Dice Shame - 2-174 | 'Under The Skin'

Episode Date: December 25, 2025

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Uh Red, you said that you detected a humanoid in there Wait a, I haven't cleaned my guantlet Get some cover, hope for the best Well, that's not good Put it down, what do you don't? No, no, recalibrate this Yeah

It was less memorable Can you make anything out of that? Where did you get this? Run! It's just a piece of junk I found You would love that, you sick fuck Is the combat music over? There's no combat music.

Yeah, then I'm gonna save. I want a quick save. You want a quick save? Yeah. We can do that. Quick save? No enemies in your nearby, yeah. I won't say that.

Welcome back to Dyshame. This is Season 2, episode 174, Under the Skin. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from everyone on the podcast. We are so grateful for all of you for listening and joining us on our. our adventure. Here's wishing you all the best this season and into the new year. Merry Christmas. And happy holidays. All right. Should we play some D&D?

Yeah, let's do it. Woo! Woo! All right. All right. Yeah, we watched 31 Halloween movies, horror movies this Halloween. Right. And we watched all nine texts.

Chainsaw Massacres. We watched all six exorcists. We watched all six of the dead. There's six of them? Yeah, because the exorcists is interesting. There's Xist 1, 2, 3. 4. Then, no, no, no, no.

Don't say 5, 6. You'll blow my mind. No, no, no, no. There's only five movies. Well, yes. Yes. That's what I was going to say. What?

So there's Exorcist 1, 2, 3. No. And then 4 and 5 are actually the same movie. And here's why. It's non-Euclidians. in filmmaking. That's right. The real horror is

the good chronology. They made a movie called Dominion, prequel to the Exorcist. And it stars Stellan Sarsgaard. And the movie was so bad that the studio fired the director and hired another director

to remake 90% of the movie. Some different actors. So one year after the first was supposed to come out, I think it was like 2005, they released Exorcist the beginning and people hated it.

They were like, this is the worst. So they were like, well, we can't go any worse. And they dumped the original one on theaters as well, which people also hated. This is crazy. Four and five are actually the same movie. But here's the crazy thing. They're the same plot. They're the same lead actor.

But almost all the secondary characters are either the same character but two different actors playing them or totally out of the films. So it's, we watched them back to back because I knew this for a long time and I've never seen either. It's like being gaslit by the film. Yeah. We were like, well, watch them in the order they were released. And we're so glad we did because the one that they said wasn't good enough and remade was far superior. The one that they released was so bad.

Exeter's at the beginning. It's so stupid. Constant interspersing scenes from Nazi Germany. Yes. Well, both of them had Nazi Germany. But one of them had a point to. The very beginning and was like, here's some information about where the character came from. Yes.

You have to constantly revisit. But fascinating. It sounds to me like the producers are like, quit, quit it. This is terrible. Director one, you're fine, you're fired. And then they're going directed to two and they rehire where they're like, oh shit. This is way worse. Yeah.

Doran has an EP credit on The Exorcist. No, no, we can't do that. I can't do this. You had a Dwarven fighter putting the film together. Yeah, that's not going to work. I wonder. But, like, the tone of them are so drastically different. Like, the remake is, like, a action movie, and, like, everyone's constantly sweating.

Not the remake, sorry, the rebukes. And they're all, like, sweaty. And, like, no joke, opening scene, we see our protagonist, and he's, like, in a bar, taking shot after shot, guy comes up, and he's like, we need you to do this mission. Like, it's, like, the cliche handbook, rip-off Indiana Jones. And we were like, okay, how different can the original be? And then we watched them back to back. And like it's so totally different.

Like the guy who did the original wrote like Last Temptation of Christ and Raging Bull. Like it's a way more like slow, not overly dramatic, not actiony film. And we liked it so much. And it's just... When did it come out? 2005. Okay. So that's kind of like, that feels like Michael Bay era.

