Fanged Revenge | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 8 Part 1

Summary

Critical Role – "Fanged Revenge" | Campaign 4, Episode 8, Part 1

Date: December 11, 2025
GM: Brennan Lee Mulligan

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Episode Overview

The party finds themselves deep in intrigue and peril as they trek through war-torn Ahriman, seeking answers tied to death, revenge, and the enigmatic visions of the late Octus Taconis. Hunkered down at a roadside inn after a harrowing journey, they gather their strength before infiltrating the rotting Castle Sloke. The group splits, balancing tense emotional moments and high-stakes espionage as they plot to bring down the treacherous Baron Kasimir Gavandale. The episode crescendos in a deadly confrontation, with the fate of Castle Sloke—and the lives of our heroes—dangling by a thread.

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Key Discussion Points & Story Breakdown

1. Emotional Recovery and Scarcity at the Roadside Inn

[03:06–13:15]

• Setting: A small inn, Dvalmar Pass. The party recovers after encountering the undead and political enemies.
• Tysha, Erinessa, and Julian share a bed, tending to physical hunger and deeper grief. Erinessa, struggling with trauma and not eating, reveals the party’s emotional wounds.
• Moment of Reflection: Lady Erinessa reminisces about beliefs in the "golden boat" ferrying Royces to Faerie upon death and fears it may not come true any longer.
• Notable Quote:

  "When the Royces die, we were told that should we wish it, a golden boat would bear us across a bright river to Faerie. I don't know if that faerie ferry is still running."
  — Erinessa [09:33]

• Julian and Tysha encourage Erinessa to eat and recover strength, sharing silent solidarity in grief and the will to continue.

2. Reconnaissance and Approach to Castle Sloke

[22:53–32:28]

• Party splits: As rain pours outside the decrepit Castle Sloke, Teor, Cadigan, and Thimble circle the fortress, looking for weaknesses, while Wick Tyranny and "Dr. Finger" make contact with Baron Kasimir Gavandale inside.
• Perception Challenges: Rain limits visibility; terrain is treacherous with cliffs and mudslides.
• Espionage Beats: Thimble scouts, Cadigan and Teor ready themselves for stealthy infiltration from either side, and the party times their moves based on patrols and passing guards.

3. Espionage and Deception: Negotiations with the Baron

[32:28–54:01]

• Undercover: Wick (posing as Lord Haylovar) and "Dr. Finger" (posing as the family medic) gain audience with Baron Kasimir in the ruined keep.
• Verbal Sparring: Wick tries to convince Kasimir of an alliance, feigns shared enmity for "the Fang" (on whose execution Kasimir brokered), and bluffs about their role in past events.
• Comic and Tense Exchanges: The party maintains multiple covers (the doctor is almost confused for a courtesan; Wick is unconvincing in his noble airs).
• Notable Quote:

  "I'm Dr. Finga, and everyone goes like, well, let me try to put two and two together on what's happening. Either this is what's going on with the medical profession in Dolma. I'd like to remind everyone that Wickhander last episode went, she's a medical doctor. Stop looking at her tits. And now I'M a whore."
  — Wick [56:38]

4. Skirmishes Outside: Stealth, Mistakes & Catlike Reflexes

[45:20–56:04]

• Teor’s Tree Catastrophe: Teor attempts stealthy recon but crashes from a dead tree, drawing attention. Quick reflexes and a dash (and a fortuitous stealth roll) barely save him from guards.
• Cadigan & Wulfric: Use fog and a classic animal distraction (nude wolf!) to scatter horses and peel guards away, whittling down enemy numbers at the castle.

5. The Castle Erupts: Tension Breaks and Combat Commences

[70:28–147:01]

• Negotiations Unravel: Suspicious of Wick and Dr. Finger, Kasimir’s patience snaps, and a dramatic thaumaturgical "HELP!" triggers chaos as the party springs into action.
• Turn Order: Martial and magical chaos breaks out involving:
  • Dr. Finger (Tyranny) uses Suggestion to clear the room;
  • Thimble and Cadigan stealthily close in;
  • Cadigan hurls a Crow Keeper off a parapet; Teor lands heroically;
  • Thimble exacts vengeance on Kasimir with devastating sneak attacks.
• Brutal Consequences: Wick is felled by a knight, barely avoids instant death, and clings to life while Tyranny drags his body to relative safety.
• Comic Relief: A "greater Chanter’s egg" is cracked to unleash... a massive illusory squid, which panics the knights and gives brief cover.

6. Climax: Vengeance, Sacrifice, and the Fall of Kasimir

[159:51–163:43]

• Dying & Heroics: Wick, at death's door (a mere 2 points from outright death), uses new homebrew death mechanics to provide inspiration to Teor and the party.
• Final Duel: Thimble chases down a fleeing and bloodied Kasimir:

  "He would have had your back. Until the end of time. You shouldn't have betrayed us."
  — Thimble, before plunging her rapier into his eye [110:02]

• Victory: After exchanging cutting words and cold steel, Thimble severs Kasimir’s throat, ending the baron’s reign.

  "Pull his throat out, he collapses over the parapet... the first and final pennant of the Baron of Sloke."
  — GM/Brennan [162:20]

7. Aftermath: Surrender and Claiming Castle Sloke

[167:02–173:21]

• Honorable Combat: Teor spares the knights, Cadigan grapples a surviving foe, and the party presses the defenders to lay down their arms.
• Surrender: The last knights, recognizing their Lord is dead, yield Castle Sloke, marking the party as new—if reluctant—masters of “the world’s worst castle.”
• Notable Quote:

  "Castle Sloke is yours."
  — Knight Cosgrove [172:40]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |-----------|--------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 09:33 | Erinessa | "When the Royces die... a golden boat would bear us across a bright river to Faerie..." | | 39:07 | Kasimir | "You are. Are you not, of the faith? And they are—" | | 56:38 | Wick | "Now I'M a whore. Yeah. Hey, that was the group answer. A courtesan. A courtesan and a doctor." | | 70:53 | Kasimir | "You think I'm fucking stupid cause I wasn't born to this? I'm a fucking gutter thief that became a baron. So I'll have some respect put on my name." | | 110:02 | Thimble | "He would have had your back. Until the end of time. You shouldn't have betrayed us." | | 162:20 | Brennan (GM) | "As you pull his throat out, he collapses over the parapet... the first and final pennant..." | | 172:40 | Knight Cosgrove | "Castle Sloke is yours." |

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:06 – 13:15]: Emotional scenes at the inn; party bonds, shares grief.
• [22:53 – 32:28]: Rain-drenched recon at Castle Sloke; party splits.
• [32:28 – 54:01]: Espionage, negotiations, disguises with Kasimir.
• [56:04 – 70:28]: Recon mishaps, diversion tactics; animal chaos outside.
• [70:28 – 147:01]: Confrontation explodes; betrayal, magic, and melee.
• [147:01 – 163:43]: Wick’s near-death, Thimble’s revenge, and Kasimir’s death.
• [167:02 – 173:21]: Aftermath, surrender, Castle Sloke changes hands.

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Thematic Tone

• Gritty, dark, and emotional: Exploration of grief, vengeance, and trauma.
• Wickedly funny banter: Players bounce between high tension and irreverence.
• Heroism and improvisation: Both in brilliant combat tactics and raw emotional moments.
• Brennan’s GM style: Keeps tension high, rewards espionage, and delivers vibrant descriptions of danger.

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For Listeners New & Old

This episode intertwines heartbreak, calculated risk, and the raw chaos of a party in over their heads but refusing to bow to despair. Brennan supplies layers of intrigue and consequence—a cast of characters each fighting their own private battles even as they confront the villains of Sloke. The deconstruction of a villain, the cost of revenge, and the volatile nature of trust and betrayal all permeate a crucial, action-packed session in Critical Role Campaign 4.

Part 2 to come next Tuesday.

Transcript

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In a small roadside inn most of the way through the Dvalmar Pass, headed east as you and your companions seek answers to the visions seen by the late Octus Taconis since reanimated.

The lady of House Royce is curled up in bed next to Tysha Loyola.

Where do we find Julian in this room? I think within these comparably tight quarters. Julian has a chair leaning against the door entry to the chamber and is sitting in it.

Half resting, half conscious.

Elsewhere in the tavern you hear what sounds like maybe Octus and Velas, who due to very different circumstances do not need eight hours of rest per night.

Tycha, you wake up slightly as you can feel Erinessa shivering next to you.

I look down.

Bad habit. I've absolutely bogarted this blanket so I'm just going to slowly give it back. And I think without trying to do too much magic about it, she's just trying to use a little bit of arcane warmth to her hands to try to heat the blanket as she's tucking Erinessa in.

Tucking Erinessa in.

Your hand passes over her ribs on the side of her chest and you can feel her ribs slightly exposed and realize that you haven't seen Erinessa.

Drink water or eat in a couple days. Her composure has been through the roof. She's been very, very composed. But I think you realize that she's living in a degree of panic that that she has not been able to keep anything down or move through the world in any kind of reasonable way. You see that she's struggling sick.

I'm going to pop my head up. Do you look? Oh, and you're up.

She need.

I'm going to try to get out of bed without disrupting her too much more and kind of pad over to you.

She needs to eat.

I know she's had some.

Her mind has been elsewhere, but I think you're right.

It'S been.

I can't imagine what the two of you are going through right now.

Both of you.

Can I get you anything?

Let's get you something to eat and you can get me something to drink. Okay. I'm gonna like clap you on the shoulder with those hands that are just a little too warm, I think at this point.

Be right back. Goodbye.

And just slip out and try to go down to the tavern to try to get some food and something to drink. Make sure the window's locked. Window's locked. Heading downstairs. It's a late hour, but you guys are able to get some food ready at this moment. There's.

This is a roadside tower on one of the main highways from the fallen empire of Obra Demia to Kahad. So there's meat and bread and plenty of potatoes and things left over from earlier today. You're able to get plates and come upstairs. And Julian, not necessarily to your liking, but there is a sort of room temperature dwarven ale here at your disposal.

I guess.

Cannot be choosers.

I will see if I can muster whatever healthy servings can be amassed for Erinessa and probably realizes I'm doing so that I have barely eaten myself. Snack a bit, but begin to lean more heavily and to the ale when it arrives.

I think.

Tysha can't help herself, but as she sees that you're trying to portion more out for her, she's going to try to push it back towards you. We can order more. Just eat. And at least that's not Yargroth. Do they have that here? Are we finally free?

Sitting up in bed, Erinessa turns, wipes her eyes, sees the plate before her. Oh.

I've had a hard time. I've lost my appetite. I think I know my lady.

For the sake of not propriety, but we're going to be on the road for a while. We need your strength.

She puts a potato in her mouth and chews it very slowly. You can see the familiar. It's just the queasiness of fear, of it's not.

Something in her spine is telling her that at any moment she will have to run for her life. And that's not something that tends to make you hungry.

She looks up, sensing Julian near the foot of the bed.

She looks up and goes.

When the Royces die.

We were told that should we wish it.

A golden boat would bear us across a bright river to Faerie.

I don't know if that fairy fairy is still running.

Forgive my Religious ignorance.

Do you think he's already been reborn?

Uh.

Yes. There's something I don't talk about very often.

When I meet someone, usually I get a bit of an idea, an animal that they remind me of.

And maybe it's a bit on the nose that the Ozzy always reminded me of a falcon.

Mostly because of that loud screech. He had a really specific laugh, right? Yeah. And it was just such a long ha.

When we first sat on the road, I don't think we had been traveling for more than a couple hours. I heard that loud screech again.

And I like to think that he's back and he was letting me know that it's okay.

My lady.

If the boats are not ready.

Then we will endure until those doors open again.

And to endure.

We must eat.

We must have our strength.

For you to rise and for me to punish.

Whatever it takes.

He slowly reaches out and takes another piece of that potato, studies it a moment.

Puts it in his mouth and slowly chews the flavorless morsel in a sort of.

Humble fare. I think with that little bow, I'm going to just push Julian towards the bed.

You have to punish. That means you need sleep. And I can block a door as well as any. I figured I could sleep when the boy did, but.

He is more restless than I anticipated.

You get into the bed. You see Lady Erinessa looks at you on your side of the bed and goes.

They killed our family.

And now we smell like potatoes.

Not all of them.

I wouldn't be frightened to look for that golden boat if you were by my side, Julie.

There is no doubt silent considering.

To strength and, I suppose, punishment. And she closes her eyes.

And we will return here on another episode of Critical Role.

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We were braver than this two minutes ago.

Here the rain slicked walls of Castle Sloke, overlooking a miserable gray little village here at the eastern edge of Gormalay.

Three of our companions cling to the wall. I'll ask you for a final time. Do you want to go around the southern edge of the castle here, or would you have gone around the northern edge of the castle over here? Can we ask a question? Yes, you may. Being that it's night and rainy, can we see in the towers on either corner? Sure. Torchlight, lamplight, or any indication of sentries or movement in either of those. You could probably fly up and check that out, too. I'd like you to go ahead and give me a perception as I remind our viewers that in our last episode, our adventurers made their way to Sloke. From whence? Why, from the Dehopshiny Wood, chasing down the treacherous Kasimir Gavandale and also looking for signs of the fugitive brother Talsidimir Pridesire, Teyora's younger brother, you made your way from the the fairies of Hawthorne's Glade and the terrifying undead monstrosities of the Wraith Tree north, crossing the border into Timony, where you met Tholomine, the acolyte. You met Tasker, the older shepherd, and made your way up the King's Road, hearing fomentation and agitation from preachers of the Candescent Creed, learning about the sort of druidic way stations of traveling dogs and hounds all throughout the kingdom of Timony. You discovered some history about King Augustus Valian, or as those who fought with him refer to him, King Gus, and eventually arrived on an apple cart outside of Sloke. There, at a tavern in the middle of the night, you met Dame Morgaine, one of the hounds of the King, a herding dog capable of speech, was able to speak to you perfectly fluently, and made reference to the mastiff that Thimble had seen out in the darkness, referring to him as Hawkins. Making your way to Sloke, Thimble spied on the converging of the envoys of the House Taconis, seeing the Lord Docet and the Lady Univere, along with an unnamed knight of the House of Saramai, who delivered the deed of title to Kasimir Gavandale, who you saw here screaming about the injustice done to him. They had said they were going to make him a baron and give him a castle. And they did give him a castle. It's this castle right here. Rotted, rotted, crumbling in disrepair, overlooking a village that.

