The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 152 - Resize Doesn't Matter

Episode Date: April 24, 2018

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This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast... I forgot how incredibly painful and frightening adventuring can be. ...battle ravaged and barely alive... We have to get to safety and rest. ...the heroes face an agonizing moral dilemma... My friend, we have an opportunity here. The slave pen is unguarded. Yes, but we can't get them out.

We can't get them all out. How can we leave them? ...with little time to decide. Well, also, you know, with these bodies here, they're going to know someone's in here. So defenses are going up as of tomorrow. And innocent lives at risk. Perhaps we could get just a few.

Perhaps just a few. They must act swiftly. I just cannot believe we would allow this moment to pass by. Or else. What are you going to do? That night patrol might be coming around. We got to go. We got to go. The adventure

continues now. What is going on, GCP Nation? It's your old buddy Troy LaValle, DJ Jazzy Troy and the Fresh Prince. Well, the Fresh Prince couldn't make it today, so it's just your old buddy Troy coming to you with another exciting episode of the Glass Cannon Podcast. But let's be honest, the big news this week is what is going on with the Glass Cannon Network. Yeah, we got another episode coming up for you. Yeah, it's juicy. It's delicious. There's a lot of fallout from last week's episode, but can we talk about this week? If you are listening to this episode on or around the day that it came out, oh man, have we got a week for you. You got a new episode of the GCP

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Oh, what's that, Troy? There's more going on this week? Oh yeah, we got cannon fodder. Monthly fodder is back this week as well. That's dropping on Thursday. And then Friday, you want more? You want more? I'll give you more.

We got another episode of Ruins of Aslant. Ruins of Aslant, Raiders of the Lost Continent, episode seven dropping on Friday for all of our Patreon members at the $5 tier and up. This is just, you know what, this is crazy. It's just too much. I've got to pull something back. You know what, there will be no episode 152.

It's just too much. We're going to take a week off and we'll give you 152 like next week or the week after. I think that's more than fair. What's that? We can't do that? We've never missed a week, so why start now? All right, you make a good point. All right, you know what?

Just because I like you guys, we're going gonna give you a brand new episode of the gcp right now here is episode 152 welcome back everybody to the glass cannon podcast this is a special episode this week because not only are we recording a new episode but we got skid back in the studio this week what a pleasure this is going to be to participate in a real live podcast i'm so excited all week thinking about it did you enjoy the seychelles was a good job boy it was just great it was just great at a secret meeting with Eric Prince. It was just wonderful. You're going to have to warm up back into this again. You're out of practice.

I know. I don't remember. What is Pembroke? Is he Italian? You're an old wizard. I don't know. I'm an old wizard. He's an old Italian wizard.

Old Italian wizard. Those are rough episodes. Especially when you only do one hour sessions. It's like, well, that was fun. It's happened. I know it's happened to me a couple times. It's to skid twice has it ever happened to anybody else the other skid time i'm thinking is nester in the caves remember when he was bleeding out i got like knocked out early on in the caves and then that was the other time when i just popped the bow on

the river drake or whatever the uh no that was that was the other time when i popped the string on my bow i couldn't fight like i was trying to repair it for six rounds huge but this like i couldn't even talk like i was saying like what all right yeah you can't contribute at all i can't contribute at all just with my own personal witticisms i'm trying to think there's got to be other times when you guys have been out of the fight baron baron blind at the bottom of the lily pad pit. Oh, that was rough. I was pretty knocked out. I mean, I think I was mostly just, you know, I was already blind the entire time.

I remember you arguing vehemently that by the sound of the dragonfly, you could make shots 50 feet into the air. Yeah, because Baron is part dolphin and has an echolocation, Joe. dolphin and has an echo location joe we got a great email recently from someone who just got to episode 50 and they were like so struck by the emotion of it like a lot of people are when they i saw that and he's i can't remember he or she said something to the effect like i just can't get the image out of my head of baron blindly you know faltering at the bottom of the pit as his friends die around him yeah yeah so tragic powerful image yeah very very powerful um it's funny too we get so often we get emails for some reason we get emails all the time it's like i just listened to episode 49 i just want to say

this is like i love this podcast i was just thinking that like i recently saw an itunes review that was like finally decided he sorry took me so long guys I just finished episode 49 and I'm thinking like you have no idea buddy it's true that is so funny why wouldn't you just wait one more episode and be like I'm 50 in uh because those numbers are arbitrary here we go well have you ever been out of a an episode completely I'm trying to think besides the ones you just leave and we know there was the one i just left right episode three it was episode three four yeah episode four a peek behind the curtain for those listeners at home troy is a

love is you know a person i was gonna say a lovely person i don't know but his skill without times is uh leave something to be desired in the early early days, I didn't know this yet. So I was like, yeah, he'll be like, oh, we'll definitely be done by five. We'll be done by like three. Five runs around, I had to catch a train. 5.15 runs around, there was still halfway through an episode. I'm like, I just got to go. He just silently crept out.

Wow, Matthew was really quiet Towards the end of that episode No one ever knew Joe I texted to find out What happened And Graham was like You died Yeah

Joe you normally play Three or four different characters So has there ever been An episode where you Have not been present Nope All I do is Talk talk talk

Troy I just have a million Characters to play And talk talk talk The whole time Well I hope everyone Can get involved In this episode I have a million characters to play and talk, talk, talk the whole time. Well, I hope everyone can get involved in this episode because I'm curious what you want to do. I'm here to play with you.

You just defeated what I can only assume was a CR-17 encounter. When you combine those flying creatures with the two frost giant guards it's night flame strike didn't work you've obviously put some poop on the altar um the slave pen is now unguarded it's your two maybe even three combats in technically at this point where that was a double combat what do you want to do we have to get to safety and rest yeah pembroke is like on the ground i think like he's like leaning against the stone pillar uh the the cliff side and he's just like hi like he's gotten frozen encased in ice for like a minute. And he has this giant burn scar across his stomach where his belt buckle got burned him. Right in his muffin top.

Yeah. And he says, I forgot how incredibly painful and frightening adventuring can be. We must move quickly. We do. My friend, we have an opportunity here. The slave pen is unguarded. Yes, but we can't get them out. We can't get them all out.

How can we leave them? We must. We can't... We can't have a wagon train of... of slaves leading them across the camp, even at this late hour. Ah, but my friend, can you not teleport? I can teleport a few of them, yes.

Perhaps we could get just a few. Perhaps just a few. How do you choose? We're taking some of you out, but some of you may be tomorrow's meal. It's a very, very difficult decision. Troy, as this conversation's going on,

I don't know if you've looked at my hand, but I have about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 D20s in my hand representing the 12 different strength checks I should get to break out of this ice that I'm still encased in. Right, right, right, right. So you're just going to keep trying. All right. So let's see. Any 20s in there? 20.

There we go. I'm green. You're out, buddy. All right. Thank you. Can I have my die back? And Bear goes, we go. You're out, buddy. All right, thank you. Can I have my die back? And Baron goes, and like hulks out at him. We're not saving any slaves tonight, boys.

