Legends of Avantris - Icebound | Side Story 1 | The Choice To Head South

Episode Date: February 14, 2025

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Welcome to Legends of Aventress. I'm Derek Hudson and you're listening to Icebound. Only two or three weeks have passed since the new year. You hail from Ogerton, but you are not in Ogerton. The three of you, like some before you, have chosen not to stay and rebuild that community, that settlement. freedom pulls at your heart. Why stay when you could learn about a world of unknowns, a world of magic and fantastic stories? You've heard rumors, you've been told legends,

you've been told information from some who claim to have ventured beyond the small pocket of the universe that you want, called home. But now you are on your own, the three of you, looking to see what you can find, looking to see what is actually out there. You too yearn for adventure. Before leaving, you remember speaking with the, now in many ways, the leader of that community, Milan. And he He agreed that you could go. Certainly, you were free to choose your own path and your own destiny. You took a few things that you could call your belongings,

some cold weather clothes, perhaps something to defend yourself with, enough rations that you could carry. And he bid you farewell, but asked, as a favor. If you chose any direction to go in, why not head south? Why not head south towards the mountains? There's something very special to him, heading that same direction. And if you happen to catch up or learn any information, well, it would make him feel better and sleep better at night

to know that the three of you might just be there to help. So you've journeyed one week, two, three weeks. And you have learned for the first time how to apply the skills that you learned growing up as part of a strange family of ogres, let's say. Learning how to cook in the wild. Learning how to forage in the wild. Learning how to do the things that have been done in this very palatial community on your own. Still, it is good to be free. Before I ask, what happens next is up to you.

I would ask for you to introduce yourselves. Who are you? What is your name? What perhaps was your name? Tell us a little bit about yourself. And we'll start with Mace because he looks like he's really ready. I go last. I called it. Oh, hello. On this intrepid voyage,

You're joined by sausage. It's as far as I've got with my character. Sausage? My age is sausage. Okay. And as a human, is sausage perhaps a descriptor, a name that might be a very applicable? Or is it completely the opposite? They go with sausage.

Ah, yes, it's very applicable. Seenest how I've eaten so much sausage for breakfast. Mm-hmm. The last of the dried sausage is almost gone. You know that you only have two days, perhaps, of sausage remaining. You'll be starving unless you find more food. Sausage, man, a few words, perhaps. Wait, can we speak?

No. Okay, so I... Is it like a... In your languages, I need them these. Please do you think of... So, in... In the language section of their character sheets, viewers, watchers at home, it reads, Common, can understand, but not speak, and they know the same hand code, that organic lay through necessity

was generated by the humans of Ogerton. And so they're going to be speaking in their voices, but you can imagine that it's actually the hand gestures, you'd still be able to get personality out of even hand gestures from from code to code, from person to person. And so throughout, they're free to chat and talk to each other in RP, certainly. And I would ask that you only just sort of hold your hands up or do something like this rather than try to imitate ASL since none of us know it. That's how they will endeavor to communicate, and that's just to answer your question.

I'm a bit of an older human. I'm the butcher. And my name is Gabagoole. Because that is one to three syllables. single word food item. So my name is Gabagool. Is there something in particular that has driven you from Ogerton? What is drawing you to the outside world,

despite the potential risks? Well, I've got a wife at home. Oh. There you go. Gama Goule, absolutely brutal. Oh, that's incredible. What do you look like, Gaba Goule? Well, I probably still have my dirty smack,

slash apron. Even in the wilds, you never know when you need an apron. What else? I'm older, I'm probably, you know, in my 50s or 60s, depending on the lifespan in Ogerton. Typical human life, man. You know, I'm a little bold thing. I got maybe some darker hair. Got a very strong widow's peak, maybe.

A little bit of dark hair up here and then some silver fog down the sign, you know. Okay. Thank you. And Rich, who will you be inhabiting this evening? I am playing pork. Pork, God, that's got a good. We're all breads this, actually. But I wanted to change my name because that was my given name.

Oh, I wrote it down in pen. My name is Burgos. Burgos was Great Shepherd in the homeland of Ogerton. And his herds, they disintegrate an exigrant explosion. There were a few left. There were a few left. You do remember the grand explosion with fear and terror. When his livestock was disintegrated. So, Porcos seeks new herd to shepherd.

And perhaps he shepherds his fellow. What do we call vassals? Yes. I also ask them, they get some weapon options, and they have a little bit of... I have a spear. Oh, you've chosen a spear for yourself. Oh, that makes sense? You get to choose from one of the available options right here.

You can choose one weapon and you each have two sort of walking sticks which also behave as javelins should you use them. And a club. And don't miss in the top right, you may boost one of your ability scores should you want to. Oh, I do. To give you guys a little bit of variance and variety because they're not just identical stat blocks that I copied from Dandy Meant. I'm taking a hand axe that's actually a giant meat cleaver. Those were the smart cows. That's true.

I had to be grassy in a bunch of those bovines. That's unbelievable. I'm picturing like some spy versus spy shit, like Mad magazine style. We just add five to your max HP if you choose com. Okay. For some reason I can picture you perfectly, Porcos. But why don't you tell us a little bit about what you look like before we just? very large man, very broad shoulders, but he definitely skips leg day, like, you know, tiny little legs.

Totally shaved head with a great big bushy mustache that kind of that he keeps kind of curled up. And he would just be wearing simple kind of shepherd's garb. Thank you. Are we all brothers? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The three brothers have decided to leave. You've married or not, an adventure into the world of Dracar, which you've learned is the name

for this realm of ice and harsh living conditions, certainly. And it's here as you are trekking on that you have been following through a great forest. The forest that had surrounded you your whole life seems to extend on dozens and dozens of miles. Thin trees, but very closely bunched together. All of them are heavy with snow. There's a great amount of precipitation on the ground. You can hear as you take each step the crunch of the ice and snow and forest floor underneath

your feet. You can look around and see every branch of pine or other trees that would be appropriate to the world of the Arctic are sagging down. Fur, yeah, yeah, for sure, spruce. Thank you. You can deal. See, I told, I said it earlier. Kirby would swallow me and forget everything they've ever learned. That's true.

Learned some research. Gone, one of those things where you can put the baby in. Oh my God. Nose drink? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to nose drink. I'm going to smell it. It does smell very pleasant in the forest.

And it is midday. sky is half obscured with clouds, very tall wisps, very far up, seemingly unmoving. You can see the blue sky and the pale sun beating down, offering very limited amount of warmth given your latitude. And you know that you have, between the two of you, three of you, three brothers, they're just called three brothers, that you are running out of rations in another day or two. You should be on the lookout for beasts or plants or something. You might have to eventually just stop and literally hunt. Should you suddenly find yourself out of food, otherwise you would have a hungry night, a hungry night for only a few nights before succumbing to the wilderness.

What happens next? Is that true? we're gonna start I'm out of interest story I'm out of the thing that my be brothers uh

pork goes my kid brother you're just the kid 42 years old I didn't you not load sledge before we leave I'm pulling a sledge

and I turn behind this is like sledge I think no I definitely loaded it I think just when you hit a bump

we just lost all of it in an icy river we're supposed to bring around I only brought all these spears. Why did you bank so many beers? I thought they were walking in the stairs.

I don't know... I thought we would need them. Oh, my own. If our mother may she rest in peace, can see us now. She would be ashamed, thawthage. Just like she always was. You were all suddenly chill to the bone with the message,

uh, the mention of, uh, the mention of your mother, rest in peace. For, she's not died of natural causes. She had instead reached a certain age where she could no longer benefit the house that you were all a member of and was consumed.

Like, you say that again? Your mother was... I was thinking some funny tough this night. Yeah, well, I'm sorry to tell you that you have to remember. The fact that you were a member of a house of ogres. And once you reached a certain age, they would kill you and eat you the way you kill

and eat cows. And that is what happened to your mother. Did we know this? Did we didn't get canon that wasn't real breviant? I care if they don't know about that. Fuck, though, the ogres. My God, my glad, like, went out of air. They got obliterate. A giant media.

Not technically cannibalism, because they were ogres and you were... This is semantics. Other, eaten from head to toe. You remember the horror of seeing her on a platter. Her face split down like one of those fish that gets opened up in half. You remember seeing all of those things having to serve the dish on that very special haunting night. Well, I know we're just talking about rations, but I'm telling like,

If anyone else can flash back the moth. Sausage is inconceivable. I can see you there, and then split open like a fish, like a butterfly that fish. Like a coconut. I don't know why that's come to me just so clearly at this moment when you're talking, a gabagoole. Oh, that's my fish.

Why do you not claim your own names? We should pick no names for you. Because that was the name our mother. Our mother made you know that the thief called us. And you should not be disrespecting, ma, pork. It is porkos! And it was the ogres that gave us these names. Well, that's what our mom said.

You know, I asked her hearing after the great feast, our mom went to the fish, whatever. She died and she lived with a bitter old bra. I can't believe they made us watch that. up and ate her family dinner and then sat us down on the table and said look just watch it so you know this for all the time oh gosh like our father crackling before uh may he rest in peace may he rep in peace split from about astern when he was no longer of use unbelievable why they always cut them directly in half when it was time to eat is Thank goodness I was up next week.

