Nerd Poker - The Fog Campaign - Episode 82

Episode Date: August 4, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:12 Hey, it's Brian Possein. Nerd Poker. We're calling it. The Svald Campaign. My friends are here. Chris, Blaine, Ken, engineer Sam, and of course,
Starting point is 00:00:26 our kick-ass, DM, Dan Telfer. Welcome to Nerd Poker. Hey, everybody, it's Brian Prasane. You're listening to Nerd Poker. We're all Zooming today. It's 82 of episode 82 of, the fog campaign. Ken's making the weirdest face.
Starting point is 00:00:50 Oh. Ken's here. Hey, pal. It comes to town. Chris is here. Hi, everyone. Hey, buddy. Blaine is here.
Starting point is 00:01:03 Is he? Is he really? I thought so. Dan is here. Closest I've been to a spit taking a long time. Tabbing over to see Ken's face. Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:01:14 And running the show, as always, from the cool part of town. It's Sam, everybody. Hello, sweet children. Hey, pal. Hi. That dog wake up yet? Yeah, he is. He's on the top of the bed now.
Starting point is 00:01:28 Hold on. Right there. Hey, buddy. Look at that. I understand Brian Henson has now taken over the puppeteering of it's exciting. Not the same in my opinion, but yeah. All right. So let's get into who we have to thank. I want to thank everyone who can listen.
Starting point is 00:01:53 Everyone who can head on over to Patreon. And if you subscribe at those top two tiers of support, then I get to give you a shout out and say things like, thank you, come. Thanks, come, C-U-M. Thank you, Harold of, I know, if I lean into it, maybe it'll be funny. Why? Thank you.
Starting point is 00:02:12 Harold of Kelmar goes to Amalegda Castle. Thank you. No Such Thing as a Fish person. That sounds a lot like the podcast, No Such Thing as a Fish. Which is a reference. Yeah. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:02:27 Thank you. Thank you, Merlin from Static Factory. Thank you, Declines. Thank you. My last Patreon name made Brian laugh. Now I can die happy. You have to fit that in, too.
Starting point is 00:02:39 This one made me laugh, too. There you go. And this time you got Ken. Thank you, Donkey Oto. Thank you, Ragnor. Thank you, Billy pitching the Ding Dong Dangler's animated series to Amazon in a trench coat. Why the trench coat, I wonder. Why don't you ask Billy?
Starting point is 00:03:03 Billy, why the trench coat? Well, it's quite obvious. I'm actually a Jim receive a raccoon. Three Jimpses. I love the idea. He opens his, you guys see the naked gun remake where he turns, pulls his mask off and he's just suddenly not a little girl anymore. All right. What if there are three Jimethys as the surprise characters in Avengers Doomsday?
Starting point is 00:03:40 Three Jimethees show up. Robert Johnny Jr. is playing all three of them. Oh, Rocket Raccoon would be very upset. Can you guys hear me okay? Hello? Yeah. Hello, can you hear me? Okay.
Starting point is 00:03:55 I did like three riffs that were out of sync, so I think my internet was unstable. Thank you, She Blaine on my capatch until I pre-haw. What? Thank you, Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving. And thank you, finally, Sleepy Mario Speedwagon. Sleepy Mario Speed wagon. Oh, yeah. That's such an upbeat song goes on you.
Starting point is 00:04:24 Hey, Blaine, who were those supporters brought to us by? As far as brought to us by, starving grad students movers. We're older. We understand why Janet left and you had to move to a smaller place. Starving grad students get it? Get you and get your stuff. We move it out, we talk it out, we hug it out. We have a beer on that old couch you bought together.
Starting point is 00:04:53 Starving grad students. Also, we need the money. Dan? Thanks, Blaine. Wow. Last time we left, nerd poker. You guys were engaged with Caius at a courtyard in the northwest edge of Delsmith. This courtyard is between mansions and an abandoned neighborhood because all the rich folk have run from town.