Let's get some rest. Yeah, I can take three slaves. Oh, okay. So you can teleport three slaves. Well, even going in there and taking three might cause a ruckus among the others that could risk the whole plan. So I agree. We've got to get you all to safety or you're banged up and hurt.

I just cannot believe we would allow this moment to pass by. Listen, it's like that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones he finds Marion in the tent and she says, rescue me. And he says, no, if I take you now, it will alert the rest of the camp.

I know where it is, Merrin, and he's found the Ark and everything. It's really cool. It's a great film. I recommend watching it. What is the Ark

in this metaphor? The, uh, total victory. Total, uh, I don't think we're quite there yet No of course and that is why we cannot

We cannot do this now See well done That's a well placed argument It's tough because Feyraza is the only one That's been there and seen What it's like And the guards are dead And they're like we just murdered the guards

And I mean I think it's really tough to just walk away. And Baron turns towards Feroz and says, I saw inside of the camp as well. I was not as close as you were. But there is a wily creature that could be very dangerous to all of us inside of there. He moved like lightning. Or he could be a powerful ally. He could.

But at this point, if we die on this mountain, no one's saving any of these slaves. I don't see any backup coming from behind us. Well, also, you know, with these bodies here, they're going to know someone's in here. So defenses are going up as of tomorrow. We should get to safety now. Should we conceal the bodies, take them away? I actually have an idea about that. Ooh, do tell.

Please share on our podcast. Which one? Would you like to share it with the whole group, Matthew? No. Yes, so... He passes a note to Skid. Try and leave the room. let me see that i have softened earth and stone so we could try to we could get some assistance in burying them quickly uh we i we

could also stone shape them into the base of the statue oh like they were cursed by the god by thermia himself i was just thinking we'd just cover him up. Well, I would think that we wouldn't have very much time at all either way because that flamestrike had to be visible to the entire camp. Yeah. So I don't even know if we have time to do that. Yeah. I mean, I think we've got to move and just deal with the fact

that they're going to know somebody's here. But, I mean, Lork, to the best of his ability, you want me to roll survival or something, we'll try to cover our tracks so they can't find where we went. There's no evidence of small... I mean, these things are loaded with bullets and arrows. I mean, there's going to be evidence of small folk,

but at least if they can't find our camp... Reburn the bodies? That would be the most important thing. Yeah, it doesn't look... With the exception of the neck bite by Cat Benatar, it's not like a wild animal got out. It's pretty clear this was the work. Right. I was thinking maybe they could think that maybe we smear

some of the poo on the Frost Giant's hands. And so maybe they were defacing the area or something and then these creatures fought them. The fire, the flame strike was like the god responding. Yeah, and these creatures that came out of the statue fought them,

and they fought to a draw, basically, where they all killed each other. So in this scenario, let me just get this right. The guards of the slave pens were like, you know what? We're going to leave our position. Go rub poop on that statue of our god. And then the frost giant god getsets angry And casts Flamestrike That's how angry He is

That'll hold up That'll hold up Stranger things Have happened Well The Worst case scenario It's gonna be

Super confusing Right Right No matter what So tell me where You want to go If you're not going To attempt to do

Anything with the slaves And you don't feel Like you have time To do anything With the bodies Or you do Tell me what you Want to do anything with the slaves and you don't feel like you have time to do anything with the bodies or you do tell me what you want to do besides covering your tracks and where you want to go but what if they punish the slaves

that's my concern what if they're what if they kill slaves specifically because of this maybe taking a few would help or maybe torn or perhaps that would give them cause to think that slaves were somehow responsible and then they would punish the slaves. Aye.

You're right. You're always right, Pembroke. The other thing is, we do have the bag of holding, and I suppose we could fit perhaps a couple more people in the bag and teleport with them. That didn't make sense the last time we did it. Why would we do it again again do you have invisibility i do yes perhaps you could use invisibility teleport into the pens wait until there were two or three people that were not being seen by others at the moment and teleport them out so maybe they could just walk into the pen sure sure but you know but then the door opens or

you know he's not gonna do a climb check all i'm thinking is maybe there's an option to take people out without other people knowing that they left maybe thinking oh while we were sleeping they took them away and they're torturing and killing them or whatever they don't think they're gone and cause sort of a riot to be like take me take me yeah but i don't know one alternative is there some kind of daily roll call or anything like there is there any way for the giants to keep right we don't have that intel we don't know we didn't watch even though the guards are dead these guards are dead i mean is it there's other shifts i mean i don't know they need the slaves too i mean for food and so they're not going to just wantonly mass murder all of them yeah at the same time and even and

you know the slaves would know they were gone too so and we'd be we'd be playing god to extend if they are eating them systematically and deciding who lives and who dies and i don't want to go into the camp and say all right who among you is the most righteous who deserves to live the most out of you who we can only get a couple of you does not sound like a fun women and children first yes is it feasible quarter or females first uh is it feasible at all is there any world in which it's feasible to take some of these no i was just going to say utilizing the um the helm that we have can anybody cast a large person yes so utilizing the helm that we have. Can anybody cast enlarge person? Yes.

So utilizing the helm that we have to pose as a frost giant by taking some of their clothes or armor while we're here. But I mean, also it would be a dead giveaway. Like the dead guy's clothes got stolen and then they show up again. Yeah. Well, in the...

Bag of holding can hold up to 1,500 pounds and has 250 cubic feet of holding inside of it i think we could fit the bodies of these uh dead giants you could fit you could probably fit the bodies of dead giants there's 40 to 50 uh slaves in the pen right so i'm thinking about just covering up our tracks tonight throw the bodies of the giants in the bag of holding and how are we going to lift the bodies of the giants into the bag of holding uh have you ever seen a boa constrictor eat a rat joe tell you what i'm gonna do i'm gonna start by its ankle from this idea you guys figured out and if you say cool i'm good i mean if all of us are shoving the body into the bag i i mean 250 cubic feet yes that's what type 4 bag of holdings description says we've also been shoving stuff in there for

at least four or five levels yeah i would say it it's borderline ridiculous but i'll humor you for another minute i don't know i don't know that we could. All right. They're pretty big. I'm trying to think what 250 cubic feet. I'm just thinking the size of these creatures. Yeah. I mean, 14 feet tall. There's definitely enough. 250 cubic feet is plenty of room for these things. Is it?

But it's also still ridiculous. I mean, I think it's like lifting a car. To even lift it on its side would be an incredible feat of strength in this party. Let's just burn them. It's a good thing. Hulk Hogan's just around the corner, brother. Eat your vitamins, say your prayers, be a good American. Bag your frost giants.

Brother. So let's just burn them and hope they Frost giants are among the larger giants, with males standing 15 feet tall and weighing roughly 2,800 pounds. Yeah, see, they're too big. Oh, that's more than...

That solves it, Troy. Leave that discussion in. Yeah, they can't fit in there. Burn them. Why? I don't really know why. Just leave the thighs. So the bullet holes are more concealed and it looks like they were killed in the flame strike? Reduce person on them.

