S1E5 We Didn’t Start the Fire

In this episode, our unflappable crew learn that nostrils are not just for breathing: they can also detect smoke and absorb punches. This episode is almost as hot as a cowboy’s scooter wheels.

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:11

I think I might finally get handsome.

SPEAKER_02 0:23

You were really engrossed in something just now.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Oh god, he's a mango's escape. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Warp warp.

SPEAKER_04 0:33

Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 0:34

Warp warp.

SPEAKER_04 0:35

Got I got I got I got I got it.

SPEAKER_02 0:41

Quick for something funny.

SPEAKER_01 0:43

Encrusted salmon. All right, I'm in.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

Hey. And with that, we'll start the music. And welcome to this week's episode of Colossus at the Crux, a Never Fear campaign presented by The Witch Game Mark. I'm Ian, your GM, and joining me around the table are.

SPEAKER_06 1:44

Hey, I'm Bree Drennan. I play Glitch, half human, half clank, ship's mechanic. Hi, I'm Audra, and I play Tapitha, the ship's quartermaster.

SPEAKER_01 1:55

Hi, I'm Garrett, and I play Tekan St. James, the ship's pilot.

SPEAKER_02 1:59

Hey, I'm Eugene, and I play Qualo, the ship's science officer. And the little birdhouse in my soul was raided by a fox.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Reminds me of a Bukowski thing. Garrett, I can't help but notice you try to not to be sexy cowboy this time. So the last episode, uh you all were danking around uh an old mansion just minding your business, uh except for Glitch, who was minding other people's business spying on Alan Ranch and the Golden Eyed Woman. But we shouldn't forget to mention that Qualo found an old can of spoiled fuzznuts. So make sure that's on your character sheet.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

Oh. Don't worry about it. Chekhov's can of FuzzNuts is definitely gonna Chekov's Fuzznuts.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

I it's it's gonna be like the final the final mission, you know, ten years from now. And we're like, oh, if only we had a hand-shaped object to fit in between these two things.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

But if we're gonna go with nuts.

SPEAKER_00 3:23

Um awful. Alright. So like if you had uh scrap your heel along the wall just loud enough to alert the golden-eyed woman who's going to uh like I said, her eyes dart to the door and uh her hands in a flurry begin to toss things into like the pockets that she has and she's just stuffing them, and then she goes, get up, idiots, get up, someone's here! And the two like lumbering oaks, one of whose actually a giant, are gonna like slowly like reopen their eyes and be like Is it those idiots from the bar? And she's like, just get up and she keeps stuffing her pockets as quickly as possible. Uh what do you do, Glitch?

SPEAKER_06 4:08

Well, I don't want them to leave the room, and so I am going to create a spectacle of myself dropping down onto the floor, stepping into the light, black gloved palms up into the wall. Oh, hey, oh, oh, no, no, no. I'm just looking for the bathroom and uh eating some oil fuzznuts and oh this is gonna be real bad. This is this is not the bathroom. Clearly, though my voice is raising as I try to alert everyone down the hall.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

Fantastic. In the distance, uh, those of you in the mud room-ish area where you ended last episode, you hear a from the mud room. What do you do?

SPEAKER_01 5:17

I turn to the rest of the group and like, there's a sign! It's an appearing clock rooster! She's in trouble! Start charging down the hallway. I follow.

SPEAKER_00 5:25

Okay. So this is going to be a very far movement to get all the way to where Clutch is. And so I am going to need agility challenge rolls from each of you. And the DC to make it all in one plunge is going to be pretty high.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

Oof. Uh I'd like to start if if that's okay with everybody. Tegan going down this hallway, would like to unfold the razor scooter. Oh my god! And start to razor scooter very quickly down the hall doing kickflips and stuff off the walls as I kind of come to twists and turns to make this a bit better. So uh when I make this agility challenge roll, I'd like to use uh spend a hope to use one of my experiences if it runs, rolls, or flies. Since the razor scooter definitely rolls.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

That's true. Um, if you ride this thing till the wheels come off, literally, I will give you advantage on the check. But when you're done with this check, pass or fail, uh you you're a scooter is broken.

SPEAKER_01 6:32

Uh no dice. I'd like to keep that scooter.

SPEAKER_07 6:37

Why?

SPEAKER_01 6:38

I see your I see your offer and I appreciate it. However, I must decline.

SPEAKER_00 6:42

I hope you fail this roll so bad. I hope this is the worst role you've ever made.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

That's gonna be a 20 with fear.

SPEAKER_00 6:52

Okay, so you uh kick flip, bounce off the walls, Ollie. I don't know the names of razor scooter tricks. I guess we should have Googled it before we started. Uh but yeah, in in one wild ass trick-filled drop down the hallways, you make like three 90-degree turns, and you end up right behind Glitch, who's got her hands up, and you can see that the two lumbering guys have like quickly like hopped to it. Uh but I'm gonna use that for fear. The golden-eyed woman who has been like packing things up is going to uh walk over to the fireplace and take like a poker and just whip coals across the room.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

Well, that's not safe.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

Yeah. So it's very clear from her action that she has started what is going to be a fire and is gonna consume this whole mansion. Um, next up, do we want the people who are in the back to try to make it to the salon? Or does glitch want to try something?

SPEAKER_06 8:04

Watch out to her photon eyes over there. She's pocketed a essential crystal the size of Poilo's head. Can't let her leave with that. On it!