Are we a second marriage situation or... What? Are you older than us or are you... I figure I'm a bit older than you all. I figured, you know, you're my kid brother in 42, with I was the youngest. Should we roll for it? I don't know for it.

I would say that you know that Gabagoole is a brother. Whether or not you're the middle, The youngest is what you'll be. Yeah. I'm the oldest. He's 55 and he's, how tall are you? The fan artists need to know. Oh, I'm about a good 5-5.

5.5. Oh, like, maybe 5-6. 5.5.5. I put 5-8 on my flint and Tinder profile. That's pretty fucking funny. I'm very funny. I'm the youngest. You are youngest.

You need to drink your milk. Yeah, my kid brother. You're 42, you're a growing boy. It's a growing land. I would drink milk, but we're all out of food. Russians. We're dying in the snow. We're back in the fish,

play a fish. They ever make a perfection check. Oh, just like for Lent. Five. Perception? I'm getting plus two with them, because I'm wide for my years. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense. Uh, so that I get a, uh, uh,

A four. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. May I have pen, please? Or a pencil, thank you. Wait, hold on a second. Sorry, in my old age, I forgot what you look like. If you never described your health.

Oh, yes. Well, I didn't get that far when I started, but... Uh, Samos at Burghous, sausage. The salad of my... What are I done? This campaign's ruined. Eh... What do you look like, is?

What do you look like, is? Big, great big gun. Yeah, it's a family train. It's a classic, like shaved, shaved sides on the head and a scraggly hair that spikes out in all directions, like a top of a pineapple. They do it than something else that has a fancy for tropical top. Just pineapple, I think, is fine. I'm big. Well, I can't believe I can't decide who's bigger between the both of them.

You know, I used to be as big as all of you. I say sausage has extremely huge, like, legs. You've got, like, you skipped arm day, and so you guys make a hilarious contrast to one another. It's. You know? I'm heavy. I think the, uh, I can't believe that our mother named you Watercraft. And you only got your name of you met all the young ladies.

As you're talking, 72 Caribou, we have to. But you don't see any of them. I can't believe we've been walking for two whole days. It's been 15 minutes. Who decided we should go south? You see the winter coming? That's what the village Eldon said. That's what Mylan said. A good man that we all follow him, even though he abandoned us.

Come on. And then came back right as the kitten was good... I didn't vote for. There was a bird. No, that's what I'm saying. I didn't vote for him. Ah, that's a word for him. Leiter did I.

Who voted for him? I think that they're the real serious problem. becomes happening in the ogretem. That's what I'm saying. I think my island's gonna lead them all into an early grave. Out here, we got us, our own wild and skilled, like real men. You know what I mean?

Well, it's the... Who needs those storage rooms filled with supplies and dirty ogres to help with all the chores? And my wife's back home. Oh. If we do not succumb to hunger, we will succumb to the cold, as sophlet intended. And it is cold. It is snow and trees in all directions. It's chillier than zero, certainly. You wouldn't have Fahrenheit's in your minds, but you do know that this is the coldest perhaps you've ever been.

Even with your cold climate clothes, clothes designed for this new, temperature that you've never experienced, really, in your whole life. Because of the unnatural warmth of Ogerton. Out in this space and in the night, if you're not next to a fire, if you don't have the fuel for it, you know you could freeze to death. We should probably get some fuel. Let's burn those fillet fish. We could burn the sledge, too.

It's fucking useless. You know what's funny is that my buddy T-Bone always said that thoughtful of the exacts your giant brain room out of food. They never call them a conspiracy theorist. Have we learned the truth about this? Didn't... When someone's brought in the truth, are we all the Catholic?

I can't... There was a giant spaceship that crashed into the ground, so... I mean, that was pretty bad. What the spaceship. The story that Scrim told... Yeah, the Scrim told the... You remember that the story of...

of what you were told by those magic-wielding strangers who came in and in almost less than a week were able to completely transform all life as you know it. They had pulled back the veil of real horror that actually had been corrupting the city that you had known. And that it had only been perhaps a little more than two decades that this had been reality for you and the ogres. that this had been a controlled experience, a controlled existence for you and the ogres alike,

something that was what made it possible for the community to bond and start to trust one another and not eat each other and to regrow and rebuild and reshape and reform their culture. But it took a nuke to make it happen. And yes, you were told of the nature of Sophilis, the one who was called Scrim's words. and that word of mouth had passed very quickly across the other humans like themselves. Yeah, then Mr. Bonefellow, he said that it did the giant brain from out of faith. I can't believe T. Bone was right. Why would we take a goblin's word for it?

We've worshipped sulfily at our whole lives. You worship... You know, goos, you raise the valuable. You've raised the valid point. Missed the bones was a fraud the whole time, wasn't he? He was a no ogre. They claimed there'll be ogre. Make an intelligence check, everyone.

He was a gremlin. A little gremlin. A little gremlin fellow. Oh, gosh. Is this a bad? Oh, this is my bad V-20? Natural one. Natural one.

Intelligence. Eight. Eight. Eleven. Eleven. In the back of your mind, you suddenly put the two numbers together, because you've been talking about how old you all.

are for some reason. Yeah, but I'm just thinking about a mother being splitting half, it seemed like... And you remember... You remember if the story were true that you had a life before you were ever a part of Ogerton, you are more than 40, and those years in Ogerton were only 20, 22 years. There must have been youth that you've lost. Do I remember anything about it? or was it schlooped from me?

Make a wisdom saving throw. Damn. Just another book on the shelf in the library. I fail, six. You've tried hard to think of that period before. You have what you think is a facsimile of a childhood that was given to you to create the experience and shared life. I feel like I've been Sean Bean from the island. Exactly, exactly.

You've been very the islanded. An island hidden. And yet, every once in a while you think you do get a sweeping glance of just a peak of perhaps you've been on the water at some point. Perhaps you've been in a warmer continent from far distance away, that you've maybe been part of a group of explorers. It's just on the edge of your tongue, but it eludes you right now. I'm just trying to think, like, from my perspective, all of this happened.

and as far as I remember, my mind, like there was this civilization, and as far as my brain understands, it's all I've ever known, and Salfauleth was a god, right? Until this goblin shows up and tells me, hey, your god's fate. Yeah, him and four others.

Four others who looked nothing like anything that you'd ever known your entire life. You'd only ever known beasts, ogres, and humans. And what strange image? your image your near must have made. What does it look like to know rabbits' food and suddenly meet Queenie? What does it mean to

suddenly meet these strange heroes who are fantastically powerful and seemingly in some ways disconnected from the world that you have known your whole life? Something seems off about everything

that happened. I'll say myelin that fucking bastard. I feel like it was an inside job. I think Mylan was all part of it. It was his chance to rise to the top. I never liked that bastard.

Oh, he knew all those monsters that showed up and told us that our god was a giant space brain. That's right. That's right. He didn't know all of these strange fake ogre gods. I think he's full of shit. Ah, that T-Boon. I knew he was always wrong. Right.

Perhaps the real reason why you guys have left is emerging is you guys are realizing that you don't give a shit about any of that and that you, I don't believe this Mylan guy, I'm leaving. Yeah, that's why we left. Three weeks ago. Was it a false flag to destroy our entire home? That's it, Mylan. All due respect that Mylan guy is a bitch. We must eat.

We need to hunt. Okay. So, why are we gonna... eat. I'll, if you catch something, I'll butcher it. That's all I got. I'll leave my big meat cleaver around. That's all I got.

I will listen, for I am used to attending my flock. Well, if something slow shows up on his clubbing until it's dead. You know, we have the great hunter. That's not very quick.

A great hunter, thawfish. It's not very agile. But if it just moves real snow, maybe I'd just go to drop it. With which club? Roll perception check. You listen. Oh, it's rough not having your life. You listen.

You hear... Or twists? The soft wind, the icy chill of it. You hear bows moving and perhaps the soft tussle of snow as it hits the round. But you don't hear any animals or beasts. It's very quiet. quiet and there's so much snow all around you. Your movement, everything around you feels muted. Does that seem off to me, like supernatural? It feels alien to you, but not supernatural. It's unusual because you've never been in a forest like this.

This is your first time in a forest where found would be dampened. Uh, it's strange. Yeah. The sound. Can you hear anything? Let me listen. Yeah. I mean, I always could tell when a cow is nearby. It's a strangely intelligent painting. You both listen. Both of you make perception checks.

That's pretty good. That'll be a 19 for old Gaba ghoul. Eleven. It's 11. What are their ears? What are your secrets? You do this, and you turn and you listen, and you don't hear anything, but you do realize that you're looking in the direction of a caribou

and that you're just staring at a caribou. It's but 200, 300 feet away from you right now, and it's at a small brook where a frozen river is and seems to be attempting to get some hydration there at the bank. You just happened to have luckily looked upon it. It has nothing to do with your hearing. It races and in three giant bounds. You start racing, but in three

graceful hops, it disappears between the thicket of trees and evaporates into nothingness. You know when the sound of its hooves against the forest floor are gone, that it must be much, much faster than your human legs will take you, especially porcos. That was the fastest man creature I ever seen. I think they'd do more card with you.