Boom. In the bag. Permanent? Oh. Teleport, get out of there, pop them out. Reduce person leave. That doesn't matter. We'll lose this plan.

No one likes it. Well, I don't think we have reduce person prepared. All right. If we did, reduce person teleport is a great idea. That would work. Leave the bodies. Hide the bodies. Do something to the bodies. What are you going to do?

That night patrol might be coming around. We've got to go. We've got to go. We've got to get out of here. We've got to get back to our copse of trees and camp out. Is it ludicrous that there's 30 feet of them laying on this ground? Is it ludicrous to try to cover them with snow just for the night patrol? It's not ludicrous. Just so the night patrol doesn't see. to be like chris just so the night patrol

doesn't see even that is a ton of work it is you know just just shoveling a driveway it takes like an hour yeah and this is these are giant there's like bearing an elephant i think that we need to get out of here cover at least our tracks to the camp they're gonna know that somebody's here the gig is teleport out of here yeah so the jig is up but like as long as they don't know where we are we're in a part of camp that they're not going to be searching no they wouldn't we're outside there's nothing to leave them camp really yeah there's nothing to lead them physically directly to us at all except for the flame strike no no i mean it would lead them here but not to our camp right no yeah let's get out let's yeah are you going to go to the cops of trees are you

going to go to one of the buildings you've cleared are you going to go to the Cops of Trees? Are you going to go to one of the buildings you've cleared? Are you going to go back down the mountain? Hmm. I haven't been down there in a few days. If we go back down the mountain, that's like a full reset. Do we need to do that? I don't think we do. But I would also like to be here because I would like to observe everything that happens when they find these bodies.

Who does what? You know what I mean? What do they do with the bodies Where do they take them Do you have enough Life bubble To keep people overnight Because last night

You were in The brewery Well the life bubble Still needs to be on In the brewery too For altitude Sure I have used

According to my sheet here I've used up both my Prepared life bubbles I don't know if that's Actually accurate though Let's go to the bottom of the mountain The brewery was warm, we determined, because it was a place

where you heat things. Oh, I understand what you're saying. So the endure elements. But life bubbling contains endure elements, but I have endure elements so that I have that prepared. Yeah, and Lork has it all the time as a feat. So you pretty much would all wake up with altitude sickness,

but you would be okay with the cold damage we oh man this is tough so maybe we know go down the mountain I think we're good or maybe we teleport to the forge we could do some work well but the thing is so we'd have to leave someone behind because I can only take

lorical volunteer to do that to like just keep scouting the area he can always stealth away if something goes down yeah i craft i would volunteer but i have one of the craft skills so they're craft feats yeah actually i kind of like that idea yeah i could do that do you have enough stuff that you want to work on there well we have the helm i don't know if yeah we have the helm which we would probably be a good idea to do i I mean, the helm, if you wear it, it gives you the ability to negate a crit. Reroll one crit a day.

Yeah, reroll a... Detect magic on the giants. Baron's going to do this. Anything magical on them? That's a good question, because if they happen to have a plus one greataxe... Yeah, it'd be good to resize. Yeah, we could resize that.

That's what I'm just thinking. Yeah. No, we could resize that. That's what I'm just thinking. Yeah. No, nothing magical. Okay. No headband of inspired wisdom. No, no. Is there a belt of physical perfection on one of them? No.

Oddly enough, no. Wait, do they both have bracers of strength or only one of them has bracers of strength? Actually, none of them have bracers of strength, or only one of them has bracers of strength? Actually, none of them have bracers of strength. He almost said only one of them. But they did have a very strange weapon on their back. Roll a knowledge local. Absolutely. 17.

It's a weapon known as a man catcher. Ooh. Oh, there she comes. Look out, boy. She'll eat you up. It can do a lot of damage if you need to, but it's mainly used to just grab someone and move them around. That's what they use

in the pens. Do that to the slaves. Runaway slave. Just grab it and pull it back. I think we should take that and resize it based on the intel we got about that little guy that ran away. In case we need to catch him later. I just don't understand why your gut is that this guy's an enemy.

I don't know what his deal is. I thought from the way you described it that he's a good guy. Could be either way. I think he could be an ally. He certainly could. What's the most confusing thing we can do with these bodies? You know, I'm not creative, Matthew. You're the creative one.

Come up with something creative. Make it look like they were kissing. And they got killed while they were kissing. And shot each other. It was a murder-suicide. Yeah. Yeah. They were happened upon.

These lovers were happened upon by some fiend. Can we get a bench press so we can make it look like the end of American Beauty as much as possible? One of the giants walked in on the other one. We could teleport it in the pen, grab two slaves, teleport them out, kill both of them, and leave them by the bodies. And they'll think it was just a runaway slave fight. And then we're in the clear. That's right. The main important thing is to cover our tracks

anything any other moral concern i think we just get out of here i mean look really let's get back and i can't take like i could the only there are i could take three people with me if i teleport there are four of us including Cat Benatar. Although I, depending on what we say, we could put her in the bag if she's cool with that. Oh, yeah, if we're going all the way down the mountain. Yeah. Or to the forge or whatever. The forge. Oh, the forge. Right, right, right.

To be clear, we'd just be going to the forge to do the helmet, right? Anything else giant sized? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, that's what i was wondering like have you stocked up enough giant stuff that's worth making that trip we don't really have much giant size stuff i mean if we're gonna be using the spell at all it doesn't matter how far we go i mean it's right you know so the base of the mountain thing base of the mountain is the same

as the forge like as far as we're concerned right If you had one thing that was worth doing, it's just... It's just... Instead of saving slaves, we should definitely go make some cool stuff. Therese is a woman of the people. Yeah, no, I mean, I get it. I get it. I just think that it's... I go with Pembroke.

Yeah, it's tricky. I think if the greater goal for the greater good, it might be better to wait until we have a more perfect solution. Now, is there any more danger in teleporting further or no? No. Okay. No, anywhere within 900 miles, it's the same. As long as I'm familiar with the location, the target location.

I will walk 900 miles. So if you want, you can teleport to the forge. I would be, Lork would be fine with going solo with Kat and stealthing all the way out of camp at night

and back down the mountain. You know what I mean? So like you don't have to, you can just go to the forge and Lork and Kat can go solo. Just, you know, be super careful. Dodge the patrol.

There's nobody in the watchtowers. He knows the way back easily back easily okay the brewer is dead and go right by the brewery right by that first watch tower and out there's nothing else there except a patrol grab a road soda grab a roadie a poison roadie grab a poison roadie for the trip down the mountain um and then you guys just teleport back you know and in the morning are we gonna teleport back to the base of the mountain base of the mountain okay yeah that is the one thing is if we teleported somewhere closer by in the

morning we could walk up back to the camp rather than me spending another teleport spore spell next day right so if they teleport to the forge, he has to camp there and then use the teleport the next day. You have two teleports, right? I do have two teleports. We could go to the forge, do our business at the forge,

and then teleport back to the base of the mountain. You'd probably be lorked back. That's true. I don't know how long it takes, but yeah. I mean, I also might need several days of rest being down 80-something hit points. And I'm super banged up, too. That's a good point, too. I think we need a couple days you know but here's the other thing isn't

the spike tent at the top right now yeah let me take you took up with you i'm sure you pull it out of the ground and it's done i'm not gonna make you go no i know i left the tent i understand that but what i'm saying is it might be worth it. You're also the broom, don't we? It might be worth it for Lork to just stay up here. I don't know. Because I want to observe all this stuff. I was going back to your original idea to observe what happens in reaction to this. It might be wise. And why don't we leave the broom with you?

