High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: A Rogue's Gambit #4 | A Noble Sacrifice

Episode Date: September 28, 2018

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but again, the where, why, who, what and whens will be announced in greater detail on Twitter, so follow us there. The team broke into a dinner party, but some Zentrum agents have done the same. It's time to get the big guns out, it's time to play A Rogue's Gambit. Let's get cracking. Uh, and I think the first thing we need to do is roll initiative.

Oh, straight away, okay. Straight away! I guess that makes sense. What with the minigun wielding. I probably should do the same. Chris drop. Oh, I was. Okay, bad. Straight away. I guess that makes sense. What with the minigun wielding. I probably should do the same. Chris drop. Oh, I was so close to an actual 20. Oh, we won.

Oh. Dan's being ever neutral. Wait, when you say so close. It went 20 and then last second just went. Oh, I thought you said you were so close because you didn't have a zero on the end of the two that you rolled. No, that's your interpretation. Okay, I got a 15.

I'm going to have to bear with me a little bit because I have a million NPCs to do this time because I'm also going to be playing the Black Viper. Sadly, Rhiannon couldn't join us. Just group them. Well, I can't. I've grouped as many as I can, Chris Trott. So normally we have Rhi, who has joined us,

playing Black Viper she joined us last week but she is off today she's working working she working we did try and get someone else to fill in

but Trott did not ask them until five minutes ago and surprisingly they were busy Bertie initiative 15 Boomer

Thrip Aquamember 19 Aquamember so Bertie. Oh. Initiative. 15. Boomer. 3. Aquamumber. 19. Aquamumber. Aquamumber. So, to set the scene, you are currently split over two floors. Most of you, Aquamumber, Bertie, Black Viper, as well as two of the other bodyguards that were already in when you arrived, are downstairs in the grand hallway yeah uh you

that's where you were waiting there is a staircase just off to your right or left depending on where you are uh facing um which leads up to the second floor where boomer is currently the only member of the team in the ballroom where the main force has uh come in they've demanded Jalag-Ralhund and they now appear to be ready to begin violently interrogating the assembled nobles. Violently? Just ask me. I'll tell you.

On your turn, you can. But the first person to react, his homely trained senses, his experienced skill, coming into the forefront. Aquamamba! I think something's gone wrong.

We'll form the boom upstairs. You have heard like a loud explosion, the sound of booted feet and there are two of these zents that have kicked in the door swords and hand crossbows. It's probably them. It could have been Boomer. I hope not either way this is all happening

in my mind I have that fake conversation these guys don't look like they're here to mess around they are I mean they're pulling the swords out yeah and pointing hand crossbows

they're also saying action movie style. They burst through the door saying, we're not messing around. Which one is me? I almost gave some of these guys

an ability called John Woo, which is that as a movement they can dive 15, they can move half their movement and fire twice.

John Woo. I like it. Which one am I here? You are the tiny halfling miniature because that's the only one I I here? You are the tiny halfling miniature, because that's the only one I could find. You are about five feet away. Two have just burst through the doors, the main doors.

Just spin around? Technically, that's a little bit, like separate it a little bit, because it's separate floors, yeah. And there's the stairs. These, the two? Yeah. Okay. So there were people that we were speaking to as well.

Yes, so the tabaxi is the monkey miniature, and the dwarf lady is the dwarf with an axe and a shield. The cat's now a monkey. Limited on miniatures. Yes, you don't know their names. You just know them as the dwarf and Tabaxi that were waiting downstairs with you. I'm going to slam down my cane,

which pops open the V at the top, and a little line forms across little sleep shot sleep nice fire that at one of the people closest to me so probably him so what's the range of sleep

it is 200,000 feet which is crazy the area radius I think it's 20 feet. It better be more than five. It's a 20 feet diameter radius. Because it's actually not. Because I believe that Tom Hazel has realised what I've realised.

90 feet. What's the radius? 20 foot radius. Oh, is it 20 foot? Tom, could you just count out some squares for me from the closest one to Aquamumba? For podcast listeners, Aquamumba is about five feet away from the guy he's trying to hit so everyone else is also pretty

much within range you're gonna make everyone so could everybody make wisdom saving throws please you guys were meant to rescue me what's your dc by the way um a dc was this a wisdom save? yeah this is at first level so I think it's like part of the item I gave it to you on the item I'll just make sure alright we'll say it's 14

yeah I think you're just out spell save DC is 13 we'll use that 13 I think it's just the tabaxi, Aquamumber, and Black Viper who have to make the save, actually. All right. Perfect. I rolled world.

Can I give that to someone else? No. No. 15. I don't understand the rules of this game. Okay. So roll 5d8 for me, please. See if you have enough strength in your sleep bullet to render some of them unconscious.

Nine. Another nine. Eighteen. Eighteen. Nineteen. Nineteen. So, sleep. The guard kind of looks around and is like, no!

And seems to be unaffected by the spell. For both of them? Yes. And everyone else that got affected as well? Yes. Everybody either made their saving throws or the amount of hit points was not sufficient. What was it supposed to happen? Would you like to move, Aquaman? So you can see that there are a couple of

stone columns on either side of a doorway. There is a fireplace, a large rug. Excuse me! Excuse me, coming through! So you just bundle past. Get him! Backing up to the back line.

So you get behind the three NPC bodyguards. Excuse me. The Black Viper and the two NPC bodyguards. I get behind them all. Okay. I let them. Get him, boys! Okay, perfect.

Get him, boss! Okay. Yeah, get him! The Zhentarim! So, Boomer, I won't run these guys for the combat Because at the moment there's so many people around That they seem very focused on You watch as they begin like spreading out

And sort of manhandling the nobles Who aren't really putting up much of a fight The only one you can see upstairs Who looks even competent as battle Is Yala Graalhun's bodyguard who basically has her behind him. He's this big six foot five half-orc, big long sword,

kind of giving a very wary eye and he's kind of keeping his charge behind him. And he's just basically putting himself between them and the Zhents. But the Zhents are going up like, are you Graalhun? They're kind of doing the Joker, right? Like, are you Yala Graalhun?

Are you Yala Graland? You want to know how I got these scars? They're like moving around. The ogre in the middle, however, is just pointing this kind of, it's almost like a couple of ale barrels, but being formed into like a kind of rotating chain of crossbow bolts. Are they currently rotating as well? He's kind of got a crank and he's winding it around ready to fire it.

Is the barrel bigger than my head? Yes. This looks pretty mean. You think that this guy could probably fire a lot of bolts very, very quickly and they would all hurt very much. My disguise is pretty much still... You just look like one of the nobles. You're kind of blending in with the crowd at this point.

You can see the zents are moving around. Downstairs, however, the two zents are gonna make some aggressive moves. Tom, can you move one up towards the three NPCs? The other one is just gonna skirt towards the stairs and kind of take cover behind that and fire his hand crossbow. Right, so blocking the stairway.

Yeah, and he's gonna fire his hand crossbow at you, Bertie. What the hell, Bertie? That's a 24 to hit. Yeah, I think it does it. Yeah, okay. Yeah, no, it does. Yeah, yeah. Yeah? Good. Five points of damage from his first bolt. And then his second bolt is also going to hit

with a 20. God, second bolt? Yeah. And then that's going to be another six points. Wow. Ten points of damage. As he shoots you twice, these little hand crossbow ones. The one that moves up to engage, you can see he moves on the tabaxi and the dwarf, thinking that perhaps, not quite sure

which of the three to take, and will try and strike with a scimitar. So many choices. I'm just not the halfling. And then fire one to the dwarf. So all three of these attacks, the zenturin moves up, swinging this kind of curved blade, and then underhand

he kind of shoots the crossbow bolt with the other hand. The tabaxi just kind of very nonchalantly just kind of curved blade, and then underhand he kind of shoots the crossbow bolt with the other hand. The tabaxi just kind of very nonchalantly just kind of, yes, and like dodges and moves to the side. The crossbow bolt fires at the dwarven woman in her sort of like evening dress with these big stilettos, these big powerful thighs emerging from the slits. And it just kind of like clips her dress and she just looks at it quite angrily.

And then you kind of see this spark of rage kind of like clips her dress and she just looks at it quite angrily and then you kind of see this spark of rage kind of twitch in her eye but he doesn't seem to make he doesn't seem to hit any of them with his attacks after the zents we go to Black Viper will look at the scenario

and just be like I'm sorry, I'll be back later. And then is going to... And you see her climb into the fireplace and climb up it. What the hell? What? You're kidding me. No.

One NPC you mock doesn't have to do anything. I mean, it makes sense. Bertie. I would like to charge the guy who is blocking the stairway and just clothesline him. Okay. So you just run up to him with one arm held out. One arm wide and just smack him to the ground.

Okay. So he does have a little bit of cover. So are you just going to go through the pillar or are you going to try and like maneuver around it in some sort of clever maneuver? Oh, it's a pillar, is it? Yes, it's like a stone. I can't hold my arm out. Well, you could. I and like maneuver around it in some sort of oh it's a pillar is it yes it's like i can't hold my arm out i mean you could i feel like bertie would okay he just holds his arm back and just run at him okay and worst case he'll just hook around

it and then slam right into it okay give me an athletics check first don't forget you have all okay sure oh yeah you have 50 dice here uh yeah i still do. Too late. I still rolled an 11. 11? So you go... Chanting forward. Your arm hits the pillar. You just kind of swing around. You can still make your attacks, but I'll probably give you disadvantage.

No, actually, no. I'll just do a flat minus two. I mean, I feel like I'm not even attacking him. I'm just swinging around the pole and the entire mass of Goliath... You just want to slam into him. You don't want to attack him. Are you trying to grapple him or are you just trying to knock him to the ground? I think just, around the pole and the entire mass of Goliath You just want to slam into him. You don't want to attack him. Are you trying to grapple him or are you just trying to knock him to the ground? I think just, yeah, knock him prone

and then probably do something after that. Alright, I'll make a saving throw for him. Okay. So as you swing around, the kind of arm hooks round you swing around, but this guy seems pretty practiced. He takes a couple of steps back and then just kind of levies the sword

to kind of like thrust into you. Oh, I see. I just run into his sword. You manage to kind of like glance the blow to the side, but you don't quite manage to, because of his defensive actions, you don't manage to kind of knock him fully to the ground. Okay.

Do I have like a bonus action? Yeah, you've got your rogue ones. You've got your cunning action. You could disengage. I don't want to disengage. I'm just... I don't want to be... I want to be in this guy's face.

I would... I would say you could make an unarmed striker's bonus action because you could be two-weapon fighting. Punch him in the face. You could try and... You know, if you wanted to...

I don't know, try and grab his sword or something like that. Yeah, I think I'll just, with the hand I didn't swing with, then just jab. Okay. So a single jab. Unarmed strike. Unarmed strike.

Bam. It's listed on here as fucking B. So that's a 25 to hit. I'm guessing you have fucking A and fucking B. Yeah, fucking A is the metal left fist. 25 to hit. 25 is definitely a 25 to hit. I'm guessing you have fucking A and fucking B. Yeah, fucking A is the metal little left fist. 25 to hit. 25 is definitely a hit, yeah. These guys are wearing breastplates.

You can see, like, dark iron breastplates, but not much else. And it just says here that the unarmed is six damage. Six damage. Yeah. Just straight up. You punch him in the face. You hear kind of, like, maybe a tooth chip. Spits blood out to the side. I'm just disappointed.