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Your hearts all tell you. And it's just as you pass by the bend. It's just as you pass the bend of the section of trees that you come to an opening. Ooh, thank you. and you see a body you see the body of the caribou there hunkered in the snow having been filled

by an arrow and the arrow is sticking directly out from just behind its jaw straight through the neck and you hear the crunching of feet as you watch someone that you've known from Overton also pass into view

someone who calls herself Daisy now walk up to the body of of this caribou and instead of bending down and pulling the arrow out, she reaches and the arrow pulls itself free from the neck of the caribou landing into her hand when she spots the three of you. How did you do that? You three? Oh, you act so surprised. You're Mylan's brat, right?

This is our caribou. We chased it right over to you, Counsel. That's in the fifth. I think it's my caribou. I was the one who felt it. This is divine providence. Sothlet has granted us this meal today. Ex-Nayon, the awfulest say. You believe the stories that the outsiders tell? I know it's true.

How do you know? Because I trust those who told us. You trust T-Bone. I trust Scrim. I trust your near. T-Bone within the hoots pretty hard. along with all the mice. Which one are you referring to as T-Bone? You've always been this weird.

The mystical driving one is T-Bone. Why are you here? What are you doing away from town? What is going on? I do not trust what is happening there. You don't trust what you saw with your own eyes? A ship? Strange creatures that destroyed the town?

We're tired of living with ogres. They cut our mom clean. and half and they just watch while they ate her. They ate it like a fucking filet of his shame during Lent. Yeah, I didn't even look good a little bit. I remember hearing that. They clacked her sternum like at Wishbone.

Yeah. And they made us watch really guttingly. I didn't, I mean, the out of character, that's a very soggy revelation. This is, and crackling, too, or father.

Oh, crackling our father. I want it to remain. May rest of these. May it must be. I can understand. that you would want to leave the ogres and leave ogreton. That I can understand.

Well, at least we can agree with that. We also think your father is a prick who also probably who orchestrated the whole thing. Mylan, the little bit of a jackass I'll do with respect. I love my father, but I do understand he can be a bit of a prick sometimes.

Well... Where are they? You traveled with them. You're all right. Did you not? I was with them until two or three days ago. ago. It was, you didn't hear this in this forest, that they shifted somehow, transformed, and I was just about to move on, actually. We were, we were camping at night, and their bodies

started to morph and change, and they were pulled away. I thought perhaps they'd be returned or that they would find their way back here, but I am determined to find them, and I'm determined to find where we were headed. They were illusions. No, they... They were all tricks by the brain from out of space. No. They're the reason why you won't be killed and eaten like your mother. Likely story, kid.

You know, you haven't been around as long as the rest of us. Yeah. You're a baby. I remember how you guys were in town. Yeah, the best dang butcher that Ogerton and ever seen. I was so glad that we were not in the same house. Well, you know, we served our house very well. Yes, we did.

What was our house again? were the house of of uh hold on a second do we need a side of the group can we roll for it yeah why don't you roll a d5 a d10 this is a d6 this one so wrote what is the number d5 i will roll hold on no but if i have on the 5 on the 10 is a 1 in the 2 3 and the 5 And it's three. Basically. Right?

I don't know. Yes. Okay. Whichever's cooler between three or five. Whatever the most fitting narrative, for pork, pork-o's bosset and gabagool. You were from...

Rexland and kimchi. House Fangaro. The military guy that you remember being... Yes. Oh, yes. That's why... Fangero. That's right.

I stay into attention and snap my spear on the ground. Yes. I used to make my famous Wayvo Spangaro with those real smart chickens It was, do you understand How difficult it was keeping those chickens in line

It was a regular chicken run every single night You couldn't keep the chickens in line They were very intelligent Yes, they were And the heck The pigs were dance It was hard With hard work

When I butchered those chickens It made a nice pot pie The sheep they were my friends they all had their own personalities and they were all vaporized they were

oh no wonder you've been so melancholy and you had to go on this pilgrimage south and I just decided to tag along with you to avoid my wife kimchi really a very nice story where is your wife? Sausage why are you

I left them back and whatever you know she's there is nothing home for me yeah there's nothing home for me yeah there's nothing known for any of us. I just followed you as the eldest. It was only until five minutes ago you revealed we did this because you were escaping your wife.

Do you remember my kid brother, I thought. Uh-huh. Sausages, the room temperature like you. With room temperature like you. He tags along. And in Jakar room temperature zero. And in Jakar room temperature zero. Any far on standard deviation.

My camp isn't far from here. isn't far from here. We can share this meet. We can enjoy a campfire. I've got one set up. But I'm going to the mountains, for that is the direction that's the friends who saved our town went. And I don't trust it. You may not trust it. And you can go wherever you please. But that is where I'm headed in the morning. No, we were compelled to come south for some reason. You remember in my intro that Myelin asked as a favor. You love that guy. No, we're running our own backstory.

Sorry, Benjamin. I prefer your version. No, he went south because you were feeling so melancholy. Don't you remember this? My one, yes. Forecons? Yeah, we were melancholy about your sheep. He said, I need to go find myself.

And I said, God, it's a great excuse to get away from the old ball and chick. For what is a shepherd without his flock? I need to find my purpose again. Maybe there's some less intelligent sheep that won't get vaporized. Anyway, they get a butcher that deer that we killed. Let's drag it to camp and then we can do that. I look at sausage. Okay.

Well, why don't you carry it? You can move things with your mind. Can none of you do that yet? Or some other way, I don't know that that's true. Well, you can carry it with your muscles. muscles. Could you try to do it? Well, we just walked all the way over. I'm just very tired. I can't carry terribly heavy things like that.

Not yet. I can only carry things that are like an arrow. I'm working up. I'll lift it, I'll lift it. We loosen it up for you by the way. I'll supervise. You know, like to do them pretty good death all this. Caribou.

Why you say? Star Wars. What are you doing watching this? Oh, did you move on that elbow? No, no, no, just a one paw comes up. Paw, yeah, a caribou paw. The Dracar caribou all have cat feet. And lifts up, and then it comes back down.

I can't lift the whole thing. It's already on my back. I've picked it up. Oh, I guess I didn't do that either. Thank you. Well, I guess we can break bread together, that even though you are Mylan the rat's kid. You're a good kid.

And I'll like give her a little. Let's go. And I'll start walking out in a direction. I think the campus is in. You go literally the opposite direction. It takes you 20 steps to turn around and eventually follow. And the three of you follow Daisy's cat for a 20, 25 minute walk. Not terribly far, but.

You find that a fallen tree has been made her home. She has obviously broken off many of the branches and made something of a back wall out of the fir, out of the pine, made something of a bed even. And in the center, you can see that there is no snow, not just because of the heat of what would have been a fire the previous night, but also because Daisy has taken the time to clear away a circle, and it's very easy for you to pull over a few more logs

and sit down, start the fire again, and very quickly you are cleaning a caribou, getting all of the meat put together so that you can have them meal this evening. What a fucking dump! You're doing all right, kid. I'm just busting balls. I'm just busting balls for you.

Of all the three Shuffle fucks that had to... Couldn't have been anyone else from Ogerton outside from you three? This is... Nah, they're all sheeple. They're all staying behind. They're not trend set of like we three

bachelors on our own. Yeah, the 98% of them were vaporized by the spaceship. I left first. I left first. That's all the winning crew. So I'll cut with that. Tell us the word of your adventure since you left.

Daisy. Daisy is your new name. Yes. All right, Daisy, you must convince them to claim new names. You should. Picking the name for yourself is, uh, it fills you with, it affirms your freedom. It makes it real in a way that's hard to describe. Well, what I'm saying is porkloin and cracklin, name.

me, Gabagoo. It would be a disrespect of their memory. Maybe they rest in peace, like filleted fish that they is. Didn't, didn't by old-ers? Didn't, uh, uh, Lucius Fangaro name you? Yes. This is true. It was not our parents that named us. Well, I, mean, what, what do you want me to call myself? Hey, I'm 55 years old. Am I supposed to be creative here? What? my friends were here they'd have a name for you wait I get me some options here hey you know porcos you're so creative very creative name from pork my little my little baby brother pork what about Gapagos no it's nice ring do it no that's

too similar now it's gotta be something I'm sure you'll think of something but Priscilla gable gole it rolls off the tongue you know what I mean well good job helping us kill this uh weird deer here, Ken? My pleasure. Should I thought butchering it? You butcher the meat. You are already eating. We're moving quickly through

time now as you enjoy a meal together. Speaking of the adventures that Daisy has had, not just what's happened the last few weeks, for it was mostly travel, but the things that she's learned from them, she shares a little bit about what happened

to her. You'd heard it from others, speaking in town of when Alcatra had disappeared and then returned and then with these strangers. But hearing it from her is a very different story. You can hear the passion and authenticity in her voice, what she believes about her friends and about what heroes they are. And you can feel a determination in her to continue to find them going into the mountains. I'll give it to you kid that was a good story thank you very dramatic what I'm gonna say maybe uh I'm just poking around my food as I talk maybe maybe these these strange monster folk

maybe they ain't so bad all I'm gonna say what do you think uh sausage poikos he's named a sauce sauce now right yeah why you're trying to name everybody let sausage pick his own name he's already watercress you know he's softed What about you're waiting for? What do you mean? I'm not in my minute, but I'm not going to come up with another name. You think I can't? You had to look down and remember your own dear brother's name?

