High Rollers DnD - Altheya: The Dragon Empire #11 | Guild Politics (Part 2)

Episode Date: February 15, 2024

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as she attempts to repair several Everlights, lampposts, lanterns that are scattered around parts of the city in an area a rough part of the Riverside District. Our party have met with the Illuminator, made their way to the plaza, and there they have encountered several shadowy figures waiting for them. I am going to...

I'm probably going to be doing a lot of standing up, so I might even just stay standing up the whole time. How many are we talking? Do you want a tiny hand? Oh, look at her! She's so small. We have a tiny, tiny lady. So, if we can get a lovely big picture of the map, please.

Yes. So I will highlight a couple of points here on the map. So you guys are all coming in from this side. These posts here and the one over there are the three Everlights that you need to repair. These are all buildings. They all look like, you know, people's houses. This is like a general store,

and these are all like individual people's houses. There are obviously more of them, you know, away from the map. These areas in between the houses are the alleyways that I mentioned. As you can see, one side is kind of fenced off and is impassable. There is the fountain in the middle, and then all of these little barrels and pits and pieces are scattered around as well. Sure.

The figures that you can see. They all have carpenter weapons. Yeah. If only we didn't go against the cotton candy guild. Oh, that would've been so good. But think if they would shove your face in the cotton candy machine. Oh no, that might be worse.

Oh, there's sugar everywhere. Yeah, that is the... And then they set it on fire. Oh, there's sugar everywhere. Yeah, it is good. And then they set it on fire. A crab would be fit for a king, just molten candy. Yeah. But that's the thing, they set it on fire and sugar, like hot sugar and molten sugar is bad.

Oh! No, you know what? Carpenter's is fine. Yeah, let's just deal with carpenter's. This is all right, isn't it? So, the three, you can see three figures in the dim gloom of this flickering light on the other side of the plaza.

Like I said, armed with hatchets. Two of them do seem to have larger, broader kind of axes, but the one in the green on the miniature seems to have hatchets and small hands. Have you guys seen Gangs of New York? Yes. Kind of getting that kind of vibe, right? These guys are wearing like clothes

and like laborers outfits, like leather aprons, but they've kind of got that rough kind of street gang kind of like look to them. All right. And so the first thing I'm going to ask for, because these guys have absolutely expected you, they've seen you coming, we are going to roll initiative.

Hell yeah. I have pre-rolled my initiatives. Oh, damn. Katie, before you roll your dice, do you wanna take the dice from my bag of goodies? I don't think I do, Tom. I will. I bought Tom's bag of chaos.

Do you want a D20 from here? I do, but I'm just, it's already the worst. I know what these look like. Unhinged. Yeah. Why are they unhinged? You I know what these look like. Unhinged? Yeah. Why are they unhinged? You know dice. Think of them from a different universe.

This is a D20. Oh. It's kind of shaped like a D10, but there's 20 sides to each of them. I hate this. Me too. What's that? I don't know. That's a 13.

That's 13. Can you just use a normal dice, please? Oh, you're not going to use that one? How can you even read it? You can read it. Can I have a dice to use, Tom? No, that's the only D20 in here. Wow, okay.

No, I hate this. You don't like it? I hate this. This whole bag is filled with this shit. No. Oh, God. I hate it. Do you have this?

Okay, I'll put that back in the bag. I'll put that back in. Oh, Tom, why? What is happening? How many others are in here? You spent 40 pounds on this. I did. What?

Of this bag of unhinged dice. Okay, well next time you roll a dice, just let me, just ask if you wanna. Can we just limit it to one per episode? Okay, well that's a d20. No, because then this is gonna be weeks of this. That's quite a lot. That's gonna be weeks.

Don't put it on the map. Get it out of you. It's cursed. Why do you want to see my d20? It's cursed. Go this way. I want to see it. Daisy. Hi.

Oh, sorry. Not that one. Try something new. This is hateful. I know. I know. 16. 16.

Initiative for Daisy. Xanthius. 10. 10. Gruffydd. 20. Rowan. 8. And Ophelia. 13. It's got 10. 10. Gruffydd? 20. Rowan?

8. And Ophelia? 13. 13. All righty. In that case, Gruffydd is going to be our first to act. Like I said, you can see these three figures over here. They have absolutely seen you.

They are making it absolutely clear. One of them, the leader in green, will probably look over a human man. He'll just be like, You're in the wrong part of town, Illuminator. You know that we don't want your guild around here. We've warned you before.

Don't make us ask again. And you see the Illuminator kind of looks like, well, go on. This is what you're being paid for, right? To deal with this. Carpenters, I presume? Yeah. So be it.

So be it. Battlestars. Yeah, they just look over and be like, all right, we won't warn you again, and then, yeah, they're very clearly gonna come up and try and rough you up. So yeah, Gruffydd. Gruff me up.

I would like to cast the spell Entangle. very clearly gonna come up and try and rough you up. So yeah, Gruffith. Gruff me up. I would like to cast the spell Entangle! Yep. Centred on where the trio are. And what is the radius are we talking here? It's 90 foot range and a 20 foot radius. 20 foot radius, so yep, it's gonna pretty much hit all three of them.

Does this persist in play? Like, I always get confused with Baldur's King now, where it stays in play. Point in range, make difficult terrain with plants. A creature in the area must succeed on a strength saving throw or be restrained by the entangling plants until the spell ends. Okay, great. So it's concentration, and they'll be there until the spell ends.

I'm going to try and map it out so I know. So 20 foot radius, right? Yes. Oh my God, it's massive. Yes. It's huge. 5, 10, 15, 20. I maybe over-egged this.

Wait, sorry, how long does this last? It lasts. It lasts. That's just a part of the city now. So basically like a circle of like this around here. Wow. All right, and circle of like this around here. Wow. All right. And then I'm making saving throws.

Saving, strength saving, strength saving throws. DC 13. DC 13. All right. The first enforcer, which is going to be the lady, the blonde lady at the front, she succeeds. Boo. The second enforcer, the blonde haired gentleman,

also succeeds, unfortunately. And then the last guild enforcer, the blonde-haired gentleman, also succeeds, unfortunately. And then the last guild enforcer, this is the lieutenant, also unfortunately succeeds. But that area is difficult terrain, and they will have to move through it. But you see that, yeah, from in between the flagstones and the cobblestones, all the weeds begin to grow, and they turn into this swarming mass of plants called forth by Gruffydd's powers.

But yes, unfortunately, a very lucky DM series of rolls. Boo! You should have used Tom's weird D-tron. Don't forget, I'm going to remind you guys, we'll put these on the list as well. You have three fate. Remember, you have different ways that you can use them as well. Unfortunately, you can't use it to add to a saving throw.

You can use it to attack. You guys did have cheat sheets. I don't know if you still have them about what you can spend them on. It's in the cubby. Remember you can use them in interesting ways. If you want to do things like add a piece of cover or have something happen and stuff like that as well. I would also like to bonus action

activate my armor of open thorn. Yeah, so we see that kind of like natural energy kind of form over you, like a suit of armor. Excellent. All right, anything else go off on your turn? Any movement? I will move in front of Theresa.

Okay. Do you want a tiny hand? Just like that? Yeah. Okay. All alrighty. Oh, actually, I forgot to get Theresa's initiative as well, actually. Oh, shall I? Yes, please. It'll just be her dex mod.

Oh, speedy! 20! Alright, we'll just have her go next, after Gruff. Okay, well... If Gruff is finished... Since there are three Lothians over by that lamp over there... Three that you can see. The lamp to the west, it makes sense that she would head down to the one to the east,

far away from where they are. Yeah, she will make the point that, like, I can't start repairing it until you deal with these ruffians. Like, I can't start fighting the lamps while I'm distracted. I won't even start working even on this one. You have to basically clear these guys out, and then she can start working on it, which is why she has some ability to attack and do other stuff.

So she can help you in the fight. In that case, let's... Considering that it takes her an hour to repair a light, and an hour is like 100 turns. Yeah, it's Frustrate a cantrip. I just thought she was going to be out of the combat. Is Frustrate a cantrip? I just thought she was going to be out of the complex. No. Is Frost Ray a cantrip?

It's her signature attack. She can just do that attack all the time. Okay. Well, given that you've just made the terrain difficult in that area, it makes sense to make it even harder for them to move. So, yeah, she'll use a Frost Ray on any of those three, I presume. Did you tell me which one? The one that's furthest to the west, let's say. Blonde Lady.

Yes, yeah. So that is a plus five to hit. With a d20, that's a ten! So, 15? No. Oh, a ten total? That is not going to be enough. Even with the vines around them, they do manage to sort of dodge to the side

as the ray of frost impacts on the house behind them. Okay. And in a spook terror, I presume, she will run 25 feet to kind of get to where the fountain is. Okay. I will do that. I was going to say, can you... Ah!

5, 10, 15, 20, 25. Okay. I'm trying to take a little bit of cover from behind. Take a bit of cover. Yep, absolutely. All righty, after Teresa goes, it is Daisy, I believe, next. Hello. Having seen, they've not done anything yet.

No, they are definitely gearing up ready to come and fight, though. Because Daisy doesn't like to be the first one to do the violence. Yeah, because I am going to also point out something that you guys actually asked about in the last session. You can choose if you hit them with a melee attack or something like that to do non-lethal damage, if you just want to knock them out. There are types of damage which cannot be used

to do non-lethal damage. So things like radiant or fire or lightning can't make that non-lethal. What about finger of death? Yeah, also lethal. Things like thunder damage and force damage can be non-lethal, so you can kind of use those concussive force and it goes out.

