[00:00:05] Speaker A: You are listening to an atomic broadcasting production. So sit back, relax and enjoy the feature presentation. And remember, do your part, such as, like, comment rate. And don't forget to tell a friend to tune in for an atomic time.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: Now, where did we leave off?
[00:00:35] Speaker C: Ah, yes.
[00:00:39] Speaker B: With their new ally Ainar, the team.
[00:00:43] Speaker D: Defeated a pair of trolls guarding the.
[00:00:45] Speaker B: Way, then proceeded to where Ilva Eredsson.
[00:00:49] Speaker D: Was negotiating with the trolls leader.
[00:00:55] Speaker E: It's 137 you're rounding up.
[00:00:57] Speaker F: So 140 so hard. It's basically 140, which means it's basically two.
[00:01:01] Speaker C: No, Abby's right. The math checks.
[00:01:03] Speaker E: Honestly, it's ADHD math.
[00:01:05] Speaker A: What is this? Common core math?
[00:01:07] Speaker F: It's called girl math.
[00:01:08] Speaker C: Common core math. Actually, it is girl math. I've had it, like, I've watched, like, multiple videos of people, like, writing. It's basically what we did, but with all of the steps in between so people actually understand what they're doing, except it's more confusing.
[00:01:21] Speaker E: That's great and all, but they also require you to do it, which means if you know what you're doing, you're gonna get it wrong if you don't explain it. And that sucks so much.
[00:01:29] Speaker C: So the way they taught me, and this might just be a me thing, but the way they taught me with math is how they taught everybody. But I didn't fully understand what I was doing until, like, way later in high school, and a friend sat down, like, I just do it all in my head. And I'm like, how? And he's like, I just do. And then for some reason, that clicked for me. How to do it all in my head.
[00:01:48] Speaker F: Congratulations.
[00:01:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
And I understood a way I do it.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: I love that. The thing that really gets me about math and school is that the coolest parts about math are the parts that you don't. You're not required to learn. It's like, all right, you're done learning arithmetic. You're done learning algebra. You know how to do math. All right, you guys all leave. We're gonna sit down and do the fun stuff.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:12] Speaker C: I should mention I could do math.
I just. I didn't fully comprehend what I was.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: Doing until he was just putting numbers on the paper.
[00:02:22] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: Somehow they were right.
[00:02:24] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:02:25] Speaker E: So what I hate is that I've always done math in the weirdest way. Like, I'm not gonna explain it to you. Cause none of you will understand.
[00:02:33] Speaker C: I bet I'd understand.
[00:02:33] Speaker E: I mean, you might understand. It just. It's really frustrating to me to explain it, but anyway, I hate that that's how I do it and that it's not how other people have learned. So, like, learning a different way to do it while I already know my way is just really frustrating.
[00:02:50] Speaker C: I got yelled at in high school because I figured out a different way to do math.
[00:02:54] Speaker E: I hate that.
[00:02:54] Speaker C: I was told that once I got older and made my own math book, I could start doing it that way. And I was like, but it makes more sense. And they're like, no, that's so frustrating.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I like that. I enjoy the term of, I learned how to do math different when you. It's not so much as you learned how to do math different. You learned how to get to the answer a different way.
[00:03:15] Speaker E: Yeah, it's a different process. It's the same core rules, but it's a different process.
[00:03:20] Speaker B: I've been involved mostly as a older brother in helping people learn math. And usually when people have been like, hey, I found this way. I want to do it like this. My answer has always been, hey, that's really cool. Now that you've learned that way, I want to show you another way for when it might be easier.
[00:03:36] Speaker A: The way we learned as well, I guess. Yeah. The one who got the math degree. Not bragging, but it sounds like he is, though. No, no, just a small brag. Just, you know. Cause. Because. No, I'm kidding.
I say that because of how our professor. My professor taught us calculus is. He would teach us to do it longhand, for instance, in calculus, we almost never touched a calculator. That's kind of unique in some ways. A lot of other universities will have you use a calculator through calculus. We didn't. We did it longhand, and he taught us two different ways to do it. Longhand. For instance. For instance, derivatives. He taught us the hard way to get the derivatives. And then afterwards, he says, okay, now that you've learned it this way, here's the easy way. That's just. Oh, now you can look at it now. Know the answer. That being said, what it. What it did is that it taught. It taught us the core principles of what we were learning, and then we could go on to, all right, I can now get the answer without having to know the core principle, but I've already learned them, so now I can better understand the upper levels, and I think that's a better way, how it should be taught in our schools before. And I won't say that it was, even for me.
I think that's something that's been missing a little bit in our curriculums in general, for a long time. Regardless. If you like, what's the newest way that they quote unquote common core math, I think. Or was it. Are we on a new level? Either way, it doesn't matter. Even the older stuff that we. We all say is better or whatnot. It's still missing. We are still missing the, like, how does multiplication work? Why do we write it out this way? What does it mean when we do that? Or start off with division, fractions, anything.
You know, even when I originally learned it the old way or the second to old way, technically, I didn't understand those principles until I was in college.
[00:05:39] Speaker C: They need to start off with the theorems that prove math.
[00:05:43] Speaker A: Maybe not.
[00:05:44] Speaker E: All right, kindergartners, it's time to learn pythagorean theorem.
[00:05:48] Speaker C: Not that. No geometry kind of theorem.
[00:05:51] Speaker E: We're gonna learn how to proof.
[00:05:53] Speaker C: There we go. They're important.
[00:05:55] Speaker A: They are important. But that's. That's going a bit. That's throwing the pendulum a little bit too far, I think.
[00:06:02] Speaker C: I think first graders can handle it. I think they got it.
[00:06:07] Speaker E: Your faith. No, youre a. What's the opposite of lack? Your abundance of faith. It's disturbing.
[00:06:15] Speaker C: As a side note, just because I'm sick, everybody, he says, waving people.
[00:06:26] Speaker E: For those. If we pass the entire conversation about math. We've been talking about math for the last 30 minutes.
[00:06:33] Speaker A: I love that subject because you have.
[00:06:36] Speaker F: A degree in it.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Speaking of getting to the campaign, as the five of you begin to enter this clearing, you see ahead of you, your target, yova, and this large troll. And they seem to be engaged in a conversation with each other, a very animated, angry conversation, although they're both standing just out of reach of blows.
As you are entering, you're beginning to hear Yilva say, you know how this is going to end. Why don't you just give in?
[00:07:16] Speaker C: What's the troll say?
[00:07:19] Speaker E: And does he sound like every other troll?
[00:07:23] Speaker D: These lands are ours. You will bow, and you are in the presence of the Troll king, and.
[00:07:29] Speaker B: He slams a giant hammer on the ground next to him.
[00:07:33] Speaker E: The fear bows.
[00:07:34] Speaker C: Can I make a society check to know of the like?
I want to say ramifications of him calling himself the Troll king?
[00:07:43] Speaker B: Implications him.
[00:07:44] Speaker C: Thank you. And the implications of him calling himself the Troll king, as well as what kind of trolley is.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: Go ahead and make a society check.
[00:07:53] Speaker C: Whoo.
That's not good. But I already wasted all of my specialty abilities.
21.
[00:08:03] Speaker B: With a 21, you would know that there are no commonly accepted troll kings in the area.
Although he may be a smaller lesser known king that's just not, you know, an overarching troll king over everything. So he may have a small kingdom here in the gringia woods, but you've never heard of the king before. He definitely, from that check, appears to be frost troll adjacent. But he is much larger. And most frost trolls don't seem to carry a hammer. Like, his hammer is classic, you know, anime style hammer. Like, the head of the hammer is the size of a sofa.
[00:08:42] Speaker A: Mmm.
[00:08:43] Speaker C: Beautiful, Val.
[00:08:47] Speaker G: Well, you wanted.
[00:08:49] Speaker C: You want to talk to him?
[00:08:52] Speaker G: Gosh, I don't even really know what to say right now. Seem to not be happy with each other.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: Well, that can work in our favor.
[00:08:59] Speaker G: They also don't know we're here, so we could just wait a bit and find a moment to kind of cut in, I guess.