Casimir has threatened to double taxes on. But I'm not sure how it works to double nothing.

But he certainly seems intent on making life miserable for those denizens of the village below. This moldering Keep with some quick thinking. Wakander Hayluvar and the demon tyranny masqueraded as Wakander Haylovar.

Dr. Finger, let's go. Quick thinking. Pro shit. Pro shit. Holy. Who are you? Real quick? Three, two. I'm me. I'm Dr. Finger of.

That's just right. That's just right, folks.

My urologist.

Also discovering that Kasimir's plans. Seems like all of Kasimir's plans have been sort of foiled here.

For indeed he wanted to hang CID for stealing the title from him back in Dolnakyar. And those representatives of the House Taconis told him that Tal Sid Amir was no concern of his, which. Which makes you wonder if perhaps there was a sleeping lion upstairs in that tavern. Perhaps that remains unclear. But what is certain is that you are standing in the cold and freezing rain, the howl of wind cascading off the stony mountainside. You look here at rot and ruin, hearing noises from inside. Wick tyranny. You are within the courtyard having just spoken to Kasimir, who seems delighted that the house of Haylovar is here to help him. Fimbul, Cadogan and Teor are outside. What do we get for our perception checks? Natural 20. Holy shit. I would love to remind you too that if you want to direct this somewhere, since it's so good that right before we got here I did a perception check of the parapets and we had no archers. We had done that check. So maybe whatever you're checking for, if it's that good, it maybe not be that. Maybe it would be something else we could check for. Well, yeah, I think if there. If there was. Because there's no archers or anything like that. If there is, I think I would go. I'm going to keep it as light and any movement against light on the interiors of those turrets. Because why, while there is a crumbly wall on the other side, there's also a big fucking tree over here. And cats love trees.

Quality of light. There is dim light everywhere, so visibility is not limited. Basically within 40ft it's daylight right past that you can still see people. It's just disadvantage. Even peeking around the castle, you see the shapes of. Putting your darkvision up is 60ft. 60ft. I think the issue is the lack of visibility isn't about the absence of light, it's the presence of rain. So there's just so much shit in the air that even darkvision can't really penetrate it. Murky water.

But I will say again, dim light gives no disadvantage on attack rolls or on combat. It's only disadvantage on perception checks. A lot of this D20 I think with this D20, anything right within range of you you can see. But we have that disadvantage. Check roll. Technically I hated to rob you of a nat 20, but that should be with disadvantage as well. Do it again.

Much worse. Much worse.

Seven. Seven. Gotcha. Anything beyond that 40ft to you is a mystery. You don't know what the quality of light is like in the courtyard. You heard some yelling, but even that is muffled by the rain, which within 40ft. What I can tell you is this.

Soldier'S mentality.

This is a dangerous place to fight. Fighting and driving rain. What you can see is that there's a lot of farms that are sort of up on cliffside, which means that soil and mud is coming down. You look and see some ruined structures out in the mountainsides around that clear like mudslides have taken out. And even everything here is moss. Slick rock, mud. You think there is a non zero chance that if you were to haul ass here you would probably. Fighting on a bunch of ridges and cliffsides in the driving rain is a potential hazard. I think you actually diagnosed this terrain as pretty hazardous. Got it. Okay.

Is it possible for me to. I see a lot of little slitted windows. Is it possible for me to go into those and peek through all those windows and see which one looks like it would be Kasimir's living quarters? Very reasonably so. Getting in through these archer's windows is no problem for you. You can flit right through. Go ahead and give me stealth and investigation. Can you fly without your ass lighting up? Yeah. Okay. You can't just ask that to a theory. I'm a pixie. We go way back. 27. You can't ask me. 27. Stealth. Yeah. A ghost. Go ahead and give me investigation.

Oh, that's a natural one. Natural one.

Flying through. I can't see myself. What you can see, I think on an AT1 investigation what you determine is that there are no dwelling places within this castle. You don't know where Kasimir and the rest have been staying. You actually see some of the men at arms have bags and satchels up against the walls with them. On anatome perception, you see that there is almost no chance of a secret place where you can anticipate here within the castle they're going to go. In fact the opposite. Their bags are all still under unpacked. And I think you realize with Kasimir's screams from earlier.

He may have ordered them to not unpack their bags because a terrible mistake had been made here. Okay. Certain they would not be staying in this place. Something must have gone wrong. Okay. I wonder if you. Sam. Whitney. Inside you see tyranny. Dr. Finger. Dr. Finger. Sorry. Let's get it right. She didn't go to fake medical school. Start another call.

You see, Kasimir turns to you and says, all right, come on in.

As he.

Looks at you and says, all right, follow me.

As he does so, you see, he calls out to everybody else and says.

All right, the rest of you saddle back up, get down that village and let them know there's a new fucking baron.

And you see that he and two of the knights and one of his Crow Keeper companions begins to walk with you. You see that wick? You see this sort of crow mantled person is wearing full, what looks like brand new made full plate armor, but you can see is walking with a wince every time they walk in this armor. Moving forward in it.

Okay.

Okay, Baron, before we pour the wine, I think that you should have a little privacy to yourself and get those wounds all tended to so. So that you can be nice and well rested and your radiance, maybe you should show his associates some of your.

My holy magic. Exactly. Yes, yes, of course, I'd be happy to. While the time away with your fellows, your colleagues here and let you get all cleaned up by the lovely Dr. Finger Bairn. Do you have a private chamber?

You see, he looks and says, private chamber. Well, I don't know how private a chamber can be when it's not got four fucking walls. You're so funny. Thank you. Strong. You see.

You see, he double tick. Yeah.

He looks out and says, rodney is fine. And you see that he. He goes, stands over to a fireplace, he says, light of fire. You see, One of the guards looks over, sees no wood anywhere. You see? Oh, my lord, there's no. And you see, he says, yeah, I know. Go get some firewood. You see, the guy says, glad you are, sir, and walks out back into the rain. Looking around.

Countryside, big ass countryside. You're in here with one of his Crow keepers and two of these armored knights, you see, he walks over to this empty fireplace that you can just see is water is pouring down it into the castle.

And he just hoists his pants down and says, oh, Baron, I'd hate to step on your authority, but I think the. We should be in private, don't you? I mean, I have to tend to your wounds. Well, tend to them.

Ah, go on, Dr. Finger. I'll. I don't mind people seeing what was done to me by those animals. Monsters.

Quite confident. So I guess that's what it'll just have to be, then. You two knights and man in the crow costume. It's not a costume. I'm sorry? It's not a costume. Oh. Uniform. Mantle. Mantle. The symbol of the Baron of Sloke is the mantle of the crow's feathers. The most cunning of birds. You would do well to remember this. Is that Sloke telling me or the guy in the. The guy in the. In the crow. In the crow armor. Yeah, of course. I will remember that. Here, let me.

You see that the other knight looks at you? Give me an insight check if you want. Okay. Robbie's really nervous. Nerves are. Nerves are a little poppy over here. A little popping. Insight. Yeah, I'll give you an insight check. Just an eight? Just an eight. Yeah. I think. You look over, see these knights. One of them has this sort of rusted shield here. I think, on an eight insight. It's just quiet, aggressive looking. People in this room staring at you. You see that? Kasimir says, tell me of Haylavar. Your house has seen fit to make an alliance with the Barony of Sloke.

Yes, that is correct. Obviously, House Taconis wants to give the impression that they are not in need of your services. But we of the Haylovars are. We saw how capable you were of making sure that that Fang fellow was murdered, and we think that we have great use for you in other business.

He looks at you and says, fang, you knew of.

You knew of the Aussie, uh. Oh, you're good. You're good. I did, yes. My family was part of taking him down. He needed to go.

He turns around, you see, he says, that's right. There was. I thought I'd heard a rumor that your family was trying to circumvent his execution. Or at least that's what the Tacona said when they came to me. All smoke and mirrors, my good man. We wanted the people to think that we were against it, but we wanted him dead. Give me a deception check. Come on, come on.

16 plus. Oh, that one. Oh, okay.

Persuasion. So that's an 11. Demon's number. Also 11. Also 11. Gotcha. So, you see, he looks at you and goes.

Yeah. Well, it seems that the Lords of the Sundared Houses do love to play games. So, well done. Your deception worked. Everything I had heard in Dolmarchia was that you were trying to save the Aussie Fang's life. But I should have known better. Sundared houses would never break ranks like that. Why do you work with the Tuchonis? You are. Are you not, of the faith? And they are.

Well, I don't know what faith they are of, but it's certainly not of the light. How's it going, Dr. Finger? You know, I would love to just get to work, but all of this, you know, big, strong man talk is just really distracting to me. I would love to have a little privacy so that I can do my work. Can we just. Can we. I am a doctor, so could we. Could we possibly just. I'm just gonna put you right.

Four inches. Four inches. I'm just gonna tend to you. It's gonna be so fast, and then we've got all night to talk about everything that you. You know, you big guys need to talk. I do need you prone. Great. I'm gonna need you to give me a persuasion check. It's gonna be with disadvantage. Disadvantage? Look at those titties. I'm a doctor. And did you see. Did he see these titties? My eyes. Certainly the only thing making this possible is that he saw.

The rain obscures not even that. My eyes flash with light, and I restore balance to. To her. Okay, she does not have disadvantage. And you've used this. No, no, no. Don't use it. Don't use it. Too late. Too late. It's used. Okay, gotcha. I have it four times. What was the lower of your rolls, then? It was 12 plus 7. 12 plus 7. Okay, 19.

You see? He looks to you and says.

Why is this. You need me prone? Well, so I can examine your ward set.

He cocks an eyebrow and says, sure.

He looks over to you and says.

Does Dr. Finger travel with you, or has she been brought here to attend to the needs of Castle Slow?

Seems like an important question.

She is the family doctor of the halo of ours.

She accompanies me. I, he says, have maladies of my own. He. He looks and says, I will. Says, fine. If you need privacy, then wait until the day's business is done and we will have privacy. He hikes his pants up, looks over it, and leans in and says, says.

Sir, please see that the doctor has all the tools that she needs. Some. Some alcohol or something else to help clean whatever implement she might have. He leans into you and whispers, doctor, is this a courtesan?

I'm trying to pick up on what's being said. And something. This doesn't make any sense. Are you bringing up. Is that something that you're interested in. You said she was a family doctor. Well, she helps the body in many ways.

Am I hearing this? Yes, you are.

When does you see? He looks and says, all right, give me a deception check.

That's better. That's a 25. You see, he looks and says.

House of faith indeed. I should have known. Well, let it never be said that those of the class just don't get down with some hanky panky from time and again. No one's that celibate. You see, he elbows you in the chest. You see, he says. He looks and says, dear Doctor, your ministrations are dearly desired. And once we have some more privacy, come sundown, they shall be yours.

You see, he turns over to you and says.

Why the ruse about trying to save the azi?

Our faith requires that our flock know of our goodness and our inner. Inner kindness. And we spare the dying. We give those who have dimmed a second chance. And Thyazi was one of those people.

So you wanted to give him a second chance. Outwardly, that's what we wanted the people to think. But obviously, no. Men like you and me have deeper concerns. And stonier hearts.

Stonier hearts. Outside, Outside. Our dear friends.

Cadigan and Teor Fimble has gone in to investigate the castle. You guys are outside with Wulfric right now.

What are you doing? I think you begin to hear some noise coming from the gate at the front of the castle. What are you guys doing? What do you think? They gonna cock it up?

I think it is almost assuredly.

Right. Well, I say we don't make a move until we hear the hit the fan. Where do we go from here?

Each take a side, split the party. Great idea.

It's always worked before. Let's do it. Divide and conquer. Yeah, I remember that trick. The old pincer move. Never pincer. The castle, though, It. Left or right?

Left. Always stay tank to the right a bit.

Incredible. So tail, I think. Somehow. Somehow I'm absorbing your energy around the campfire. Always leads to the right. We have brought this energy here to this space. We're all nervous.

So, Teor, because you are staying to the left, you will not have to make a stealth check. You're basically staying pinned down. Cadigan, you're gonna circle back around to the other side. Go ahead and give me a stealth check. Guide yourself, bitch. Oh, yeah. Boink. Sure. Sixteen plus four. Twenty. Thank you. I have to learn how to be a druid. Initiate.

Dirty 20. Dirty 20. You and Wulfric pad through in the rain. You guys move Out. Do you get advantage on stealth because of the rain? No. That's very interesting, actually. They get a penalty to perception, which is sort of. It balances out to be the same thing. As I'm leaving, just quick to tear. I go. You need a little extra cover, Let me know.

Moving around.

An interesting question arises. Thimble's investigating inside. You guys get to either side of the castle. How patient are you once you get into position? You don't hear. You hear some. I think the rain is too loud for you to hear any of the conversation inside the tower. You hear some movement at the front of the castle. How long do you stay put or do you act? For me, it's infinite. I think as a hunter, I think I sit forever. Yeah. I think I would try and prioritize the. The perspective. Probably working up this tree also being cautious of anybody up on the turret wall. But if I don't see bodies, if I could get that eyeline in, then I would wait. Cool as well. Ready to pounce. Yeah, I think. Until it pops off. I think we're waiting for something.

Teor, go ahead and give me.

As you're climbing the trees, overcoming his fears.

