use his little climb speed to cover the ground. Okay. All right, it's the yak folks turn. This creature that is charmed within the hut moves back up against the window and just kind of, observes what's happening in front of it

with some measure of, like, confusion. It's just visible on its yak-y face. He grows a conscience. He's like, what have I done? What am I doing with my life? Let's parlay. Blood all over my hand. Just because my grandfather did this.

I should have gone back to university. Man. Hell yeah. Is hate-born? Meanwhile, the yak folk that's on the other side of this busted-up splintered door just roars and it charges through this broken door at Witted. Are you on the ground?

I'm not on the ground, but I'm like only 10 feet in the air about you. So he's going to move up on you, Witted, and this creature pulls out a great sword that is breathed in flame He grabs it in both hands and then raises it high above his head and tries to chop down at you

I'm going to roll with our minus 1D4 from the bane of course but to hit you with this great sword fuck that's not going to do it five to hit

I just float backward out of the direction of the blow yeah yeah and then And with a second swing, 22 minus 3.19 is not quite enough against Wittit's armor class. You feel like this sizzle of heat as the sword passes underneath you just out of reach. I have to zoom up into the air for it to go underneath me 100%.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Oh, spry, little guy. It says he's like watching this. Doran, it's your turn. Doran sees this yak folk charging toward Witted, and he's going to chase the yak folk down. Yeah, get him. So you see Doran sort of charge across the yard.

He's well within reach, axe above his head. Fuck yeah! I'm going to use my great weapons master. You still have advantage to hit. That's right. 22. Yes, you hit. That's going to be 15, 25 points of damage.

Yes. Doren, yak folk slayer. Ork Splitter finds her mark in alongside his spine. And as you charge up and leap on his back, she bites deeply into his flesh. And Witted, you just watch as this massive yakfolk takes a knee heavily. And then as he falls, this flaming great sword

rolls out of his paralyzed twitching arm. Have you guys ever seen the end? end of Apocalypse now? Is that Doran asking or? No, I haven't. No, that's me. So good guys. He just says that to Witted as he like jumps down off of this corpse's back.

Whittitt did say I love the smell of day pop at the board being. Sorry, I knew I would find. No, Doran doesn't do anything. Yeah. Considering this yak focus charmed, I'm cool with us dropping out of initiative and just determining what happens as a group. You guys cool with that? We decide that he's thrown off the cliff.

Red runs over to everybody as we sort of drop out of initiative. And he turns to the elves that are leaving. He says, here, take some of this and he hands another loaf of bread and another cloak. Get yourself clothes. Stick to the wall heading down, the stairs. The chimeras are not in their nest. So head to dead snows as soon as you can. They nod appreciatively.

Their face is pale and grabbing the clothes. and food that you've given them, they quickly hurry away to safety. And Redsert turns to the others, like, oh, great job, great job. Hey, uh, hey, Whimmy, is, uh, is he still, uh... Wim's actually climbed inside of the hut, and she's, like, trying to sign to the yak folk, because now the yak folk's friendly to her,

for at least the duration. So she's, like, trying to communicate a little bit with this creature, and the, the yak folks, like, they're not, like, best friends, But it's just like looking at her like, what is this little creature? Shouldn't I, shouldn't I kill that thing? All right, bud, they need you over on the west side, okay? They need you right in the center there. You head over there and they're going to tell you what to do about all the slaves.

They're really going to need you. So you head there now and we're going to head off in here. Is there, so everyone's cool with that? We don't want to do that. I just thought it'd be funny to send it. I love that. It's very tidy. Works for me.

Yeah. Wim communicates Red's message to the yak folk and the yak folk nods thoughtfully and picks up a weapon to bring with her and she walks across the bridge. You see her get smaller and smaller and she opens up the gate and walks over. You can just see her in the distance making her way towards her friend and then, oh shit, a big monster jumps off of the roof of one of the nearby huts and just rolls her onto her back and you hear a bleeding, distant bleeding of fear and pain

as her innards get just sprayed all over the ground. That's what you get. Too good for her, to be honest, there. Good riddance. Oh, yeah. Hey, good job, everyone. Hey, great job. You two are starting to scare me, I tell you.

That's all around. But then he turns to wheel and he says, With it, I told you to wait. Look, I understand this is new that we're working together, but had you waited to all three of them came out, well, there would have been another person alive, probably. So, you know, just sometimes it's about waiting for your moment. How harsh.

I had two of the advice sites. I, I, he sort of shuts the helmet, and turns, he's completely visible now and everything, he's just floating away from you as though he's leaving the coming. Yeah, and I'll roll an insight check on that. Yeah. 23. You know the moment that he realized that he messed up,

before you ever pointed it out to him, he realized he made a huge mistake the minute he fired that grenade. He got all excited like, oh, cool, two within the blast, the calculations say, fire now. The moment that elf died, he was like, oh, So, that's on me, and that's exactly how he feels about it. Hearing that, seeing that, Red-like, sort of as Witted walks away. But good job. Good job, everyone. Look, it happens. It's happened to all of us.

