Colossus of the Crux: A Daggerheart Actual Play Podcast
Colossus of the Crux is a new science fantasy Actual Play podcast featuring a cowboy, a cyborg, a four meter tall, three-eyed cat and whatever the hell Qualo is. Join the unflappable scrapper crew of The Rizon as they maybe save the multiverse. This podcast uses the awesome, narrative-forward Daggerheart system by Darrington Press.
Colossus of the Crux: A Daggerheart Actual Play Podcast
S1E9 Hush, Now
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In this episode, our unflappable crew is surprised by a colossus despite the fact they’re mentioned in the show’s title. Hushing ensues
Colossus of the Crux is a new science fantasy Actual Play podcast featuring a cowboy, a cyborg, a four meter tall, three-eyed cat and whatever the hell Qualo is. This podcast uses the awesome, narrative-forward *Daggerheart* system by *Darrington Press*.
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SPEAKER_07It's gonna make for a really interesting intro this week, though.
SPEAKER_01Uh well, we'll see what Z keeps and what he cuts. It's just B saying toes in crypto. Uh, but he's got it like uh layered, like a uh on a B track. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02So are we ready? Let's jam.
SPEAKER_06Excuse me. I'd get that last burp out.
SPEAKER_01Well, that seems uh good at times eight. Hear the music.
SPEAKER_07Hi, I'm Bree, I play Glitch, the ship's mechanic.
SPEAKER_06Hi, I'm Audra, and I play Tabitha, the ship's quartermaster.
SPEAKER_00Hey, I'm Garrett, and I play Tegan St. James, the ship's pilot.
SPEAKER_02Hey, I'm Eugene. I play Qualo, the ship's science officer. And remember, kids, it's bad luck to have an even number of fingers.
SPEAKER_01Um, I so do not take medical advice from this show. Consult your physician before deciding how many fingers you ought to or ought not to have. And uh our our shoe our show gets sued. We're like three episodes in, and then we have to like cancel and do an apology tour.
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SPEAKER_01Cool, cool, cool. So do you guys remember what was happening at the end of the last episode? I I I seem to have forgotten.
SPEAKER_06I think we were I think we're in a very peaceful meadow surrounded by flowers.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's the beach episode, isn't it? Yeah, we were yeah, we were at the beach episode.
SPEAKER_02We were standing uh standing victoriously over the smoking remains of the Colossus we had just killed.
SPEAKER_01Oh, the Colossus! Yeah, oh man, thank you. So my I for I'd forgotten. I forgot about that. So yeah, last episode. You guys had uh gone into the uh mostly invisible sphere, found that it was an archive of legend, uh did some spelunking, uh, got to a dais, and then uh against the warnings of the emanciated scientists you had found, did a loud verbal greeting to Ephelion, who was tossed off of uh hush, as the Colossus is called uh by the scientist, as it, you know, got up out of the ground. And now you all uh are standing in this large uh dusty archive with this hulking monstrosity in front of you. And I'm just gonna give a quick recap uh of its physical description for the listeners. Uh it has six large scythe-like legs. Uh and when I say large, uh I mean if you took a strip mall and stood it on its side. That's how long its legs are. And then in the center of it, if you imagine something roughly the size of like a mid-tier, uh fast casual restaurant, uh, on the dais are six equidistantly spaced mini versions of the pillars around you, the archive pillars, the ones holding the scrolls. They're coming out of the top of the dais. And Ephelion was messing with one of those when you all walked in. Uh oh yeah, and embedded in the like articulated joint of each of its legs are these uh gyro rings, and suspended in each ring is a large bell. What would you all like to do?
SPEAKER_00Has it seen us?
SPEAKER_01Um, it doesn't have anything that you would possibly describe as eyes. So you don't know if it's seen you. Uh, but it did get up at the sound of uh I think it was Wallow.
SPEAKER_00It was. Uh, I'm gonna try to go for some cover. That sounds good. There's a bunch of these like big, you know, A-Sec platform things. I want to try to get behind one and dive in there.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Uh, I believe that that would be an agility challenge hole. Okay. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_00Unless you want to do something else. I'm trying to see if it's going for us or if it's going for a fellian. Okay. So, uh, I want to uh traverse a harsh environment. Uh, so can I get uh advantage for my rich born class feature steady? Ooh, that's a 16 with fear.
SPEAKER_0116 with fear? So uh you will definitely successfully jump behind a stack and gain cover. But the creature question mark uh is going to react. It is going to go for a felon. Ah no, it's gonna go for instant. So it is going to move. It's far range from you now. Uh after it moves, it's going to be within close. And it will be within close of all of you except Tegan who just moved. So I need each creature who isn't Tegan to give me an instinct reaction ball. And then, oh, Tegan. Actually, I need you to make me a strength reaction ball. A strength.
SPEAKER_06Does it matter that I clean?
SPEAKER_01I mean it matters in that you're gonna be unaffected by what happens. Nice.
SPEAKER_0214.
SPEAKER_00Uh 21.