No, I just looked at my plate. I was eating food and I was working for the next smack girls. I remember you were just a little boy when I took you to your first penny dice game. Yes, I remember it well. Penny dice. There we were. What do you remember? With the pennies.

From our childhood. I figured it's some sort of replicant thing. We got some false memory, that sort of thing. No, I know, but does it line up? Oh. Or perhaps there's a similar story that they didn't get quite right. I like, look up. Are you doing it?

He misses their sheep. I do. I do miss my sheep. Well. All I know. Especially sheepos. He was my favorite sheep. Sunsets, and after

sharing some more stories, using only the hand code available to them for no one can speak, to be extremely explicit for chat, you eventually make beds for yourselves, and you sleep. You get to rest.

You enjoy the benefits of a long rest. That doesn't mean anything mechanically for yourself but that's true in the fifth edition parlance I'm spit no that was a good meal kid good night everybody good night yeah in the morning you wake up to the sound of packing it seems that Daisy has woken especially early and she's already rolling up her bed roll putting her mess kit into side pouch, pulling and twisting and tightening the packback that she has on her, making sure that her bow is well strong. She seems to be readying to leave this sight that she

had made for herself, to leave this home, and continue on her way. Which direction do you go? See the tree line there at the mountains? Yes. I'm going to go past that and into the mountains. for when I watched my friends stretch to almost thin as string. They flew in that direction, pulled almost like the arch of an arrow,

over and beyond that horizon. And I suspect I may find them in that direction. Well, he will follow you. Well? Yes. We're a chaser group of scary monsters that got pulled into space by a thread? Hey, hey, hey, hey, how little respect, poor ghosts.

Remember, I'm the bossy, I'm the only. We will follow. Okay, we'll follow. That's exactly right. Try and keep up. Yes. A new member of our flock. Why are we on sheep theme?

Because I'm only pilgrimists to find my new flock for all the Flanders. We never... We never... We've only times have I told you about the disintegrations. I don't know. We're kind of like pig themed. Yeah, I was just what I was going to say, only the three little pig.

I mean, I feel like that's little goat. We're all getting horribly murdered by a big bad wolf and the teeth are. Oh, no. Who's the red riding? That's a big bad wolf right behind that line of trees. Just because we are a pig theme does not mean we cannot choose a new theme.

And sheep is the new theme. You have my resting. cleaver you have my hefty mace and you have my what they call those things the crook crook oh I just say wotings stay I have one of those you know it's like the hook on you yeah yeah the bo-peep yeah yeah pretty pretty good and my crook I'm going to check she's already like 50 feet away from me like wogging oh we got Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. And you spent the morning walking.

It's brisk, and you're very grateful that the GM forgot to make you make a Constitution saving throw until right now. You have to do that. Make a quick constitution saving throw, which you should have made before three. Two. No, no, no, just one now. Just the one now. Just the one now. You just add normal con. And Stacy needs to make one, too.

Yep, just con. D.C. I'm not gonna give you the DC Oh, you give me the number. I thought it was based on... What is your constitution saving throw? Minus ten.

Ten? Minus ten? Mine. Oh, sorry. I need to blow by does. So you get negative ten, you get eight. Huh? Oh, eight, yeah.

And, um, Kim Cheese's husband. What did you get? Oh, I got a... Is the name of Gabagoole? Gabi-Gabagoo. You got a six. You got a six. You got a ghost.

Yes. You are not used to the wilds. All three of you. And you go into the Adventure Day frigid. What the fuck of this? You are all exhausted from the... Even with the fire, even with a full belly, the night air was particularly cold.

And though it seems to be slightly warmer in the morning now that the sun is hitting you, It's been hard to get your center core to warm up. Hopefully a walk might change that, but you're doubtful. And you walk an hour, two hours, three hours. The trees begin too thin. You go up the verticality of the side of this mountain, and what becomes a pretty steady walk,

starts to require twisting and turning as you reach one rock face and have to go up and around and Daisy doesn't seem to have been here before but she had such purpose in her direction in her mission to go and see if she can find her friends that she is she seems to know where to go he sure this kid knows where she's going so you so you trusted it well I do I mean she waxed the good yarn she tells a good story I I believe her she agreed with me that Mylan was sort of a prick. She's got a good hand on the shoulders.

I'm gonna thank. I don't want to thank. It's just so cold out here. I don't know if I made it more than even just one more step. Yeah, I believe it was fate that we were to meet Daisy. She's part of our flock and she is strong like Ram. Hey, you think this is what Mylan wanted us to meet up with when he said go south? because there's something in South that I want you to meet with?

How did he know? Perhaps it is. It is his own daughter. Regardless, we're not doing it because of fucking Mylan told us to. It all isn't thing. No, we are doing it because of, because we want to. Because it's my flock. Because it's not Mylan.

He's lost. You find the new flock. You'll find the flock of birds. I don't miss you. All the trees here going loose. It's fucking clock. Oh, then there's Bobbitt. Oh, we're gonna fucking free to death.

I've got to have. I've got to go. That there's a flag ahead of us. Uh, yeah. He's your idea. It's your idea. Hey, kid. How was further in the...

I just want to get up over this ridge. This cold or up on the ridge. Yeah, I got the wind. And she points. And you can see, um, that there are two sort of mountains that are coming together like this, and she's trying to leave you through the pass, the passage of these mountains.

And on one side, perhaps it's your unfamiliarity with the natural world beyond the outskirts of the town, but it seems to strike you very strange. On one side of the mountain, there are these curves, these lines that seem to bend down and curve down, and have created these like disks of icy snow that just seem to be laying almost like coins on the side of the mountain.

Daisy continues to progress upwards. She's another 60, 70 feet ahead of you. Still all this time, she seems to have acclimated to the cold. And so while you are all exhausted and moving, perhaps a little slower than you normally would, she is one foot in front of the other. Do not leave us?

Continuing to make her way. This is not her first rodeo. in the wilds. If the stories you've heard are true, certainly, she had that brief period of time before she returned with those strangers. How's she doing so getting the cold? I'm like 400 pounds every of the years. She's like a little twig. It's all that strange witchcraft that she's got. She has mind powers. Oh man. How do we get mind powers too? I'm freeing to death out of here. That'd be pretty cool to have mine powered. Why the heck was Okerton so warm compared to this?

We're not that far. You've traveled for two, three weeks already on your own. You aren't three days from Okerton. You're a hike. We haven't traveled that far. It's only been three weeks to travel. We're only made it 50 feet a day. And winter is coming, and this is surely the wrong direction to be going.

perhaps we march into a certain doom. Daisy? You look up and you are shocked at what you see. The sound of it is horrifying. There is a wave. What you think of when you think of water, a splash of water in like a pot of soup or something along those lines,

but a curl of what looks like racing animals. Not animals, snow. Just snow pouring down from the side of the mountain, and Daisy, between these two mountains, looks up perhaps too late. It's from your vantage point that it's easy to see that a large tumult of snow and who knows what else is coming crashing down,

and before you're able to even get within a distance to not shout, but to try and get her attention, she looks up and disappears beneath all. white blanket. Oh, no, kid! Are we? You are far enough away that you are not consumed by this miniature avalanche as it lands,

filling the path where she was. You do not see any movement. It was fate. Still coming at us? Or does it settle? No, no, it landed and settled. It was like an ice shelf just moving. And you realize that that was the indication of those disks.

those disks of snow is that on a steep sledge of ice like that, a small roll of ice would eventually come to rest like that. It's a real sign of an avalanche if you read up on that sort of thing like I do. We need to go, you need to dig her out, get your speed. Let's go. It's exhausted and as cold as you are. You start to push forward and you start to dig.

But I'll try to get a sense of where I think she was. Okay. And I'll try to just like, I'll probably just like drop to my knees and start like, what role would you like to make to see how well you do endeavoring to pinpoint? I feel like a survival check would be. Just a straight survival check. Is that int based? That is whiz based.

That is whiz based. It's WIS based. I'm trying to think if it's like a deduction of where she is or, you know what? Survival. No, go attract. Go ahead and survive. Okay. Chat, help me out here.