Same with, I'm gonna to say, piercing weapons. Can't really knock somebody out with a piercing, like a stab of a dagger. Doesn't really knock someone out. Slashing weapon, you can use the flat of the blade.

What about psychic? Psychic, I would allow to be, yeah, I'd allow psychic damage to be non-lethal as well. But just something to keep in mind.

Yes. Like I said, and that only matters when it's like they're low on HP as well. Like, you know, if they're high on HP and you just want to beat them up, you can do said, and that only matters when they're low on HP as well. If they're high on HP and you just want to beat them up, you can do.

Yeah, well, we know when they're bloodied. Whether or not they're going to try and knock you guys out, you don't know yet. But just as a heads up. I was meant to ask, did anyone die in the last group? And I never did. She said that they had a beating. Yeah.

She didn't say it. She didn't say they were killed, yeah. Yeah. All right. We won't kill. I will move around the, essentially, I wanna move the other side of the fountain to where she is, so around here,

so just to start spreading us out. 10, 15, 20. Well, I was gonna go around this way. Oh, so you're taking cover. I'm basically going around you. Going to the furthest side of the fountain. And then what, you wanna dash? Oh, you wanna go over like that.

Yeah, I wanna go this way. So that, and then, yeah. You can get about. Daisy fell off the fountain. Tripped over. With your movement, you're about there at the moment. Cool. I forget, you can dash as a bonus action and stuff as well.

I will hold me action. Okay. And actually, I will dash to get just down off of the fountain a little bit. Okay. Down here. Just because I'm not doing anything else with that. And I'll hold my action to

just because I'm not doing anything else with that. And I'll hold my action to attack them if they attack one of my friends. Okay. So just attack. If somebody tries to attack your friend, you want to attack them, throwing a radiant blade, I'm assuming. Yeah.

Okay. All right. Cool. Okay. After Daisy's go, it would be, so Ophelia, you're at 13, but also so is the lieutenant, and the lieutenant's gonna go first. The lieutenant is gonna call out

kind of like all these plants, like, oi, you lot, get in here! And you see, appearing from the alleyway just off where that other light is. Okay, to the east. Pile those in there, they're gonna be moving shortly, Tom, so you might wanna move those for me. other light is okay to the east okay move all those guys together five of them yep and seeing as gruff earth is the one constant spell how they move they are, 15, 20, 25, 30. No, they are basically going to rush and surround Xanthius. Oh, no! Yep, you're the closest one.

So rushing from the side of an alleyway. However, this ability from the lieutenant, get in here, does cost me a fate point. So I must spend a fate point and you guys gain one. So they literally like... So they rush bring in the crew. Sorry, this ability is called like bring in the crew!

And you watch as these guys rush and they will the next two will move to get as close to you as possible. So those last two squares. And then they are going to perform a group attack. Monsters! As they basically try and overwhelm and beat the ever-loving crap out of Xanthius.

Will I actually go off? It will go off, yep. So you get to make your attack first as a response to them starting the attack. Cool. So it's three of them fighting me, not all five. So that's not as bad as it could be, but... Oh, that was close to it.

It's a 19 on the dice, so 24. That is going to hit. And I get a sneak attack because they're besides them. I would say that, yeah, they're within five feet of an ally. I need the total damage here. Eleven. Eleven points of damage. All right.

So you watch as this radiant blade, and it's radiant energy, right, the blade's made out of? Yeah. Oh, shit, no. Losing the nose. Flies across. You just react without thinking, Daisy,

like that kind of natural instinct of you see your friend, you see Xanthius about to be swarmed by these guys with hatchets and clubs and, you know, beat sticks, and just, woof, this blade of light flies out of your hand, embeds into the back of one of these guys, kills them. These are minions. As you watch, the other one kind of of takes a bit of the damage as well as the blade kind of cuts past his mate,

but doesn't quite finish him off. As you turn around, and this gang are just like, get him, and just the group attack becomes more sort of impassioned. We don't wanna kill any of you, but she does. I don't have... I didn't realize they were going to be... I'm not going to fight them.

I'm just going to rogue. So this is going to be a group attack with three of them able to join in. They are all attacking you. Yeah, no. Hey, I welcome it. So the way they work is they basically attack as a group, so they all make one attack, basically. That is a 22 to hit.

Is that hit? Yeah. That is three points of hit. Is that hit? Yeah. That is three points of damage, which they are going to make lethal. They are not going to make this non-lethal because they've won a better number of games. Are they, like, now... Is it obvious that they're now making this lethal

because of that? This pack is. This group of individuals are. Okay. Like, you see that one of their companions is laying face down. And, yeah, but they are, like, on you, Xanthius. They're, like, over your body.

Like, they're, like, pummeling you, punching you, kicking you, stabbing you. Ow! As they surround you, basically. And then we go to Ophelia. Ophelia's going to look at the group of mercenaries that are beating Xanthius. Just go, ah, a feast. a feast how kind she's gonna rage

there's no way that she wasn't gonna try it and i'd like to run up to the group attack xanthius yeah maybe like spider climb over one of them and like do like a little flip over to get to the back of them oh my god uh well so because there's no wall to run along here, so you would move, say, to like here. So you were here. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty. If you go another space, they will get an opportunity attack. Fair enough.

Okay. Really? Yeah, I'll take it. Make an acrobatics check, actually, for me. Because if you want to do like a cool flip, if you succeed, I'll tell you what though, if you succeed this, you will successfully land their no opportunity attack.

If you fail, you're falling prone in that space. Can I use my inspiration? You can, yeah. You can use it now or you can wait and see what you roll. Remember, it's a re-roll so you can spend it afterwards. I'll spend it afterwards. I'll spend it afterwards. 16. Wait, wait, afterwards! 14. 16.

16. Wait, wait, wait, wait. 18. 18, yeah. Nimbly, like this beautiful pirouette, like a ballerina, just kind of leap and dance and spin through the air, land on the other side of them, blood whip, whoosh, kind of comes lashing out

as you land amongst them. Hell yeah. And then I'm just going to whip my whip around, whoosh, whoosh, try and get one of them. Hell yeah. And I'm just going to whip my whip around. Try and get one of them. Okay. 16. 16 is a hit.

Can you just roll the full damage for me? Cool, okay. They do have over damage. And I'm going to get extra positive for rage. I do. Eight total. Eight points of damage. You wipe one of these guys out, absolutely. And then one of the injured ones, the one that Daisy's radiant blade sort of passed through

and did a little bit of damage to, is also kind of struck by it and sort of staggers a little bit as well as over damage. These minions will take over damage from weapons and stuff. That's cool. Cool. But yeah, so you land amongst them. Anything else on your turn? Bonus move and then action.

All righty. After Ophelia, we then go to, in fact, I'm gonna do my little trick for tricking who's gone. The next heist initiative is Xanthius. Xanthius, at the start of your turn, if you start your turn within five feet of three or more of these guild lackeys, your speed is reduced by five feet

for each lackey within 15 feet. So currently it's reduced by 15 feet. Is that? Oh no, you've actually, yeah, one's been killed. So you've got, yeah, but within five feet it has to be. So yeah, so it's only two, so 10 feet current reduction. I am still beneath a flurry of fists and clubs and a machete.

Machete. I wanna get these guys done. So I'm going to cast... Oh, it's gonna hit Rowan and Ophelia. I think it's fine. Wow, wow. They're attacking me and I'm squishy. I wanna cast a Earth Tremor.

Okay. So this is... Rowan is not pleased. You tell me what happens, Tom. Rowan's fine. It's an Earth Tremor. Chris tries a noise. Rowan's fine.

I create a... I'm dead. It doesn't do a lot of damage. I create a lot of runes and then slam them into the ground to a ten-foot radius. The earth around me is tremoring. And they make a dexterity saving throw.

All righty. I will do this individually for each of the guild lackeys. The first one, what's the DC? Oh, my God, it's 12. Okay, and dexterity, yeah? Yeah. You are low level, that's fine. First one fails. Second one fails. Oh. Third one it's 12. Okay, and dexterity, yeah? Yeah. You are on a low level, that's fine.

First one fails, second one fails, third one fails. As these are minions, all three. They would only take, oh okay. They're minions. And this is bludgeoning damage, so could I? You can make this non-lethal if you wish. So they fall to the ground and hit their heads. So yeah, do a dex save first. What have you got for that?

And I guess Ophelia as well. Yes. Rowan and Ophelia both need to make this as well. It's already saving for a DC 12. And that one. 13. 13, so Ophelia, you succeed. So it's 1d6 bludgeoning for you, Rowan.

6. Wow. And you're prone. Oh, marvellous. That was good times. If the ground in that area is loose earth or stone, Rowan, six. Wow. And you're prone. Oh, marvelous. That was good times. If the ground in that area is loose earth or stone, which it is. It is, it's cobblestone.

Then it becomes difficult terrain until cleared. Okay, so basically a ten-foot radius around Xanthius right now is difficult terrain. That sucks for me. I have to get in the very center of this. Sucks for you, he's on the floor. Yeah. Yeah. So you, he's on the floor. So you watch as Xantus' palms and runes slam into the ground.

All the cobblestones leap up. I want it to look intimidating. I just took down three of them. It knocks out all of these lackeys. They kind of go stumbling to the ground. You hear the other Carpenter Guild members just like, they're taking us out, they've got magic. Get in there, you fools.

It's barely been six seconds. The others are on their way, as they call out. All right, Xanthius, anything else on your turn? You've still got move action and a bonus action. Yeah, I'll use what movement I'm... Can I help Rowan up? No, obviously you just use your action. I see, okay. I will, in that case, use my movement speed to just...