SPEAKER_01And glitch. 15. Well, somehow all of you assholes manage to succeed. Uh, so when the creature moves, the bells in its legs, you'll see them jangle in the joints. Uh, but the ringing will sound like it's coming from behind you and rushing past you toward the creature instead of away from it. Those of you uh who have the presence of mind to do so instinctually cover your ears as the sound washes over you. Uh, Tegan, you feel this rush of air that turns you like an implosion toward the creature, but you know, in part because you had just got cover, you manage to like tuck your shoulder against the uh stack, and you don't get ripped out of your spot and thrown toward the leg. After the ringing, uh there is an unusual calm, like a quiet, that's going to come over the area. It is dead silent now. In addition, I'm going to spend a fear and I am going to make an attack toward let's start with Kualo.
SPEAKER_00Can you say it's dead quiet?
SPEAKER_01Yes, like silent.
SPEAKER_00Like uh like if I shout something that can't be heard. Correct. Okay. I try to yell out, watch out, it's got reverse Doppler concussive attacks. And then nobody hears it.
SPEAKER_01Uh correct. You you like you don't even hear your own words come out of your mouth. Uh Qualo, does it 14 hit your evasion?
SPEAKER_02I'm level one. Of course it does.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Uh so one of these large scythe-like legs is going to come up and then just very precisely come down onto your foot, and the tip of it is going to pin your foot to the floor. Like go through your shoe, through your foot, and into the floor. Uh I'm gonna spend another fear. You are now restrained, you can attempt a strength or agility roll to escape. Uh, and you're gonna take six damage right now.
SPEAKER_02So does it have to meet or exceed the damage threshold?
SPEAKER_01Uh if it meets the threshold, then it does the next thing. Alright, I'm gonna spend an armor slot. Man, what is your armor thresholds? Six. Again, level one. Okay. I mean uh yeah. Uh so uh presumably, Qualo, do you scream as this thing uh presses the scythe blade through your foot?
SPEAKER_02No, because you can't hear me.
SPEAKER_01That's right. But do you like you choose not to scream because you know you can't be heard? You're like, well, what's the point? You know?
SPEAKER_02Actually, I take this opportunity to fart really loudly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, you think no one's the wiser except that they smell it and so they know it's like you and you and one other person in an elevator and the other person just stars at you.
SPEAKER_02You know what they say? Uh he who smelt it.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_01That's fantastic. Uh the spotlight goes back over to you in this silent room. Now that this thing is moving, the dust is spreading. But there is a surreal quality about it in that you imagine there should be this cacophony as this gigantic creature is moving, uh, but it is now, like I said, dead silent here.
SPEAKER_02So um now that this thing can't move without releasing me, uh it's right where I want it to be. Um the bells, do they have clapper? Clackers. Do they have clackers? Uh clapper, yes they do. Clapper, whatever.
SPEAKER_01Okay. And how big are the clappers? Uh about the size of a person.
SPEAKER_07They're meaty. They're meaty clappers.
SPEAKER_01So so medium or small. Medium? Are those distinctions in this game? Yes.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Medium. So that's fine. Uh I'm gonna whip out my woven net and I'm gonna throw it at the clapper nearest me. But my goal is to foul it uh and cover it in the net so that it basically can't function as a clapper anymore.
SPEAKER_01Okay, that's cool. Yeah. Keep in mind there are six of these, one in each leg. But I but definitely that is a an interesting idea.
SPEAKER_02Right, but defeating boss logic is that you take one down at a time, right? I mean I don't I don't have a way to take down all six. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright, so I'm gonna do that. And finesse roll. This will be close range from you.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I thought I had a critical. Seven with fear. Seven with fear. I I'm going to spend that fear immediately. Uh you throw the net up because you've had to throw it straight up to try to get the clapper. Uh it's going to come straight back down, uh, and you will have just netted yourself.
SPEAKER_02I mean, mechanically, I I actually can't net myself because I'm not a small creature.
SPEAKER_01But uh I mean a clapper's not a small creature.
SPEAKER_02Um Right. Which is why I was trying to foul it. Yeah. Rather than net it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Anyway, you're you're netted. So I mean you can't be double restrained. It's mostly for flavor, but it's fucking hilarious. So you and for the listeners, I think Garrett spit took his coffee when I said that.
SPEAKER_00Some of it went up in my nose. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh so yes, in in the silence you all see Koalo throw the net straight up and then it comes back down on top of him.
SPEAKER_07Glitch responds immediately. You see her mouthing something, and you can't hear what it is, but you can tell that it's really offensive as she whips out her plasma spanner. Uh assuming the the touch's back legs are in very far distance.
SPEAKER_01They are far distance.
SPEAKER_07That is within her range. She's gonna go ahead and attempt to shoot them, adding a stress to hit two of the bells rather than one.
SPEAKER_01And she is definitely going to have a chance to do that after I take my action. Uh because I spent the fear, but I did not take my uh my turn. And uh another leg is going to come and it is going to try to step on glitch.