SPEAKER_01 8:13

And then I get ready, like I I like scoot my foot a couple times on the razor scooter, like I'm prepping a charge.

SPEAKER_06 8:20

And then with that, I'm gonna attempt to cast a minor illusion on the opposite side of the room from Ms. Golden Eyes to see if I can get a small pack of gremlins skittering across the floor.

SPEAKER_00 8:36

Okay. Do you make a roll for that or is it automatic?

SPEAKER_06 8:39

It's a spellcast roll. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

Okay. Give me that spellcast roll. Ooh.

SPEAKER_06 8:45

And it fizzles as the Essentiate Beam tries to shoot out from her wrist.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

So, yes, that is an ape with fear. You summon the pack of gremlins, but you end up messing up the illusion. And so they come out looking like a rat king, like a ball of gremlins all like stuck together. Uh one of the uh ranch is gonna look at it and go, eh. Why why why would you do that? That's gross. Uh Qualo and Tabitha, what do you guys want to do?

SPEAKER_05 9:17

Uh I guess I follow pretty plainly after Tegan's uh present display.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

Eraser scooter antics?

SPEAKER_05 9:26

Yes. Uh I'm just gonna I'm just gonna run down the hallway regular.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

Okay. So that's gonna be agility for you. Real quick, how big is Tabitha again?

SPEAKER_05 9:36

Uh I don't know if I've ever set a specific height. Well, she's giant height.

SPEAKER_02 9:42

She's tall. She's so can I hide behind her? Is the question.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

Yes. Okay. So so I was a little bit ahead of the hall, right? Because I went into the into the pantry. Yeah. So when she runs past me, I'm just gonna hop on her back and like hide, like a backpack, but so that I have cover so that I'm hiding behind her.

SPEAKER_00 10:01

So um up to this point, I've been hand-waving her giant miss. Um, like so she's got the reach, right? But I I wasn't like, you know, she doesn't fit in the places, that sort of thing. But um if if we're gonna do things like using her like physical size for things like cover, that sort of thing, um, then it will probably be the case that I will also do the the other side of it where she is gonna start having to like squeeze. And so you guys need to to, I and I say you guys, Tabitha needs to decide, does she want to keep doing a hand wavy or does she want like to actually use her size, but on the other side occasionally get like caught in places?

SPEAKER_05 10:45

I mean, uh, I was already prepared for uh that to happen. Like, so like when we got onto the rickshaw, I was like, how big is the rickshaw? And stuff like that. You know, like I I have already thought that that was like something that was going to happen.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

Okay. So uh in that case, then I will say, uh, yes, Koala, you can use her for cover, but Tabitha, I'm going to give you this uh disadvantage to move through the hallway because you're a giant cat trying to move through a hallway designed for regular-sized creatures.

SPEAKER_03 11:19

Can I use hope to get rid of that disadvantage?

SPEAKER_00 11:23

You have to use hope for an experience. Now, uh another player like Walo could spend a hope to give you advantage to try to get you through the hallway quicker. And that would cancel out the disadvantage. But it doesn't seem like Qualo is inclined to do that.

SPEAKER_02 11:36

So No, I don't have I would I don't have anything to spend hope on, so yeah. Uh I am going to uh shift my weight around as if she was a surfboard and piercing through the corners so that she has an easier time uh getting down the hallway.

SPEAKER_01 11:53

Okay, that's fantastic. Sometimes you just got a boogie board, your giant Katari hybrid. That's what mama always said. But I I let a ragdoll carry me in the last episode, so cool.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

Alright, Zen, make the roll straight.

SPEAKER_05 12:07

A 17 with fear.

SPEAKER_00 12:09

That is good. I'm gonna get the fear, but the DC was 15. So you also make it and uh Qualo, I will say that you uh tag a long. And if you want, I can go ahead and uh have your action be that you are just automatically hidden um behind the cat.

SPEAKER_02 12:29

I mean, if that costs me an action, I guess, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

Um well they didn't see you come in, but they would know to expect you. Uh now, what do you want to do?

SPEAKER_02 12:40

Well, I so so is hiding an actual like role in this game? Because my sense of it was that it's more of a narrative. If I'm hiding, I'm hiding. I don't have to roll for it.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

Um, so definitely if the only thing you're doing is hiding, then that is an action role. And if you are in a place where no one would expect you to be, like, so uh you go into or like you're in a room and you just step into like a closet as other people come in. I wouldn't make you roll to hide that way. But like what um Glitch was doing where she was like climbing up, trying to listen to people, and she was coming toward them. Um, and you know, they're it would it's the kind of place where you know it would be obvious if somebody's trying to sneak up on you. Um it is more narrative than other, say, D neutrality-based games uh of no particular stripe. But uh yes, it it's not always free.

SPEAKER_02 13:41

Well, alright, so it costs me an action, sure. I'm cloaked.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

Okay, cool. Then that was with a fear. So the golden-eyed woman is gonna be like now to the two oaths, and uh they're going to charge across the room. And glitch, you are the outfrontiest.

SPEAKER_06 14:04

Uh, I am going to scurry up the wall so that I'm wedged between the wall and the ceiling. I am going to attempt to unleash chaos at the two goons coming towards me by spending a stress to gain two to my action roll result. Oh bless. And that is a 25.

SPEAKER_00 14:36

Okay. Well, the good news is that um that is going to hit. Um, what is your evasion, Clutch?