Getting up in the tree. Go ahead and give me. This is gonna be stealth once again. And I think we'll say rather than me having to roll all their perceptions, we'll just give you advantage on that stealth roll like Lauren just mentioned. Oh, baby.

What's that? That's a two and a one. Wow. That's fucking crazy. That's a sick. So you're the one that cocks it up.

I just. Scottish claw. I've ever done that. Handsome and big and so much armor.

We are going to roll. I'm going to ask Travis. How long do you think you. Do you think you begin climbing the tree immediately as Kadigan starts moving, or do you wait a while? No, I would work up the side and then I would try to listen for movement at the top and around the front of the castle, just in case. It's very active in the front, right? People going back and forth, running any sort of patrols. If that is quiet, then I think I would wait three, five minutes. Not too long. Just in case it's going shitty fast. Fast before I start making it. So you do wait for a while before climbing the tree. I'd like you to roll a D4 for me because you're waiting for a while. The only bad thing is gonna be rolling a one here. Two, three or four is fine. That's a one. How do you wanna screw this?

No. Really? Oh, it is. I can see it through here. This is the matrix. This is the break in the vase. If you hadn't said anything, would I have still been? But you said you didn't wanna wait for it to get quiet. You wanted there to be noise out there. Correct. I would have listened for noise. And if there was no commotion or patrol because you don't want to rush to a tree and then start climbing and have your ass out when somebody comes around the corner. Yeah, yeah, for sure. None of that happens. Then I would start climbing the tree. Okay. Getting up the tree partially. You get about halfway up towards that lowest branch, and all these trees are dead. And the limb is not only dead, it is rotted through that a whole half of a tree then comes out with you. You land prone with an enormous clank of your armor. And unfortunately, because of that one, the departing guard has not left yet. Yep, yep, yep. So you hear a. What's that? You see someone said stone falling from the castle. No, no. Sounded like steel. One moment.

I need just Travis to roll initiative for me. Okay. All right, I'm here, I'm here.

Natural 20. Where is that? I don't. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Cool.

He's a big boy on a NAT20 initiative check. Teor, you are on your back.

You are on your back, cat. Again, I will say you get to this bolt right here and can see that because this side of the castle's falling apart, there's line of sight from a pack mule, several horses, and a knight. So if you advance past this stone, it will be traveling towards the direction of.

Basically, there will be another chance for you to be spotted, essentially, as you go through there.

Travis, Teor is on his back. You hear the jangling of bridle and reins.

Coming around the side of the castle. It is your turn, cat. Life reflexes 35 scare away. He always lands on his back.

If I burn a bonus action, am I able to double my walking speed to try and retreat around the backside of the castle? Only if you have an ability which lets you do so. So I don't think I do as this sweet, sweet pally. Can I. Yeah, that's a dash action. A dash action. Oh, okay, fine. But because you land prone, you have to burn half your speed to stand up. So 15ft of movement goes out the door.

So you can get to there. But you could dash over the bush.

Yeah, I could. You could literally. Let me see. So you would go 15, 5, 15. So I'd have 20 left for my first 30. 35. 30, 45. So literally 45, which is exactly your movement. And then half again would get you around the corner of the castle. Yeah, I will do that. To keep from kicking this off on the side unaided, I will run and slide unnecessarily around the corner of the. So.

We are going to. Because you'd got that perception to notice the difficult terrain here you are moving more than you're moving in a turn, which means I'm going to need a dexterity saving throw from you. Give me one more chance to take saving throw. Saving throw, Saving throw, Saving throw. Dexterous. You're dextrose. You're Cat. 16. Cool. Awesome. I'm also going to need yet again another stealth check. You are going top speed, which means that clank, clank, clank. I'm not full plate. It's just one in the front. Also cat like, you're going top speed, but you do have the advantage. So in other words, you have disadvantage and advantage. It's going to be a straight roll. Okay.

There'S tension, folks. 17, huh? Okay, that's good. Tail Blam. You are up on your feet. Sprint around the corner of the castle. And that's what he looked like as he did it.

Producing the cabinets, running on the tile floor. That's your weakness. Trees. That is your turn. Haven't conquered it yet. Just in time. As two mounted knights ride. Mounted horse. Yeah. Good call. Yeah. Two mounted horses. Hadn't planned on that.

As they move around the side and you can hear them riding over there to investigate.

I'm going to say you just got a 17 Stealth. Right? Yeah. So we're going to make that the difficulty of a survival check.

As they attempt to track essentially. Oh, God. Please roll. No driving rain. Each of them only gets a plus one to this sort of way. Wisdom check here. They are going to be rolling with disadvantage.

So they need both of these. There's two of them. They need both of these to be 16 or higher. Not very likely. And he has bare paws. So it could be just an animal. Could be an arrow. 14. Okay. That person has failed. Next night, Nat. 20.

Nine. Oh, my God.

Teor. Back against the castle. Rain slicking down into your mane, going under your armor. You hear two voices around there. As we'll go ahead and actually start to remove some of these pieces. So we have a little bit more line of sight.

Where are you? You have a 27 Stealth. Where do you want to be in the castle. Castle. I don't know. I can't see inside of it. I'm trying to. I've been trying to get out. But, like, what tower do you think. Would you. Would you be on the first, second, or third story? I'm just trying to see. I'll remove this here as well.

Oh, could you see my strawberries out?

Okay, okay, okay. So you could be in this tower. This tower? This tower, Wherever you think you would like to be. I would probably be in this tower. Cool. I would have gone in. Great. We'll remove here.

The second floor has a window that you can perch in to see the courtyard.

Give me a perception check, Laura. Do it with disadvantage. Disadvantage. Huh?

Oh, sorry. No, don't do it with disadvantage. Do it straight. Sorry. Do it straight.

That's good, because it was a two and a one. God. What? Okay, perception. 19. So you do see Teor sprint past in the rain around the other side of the castle and slip and fall and a little toot comes out.

Ignore that.

So majestic.

Is there a window on the backside? Yes, there is. I'm just gonna peek my head out and look at him. What do they see? You? No.

My pride. I think you can feel your back. Just fell 8ft out of a tree in the rain. Never seen a cat when it falls in the bathtub.

Yes. Teor and Thimble. You hear both of the knights over by that tree look around at each other and say, you see. You hear one of them say, looks like this side of the tree just fell off into the rain. You see another one, look off and go.

No living thing can survive the villainy of this old castle, cursed and haunted. Let's hope the new baron fares as well as this tree.

Okay, so some of the guards don't like him. They wouldn't. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like we just. That's good to know. Maybe even side with House. Hey, little boy.

We have hookers. Apparently. Yeah. I don't know why I didn't think I was walking right into that. In Craft Services, you got a deal.

I mean, it's not. I don't feel like I arrived there. You know what I mean? Does that make sense? It's like, I'm Dr. Finga, and everyone goes like, well, let me try to put two and two together on what's happening. Either this is what's going on with the medical profession in Dolma. I'd like to remind everyone that Wickhander last episode went, she's a medical doctor. Stop looking at her tits. And now I'M a whore. Yeah. Hey, that was the group answer. A courtesan. A courtesan. A courtesan. A courtesan and a doctor Still. Yeah, you can both want to. Exactly. Why put limitations. Hell, yes. Teor pending as the side of the castle. Now, do you hold off? Are you staying here for the time being? I think after a moment, you see the knights ride around this area and you hear them begin to ride off back to the front of the castle. I think with Thimble having seen my majesty on full display just a moment before, I'll.

No, I think I'll actually try and try my luck over on this side. Just see if I can climb up a little bit, and then I'll start to make my way back around where I was originally. Okay, and are you going into action immediately? No, I will hold. Cool. You hold. Cadogan is one infinitely Thimble, are you holding as well? I mean, can I see into the courtyard? Can I see anything that's going on? Yeah, give me perception.

Especially knowing there are people out front. Now, if that number can change, we'd love it. That's a 22. Jesus. 23. No, 22. Hell, yes.

In fact, the number changing is what you see. I think in this moment, the reason I keep asking about your guys, whether you are holding or not is simply you look in and see the processional train. You look out through the gate and see that the group, the same group that these two encountered going down the mountain is doing, is about to prepare to do exactly what they were doing, which is going back down the mountain to announce the Barren of Sloke to the villagers. Which means two knights, four men at arms, and Sir Gully Breeches, which is who you encountered on the way down, are about to head out. Great. Do you hold? Yeah, Just preserve Sir Gully Breeches. That's all. That's all we want, man, is keep Gully. No, no, no. He's a shithead. Let him germinate a little bit. We get to decide who's a big baddie. Half of the men at arms and two of the knights and a third of the. The knights are about to dip out. Correct. Tight, tight, tight.

So with all of that being said. And the three crows stay. Two. Yes. You see that? Three, four and four.

I will now show you. As that processional heads out, I will show you who is left in the castle and where they are in particular.

So.

Kasimir here.

He has two knights beside him.

That plate armor, which one's Kaz? Kaz is the one in black in the middle. Okay. Right here.

Another crow keeper over here. They're just all in the room. Just this one little teeny room. No problem with you two? Yeah.

Yeah. We can just do our.

Thing and kill them all. Well, you can kill them all. Listen, tyranny's a virgin. I'm about to get laid for the first time ever. Oh, no. Wow.

Just wait. You're not about to get late or you're not a general. I'm not about to get late. We're about to do something else. Do we know if that door opens in or out or both ways?

The door to the gate? Yeah. Would we have seen them go in. No. Into that little room? Would we have seen them go in the room? Oh, yes. You saw them go in the room for sure. The door helps.

The door definitely helps. There's a guard outside the door, too. It looks like it. You see some men at arms out here's a lot of people. Are these buddies out front still castle guards? Like castle in house? Castle guards. Are they staying? This little crew here, Everyone you see should now be placed on the board. They're playable, so everything you see is in play. I'll describe the layout to you. There's one knight table tending to these horses and the pack mule out here.

As gully breeches. And two other knights take horses, head into the village with four of the men at arms, right? Leaving in this moment a knight posted outside the tower door here. There's another crow keeper, four men at arms here. So in other words. And it looks like there are two men at arms at the front of the gate, two posted in the interior courtyard. One of the crow keepers talking to them, I think Thimble looking out through the courtyard, you see that crow keeper looks around and says, all right, guess this place is home. And begins to. It's the only way to see it is. Can we scoot it a little bit? Let's scoot it forward here. I got you. And in fact, let's go ahead and remove these crevelations. Oh, no. Oh, no. We got it. We'll remove this and we'll scooch it forward for everybody to be able to see. These can come down as well. Here we go. Oh, okay. Lowe's December deal drops are here just in time to give your home some love. Before holiday hosting this week, get up to 35% off. Select major appliances and members save an additional $60 on the MayTag top load laundry pair. Now just $9.96 plus save up to $20 on select Moen kitchen and bathroom faucets. Shop December deal drops all month long. Lowe's we help you save valid through 1217 wall supplies last selection varies by location. Loyalty programs subject to terms and conditions. See lowe's.com terms for details. Need to restock inventory, cover seasonal dips, or manage payroll. Ondeck's Small Business line of credit provides immediate access to funds up to $200,000 exactly when your business needs it. With flexible draws, transparent pricing, and full control over repayment, you can unexpected expenses without missing a beat. Apply [e-mail] and funds could be available as soon as tomorrow. Depending on certain loan attributes, your business loan may be issued by Ondeck or Celtic Bank. Ondeck does not lend in North Dakota. All loans and amounts subject to lender approval. Find new customers on a platform that's here to stay with TikTok for business, anything is possible. If you've ever thought about advertising your business on TikTok, now is the time to do it. You can drive more customers customers to your website, sell products right in the app, and you can even use TikTok's creative tools to easily make content and find creators to help sell your products for you. Find new customers today, just open your browser, type in getstarted.TikTok.com tiktokads and grow your business fast.

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And goes.

All right, let's take a look at home. And begins to walk into one of the other unoccupied towers to look like just to get a lay of the land. Explore. You see that other Crow Keeper similar. You notice what Wick notice, which is that he's walking in beautiful new full plate armor Crow mantle and is lurching uncomfortably in it. Does it look like he doesn't know how to wear it? Yes. Okay.

Well, I have a moment. I'm getting medical supplies. Right. As instructed. Yeah. You're laying out your instruments. Yeah. While I have a moment alone, I'd like to perform a little esoteric rite and get my spell slot back. Okay. Hell yeah. As you start to do your instruments and stuff like that and prepare.

What does your esoteric rite look like? I'm whispering to myself, but I'm going to Sharathi. Sharathi, Sharadhi. Hear my prayer. See that? One of the knights looks over and says, sort of turns over the other knight and says, it's nice to see a woman of faith. Demon deeds are done.

That old time religion, that old time.

You see.

So within that room, I think, Thimble, you're able to report all that. But you do see that now there is one of the Crow Keepers who's sort of skulking around the castle and is going to be maybe patrolling. Okay.

Wick. Tyranny inside, you see, Kasmir looks and says, so tell me about.

What use I can do to House Hailovar and in turn, what use you might be to me, boy? Well.

Oh, boy. Thank you, thank you.

Thank you. What do you know of House Hailovar and of our operations here in Timony?

You see, he looks and says.

I know enough.

I know that the Creed has been hard at work.

Helping out the earls of Timony, as it were. We have. We have. We have. Yes. And that's what we need help with even more.

There is an earl. Boy. There's an earl. The Earl of Vallow. Vallow. There's an earl. Earl of Vallow. Do you know him quite well, or have you met him yet? No, I can't say his name. Well, you will be meeting him soon.

We waited for audience in Ardourin, but the Earl was detained, busy, so he didn't make time to meet. Makes sense. I'm not. Obviously, I'm not one of his vassal barons. So I.

Understand that once my business is up here, I will be expected.

At the. At the court of Gormalay for his earlship there. Yes, of course. Well, that seems pretty important. What.