[00:09:05] Speaker C: Well, there might be a chance of getting the troll to side with us.
[00:09:08] Speaker G: Well, if he thinks he's a king, I definitely don't want to insult him by just interrupting them.
[00:09:14] Speaker C: Well, that's fair.
[00:09:16] Speaker A: Are we in view of them? Like, could they see us if they looked over?
[00:09:19] Speaker B: They could if they looked your way. But they do seem to be, at the moment, distracted.
[00:09:23] Speaker G: I'll start moving a little closer. Val just kind of awkwardly is just like, I'll just start. And she just kind of starts moving.
[00:09:31] Speaker C: For every 10ft Val moves up, I will move up 5ft, diagonal.
[00:09:36] Speaker B: Gotcha. Gotcha.
[00:09:37] Speaker A: Einar is just going to have his sword just on his shoulder, kind of, not threateningly, but obviously there. And he'll be walking just behind Val.
[00:09:48] Speaker E: Zafir is going to attempt to slink into the shadows.
[00:09:52] Speaker B: All right, Zafir, go ahead and give me a stealth check.
[00:09:54] Speaker G: Okay.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: I suppose it's a secret stealth check.
[00:09:57] Speaker C: That's what I was thinking.
[00:09:58] Speaker E: Plus twelve.
[00:09:59] Speaker C: I suppose I should draw out my staff just to have it ready in case I forget I have a staff.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: And what is Neros doing?
[00:10:08] Speaker F: I'm going to be walking up with Val and Einar, probably.
Yeah, that works. Okay, so in a triangle together.
[00:10:18] Speaker B: Yeah. So Val leading the charge, and then Einar and Neros kind of flanking and coming up behind Cornelius is just kind of hanging back and watching.
[00:10:27] Speaker G: I'm gonna have Sigirn stay kind of close, but start, like, going up.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: Okay. And you all make your way just to the very edge of the clearing. And you're just beginning to enter. So at this point, you're just about, like, 30ft away from this conversation when it seems you've gotten close enough that they notice you approaching. And both the troll and yilva both just snap their heads over and are looking in your direction. The troll is the first to speak, and he just, you know, there's just this silence for a second as they're looking at you. And then he looks back at yolva.
[00:11:00] Speaker D: And is just like, you, thought you needed help to take us down. You've shown your hand.
[00:11:07] Speaker C: We're not with her, he says from the back.
[00:11:14] Speaker B: And yolva's just like, she's opening her mouth to talk.
[00:11:17] Speaker D: And the trolls, just like you're all humans. Humans are all alike.
[00:11:22] Speaker B: I regret this voice.
[00:11:26] Speaker G: It's a good voice, though, I'd like to think. No, humans aren't all I like, but, um. What?
Hello?
[00:11:39] Speaker B: Yilva's just narrowing her eyes, and she's just looking at you all. What are you doing here?
[00:11:44] Speaker A: Oh, it came for you.
[00:11:47] Speaker B: Her hand, like, drifts towards her quiver.
[00:11:49] Speaker C: He's. He's worse than Zafir.
[00:11:51] Speaker E: Oh, no, you're here from a blow on the wind.
[00:11:55] Speaker A: Hey.
[00:11:57] Speaker B: Meanwhile, Zafir, are you trying to do that whole, like, swing around the clearing maneuver like you did last time?
[00:12:03] Speaker E: I believe so. If there's any way that I could possibly move to that large tree to the, um, the west, which would be on the trolls side of things.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: Gotcha.
[00:12:14] Speaker E: I just want to make sure and stay out of everybody's views, because, I mean, I'm pretty close to outward. Oh, that's what it is. I slowly walk by elbow to go.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: Hey.
Yes. We're here to make sure there's no trouble coming from this.
Wouldn't you agree? That'd be best for all?
[00:12:32] Speaker C: You're trying to insert us as arbitrators between the troll and the person.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: No, I'm being directly ambiguous to make the troll more suspicious.
[00:12:42] Speaker C: Got it.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: Both the troll and Yilva are, like, directly scowling at Einar right now.
And Yova is just like, who sent you?
[00:12:53] Speaker A: Well, hold on. Let me pay my respects to the king, and I give a small bow.
[00:12:59] Speaker G: Well, we're here on our own volition. We weren't sent by anyone.
Wait, just, um.
[00:13:10] Speaker B: I think Yilva and the troll are both reacting like I am in real life, of just, like, how do I process all of this?
[00:13:18] Speaker G: I feel like we had much better things to say to Saito than we did to you.
[00:13:22] Speaker B: But, um, on that mention of that name. Now yield. This hand that was drifting to her quiver knocks an arrow. She hasn't drawn her bow yet, but she has it knocked and is facing away from the troll and is just looking down at you.
[00:13:35] Speaker G: We don't want to fight if we don't have to. Please, we're just. We want to discuss with you what you're up to over here.
[00:13:44] Speaker C: I would like to ready an action, if that's possible.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: All right.
[00:13:48] Speaker C: I would like to ready the ability to cast vector screen if she shoots at validity.
[00:13:54] Speaker B: Gotcha. I'm a little busy at the moment. We're in the middle of negotiations, so if you wouldn't mind taking a seat and letting your betters speak. I'll get to you when I have a moment.
[00:14:05] Speaker A: I don't think insulting the good king here is better.
[00:14:10] Speaker C: She didn't insult the king.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: I did.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: I like to imagine that little conversation happened, like, in world, but just with looks.
[00:14:22] Speaker D: Insults. Why insults?
[00:14:26] Speaker A: Well, did she give you your proper due, as I did?
[00:14:30] Speaker D: Well, there's a bit of a special situation going on here.
Can't imagine outsider like you to understand.
[00:14:40] Speaker B: And you, it doesn't take an expert of reading body language to understand. He is very much bristling at your direct answer questions.
[00:14:51] Speaker G: Well, I have to say, your little. Whatever you're trying to do here with this troll fellow. Sorry, I don't know your name.
Is kind of against our best interests, so I don't think we want to just kind of let you guys talk freely. I mean, we want to be involved, I guess.
[00:15:13] Speaker C: You're doing great.
[00:15:18] Speaker G: Val kind of looks back at Cornelius for, like, some guidance.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: Cornelius? Just, like, gestures. Like, keep talking. Keep talking. Meanwhile, Zafir has finished ducking behind the tree just to the west of the troll king and seems to be unnoticed by the rest of the negotiators.
[00:15:37] Speaker G: So you're trying to put together an army so you can take over the area, and you're wanting to use these trolls as warriors for you?
[00:15:46] Speaker D: We are undergoing a campaign of territorial expansion.
[00:15:51] Speaker G: Oh. Which. Which ones of you are expanding your territory?
[00:15:56] Speaker D: We are.
[00:15:57] Speaker B: He gestures the troll to himself so.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: The other ones don't matter?
[00:16:02] Speaker G: What?
[00:16:03] Speaker D: Course he doesn't.
[00:16:04] Speaker B: And he waves his arm towards Yildva.
[00:16:07] Speaker D: They don't matter. It's just negotiating.
[00:16:10] Speaker A: No, no, no. Not you. I met the other kings.
She didn't tell you? Oh, I'm sorry.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: Make a deception check?
[00:16:19] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. Why not?
[00:16:21] Speaker G: What other kings?
[00:16:23] Speaker C: Al word, when you said that, like, immediately, it was like. I mean, yeah, there were, like, tons of other troll kings around here, but, like, we haven't talked, and then he's.
[00:16:31] Speaker A: Just like, oh, yeah, 16.
[00:16:36] Speaker C: Ooh.
[00:16:37] Speaker G: Are there other troll kings? I don't. I haven't really heard of any.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: I've been in the forest for a little while.
[00:16:43] Speaker D: There are no troll kings. Except me. Feldir.
[00:16:48] Speaker G: Feldir. It's a nice.
[00:16:51] Speaker D: I alone have sat on the throne at the peak of the Trollville mountain. And I have returned to lead my people in glorious conquest.