Starting point is 00:05:16 fog in the fog campaign has rolled in and scared a lot of folks off. You guys reinstalled the fish as mayor after I believe you blew up the last mayor. And you've tied up a lot of pretty bows on this campaign by killing everyone who started this mess, but still a worm god was summoned here. And you've got him on the ropes a bit. We last left after Chris's turn heading on in to Ken's turn. Ken, Caius is upon you in the southwest corner. you've been down a couple of times in a row.
Starting point is 00:05:48 It happens. I'm going to cast. I had it a minute ago. I don't remember. Oh, yeah. Kato. No. No, I take it back.
Starting point is 00:06:00 Cromatic orb again. Okay. That's a spell attack. Try to botch if you can. Oh, motherfucker. You didn't botched, did you? No. I got a two.
Starting point is 00:06:13 Plus eight is ten. Oh. I'm not looking at the screen anymore. Okay. Well, praise Bahamit for no botch. Not a botch. Playing, were you about to say something? No, I just said, not a botch.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Ken, would you like to do anything else with your turn? I assume you're going to use half your movement to stand up. I'm going to look out the window and cry. Oh. Bensturalty music plays. Ken, now you're not role-playing. You're real playing. Never let it get into your real life, man.
Starting point is 00:06:47 Okay, so that's going to take us to Bill Peepers. Little Peepers. He fails his second deathing. Oh, shit. Oh, don't like it. Uh-oh. And that's going to take us to Caius, who is going to swat it Brian. What's he doing to me?
Starting point is 00:07:12 So let's see. He is reaching back, and this is a what to hit, plus 15 to hit. Jesus. Does you even need to roll? Yeah, what if he gets it what? Yeah, there's that. 19 to hit, Brian. What's your AC?
Starting point is 00:07:36 That would probably be a hit. Okay. You never know with these kids. Sometimes they got real nice little ACs. So, that's going to be 23 points of piercing damage. Brian. Oof. Okay.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Brian, I think you can take your feet, like a thief thing where you can mitigate that damage? Yeah. That sounds right. Uncanny. Yeah. I'm looking under your reactions.
Starting point is 00:08:15 You may have the old uncanny dodge. Yes, you do. So you can have this damage, Brian. You can have this. And actually take 11 points of damage instead of 23. Cool. And it's your turn, Brian. Oh,
Starting point is 00:08:39 um, Kias is looming over you. Oh, wait. Dan, I'd like to remind you. Weren't you got? All the poison clouds. You were going to make me invisible.
Starting point is 00:08:48 Yeah, he was invisible. So he, he did not do that. He did that. To you, Chris. To who? He's going to go north a little bit and take a swing at Chris.
Starting point is 00:09:02 Great. And, uh, and, uh, So I'll re-roll that But now, Dan, because we are starting with him in that cloud He is also going to have to do a con save, yes Yeah, because listeners, this guy's so big Even though he has kind of moved from the south side
Starting point is 00:09:26 Now towards the sort of North side, he's still Encompassed by Cloud, part of him. Just different parts. And he did make his con save, but now he is, he still has to roll, he's supposed to take half damage. Sweet.
Starting point is 00:09:43 So he's going to take 10 points of poison damage. Yeah, he's starting to wobble. He's looking pretty rough. I haven't really mentioned that yet this episode, but he is on the ropes, it looks like. I would like you do that. Oh, yeah. He would like to not do that.
Starting point is 00:10:06 Well, we'll see what happens. 29 to hit Chris That'll hit Dan Okay Oh it's good Dan Oh no It'd be great if one episode You guys are just like
Starting point is 00:10:20 We've all had enough Dan We're going to start attacking you through the screen 25 points Of your say Chris 25 And I have to make a concentration Check Okay
Starting point is 00:10:34 Okay Because on greater and Viz All right So what is the DC? So there was 25. How do you figure out what the DC is for this, Dan? Yeah, let me check. I think it's whatever it is over 10,
Starting point is 00:10:53 hit points of damage. Meanwhile, whatever it is, I can roll my concentration track. So you roll a D20, add your constitution saving through a modifier. Right. And I think that's it. No, I know that, but I'm saying what DC am I trying to hit? 24. I mean, yeah, you make it for sure.