SPEAKER_07Okay, and I'm making a agility roll for that.
SPEAKER_01I crit. Uh Garrett, when a GM crits, what does that do to the damage? Do you remember?
SPEAKER_00I think it's the same thing as when players crit.
SPEAKER_06You uh It goes all the way to zero?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, exactly. Daggerheart is such a fun game. It it has reverse crits where um Oh, because that that'll be something when then when we crit we don't do any damage. Uh I believe it's the the same thing as when players crit, so you max out the die roll and then roll another one on top.
SPEAKER_02Don't so delicious. GMs roll a single 20?
SPEAKER_01They do, and I rolled a 20. Oh, okay. Um cool. So you you are going to get to do this blast, uh, but you do so as one of its other legs comes and just like Qualo, just right through your foot and into the ground. Uh you were not pinned, because I don't want to spend the fear on that. Uh so it's going to like puncture your foot and then come right back up for 10 damage. How many wounds do you take?
SPEAKER_07Uh for 10 damage, I am going to take one armor and one hit point.
SPEAKER_01Uh and now cursing into the void.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, cursing with no sound, um, because in the void nobody can hear you swear. Uh glitch continues to now with a with a pained wince, rips out her plasma spanner, pointing it at Hush, attempting to knock out two of the bells by marking a stress just out of pure anger at this point.
SPEAKER_04A nine with hope.
SPEAKER_01Well, the good news is you gain a hope. Uh after having just been stabbed in the feet with uh or foot, your uh shots go wide and blast like the stacks of books, and Qualo, you can see like a couple of scrolls come out, and they're you know, uh being not necessarily incinerated, but uh chaosified by Glitch's magic and probably ruined forever, and whatever knowledge was on them is now probably permanently lost. Just as a as some quick flavor for your character. Um but now it's back to me. Tabitha does a 10 hitcher evasion. Uh yes. You're going to take four damage as one of these uh feet come down and it's going to try to puncture your chest, uh, but you you know back out away just quick enough that it just scratches you uh across your chest. How do you react?
SPEAKER_06Uh just a clarification on like damage when the minor like any amount of damage gets marked as one HP?
SPEAKER_01Uh yes, if it's below your first threshold.
SPEAKER_06Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_01And you can also go unstoppable to reduce all of the damage you take by one.
SPEAKER_06That's that's what I was uh thinking. So um I am going to go unstoppable.
SPEAKER_01Can we hear your best unstoppable growl?
SPEAKER_06Uh I mean, well, you can't because no one can hear anything right now.
SPEAKER_01Ah, she got you. She did got me.
SPEAKER_06But suffice it to say that you all see me like mime a very epic roar.
SPEAKER_04Oh, we can see all the teeth.
SPEAKER_06Like uh, yeah, like all teeth, ears flat back, like claws come out, and I am going to is Qualo still pinned by his foot?
SPEAKER_03Yep.
SPEAKER_06I'm going to try to forceful push this thing's leg away from him so he can act freely again.
SPEAKER_03Dope.
SPEAKER_06Do I still have that thing that you gave me last roll uh last game? Uh where you're like, you get a free advantage.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, from uh eating slip shoes, clicking and surviving, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna use that advantage now.
SPEAKER_00Channel Jimmy Stew. You're like if I maybe do that. We'll make this.
SPEAKER_06Is that just a fart?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it just propels.
SPEAKER_06I got a 19 with fear.
SPEAKER_01Uh well, I will bank that delicious fear, but you definitely, definitely hit. Describe the scene to us. There's this giant leg straight down into Qualo's foot. Uh Kualo uh has the net just sort of draped over him. Uh what does it look like? You bound over.
SPEAKER_06Uh yeah, so I bound over to him and like I wrap my arms kind of around the non-blade part of this foot, and like I lift and shove it off of him, and like this thing, like, it's huge, so it doesn't like really do a whole lot to it, but I imagine that it like, you know, like stumbled a little bit when I did it.
SPEAKER_01It does. Uh can you also roll me damage? Your weapon should uh have a damage as well.
SPEAKER_04Well, it's three.
SPEAKER_01Okay. And then uh did that add your unstoppable damage automatically?
SPEAKER_06Uh no, I don't think it did. So four? Because like the broadsword damage is one d8 plus one, and then this only says plus one on it, so it should be four damage.
SPEAKER_01Okay. And then there should be a way to uh increment your uh d4 on your character sheet because you just got a successful attack.
SPEAKER_06I I did. And and I also have a a physical d4 in front of me.
SPEAKER_01Nice. Okay, cool. Um, so you do indeed uh lift this thing and toss uh its foot off of Qualo. Um one of its legs bangs into the other leg uh and it takes a small amount of damage from the interaction. Uh you rolled with fear, so now it is back to me, and it is going to try to pin you, Tabitha. And it is gonna roll like absolute crap. Does a five-hitcher evasion?
SPEAKER_06Uh, no. Also, I can't be restrained or vulnerable while I'm unstoppable. Does that matter?
