The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 321 - Coyne Flip

Episode Date: March 29, 2022

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Price and participation may vary. Extras, taxes, and delivery additional. Expires April 8th. You are listening to the Glass Cannon Network, the premier source for role-playing game entertainment last week on the glass cannon podcast there's still blood all over his wrist where this thing is like just fusing to his hand an artifact from past returned. There's blood all over the plate of Nalbur that he used as the chopping board. And Metra, Sir Will, and Baron are just standing by, watching.

To be wielded by an unlikely source. Do I look frightened to you? No. You look a little crazy, though. Well, maybe it's going to take a bit of madness to finish the job. You might be grateful for it. You might all thank me in the end. But as the Slayer became emboldened by his new power...

I look at that hand, and I see something that was once wielded with honor. I wonder if it may have more of an effect on you than you have on it. He found the past was not done with him yet. Emerging from the shadows of this long hallway, you hear a very familiar voice. It says, well, well, well. Look who we have here. The adventure continues.

I'm glad I'm back to see you once more. The adventure continues. Glad I'm back to see you once more. Because Forrestus sent me to take care of you now. hey what is going on nish uh hopping in real quick here before the episode starts to give you an update on Glass Cannon Live where we are touring where you can come and see us live we're going to be in Milwaukee on April 14th and I'm talking to everybody in the Milwaukee region that includes you Chicago because it kind of looks like we probably won't be hitting the city of Chicago this year. So if you can just make that drive up, what is it, 90 minutes up to Milwaukee? Come on, come up, see us on April 14th.

There are still a handful of VIGCP packages left that you can purchase on our website for no extra fee, by the way. We did that to save you guys money, but you also have to be sure to buy a GA ticket over at the venue. Then two days later, we're going to be in St. Paul on April 16th. And we are sold out of VIGCP there, fortunately, unfortunately. But there are still general admission tickets to the show left. In fact, there's a really good chance that we'll sell out St. Paul.

And if we do, we're coming back, baby. So try to just get us over that hump and buy those last few tickets. And then just last week, we announced finally that we're heading west, baby. We are going back to Portland and Seattle this May during PaizoCon week. We'll be in Portland at the Doug Fur Lounge on May 25th and the Triple Door in Seattle on May 27th. You can get tickets and the VIP packages to these two shows on their websites. We'll be at PaizoCon all weekend long too, running the Glass Cannon Network

room and performing at the con. Go to glasscannonnetwork.com slash tour for links to buy tickets to all of these shows. We'll see you there, Nace! Joe, what are you drinking over there?

I'm having a little pale ale today. This is Citra Pale Ale, Gaia Berra from Cigar City Brewing. It was in our fridge. I don't know who put it there or when. I know it's been in there for a minimum of six months. That might have been from the fantasy football draft. That's i had in august of last year yeah possibly yeah cigar city that's out of tampa i believe their flagship is high lie a very famous ipa ah you're right it says born in tampa florida yeah i'm not familiar with it so we'll see we'll see how it tastes i don't know you want

to give it a taste test here live sure okay taste test a little midday mid sesh brewski it's 9 30 in the morning by the way it's airport rules here at the glass cannon studios i have not had an ipa or any beer uh during the glass kind of podcast at this time in quite a while but i was feeling fired up today i was just excited to play you are fired up i am fired up i i like this uh i like this situation i know when i was coming in i'm just like nester faces two floor combat nester alone enough so that he can die early and we can get rid of him as a character. No, no.

We can test to see if the steel hand is worth taking. Right. Exactly. No, I'm just excited. Yeah, I'm excited for Sir Will to have the steel hand by the end of the ep. Okay. No, no, no. I just, I'm glad we're diving right back into a combat. I don't know.

Last week's fun, you know. Yeah. A role playing ep is always fun. It was a shorty. There's no other ending. I have, that was the ending there. Yeah. Otherwise you're going to, you're going to want to start like another two hour combat.

Yeah. I was like, no, that's the end. That's the end of the app. And I just felt like, um, I like the role playing. I do, but it is now getting so dire and so serious you know all of the role playing is so serious that it carries a lot of weight it's heavy and now i'm like okay now we can fight again okay good this this this is just fun yeah yeah i mean it's tough because and i had emailed you guys before last week's app i was like we should probably do some role playing up top regarding nester's hand uh and there's only a couple of these left so whatever you want to say

uh say it now because there's only going to be a few opportunities left to get that stuff out which is weird i as i'm preparing for the end here i can't help but think about how far we've come and start you start reminiscing through all the old episodes and uh it's just going to be weird when it's like that's it i know very weird i was having those thoughts driving in today and just all the time i thought through like books one and two like what if baron's dead what do i do from there how do i move on and now that it's the entire run on this adventure path coming to an end it just doesn't feel it feels unreal right it feels like i remember being stressed out before my last vacation when i

went to japan before the pandemic went out and i realized there was like a scheduling error with my book outs and i called you troy and i was like oh man i oh my god i'm so sorry i got this wrong we're not gonna be able to do this show blah blah and then i was so stressed out in that moment i remember closing my eyes and saying before i know it i'll be on the plane and in japan and then i was and i've done that a couple times and it feels like that way but with six or seven years of my life i feel like we shouldn't talk to you at the beginning of sessions like a pitcher going into the ninth. Pitching a no-hitter. Yeah.

You can sit over there. Yeah. Don't bring up Baron at all. Don't talk about the fact that he's lasted this long. It would be crazy, though. He just didn't last to the end. But that's not what concerns me anymore. You know what I mean?

Like over the course, talking about the long view that Adriel has, the prophecy, the bigger picture in mind is that that has changed so much for me. And what concerned for me and what I cared about at the beginning of this as a role player and for my character has changed entirely since then. Yeah. Yeah, but I feel like I think I understand what you're saying. And I think that I'm the total opposite right now in that I was thinking after last week's session, Skid, what you said kind of bored into me a little bit about the short term view of Nestor and the way he's thinking about this. Like he doesn't expect to live long. So he's going to act in this way and take on all these huge risks and stuff personally just to get his mission fulfilled because he doesn't think he's going to live very long. And I sort of in book three,

book two, book three, like that's how book three it was. That's how I felt about Sir Will. I had no future in mind, nothing particularly designed and thought death was around every corner and was just like, I'm just going gonna have fun while it lasts you know but now that we're coming to the end i find myself not feeling like oh well he made it this far like i can i can let that go you know now i'm kind of like i really want him to live for the first time you know i'm like i really want sir will sir will story to go on beyond volstice and brander and whatever else you know uh and that's bad like it's it's stressing me out yeah also we were talking about this on a recent cannon fodder there was like to die in like the second to last battle oh yeah tragic so

disappointing it's like oh my god and then you got to make a whole new 16th level character you can't think of it that way though right because in a television series that's what happens you know and we're not right but then i wouldn't have to show up to work the next day right exactly you start to show up and play a new character maybe that actor does a dream scene the next week or something and you get paid you get paid money to come back but they get to play the same character again it's the same character let's come back to work the next day i do think that sir will has the most to live for outside of the bounds of this castle afterwards you don't know metric could be starting that uh that's what i'm saying the cooking business yes i do not know because