Oh my God. And you're always. 21. Whoa. Looking to your older brother in him being a little bit farther up, he seems to be pretty dead set on where aligned,

even in the snow, this, this, you know, things it would be. He's gesturing and pointing and starting to dock. I'll say it was a shield. And use it as a shovel. If you have a shield with you,

And exactly right, you can use it like a shovel. What are you both doing to endeavor to pull Daisy out from underneath this as time is beginning to draw? Is it like ice on top or is it like snow? It is fluffy skiing snow. Like it is wet, but it is, yeah. Fresh pal. Yeah.

Use your mindbeam, use your power to kind of like puff the snow if you can hear Oh, I will help. Oh, I will help. Oh, mom's friend. Old mom's friend, baby. Come on. If you're just digging sausage,

then make an acrobedics or athletics check to see how well you do in attempting to find Daisy in the direction that... I'm using my shield. I'm not using my... I have like, really... Make it at advantage because your brother's helping. I have like thick sausagey finger.

I'm just, I'm just going to... blowing in and trying to dig. 21. 21. You were pulling away at the snow and you are doing the same. A bit of the, these are coming off at like big blocks at this point. Like every time you push in, it's like a giant snowball almost or like a cube and you're throwing them back behind you.

It is exhausting work. It is taking everything out of you and you're already so tired, so cold. You feel wet and clammy, but you know that underneath this amount of snow. three feet, four feet, five feet in, you wouldn't be able to breathe. You begin to panic. Whatever this friend, this companion, certainly, for the night, whatever is happening to Daisy,

you start to realize that this could be very serious, very quickly. But with a higher than 20, you realize that you see the canvas of a backpack, and you pull it free, and it comes free with no Daisy attached to it. I need you to roll a second time. And it's ended because I'm melting? Exactly right.

Another athletics check? 18. 18. You continue to dig, but this time you have a sense the backpack was there. You must be getting close and you're pushing down, but you are also being wary not to, there's a tug of war in your mind.

You're being wary not to just dig in because you could hit Daisy. So you are going sort of, around and eventually a hand. And you see it twitching, moving a little bit, just trying to reach out. You're able to grab it. Go, go get a fire started!

You need to make a strength check to see if you can free her from this heavy wet snow. Oh, I grab him and put him out. Oh, my fucking hands. If it's an advantage, I'm helping. Yes, it's a 19. With a 19. You start to pull and your brother,

Porcos pulls in and starts to sweep the snow up and off, clearing her body, and you're able to pull her out and free. Looking at her face, looking at her matted wet hair, looking at her body, her eyes are closed. She seems to be out but breathing. Hold on, one second, one second. Oh, I still have some shards of our sledge. And I'm gonna try to make a fire as quickly as possible.

I'll just- I'll just wrap her up in like a big bear hub to try and get like... Are we letting it? Do twists apply to this? I would say you could twist it. We've got some of this session. We've got at least ten.

We've got at least ten. I'm gonna do one. I'm gonna manage twists over here. Thank you, chap. I'm gonna write ten twists then. 16 to get the fire started. 16. We got more than 10.

We got like 15. One. One is worth. All right, 15. So 16 to try to make a fire. As I'm pulling out the pieces of the... You still have the disassembled sledge, and you are able to actually surprisingly quickly,

perhaps because you were in the kitchen and you occasionally had to start that fire, you are able to get a light much faster than you would under most circumstances. Thankfully, getting it going and pretty soon you have a pretty warm spot. Having dragged Daisy 20, 30 feet away from this tumult of snow,

you are hugging her, trying to keep her body warm, working the arms, just making sure that your body heat is doing what work it can, given the, how chilled and cold and exhausted you already feel. What are you all doing? Hey, get into the fire, I got something going. I'll take all of my warm blankets and cloaks off and I'll try to put it over her, try to warm her up.

You put it next to the fire, you start to warm her, and she seems to be out, almost like someone who'd gotten clubbed in the back of the head. But you do get to the sense that she's alive and she's certainly breathing. Yeah. Okay, not too close, not too, burn her air off. Come on. Come on, you, mook. Oh, she's covering in ice and water, and I thought she was dead maybe.

But now she's sleeping. She's fine. She's fine. Okay, she's okay. This is very scary. Make a medicine check for me. You gotta crush it, let it go, let it breathe a little bit. Come on, come on.

What would medicine lose though? Misdom. 13. 13. You get a sense that she's starting to come to. And after a few moments of more, I slapped her face, hey, wake up, you start to gently tap and her eyes moving under her eyelids. Stop, stop, you see her push you off. We did it.

We did it. And she obviously has a splitting headache. But you see gratefulness, a gratitude on her face as she looks around blinking. And I can't believe what was that? It was just the ice? It was an avalanche. Perhaps this is why Myelin sent us. Does he have the gift of second sight, your father?

Did he know this would happen? I don't think so, but I am. having talents emerge. And we three, the brother's pig. We are not finding a new flock. You are. Maybe in time you will also have abilities. I think any of us might have the potential.

We were all being under the influence of a crazy space brain. No, you can't teach you no dog new tricks. It's too late for me. My kid brother's sausage you, though. He's just a kid, 42. Yeah, you're all old as fuck. Hey, hey, yeah, yeah. You know, I just said, I can say that, kid.

Look at that, but you just bust and balls. You both in both, good kids, good kid. Oh, I tap her on the cheek. Hey, good. These are the facts put your scrawny ass out of the snow, okay? Does the snow supposed to still be moving like that? I am jealous of his luscious head of hair. And it's just like a little tough top of his head.

He's got a back and forth of us. And it's just like around. You're completely fucking playing. You're all the heat or mine. He's got a luscious mane, that's for sure. He's got a luscious man. He's the baby boy.

The baby brother. You guys just hit the thing, girl. You're a tough fucking kid that you survived that. That would have killed your old man instantly. She's pointing. What are you pointing at it? And she's pointing at the. mound of snow. And first you're not sure what she could be pointing at, just the mound,

when at the very top you see sort of a sinking. It sort of shrinks down like this, almost as if something is digging underneath it. And snaking and then disappears behind one of the hithfuls of snow. What is that? Perhaps it is sheep. The sheep that we set out to look for. There's no sheep to swim around the snow, porkers. Have you seen them? Is that always sheep, porkers? But the right to be sheep.

We do not know. She painfully gets out from underneath the blankets, dust herself off, and immediately looks. My weapons, I don't have them underneath the snow. They must have gotten lost. Were you able to pull my bow, my axe? Oh, we found this backpack. I want to call you, mook.

I want to try to find her bow. Oh, God, goos. You race over to the snow to see if you can find it. Make an investigation check. Oh, God, what die do I use? Come on. Fuck. Eleven.

Eleven. You go over, and there's this crevasse, this sort of space that's been dug away where you'd pulled Daisy. Surely the item must be there on the floor of this mounted, and you start to dig away at it, and you find the tip of... of the bow.

And it's covered in water, a pool of water. Not ice, but it's almost like blood leaching out from a dead body. Instead, there's water almost pooling and flowing down like a thin stream. And it surprises you. And suddenly you feel this strange heat. I need everyone to roll for initiative.

Turn the music on now. And not, don't wait until we're done, you know. Crig it now. Yeah. The battle music, yeah. Now we can be hyped while we roll for initiative here. Oh. Okay.

Okay. I see what you're saying. You know what I mean? I'm going to roll in the silence. I'm going to remember what I already rolled, instead of already rolled for it. Can you worse. Oh.

Hey kid, have some regain your strength with some cured meat product. There you go, kid. It's the last we got. Sorry, it's not much. Oh. I forgot to turn this back. I dropped my roasted deer. Uh, hold on.

You're gonna be sausage. That's your token. That's your character now. You're going to be Tabagool. Okay. And I'm not letting you choose. I'm sorry, but that's just the...

That's fine. Who is Porcos? And Porcos is red. Yes. A mighty color. And Stacy is going to be... Give me your thing. Yes.

Great. Yes. You are very similar. in color. That is fine. Hopefully the folks at home can tell the difference. Daisy will be DB over here. Like this. It's a Lama Corps.

It's Dizzy. It's Perfect Jackson. Ho! That's really funny. The Wal-Corps crash is letting it get the From the meteor? Yeah. How did you get here?

Perfect Jackson, no! Wow! I made just in a grave. And finally. We tie in stone dust. We tie in stone dust. Finally. Alright, hold on one moment.

The monster of the sense. The visual. Oh, the hippo. Or the, what's his name? The big bad hippo. Yeah, he looks like King Hippo from Punch Out. Yeah. It's got a lest his...

He thought it's got a left his head in. Oh, no, I knew this would happen. There we go. Ah, for real. He's just one of those days. All right. 20-30. What's the...

Is this Dex? Yeah. Oh. It's plus two. This is right. Oh, come on. You fucking kidding me. Fifteen to...

I rolled a natural 24. 17. 16. 15. Oh. Oh. Yes. I mean, the other...

Dave, the kid and the... Did I get this right? I wasn't listening. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Ugh. Um...

Well, We'll start with your surprise as you are pulling the bow out and you have a grip on it, and all of a sudden there's this burst of snow, and you're hit wet in the face with not just the snow, which melts seemingly instantly, but also the water that is seemingly melting this great pile of snow.