[00:17:01] Speaker C: What I know about the troll throne, yes?
[00:17:04] Speaker B: It's actually come up in sideways references before. Um, it's not far south, actually, of where you found troll forge. There is a peak with a throne on it. Legend says if you sit on that seat at midsummer Eve, you will become king of the trolls.
[00:17:21] Speaker C: When did you sit on the throne?
[00:17:24] Speaker D: It was three summers past.
[00:17:28] Speaker C: Are you sure? No other troll has sat on it since.
[00:17:33] Speaker B: He's lying.
[00:17:34] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:17:35] Speaker G: Oh, that's how that works. Sitting on chairs.
[00:17:40] Speaker C: Trolls are weird.
[00:17:41] Speaker G: Well, that's rude.
Well, golly, um, there's a lot going on here. Listen, we are very much not fans of what the arids and family is up to, and we'd really like to put a stop to what you're doing here. So if we could just talk about this, maybe sit down and just discuss the situation, I, um, would feel a lot better than this situation here. This situation feels not as good.
[00:18:15] Speaker A: I hope you get better at this.
[00:18:17] Speaker G: What do you mean?
[00:18:18] Speaker A: You'll find out.
[00:18:19] Speaker E: Well, you can't see him, but Zafir is sweating in the tree.
[00:18:23] Speaker C: Have you climbed up the tree?
[00:18:25] Speaker E: I don't think I climbed up the tree.
[00:18:27] Speaker A: But could you climb up the trees?
[00:18:30] Speaker F: Merged.
[00:18:31] Speaker C: He could. It would just be super slow.
[00:18:34] Speaker G: Um, Fel, dear, would I be able to, assay, ask you to put a brief pause on your conversation so we can deal with Yilva first? To see things?
If you look at it as, like, a certain layer, we kind of take precedence to the decision you're about to make. Make with her?
Well, in the line of, like, Val.
[00:18:58] Speaker C: You'Re insulting his pride now.
[00:19:00] Speaker G: Oh, I didn't mean to do that. I'm sorry.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: As you were speaking, Val, everyone can see the look on the troll's face is like he's thinking it over. He's feeling like, you know, this is proper deference. And then you're like, we take precedence? He's like, hmm.
[00:19:13] Speaker G: No, well, I didn't mean it like that. I meant like her decision is we want to stop her from doing anything. Which would mean it how it would be before the thing she wants to talk to you about.
[00:19:28] Speaker D: And how do I know you're not just seeking an alliance and you'll turn on me together?
[00:19:32] Speaker G: Oh, I don't. We don't. We're against everything she wants to do so.
I don't think we would do that. Really. We actually aren't really in the moment knowledgeable or against anything particularly that you're doing.
[00:19:46] Speaker C: Just her vigorously shaking, nodding his head. Just. Yes.
[00:19:50] Speaker E: She can hear you too.
[00:19:51] Speaker G: Can I ask for a diplomacy check in this? I don't know.
[00:19:55] Speaker B: Yeah, go ahead and do diplomacy.
[00:19:57] Speaker G: Okay.
[00:20:02] Speaker F: I could always cast charm again.
[00:20:03] Speaker G: I went into this with a vibe and I was like, val's just gonna be in this vibe. So here we go.
[00:20:08] Speaker C: That's fair.
[00:20:10] Speaker G: Use my hero point roll too.
[00:20:12] Speaker C: Yeah, that's also fair.
[00:20:14] Speaker G: 29 Ao.
[00:20:17] Speaker D: And what assurance will you give me that there's no funny business?
[00:20:26] Speaker A: She's wanting to attack us right out. Can't you tell?
[00:20:30] Speaker G: What kind of assurance would you want from us?
[00:20:33] Speaker B: Hmm?
[00:20:35] Speaker D: You give me one of your members of your party to hold as. Oh, a surety.
[00:20:41] Speaker G: I had a thought. Okay. Val turns around. Cornelius, could you go hang out with Feldier while we do this?
[00:20:50] Speaker F: I was about to volunteer his tribute.
[00:20:53] Speaker G: Are you. What?
Cornelis, I know you can take care of yourself and you might get a conversation with him going maybe while we deal with the her.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: There's like five solid seconds of silence. Cornelius just staring slack jawed over towards the rest of you.
[00:21:12] Speaker C: Just make sure you scream if he's trying to eat you.
[00:21:19] Speaker B: Of course I trust all of you.
[00:21:24] Speaker C: He's lying, isn't he?
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Very obviously. And he moves up to Feldir, who just kind of wraps his entire hand around Cornelius.
[00:21:33] Speaker G: Well, be careful. He's very fragile.
[00:21:35] Speaker D: I've got a touch as light as a feather.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: And he puts his other hand on top of Cornelius's head and just kind of closes his fingers around it, not crushing it, but just like he's got a firm grasp and could very easily just twist the bottle cap of the bottle off.
[00:21:52] Speaker E: Ooh.
[00:21:52] Speaker G: Alright. See how he's gonna take care of Cornelius and just Hannah hang out with him. Well, we talk to Ilva. Things. That's great.
[00:21:59] Speaker A: I take back everything I said before. You are cold blooded.
[00:22:02] Speaker G: What do you mean?
[00:22:04] Speaker C: I think he means the troll can kill Cornelius.
[00:22:07] Speaker G: Oh, he wouldn't do that. He just needs assurance.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: You're sufferably naive.
[00:22:11] Speaker G: I don't know what you mean.
[00:22:14] Speaker C: It's like the Kobold situation again. But that was great.
[00:22:16] Speaker G: The Kobolds were very nice.
[00:22:18] Speaker C: I'm gonna be honest. Hopefully it turns out the same way.
[00:22:20] Speaker G: But I don't know if we'll have as good of a relationship. But we could talk to him afterwards.
[00:22:26] Speaker B: Yildva through this whole thing is just looking like what? Have I just stumbled across an adventuring party?
Yep, exactly.
[00:22:37] Speaker G: All right, I'm gonna start, like, walking closer to you, Ilva, and Feldir is.
[00:22:42] Speaker B: Gonna kind of just step back as you do so. So that you're not really getting much closer to him.
[00:22:48] Speaker C: I'm going to alter my movement instead of diagonal. Now it's gonna be forward, but same rolling. Yeah.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: Gotcha. So you're not getting any closer to the group, but you're not flanking out anymore.
[00:22:57] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:22:58] Speaker A: You just hear Ayner mumbling under his breath. That explains so much.
[00:23:03] Speaker C: I'd still like to be preparing the action when at all possible.
[00:23:06] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:23:07] Speaker E: I would like to ask a question about the map here.
[00:23:09] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:23:10] Speaker E: Is this up above the tree? Is that a mountain or a valley or a cliff?
[00:23:18] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a ten foot rise in the ground. So there's like. If you're seeing on the left hand side, there's that river and a pool and everything. Each of those are like a little waterfall that's coming down. So it would be a short climb, but not something unreasonable to just, you know, climb up if you wanted to get up there.
[00:23:36] Speaker E: Okay.
The question that I was thinking of would be, would it be more advantageous for me to be above and continually move rather than stay where I am?
[00:23:49] Speaker B: It would definitely make it easier for you to stay hidden. However, as you are looking up in that area, I'm gonna need a perception check.
[00:23:56] Speaker G: The hell are trolls? There are trolls hiding in the trees.
[00:23:59] Speaker C: It's Alva's body.
[00:24:00] Speaker G: People, maybe, or potential ones.
[00:24:05] Speaker E: That is an eleven.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: He rolled a three.
[00:24:08] Speaker E: I did roll a three.
[00:24:10] Speaker B: You?
[00:24:11] Speaker C: Ooh, I feel like you're a one.
[00:24:16] Speaker B: Off with an eleven.
You see the back of, like, a furry cloak poking up out of the bushes up on the hill.
[00:24:27] Speaker E: I will not be moving forward as that could be anything.
[00:24:30] Speaker G: Could be a cloak, it could be a.
[00:24:33] Speaker C: My brain wants to say dinosaur.
