c1ep3 - Black Flames pt.3

In the aftermath of Do'ang Village, our heroes find them on the road to their next destination. Traveling on foot can be dangerous, especially in lands unknown. At least they'll have each other....and their flames. Fire Magic, I mean. 

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Episode Introduction

Speaker 1 0:00

This is Jackie . My name is Jor .

Speaker 2 0:02

I'm Chris . My name is Kent .

Speaker 1 0:04

And this is . Wonderful okay , we're back from our break . They gave gave me enough time to like kind of figure things out . So , yeah , you guys left off with Sky going straight to bed because he was pretty much dying , wagnu's taking a watch and Shisui are you sleeping as well , or what are you doing right now ?

Speaker 4 1:01

Uh , yeah , I'm trying to get some sleep in because I'm going gonna cover the next shift or the next watch wagnu , is there anything you want to do ?

Speaker 5 1:09

um , no , like I said , I was just kind of like tuning my loo and kind of like like practicing nothing .

Speaker 1 1:14

Crazy yet so go ahead and enroll me a survival check to see how the night goes nice 14 . 14 . Compared to dolong village this where you guys are at right now it's a lot more lively . There's a lot more greenery around . The difference is almost night and day . It's crazy , but you are safe and you get through your watch fine , as Shu Sui begins to kind of wake up .

Speaker 5 1:38

Hey you awake Shu Sui .

Speaker 4 1:39

Yeah , yeah , still waking up . Yeah , get some shut-eye , I'll take a walk .

Speaker 5 1:48

Yeah , thank you , man , I appreciate it . And then just put all my stuff to the side , get some rest .

Speaker 1 1:54

Okay , anything you are doing before you start taking a watch .

Speaker 4 1:59

No , not particularly .

Speaker 1 2:01

Go ahead and roll me a survival check 23 .

Speaker 1 2:05

23 . 23 . You sit by yourself here with two new friends that you just met . It's only been a few days , but you're kind of like taking in all the information you just received . You turn to your right and your dog is there , sleeping peacefully . Everyone seems to be relaxed for the first time in a while . As you stare up in the sky , as the stars twinkles , this is what you ping was when you were here . This is the peacefulness that you had always known , and the night goes by safely , and it's morning as the sun comes up . Who is waking up first ? You guys take your benefits of long rest , of course oh yeah everything comes back .

Speaker 1 2:55

Yeah , it's not down anymore .

Speaker 2 2:58

I probably be yeah since I've been knocked out this whole time , and the other two guys just went to sleep .

Speaker 4 3:07

I just assume I'm still up For my long rest .

Speaker 1 3:10

Yeah , you're still up . Your watch is yeah , so you notice that sky's getting up right now .

Speaker 4 3:17

So how does it feel to be alive again ?

Speaker 2 3:21

Oh , it feels great , oh man .

Speaker 5 3:30

That was a good long rest , dare I say . I'll say I'm like stretching good morning , good morning all right .

Speaker 4 3:36

Well , I've , uh , I managed to remember the ways to Fang Village . It's not too far away , but well , it's not close , but it's the closest we've got . So take a moment , kind of get rid of the stress from the past couple days , and we'll set out .

Speaker 5 4:00

Yeah , let's hope they have some food Without drugs .

Speaker 4 4:04

Yeah , I mean I would say that's a rarer occurrence getting drugged , or at least this was the first for me .

Speaker 5 4:15

Come by my village more often . No , I'm just messing with you . I don't know where my village is , but I'm ready . I'm going to start packing up my camp stuff .

Speaker 4 4:23

If you're all ready , then we'll put out the fire and I'll get started .

Speaker 1 4:29

Okay . So how the distance

Setting Out After Rest

Speaker 1 4:32

and everything works in this area or this realm . Really think of it like Hmong villages , you know when . There are only a few villages , but they're very far . So thing is the closest village to you guys , but still pretty far and you're going by feet . Um , I can't put like an exact like , an exact , like mileage number , you know , but just know that it'll take a couple days to get there . We can do it with like a few checks and stuff without further ado . You guys just want to start going , we can just start going , all right . So who's taking charge ?

Speaker 4 5:10

uh , I guess I'll take charge , since I'm the one who knows the way yeah , okay , the huge um , go ahead and roll me a survival check . Uh 22 .

Speaker 1 5:25

22 , nice , nice . You guys , with the leadership of Shusui leading you guys , you guys managed to get through this area pretty safely . Eventually , night comes again , but you guys feel like you've covered a lot of ground . Who's looking for the next camp spot ?

Speaker 2 5:47

yeah , specious way , right you got it it's fine .

Speaker 4 5:50

Yeah , I'll do the heavy lifting here . What's with your ? Care , brother , yeah over your charisma base classes . Yeah , honestly , watch me roll that one oh that's funny , uh , that's funny oh , the best place .

Speaker 1 6:11

oh yeah , you found an amazing place , uh , high up , where you don't have to worry about , like you know , being ambushed by anything . Um , you all set up camp here , set up your fireplace as night comes back around , who's taking watch ?

Speaker 4 6:33

I go . Uh . So I've been up since I took over the night watch last night , so I think I'll be the first one to turn it in , if you guys don't mind .

Speaker 5 6:45

That sounds good to me .

Speaker 4 6:47

And at worst because at worst hopefully my dog will notice I just go and fall asleep in my little bedroom .

