White Bull Season 1 Episode 04 – transcript

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welcome back to another episode of the chaosium house runequest campaign i’m jeff richard and
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i’ll be your game master tonight uh as always i want to thank my players claudia loroth
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linda borgen richard august philip glass and of course neil robinson why don’t you all introduce yourself and
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your characters hi there my name is neil robinson and i am playing an Orlanth adventurist called nisk you may
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call him lucky or unlucky but he’s known that a lot of people around him tend to fumble
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okay i’m the next wolf pirate in the pack i play uh Kulbrast uh the one armed
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as he’s named at the moment due to the fact he only has one arm um and all i’m thunderous
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uh pirates and yeah [Music] that’s right we figured out how how
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where your arm was cut off didn’t we uh phillip yeah we we’ll talk about that
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during the game excellent and and what you know what the solution is to that problem uh in the sense of if i can actually
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still use a weapon and stuff like that um
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go ahead august i’m playing Garan Grimseeing a Humakti bodyguard uh
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who is passionately devoted to our grass
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okay i’m linda i’m playing Enkala uh she’s a stormbull warrior
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uh going towards a more spiritual path um yeah that’s it
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i’m claudia i’m playing gina ghost friend she is actually an another believer
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but a very strong anti-core attack so she’s doing a lot of dancing on graveyards
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she’s coming from australia in a desperate need for somebody who’s doing a proper
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australian hairstyle in paris
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okay well uh let’s every week i like to ask a different person
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for a recap so this week hey neil why don’t you recap of what’s gone on let’s see if i
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can make it up about the great heroics of niskanen’s companions um if i remember and i probably
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don’t remember well this was the taking right of our great great manner
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and what um what we did was we rather than decide to go with the rest of the
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the gaggle and the praxians and go through the front um thanks to colbrat’s cunning plan we
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went over the river gate and we climbed over there bought all those and then went into the middle and
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drove them all off after that uh we i’m just trying to think of the
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best the best way to describe what we tackled um actually actually i don’t remember
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enough jeff to do that i’m gonna pause this and okay thanks jeff yes i’d love to
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give a recap if everyone remembers last time we actually took over
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the um the largest manor in the rich part of town in paris and
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that entailed us basically bluffing our way in scaring the mercenaries and then getting the merchant to
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give up the loot and the place so one great thing about having this and
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probably a characteristic of some of jeff’s games is the fact that once you’ve got something that’s when the problems actually happen
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so in our case what happened was the pressure said wow great you’ve got the biggest biggest
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manner in the place you’ve got the best place thank you we’ll take it okay probably not a great thing so our
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small band decided to stand up for ourselves and um i basically
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goaded him with probably the best way nisk did and we also had a and kala go up on the roof and
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bang your drum and basically shame those well into doing that but we knew that this wouldn’t last so
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what we did was we decided and presented to our graph our sponsor
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a whole pile of hazia also known as a drug a narcotic for his ritual and the place as well it offered to
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dedicate it to the white full so be it a holy shrine area
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or be a bar and a place where people can come for drinks that’s what our plan is and we’re trying to work and finalize all that
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so that we’re able to have a base of operations for a small little group as we continue in the beautiful city of
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pavett beautiful city of pavis which i need to remind everybody is probably about a quarter of
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the town has been burnt down um uh following the sacking of the city by
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your side uh what was that there karen we’ve left all the nice bits
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yeah yeah uh shall we say yes a rich hill because there was lots
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of valuables uh was was uh was taken largely intact
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but there are neighborhoods where uh the praxions for one reason or another
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decided to uh light fire to the neighborhood pull down buildings