Yes. Yeah. It feels like when they're like... action movies are where the money's at. Yes. So what Alex was saying. Yeah. Well, the director of the remake, the one who did it second or whatever, is Rennie Harlan.

Are you related? It's going too slow. Get someone to make it an action film. Yeah. I think I watched one of the exorcists recently. Is Regan like grown up? Oh, no, you know, ah, never mind. I know what it was.

And it was that comedy with Leslie Nilsson. What's it called? scary movie no Dracula dead loving it Unpossessed I'll have to look it up You're in the closet I thought you would have known it

Unpossessed Was repossessed But yeah we also watched All the of the deads too So those were all That was an experience That was an experience as well There's some really

Highs and lows Like night of the living Day of the Living Yes Can you name them all Dawn of the Night of the Dawn Nick had the first two

Return of Living Dead That's a different series Day of the Dead Day Night Dawn Day brunch of the dead brunch of the dead siesta of the dead

no no no it's night dawn day land land of the dead diary and survival diary of the dead I'm so sorry it's the worst one it's just a young teenage zombie

no well it's a found footage film they changed the name it was originally diarrhea and you're dead then they were like well that just like is the wrong imagery

poop diarrhea and you're dead That diary of the dead was by far the worst of the dead, but also, like, one of the worst movies that we've seen. Ever? Yeah. This month for sure. Okay. This month for sure, but possibly, I mean, I don't know.

I remember watching it when it first came out and being like, oh, this is absolute trash. Worst movie, I would say, was Exorcist 2. Oh. What a turnaround for you. I know. Worst XVI. Yeah. I was going to ask if I've seen Exorcist 1, but none of the other.

Should I skip to three? That's it. Skip two. Don't do it. Yes, absolutely. Do not see Exorcist 2. Not only does it have nothing to do with the Exorcist. It's like a sci-fi.

It undoes all of the work of Exorcist 1 where they're like, oh, you wanted to see people be possessed by the devil, don't worry. This doesn't have any of that. Also, it's got a scene where Reagan gets hypnotized by a psychologist and then the psychologist gets hypnotized by Reagan and then Reagan comes out and the psychologist they're like hypnotizing each other back and forth using this machine

it's like a double hypnotizer but the person who gets hypnotized then hypnotizes another person it's very convoluted I mean that sounds like good high and heckle fodder like just get inebriated and then watch it with a pal and hackle the shit out of it

nope that sounds like you think so not even the plot is you cannot follow it the plot It's just whatsoever. So there's like good bad, which I hear you. Like, like Diary of the Dead could be good bad, like going back to Good Bad. Like there's an, this is a real exchange in the movie. It used to be us against us, but now it's us against them.

And then there's a voiceover and it says, he was right. It was us against them, except they are us. That's a legit exchange that happens in Dyer of the Dead. I wrote it down because when we were watching, I was so unbelieved. I was like, that can't be a line. That's memorable. It used to be us versus us. That's a good bad because it's pretty soon.

Repeat it back. It says it used to be us against us, but now it's us against them. And then the voiceover comes in and says, he was right. It was us against them, except they are us. Symbolo bagging shit. I'm just Googling this. Half of us were them. But now, like a logic puzzle.

Yeah, for real. But the OG Texas chainsaws, if you ever want a scary movie. They're good. Those first four, especially number one, obviously. But those first four, solid horror movies, hands down the best ones we watched. And I highly recommend them. Good fun. Three and four especially, I really liked.

I really like three. Not many people are going to like three, but I love three. I thought it was really fun. In his early days. Mm-hmm. And Vigo. Vigo. Viggo Mortensen is in the third.

one. All right, guys. Should we play some D&D? Yeah. That's scary. Apopo of nothing. Yay. Yay.

Joe, because of you, I have been saying Dungiones and Dragionis. Oh, good. My. Dengiolemy. It's like the Italian version. Dungenes and Dregiones. As long as you're eating a piece

of chicken parmesan. What are those little crab rangoons? Those are definitely an American in Chinese food thing, I think. Dragoons. I think they're crab rancoons. Cragoons, do they rank? Dungeons and crab ragoons.