And from inside, you see orange and blue, an almost impossible skin, carapace of strange, like, what's the word I'm looking for? Marble-like skin that is deep purplish blue. You see an impossible alien face with these huge eyes, these thin antenna that ratchet up. It lifts up and you realize that it is skittering with many legs, almost like a centipede,

as it has hundreds of legs that jut out from both sides of a long snake-like abdomen. It's got a thin, a layer of razors on the back of it that glow red hot, and you realize this thing is heated. It is not just insect-like in its appearance. It is massive. And it is creating a glow almost like sitting right next to a campfire, and it is directly in front of you. I would have printed out a token, so I'm going to use one of the models that we have here to represent it.

Please do. I use the snail. Giant, a mini crab! Oh my god. What the hell is herein it? It's not that big. What you're looking at is a young version of one of these creatures, which those of you who know Dungeons and Dragons and have been paying attention,

is a Remarhas. We do? Yeah, the Remaraz, yeah. Hold on, hold tight, hold tight. You actually have a young one? Yeah. Oh, well, that's the mom. It's watching and training it, let's say.

It's out in the back. And you see, Porcos, this creature rise up with his many legs, chittering and chattering, and it starts to swing down. Would I have time to, like, put my shield on my arm? Yes. Okay, so I'm going to throw my shield on as I see it, thinking that I wouldn't have time to get away from this massive thing. And hold it up.

It is going to get a 18 to hit. That is, regardless, yes. Okay, you're going to take. You're gonna take 13 points of piercing damage. Oh, yeah! And you're gonna take four points of fire damage as you realize that inside the maw of this creature, whatever is inside of it, is raging, boiling, broiling hot.

It is like putting your hand over a steaming tea kettle as the steam from its mouth singes you. You forget how cold you've been all day as you are burned in addition to the fight that cuts into you, And you all watch, he tries to get his shield up in time, and it just brutally smashes into him and takes a chunk out of Porcos' arm. Porcos, no!

Brother! Mikey, you're up. Oh, it's my, oh gosh. You stay away from my kid brother! As I'm going to run forward with my meat cleaver, and say, come on, kid, you with your mind powers. And I'm just gonna run up here and say, I kill Giant House Santa Pete scarier than you.

And I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I just swing my, my cleaver at him. Natural one, I'm twisting. I'm using two twists. I'm gonna fuck. Wow, thank you, Chad. We need it. I don't think either will hit, but

15. 15 hits. You slice down and in and you are able to make contact with the carapace of this creature and you're, it's like cutting through a chicken's neck. You cut in and it's hard to get through that bone, but as soon as you hear the crunch, you cleave into it, do it. How much damage do you do? Six points of slashing damage. Six points of flashing damage. And as soon as you do, you realize the same thing that Porcos realizes as steam emerges

from the wound and you take five points of fire damage as the heated body of the young Ramirez burns into you. That's it. It's my turn. Rich. I'll stand up and then I'll say, I'll look back at Daisy. This was our fate! And I'm going to stab in with my spear, and with a 16 hit. 16 hits. And it does not do much damage. It does not three, four, five points of damage.

Five points of damage. It sails through the air. No, you're doing a spear. Spear. You stick in with the spear, and because you're within five feet, You also take six points of fire damage as steam emerges from the wound, blasting you with terribly burning your body as you cut into the creature. But you do damage it.

Do I attempt to step away from this thing and grant it an opportunity attack? You got to risk it for the biscuit, Porcos. Your big brother will protect you, poor coves. Get out of here. I must retreat. Get out of here. You're wounded. I'm badly.

I'm bad. Yeah, I'm wounded. I got this poor coat. And I'm going to, like, back up away from it as far as I can. And it latches out. You hear the snapping of its jaws as it gets a 15 to hit. That misses! You just hear it clap right behind your neck.

You duck and start to... And I'm suddenly... Keep an eye on as I back off and clamber over Daisy. Hey, you leave my brothers alone, you ugly creatures. I like that you started at Dobro and you've ended up somewhere in like rocky. I love it. You got a glass ten you, fucking, ugly piece of shit. You run over with your club.

Yes, I realize now I've picked the lowest damage weapon on the sheet. But, and then I rolled a three. Twits it. Twits it. Twit twist. Double twist. Thank you, chat. We're using them. We're using the pink rose. Quadrant twist. No, I can. No, we can. You got to call it.

14, right? 13. 13 to hit? Yeah. It's not hit. It's 80s 14 for this round moving 4. Oh, Kemp. It's so close. Oh, champ, nah. In some ways, you are lucky. If or had you clubbed into it, you might. be experiencing its heated body. He's got me. He's in my head.

He knows what I'm doing. You hit, is what I will say. But the club is not like a cleaver. It does not cut into. You realize you're going to have to bruise your way through or break a bone with this thing in order to get there. And you rail back for another attack. But that's the end of your turn.

Daisy is up. She sees what's happening, and she pulls forward with her mind. And you feel from your clutches, the bow, disappear from your hand. She pulls the... She pulls the with her mind power, she pulls the bow there, and from her pack, knocks an arrow, takes aim, and releases. She gets a natural 16, it sails forward,

and slams into its head, dealing. Trust your instincts, Daisy. Use the mine beans. Imagine her blindfolded with her hands behind her back. Have I ever told you? Doing a good amount of damage. Have I ever told you about kimchi? She was a good friend.

She was a good, she was a good friend. She will sort of back up that actually to be next to Poros here. Like there? Orcos, yeah, yeah. Of course I'm doing it. She wants to be 30 feet away. One, two, three, one, two, three, four, five.

That's exactly 30 away. Okay. Okay. She stays there and she begins to pull another arrow out of her back pack and that is a conclusion of her turn. That's right. Take it out, kid! Take it out! Gavagoole, you see your brother is safe, but unfortunately, it's going to miss. What? It bites down and unbelievably your reflexes, you're able to dodge down at the last second. The matter. And it does not forget about it.

You realize it's going to be going in for another time. But it is your turn. You fucking ugly. Is it my turn? Yep. We're doing two twists again. Sorry. We will run out unless we've gotten more.

Oh. Oh. No, we did. We've gotten two. 15 hits. You got three. That I didn't get. 15.

Okay. I'm going to do. Thank you. Nice. Okay. Seven points of slashing damage. I'm hacking into this thing. You are hacking into this thing and you see a leg,

well, one of the legs come off right at the shoulder joint, and it falls down to the ground like a leg from an Alaskan snow crab, and it is still flexing and twisting and gripping there in the snow, making a insane half angel. But none of you are noticing this in the intensity and adrenaline of the fight. Porcos, you're up.

Oh my God, already. She's a three-person party. Yeah, really. I'm going to kind of, kind of to lean down to the snow. There's like a snow bank that I can like get behind as I'm like realizing just how wounded I am. I'm burned and I'm bloody and I'm on the verge of falling unconscious. Actually, fewer hit points than this. I have that many. And I'm going to reach into my bundle of things and pull out one of the war spears from the military house

javelin, so to speak. And I'm going to lead up over the snow bank and just chuck it at it. It sails forward and you do your best to avoid your brother while hitting this massive creature. Oh, go natural one. Yeah, I'm trying to, you know, weave the gap there. That's, that hits, yeah. 16? Yeah, that hits. Yeah, ranges 30. I'm within 30.

1D6 in melee or 1D, okay, I got it. Damn, 5. 7 points of piercing damage. 7 points of piercing damage. It sticks into a shoulder very close to the wound. wound you just watched Gabagool make, and the strange insect-like screech that emerges from the mouth of this thing is alien to your ears, and you can see as it lets out that roar the rippling illusion of the heated breath that emerges out of its mouth, shimmering

the mountains behind it. Is that all you do? That's it? Sausage. Everybody's doing equally great. Keep it up, guys. Get him. Oh! Two twists.

Two twists. That was a natural one. Two twists. Two twists. Oh! Oh! Finally! Um...

22. 22 hits. Yeah, that hits. Four points of bludgeoning damage. Very nice. You smash into it and finally you hear that satisfying crunch sound. And you know that you've done something. You know that you've done some damage.

However, the crunch, it crackles like the top of a creme brule and then releases this noxious heated gas as you are sprayed with steam from the strange heated body of this creature and you take seven points of fire damage as it blasts into you. Very sausage-esque. Daisy notches another arrow and goes in with a natural 19. She, you see another arrow sail into the next

of this thing and does again significant damage. Does anything about her arrows look like supernatural or like guided? Like purple arrows? Like a proton torpedo style like use the force biz. Oh like pit. Like being guided. Yeah, like just slightly mooters. Yeah, like just slightly moot.

Yeah. That's cool. When she loses it, it may be sailing. She has a whistle. It's pretty cool. When it's sailing forward, you see, see the creature start to duck down maybe for an attack or something like that, and you get this little sense that there's almost like a nudge and then it continues to sail for it Just continued that that momentum

Nice shot kid don't get cocky You yell out as suddenly with a natural 16 This is bad Two giant mandibles clamp down on you On one of these eyes? On his jaws? No, it only has one attack It's going after you got a little. It's disadvantaged if it doesn't hit me.