part of you know your interior i do not know because part of you know your interior i have not had access to i don't have as much because joe is often like this is how i'm feeling and i have less of that in with metro what i'm hearing is joe talks too much yeah i heard that that's what i heard out i feel like you internalized that and maybe made it sharper edge than i intended i forgot the a couple weeks ago like i forgot about the wyvern cloak so i thought when i threw sir will i didn't think you'd die per se because of the falling damage rules but i thought it would take you out long enough that if someone tried to save you it would leave the party like i told you a few weeks ago my foot is on the gas pedal because i do want i don't want

everyone to survive uh this uh i don't want everyone to necessarily make it to the final battles. I think it's a lot more interesting story, but you've stymied me at every pass. It'll be interesting to see how it actually shakes out, especially today. Because technically, and I could be wrong, I think that this is the final five. The final five episodes of the Glass Candid Podcast. Well, again, we talked about this recently on cannon fodder i've been having a couple of these guys on fod to talk about their predictions for the end of uh of the series oh really yeah and uh we're asking stuff that like we we couldn't know and it would be a guess and you couldn't really know either uh

in some cases but uh i don't know i don't even know if i want to ask but i'm just like what the hell is going on like what is the finale episode like is the finale episode are you planning a full episode after the events of a fight with volstice or is that the finale episode and it's just really long in multiple parts like what are you cooking up right now? Is Brander another episode after Volstice? The people want to know, Troy. It's very complicated. No shit.

Is Brander just you reading an audio book that you've written? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. No, it's very complicated. And it's why I have chest pains all day, every day, just thinking about it. But all shall be revealed. In the next five? In the next five. In the But all shall be revealed. In the next five? In the next five.

In the next two months, Matt. In the next five weeks. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I said 325 when we were around 10 episodes left. And so in my head, I've been trying to get there. But like last week was just in an hour. So we had done, before that, we had done a couple of 90-minute eps, a couple of longer ones than there's a couple longer ones

than that um so i i don't know i'm trying to get there but i also the story takes as long as it takes i can see the end in sight okay i can see the end but if you see from our chair here if you do the math if you have a brander fight or a volstice fight and you work your way back you're talking and you're talking about five episodes. I mean, we're talking legitimately, there's like three total fights left. Three or four. It's complicated. Three or four. There might be two.

Right. That's what I'm saying. Like, we're really at the very, very, like you're saying, Matthew, you don't want to die in the second to last fight. This could be the second to last fight. That's good. The, whatchamacallit, the last episode's going to be long. I'll tell you that much.

Okay. Yeah. So it's going to be the fight. It's going to be a good one.it, the last episode's gonna be long. I'll tell you that much. Okay. Yeah. So it's gonna be the fight. It's gonna be a good one. I want the last one to really sing. Um. One of the questions on FOD, you'll have to go back and listen, is the over-under on the length of the final episode.

You know, it's funny, because I think it'll be shorter than the A&A finale. Damn it. I think. I don't believe you. You don't believe me? For a second. I don't know. Joe brought that up to me on the FODder, and I said, you don't even have to tell me the number. I'm taking

the over. I'd love it to be between two and three hours. Oh. Closer to two. The things you've envisioned what actually happens ain't always exactly been similar. Nope. But I was also thinking about like, there's a monumental difference in the amount of time

we spent here versus Androids and Aliens. i don't want to speak for everyone but i feel like outside of maybe wrapping up some things and not everything has to be wrapped up but you might want to wrap up more things than i would think i feel like we've all had more of a chance with less people and more time to kind of say what needed to be said for a lot of things do you know what i mean yeah i didn't feel like we got to say what needed to be said for a lot of things do you know what i mean yeah i didn't feel like we got to say what needed to be said with every character in androids and aliens there was so much more that that finale had to do because of the nature of two extra players less time and a

adventure that was short there were a lot of threads to wrap up here it's like well or just like emotionally you didn't know how a lot of those characters felt until those final scenes. Yeah, I don't know. I was so happy with that finale. I want this one to be better. And that's hard because there's just so many moving pieces. And I don't know who's going to be in the final episode. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know who's going to be in the episode next week, but it would be amazing. who's going to be in the episode next week uh but it would be amazing i love i love the idea of finishing at 325 i love the idea that there could only be five episodes left after today that's fucking crazy uh it seems too crazy to be real now i think maybe 326 27 but if it is real and

there are only five episodes left that is crazy that is crazy take it in treat this like your child's first recital. Piano recital. You know what I mean? To put down your phone. Enjoy the ride. What does Matthew got over there? I have a bottle cap.

I have a bottle cap, too. What is it from? I had it in my other dice tray. It's from book two. That could mean anything. We play a lot of games. That could be a Delta Green cap. We haven't played delta green ever

um i wouldn't count that as a real cap i'm gonna count i still i actually do have a bottle cap what's yours from from ian from the gug fight there was a there was like a crit that i got that gave me a bottle cap that sounds right i hate that happened around Episode 311 I believe That is That is one valid cap Matthew your cap Is decorative It says In a glass cannon on it That's true

It's not like I just grabbed a bottle cap It's not like I grabbed A bottle cap off the street And was like Oh I got a bottle cap Everybody When Joe and I

Tore down the set We were putting stuff Everywhere Skid still has my Dice tray Now he uses To hold dime bags That's true Jesusesus skin i don't know what these it's a lot of drugs oh these are those uh 12-sided six-sided dice someone sent us like

yeah lots of bags of these because i mentioned they were my favorite days oh right long time great dice oh boy well all right let's get into this here there's only so many of these left uh holy shit nester flies up last week to this ledge overlooking the rock nest the rock stable and sees a chest along with some weapon racks and shit like that. Flies over to the chest and picks the lock and uncovers some stuff. Throws it down to the rest of the party

to spellcraft. You find a shield that is useless to the party and a fun little compass that can alter winds. So you kick that down, and then you hear walking down the hallway, footsteps coming towards you, and a voice, a very familiar voice, the voice of your dead father, Alistair Coyne.

We've seen in a flashback that you murdered him. And I always loved that, uh, the way that unfolded, you know, cause we're introduced to Nestor and always like, as my, as my old dad used to say,

and you hear that over and over and over and over again, and then you see him kill him. One of my favorite things you've ever done, skin. Um, and he comes back or at least you think he does. And he's shit talking you and telling you you're a coward. And then you give it right back to him.

And then his voice changes. And he says, Volstis sent me to take care of you. And turns into a creature that I will now reveal to you on the map. Oh, no. Oh, gross. Oh, my God. will now reveal to you on the map oh no oh gross oh my god it's it's small and it looks gross already oh oh my god it's attack on titan it's attack on titan it looks like the body's exhibit yeah um and for those of you that like good shows it's attack on titan it is the body's exhibit it was not a television show. It was an actual museum.