Speaker 1 6:58

Okay , what are you two doing ?

Speaker 5 7:00

I have a quick question .

Speaker 1 7:02

If I use spells right now , I still get them back from the long rest , unless something happens , unless you roll like very bad for your , like your check . If you are staying up , then you know something can happen .

Speaker 4 7:13

Oh man , I found us a nat 20 place to stay , unless you're rolling like a nat one . Yeah , that's what I was like . I was like oh , I was like yeah , that's what I'm saying .

Speaker 5 7:23

I might as well take advantage of this right .

Speaker 4 7:25

Alert all the evil spirits about where we are . Yeah , okay , like that's really the only way . I mean just because I was like it'll be a cool time .

Speaker 5 7:35

Um , all right . So basically the way I'm thinking about it is this is a really nice spot to rest , so I'll basically get a chance to show my spells to Black Sky . Yeah , all right . So don't tell anyone . I can do this , especially when we're in battle , because you know it's like a hidden secret . But I have some pretty cool spells that I can use to help you out and I'm just going to show you a few . So the first one I'm going to show him is Heroism . Okay , and that one it's pretty cool . It's like any willing creature that you touch is imbued with bravery and then , until the spell ends , the creature is immune to frightened condition and gains temporary hit points equal to your spellcasting ability modifier at the start of each of their turns . So that's like kind of . When I read that , I was like is insane . It's pretty cool . Yeah , my modifier is for yeah , right , like dude . I yeah , I thought this was like , I thought was a joke spell , but this is actually like insane it's an accident , yeah yeah , yeah .

Speaker 1 8:38

So I'm gonna cast it on black sky also , like you know to show him okay , so I , I I touched black sky real quick and then I'll cast heroism okay , yeah , sky , you are overcome with like a sense of of strength , like you're not afraid of anything right now . Um , you feel like power surging through you , dude you could do this all alone .

Speaker 5 9:04

Don't tell anyone , especially .

Speaker 2 9:08

Shisui . Alright , well , since you're showing me something , I guess I could show you something else that I could do , which I never found use of it . But I , yeah , I will show you that I'm capable of disguising myself . What ? And I'll disguise myself to look like Wagano . No way Okay .

Speaker 5 9:35

Wait , is that the sexiest man in all ? Of Yupeng , how do ? You look just like him . That looks pretty small man .

Speaker 4 9:42

You've only seen one village , just like you , brother . You look , just like you .

Speaker 5 9:44

you've only seen one village , just like you brother , you look just like me , and they were all dead that's crazy .

Speaker 2 9:52

You could do that the whole time yeah , I just never found the use of it .

Speaker 5 10:00

But it's something I could do well , we'll find use for that , for sure , for sure . We can surely find use for that . Okay , cool , all right . I'm gonna show you one last thing before I take a rest , since you are immune to , or since you can't be , scared . You know you're not , you're not feeling , friend , right now . I think you should take first watch , right ?

Speaker 2 10:20

yeah , yeah , of course , awesome , this is one of the grass another little trick I can do .

Speaker 5 10:25

It's called true strike , so essentially oh wait , I just want to make sure I can use this on allies for you only I think yeah dang , yeah , it is only for me . So self , oh sure yeah I have that one too okay , actually I'll show you more later . I'm a little tired , so , okay , I'm gonna take a rest .

Speaker 1 10:45

Then I'm gonna take my rest okay , yeah you uh , go and sit down by the fire and sky . Are you doing anything ?

Speaker 2 10:53

um I will just use my elementalism beckon fire just to , uh , make our campfire a little more brighter , and that should be good .

Speaker 1 11:05

Where you guys are at , the trees are out of the way . You can see the sky clear . There's stars everywhere On you . You start to feel like a gust of wind blowing , like a little breeze coming through your pockets . You can feel that it's coming from the fragment that you have . All of a sudden , the fire in front of you turns off ah , man , not again .

Speaker 2 11:36

I look at the fragment . Is it you , old man ? I thought you've been put to rest and in peace .

Speaker 1 11:53

And then , before anything happens , I chuck a fireball at the campfire just to Brian to set the campfire up again . You set the campfire again with your fireball . You hear like a whisper in your ear .

Speaker 2 12:09

The fire goes out . Okay , it's not the old man . I thought it was him this whole time . It's not him . Um , can I , let's see ? Can I do an arcana check on the Fragment ? Is that a thing ?

Speaker 1 12:28

Yeah , what are you trying to learn about the Fragment ? What are you trying to get from it ?

Speaker 2 12:34

I'm trying to see when it's the most active .

Speaker 1 12:42

Okay , go ahead and roll me an Arcana check .

Speaker 2 12:46

All right , I'm trying to see if it's active at night or during the daytime . I should have clarified that .

Speaker 1 12:51

Arcana check dirty 20 dirty 20 , nice , um , as you kind of hold it in your hands . Um , it doesn't need to be active right now . It doesn't seem to be doing anything right now . It's just weightless in your hand .

Speaker 1 13:09

You do recall that it was something that was bound to GA . When you first tell that , you got the memories of GA all kind of like swarm into your mind as someone with who's adept at like magic stuff or just being adept at using magic right , I'll say that you kind of get an idea of like how magical items work , the effects of it . You're not too quite sure what it does , but maybe if you attune to it take some time to attune to it it might give you more , more clues I just keep talking to the fragment um , and then , and then I'll just say who are you ?