SPEAKER_01It would if I had tried. Um, Hush doesn't know the rules of Daggerheart.
SPEAKER_05And so it would definitely still have tried.
SPEAKER_00Tried to pin you to the floor, and then you just like you rip the foot out, you're like, no, not today.
SPEAKER_06It just backhanded away. I'm like, ah!
SPEAKER_01I was picturing you flexing your chest as it goes to hit, and it just bounces off of your pecs. Um cool. Uh, and I believe everyone has gone and the it's back to you. Does anyone want to act?
SPEAKER_00Uh, so I would like to try to help get my friends on stuck, but also damage this thing. So, what I'd like to do is start weaving in and out of the uh stacks, uh, and I'm trying to like draw it away from them. I know it's got a really, really, really far reach. Uh, but as I'm like running and like diving between these stacks, I've got my uh my car being out, and I'm starting to just rack off rounds at it. Uh, and I'm trying to hit those like bells.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_00Uh so I'm gonna try I'm gonna spend a hope and uh try to activate my rangers. Focus here.
SPEAKER_01As you're firing shots, you can hear that the sound is slowly coming back.
SPEAKER_00Ooh, okay. It's a temporary feature. So it says, uh, I have to spend a hope and make an attack against the target on success. Uh, I'll deal in the normal damage and then temporarily make it my focus. Which gives me some benefits, but I have to hit first.
SPEAKER_01I will also say, uh, while uh Tegan handles this, uh, during a Colossus fight, you guys can use tag team roles any number of times. So the normal one initiated per player uh is not in effect during a Colossus fight.
SPEAKER_00Ooh, that's fun. Uh got an 11 with hope to hit it.
SPEAKER_01An 11 with hope does not hit, but you do gain hope.
unknownDamn.
SPEAKER_01Um, so I will say your carpie uh bullets are are you know connecting, you're a very good aim, but they're just like you're not hitting anything sensitive enough to do damage, and the bullets are just ricocheting off. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Alright. Speaking of trying to skirt around to draw this thing away, although I'm not like moving outside of like close.
SPEAKER_01So So how far away are you from it?
SPEAKER_00Uh so I am still at uh it moved up too close to everybody else, so I was still at far, so I'm still at far. I'm just circling around it, trying to get it to have to chase after me.
SPEAKER_01Okay, and it will do exactly that. Uh so it's going to use its action to charge you. And as it charges you, it's going to like put its uh two of its feet between the stacks and sight them down. So two of the stacks are just going to like collapse as it rushes towards you. Uh and then I need everyone to give me uh it's going to be a strength reaction roll because of its movement.
SPEAKER_00And is this to keep them from like uh you know stuff falling on us?
SPEAKER_01No, this strength reaction roll is going to be to resist being pulled toward the creature.
SPEAKER_00Oh right. Yeah, the reverse Doppler concussive thing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_0011.
SPEAKER_0715. 13.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Anyone who rolled uh 14 or less, or I guess, yeah, 14 would be to hit. So anyone who rolled 13 or less is going to get snatched off their feet and thrown toward this creature. Um, and so who was that?
SPEAKER_06Everyone except for me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Uh I actually I got a crit, so I'm okay.
SPEAKER_01Yes. So uh Itar's already moved to within close to you, Tegan. Um, and then Tabitha, you manage to like dig your claws into the ground. Uh making biscuit style. And uh your your whole your like hair all gets pulled toward the creature, so now your uh do is all messed up. But uh Tegan and Glitch, yeah, you get snatched off your feet and thrown uh to within close of this thing, and you guys just like brrrrrrrrr, uh tits over tea kettles on the ground toward and glitch.
SPEAKER_03Quallow what? Quallow and glitch. Quallow and glitch. Uh what did I say?
SPEAKER_00Uh but does that uh does that break that restraint condition since it had to like pull them away?
SPEAKER_01He was already not can uh restrained because of um Tabitha.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but Glitch was.
SPEAKER_01I didn't spend the fear to restrain Glitch.
SPEAKER_04Oh dang, okay.
SPEAKER_01So, Qualo and Glitch, you like the the sound gets pulled toward the creature again. Now your ears are ringing, and uh you may not make a spell cast roll until you have made a roll that succeeds with hope.
SPEAKER_07Alright, well given that Glitch is gonna wince and pull out her plasma spanner again, aiming it at the creature, and this time channeling the essentiate within her for one hope. Is this a spellcast roll?
SPEAKER_01Nope, it's just her it's her staff. Okay. And then are you targeting the central dais or the feet? Or like the legs?
SPEAKER_04She is targeting two of the legs. Okay.
SPEAKER_01It is an 18 with hope. Uh gosh. So yeah, you get yanked off your feet, you roll around, uh, you pick yourself up, you know, glitch style, you pull out your staff, and uh everyone can see the like determination in in your eyes. Like it's your past fear, your past rage. Now you're just in full destruction mode. And yeah, you blast two of the feet. Uh what's the damage? It is.