Disappointed, like, oh, I didn't work. Yeah. This annoying comedy got in your way. The tabaxi just goes like, pulls out these two knives and it's just like, ah, and starts jabbing them into the guy. I love this guy. He's one of my, what's his name?

You haven't asked his name yet. He has got a name. Is it Midnight? You'll haven't asked his name yet. He has got a name. Is it Midnight? You'll find out what his name is. He's got two daggers in his hands and one wrapped in his tail. That would be cool. Best cat. Roll that again, it was a bit cocked.

So you watch as the first dagger sinks into the zent's shoulder and he kind of blocks it to the side. The second one, it looks like the tabaxi gets distracted by something glittering on the zent. It's like, ooh, ah, and then stabs him in the side again, catching like a small cut across his shoulder. What's those guys? What's those guys? What's those guys? Upstairs, the half-orc fellow kind of looks around Boomer, and you can see he kind of probably would move over and start hassling one of the zents. He actually moves up to this one. He's like, you can't just come in here and do this, whilst Yala actually leaves the room. Like, he causes a distraction to try and give her a chance to escape

the room, and it seems she slips unnoticed. You see her, but the zents don't see her slip out of the room itself. The zents turn aggressively on the half-orc and begin trying to shove him and trying to disarm him and stuff like that. Which way

did she go out the room? She went out... Let me put a miniature down for her. So, in fact, we'll use one of these existing ones. So she left out here, and then she vanishes, because you don't know where she goes after that. But she goes out of that doorway. The dwarf woman downstairs picks up this massive hammer that she's kind of been leaning on,

just is like, here we go, and then just charges in recklessly against the zent. Which is a good job because that was a low roll. Slamming this massive hammer into You can use your dice for the NPCs if you want. Yeah, I've got

11 here. I'm saving them. Don't worry. But you could use them on the enemy. Oh no, I'm not going to use them to help you. Who says this is versus? No, it's not versus. Oh, God. So she slams this enormous hammer into the side of this Zentrum agent,

and you hear him groan, and probably a rib breaks, but he still stays upstanding as he grunts against the pain. Done those. but he still stays up standing as he grunts against the pain um done those uh okay the ogre on the top points this chain crossbow at the half-orc who's giving a hassle and he's like big helmet like it looks like it's probably made out of an old cauldron That's been melted down And reformed into a military juggernaut style helmet It completely covers his head

And juggernaut style It just has a little cross bit here for his eyes I can't stand a word of that I thought you were going to go for Arnold Schwarzenegger No, he's like Vinnie Jones in the juggernaut He's like, stand down! the Jedi He's like stand down Stand down now Stand down now

I'll show you Don't mock the guy And you see the half-orc is like Okay This giant crossbow pointing at him He's like But things are starting to heat up in the upstairs room You can see that the nobles are beginning to panic

The zents are kind of like Where is she? Where's your grant? And they're like, not here, she's not here, I'm not her I'm Lord Wixington Please let me go, I'll pay you lots of money Begging for their lives Boomer Lord Wixington

You're kind of in the open at the moment I probably still have canapes in my hand Yeah you've still got like a tray I'm just like I'm not being paid enough to do this So I'm going to like just back away while looking as harmless as possible That's a stealth check it sounds like

Can I not just I just look like a lovable little halfling on a night out Sounds like a stealth check to me I'm not dangerous Not dangerous yet lovable little halfling on a giant help. Let's try to sneak away. Sounds like a stealth check to me. I'm not dangerous. Are you stealthy? Not dangerous yet.

That's my motto as Kim. Not even as boomer as Kim. Wow. Nice. Cool. Damn. So I got 10, 14 on those. So that's 23, 24, 25, 26. Oh, no.

I really want to see you. Can I, can I like... That's a lot of dice you're 26. Oh no, he's using dice. Can I, can I like... That's a lot of dice you're rolling as well. Can I be sort of moving towards wherever Gallop is? Yeah, absolutely. But try to look as lovable and as innocent while eating canapes as possible. How much did you get, sir? That's a lot of dice. 27?

You just used a tonne. You've probably, you've probably done it. So as you're slowly moving towards the door, you hear a da-da-da-da-da-da! And about three crossbow bolts slam into the door next to you

like dum-dum-dum-dum! And the ogre's like, where are you going little man? I need the bathroom. You can go here. I just have. And there's a small stain on my white suit. Aquamamba.

That's amazing. It's a white suit as well. Just go here. I'm not here. I've still got a can of my hand Oh god Aquamember You hear this kind of like From upstairs Oh no

Oh no You guys handle this I'm going to go upstairs I'm going to go try Going up the fireplace You're going up the fireplace Yeah I think Because that's exactly where she went I'm gonna go try going up the fireplace. You're going up the fireplace? I think, because that's exactly where she went,

that's what she's doing. Okay. I'm gonna try and. Okay, so yeah, you can just make me an athletics check to climb up the fire case. You have an easier time with a black wiper due to your size. Can my cane just have two arms that come out and just kind of climb up and I just hold on to it like this.

Yes. Okay. We're just going to fix the camera on Tom. You can absolutely do that. You're still going to make an athletics check. Aw, a little two dice. There's 50. Four. Natural one. That's a good job you rolled that.

Yeah. Eight. Another eight, so 17 with the dice. Yeah. And athletics. 15. 15. Minus two.

You're like, I'm going to go up the fireplace. All right, Steph. And it starts climbing up, and it just covers you in black soot and you just fall you make no purchase You kind of climb up a little way. You probably reach out grab Black Viper's rear somewhere You feel like a boot hit you in the face and you just boom and then smoke just billows out from the fireplace Can I? Leader So immediately stand up like split second and pretend it didn't happen.

Okay, what are our options? That's your movement, I would say. So you stand up, yeah, you look up, everybody sees you just covered, like black. You're like a cartoon covered in black soot. Let's go! I mean, I saw you go up there and then come back

and I was like, where's he gone? Who's this just a shadow. Can you not see him? Another spy guy! Kill him! Yeah, would you like to do anything else? Bonus action. Bernie! I believe in you, dick, that son of a bitch!

I was going to do it anyway, but now I'm going gonna do it even better nice nice so bardic inspiration from aquamamba yep the zenterin

uh boomer uh this guy's going one of them is gonna come over um and looks to you

he's like move away from the door gazpacho and it's a little shot glass of tomato soup uh yeah he like he's pointing from the door. Gaspacho. And it's a little shot glass of tomato soup. Yeah, he's pointing his hand crossbow at you, sword in his other hand.

He looks at it. Are you genuinely trying to get him to take the drink? Okay, give me a persuasion check. Have some dice. Sod it, why not? It's really good gaspacho. Gaspacho. 16,

17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. With modifier? Yes. He's like, puts the sword away that keeps the hand

crossbow out Takes the drink Away from the door But now he's He's put his sword away And he's holding the drink But he's like Gesturing you away from the door Do you go with him

Or are you going to resist I'm just Just stand I'm just not I'm not even I'm just being annoying Okay So you're going to still stand there

And I'm just going to Turn the tray around And be like Do you want some more Okay So while you're doing that It there. And I'm just gonna turn the tray around and be like, do you want some more? Okay. So while you're doing that... It's good grub! Getting in their minds.

Letting everyone know that she's... This guy's gonna try and stab you up. Is he? Yep. He can damn well try. That's gonna be a... 17 to hit. He can damn well try and he can damn well succeed. Okay, so I'll do all of his attacks at once.

Second one is a miss, and his hand crossbow is 16. That also hits. YAH! That's gonna be 12 points of damage total. Holy shit. That's from both attacks. Oh, right. That's 6 per attack. Well, hey, I am gonna use my stone endurance.

Okay. On one of those, yeah? So you take 6, and the second one... Oh, on one of those? Yeah, that was two attacks combined. Oh, I see. I thought I could do it as part of like the oh it's a reaction okay I'm not going to do it then okay

so you take 12 I take 12 the other one will attempt to continue the fight against the tabaxi and the dwarf in front of him he misses

oh he has advantage oh god alright let's get a new dice so even even though this dwarf is like just swinging a hammer completely disregarding her own safety,

this guy's so busy fighting them that he can't quite manage to shot off. But he does hit the tabaxi for some points of damage. And he kind of just cuts away at him and he probably slices off one little part of a whisker. And the tabaxi's like, no. At first I was going to allegedly, Now you're done!

Wah! He just hisses violently. Whiskers are really useful on cats. Yeah. It's only a little bit. It wasn't a full whisker. It's just like a little tinge. The Max will retaliate

with a natural 20. Damn. He's not going to be able to get into tiny spaces anymore. Yeah. Which is perfectly fine. I'd kill the 20. Damn. He's not going to be able to get into tiny spaces anymore. Yeah. Which is perfectly fine. I'd kill the guy. He doesn't know where the edge of his face is.

Periphery. He'll have to use his eyes. It's like a chump. And he doesn't look cute anymore when he cleans his face. Oh, he also did that anyway. He's tabaxi. True. Yep.

Where's his milk? So you watch as this, he drops his milk. As soon as these guys came in, he just dropped his little saucer of milk. And he's just, you know how you see rogues in video games where they're just like, with knives. That's what this Tabaxi's doing. He's just cutting away, and you can see almost like a Zorro. Bits of clothing are kind of going everywhere as he cuts into him.

My claws, what do will get you this day As he strikes away After the tabaxi goes we go to black viper continues her ascent Bertie oh Yeah, so with my inspiration yeah I don't think you can roll can add these dice to attack rolls if you really want to hit. My Barley Conspiracy is so trivial compared to the Idle Champion. It's another D6. It's all going to help.

Everything helps. Can I add this to damage? No. It's good RP as well. You have to be College of Valor. Ability, attack roll, or saving throw. Oh, okay. Well, fine.

I'll save it. It's a good replacement of the Idol Champion's Death so that we don't have to use all of them. Yes, don't use all of them. I am going to grab the guy that's in front of me. Yeah. I want to spin him around and just hurl him towards the Dwarf Lady. Okay. Oh, my God, yes!

Stretcher. I just want to, while I'm doing that, say, Hey, booby lady Dwarf Lady. Okay. Oh my god, yes! Straight check. I just wanna, while I'm doing that, say, hey, booby lady, get this one! Okay, straight check. Booby lady. Yeah. I mean, that's, she's... Grr.

What's that mean? Very nice. Grr. Nice poker face there. Nine plus three, that's 12, that's 14, that's 17, that's 23, that's 27, that's 30, plus my strength, that's 35. Oh my god. Make that noise again, Mark. Okay, so what happens is Bertie, he doesn't expect you to just reach forward and grab him with like one hand.

He kind of goes to deflect a blow that isn't coming. You just reach forward, grab him, lift him off his feet one-handed, turn around, hey booby lady, throw him across the room, which gives the lady kind of clocks it in time, has enough time to wind up with the hammer and just boom! Straight into the ground, knocking him prone and delivering him a very nasty blow, sending him slamming

into the ground. Bam! Still alive, but you see all the wind, he's like, like knocked out of him. And yeah, and he just gets thrown

all the way across the side. You can move if you like. Have I got a move and bonus? Yeah. Cool. In that case, I want to run up to this guy and punch him in the back. Yeah, lovely indeed. You can move if you'd like. Have I got a move and bonus? Yeah. Cool. In that case, I want to run up to this guy and punch him in the back of the head.

Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because your bonus action will be your two web of lightning, so... I just want to punch a guy in the back of the head. He's also... You'll have advantage

because he's prone and you'll get sneak attack. The gun fall. Advantage. Yeah. That was worse somehow. Don't forget you have rival champions dice.

Oh, to hit as well? Yes. For all the things. Oh, I'm so dumb. Just forget you have rival champions dice. Oh, to hit as well? Yes. For all the things. Oh, I'm so dumb. Just basically keep touching them until Mark shouts at you. 12, does it hit? Sadly, you kind of... I mean...

I'm too slow. You kind of punch the ground as he rolls out the way, leaving this huge crack, like... Crack, Mark. But it looks cool. It looks super cool. That's really hard to fix, you know? Yeah. out the way, leaving this huge crack, like crack mark. But it looks cool. It looks super cool. That's really hard to fix, you know? Yeah, it's gonna be a nightmare.

I mean, there's gonna be like blood all over the place. You mopped that up. That's true. I mean, she just fell on the floor. Yeah, you kind of gave her like a free attack of opportunity with that. Now that he's on the ground, she looks down and is like, sorry laddie, bad day for you.

Oh God. She has advantage, let I get so close to a crit. I think I just assisted in a murder Yeah, you pretty much did that's 14 points of damage One of his hands you the hammer just crushes an arm and it just you hear like several bones just shat The hammer just crushes an arm and you hear several bones just shatter. Oh no, you're going to need one of these. He's going to need a replacement metal fist. Yeah, he definitely is.

Again, he's still alive, but his hand with the crossbow weakly is the only one he has left. Still alive? Yeah, barely. You could just leave him there. You probably could. After them, it is...

I swore it flickered. So, the... is it still flickering? No, it's just Tom moving really fast. He's moving fast, using the blink spell. The ogre has got its attention focused on you now, having spotted you. And he's like, little guy, where's Jonah? Little guy! Where's Yona? You can see he's got like a big sort of like heart-like teeth poking out from the bottom of his tongue out of his juggernaut helmet.

It's an omei, she hasn't turned up yet. Bleh! Get in! And like you see like, the other Zen like, moving to grab you kind of thing. There's not enough spots for all of you! DERWUT! DER! I don't know where she is, she didn't turn up before you arrived!

Deception check. Ooh, I'm really deceptive. You are pretty deceptive. I'm six deceptives. Bam. Nice. So, 12 plus 6 is 18. 24 plus 6 is 30. Wait, 30.

Yeah, I rolled a 4. And he has a minus 1. Okay. So, go you! He points at the other zents who are rolling their eyes like, why is this guy in charge? He's like, Go on, find her!

All right. None of you move. They're gesturing around. And you can see the ogre is now looking around everybody. But, Boomer, what would you like to do? Is there any more food around here? No. There's some food on the bar, but that's not near you.

This guy's looking at me pretty hard. Yeah, he's got a drink in one hand, a hand crossbow in the other, but he is kind of like... Sipping from it, and then when you look like you're not looking, he's like... But he's enjoying it.

Yeah, it's delicious. Tomato juice. Yeah. Tomato juice. Loves it. Do you mind if I just go change my kegs, mate? He looks down at you, wrinkles his nose a bit. Persuasion check.

Persuasion. Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Eighteen. He looks and he's like, I'll come with you. Okay. And he like, like gestures to the doorway. And he'll,

yeah, so you head outside, this guy follows you. I think we've got a newfound relationship. Where are you going? You step outside and you can see that in this, in this area,

there are like several doorways that you can see. That's a dice as well. Yeah, there's a lot of dice. You can see there's a door here and then there is a door over here. Either end of the room.

Either end of the room. I'm guessing no one else is in here or anything. No one else is in here, yeah. Yala has obviously scooted somewhere else. Oh, so the stairs, this is where we would lead up. That's literally just above where you guys are now. Oh, wow, okay. Was it like a...

So you can hear, like, you probably hear Boomer's voice if he speaks. You can probably hear it. So there is a fireplace up to this room. Yes. I just didn't draw it on the map. Oh wow, okay. So you can hear, like, you probably hear Boomer's voice if he speaks, you can probably hear it. So there is a fireplace up to this room. Yes. I just didn't draw it on the map. I don't know that. Anyway.

Uh, I'm guessing there's no toilet or anything. I mean, you just see doors. You see, like, a room with some doors. And this guy's following you. Well, looks like there's no crapper here. Let's try this one, mate! They're not just gestures. Yeah. Okay, so you move up. That's probably it. So you start opening the door. And then we go back to Aqualmamba, covered in soot downstairs. I'm gonna run at the closest guy here.

Okay. And jump and hit myself so the soot billows out. Okay. Okay. And try and blind him. Okay. Whilst the cane comes down from the soot. Okay out. Okay. Okay. And try and blind him. Okay. Whilst the cane comes down from the soot. Okay, well, pull it up! You'll have to, yeah, you can do, so you can get your,

are you going to spend a ki point to do flurry? Can I make it a bonus action? It's like a monk thing. Yeah, you can do the bonus action to do the attack, and then the action is to kind of like, Yeah. Yeah, okay. Nice. So I will also have the tabaxi and the dwarf

and Bertie all make the same saving throw make a dex saving throw uh that's funny that's funny dice what'd you get

uh 12 12 so Bertie you're like oh it's a equal member ah so it goes on in your eyes.

The Zen also looks up curiously like, huh? Ah! The dwarf and the tabaxi both just kind of like go... And they're fine. There's just like a patch around their eyes where they've held their eyes, but they seem fine.

And then you lash out with some sort of kick or punch. Eight. No. I can't see anything! Technically, you would have advantage because he was blinded. Three? You're like, ah!

I can't honestly... And he's just like, ah! He's stumbling around. You fly past him. No one saw that, right? No, I didn't. You can see the Tabaxian dwarf looking at you. Smooth.

Aquamamba as you just land on the ground soot covering everything except the dwarf and tabaxi

who just shake their heads in despair make the most of a bad situation or make it worse the blind zent just like

swipes around I'll do we'll do one two three four fiveipes around. I'll do... We'll do one, two, three, four, five... Oh, no, we'll do... Oh, d4. One, two, three, four for the others. Two, Bertie. He's, like, swiping around near you.

He's going to disadvantage. That's still 20 to hit you. Jeez, yeah, that does. That's five points of damage. Second attack, I'll roll to see who he's going for. Three, yeah, that does. That's five points of damage. Second attack, I'll roll to see who he's going for. Three, one of

the NPCs, he hits Tabaxi. Another six. And then his final attack, disadvantage, is against you, Aqualumba, but

it's a 15 to hit. It's 15. Three points of damage as he just catches you with the scimitar. How? Who did that? He's just like,

Ah! Swinging around. Got the sun in my face! The one on the ground will just roll over, holding his arm weakly, just finds his crossbow. Does, however, manage to hit the dwarf woman.

Point blank, to be fair. Yeah, it's kind of hard to miss, but it just kind of scratches her again, probably cuts a line up address or something like that. Bertie. Oh, no, sorry, the tabaxi first. God, I've got so many fucking NPCs to do. The tabaxi, seizing this man who is blinded,

just goes ham on him. I'm just going to see how many of his attacks hit. man who is blinded just goes ham on him, just gonna see how many of his attacks am I adding blinded to me huh, no you're not blinded um I am you can do that on D&D Beyond D&D Beyond

this is a four six plus another a blinded creature can't see and automatically fails any ability check that requires sight. Attack rolls against the creature have advantage. Yeah. So you watch as the tabaxi, this guy's stumbling around. He kind of like pushes him with one sort of clawed, like furry foot,

stumbles him a little bit and then just jabs his knives into his neck like this. He's like... And just tears chunks and blood spattering everywhere. Brutal. Bertie, now it's you. There's just the guy on the floor left. I mean, I guess I can't see shit, but as far as I'm concerned, he's still alive.

Just stomp around a bit. From where I got sliced from, in that general direction, I'm going to stomp towards him and I'm gonna Like from where I got Sliced from In that general direction I'm going to stomp Towards him And try to just Swing a fist I thought you were doing

Like the I'm gonna keep stomping If you're in the way It's your fault I mean I'm pretty much Standing above this guy So as I'm

Stomping towards him So you just like Lean down And you're like No I'm just stomping But I also swing a fist In the direction of Where the guy

Who did hit me Was So you make an attack roll But with disadvantage Okay Although you have advantage Because he's prone No, I'm just stomping but I also swing a fist in the direction of where the guy who did hit me was. So you make an attack roll but with disadvantage. Okay. Although you have advantage because he's prone, so it just cancels out, you have a normal roll. Normal roll. Add some dice! Don't need to.

So this is with fucking A. One d4, then. 24. Yep, hits. One d4 plus six, I get sneak attack as well. Attentive. How much is sneak attack? Like a million? 2d6.

Isn't he basically dead? He might be dead already. Oh yeah. 455, 14 plus 6. Just the first stomp. Those of you who can see, see Bertie's foot, this six, what, like seven foot tall muscle-bound Goliath. Yeah, whatever it is. His foot just steps on the skull

and doesn't stop just bleh, there's a wet kind of smushy sound but it's like you stood in some grapes it's like you're making wine as far as I'm concerned, I did and then I just swing at where the guy was

and then keep swinging because no one's told me to stop yeah, you're like pummeling the body. He's not crying out. He must be really tough because he's not in pain. Come on! That's awful. Who are we? What are you? That's what I want to know.

Boomer hasn't even blown anything up yet. The dwarf woman just takes a step back, puts a hammer on the ground and is like, whew, just takes a brief moment, just calms down for a bit.

Probably looks over at the stairs and then starts dragging her way over towards there like, better go and get my charge. Yeah, she moves over,

that's it. Just makes her way over, shrugging as she goes, very nonchalantly um upstairs you hear sounds of commotion coming from inside the room um sounds of shouting and yelling and things like that uh boom what do you do so you're you go to open this door i'm in front of the door okay okay here's my thought right this is what i wanted this is what i was waiting for yeah so i'd like to uh hand this guy a bright light explosive right and use my nimble escape to dash

through the door to like to disengage and run through the door and shut the door on him but also mark him with vengeance so that it reduces his ability his movement by 10 foot okay so can i do that okay it's not quite the right order yeah probably the right order would be nimble escape into the room bright light explosive like if this was by the book okay like bright light explosive and then mark of vengeance but for the sake of it we basically say that he's holding like a glass and a crossbow pointing at you and you turn around and i'll just be like oh mate i found some shrimp it's all fried have some and i'll just tuck it like tuck it into his like his pocket or like in his shirt he's like huh looks down ah you hear the glass smash as he's desperately trying

to pull it out of his body as you just nip through the door and then click. Here it goes. So I make a saving throw? Yes. A dex saving throw. I give him disadvantage. Thirteen. Rolled really well. So you hear the but you don't know if it's a correct or not. Does he get mark of vengeance minus ten foot? Yes, that will go off

automatically because that's a bonus action, right, I believe? Yes. So you have marked him for your vengeance. But yeah, you just hear a... And then that's it. Sorry, mate, we really had something. And you're inside the door. Yeah, what do I see?