[00:24:35] Speaker E: It could be an animal.
[00:24:36] Speaker G: I mean, it literally could be.
[00:24:37] Speaker C: I don't think dinosaurs had fur.
[00:24:39] Speaker E: Could be a bear in a coat.
[00:24:40] Speaker G: Feathers.
[00:24:41] Speaker C: It could be a bear in a coat.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: Meanwhile, as the rest of the group is approaching Yilda, they get about 15ft away when she's just like, that's close enough. Now, what did you want to speak about?
[00:24:52] Speaker G: Um, we received information about what you're doing here. Um, put. Trying to put together an army for the mad king.
And, um, well, we, um, need you to not do that.
[00:25:10] Speaker A: Einar just takes the shield and just puts it on his hand. Kind of like a lack. Kind of like a. I already know where this is going. Sort of a deal. He still is. Just relaxedly holding his sword on his shoulder.
[00:25:22] Speaker G: Oh, it's okay. We've. We've talked early out of a lot of conflicts. Einar.
[00:25:26] Speaker A: Oh, no, no, by all means, continue.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: To possibly Einar's surprise. Yova seems to relax a little bit at Val's speech and was like, the mad king.
[00:25:39] Speaker G: Oh, um, yeah, that's, you know, arid. The Aridsons in your Yolva Aridson.
[00:25:48] Speaker B: Well, I shouldn't wonder. You'd want to stop our efforts if you thought him mad.
[00:25:52] Speaker G: Oh, that's what we were told. He was cold, but the people. Your family called him that, right? Didn't someone in Harrison call them that?
[00:26:01] Speaker A: No, no, no, no. They believe him a good king, rightfully on the air sort of deal.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:26:06] Speaker C: But everything in history says that he was a mad king and a tyrant.
[00:26:10] Speaker G: Oh.
[00:26:10] Speaker C: Both sides of the fake history that we've seen.
[00:26:13] Speaker G: I see. I didn't mean to insult you. Sorry if that was rude.
[00:26:17] Speaker B: No, I understand. There are many people who misunderstand the true history behind Aerid.
[00:26:21] Speaker G: Well, they did a bunch of bad things and tried to kill us a couple of times. So we are thinking about. Not, like, we don't. Not a fan of the family. So, um, we need you to not overthrow the government and try to kill a bunch of people. That that's basically what it comes down to.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: I would like perception checks from everyone.
[00:26:40] Speaker E: Including me.
[00:26:41] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:26:46] Speaker G: 19 on the diaphragm. 28.
[00:26:48] Speaker C: Don't get it, Sam.
[00:26:49] Speaker G: No.
[00:26:50] Speaker E: Okay, 17 on the diaper. A 26.
[00:26:53] Speaker C: I got a 1212 for 23.
[00:26:56] Speaker F: Seven for 1629.
[00:26:59] Speaker B: All right, so, Zafir, Val and Einar, you three are able to see through her facial expressions and how she's speaking.
You get the sense that she thinks very highly of ered, but she definitely vibes with your appreciation of the family in general.
[00:27:22] Speaker C: So she hates the family.
[00:27:27] Speaker G: If we could ask real quick, why aren't you all wanting to do this, necessarily? I understand some of it, but being the evil and wanting to kill people things is what I know. But it'd be nice to know a little bit more about the situation, about the family. You don't seem super happy.
[00:27:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I would be happy to discuss our goals, our plans and our intentions, and what exactly we have in store for the entire land of the Lindram kings. But I do have a prior engagement. And she gestures over to Feldiger.
[00:28:07] Speaker A: If I can just ask one question. Be perfectly honest.
Do you want to resurrect the. This king? Mad or not and have him take over the kingdom? Or is that just the family's aspiration?
[00:28:18] Speaker B: It's not a question of resurrecting. It's a question of placing him back on his rightful throne that he has earned through conquest.
[00:28:27] Speaker C: They still. Well, how did you know, anyway?
[00:28:30] Speaker A: He.
[00:28:31] Speaker G: Isn't he dead?
[00:28:32] Speaker C: No, no, they believe that he's alive still.
[00:28:35] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:28:36] Speaker G: Where is he?
Oh, Daisa said something about this. What did she say?
I don't remember.
[00:28:41] Speaker B: You seem to have spoken with a lot of our family.
[00:28:45] Speaker C: We've spoken with three of your family, including you.
[00:28:49] Speaker G: Oh, there was that guy you guys escorted.
[00:28:52] Speaker C: Oh, that's right. Siggy. We've spoken with four of your family, including you.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: She, like.
[00:28:56] Speaker C: Wait, five. I forgot about Siggy's sister.
[00:28:59] Speaker B: She almost, like, involuntarily scoffs when he mentions Siggy.
[00:29:04] Speaker C: Is it because I used friendly name for him and not his real name?
[00:29:09] Speaker G: I don't think she respects it.
[00:29:11] Speaker C: I don't think she does either.
[00:29:13] Speaker B: That's beside the point.
[00:29:14] Speaker A: I would say that if he got it by conquest, but he lost it afterwards. And he's particularly saying this a bit louder than he possibly has to, then he just didn't have the strength to hold onto it and didn't need it at all.
[00:29:30] Speaker C: I mean, he kind of.
[00:29:33] Speaker A: That's how Geordi, I think, is.
[00:29:36] Speaker C: That's how battles are won.
[00:29:38] Speaker B: And so, in the background of this conversation, the king is, like, thoughtfully patting Cornelius's head.
[00:29:47] Speaker G: Oh, like a bond villain.
[00:29:49] Speaker B: Yeah, like stroking him like a cat with a bond.
[00:29:52] Speaker C: Wait. His skin of the eye?
[00:29:55] Speaker B: Just so. His entire head is not like, an undead.
[00:30:00] Speaker G: The front of his head is an eye.
[00:30:01] Speaker A: He's not a floating. He's not an eyeball head.
[00:30:03] Speaker C: I thought he was an eyeball.
[00:30:04] Speaker G: He has, like, a whole eye thing.
[00:30:06] Speaker B: More like Mike Wazowski.
[00:30:08] Speaker A: Ah.
[00:30:08] Speaker C: Okay. I've been imagining him wrong for so.
[00:30:11] Speaker G: Long, he's gonna have 360 degree vision now.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: I can't think of him as not Mike Wazowski.
[00:30:17] Speaker E: That's what I thought.
[00:30:18] Speaker C: The entire. Can we update his art?
[00:30:20] Speaker G: No.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: No.
[00:30:22] Speaker B: Meanwhile, Yilva's response. He earned kingship, but it was denied him through treachery.
[00:30:30] Speaker A: Lack of strength to hold your throne.
Doesn't care.
[00:30:35] Speaker B: What are you playing at? And she's like. I'm speaking her bow string again.
[00:30:39] Speaker A: I'm speaking facts.
And then he just stops talking.
[00:30:45] Speaker G: I won't speak to facts because I don't know any. But.
[00:30:52] Speaker C: I'll speak to emotion.
[00:30:54] Speaker G: And by that I mean there's a lot I don't currently know about. But whether he rightfully has this or not, going about and killing a bunch of people is not good at all, ever. So that's not gonna be okay.
[00:31:15] Speaker B: Yolva relaxes her bow again, slides an arrow into her quiver.
I'm here to find strength.
You prove that your strength is greater than the troll king's, and we can talk.
The troll king just, like, stops you.
[00:31:31] Speaker A: What?
[00:31:32] Speaker C: Um, we don't want to fight the troll king.
[00:31:35] Speaker G: I'm not interested in fighting anyone. Not the king or you, necessarily.
[00:31:40] Speaker A: You would use someone else in your plan, you would chair to presume upon someone else.
[00:31:48] Speaker C: I mean, her whole job is to get reinforcements here.
[00:31:52] Speaker A: So, yes, it just looks at you.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: Yilva's kind of, like, just starting to back away from you guys, like, dramatic walking backwards kind of thing. As she's like, you've thrown yourself into this situation. You're now a part of this, whether you like it or not.
[00:32:08] Speaker A: And it seems that you haven't proven your strengths.