SPEAKER_04God damn. It is fifteen each.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. That is really good. So um because of your position, like the the two back legs would have been the ones closest to you, you blast those, um, and you can see that uh one of them, like the actual bell, the you know, mechanism holding the bell, like starts to come loose. And as this thing is like scrambling toward Tegan, uh now one of its legs is like buckled awkwardly where you like shot it at the joint. So it's it's definitely uh one two of its legs are the worst for wear. It's fantastic. Uh and you rolled with hope. So it is still you guys' turn. Anyone have enough hope to combo? Because I don't.
SPEAKER_06I do. How much does it cost?
SPEAKER_04Three? Yeah, I have enough. I have four hope. I could do it as well. I've also got it.
SPEAKER_01Everybody but Qualo.
SPEAKER_02So remember when the GM hinted that we could do those things?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Uh well, yeah, Tabitha and Kualo. You guys lock eyes. What do you want to do?
SPEAKER_06Well, I was thinking about trying to finish off this janky leg. Um I was probably gonna like smack it at the joint with my broadsword, but if I'm comboing with Kualo, let's see. Um do you still have a net on you?
SPEAKER_02Do you mean my stylish cloak? Yes.
SPEAKER_00Your hot coach or winter shawl. It's uh fisherman chic.
SPEAKER_06Maybe I can like yank the net from like cover his stylish cloak, I mean, uh from covering him. And then like I point at the leg since we're all still silent, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_06And then I'm just gonna take off running with my sword, and hopefully he like has a plan on how to help me with that. I go tear it off.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay uh Tabitha yakes the the net off of you and bounds towards one of the legs and quallow you.
SPEAKER_02Tabitha, it's a two-handed sword, right?
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_02Okay. So she doesn't realize this, but I subtly get the net around the edge of her sword so that when she swings, the net acts as a sling for me. So it comes loose from her sword, she finishes her swing to hit it, but simultaneously propelling me toward the joint in the leg, and I take out my escreama sticks and jam them into the joint as I'm flying past it, and hopefully land stylishly on my feet on the other side.
SPEAKER_01Um, I so I will say that what you guys are trying to do uh mimics a high level or higher level domain card. So I will allow this, um, but I'm either going to impose disadvantage on the roll, uh, or uh Qualo, you can agree that if you miss, uh you will take some damage as you uh you know slam in the ground on the other side.
SPEAKER_02So while it it looks like a high-level uh theme card, we're not getting the benefits of it.
SPEAKER_01So the the benefit is that you're you're getting the fastball special as part of So So then we are getting the benefit of the card. That's what I'm saying. And so I'm going to top it. Yeah, fine, whatever, I'll take damage. I don't care. You'll take the damage if you miss. Okay. Yeah. Happily. And then maybe later you guys could get the fastball special card. I can't remember what domain that's a part of. Um I think it's bone. But uh so I think maybe Garrett can get it eventually. But uh Garrett is Tegan for the listeners.
SPEAKER_00Um Hey guys, I'm Garrett. I'm also Tegan. None of you can hear any of this because I'm in Hush's silent zone.
SPEAKER_01Okay, cool. Alright, uh, let me get some some attack rolls from you guys. 12 with hope for me.
SPEAKER_06I got 22 with fear.
SPEAKER_03Alright, you're doing the 12 with hope or the 22 with fear?
SPEAKER_01As much as I'd like the hope.
SPEAKER_06Alright, yeah. And then I roll my Ron Tor Dimension?
SPEAKER_02Uh yes, both of you roll your damage. And I also get attacked because I have an ally within. Wow. I rolled damage. Um 14 from me.
SPEAKER_01And six from me. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Okay, Tabitha goes to take the uh net off of you, ends up throwing you as you're flying through the air, you pull out your escrimix, Tabitha follows you on the ground, charges up the leg, leaps, and then hits the bell with her sword as you fly past your bell uh with the ascrima sticks, and both legs are going to buckle and snap, and the creature is going to like wobble dangerously. Ha five. In in my head I picture you trying to stick the superhero landing, and then like you you put your knee on the ground, uh, and you realize like how much it hurts to do that. Uh Dolting. Yeah. So you guys fly past the uh the bells, uh snap the legs in twain, and it was a success with a fear, so I'm gonna take the spotlight back. This uh creature did charge up to Tegan. Uh oh. Uh and it's not gonna wanna waste that. Um there's other people. It's fine. So Tegan is a 13-hitcher evasion.
SPEAKER_00Ooh, they're close, right? Yes. I'm gonna go ahead and spend a stress, uh, because I got an ability called I see it coming. Uh when I'm targeted by an attack from beyond melee range, I can mark a stress, then add a D4 as a bonus to my evasion. So I'm gonna see if maybe that works. And I have a 12, I rolled a 1. Yes, that hits. Dang it!