Please don't tell me it's a cloakroom. Inside this room... I need to check, actually, because where's my map gone? It's a cloakroom. Inside this room... I need to check, actually, because... Oh, where's my map gone? It's a cloakroom. Oh. We'll just call it a cloakroom. Wow, would you believe it? You found the vault.

We've got 500,000 dragons. Woo! There it is. We did it. Hey, you've still got how many episodes? We've still got, like, nine episodes of this? We'll just do another nine episodes. We'll just have nine 9 episodes We'll have 9 episodes of partying

On those casino barges Trying to count 500,000 1 2 5 3 1 29

No No That's not a nice laugh 29 oh shit where no no that's not a nice laugh so as you step inside

this room like you look around and you can see what appears to be some sort of like guest quarters there are

two bodies of the graalhund house guards so the guards who were like watching the house when you first came in.

Standing over them is a man with a half-burned face and a short sword who was looking out of the window. Wait. And it looked like he was prying the window open. He turns around, clocks you,

and draws out his blade. That's the guy that killed Grundle. Do you know where the crapper is, mate? I've had a little extant. He looks at you. I gesture towards my crotchal region. Near about the crotchal region.

Commander, we've just entered the crotchal region. What is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? I've had a weird day. He looks at you and he's like, I certainly know where there's some bullshit.

Wow. That fucking disguise you're wearing, Goblin. Don't think I'd recognise. Do you not think I'd recognise one of the Harper agents? And then he pulls his blade. Ready. He's ready. This is just my socialising outfit.

Aquamember. Hey, yeah. Who's still alive here? There's this one guy who looks like he's very quickly going to be... No, they're both dead now at this point, actually. So do you want to clear those off for me? I'm still swinging around. Yeah, like you see Bruma just beating this bloody corpse.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy! Bertie, calm down! Boomer's in the closet. What the death? So you can wipe the soot out of your eyes. Oh, oh, God. Now, quick! I'm going to leap onto him.

Up the stairs! I guess we heard, like, the explosive as well. You hear, like, a blimp. You might have seen a bright flash of light. Yeah, you see the bright flash which you know is Boomer's. Hey, that one was Boomer. I latch onto you.

Away! Like a front backpack. Let's go, my friends. And you disguise yourself as a backpack. Backpack mode. Yeah, if you want to cast disguise self

or whatever it is. So pointless. But you're going to do it,ise Self or whatever it is. So pointless. But you're going to do it, aren't you? No, I'm not. Okay, so you just clutch onto his back. You're like hanging off his back. Go, buddy, go! Is this a stairs that doubles back on itself?

Yes. Okay, in that case, I don't turn it swiftly. I slam into the wall and then go up the other side of it as well, so I think he's going to take some damage from that. So, okay. What? I didn't sign us on this. So, right, so as you guys,

so you three basically, all of you who are downstairs, you make it to this top foyer so you can just plant everything, dwarf lady as well. Foyer. As the zent who was outside the door kicks open this door and you can see that his chest

part of his tunic is blown up from the small explosive to detonate the charge. He's got powder covering his face. His hair's all blown back but he's not blinded. He's like, you shitty little fuck! And then he looks up and he's like Urstel, kill this motherfucker!

And they both pull their blades at you. Remember the fortune! I don't really... That's a natural one on the first attack against you. The second one is a three. But then he's like... Oh, my God. And shoots you with a hand crossbow for...

That's going to be a 21 to hit. Convert his natural ones for punching. Just punch himself in the face. Seven points of damage to Boomer. Which one shot me? The Zen who was following you to the bathroom. Oh, mate! He's just like...

And then shoots you with a hand crossbow. I don't think he's your friend anymore. He called you a shitty little fuck. Lots of people call me that. My mum called me that. As you get upstairs, you hear like, come on, mate! You hear Boomer from the side. You also hear

this noise. You hear horrid screams coming from the ballroom and What the hell? I mean... So after that, you guys all went upstairs. it was their go

that's the ogre going the other the man with the burned face turns on you Boomer and just kind of grimaces nasty and he's just like I'm going to fucking gut you and you and your little shitty friends

no foreplay I might cut you a little bit first you and your little shitty friends. What? No foreplay? I might cut you a little bit first. Oh, he's trying. But it's not on the first attack. Oh my god. Yeah, you're just like, you splash like gazpacho in his face. He like wipes his hand and comes in for the second one.

That is going to be a 16 to hit you. Damn it! He hits me. So, he, as with his companion behind you, this blade strikes at your vital organs like a sneak attack. Ah. Ah.

10, 14, 17 points of damage. What?! As this blade slips through your armour piercing into your goodly bits and he's just like raging he's just like fucking die what did I ever do to you

mate I hate everything but it's your go the door is open, but the other Zen is stood in the way. Okay, so... Oh, I don't know. I'm so small.

I'm so small. So feeble. Can I? Yes. I mean, whatever it's going to be, I'm probably going to say yes at this point. I'm just going to go for a straight up nutcracker. Yep.

Can I get my bat out and go for gazpacho guy? Yep. What? Down my trousers. Nail was poking out of your trousers. Yeah, so I'm going to... We won't... Where he's so I'm gonna We won't

We won't The Where he's been storing it We won't spend any time on that I like to think that it was like Discarded as an oversized cane I thought everyone was just Looking at Boomer because

Well he was so attractive Yeah they just don't notice No they were looking at him because A whopping club Packing a whopping club. Packing a whopping club. A natural 20. I got a... I've forgotten now because I was quipping.

Well, your dice are there. It was a 14. No, no, it was a 14. Plus your attack. 18, 19. Oh, yeah, that hits. 20, 21, 22. Oh, yeah, that hits.

Three, six. And the rusty nails give me one. Seven in total. So you do manage to catch him. He kind of leaps back. You kind of don't quite hit the sack in a meaningful way, but definitely still scrape the nails kind of cutting along his tunic and trousers. And then can I use Nimble Escape to disengage and run out? So you can disengage from one of them. So the way the disengage works, I think, is you can disengage from one target. I will check that. There is a red man in my sphere.

Yes, he's right next to you. Yes. Yes. They've cornered you. Oh no, okay. If you take the disengage action, your movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks for the rest of the turn, so you can dodge by both of them.

I would like to run out of this hell room. So I like the idea that you kind of knock him backwards. He kind of stank his back. You slide under his legs, and then you all see Boomer like, and just come, like, running past. Where would you like to run to? You see the gang has now made it all the way upstairs.

I guess I can see them. I'll just like, yeah, I'll just run into it and be like, the bad men are in there. Okay. I think that. All right. Aquamember. I'm a backpack.

Are you a backpack? You said you weren't. No, I'm not. I'm a Aquamember. You sprawled across my back. I'm going to. Like Yoda. Yeah. Run, run, run and jump. Front Yoda. I'm going to... Like Yoda. Yeah.

Run, run, run and jump. I can be your back. Why are you jumping? I'm going to push off with my legs, my tiny halfling legs, push off, horizontally fly into this guy with two arms forward. Like M. Bison from Street Fighter.

Like M. Bison. Yes, sure. Leaving a trail of soot in my wake. Yeah. Spinning flame! Can I get a spin in there? You can spin. You can absolutely spin.

Corkscrew. Yeah. It's going to cast. This is going to be an unarmed strike. Yep. So. 15 plus 6. Hits. 21. 21 easily hits. You have sneak attack as Boomer is next to be an unarmed strike. Yep. So 15 plus 6. Hits.

21. 21 easily hits. You have sneak attack as Boomer is next to him. Nice. So that's a 5. Plus your 9. I want to get further away. So you watch as it kind of like staggers him.

He kind of like stumbles back a little bit. Although that would fuck up his speed. Can I flurry that? Leave it. Yeah, sure. I like the idea of the flurry just being like you spinning, like driving you like... Like Fist of the North Star style.

So another d4. Hak'tal Shinken has no equal. You need to hit first, please. Seven. Yeah, that's going to hit. That's how that works. Don't do that again. Well, there will be consequences.

So that's the first hit, and then you did another seven, right? Yep. Yep. And then you get a second one with three. Yep. Flory's you can chew on, I'm trying to keep on. Where I hear the words, didn't hit the sack in a meaningful way. I know it happened so long ago, but it's still going to hit.

It's just eating into your brain. It's burned in for some reason. Six. Points. So with that, you watch as Aquamumber, for the first time, I think, since you've worked with him, actually pulls off a very impressive looking move. He leaps from Bertie and spins like a little torpedo.

He's a monk, he can do what he wants. And as he hits, you just see these little hands like pummeling back. He watches the guy kind of stumbles back. He stumbles for a minute. Aquamumber lands on his feet. The man stumbles back. He's like, didn't even, and then falls down. Dad's like, wow, you killed him. Can I stand on his feet, the man stumbles back, he's like, didn't even, and then falls down dead. Wow! Killed him.

Can I stand on his body? Yeah. Like a soot creature? The soot's kind of trailed off you now, like behind you. Still patchy. But yeah, I like the idea of kind of like a tribal paint over your eyes, like, Aquamamba!

You were so quick that there's like clouds of soup it's an exact form of you but yeah so you just see every image of the place like naruto you see like the after image kind of thing um excellent aqua mamba good job um they're gonna that's one two oh cool they're killing all the nobles. That died? That's fine. Yeah, I mean, you said the bad guys were in here, though. I mean, I was immediately like, what am I going to be concerned about?

The tabaxi is like, sorry, friends, I need to make sure that my master is alive. Oh, don't go in there! Bad things. Bertie. Okay, I mean, I hear the gunfire from the minigun thing, but you said the bad guys are in here, and I don't know what they get up to at fancy parties.

Okay. So I am going to run in, get to the door. As soon as you turn the corner and look in the door, you see the man with the burned face staring at you. He's like, you're that ugly big fucker that chased me down the street. Why is he so aggressive? Because he's a bad guy. He reloads his arms.

Hey, and you're that guy who... I remember you! And I'm going to rage. You killed Gronn! You killed Gronn! I'm going to barrel into him The window he was trying to escape, I'm gonna tackle him through it You want to take him straight through?

Give me a strength check with advantage, you can throw in dice I'm rolling five dice for this Here we go motherfucker! This guy is dead. 19, 24, 28, 27, 30, 31. With my strength, that's 36. Is that with advantage? Did you roll with advantage? With advantage, yeah.

Almost got a crit. So I actually rolled a natural 20, but even with a natural 20, it still only takes me to, you got what, 36? 36. It takes me to 20, that'll be 26, 29.

So you watch as this guy, like, squares himself down, like, brings his blade to bear, but you just pick him up. He's expected to strike. You just grab him, and the two of you go flying out of the second story window, plummeting to the ground. And I want to land on him.

You want to land on him. So that's going to be an acrobatics check to try and manoeuvre yourself so that you're on top of him. Not athletics, perhaps? Nice. You can make an athletics check. Can I? Sure.

I'll use less of these then. I guess you're physically just pushing. You're literally using your raw strength, like arm-locking him so he's face down. 13, 19, 23, 24, plus 9, 33. For me, Thomas, I would like you to roll me, uh, 4 d10s. Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Ha-ha.

Is that a 10, though? That's a 10. Oh, we've got four. Hang on, they're percentiles. Yeah, you can use them. Uh, that's fine. Yeah, that's the same. Actually, I don't like this one.