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etc uh you know the sort of thing that a victorious uh nomadic nomadic force does
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very much uh something straight out of lawrence of arabia i i for all the players to get
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a a a mental image of things i
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i i posted a few links to the fantastic 19 what is it 1963 film
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uh lawrence of uh arabia with uh uh anthony quinn playing alda
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who is your uh the equivalent of your your bison con but new pavis has definitely seen better
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days and and to be honest nisk when the lunars took the city
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it was a lot more organized and probably a lot less damage to the city
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than when you guys took the city do i look like a lunar no no
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and does it look like you care probably not as you know that’s a good orlanthi violence is always an option
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so what i would like to do is uh you all have made your experience
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checks i believe yep yep the other thing you get to do is you can
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pick some occupational skills uh to check off that you haven’t used
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so pick i believe neil it’s four skills isn’t it or occupational skills and by occupational skills all it
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basically it means is skills that are pertinent to what your character
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does in their regular life or adventuring that you haven’t gotten an experience
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check-in and the idea there is is not to limit how your character improves purely on
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the stuff that you do on screen you know there’s a lot of things that your characters will
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likely are doing that may or may not have gotten into the little flashes
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of activity that we have uh on adventuring sessions so
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uh this is a good time to check off four skills you can roll anytime you want to see if you improve
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in any of them but you don’t need to do it right now
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unless you really uh feel uh compelled to do that the most
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important thing that goes on is this is uh uh
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a few weeks lat after the taking of white wall or during the weeks following the taking
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of white wall are two major religious events the first one is the high holy day
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of the orlanth cult and every character here is either an
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initiate of of orlanth raise your hand
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an initiate of an associated cult of orlanth be it either orlan’s brother or orlan
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slover yeah claudia ernalda is is an associate
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even in israelia it’s an associated cult of orlanth no she’s a wife oh yeah so all i’m associated to her
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well yeah sorry get it right
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uh and humacht is also orlan’s brother and traditionally provides uh
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ritual defense and such during uh these ceremonies so anyways that the high holy day of Orlanth is super important
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though for coal brass and nisk this is the big offering of sacrifices and and and the
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main thing i want to point out into the uh about this is that at this high holy day
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is when our grath is uh acknowledged as the king
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of papas and sets himself up as the orlanth wrecks of this cult
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uh i am assuming that the two of you guys how are you down on or on our graph is
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uh setting himself up as i like them so much i got the t-shirt
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oh i’m saying yeah he’s okay so
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by do doing that arlen most claranton societies are mild theocracies
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there’s no difference between the political uh political leadership and the
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religious leadership they’re the same thing you know the most important priest is
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usually the local ruler and what all this is is our grath establishing himself as
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the most important priest in the papas area and the head of the Orlanth cult so
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but it gets them a cool title the zebra writers all swear to him and and and swear loyalty to him in this
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and even the uh priests of the city god pavis are forced to um uh
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pay homage to him so it’s a it’s not great for you it means though it’s beefalo for
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everyone you know big bison none of you guys
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belong to a vegetarian cult right nope it’s it’s it’s food aplenty food
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a plenty claudia will write down the recipe of of orlan sacrificial beefalo
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yep i will we’ll go into the cookbook the other big
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event takes place a couple weeks later and that is sacred time and if it’s okay with you guys did
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everybody read the little uh short essay that i i sent on uh sacred time sacred time
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is for everybody in glorantha that is the most important religious uh festival