Do you smoke? Should we go out for a little smoke outside, possibly? Sort of miserable outside? Sure, I know, but I don't want to smell up your nice castle in here. The smell of tobacco would be welcome. All this mouldering rot.

Right. About that. I just farted.

Well, I'm all set.

What medical instruments do I have access to right now? You made this up. I have no idea. You said medical instruments. You said alcohol. Alcohol. He assumed you had doctor stuff. What other. I mean, what do they have? Alcohol. Yeah. Bring some wine. Bring some mead or something like that. What have you learned laid out on the table? Okay, I have found.

A small. Like a long. Well, not like a sounding rod, but like a big needle. A big needle. Gotcha. So he just looks over in the head and goes.

And alcohol and. Yeah, yeah.

And I'm ready whenever you are, Baron. Should we give you some privacy here? Should we all leave the room? I think we should all leave the room. I want to watch your radio. No, I don't care to at all. That's your business. Let's all leave the room. Hell yeah. Give me a DC25. Persuasion at disadvantage.

Well, it's already a 5.

Sea Cas Mel C. And says, why you should. Are you so fucking interested in getting me alone?

What is it that you think? He gets in your face and says, what's the fucking play here, mate? You think I'm fucking stupid cause I wasn't born to this? I'm a fucking gutter thief that became a baron. So I'll have some respect put on my name, you understand? What use can Sloke be to you? Explain it to me. Why are you, Lord Haylavar, on the road with no attendant knights, no footmen? Why didn't Teconis mention you were coming?

5, 4, 3, 2. All right.

I will cast. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. In a Closed room. Yeah. Here we go. I will cast thaumaturgy. Okay. And on my voice, and I will yell, help.

No. No. Yeah. He failed. He failed. He failed. He failed. He failed. Of course he did. Of course he did.

Of course he did. Okay. I was so close. I was so close. I was gonna whisper. I was gonna whisper poison spray into his ass. Why didn't you do it? Because I couldn't get along. Yep, yep, yep. This is one way to do it. Okay. You scream all the tension. Help. At the top of your lungs. I think we are going to roll an initiative. I think we are. Before we do that, can I cast suggestion?

I think that Sam has screamed help. Suggestion. If you roll well on initiative with the prior knowledge that he said that he has health issues. Okay, look at the face. I'm gonna be super nice. I'm being super nice. I want everyone to acknowledge with eye contact that I'm being super nice. Acknowledging, acknowledging, acknowledging, acknowledging. You are going to roll with advantage on your initiative. Okay, I'll take it. I'm not rolling with advantage. Okay.

I'll see you all in a couple minutes. Oh, two. No, I don't. Not 20. Not 20. Ooh. Doctor. How about that? The doctor is in. Okay. You.

Dr. Finger is in. Where?

Okay, Caden, what do we get for initiative? 22. 22. Wick, what do we got? Dirty 20. Ooh. Good. Rolls may save all of you. Tyranny. Nat 20. Nat 20. That rules. Symbol. What'd you get? 22 for? 22. So are you before or after Katican? Dex. Right. Probably before. I believe Katican got a 22 and went. Got a 30. 20, but you got a 20. You got a 22, but I'll roll that. Nat 20. I'll say nat 20 for us beyond a 22. Go. Beats everything else. Yeah, of course. So, yeah. Thimble, what'd you get? Seventeen. Seventeen. And terror. What'd you get? Five. Five. Okay.

Tyranny, you are going to be first to act. You have so many teeth. I'd like to cast suggestion. Okay. On the Baron. Okay. And say now, now, let's all just calm down. Baron, my associate here, he does have health issues, and it's been a long, long day. I think that he needs a break just as much as you do. I know you. You have important business to do, but you are wounded, and I think that this meeting could go all night. I just want to get you feeling better. Incredible. We are going to roll for his wisdom, Save. The difficulty that you have here, I believe is 15 correct. Yes. We're going to keep this super honest because it could get so nasty on a 15 or higher on the die. He will save. Odds are in your favor, but not a guarantee. That is a seven. So the magic fades over him. We are going to drop.

We are going to. As the magic sort of rolls over him, you see and you see that there are no magic users anywhere on the road, unlike on the road when they spotted him spellcasting for the first time. Suggestion, I believe, is verbal only. You've already been doing this kind of esoteric ritual. You see that the spell. You see this enchantment pass over him. What is the actual part? You've sort of hidden the spell in this longer dialogue to him. What part is the magic part that actually wants to compel him to a course of action? What's the thing you want to compel him to do? I think that you should clear your men out of here and tell everybody to leave you alone for.

For the next while at least, you're gonna be incapacitated.

So the part you want him to really focus on here is clear your men out, just me and him alone in the room. Yeah. Gotcha. Da, da, da. You can see within range, can hear and understand you creatures. That can't be.

Okay, suggestion. Da, da da da. Wisdom saving through it. Pursue the course of action to try the best of its ability. You have magically influenced him. I'm still going to ask for a persuasion check to see he will do that. You have used magic on him. I want to see how much extra gravy gets poured on this. Based on your persuasiveness, DC10 is gonna be good. DC20 is gonna be even better.

That's a 10. 10. Okay. You see? He looks at you, smiling, looks over at Wick. Sorry, I have claustrophobia. He looks at you and says, your Lord would do well to heed your wise counsel. And as for your help, to whom were you shouting? I'm telling you, I get wildly claustrophobic in stony places like this. I just. I was saying help to just sort of get out of this place. That's why we kept on asking you to get alone. Give me one last deception. Check. Oh, God.

That's a 13. He looks at you. He smiles. You think me a fool?

The azifang was a brother to me. Saved his life.

They were depending on you to come through. It was you, wasn't it? They were depending on you to save him. His brother, his family, his loved ones. But you've got nobody at your Back.

I smell it on you. I know when someone's in out of their depth. You're all out of friends. You were to the man of born a house cat caught out in the rain with everything out in the alley. You're fucked. You'll spend the rest of your life calling for help, mate.

Because you're not help to anybody.

You, doctor, are welcome to stay. Take this gentleman outside, put him on his knees and put a sword to his throat. And if anything happens to me, kill him. And he.

And he so seen.

And a penetrative game.

The room clears out. It's you and Kaz in here. Jesus. Oh, no. But he's okay. It's a good run.

And wick, you are put to your knees. I'm going to once again roll a perception check for this crow keeper who's moving around. I have everybody's rolls that you you made for your last stealth.

Kadigan. Actually, we're gonna do a new stealth. All of you guys roll with advantage here on stealth. All of us? Yeah. Am I still hidden? Am I rolling for this? You're rolling again. Because a new crow keeper is like moving around the castle looking for people. It's not great advantage though. Yeah.

Oh, thank God. Thank God. 24. 24. Great. 26. Jeez. At 20. Jeez. What is with you? Wow. Incredible. Real, real whack today.

Can I ask a question though?

This is all. This scene that we've just watched is all just transpired inside. Right inside. But we heard. What I just heard was a booming thaumaturgy help. Correct. Then it's hard for me to justify not taking some kind of action here. Even though it seems like above table that I would do something. But you would see shortly after him coming out the door with sword to his throat. I think in this moment Katigan to go through initiative. Right. So essentially tyranny has stopped us from popping off into violence immediately. However you should react to that big scream of help.

What I will say is. What I will say is this. You see this knight with the horses? I think.

You hear that big scream of help. Let's stay in initiative. I will say that after that scream of help, you don't hear anything else. You don't hear hear combat. You don't hear spells going off or anything.

But we'll stay in initiative for right now it is your turn, Cadigan, what would you do on your turn? Seeing that this knight is about to sprint away from the horses into the castle. Yeah, I think this is all sort of.

He's Been in hunter mode. But I feel like his soldier days are coming back to him. And he's thinking strategy in his head. And even though he's a little bit rusty, and he hears that big help. And I think at first he wants to jump out and run out. And then he slows himself. And he looks at the space. He looks at the soldiers ahead of him, and he looks at Wulfric, and he's like, we need better numbers. He's going to clip real quick. Wulfric's armor off. Cool. And he's going to say, draw him off. Use the horses. I'm going to use that movement 120ft. I'm going to cast fog cloud over this general area where the horses are. And then a second later, for my action, I'll use Wulfric's speed. And these guys will just see a completely nude wolf bound out of the fog and start to go after the horses, trying to lead them in front of here. Just like a wolf attack. Hell, yes. That is fucking sick. As you're doing that, Wick, you're being led out of that door, realizing that you have called for help and that your friends may be coming to you. So you'll be able to act before Thimble and Teor do. Is there anything you want to do, realizing that they may come charging in. Well, now that she's alone, I have no message spell. I have no way of indicating anything to them.

Has the door closed?

The door is about to close behind you.

You still have Thaumaturgy acted. You could just. You know what I'm saying? You have the thing that you did right.

As you're considering what to do on your turn. Fog. Is it my turn now? Yes. Okay. It is about. Yeah. Because you got a 20. You got a dirty 20. With. With. We. There's a trait that I have with. With Wulfric and his build. That's silent bond. Yeah. So even though those few words were spoken, I think there's this innate sense of hunting together for the last seven, eight years, where. Where. Where Wulfric understands my intent. Yeah. And the intent is to, you know, spook these horses and draw the soldiers out in front of these other two with the goal of being like, oh, fuck, the horses are taking off. That's the goal. Hell, yeah. Go ahead, Robbie. Give me a couple athletics checks. Actually, on behalf of the horses. They just need. So it's just DC10 for them to break the snap to get out of there, and they add +2. So you just are trying to roll an 8 or higher for each horse. Great. That's. Man, that's such booty, dude. Oh, wait. Athletics. So I get the. No, it's plus two. Plus two. That's a three. That horse sucks. It was a NAT one. That was a nat one. A NAT one. Miserable fight. Okay, go ahead and roll another one. Okay.

Wow. We're cooked here, gang. No. Oh, sorry. 17. Okay, 17. Great. And then roll one for the pack mule for me and one for the pack mule. Him strong, boy. 14. 14. You see that? As Wulfric darts off this horse, the fog totally surrounding you. Wulfric leaps out of the woods as this knight is turning to prepare to run this far. Horse looks like a big powerful destrier, just insane, eyes wide. Snaps the branch off and starts to run. The branch rattling behind it, scraping its haunches. Cause it just pulls part of the rotted trees as Wulfric tears off after that. This guy's tied to the main trunk, can't pull it off. You. You see this pack mule rips off of his, sees Wulfric go past him. And the pack mule who is fucking down, begins to chase after Wulfric to save the horse. Yes. They're mean. They are. They are. You see this knight seeing them take off, sees the pack mule take off and goes. You see that she fully armored, but you see that her armor, unlike these crow keepers, is like old rusted half plate. She goes, there goes our fucking food.

And she says, hey, hey. And starts to run inside to everybody else, being like, horses are gone, pack mule's gone. That is her turn. Yeah. Food is gone. Food and food.

That is going to be da, da, da. I think on her turn, she immediately starts to undo this other horse to go chasing after the others.

But she calls out Teor and Thimble. Are you entering initiative or are you going to hang tight? I would have tried to find a way to get into that tower. The minute I heard help, I probably would have flown out from this window over here and gone into a window on this tower. Hell yeah. Give me. You just rolled stealth. What was your roll for? Stealth. 26 or something. 26. You dart in. You can literally hear Kasimir speaking. It's the first time you've heard since you saw him in the courtyard. But you're like, you're within a round's movement of him. He's down there with tyranny. You're on the second. I'll say. You're right at the top of the steps right here. Teor. I'm gonna come back around the corner.

I'm not gonna. You let. Let this tree beat me.

Hell yeah. Try and climb this fucking tree one more time. Here we go. Instead of going all the way, do you want to do it stealthily? No, no, no. Hell yeah. Shit's been falling off it. It's got termites in it. It's in the fucking rain. Okay, go ahead and give me an athletics check, if you'd be so kind. Yep. Hell yeah. So much better. That's cock to fuck. Super. 22. 22. Yes. Tayor going up.

I'm going to say go ahead and actually no stealth check necessary. The horses screaming, perfect cover. And you can see as you're going up the tree to the castle wall over here. You can basically see that this knight has run in. You see that one of them calls out and says, dame Cosgrove, what avails you? And you see that she ends up going. She says the pack mule and one of the horses, we need to run after them. We only have if we lose this. This is. This is some great percentage of the baron's total wealth is running down the mountainside.

And you see.

She turns, you see a. This dude right here.

Looks at the other guy and says, keep to the prisoner. And he. Dame Cosgrove. And they pull two other men at arms with them. Begin to peel off. As they do so we are going to go back into once again like peeling people off. You guys are seeing that this is as much a social encounter as it is a battle encounter. Wick, you are fully prone. You've been thrown to the mud. This knight has a sword pointed with a fully readied action to just plunge this sword in between your rib blades.

Are you doing anything on your turn? I will. Yes, I will. I will tell the man it's just me and him. There's some other. So these two men. So there's one guard here and one guard here. They are beginning to leave. But just like last time, how you act in the round or two it takes them to get out of here matters a great deal. Sure. So I will say to the man who's holding me, I am a noble and there is no need to treat me this way.

Let's all deal with this in a friendly manner and I'll cast friends on him and ask him to just take a step back. Go ahead and roll a persuasion for me with advantage. Uh huh. Okay.

23. Okay. He removes his sword from your ribs. You see the crow keeper next to you wearing full plate, says, why are you sparing him. Would you spare a common criminal? Or is this one just highborne? And you see that that rogue puts his boot on your head and begins to push down on the side of your head ever so slightly into the mud of the courtyard, such that to breathe. So you go into form of a puddle. And half of your mouth and one of your nostrils starts filling with muddy water. Water. As he just steps down and says.

Even if I die, I got to step on the heel of his head.

You fucking hate me.

I'm a nice guy.