SPEAKER_06 14:47

My evasion is 10.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

Okay. So uh because the previous role uh was with fear, uh, I I got an action. I didn't want to cut you off though. And so um I I let you do the whole description. So we're gonna narrate this together. But um got it. One of the guys, as you're like crawling up, is going to grab your ankle hard enough to do five damage, and then you're gonna blast him in the face while he's got a hold of your ankle.

SPEAKER_06 15:17

Okay. Um yes, and so since I doubled the targets, can I blast them both, or should I just be able to blast him with that fear and grab?

SPEAKER_00 15:27

If you double the target, then you can hit both of them. Okay. And how much damage was it?

SPEAKER_06 15:33

I'm gonna tell you right now. 15 each.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Yikes! Big money.

SPEAKER_06 15:40

Holy crap. And I'm sorry, I took five, correct?

SPEAKER_00 15:44

Uh, yes.

SPEAKER_06 15:45

It's minor damage, so I'm just gonna take it in each.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Damn. Uh that blast to the face, like teeth fly from like one of the commies. And uh the other one, um, because it's chaos, right? Is it just like a bolt of weird light or what does it look like when it hits people?

SPEAKER_06 16:03

It's channeling raw essentia um from within myself. It's not unlike uh just seeing you would just see violet energy ripping out of my arms and enveloping the person. But I think rolling with the idea of unleashing chaos, there would be a little un given the nature of all of the essential technology we've talked about so far, I think there'd be a little bit of uh unpredictability in what the results would be. Yeah. It'd be a little skiz a little bit of a schism in reality.

SPEAKER_00 16:41

Uh that's perfect. So one of the guys, um, if you were like looking closely when like the beam hit him, you'll see what looks like a person's fist. Uh like just like the ghost of it in the beam and it like clocks him in the jaw. Um and then uh in the other one, uh, it looks like a piano, just like a part of a piano, has phased into reality to like hit the other guy on the top of the head, and then you know, just as quickly as it like flashes, it's gone. And so like both guys are just I mean, you that 15 damage was uh a lot of damage. Oh, um, yes, I forgot to say their damage is direct. Uh so it's a good thing that you didn't spin armor because you couldn't if you wanted to.

SPEAKER_06 17:25

Got it.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

Cool. And then was your role with hope or fear?

SPEAKER_06 17:30

Uh the role was with fear, and so yes, after he yanks my leg, even though I hit him, I land flat on my ass. Legs sprawled out.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

Okay. And then Tingan, could you do me a favor, dear, and roll me a D4?

SPEAKER_01 17:45

Sure. Coming right up. That's a one.

SPEAKER_00 17:49

Oh yes! Okay, so the coals that have been flicked across the room, uh, remember I described this place as it's full of old books. Um, there was an ancient rug on the ground, uh, there were scattered papers everywhere. It's almost like burning this place down was maybe even already part of the plan, and this place was chosen specifically as the you know focal point for the fire. Uh because as soon as the coals go everywhere, there's already, you know, just fire spreading across the room. And in one turn, so one action pass or fail, the fire is going to like spread such that you guys are gonna start choking on the smoke. Uh so I spent a fear to do that. And with my just regular action, I'm gonna have the golden-eyed woman. She's gonna look well, she it doesn't matter. So, uh no, it does matter. Okay. She's going to take something off her neck, snap the chain on it, crush it in her hand, and then there's gonna be a portal that's gonna open up in front of her, and she's going to step through it, and as she goes through the portal, she's gonna turn to the uh two guys, and she's like, no survivors, and then she's gone.

SPEAKER_06 19:07

Shit.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

How long is that portal open? Can I can I razor scooter through it? No. Damn! Damn. It's already ready to razor scooter through a portal. Alright.

SPEAKER_00 19:17

I know. So, uh, that was my action. There's still two big guys in front of you. What do you guys want to do? Who's next?

SPEAKER_02 19:28

Um, can the fire still be stopped? Or are we past that point?

SPEAKER_00 19:32

If you have some incredible way of putting out uh a room full of like old paper and ancient tapestries and that sort of thing that are already like caught. You know, I'll never say no to something that's gonna like gobsmack me. But unless one of you is a water sorcerer.

SPEAKER_05 19:51

Can I like pull out a fire extinguisher from my pack?

SPEAKER_00 19:55

Um, I I would definitely let you spend actions to fight the fire. If you can describe to me what an Empyrean fire extinguisher looks like. Um what a wild use of this ability. This is your mad pack. Yes.

SPEAKER_05 20:14

Oh, I love it.

SPEAKER_07 20:17

Love it.

SPEAKER_05 20:19

Um, so it's going to be made out of wood. Yes. Uh, but like it's like um like almost like a barrel, you know? And um, like some of the metal bands and stuff, and like the metal bands will have like runes around it and stuff, and uh it's gonna have the nozzle, like in like a regular fire extinguisher. Um, but the stuff that shoots out of it isn't like the white, smoky, powdery stuff that comes out of a lot of fire extinguishers. It's gonna be like a gel.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Okay. Would you like to make me just be a finesse or agility or knowledge? What what kind of role would this be?

SPEAKER_01 21:04

Um I mean it could be either one of them. So I'm just looking at the the character sheet, and uh one of the things underneath the finesse is control.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

That speaks to me.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

Alright, so uh use a finesse roll if you would. So you whip this out and finesse it to see if you can push it back.