[00:32:12] Speaker G: Why does anyone need to prove strength? I'm just. Can we just talk?
[00:32:17] Speaker C: I don't think for troll strength is what makes right for that. That would make sense, but I don't know why Ilva's being so about this.
[00:32:25] Speaker A: He just. I think Einar just leans over. She wants him to do his. Her dirty work.
[00:32:30] Speaker G: Oh, yeah. I'm getting the vibe that she just wants us to fight him. So he could kill us, but we can kill him. That would be. I wouldn't want to kill him.
[00:32:38] Speaker C: I wouldn't want to either. But she. I think she doesn't care either way.
[00:32:41] Speaker G: I don't want to kill any of them, but I just want to deal with the situation at hand.
[00:32:45] Speaker A: And I personally don't want to deal with the troll. He has nothing to do with us. He can go on his merry way and do what he wishes.
[00:32:54] Speaker G: Yeah, he seems very fine right now.
[00:32:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:32:57] Speaker D: Um, you can keep talking with her. You can just follow her. I'll just.
[00:33:02] Speaker G: Uh. Ilva, maybe we can just ask you nicely to surrender yourself.
[00:33:09] Speaker A: I know. Just starts walking forward on the. After the troll said he can just keep following her peacefully.
[00:33:16] Speaker G: Please.
[00:33:16] Speaker A: Um, you're gonna have to move forward. She can't hear you. She keeps backing up.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: This is so many different directions.
[00:33:25] Speaker A: I love. We're both trying to play the trolley.
[00:33:28] Speaker G: Um, after she says that, val looks over to. Near us and, like, is this going all right? Do you think this is good?
[00:33:37] Speaker F: No.
[00:33:40] Speaker A: I see in r just looks over at Nero's. Mm hmm.
[00:33:47] Speaker F: It's going a direction, but I don't.
[00:33:49] Speaker C: Know how good it is northeast.
[00:33:56] Speaker F: I prefer south myself.
[00:33:59] Speaker B: The troll is not going to give us time to really discuss the intricacies of our plans. And for you to really understand why you ought to join us.
[00:34:08] Speaker A: You're presuming upon what the troll's going to do.
[00:34:11] Speaker C: He seems.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: He's right there. You can ask him yourself.
[00:34:13] Speaker C: He seems pretty placated.
[00:34:14] Speaker D: I'm gonna snap his neck if you keep jabbing.
[00:34:16] Speaker G: Um, we could just, um, stop your conversations with the troll entirely by taking you away. And that's what we want to do. So, um, we don't really want you to finish your conversation with the troll.
So perhaps you could again peacefully surrender yourself to us and we can take you away from here.
[00:34:36] Speaker B: I'm not going to have wasted my entire walk into the woods. Do you know how long it you followed me here? You know how long it takes to get in here?
[00:34:45] Speaker G: You should have thought of that before you decided to do an evil, bad thing.
[00:34:48] Speaker C: Days.
[00:34:49] Speaker G: Now we are good. And we're here to stop you because pharasma and Shellan dictate it. So, yeah, you wasted your time deciding to follow something not good, so that's your own fault. Don't put it on us.
[00:35:04] Speaker B: Yova looks simultaneously baffled and amused. And she's just like, you can't be serious.
[00:35:12] Speaker G: I mean, jeez. At the crux of things, if you break it down, that's pretty much what's going on here.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: So is she serious?
[00:35:20] Speaker C: Uh, yeah.
[00:35:21] Speaker F: Nero's just nods.
[00:35:22] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. It. You see this? Yeah, it's alright. It gets it out of the system.
[00:35:30] Speaker C: I don't know how he knows, but.
[00:35:31] Speaker G: Yeah, so I.
[00:35:35] Speaker A: It took me five minutes.
[00:35:37] Speaker C: That was pretty forefront about what she's about.
[00:35:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
Hey, can you hold on the snap neck thing, please? This might be amusing.
[00:35:45] Speaker D: Right? This is pretty funny.
[00:35:49] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:35:50] Speaker G: Um, yeah, so if I was gonna, like, with her glaive out, start stepping forward.
[00:35:57] Speaker B: Are you going to arrest me?
[00:36:01] Speaker G: I mean, I don't. I'm not technically a lawman, but yes.
[00:36:08] Speaker B: Well, then watch on Feldeer and I'll show you what happens when I'm not playing around.
[00:36:16] Speaker A: Ah, finally.
[00:36:18] Speaker B: And we'll roll for initiative.
[00:36:20] Speaker G: Oh. All right.
[00:36:24] Speaker F: What other outcome were you expecting, Val?
[00:36:26] Speaker G: I really was hoping she just threatened her. We could talk about it.
[00:36:29] Speaker F: With the look on her face, I could have told you.
[00:36:31] Speaker B: No.
[00:36:31] Speaker G: Well, you know, it's all right.
[00:36:35] Speaker A: Somebody has to have a little bit of hope, even though it's a bit misplaced.
[00:36:39] Speaker E: All right, Zafir, may I use my stealth for initiative.
[00:36:44] Speaker G: Okay, Val, that's a 17 on my end.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: All right, Al. Word.
[00:36:52] Speaker C: So I mentally said I'm gonna use my ability, and I'm still gonna stick to that. And I'm kind of sad because I rolled a natural 20, but since I'm using my ability, I forego that roll and take a 19. Plus my initiative, which isn't one less, but it's gonna be 30.
[00:37:11] Speaker B: All right. Neros.
[00:37:13] Speaker C: 23, but I break tithe.
[00:37:16] Speaker B: Nice. And Einar, 26.
All right, we will begin combat. Alward, you're going to go first. The initiative is starting as Val is moving forward with her glaive. And Yildva is reacting, like, sharply. She's not just casually watching anymore.
[00:37:33] Speaker C: I am going to go ahead here, and since I sort of get a sense about the combat and everything going around, I'm actually going to use the extra time I was given with my ability, so to speak, to just use my whole turn to prepare the action that I have been preparing, which is, if Ilva shoots at us, I will cast vector stream.
[00:37:55] Speaker B: Gotcha.
[00:37:56] Speaker G: Whoa.
[00:37:57] Speaker B: All right. And Einar, it is your turn.
[00:38:00] Speaker A: He just starts walking forward, and as he passes Val, he just knocks her shoulder and says, it was a good try. It was. I'll give you that.
[00:38:14] Speaker G: That feels sarcastic.
[00:38:21] Speaker A: Completely genuine.
[00:38:23] Speaker G: Oh. Huh. Okay.
[00:38:25] Speaker A: And he just walks up to Yova.
He's way taller than her, isn't she?
[00:38:31] Speaker B: Yeah. What? You're six eight?
[00:38:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:34] Speaker C: You went from one of the shortest in our parties to the tallest.
[00:38:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:39] Speaker B: You're easily more than a foot taller than she is.
[00:38:43] Speaker A: He just looks down at her and just sighs.
I gotta go through this, don't we?
[00:38:51] Speaker B: She's just, like, glaring at you and like, how do I describe it? She's got her hand pulled back like she's getting ready to grab something out of her pouch, but she's like, hesitating and watching. What to see what you're gonna do first.
[00:39:02] Speaker A: We can still stop this.
[00:39:05] Speaker B: You started it.
[00:39:06] Speaker A: Not really.
[00:39:07] Speaker B: I was having a polite conversation with Mister Trolley polite.
[00:39:10] Speaker A: Let's be honest here.
Hardly polite.
[00:39:14] Speaker B: The troll king.
[00:39:16] Speaker D: No, I agree.
[00:39:17] Speaker B: Not very polite.
[00:39:19] Speaker A: See?
All right, I guess we'll have to get this over with. We're both not going to do anything, are we?
[00:39:26] Speaker B: Well, you're the ones who started walking at me with weapons.
[00:39:28] Speaker A: That's why I had to roll initiative yet anyway. Have I?
[00:39:32] Speaker C: As the fear anxiously swing.
[00:39:38] Speaker A: I'll give you one chance.