I'll use that one, that looks cool. Uh, right. You can use them. Yeah, that's the same. Actually, I don't like this one. I'll use that one. That looks cool. Right. Three, six. That's nine. That's 11. 12. So 12 total damage, yeah? But I'm a big guy.

Well, no. Here's the thing. You both take 12, but then what's your constitution score? Because this is going to be like an amalgamation of your weight and muscle mass 19 he's going to take another 19 points of damage you big

you thick I take 14 damage you take 12 points so you take 12 you could stone his endurance if you want I can d12 plus con mod? So I reduce that by

11 Nice So you take one So you smash through the window Glass kind of goes flying around everywhere You probably hit like the outer wall Bounce off and then hit the ground Because it's like a good 20 foot drop

So you kind of go like Boom, boom And hit the ground. It's like a good 20-foot drop. So you kind of go like, boom, boom, and hit the ground. People start screaming all around you as you are on top of this guy. He's prone, you are not, and you can see that he's badly, like, the face is all bruised and beaten up, but he's still alive.

He's still kicking. Wait, so I... Bonus action, yeah. That was just your move and action. If you want to punch him in the face... You kill Grendel. Metal fist into his... I can't metal fist him. It would just have to be fucking B for the time being.

Okay. Well, you have advantage because he's prone. Oh, okay. Okay, so 21 hits. So you're going to get sneak attack and plus 2 from rage for your damage. So I just do 6 base. So there's 8 base, plus 2d6 sneak attack. Plus 2d6, another 7.

Okay. So 15. Oh, and then plus the 6 on top, yeah. Yeah, 15 total. 15 total, okay. So you're going to be turned okay so you're gonna be turns you got half turns and you like see like his jaw probably fracture or something like that is he's like slurring he's still working he's a tough guy he survived a fireball like i'll let him run away so i can attack of opportunity and uh so that, wait, I used my reaction, didn't I?

That was Bertie. Yes, you did, yeah. The dwarf lady will also step in here to try and find her charge. I don't like that everyone that you're sending into this room

is immediately getting taken off the board. He's just got the door covered. Every time they open it, the more bolts fly out. We should really learn from this. Okay. covered every time they open it more bolts fly out we should really learn from this okay uh boomer so you just watch bertie just like you killed ronald true mission impossible style and this guy's dead

aquaman was just stood over him. So I'm just going to like... I'd like to think, because I slid out, I'm still sort of on the floor of it, and I'm just like... Do we want to leave that guy alive? Because he's the one who killed Dandelion? Yeah, probably!

By the way, there's an ogre in there with a gun as big as my head. Oh! We don't need to go in there. No, I don't think we do either. I think our work is done. Although the dwarf lady was in there. She gave me a mighty fine look. I might be in there, maybe. No time. Get birdies.

All right. Can I go over to the window and shout out? Yeah, you look 20 feet down in the street where you're beginning to see guards like the Grefg Cavalry and stuff are beginning to appear on the outskirts. But I look like a halfling. Yeah, you're fun, but you're looking down like he's 20 feet down. You can see Bertie on top of this guy just pummeling him with his fists. Oi! Big boy! Ah! Bertie!

What? Leave him alive! But he killed Grendel! You can kill him later. No, he killed Grendel! Kill him later. No, he killed... We need information from him. It's okay. I think he's dead anyway. Kill him later. We need information from him.

It's okay. I think he's dead anyway. Look at him. Leave him alive. He's trying to pull a knife free. He's trying to stab you, mate. Disarm him. Knock him out. Leave him alive. You can kill him later after we talk to him.

Is that it? Is that what you're doing? Aquaman. He's trying to stab you. I'm just going to cane the shit out of this guy. Give me a perception. He's dead. Give me a perception. He's dead.

He's dead. I mean, he's okay. We are double tapping everyone. Are we going to roll any extra dice there? What is it? Perception. Sure. 20.

20? One. From the other side of the room, the other door, you hear the sound of almost like a mechanical clanking, some sort of whispered command, and then scurried movement. Like you can hear something like moving from behind that door. You think you might have heard the word Zord? I wonder what that means. I'm on my own now, right? Well, yeah, Boomer's

in the room behind you. He's like close by. Boomer! Yo! Zord's in the other room Go 5, 10, 15, 20 Why would someone say their own name 5, 30 Hide with me Zord It is I Zord It is I Zord Zordon Zordon Zord Zardoz

Sorry Zord Zordon Alpha find me. Zordon. Sorry. Zordon. Alpha, find me five goblins with attitude. Oh my God. Go, go, goblin rangers. Coming soon from... Van Duxaban. Oh, well.

You can action dash. You've only used your movement. Where are you going? The door's that way. Wait, which door? Into the bathroom. No, that one. Oh, that room. I'm going to let out a mage hand and knock on the door.

Okay. And then stay away. You hear a woman's voice like, Habaz, is it safe? Are they gone? Oh, she's in the other room. Yes! Give me a deception check. What the?

Give me a deception check. I've never even seen this Habaz. All right, natural 20. Oh my God. Plus 10, 30, plus 20. Oh my god! Plus 10, 30, 6. Fuck. She's just like, my love, quickly, come inside! 41. So you hear her basically say, my love, I've sent the stone away, come on, quickly, we need to get out of here. Okay, darling!

And you just stay where you are? I can't have no more movement. That's my action. I like a bonus action. And you just stay where you are? I can't have no more movement. That's my action. I like a bonus action. Yeah. Dash. It's a key point, but yeah.

No, I won't do that. Okay, so you're just going to wait until next turn. Okay. That was Aquamamba. I don't know why you're making rolls. Everyone's dead. You hear... from inside the ballroom and just

RAAAARGH Where's the car, mate? Yay! Expedition! Expedition! So that was that, now we're on the next. Bertie! You are on the street outside, you can hear like

the whistles of the guards like, there's a man fighting another man. Oh, they can actually see me. My goodness. You're on the street. You're on the street. Bundling this guy. I know, I thought the police, the guards.

You can just hear the whistles. You can hear the whistles. They're coming soon. What sort of role would I have to make to restrain? Grapples, that'd be strength. No, I mean not to restrain him, to restrain myself. Oh, um... From killing this guy.

Wisdom saving throw. Okie dokie. I'll take some extra dice for it. Is it a disadvantage from raging? No. No. I'll take some dice because I want to do this. Cocked.

But that's a 17. It's so cocked. No, that's fine. That's a 16. And those two as well for an 8. So 20 something. Yeah, you're like, he killed Grundle, but that, you kind of remember, you're like,

wait, if you keep him alive, you can hurt him more. Yeah! And in that case, I'll do what I can to disarm him. It's going to be a strength check. Oh, okay. Ordinary. Oh, I shouldn't disarm him. It's going to be a strength check. Oh, okay. Good. Ordinary. Oh, I shouldn't have done ordinary.

11? Oh, what's your bonus? Is that total 11? Yeah. With your bonus? So you're trying to disarm him, but he's quite wriggly, and he kind of slips an arm free, and you don't manage to quite get a pin on him.

Could I, in that case, just bonus action punch his dagger away? I will let you do it. Yeah, well, you can't punch the dagger away. You can punch him. God, I don't know. With your offhand.

Like to knock him out? Is that a thing? Yeah, you can basically say you don't want to kill him. You just want to be non-lethal. But you have to tell me that you're doing it non-lethal. I will non-lethal

punch him in the head. Okay. Tackle. You have advantage. 19 plus 7 yeah that's gonna hit uh bam so I guess 6 damage

plus 2 from raging plus 2 from raging plus sneak attack plus sneak attack so another like so 8 plus 2d6 uh another 5

so that's 13 total 33 yeah 26 plus that oh no no that's a damage 33 yeah 26 plus that oh no no those are damage oh shit it's fine

so you punch him but he just kind of grits against it still conscious he's still up yeah yeah this guy this guy

he's gonna kill me before I kill him that was by the way that was by the way hopefully a wall of idle champion dice to protect us from a bad roll As it is done, hopefully... A wall of idle champion dice to protect us from a bad roll. So, the guy that you're currently pinned on, he manages to kind of wriggle free, or he attempts to wriggle... He manages to kind of slide out from under your things, get to his feet, kind of crouch low,

pulls out like a boot dagger, and tries to jam it into your side. For God's sake. I'm gonna have to kill this guy. That's a natural 20, I'm afraid. Oh, hey, you know what that means, Mark? There's injury rules in this campaign. There is, yeah. But he doesn't get his sneak attack.

He loses. We haven't had any injury checks yet, and I kind of want to do it. I want to lose another hand. Shut up! What happens if you just lose your real hand? That is going gonna be... Four? Like... quit the campaign.

Seven points of damage. Seven? Okay, that's fine. Because he doesn't get his sneak attack. If he'd got his sneak attack, that would have been... A little tickle. Not actually that bad. I rolled two ones. Okay. That would have been at least another 18 points, though, if that had been a sneak attack crit. Shit. But can you make a constitution saving throw for me, please? Yes, I can. With one of these. I've got a really fancy dagger this month.

Six. Oh! Oh! Oh dear. It's happening! It's happening! We're doing the entry roll!

You're getting injured! Critically! You brought this on yourself Tom Hazel. I know but I've got to find it and imprint it out! It never happens!

There's a Twitter page called High Roller Stats, for those that are unaware, that have calculated the potential of succeeding another injury check, and it was 0.55%. Roll a d20 for me, Tom Hazel! Oh, okay. Please don't get 17 or higher. Uh-oh. Six!

Oh! What an injury! get 17 or higher. Uh-oh. Six! What an injury! You do? So, he jams the blade into your knee. No, I need that! The blade, although the cut isn't deep, it probably hits into the cartilage

and he twists the knife snapping part of the bone and the blade sticks in. You have a broken leg. Oh god! I didn't even get that from the fall! You have- no! Your movement speed is halved and you have disadvantage on dexterity, skill check, saving throws and any save against being knocked prone. Oh my god! Yeah, and then probably like to like really break it, like the blade snaps off and then as he gets up

he stomps on the leg to make sure it's free And seeing that you're injured he will then use his cunning action to disengage and make his escape I'm not gonna be able to do another chase against this guy He only gets 30 feet away, so he's currently 30 feet away from you I can bonus action dash and that'll put me next to him But I'm just like not gonna be able to do another chase against this guy. He only gets 30 feet away so he's currently 30 feet away from you. I can bonus action dash and that'll put me next to him.

But I'm just like boom. Yeah you can hold him after him. Boomer. I'm killing this guy by the way. I'm going to end

this match. You do you mate. Okay. You do you. I'm still raging. Would I have heard Aquamumba and like the lady saying like

You'd take half damage if you were raging by the way. You would have only taken from that seven you would have taken three. But you still get the broken leg. Would I have heard Aquamumba and the lady saying... You'd take half damage if you were raging, by the way. You would have only taken... From that seven, you would have taken three. But you'd still get the broken leg. Would I have heard her say something about the stone? Sure.

Oh, now I'm in a conundrum. Conundrum! The stone will get me paid, but Bertie's my friend. Paid. Friend. Paid. Yeah, you see this guy jam the blade in Bertie's knee, twist it. Bertie's like, ah! And then he stouts on his leg and starts hobbling away. I'm really badly hurt, that's the only other thing.