SPEAKER_05 21:22

Well, why not maybe a a strikes?

SPEAKER_01 21:25

Because I'm it's your donkey pong in the whole barrel of fire extinguisher jewel.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

That's the that's the so I'll let you know. Because I was gonna say the only way I'd let you do strikes is if it was a crit. Uh so it doesn't matter what stat you use. No, that's like the only stat I wouldn't that doesn't make sense to me. Even presence makes more sense than strikes.

SPEAKER_05 21:49

It's also but also says lift and fire extinguishers are sometimes very heavy.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Okay, well, let's do a finest roll. This one.

SPEAKER_05 22:02

It's just without advantage or disadvantage, it's just a regular role.

SPEAKER_00 22:05

That's right. If you have an experience related to firefighting, though, or if someone wants to spend dangerous out there, take this.

SPEAKER_05 22:13

Oh! Oh!

SPEAKER_00 22:15

Uh, for those listening, every single person at the table raised an eyebrow when Tabitha said that. Alright, uh, yeah, so spend the hope and get your experience.

SPEAKER_05 22:27

Okay, okay. Roll the nine with fear.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

Nine with fear. Okay. So unfortunately, that is not going to uh do anything to the fire. Um so you pull it out, you start to uh spray it, and then you find that it's like way past its expiration date. Uh nobody, nobody checked. Uh, but now you have a big empty or or you know useless fire extinguisher if you want to use the it for something else. Um so the giants, um, one of them. I have to spend a fear to do their activations every freaking time. But one of them is going to pound glitch. Because why not?

SPEAKER_06 23:16

Glitch just looks like someone you want to pound on, even she knows that.

SPEAKER_01 23:20

Very squishable.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

So, uh 14 to hit, which I believe beats your 11 evasion, and then 11 direct damage.

unknown 23:29

Oof.

SPEAKER_06 23:30

And uh again, no can't take any armor points, right?

SPEAKER_00 23:34

That is correct. Alright. The other person, uh, this one's gonna be Wrench, is going to lunge at Tegan, who was the second person to come into the room.

SPEAKER_07 23:44

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

Actually, no. What he's gonna do is he's going to shove over a bookcase on top of all of you.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

Ooh, using the environment.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

Yeah. So I get to make an attack roll against each of you.

SPEAKER_01 23:59

Is this uh something that is beyond melee range? Is he using his like giant's reach?

SPEAKER_00 24:04

Uh, yes. Okay. And so I think an 18 hits all of you guys is choosh. Okay. So this bookcase maneuver is fantastic. So he rolled uh a 19 to hit and then a 12 damage, and it's direct damage. So you cannot use uh armor. So he takes the bookcase and he just and slams it over top of you guys. Books go scattering in every direction as you guys are just slammed.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

It's 12 direct damage.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

I rolled the maximum.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

Yeah, so for me, that's like that's a major damage for me.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

Same.

SPEAKER_02 24:43

Yeah, that's severe for me.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

Oof. Books. That's why Tegan can't read their dangers.

SPEAKER_00 24:51

Don't do it. Alright, that was uh that was their actions.

SPEAKER_06 24:56

Alright, is Glitch in a place where she can see either or both of them?

SPEAKER_00 25:02

Yes. So one of them is like looming over you and just gut punch you, and then uh the other is standing like just on the other side of the doorway, having just smashed the whole bookcase on all of you.

SPEAKER_06 25:17

Alright, well, Glitch is just going to use the sheer anger of being antagonized like that, much less hit by these two goofuses uh and spend a hope in order to channel the Asentia running through her augments, adding a plus two to her unleashed chaos spell cast roll, which has been doubled.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

I would like to help get cost. Yeah, never mind, I don't need two.

SPEAKER_06 25:45

That is a 23 with hope.

SPEAKER_00 25:50

Would you believe that hits what?

SPEAKER_06 25:52

Uh I'm grateful. Taking the hope, uh, and then I'm going to spend that stress because I'm doubling it. Hit an additional target, one stress. Let's see what happens.

SPEAKER_00 26:05

Holy crap!

SPEAKER_06 26:06

15 each.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

15 damage each. Yikes. I get it. Okay. So uh they have uh another ability. One of them is going to shout, fuck this, uh, and is going to uh this one's gonna be wrench. He's going to turn and charge back out of the salon. So he's going to just barrel through the doorway and just smash it off its hinges. And he's now close range from you guys, headed out the door. But because of this extra damage he could have done that I'm not doing to you, he's going to take uh a bookcase and throw it down behind him. The one the one in front of you. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

Hey, did you spend a fear to activate them? Because we got with hope.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

They have a reaction. Yeah, they have reactions when they mark two or more hit points. I could have done this the last time and I and I forgot to do it. Jeez. Uh the other one is going to take the barrel that Tabitha is holding. And, like, so it's in your hands, he's gonna grab the other side of it and slam it back towards you and bonk you in the noodle for nine damage.

unknown 27:24

Oof.

SPEAKER_06 27:24

Rude. Which? Which one of us did they hit?

SPEAKER_00 27:28

Uh Tabitha. And I'm going to turn it back over to you guys in a second, but first we need to to uh adjudicate the fire. Can I get strength reaction rolls from all of you? Yeah, ten or higher.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

I got a 17.

SPEAKER_06 27:46

15 for glitch. 13.