Speaker 2 14:02

what do you want from me ?

Speaker 1 14:04

You don't hear anything back .

Speaker 2 14:07

Last chance . I know it's not you , Elder GA .

Speaker 1 14:11

You don't hear anything back . You just hear the breathing of Wagnu . You hear Shusui , just kind of like breathing peacefully .

Speaker 2 14:21

Okay , I'm just going to be here . I'm not not gonna answer you next time . Forget you , and I light up the campfire again .

Speaker 1 14:32

All right , chris . So how does attunement works ?

Speaker 4 14:34

again , this is like 30 minutes to attune or like an hour trying to attune to it , because there's attunement like conditions , because normally the item tells you how to attune to it once you so , but isn't there like a certain time limit yet ? Yeah , so that kind of like yeah I think most of them are like 30 minutes or an hour and but some of them are like super specific and those ones are like instant okay , okay , um , in this instance , since , since this is an ancient artifact , sky , do you want to try attuning to ?

Speaker 2 15:11

this item .

Speaker 5 15:12

Yeah .

Speaker 2 15:13

I was just going to say , once I light up the campfire , I'm just going to sit with the fragment in my hand , meditating to myself and trying to interact with the fragment . So yeah , I'm gonna attune to fit .

Speaker 1 15:29

Uh , let's , let's , let's , make this rule real fast for um . So , from for now on , for all of the uh , the fragments to attune to it , let's do , uh , three successful checks per like , one check a day uh . Mm-hmm , you just gotta be a DC 10 . Okay , so just a straight row , beat a 10 , and then that would be one success . Now that happens if you fail , you just don't turn , you just take longer . To a tone , to it's it .

Speaker 5 15:56

I see .

Speaker 1 15:56

Oh , you can only do it once a day , that's all this sounds good , oh , once a day yeah .

Speaker 2 16:01

Yeah , I'll meditate , attuned to it , and then I have to roll a d20 right , yep no bonus nothing uh , no bonuses , but if it's a nat 20 it counts as two .

Speaker 1 16:11

Oh wow , okay . So you spend a while to meditate . Uh , it doesn't do anything , it just makes it . It makes you take longer to attune to it . So next time you have to do it again . Eventually , when you get three , you attune to it .

Speaker 5 16:27

I see .

Speaker 1 16:28

But what we'll do . I guess we can do it like make it a little harder , right ? If you hit a nat one , it takes away one success . We'll do that . Cool . So nat 20 gives you two , nat one gives you one . If you fail , nothing happens it . You start to meditate and your eyes just kind of start closing and you get tired .

Speaker 2 16:49

Alright , is taking a watch next or unless you want to keep watching , I will keep watching , assuming that much time hasn't gone , passed by .

Speaker 1 17:02

Okay , so it does take you . Let's say it took about like that whole interaction , right , there was like four hours , oh damn . Okay , you can go to sleep now and someone can take a watch , or you can just continue to take um another four hours of watch , but you won't get like the benefits of a long rest , uh what was the thing that george buffed me off earlier ? Heroism , heroism . Uh . What does it do ? Makes you like , not afraid of anything . You can't be frightened , okay , and uh you get temp hp .

Speaker 5 17:31

Yeah , every one , every each of your turns okay , yeah I will just concentrate and take watch .

Speaker 4 17:39

Okay , and it only lasts a minute oh okay , wait , so right as oh yeah , so right as uh right as oh shit so right as Wagner fell asleep

Speaker 2 17:50

you don't feel strong anymore . Okay , okay , okay .

Speaker 4 17:53

Wait a second Good thing , you pointed that out , chris .

Speaker 3 17:56

I'm concentrating on my sleep , really I'm concentrating on my sleep .

Speaker 5 18:04

You guys can't do that . I'm kidding . I'm kidding bad . My bad .

Speaker 2 18:09

Oh yeah , um , all right . So since I'm tired out from meditating , I'm gonna check up on shisui's dog . Um , and then before . Yeah , I'll check up on shisui's dog and then I'll wake up shisui huh hey , Shisui . It's your turn .

Speaker 4 18:25

Get some sleep .

Speaker 2 18:28

Alright , I'm gonna brighten up the campfire again before I go to sleep .

Speaker 4 18:34

Anything happen while you were taking a watch .

Speaker 2 18:37

You're the best scout ever . Nothing Peaceful , quiet , beautiful moon , alright , goodnight .

Speaker 4 18:44

As .

Speaker 2 18:44

I take a watch . Nothing . Peaceful , quiet , beautiful moon .

Speaker 4 18:47

Light , alright , good night . And then , uh , as I take watch , I just Make sure we're not like Going the wrong way or Taking unnecessary detours , and make sure we're on the right track .

Speaker 1 18:59

Okay , I guess you can give me a survival check for that . Just kind of try to get a sense of direction .

Speaker 4 19:06

Well , since I have heroic inspirations for taking long breaths and I took one last time I'm just going to use it because why not ? All right , somehow it got worse . That is 18 .

Speaker 1 19:22

You think you're going the right way , as far as you can remember from like a couple years ago , 10 years ago . I don't know how long you've been out , but you think you're going the right way .

Speaker 4 19:30

And then I'll just spend the rest of the time until morning trying to get my dog to learn commands .