So if you have to get out, you can just go over the side of the mountain. Yeah. I just don't think it's going to be too much of a concern i mean obviously the cold but like i think he can handle it he has endurance he has a cold weather outfit i mean and if he has to get down he can get down he can sneak down you know what i mean i and i can give you endure elements i can give you the full 24 hours of endure elements he's got it just to last you until we get back. I can't help you with the life bubble, but... Yeah.

So you just assume you have altitude sickness at some point. Yeah, but it's not going to matter if all I'm doing is observing. I mean, I guess it will a little bit. It affects your perception, maybe, and sense motive, but like... You'll just be fatigued. Right. All right, so the plan is for Lork to stay up in that copse of trees overnight, braving the cold, Enduring enduring elements from Feyraza.

Braving the altitude. Braving the altitude. You'll be tired, but you're going to solo mission with Kat. Now, Kat, is she going to be able to endure the elements? Is she going to be able to withstand the altitude? Probably not. So she'll be fatigued and taking damage every fail. I can split the endure? Probably not. So she'll be fatigued and taking damage every fail. I can split the endure elements

between them. I have a plus 15 to the fortitude save to avoid the cold. It doesn't hurt me at all to give you the spell. Okay. So then give it all to Kat. I mean, most of it to Kat. You can split it up any way you like or it has to be even.

I mean, in hour increments. When do you plan on meeting back up, time it's night now tomorrow morning where no i mean just yeah yeah back at the upper back at the upper where we where we camped with the tent yeah in the copse of trees so you guys craft overnight uh and then teleport back in the morning you're're down one teleport spell, but the idea is stay up there all day. The day you come back. Still stay all day. Up there. Okay.

So that everybody's resting and you can regain teleport. You know what I mean? So rest at the camp. Right. Okay. Yeah. Well, no. What I'm saying is you can rest at the cathedral, teleport, and that whole day we're not going

to do any action unless We see some amazing opportunity but With how many hit points we're all down Yeah we need to just do 24 Hours of rest for everybody you and cat Might be in rough shape that's a long time To stay up there I can Well he can wander you a little bit well he's

Enduring the elements for 24 hours Um I have plus 15 to the save. So you're saying it goes up by two every hour? It goes up by one every hour. Up by one every hour. And it's non-lethal damage, and I heal that by resting. You know what I mean?

If it's night now, I can just give you each 12 hours of endure elements, and we'll be back in the morning, and I can cast life level. Yeah. I think it's going to be fine. back in the morning and i can cast life level yeah it's i think it's going to be fine i think that we definitely have this you know when you're resting there and you're and you're you know you're in a cold weather outfit and you're a ranger you can do it you can you can put up with it because just resting heals non-lethal damage not like bed rest like just not doing anything heals non-lethal damage over time. All right. All right, let's do it.

Let's do it. Let's, so Pembroke. Presumably we haven't actually been having this conversation for the amount of time it's taken us to actually have this conversation. So Pembroke's like gathers everybody together and it's just like, everyone, please. It's like, hold hands tightly. I haven't done this in several years. I actually holding matthew he is he is and i was trying to prepare my spells he looks at lauric and he like nods and he says godspeed my friend see you at dawn in your elements yeah and oh and uh negate aroma. Oh, perfect.

Oh, awesome. Brilliant. And poof. And just extend it on cat, all right? So we'll do six hours lorik, 12 hours of cat. Six hours lorik, 18 hours of cat. And we teleport away. And I am going to do my percentile roll to see if there is a mishap or not.

Oh, I forgot about that. So this is a very familiar location that we're coming on to. 42. We're totally fine. Yeah. On target. Okay. Yeah.

I mean, you can't have a mishap when you're very familiar. You can get... If you rolled 100... You'd be off target. It could be like a similar area. Right. So it could be like another cathedral. Yeah.

It could be that old stone one where the fire things were. Oh, in the Menderhall's Valley. Or the one in that town. What was it? Chinaman's Fortune. With that guy. See the preacher? Hey, welcome back.

I knew you guys would come back. The youth faster. Where he'd end up next to Funfar's body. And it's instantaneous, right? Yes. You just... And you are back in the cathedral of Minderhall. Insane. I just shut off the

wind. It's like and you're inside the cathedral. It is eerily quiet inside. If you look around, it looks like it's been stripped of everything.

There's no candelabras. There's no gothic paintings hanging there anymore. Everything has been taken away. If you walk up the aisle and look in the pews, there's no books, no holy texts, no weapons strewn about. No holy texts. No weapons strewn about. None of the bodies from that epic battle that you all took part in. The forge is the only sound in the room. That fire licking up into the air,

black smoke coming out of the chimneys towards the top of the ceiling, where the ceiling gets higher, closer to the altar section of the sanctuary. The doors to the cathedral leading out to Minderhall's Valley are closed. You look up to the choir loft. The curtain is drawn. Or you thought Ruddig Headstomper, I think, was his name.

Can't even remember at this point. The door leading off to the grog hall is closed. The door leading back outside where Nestor first took a peek and saw Urthasar's speech is closed. And there was no one there. What do you do? Freak out a little? So Pembroke goes, I think we teleported pretty close to the forge so pembroke takes a look around i'm gonna do a perception check just to make sure that there's

20 um 38 31 yeah so i'm gonna want myself all happening Pembroke you just feel very uneasy But you don't hear anything specifically Baron and Faraza It's just Too quiet It's been A couple weeks now You obviously made

Your statement Before you left Dropping the head into the pits. But what happened here since you left? Where's Ferret? Yeah. Well, Pembroke is still shivering from being encased in ice mere minutes ago. So he, with his cane, kind of makes his way over to the forge and just warms himself a little

bit. I guess he stands there trying to figure out what to do. Well, we can use, uh, can resize the one piece of equipment that we have. Could at least do that now. Let us get it done in case. Pembroke, would you

indulge me before you strike upon the forge? And Baron cleans the snow, which is quickly melting out of his beard and kind of shines up the rings, indicating his dedication to Torek. And he reaches into his duster and pulls out hammer and Tongs, The Forging of Metal and Other Good Works. Classic. The Holy Book of Torag. It's a hell of a read if you need to go to bed. $8.99 on Amazon. It puts you to sleep, is that what you're telling me?

Yeah. And he looks... Are both of you going to be assisting in the forging or the resizing? Or just, who's the primary? I can't remember how it works. I can't remember how it works. I can't remember how it works either. You just need to strike it with aggramosh. Which lork has?