SPEAKER_02 27:50

I got a seven.

SPEAKER_00 27:51

Uh so Qualo, you have a uh a gentler constitution than the rest of the party. The smoke that's filling the room is choking you, like stinging your eyes and making it hard to breathe. You are now vulnerable until you have a chance to like get away from the smoke. Uh speaking of Qualo, what's Qualo doing?

SPEAKER_02 28:10

So you said the guy who's running from us is what? In close range?

SPEAKER_00 28:15

That was wrench. Uh, yes. Uh well, he just threw a bookcase behind him. So he's gonna get a little bump to his difficulty to hit him because he puts on there between you. But then there's another guy who is um he's within very close of you.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

I'm just gonna run out of the room following wrench because I want to get away from the smoke.

SPEAKER_00 28:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

And when I get to within melee, uh I'm gonna hit him with my escreama.

SPEAKER_01 28:44

Hit him with a stick. Alright.

SPEAKER_02 28:46

And I was hidden, so I will get extra damage if I hit him.

SPEAKER_00 28:52

15 with a exactly what you needed. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 28:57

Wheat.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

Um, so he he burst through the door, like grabbed the edge of the bookcase, threw it behind him, and he's taking off. Describe the the the scene.

SPEAKER_02 29:08

So he knocks the bookcase over. I uh jump off of Tabby's back and do like a handstand over the bookcase so that my feet don't fall between the slats, and I land next to him, and I'm I'm running kind of next to him, but I stick my escreama between his legs so that he hits them and falls flat on his face. And then I bounce my second escreama off the back of his head. Give me that damage roll. Okay, so let's see. Plus two, plus one decent.

SPEAKER_00 29:37

12. Gosh, dang. Uh, so do you kill him? Do you knock him unconscious? What happens?

SPEAKER_02 29:44

I knock him unconscious. Maybe Tabitha will be able to pick him up on her way out. Uh I knock him unconscious and then I keep running.

SPEAKER_00 29:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 29:53

Oh wait, am I clear of the smoke yet, or do I have to go further to be clear of the smoke?

SPEAKER_00 29:57

You have to go further.

SPEAKER_02 29:58

Okay. So I knock him unconscious. Uh, I real quick grab, uh, I assume I can't do this intentionally, but I rifle through his pockets and grab whatever sticks to my fingers first, and then I keep running.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

Time to go, gang! Okay. Boop, boop, boop. Tegan, if you haven't gone in a while.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

Yeah. So uh Tegan uh cries himself out from underneath of the bookcase that he's underneath of dragging the razor scooter as he does. He sees the big uh Yeah, I'm I'm remembering the Razor Scooter. Uh so uh I see that the uh the the big guy uh Alan um is currently kind of locked up with Tabitha with the the barrel and kind of smash her face. What I want to do is try to sling the the lasso up over his face and then hopefully like accidentally get it between his teeth and yank his whole head backwards.

SPEAKER_00 30:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 30:53

Uh so I'm gonna try to lasso uh the giant. It's a 23 with fear.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

That definitely hits. Give me that damage.

SPEAKER_01 31:05

Uh so does it do damage? Uh so it I I get an option. So I can either do damage or I can give him uh the roped condition. I can temporarily rope the target instead of dealing damage. Uh while they're roped, uh the target's restrained and vulnerable. Uh but I've got to main uh remain within very close range of the target. Um when when the target tries to clear the condition, so this is kind of like in his mouth, it was almost like a bit and bridle, and he's like, oh you know. Um uh when he clears the condition, I can make a uh strength reaction roll to maintain it. So I'm like, no, no, no, you keep that in there, you old laundry giant bastard. Um yeah, so that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna rope him instead so that he is restrained and vulnerable. Hopefully giving him a uh an opportunity to my my teammates here.

SPEAKER_00 31:58

Uh speaking of teammates, uh Tabitha, you've got a uh roped-in-the-mouth giant in front of you who just hours before invited you to his crew. But now you see nothing but blind murder in his eyes. There's actually more than that. You can see in his eyes a sort of lack of emotion. Like he's daydreaming. Like they it it doesn't seem like there's any recognition in his eyes. Just as a a fun fact. What do you do?

SPEAKER_05 32:31

I don't know what to do with that information. Um so I'm going to forceful push him.

SPEAKER_00 32:41

And you'll have advantage for this because he's vulnerable.

SPEAKER_05 32:44

Okay, let's see. A 16 with fear.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

Okay. And then does that do damage?

SPEAKER_05 32:52

Uh it does one d6. It does two d6 if I rolled hope.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

Okay, so go ahead and roll me the d6.

SPEAKER_05 33:00

One sec. Doo do do.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

I think this is correct.

SPEAKER_05 33:03

Oh, I rolled a one.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

Any damage is good damage.

SPEAKER_00 33:09

Okay. And then, well, I guess the good news, bad news situation. Tegan, you had him lasso and you have to stay within very close. Uh, and this push would have pushed him out of the range. So go ahead and give me that strength reaction roll.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

Is he getting like thrown through the air?

SPEAKER_00 33:25

He is. And so I I'm gonna have, if you succeed on the strength reaction roll, he is going to get like clothes-lined in mid-air.

SPEAKER_01 33:33

So uh as part of this, since he's flying through the air and I'm kind of uh lasso to him, could I ride him through the air?

SPEAKER_00 33:45

Yeeho! Give me that strength reaction roll.