Yeah, I'm aware of the prisoners that got skinned alive that you paid to see in that morally questionable show. There we go. It was morally questionable. He looks like, oh, God, what's his name? Who's the dude in Guardians of the Galaxy? Drax. Drax, yeah. He looks a little bit like that, but he looks exactly like an attack on Titan.

I'm going to reiterate. We don't need to find anything more precise. Missing his skin. His muscles are just twitching and pulsating and dripping blood. His cranium exposed there. I mean, it is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Towers over Nestor.

And Metra, Baron, and Sir Will are 60 feet below. So if you can fly, I think, have you cast fly? Is your fly rolled over from? If Nestor's rolled over, mine is rolled over. Okay, and you have the broom Baron I do have the broom I wasn't on it by the time we were looking at things I

think that would be right you weren't floating around the room so you're holding the broom in your hand sir will sir will is bound by the laws of gravity bound by the

laws of gravity but if you guys are rolling that stuff over I'm rolling over iron skin okay how long does iron skin last minutes per level. So it would have been 16 minutes?

Okay, I think that's... If you're flying... That's fine. You're not even in this combat, so it doesn't matter. Is that the... I don't think... Yeah, unless... Wait, did you cast Iron Skin on yourself?

I did. So it's not 16th level. It's whenever you got spellcasting abilities. That's what level casting you are, remember? You filthy cheater! You're lying to everyone. So I guess 12th level. 12 minutes. I have another IPA

Fuck This is going to be very very interesting I can't help but notice this guy is standing on a pool of blood Standing on a pool of blood And Nestor You can see that he's just like Blinking in and out Of John

John in this case being existence? Yes. It is so widely useful, that term. Yeah, I've heard John be used to refer to a salt shaker before. But it could also be all of existence. Yep. Wow. I mean, let's...

I'm only going to say this a few more times. Let's roll for initiative. A few more. That means more than two Matthew More than two fights coming Grant thinks a few means two A couple is definitely two Back to a real die In my view a couple can be a lot of numbers It's a couple, it's two

Baron, what'd you get 21 21 There you go Six on the die Oh Nevermind Metra

14 Oh Five on the die Ooh Sir Will Sir Will got a 19 That's a 17 on the die

And arguably the most important initiative Nestor 22 Oh jeez Oh A bunch of garbage around here 90 10 and arguably the most important initiative, Nestor. Uh, 22. Oh, jeez. Whoa. A bunch of garbage around here. 90, 10. Is this creature also, may I ask, giant-sized?

Uh, he is large. Large. You don't know if he has the giant septic. Actually, you don't know anything! To be clear, he looks like the Colossal Titan. Moving on. You don't even know there's a fight yeah have we heard did we hear any of that do you think when we roll for initiative

though don't we have to know it's a fight yeah i mean or does nester the only one that knows and he has a surprise round with the creature and we have to act after them like how's it work either way i think sir will and baron should do an extended role play right now because they don't know i think so so we'll talk shit on Nestor while he's gone. Sure. When are you going to kill him? You want to have the lunch? You want to have lunch now?

You want to have lunch now? I'm sure Nestor's going to order food. What are you thinking? You want to carve up this rock and put it on a spit? Some fried chicken? Fried chicken? Yeah. I claim the dark meat.

You want the dark. Okay, that's the most flavorful. You are, and you like, yeah. I'm assuming this creature goes first. He does. And it makes me sick to my stomach because I feel like the shoe is on the other foot. When you guys get to go first,

my guys end up getting just straight up murdered. And there's a high potential this could happen to Nestor. So let's have a full attack here. I'm going to leave power tag off. Okay, hold on a second. Flat-footed power tag off. Interesting. Yeah.

I'm not going to use power tag. Okay, I'm just going to roll these dice. Roll these dice. Natural 20. Oh, my gosh. these dice. Roll these dice. Natural 20. Oh my gosh. Oh, I try to help my friends. At least he left power attack off.

Okay. This is a named creature. Let me roll to confirm. It's critical focus, so that's a plus 4 on the confirm. He's going to get it for sure. 38. Yep. focus so that's a plus four on the confirm 38 yep oh named

character oh my god um okay we're going in blind here and I I don't know what to expect and I'm very scared um because sometimes these you know these crits are there they think it's going to be us that pulls them James from Victoria British Columbia hi James it's you James it's they think it's going to be us that pulls them. James from Victoria, British Columbia.

Hi, James. It's you, James. It's you and it's Skid. Here we go. Get Your Money's Worth is the title. Oh. Oh, shit. I never do these right.

What is he attacking with? Claw. All right. It is a slashing critical, so that would work. It's slashing damage, right? Um, you slice deep into your opponent and end up cutting through their money purse. Uh, deal double damage. Roll a d20 for, uh, times 10 for how much gold worth of wealth spews out onto the floor in front of you.

Uh, if this is in a monster, blah blah blah blah. Oh, actually this isn't bad at all. Um, okay, yeah. It's all about, like all about like getting more money so this one works out um the coin purse not the money purse please yeah the coin purse so yeah if it's you if it's a person basically you their coin falls out all over and you can as a four-round action steal their gold basically i don't care about that right so it's just double damage all All right, we made out all right there. Okay, it's 38 points of damage. Okay.

Now give me a Fortitude save. He basically claws your face. Okay, Fortitude save. Hmm. Fortitude. All right, that's not bad that is a 31 okay you're not permanently blinded okay that's good news you are however dazzled for two rounds okay just looking up dazzled It's minus one. It's not bad, right? Yeah. Okay. Now, give me a, before I do the next trick, a will save.

Okay. Ooh, 15. Okay. This one isn't too bad. You are shaken for 19 rounds. Oh, 15. Okay, this one isn't too bad. You are shaken for 19 rounds. Jesus Christ. Why do you even roll it? I just like to see.

I love the, this isn't too bad, and then rolls 18. Well, it's not like you're panicked and you jump off the... Unless you have less than four hit dice, then you would be panicked. Yeah, so it's frightful presence. You are shaken for 19 rounds. Again, Nestor's not afraid of anything. I understand.

But he did just see his father. Here we go. Second check. I'm here for the role play. All night long mechanics just sort of play into the story kind of magically play off each other it's a

41 to hit the second attack and it is 18 points of damage it then rends you so the rend is going to be some more damage it is 20 points of damage on the rend

okay and now I need you to make a fortitude save oh god three saves if anyone's counting right one for the aura one for the attack no skid not this one uh 24 you're sure yeah it hits you with the first claw In a critical spot Hitting you like right below your temple

In a way that like you start to feel Dizzy with the force of the blow That hand lingers Near the side of your head As the other hand comes down And hits your face as well Dealing more damage Then the creature starts to tear at your flesh

with the rend and skins you. Oh no. Your skin is completely torn from your body. What? Rips it

down. You are staggered. You take one point of constitution drain per round. That effect is permanent. Wow. It can only be removed a certain way. The same as insanity? The same nonsense?