Do they rangoon other things besides crab or is it just crab? Maybe imitation crab? I've never even had one. No. Me neither. I feel like I've heard of a shrimp rangoon, but maybe I'm making that up. I would eat the hell of a shrimp ragoons. Okay.

This is my uneducated imagining of crab rangers. rangoon. It's a wonton wrapper with cheese and crab, yes? It's cream cheese specifically and the wonton is fried, deep fried. Okay. And you dip in, there's must be a dip.

Sort of like a sweet Thai sauce or something. Yeah, I feel like it's often served with like a sweeter kind of like orange like chili plum vibe. Chilliard vibe. Chilliardier sauce. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Chilier. I'd still take a jalapeno popper over a crab.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, you're more of like a guy Fieri. type. Me too. Halvinoa power is a bomb. How do you ever's fucking rule. They're so good. I can put away a million of them.

Wait a second. Can you describe what a jalapeno popper is to you? Because I've recently learned that some people think a halopeno pauper is different than what I think a halapeno popper. Fair enough. Hey, you know what? That's fair. I've had a couple different versions, too. Yeah.

I will say just to like blanket coat, I like all types. Because I have had different versions. You're indiscriminate. I've had jalapinos. like halved and filled with cream cheese, which are nice. The jalapeno popper those that I'm thinking about are deep fried with jalapeno, either cream cheese or yellow cheese.

I've actually seen them with both. Yeah. Like an orangey cream cheese. What's the other version? I want a pull on mine. I mean, yeah, you want that stretchy cheese. Some people think a jalapeno popper requires bacon wrapped around the jalapeno. I've had those.

You know what I should clarify, because I don't like all types. I wouldn't like that. I'm not a big bacon-wrapped-anything fan. I don't enjoy bacon-wrapped anything. Kind of overpowers. Yes. Should we play Dungeons and Dragons? For real.

Cool. Let's do it. The party anxiously awaits in the darkness outside of the tower for any sign of the monster's appearance. Red, it's your turn. Red nervously keeps darting around the field and he reaches into his pack and pulls out the plainer pocket watch

that he received a little while ago and he flips it open. Each of the hands on this tells the time on a different plane and knowing that this creature has disappeared but is not invisible hoping to sense some sort of ripple effect

if this thing came back in. He just sort of holds the thing to feel any vibrations in it whatsoever. This is a magic item that I know is attuned to the planes. What Red wants to do with his primeval awareness, his ability to sort of sense things,

is I would love to roll Arcana or insight or something to sort of feel if this thing has come out of the ethereal plane or maybe where it is. Yeah, you found this in Zozenvoffel. Yeah. The Nomish dungeon. What?

It is a pocket watch with a multitude of faces and dials. You had, at one time, when you had initially gotten it, and I think Jack got a look at it, and you were like, actually, this is mine, he was positing that each of the faces and dials maybe would be tracking the time or possibly spatial orientation of different planes of existence. Red just sort of takes a second and looks at it to see if anything can be red. It's going crazy. In fact, there's like a little tiny steam power. section on the one side and it's like emitting a tiny whistle when red sort of moves it around him just like turning side to side does it get stronger or weaker um doubling down on the dowsing rod thing

yes it does but it's inconsistent right can i roll something to deduce information from this beyond just it's hot and cool you can roll an intelligence check damn it i'm going to use my inspiration nine um i mean what does red think it's doing red's too serious to make a dumb guess so he can tell that he doesn't know and he throws it to whittitt whitt playing a pocket watch see what you can see and he's going to chuck it i'll spend my action he's only 30 feet away red can for sure do it you spend your action throwing this random artifact that you found almost a full season ago to a gnomish artifice. It's from Zozum baffle.

We've dealt with these things before. A hag, different planes of existence. That watch, it's doing something. See what you can figure out what it'll do. Would it be fair to say Witted is heard of Zosan Baffle? Yes. Okay. Zosan Baffle is like nomish atlantis.