SPEAKER_01 33:49

Okay, so I'm gonna use one of I'm gonna use a hope to use my experience if it runs, rolls, or flies.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

Because he's flying.

SPEAKER_06 34:01

Insert PSA about allowing your players to create generic experiences right here.

SPEAKER_01 34:08

That's a 15 on that reaction roll.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

Um You do indeed ride him through the air. What what is the out what is the goal of having ridden him through the air?

SPEAKER_01 34:22

Uh straight style points. Um, come on. I get to ride a giant as he flies through the air after my, you know.

SPEAKER_05 34:29

Aura farming.

SPEAKER_01 34:30

Aura farming?

SPEAKER_00 34:37

Yeah, so you know, he was he's still restrained and vulnerable. So he is going to like land on, you know, his on his back with you standing on his chest. Uh high-ho silver.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

Away.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

Yeah. Okay. So I need uh everyone who's still in the mansion to give me uh another strength reaction role. And that includes our uh rogue who hasn't made it out of the mansion yet.

SPEAKER_01 35:15

Uh 15.

SPEAKER_05 35:17

16. 12.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

Um you got it, why not spend it? I'm gonna spend the hope. Because uh my genes are a hot mess. So are my genes.

SPEAKER_01 35:31

And uh conditions like this just don't ever affect me for very long.

unknown 35:38

That's right.

SPEAKER_02 35:41

Ten with hope, but it was this a reaction.

SPEAKER_00 35:43

Yeah. Yes, it was. Okay, so you you don't get any worse. That's a win in my book. This fire has not been nearly as devastating to you guys as I was hoping it would be. And uh I'm gonna spend some fear out to have this giant reach up and try to pull one of Tegan's legs off.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

No, not my legs. I need those.

SPEAKER_05 36:08

To ride more giants through the air.

SPEAKER_00 36:12

Okay. Well, he's gonna roll uh three. So don't even worry about it.

SPEAKER_01 36:21

The lasso in his mouth is just like Yeah, he's flailing.

SPEAKER_05 36:26

He's feeling vulnerable right now. He's really embarrassed about it.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

He's very he's emotionally vulnerable.

SPEAKER_05 36:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:35

Okay, so so everybody is is gone. Uh, does anyone uh want to take the spotlight?

SPEAKER_06 36:42

Uh glitch is really looking pretty worse for the wear at this point. Uh the only reason she's making it out without damage is she's like wrapping the tatters of her cloak around her face.

SPEAKER_00 36:52

Um, um I do want to say something that I think is important, and and I implied it, but I should state it uh explicitly. Every time I've done one of these uh challenge rolls, uh that's the fire spreading. And any clues that are in this room, like a certain percentage of them are destroyed every time that happens. So if the if there is a goal of gathering clues, uh you have a limited window to do that before the whole building goes up in a conflagration.

SPEAKER_06 37:24

That is perfect that you said that since this is my question. Uh you had said that Lady Goldeney's had been shoving items into her cloak or pouches off the desk. Is there anything left as she was interrupted while that was happening?

SPEAKER_00 37:42

Yes, there is a large map that like would have been too big to put in like a bag. Uh uh, a handful of those like weird-looking tools, and then there are like weird books and things that are like spread out around the room that were like open to different pages.

SPEAKER_06 38:02

Alright. Uh, can I make it over to the desk in order to grab the map and the tools?

SPEAKER_00 38:08

Um, you can make it over to the desk and grab the map or the tools. I'll let you do that without a roll. If you want to try to grab both, it's gonna be a finesse roll.

SPEAKER_06 38:18

Uh I'm gonna try and grab both.

SPEAKER_00 38:22

Alright. And I am going to spend a fear to give you disadvantage.

SPEAKER_06 38:27

Got it. And I am going to use. Nope. I got nothing there. Oh god! 16 with fear. No, crit! Crit!

SPEAKER_00 38:42

Crit. She grabs all three.

SPEAKER_06 38:45

And I'm gonna pay the price for it. I can feel it right now.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

So gate of hope, clear stress. So you you run over, uh, it like one of the edges of the map had like just started to catch fire. Uh, and so you're like, you know, batting it out, and then you just load up like there's nothing that all the stuff on the desk. Um, yeah. Which Marvel movie was it where Black Widow is like gunfighting with people while she's hacking a computer? Like you have that don't care what's going on as you gather stuff up thing. Anyway, you roll the crit, who cares? Alright, uh who else wants to go?

SPEAKER_01 39:26

Uh, I wouldn't mind if you guys are okay with it. So I'm currently kind of standing on this like uh giant's chest who's trying to like rip my legs off. Uh so Tegan just got out of the way, and what I want to do is jump up. So I've got the the the lasso little bub in one hand. It's just kind of like around his mouth, and then in my other hand I've still got the razor scooter.

SPEAKER_00 39:47

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 39:48

I want to uh as he is like reaching up flailing around, I want to kick off of his flailing arm, use it almost as a springboard, pull the the other end of the lasso taunt in my one hand, and then put my feet on the scooter and stomp down on him, like give him a scooter stomp to the face. Uh so I don't even know what I rolled to scooter stomp a giant, but I'm gonna need you up with that.

SPEAKER_00 40:11

It would be agility, and then I'll have the damage be a d6.

SPEAKER_01 40:15

Okay. Make that agility roll. And then uh, could I spend a hope to use if it runs, rolls, or flies, since I'm scooter stomping him?