Speaker 1 19:40

Just basically like sit and go , perfect , perfect . Go ahead and give me a animal handling check first for that uh , that is a 30 20 nice . What's the modifier for that ?

Speaker 4 19:52

uh four four .

Speaker 1 19:53

All right , uh , your dog learned two tricks . Uh , you can two basic tricks , so go ahead and , just you know , note them down and tell me what tricks he learned .

Speaker 4 20:04

All right , man , that's so cool . Oh man , now I have to figure it out , all right .

Speaker 1 20:11

If you don't have it now , it's okay , you can think on it . You can think on it .

Speaker 4 20:15

I'm just going to take Stay and then Lux guy , cool , so I'm just going to get him to . He'll find one of you cool I'll teach him how to follow wagnu next . Okay , go to wagnu all right .

Speaker 1 20:31

So the scent of sky pretty much , black sky pretty much , yeah , okay , um , everyone's aside from you and your dog are sleeping . All of a sudden , you start hearing someone from down below . It's calling out your name . Shusui , shusui , it's me come down here .

Speaker 4 20:54

I don't budge because I know that pretty much the only people who know me are dead or they want to be here .

Speaker 3 21:03

Shus way , come on . You got to go home . Your mom's sick .

Speaker 4 21:09

We got to go home , hurry up oh man , that's a that's a real shame . And I just continue to ignore the voices getting my dog to do the same two commands over and over again .

Speaker 1 21:27

Eventually the voice gets louder , to the point where it starts to annoy you . As you're looking around , it doesn't seem to be bothering your friends that much they're sleeping through it but it does start to get annoying and then eventually the voice leaves and with that your watch comes to an end . End , and morning comes as everyone wakes up awesome man , nice spot , she's sweet .

Speaker 4 21:52

I slept like a log oh man , that was good as you say that she's sweet , gives you a look and he goes . Aren't you an elf ? You're an elf right . Yeah , I heard , elves don't need to sleep .

Speaker 5 22:11

Oh , I do it for pleasure .

Speaker 4 22:12

Is that true ?

Speaker 5 22:13

I like to sleep for pleasure .

Speaker 4 22:17

Oh , okay , okay .

Speaker 5 22:21

No , I'm kidding , I do it to dream .

Speaker 4 22:23

Interesting .

Speaker 5 22:25

Where are we heading , though ?

Speaker 4 22:26

We're still heading the same way . I don't think we veered off course or anything , so just keep on going .

Speaker 5 22:35

Awesome , I'll just pack up my stuff .

Speaker 4 22:37

I just mentioned to them that if you hear voices in the night , just ignore them . Why ? What happened to them that ? Uh , if you hear voices in the night , just just ignore them . Why ? What happened ? Well , you know the voice is trying to say things to get you to go towards them , but , uh , they don't really know what they're talking about . Like a ? Uh , the voice tried to convince me my mother was ill , but my mother's dead , so oh gosh Sorry . Not .

Speaker 5 23:10

I'll remember that .

Speaker 4 23:12

It's something that happens . Gotta keep going .

Speaker 5 23:17

Yeah , you know these places better than me , so I'll take your word for it .

Speaker 4 23:21

Yeah , I mean , they're just when . They're just voices , you don't really gotta worry about it . If something shows up , then you have to be worried about it . You guys all packed and ready for another day of uh walking , I'm ready to go yeah , just look at the fragment hauled up in the sky , expect it .

Speaker 1 23:43

So who's taking lead again ? Should we take lead again ?

Speaker 4 23:46

Pretty much All right .

Speaker 1 23:47

So we'll do it like this If you want to cover more ground , so go at a faster rate . You can roll a survival check with disadvantage , but if you succeed , you cover more ground . If you want to go at a normal rate , you just roll normally . If you want to go out like a slower rate , but you're safer , you can roll advantage like that , I like that how does that work with inspiration ?

Speaker 5 24:13

do I just ignore ?

Speaker 4 24:14

the advantage or disadvantage and just take the new single roll yeah , you would just take the single row .

Speaker 1 24:22

We just make it cancel out oh , I go , uh .

Speaker 4 24:26

So , guys , you guys , how are you guys holding up , how are you guys just supplies ? Do we need to speed up , slow down , or how are you guys feeling ? I'm feeling good , I'm just a little hungry yeah yeah , we'll just keep going the same pace we've been going to the something happens and we'll just is that normal pace ?

Speaker 1 24:53

yeah okay , so just go ahead and roll me 1d 20 that is a 18 18 , nice . You start traveling , everything seems to be going well . You cover a decent amount of ground . You can swear . You swear that just maybe one more night , one more day and you guys might be closer to this village . Who wants to look for a place to camp ?

Speaker 5 25:16

I'll do it this time , yeah are you sure ? Yeah , you do it the last two times , I'll give you a break , but you're feeling confident yeah , allow me , I'm not just a wonderful singer with the voice of an angel . All right , I can find a nice sleeping spot okay I'm ready for that one all right , it's a d20 right .

Speaker 1 25:40

Yeah , so 1d20 . Let's go .

Speaker 5 25:44

Oh nice , Alright , so 17 .

Speaker 1 25:46

17 , nice , you found a pretty good spot . I mean , you are an elf , you know your way around . The forest Might not be these forests , but for the most part they're almost all the same . You find a nice little place , nice little trees , like a little river flowing by , and you guys set up camp .

Speaker 5 26:10

All right , I think it's only fair . I take the first watch , you guys did it , the last two the other night , all right .