No, I'm kidding. Where is aggramosh? It's in the bag. Okay. Oh, no, wait. Is it? Did we leave it with Faron? Well, Will had it.

Sir Will had it. So I'm sure he gave it to us. He didn't take it. That's fine. All right, so pull it out of the bag. So can anyone do it? We don't need a craft skill? No, not for this.

Oh, okay. So I'll pull out... The resizing is magical on the forge. So Baron will reach into the bag and pull out Aggramosh, and we'll say, Aim high, plan well, and strike while the iron is hot, for unprepared metal shatters from a hammer's blow. In Torag's name we pray. And he just...

Blow high, blow low. Well, we will go. I actually know that one. The helm resizes to medium size. Still looks pretty impressive. still looks pretty impressive it's medium size but it has this weight to it and this girth that it would sit atop your head and make you feel like a regular sized human if you were to wear it even though it's medium sized it would still fit grant's actual skull why didn't they grant it's not that much it's not that big okay we can't even fit a gcp hat on it's true uh it's not that much it's not that big okay we can't even fit a GCP hat on it's true

it's like on the one notch and it never fits right because it's always falling off on the back well I take it Pembroke like lifts it up and he with Barron's permission he places it on his head

like a royal crayon look at that it came He places it on his head like a royal crayon. Look at that. It came back. Beautiful royal crayon. Wow. You place it on your own head or on Baron's? On Baron's head. It suits you somehow.

There's something so odd about donning the helm of a giant. But now that it's been resized in Torag's name, it feels right somehow. It feels like this is the beginning of the end for Skirgard. You hear a voice behind you. It looks good on you, Barry. Attack.

Fireball! Pembroke, what's around? And it's Farron She's standing there, coming out of the statue The secret door in the statue And she's wearing all white robes She looks rather beautiful My dear, it is good to see you again.

What has transpired here since we've left? You wouldn't believe the things that have happened here. The gods have shined upon us, whether it be Minderhall, Torag, Iomide, Shailen, Desna, Minderhall Torag Iomedae Shailen Desna all

that you brought with you are alive in this cathedral would you walk with me and she just walks towards the front of the cathedral

up that long aisle where you fought the two-headed troll and where Rasmus has sacrificed and where Rasmus has sacrificed himself. Where Rasmus has died on the battlefield.

You see where the two-headed troll was knighting those ogres for doing well in the pits. I feel like I want to open roll 20. Yeah. You're on roll 20 then. And she just walks towards the front of the cathedral. Do you guys follow? Sense motive.

Yeah, that's a good? Sense motive. Yeah. That's a good idea. 15. 21. 21 for me too. You have no reason to think she would deceive you.

Pembroke kind of looks at the others like I guess and starts with stagelos. Winces as he limps

down the aisle. He's still very badly hurt. Do we have to jog to keep up with her? She does move pretty fast with her long legs. Faraz is going to use the Pearl of Power and cast Cure Light Wounds on you, Pembroke. Oh, thank you. And I rolled a one.

And you rolled a one. So that's ten points of healing. That's still pretty good. So you're casting this on him as you're walking up the aisle. Yeah. Where are you guys standing with each other? Close to Pembroke. Close to Pembroke.

What's the order? Like Baron on the left, Pembroke in the middle, Della on the right. Sure. My name is Farazza. And how dare you? In this place. Oh, yeah. How dare you?

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You seem real sorry whenever i come to the cathedral i always think of della same to the crime and as we're walking baron takes the helm off and places it back in the bag back in the bag for now is not the time for it to be used she uh walks you up to the doors and pushes open the doors of the cathedral. Doors open out on Minderhall's Valley. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's awesome.

Huge stone doors. It's called Giant Door. It's called Giant Door. And she walks down the steps, but you can see the valley is empty. There's just, like, tents that are, you know, trampled over, abandoned. You know, you can see what used to be campfires all gone out. There's, you know, carcasses of both giants and animals laying around of probably fights that happened as people were- Vultures picking at them. Yeah, vultures picking.

Sure. I was picturing the vultures. Like a vulture coming down and pulling on an eyeball of a giant in the distance, trying to yank it out of its socket. I mean- A feast for the crows. Complete. Yeah. Complete emptiness.

There are so few really good book four references. That's true. Good job. You see, the gods have watched over this place. Whether it was your display in the fighting pits that let them know their leader had perished, or something more divine. They kept away. Sure, some stormed towards the cathedral. They wanted to see with their own eyes. But I was not afraid. I let them know that the power of Minderhall was at work, and if they struck me down, they would face the same fate as Urathash.

Urathash was a man filled with hate. Great ego. great ego. But one thing he could do was stir up fervor among his followers. They believed in Minderhall. They believed in everything he represented and would have died

for Minderhall. So knowing that Urathash perished, they knew it was their time to leave as well. This cathedral now belongs to all of us. And perhaps one day we can repopulate this valley with worshippers strong in their faith we could build an entire civilization here cut straight through the mountain

to lead to the great cities of the world and make this place better than what it was but I'll need help this place better than what it was. But I'll need help. We are a long way from that. If one day when your travels end

or if during your travels you find those fervent among you, those who believe in the power of the divine, send them to me, or you yourselves return to me, and we will build this cathedral as a beacon of hope in a dying world. Did Baron ever detect alignment on Farron?

He might have. I mean, we're going back. Yeah. Can he just refresh his memory a little bit by sliding through detect alignment during her speech? Yeah. Neutral-ish. Okay. Well.

It would certainly do this old man's heart good to see your dream come to fruition in my lifetime, although I fear I may not make it. It is now, though it is good to see the tide of evil stemmed here, it is still a haunted place. And I am ill at ease. Are you alone here now, tending the forge? Yes. Yes, I am protected by the gods. Have you heard any whispers of the murderer Coyne since we have departed?

I have not. I have stared into the flames many times since you have left. I do not believe I have the powers yet that Atena had to see what she saw. Often I can only stand it for mere minutes before my eyes begin to burn. I do not know how she was able to look for as long as she did, and I fear if I look too long I will lose my mind in the process. I will lose my mind in the process. But sometimes,

sometimes I believe I am starting to see things. Perhaps with more practice, I will see more, though I do not know if I want to. The gods favor you. Do you think we will be safe if we stay here overnight? We are still badly injured. Yes, I believe you will be safe.

The gods will protect us all. Farron, it's my belief in all my time traveling and seeing how giants live the slag giants and the temple of Minderhall itself and it's connection of creation even though Minderhall may be the god of destruction

that it is the one binding tie that brings the little folk and the big folk of this world together and i pray that you do not lose your mind peering into those flames because i see in you a leader a leader of giants and if return again, I hope that you can lead them down a path of cooperation with the small folk of Galarian, because I believe that could lead us into a new shining age. It is not an age I believe I will see, but if you are half as long lived as your predecessor at the Forge, I believe you could usher in that era. Well, I thank you for your vote of competence, Baron.