SPEAKER_00 40:23

Yeah, why not? Awesome, best GM ever.

SPEAKER_01 40:29

That's gonna be a 12 with hope. 12. Oh, hold on. He is vulnerable still. Oh 14 with hope. Yes. Awesome! Scooter stomp in time. Uh I don't know who the parent company Brazer is, but if you want to sponsor this show. Uh, so I would also um I rolled uh a D6 for damage, but I also want to use my uh Wayfinder subclass feature, Ruthless Predator, which I don't think they intended to be used with scooters, but uh it says when you make a damage roll, you can mark a stress to gain a plus one bonus to your proficiency. Additionally, when you deal severe damage to an adversary, they must mark a stress. So I'm I'm gonna mark that stress to increase my proficiency by one, which means I'm rolling 2d6. Okay. That's 11 damage to scooter stomp Alan.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

Alright. So you hop off of him, catch the the lasso, and then like you have your your raiders, razor scooter, you pop it out, put your feet on it, pull it back, and just as you're coming down to like scooter stomp this guy across the face, you can see there's like his mouth is still like making like a gnashing, angry face, and he's gotten more feral as you've been like fighting him. But the look in his eyes is confusion and fear. And then you hit him across the face with a scooter, and he's out.

SPEAKER_01 41:57

Get along, little doggy. Uh we gotta get the hell out of here. Room's burning, and we gotta take this guy with us. I think he's uh bewitchered or something. He's in source world.

SPEAKER_00 42:12

Okay. So uh this last little bit, right? It is a transversal environment, and there is a chance for everything that you stop to do that you will start to you know be trapped in here and burn alive. And I'm just like GM, the players know that if you roll badly and make bad choices, your characters will die in this burn adventure. You need to be judicious, you need to be judicious about what you stopped to carry and and and what have you. So, Kabitha, do you pick this guy up? Yes. Okay, and can I get from you, Eugene, can I get a uh d6? Sure. Uh three. Okay. Alright. So, um, yes, a strength roll from you, Tabitha.

SPEAKER_05 43:05

Okay. 12 with here.

SPEAKER_00 43:09

Okay. So, um, you're gonna take three points of fire damage.

SPEAKER_01 43:14

Is that direct?

SPEAKER_00 43:15

Yes, it is. Um, from the heat of the fire, but you do manage to pick up uh the guy. Now there is uh so that was Alan. Wrench is laying in the hallway on the way out of the mansion through the front door. And you're gonna have to like um when you open it to the front, there's another like large foyer. You guys are gonna come out between two spiral staircases going up to the floor above you. That's not important for how you would navigate to the room, that's just flavor. There's a large chandelier in front of you that's like cloaked in smoke. Uh, you can see now that the like building is alight with flame. But uh, who is the next player who wants to go and what do you want to try to do?

SPEAKER_06 43:58

Uh I will. Go ahead. Do I need to transfer to the house or do I have the ability to break a window and walk down the outside wall?

SPEAKER_00 44:07

There's no windows in the room you're currently in.

SPEAKER_06 44:09

Alright, then I am going to attempt to get out.

SPEAKER_00 44:13

Alright, give me an agility challenge roll.

SPEAKER_06 44:16

That is a HICS.

SPEAKER_00 44:20

Yeah. So you're going to uh grab a door handle in your rush, and it is going to bur you for three direct damage.

SPEAKER_06 44:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 44:29

And then I need everybody to give me a strength reaction roll.

SPEAKER_06 44:33

A crit!

SPEAKER_01 44:34

12.

SPEAKER_06 44:35

11. 26.

SPEAKER_01 44:37

For the smoke?

SPEAKER_02 44:38

Yeah, for the smoke. Alright. I'm uh spending a hope on my genes. 16.

SPEAKER_00 44:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 44:44

Uh on the way out, I would like to kick flip. Well, first first I get the lasso back and put him on my on my belt because he's my little bloody. Okay. Um. And then I'd like to uh kick flip the razor scooter off of the fallen bookshelf and use as a ramp to come up and land next to wrench. And then I'm gonna try to like haul wrench out. I'm not I've got a plus one to strength. It's not my worst stat.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

Alright, give me a strength challenge roll.

SPEAKER_01 45:12

Is uh Qualo still nearby?

SPEAKER_00 45:15

Uh-ish, narratively.

SPEAKER_01 45:18

Oh, okay. Uh if he was narratively close enough to help, I would ask him to help me. But I don't know if he's just been running out of the uh hallway or not.

SPEAKER_00 45:26

Uh so it's a story, so he ran out of the room, but then he's just been running in place in the middle of the fire until the spotlights back on him.

SPEAKER_02 45:36

Give me a hand with the big bastard. Um, okay. I was sort of planning to do something else, but I guess I can do this. Wait, do I have to spend the hope to help you? Uh yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:49

Uh I'm all out of hope. Okay, so you're like wretching coffin and like half throwing up, and I can see you can't do it. Okay. So uh then what I'd like to do is uh as I'm like lifting the guy up and trying to traverse through like the smoky thing, I'd like to use my uh Ridgeborn ability, Steady, uh, which gives me advantage to traverse uh dangerous cliffs, ledges, navigate harsh environments, and use my survival knowledge. Alright, would you call this a harsh environment?