What do you want to do, Bert? What do you want to do, Boomer? I'm going to shout at Guamamba. She's got the stone! She's sent it away! I know, my at Guimamba. She's got the stone! She sent it away! I know, my love has the stone. Bye! I'm gonna look out the window. How far is Bertie from me out the window?

So he's like 20 foot down. I'd say he's like 30 feet, but it's 20 foot down. Wait, what was that? 10 foot out. Yeah, 20 feet down, 10 feet out, and then the other guy, I guess, is 30 feet from that point as well. So 60 feet, ultimately. I kind of want to jump out the window onto Bertie.

I mean, yeah, you can try that. So that's 13 feet. You can certainly try. In the words of Mr. Matthew Mercer, you can certainly try. Is that a movement or an action? That would be movement. Because I would also like to chug a healing potion. Okay. In the air.

Which way? What are you doing first? Chug my regular healing potion. Okay. You get six hit points back. And then you jump out the window. So that's going to be an acrobatics check, please. I'm going to look at the window, size up the distance.

I know it isn't 13 feet onto me, because that's 10 feet away as well that you also have to jump. Would you stop talking? So it's athletics check first to see if you can clear the jump to the wall. Then it's going to be an acrobatics to try and reduce the fall damage. So athletics first. You've already decided, so just roll the dice. Okay. Use the dice. Uggh! Er, six! Athletics.

That's the athletics, now make an acrobatics check for me. Ha ha! Ha ha ha! Seven, eight... What's the... Er, sorry. Eighteen. Eighteen with the dice. Yeah. Eighteen. What's your athletics? Or 18. 18 with the dice. Yeah. 18.

What's your athletics or your acrobatics? I added the 1 to the... 7, 8 plus 12. Okay. Wait, what's 12 plus 8? That's a 20. 20. A natural 20. It's an unnatural 20.

It's a natural 20. With three dice. Don't forget that the DCs are higher because of Hyperjumpin's dice. So what happens with Boomer? You're like, all right. Like Popeye. You're like, alright. Like Popeye. You're like...

But your little legs, you jump out like five feet. You just smack against the inner wall of the Growland Villa and slide down it. You take nine points of bludgeoning damage. You leave like a blood smear down the wall. What is this place? Wait, so do you not even get through the window?

You jumped out the window, but didn't make the distance to clear the wall like you did. He just hits the interior villa wall and just slides down. How many points did I take? Nine. Are you down? No, because I had a healing potion. How many hit points have you got there?

I'm on 12. That's not too bad, actually. I thought you were way worse than that. Oh, I didn't even realise I cleared the outer wall as well. Yeah, you went miles. You just threw him out. You've got a bone section left with the boomer. Is there something you want to do with that?

Bertie! What do you call that Bertie? Can I... Boomer? Is there something you want to do with that? Bertie! What did you call that Bertie? Can I... Boomer! I remember! I guess disengage or hide. You can hide if you want. You can roll into the bushes.

I'm just going to roll into the bushes. It's an embarrassment. Just have a little cry. Check for me, please. I'm just going to have a little cry in the bushes. Fifteen. Yeah, you're just like, and you're just like roly-poly underneath the rose bush

and you're like, it hurts, but I don't care. You're going to be like, It's down to you, leader. You're the only one that can salvage this mission. Going in. Oh, I did loads of stuff. So you open the door and inside is what appears to be some sort of master bedroom.

There is an open window leading out into Waterdeep where you see a metal man in a kind of coat and cloak and a feathery hat holding this weird grey stone is just leaping out onto the

rooftops beyond it. You step in as the creature is leaving. Next to the window is a very well-dressed noblewoman, Jallagralhund, dark-skinned, black hair kind of tied up. She turns around and she's like, Habaz, who are you? It is I, your love

in disguise. So they don't see me. That's going to be a deception check please with disadvantage oh okay he's just taken like eight days no I think three Well I fucking want to use more of them! I thought we only had three left! I broke my face for nothing! Disadvantaged. Okay, so... Ten, nine... Eighteen... Twenty-six there.

Yeah. Plus deception. Five. Thirty-one. Thirty-one with that many dice? I got a four. I got a twenty-five still. And she's like like how have you what

alright I need the stone the nimble right's already taken it it's taking it to the safe house I can't it's gone it's obeying it's orders it's gone to the safe spot this is why we have relationship troubles what are you talking about?

I'm going out! I'm going to go out the window. You're just going to make a chase? Okay, so you're going to make a chase on this thing. Okay. Actually. Actually. I'm going to stop there. I'm not going to do that.

Oh, the stone. The stone's quite important, right? Yeah, that's the thing we needed. Yeah, it's like the one thing we've been after. I'm going to dive out the window. So everyone in this party has jumped out of the window. So. Oh.

So. I ruined my wall. At Cormamba, you dive out the window. It's going to be. I ruined my wall. Aqua Mamba. You dive out the window. It's going to be... Bison style. Athletics check, please. Okay. Sorry.

There's only four dice left. Next you're 20. You leap over and you are now in pursuit of this creature. You don't fall to the ground. You manage to leap onto the stables,

onto the guard barracks, sorry. I've only spoken, right, and jumped out. Yeah. Well, we're going to begin a chase sequence, because this thing has had some movement on you. It was ahead of you already. Can I catch up in this initial part? No. By bonus flurry of dash? No.

Okay. Because that's not as exciting as us doing chase. Okay. We'll still get the men with the pane of glass. So what is your constitution modifier, Acklamamber? It is zero. Zero. You can dash up to three times. After that, you'll need to make

constitution saving throws or gain exhaustion levels. Speed of 35. The nimble right will also need to be left. 70 feet three times. Yeah, that's the one benefit you do have. So let me just get to... Does he not gain a bonus like 60, 90 feet for his natural 20 jump? No.

That just means that he clears... He doesn't have to make the second jump because it was a jump down to the guard's barracks and then a jump across to the stable and then over the wall into Waterdeep. He did all of that? He just literally leaps like a ninja flies over directly over to it. Is it like

Warfu? Yeah, absolutely. And he ripples in the air like a flying snake. But it's a halfling with a slightly off face. Face flapping in the wind. He's going Aquamamba! Aquamamba! Aquamamba!

What is this? We're there again. We're there again. We're back. The madness is sucking. The drug's going back. Okay, so this thing, as you watch it dash Aquamamba,

this thing is fast. This is moving at probably twice the speed of a human, as it just leaps and dodges to the side. It's all wood and metal construct. It can almost tuck itself into a little roll as it jumps over people, and it moves with incredible elastotree.

So, it is going to start, so it is going to start, let's say, 120 feet away from you. Such elastotree. I didn't know that word. So it is going to start, let's say, 120 feet away from you. Such a lassetry. I don't know that word. Elassetry? I don't think that is one.

How do you pronounce it? I have no idea. A-L-A-C-I-T-R-Y. It means fast, but I don't know how to pronounce it. Such fast. Elassetry? Elasticity? I don't know.

Elasticity? You're not right. I know I'm right! Gris and cheerful readiness. She accepted the invitation with alacrity. I would say alacrity. Alacrity. So, it's 120 feet ahead of you.

What a nice... But we'll give you the initiative, because you made that an actual 20. So you get to go first. It's going to be you, then the creature. What am I rolling? Well, first of all, let's determine the complication. There is no complication.

Wow. Sweet. So just a straight thing. So are you going to dash and then key point, dash again? Absolutely. So how far can you go in total? 35 is my base. So you go 35, 35, 70, plus another 35. So you've got 105 feet. Boom. But another 35, so you've got 105 feet. Boom.

But that's a key point, and it's one of your dashes. That's my last key point of the day. Okay, so this thing is now only 15 feet ahead of you, but that's your full turn to chase after it. On its turn, it is going to move. Holy moly, it's quick. It's going to go 60 feet. But it doesn't look like this thing has the capacity to necessarily

dash. It just moves incredibly quickly. What it does do is it will try to throw down a series of barrels behind it. It runs up to a merchant's cart. It pulls the cart in front of it behind it. I'm the worst enemy.

The cart and the fruit all goes all across the thing. It's going to slow you down somewhat behind it. Vegetable medley. So, yeah, so you're running forward. You can see you're going to need to clear this jump. So you can either jump over it or you can try to just, like, balance, like, step through it. Acrobatics it.

Acrobatics check, please. 18. 18. 18. So that's enough. So it's not difficult terrain for you. So it's currently 75 feet ahead of you. Excellent. So I can dash again.

So that's your second dash. That gives you 70. So you're now five feet ahead of you. Nice. Okay. It will move again, moving 60 feet away. So it's now 65 feet. You're closing in. Let's do a complication.

So, ahead of you, you can see what it does is it turns into a narrow alleyway, and there is a series of crates that lead up onto a rooftop, and it jumps up the crates and then begins making its way across the rooftops. You need to give me an athletics or acrobatics check to be able to climb up over this terrain. Well, athletics is minus two. Acrobatics is plus four. So I think I'm going to acrobatics check to be able to climb up over this terrain. Well, athletics is minus two. Acrobatics is plus four. So I think I'm going to acrobatics this shit. That sounds smart.

Fifteen. Okay, so this time whilst you do manage to climb up the stairs you kind of like jump your way up, your little legs kind of pull yourself up the crates onto the rooftops, but it is going to slow you down slightly. So you've got to go over ten feet of movement which is twenty feet of speed. So you effectively lose 10 feet of movement.

So are you going to dash for the third time? Yes. So you go 65. So you are right next to this thing now, but you're right out of actions, because you moved, you actioned, but you're right next to it. The only problem is that it's always going to be

kind of like stepping ahead of you. I can follow your blows as a bonus action. You could. But I'd have to attack first, right? Yes, that's the only problem. I don't have any key points anyway. No. You could try and make ranged attacks.

If you have things like shurikens and things like that, you can try and like knock it down. So on its turn, it's going to go 60 feet. It's now dead 60 feet ahead of you. Let's see a complication. Oh, he's dead. Nice. So it turns into, so the rooftops,

the chimney stacks rise all around it in a complicated kind of maze. It manages to weave its way through, but it does slow down significantly. It's now only 50 feet ahead of you as it makes its way. So what are you going to do on your turn? 50 feet.

Yeah, you need to give me an intelligence saving throw or a survival check to navigate on your turn? 50 feet. Yeah, you need to give me an intelligence saving throw or a survival check to navigate to this maze of chimney stacks. It's really messing with your head. You're trying to work out the best route. I'll throw survival. Okay. It feels like a... 5? 5. So this one

again, you're going to lose this time 20 feet of movement because you're like where'd he go? You're like looking around for him like all through the thick smoke billowing out of these chimney stacks. So you go, because you're like, where'd he go? You're looking around for him, all through the thick smoke billowing out of these chimney stacks. So you go, are you going to dash? This is your fourth time dashing. Let me just check one thing.

You can do it, you just need to make a con saving throw. So if I go my 35. Yes. You would be, so you'd lose 20 feet of movement, so you're only going to go 15. It would put it at 35 feet ahead of you.

Shit, just 5 feet out from a charmed person, which is what I want to try. Well if you keep the speed up though, if you dash again he'll only be able to get so far ahead of you. Okay. So constitution saving throw if you want to dash. Now the DC for this first time is only 10. Watch him roll a 1. Bam. I still need to kill this guy.