Now, technically, because you started your turn, you are still technically over one because it's all happening at once. Right. So it's as you're kind of moving... Oh, no, there was only two, wasn't there? Yeah, so it's 10 feet reduction. Okay.

So you've got 20 feet of movement left. So you can basically get to the outside of your difficult terrain. I can basically get here. Yeah. Two tiles forward. Yeah. Like moving across like broken earth that you've just created.

But then you see these guys go flying and are knocked unconscious. Anything else? That's everything. All righty. So that is Xanthius. We go to Rowan. Great job, Lord Xanthius. Thank you.

Also sorry. So powerful. So half your movement to stand up. I will stand up. So 15 feet. Yep. I assess the battlefield. And knowing that they're coming from that direction, I look at Gruff and I strum a bardic

inspiration that streams some energy to you. And you also gain a little mote of potential as well which I'm going to I think it's your choice whether you want attack ability check attack roll saving throw

you can use that I'm going to use attack roll well you use it when you make an attack you can spend the bardic you have a little spinning oh the mote

yes so you can use it on an attack roll so I think it's like whatever the bardic is spent on, you get that moat effect on. Yeah, it's the inspiration. You get that. All right.

So that was your bonus action. You've moved half. And I'm going to try and move. So that's 10, right? Yeah. Yeah, and then it'll say, yeah. You would go back one more because you had to spend half your movement to stand up.

So you only get that extra. And I'm just going to prepare an action with my longsword. If they're within range, I will attack them with my longsword. Okay, all right, perfect. Just getting it into stance. Yeah, perfect. All righty. Well, the two enforcers are basically going gonna 10, 20, 30, 10, 20,

basically get to the edge of the difficult terrain with their full movement. And then they're gonna spend their action to dash, basically, and they are going to, going to, yeah, I think they're all gonna go this way. They're not too worried about Daisy. How fricking dare you. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

Fair enough. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Don't get to anyone just yet. Not yet. Pulling out their hatches, yeah, kind of getting ready. Yeah, that is literally all they can do, thanks to the entangle, that really slowed them down. Yeah.

And in fact, that entangle has another effect as well because you see coming rushing from one of the alleyway already another group of guild lackeys were making their way but their turn is basically spent getting to the edges of this plant growth as well. They have to dash and do the exact same thing. Was this another kid and boys situation? This was,

they were already on their way. I see. But you do see another pack of very similar, like these guys have got like,

they don't really have armour, like leather tools. They've got like clubs and sticks and they look a little bit poorer. These look like

kind of just like street thugs that have been recruited. Yeah, basically. Damn. They're like minions. Minions. Yeah, they come rushing out and they're like, you see the guild lieutenant here just like street thugs that have been recruited. Yeah, basically. Damn. They're like minions. Minions. Yeah, they come rushing out and they're like,

you see the guild lieutenant here just like pointing desperately like, get him! Get him, boss! Get him! I also, I do apologize. You got it, boss! I forgot to move the lieutenant. Who would have moved?

10, 20, 30. No, you missed your turn, sorry. And then had his action. Oh, he's coming coming we'll go there yeah he's like pointing at the rest of you kind of saying like get him um but that was i would have just done his movement that's all all right so that is the end of the first round we go to round two starting off with uh gruffith uh teresa i think is ahead of no i'm gonna have you go first and then teresa will go second uh i'm going to step up to the leader who is closest to me yep the enforcer enforcer uh as i do i will cast shillelagh

so a green energy passes over all the armor and stuff and everything. Yeah, and I'm gonna straight up attack. Okay, I'm gonna remind you guys, you do have four fate dice there to be used if you would like to. I've got a motor body. You do have a motor body of inspiration. That's a bespoke fate dice. I rolled 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 to hit.

29. Does that hit? 29 will indeed hit. Wow. That is five points of damage. And then also... You need to make a con saving throw. A constitutional saving throw for the enforcer. That is an 18. I'm rolling very well on their saving throws.

So they don't get the thunder damage. So they don't get thunder damage. Extra thunder damage. That's the extra thing from the draw. Does it do anything on a successful save? No, it doesn't look like it. Nope, okay, all right. Well, it still hits, though. That is all I can do for now.

Also, I will gain four. I mean, I would like a damage roll from your attack. Yeah, I gave it to you. I said it was five. Five points. I didn't hear you. I was too busy rolling saving throws. Five points of damage. Yeah, the Shillelagh, I said it was five. Five points. I didn't hear you. I was too busy rolling saving throws. Five points of damage. Yeah, there's Shillelagh. The club smacks into the enforcer.

They kind of take it on the brunt of their shoulders. Still standing, though. And I gain four temp HP from my armour of oak and thorns. Okay. I imagine it kind of just waves of green energy, just pulse over Gruff as he, you know, moves, attacks, does all of this good stuff. That is all I can do. Thank you.

Okay. All right, so after Gruffeth's go, we have Theresa. Me? Yeah. Sorry. Fine, I blanked that real hard. I think, again... I need to remember the features.

I'll just try another Frost Ray, but this time at this lieutenant you were talking about. Okay. Now, the same thing, they are going to have technically cover from Teresa, because she's on opposite kind of like corner. Is this something I could... Yeah, I mean if Teresa moves around, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, in that case, yeah, five foot movement just to go in front of little Xan. Big Xan.

Sure, yeah. And is that, if that's... Well, basically I'm counting that if you draw a line between the two anywhere across that fountain, it's going to count as cover. Okay. So if she moves to, say, here, that's obviously bringing her in rage, then there's no cover. I would say here, you'll be all right as well. Yeah, I'll obviously bringing her in rage, then there's no cover.

I would say here, you'll be all right as well. Yeah, I'll move ten feet then, but not right next to that berserker-looking guy. And yeah, let's do another Frost Ray. Oh, she's good. She's really good. Eight. This is eight to hit. It's not enough. No. And then... Kind of like an artificer, she's using almost like a rod to cast this ice spell.

It's like a little device. It's okay. I know she's not a fighter. And then spend 20 feet, 5, 10, 15, 20, to get basically even further behind the fountain than she was before. Alrighty, perfect. So that's going to be end of Teresa's go. We then go to Daisy. Hello. Hello.

I'm going to hit one of the, I'm just going to try and hit the group, the new group over there. So the same rule is going to apply basically. If your attack basically passes anything from this fountain. So yeah, you could step out five, 10, 15, and then easy. And then you can duck back. Then I will do attack. Okay, yeah, absolutely. You won't get sneak attack on any of these.

That's fucked. It is. 19 to hit. 19 will hit. Oh wow, cool, I rolled a one, so that's four damage. Well, they are minions, so that's enough to take out one, but if this is with a radiant blade, I mean, we've already crossed this bridge,

I don't have anything else. Yeah, no. We, you. Ophelia's hungry. I mean, we've already crossed the spirit. I don't have anything else. Yeah, no. We, you. Ophelia's hungry. I mean, that's Ophelia. You're already getting life in prison. Her whole thing is death. You may as well.

You have so much blood. I mean, you would probably hear a voice in your head which is like, better them than us, like kind of like, you need to look out for yourself. Gough's just back in a stick, you know? Don't give me this shit. I don't have anything else. It's either that or I get up in their face and everything. Just back him with a stick, you know? Don't give me this shit, I don't have anything else. It's either that or I get up in their face and die. Just throw the dagger so that the hilt hits.

Yeah, the blade. I only rolled a nine on my second attack, so I'm assuming that. That is not enough, unfortunately, no. So these two blades kind of go soaring past. One does strike true, buries its companion to the ground. Oh, Jim's dead! My brother, My brother Jim!

All right, end of turn for Daisy, which means we go to Ophelia and the lieutenant. Lieutenant is going to act first, however. And the lieutenant is going to use... Ruffle. No. No, they won't be using that. They're going to step in.

And they're going to use their Guild Sweep attack. All creatures in a 15-foot cone, so this is going to be Rowan and Gruffydd. I need you to make DC 14 dexterity saving throws, please. Is this a thing that will push pull prone? I need you to make DC 14 dexterity saving throws, please. Is this a thing that will push pull prone? This is... They are the competence guild, so no, it is not.

11 fail. 11 fail for Rowan. Sorry, which save was it? Dexterity saving throw. 14 to beat. 8. 14, so you both fail, unfortunately. One. You are both gonna take nine points of slashing damage.

Whoa. As this creature, the lieutenant, the creature, comes in with a flurry of swipes kind of moving through you with these two hatchets. You take nine slashing damage, but also gain two bleeding conditions, or two stacks of bleeding. I'm gonna use my Stubborn Endurance, so I...

The abstract shapes pulse and form a protective layer around Rowan, and I can reduce the damage taken by one d12 plus two. Okay. I need to make a concentration saving throw. You do. But I'm being dumb dumb today, so I can't remember. Constitution saving throw.

DC is 10 because the damage wasn't higher than 10. What was the total? 16. 16, your success on the entangle is still up. What was the total damage? It was nine points of damage. Yeah, so I've reduced that by six. By six, so you still take three.

Because you take some of the damage, you still take the bleeding conditions. So the way bleeding condition works, yeah, two stacks of it. The way it works is at the start of your turn, you're going to take D4 damage plus the number of stacks you have of necrotic damage, basically.

All right. But we'll get to that on your turns. That is their action. That's it. That's going to be the end of their turn. For the uh, they, uh, that's it. That's gonna be the end of their turn. Uh, for the lieutenant. So Ophelia. Ophelia would like to run up behind the enforcer. Which one? The guy in green is the lieutenant?