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and it takes place across the entire world simultaneously and and during the two
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weeks of of sacred time all god worshiping people in the world act out their sacred myths of death and
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rebirth every cult every culture every speech species has an important role to play in
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preserving the con the cosmos everybody summons their gods and spirits
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and the physical world trembles with the presence of the gods
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even the cynicism of the god learners of humanist materialists could never
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taint these critically important rights and ever since the first dawn your people have gathered regularly at the
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end of the year so the cosmos can be reborn you all celebrate the good
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and the bad the living and the dead and the actions of the gods and the heroes so that everyone
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contributes to the rebirth of the world once again and so during sacred time all normal
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activities just grind down to a halt it is um it it is
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a a a festival um unlike normal life that
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that we always players experience it because during this this period all the normal social rules
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are suspended and everything is centered on
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uh reviving the cosmos and and i’m putting a lot of time into that because it is such an
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important um event for your characters every year it’s like um
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it’s you know i i i am not going to presume to know
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the religious beliefs of my players but i’m assuming i’m gonna hazard a guess that most of um
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like most people in the modern world we all are not extremely religious but i
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want you to imagine a combination of of christmas plus easter
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plus hanukkah rosh hasana all thrown in and taking place at
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burning man
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but also that suspension of the of the ordinary rules carnival uh
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mardi gras all of that rolled together into a a massive uh
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and important uh two-week ceremony where you all are convinced that the gods walk amongst you and and
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they do this is Gloranthawait if you’re truly convinced of something it is probably correct so
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during that i don’t know if any is this when you you all are trying to set up
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the shrine but have are not able to invite the white bull spirit yet
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into your shrine correct we haven’t we want to do that soon
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i wonder if our assistant shaman can help us you can certainly make forth the uh
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um uh the space but you are your mentor the shaman that you periodically come
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into contact with um in cala he does not believe that the time is right
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for you to for for uh you to confront yourself
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he says you’ve been too successful right i can make a little little desk
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shrine and he’s such a fatalist that guy oh yes he thinks he thinks
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he thinks uh uh you have that a true shaman
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must understand suffering and misery and he doesn’t think you have
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well i i don’t mind standing at day seven facing chaos to show that i am not afraid of facing
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misery and pain and i’ll even let myself die on that day
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which is impressive for your mentor but then he looks at your your fancy manner
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your loot [Laughter] your jewelry i don’t have any jewelry i
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gave it away oh okay you gave away your jewelry yeah no jewelry no no no
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he wants you to be able to prove him things like you can stand on one foot for a whole day
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okay i’ll do that yeah you gonna do that yeah yeah okay well
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let’s see roll i think this is a meditation raw no that’s not my best skill well that’s
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why you picked it ah let’s see here there okay
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a whole day a whole day has anybody what’s the longest any of you guys have
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actually stood on one foot for 10 minutes maybe maybe a good day
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maybe okay uh if i could just point my camera
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down that’s a zero three so it’s a special wow
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nice wow oh hold on hold on zoom in can i zoom in
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is it possible do you see it well you move to the right of the line right okay i’m moving them but i’m not
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touching them okay i
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i am amazed from dawn to dusk you stand
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on one foot yeah we’re quite shocked too too yeah it is the most miserable
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and pardon my swearing here i’ve i’ve received a memo that apparently heavy swearing is to be