Inside the hut, Wim has found a blanket, like a quilt almost, and has pulled it up over the body of the elf that's laying on the floor. Look, maybe there are more in there. We should get a move on. see if we can pause this water wheel for a second and climb through only there was a giant flaming sword somewhere that we could wedge into the weird well I don't think the axle is spinning

probably have to crop it is let me tell you a little bit about this water wheel so from within this mill you are able to see the operation of the water wheel there's like a hole in the side of this hut and the axle is driven through the side of the side

of the hut into the mountainside. And on the middle of this axle, the water wheel is spinning in the water as it churns down the mountainside. The action of this spinning axle within the hut is currently being used to power a millstone that is not being used for anything right now. But ordinarily, you can tell, based on the accoutrement in the room, some bags of grain, some flour that this would be used to grind grain. into flour cow feed we should have pushed a fucking yak in there oh that would have been sick right those like action movies from the 80s where you like push them down into the grinding wheel yes you could ostensibly traverse the axle to make your way through the opening in the

mountain into the cavern room beyond if that is your intention i believe that's what you guys were talking about yeah however based on your perspective now from what you can see being up close and personal to this machinery, it's going to take some doing. This is going to be a feat of acrobatics, perhaps, or athletics to balance along this beam. It's like log rolling, right? The thing is moving underneath you as you are moving through, and then there's a wheel in the way, and there'll be a series of checks, essentially. Temeel's kind of leading out of the window and looking at this water wheel.

you know it would be convenient to take the elevator down which is what this is powering on the other side but there is also a set of stairs and honestly I wouldn't mind doing a little work on this to ensure that we can get across safely and that they cannot use it going forward to mill their grain or whatever the fuck I'm going to do with this shit

Timil that's a great idea and I might have something that can help us destroy the panels easily and Red climbs out the window to the north and looks down and sort of sees the water rushing past this giant wheel and he sort of leans over the edge and turns back says Wimmy grab my feet and Wim grabs you 60 year old girl holding this like tipbacks

Yeah yeah yeah And he leans forward to the water And using the power of the eyes ruined The one that he got from Grudhog He touches the water in front of the front of the wheel and freezes it in a 10-foot space, solid. The wheel does stop spinning, and as you watch, it begins to creak and shake and groan under the built-up pressure of all the water coming down the mountainside and trying to push this ice

that has just formed and crystallized all around the water wheel. And as this pressure builds and builds and builds with a momentous crack. Pull me up, pull me up, pull me up. The wheel actually collapses into timber and everything just shoots down the waterfall. And within a span of five, ten seconds, The only thing that's left is just the axle that's punched through the side of the mountain and all of these huge water wheel pieces are washed all the way downstream.

No way. Oh, well, that was an unintended consequence. I'd say pretty clean. That was pretty nifty. A little more magical than you've let on, eh, Redd? Yeah, well, and Red shows the eyes run. I got this when we defeated the Hill Giants. Good that still comes in handy.

Oh, yeah. He tucks it away. Well, shall we? And Timil indicates across the axle. Witted also just floated up after that a little bit just to try to peek and see if the chimeras responded to that at all. Ooh, smart. As you watch, Witted, the chimeras are absolutely on alert.

Their heads, all six of them between the two creatures, are a swivel right now for the source of this commotion. They're not in the air yet, but you probably don't have long before they're going to come and investigate the sound. We have company sued. I think we got their attention. Let's get inside quickly, everyone. Right.

Absolutely. Doran jumps on this axle. Getting from one side of this axle to the other is a dangerous task. It's not spinning. anymore, so it's a little easier than you would have had it originally, but you're still balancing over this swift moving mountain stream. Anyone who wants to move from one side of the other will need to make either an athletics or an acrobatics check for me, please. Tamil might offer, allow me to go first. Oh, sure. I know that you all wanted to move through here very

quickly, and it is not lost on me that you risked a lot to save all of those people. even if one fell better than leaving all of them to die. So let me do this. And I'll go, I'll use athletics, and I got a 22. Hey. She just wanted to get out of the chimera's pack. You make it look easy. I'll go first, don't we?

I'm not kidding. And then on the other side, Tamil will take a rope out of her pack and she'll throw the rope back across as a way of providing the help action to everyone else to get across. Ross. Mm, nice. Are we securing it on the alternate bank, or are we just using that as assistance? Yeah, Red Will Piton it in.

Fantastic. Seeing the two of you doing that, Witted floats out to the middle, reaching out a hand in either direction to, like, help and, like, catch anyone who might start to fall over the edge. Cool. Oh, right. You can fly. I was going to show off at the end, but this makes more sets.

Sorry. With all of that assistance, we don't need. to make any checks. Wim makes it across without any issues. Nice. Doran. Doran was already extremely timid making all the ooze and awe sounds like he didn't want to

do it before it came down. After the wheel came down, he felt much better about it. And now with Temeel and Witted, you know, basically guy in the way, he sort of feels like very light. No. Oh, thank you. Oh, oh, thank you.

He makes his way across, feeling very Dainty all the same. After you, after you. All right, here I, and Red's about to take a step on, and then the baboon, like, pushes past him. Oh, okay, right. Fair enough, then the homunculus.

Jesus. All right. Now where I stand. Come on, Red. And Red just eyes the direction of the chimera one last time, and he scoots across. I mean, like, comically. Like, he's like, Legulus on top of the snow.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's, like, not carrying it on. Baboon's definitely wearing a business hat also in a tie, and it's just, like, not. It's like, yeah, Ed, it's a sea, it gets you, that's good. All right. And with that, you make your way into the mountainside. All right, now I'd like to just thank our wonderful patrons'ons.

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