Starting point is 00:11:15 Okay, and I think because I'm a warcaster, I get a montage. So I don't think I'll do better than that, but 24. The DC is either half the damage taken or 10, whichever is higher. Got it. So 25 half. Okay, yeah, great. Why that one's so hard to find. Like, of all the calculations they put on your sheet, that one is not over.
Starting point is 00:11:39 Chris. That one, that's like, you just have to memorize that. You're about to say something else. I'm lagging. All right. So. All good. I have taken my damage.
Starting point is 00:11:52 That thing hit me. Hello. Uh-oh. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, you hear me? Yes. Delated, delayedly. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:12:16 Uh, you seem to be back for me as well. The worst part of the delay is, uh, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's definitely, on my end, but you guys, to you I'm frozen, to me, I'm watching all of you go. What happened to Dan? Where's Dan? What's going on? It's like being a Tales from a Croft episode.
Starting point is 00:12:35 Yeah, it is. I'm in the black hole. Yike. Okay, so that was his turn, and I believe Brian is up. I'm invisible, right? Yeah. Yeah, I maintain concentration.
Starting point is 00:12:58 Okay, I know I'm going to think about... Yeah, I'm... Okay. I'm gonna go short-sorted. Nice. All right. Remember, you get to add sneak attack damage. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:17 Hands on. And I believe you attack with advantage because you're invisible. Is that right? Dan? That's right. What did that come? I didn't see it. It disappeared.
Starting point is 00:13:33 I'm checking. Yeah, same. I'm looking in the game log. You rolled one, so you got a nine. You got a second roll. Yeah, I rolled a second term. It was an 11, unfortunately. Rolled a 3 plus 8. But better than the botch. Yep. Oh, shit. Okay.
Starting point is 00:13:55 Greater invisibility just saved you from a botch. Great. Fuck. Moving on then, I guess. Is there anything I can do? No. I mean, if you look at the bonus actions, Little Peepers is about to die.
Starting point is 00:14:12 You could use, like a dash or something. Yeah, you could find somebody? All right. Could you pour a potion in his mouth? Yeah, you want to pour a potion in the mouth? You got a potion? I don't know. You have one, you have two potions of healing.
Starting point is 00:14:27 Okay. Yeah, I'll do that. Is that in the group inventory? It's in his inventory. Chris. I'm scrolling through Spicoli's inventory. He has two separate entries of a potion of healing. I see it.
Starting point is 00:14:49 Brian, can you roll 2D4 plus two? What? 2D4 plus two. You're healing, your friend. Okay. You're saving his life. Sexual healing. Unfortunately, that is how the potion works.
Starting point is 00:15:07 Let's make love tonight. Here, put this in your hair. I don't know. I want you. What was the number on that? What was the number on the, on the potion? Six. Is that what it is?
Starting point is 00:15:35 2D. Yeah, it's a six, I see it. And then plus two, so a 12 of eight. Great. So he blinks awake again. He was not looking good. He was at two death fails. So you save him from the break, Brian.
Starting point is 00:15:56 There was something. else you could do with your turn. And that'll bring us to Blaine. Playing a way the hell in the other corner. Yeah, I'm just moving around, running, running, running. I'm going to come up there, and I'm going to firebolt. Great.
Starting point is 00:16:20 Fireboat. 14 plus 6 is 20. Oh, so close. He has an AC at 21. Fuck you. And some of your kios. I didn't mean that. I did mean the kiosk, though.
Starting point is 00:16:36 Okay, I'm just going to keep running as much as I can't, but that's my thing. Just like a Kia. You mean the Swedish furniture store or the Korean electric cars? I meant the electric cars. Did you just drag your token off the map? Did I? I think you did. Blaine, you have godlike powers in this universe.
Starting point is 00:17:10 I know. I mentioned door it out of here. Could I guess so far as to say, Blaine, you're a little bit of a lawnmower, man. Yeah. Can you hit undo? Can you hit Command Z on your keyboard? Yeah, it's not. It's not coming back. All right. I got to. Yeah, sorry.