Nestor's life is on a ticking clock. Jesus Christ! Wow. Wow. I hope... I hope you realize now LaVallee I hope you will never again

Walk into a Pathfinder argument About not needing a cleric Have I ever said? You have said You don't need one So this is Are you gonna keep track of all this? Mm-hmm

Mm-hmm Because this is life or death It's most likely death This is Nestor's last stand Are you going to keep track of all this? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Because this is life or death. It's most likely death. This is Nestor's last stand. And it is Nestor's turn. But he's staggered, too. He is staggered, too.

Yeah, so I can't do... And this same ability can happen to all of us that go up there. Mm-hmm. Yeah, this is... I can't do many shot I can't do full attacks a staggered creature can take a single move or standard can still take free swift and immediate

well man Well, man. Yeah, wasn't expecting that. All right. Sorry, Troy. A ballpark of feet that he's away from us? You said, is it 60? It's a 60 foot, the ledge is 60 feet up.

Okay. And we're about 40 or so feet, 30 feet away. And then 60 feet up. Okay. Nestor is just gonna back away and just fall off the edge of the... of the like a full withdraw

I can't full withdraw but but yeah you can fly so you but I can I mean I'm not gonna fall to the ground but I'm just talking in terms of attacks of opportunity yeah not to put salt in the wounds here but they'll take they'll take his aol

hits and you take another 17 points of damage and then you can use your reflex say you have feather fall right? I'm still flying you take another

17 points of damage and then you just go down? Yeah. All right, so you guys see, coming towards you, first you see blood drips start, like the sky is raining blood. Blood starts dripping on the ground all around you, and Nestor starts floating down, or at least you think it's Nestor.

He's wearing Nestor's pieces of his clothing. He's got Nestor's gear, but he's been flayed. And it is Baron's turn. Oh, my God, Nestor. And he looks up and sees this blood dripping down from him, and he immediately racks his brain to try to determine what's happened to him. He has healing capabilities as, you know as a part-time cleric, an inquisitor of Torag,

so he can roll a heal check to determine what's going on. I don't know what else would work here. Religion, maybe. Is there anything I can do to help determine what is afflicting Nestor and how I could help him? Yeah.

Give me a heal check. Natural 3. 13. Fuck. Fuck, Baron. Fuck. Oh, Jesus. And probably can see the metal hand

still the same. Oh, God. This is so gruesome truly horrifying um what happened he doesn't even know what happened this is I'm trying to roleplay this also happening in a blink of an eye I can't imagine I can even talk right now yeah

yeah besides just screaming in pain I can only imagine yeah it's almost uh talk to me about getting on the broom standard action to get on it or move action move action to get on the broom i'm gonna move action to get on the broom and then uh god i want to like cast i want to know more about this basically um and i'll i'm hoping that grant metagaming he doesn't know what's happening this is so confusing he sees someone coming down towards him he's going to imagine that whatever causes whatever happened is going to come down

as well and um god God I'm trying to think of anything but Nestor's still too far away for him to cast anything on right so you're not on the ground yet you're floating somewhere in between no I like flew down I'm sure he's next to us he has 60 feet of movement okay then Baron will reach out with his move action

and will cast uh cure moderate wounds. On Nestor to see if that helps at all. Okay. It'll heal damage. Okay that is. I'm a 7th. 9th level inquisitor.

So that caps out the cure moderate. At plus 8 I think. Maximum plus 10. Okay so plus 9. Maximum plus 10. Okay, so plus nine. 21 points of healing. Oh, Nestor. And this is probably inside his head.

It's not something he's saying out loud. And Nestor's like, I never wanted anything like this to happen to him. Like for all the rivalries and things he's seen Nestor do to other people, he never wanted like this type of suffering to happen to anyone else. And that is Baron's turn. Okay. It is Sir Will's turn. Sir Will, you see all the same

thing. It's horrifying. And we're saying, and Nestor, you're so, you can't explain what you've seen, right? I can't imagine. Yeah. Okay. Do you have heal?

I mean, you know there's something bad up there. Clearly he has something bad. I do. I do have heal. Let me see if I've ever seen anything like this before in the world wound. Ever seen a soldier fall, skin ripped apart to shreds? Ooh. 20.

Dirty 20. Um, okay. I mean, is it just everything we already know? Or can we know what heals it? What heals it? Heal. Limited wish. Wish. Miracle. You really need to you need to roll on

this creature to find out what ability this is. And that's still not high enough. Different role, but you can't see the creature, you know? Oh, different role. That's good. Yeah, but I mean, but the creatures, I just don't understand why this has anything to do with the creature at this point.

His skin has been ripped from his body. I'm trying to think of a way to. It would be like needing to know whether you got bit by a coral snake or the other type of snake, right? It's like knowing the anti-venom. So you need to be able to understand. I sort of understand, but I also don't. Unless it's some sort of magical effect, right?

Right, unless it's some ongoing magical effect. It's a supernatural ability that it used. Right, but it's not ongoing. It is instantaneous and over, correct? Yeah. Which means it has nothing to do with the creature at this point it's just nature he's just bleeding out and dying that's whatever

it's not like we're going to be able to do anything I'm just trying to role play this properly I want to give something to you I'm just trying to think of the best way to do it without just being like here's what's going on because if you read the heal spell or not the heal spell the heal skill none of the things that it says is what's really going to help you.

It just helps you to treat things. It would not be the diagnose. We always use heal to diagnose. I know. Always. So what would you use to diagnose an injury? I don't know. Huh?

Yeah. Um. I mean Troy a perfectly fine answer is you have no means at your disposal to heal this among well I don't know what you guys have I don't think you have it but I don't know well the creature's either going to drop down

and continue combat with us or we're going to have to chase after it to get more answers is what it sounds like from Troy right okay in that case this looks like one of the most horrifying things we've ever seen right so all right

it's meant to be a big fuck moment like anyone that went got separated and got soloed This is what's going to happen to you Okay In that case, Sir Will is going to just say Oh my day, bless us As he looks up over the ledge And just blood is dripping from it

But he has no idea what is about to be seen on the edge of this thing he's going to cast beacon of luck on the party but it also looks like from my reading of it that you have to stay within a 30 foot radius

of me so just try to stay within 30 feet of me I'll say stay with me i hope my day bless us and uh beacon of luck is going to allow you to choose any one uh save to roll twice and take the better oh gosh uh and then that's how use once it's over use once yeah but you can do it on not your next save but any save you want to over the next whatever 12 minutes. It's minutes per level.

As long as they're close to you. As long as you're within 30 feet of me. Also, if you stay close to me, you will benefit from all of my auras of fear protection and stuff like that. So keep all that in mind. Metra, can you get us up there? Or do we wait here it's your turn so I'll see what you

say and Sir Will will step next to Baron Nestor and Metra so we're all together four of us okay so are you that's your action that is a standard to cast I think you're the only one that can't fly at this point right and Lexington

and Lex Metra you're the only one that can't fly at this point, right? And Lexington. And Lexington. Metro, you're up to end the round. Well, I can get up there and take a look at it and describe it, perhaps. Maybe even roll. I doubt I'm going to have the knowledge. Yeah, I just don't want you to get separated. That would take me out of the 30 feet. I say just take us all up there.