The guy on the lieutenant's team. And I would like to, uh, reckless bite this boy. Yeah, let's go! This is a bonus action, right? Or is this a normal attack? It's just a normal attack. Okay. So I get advantage. Yes, you do, because you're reckless.

And then if it hits, I'd like to use my Crimson Fury and give myself an extra d6 of damage, please. Okay. So 14, 18 to hit. 18 will hit, yeah. Nice. So that's six, seven, eight points of damage total. Eight points of damage to the lieutenant. Eight points of damage.

And I believe that when you bite someone, you can use empowered bite right to get a bonus on your next thing or something. Do you wanna do that as well? Let's see if I can bite. I would like to, yep, gain a bonus to my next ability or attack roll I make, and that equals the piercing damage of my bite. So that'd be six bonus to my next ability or attack roll I make, and that equals the piercing damage of my bite.

So that would be six bonus to my next attack. So plus six bonus to your next attack. That's massive. All righty. So you sink your teeth in, Ophelia, and bite into the exposed neck of this lieutenant. And it's not pretty. It's's being reckless it's ferocious like you're tearing flesh and just gushes of blood fill your mouth and you drink and drink and drink and that strength

just like before in burnell oh this this is the taste you remember. This is the good stuff. And you feel it just pulsing through your body and just bringing that invigoration to you. And yeah, you feel great. She just laughs. Philly's just laughing with joy. Jesus fucking Christ! She just bit me!

Jesus is here! And I'm going to use the lieutenant's reaction. Don't just stand there. He's like, get her hit me! Jesus is here? And I'm gonna use the lieutenant's reaction. Don't just stand there. He's like, get her off me! And this enforcer is gonna move and gets to make a free attack against you. He gets advantage, because I'm reckless. Yeah, he's reckless, yeah.

Holy guacamole. So with advantage, that is gonna be a 23 to hit. So you're gonna take six points of slashing damage and you gain one stack of bleeding as he cuts you with this big axe. You're next. Yeah, yeah. And so you're now kind of bleeding.

It's necrotic damage, though, when you take that. But yeah, he looks at you, and there is almost a bit of like, what the fuck are we dealing with when he does that? Really, I'm both horrified, but also kind of aroused. I had to share that. All right, so after Ophelia, if that's your full turn, anything else you want to do?

No, I'm good, thank you. All right, in that case, we go to Xanthius. Okie doke. I would like to use Chaos Bolt. Okay. My big boy favourite new spell. Big boy. If I set this as force damage...

I don't believe you can set it, right? You have to pick. No, you're right. It also... I do have to roll. You're right. I would also like to use a. I don't believe you can set it, right? You have to pick. No, you're right. It also, I can, yeah, I do have to roll. You're right. I would also like to use a sorcery point to twin it. Sure.

So I wanna hit the lieutenant. Separate attack rolls. I'll hit the lieutenant to begin with, and if I can wang one out against that group at the back. Wang one out. That's a word. So you wanna send one at the lieutenant, and then you're gonna send another one at one of this group here.

Yes. Okay. So let's do the lieutenant first. Lieutenant first. So roll for the attack or whatever it is. Oh, that is 21. Hits. And that is two d8s.

Where are my d8s? There. That's a good dig. Okay. Bam. A one and a three. Oh, it's either acid or fire. So that's not, that's lethal. Yep.

What do you have? Quite gruesomely as well. What do you have that's not lethal? He could have rolled like thunder and stuff, I think. One out of like four psychic and thunder. Maybe poison? No, that's pretty lethal. Maybe cold? No. Okay. Intense cold enough to? No, that's pretty lethal. Maybe... Poison's pretty lethal.

Cold? No. Okay. Intense cold enough to do damage, I'm going to say. It's not high damage, to be fair. Me in winter. So it's four, but then don't you get to roll a d6 or something as well?

No. When I cast a spell of a second higher, a level second or higher. Oh, so it's just 2d8. Okay. Well, it's 2d8. Just 2d8. Oh, my guy.

So it's four... Four points of damage? Four... Fuck it. Fire damage. Yeah. So you watch as these flames... And you just see he pulls his arm away as you burn him with flames.

Oh, I should have said it before. I was thinking of empowering it. It's fine. I will do the regular attack, the other Chaos Bolt, against the creep at the back. Against the minions. It's 17. Hits.

And it is two and a five, so seven damage of either cold or lightning. Well, it doesn't bounce, right? But that is enough to just... It doesn't bounce. You incinerate or burn crisp one of these. It's lightning. Yep.

So with lightning, you kind of one blast of fire bursts into the lieutenant. With your other hand, this bolt of lightning blasts one of these lackeys off of their feet, sending their body thrown into the building behind them. Just you see the smokering crater in their chest. Hell yeah. And because I spent a sorcery point, I get a a rune so runes form over my body as well i will let you track that uh rowan

is up next um seeing xanthius obliterate people and ophelia tear one apart from the neck yeah they are still alive both of these individuals like. Take the clay. They are currently up. It's very violent, the actions. I've only killed one. Three? Not lethal. It's like Batman villain alive. Because he's like a non-lethal damage.

I can't kill them. But I won't have to save you. He'll hit someone with a car, but then they land in like a hospital bed. He just breaks every bone in their body. Yeah. Either way, Rowan's going to step up to that aggression. He's going to point at the lieutenant in front of him and say, You are a carpenter.

I prefer masonry. Vicious mockery. Vicious mockery. Oh, that is vicious. Is that wisdom saving throw? That is vicious. That is livelihood. That is team nine failure. It hurts there. One to four. I feel like a part? That is vicious. That is livelihood. That is nine, failure.

I don't know where it hurts there. That's a four. I feel like a part of him was like, you're right, I should have done the other course. Two. Two points of damage. You see like a kind of like, like, what are you talking about?

He's like confused, but there's some sort of magic that's hurting his brain. Why didn't you kill me instead? What? I don't get it. I don't care what you like. That's what he's been worried about his whole life, that he made the wrong decision. My father was always right. He said I should go into stonework.

Fucking hate Vicious Mockery. It's so dumb. I love it. There's no money in carpentry. I'm in a city of towers. They've got stone. I'm just putting myself at the front line of the next group. Yeah, you can see that this group is about to rush up. Anything else on your turn, Rowan?

That is it. All right. Well, our two enforcers have already got their targets. So Gruffydd, she is going to take a swing at you with her carpenter's hatchet. That is going to be an 18 to hit. Just hit, yeah. Just hit. Out of interest, sorry, what is your AC? Actually, do I know this?

As a reaction from... Are you within 30 feet? 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30? Theresa, as a reaction, when an ally within 30 feet is targeted by an attack, that ally gains 2 AC until the start of the next turn. 19. All right, then that causes it to miss. That is one of those uses done.

So Teresa kind of cobbles together some sort of, almost like a little iron band of series of bars and things like that, sees you about to be hit. It's like, oh, Gruffydd! And throws this thing. And as the hatchet is about to dig into your skin, the metal kind of clamps on and forms like a temporary piece of armour

and then it collapses and breaks apart. But she kind of... And bounces off. But you got 19 until... With the bleed. Did you have... I had one bleed on my turn. You had one bleed on your turn?

Then you would have taken just one stack of bleeding. Yeah. Then three points of necrotic damage at the start of your turn thank you for reminding me good sport start of turns though isn't it and so that

completely deflects that attack the other enforcer is going to attack Ophelia of which I have advantage because of reckless attack that is going to be a 20 to hit you Ophelia, of which I have advantage because of Reckless Attack. Oh, I probably should have. That is going to be a 20 to hit you, Ophelia, in total. That is six points of slashing damage and another stack of bleeding. So I believe you are up to two now, yes?

I'm resistant to slashing. Okay, yeah, that's right. You're raging, so that would be three points of slashing, but you do still take that bleeding condition. Okay, yep. So two stacks of bleeding. So she does bleed.

She does bleed. Does look like Ophelia bleeds slower like there's not as much blood as there should be uh because you're resistant to necrotic aren't you uh it's like i believe you are because of your damp here i think you're risen to radian and necrotic i'll come back to it, but I think you are. If you're not, I'm wrong. That's their go. They don't do anything else.

They're just making simple attacks. Rowan, these three minions rush you, basically. I'm sorry about what I said. You will be. Beat him, lads. And they're going to make a group attack against you. I don't know why. You will be. Beat him, lads. And they're going to make a group attack against you. That is a 25 to hit.

And you're going to take three points of bludgeoning damage. Now you've suggested it for everyone. They're just beating you. They're like punching you and whacking you with a big stick. Ow. Stop it. They've got like brass knuckles on. Get him. There's another way. No, there's not. You're working for those fucking lamplighters. and they got like brass knuckles on. Get him!

There's another way. No there's not! You're working for those fucking lamplighters! We don't want them around here! Beat him up! They're just trying to light the lights, dude! Do you wanna make an insight check for me, Daisy? Do I wanna make an insight check? Yeah, make an insight check.

You just, after what you just said. I didn't say dude, just... That's fine. Natural 20. Natural 20. Daisy's kind of watching all of this happen, like, a little bit separated from it, kind of throwing his daggers,

but, like, yeah, like, they're being really defensive and aggressive for, like, what this is. Like, this does seem, like, a bit extreme that they're going to these lengths this can't just be about the lamp light is like having some lights here you're not sure what the deal is but there's is clearly something is it else is going on we go to the top of a brand-new round and we do start with Gruffydd and I believe you have some bleeding stacks double leadings

all right so you're gonna take three points of necrotic damage. Okay. I am just going to straight up go in for another whack on the lead detector. The enforcer who's currently in front of you, yep. So that is a natural one. Yeah. I hit my own nose. You get a swing, they just block it

and throw you to the side, you kind of stumble a little bit. You don't look particularly knightly. You probably feel a little bit embarrassed. That's the worst. Natural one! Natural one! Why the fucking drive-by? Natural one, mate. Gotta have consequences.