I was gonna say. Witted in real time, like rotates the helmet, sees the compass arcing through the air, and you just see the screen start, Immediately, like, Zuz, all these things are zooming in, like, enhance, enhance, enhance. And in real time, as it's arcing through the air, he's analyzing a gnomish writing, like, reconstructing. As you're saying, it's from Zosenbafel. Zosenbafel is popping up on his sensor, like, confirmed this must go back to Zosenboppel based on the,

and he understands, like, what air it's from as he's catching it. Like, holy shit, he says as he's just, like, you see the fingers of his gauntlet, like, playing, like, like a kid. It's got like peanut butter on it. No. Sorry. He does almost toss it from hand to hand. Like, I haven't cleaned my guantlets. This is, whoa, whoa, hold on.

What have we got here? It's really good to spread peanut butter. A clear thumbprint right on the glass. Oh, no. Recalibrate this. Zozum baffle was once a part of a subterranean gnomish community. Similar to Moria, the gnomes created something harmful during the lifespan of the settlement and it was their undoing. The gnomes of Zozhenbafel found themselves at odds with others of their kind.

And due to political slight generational conflict and plain old avarice, they set about building a huge mechanical creature which would serve them as a war machine against others in the gray peaks. Oh, that going around, huh? We killed it. Yeah, you did. Deep in the dungeon, there is a workshop outfitted with two magical electrical conductors where they created a mechanical behir. that Behir was brought to life with a spirit of a lightning elemental

a la Frankenstein but once imbued with its own agency it had no intentions of it obeying its creators turning its wrath upon them That's all so upwitted's alley Yeah Anyway yeah red throws it Where did you get this compass

Zozunbuffle An omish city This is the first time hearing That the ancient Zozumboffel Which I have been obsessed over ever since I was young has been found and hidden from us

by humans Wittitt it's going to have some thoughts about this WIDIDD as this pocket watch falls into your hands you recognize its origin

immediately. This may have been something that you longed to get your hands on for some time I'm not sure how familiar you are with it actually let's make

an intelligence check you can do so with advantage because of your Gnomish heritage Could this be Arcana or just raw intelligence? We can argue for an Arcana check for sure. Nice. I will roll a 15 and a 19.

So the 19 will be my higher. And that's 19 with everything added on top. Yes. You don't know the name of this pocket watch. Perhaps it's been lost a time or maybe you just haven't read the appropriate books. But based on your knowledge of the way this kind of machinery works, you know that it's powered by a tiny rift between the material plane and the abyss. Somehow that rift is carried within the body of this watch.

And you know that if Red had ever treated this watch carelessly enough, that it could have broken open and released some creature. Don't mess up my peanut butter. Being that it is still intact and knowing what to listen for, Witted, you are able to hear faint whispers coming from the watch. Physically, its dials and little turny bits, its gears and mechanisms are currently functioning in an overtime kind of capacity. And you're able to ascertain that that is probably because you are in such proximity

to the thing that Red called The Hunger. Can you make anything out of that? It's just a piece of junk I found. This is ancient nobish technology. This is Zozin baffle technology. They used all kinds of powerful magic, reckless magic, as I'm like rotating my wrist to look at the back of it, reckless magic that they didn't quite always do.

Oh, shit. Whoa, this is an abyssal. There is an abyssal rift powering this coppice. And you see me wipe some of the peanut butter off of like, It's up on, like, where the rift part is visible poking out, like, oh, bah. Like, when you're looking for the right thing, suddenly it's like, there's a demon face, like, bah, and it's like, ah, how did you not? No, okay, okay, we're not using this for anything other than its intended function for about, okay,

this, this is something powerful. This is a reckless technology, and this is something I'm going to study, need to study much further. I haven't read the right books to fully appreciate what this is. is I think we're going to need to deal with this on another basis. Keep this away from everything here, actually. And I'm, like, looking around for, like, where is the direction to move this thing away from the hunger? Where is that?