[00:39:41] Speaker B: She speaks in an undertone so that basically you and maybe Val can hear if you turn around and take on that troll, then we can talk.
[00:39:54] Speaker G: Wait, I could hear that.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: Just barely.
[00:39:57] Speaker G: Oh.
[00:39:59] Speaker A: I, um.
I might need all of you to take off your headsets.
[00:40:07] Speaker G: What do I need to. Yes, I'm in. If I'm able to hear what's going.
[00:40:13] Speaker C: On, I vote perception from Val. If she's close, I do, too.
[00:40:17] Speaker B: Is this just an out of care, out of character thing you have a question for me about?
[00:40:20] Speaker A: No, this would be a lean over.
[00:40:21] Speaker B: And whisper because Val is close enough that she heard when Yilva was speaking under her breath. Go ahead and give me a perception check if you hear this.
[00:40:29] Speaker G: Okay.
It's a 26.
[00:40:34] Speaker B: Okay, so I'll need Abby, Jenkins and petite to take off their headphones.
[00:40:40] Speaker A: He leans over and he just whispers, I don't think that can happen again.
[00:40:48] Speaker B: And she just looks at you and.
[00:40:50] Speaker A: He just swings down because he had his sword still on his shoulders.
[00:40:55] Speaker B: All right, and we'll have everyone else put their headphones back on.
[00:40:58] Speaker G: I still 100% think I'm right.
[00:41:01] Speaker C: Okay, that's good to know.
[00:41:02] Speaker G: That didn't necessarily confirm it, but I still think I'm right.
[00:41:06] Speaker C: I'll fill you in on that later.
[00:41:08] Speaker G: What?
[00:41:08] Speaker C: This whole side of the table is in on a conspiracy that you don't know about?
[00:41:12] Speaker G: Well, dang.
[00:41:12] Speaker F: It's a fan theory.
[00:41:13] Speaker G: That's so mean.
[00:41:15] Speaker F: I think you're right.
[00:41:17] Speaker A: I'm actually kind of interested to see.
[00:41:19] Speaker C: You can't know.
[00:41:20] Speaker A: I can't know because I already know the truth.
[00:41:24] Speaker G: A secret.
[00:41:26] Speaker A: All right, that'll be me attacking. All right, 26.
[00:41:32] Speaker B: That's a hit.
[00:41:34] Speaker G: Nice. Good job, friend.
[00:41:37] Speaker C: Did you get like a five on the die?
[00:41:39] Speaker A: No, I got a nine. Friend indeed.
[00:41:43] Speaker C: Yeah, we're very chummy.
[00:41:45] Speaker A: We're all friends, are we?
Except to her.
[00:41:51] Speaker G: No, her. Not her.
[00:41:53] Speaker A: Eleven.
[00:41:54] Speaker C: Oh, nice.
[00:41:56] Speaker B: All right.
[00:41:56] Speaker A: And irae.
[00:41:58] Speaker B: Shield. Nice.
So Einar walks up, whispers something to Yova, smacks her with a sword, and then, as he's raising his shield.
[00:42:08] Speaker E: So this is the positioning on this map.
Very specific.
There will be an arrow whizzing by the troll and Einar in a direct line.
Let's see if it hits.
[00:42:24] Speaker B: Yeah, and you really are threading the needle between the troll and Einar. I'm drawing a straight line. It's like, wow, that's really specific.
[00:42:31] Speaker E: I think this is gonna go very well for me. There's a 31 hit.
[00:42:35] Speaker B: Ooh, that's a hit.
[00:42:37] Speaker C: Okay, so I'm so scared. That's not a critical hit.
[00:42:41] Speaker G: Why would her ac be 21?
[00:42:42] Speaker C: I don't know, but I feel like 30 one's a big number.
[00:42:46] Speaker E: Alright, so. Well, I guess I'll do the first damage here.
[00:42:48] Speaker B: First.
[00:42:49] Speaker E: The first 1st.
So that's a total of six piercing with a two afterburn. And then from the arrow exactly where it pierces, you see spiders and centipedes start crawling out of the tip of the arrow.
[00:43:10] Speaker C: Did you vomit swarm her?
[00:43:12] Speaker E: Ten with the arrow piercing.
[00:43:15] Speaker C: Amazing.
[00:43:16] Speaker G: Wow.
[00:43:17] Speaker E: I had to look it up and somebody's made a chart that all of the spells that are compatible with expansive spell strike. Wow.
[00:43:22] Speaker G: Wow.
[00:43:24] Speaker C: Yep. That's so good.
[00:43:25] Speaker A: I like spell strike so much.
[00:43:28] Speaker B: I love it.
[00:43:29] Speaker C: So.
[00:43:30] Speaker E: So in total, that I believe is 18.
[00:43:33] Speaker C: Nice.
[00:43:34] Speaker E: With two of it.
[00:43:34] Speaker C: Fire.
[00:43:35] Speaker B: All right.
[00:43:35] Speaker E: That is a cone. Vomit swarm is. And it still works as a cone.
[00:43:40] Speaker B: And she still gets a basic reflex save against vomit swarm. Right.
[00:43:42] Speaker E: Yes. I forgot to say that. I forgot about it entirely.
[00:43:46] Speaker G: Oh, those aren't. Those still aren't just auto fails or.
[00:43:48] Speaker B: What'S your DC 21? So she actually critically succeeded her safe against vomitous more.
[00:43:56] Speaker C: Does anybody else get hit by it?
[00:43:57] Speaker G: Her people, her animal?
[00:43:59] Speaker B: Yeah. So you can actually start it from her corner here and hit both of her animals that are standing on either side.
[00:44:04] Speaker E: I would like that. That was what I was envisioning.
[00:44:07] Speaker B: All right. Gold is for the wolf, blue is for the hawk.
You said DC 21?
[00:44:12] Speaker G: Yep.
[00:44:13] Speaker B: The wolf gets a regular fail.
[00:44:15] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:44:15] Speaker B: And the hawk gets a regular fail.
[00:44:17] Speaker C: Okay. So how much damage to both of them?
[00:44:20] Speaker B: It was ten, right?
[00:44:21] Speaker E: Yes. And a creature that fails its saving throw also becomes second one.
[00:44:27] Speaker G: Nice.
[00:44:28] Speaker B: Wow.
I think I see why Paizo doesn't like you to ready two actions at.
[00:44:37] Speaker E: Once when out question.
If she critically succeeded, that means she takes no damage, correct?
[00:44:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:43] Speaker C: But she did take damage from the hithen.
[00:44:45] Speaker B: Yeah, she just shook off all of the spiders. She does a little twirl and all the spiders fall off.
[00:44:51] Speaker E: I like to think they're still there. She just doesn't care because she's metal.
[00:44:55] Speaker B: Spiders in my hair. I don't care. And it's Yilva's turn.
Hmm.
Hmm.
She's going to stride away from Einar.
[00:45:07] Speaker A: Ooh, do I?
[00:45:09] Speaker C: You do. If you ao becomes stock as fighter.
[00:45:13] Speaker B: Yeah. You have reactive strike.
[00:45:14] Speaker C: Attack of opportunity. I feel like we should say actually.
[00:45:17] Speaker G: It'S reactive strike now.
[00:45:18] Speaker C: Oh, right. It's reactive strike.
That's not as fun to say.
[00:45:21] Speaker B: She doesn't know that. So she's striding away.
[00:45:27] Speaker A: 31.
[00:45:28] Speaker B: That's a hit.
[00:45:29] Speaker A: She just walks away and once again, he just brings down a powerful slash.
[00:45:35] Speaker E: Cut her Achilles tendon.
[00:45:38] Speaker A: 13.
[00:45:39] Speaker B: All right, good stuff.
[00:45:40] Speaker C: Good stuff.
[00:45:40] Speaker B: And she takes it. She steps back. 15ft. Just directly away. Well, 10ft, just directly away from Einar. Continuing moving up northeast. Looking like she's just trying to get some room. And then she sweeps her hands out from the side, brings them up under. And then in a motion as if she's pulling something up from the ground, just raises her hands up and spontaneously from the ground, just all these vines of thorn bushes start growing and we get a wall of thorns separating Einar from the rest of the party.