I can't take us all up there because I can't envision the spot. You've seen it before. I've seen this before. Yeah, you went up here because this is where the saddles were on the hooks. Oh. Oh. Well, then everyone strap in. We're going for a ride.

Make sure you put Baron in melee. He's got the best. I am unwilling. I'm an unwilling participant got the best suit. I am unwilling. I am an unwilling participant in the teleportation. Put me in mid-air because I'll be flying. I can't put you in mid-air and the rest of us not.

Put us... I'm going to put us back. I'll play my character. 50 or 60 feet behind it. I'm just saying I know better than your character. That's where I'm going. But I'm going to spin us so that... Can I...

There we go. That Baron is in the front. Yeah. Oh, cool. I'm no longer a willing participant of this teleportation. Baron stays behind. I can fly and fight this thing. Can you turn us again?

Can you turn us so that I'm in front? Sure. Yeah, let's just do that. Would you like to stay behind? No, it's fine. I'll go. No, no, I need to be in front. Can you turn it in such a way that you fit like that in the corridor, though, with Will in front?

I don't know. That's the thing. But, I mean, we were all within five feet of each other, right? I mean, it's a... You can't replace yourselves, you know what I mean? You stay in the... Formation. Formation you were in. were in yeah i'm assuming which was four squares right next to each other right oh right so i guess if you flip that around on its axis axis like uh let me show you like that oh sorry you're nauseous for one round. Yeah, I think it'll be fine.

Okay. So let me just spin this again. So that puts the nest... So that's put... Me there, Baron there, and Sir Will there. Does that look okay to you? Yep. Yeah, looks pretty good.

Okay. And I see this terrifying creature. And you just see a discarded skin left behind, which you've actually seen before in the castle. If you remember, you found a cell with flayed skin left behind. Oh, my God. This thing. Oh, we talked about like something so awful that I got to look up my notes now.

Flay. The word hide, the word hot three to 92. The word hide is written in blood above the bed. In the second cell, we find a flay skin that looked like it was made to be a worm. And we found ecorch, ecorch. It's called ecorch, an undead creature that normally walks around with exposed musculature, but sometimes wears the skin of others to the sky of itself. Oh.

Ding, ding, ding, ding. Wow. It is undead. Bottlecap. Bottlecap. Okay. That's good notes. So now that Baron has remembered this, what knowledge check can I roll?

Religion. I don't have it. But can I do it out of turn? I'll do it. I'll roll over my heel roll. That's right. Yeah, I mean, that's fine to roll it out of turn? I'll do it. I'll roll over my heel roll. That's right. Yeah, I mean, that's fine to roll it out of turn. That's fine.

These are free actions. I think Sir Will would have remembered the things that Baron took notes on, even though we didn't. Can you please give Sir Will more credit? What's your religion bonus? You can both roll it. Yeah, both roll it. It's free action. Mine's plus eight. Mine's plus nine. So, yeah, let You can both roll it Yeah, both roll it It's free action Mine's plus eight

Mine's plus nine So, yeah, let's just both roll Okay It's like rolling twice and taking the better Yeah Yeah Boom 25

Beat me There you go 25! Are you using the same die as before? It's not enough It's not enough Wow Yeah, definitely don't need a cleric

Yeah, no, you need a higher. It's CR is higher than that. So now it's making me think of that Hyde was a double entendre. Did we talk about that at the time? We did. We talked about it at the time. We mentioned that.

I'm just going to rattle off some of the stuff I have on my person. I have a scroll of breaking enchantment. That doesn't seem like it's going to be applicable here. I have a scroll of removed curse. Do. That doesn't seem like it's going to be applicable here. I have a scroll of removed curse. Do you think it's a curse of some kind? He said it's a supernatural ability. I mean, here's the thing. I want to help you here.

I want to give you every chance possible. That's close. That's not enough to know things about the creature, but I will tell you what he did to Nestor because I really don't think there's anything you can do about it. But I don't know because I don't know what you guys have. You've been skinned alive, permanent staggered,

permanent one point of constitution drain per round, which will just drain him to death. Can be removed with a regenerate or heal spell. Yeah. I don't know if you have regenerate uh i don't know who has regenerate is that clerics that's a cleric thing it is yeah i know regenerate is like if you if your arm gets cut off like you need to generate to bring it back now i mean it'll give you fast healing and it will restore yeah limbs and organs it is not on the paladin spell list. I mean, I can think of a way to save his life, but

it would be poor. It may not be best for the the show. Oh, no. Wait. Whoa. Oh, no. We could leave. I could fly. I could grab Nestor, fly outside the castles, you know, the enchantment protecting the castle and

teleport to Menderhall's Cathedral. What's your con with the down one? I'm at 15 now. So he's got 6 times 15 seconds left. 90 seconds. Thank you.

A minute and a half. A minute and a half. I mean, we're at the edge of the castle. And then you had to teleport and hope that a A minute and a half. I mean, we're at the edge of the castle. It wouldn't be hard to get outside. And then you had to teleport and hope that a cleric would be there. In ten seconds. Ready to cast. And have that prepared.

It's a crapshoot, but it's the best we got. It is a level seven cleric oracle shaman witch spell. Level nine if you're a druid. So even Feyraza would not be able to do it. Unless we had a scroll of it. We don't. I know I'm saying.

Feyraza's also not here. Well, I think... Oh, even I couldn't pass it, right? Because it's not Inquisitor. It would be a UMD, right? because it's not Inquisitor as it would be an inquisitor if it was a Shit would be a UMD right And it's not on the sorcerer list

No shaman druid cleric oracle witch Shaman Shaman Whatever you want Squeeze the shaman Yeah I mean it's It's pretty nasty So it was regeneration or what was the other one?

Heal. Heal. No, we don't have heal. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Well. Hmm. Okay.

Okay, wild idea. Makes me sick because I knew this moment was coming in the adventure I didn't know who was going to fall prey to it but that save it's a fortitude save also he rolled well on the

fortitude save I know missed it by only a couple okay so a bottle cap could have saved him but we just didn't we don't get any I guess we should never get any I guess we Only a couple. Okay. So a bottle cap could have saved him. But we just didn't. We don't get any. I guess we should. We never get any.

I guess we couldn't have known. I don't think anyone, I didn't know that that was going to be that crazy. Yeah, if we didn't know it would be that horrible. I had a feeling because Troy was like literally shaking. Like his hands were shaking. And he asked Skid to make the roll. That's smart. And see, I can't make eye contact with him because he's so awful.

I just, but if you can. it's like looking into the void. I've become a monster as well. But the fact that you can, you can overcome the abyss like that. Joe is incredible. Yeah. God. Yeah.