And I'm, like, trying to, no idea yet. I'm getting the feeling just from the session that we're kind of naturally dropping out of initiative order. Oh, sure. Is everyone in agreement with that, or would you like to continue on? That seems like a pretty, yeah, if we can. hand drop out of initiative. I don't know. I'd almost be like if the creature doesn't,

if this dwarf doesn't show up again in time to get hit by my web spell in the next round, then if he doesn't show up again, I drop the web spell ready to end and then like don't re-ready a new one. I'm not going to keep burning spells like. Is the combat music over? There's no combat music. Yeah, then I'm going to save. I want a quick save.

You want a quick save? Yeah. We can do that. Quick save. No enemies near nearby, yeah. I won't say that. Yeah, no, exactly. music isn't happening.

Yeah, yeah. Cool. Red, then we'll walk over to Witted. Yeah, I don't see it. Yeah, we got that in Zosanbuffel, right, Dorn? Yeah, and the way you're looking at it there. As if, you know, one little screw would fall out and the whole world will come to an end. We've got a bunch of junk in there, including this, and Red reaches into his bag of holding and pulls out a box that Temeel would recognize as the shape.

that she'd seen in Red's eye, the infernal puzzle box. This took a hell of a toll to open. There's a few other goodies in here. But if you think you can read the plainer stuff with it, then maybe you can figure out where this thing went. Witted knows enough about demons and devils to be like on his scanner. It's like infernal puzzle box, thing, identified, like abyssal rift, identified and he just like unconsciously moves the compass further away from the infernal puzzle box

like these two shouldn't be near each this is too close this is way too close like oh they had peanut butter separating them for the longest time you're like following me or i'm like no no no no and i float away from you with the compass just keep that over there look look if you if you want it it's yours you take it use it maybe included in bessie somehow it might be of use but... Thank you, and I started examining it. Of course. Red, what did you mean that he took a toll to open?

Red, sort of looking around nervously. Maybe we got a second. Look, when me and Jack tried to open this infernal puzzle box, it... I don't know. Not cursed exactly, but... It was scary. It ended up blowing up,

and Jack and I both had this image burned into our brain, this darkness. He ended up opening it again himself and got these terrible, terrible sigils burned under his hand. Are you aware that you have that same shape in your eye? I saw it in Jack's eye, but I guess I never knew it was in my own. Yeah. I never really pointed it out to you there, Redd. I didn't know, no.

Widdid, I wonder if you might be able to bring your considerable talent and intelligence to this box as well. well well right now i'm just using it for storage and red like opens the box and inside is like a wooden coin was the goose coin yeah the goose coin i i was using it to hold a goose coin that we've got i could easily this is not a difficult the trick with these puzzle boxes is and you see him like unconsciously no no no no no no no red shuts it again oh you think i can't do this crossword no i'm great a crosser it's like show me yeah let me see it here red shuts the box again and he puts it Wait. No, no, no, look, look. For just a moment, you see where it'd, like, shake his head. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Look, the planer watches yours. It's a gift. Keep it. But the infernal puzzle box apparently already

left its mark on me and read gestures to his eye. I'll keep it for now. It's just storage now, anyway. What was in it was, was gone. Oh, I was merely suggesting, do you know what, what it does, why it is still with you? Do you know the effects that it has, the control that it might have over you? No, I don't, I don't think so. I mean... Maybe a problem for another time. Yeah. Just also becoming re-aware of like the darkness in the surroundings.

As everyone kind of like looks up from the items that they're kind of almost using to like sieve back through their memories, you realize that a fog is starting to roll out of the forest all around you. Oh goodness. Red, you said that you detected a humanoid in there, but this was not it. Is Chaos Hammer possible? will be still in there. I don't know. He could be.

All right, Dorn. Maybe you're right, Tamele. Maybe we should get in there. I don't know what the hell is going to come out of these woods, but if it's anything like what took down our airship, we got no chance. I think it's probably better just to get some cover, hope for the best. Maybe that thing's gone. At least I can get to the roof.