[00:46:21] Speaker G: Oh, cool.
Now, can wall of thorns be like, walked through or seen through?
[00:46:26] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:46:27] Speaker C: How tall is it?
[00:46:28] Speaker B: Uh, 10ft tall. So it is cover. Just standard cover through. But you can see through. You could shoot through or attack through. Um, if you move through it, it just damages you and it's difficult terrain.
[00:46:39] Speaker E: Does this pass through me because I am, like, right next to the troll?
[00:46:43] Speaker B: Um, it's actually gonna stop right before you because she just didn't want it to go past the troll.
[00:46:48] Speaker E: So it's not blocking me?
[00:46:50] Speaker B: Nope. It's. It's not blocking you? Well, you might actually have to move because it's filling that space. Yeah. So it would give you. It would give them cover against you as well. But that is her turn. And her wolf flanks out to the west, moving over in the troll direction. And the eagle just goes up and is now flying over the thorns and getting a good sight of everybody behind the wall of thorns.
[00:47:19] Speaker G: Well, there went my entire turns plan.
[00:47:21] Speaker C: Same. She did not do what I thought she was gonna do.
[00:47:25] Speaker F: You said we can see through the thorns?
[00:47:27] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[00:47:27] Speaker C: We can also attack the thorns.
[00:47:30] Speaker B: Um.
[00:47:30] Speaker C: You should have a hardness. Yes, definitely.
[00:47:32] Speaker B: So if you. You can attack 110 foot by ten foot section at once, which has ac ten hardness. Ten and 20 gp.
[00:47:41] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:47:41] Speaker B: It is immune to crits.
[00:47:42] Speaker E: What if I pull out hedge trimmers from my cloak?
Don't think about it too hard because I won't do that.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:47:51] Speaker C: I will.
[00:47:52] Speaker F: Can I still cast faze bolt at her?
[00:47:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:47:55] Speaker G: Okay.
[00:47:55] Speaker C: Face bolt ignores cover, too. That's.
[00:47:57] Speaker F: I was just checking.
Sometimes I think things and then people are like, no. And I'm like, okay, sorry.
So I'm gonna cast faze bolt at her.
[00:48:08] Speaker G: Nice.
[00:48:10] Speaker F: 22.
[00:48:12] Speaker B: That's gonna miss.
[00:48:15] Speaker F: I'm gonna step up to be next to Val.
[00:48:18] Speaker B: All right, so now you're right next to Val and also right next to the wall of thorns.
[00:48:22] Speaker F: And that's me.
[00:48:24] Speaker B: All right. Cornelius is just watching. One hand around his body, one hand on top of his head. Val, it's your turn.
[00:48:32] Speaker G: My turn? All right.
Yeah. I used two movement actions to move through, and I should be able to get here, but I'll take the damage going through the wall of thorns.
[00:48:44] Speaker C: Did you incorporate the wall of thorns is difficult journey. Yeah.
[00:48:47] Speaker G: Oh, does it qualify?
[00:48:48] Speaker B: It does.
[00:48:49] Speaker G: Then I'll move here.
[00:48:51] Speaker B: All right, so you take three d four piercing damage. So that is eight piercing damage.
[00:48:59] Speaker G: Worth it.
[00:49:00] Speaker C: All right.
[00:49:01] Speaker G: Hmm.
I could either have Sigourn attack their hawk or have Sigrun come and help fight.
[00:49:08] Speaker C: It's a dog fight in air.
[00:49:10] Speaker G: Oh, I think Val's gonna strike with her glaive this turn. All right, natural 20.
[00:49:21] Speaker C: The target is fatigued due to a sapping slash.
[00:49:24] Speaker G: Nice.
Fatigue is pretty solid. Yeah. Remind me. Fatigue lowers all their saving throws and their ac by one. Cool. And now I will roll damage. Because I have a glaive, I get deadly d eight on a critical hit.
[00:49:39] Speaker B: Oh. And the fatigued is a circumstance penalty, so it would stack with magical debuffs.
[00:49:44] Speaker G: Cool. Nice. I like that.
[00:49:46] Speaker B: But it does not stack with off.
[00:49:48] Speaker G: Guard 34 slashing damage.
And because it was a critical hit with my glaive, I'm gonna move her down into the left one square.
[00:50:00] Speaker B: So just pushing her back towards in our.
[00:50:02] Speaker G: Yep.
[00:50:02] Speaker C: Get over there.
[00:50:04] Speaker G: Yep. And that is my three actions.
[00:50:07] Speaker B: All right, Zafir, it's your turn.
Make a perception check.
[00:50:13] Speaker E: That's a natural one.
[00:50:15] Speaker B: All right.
[00:50:16] Speaker E: My eyes are not open today.
[00:50:18] Speaker B: You're distracted. A giant wall of thorns just spraying up in front of your face.
[00:50:22] Speaker E: That's true.
So just to get a little bit of an idea of what's going on here, it seems like the two tanks are kind of putting the battle together.
I'd like to move next to Cornelius, underneath him, actually, above him, if I could.
[00:50:42] Speaker G: Well, Cornelius is in the troll's hands.
[00:50:44] Speaker E: On the map specifically. That's where I want to get located.
[00:50:47] Speaker B: You mean north of him on the map? Okay.
[00:50:49] Speaker E: North of him on the map?
[00:50:50] Speaker B: Yes. I was like. I was imagining you sliding under the troll, and then when you said above, I was like, you're vaulting the troll?
[00:50:56] Speaker E: Yes. I'm gonna jump out of the tree, vault the troll, and stand on Cornelius eyeball.
[00:51:02] Speaker A: Ow.
[00:51:03] Speaker E: Toes right in the cornea.
[00:51:05] Speaker C: He's wearing cleats.
[00:51:07] Speaker B: Oh, okay. So, no, you're gonna swing around the troll to the north of him? Yes. Okay. This is gonna be fun. I want you to roll me a d 20 and choose even or odd.
[00:51:18] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:51:19] Speaker B: When? When? Before you roll, tell me which one you want.
[00:51:21] Speaker E: I'm gonna choose even.
[00:51:22] Speaker B: Okay, okay.
[00:51:24] Speaker E: And I rolled a 15.
[00:51:26] Speaker B: All right. As you begin moving out of the tree, you seem. It seems like you've spooked the troll who wasn't aware you were here at all. And he just swings down with one of his hands and tries to smack you with his hands.
[00:51:37] Speaker E: He did see the arrow whiz by.
[00:51:41] Speaker B: Oh, those trees are different.
[00:51:42] Speaker G: You make a comment about his intelligence?
[00:51:45] Speaker B: Natural 20.
[00:51:46] Speaker G: Oh, no.
[00:51:48] Speaker C: He's named, isn't he?
[00:51:50] Speaker B: He is. He actually said his name earlier.
[00:51:51] Speaker G: Foul, dear.
[00:51:54] Speaker C: The target is stupefied. Three until healed.
[00:51:57] Speaker E: Skull healed.
[00:51:59] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:52:00] Speaker B: That's brutal.
[00:52:01] Speaker E: Does that.
[00:52:03] Speaker G: I can heal you.
[00:52:04] Speaker C: Doesn't that take away all of his turns?
[00:52:06] Speaker B: Stupefied. Reduces all of your mental stats.
[00:52:09] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
[00:52:09] Speaker G: Intelligence, charisma. I thought it was done. Will all be lowered by three.
[00:52:12] Speaker E: Does healing, does that take at all? With potions?
[00:52:16] Speaker C: Mm hmm.
[00:52:17] Speaker B: That would count, yeah.
[00:52:17] Speaker G: You could just drink a potion.
[00:52:18] Speaker C: Yeah, anytime. Your health would go up.
[00:52:21] Speaker B: So you take 34 bludgeoning damage.
[00:52:26] Speaker C: Why is he attacking us?
[00:52:27] Speaker E: I'm just here to help him. From the dog?