SPEAKER_01Uh you will you're gonna like try to dodge out of the way, and it's going to do the same thing that it did to everyone else, and it's going to press a blade into your foot. Oh no, I like that foot. I'm gonna spend a fear to pin you. Oh, it's my favorite foot. Uh you definitely are gonna have to do something about that boot, because uh not great now. Uh there is indeed. No more fear, stop it. Trying to stab you again, Tigan. Uh-uh. Yeah, this time is a 16 to hit.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Um you know, I'm just gonna Yeah, I don't uh I would have to roll a four to make that work, so I'm gonna alright. He hits me.
SPEAKER_01And he's gonna do another six damage.
SPEAKER_00Six damage, dang. Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and spend an armor on the first one, uh which negates it. But I will take that second hit, so I will mark one hit point.
SPEAKER_04Ow!
SPEAKER_01Alright, so this thing is just trying to tap dance you guys to death. What do you guys do?
SPEAKER_07Alright, uh Glitch is going to wince and again attempt to hit it with her dual staff, her plasma spanner, as it were. Okay. She's also spending a hope to use her mechanics instinct in the hope that she can pinpoint the weakness in those gyroscopes.
SPEAKER_04Ooh! Smart.
SPEAKER_07And that is a 22 with hope. I believe so. That is just going to uh spend a stress and hit two knees. Uh for six each.
SPEAKER_01Six each. Alright. Uh scuffs. Uh you know, every bit counts. And that was with hope. That was with hope. You guys saw the spotlight.
SPEAKER_00Ooh, I would like to try to get this uh thing up off my foot. That will be a strength or agility roll. I'm gonna try for an agility roll. Just to see if I can maybe get three. I don't like it. Uh 22 with hope. Alright, grab the hope. I know, right?
SPEAKER_06Uh so many.
SPEAKER_00Uh I'd like to uh just kind of follow it up by uh by initiating a combo with glitch. Uh since got the same kind of ideas. What I'd like to do, and you tell me how you wanna uh uh if this if this guy's a deal. But since you're hitting multiple targets, I also have a thing where I can hit multiple targets. What if we just like run around this thing? Like, you know, you go clockwise, I go counterclockwise, and we just start shooting at as many of these damn little bells as we can.
SPEAKER_07Sounds good to me. I'll spend the hope.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay, cool.
SPEAKER_07I got it.
SPEAKER_00Uh three.
SPEAKER_07There we go.
SPEAKER_00Uh then I'm gonna spend the hope to uh try for that ranger's focus again. Oh, that's only a 12 with fear. Come on, let's fold through. Give it something better.
SPEAKER_0717 with fear.
SPEAKER_00Well, alright. At the very least, I think we succeeded. Hope.
SPEAKER_01You did succeed. Give me that damage.
SPEAKER_00Awesome. Alright. I'm now focused. So when uh I succeed on an attack, uh, I'm gonna follow that up with my Ranger's Hope feature. I've spent three hope to use the same attack roll on two additional adversaries within range. So this will hit three total for me.
SPEAKER_01For the listeners, Eric has a smirk on his face as he was reading that out.
SPEAKER_00I've been trying to get this to go off the whole time, and I keep messing up my roll so bad. So, uh I'm gonna roll damage, but uh in addition, I'm gonna need the I don't know if it's the leg or the creature counts, but something's gotta mark a stress in addition to this.
SPEAKER_01Okay. So for Colossi, the whole thing shares one stress pool. Oh, okay. So it's limbs and and body, whatever, they all have separate health pools, but there's one stress pool for the whole thing. Alright, what's damage?
SPEAKER_00Uh so not to keep stacking abilities, but uh just for you now.
SPEAKER_04But you should.
SPEAKER_00Uh I'm also gonna be uh activating my uh my Wayfinder subclass feature, Ruthless Predator. Uh so when I make a damage roll, I can mark a stress to get a plus one bonus to my proficiency. And then if I deal severe damage, they have to mark an additional stress. So I'm gonna go ahead and do that before I make this damage roll. I was really hoping we would uh one of us would succeed because I've been waiting oh so patiently.
SPEAKER_07Ooh, nice.
SPEAKER_00So that's 11 from me.
SPEAKER_07Alright, my turn.
SPEAKER_01Yep. How many things can you stack?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I was about to say, like, are you stacking? I actually did not accept that I get to hit twice.
SPEAKER_01Alright, how much damage?
SPEAKER_07Seven damage each.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, so it's 17 to or 18 total, and I'm hitting three targets in glitch. How many are you hitting? Two. Two. So five targets, eighteen damage, two stress.
SPEAKER_01So you guys do your running around thing as this thing is trying to tap dance on you. It's going to stipe down uh another uh stack in its like frenzy to pin you both, but since you're running opposite directions, it just can't pin you guys down.
SPEAKER_00Weaving in and out of the like the legs and stuff, and like every time like a glitch comes by, like taking it to a high five, and like jump sliding through stuff.