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uh avoided in li in in these sorts of recorded videos but
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it is the most annoying intensely aggravating frustrating and difficult [ _ ] thing 18:14 you have done in your whole damn life yeah it’s tougher than fighting a brew 18:20 and you know you’re scared covered in sweat after after doing this for 30 minutes 18:26 and you managed to do it from dawn 18:32 to dusk and it uh right before a dusk your mentor goes up 18:39 to you and he pushes you ah would you roll decks times one 18:48 pushes you ah with friends like these no not not even close not 19:02 [Laughter] 19:09 excuse available how i feel i get really angry of course i get angry um 19:17 but i know i know that this guy doesn’t really anger doesn’t work on this guy because he’s so fatalistic that 19:23 everything’s just whatever to him unless you’re talking about saving the world 19:28 so but you do manage it is pretty awesome i 19:35 don’t know but for the rest of you gina that’s pretty cool that she can stand on her foot for a whole day isn’t 19:40 it yes it’s cool but i want to put a death shrine in and nobody wants to have that 19:45 no you could i think you can definitely do that it makes sense we’re going to have we have a white bull shrine too we 19:51 definitely have an area where you can have a uh an al a nice alcove with the areas to take or attack 19:56 and also i don’t think that’s an issue at all are you guys gonna set up i mean what i can do is i mean i can put a bad 20:03 wind to your shaman uh teacher Enkala so he falls over how’s 20:09 that oh gina is going to try to curse the uh shaman yep oh but i have no real feelings towards 20:16 this guy you should why because he made you fail 20:22 well i made me fail i couldn’t stand on that foot i should have expected him to do that 20:29 because that’s what the kind of guy he is so i failed be proud of yourself he’s not 20:34 around he’s just not proud of him he’s a man him to be proud of me 20:40 one should think so no no okay i need to find a way to 20:47 get around this guy i need to do some thinking yeah go smoke some hazia and do something 20:53 [Laughter] i’m sure you’ll have you’ll come up with a very brilliant plan 20:58 now i want to point out that that the the what happens when you smoke hazia 21:05 is it has the same effect as the disc corporate spell and what that allows you 21:12 to do is it allows you to wander 21:17 around the spirit plane and you have what um 21:23 uh 10 packs 10 of these little packs and i’m assuming each pack is basically 21:30 do we think that’s the amount to do one full disc corporate spell 21:36 or do we think it’s more than that i i i don’t know i want to feel because i’m afraid that we’ve never 21:42 worked this is this is a horrible shortcoming in almost 40 years of gloranthan writing as 21:49 we’ve we’ve never really worked out the dosage size 21:54 i could consult another fine chaosium publication the berlin book 22:05 but um i mean it sounded like quite a big box full yeah you kind of had a pretty big 22:12 if one pack is one spell and the whole box was about 15 spells yeah so we’re assuming it’s like um uh 22:20 opium right um really well opium 22:28 not being um an opium fiend myself um i 22:35 i i’m afraid i i don’t know off the back of my hand how much opium it takes to get so high 22:42 as your spirit wanders into another world but i believe it’s about a pipe full 22:48 anybody else have does anybody else so accurate does any 22:55 does anybody doubt my gm’s decree upon this and insist on further research or shall we 23:01 depend on the size of the pipe yeah yeah well described 23:09 because this is request describe your pipe oh yeah no it’s it’s card from uh 23:17 it’s current from bisonhorn 23:22 yeah i don’t like bisons yeah okay 23:29 linda linda i know you’re i know you’re norwegian have you ever seen a bison not really but i know it’s 23:35 going to be big and it’s going to be strapped on my back [Laughter] 23:44 yeah so one pack would probably not be enough to fill the bison horn oh but but you know 23:51 probably like dumb done you know there’s a hole for it like on the top and you use your hands too with the air 23:58 so yeah that works fine people smoke out of bottles you can probably smoke out of the bite some more 24:04 and so i i i fully accept that that is that is your uh richard poor karen is 24:12 just looking at disgust at this storm ball cultist pieces 24:20 and then wanders the spirit plane for the next several hours 24:26 no discipline i will say that for each and i’m going to do 24:32 this for every character for each uh 24:42 for for each of you the container of uh mahazia that you mark 24:50 off from your character i will allow you to have a set of uh experience 24:58 checks on the full range of basic uh 25:04 spirit related magic skills so that would be spirit lore spirit danced 25:12 spirit combat and um i believe there’s one other spirit 25:18 travel it’s just a trouble i will allow but it means 25:23 marking off one of your um uh uh one of your 25:29 [Music] units of hausa so that’s not for every 25:35 type you smoke it it’s for if you get rid of a full what was i calling this before a bundle or a 25:42 package or something buy a full patch yes a full pouch pouch 25:54 so the question i have for you characters is is 26:02 your hosting consumption during sea season a full pouch linda yes 26:08 yes it is my traveling he he robbed me of my traveling now i’m doing 26:14 it myself all right so i just want to let you guys 26:20 know that anchala spends most of the next season 26:25 as an opium feat typical decadency 26:36 you don’t even know what chief language is speaking at the time well that’s because she’s high as a kite 26:43 nobody does spirit speech probably gets a check ah oh yeah i mean 26:50 i’ll let you get a check on on spirit speech so i want to get an idea what 26:58 what your guys basic rhythm is for the following season while you’re here in new pavis we 27:06 figured it out for incaller let’s go over to gina oh i go regularly to the 27:15 graveyard it’s actually isn’t it in rubble i i know that is the main 27:20 so the the customs here in pavis for uh the people in the city is they 27:27 burn their dead and then they place the ashes inside 27:35 special crevices recesses in the giant wall of 27:42 old pavis so there’s basically a a part of old of the wall that has 27:49 all these recesses carved into it and it has thousands and thousands 27:55 of funerary urns going back a thousand years it’s very interesting i’m studying them 28:01 because i find this interesting maybe i can communicate with one of the older 28:07 spirits to learn something which are still hanging around especially during the night if you give them the proper offers and 28:13 do some rituals and so on i mean i will also because