Mm-hmm. We all should. Yeah, and I think Tameel will, like, sprint. Yeah. I think that, like, if fog is rolling out, she's going to haul ass. It's like a coordinated run. Same. You starting to move, and then another started to move, and then we start to move a little quicker,

and then all of a sudden, each of us turn into sprinting towards the tower. Next thing you know, you're like, get to the tower quickly. The horses just get consumed by the fog, and you hear them scream. Yeah, do we hear anything when the fog reaches the horses? It's a very strange silence. Well, that's not good. Run, let's go quickly.

Run. Witt takes off into the air going straight to the top of the tower but doesn't go fast. So he'll arrive at the same time as the other's not first. I don't think yet. Well, Red will like, you know, he'll use his crazy feline agility. So he'll get as fast as he can. You push whim down into the dirt to, like, get a little bit faster. No, no, no, no.

Get out of my way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just Red knows that if he gets to an advantageous position, he can cover the others as quickly as possible. In fact, he'll just run up to the tower, turn around, and draw his bow covering them as they run from the fog in case anything should emerge. So from what I'm understanding, this is how we're approaching the tower. Witted has taken off into the night sky and is flying up, intending to land on the top of the tower at the same time that maybe red reaches the base of the tower. Correct. Yeah.

Then we have Wim, Tamil, and Doran approaching on foot as fast that their legs will carry them, which is substantially slower than Red's maximum speed. So we're about, I don't know, half or two-thirds of the way across this open area by the time Red has vaulted over this low stone wall and has made his way to the base of the tower where this dark door yawns beside him. Correct. Red. What do you do? Red turns around and covers them. He'd probably stay away from the door, but he would sort of have his bow drawn, watching them approach, keeping his head on a swivel, to shoot at anything that appears or attacks. Tamil is keeping her eyes. Like, she's running along with, and she's like, especially ready to throw her body in front of anything going for whim. But she's keeping her eyes on the tree line as well, you know, kind of like. monitoring their six in version to Reds. Looking back.

I would say more or less Red has a ready to action if we're talking in combat parlance. We are approximately because Red as you sort of nestle yourself into the safest place you can with no door looming to your side, keeping your bow trained on where your companions are making their way towards you. but with all of the awareness that you can muster, you perceive something melt into existence beside you. Oh, no. Oh, no. Part two.

Do we re-roll initiative? We are going to re-roll initiative. Okay. No one gets a surprise around because I think everyone's being very explicitly aware of their surroundings. Yes. Damn right we are. Catch me off guard again.

Born out by these initiative rolls. Whim rolled a seven. I always like when Joe's like, are you stepping there precisely? Where exactly is Dorian? Doran, what did you get for your initiative? That's going to be a 16. Fucking right. Tamil.

20. Nice. Oh, spicy here. Spicey. Whitted? 11. 11, not bad. Not a spicy.

Medium spicy. she mild red 13 13 so you're 60 feet away from red and you're about 30 feet away from the stone wall this low stone wall over which you are just able to see the peak of red's hood the top of his bow and now this terrifying form materialize a directly beside him timil it's your turn Tamil is going to run forward 30 feet her whole movement so she will now be within 30 feet of red and this smoky motherfucker and she is going to huck static at this thing Fantastic

Pin it to the wall Does an 18 hit It does Nice Okay so that's 11 damage Nice well done Static goes flying out and lances this thing She gestures back like she's pulling at the air

and aesthetic returns to her hand and she's just going to throw it again. Cool. Cool. Do it. That's a 24 to hit. Yeah. That is 20 damage.