You look less like a knight right now. You look real lame. Whoa! Whoa! That was a deep cut. Anything else? Whoa. Did you see what... Oh, my God. I was going to send my ice diver to go protect you,

but no, I'm not going to do that now. You're out of the action. That was a bit. I'm going to send it to protect... It was a bit. I would like to... I guess, like, maybe he's trying to summon the ice diver as a bonus action.

Sure. To send it to protect Rowan, but he's so distracted because he's not used to multitasking and all these things. Yeah, like stumbles with the attack. Yeah, he just completely mistimes the attack. Maybe the Ice Diver, the glittering light just blinds him a little bit and he's like, ugh, and just misses it completely.

Keep in mind, Rowan, that you have that Ice Diver protecting Rowan. And that still goes through. It's a bonus action for me to send out. Okay, all right. So that's the end Ice Diver protecting Rowan. And that still goes through. Okay. Yeah. It's a bonus. It's not a... It's a bonus action for me to send out. Oh, okay. Okay. All right.

So that's the end of your turn, Gruff? Yes. All right. I still get four attempt HP, though, from my armor, because I didn't attack. You didn't attack. Yes. It doesn't have to hit, I don't believe.

Yeah. As long as you get it. Help me. Then we go to Teresa, who is being played by Tom. Hi. Thank you for the reminder. As a reminder. I mean, it seems like a Frost Ray will suit once again. She's very simple, like, she's meant to just be a quick turn, like a little bit of extra damage.

Yeah, again, against the lieutenant that was, is now fighting Ophelia, or has just been bitten by Ophelia. 19. 19 hits. So that is a 1d8 plus 2 of damage. 7 damage. And speed is reduced by 10 feet. Not sure if that matters. You see, yeah, I mean, it will.

I mean, it's worth noting. Remind me if I forget. But you see the lieutenant, as that ice ray kind of encapsulates them and kind of burns them with this, you know, the frost burn kind of effect as it, like, scorches their legs and freezes parts of it. They are looking pretty beaten up, and they're just like, and they're, like, looking around, and you begin to see that they're now looking around like,

oh, this is too much. And he looks at the enforcer next to him, and it's like, he, like, begins to sort of, like, talk to them, like, maybe we should go get the others, like, you need to, he begins to sort of talk to them like, maybe we should go get the others, kind of calling out to them and stuff like that. They're looking bad. They are bloodied, and they're not looking very healthy.

And for the rest of her turn, she will run right up to Daisy, who is in the middle, but away from everybody, and also nice looking. I don't know how Teresa acts. But yeah. Well, it is Daisy's turn next.

I'm very cute. Okay. Seeing that they're a little bit like, why are they doing this? Can I just, can I stand up on the fountain and just shout to the lieutenant? Why are you fighting them?

It's just some lights! Why don't you just let her fix the lights and then we can all go? Give me a persuasion check, please. Also, Gruffydd, can you roll me another concentration check for entangled? DC 10. No.

All right, so the entangled does fade away. Yeah. 18 plus two. Oh, 18 plus two, so the entangle does fade away. Yeah. 18 plus 2. 18 plus 2, 20. Unnatural. Unnatural 20. I didn't expect that. You see the lieutenant look up,

and he's like, you don't know what you're talking about, girl. This is guild business. And he says, it's not for outsiders, but trust us, we've got good bloody reason. And you can see that there's such anger in their eyes.

I'll say that was a free action for you to do that. I won't say that, I'm not gonna make you cost an action to do a bit of cool role play. Well then we're just gonna have to keep defending so that we can get the lights back on. I'm sorry. Keep working for your lamp like a master's mercenary okay um can i time to die uh go for the ones that are around rowan

you absolutely can the lackeys the guild lackeys glackies they have names damn it do they keith lackey one yeah but minions are always named things like Bob and Jim and Keith Because I can't think of names for them 21 21 is enough Hits I do need to know the damage You do get sneak attack

Okay, so Attack is 7 And then sneak attack is 5 So 7 plus 5 With your modifier and stuff as well? Okay. That is enough to slay the first one. The dagger does pass into this second one

and heavily wounds it, but it's not quite enough to take it out as well with the overdamage. Bonus action. Yeah, bonus action. 13 plus 5 to hit. Yeah, that will hit. That many.

Oh, I need a d4. Three. Three. It's enough to finish this one off. There's a minion. So you watch Rowan as this blade of light streaks past, just cuts the throats of these two guild lackeys, and they fall to the ground. Rowan doesn't know how to feel. I think he's got shock.

Anything else, Daisy, on your turn? No. All right. The lieutenant is going to disengage and make a run for it. Okay. 25, 30. Action to disengage. Move. Yeah, and that 30. Action to disengage. Move.

Yeah, and that's just going to be it. You can see they're kind of limping their leg. Oh, their movement was reduced. By 10 feet. That's right. So they are only going to go to there. So they're kind of limping away like, you lot, keep it busy.

I'll go get the others. As they begin fleeing. Ophelia. as they begin fleeing. Ophelia. This big, kind of like, burly-looking, probably, maybe, yeah, human probably, just like big, heavy-looking carpenter is staring down, trying to block your way.

Lots of blood. A lot of body to pulse blood through. I shall bite him as i promised him he would be next okay you don't want to forfeit a promise 12. oh yeah you could faint it or you could use your inspiration to re-roll remember fate has to be done before you roll about your plus six well that's right you do have your plus six well i remembered yes What about your plus six? Oh, that's right.

You do have your plus six. Well, I remembered, yes. Nine, ten, eleven, twelve. So that'd be eighteen. Eighteen hits. Yeah! Bite the boy, bite the boy, bite the boy. Bite the boy, bite the boy.

Bite that boy for me. Bite that boy for me. Woo! Six. Is that with your rage as well? That's eight total. Eight points of damage. I'm going to regain those eight points back as health.

So you're going to spend another empowered bite. Yep. Okay. So, again, you sink in. Oh, this is so good. Just it just memories of being back in Osseous, that refined flavour. He's got a few words. Just warmth trickling down your throat, filling your stomach and your body. You miss this yeah just you

can see my get off me what are you doing you have some sex of bleeding though don't you have to step all right in that case you would have taken three necrotic damage. Three necrotic. No, probably not. All righty. Anything else on your turn, Ophelia? That is me. Good, thank you. In that case, we go to Xanthius.

This lieutenant who's running away, he looks real messy. Oh, yeah, he's limping. You can see that he's heavily beaten up. I want to send a shard of psychic energy into this dude's brain with a mind sliver. Wow. Okay. Which is psychic damage. They must pass an intelligence saving throw.

Okay. Yeah. I don't think that's going to be enough. Even with a decent bonus, that is only going to be an 11. Needs 12. There you go. It will take not a lot of damage, but I'm hoping he's low enough.

So a d6. Four? Four. You watch as the lieutenant kind of stumbles as this strange power, like you kind of lance into his mind with your own magic, and he stumbles but doesn't go down. Okay.

And the next saving throw is minus one d4. Okay. I am actually going to use his reaction of don't just stand there as he kind of feels the lance and looks at you, kind of weaving your hands and has to spell. He's like, the one that Ophelia is currently latched onto, which I'm going to rule in a minute, he's like, don't just stand there, the mage.

Can you make an athletics check for me, Ophelia? Okay. Trying to push you off. Nat won. Nat won. You are just thrown off of him. I'm not going to make you go prone, but you don't go with him, because he gets to move 15 feet without provoking an opportunity attack.

So he is going to slide to here, and then he makes a free attack against Xanthius. Okay. That is a natural 1, however, so I am going to miss. Nice. I bet he doesn't look very knightly right now. He does not, no. He doesn't look very knightly at all. What an idiot.

But he does try and swing at you, and you manage to dodge to the side. Yeah. So that was your turn, Xanthius. Anything else? No. All right. In that case, we go to Rowan. Rowan's going to grab this lackey next to him.

Okay. By the scruff. I'm sorry. I can't let other people get hurt, and I'm going to lob him at the scruff i'm sorry i can't let other people get hurt and i'm gonna lob him at the lieutenant okay he's pretty big he's a big nice all right okay um i'm gonna say make a athletics check for me um does he get any bonus for being freaking huge? Well, I'm going to say that he can attempt this because of that. He's not going to get a bonus. Like a normal source card, unless you have like a really high strength.

You're throwing him, what, 15 feet, 10 feet? About 10 feet. Yeah. I'm going to say that you need, before you tell me the result, I'm going to say you need a 20 to even throw him the distance. Oh. 15. 15. I'll say a 15 to throw him him the distance. Oh. Oh. 15. 15.

I'll say a 15 to throw him, but the damage is gonna be less. It's like you're hit, I just wanna say. It's like barreling into his legs. Like he hits the ground and then goes rolling. I will make a acrobatics check for the guild guy. He is gonna kinda tuck and roll. Roll just a D6 for me one one

technically he is a minion so this guy is knocked out but he collides into this guy and I'm just gonna say it knocks him prone so like this guy goes unconscious this guy kind of falls on top of him as the two of them are sent sprawling to the ground okay using that I'm just going to use my movement to get in front. Ten. Yeah. Fifteen. Twenty.

Please stop. Yeah, you can see the guy's trying to disentangle himself. This is not necessary. Beaten and bloody. And you can just say, like, you don't know what you're talking about. Alrighty. As you do that. I'm willing to have a about. Alrighty, as you do that. I'm willing to have a dialogue.