um it is my business i i’m of course 28:22 working and prepare corpses and dance for funerals as if this is necessary 28:27 even if i have theoretically enough money now to not have to do it but i’m 28:34 still looking for an australian servant so and the best is to 28:41 to get into to to do some work to spread the words that i’m still looking 28:47 for somebody um because i need somebody who makes 28:53 proper in my hair i’m looking awful i mean look at my 29:00 i have to say you look pathetic by proper 29:08 israelian high fashion standards they probably wouldn’t even let you in it probably wouldn’t even let 29:16 you in the necropolis looking the way you do i made your 29:24 your the coal you have around your eyes is a little better it’s light black it’s 29:29 a little better than charcoal you look like a raccoon come on they 29:34 have to look like the right ingredients is here i mean usually i mix a little bit of spices in 29:40 with the black red and here they don’t have it and i mean yes we are living in bumfucknober you’re trying to 29:48 be the incarnation of the goddess of death in the underworld do you look more like the lame goth 29:56 chick in a small town in indiana no it’s not 30:01 what no oh 30:08 it’s very offending to your character or two or to the great state of indiana 30:19 so i’m still searching for somebody i’m even taking somebody from i don’t know maybe i can 30:26 train some somebody okay i’m gonna allow you 30:31 to do two things here claudia first off would you roll against your worship 30:36 type or attack yep this is important and you can augment 30:42 this one but this is basically how well you were able to be accepted in your 30:48 self-appointed task as oh four oh 30:54 how good is your uh worship type core attack 60. okay 31:01 that’s very good you are you you basically assert yourself as the 31:08 mistress of the dead for um the necropolis of 31:15 um of new pavis they don’t have any core attack initiates in power they 31:23 can’t do it yes they now have a dedicated grave dancer uh and that’s 31:30 pretty awesome now the bigger question is whether you were able to train 31:37 one of your servants that remember you guys hired a bunch of servants 31:43 and i’m gonna base this on your culture isroelian raw where do i have that 31:53 and my cult lore is although culture some customs this room yes i have that okay let’s see 32:02 yes a success at 29.55 okay name this poor new paver site 32:10 that you have taught all of the important skills of braiding of oiling your hair 32:17 of properly teasing it out and applying makeup and mascara please name this poor 32:24 servant because he or she um is the only one in the city who seems to 32:31 know how to do this olgor okor so it’s a male 32:36 yes yes of course all right so ogor a young 32:42 man who is yes he’s played by the same actor that if we all remember um 32:51 do we remember the the movie um uh blazing saddles you know that yeah 32:57 [ _ ] [ _ ] 33:02 mogo mog the the same actor who played mungo who is a different actor than played the 33:08 giant bald guy in um stir crazy another fantastic gene 33:14 wilder film but claudia do you know who we’re referring to 33:19 no not at all but can i tell you who all gore is i’m going to tell you what ogre looks 33:25 like or i’m going to let rich describe ogor um tell who he is yeah oh god is 33:33 his huge extremely mostly and burly he wears like a thin 33:40 green waistcoat but nothing underneath it and uh 33:45 a kind of sombrero and he’s bald and he’s shaved head 33:50 shaved head completely shaved okay claudia it’s the rest is up to you 33:56 yeah the thing is i mean i chose olga because he’s so good in braiding and doing the makeup because 34:05 he likes to do that with his lovers so that’s how it is so you’re also ogor mongo’s lover 34:13 no i’m not he he likes man he doesn’t like women uh okay okay that’s the reason why he’s 34:19 so good with braids something new we have learned about 34:24 [ _ ] uh ogar um that is so you have your
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everybody assumes that ogor is your bodyguard when in fact he’s your hairdresser sir yes let’s
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let’s move on to to what is uh what is
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garen doing for the sea season and every grantham season by the way is
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eight weeks long um i am going to be spending some time
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doing my best to learn about things like the um
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the techniques used by the the black bank okay they slipped past me despite i’m a
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Humakti i’m a bodyguard and they used you know they were able to slip past me
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basically without me noticing for a lot you know until they were in dangerous proximity to the person i was looking after
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so i want to be able to basically i would i want to spend some time improving my capacity to defend
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people well you know there is a thing you could do garen in the cult of humacht who
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hates assassins so you you didn’t ask for that gift did
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you no you know you could
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spend the entire this is similar to inkhala trying to stand on one foot
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you could basically spend the entire season covered in ashes in the who
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mocked temple starving yourself and denying life in every possible way that you can
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and and by that i also mean the the material comforts
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of life i mean how high is your death rate uh 85
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i think um yes 85 okay one of the ways death rune
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is death rune is the opposite of the life life rune and and one of the things it is is
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separation from ordinary life you could basically try to spend the season on the
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floor in the humac temple um eschewing you know
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material comforts eating the eating and drinking the absolute barest you need and and then trying to
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cut that down and cut that down so that who mocked will give you the gift