Speaker 2 26:17

I'll take second watch , okay .

Speaker 4 26:20

Cool , and then I'll take the morning watch then , or the dawn Awesome and then I'll take the morning watch then .

Speaker 1 26:26

Or the dawn Awesome , alrighty Shusui and Skye , you go to sleep . Anything you're looking for .

Speaker 5 26:31

Just singing them to sleep .

Speaker 1 26:41

At this point you start to hear animals growling . They're near you guys , it doesn't sound like it's far off .

Speaker 5 26:48

I take a look around and then I just is . Is the campfire , the only fire ?

Speaker 1 26:52

the campfire is the only fire okay , I will .

Speaker 5 26:58

I will try to look for some sort of um material like wood that I can use to set up like some some other source of fire around us don't forget , you can see in the dark yeah , go and roll me a perception check to see what you can find naturally , let's go , let's go , let's go so what are you ?

Speaker 1 27:18

what are you trying to do ? It's like you're trying to like another fireplace .

Speaker 5 27:21

Just put more like fire on us so like animals don't disturb us , like you know , stuff like that .

Speaker 1 27:28

Basically , yeah , just around the camp , yeah you start pretty much building like a , a bigger campfire . As you're building , you see , like eyes on you , kinda like in the bushes and stuff , you know , yellow , glowing eyes . They're staring at you , at you three , but they're not . They don't seem to be doing anything kind of keeping their distance . Uh , with that , uh , you're keeping watch , making sure nothing happens and those eyes they go away as sky wakes up .

Speaker 5 27:59

For his watch oh hey , welcome back . How'd it go ? Not too bad . I put some more um , some more fire , some more torches around us . There are like a lot of animal sounds , so yeah ah , don't worry , I'll take care of it yeah , yeah , uh , I'm going to get some rest for sure . Thank you very much .

Speaker 2 28:24

Have a good one .

Speaker 5 28:25

I'm going to take my sleep , alright .

Speaker 2 28:28

And then first thing I do is use elementalism . Brighten up the fires , yep , okay , I will go up and pet Shishui's dog .

Speaker 1 28:39

Okay , go ahead . And uh , no , you just give him a pet , you don't need to run anything . Yeah , he ahead . No , you just give him a pet , you don't need to roll anything . He's cool now , y'all .

Speaker 2 28:47

Just give him a pet .

Speaker 1 28:48

What's up with my dog ? He doesn't have a name yet though .

Speaker 5 28:51

He doesn't have a name . Bags with no name yet .

Speaker 2 28:55

And then I will take out the fragment and attune .

Speaker 1 29:02

Okay , go ahead and roll me your d20 11 , 11 , nice , yeah . So as you hold it up , it was weightless before and then , just for a moment , you feel Like there was some , there's some weight to it as your hand , kind of like oh , you can , you can feel something now a part of her , a part of the , of the fragment itself . It starts to glimmer , um , like the bottom part starts to have color to it um ldga , are you in there ?

Speaker 2 29:35

hello , you don't hear anything okay , and then this time , and not like all the twitchches around us , but the campfire , I'll purposely blow it out to see if I hear the voices again .

Speaker 1 29:51

Okay , you blow out the campfire . You don't hear the voices , but you hear like animals growling and you hear to get closer and closer .

Speaker 2 30:03

All right , well , better put that back up . No voices put ?

Speaker 1 30:09

put back up the campfire okay , this is where I'm gonna have you roll me your survival check , survival nine . As you're trying or attempting to put put the fire back up , you hear a growl like right behind you I yell out is that you ? It's truly's dog shusui's dog wakes up and he's like huh and I'm gonna have you roll initiative as you turn around and you see two tigers right there .

Speaker 2 30:43

OLE .

Speaker 4 30:45

Am I rolling initiative ?

Speaker 1 30:46

for my dog 12 . Yeah , you roll initiative for your dog .

Speaker 4 30:50

Alright , uh , 18 .

Speaker 1 30:55

So it goes , tiger , tiger , dog , and then Skye Damn Fires out .

Speaker 4 31:00

How high did they roll , damn .

Speaker 1 31:03

Uh , first one is gonna come towards you sky and it's just gonna try to attack you with its skull . 15 is that hit ?

Speaker 4 31:14

yes , six points of damage at this statue oh uh , just to confirm at this point is the campfire gone or is it ? Yeah , campfire is gone . It's dark , is the campfire ?

Speaker 1 31:22

gone , or is it ? Yeah , campfire is gone , it's dark , it stashes you with its claws , and then the other one is just going to come up . It's going to just kind of stand above the fire , and then at this , point , it's going to attack Wagnu Holy .

Speaker 4 31:43

We have to rethink . You're sleeping for pleasure when we're out in the wild . 15 to hit Does that hit you .

Speaker 5 31:52

Remind me , does it have to match your armor class to hit ?

Speaker 1 31:55

Yeah , it matches our beat 3 points of damage as you wake up right away .

Speaker 4 32:00

Yeah , I'm like that might be an automatic like advantage and crit . Oh , that's right .

Speaker 1 32:05

Well , I advantage it , but it might just be an automatic hit because you're sleeping anyway so . Um , we'll just do three . Okay , so you wake up right away . Go ahead and roll me , initiative Got ten . Awesome . Uh , it's your dog's turn . Your dog's turn . What is it what ? What is the dog doing ?