[00:52:30] Speaker G: Because he is not smart and he has a sneaky boy to show up next to him.
[00:52:34] Speaker A: You scared him.
[00:52:35] Speaker B: He scared him.
[00:52:36] Speaker D: What are you doing here?
[00:52:38] Speaker E: Half my health just try to keep.
[00:52:41] Speaker C: The dog from you.
[00:52:43] Speaker D: Oh, well, that's fine then.
[00:52:46] Speaker B: You wanted to go just north of Cornelius.
[00:52:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:49] Speaker B: Okay, perfect.
[00:52:50] Speaker E: And then. I've never used this in combat. I'd like to drink one of my healing potions.
[00:52:55] Speaker A: That's an action? No, two actions.
[00:52:58] Speaker B: If you draw it, you have to use one action to pull it out and then another action to drink it.
[00:53:02] Speaker E: Then I will do that for the rest of my actions.
[00:53:06] Speaker B: All right.
[00:53:07] Speaker E: Removing the stupefied condition. Actually, it's a d eight, isn't it?
I healed two.
I mean, that still does its job.
[00:53:16] Speaker C: Yeah, it does what we wanted it to do. I thought it was a d eight plus con for some reason.
[00:53:19] Speaker B: No.
[00:53:19] Speaker E: So I am. I'm a little bit below half health.
Just letting you all know.
[00:53:23] Speaker A: Good thing we didn't fight the troll.
[00:53:26] Speaker B: All right, our. It's your turn.
[00:53:28] Speaker C: Okay, al, word is going to cast time jump, so time freezes. Alred is going to move as far 30ft around the thing as he can and then 30ft toward the fight following the wall.
[00:53:46] Speaker E: The trolleye him coming. Right. He's not spooked.
[00:53:50] Speaker B: He actually doesn't see him coming because time is frozen.
[00:53:52] Speaker E: Oh.
[00:53:53] Speaker C: And then after that's done, time restates and I just pop to the left of Einar. I get spooked and it sort of looks like I've teleported.
[00:54:01] Speaker G: Pop.
[00:54:02] Speaker C: And then I'm gonna go ahead and cast an amped telekinetic rend.
[00:54:08] Speaker G: Ooh, nice.
[00:54:09] Speaker C: On the wolf and the bird, they need to make a basic fortitude save.
What's your DC 22?
[00:54:23] Speaker B: The wolf regular fails. The bird critically fails.
[00:54:26] Speaker C: Sick. So since it's being iped, they're gonna take two d six bludgeoning. Iped.
Since it's iped. Since it's amped, they're gonna take two d six bludgeoning. In two d six slashing. And if a creature critically fails, they're also stunned one.
[00:54:42] Speaker G: Nice I.
[00:54:46] Speaker C: That's our new iP.
So it's gonna be four slashing. That's already doubled. Sadly, I rolled two nat ones. Oh, that's not. That's barely better. In 14 bludgeoning, that's already doubled. And then the one that critically failed is stunned one. And that is my turn.
[00:55:08] Speaker G: Nice, man. Nice.
[00:55:10] Speaker B: All right, so the bird is bloodied and the wolf is close.
[00:55:16] Speaker C: Close to being bloodied or close to death.
[00:55:19] Speaker B: It feels close to bloody.
[00:55:20] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:55:21] Speaker A: It feels close to man.
[00:55:22] Speaker E: You feel like you're about to start bleeding.
[00:55:24] Speaker A: All of a sudden, Einar, he looks over at our word, gives a wave and just walks towards her.
Walks towards Ilva. And just swings again. Actually, he viciously swings.
[00:55:40] Speaker G: Oh, man. I set all this up so you'd have flanking and you messed. I didn't move her to the right spot, I guess.
[00:55:48] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know if there is a position in our. Could get into. To flank with you.
[00:55:52] Speaker G: No, no. She ended up in a weird spot for my reach.
[00:55:55] Speaker A: Yeah, that's weird.
[00:55:56] Speaker C: If you had reach, you could do it. But you don't have reach.
[00:55:59] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[00:56:00] Speaker A: But she does have reach.
[00:56:01] Speaker C: No, you don't have reach.
[00:56:02] Speaker A: No, I don't have reach.
[00:56:03] Speaker G: So when.
[00:56:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:56:04] Speaker G: So won't flank.
[00:56:05] Speaker B: Just get tentacle arms.
All right. Vicious swing, you said.
[00:56:10] Speaker A: I did 27.
[00:56:16] Speaker B: That's a hit.
[00:56:17] Speaker A: Oh, no, that's not right. Oh, no, that is correct.
[00:56:21] Speaker C: Sorry.
[00:56:22] Speaker B: Oh, well, that's a hit.
[00:56:23] Speaker G: Come on, math major.
[00:56:32] Speaker A: I thought I misread the die 13.
[00:56:39] Speaker C: So what all does vicious strike do?
[00:56:41] Speaker A: So I unleash a particularly powerful attack that clobbers my foe, but leaves me a bit unsteady. So I make a strike. It counts as two attacks, so I can't do anything else. And I just get to deal an extra die of weapon damage. So the bit unsteady just means I don't get to attack.
[00:57:00] Speaker G: It's power attack.
[00:57:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's power.
[00:57:04] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:57:05] Speaker B: All right. And she is now bloodied.
[00:57:08] Speaker A: Yeah, that's all I got.
[00:57:09] Speaker B: All right.
[00:57:12] Speaker G: You can still surrender if you want.
[00:57:15] Speaker A: You only have to give in everything you believe in, not continue with what you're doing and pretty much run away from the Eretzens altogether. Feel free.
[00:57:24] Speaker B: On Yilva's turn, she looks at Einar, looks back over her shoulder at Val, kind of looks at her bird, and her wolf draws her bow, undoes the buckle of her quiver, lets it fall to the ground, and drops her bow.
[00:57:37] Speaker G: Oh, snap.
[00:57:39] Speaker B: And that's where we'll end this episode.
[00:57:40] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:57:42] Speaker A: We didn't have to murder her, by the way. That was in character that I said that.
[00:57:46] Speaker F: Why did she surrender, though, so easily?
[00:57:49] Speaker G: I asked her to surrender, and he came at her with a rude thing, and then she surrendered.
[00:57:54] Speaker C: She also. We know she doesn't like the family.
[00:57:56] Speaker A: It wasn't rude. It was the honest truth.
[00:57:58] Speaker F: I know, but it's still suspicious.
[00:58:00] Speaker C: We're almost killing her pets.
[00:58:01] Speaker F: Why did she surrender?
[00:58:02] Speaker C: We're about to kill her pets.
[00:58:04] Speaker G: Yeah, she might value her animals.
[00:58:06] Speaker F: Cultists don't value.
[00:58:07] Speaker G: Also, she probably just looked around and thought, I'm in a really bad position here. I haven't really dealt any damage to any of them, and I'm about to die.
[00:58:14] Speaker A: Yeah. And Einar's just towering over her and just hammering on her.
[00:58:19] Speaker G: But maybe she has something planned. It'll be interesting.
[00:58:22] Speaker B: All right. And the hero point for today's episode goes to Sam for both his good diplomacy and talking down the troll so he'd back off and let you have a nice civil conversation with Yova, but also the calculated willingness to send Cornelius as the collateral.
[00:58:41] Speaker G: Yeah. Thank you very much for this.
You know, it went really well, I thought. And, you know, I look forward to talking to more people more often, and I think I'm gonna go and write down a list of things to talk about and say when I'm talking to bad guys. Thank you.
[00:58:57] Speaker B: Bye, and we'll see you all in the next episode.
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[00:59:30] Speaker C: All birds should be weak to bludgeoning damage.
[00:59:33] Speaker G: What?
[00:59:33] Speaker A: Not wrong?
[00:59:35] Speaker G: Where did that come from?
[00:59:36] Speaker C: I was just thinking about birds.
[00:59:40] Speaker B: I want that as a sound bite.
[00:59:45] Speaker A: It's not the t shirt. All birds should be weak to bludgeon. I agree. Just have, like, a heartbeat t shirt coming soon.