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sense assassin that sounds like a pretty reasonable use
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of my time let’s do it okay roll against your death room my friend
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uh that is a success just 70. okay let me
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let me grab a pre-release mat copy of the manuscript for the colts
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of clarantha with a awesome expanded who mocked
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write up
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and all right whomax gift
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in this case is you begin the sense assassin magical skill at 30
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plus your magic bonus which is uh
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plus i can’t find it where is it oh right
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above your magic field
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all right in exchange you get a new geese from uh
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who mocked and your keys is
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never participate in an ambush
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you’re totally useless now i mean you can stay at home and be the house
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on the other hand let me tell you how awesome this skill is and since assassin is an awesome skill
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you can simply you can tell me i want to roll against my sense assassin
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to know whether anybody present let me in fact read the carefully written description of this
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skill in the rules book unless somebody has the rules look handy
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who has oh here it is hit this one yes go to sense assassin
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which is a magical skill
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and it is actually light sense chaos it is actually a really awesome skill
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this skill can only be gained through a gift from humont successful use of the skill allows the
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user to sense that a nearby person within 50 meters intends to assassinate someone the
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humachi is currently attached to so if this person plans to assassinate
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somebody that you could care less about and have no contact with or it it’s irrelevant to you but for
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example if somebody was intending to attack assassinate r graf or one of his
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followers or any of the player characters the skill would work
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uh whether a clan member part of a temporary a venturing party
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a permanent uh fealty relationship or even the humachit himself uh this sense does not tell the humachti
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who the intended victim is but does point out the assassin
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does this sound like useless what not so useless eh cole brust could be
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quite a useful thing to know might be but of course
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they’re not allowed to sneak on the assassin oh no i would i’ll just go up and say aha i see you’re
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an assassin then duel unless you would tell us about him
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of course [Laughter] anyways that is how how
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uh garen spent season that’s pretty awesome let’s jump we know how Enkala died let’s
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jump on to mr one arm mr one arm it’s gonna take a long time
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for your left arm to regrow yeah i’m aware of that so not eight
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weeks unfortunately it’s your left arm yep so what i’m going to do during this
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season is i’m going to find someone who can build me a battle
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shield which is basically a sharpened shield with prongs attached so i don’t have to
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alternate between a broadsword and a shield and a dagger and stuff
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and then train with it so you get a train you’re gonna how do you you want to have the shield
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in your right hand then yes you know strapped to the arm and holding it and basically fighting with
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the shield okay this is a so you’re gonna basically
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you’re gonna try to find a bronze smith that’s gonna make you one of these those funky weapons that we shared
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around on yeah it’s it’s got basically the
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a broadsword and a shield attached to it and you use it to attack and parry
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with the same skill yeah and ideally the shield itself would actually have a
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sharpened edge this is kind of cool what do you guys
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think of this i think it’s about as what do you call unique of cool brass
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comes up with all this stuff all the time it’s great it’s it’s something that you saw once in when
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you were in fon rent yeah on the other side of the ocean
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so let me come up with a total um
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off the fly cost for what this would be and then i’ll tell you what
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your starting skill is at it your starting skill is not going to be as good as you currently are with broadsword
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because yeah yeah it’s a wildly how good are you with broadsword by the way
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um 75 and medium shield at 83.