SPEAKER_07She just skirmishes at him and keeps running. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And so you you you're just you're blasted, and you guys take out three of the legs and this weave. You shoot one out, it tries to pin you, shoot the other one out, it tries to pin you, shoot it. This thing is going to spin and uh slam into one of the other stacks as it goes to collapse to the ground. I need an agility reaction roll from each of you. This is to avoid the collapsing stacks.
SPEAKER_0717 with fear, you're welcome.
SPEAKER_01It's uh it's a reaction, so no fear, I hope.
SPEAKER_07Oh, sorry.
SPEAKER_00Can I use my steady feature from being ridgeboard?
SPEAKER_01Sure, why not? Awesome. I love it. Thank you. 20.
SPEAKER_048. 19.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Anyone who rolled 13 or lower is going to take nine. Anyone who rolled 14 or higher is gonna take four.
SPEAKER_00Uh is that direct damage or can we use our armor?
SPEAKER_01You can use your armor. Random stuff is falling all around you and on top of you. Um you all rolled with fear. Now this thing is uh restrained. It can't, it can no longer move. But it can still swipe out at close uh and it's going to try to uh swipe it glitch. What restrained it? The fact that it only has one leg. Oh, okay. Yeah, so now it's uh sort of uh laying askew. The five legs you guys have broken are all like wiggling around, and then the one leg it has left that's good, it's going to swipe at uh glitch. And I rolled a dirty 20 to hit your evasion glitch. Okay. It's only gonna do two damage, but I'm gonna spend the fear for it to like it takes the leg and it pushes it out straight and it's going to pin you to one of the stacks.
SPEAKER_06Can I do am I am your shield at this point in time?
SPEAKER_01Ooh, yeah, let's do it.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_01And what does that ability do?
SPEAKER_06Okay. When an ally within very close range would like uh would would like would take damage, you can mark a stress to stand in the way and make yourself the target of the attack instead.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Then you will take the two damage, which I believe is uh reduced to nothing. And then uh what do you do to resist being pinned with this thing?
SPEAKER_06I like forcefully palm it aside. Just like that. Yeah. So it ends up like going beside me instead of like pushing me into and pinning me down.
SPEAKER_01Nice. And so it like stabs into the stack.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And now it's like trying to like jerk it back out. Um yeah, uh well that was its action. What do you guys do?
SPEAKER_06It's just got the one leg.
SPEAKER_01It's got the one leg and then the dais.
SPEAKER_06Okay. What has the dais been doing this whole time? Just hanging out? Chilling?
SPEAKER_00It's like the center of the daddy long legs, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Um, I know that the last time the effect of silence faded. Are we still in a a sound void? Yes.
SPEAKER_01Uh, but it's getting better. Um so you now if you like scream, you can hear the faint outline of a scream.
SPEAKER_06Where's uh where's lady?
SPEAKER_01Lady? Which lady?
SPEAKER_06The one that we were chasing, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Italian?
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I mean, there's like so many fallen stacks or whatever, and you guys have all uh moved away from the center, you you can't see her from where you're at.
SPEAKER_06Okay, well, I guess we'll just focus our efforts on this on this league.
SPEAKER_04Um I'm gonna smack it with my rod sword. Smack it. Smack it. Got a fifteen with hope.
SPEAKER_01Damage me.
SPEAKER_04Eleven.
SPEAKER_01Uh describe how you destroy the leg. Awesome.
SPEAKER_06You guys are starting to be able to hear a little bit, so you hear like a distant echo of my like just like very quietly though. And then you see me leap and cleave this leg in two with my broadsword. And then I land all cool with like my tail in the air, like my furs on end, I'm breathing heavy, dust and everything is like swirling around.
SPEAKER_00What's it sound like through the the muted thing? Since we can now hear like a little bit.
SPEAKER_06The the monster or me? You like whatever how it's like killing it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, like the yeah, now that like it's done and we can like start to hear something again, but it's like all muted and from far away.
SPEAKER_06Uh just you you just hear like another like that as a like do a primal like roar, but it sounds like like from a great distance.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay, okay, okay. You smash the leg. You got this central dais uh that's you know squirming. Uh it's doing its best to use its like its nubs to try to crawl towards you guys. It's not having any appreciable effect.
SPEAKER_02Um Does the Central Dais have uh any kind of access hatches or doorways or anything like that?
SPEAKER_01It is an open platform. I know I described it as a Denny's, but it is uh an open No, I know.
SPEAKER_02I mean the the interior circuitry of the Colossus.
SPEAKER_01Not that you can see. You can definitely make a role to check, though, if you want.
SPEAKER_02Uh I will, as a matter of fact.
unknownOh, nice.
SPEAKER_02What role would you like me to make?
SPEAKER_01Uh this would be an analysis, right? So uh knowledge.
SPEAKER_02And I'm gonna burn a hope because uh I am a curious kitty.
SPEAKER_01Um you can also get advantage because this is a creature of legend. Oh. Ooh yeah. 19 uh A, gain the hope. And then B, looking over this thing, it is more creature than machine. And it looks like the Central Dais was grown, not constructed. So you do not see what would look like an opening to mess with the interior quote circuitry if it even has such. And where you guys cut the leg open, um, there is a kind of clear uh goo that is like more akin to crab meat inside the leg.