That's not true. Damn it! Oh! You're not a barbarian. Oh, damn it! Get out of here. God, read me like a book. You take 15 points of piercing damage

and three points of fire damage as it bites down into you. I am unconscious or dead depending on how you rule it. We'll do that save big throws. Oh no! Yes! Oh! You watch as your brother, Gaba Gould,

is shamped at the neck. A significant piece of him being released, and you can see that fire broiling the other side, like again, a creme brule. And he falls down to the ground, unable to communicate any further. Gaba Gouin, eh. I never had to make the five-frey athlete.

That will be the conclusion of its turn, and now. Now it's your turn and since this is icebound rules you'll be making a best saving throw. So close your eyes. Oh no. You ready? Yep. Don't accidentally do it like I do.

You may reveal your eyes. We're back. Don't, uh, no spoilers. No spoilers in chat. I'm not gonna look anyway, but... Yeah. Damn, is this the big bad wolf? It's got huffing and puffing and puffing.

It is huffing and buffing. I do not sign. Uh, pork coast, you're up. If I get... Would it take an action for me to grab my brothers, like, scruff and drag him away? I would say probably, yes. I would think so. I'm not close.

Why did I back up? I guess either way, it wouldn't have worked. I'm looking at my own wounds being on the verge of unconsciousness. I see what happened to... Gaba goes, and I'll see him, oh, and I'll chuck another javelin as I walk up and... You pull your second and last javelin down and you release it from your hand, hoping that perhaps you'll hit some vital spot, perhaps this thing will go down. It is still writhing and clicking and clacking. It seems focused on your two brothers that it's adjacent to, but you can tell it is... Twisting.

Veracious and brutal. Come on. Thank you, chat for the twist. This is actually fucking intense. I don't know. Okay, it hits, it hits 14 plus 4. It's very reminiscent of the... Come on, 6.

The sock puppets fighting the rats. The giant rats, yeah. Five points of piercing damage. Five points of piercing damage. Very nice. It sails in. This thing, on the front of it, is starting to look like a porcupine.

It's got arrows sticking out of it. It's got javelin. This one went even slightly deeper than the last one. And I'm going to take... It is starting to release this hot liquid equivalent of blood all across the surface of the cliff face that you find yourself fighting on. Snow is melting all around it as its heated body is literally pooling down. You are splashing around in the water sausage. And still, it is not going down.

You could say that at this point it is bloodied. Save him. You won't boil me? That's not how you cook, show. Sonson, don't say, my brother! What do you mean? What do you mean? Well, like get him and run or something?

You stop being like you're talking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you turn around and you're like doing hand code to each other and like, he's done, what are you doing? Oh, my brother. We're going to take him down this other way. I love you, Frano. I love you, Frito. Can I I I'm now standing right next to him

Can I get a sense of what he's looking like? Yeah, I just said he's bloody so no no him. Oh Oh yeah you're standing next to him. So because of that yeah he can't know but I actually trying to influence your turn I just that's what poor He looks too fine to me can I can I I don't what a medicine checks do is that taking action? That would be a full action. That's a full action.

A full action for the tent to stabilize. God, ugh. I try and hit him with my regular size mace. Twisting, two twists. How are you rolling this battle? Thank you, Jerry. You don't want baffles out now. That hits.

16, I think. Don't let me cheat. 16. 16. All right. Remoraz. Remorz. Remorz.

Rommores. Oh. Did you choose club? I didn't realize there was one weapon on the sheet that didn't roll at D's eggs. I was having room temperature IQ and the entire time he's fighting at his hip they're swinging a short sword. That's really funny. That's really funny. Now it would be an incredible time to awaken amazing psychic powers.

Where are you? I'm thinking of the end. Now we're thinking that too. Now we're going to be incredible. Right now we're going to look at that too. Right of the river eyes. Right over here. Where is he?

Right of the, right of the corners, my brother. That's fun. Where is he? Bloods, blood fun. How much damage did you? Dizzy. How much damage did you do? Three.

Three points of damage. Okay, and make an intelligence check to see if you unlock amazing psychic powers. We're twisting. Flat head? No, no. No. Oh, no.

Oh, I'm like amazing psychic. Ritchie. Once the table and that flipped to a 19. But Richard. With the 19, with the 19, I hit the table with frustration. With the frustration, 19, you dig deep and you realize that within you, you have a great intelligence. You have a psychic power. You are psychically going to move your arm and swing this club to hit again. Here is everybody. That'll be the conclusion.

Daisy lets loose another arrow and she gets a 15 hits. And so she does significant damage again. She's rolling really. really, really hot. That's gonna get us down to here. You see this arrow fly through the air, take a quick nudge, and then sail directly into the carapace body of this strange creature that you're now fighting. And that's the conclusion of her turn. It digs in and goes after you.

The club-like sausage man, and it's gonna get fucking 20 to hit. Shield! You put, yeah, he pulls his holster shield. I can't really get shit. You never pierced my magical, stanging barrier, but. So, Cody. Can we dress them?

What was our guy's name? Yeah, Gera! Can we dress him? So anyway, I cast shield. Or yeah, she did. You think you cast shield, and then suddenly the mandibles come biting down, and, uh, you know,

and you feel terrible pain. It crunches down into your shoulder. And you feel your collarbone break if you take 15 points of piercing damage and five points of fire damage. What is that total to? 20? 20. Brothers, he's got a anti-magic.

Yeah. Static sword magic. Brothers, he's got a hit a giant. Oh. Oh. That's the conclusion of turn. It's your turn again. Death saving throw, close your eyes.

Close your eyes. Not you, Mace, but Rich has to. All right, you can come back, Rich. And that is the conclusion of Gabi Gould's turn. Porko, you're up. No, my other brother! I run up two squares, and I look down at both of my brothers. How are they looking?

He just went out, so he looks, He's like, he's, like, rolling on the ground in pain and basically, fainting from, yeah, yeah, blood is pouring out of him. You look down at Gabagool, and even though he was seriously wounded, you suspect he's on the path towards stabilization, not the path towards death. Mechanically, you see two successes and not failures. I look back and forth. You are the future of the family, and I grab you up.

I used my action and I dragged him. Wow. I used my remaining movement. They're not in 42. In the 42. You attempt to stabilize him? Uh, I use my action to pull them away. Yeah.

Oh. So. Well, it's got its reaction back, so it's going to take us. It's me? Is his reach five? You gotta have 10 feet reach? You don't know? Reach is five feet.

Oh. So if he didn't... No, no, no, but mechanically, I can't use an attack. You didn't use your own movement. I used my movement so he could not take it. Wow. Yeah, I can't snap at you. I could only snap at him and my reach does not reach him.

Yes. Wow. I didn't know I did. Icebound is crunchy as fuck. I would never... Let's fucking go. With a big brain on porcos, eh? That's porcos.

Your turn. Close your eyes. No, no, no, he can keep his eyes open. You have to keep your eyes closed. Oh. I'm within five feet. Nice. Okay, Mike, you can come back.

Oh God. I'm also chat. Uh, Daisy lets loose another arrow. She got a miss final. She gets a natural 20. Let's fucking go. You can do it, kid. Daisy, the Fores,

it's not magic from a certain point of view. You, um, See another arrow sail in, and this one cuts through one of the holes that have been previously made. It hits the same arrow and sinks so far in, you can't see that arrow. It's in the body of this alien creature. And then it goes into, well, it looks down at the unconscious

dog of cool, and it looks at the creatures that are hurting it actively, and it races forward. And it sees that you are unconscious, and it just got. a big bite of you. So it's going to wrap around adjacent to, exactly right, and take a big bite or attempt to out of porko. Daisy? And it's going to get a natural toy. Oh! He fucking sees the two of a Titan or Hontas gets... His fucking guts come out. As long as he doesn't like one shot you get. Baby boy, no, you are, you are safe with

those. Oh, you're going to save yourself. It's like what a lot of size the realization that he can't do anything, I'm just like, I don't say a word. That's going to be, and then over here. I'm rolling low. Still, you run a lot of dice, though. I will see you soon, sheepos. You think of the disintegrating sheep, and how little pain they must have felt

when the instantaneous blasted destroyed them in Ogerton, just wiped from existence. And what a contrast it is to the amount of pain you experience now as it slinks down like a snake and takes a huge bite just underneath your rib cage, pulling your belly free as it does 21 points of piercing damage and 16 points of fire damage, pulling everything out from underneath you, ripping you totally asunder. You look down, and you are going to have to hold in your guts, but you black out, and that's the last thing you remember before perhaps being alive again. Is that? Does that count as two different

hits, though, like two different sources of damage? No, it's one damage, just one bite. I don't know how, we've never had to do this because we usually have games of the road. If it's one attack, like plus heat or plus, that's still one attack. It's not the amount of damage you take. It's the amount of damage you take in a single, like, hit, right?