Starting point is 00:17:31 I kind of went up around, up and around. I think you just let go of it while you were off-mapped, and so it's like, you know, they're not there. Cut to Siam Spade appearing in a five guys in Burbank. Is he in scale with everyone here? Is he the same side? Like a humanoid? Yes. Yes. It's like in the Dungeons and Dragons, Hunter Month Eve's movie.
Starting point is 00:18:08 Oh, fun. They have to pull my baby out of a fish mouth. That's a beautiful scene. I really enjoyed that movie. It's great. It is. It's really fun. Somebody, and I more than one person has said, if they made one of those every year, they would be making so much fucking money off. Yeah. Are they making a sequel or not? Did it fall through? It didn't make money at the box office. It's funny you guys are talking about it.
Starting point is 00:18:33 The story came out, I think, at the end of Comic-Con. One of the writers has said, like, we've already written, like, the sequel is ready to go. They just aren't going. Duh. You know, because there's some algorithm going, well. Apparently there's a D&D TV show. Oh, there I am. Okay, cool.
Starting point is 00:18:58 That there, that somebody's work. Well, my guess, you know, they're just clear in the way. They're like, if we make a sequel, all of a sudden it's the Robert Pattinson and the Batman is now holding up DC from making their, you know what I mean? Yeah. And so, yeah, so they have to be kind of like, oh, we really do want to make D&D stuff.
Starting point is 00:19:21 And they must be psyched on their series. They're making Baldur's Gay 3 TV show. Ooh. Yeah. I'm glad I'm glad Master of the Universe is getting a little love now. Oh yeah?
Starting point is 00:19:33 Now that it's on streaming. I watch most of it with my wife and daughter. We have fun. It's super fun. Yeah. It's like Flash Gordon. Oh, it's not bad?
Starting point is 00:19:44 No, it's not bad. No, it's, I mean, no. It's not great. Oh, it's bad. The humor is okay. Well, well, back up. Mandalorian streaming now, so I'm going to watch it this week.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Oh, it is? It's fun. Blaine, we've lost her. token, but your token is also backed. So can you put your, can you put your token? You said you were just running, but can you make sure your token's where you want? I think you may have already. Yeah, I think that's kind of where I am.
Starting point is 00:20:07 I might be over the edge of the balcony, but there's the screen of the map is right there, and the last time I tried to move it up there, that's when I lost my token. Yeah, yeah. Unfortunately, there's not geography beyond there, but we can say that because you're kind of like on a window there,
Starting point is 00:20:23 you're actually on the roof above the window. Can I be hanging over the Bannister like I'm cheating on my wife on a business trip. Huh. Just like a hotel, hotel courtyard. Huge red lipstick, a kiss on your cheek. There's a maid at the Marriott looking up, rubbing her eyes. A cat.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Velma Redder. Driving a car? Oh, you're up. Blame it. Me? I'm going. two. Okay, so they're all alive.
Starting point is 00:21:07 I really wish there was some other great attack I had to mix up the you know what I'll do? Oh, fire a ray of frost. Whoa. Yeah. No firebolt for me. How about a 16?
Starting point is 00:21:23 What a lot. Fudd. And then... Yeah, unfortunately that's not going to do it. I will give out my final bardic
Starting point is 00:21:34 inspiration the last one to give I will give it to I'm going to give it to Spicoli because he is invisible nice
Starting point is 00:21:48 and that's you know what and just for movement's sake yeah because he did come up towards me actually yeah I'll stay where I am All right. Well, I hope you can hear me okay.
Starting point is 00:22:08 I had to switch off my computer again. Up next, and the turn order is going to be Ken. Once again, I'm going to cast a Crematic orb. You got this, buddy. Let's see what happens. That's a 13. Oh, well, that's 12 higher than it could have been. Sure.
Starting point is 00:22:37 Now, when you say 13, you're not... So broken. My spell. I know. I know, but I just, I had to check the game log and make sure you weren't, you know, obfuscating a one plus 12. But no, you've not tried to fool me. Hooray.