I'm not. Not with you, not with the lackey of the lamplighters. The enforcers are gonna go, they're gonna continue their actions. They're gonna make an attack against you, Xanthius, and an attack against Gruff. The, oh, the one that, yeah, okay. Yeah, the one that moved up.

To attack you, Xanthus, is a 13. That does hit. Is that still with the ability, like, Teresa's ability? What? To protect you. It was on you. Oh, is there any one? No, there's three uses of it, but it is a reaction it has to use. But that would put me to 13, which...

I'm also going to tell you, like, this is not one fight and done. Like, you've got three of these lights to face. Oh, I know, I know. I'm happy to, yeah, just... Just'm also going to tell you, this is not one fight and done. You've got three of these lights to face. Oh, I know, I know. I'm happy to, yeah, just... Just take the hit? Yeah. All right. And then against Gruff,

that is a... Yeah, that's 22, unfortunately, against Gruff. That's going to hit a little bit. So you're both going to take six points of slashing damage and you gain a stack of bleeding. If I runic sorcery block this, a glyph of Aegis, does that stop the bleeding? If you reduce the damage to zero. Okay, I rolled a d6 runic sorcery block this, Glyph of Aegis. Yep.

Does that stop the bleeding? If you reduce the damage to zero. Okay, I rolled a d6 and that's four. So I take two damage. You take two, but you still do gain

the stack of bleeding. Okay. Alrighty. That is both of the enforcers goes. Yeah, Rowan, give me a insight check because you were kind of

talking to this guy. How much do I bleed? Sorry. Oh, how much do you bleed? A stack. How many? One. One? Two points of necrotic damage.

Insight, six. Just do it. Yeah, this, I mean, you just get the impression. This guy, he's a horrible man. What a nasty man. Just full of, yeah, he's a bad man. He's a bad man. Why are you so bad?

All of the minions are now knocked out, so that is their go done. And we go to the top of a brand new combat round. With Gruffydd. This lady is kind of just like, yeah, shows no sign of giving up anytime soon. I was just wondering whether or not Gruff would bother trying to talk to them

or just still keep whacking. You would have heard. Yeah, I would have heard. Yes. What is your quarrel with the Lamplighter's Guild? The woman will say... She's kind of a low-level enforcer. She'll say...

Uh... Ha! That guild has been bleeding us dry, and now they're up to something, and we're not having any part of it. We don't want them controlling our part of the city. And if you work for them, that means you're against us. in our part of the city. And if you work for them, that means you're against us.

So you just want to live in darkness around here, without the lights? What, you think the lamplight is killed? Own light, own fire. That's what they want you to think. But we're against it. Big lamp. Goddamn big lamp, I knew it.

Goddamn, we got fired, yeah, we got hired by the- We got hired by Big Lamp. Yeah, we got hired by we got hired by big lamp We should have worked for big wood We do gruff I'm whacking. Sure. Hey, remember, you can always be like, yeah, I'm gonna make this non-lethal. Doesn't really matter. 17 to hit.

17 will hit. Eight points of damageo. Eight points of damageo to the lady. That's a pretty big hit, and it does bloody her, in fact. So you kind of clock around the face with your magical staff. Spits blood. I knew it.

All right. Maybe we could talk this out as he just whacked away. Whack. Yeah, sounds good. Can I please take some bleeding damage, please? Yes, of course. I have three stacks. Oh, five points of necrotic damage to you, I'm afraid.

Oh, dear. Bugger. Bugger. Anything else on your turn, Gruffith, I'm afraid. Oh, dear. Bugger. Bugger. Anything else on your turn, Gruffith? I'm fine. That's it. That's all she's got. Yep.

He's got. Teresa. One has got. Don't forget to gain your temporary hit points again as well. Teresa. She only has ice magic, which is lethal. Would she kill? No, she would try not to kill.

So she would probably target somebody who does not look back close to kill. So she would probably target somebody who does not look back close to death. So the enforcer probably fighting you. Sanctius. Soften that one up. Yeah, she's basically seeing it as like, yeah, she's trying to soften them up and slow them down.

Yeah. Unless I've missed something. There isn't much. No, no, no, that's just her signature attack. She doesn't really have, she doesn't have weapons. She has a little hammer. 19. She could make a have... She doesn't have, like, weapons. She has, like, a little hammer, but... 19. She could make a melee attack, and I'd just improv it.

19 more hit. So it is... D8 plus 2. 10. 10 points of damage. So with that, this little tiny halfling lady, like, sees the one attacking you, like, Oh, you big brute, get your hands off of him!

And you just see his back is encased in ice. Oh, oh, maybe a bit too strong. And she kind of like waggles her stick around. It does not kill him, no, but badly wounds him. That blood, ice cold, so fresh. It's like an ice lullaby. She wants it warm, though, surely? With that, we go to Daisy.

Hello. I'm going to hit the one... Actually. So is that one that Rowan knocked over, is he still... The lieutenant is still technically conscious he was not prone, but he looks so beaten up. Can I just go over to him and, like, hit him with the dagger? Yeah, I mean, I would say if you want to make an attack with the dagger,

but we'll rule it as like, you kicking him. Yeah, I kind of wanted to do that. We'll just make it so it does a little bit less damage. I'll take a little bit of damage off or something like that. But yeah,

you basically run down from the fountain. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. Like running down. Boo! I can't let you go and get anyone else. And just kick him.

Yep, you give him a swift kick. Yeah, just give me an attack as if it was with your dagger. Your normal, mundane dagger. And I rolled a 19, so 24. 24 hits. All right, what is it, d4? Two points of damage with sneak attack, because Rowan's there Oh yeah

But Okay Sneak attack can be non-lethal With my dagger actually So It's Yeah sneak attack Because I'm going to reduce it a bit

Because it's technically Oh okay Yeah He's knocked out He is out cold Boot to the head Just Eyes roll back

Knocked unconscious He asked for it 11. He is out cold. Boot to the head. Just eyes roll back. Knocked unconscious. He asked for it. He was going to get more people. He's mad. I know. When you reduce the guild enforcer to, when you reduce the lieutenant, sorry,

to zero hit points, even though it's unconscious, like not lethal, their guild loyalty trait's going to come into effect. And the next member of the same guild who makes an attack has advantage. So the two enforcers see you knock out their friend, and they're like, they knocked out Steve!

They knocked out the boss! They kind of get empowered, like, oh, we've got to fight, even though they're badly hurt as well. No one kicks the boss in the head. Nobody kicks the boss like that, except me. And it was just a tiny little girl. Yeah, it was a tiny little girl.

So anything else on your turn, Daisy? No, I'm good. Thank you. All right. Lieutenant is knocked unconscious. Ophelia is next. Ice cold, tasty blood. Yes.

She's going to go and, yeah, bite the enforcer. I love how you're like, weapons? No, no, no. It's all bites now. All bites today. Yeah. You've been telling her for like the past few sessions how thirsty she no. It's all bites now. All bites today. Yeah?

Yeah. You've been telling her for the past few sessions how thirsty she is, so I mean... Oh, I know. Ten. Ten? Would you like to do any... Do you want to spend your inspiration to re-roll,

or do you want to keep that? She's spent it. Oh, did you spend your inspiration, did you? We are. All right, in that case, no, a ten is not enough. You can see he's got a thick leather tunic and your teeth just don't quite puncture through and he pulls his arm away, not giving you any kind

of purchase as you try and bite him. Was that reckless as well? That wasn't reckless, was it? That wasn't reckless, no. Okay, all right, yeah, no, you just unfortunately are unable to find purchase. Also, bleeding, see if you play. Oh, yes.

I have two stacks. So that would be four necrotic damage. Wonderful. So after them, the necrotic damage. Wonderful. So after them, Xanthius. I mean this guy's looking still pretty strong, right? No, no, both of the enforcers are now beyond, they're bloodied. Yeah, it's just like.

The lady looks the least affected. Ranged spells that have a saving throw throw if I'm right next to them does it have this today like it but no I think I'll do the same again mine's on on this guy you know this is they do not look particularly intelligent but I did roll a 14 yeah all right in that case it does I believe I think it's a country but there's nothing nothing yeah so you try and launch into his mind with magic but whatever sort of aggression has built and seeing their friend go down, they

are unaffected by your spell. OK, that's fine. I don't really want to be away from them. Do you have any bleeding stacks? I have one. You take four points of necrophilia. Oh. Ooh.

Nice. Anything else, Santheus, on your turn? That is... Yeah, that's me. I don't want to really move and get attacked. Rowan is going to... make two zeros with his hands like this. Infinity symbol. The infinity symbol. And then his hands are going to glow,

and it's going to create some manacles. Because with Performance of Creation. Okay. Is that used like a Bionic Inspiration? No, it's gonna create some manacles because with Performance of Creation, I'm going to... Does that use like a Bionic Inspiration? No, it's just one of my features. Can you use it as many times as you want or is it limited to this? No, it's one per long rest.

Okay, so this is your one use of it. This is my one use. Yeah, so you create a pair of manacles. Clink, clink. And then you put it behind his back and... I didn't make a key. That's true, you didn't make a key. That's true. Make a key. So yeah, you just put this pair of manacles on the guy.