I hope what you say is true. Please, make yourselves at home. As you know, our furnishings are sparse, but use the forge at your will, and my cathedral is your cathedral. The fire is welcome. We have not been able to enjoy any warmth at all

for quite some time. Is she a divine spellcaster, do we know? No, at least not yet. I think she's like you know she's taking levels in cleric basically um so she brings you in and you know gives you uh some food um if you're interested in eating it and uh you know gives you a pillow and a sheet you can use the pews the pews are wide enough to make their stone, but you can make yourselves comfortable.

It's still better than anything you've been dealing with lately. And while this is all happening and you guys are getting settled, she comes over to Freyraza, and when she catches you alone, and she's like, alone, and she's like, uh, Feyraza, I had said that I have been looking in the flames and not quite making out what I've been seeing, but I am certain that I saw you in the flames you looked very

distraught as if everything you ever believed in was simply taken from you in a moment does this was simply taken from you in a moment. Does this... Does this mean anything to you? In fact, it does.

Long ago, I pledged my life in service of the Chosen One of an old and ancient prophecy. One who would. Save. This world. From a great evil and restore balance.

To it. I discovered. That not only had this. Designated chosen one been killed. But one of our companions had been the one to murder him my entire life has been spent training to support and serve

the Scion and now he is gone he has been gone and I fear greatly for the world. You know, when I came here to Minderhall's Cathedral, I was pledging my services to Atena to learn everything I could from her. Maybe in the vainglorious hope of replacing her someday.

And though I knew in my heart she was mad, I could not help but be attracted to her power. I wanted so badly to know about my ancestry, my slag-giant heritage. Urthash looked favorably upon me as well, and now I know it was his hope to have me replace her as well, because they stood at odds. I did not look up to him.

I feared him. But I felt his power as well. In a way, Atena and perhaps even Urathash were my chosen ones, my reason for living. They led me to all of you. They led me to my new calling, and now they are gone. I would say to you, this chosen one that you sought,

who has passed, perhaps there is another, and your story has yet to be told. Are you suggesting that one of us might serve as a replacement chosen one? This chosen one, the last descendant of an ancient and powerful bloodline, might be born again in one of our motley companions? Perhaps. Motley companions Perhaps

But more importantly Your search for the chosen one Brought you here And then you discovered That they were murdered But you are here now For a reason Perhaps you yourself Are the true chosen one but you are here now for a reason.

Perhaps you yourself are the true Chosen One. Oh. And Faraz is just like, I appreciate your words, Faraz, but that is ridiculous. I am but a servant. I do not wield the power the Chosen One would need to intercede for this world.

Your comments are flattering, but I am but a humble and devout servant of Osiris. And she puts her gigantic hand on your shoulder and just smiles at you warmly. She's like, we are all servants. But sometimes servants must take on a great role in the fate of the world. Sleep well. Let me know if you need more pillows. sleep well let me know if you need more pillows

you had such an awkward shoulder tap it was just like he did actually tap the air with a big meaty paw it's just like 2d6 non-neutral

okay well let's get a really pleasant night's sleep. Yeah, literally in front of a giant fire. In front of a giant fire and take off super early. Yeah, and I can imagine Baron especially, like, just looking through the flames and you just see in the distance, like, flash of earth ash bringing that hammer boom down on Della's chest

the sound of the cracking of her ribs as her chest just caved in on her heart and you see the actual location where it happened picture of Tenna and the slag shards and earth like everything that went down the dragon

Umlo too and Um the dragon. Umlo, too. And Umlo. Sweet, sweet Umlo. Don't laugh. Baron's just rocking back and forth as he's kind of like ready to go to bed. And he's thinking again about the words that went through his head when he was confronted with the idea that minder hall was the god of destruction in the way that that uh torag was the god of creation and he remembers again and again and again torag himself struck at the ancient forge again and again to shape Galarian into the world it is today.

And that although our hammers might not be as mighty or as powerful or imbued with the power of a god, we too can shape our path through this world. And he falls asleep. Pembroke puts his hand in like a bowl of warm water. Baron wakes up soaked I did this when I was a school boy Whipped cream on his hand Pulls out a feather token Touches his nose

All right, so you guys spend the night there Without a feather token. Touches his nose. Puts whipped cream in his hand. All right, so you guys spend the night there, and it is as restful as it can be. I mean, it's such a huge place. How this is ever going to be outfitted to be a sanctuary for everyone. Because you know in Farron's mind, she thinks this is a place where giants and humans alike can come here to worship. I love it.

I think it's awesome. Yeah. But right now, it's an empty valley in the middle of nowhere. You know what it took you guys to get there. How are they going to get the rest of the world to come there? It's a tall order. Yeah. But you've got to have goals.

That's what she believes in. And I mean... Hashtag life goals. That's... It's not impossible. It's certainly like... It should give you a re it should reignite your fire like we're doing something big here yeah you know i didn't it's a giant goal and

more sense than one for sure yeah and i don't really think of it that way in terms of lork lork doesn't really think of it that way you know that it that the result of this would be a communion of giants and small folk making a better world, you know, where you could have giants and humans, you know, in cooperation. Imagine. Protestants and Catholics. Cats and dogs living together. But imagine a world where True Now didn't have to have.

Like Lark is on a path to kill all the giants. You know what I mean? And that's, even though, I mean, he didn't have any kind of relationship with her. And so, I don't know, it's just interesting that he wasn't there and that these guys kind of get that perspective on what could be. And me as a player, I find that is a fascinating end to this story where it's not just you wipe out all the giants, but where it's you find the ones that are willing to lead in a cooperative manner and

you bring everybody together. I like it. So as we wake up, Baron says, we must bear these strange fruits again, but this time we will do so upon the blood of our enemies. so upon the blood of our enemies. And he finds a patch of dirt in the cathedral where Uratosh fell and plants the sapling rod. Oh. Douche.

Waits an hour, kind of chats around with Pembroke and Faraz, and we're going to see how much fruit this bad boy grows. It's a stone floor, but I'll allow it. Yeah, sure. It's flavorful. Four fruits. Four fruits. All right. a stone floor but i'll allow it yeah sure it's flavorful uh four fruits four fruits all right so everyone gets one and everyone gets to choose if it is a potion of cure moderate basically or restoration it's good cure mods for me and you have to use it right up or 24 hours but nobody

needs restoration right now so you got four potions of cure modd8? 3d8? It's 2d8. I'm sorry, you're counting Lork in that? You're going to bring one back? Yeah, I'm going to bring one back. Who's Lork? All right, so you guys get your con plus your level back plus this 2d8. Minimum. Two ones.

2d8 plus three, right? 2d8 plus three, yep. 17 total. 5. 5 points. So Baron cast 3 of his cure lights, did that mod, and is now back up to 96 out of 110. Sounds great. Sounds really nice.