Starting point is 00:22:52 I'm glad I don't have to kill you again yet. All right. So is that your turn? I mean, anybody, nobody's down, right? Everybody's up. No one's down. You've got movement. You do.
Starting point is 00:23:06 And a bonus action. I don't know what you can do, but. Let me see when I... Yeah. I think... You do have movement because... Yeah. Drink one of your own potions?
Starting point is 00:23:19 If you have one, I'm not a bad idea. I don't know if you have any. Let me see. But Ken, yeah, Brian is the one who's actually in melee range. You are able to move without getting an opportunity attack. You can go into the corner. Yes, I have a healing potion. Now...
Starting point is 00:23:40 I will quaff it. Thank you for saying cloth. That is 2D4 plus 2. Here we go. 2D4 plus 2. 2D. That's a 6 total. Hey!
Starting point is 00:24:04 I am healing myself for 6 points. Great. Then up next, B. Lil Peepers. He's going to haul his own ass off the ground and scoot down to the corner before popping off
Starting point is 00:24:24 an arrow. 28 to hit. Nice. So that is going to do nine points of piercing damage. Rips right through the avatar of Caius. Boy oh boy, you guys have had him on the ropes
Starting point is 00:24:52 for a minute. He's not down yet, but it's getting close. Yes. Did you say that the thing's in melee with Brian? And you. Yeah, both of you because he's so big. I think because it's in melee, then you would get to add the sneak attack damage.
Starting point is 00:25:14 I think that's a quality of sneak attack is that if the thing is in melee with another opponent or if you have advantage. I think those are the things that can trigger. sneak attacks. Cool. I'm just double-checking that. Yeah, please.
Starting point is 00:25:35 Okay. Oh, yeah, no, I'm, you know. Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right. I forgot about that rule completely. I always thought of it as like it was only flanking, but no. That's absolutely right. That's why it's in my head.
Starting point is 00:25:49 It's like, oh, it's one of those weird ones. It's like the thing we were talking about before with a concentration. Still not going to kill him, but instead of nine points of piercing damage, It's going to be 21 points of piercing damage. Hmm. Woo!
Starting point is 00:26:03 Yeah. So he just has this thing rip right through his center and where his ribs would be in the humanoid shape that is rising from the pillar of worms. You just see like this big chunk fly out and splatter on the ground.
Starting point is 00:26:17 A bunch of worms going motionless. And that will end it for little peepers' turn. He is now going to have to roll a conseil for the poison. gas that he is still standing in. Mondays, am I right? It's actually Tuesday.
Starting point is 00:26:48 This break brought to you by Crumb. It's a tiny version of what you ate. On your shirt, in your lap, on a car seat, on the couch, in your bed. Nothing reminds you of lunch like crumbs. Crumbs. All right, so he's going to take six points, poison damage. He did make his... save and then he is going to
Starting point is 00:27:12 swat. I think he's going to see little Peepers going to corner in since he's the last one to hit him, he's going to swat Little Peepers. Which Little Peepers has taken a real beating. Yeah. For the home listener, Connance has now moved completely into the southwest corner. Oh, and I... Do you know what that means, Chris?
Starting point is 00:27:45 he's still in the cloud he's still in the cloud he's also about to roll to hit little peepers but first do you know what happens oh god he just left melee with you so he did an opportunity attack I would love it thank you Dan
Starting point is 00:28:04 thank you I have do you say TMAT shows up I was like what the fuck's what's what's what's what happened I rolled a 3 plus 8 It's going to be an 11. Swish with my dagger.
Starting point is 00:28:19 Yeah, that will miss, unfortunately. And he's going to hit Lil Peeper's with a 29. Damn. He's going to take 24 points of piercing damage and Little Peepers is down again. It's getting close. All right. Brian, you're up. You remain greater invisibility.
Starting point is 00:28:50 Okay. All right. Well, I'm going to do an advantage attack. and hopefully not Bachi boo this time or get a fucking 7 or whatever the other lame one was
Starting point is 00:29:02 short, come on big numbers come on big dice big money, big money. No. All right, all right, 13, 13. Are you fucking kidding me? Oh, you have Bartick inspiration.