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okay you’re going to need to spend it’s going to have the equivalent of a small shield
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right combined with a broadsword but the nice thing about it is is that they’re two separate things
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so you can parry with your small shield uh and your weapon doesn’t get damaged
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okay so i’ll put down two different or use two slots for it basically and
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the other nice thing about it is you can use it to try to block things that can only be blocked with a shield
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it just doesn’t cover as much territory as a medium shield and it starts you start at 50
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okay
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but i’m going to allow you your first experience role on it because
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you’re trying to train yourself in it
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50 you say though yeah by the way what are the what are the modifiers for
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for melee weapons and shields manipulation it’s all the same manipulation oh okay
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so that’s plus 10. um so 60 or lower right 60
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or actually for your to gain experience in it you want to roll a 50
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or higher 50 you have to add your manipulation bonus yeah you want to roll in double kill to
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improve by experience i want to roll higher yes oh yeah of course i do
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yeah i forgot about that the idea is is the better yeah the harder it is it’s always obvious
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okay so that’s uh oh 26. so no hey finally
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nisk how do you spend sea season well i i don’t know if i mean i talked about
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this probably off camera but at sacred time i’d like to devote some more pow to get some spells um
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from uh from the local you know at the local Orlanth temple and considering you just happen to be a
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follower of the high priest it could happen there’s a high probability and i’d like to get earth shield and lightning if i could
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those are the big things that that’s a you know it’s part of the ritual as we sacrifice magic points
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each time we put proposed so we put a magic point into our our room point in our our pool we’re able to
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actually get another spell i know that costs a little bit of money but i’m willing to pay that and it also costs reduces your power by
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two correct so but that’s i think those are more
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sacred time activities if that makes sense what i want to do during the um the
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storm season is actually um get this place up and going as a as a
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place to make money and they shrink um i have been you know kind of been living on my own and wheeling and
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dealing for a long time it’s a great opportunity if we’ll do that you know we obviously
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as a group we need to have income coming in if we’re going to hold this and have bodyguards and have people and stuff
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like that and connections and we need more alcohol i remember that i am owed a debt a
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significant debt and that is from the uh the garhounds because the guard
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when i was in service of the guardhound i was exiled for killing someone and in and doing it for
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the garhound so i’m going to go to them and i’m going to go at one point do a trip out to them and they’re just a little bit outside of
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pavis and i’m going to negotiate with them to try and get some alcohol and do some trade
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in return for some of the that piece that that they owe me having from me having been exiled and in
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return also they get the opportunity to know that i don’t know how related we’ve got the guard house think of our
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graph but they’ve got a guy who’s a well-known uh companion at some level right most of
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the players and our viewing audience the garhound clan is the uh most
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influential local Orlanth clan now that doesn’t mean that
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much to most of your players because with the exception of neil of nisk
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none of you guys are locals but amongst the local farmers the garhound clan are very influential
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and also amongst the inhabitants the the native inhabitants of the city who
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are tired may not be as enthusiastic uh about uh praxions
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uh riding as fa their bison or their llamas or worse their rhinos as fast as they can
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down the streets of the city um knowing full well that everybody has to
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get out of their way or mercenaries like yourselves who have basically set themselves up as
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as petty lords in the town the gar hounds
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the normal people respect the garhounds and so the question i have for you nisk
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are you gonna go to um i’m going to give you two contacts with
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the garham plan and you’re going to pick one one is actually in the city and this is burger
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system burger scissortongue is the long uh has multiple times been
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the mayor of new pavis now currently uh that function is carried out by
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our that by our graph personally but she has traditionally been the
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leader of the sartori community inside of new pavis um
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and and is she controls the
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the cloth industry in the city where there’s her cousin
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uh chief davos garhound who’s one of the biggest land holders
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outside of the city okay well i i think though i don’t know
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if it makes the most sense i’ve met chief davos garhound before i think
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yes because you know that when i was when i was working for the guard hound that was back
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outside the city not inside the city when i first picked up the sword um so i’m going to go and talk to