SPEAKER_04Can we eat it? Right now?
SPEAKER_00Maybe I mean we take it back to Slim Jimmy for the next round of stew. Uh girls gotta eat it.
SPEAKER_07The entire game is with Tabitha trying to figure out what she can eat to get her in it.
SPEAKER_02Uh going on the assumption that it is a crab-like creature, I'm gonna uh estimate where its brain would be and tell uh Tabitha, hit it here.
SPEAKER_06Okay. I do that. I take my sword and I'll squack.
SPEAKER_01That's fantastic. I love it, I love it, I love it. Give me an instinct reaction roll.
SPEAKER_04Ohven.
SPEAKER_01Okay, cool. Can you describe to us a secret related to one of your experiences?
SPEAKER_06I'll do uh It's Dangerous Out There, Take This. Um and it'll be that uh when I was just a cub, um my mother like said that, and she like tried to get me to take a weapon with me before I went adventuring out into the fields by myself. And I wanted to be a super tough person like her, and I was like, I don't need any weapons, and then I got like seriously hurt and I couldn't do anything for a while, and my mom was like like sad and heartbroken and had to like nurse me back to health, and so ever since then I like take those words very seriously, and I also try to look out for those that are unable to prepare adequately, but yes, but like I don't like to admit to it because you know it was an extreme moment of weakness on my part, and so that's my secret.
SPEAKER_01That's fantastic. You take five direct damage as you feel that memory extracted from your mind.
SPEAKER_06I uh I kind of stumble away and I'm just like, I I'm not doing that again.
SPEAKER_00Five direct damage. Man, that would that would have just put me like out of and out. I'd have been out.
SPEAKER_01Oh, sorry, so five direct damage doesn't mean you mark five HP. It means that you can't uh reduce it, you can't reduce it with armor.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay. That would be okay, never mind. That would be much less uh I was like, did it just like suction her brain out through her skull or something? That's that's not nearly as bad as I thought it was.
SPEAKER_01And it probably only did one HP, but you don't have any way to reduce it. And uh magic damage isn't affected by unstoppable. So uh yeah, you all see uh Tabitha uh have a little micro seizure when her uh sword touches the creature and then she stumbles off of it.
SPEAKER_02She didn't like pierce the brain and kill it?
SPEAKER_04Uh you know what, Tabitha, you can roll the attack if you wanted to. They they can happen simultaneously, that's fine. I rolled a 12. With she rolled damage. With what? Oh, sorry. Sorry. Oopsies. Twenty-two with fear.
SPEAKER_01Uh that's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_06What's up with all these twenty-two's?
SPEAKER_01And uh you do a decent amount of damage, like there's a little crack where your sword hit. But yeah, the having the memory extracted forcefully from your mind was the price you paid for that. Okay, well, we don't want to do that again. I'm gonna look for a felion. Okay, not before I get the spotlight. Oh, we're still in combat. You sure are. Oh. I'm going to have one of those nubs. Uh SWAT Tabitha on the rump. Uh, as you uh stumble off, 20 hits your evasion is going to deal eight damage, which I think you reduce to nothing. But yeah, one of the nubs is just gonna.
SPEAKER_06I'm no longer unstoppable after that damage roll I just did.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Yeah, uh, then it's just gonna boop and it's gonna swat you on the backside. That is it.
SPEAKER_06A mutter like just like mama used to do. I'm just like deep in the feels right now.
SPEAKER_01Okay, then uh you wanted to look for a felion, or do you want to do something about the thing, about the creature?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so uh I'm gonna go ahead and get out of close range if I can and look for a felion.
SPEAKER_01Alright, you definitely can. I mean it's a slog to climb over, you know, uh a weird cleav chunk of uh tower. Um go and uh give me an instinct uh roll.
SPEAKER_04Does being curious help with searches?
SPEAKER_02What's the what's the uh I want to know what it is that she was trying to do on the Dais.
SPEAKER_01Well that would be something you'd have to do on the Dais, not something you're gonna do.
SPEAKER_02No, no, I know I need to wake her up to fig to ask her what she was trying to do.
SPEAKER_01Ah okay. Um sure.
SPEAKER_02Let's do it. Okay, so I'm gonna burn a hope for that. 15 with hope. Nice.
SPEAKER_01Alright, get the hope. You can see that she is gone. So you you look where uh she was, and it's not just like uh you're not sure if you're looking in the right place. Like you can see where uh her smudge had been in the dust. Uh, and it is there is nothing on top of the smudge. Tegan, we're gonna have to track her ass down. And with that, we're going to end the session. A special thanks to our sound guy, to Darrington 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 this show. Colossus of the Crux is part of the Witch Key March universe. If you're interested in playing in any of the associated games, you can find them on startplaying.games. And we will see you next week. Polydactylly, baby. Pictures of my toes. Toes toes.
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