They just become like steel, actual steel manacles. I believe as long as it doesn't go beyond a certain size. Medium size is my limit. I think there's a cost limit, so these are like iron manacles. They're not like made of gold. You're questioning the manacles, yet he made a full-on mattress and surfed it. Oh, yeah, yeah, no, you're right, yeah. I think the manacles are a bit a full-on mattress yeah that's true oh yeah yeah no you're right yeah yeah the manacles are a bit less super creative for clever idea okay anything else robert as long as there's not over 60 gold pieces worth of that i'd say the manacles probably close

that's like 50 but yeah that's just good all right anything else um i'm just going to sit him upright. Okay. Call your men off. He's unconscious. Oh. I kicked him. Oh, wait. Stripped our foot. The two enforcers who are left are going to... Basically, they are going to disengage and try and escape as well.

Sure. They are both looking pretty hurt, and they're not... They're like... So they are disengaging, so no attack of opportunity. 5, 10... And they're going the same way as the lieutenant was going. Yeah. Cool.

This one's actually going to dash the other way. So he's going to go past trees of 5, 10, 20, 25, 30. So they start running for it. That's just going to be their whole turn. Bam. Okay. We go to the top of the round. Gruffith.

To start with, bleed me. Bleed me. Three. Three bleeds. Six points of necrotic. And then I'm going to pursue after the lady who's run away from me. I have 35 foot movement. You can catch her easy.

If you want to talk, we can talk. I've got nothing to say to you. Stooge. 14 plus five. Hits. Is a nine. Team. Six points of damage. Six points of damage.

Six points of damage. Non-lethal. Yep. She is looking very rough, but is just still conscious. That's all I've got. Alrighty. From Gruffydd, we go to Theresa. That's you, Tom.

Sorry. Fuck me. What is wrong with me? I mean, this guy, she doesn't want to kill. I'd say that, like, basically, she can make a plus two attack with her hammer. So she'll have a plus two to the hit, and it will do a d4 minus one.

As he's running past? Yeah, she just moves up and tries to clunk him on the head. 14. It's... How much damage is it? Actually, no, he's an enforcer. It's a miss. His AC is high.

All right. Swing and a miss. You brute! Come back here! Technically move up to him. Yeah, well, sure, yeah. I'll take that. All right.

After Teresa, Daisy. Can I... Is this one looking injured, did you say? The lady. The lady. Yes, she's looking nearly close to passing out as well. This one over here. Oh, this one, this is the chap.

He's also pretty close to passing out. Okay, can I run? They're both looking bad. Can I run over there and, I'm gonna turn 15, 20, 25, 30. I'll dash if I have to. Yeah, if you dash, you can get there. And can I try and, like, knock them out as well?

Yeah. So because this guy's not prone, I say this would be an unarmed strike because you're going to try and punch. Because with a dagger, there's not really, like, even with a pommel. Somehow. Yeah, I'd say that you can either try to, like,

you can make an unarmed strike to try and damage him. And keep in mind, you will get sneak attack because Teresa's there. Fake dice. Or you can do, to trip him up, would be an athletics check opposed by his athletics. I'll try an unarmed strike. Okay. Do you want to add a...

Yep, I will add one to myself. Cool. As in, I'm not adding one to the roll I'm just putting it in my pool 18 18 hits so this is one damage plus

your 2d6 plus strength I don't have a alright so it's just one plus 2d6 8 I imagine that you know what would this be for Daisy plus 2d6. Eight. I imagine that,

you know, what would this be for Daisy? Is this like a kick in the balls? Is this like a clothesline as she goes running past? Yeah, I think it's going to be, it's less of a punch because she knows

she's not very good at that. But my little girl kicking the nuts. Yeah, she'll do something really like. Like, I imagine that actually he's turning, like seeing Teresa who he sees as maybe like a weaker kind of foe, he looks like he's about to like try and like... Kick in the nuts. Yeah, she'll do something really like... Like, I imagine that actually he's turning,

like seeing Teresa, who he sees as maybe like a weaker kind of foe, he looks like he's about to like try and like butt, slam the butt of his axe in Teresa's face, which gives you an opening of just... as this little healed boot comes up. Down he goes. One left.

One left. One left. I know normally you can't apply sneak attack damage to an arm stroke, but I'm allowing it. Just so people are like, it's not a finesse weapon. I'm allowing it. I will look over at Rowan and just go. I would say a swift kick in the balls is finesse.

Depends on the boot. Yeah, that's what I'm arguing. A finesse boot. So the last one to go is... The next one to go is... Well, the lieutenant's gone. Ophelia is the next one. So who is Leon?

Just this lady here, right by the alleyway. I will run up behind her. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. To about 10 feet. You are within whip range. Perfect, then I shall whip her in the legs and try and trip her over. Okay, yeah.

I'd say that you can use this to try and do non-lethal. I think a whip is normally piercing, but I'm going to say with this use of it, you're basically making a non-lethal attack. Nice, nice, nice. Or can I reckless her advantage? You can, yeah. So when the other one went down,

she would have gained the same thing of gaining advantage on an attack, but she's not had a turn yet. Okay. 15 is my highest. 15 does not hit, unfortunately. Her AC is 16. Yeah, you read that.

Are you still raging? Yes. Oh, okay. Rage doesn't add to the attack roll. Yeah, yeah, okay. So you go to whip, but the whip just cracks into the stone of the house nearby. She like ducks under it in a panic,

desperately trying to run away at this point. Yeah, unfortunately. Anything else, Ophelia, on your turn? No, that's me done, thank you. Then it is Xanthius. I am just gonna, if again, it's a cantrip, it's free. It's non-lethal. Another Mind Sliver.

All right, Intelligence, yes. Intelligence saved from N. That is a failure. Visions of red and gold and fire and fury. One damage. One. Psychic damage. Her eyes flutter and she shakes her head.

Still barely conscious. Two hit points left. Well, it's okay because it's Rowan next. Oh, big boy. If you hit her, she will probably go down. If you don't, she goes next. I'm gonna disengage, and if she gets to the edge of the map, you lose her in the alleyways.

I'm just gonna go and bear hug her from the back. Are you trying to grapple? Okay, all right, give me, so this is gonna be athletics. Versus her athletics. She does look quite strong, you know, being a laborer, she's got some muscles on her. I've got a fake dice. Oh, bleed.

Oh yeah, how much bleed do I get? You take, how many stacks do you have? Two, three points of necrotic. And then for Rowan, how many stacks do you have? One. Three points of necrotic. Can I also have one as well many stacks do you have? One. Three points of necrotic. Can I also have one as well? Do you want a fate dice drop?

Just roll a decent one. I'm gonna roll it here. Oh my god! Five! I rolled the max. I am pissing blood. So you're using a fate dice. He's not good.

I'm gonna use a fate dice, which means both of them are permanently removed from the pool. Oh, well that's cool. Well, permanently. Well, I was thinking of allowing this fake pool to remain because this battle. But when you say permanently, you don't mean

No, not permanently. For this, until we roll a new pool of it. Yeah. So I get to add a d6, you get to add a d6, and this is an opposed athletics check. I'm going to inspire myself with bardic inspiration. You can do that. You can do this Rowan can do this, Rowan.

Crush the lady's skull. No. No. No inside voice, no. Hug the lady tight. Yes. Hug, hug, hug the lady, hug the lady now. Shit.

Five plus three is eight. Eight? I got a 14, nine, one plus four, 14. So you go and grab her. Just stop running. Well you can see that this is clearly like a laborer woman. She's got bulging muscles and she just flexes you off, shoves you. Stop it.

And that is gonna be the end of your turn because bonus move and action, I believe. And on her turn she's going to disengage. And she runs off and escapes into the alleyways. And that is somewhat important. As she flees, those who have been knocked unconscious, or in some cases killed, you guys are out of combat now.

Okay. Teresa will look and say, Oh, oh, right. Well, um, I'm sure that there will be more, but I think that we've... At least it will take them some time to gather their friends and, you know, re-equip and things like that.

So I'm going to start. Which lantern would you like me to work on now? Oh, uh... This one to the... This way. Oh, that one in the corner? Sure. Very good.

Perhaps if there's anything you want to do over the next hour, you can. You guys can take a short rest. Oh, that's nice. Bleeding conditions, by the way. So the way this would work is technically we would have to stay in initiative just until this gets fixed because, yeah, you guys might fall unconscious from the bleeding.

So as that last person falls, it would go into a new round. So Gruff, you have bleeding, right? Three. Three. You take four points of necrotic. You have three stacks. Yep.

And you got four. I have one, and I got, like, nine. Ophelia, how many do you have? Two. Two. Five points of necrotic. Then we go to Xanthius. One.

Three. Rowan, how many do you have? Two. Just one. Three. I'm going to use stubborn endurance because I'm on one HP. Oh my god. I am going to...

Roy, you can't stubborn endurance this because it is from a bleeding wound. It's not an impact. Rowan bleeds out. All right, so you fall unconscious. That will remove all of your stacks of bleeding, I would say, as you fall unconscious. Still belining.

I'm not going to, because otherwise you're going to be like failing more death saving throws and stuff like that. I'm not going to worry too much about that. What's the blood around, Rowan? Bleedy blood blood. Don't. Bleedy, bleedy, bleedy.

What do you guys do in your turn? Basically, you have a round of three turns here. Like, who's doing what? Rowan falls unconscious. Bonk. I will use Cure Wounds on Rowan. Okay. Level one, 1d8 plus three. I need you to roll that amount of healing, please.

Six plus three. Six plus three, so nine. So you gain nine hit points. Now that you've healed somebody, every five hit points of healing you do removes one stack of bleeding, right? You can also use a, if any of you have a healer's kit in your inventory,

you can use a use of it to patch up wounds. You can like bandage wounds, basically. Otherwise, you can attempt to make a medicine check with improvised bandages, but you'll be at disadvantage. Okay, okay. Okay. Who here is bleeding? So you're completely free now, aren't you,

Rowan, because you only had the one. Your eyes flutter to a thing. That was on your turn, so Gruff's done that on his turn. What's anybody else doing? Before Rowan wakes up, this is why you're unconscious. Yeah, I've done this before. So I think that was on your turn, so Gruff's done that on his turn. What's anybody else doing? So I fall row and wake up. This is like while you're unconscious. Yeah, I've done this before. I want to use the Produce Flame cantrip.