I can cast my last cure light if someone needs it. Pam might need it. But don't we have a wand? I can do wanding to get it. But I can do this this but I mean it would just let me have a little bit more utility With protection from evil and I'm going to cast cure light on Pembroke

Okay thank you So that is 15 points of healing Oh thank you That's good And then I'll use the pearl of power to Reprepare the spell and then i'll use the pearl of power to re-prepare the spell sure sure and then i'll use an infernal healing on myself also nice so i'm back up to full you probably

used that before i even planted the tree maybe yeah probably so it's all done now yep all right so meanwhile back in Skiergard, Lork, you retire up to that copse of trees. You're not cold, thanks to the Endure Elements, but you're getting a little heady. He's got six hours, so early in the morning, he'll have to start rolling, but it's plus 15. Yeah, so you should be all right for a little while.

More importantly, you're watching probably about 40 minutes, 30, 40 minutes after you get settled, a patrol of two of those creatures that Pembroke and Feyraza faced that came out of the silo, similar to those creatures. And two wolves roll up, night patrol, on the slave pen. You see them looking around. Why are the giants not here? They look in the pen. Seems like everyone's in there.

So then they send the wolves out. Within, you know, minutes, the wolves find the bodies of the two giants. The other creatures come over. It's all this. Blow a signal horn. Another patrol comes up, and it's just like they're trying to figure out what's going on.

Any frost giants yet? No frost giants yet. There's all these creatures. Can I roll a knowledge local to know what they are? Sure. Ten. Yeah. They're large creatures, but they're not giants.

And you weren't at the silo, so you don't have a good look at what these things are. Eventually, frost giants do come out, and they're posted in front of the slave pen. They start spreading out and checking out some of the buildings you see them go over to the brewery they disappear into the brewery and there's just like now there's people coming in and out of the brewery and so you know

they figured out what's going on there now they probably don't know that the beer has been peed in and poisoned a little bit um but you know that the jig is up on the brewery as well you feel pretty confident in that and this goes on more safe for a few hours you see you know you know you've seen torches in the distance they're coming and looking they're knocking on the doors of these other buildings and people are going oh everything's fine in here everything's fine in here frost giants don't know if the frost giant's doing most of that or...

No, the other creatures are. So you think, oh, these other creatures must have darkvision. So they put the frost giants back in charge of the slave pens, but they've got these other creatures who have darkvision going around and checking everything out. Is anyone going into the slave pens? Anybody questioning slaves that you can see, that Laura can see? Once the frost giants are set there, there's a little bit of a scuffle kerfuffle, but at night you don't see anything, like, of note from where you're standing.

Next day comes. Rest up a little bit. And you do see a frost giant guard come up and talk to the two guards in front of the slave pen. And it's like yelling at them. And they open the gates, and they give the frost giant like four or five slaves. And two of them are children.

And they shackle them all together by their legs and this frost giant just pulls them along deeper into the camp. For what purpose? Deeper where? We know the camp. Like back by the tents? Sure. Or like down to the big hole in the middle? They're going back. No,

not towards the big hole. It looks like they're going towards the far, like the tier. You know, where the camps actually are. So are they being... The tents. To the kitchen? Yeah, to the tents. Are they being sent to the kitchen?

Are they being sent on something? You don't know. And that's all that really goes down. Oh, God. Heartbreaking. Yeah. He's trying to steal himself. He keeps hearing Pembroke in his head you know and he and he agrees too i mean he has said it before as well um i like to think that lork during his experience at some point had giants take some black arrows right imprison them keep them captive sure and

they had to wait until the right time and even if they lost a couple guys it was like to save the rest they had to wait a little bit because you couldn't give yourself up too early you know it kind of tips our hand too right it's like that's what these people are after like if we were to save the slaves you know that's like that then they'd know what further measures would they take to protect them, to guard them. Yeah, completely guard the slaves, right? So nothing gets by there. Leave other things open, but because they don't care, they know that that's our objective.

Because right now, this is like, for them, this is like Camp Silver Lake, and we're Jason Voorhees. Like, you'd be terrified. Like, if this was happening in a place where you were in camps and like all of a sudden people start disappearing being murdered you have no idea like fire like shooting out from the sky yeah be

like what the hell is going on I think the same thing I couldn't agree more like I think that there there must be some level of paranoia that starts happening yeah in the camp and and even

though this terrible thing is going to happen to some slaves it's like there is this pervasive feeling is going to start happening throughout the camp, but they're not safe there. And there are leaders not keeping them safe there. Yeah.

Right. And that is huge. Huge. How does it feel to Lork though, to know that his daughter is in danger? It's not already dead. Well, he's doing a perception to see

if it seems like there's a half-orc female being pulled out of there in that particular crew. Royal perception. 20, I'm sorry, 35. Doesn't look like it. So fuck him. It's weird to be all humans. No, it is.

It's like he's watching for that, but he doesn't notice any evidence of it. And it's tough because you can't put your personal feelings in the way of the group and the group mission. You can't be like, sorry, guys, I need to go find my daughter. Right. I mean, Lork definitely has a hard time with it because he's got selfishness built in. It's hard to shed that. Do you know that she's here for sure no nobody has seen her i mean all evidence suggests that she was in a party that was taken

other than that he doesn't know she she could be long dead you know what i mean he is not assuming she's alive in that pen he thinks it's a long shot she even made it this far. That said, he's still holding out hope. So he's keeping an eye out. But he's not going to endanger the whole mission. Now, if he saw her in that group, it might be a different story. Sure. And that would be a totally selfish act. But he's trying as much as he can.

But it would be understandable. Right. But he's trying as much as he would be understandable right but he's trying as much as he can to keep the idea of the mission alive and that the like not act out he's also you know he's in a young body and he has this opportunity he's very excited about in a lot of ways like he was very amped up by that combat he's very excited by how well they did and how they're able to kill giants at will, almost, it seems. But yet they can't take on the whole camp. And he's old enough to know that you have to be patient.

You have to be patient. He's not young and erratic. He doesn't have the mind of a young person. So I think that he's trying to be as smart as he can about it. But he certainly feels awful for those people. But he knows also that that was going to happen anyway, whether they killed those Frost Giants or not. He thinks that they were going to start killing them off anyway.

What if you got them all out of the slave pen? Honestly, Lurk, as a ranger, doesn't believe that's feasible. Even if they took them all out that night and were never seen by a patrol, they're going to die in the mountains. They're going to die on the trail down. They have to have a completely safe method of getting these people out before they can start doing it. It would be a trail of tears. You know what I mean? We don't have food.

We don't have a way to keep these people warm. Right. You know? They're doing it themselves right now in the pen by staying close to each other and, I don't know, making fires or whatever it is. It'd be pretty easy to track. Totally. And giants are feeding them to the extent that they want them alive so that they can

eat them. Right. You know? So at least they're keeping them alive. We don't have the means to do that right now um and we would have to take a path past all the tents past all the giants past the big circle in the middle and while lord can easily evade a patrol can a hundred slaves evade one patrol. Right, right, right. And all it would take is one patrol. Yeah. You know?

It's tough. It's taking clock. The longer it takes. I mean, we said this multiple episodes ago. Yeah. They placed this slave encampment the farthest area from the way out of the camp. Yeah.