Starting point is 00:29:21 Yeah, you can add, wait, if you add it to the 13, if you get an 8, you get a 21. Do you want to spend it now? Yeah. You have to get an 8th. Do I roll a D8 or what do I roll it?
Starting point is 00:29:34 It would be a roll it. Yeah. You can spend it now or put the rest of that account. Yeah. Ceramic Dalmatian. Mm-hmm. Eight. Holy shit.
Starting point is 00:29:44 Yeah. Oh my God. You got it, Brian. That's fucking sweet. Holy shit. One and eight out of that happening. Ah, that's amazing. Excellent.
Starting point is 00:29:55 All right. I'll take it. Kevin. And now you get to take sneak attack damage also, Brian. Okay, so that is, well, I've rolled my damage yet. Oh. I know. Short-term damage is 10, and then sneak attack is, say again,
Starting point is 00:30:17 familiarize me again, remind me. 5D6. 5D6. I like that. Wow. that's pretty crazy it's like chromatic orb damage
Starting point is 00:30:32 if I'm working it can make it work it's like it's like the damage Ken does do himself uh it wasn't that high was it 13
Starting point is 00:30:44 is that what it came out to it was low low numbers I well that's still something yeah Brian how would you like to see the avatar of Caius die
Starting point is 00:30:54 no way just a list of death holy shit he had 12 hit points left when you got that 13 wow well he's a tower of worms right sure is or was so so I kind of jenga
Starting point is 00:31:13 the middle of him I cut a big spot a spot of the middle of him and then it just all kind of collapses and he falls like a janga tower awesome what to kids cheer Yeah Changa
Starting point is 00:31:30 Oh my gosh He's going Just absolutely Chris flat There's just worm guts everywhere You guys Head on over to Lil Peepers Get him bound
Starting point is 00:31:45 All of you are pretty beat up But as you finish You see the fog Also start to dissipate around the edges of this courtyard. We did it. Does that include that green thing,
Starting point is 00:32:05 the cloud that was killing the repo too? Great. Yeah. So everything starts to recede. We got some money from the pirate ship. My parents come. Everybody's happy. Everyone gets a hug.
Starting point is 00:32:23 We lift data up. Sloth cheers for you guys C3BO and R2 are all shiny and clean The Ewok start playing drums on the empty Stormtrooper helmets Chewy looks like He's written by Toto Chewy looks like somebody brushed him Yeah
Starting point is 00:32:42 Do you remember that? He finally gets nice He looks rushed He looks like he went to a groomer He got his claws No, Endor has blow dryer. It takes about two. He just got a lion cut for the summer.
Starting point is 00:33:03 He got in Barkbus for like an hour or two. Not to be confused with Bangbuss. It's a whole other thing. Oh, Bangbuss. We were all thinking Bangbuss, though. No, they're actually Barkbus shout out that suit as Willie. they pull up in a truck in our yard and Willie gets in and and they fucking dog three hours later she comes out of
Starting point is 00:33:33 I've heard of that yeah it's cool how dare you blame I've heard of not what Blaine said not what Blaine's heard of the yeah short film would you like somebody to joke about fucking your cats Blaine I'm gonna fuck your cat back up and think about what you just ask Blaine right
Starting point is 00:33:53 My cats are underage. That's just weird. Gross. Well, we did it. Holy shit. Yes. Nice. Thanks to me.
Starting point is 00:34:10 Four cans of jelly. Good fellow. Oh, he's dead. So we hop off the roof and like go down to like wherever. Is there any stuff down here? Is it just. Is there riches? Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:25 It is caius guts. However, although you don't, yeah, you don't immediately see anything, but Little Peepers does have a crime boner in his eyes. Oh. And he can do that on his own time. Yeah, on the Bart Bus. His mother doesn't let him. He says, well, do you remember the workshop that was full of,
Starting point is 00:34:53 worms that we thought was full of loot on the first floor, but the first floor was full of loot and worms and we didn't want to touch the worms. That's right. Oh. I bet there is a lute-a-palooza on the first floor of that workshop right now. Yeah, and we should probably go there immediately just because, you know, the town, city's under new management, so they're going to problem. Yeah, let's get it before.