Kadigan, your ploy has worked phenomenally. These animals have all departed. You guys basically hold off. It's almost like we're going through another round of combat. As the rest of these soldiers. You've peeled off more than two thirds of the fighting force that was going to face you here. According to plan. According to plan. Inside, however, Kasmir turns to you. Tyranny. Just going.

Where do you hail from, Doctor? Oh, me, I'm from South Timoney. Oh, little, little town. You never heard of it because you're a big baron. And anyways, my parents, they just scrounged up all the money that they could afford to get me to be a doctor. And then I got this great job with the Haylovars. They really are something great, you know. Wakanda, he's a little, you know. But I'd rather be stationed here if you need a doctor. You speak so glibly of your lord. Has he not commanded your loyalty or inspired your reverence? Oh, no. He's been very, very kind to me. The whole family has. He's just, you know, he's got some issues. It makes it difficult to travel. You saw his little temper tantrum. But he's great. He really is. And I do think that he could be your friend. Is it okay if I call you Casimir? My name is.

Jezebel. Jezebel. Jezebel. Jezebel Finger. Jezebel Finger, yeah. And this guy calling you a courtesan was way out of pocket.

Jizz finger. You see, he says. He says, jezebel, enchante, Jezebel. And you see, he kisses your hand and says on shanty, he says, well.

Perhaps, yeah, if you could take a look at my injury. I don't think it's actually that severe. This mostly, you know. Oh, no, but we need you in top form. I mean, the Halovas really are so excited to work with you. I mean, just everyone. Doctor, I shouldn't. Doctor, you don't have to lie. Not on his behalf. I shouldn't Say out of turn. I'm so. I'm so sorry. You traveling with him. He has no guards. He's not here on behalf of his family. I know that. Listen, I want to work with you. You're a doctor. You're an accomplished woman. That fool out in the mud outside.

I know a rat. He's a rat. He might not think he is. He might think that he's someone special, but he's a father. He's not a rat. He's not a rat. He's not a. He's trying his best. You might be right about some things. And again, I don't want to speak out of turn, but.

He is aligned. Now, please, drop your drawers. I promise it's nothing I've never seen before. All right. You see, he drops his drawers and Casimir Gavndell Fimble. You can see from the darkness. You see the badly lacerated ass of the man who killed your true best friend. He puts the ass and lacerated.

Is he laying down on the ground?

Is he just bending over? I think he is thrown. I think he actually says, all right. And you see that he takes off his cloak, lays it on the ground, and lays down on top of it. Can I do a quick check to see if I see thimble? Because you're at the window.

Give me perception, which I have really good stats on. We all do. 11. You do not see thimble. Okay.

Okay. I'm gonna start just dressing these wounds. We're gonna get you right as rain in no time. Tell me about yourself. I like to talk while I work. And.

I'm dressing the rags with alcohol and I am just dabbing at them. And I have an above table question, which is that if I do.

Cast poison spray into his ass.

Will he know that he's being attacked? Or can I say it's just. You'll feel a pinch. Any significant damage to cause hit point damage will be well beyond the boundaries of what we feel of disinfecting. It would be similar. It would be like you're going to feel a little bit of pressure. Blam.

The ass is on fire.

I will say too, where we are right now. Yes. So don't let that deter you though. Yeah. Now it's not looking at. You have a window going out. You can see that those goats chasing after the horse that has run off. You also recognize the growl of a wolf. So you know that your friends are at work outside the castle peeling people off. And you can assume that I'm fine.

Teor you get to the Top of the wall as you do. I'm gonna see.

The distance in feet you are from anyone in the courtyard. Okay. He doesn't have line of sight. And you're beyond 40ft for him. So you were moving fast up the tree, which is disadvantage. But the rain is giving you advantage. So give me a straight stealth. Check. Okay.

That's a 21. Damn big cat. Fucking armored cloak. You are standing on top of the wall and can see wick down beneath you. Everybody else here, what you do not see is. You know there's a crow keeper skulking around in the castle somewhere. Inside one of the towers maybe.

But that's where you you land at this moment. Cadogan fog. Wulfric takes off. Yeah. Once he clears out that section.

I'm going to.

And his gear is down there where we were. Yeah. I just want to scale the nearest parapet to be to get into the courtyard. Hell yeah. Go ahead and give me athletics. Okay. Let's do it. Which is human. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Eight. But thankfully I can add eight. Sixteen. Ooh baby. Keep him strong. Cadigan, you are up and over the tree. Khadigan and Teor.

Twin cats. You guys come over the wall. In my mind, I like to imagine it being insane.

Just through the rain. The rain dripping off the eyebrow. Yeah. A little way.

Hell yeah. I would use my whole turn just for that. Positioning and scaling and then hold from there to see what happens. Because I still don't know what the fuck is going on inside the walls. Give me another straight stealth. Another straight stuff. Come on now.

Just strip the coolness away. We got the descriptions out of the way first. We got them out of the way first. I don't have any help. Cause my wolf is gone. That was a nap one. Wow. All good. So here's what's gonna happen.

You guys landed. No one in the courtyard sees you. Everything's going to plan. You look down. You have time. Tyranny. You are prepared. We're in the room. He is prone on the ground. Kasimir Gavndale. And his pants are still on. But they are around his ankles. Mind you, his pants are around his ankle. Don't worry. All terrain is difficult terrain for Casimir Gavndale.

That's true. You ever tried to do a burpee with your pants under ankles and stuff? That's tough.

As you land cat again on a NAT1 Stealth. NAT1 represents a catastrophic failure. Not of ability, but of luck. As you crouch, you are here.

The door right here opens and a crow keeper steps out. And Is immediately adjacent to you, looking right at you and goes.

And we are reentering initiatives. Tyranny. Sorry, gang. Tyranny. We are first act. I cast hold person. Okay. And I'd say I know what you really need. You need to be held, don't you? And I cast whole person on Kumo. Casimir. Kumo. Here we go.

I'm so glad I did that incantation. Hold on. I have to redo this battle. Cause you guys have very success. You guys, I have to say, I know I'm your enemy. Be scared of me, but I'm always ready. You told us before the show that this is the real combat meant to destroy people. Based on the location, we know how scared we were. Oh, yes.

You guys have absolutely nailed the espionage portion of this encounter. Way to go. It's so good. You got him right where you want him.

Here we go.

Okay.

Awesome.

So good. I fucking love it. Okay. We're resuming the encounter. Tyranny. You are casting hold person on Kasimir Gavandale. I just want to hold him a little bit. Once again, this is very momentous. So I'm gonna say 15 or higher in front of the board. That is an eight. You see, he roots to the spot as hold person takes effect. Isn't that better?

Unbelievable. Any bonus action from you or any movement from you, I would like to. There's guards outside the door. I guess I don't know where they are. Yeah.

I would like to. However, with him held, there is.

No noise. There's no sound of conflict coming from inside the room just yet.

Is any. Ooh, shove something in his mouth.

Yeah, I would like to. I'd like to take one of the wet with alcohol rags, and I'd like to shove it in his mouth. Hell, yeah. He gets a. You see his skivvies just glam in the alcohol in his mouth. And he is paralyzed and incapacitated on the ground.

Tyranny. That is your turn. Yes. As part of being held, he is also speechless. Nice. He cannot speak.

We are going to move down in initiative order. Solid. Incredible work. Tyranny. Kadigan, that is your turn. Dr. Green. Dr. Jitspinger, please. Dr. Jitsbinger, please.

So, since I just scaled, my weapon is still holstered and I immediately present to this man. I'm like, fuck. Grab.

Lapels. Shove. But I'm going to try to shove him up and over the parapet that I just climbed off of. Hell, yeah. The old castle Toss. Let's go. The old. And I think too. You see what you Know to be a rogue wearing full plate armor. Oh, this is the rogue in full plate armor. This is one of the rogues in full plate armor. So we are going to go here. He won't be heavy. He's going to be. Have you seen how buff my min max? Yeah, I was going to say I don't know how to min max. So I sacrificed survival and a bunch of other to be abnormally strong. Yeah, there we go. So my athletics, if you're looking for your beat, DC is a plus eight. Jesus. Think it's eight. Yeah, we can see. Hell yeah. I'm not sure if this is different in 2024, but I think we're. So I'm just gonna use the rules as I know them from 2014. This is simply an opposed athletics check. Okay, so this crow keeper.

This crow keeper is going to roll. His strength is not that great.

Go ahead and roll your athletics strong. Be strong. Strong point. That is a dirty 20. Nice. 12 plus 8. This guy got a 16 on the die for a 16. And.

Cadigan, describe what happens to this dude as you grab his plate. As soon as you grab straight by the plate. Fuck. I mean, man. A few words. I'm gonna pitch him up and over my shoulder. Over the waist high parapet off the side of the castle. He goes.

Over the side. As he goes over the side. Go ahead and roll. That's 30ft. Give me 3D6 damage. Okay, let's go. Two three.

Six. Six, three six. 15 damage. That is our first of this battle. Katigan, how do you want to do this?

Yeah, this poor dude, he got a really bad surprise. That was a brutal shit he just took. Yes. Feeling fresh and clean. Yeah, he just got yoinked and he kind of just goes ass over tea kettle. So you think like, oh, this guy's got a chance if he lands on his back in the mud. But unfortunately he lands on the side of his neck with the full weight of his plate mail and it's just snapping quick like a responsible hunter. Yeah. Boom. Cadigan movement. And bonus for you. Oh, fuck.

Did it seem as if the grab and yell alerted anyone? Yes. You see the people down. I think you guys are made full like as you guys are down there. He called up here the struggle teor might still be unnoticed, but everybody down in the courtyard is alerted. I have line of sight on on Robbie on. I believe so. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm actually leaping and cooking my way along the perimeter. I'll use whatever maximum movement I can have to work my way toward Teor. Okay. I want to try and jump that gap and get over to my. Hell, yes. What's your strength?

Plus eight, so. Or your athletics? Plus eight. Yeah, no worries. No roll necessary. You turn. Don't even fuck with going through. You just leap through the air over this mouldering castle. Bam. Land right here using 10ft of movement. You have the rest of your movement left. Yeah. I'll just spend it trying to make my way to Teor because I know being alone in this situation is bad. Bad. Cool. Yeah. All right. That's your movement. Boom. So it said shove. The target must succeed on a strength or dexterity saving throw. It succeeds anyway. You push it either 5ft or have the prone condition. The DC is 8, plus your strength mod, plus your proficiency. Cool. So I guess they changed it from a rolled contest to a flat saving throw, but you got it anyway. But I like a contest. Yeah, funny contest. My bonus action is all tied to my previous combat, so I'm done. Hell, yeah. Great. That is Kadigan's turn Moving down initiative. Kadigan, as you say that our knight is going to take his readied action. Although, no. His readied action was what Chasmir said is, if I don't come out of there. That's right. That's right. So in that case, he does not use his readied action, but he keeps his sword leveled at Wick. Wick, it is your turn. So you are prone. Sword is there underneath you. Or the guy doesn't have his sword pressing into your back, but you got this guy on your head, and you're prone. And it's just the one guy on me. Or this guy has slightly removed his sword. Okay. But there's two dudes because you're friends. And then the rogue is the one smushing your head into the ground. The one smushing your head into the ground. And the rogue's got the cloak in the back, and the guy with the blade at his neck is standing up. Right. That one. Here. Knight. Crow keeper. Knight. Man at arms. Got it. Go.

Do I have the ability to cast a spell in this position? Yes, you do.

All right.

I will do that. I will quote version and Doctrine, 6th book, verse 23. Raise no hand in anger, lest the beam recoil.

I will look up at him, and the tattoos on the side of my face flash with a bright light. So bright, in fact, that it will cast color spray at him. And I'm going to try to blind him. Hell, yes. What is the saving throw associated with? It is a con 15 actually, you know what? Before I do that, I'm going to bonus action activate my innate sorcery. Okay. Which makes it a Con 16 to save. Because it's very rare for an ability to actually do this.

He got exactly 15, which means that that goes from a save to a failure on his part with that. That is literally. It's rare for a plus one to be the difference. He knows his sheet. He knows his sheet, baby. Okay, so you. As you turn around, what do you say to this guy as you call out to him? Or what does it look like? Yeah. Oh, first, the tattoos on the side of my face and neck light up. And that light sort of spreads across the skin of my face to my eyes. And my eyes sort of shine out a colorful beam of light straight into his. His face. Hell, yeah. Blinding.

Sort of recoils. Stumbling back into the mud, blinded. That is your.

I think, on you initiating an attack that is going to trigger the ready to action from the knight who's going to take a swing at you. Go for it.

That does not hit. So you roll out of the way as this knight sword sing into the right where you were standing. That is his reaction. But you have the rest of your turn. So you've used an action. You have your movement left. I will use half my movement to stand. Hell yeah. And seeing as how he already struck at me, I will flee. Hell yes. Oh, he still gets a reaction, doesn't he? I don't care. He does not. He's used his reaction with the. Ready to move. Great. Great. I will flee towards where I see Cad again. Hell, yeah. Using 15ft of movement, you get partway up this ramp to get a little bit of higher ground here as you begin to flee.

That is great.

That is Wick's turn. Thimble, that is your turn.

Okay. I'm gonna fly down.

To Kasimir, and I'm gonna fly and land directly in front of his eyes.

He would have had your back.

Until the end of time.

You shouldn't have betrayed us. I'm gonna take out my rapier and stick it in his eye.

Go ahead. This will be because I believe he's incapacitated right now. You will be making this attack with advantage.

Okay.

That is.

21. 21 is a hit. Okay.

Okay.

21 is a hit. Go ahead. And because you're attacking with advantage, you will be rolling sneak attack on this as well. Oh, that's right. Great. Okay. Rogue. Shit.

Okay.

Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm freaking out. This is your first rogue thing. Yeah. Oh, whoa. 16 points of damage on that first hit.