Yes. That we're talking about, like, instant kill? That's one hit. I think I still might have instant kill. How much is it? Total it would be 37 points of damage. But it was split in two. 22.

I think. If it's split in two, then, I would go unconscious and then take a death save. It's split in two. It's just one and two. I think it's split in two. Let's rule it that one. Okay.

So the first would knock me unconscious, and then the fire would give me a death saving throw if it's like a radiating heat damage. Okay. I will mark that down. And that is the conclusion of its turn. Gabagool, you're up. Do we close our eyes for those, right?

We're all unconscious. Okay. Thank you. I did. You may reveal your eyes. That's going to be. Uh, porcas's turn. Everyone else closed their eyes.

This is actually intense, guys. What the fuck? I'm gonna roll on camera here so that chat can see it. I'm not peaking it. You can peek now. Uh, sausage, you're up. Close your eyes. Oh. Mike Ian, Rich.

Oh. Okay. Um, Daisy, seeing the three of you move down. Runs? I, yeah. She knows that her best. Her best chance is to continue to fire bolt after bolt after bolt, and she sees that it is not far from death itself, perhaps.

It is still bleeding out of many, many different wounds, and she's seen the heat damage that she would take if she were to go in with the melee damage. Knowing this, she has to risk it. She reaches forward first, and she attempts to shove the creature with a telekinetic push. Oh, that's pretty cool. Force push.

Move it back as a little. Move it back as it is pushed five feet. Oh my gosh. And as it sails backwards and she runs 30 feet in the opposite direction. Was that her action or did I give it to her as a bonus action? She turns and she pulls back releasing another arrow.

She's going to do. We all go play sign-outs. It's getting pretty close. Simon. It's such a cool fucking class. And it's going to go and chase her. Can it reach her? What's its movement?

Its movement is 30 feet. No. It cannot if it doesn't have a lot. It is chasing after her. And that is it going to spread it. Is it going to end tonight's session? Because the three of you are out. Should we see how we stabilize or not?

Do you want to? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we need to. It's up to you. You're the Dungeon Master. I am the Dungeon Master, and it's very clear. If hangary.

It's up to you. The three party members are out. This is just NBC. Like, we'd just be simulating. But we're still in the reality of the world. We still got, we got chugs in minus. Yeah, we don't know if we're dead. It's up to you.

Let's roll some dice. We're gonna see if you guys survive. Let's go to the casino. Oh God. But as soon as someone dies, we're gonna have to cut to black. Mikey, your turn. All right. It moved and now you have to...

Oh, that's right. And now, you can reveal your eyes. Porcos, you're up. Okay. Mace, you're up. Oh, my God. We've got to fill this out. We've got to put this out.

I'm really nervous. Does it bitter end? Does it be a bitter. This of this. Okay. All right. Before you reveal your eyes, Mace, just to clarify. Thank you.

And now, you can reveal your eyes. and we're back to Daisy. She is going to... Can she start to move this way and still be outside of 30 feet? She's going to try to use this action or the sprint to get up in her face, though? I probably would have sprinted.

Yeah, it almost certainly would have sprinted. So now it's... Would you try to get behind her, too? I'm not trying to be like DM. That's interesting. No, I think it would have stayed... Oh, I see, because she's running this way. Yeah.

She's going to attempt it to run this way. So it will move a couple squares this direction? Yeah, yeah, right there. Try to cut her off. Perfect, perfect, perfect. And you can just imagine it's multiple feet as is waving forward with its disgusting many legs. The few that remain, it's going to make another saving throw against her telekinetic shove. And this time perhaps expecting this strange push from this small creature, it resists and is able to remain there.

Knowing that perhaps she must attempt to save you, she is going to attempt to run and make a dash towards you. But it will take it, it will take its attack of an opportunity. She's gonna just run straight back towards Porcos. Four, five, six, yep. It's going to hit. Oh! It bites into her back.

She's levels though. She's levels though. You hate touch me or not. Yeah. She's class features. She's taking, it rakes against the back of her back with the top two of its mandibles, and if any of you there were there to witness, you'd say that it did significant damage, immediately taking her from a good place to a bloodied place, as she had taken some bludgeoning damage

from the snow earlier. Oh, and from behind. Oh no. That will be the conclusion of her turn, and it is going to run. Oh, so he's dashing. Did she want to go any further than that? To use her, or she's a, because he was a bonus action. You know, what she called?

No, no, no. She just like, fucking. She turns and she fires another arrow at it, because it is quite low on health. Let's see what happens. This time she will miss. Can we twist for her? No. No.

We can't. We can't get it. I got an after three. This is the nature of it. It's going to run forward, and it's going to attempt to bite into Daisy again. Oh, shit. Yeah, I can catch up. Yep.

What about us? It's that was days your story. Oh, that was the attack of opportunity. Oh no. Miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss. No. No. She's gonna have shield.

Oh, she does have shield. Oh, she does have shield. It would hit. It would just hit, except she uses shield. She turns and she does this, and it bites down, and breaks the shield, which shatters outwards in a massive golden array of sparks. But you can feel that it takes a tremendous amount

of her mental energy to do this. She almost stumbles and falls, but manages to stay on her feet. Mikey, how is... Oh, it's your turn. Close your eyes. And we're back. Rich. Borcos, how's Porcos doing?

Close your eyes. Okay. Oh, yeah. Okay. Sausage, your turn. Close your eyes, Rich. I'm just keeping them closed until Daisy's turn. Or, yeah, Deasy's turn.

What? Did you roll two dice? No. Okay. Ah. And then you may now reveal your eyes, and it's Daisy's turn again. She's hurting, and she knows that if she tries to get away again without a successful telekinetic shove, that she could be in deep trouble. She's going to attempt it.

She pushes out with all of her mental. energy. Come on, Daisy. And it pushes back, five feet. She turns and she backs up the 30 feet that she needs to get away from this creature. That's huge. And reaches down, grabbing another one of her arrows. This could be the last one she ever fires. She thinks to herself, has she lets loose. And she manages to get a natural 13. She fires the arrow. That'll hit. That'll hit? And it. It hits into its eye

I'm going to respect the fact that I rolled the HP and that's the HP that it has. I would love to give it to her but it only has six health points for me we're good we're going to go to one more round to see how this fucking goes she's out of range. It crushes into the eye you see this splatter this heat release it is struggling to move forward this is no longer just about food this is vengeance for this terrifying creature this young Ramirez

which is just freshly born from the patch of eggs you would have discovered just over the bend. But none of you are here to see this. All that is happening is the machinations of this cruel and brutal lamb known as Dracar as this creature. It will dash forward and get right up into Daisy's business. Just right up to her like this or further?

I would say right there, yeah. Okay. Because I'm not going to play the blind game again. We're just going to reveal Mikey and Rich's status. Okay? I'm going to pull back the veil. They're both stable. Squeenies roll de-force to see how it takes for us to wake up.

Oh. Three hours. Two hours. Okay. Now you may close your eyes. All right, and you can reveal your eyes. Thank you. My family.

You was the only 42 years old. You're the kid. You see off the blood. Daisy is on the edge here. You can imagine the tunnel vision that she's experiencing, having to put herself through such mental rigor and the exercise of it being so much the adrenaline pumping through her veins, having watched the violence

that she's seen, and not having her friends there to protect her. She attempts to push it back one more time, knowing that perhaps this is her only hope, and it attempts to resist. It fails, it pushes back, Uh, let's fucking go. And she's going to run, uh, five, uh, yeah, uh, five squares. Give, give me 30 feet in that direction.

Right here? Yep. Get your dice out of the way. Oh, sorry. Oh. She turns. He's to rock the law. And this time she aims for the other eye.

Do I have any twists of dread? Yeah. Oh, yes. Yes, you do. You have a ton. You do. I'm gonna re-roll this. Yeah!

She does eight points of damage. Ah! It, it, it, it, attempts to dodge out of the way, knowing the sting. the bite of those arrows, and it starts to fly forward. But she gives it one last little nudge, and it sinks into the other eye, and it releases a scream for but a moment before curling backwards like a scorpion's tail

and sinking back down, squirming, its legs go rigid and sink down into itself, and it dies. And that is where we will end tonight. Do we not learn of? Eventually, she figures out, that she's able to perhaps recover, to wake you up, though you are both mortally wounded,

and it will take a long time for you to heal. It is not going to be a happy journey for you forward, having the many injuries that you have. And she perhaps takes some time to nurse you, even though she has her mission behind her. What about Saucson? And you two also learned the very sad news that Sausage did not survive.

The encounter. battle was enough to take him out. And after you were able to stand again, my kid brother, I'll tell the sheepers. You have a solemn burial. Oh, made the good die young. He was just a kid.

He was just a kid. A kid brother thought that's no. And happy anniversary, everybody. Happy! Happy! Very good. Nicely done.

Nicely done. Six years. Six years. Holy shit. Thanks for playing. I had two small stories lined up for tonight, and the first small story that I made took the entire night because this was just a fun, relax time.

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