Speaker 4 32:22

He's going to bark very loudly and then attack the tiger in front of it .

Speaker 1 32:31

Okay , I think that's a reasonable response yeah , barks loudly and you wake up . And you wake up . Seriously , Go ahead and roll me initiative for you two 13 . Nice , all right , so you're right before it's gone .

Speaker 4 32:42

Kind of sluggish Like huh what ?

Speaker 1 32:45

Okay , yeah , so go ahead and make your attack against the tiger .

Speaker 4 32:48

He's next to Wagnu . So do I get my pack tactics , or do you say no ?

Speaker 1 32:55

Yeah , you get your pack tactics yeah you get it . Nice , you guys are cool . Now . Wagnu saved him like twice yeah .

Speaker 4 33:09

Healed him up , saved him like twice it . Yeah , healed them up . Okay , that's a 30 , 20 , yeah , that hits , and then d6 plus two , that's five damage . Uh , I just have the tiger's medium , so it's now prone it's actually a large beast oh , oh , okay , nevermind .

Speaker 1 33:25

But it takes the 5 damage and with that it's your go . Shisley , what are you doing as you wake up right away ?

Speaker 4 33:31

Traveling through the past , I was used to sleeping late and dealing with BS , so I'm just gonna draw my sword and start swinging . Okay , I'm just gonna draw my sword to start swinging . Okay , I Don't think we're pincered , can't quite tell , I'm just good to assume . Not so short sword , that is a two . Two days . I hit scimitar , that is a 12 . Does that it ?

Speaker 1 34:03

12 does not hit , barely misses . As you wake up you're a little too alarmed , so you're kind of just like swinging , hoping to hit something , and you miss both of them . I'm a little groggy All right Sky . What are you doing ?

Speaker 2 34:17

All right , quick question .

Speaker 1 34:24

Even though we're in combat .

Speaker 2 34:26

Can I still like try to attempt to turn on the campfire for a shisui ? Yeah , yeah , you can . Okay , I will do that . Do I have to roll for what I have to roll for ? Uh ?

Speaker 1 34:33

no , it's not a . It's not a like a moving target or anything . You can just go ahead and light it up , okay , and then then I'll , I'll do that . Okay , you turn on the campfire and that tiger is on top of that fire , so you light it up and it's going to start taking fire damage . Nice 2d6 .

Speaker 4 34:57

That's a lot of fire damage . Let's go .

Speaker 1 35:01

Four Tigers are afraid of fire . Four and four , so eight points of fire . Four and four , so eight points of damage .

Speaker 5 35:08

Nice , nice .

Speaker 1 35:09

You see , it starts crying , yelping as it starts struggling to get out . It starts running away and it's like a natural response , even though it's not really its turn . But I'm just going to make it run away because that's what it would do . Shu Sui , wagnu , sky , sky , you guys all get opportunity attacks my dog and your dog , yeah uh like simultaneously right now , or like in terms . Yeah , simultaneously , because it's it's , it's in your range . Anyway , all three of you guys range so you run away .

Speaker 5 35:37

I hit it through .

Speaker 4 35:37

I had a three well , my dog gets packed tactics , so dirty 20 .

Speaker 1 35:44

You get advantage . You get advantage , it's pincered .

Speaker 5 35:49

Oh , it tries to move . I hit a net 20 . I'm sorry , okay .

Speaker 4 35:52

Let's go . Six damage from my dog , six damage from me .

Speaker 1 35:59

Okay , how much damage from Wagyu ? And did you you roll sky ? Uh , I'm gonna roll right now my damage is only three , so it's advantage , oh okay , three oh wait , what are we rolling ?

Speaker 2 36:14

a d6 , d20 , d20 ? Okay , I got 13 , so what ?

Speaker 1 36:18

you're doing a melee attack . Okay , our regular melee attack 13 is good , 13 is the AC . So you're doing like your dagger attack .

Speaker 2 36:27

Yeah .

Speaker 1 36:27

Okay , so yeah , so go ahead and roll damage 19 with the modifier damage 1d4 .

Speaker 2 36:34

So 6 .

Speaker 1 36:35

6 damage . Okay , and did you double your roll , wagnu ?

Speaker 5 36:42

For the crit . Oh , I didn't , I didn't Nice , okay . So my first one was 3 , but my second one was 6 , so how does that one work ?

Speaker 1 36:48

Okay , nice , nice . So that's 9 plus your modifier .

Speaker 5 36:52

Okay , the modifier is plus 3? .

Speaker 1 36:56

Okay , so that's enough . All 3 of you guys . As this tiger starts to run off , all 3 of you guys just go in and slash it as fast as you can , and before it can even make its way out , it just falls to the ground . The other tiger just lets out a growl Sky . You still have some things you can do Lighting the fire . You did it with your fireball , right ?

Speaker 5 37:22

Yeah .

Speaker 1 37:23

Yeah , so that's your action . So you saw one section . All right , do we ?

Speaker 2 37:29

kill that tiger , the first tiger .

Speaker 1 37:31

Yeah , he's dead , he's dead .

Speaker 2 37:33

And do we see the other , second tiger ?

Speaker 1 37:37

Yeah , he's right next to you .

Speaker 2 37:39

Okay , then I will just melee again my bonus action .

Speaker 1 37:45

Your bonus action . Okay , yeah , all right , is that your two-handed ?