I can't, I can't, I'm sorry. I can't think of anything. I just, I'm, I'm rage quitting in my head. I just,

I just keep rage thinking about how how cleric is overpowered and how it's the only class that you have to have in every group it's so tough though like at a four person party

what school of magic is heal? heal conjuration necromancy conjuration you're right oh is it country is all the heel conjuration yeah it's a sixth level conjuration spell for it's a seventh level minimum seven wizard can't cast nine is druid correct never mind which i'm an inquisitor sixth sixth level inquisitor spell for what oh for heal yeah not for i'm looking at regeneration right now let me look at yeah we don't have a scroll of it no i'm just trying to there's i have other options but if it's not on the wizard sorcerer's fellow it's like a spell that can lock him in time somewhere that's what i'm trying to figure out like it's uh what if you what if you mazed me and I, would I just die in there?

I think you'd just die in the maze. Yeah, because time still passes. For you. Did you read that short story, by the way? Not yet. I started to, but I hadn't. It's applicable here. Oh, gosh.

I mean, I can. Is it still your turn, Metro, right? Or no, you. It is still my turn. I will step back, in in fact i'll step back behind you sprint towards it no that would be forward okay i'm gonna step back behind nester uh and you push nester forward go get him big guy well you've got 90 seconds you You've got 90 seconds. Make the most of them. Let's make them count.

All right, that's my turn. Okay. Yeah, I'm looking for a way. I'm looking for a way exactly that, to freeze you in time. All right. It is the creature's turn. The creature will move forward. As he does so,

you see the true horror of what you are facing. And everybody except Nestor, give me a will save. I believe we're now subject to Sir Will's aura of fearlessness. You are? Yeah. So we don't have to make the save at all? You do.

I believe you get a plus four bonus on the save. On any save? On fear. Is it a fear effect, Troy? Yes. Yeah, plus four on fear effects. You said will save, Troy? Yes.

It's a supernatural or spell soup uh you know what let me make sure it doesn't say i think it's it's i think it's super that makes sense or exceptional 32 for metro okay sir will Sir Will? I'm immune to fear. Okay. Lexington? God damn it. Baron? Every fucking time with this shit. I want to hear Lexington's role before you hear Baron's. Let's see. How does Lexington... How do you stop Lexington from gnawing on this creature's body as soon as it sees it?

It's just a big thing of raw meat and bones. Because it's absolutely terrifying. I mean, why do I have to roll for this? Deliciously terrifying. Just because of the wolf. My celestial wolf of a paladin? Baron got a 39. Still curious as to what Lexington gets there.

Okay. You both pass. Lexington, however. Come on. There has to be a rule that says I can't fucking fail this. I could also take Ness to the chapel at Trunel. You can't teleport out of the castle. I would fly us outside the enchantment and then teleport from the air.

How do you fly outside the bubble? You can fly outside the bubble. You just are at risk of being shot down by the air, by the ballistas. Can you? No, we climbed up through the chains. You can't. And then there was a big... Sir Will knows about how he got there.

Yeah, Troy made that whole thing where Noximara, like, had to break through a hole. Noximara knew of holes in the barrier. Right. Where the attack was. You have to know where, You have to find those holes. Well, then we'll just dive bomb. We'll just fall. We'll parachute out. Yeah, I mean, well, here's the thing. If you want to do that,

you totally can do it. I can think of no other real option to save his life. I don't think he can be saved. Unfortunately. I mean, we could keep him alive for longer casting restoration. That's a restoration, right?

I don't think so. No, not for drain. It heals ability score damage. Whereas drain just damage, but with a more permanent effect. I mean, well, this foe's in front of us right now. So let me just make sure we can, let's get Lexington to run panicked away, which is obviously's in front of us right now, so let me just make sure we can... Let's get Lexington to run panicked away,

which is obviously what's going to happen right now. No, he won't. Basically, I just want to see if you fail. Okay, I didn't fail. Okay. Because you'd be shaken, that's it. I just wanted... Well, I got a 24, is that...

Oh, actually... Is that a fail? That's a fail. That's a fail? Yeah. And you... That was a fail? Yeah. And you... That was a really high roll. You run away and you fall down the stairs and Lexington breaks his neck.

No, he's shaken for... You know how many rounds he's shaken for? No, not interested. Seven, uh... 14 rounds he's shaken. What does that... Not putting it on my sheet. What does that do, though?

Because he can still move normally and you still attack. Is it an independent thing? I never have him bite or anything. Yeah, if you were going to do a bite, that's why I said it's... Well, that's good. That's the best person that could happen to. Yeah, I was afraid that it was panicked. I thought if you saved, it was shaken.

I didn't realize if you failed, it was just shaken. Lesser restoration, useless. Yes. Restoration cures all temporary ability damage, and it restores all points permanently drained from a single ability score. Your choice if more than one is drained. It also limits any fatigue or exhaustion suffered by a target. So it won't stop the condition.

That's what we need the heal or regeneration for. But if we have restoration... It doubles our time. It doubles our time. Right. Wait, but we don't have restoration. Do you have a scroll of restoration? I have one scroll.

I think I have one or two scrolls of restoration. You can use it on Nest. It basically gives him three minutes instead of 90 seconds. Yeah. Yeah. It's fucked up, man. It's fucked up. You don't have restoration?

So you want to kill Nestor and our scroll of restoration. That's your plan? You are basically wiping up the bloodstains with our scroll of restoration that's your plan you are you are wiping up the blood what i what i like is that metra is just prolonging this incredible suffering an extra three minutes just to put another human in his life you're trying to you're trying to make him i for one appreciate it i think it's good i think she's in love with him oh we have a rapport I mean I think if this actually does result In your actual death It's

Awful Considering the timing With the fucking hand You just I know Fucking got it And you couldn't even take a shot Not a single shot then

Well he staggered He still gets a standard action But it's still the creature's turn He moved 30 feet, and the ability to measure has disappeared from my roll 20. Wow. So we'll see you next week. He will move forward. He is 50 feet from Baron.

You want to hit Baron, right? Yeah. He will move forward. So he came forward a total of 60 feet. You all made your save on the Frightful Presence, except Lexington and Nestor. However, let's see how far away he is now. 15 feet from Sir Will.

It's a large creature that is not close enough for it to attack. And it will move twice anyway, so. It double moved and enacted its free ability to try and scare you by its horrible, horrible presence. Huge round here. You see it's dipping in and out. It's Nestor's turn. Nestor, I think you do have the ability to talk.

Obviously, your lips are completely bare, but we want to hear this Academy Award-winning speech eventually. And also, you do get an attack. You get one attack, and any standard Swifts you can do or whatever. I mean, yeah, Swift or free or immediate, you get. Okay. It is my turn? It is your turn.

All right. So Nestor is in incredible? It is your turn. Alright, so Nestor is in incredible unimaginable pain is with this force of will and rage is going to pull out one of these giant

arrows from his magic quiver with the hands dripping blood down the bow onto the ground. Swoom releases it. I want to see that art. Yes. Play Nester steel hand,

giant bow, Natty 18. There we go. That is a hit. I'm sure. All right. Give me the 50% miss chance. Oh,

this guy. Oh my God. Right. Oh, nope. Right. Nope. 16. The hour flies past.