Natural 20 with a 1. All that cardio is paying off for Aquamumber. You're like T-1000, like knife hands chasing after this thing. Every right foot is the aqua, every left is the mumber. Your right gets this thing, but it go 35 feet. Every left is the mumba. You are right next to this thing, but it gets to move again. What complication is there this time? Maybe like aqua, aqua. So this time it drops

down into another alleyway, but you can see that ahead of you some sort of mud, like a thick mud, has formed in the rain. It's made it all slippy. Let's see if this thing trips over. Ooh, it does. It falls prone, which halves its movement, because it has to spend half its movement to stand up.

It only gets 30 feet away from you. You need to make an acrobatics check to see if you can avoid the sticky mud as well. 19. That's enough. 70. You just slide in, it's 30 feet away from you. What do you want to do? You can move up with your movement

and you'd be right next to it and you'd still have your action. I'm gonna use my movement. Okay, so you get five feet ahead of it in theory, but yes. Hmm. Me versus this thing is gonna be pretty tough. What, a child person? Well, I don't know if child person's gonna work.

It like looks at you and you can see that it's, yeah, like this metal thing. It has like a fake little fake little beard of copper. It's dressed like a nobleman, but you can see it's made of metal and wood. And its eyes are quite wide. It's looking at you with these big stone-like eyes. Can I do an intelligence check to see if it's a humanoid or not? Yeah, sure.

Eight. It's a person shape. I'll try it. Give it up. We're friends now. Just give me the stone. You don't need it. Wisdom saving throw.

Yeah, I'm just... Does it say that it only affects humanoids? I'm a humanoid, you can see within range. So you try and do it, but it just kind of blinks and doesn't seem to be affected by the spell. Obviously, it's construct nature you think might be preventing the spell from taking any effect. But it is right next to you.

It turns to run. You get an attack opportunity if you'd like. Trip it up. Yeah, do you want to try and trip it, or are you just going to punch it? I'm going to try and trip it with my cane. Okay. Pulse the ball.

See if you hit. Yes. Plus a 22. Once the cane's out, a little boot sticks out at the end of it. 22. So you hit, you kind of manage to hit its legs, but it stumbles but manages to keep its pace and will unfortunately manage to get 60 feet ahead of you. Oh. Well shit. I'm just gonna keep

getting up to it and be like, hey, do you wanna stop now? Please? Stop it. Yeah, you can try and like grapple it, you can try and like pin it to the ground like if you can get next to it, but to get next to it you're gonna have to dash again which is another con saving throw. This time the DC is higher. Ooh.

Eight. Level, eight. Level of exhaustion. You managed to move it, so you move 70 feet, so you're ahead of it again. You're 10 feet ahead of it. But you're like... Your breath is getting ragged. You can feel the burning in your lungs. Up ahead, classic.

Two salesmen with a big pane of glass doing a thing across the road. This thing is going to try and run past you. You get an attack opportunity. I'll take it. You don't have disadvantage yet. It's on ability checks. It's on skill checks.

So it manages to slide underneath, but then it will have to go past this window. Bunk! It just kind of bounces off and looks a little stunned. Don't even smash it. Just bounces off. Life is amazing right now. So it only gets 30 feet.

I'm so happy. It only gets 30 feet. So technically it's only 20 feet ahead of you now, because you had 10 feet on it. Okay. Can I nimbly go around to the front of it? Mm-hmm. And grapple.

You need to give me a strength check to see if you can get past this window. You can try and jump over it if you want. Oh, but I thought you didn't stop it. Yeah, the nimble right did, but it's still intact. It's a very strong glass. I don't want to get ahead of that. I want to just get ahead of the construct. Oh, okay.

All right. So you're just going to move in front of him. Okay. Yeah. Can I do that gracefully with my extra movement to make sure I do a wide berth? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm gonna grapple the arm. Okay, so you're just gonna cling onto his arm.

Okay. Yeah, you can see that the stone is like... Like pushing the cane against his face. ...locked into its hand. Okay. So it's gonna be a strength check. Sorry! I don't need those, I can kill him without the dice.

Uh, 16, 18... 16. So... GIVE ME THE STONE! GIVE ME THE DAMN STONE! You're prying at its fingers, and whilst it looks to be well-made, the joints, you're like jamming your staff on them, like bashing them in your hands. I am ravenous, like Bilbo Baggins with the ring. And it begins unclasping. You grab the stone, pull it free,

and you now have the stone of Galore. Yay! We did it! Well, you did it. As you touch it. Very exclusively you did it. You hear a voice

in your head. Hello. What do we have here? Bertie. It's Crown Rand! He's back! You are on top of this fellow. Oh no, he's 30 feet away. He's 30 feet away. It's Crown Rand! He's back! You are on top of this fellow. Oh no, he's 30 feet away.

He's 30 feet away. It's your turn. Okay. I want to... I guess I wasn't prone. You weren't prone. You just have half movement. Because you're broken leg.

Are there any fires nearby? No. Like anyone carrying torches perhaps? There are torches on the walls, but they're like magical lights there's no like open flames okay that's fine

in that case I want to like stare at this guy and just be like the spirit of grundle will make me

move faster so you go 15 feet I go 15 feet. I go 15 feet. I bonus action dash. Bonus action 15 more feet. You're next to me. So I'm stumbling, but I'm stumbling fast.

If you don't get him now, you think he's going to be able to get away from you. Well, I am going to just fucking A, left hand, right arm. Okay. Punch him as hard as I can. Go for it. Make an attack roll. Now, because you're a swashbuckler, you always get your sneak attack if you get it. Yes, I do.

Come on. I'm not going to use this dice. This one's better. I just put that down on the natural 20. 16. Let me check my... We use so many dice. Yeah, all 50.

16, did you say? You just... Oh! Okay. Nice. So you get your normal damage plus 2d6 for sneak attack. That and that. Plus your strength mod.

Oh! Two sixes, a three, and my strength modifier. So 15 plus strength. Filthy. And you're raging. And I'm raging. No, that's 15 on the dice. Yeah, but plus five.

So what's your strength? Plus five? Well, it says plus six to the damage. Yeah, because that's with rage, so... No, no, we don't rage, because this is fucking eight. This is my club. Right, then you wouldn't roll the d4. The club is...

What's the d4? A 1d4 plus six. That's including rage. Because your strength modifier is plus 4, right? What's your strength modifier, Tom? 5, but it says... Oh, your strength modifier is 5. I've got a club plus 1.

You do have a plus 1. Yes, you do. So 15 plus 6. Plus another 2. Plus another 2 for the rage. So 23 damage. 23. Does his head explode around my head?

He's on one hit point. What the hell? You have a bonus action. Oh, you dashed. I dashed. He has to get away. Dash, he does have to get away. God, please.

And you see him, like, stumbling, like, get away. I, like, clock him, and he's, like, tearingaring from side to side ready to stumble backwards away from me He bonus action disengages No he doesn't! Oh come on I must have taken enough brain cells away for him to not know that he can do that How far away am I? You're on the other side of the wall to the villa Did you sneak attack?

I did yeah Yeah He's gonna live! So he disengages like holding his head, he kind of shoves you away, manages to stumble he gets 30 feet with his bonus action he moves another 30 feet with his movement action He's away! He's gone! And then he moves another

30 feet into the crowd. However you see guards swarming the area and they see him running and they're going for him they're also coming for you, as they, like about four or five officers with truncheons goes to basically like grab you, basically.

Oh, but I mean... Aquamanber, you feel this kind of strange sensation in your head. The creature looks at you, and it's like tugging on your hand, but not with a lot of strength. It almost feels like it can't be aggressive at you and it's like tugging on your hand but not with a lot of strength. It almost feels like it can't be aggressive towards you. It's like

just tugging on your hand. Stop it. It's really annoying. I'm trying to listen. It's like grabbing your shirt and pushing. Stop it. Come on. It doesn't let up. It's not enough that it can pull the stone away from you but it's also just staying next to you. I'm going to mage hand the stone further away it's like away from me then are you

lifting it up in the air above his head like yeah he's like it's like jumping jumping trying to get it what do i do first jump misses i'm just going to keep rolling for jumps trot circling it around it's really high i can go quite high with it you can go 30 feetling it around. It's really high. I can go quite high with it. You can go 30 feet with it. So yeah, it's pretty high. Yeah, a 30 feet jump would be quite hard. If I get a natural 20, maybe he makes it. He is a construct.

I'm going to keep moving it around. He's got spring legs. Every time he jumps I'm just like, whoop. Yeah, he's just jumping, but you're not holding it anymore, so the voice goes away. I'm gonna walk out of sight of this construct while he's distracted. I mean, he's looking at the stone. Yeah, I'm gonna walk. You have to stay within 30 feet of it to mage hand it.

It's gonna slowly come this way, but up in the sky. He just follows the stone. He just follows the stone. Can I find like a nook or something, or like a barrel that I can get in and just peek out, watching the mage hand doing his thing? Yes, stealth check. With advantage?

No. I'm distracting you with a crystal. Stone. Stealth check. 17 plus 6. The creature does not seem interested in you at all. It is entirely focused on the stone and it's just like... Okay. Watching this,

can I put it on like a ledge so it comes out of sight? You float it up to the roof of a building, yes. And you stick it on the ledge. Yep. I just want to get it out of his line of sight so that I can then mage hand it without him noticing.

I mean, there's no way you can really do that. Like, he knows it's up there. Can I use canopies or something? Also, as soon as you lose sight of it, the mage hand goes. You have to keep the line of sight to it for mage hand. Oh, shit. Okay. I know that. Yeah. In which case, I'm going to get myself into a perfect position

to get ahead of him. So 30 feet ahead. I mean, he just follows. He just follows you with the stone. Like, wherever the stone goes, he's following it. And he keeps, like, grasping away. He's, like, reaching for the stone.

Oh, I see. But it felt like, with Aquamember, he couldn't fight Aquamember. He wasn't allowed to. Like, it wasn't hurting you. It was just like... Pulling at you. Like, trying to get the stone off you.

And it doesn't speak. It doesn't make any noises. noises okay and you can see that there is a crowd gathering like look at this strange creature what's it doing what's that stone oh god i'm going to drop mage hand so that it falls into the barrel i'm gonna leap up and grab it give me it when you roll an initiative check for me see who grabs it first god

please don't lose it twelve you're like huh as it drops this thing jumps in the air snaps out of the air

and then begins running off again oh my god I mean do you get like an attack of opportunity he is currently in a barrel Snaps it out of the air. And then begins running off again. Oh my god. I mean, do you get like an attack of opportunity? He is currently in a barrel. I forgot. I leapt out to grab it.

You jumped up to try and grab it, yes. You're still in a barrel. So this thing runs 60 feet away. I'm out. I'm going home. I'm not going to keep the chase because you can just keep following this thing if you want. Okay. But the others, you don't know where they are. Boomer, you hear the sounds of the guards.

You can hear that whatever fight was going on in the villa has ended and the guards are now beginning to pull the nobles free. You hear the dwarven woman and the tabaxi making their way out, battered and bruised. They're both cut up. Can I call for their attention? Do you crawl out of this rosebush? If I can hear the dwarven lady to count them. You crawl out of this rosebush. If I can hear the dwarven lady.