Starting point is 00:35:16 Let's get. Yeah, let's get what the getting is good. Excellent. So you guys are going ahead. It's just a few blocks away. This is the workshop of the gnome who sent the giant mech and you killed him in the mansion. Yes. On hindsight, maybe we overreacted.
Starting point is 00:35:41 Never. I don't know, though. So the doors are locked, but someone wants to throw a little slight a hand check. We'll pop that open. Sure. Bibi 19 plus 4 23
Starting point is 00:36:01 Nice Pop So yeah That instantly pops You guys had inside in there There's just worm guts all over the place This place is so nasty And full of just like
Starting point is 00:36:15 Recently pop worms It looks like it was a pretty disgusting mess Anywhere that these guys were You remember there's a Stone Mason's Guild on the south side of town that is probably in a similar state of disgustingness. So, you know, as you start to walk around, you realize there are drawers,
Starting point is 00:36:35 there are all kinds of little areas you can check. So let's get an investigation check from everybody. All righty. Nice. Can I give people guidance on this? You absolutely can. There's enough buildup here where you would have been approached the building and be like, oh boy, we better loot the shit out of this.
Starting point is 00:36:58 So there's a D4 for people if they want it for the next minute. Well, I rolled a three plus an 11. So that's 14. Five plus one, six. We got a 19. Another D4 you said? If you want, yeah. Why not?
Starting point is 00:37:16 Oh, there's a four. Nice. 17. I also tried to search. and did not do it. Where did you get, Chris? Like, I think, an 11 total. Okay.
Starting point is 00:37:30 Well, with an 11 total, you're going to find 10 gold. Hey? That is it. You guys were rich. What did you get? 10? Six. Okay, you're going to find five gold.
Starting point is 00:37:49 Hey. I'm trying to see if I. Blaine. Detecting spells or anything. Okay. Well, I'll let you start thinking about that one. Blaine, what did you get? I got a 17.
Starting point is 00:38:05 All right. So you are going to find a jewelry box. And you knock this old wormgut smeared painting off the wall and find there is a safe built into the wall. Oh, yeah. Chris, what did you get? I got 10 gold. You gave me.
Starting point is 00:38:25 For Brian, what did Brian get? 11. All right, so that's going to be another... 19. Oh, 19. Okay. Yeah. How about I throw up and detect magic? Yeah, buddy. We'll get to you in a second, boss.
Starting point is 00:38:38 First of all, we've got to honor what Brian rolled. Brian, you're going to find a little workshop kind of alcove in the back. There's a curtain, and when you open it, there are what appears to be a magic pair of gloves and a hammer that are used for tinkering. Ooh. Aida, a taker. Fidl about. So you would probably want to grab those.
Starting point is 00:39:11 And let's talk about the detect magic. So you're going to see the jewelry box has a magic aura or two inside of it. There's a couple of little floating ores in there. And the safe also is going to have... Nice. Glowing magic horrors, the hammer, the gloves. These are all magic items. And the interiors are straight up.
Starting point is 00:39:39 Colors? In addition, there's something underneath the, I mean, these are all enchantment oras. There's not a lot of variety in item oras unless they're trapped. And right now you're not seeing any. But I did want to mention that underneath the floorboards, there is some other sort of aura. Sweet. Cry that shit up. So you're prying that shit up.
Starting point is 00:40:05 So you're prying that shit up. Brian, you have discovered a hammer of runic focus. Neat. Yeah, what just add to you? Hammer has three charges. As the bonus action, you can expend one charge and slam this hammer on the ground, creating a 15-foot radius of glowing runes. While you're inside that area, your hammer glows with matching runes in your,
Starting point is 00:40:34 get a plus three bonus to attack. Holy shit. A plus three weapon is like crazy. So I'm going to put this it's a hammer of runic focus. R you and I see it is in D&D beyond. Cool.