Speaker 2 37:51

uh , can I use that with my dagger ? Will it count or does it have to be two-handed ?

Speaker 1 37:57

we'll just say yes for now .

Speaker 2 37:59

Okay , we'll come back to it because it says , for example , you can attack with short sword in one hand and a dagger in the other , using an attack action and a bonus action .

Speaker 1 38:07

Yeah , we'll say yes right now . Okay .

Speaker 2 38:09

I'll just roll to use my melee again with my dagger .

Speaker 1 38:14

Okay , ten , ten does not hit . Damn , I tried to strike , I missed . All right , wagnu , it's your go . All right , wagnu , it's your go , all right .

Speaker 5 38:25

So I'll just go ahead and chuck a fireball at it . It's a nine Dang .

Speaker 1 38:32

Nine you chuck your fireball and it just kind of goes right by him . Is there anything else you want to do ? No , Okay . That one's right next to me . Now it's the dog's turn . What's the dog doing ?

Speaker 4 38:46

He's just going to run over there and attack , and I see he's close enough for pack tactics . Yeah , yeah , that's fine . 16 .

Speaker 1 38:55

Let the dog eat out of the mine 7 damage . Alright , 7 damage , good , good and it's your go .

Speaker 4 39:01

I will run over , and then I will just over , and I would just picture it , so I just get my advantage .

Speaker 1 39:08

that is a 11 and that first one misses okay , second one 16 hits .

Speaker 4 39:20

Okay , and then that's 10 damage 10 damage .

Speaker 1 39:25

Whew , okay , that's good . Yeah . You hit it your second attack and this tiger is taking damage . It looks hurt . Anything else you want to do ? All right ?

Speaker 2 39:39

Skye , it's your . Go Swing with my dagger again .

Speaker 1 39:42

Oh my God , nine , that one misses , I miss again . You still have your second one .

Speaker 2 39:47

And it's a section . Oh my god , and that one . What the ?

Speaker 1 39:52

heck yeah , both of your daggers comes in . It's been a while since you used your daggers . You've been relying on your firebolt as of late . Wagnu , it's your go your goal , man . What are you doing ? I ?

Speaker 5 40:05

you can't miss twice , right ? I'm gonna charge up a fireball to get . I'm hitting this . All right , it's 15 15 hits .

Speaker 1 40:17

Yeah , I cook up , roll your damage gonna be be .

Speaker 5 40:22

The damage is so low , though it's only three that's enough .

Speaker 1 40:27

How do you want to do this okay ?

Speaker 5 40:30

I'll walk over the flame that's in the middle of the campfire , I put my hand in there and you're like reach , pull out some fire and now I've cast my fireball in there and I'll chuck it out all right , that's fucking tight .

Speaker 1 40:43

Okay , yeah , you chuck the fireball in there and I'll chuck it at him . Alright , that's fucking tight , okay , yeah . You chuck the fire from the fireplace and it just falls instantly Crisped and you guys are out of combat .

Speaker 4 40:53

What ? I immediately pull out a dagger and I start skinning the goddamn tigers . I'm like man , these pelts . Man , these pelts . Okay , I'm like man pelts man , these pelts . Okay , like man .

Speaker 5 41:06

Anything else you guys are doing .

Speaker 1 41:09

What time is it ?

Speaker 2 41:12

You guys eat tiger meat . I could .

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Speaker 4 41:15

I wouldn't recommend it . It's pretty tough and gamey , but if you want to , I guess you could .

Speaker 2 41:25

I'm running low on food . It was just question .

Speaker 4 41:30

I mean , we're almost to the , to the village , I think maybe another day or so .

Speaker 2 41:38

Yeah , okay , um , yeah , sorry about guys .

Speaker 5 41:43

No problem , it was unintentional .

Speaker 4 41:44

Why were we in the dark ?

Speaker 2 41:48

Uh , you wouldn't believe it . There's been a voice trying to talk to me that's been blowing out the campfire .

Speaker 4 41:57

I told you , just ignore the voices .

Speaker 2 42:01

No , no , no . This it was the same voice when we went to go meet elder ga , which I thought it was him the whole time . But it's not elder ga , oh but , yeah no that's my bad .

Speaker 5 42:20

No , it's all good . I'm just sorry you didn't get a rest . Ah , Sushi , you're sweet God . I woke up and your dog just started going crazy .

Speaker 4 42:32

I mean , I think my dog did a pretty good job . Yeah , he beat the crap out of two tigers , so he's earning his place in this world .

Speaker 1 42:42

Yeah , and he helped me . Yeah , your dog is happy .

Speaker 5 42:45

When I got attacked , he came to the rescue . Does it have a name , by the way ?

Speaker 4 42:50

I mean you asked , but I've known the dog like a week . I you know my main priority was trying to survive , so naming him wasn't exactly at the top of my to-do list . If you have a name , go ahead , but uh , I don't know . I sometimes question his intelligence , so I'm not sure he'll respond to a name he's pretty alright by me .

Speaker 5 43:22

And then , what time around what hour is hours , you know , since we got a tech or assist in nature check .

Speaker 1 43:30

You know I'm trying to really free the sky we've got the group .

Speaker 4 43:33

What ?

Speaker 1 43:35

yet is the group one , and what the role of the state ? The average ? Why ?

Speaker 4 43:39

is nature , told you I got fifteen for me . I have a four I'm clearly very tired . It's still pretty good , uh why ?