So you crawl out of the rosebush. One you roll a d20 for me to see how well your disguise is held up against you slamming against the wall. I'm pretty beat up by the way. Yeah, I know. Twelve. Twelve? It's not awful. But it's like

one half of your face is pretty green now like the pale skin my suit's pretty messed up your suit's like really torn the green's gone

yeah there's a very very much a peed yourself wet stain you call yourself out and look over to them what'd you call out

oh god it was a white suit as well yeah it's yellowy dear lady are you calling out to the dwarven woman yeah make a please help Oh, wow. Oh, God, it was a white suit as well. Yeah. It's yellowy. Dear lady. Are you calling out to the dwarven woman? Yeah.

Make a... Please help. Make a persuasion check with disadvantage. What? I look pathetic, though. Yeah, exactly. You look pathetic. Disadvantage. Four. She, like, looks. Oh, dear.

No, not now. Aw. Maybe earlier. I can clean up. I dress up really well. A very handsome looking fellow is like, come my dear. And begins leading her away.

Oh, so cold. The tabaxi man looks over and is like, sorry friend, but these things happen. And he passes you over like a small little bottle of milk. looks over and is like, sorry, friend, but these things happen. He passes you over like a small little bottle of milk. Thanks, mate. How'd you do against the big fella? That fucker, man. He was crazy.

But yes, we managed to cut him up pretty bad. Nice one, dude. There was a half-orc who was pretty capable. Her name's Whiskers, by the way. Nice to meet you, mate. Yes, you fought quite well. Oh, thanks. Yeah, I was pretty brave, I thought.

I was going to come and join you. I can smell the urine. That's someone else, mate. Yes, of course it is, my friend. Listen, this city's getting pretty dangerous. If you need some help, you know, I stopped by a place called the Tiger's Eye. The Tiger's Eye sounds classy.

Ask for whiskers. Could you just help me get out of this prophecy thing? Yes, yes, come on. Come with me. Oh, you're a real star, mate. Bring a tear to my eye. Can I scratch your little chin? He's like, oh, we don't normally let that happen, but okay.

Oh, I like you. He's like, wait a minute. He's like, hmm, that's Goblin Peace. Yeah, he's just like, he looks at you curiously but doesn't say anything. He doesn't care if you're a goblin. You're a friend.

You're a real friend, mate. He is, no problem. Well, let's go find your friends. I freaking love you. Wow, okay. Calm down now. Enough of that. Like, Boomer's just a bit beat up.

He's a bit knocked around. Yeah, he's a bit knocked around. What is Bertie doing as these guards kind of surround him? Are you just like, run, no! Or are you, like, trying to fight him off? I mean, so he's, like, 60 feet away. And he's 90 feet away.

He's 90 feet. How the hell did he do that? But it looks like there are guards because he had move action, cunning action, and normal action to dash. Oh, shit. And I can do that but only get 45 feet. And even then I have to get past her on. Is he being...

He's being chased by guardsmen, yeah. Oh, even then I have to get past her on is he being he's being chased By guardsmen. Yeah, he's gonna get away. Is he I don't know I Mean I think I'm just gonna like I can't catch up to him, but he knows that okay He's just gonna get onto one knee because the other ones like not gonna bend any time soon Yeah, and just let the guys surround him. Yeah. So you are- He can't even crumble!

They pull your arms behind you, manacle you. One of them does start treating your leg, not to heal it, but enough that you can be dragged. Oh, how nice! You're pulled into a guards carriage, and you are taken to the nearest guards precinct. Do I see him getting arrested as I getting arrested? You watch as this carriage you see like Bertie's face up against the little bottle. I'll come for you mate!

As he is carried away in the car. I'm too injured to come after you, I'm sorry. I'm too injured to punch a hole. Holy shit, what have I done? So you're just going to try and chase this thing, right? Yeah. So give me one more constitution saving throw, because you're going to be basically, like,

slowly losing track of this thing. Five. Yeah. So that would basically bring you to exhaustion level two, which is your halved speed, which means it just gets away at this point. It, like, just runs ahead of you like

on your knees like trying to catch your breath as it just runs I fucked up there something in that plan really fucked up it's probably Boomer's fault

what? okay yeah you can double back you can like slowly make your way back to the villa where Boomer you and Boomer can meet up

I am miles away you are pretty far I'm going to make my way back slowly so my question I guess there's much more we can do in today's session but what I'd like to know is what are your next plans like what do you want to do

do you want to try and bust Bertie out this is a crystal maze situation do you want to spend a crystal to get your teammate out or do you want to do? Do you want to try and bust Bertie out? This is Crystal May's situation. Do you want to spend a crystal to get your teammate out? Yeah. Or do you want to carry on? Spend a crystal? We don't have a crystal. Yeah, we had one. Trop.

Thanks. Well, you do have some facts. So it's not all hopeless. You know the creature's been taken by a very unique creature. This is not a creature that can blend in very well. This was a construct. Somebody in Waterdeep will know what it was. That you can try and find information

on. You know that this burned man got away, but is injured, possibly also captured. You manage to track him down. You're going to go after Bertie. You knew, the woman did cry out that she had sent the stone to a safe house for Zord.

She specifically said that to Aquamanber. The stone was being sent to a secure spot for Zord. So you have some information. So the plan is you want to get Bertie out. I've got a cat friend. You do have a cat friend. So if you want to get Bertie out, there's a couple of things you can try and do. You can either try and break him out,

or you could try and go to somebody in the city to break him out for you. Either a contact that you have, one of the prominent figures like Mert the Money Lender. You could go to somebody like Lariel Silverhand, the Open Lord, who's kind of like the open ruler of Waterdeep, and say, you know, you'd have to reveal that you were working for the Harpers, but she might be able to assist you.

My contact crawled up a chimney and fucked up. Well, she might come back. Well, she will come back. I've got one, but I'm not with you right now. Unless I meet up. Well, you can meet up. I'll say that Boomer and that can meet up, yeah. Holy moly.

Also, Bertie, like, if there's anything you think you can do, like, if you want to try and break out or if you're just like, No, I'm arrested, I can't do that. I like to think when Bertie was leaving, I'd just be making, like, little heart signs, like, I love you, mate. I'm coming for ya. I mean, I do the same, but it's a fist and that. It's like a half heart like this. Um, I mean, do I see, in the carriage as I'm dragged away, do I see the burned man at all? No, you don't know what happened to him.

God damn. Are there people like, are there like a group of people that were chasing him? Are there people out of breath? Yeah, there are people chasing him. And you can see Griffin cavalry chasing in that direction and things like that. Like this guy's going to have a hard time getting away. It's possible. I'm going to roll for it out of session.

You know what i think i think bertie is smart enough to know that if they catch him he's going to end up in the same cell as me and then he can kill and then he's i'm not trapped in there with him yeah okay um perfect so i think i'm going to wait okay like meticulously As meticulous as Bertie can look. Okay. Perfect. I'd probably ask Mert. So you want to go and try and ask Mert. Did you have a contact? I have a contact.

Who's your contact? Okay, yeah. Jalasta Silvermane. She's city admin. So she may know. Yeah, so it's a he. Jalasta Silvermane is a he. And he's not just an admin.

He actually runs a lot of the city guard. He would be an excellent person to get Bertie out. Wow. You are pretty confident that you will have to do a favour for Jallister in order to get Bertie out. Hope it's not like the last one. And I think, what I'm thinking in my head, if you're up for this, is I think next session will be a unique session

set in one of Waterdeep's prison facilities. And you guys can play some inmates and we'll see what happens to Bertie inside the prison whilst you then do a favour for Jalister. Sounds like a Bertie one-shot. Yeah, I think it's going to be a Bertie one-shot with everybody else playing inmates.

And then the week after that, what we'll do the week after that is... Don't forget where you came from, right? You and me. me Tom you'll play an NPC to help you guys with this mission for Jallister

happening at like the same time equal time basically and then that way when you're both together we'll jump ahead

to the next thing I think that'd be a really fun way to do that so you guys will have a think about some inmates that you can play

they probably won't be leveled characters we'll probably give you NPC stats I want to be a really big fucker yeah okay you can be like a big dude like yeah you can play. They probably won't be leveled characters. We'll probably give you NPC stats. I want to be a big fucker. Yeah, okay. You can be like a big dude. Like, yeah, you can do that.

Can we be twins? You can be a big dumb guy. Yes! So you guys want to be like twin brothers. Squit and squat. Yeah. You can be like orcs

or something or you can be like, you know, whatever. Okay, great. So you are going to be taken to one of Waterdeep's prisons. Wow. Like a dank dungeon,

basically. Oh my god. Where they keep, it's like a holding jail. And yeah, you're going to meet some interesting... You might make some friends. You might make some enemies. Maybe I'll meet a guy who has a right fist

on his left hand. And we'll do like... You know like that Arnold Schwarzenegger handshake thing? It's just two big arms. Ding! Ding! What is this what is this show

what is this show is this going the way you intended no it's going in a direction I kind of anticipated but not to the

levels of it did you expect all three of us to jump out of a first story window no that was amazing I think like

honestly you just could be like you killed Grondor and diving through that might be my favourite moment it's the most action movie bit what about

when he was pissing himself that was funny it's not really an action movie moment I think that was the best moment of the whole show I feel like Boomer is like the Simon Pegg

character who ends up in these situations and is like I don't know what to do piss myself here's a bomb oh my god Simon Pegg character who ends up in these situations and is like, I don't know what to do. Piss myself. Here's a bomb. Oh my God. That was brilliant.

I can't believe it. You're so grand, though. I can't believe you gave the stone away. Yeah. Can we talk about the last moment of the show? You could have just

kept the mage hand and just brought it to you, but you're like, no, I'm going to drop it into the barrel. What goes through your mind sometimes? What?, no, I'm going to drop it into the barrel. What goes through your mind sometimes?

What? I just, I love it because it's amazing and it creates these amazing game moments but there must be D&D players out there like,

what is this guy doing? Like, what is going on? Well, we'll be back next week. Rhiannon should be with us. It depends on her work but hopefully she'll be back with us. Well, she'll be an inmate.

I guess that will have to be an inmate I guess an inmate for Rhiannon as well she'll be a warden unless it's the black viper who somehow got into the prison and sneak in in

disguise maybe I think it'll probably be an inmate but hope you enjoyed this episode of Rogue's Gambit this campaign is

not representative of a dragon heist module dragon heist is really good it's a really amazing we're not really good that's representative of a Dragon Heist module. Dragon Heist is really good. It's a really amazing module. We're not really good. That's more of a self-owned. That's a self-bound.

But you can check it out. It's available on D&D Beyond. It's available on your local gaming store. Dungeons of the Mad Mage, which is a companion thing that goes alongside it, which is a huge mega dungeon in Undermountain, beneath Waterdeep. That's coming out very, very soon. You can check that out.

And that's between, like, levels 5 and 15. I think so, 5 and 15. Yeah, so huge. There is a... The only thing I know about it, because I've not read that yet, is I do know that there is a Mind Flayer Spelljammer Pirate Captain in it somehow. It's like something you get in Diablo, right? It gets a load of keywords and throws them

together. Mind Flayer pirate from Spelljammer. So check that out. Hey everyone, thanks for watching this episode of A Rogue's Gambit and thanks to Idol Champions of the Forgotten Realms. You already know that you can play the game to get us those sweet sweet D6s so continue doing that. Also, remember to follow us on Twitter at HighrollersDND for more information about

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