SPEAKER_00 46:18

I I I can hardly think of a harsher environment than a burning down building around you. 24 with hope! Alright. So you manage to get out of there with, you know, wrench. You do that thing, well actually, yeah, I'll I'll describe that here in a in in a second. But um Tab.

SPEAKER_01 46:42

I'm just so glad I didn't roll with fear because I know you'd make me leave the Razor Scooter behind.

SPEAKER_00 46:48

I'd make you choose. You'd have to choose between Wrench and Sorry, Wrench! Sorry! Okay, uh Qualo, you said you had something planned.

SPEAKER_02 46:59

How many people have made it out of the smoke already?

SPEAKER_00 47:02

No one.

SPEAKER_02 47:03

No one. Okay, and then narratively I'm still sort of further ahead of everyone. So I'm gonna uh run. I this hallway didn't seem so long when we were walking in. Uh I'm gonna run out of the building. Um as I run out of the building, I notice that two of them are coming behind me, and I'm gonna try to move things out of the way to make it easier for the people coming after me to run out.

SPEAKER_00 47:28

So I I'm guessing you're you're angling for this to be a finesse room.

SPEAKER_02 47:32

Yes. Alright. So I'm going to be uh as as things okay, so here's as things are falling over, as they're sort of being slowly consumed by the fire, I'm gonna use my escreamistic to knock things in particular directions so that instead of falling across our path, they kind of make a uh more of a hallway, right? So I'm just knocking them ang so I I I'm not strong enough to stop them and move them, but I'm trying to deflect them so that they fall in a way which makes it easier to run through.

SPEAKER_00 48:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 48:05

23 with fear.

SPEAKER_00 48:07

Okay, so you will succeed, but you are going to take some fire damage. So you're gonna push something and it's gonna like counter-tilt something that was on top of it, and it's going to like you know, smash on your shoulder or whatever and burn you slightly. So you will take six direct damage.

SPEAKER_02 48:25

And I'm dead. You're dead? Wait, you've given me nine direct damage, and I'm a first-level character. What do you think?

SPEAKER_00 48:34

Okay. Uh-oh. Nine wounds of direct damage?

SPEAKER_02 48:38

Yeah, I've taken nine wounds of direct damage. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 48:41

Um, so just just be clear, you're applying your damage thresholds each time, right?

SPEAKER_02 48:47

Oh, sorry. Um, thank god. Thank you for that very helpful suggestion. That's only the uh gotten confused by that too. So, okay, so that was two instead of six. So I'm not quite dead.

SPEAKER_01 49:03

Oh, thank the empiric. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 49:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:08

Yeah, there's a big difference between six and two.

SPEAKER_00 49:12

Here here is how the here's how the the rest of the scene plays out, uh, because you guys have done done the thing. Done the stuff. Um while I say you guys have done the stuff. Is there anything anyone wants to stop to grad in the house before this scene is over? So you grab you got Rich and you've got Alan uh over shoulders. Is there anything else, or are you guys there's nothing else you guys want in here?

SPEAKER_05 49:37

I think I'm my hands are pretty full of carrying another giant.

SPEAKER_01 49:43

Okay. Yeah, and I I'm squished underneath of it.

SPEAKER_02 49:46

I'm like we also got the map and tools. You did. I wish we'd gotten the books, but I'm not gonna push my luck. I mean, you can push your luck if you want to. That's okay.

SPEAKER_00 49:58

Alright. So uh we see, you know, what is it? Tabitha like throws the one guy uh over her shoulder, glitch burns her hands, she's looking around for like some way to like crawl out of this place, uh, while walking. We see Tegan, he's got like the the other giant dude like across his shoulders and his razor scooter between his teeth, and he's just like and then uh Qualo is running out trying to beat a path through to the entrance. Um oh, and you mentioned the hallway seemed longer on the way out. Uh you guys are leaving a different way you came in. So you guys are leaving toward the front, you came into the side door.

SPEAKER_01 50:40

Rich people mansions, like you have to have a really long foyer just to make sure that people know. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:46

So uh, and then uh we see Qualo like knock something aside, and then uh like a potted plant with some kind of extremely flammable plant, uh like you know, spills on him, and you see just like the fire across his face. And then we cut to the outside of the mansion, and there are like beaves falling down, like a parapet like collapses as the flames like gush out of the top. The weird uh monager of plants and animals uh are starting to move, like there are plants that are like scooting away from the burning building. Uh a glass monkey, you know, like leaps, you know, into a neighbor's yard. And just as like stuff starts to collapse or whatever, and you know, some big piece falls down inside the house of it's confirmed. Uh, you can see in the relief of the flames at the front door are the four of you moving with like and like you guys are two of you each are carrying like two of the guys like under each shoulder, that sort of thing, and you drag them out, and then the mansion behind you just and flames erupt uh out. And uh you guys are, you know, tired burb. One of you has very stinging eyes, uh, but alive, and you rescued two people and got some documents. And some random nab tools. And some random nab tools, and with that we're gonna end the session.

SPEAKER_04 52:11

Alright. So close to death.

SPEAKER_00 52:20

Okay. So uh a special thanks to Derrick Press for creating Daggerheart, the awesome game we're playing, and to our incredible fans. Don't forget to like, subscribe, comment, five stars, the whole thing. It's the number one way to help the show.games. And we will see you next week.

SPEAKER_01 53:21

That's just got a boogie board, your guncuttory hybrid? That's what mama always said.