Right through. It is Baron's turn. Baron. Unfortunately, you take another point of Con Drain. Baron makes eyes with Sir Will. Sir Willamette. And knows that Sir Will wants to take the vanguard for a moment, and he is going to delay to see what Sir Will does. Yes.

Sheriff, wait! Just a moment. I'll take your side. He see what Sir Will does. Yes. Sheriff, wait! Just a moment. I thought you were like, he looks at Sir Will and goes, Thumbs up. Let's get the fuck out of here. Problem solved. It is Sir Will's turn. But it's only us now, Sheriff!

And Lexington is backing away. And he's just like, stay in the fight, Lexington. Stay with me. And he is going to, oh, this aura radiates around him. Nestor and, not Nestor, unfortunately. This only works on allies with skin, it says. It says it right there in the text. What a weird keyword to pop up all of a sudden.

Well, I never thought I'd be in that situation. Giant Hunter's Hand? I mean, it is the goddess of skin, I believe. Yes. He is going to enact something he has not enacted before. His aura of justice. something he has not enacted before. His aura of justice.

He is going to expend two uses of smite evil to grant Baron smite evil ability. I don't even know how that works. So just try going to

adjustments and adding paladin smite evil. Okay, under spell adjustments, probably. See if it'll work. Might. Should work. Let me look under other. It's going to be conferred ability adjustments. Yeah, maybe conferred ability adjustments.

Oh, yeah. No? Nope. Other adjustments. Smite. What's the spell called again? Aura of Justice. Maybe that's what it is. Maybe it called again? Aura of Justice. Maybe that's what it is.

Maybe it's Paladin Aura of Justice. Anyway, look that up. So we'll take the rest of his turn here. Well, we're going to have to put our money where our mouth is here as the Vanguard. He is then actually going to Smite Evil for himself, which uses another use of smite evil. He's just going to look across at this undead creature. Your time has come, foul beast! Meet your end!

For Highbury! And he leans down into the charge, and he will charge for Highbury. Okay, 15 feet away, you charge and to like stop right next to it basically. Yeah, I wish I could get around it but the hallway is too tight. It looks like right there's no way around it without rolling to go through his square.

So, ba-bam! He will attempt to slam into the creature. My heart's pounding. I'm looking over all my numbers here. And he still has that dumb thing. Okay, here we go. Here's the roll

to hit. That is a 34 to hit. Now give me the 50% miss chance. This is a big one. Pretty big. 39. That's it. That was it.

That was it. One 50% mischance for it all. That was it. Grant, I'm seeing under adjustments, like, every aura except justice. Yeah, I'm looking at it now and it's the smite evil based off of your paladin abilities because smite evil is based off of your paladin level and charisma bonus to attack rolls and all that that's what i'm yeah using my bonuses okay so just i guess you would walk me through and it says it's it says online that it's a free

action for the person to use and they have to use it before your next turn so i'll use it on my first attack which has the best chance even with blink uh so just walk me through but we gotta go through that whole attack thing i do i know enough to know this creature's type to apply swift action bane to my weapon you think it's undead okay undead Bane on the weapon. Smite evil. Okay. So you are going to add your charisma bonus to your attack. My charisma bonus. I'm sorry. My charisma bonus, which is plus seven. Okay.

To your attack roll. Wow. You're extremely likable. Yes. You will add a plus seven to attack. You will add a plus eight to attack you will add a plus eight wait i'm sorry a plus 16 to all damage rolls for the rest of my attacks or just for this one no for until the creature is dead okay um oh wait it's undead yeah yeah uh the first successful attack doubles it, so it's plus 32 on your first attack.

Damn. Oh, my God. Yeah, if the target of the smite is an evil-aligned dragon or an undead creature, the bonus to damage on the first successful attack increases to two points of damage per level the paladin possesses. Okay. You bypass any DR the target may possess. Okay, that's good to know. And you get a plus seven deflection bonus to your AC.

Oh, jeez. Wow. Wow. Now, that doesn't stack with your existing deflection bonuses, of which you must have some. Like a ring of protection, for example, is deflection bonus. Yeah, okay. So it's plus seven net.

So it'll be a plus four bonus in my AC then because I have a plus three ring of protection. Okay. Yeah, so that is it. So it's plus 32 damage on your first attack, plus 16 on each additional attack. Don't miss from the displacement. All right, here it comes.

Let me get all these die ready. This is so many dice ready. This is a lot of dice, man. This is so important. Okay. Here we go. First attack. The reason I had to exclude Nestor

is because he's evil. That's why. Not because of his skinless current state. How'd that roll go? 35 against Touch AC and that is a 76. Yes!

Feel me. Huge. Oh, baby! Huge. Huge. Okay, baby! Huge. Huge. Okay. Here it comes. Bypasses DR.

Add all those damage bonuses from being good for once! 50 points of damage on the first attack. Okay, that'll take a big chunk out. Big old chunk-a-rito. Here comes the next attack. I'm gonna roll I hate doing this at the same time even though Joe rightfully says it saves time I'm rolling deflection and to hit at the same time yeah that's fine

because you don't want to like roll a 20 and then roll the D 100 that is a miss it is more dramatic it's a miss that is a it is a going to be so I'm still plus 7 on all subsequent attacks yeah subsequent as you would say? Subsequent, as I would say.

It's a hit as far as touch AC goes, but it's a 25 on the... You don't know my touch, but yeah, that's a miss. Okay, here comes the next attack. Oh, wait. Let me make sure that haste is off so I don't get a bonus attack. That missed anyway, so that wouldn't have affected the... Okay, great. Perfect.

Third of four attacks. Come on. Bear, bear. 28 against touch AC. Okay. The 63 against deflection. Okay. Concealment.

Concealment. Sorry. He's very nervous. He's very nervous. Against deflection. Okay. Concealment. Concealment. Sorry. He's very nervous. He's very nervous. Against Deflection. Let me ask you this. The DR didn't count against that first thing, but now the DR. No.

The DR for against all these hints, it ignores DR. Yeah. Just like regular Smite. You just get double damage against Undead on the first attack. That's really the only thing that changes with Undead versus other evil. So I'm saying, does my DR count now against this attack? No, no. Smite Evil always bypasses DR, but you double the damage when it's Undead for one attack.

Gotcha. Okay. This is a good roll. This is 47 points of damage. Okay. Ooh. This is 97 points or something. The final attack.

And two hits. Gotta outlast this thing. That is a 29 against Touch AC, and here comes He's not even waiting for you to say. He knows. He knows. 55. Oh my god! He's so good!

He's so good! Give me that damage! Three out of four ain't bad. Oh my god. Gunslinger Inquisitor Paladin. Cracked on a six! Goddammit! Oh, did I go into a two? Ten. Plus 44 points of damage.

Still up. Only Metra will last around, baby! And then Garen will take a five-foot setback. Well, actually, he'll stand in front of Nestor. Yeah, that's fine. One can only wonder if Metra dispelled the displacement, if it would be dead. Way to go, Matthew.