No, wait. 16 plus 5. So 21 points. She's 21.

Looking at you. Even paralyzed, his face in horror, you see.

The flush of his skin contains this boiling rage underneath. And paralyzed as he is, he is speechless. But you do hear the whine of an attempt to scream with vocal cords that will not move as your sword.

Bursts in gore and viscera as you eliminate one of his eyes. That is your first attack. Take your second attack. Yeah, my second attack with the toy sword. Hell yeah. I'm gonna go to his throat and slit across his throat. Hell yeah. Go ahead, give me your attack. Roll. And that's still at advantage. That is correct.

Okay, that's 19 plus 8. That is a hit. Go ahead and roll. Damage. That is not a sneak attack. Not a sneak attack. You've used yours for the round. Yep. Okay, so that is another 10 points. Jesus of slashing. Woo. Thimble.

Wait, wait. What is this? Plus 2D6. Oh, the plus 2D6 force damage. Plus 2D6 force damage on only two incorporeal foes though. Got it. I understand. Cool. You reach down and open a seam in his neck. That blood begins to gush out of. You see, he.

You have injured him. But Kasimir, you remember. Much like a lot of you guys, Kasimir's seen war before. So you see, he's here. As you start to go to your Grim Butcher's work of exacting your vengeance in this moment incredible turn from Thimble.

That is going to be the knights down here. I'm gonna fly up. Hell yeah. Just in case he gets up. Fly up to the ceiling. Up and out of his range. Any bonus action from you? That second attack was the bonus action. But I can move. So the way Nick works is you actually can combine both of those attacks. I did the rapier first because I didn't know I got advantage on the first one. So all good. So you zoom fly back up the steps. Plus, I wanted the slash to be the second one.

I love that. That's a lot of love.

I want you to see me as I stabbed him in his fist. Which last thing you ever see. You see this knight here calling out says, attend to his Lordship Sword shield. He is going to march up, up after Wick here. And he's going to take some swings on Wick. Here we go. Cat again.

Hello.

Okay.

Wow. That is a mission. Is a 14. A hit on Wicander. Reaction shield.

Slashing out with his longsword cling again. Angelic wings of light momentarily defend you. That is shield cast. This other knight throws the door wide open to see. Do I have a reaction? Do I have time to react to that? Okay. Throws the door open. Sees a bleeding and eyeless Casimir prostrate on the ground. Sees one opponent and does not take time to figure out what happened. He charges in and is going to attack. Tyranny. I'm sorry.

Does a 22 hit. Yeah. And does a 13 hit? No, no. 13. Well, I have mage armor. 15. 15? Hell yeah. Nice.

He lashes out for 4, 7. 10 points of damage to you. Tyranny as heal.

I did have 5 temp HP from Wick Blessing me, but also somebody died. So does that make it just. Just the eight now?

Oh, somebody died. Oh, the rogue. The rogue died. But he was not marked as the target of your. He gave us five. Why is it on here anymore? Did we lose it somehow? The way temp HP works is you can only have temp HP from a certain source at a time. So the 5 is more than the 3. That's what you would want to have. No, it's 8. What's 8? The temp HP from my.

Pact of the blade. Does that happen when any Dark one's blessing. When anybody. When someone else reduces an enemy. Oh, within 10. Peat within 10p. Okay. Okay. So I'll keep the five. Keep the five. So you take five points of damage into your regular hit. Points. Incredible. How much? 10. 10. Okay.

That.

And then that is going to be chasmy withhold person. I believe he gets another saving throw. The end of his turn. He's gonna get another save. Once again, needs a 15 or higher.

That is a 2. You're rolling like doo doo today, buddy.

I just called you like I season peor pride side. That is your turn. Oh, boy. Brennan, why are you so fast? Come on. Yeah, let's Look. I just grabbed a whole bucket of minis and dunk them on there.

You don't need rolls when you control how many people are everywhere. You know, We've learned nothing. I'm gonna. Fuck it. We're gonna go big or go home. I'm gonna run towards the edge and I'm gonna leap off and try and come down on top of this rogue with the flail hero style. Okay. You wanna come on top of the rogue? Yeah. Hell yeah. Okay, so go ahead and give me athletics. I'll say a DC10 reduces the falling damage by 10ft and a DC20 reduces it by 20ft. Got it. Okay.

Wow. That was. It was NAT1 up and over to NAT1. Okay. So you're gonna take full falling damage. You take 10 points of falling damage, but you are going to. I will allow you to basically add another like D6 of falling damage. And you roll with advantage coming down on top of this rope. This is the trick of the cat that never lands on his feet. I know it's not in the rain. I'm not a fan of the rain. I'm not a tiger. I'm a fucking lion.

Jesus. Nine plus. Where's the fucking? Yeah, you're rolling with advantage here. Yes. That is a 15 to hit. A 15 to hit. Hell yes. 15. Sorry. So on that 15, I think in this moment, you see that the flail comes down Klein against that brand new full plate armor. Ping does not connect. Full plate is an AC of 18.

So connect. Any bonus action from you? Yes, with my bonus action I'm gonna take.

I'm gonna stay in his middle, but I'm gonna shift to my right and put myself between myself and between Wick and this rogue. Because I have to protect you. Yes, you do. And with my keep walking on, with my daunting roar, you'll see me sort of crouch down and I will unleash this huge roar. And anyone within 10ft will have to make a wisdom saving throw. Become frightened until the end of my next turn. Anyone within 10ft. And you're getting up between Wick here? Yes. Okay, cool. So it would hit the knight and the rogue. Cool. Anyone that I choose. Oh, God. What is the DC on?

It's a 14. 14. Wisdom. 14. Wisdom. The rogue is horrified at the sound of this mighty roar. The knight to your left sees you join the fray. And you see as you roar just gets up his shield in front and leans into your chest hard. Ready to do battle with you as well.

That is Teor's turn. That is going to be our crow keepers. This one is still blinded, I believe, and looking around for these footmen out here. Great. Okay, so.

We are going to move out in that. Oh, I remember where the other one is. He got thrown off the castle. Sorry. Where are my buddies? This guy is going to.

Yeah, okay. He's gonna take a swing with disadvantage. Blinded by the spell.

And does a 12 hit taor. It does not takes a swing wildly. Blinded by the light, cannot see the footmen are going to engage. This one's going to run up here. This guy's gonna go 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

See you guys close there. He is going to rush in and Save his lord. You see, he closes in standing over Kasmir's body with this polearm. But uses his movement basically to get in here. Or uses his action to dash. That is when we go back to tyranny. Top of the order. It's you. Okay.

Does Kasimir lose his paralysis this after this turn? No. I believe, I believe. Oh, I am going to need a concentration. Oh, that's right. Saving throw from you because of the damage. You took only five points of damage. So it's just a difficulty 10 constitution. I took 10, didn't I? You only took five points of actual hit points damage. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice. And I think it would be the same.

Eight. Oh, boss. So unfortunately, balls. Unfortunately, that means when you got hit by the knight.

Which unfortunately means that Kasimir would have gotten his turn. Oh shit. Yes. We will send him down. Oh, it's just Teor and the Crow Keepers that have taken their turn. So Kasimir.

On his turn is going to use half his movement to stand.

Which he does.

And.

He uses half. You did that to me. I knew that was gonna happen. I saw that whole thing. Let me just scoot her. Oh, okay.

He's gonna use half his movement to stand. Awesome. I think I can fix this. Oh. Oh God. Tyranny. What's your armor class? 15.

He is going to land. His pants are down. His pants are down. He's going to land three. Jenny's exhausted.

From. You said in the last game that he was exhausted cause he hadn't taken rest for a few days. I did say that. That's true.

So he is going to lash out at you. Tyranny. And he's going to deal.

He deals 7. 13.

He deals 17 points of damage to you.

And three poison damage in addition to the. In addition to the 1720 total. Wait, wait, wait. You're resistant. Oh, I'm resistant to poison. That's still one. One more point. Okay, so 18, 18. As he turns around and says.

Well, Dr. Finger.

And slashes across your throat as one hand with disadvantage. Cause he only has one eyeball. Oh, it's true. Because you have no mechanical ability to create a one eyeballed person. We are going to not punish him for the sick flavor of your turn.

Never use poetry against me again.

Versus lawyer. So you see that he slashes out at you, slashing across your neck and sort of across your collarbone. And is then going to bonus action disengage. Use his object interaction to hike his pants up and go fimble. He says we need to Talk, sister. And he's going to dart up the staircase. Always throw it up. And you see the knight next to him goes like, my lord, as he goes after Thimble.

And you flew up there, so no hi, check from you. He sees you up in that room.

Which actually.

Oh, what's back there? The egg. These Extra uppers. Extra uppers. So we're just going to keep this off to one side here to effectively be. That's awesome. So cool. So Casimir and Thimble are both right here. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

As you fly up, so as he rushes up, you see, he goes, hey, then, little Thimble, did you come here to get your revenge? Maybe I'll get mine. Maybe I'll get mine for everything you and he did to me. And he leans forward and is going to try to engage you in. In combat.

In any case. So that's Kasmir's turn. Tyranny. You are still up, miraculously, but you are facing a knight in close quarters combat with a footman right behind him. What are you going to do?

I might take out this egg. Okay. I might take out this egg. What does this egg do? We don't know. Is it the rainbow Mystery egg. I have the mystery egg.

Pull. I mean, it's your dog. All right, what can I get. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Make him do it. Yeah. It could just instantly kill me. It could be a disco ball. We have no idea. One way to find out. I don't know. Yeah, I'm gonna take the egg out, and I'm gonna smash it on the ground. Okay. We're smashing. Does it say what type of action that uses? How did we do us? Right? No, the egg. The egg. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it in? Did you put it in? Did you put it in here? I believe it's in Teor's inventory because we said that he had them all in his armpits, but, yeah, I gave it to them before we. Gotcha. Cool, cool, cool. So it takes a magic action to throw the egg. So that will be your action on your turn. Okay, cool.

You throw the egg. Please roll a D100 for me. Oh, my God. Is this wild magic? Everything's gonna be fine. It's a cool egg. Gonna be great. It's gonna turn you into a sheep. 30. No, you gotta roll two of them. Oh, two of them. 30. 30. 33. 33. Three. Okay, I've done that before.

You throw the egg.

Is this the greater Chanter's egg? Yes, the greater.

Within 30ft of yourself. So, tyranny, you Take a beautiful little rainbow. It feels so heavy and pleasant to the touch. As you throw it down, it cracks apart, revealing it was totally hollow the entire time. Except not super hollow, because there's something wriggling in there. Oh, it's bigger than the egg. And a massive squid explodes into being. Oh, it's so on brand. It's perfect. You summon Eldritch horror. Thanks. You see that? The knight in front of you goes. Dr.

Squid is here in the room. Fantastic.

That's your action. Any bonus action or movement on your turn? I would like. If I try to run past them, they get to attack me, right?

Yes, they do. Oh, fuck. Okay.

I. Does she know what this creature is or can do after throwing the egg or. No, not yet. You don't know shit about this. This squid explodes into being. I assume he's mine because I birthed him.

How's that window? Could that fit a little tiny demon?

You can get. Give me acrobatics to try and get through. Okay. Will that give them a reaction? Yes. They will have a reaction on you attempting to escape in this moment. Can I ask a question? What our rules are in this campaign on healing potions? Is it bonus action? Is it at will? I don't think we've talked about that before. I think we're going rules as written, and I believe the rules as written actually in 2024 are that drinking a potion is a bonus action. I know there was a change in it in 2024. I was just curious. I will consult the book. Bonus action. Bonus action. Bonus action. So if we have that as a possibility. Yeah. Fml. So you have use reaction, bonus action and movement. What would you like to do?

I don't want to die.

Yeah. If you think it's too risky to give them attacks of opportunity, you can stay put. In other words, just because you have actions to use doesn't mean that you are required to. But then I'm going to be in a room with this octopus. With squid. Sorry. Yeah, he might be nice. All right. I would like to.

I would like to.

Back slowly.

Against one of the tendrils of the octopus and just pat his arm and be like, fear me. Give me a dexterity saving throw. Yep.

7. You fall through an illusory octopus. You go phammy and just eat it on the ground. However, you are now completely. You have total concealment as you are inside the mirage of an octopus. It just sucked you in. Dr. Finger. See the footman goes, my Lord Squid.

The squid has eaten. Dr.

This tonally is not what this is. We understand this room is a different genre.

What's happening everywhere else. I think up above in this climactic encounter between Casimir and Thimble, that both of you watch a squid's head clip through the floor like a fucking video game. Just a weird, purple, wet sort of knob rumming through the floor. Okay, so.

We'Ll deal with this later. Deal with this. So I will say this. You actually do move behind the squid. And because you were concealed by it, they do not get a text opportunity on you. Great. That was incredible.

As this thing leaps into being. Okay, amazing. Duck your fingers. You never know what you're gonna get.

How you could find a way to turn this into a hentai summer. Yeah, I knew. I knew what? Cadigan, that is your turn, man. Oh, yeah. Cadigan just goes, I wonder how things are going in there. No, just kidding. Yeah. I'm going to go ahead and un. Unsheath my weapon and I wanna throw a bolt, just a regular old wooden bolt at. It's hard to see how many foes are down there. Two, three. Let's go ahead. I can remove some of these crenellations here too, to help me. Right, cool.

How many baddies are down there? You have one footman, one crow keeper blinded, and one knight. All of them uninjured, but they're kind of like bunched up. Right. Because they're all engaging. All right, I'm gonna aim for the middle guy. Okay, cool. Yeah. So I'm gonna knock an adolateral bolt and from my elevated position, just huck that down at the guy in the middle. Roll with advantage. Okay. Pretty good. 17 plus 6. 23. That's a hit. Okay, great. So I'm gonna wing that at him. That's 1D8. It's a 5, but it seems impossible. Important.