Speaker 1 43:46

is nature intelligent . I got 15 for me . I got 14 . I'm clearly very tired . It's still pretty good . You see , I've got about four hours until morning . You guys are one with nature . You guys can read these things .

Speaker 4 43:57

There you go . There's no point in me going back to sleep . I guess I'll just start my watch .

Speaker 5 44:06

Speak for yourself . I'll sleep for pleasure . I'm about to enjoy these next four hours .

Speaker 4 44:13

You say that , but you got attacked by a tiger .

Speaker 5 44:18

Will a short rest help me heal that back ? Yeah .

Speaker 1 44:22

It will , it will .

Speaker 5 44:22

Okay , yeah . Yeah , you're right , I lay down .

Speaker 1 44:26

you're ready to rest okay okay , you guys , sky , what are you doing ? You ? You gonna sleep . Yeah , I'm gonna take a short rest . Okay , so she's , you're taking watch . Now Go ahead and give me a survival check . You do get the pelts , by the way , whatever you're taking from the tiger , you get it Pretty much , just pelts Cool . Fifteen , fifteen okay , fifteen is good .

Speaker 4 45:02

And then I would like to train my dog some more more .

Speaker 1 45:05

You want to train your dog some more ? Okay , go ahead and roll me a nat 20 check . I will take the nat 20 all right , nice , nice , yeah , uh , what do you ? What two tricks are you teaching it ?

Speaker 4 45:17

all right , I'm gonna teach it stealth mode so it could follow me in stealth uh and I'll teach it to be a distraction .

Speaker 1 45:28

Okay , okay , yeah , alright , it gets the best of what it can from those tricks . It'll try its best .

Speaker 4 45:36

The puppy dog eyes , man Perfect .

Speaker 1 45:39

And night goes by and morning comes , it's another day .

Speaker 5 45:43

Oh man .

Speaker 4 45:48

I can't believe I actually slept after that . I'm surprised you sleep at all but here we are .

Speaker 5 45:53

Yeah , I'm feeling good . Is there any of that tiger meat left ?

Speaker 4 45:57

I mean , I don't think we took any of it , but it is just there .

Speaker 5 46:02

Okay .

Speaker 1 46:02

Yeah , the tiger's still here . I'm just um . Is the fire on ?

Speaker 5 46:08

yeah , the tiger's still here I'm just um is the fire on the fire . So all right , I'll just get a little , get a little tiger meat on the fire real quick okay , yeah , yeah , same same , you guys eating the tiger meat .

Speaker 4 46:16

Yes , I'm gonna eat some dried red , some jerky you guys have rations .

Speaker 1 46:21

I think , yeah , I'm just gonna eat my rations .

Speaker 4 46:24

I'm just looking at them and I'm like they're not ready .

Speaker 1 46:26

You guys eat the tiger meat . Um , it's tough , it's tough , but it's meat . Uh , it's gonna give you energy first time , yeah , not bad it's not too bad . Uh , what are you guys doing ? How are you guys going at this now ?

Speaker 5 46:43

Shusui , do you know how far long we are or how far away the Fang Village is ?

Speaker 4 46:49

I checked before I went to sleep , so it should just be another day . I'm trying to do another check , trying to see if there's anything , any indicators . I'd say 12 a 12 , 12 , okay , um , I don't have any maps . I'm just trying to recall , like when I was uh journeying with my parents and my group , how we would just the paths we would take and just kind of like the songs they would sing while we just travel from place to place okay , uh , also give me a perception check on top of that , uh , 15 .

Speaker 1 47:30

Okay , as you're um trying to recall , like the ways you you have you taken , um , you start to see , like landmarks that are familiar to you , um , an odd , like odd tree that has been here for a long time . Uh , you know that when you see this tree , your parents saw you . This is like like the mark , like , yeah , if you see this tree , you're probably close to uh , fang village yeah , I point out to the tree and I'm like , ah yeah , I remember that tree .

Speaker 4 48:00

Uh , shouldn't be too . We should probably be able to make it today , unless something happens .

Speaker 5 48:06

I'm rested , I'm full , I'm ready to travel .

Speaker 4 48:09

Be able to get a decent , decent food and , uh , hopefully , a proper bed . You know , having slept on one of those in like a week . Yeah , yeah , Actually longer , probably be like a month .

Speaker 1 48:20

I'm assuming you guys are taking the same the same uh formation Yep . Yeah .

Speaker 4 48:27

I'm the guy .

Speaker 1 48:29

Getting formation Takes a little longer . By the time you you've passed through this part of the of the road and all the trees , all the jungles , um , you find yourself at a nice small . You find yourself at a nice , small but lively village , kind of similar to what Douwang Village was . You hear like villagers talking , you finally smell the scent of like grilled meat . It'll take you a while to get here , though , so it is night time now , but you find yourself at the entrance of Fang Village . It's been a long few days since you found yourself in Yuping , and in just a short amount of time you went through so much , so much things put on your shoulders , so much . You don't know if it's if it's fate , it's destiny , but you're here for your own reasons . You're here and you ping , and that's where we're going to stop , yeah , I know .

Speaker 1 49:58

We derailed your whole plot lot and loot for your players to find , but you never know what they are going to do . For example , they may just burn down the village that you spent hours creating , and that's okay .

Speaker 1 50:10

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