They're smart. Yeah. So as you're going through all this and doing your recon from night into day, watching how what you did affected the camp and how they're assessing it, it's done very well. They have a system for everything. No appearance of Skirkotla either, at least not early in the morning.

Not at all. The hersiur? Or the hersiur, no. No, they have the lieutenants and the sergeants take care of this stuff. And then eventually, in a blink, your buddies come back. Unless Skid Row's at 98, 99. Let's see. In which case they end up in another mountaintop giant village.

80. Oh. So close. So close. They come back. And Baron is wearing a beautiful helmet That fits his head perfectly Hello Luke

And so it's your well Baron For us are life bubbles Before you have to start Dealing with the altitude Yeah And so here you sit In the middle of the day We'll call it day seven

Unless I missed one Day seven And The watchtowers are all full So here you sit in the middle of the day. We'll call it day seven, unless I missed one. Day seven, and the watchtowers are all full, as far as you know. Some of them have skyrockets that don't work. The statue, you didn't really get a chance to face it because you couldn't figure out how to do anything to it. You killed the guards at the slave pens, but now they've just been replaced by other guards. You've wiped out the brewery,

but now they know that it's been wiped out, so they've got to be a little wary about that. There was also a silo explosion a couple nights ago that they probably were already on guard for. And you've done plenty of recon. Like, okay, that must be the mess hall. I don't know what that building is. What are those people doing?

Oh, they're doing it right now. Hammering something on the ice and then forging weapons on it. A frost giant and a fire giant. They're not too far away from you. But what is that building? And what's in that longhouse? And maybe that's a, I'm not sure. What's going on down in those mines? What the hell do you do next? building and what's in that longhouse and wait maybe that's uh i'm not sure what are the what's

going on down in those mines what the hell do you do next and do you do it during the day uh well i just want to work in a quick if we're not good well let's talk about what we're going to do during the day because if we're not going to do more camp insertion i have something i might want to do okay um which is just uh i hadn't thought about this in a while, but it is important that I'm training Kat Benatar. So I just need to work on some things with her in order to just increase her ability to just take commands to attack really dangerous things, for example, and that's kind of what I wanted to work on.

Okay. Things like attacking the ice that Pembroke was in. She doesn't understand and do it right away, and it's because it's actually a mechanic in the game. You have to take two levels of attack before they will attack strange or unusual things. Especially things like ethereal things,

undead things, that kind of stuff. And I think that there could be some crossover with just attacking an ally that's in a strange situation where your attack would actually help. All right. So I'd like to start working on that. Yeah, start working on it now. So, yeah, if we're not going to go anywhere.

I really want to push the action. Yeah. But I have no idea what to do right now. Acting during the daytime is definitely a lot more dangerous. But other than just the safety of acting under cover of darkness right now, there's no reason for us to wait other than that. Well, I'm sorry. You guys are healed up. We're not. But we're not.

I mean, Lork did not take a lot of damage. He's okay. He's only down about 15 or 16 hit points. I actually... Cap Benatar is down half. Didn't need to use... I realized I didn't need to use my Infernal Healing because of the nine hit points that I get for

resting overnight. So I could give that to you if you want. Okay. We'll give it to Kat. You also have this fruit that we bring you. And your fruit. I already took that. I rolled a two and a one. Excellent. And I gave it to Kat. So it's... I'm sorry. Did we give you the fruit on air? I'm sorry. That didn't actually to Kat. So it's... I'm sorry. Did we give you the fruit on air?

I'm sorry. That didn't actually happen. So how did you... I was assumed fruit. Oh, right. You were there the whole time in the temple. You couldn't even stop for two seconds while you were in another location, Joe. Is the infernal healing...

How many hit points? Ten. Ten. Yeah. Great. I'm an annoyed cat. Yeah, so, I mean, you know, I'm fine to push the action only because Lork thinks there's a lot of value in keeping him off base right now. Yeah.

Keeping him off balance. And he's hungry to fight more giants because he's growing in confidence that we can take him out. So what is there? We can isolate them. What can we do now during the day that won't expose our entire operation? We could unleash these mammoths. It's true. Aye, we could.

I can do it from the air with a warp wood spell. And then we just need something to get them moving. A spark, perhaps, in their hay or feeding ground. Or cat. Or cat. Just send cat in to, like, cause a ruckus. And then run out of there. And then die.

And then die. And then instantly die when they trample her. She's nimble. She's deft. Yeah, I guess not. You got the mammoths. That's way on the other side I guess not. You got the mammoths. That's way on the other side of the camp. Dire wolves.

Caves. I mean, if we could be invisible and teleport into the entrance of one of the caves. Or fly. I could fly. Or Farazza could fly. Invisible and fly. You got a few different caves. You got the caves down there near the lower camp.

Between the lower and the middle camp and then you got the caves down where the stone giants were having target practice i think personally i'd like to check out the the mining pit in the center and for raza if you could wild shape and or i could cast you have invisibility too right well i think i could cast invisibility on you also if you're nervous about it. And go check things out? Go check it out. Just get a closer look at what's going on down there. If you plan on morphing into a chicken, I could also go...

If Pemberpaw's giving me invisibility, I could go as... I could fly down there, unwild shape, wild shape into a dire wolf. Okay. And wander wolf. Okay. And wander around. Okay. I like the mine. Yeah. I like the mine, too.

Or that barn. That weird barn with, like, two giant horses in front of it. Weird barn with two horses in front of it? Yeah, it's northwest of the... Oh, yeah, I see that. It has, like... There's a watchtower right next to it there. There's a bunch of watch...

Yeah. I believe those are mammoths, not horses. They could be. What's... There's a lot going on. Let's check out the mime. The mimes of Moria. Call it a mime!

Okay, so... Yes, I am... I would love to see what's down there, at least to have you do it. And so, are you ready, Faraza? Faraza becomes a turn. And then, whoop, whoop, blip. And I forget the, I don't have the invisibility drop on my phone yet, but bloop, and you're invisible.

And Faraza will negate her aroma as well. Okay, so you're an invisible, odorless. Odorless turn, turn turn great bad name and you get teleported to the mines no you just fly over to the mines but i'm invisible and odorless so you fly over to the mines and roll a perception check maybe i should go on as a canary because that's essentially what this is that would have been more appropriate call mine short uh might kill you though might kill me 24 then we'd know to stop digging then we know not to go in there what a sacrifice what'd you say 24 24 that was a natural three by any flying pretty low to where the i Yeah, I'm invisible. Invisible, okay. So sure enough, you see the stone giants again. And they're standing near the mines.

And one of them grabs a rock and just hocks it to the other side. And now that you're down there, you see the targets that they're using when they're not living are crudely designed as like humanoid figures. One of them has a big floppy hat, like a wizard. What? One of them looks like some kind of a fighter with like a straw spear. One of them, the hat, kind of looks like a hat Kind of looks like a You know like a Texan sort of hat

What? Huh? And one just has like Long straw hair Like a female What? Guy grabs a boulder And just

Whom Crushes The female target We'll see you next week Oh no whom crushes the female target. We'll see you next week. Oh, yeah! What? They have better intel than us! Wow.

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