I'm gonna use Savage Attacker to reroll my. Yes. Also, are you doing any bonus? I know some of your bonus actions help damage happen in an attack, right? Yeah. So I've got one queued up. I just want to. Oh, in the attack. No, I'm not going to use Hunter's Mark because I'm going to use my other one. I rolled a five both times. Five plus floor is nine on that damage. And when it sticks into the guy in the middle. Cool. You kind of see that that bolt was hand hewed out of a piece of bramble. So there's little knocks from pieces. So for my bonus action, I'm gonna cast hail of thorns, which, you know.

So then in addition to that damage, everybody within five feet has to make a dex save or takes 10. A D10? Hell yeah. Okay, so you are doing the guy that is going to to hit everybody, including your allies. Ooh, is that within five feet? Within five feet. Oh, no. Now, this guy would hit only the other crow keeper and spare all your allies here. And you can use the same attack roll and same damage if you'd like. Yeah, I don't want to hurt my homies, but I feel like that's change the. Yeah, I didn't know that they were in danger of that. Yeah, you got wick Taor within 5ft. The only person you can hit and do a foot. Five foot spread from him is this guy here who would catch the rogue and not Teor. Okay, I'll still use it. And even if I'm gonna damage that one other guy. Cool, cool, cool. So the first attack roll was 9, and then the second one was a D10 if they fail. Okay, so he's gonna make a. So you do nine damage to that footman, and then hail of thorns means him and people within five feet of him have to make a dex save.

As you hit a creature. This spell creates a rain of thorns that sprawls the target of the attack. And each creature within five feet make a dex save. The footmen fail. They both fail their dex save. You see that? The rogue is blinded by the color spray. So go ahead and roll damage for both of them.

Is that a 9 or a 6? That's 9. 9 damage. Hell yes. Piercing.

Done. Deal.

With the actual hit of the bolt. The footman running up with the spear. He has a spear lowered at Teor there. The bolt through the throat and explodes into brambles and just rips his head partially off of his neck. Dead and 9 damage. That crow keeper stumbling, blinded in armor, is bloodied.

Looking about as bad as could be.

You. That's your action and bonus action. Hell yes. So this last. Yeah, the last crow keeper out there is badly, badly hurt.

Katagan, that is your turn. Any movement on your turn?

Yeah, I'm just gonna actually stay elevated, I think, since we've got a big bruiser down there. And I'm just gonna sort of make a triangle so I've got a better angle at the other side. Okay, you're gonna get over here. Yeah. Equidistance just at the other point of the triangle right there. Perfect. Cool. Great. Sweet. That's it for me. You launch a bolt down, One of the footmen falls. That crow keeper in the full plate armor Is stumbling as thorns fly into his face. And Wick, that is gonna be your turn. Oh, me? Oh, all right. Yes, of course. Having seen this lion man land right in front of me to save the day, lit by the light of my face, I just look up at him and say, you're right. Only Teor is Teor.

And I think I heard my aspirant call out in pain and then get eaten by a squid. So I will go to Dr. Finger's aid and I will run across the room towards the door. Great. You have opponent. An opponent here who is in combat with you and can see. I will start by Misty stepping 30ft away. Whoa, shit. Misty step. Oh, shit. Okay. You teleport 30ft away and can enter this other room with. With your movement as you enter it. There's a giant squid in here.

Tyranny. Are you in there? Be not afraid. I am. I am this squid. I am. Who? I am. I am he who is called. I am.

Do you not recognize a God?

Do I have a bead on her or not? Really? Yeah. Do you have a bead on this? On her? On her. You hear her voice from the other side of this squid? Are the knights scared of the squid? The knights are fucking terrified. I have no idea what's going on.

Let me see what the spell says. Yeah. I mean, it looks and sounds.

Yeah. Make sure that you touch. Shit, I have to touch her. Never mind. I can't see her, so I can't heal her. So in that case, there's. How many bad guys around me? There is a footman right in front of you and a knight on the other side of it. I just cast a spell, so I can't cast any other spells unless it's a. Can I cast a cantrip? You can cast a cantrip? Yes. Cantrip is absolutely unique. Okay. And I can't really see over there. Am I standing between. Between them, by any chance? No, the footman is in between you and the knight. Is there a way to position myself so I'm within 5ft of both of them? Or no, let me see. Yes, there is. Okay.

Then I will use a cantrip. Word of radiance. Hell yeah. Bow to the light, and light will emanate from me and sort of scorch both of them. If it hits, we see a word of radiance. Constitution 14. Save. They're gonna roll. Yes. And you will do 1D6 radiant damage. If they fail. If they fail.

This is a wisdom constitution 14. They both fail. So go ahead and roll 1d6 damage. Do I roll once for each or just one time? And they will both take five damage. They both take five damage? Hell yes. And then I immediately apologize for hurting him.

Incredible. The footman looks hurt by that. The knight looks not very bothered at all by that.

As the radiance goes out. Wick, that is your turn. Thimble, that is you. I feel like I'm gonna throw up. This is so exciting.

I look at him. Um.

Fiance never did anything to you. You were a brother. Your greed is what brought you to this. And I'm gonna attack him with my rapier. Go for it. This is not an advantage anymore. Get his ass. Oh. What is that? That's not anything. Okay. 13 plus 13 plus 7. That is a hit. Okay.

For a dirty 20. And there's no sneak attack here. Cause you're just attacking. Right, right, right. But okay, so that's six damage. Okay. However, because of my weapon mastery, my next attack gets advantage. Okay, awesome. So I'm gonna take attack with the scimitar now. Okay. Awesome. So leaping out with your pin, you deal seven points of damage to him. Yes. Hell yeah. Seven points of damage. Awesome. This, you lash out as you slice. Go ahead and make your next attack with advantage. Okay. 18 plus 8. 26. Damn. That is a hit. And this will add sneak attack. Okay.

Okay. 11 plus 6. 17 points. 17. And you've added your dex, right? Added my dex, added the extra six. Yes. Yes. Great. Unbelievable. You do 17 points of damage.

In this one round. You move Kasimir well into the bloodied condition as he goes.

Pin. And then at the throat again. You've cut both sides of his throat. Sleek blood. A red streak runs down the breastplate of his brand new armor as he is rapidly losing blood. Stumbling after you. I'm gonna whisper in his ear. Catch me if you can, you little bitch. And I'm gonna fly out the window. You see that? He voom. You are out the window. Flying over the air. That's so fucking cool.

You see that's fancy footwork. So we can't get an attack up opportunity. I know you're a swashbuckler rogue. So there is no attack of opportun. Will anyone ever hit you?

Well, no, we see. This is the. Yes. She's the bar fight.

Okay. That is thimble.

It is now our knight's turn.

This knight is going to turn to face Teor down below.

I cannot roll for shit tonight. That is two misses. Suck at the end of it. You suck, dude. And now I'm gonna roll against you with a knight.

What is your armor class, Wick? 12. Oh.

That is a hit and a crit. Oh.

Okay. I. Okay. Okay.

I accept.

We will roll. We will roll. The hit first.

Laura, come back. I feel like the second she left. Yeah, she doesn't really care about me. It's okay. She's having her own.

13 +3 for 16 points of damage, to which. Yikes.

Okay. Are you still up? I'm still up. How many hit points do you have? Only nine.

Wick, I'm gonna tell you right now that there is a. It is very statistically unlikely.

It is statistically unlikely, but it is possible that enough damage will be dealt to you in this one blow to kill you.

I can't shield against this, can I?

A shield you can shield if you'd like. Is this. I don't have to announce what I rolled on the dice, but you should consider. Is this a desperate measure.

That has to wait to your turn? That's not my turn. But is he swinging again or just the next time somebody swings on him? This is the next. This is the very. This is still his turn. This knight got two attacks. It was a hit and a crit. Oh, on who? I'm gonna just see something on Wick. Wick. Down to nine. I wanted to save that spell to heal. Shit yourself.

Room. Let's see what's up. Let's see. We'll see. I'll save the spell. I'll take it. What could happen? Oh, heal yourself. What are you doing? I can't heal myself. It's on my turn. You can't shield. I can try to shield. Shield. Shield. Okay. One was a hit. It might not even work. He might have gotten above a 17 to hit. I have no idea. He didn't tell you what he got. Tell me what he did.

Should I shield myself just in case? I don't know. All right. I will shield just in case. Just in case that works, you shield and it does not work. Burn my fucking spell. Cause of Laura.

No, no, you're right. It's the more prudent. So.

29 points of damage is what it will take to kill you fully in one hit.

All right. Roll some D6s. How many? How many? Hmm?

Sorry, What? You could just die. You could just die now. Yeah, if he. What is it? Cause if it's your. If it's your total under. Right? Yeah.

I'm a barf.

He has the protection of the lion. He's doing math.

Wick, are the words of that night ringing in your mind at all right now. Sorry. Are the words of Casimir Gavndale ringing in your mind at all right now? Of course they are. He somehow, in his dumb state, cut right through to the bone. He knew exactly who I was. If you die here.

Is it fair to say you will have died without any member of your family.

Knowing that you were here? Having your back.

For sure. You take 27 points of damage.

Two points away from instant death.

That's why you laughed.

As he turns around, you see that he looks at this massive squid, goes. Moves through it, sees that it's illusory, rams you through unthinkingly through the chest, twists to make sure you drop, grabs your head as you're going unconscious, and throws you to the ground to begin thundering up the stairs through the illusory tentacles to join Kasimir. Oh, no. On the second story. Well, nobody's in there but Kasimir. Yeah, I might actually wick. You drop to the ground.

Two damage away.

Very close. Don't worry the lady. It's okay. I'm a doctor.

Is there a doctor? Is there a doctor in the.

Remember when you guys were gonna charge the castle with everybody in there? Remember that time when Brittany became the GM and killed almost two characters in the first 10 episodes? I got it.

Now we're gonna roll for Teor. What? Yeah. Yeah. What? What? Oh, no, no, no. I missed. I missed twice. I rolled the dog shit. That's right. Sorry. Got a little bloodthirsty. Casimir. I got one rogue that's frightening me. But the knight is not okay. And one of them's blind. Which one's blind? Oh, is the blind guy dead? Hm? I think the blind guy. Oh, he. No. Blind guy's badly injured. Okay. Kasimir is going to thunder up the steps as fast as he can.

Thunder. Thunder. Thundercats. What you got there, Brad? Top tap.

He is going to thunder up the steps as fast as he can and turn into an eagle.

Oh, cool. Damn, those are cool.

Thunder up the steps as fast as he can. Blood clanking in this armor. He rushes to the side, pulls out a heavy crossbow and says, ty, you're it, Fatwang. And is going to shoot a crossbow at you twice. Brennan, are you mad at us?

We were making one of his dice rolls. I was not. That was you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Wait, is there a mouse in your pocket? Okay.

Does that have. No, there's no way. He has to. He has to use his cunning action. So he's not going to be able to attack from advantage, which means no sneak attack. But he Is going to take two attacks on you.

Does a 15 hit? 15 does not hit. He misses one hits with the other attack at a 24. And is going to deal.

7 points of damage to you with a crossbow. You can tell that that would have been a lot nastier if you had not taken a. Basically, if you'd gotten advantage on that of any kind.

Fires a bolt that just skates past you at a glancing blow. That's a big, wounded glancing blow of a crossbow bolt. Yeah. It's just the tip of an arrow. As you're alighting. You're dodging raindrops in the dismal air. And as you do. So we're actually going to move back. I think this battle's mostly happening outside now. You see. Voom. Yeah. The arrow that passes through you is about twice as tall as you are. So it's almost like a ballista bolt for you just rocketing past.

Teor. That is you, my man. Good gravy. Slow motion.

Yes. Can I. Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. That guy's still threatened. And the rogue didn't. Did he take. This guy take any action on his. Because he's before me, I think. Yes. He swung and missed. Swung in. Miss. Or he's right after you. Oh, he's right after me. Yeah. Got it, got it, got it. I am going to. Yes. I'm going to send a guiding bolt towards the knight that is right up on me. But actually, I'll do it.

No. If I move away, it'll trigger a reaction. So I'll just. I'll send guiding bolt at the knight. Hell yeah. Make him tackle.

Amazing. 24 to hit. 24 is a hit, my friend. Go ahead and roll. Damage 4D. 6, 5, 9. 14. 14 points of damage. Hell yes. And the next attack on him has advantage. Has advantage. Hell yeah. So you see this knight? Sort of. You see he's pushing into you with the shield. You guys. You can immediately tell these knights are seasoned warriors. This guy's armor is rusted. He is the knight of a poor Barony, but he is old enough to have either seen combat in the Falcon's Rebellion or maybe even the war of Axe and Vine. Your flail. He just gets his shield right up under your arm. So he's just driving back with you to not give you the extension. But he doesn't know that you're a spellcaster. And you get a paw right up under his armor and the entire courtyard fills with light. As. As he takes 14 points of damage. You look at him and see a as he has suffered spell injury before and is not afraid, he's going to continue to push into you. Bonus action removement. Yeah, with my bonus action, I'm going to use Shield of Faith on myself to give myself a plus two bonus. I believe that's two leveled spells in the same round. Is it? Oh, you know what? You might be right. It does say bone section, but if you. I think you're right, yes. Okay, then I will. That'll be my turn. Knowing I can't make it to Wick in my speed. Hell yeah. You stay closed with this knight, taking him off the board for any of your other allies. That is going to be the Crow Keeper next to you, who rolls with disadvantage and misses wildly just swinging there in the muck and the rain. Our last footman is going to, I think, charge up to rejoin the knight, chasing after the injured Casimir Gavandale.

And that is going to go back to the top of the order with Tyranny, who is now in a room with a fake squid and a dying Wicander Halofar. Okay, I am going to grab Wick and drag him.

Inside the squid. Okay, on your turn, you see, the squid begins to.

Just swiping at nobody.