Wow. That's good. Nice. Yeah. Nine of all of that damage was lightning damage if it makes any kind of difference. I'm going to give Bardic inspiration to Red. In this moment, this has been such a chaotic

kind of like running around where the hell is this? thing that there's just a moment of like stillness in intense eye contact this moment of you've not been telling me everything you know like we have some stuff that we're going to need to talk about there's like even some secrets in the party or whatever but like no this is where we live this is where we fucking eat so i trust you and i believe in you in this moment get this done fuck yeah so that's adding one d8 to my damage or to my to hit It's not damage, unfortunately. It's attack rolls, saving throws, or ability checks.

I'm a little concerned that there might be a saving throw involved here in a second. Me too. Right up in this thing's shit. Cool. Doran, it's your turn. I'm going to move twice so that I'm in melee range of this creature. And not only am I going to step in a melee range of this creature, I'm going to use my fainting attack.

So I'm going to expend one superiority of die for this bonus action. choosing one creature within five feet I take advantage of my next attack roll against this creature and if I hit it I add the superiority died to the attack's damage and then I'm going to roll now and that's going to add two to that damage if I hit

he looks at Red as he's approaching and maybe Red doesn't realize that there's this creature materializing next to him but it suddenly strikes Doran in this moment that You know, his friend is going to be taken off guard by this foul, nasty creature, and he just can't stand by and do nothing.

So not only does he faint against this creature as he approaches, he then turns around and attacks immediately. Nice. Oh, Doran. Get it. It's so... Dorn, what are you doing, buddy? It's like that stick where I'm like, put it down.

What are you doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doran, this creature beside Red is so disturbing in the way that it looks like a caricature of a humanoid, like an estimation of a dwarf. Why have I seen this before? That's a critical hit. Oh! 19. Yeah, 19 hits for you.

19 hits for you, critical. That's a critical for you. Fuck yeah. A golden plate armor Was once used by legendary Dwarven fighter Nergeral Chaos Hammer Until his humiliating defeat

In Jallanthar By none so years truly It's like dark souls Where we're getting all this lore From reading the item This is so good Plus one bonus to AC While wearing this armor

Improved critical hit While attuned the plate armor Your weapon attack score A critical hit on a roll of 19 That's exactly right How fucking perfect is that that we're here with chaos hammer and you use his breastplate to

crit this thing. So then I roll double to my damage. You roll your damage dice twice. Right. And then you add all the extra stuff. Since the, does the superiority dice in this case, since it is adding extra damage? Does that count as damage dice?

Yes. Yeah, that would get double. It's going to. It's going to add the two. You roll all your dice twice. Yup. Any damage dice included for the attack is re-rolled. So you get to rerol that as well, Alex.

16 and 16 is 32. Big hit, Jesus. 32 damage? Yeah. Doran, you fucking launch yourself off of the top of this stone wall in order to defend your pal red and you land orc splitter in the meaty part of this monster's body between the neck and the shoulder, shearing it almost in half with this mighty blow. Nobody's going to attack my friend Red. And as this being falls to the ground, it releases a scream and a hiss that almost sounds like steam being boiled out of some metal container. The flesh rives and peels away from the form underneath.

Oh, no. The figure that has collapsed at your feet, at Red's feet, is indeed the savagely brutalized body of Captain Nurgrel Chaos Hammer. Okay, now I'd just like to thank our dear Patreon supporters. Screw all their names down here. Just bear with me. Okay, thank you too. Lita J. Christopher, Colin Burckhardt, Merlin, Adam Frey, Liz, Ruth Ann Reed, Trin, Lorelei Feldman, Merrick's Moon, J.D., Scotty, Haley, Joshua Nance, Nicky, Queen,

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Nergirl? So I guess it was Chaos Hammer. Yes. Don't da da da da da da da da da da da. No, that's funny. That would be a good ending. I'll just leave at that. Is that you buddy? Why'd you do that dirt? I love that it was it was his armor that gave you the critical power. You would love that, you sick fuck. Yeah. Use his own good power against his of a thematic death.

But so I have questions. I'm sure you do. Can they be answered now? I don't know. Are they questions that pertain to stuff like is he dead? Did I do a good thing or a bad thing? You're going to have to figure that out when we play. Until next time.

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