Starting point is 00:40:57 We need like a Discord where I can put links that you guys can regularly refer to. And then the gloves These are going to be gloves of thievery. These gloves are invisible while worn. While wearing them, you get a plus five bonus to slight of hand checks. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:41:23 Hammer of Runic, what? Focus. No, I'm not yelling at you. It's Hammer of Runic focus. I understand. I'm trying to focus. But just say what it is again. Brian, come on.
Starting point is 00:41:37 Say the word again. I'm trying to focus. The fever was close How many? Gloves of what? Thevery. Were those mine? They are now.
Starting point is 00:41:48 You just found them, yeah, with the hammer, yeah, if you want them. Maybe, like, Blaine could take them on the weekends or something. What'd you say it was a plus five? Do I really need them with whatever I have? It makes you a super thief. Okay. You would potentially be a super thief. Okay.
Starting point is 00:42:09 And also, a sleight of hand isn't. I mean, if it's plus five truly does sleight of hand, slight of hand is all kinds of stuff. We're not retiring these guys after this adventure. Well, we'll get to that in a moment. First, let's talk about the ripped up floorboards. Yeah, baby. And you know what?
Starting point is 00:42:27 Sam has got a hard out. So why don't we finish this Lutapalooza on our next session of nerd poker? Yay! We won D&D. We did it. Good job, guys. Nice job. That was a
Starting point is 00:42:44 jewelry box to go over. Yeah, yeah. I'll throw you the thing of like I had the idea that you guys could maybe have different characters or use loot one or the other from this session
Starting point is 00:42:59 in the next session. Okay. The next campaign. So like we were going to do a caves campaign. And I was going to let you guys be there a character who is in
Starting point is 00:43:11 or bought some of the equipment or the same character. Well, I feel like if we haven't died, I mean, I would love to play, you know, Spicoli again. And now he's like fucking crazy leveling up. I'm going to buy some bad guys for this guy. I'd like to stick with my guy, but we can talk about that soon. Yeah, yeah. Let's, uh, what do you got to plug? Uh, check out darkest whimsy.com.
Starting point is 00:43:41 Blake, what you got? Do you got anything, Blaine? August 25th at Scribble in Highland Park doing some stand-up. And August 2nd, I will be on the Dr. Z. Live, a dynasty typewriter, with Paul Williams, E.D. Patterson, and Haley Joel Osment. Yeah. That is amazing. That is stacked. I see funny people.
Starting point is 00:44:07 That's going to be a good one. Come by. Paul Williams is a goddamn bona fide legend. That is cool as shit. I can't believe I didn't mention this last week, but my show is finally on. On HBO Max, Stewart fails to save the universe,
Starting point is 00:44:26 and it'll be, well, next week is our third episode, this week's second one coming up this Thursday, and then our third episode will air Thursday, the third or fourth, whatever it is. Anyway, I'm super excited. It did really well at Comic-Con. We showed an episode in the first episode
Starting point is 00:44:49 people really liked it, and I won't do any spoilers, but there's some cool, like, Easter eggs coming up in these episodes, and I had a blast, and I want to do more, so please watch. That is how it goes. Retention is super important,
Starting point is 00:45:07 as they say, that we have people watch the second and third episodes. And then I'm got the San Jose Galaxy Con at the end of August. And then I've got some mostly one-nighters, a bunch of one-nighters coming up in September and October and November and December. So Brianpossain.com. Blaine. We attribute the success saved mankind for joining us on this episode. You got walls and a roof. Oh, uh, hey, uh, let's check the nerd poker mailback.
Starting point is 00:45:55 Dear nerd poker, I accidentally swallowed the fortune in my fortune cooking. Can you tell me what it was? We sure can. You will go on a long trip. See you next fall. Hope you like gastrointestinal paper cuts. Your lucky numbers. 69 and 71.
Starting point is 00:46:12 We'll tell you how many fingers up your ass that is. On the next nerd poker. Thanks for listening to another episode of Nerd Poker. You can follow us at patreon.com slash nerd poker. And you get bonus episodes from there. And you can also send us anything at P-O-box 16069, Encino, California, 911416. Thanks for listening.
Starting point is 00:46:42 Thank you.

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