And because I'm a gold Dragonborn, I've got the resistance to fire. I almost want to... Okay, yeah, I would say... It'll be a medicine check. I would say make a medicine check. No disadvantage, but you are then going to take the fire damage, or half the fire damage. Okay, yeah, I mean... It's D8, right, for Produce Flame?

Are you cauterizing? Yeah, I've done this before. Yeah. Well, Dragonborn. So give me a medicine check. Uh, plus one. Now the gamble here is if you fail. Natural 20.

Natural 20. In that case, I would say that you can use the fire so skillfully, you don't actually burn yourself with it. Like you kind of focus the fire into a finger, and just like seal that wound without taking any fire. And then I turn around and use my breath weapon on Daisy. So that's what Xanthius was doing. Gruff's on his...

So Ophelia or Daisy, do you two want to do anything, try and stop this bleeding or do anything? I'm not bleeding. No, okay. So you're just going to nod and get warm. Oh, no. Oh, for other people? I'll do a medicine check,

but that's all I can do. Sure, yeah. So medicine check with disadvantage. Who do you want to help, Gruff or Ophelia? I'll help Gruff because Ophelia scares me, and there's blood, and I don't feel like it's a safe space. I don't feel like it's safe. Run a little bit longer just to kind of wrap this little bit up.

Eight. With disadvantage as well. So you kind of managed to tear some strips of fabric out of a bandage or maybe your blanket or something like that, and you're trying to wrap Gruff's wounds, but you're like, oh, what do I do? Oh, I don't know. Sorry, Gruff, sorry, sorry.

His fur's all matted. At least you're trying. Ophelia, anything you want to try and do? Same thing? Yeah, same thing. She'll just try and go around allelia, anything you want to try and do? Same thing? Yeah, same thing. She was trying to go around all the, like, a couple of the dead bodies, ripping fabric off them. Yeah, yeah, tear off these guys.

Yeah, you can do it off those guys. Do you want to try and do it on yourself or on Gruff? On myself. All right, so medicine check disadvantage, please. DC is 10. 15. 15? You managed to, so that's one stack of bleeding you remove.

Nice. You've got two, right? You also, like, scrunch and get all the blood out of it. So you've got rid of your bleeding now, haven't you? Yeah, mine's gone. All right, so it's just Gruff and Ophelia who have it. So Gruff, the next round you would take four necrotic. And Ophelia, you would take three.

Okay. It's funny because all the temp HP is just taking it because I cast a spell. So I got four. It's almost like the primal energy that you're able to manifest is constantly knitting those wounds, but then they're opening again, and it's holding them closed, then it's opening again and kind of doing that constantly.

All right, so you've got a fresh round of 10. What are people doing? Like, making more checks? Do you want to heal? Who's doing what? Rowan? Healing word. Gruff.

Okay, roll the healing, because it does need to be five or more to remove a stack. Yeah, yeah. And it does also heal hit points as well. You regain hit points as normal. Okay, cool. Let's just default. You can see how if it stacks up,

it takes quite a long time to try and get rid of. Yeah. There you are. Five. Five points, just enough. So you get five hit points back and one stack of bleeding goes away. Yay. Is that you?

How many are you on now? How many? Two. So I am going to cast Cure Wounds on myself at level two, which is 2d8. 2d8. Can I then try and bandage it? Might be able to get rid of it all.

Five, six, seven points of healing. Not enough. Gets rid of one, and then you can try the bandages, Daisy, for a medicine check. Disadvantage? Yep, with disadvantage, yeah, you're using Improvised Healer's Kit, basically. Ooh. Daisy, 10.

Yeah, 13. 13, all right, so with that, with your own healing graph and Rowan's healing and Daisy bandaging you, maybe kind of showing Daisy what to do a bit more, like you're able to. Sorry, sorry, sorry, I'm panicking, that's why. Slow it down. Slow it down. Slow it down. Slow it down.

She's shaking. We have Xanthius and Ophelia left. What are you guys doing? I'm done. All right, so Ophelia, do you want to just try and bandage yourself? Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Five.

Five is going to be another round, unfortunately. You've got one stack remaining, eh? Yep. Five necrotic. Yeah, yeah. You can just see, like, Ophelia's wounds are just still bleeding. Like, she's, like, trying to wrap them up,

but it's just pouring out of her. I'm, like, holding a ball of flame. Does anybody need any healing? I can, after it. I already had one of this round, but I could try and help Ophelia when I finish. I can healing word. Sure.

You can also just try medicine check if people want to try Medicine Check. No, I'll Healing Word. And if anybody doesn't have a healer's kit, if you have Fate Dice, maybe you could rummage around in some of these crates or maybe you can just search in these crates and see if there's any healer's kits around. Just one day extra.

Healing Word. You have my shop. Fate Left. Has to be a minimum of 5 HP. Yep. 4. 4 HP. Yep. Four. Four HP. Four.

So you still get the HP back. Okay, cool. But that wound has not closed up. Like, the healing was not enough to fully close up the wound. Try medicine check again. Sure. Disadvantage. It's like these scraps of clothing. Like, the guys that you captured, you, like, stripped these dudes who It's like these scraps of clothing. Like the guys that you've captured,

you've like stripped these dudes who have been captured, you've like ripped all their trousers off, their shirts are completely gone. Why would it start? Just getting splattered with blood. Cure wounds level one. Okay. Oh god.

Seven, eight, nine, 10. Oh, that's two, you would've got rid of two, but there's only one. Spend all your special assures there. So eventually, you guys manage to stop all these bleeding. It's been not even really a minute at this point, but you've managed to stop it. We've used so much resource.

Oh, it was the archery on the side. Yeah, it was that one. Oh, we found it. You see Teresa makes her way over to the light that you've picked, if you can move over there for me, Tom. And, yeah, begins to tinker away. Like, she has, like, a little folding ladder set that she sets up, and she goes up and she starts tinkering with it.

There's a mixture of, like, casting spells, but also physically interacting with the device and kind of looking into, like, some sort of crystal, you know, thing that's wedged into the lantern. And she begins casting all these spells, sometimes pulling out diagrams that she seems to be following and things like that. It is going to take her an hour.

You may take a short rest. Hell yeah. If you don't take a short rest, you can interact with the environment and this space. If, for example, you wanted to search some of these crates and barrels around, if you want to do anything else you guys can think of, I will tell you, the foes will keep coming back, right?

They're gonna probably keep sending people, but it's gonna take them time to come back and think. They will always enter from this point on, this alleyway, this alleyway, this alleyway, or this alleyway. The exact opposite from the light we just repaired yes but that's where

they're going to be coming from it's dark I guess and the light oh maybe yes also as the hour goes on this battlefield is going to get darker

and darker and those of you who cannot see in the dark which is everybody but Ophelia fighting in these areas is going to become trickier as you're going to have limited vision

same for them I've got the light we will do all the short rest stuff off stream yeah is gonna become trickier as you're gonna have limited vision. All right, same for them. I've got the lights there. We will do all the short rest stuff off stream. Yeah. I will leave it on one point, which is after this long rest, after about an hour, you see a few more shapes beginning to emerge. But this time, the figures that you see

are not armed with hatchets and curved lathes and things like that. They are instead armed with hatchets and curved lathes and things like that. They are instead armed with what appear to be blacksmith's tools, blacksmith's hammers, as members of the blacksmith's guild begin to appear, emerging. He's got a crossbow! I'm gonna put him up here instead.

Yes, from the alleyways. Can we, well you said off stream so. Oh what the short rest? I wanted to spend my time building some, like pushing some. Yeah are you not going to spend a short rest healing or anything like that? Because if you do spend a short rest healing you don't get to do anything in the environment.

So I can't, just for a druid it's a long rest to get spells back. Yes. But you can spend hit dice to gain hit points and stuff like that. It's okay. I would like to block off one of the alleyways. Sure. Let's determine that now, then.

Which one would you like to block off? The one where you just put men out? These guys? Yeah, sure. So, like, you basically... You'd move the cart, probably. It's, like, the easiest... Put this here.

Yeah. Bloody hell. I'll probably spend my turn searching for stuff. Yeah, so you will pick around. I'm going to still put this guy up here because he can get to the ladder from this alleyway back here. But these three are going to have to come in over here instead. So they're going to be a little bit further away.

Does T fix the light? She does. Cool. Magical. But we will go more into that next episode. It does not light up, I'm sorry, Thomas. I'm sorry, I don't have LED columns. That sucks.

But with that, the matter of guild politics, episode 11, guild politics, comes to an end with you guys continuing to defend Teresa as she fixes it. I told you it's going to be, you know, I didn't do the blacksmith, you're going to get involved now. Well, if you remember, Alicia Tempio did mention that there was some beef between the carpenters and the Blacksmiths.

Oh, yeah, yeah. If you will recall to the episode... If the Masons show up, I'm pissed. But yes, it seems to be that, yes, you fought off the Carpenters' Guild for now, but now the Blacksmiths' Guild have come from the other side of the city to get involved.

They are nastier. Well, you don't know if they're nasty, but they've got hammers. They do seem a bit better armoured. But yes, we will find out what happens in the next episode of Hyrule's Cafe of the Dragon Empire. Thank you guys so much for joining us. We will see you next time.

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