Way to go. How do you sleep with yourself? I spent my round trying to heal Nestor. I didn't. I didn't want to get you in position to attack. I'm sorry. Ungrateful. Yes, yes. Let's fight each other.

Yes. I can hear the naga in the background. Yes, Yes. Yes. Let them fight each other. Yes. I can hear the naga in the background. Yes. Yes. I wasn't looking for the beginning of Joe imitating you. I was like, is that Matthew talking? That is exactly what he sounds like. Okay.

Baron has gone. He's now moved in the initiative order. It is Metra's turn. I'm assuming this creature has spell resistance, so I'm going to have to roll. Why are you assuming? Because I'm casting a spell. It doesn't. Oh, okay.

You're blind. Oh! Oh, you died a little bit! I'm blind! Well, let's see. Do you have 200 or fewer hit points currently? I do. Okay, you're blind.

I didn't moments ago. Yeah, I bet. I'm blind. Do you have somewhere between 100 and 200? No. Oh! All right. Wait.

Wow. I thought you meant total. No, I don't. Baron took me below 100. Oh, this is based off of the current HP of the creature? Wow. Current, yeah. So if it's...

Power word John. It's power word blind. Power word John. So if you're between 51 and 100, it's minutes. If it's 50 or less, it's permanent. It's not going to matter for this combat, so I won't force you to reveal your hit points anyway like that. I thought you did just force her to reveal it.

No, I couldn't. So he's blind. He's blind for a long time. He's blind for the rest of its life Or the rest of ours We don't know but he's going to kill Sir Wilberford Okay and then What else you got

That's all I got for now Metro's going to take a five foot step to be Kind of between Baron and Nestor Still behind them but Up close And a little funky bunch And that is my turn

it is the creature's turn maybe it's last but it's blind and Sir Will is standing right next to it so sick it yells out Lineratus

that have blinded me. You protected me thus far. Cure this blindness. He does a full attack on Sir Will. 50% miss, John. Even in these moments of life and death, you can't resist. I can't.

It's ruined my life. Oh, Blink. What do you mean it's ruined your life? It has made your life so much better. I hear you saying it in the other room, and I'm so proud. I didn't realize Blink worked both ways like that. I forgot about that in this place. No, no, no.

It's because he's blind. It's because he's blind. Got it. Got it, got it. Okay. First attack. First attack Do I take any penalties because of blind To attack

Actually yeah I think you do My iPad's dead so Minus two penalty to AC Lose dex bonus to AC Minus four on strength Skill checks All opponents have total concealment So not a minus to attack

So this is a 33 to hit Clang! Oh yeah Off the light steel shield Deflects his Clawish blow No rend

No skin death. Second attack is a critical threat. Well, what is it? What's the total? The total is a 46. Yeah, that helps. Claim! Against your face. Maybe.

I rolled so poorly for the first roll, so I can't do rend. Yes. Let's see if it's do rend So we're alright 37 to confirm Does not confirm 50% mischance 50% 50% mischance

Sick 2 Oh yes Awesome 200 Alright so it's Miss Clang Oh, yes. Awesome. I got so excited, I was like, 200! All right, so it's Miss Clang, Miss Blind. And it is Nestor's.

It's your shot. Okay, Nestor's shot. Dude, this is it, Nestor. Come on. Come on, Nestor. Make it count. He's just staggered, swaying, bleeding, skinless. He's just staggered, swaying, bleeding, skinless. Takes another shot.

That is a 32 to hit. That is a hit. All right. It's got a lower AC. 77 on the consumer. Yes! That is a good hit. Nice! This great arrow.

From Anor Londo. Yes, exactly. This long spear of an arrow flies out there's probably a shockwave that hits sir will when it makes contact with the creature 38 points of damage and it's dead it hits the creature and the creature

just falls just beyond down the end of the hallway you see Nester's flayed skin lying out but then your attention turns towards Nester

who had just in the moment of killing the Eccorche lost another point of Khan he's dying and will be dead in just over a minute Nestor what

what happens here I think he tries to keep his feet as long as he possibly can just wow just wow just exposed literally and figuratively

his eyes are just like flashing around it's probably it's blood like kind of coming down in a sheet over his eyes I can

can barely see he's just I see his mouth just like moving and after a feels like an agonizingly long time he just collapses when he can't when he falls below three constitutions just can't even can't even keep his own weight up anymore. And he, just with his last bit of strength,

he gestures for Baron to come over. Baron comes over. And he just, with the last ounce of strength, he lifts up his iron fist, grabs Baron with its unnatural strength and pulls him closer. He says, Tightness! Shove it up his ass!

His grip loosens and he dies. His grip loosens and he dies. Baron holds the hand, looks at him and smiles and finds some grim humor in those being Nestor's last words, true to himself to the end. And he saved this to let Nestor speak in his last moments because he knew Nestor wouldn't have wanted to hear this. But as the life leaves Nestor's body, Baron says, I forgive you.

Truly. All is forgiven. And he closes his eyes. Sir Will dismounts, stands down next to his body and next to Baron. May I, Omedae, guide his path through the boneyard into some heaven of his making. His final shot saved our lives.

The hand, once again, makes a hero. And he'll kneel down and bow his head. Thank you, Iomite, for showing us your grace this day. Metro will approach and will also kneel down beside him. For my daughter's sake, I thank you.

Yours was a life I have never met in anywhere in my many travels. in anywhere in my many travels. Oh, God. I thought to do, like, prestidigitation or something

just, like, to clean him up. But he's just, he's got no skin. He's just going to keep oozing out. It was a terrible way to die. Yeah. It was heal,

regeneration, or prestidigitation. Prestidigitation. As you pass, prestidigitation. Prestidigitation. That was the real one. As you pass, prestidigitation. His eyes flutter. You realize all along. I think Baron will pull out kind of the saddle blankets he's been keeping with him since he took the horse from the Five Kings Mountain.

Put him on his shoulders. It's getting cold. He wraps up Nestor and covers up all of his wounds and uh as he kind of like swaddles him up in weird swaddling cloths he'll put a coin on either of his eyes it's a good thing too because i don't think he has any eyelids he has eyelids they're just skins there's still muscle under i could have still yeah i know this guy has no islands Put the coins on his eyes Yeah Suddenly up above

The rain starts to come in heavy Pattering down on the Exposed Brick here Commingling with the blood pile Left by the ecorchier And the blood pile that is Nestor and this sort of red river starts to run down

towards where the rock stable is. Maybe the building is slightly off or maybe it's just banking as it makes its way through the clouds. banking as it makes its way through the clouds up above there is one more floor of a central tower and then

the observatory and rain is coming down and we look now from above and we just see this river of blood Nestor's flayed skin the dead head crochet and all of you And we just see this river of blood. Nestor's flayed skin. The dead head crochet.

And all of you surrounding Nestor's flayed body. And you all level up. And we'll see you next week. Okay. Okay. This is the time to be happy. I'm 12. Me too. Level 17 corpse.

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