Great. I'm just gonna. I'm gonna grab him by his fucking cloak.

If you die right now.

If you die right now, I'm gonna fucking kill myself. Jesus. Back to the pit. Back to the pit.

So you better not.

Would you consider this either a medicine check to stabilize or are you giving the help action on his next death saving throw medicine action? What's that? Do you have any healing pose? I don't have anything that heals. No heal. So I'm just trying to help him. You're done, Doctor.

I can give you the finger. You can give him advantage on his next death saving throw. Okay. I would like to help him as you. Yeah. Bringing him in, you know, begging him in this moment. I think Wicander, you can hear the faint voice distantly of someone speaking to you. You will roll your next death save with advantage. Cadogan. That is your turn.

What do we have left down there?

Blind Crow Keeper. This knight just took a powerful guiding bolt and is looking still very much up on his feet. You know that there is chaos happening in the tower. And you hear the trapdoor fly open and hear Kasimir's voice on the far tower. Oh, man. I can't leave. I can't leave Tayor out of and not 2v1. I'm gonna just keep my elevated position and wing another One at the blinded rogue or what is that? Yeah, there's a blinded rogue there. The knight is the one that has guiding bolt on him for advantage. So you have advantage on him. Oh, that's so helpful. He has advantage on him. And I'll say too, that if you like getting. We are using flanking rules for this campaign as well. So Teor being down there right near T Kor's being flanked, which is tough. Yeah. It's advantage against me from both of them. But if you also get down there and I get across, you get the same. And I've seen you do this before. I know what this is. All right, cool. I'm gonna use my bonus action for hunter's mark. Cool. And then take an attack on this guy with a regular bow. Go for it.

Oh, great. 14 plus rolling with advantage. Oh, yeah. Okay, that's dirty. 20 on that one. And then 16. 20. 20. 20 to 2. That is a hit. Go ahead and roll. And this will be with Hunter's mark. Ah, but I already. Savage attack. All right. With hunter's mark. So that is five plus four, nine. And then another D6 for fours.

Eleven total.

A bolt thuds into the guy's armor and goes. Assassins for the pride of smoke.

Whatever we're protected from. Who do I work for today?

And you see bull workshop. You see bam. The bull hits him. Not bloodied. Oh, this guy's tough. Yeah, he's tough. Yeah.

That is Kaddigan's turn. Any movement from you, does the. Then because I'm new to this, does the force damage push him at all away from Teor from that vantage point? Unless it says it does. Then it does not. I don't know. Oh, it probably doesn't then. No. Okay. All right. Sweet. That's got to be it for me. Cool. You got it. That is going to go and be Wick's turn. Wick, give me a death saving throw with advanced 23s. Thank you.

A 19. A 19. That is a death save success.

Additionally, we are going to add in some homebrew rules for campaign four of critical role. You guys have these sheets in front of you which are desperate measures. They come into effect and you are bloodied, which you certainly are. However, there's some stuff not on that sheet which I'm going to share, which has to do with when you are dead or dying. Number one, you have a single death save success. You do not have a failure. If you so choose at the end of your. You may on a turn.

There are some moves that you can take While you're dying, to keep you in the combat while you're dying, while stuff is happening, you can choose to give a character in initiative with you a dot of heroic inspiration, which means that they can do a reroll on their turn.

Or you may also, if you so choose, if you have no death save failures, you may choose to stabilize. Okay, so it's up to you. You can either choose to stabilize right now, or you can throw some extra rerolls to some of your companions. What does it mean to stabilize? Stabilize means he will not be dying anymore. He will just be incapacitated and unconscious. So if I throw inspiration to somebody, I will still keep rolling. Death saves. That's correct. Oh, boy. Bet someone gets a little inspiration. That's very cool. That's pretty cool. That's fun. And it could be to anyone in my party or just someone close by to me, I think it's got to be someone within line of sight to you. I'll say. So you can give it to tyranny.

Or you can. Anyone have any healing abilities? Yeah, but you're engaged very far away, too.

Tayor, you got heals, right? I have some heals, yeah. Oh, he is.

Can I take. Would Katagan be within line of sight? No. Teor might be through the door. I think Teor through the door is.

I will give Teor inspiration. You or whatever that is looking out and dying here. As tyranny commands you to hold onto life, you instead. Look out. Blood it is. You can literally feel your heart beat in warmth. Each time your heart beats, the stain of blood in your clothes grows. As you push blood out of your body through this open wound, your heart is literally killing you right now. It's pushing the blood out of your body, out of this wound.

Look out and see Teor locked in combat with an extremely worthy adversary. And rather than concentrating your own magical will on yourself, you concentrate on Teor and give him heroic inspiration. You may reroll. So you basically have a mark that you can reroll, a D20 contest of any type, and you get one of those that is your turn. Does that make you fail a save or that just. No, just keep rolling. It's just a thing you can do on your turn so that when people are dead, they can still do some stuff that's really cool. They're still doing some stuff.

Thimble, it's your turn. You are flying in the rain, high above the ground, overlooking the castle walls, with Kasimir and a heavy crossbow staring you down. He looks at you and says, what did you do to me?

You talked me into this rebellion. You talked me into this life. Where was the glorious dawn? How long was I supposed to wait to hear a Falcons cry again?

If you don't actually know that a better day is coming, it's wrong to tell people to wait.

You never did have patience. I'm going to fly in him and go ahead and give me your attack.

17 is a hit. Okay. Oh, boy. Okay, okay, okay.

Okay. Wait. What is that?

That's only three. Three plus five is eight points of damage. Eight points of damage. That's your first attack with the rapier. Next attack at advantage.

Okay, that's an 18. No, that's still 17. 17 is a hit. Okay, so then I get sneak attack on that one.

Oh, oh, oh. 21 points of damage. Good Lord.

With exactly 21 hit points. Laura Bailey, how do you want to do this?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm gonna. So I've gotten both sides of his neck with slashes. And I'm gonna come through on the third flight through and get the middle connecting the two and cut him straight across the front of the neck. And look at him in front of the one good eye and say, can you hear it now?

Hell fucking yes. Yes. Oh, man. Over several turns of combat, you slowly opened up this giant's neck. A four inch tall warrior, certainly over this many rounds of combat, to deliver this finishing blow, you have taught Kasimir Gavandale the meaning of patience.

As you pull his throat out, he collapses over the parapet. A grim banner as his cloak unfurls, drapes over his head and soaks with his own life's blood, the first and final pennant of the Baron of Sloke.

Killer Tur. Bad Ass. Bad fucking ass. And I must ask you, in this moment, if you have any bonus action or movement.

I do have movement still, so. So I will fly up and. So I'm right here. So I'm going to fly up and make eye contact with Kazimir, because he's the one that I can see up there. Yeah, you're looking. Yeah. Making this I can. With Katakan across the. We got a lot of C names. We got a lot of C names. All I can see is Kasimir. So, yeah, hanging in the air over here. As you alight, you hear the thundering footsteps of Kasimir's men at arms, who would have absolutely closed distance with you on their turn. So getting away from them, hanging in the air over the battlefield, you make eye contact with Cadigan, Casimir Gavndale. And I hold up my tiny sword. The toy sword glimmers in the dim light of the rain. I can't see that. Are you holding up something? What do you have?

Unbelievable. Thimble, that is your turn. These knights are gonna go. This one's coming for Teor. Does that mean I get my attempt HP back? No, fuck. Not within 10ft. God damn it. He ran him dumb steps. Although he died. Would you get him from him dying? No, he's not dead yet. Aw, that's true. Not dead yet. I can die if that one 15 hit T. That is my AC. Cool.

This guy launches forward for 12 points of damage. As he gets the bolt in the neck, he looks up at you and says, why don't you come down and dance? As he slashes out for the damage to you.

Thundering into that side.

And within this next guy.

Up to the roof. This knight comes to see Kasimir. And you turn, look around as he sees slumped over the battlement, cloak over his head. You see, he just walks over and starts to perform a medicine check to basically see if this is. See if he's toast. Yeah, Teor, that's your turn. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. Okay, I'm gonna try something probably stupid since we're in the middle of this fight.

I'm going to look at this big, big ass beefy knight that's in front of me and seeing. I wouldn't see Thimble fly up into the air, right? Unless that light is a. Yeah, I would have flared up brighter after that kill. Yes. I think you see with that victorious this glimmering toy sword in the air that it appears that your work here in the castle has. What you came here to do has been done. Got it. I'll take the flail. I think I'm in this fighting position across from the knight, and I'll sort of rise up almost relaxed, and I'll hold up the mace in front of him and I will say, we have no quarrel with the king. However, the crows must die. And I will swing underhanded into the rogue next to me, just ignoring the knight and just trying to uppercut this guy with the Hell. Yes. Go ahead and give me attack with advantage. He's blinded.

Yeah, that's 19 to hit. Go ahead and roll damage. Amazing. I have the inspiration, but I don't need it at this moment. Where the is he? There it is. Seven. Amazing. Plus two. That's 11 points. And if. And if he's still up, it would drop him prone, you see? Not a chance. Boom. You catch this stumbling guy who's been slashing at you wildly with this knife. You catch him under the chin and he leaves the ground in full plate before he hits the deck and is no more. Which is the last of the Crow keepers in initiative. And with my bonus action, I would sort of just.

Like thwack all the blood off of the flail into the mud and use my cape to clean it off. And I would look up at him and say, whatever they have on them, you may keep.

Give our regards to the king. And I'll put lay on hands on myself for my bonus action. And I'll pump 15 bonus points in the whole. You watch. You see, he watches an honorable warrior swiftly undo his work of the past few seconds and just stand there. I haven't taken a step away. Yeah. Incredible tyranny. That is your turn.

I take away disguise self. So I'm back to tyranny. I look at Wicked and I say.

If you die.

Fuck myself, I will kill an orphan.

I look at him and I say, God, you really have really very pretty eyes.

And they're gonna make beautiful cocktail garnishes for me if you fucking die for it. And I would to like to help him again. Hell yeah. You give him advantage on the next death saving throw. Amazing. Kadigan, that is your turn. Oh, man. You look and see this move from Teor here. I don't think from high up on the wall, you can see whether it's going to work or not, right? I think we'll roll a persuasion on this Knight's turn. So it's up to you what action you want to take in this moment.

I don't do well with insults. Yeah, I just dive off of the parapet to try to land on top of this guy. Hell yeah, dude. First of all, give me acrobatics or athletics to make the jump. Same thing. DC 10 takes away 10ft. DC 20 takes away 20. Okay. I'll sheath my weapon out right before I jump. Athletics. Uh oh, bad call.

Well, athletics or acrobatics? Either one. Fucking coolest guy in the world. What'd you call me? 8 plus 8. 16. 16. Okay, you take. Oh my God. Snake eyes. You take two points of damage. Ouch. From the fall. Go ahead and give me athletics with advantage.

You're trying to beat a 15 with advantage. Yeah. Athletics. Yeah. 10 plus 10 plus 8's gonna do it. 18. So Tayor, you do this incredibly honorable thing standing there healing yourself. Be like, you may take whatever you find on them, but this guy did a moment before Say, why don't you come down here and dance? And Cadogan obliges. Cadigan, this guy is full prone face in the mud. You are straddling him on top of him. Yeah, and my intent here, since I did sheathe my weapon, and I'm not a total idiot, but I can't abide the insult is to. I'm gonna attempt to grapple him on top of him. Yeah, you are straddling. You are full crocodile. You like flying X from the wall. Crocodile hunter. Arm around this dude as he is in armor. His face exactly where Wix was. And the impressions his face made in the mud. You've got him locked up to Tayor. I go. I got him.

That's it. I'm just holding them locked in. End of my turn, Wick. At the game.

Wick. Go ahead and give me a death saving throw. You have the. I only have one D20, thank you. That's weirdly cocked.

15. Another success. Cause the other was a 3. It is your turn. You can choose to stabilize or you can give another D10. Oh, I thought you only got that choice once. No, no, no. Every round while you're dying, you can give inspiration, or if you have no failures left, you can choose disabilize. I will stabilize.

Here as a voice. Wick, stabilizer from another dimension. Eyes.

Which stabilizes thimble. You see, looking down, you don't see any active combatants. You just see the knight and the footman back here on top by Kasmir's body. And you see Katagan grappling this knight in the courtyard. It is your turn. I'll fly down and say.

It'S done. It's done. We should go. As you do, the knight turns around. All of you have made these moves here. I will say make a persuasion with advantage due to the actions of your companions that are also choosing to use their turns non violently. Amazing.

No, no, no. You can use the inspiration. Oh yes. Re roll. Reroll them both. Reroll them both. It applies to. I choose to love the guy. To both. Oh, that is crazy.

That is.

14. 14. You look. The guy underneath Cadogan goes fucking. I will do anything to defend my lord. I am an honorable from on the tower, you hear?

It's over. Cosgrove. On that knight's turn, who goes after the other knight, having performed his medicine check, walks over and calls down and says, the baron is dead. Ser Cosgrove, lay down your arms. We are prisoners of war.

Castle Sloke is yours. And that's where we'll take our.

We got a castle. We got the world's worst castle. We're not going after anybody. We're setting up shot baby.

With a big fucking squid.

No, that's our squid room. We're not the soldiers table. We're the subcontractors table.

We all become landlords. Killer fucking work gang. How about it, folks? The fall of the Baron of Sloke and the rise of a a brand new series of homeowners. Congratulations, everybody.

And we will see what is to become of the crumbling Castle Sloke. Or indeed of. We know that there's at least two other Crow keepers or one other crow keeper. For indeed elsewhere in Silver Gully Breeches. Sir Gully Breeches still at large. And we'll see what is to become of him after the break. Wow. Cute and blue.

And that's where we'll leave our story for now. Part two of this episode of Campaign 4 drops this Tuesday. Thanks for listening and we'll see you soon. For more critical role.

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