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try and get an audience with him i think would be more appropriate okay so um he
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uh the he is the ruler of the village
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called garhound see how how how this all works guys um
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and he’s played by he’s played by henry fonda circa um once upon a time in the west
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i think that’s that’s that’s probably who plays uh davos garhound uh davos garhound he’s a sodorite
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it is at his core of course he’s a killer like all the sardourites
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he’s he’s done some bad things but he now tries very hard to present himself
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as a a law-abiding decent
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landowner okay and i am trying to present myself
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as a law abiding decent guy trying to set up a shrine and do some trade it was part of this
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discussion i would imagine what you look like at this point in your
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life and nisk give a description of how much you pass yourself off as a i’ll i’ll let you
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roll a customs heartland rule to see whether you you you you try to come off as a law abiding
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uh sartorite or you come off as a world
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traveling adventurer who hangs out with hazia smoking
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and you want to post my custom practice no your custom short length okay i roll
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a 53 and my custom local is 75
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wow gina yeah he’s the only one who can pass
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himself off as a local it’s okay it’s pretty impressive
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it is i do not want to all right what’s your deal with uh that
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you want to propose to chief davos um
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and basically well i’ll be clear i’ve got some trade goods i’ve always had these and let them know
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that i’m setting up a place in town and trying under with the support with the under um work for our graph
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and i am quite willing to name drop because it is for him even if he doesn’t like our graph my
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guess is it’s still important and that you know what we’re trying to do is and i’m just basically trying to to get in and call on my favorites and
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that i was a loyal guy who worked for the garcon before i went off in the service uh having been exiled before the guard
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hounds and i was outlawed while serving the
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guardhounds for killing a non-garhound okay i want to know
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who you killed i don’t know i this is your opportunity
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to create your own story who did you kill did you kill a looner well you know it was not a lunar it was a i
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don’t it was a if i remember from the character creation i was ki i killed a respected warrior
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who was better than i was and um at the time i was still very young when
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i first picked up my sword um if i look at the time and we look at when that happened
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it’s probably about 12 or 13 years ago does that make sense timing wise here yeah so
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i probably could be a lunar that i killed although unlike most my hate i don’t
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really have a huge hatred of winners per se do you accidentally fall and fell into
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your sword which you’ll let lay around or something like that you may read it as you will after all i
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am the unlocked gina i think he actually fumbled on it he accidentally brutally shaved somebody to
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death he’d like me to cut your hair no exactly
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no all right nisk so who did he kill i think it’s a lunar
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or a lunar sympathizer or something like that non-garhound
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i don’t know i mean there’s some there’s some families i don’t remember that were non-um some lunar supporting
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families in the area um and it’s probably something that the guard had were being pressed by from trying to
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take over their lands i don’t i don’t know enough otherwise
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all right that’s a pretty good debt to call in um
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i’m not going to make you roll on anything because that is a solid debt davos is willing to
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devos will acknowledge that he is um sorely
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stretched on grain and supplies by the demands that
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our grath and his apraxians make
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but he’ll sell to you
56:40
what you need before he will sell to our craft wow
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it’s nice but at the same price basically at the current price
56:57
okay basically i’m just trying to build up this thing so that we don’t just magically run out
57:03
because we’re going to make our goal is to make money on donations and not donations some other ties and also
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basically manage it as successful join now one of the the lousy things is though
57:15
is that this is pavers county this is uh this is taos
57:22
who i i i think i’m not sure have any of you guys ever been out to new mexico
57:30
or or southern colorado other than uh gina i
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sent some pictures to get you guys kind of a view here is is this good wine country unlike
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sartar or the holy country wine country yeah well exactly so
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you guys have what 16 amphora of amazing wine
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yeah but we wanted to no no no last game we said we water them down yes you did we have 88 we have no adrian
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for us yeah because we know that in paris nobody knows how
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wine tastes so we kept a little bit for ourselves because i know how good wine tastes
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and actually let’s buy some beer that’s what they
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have they have beer in fact that’s kind of fine you’ll just take them and we keep we keep our
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wine for ourselves and our special guests they have loads of special guests do not
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care they’re all from here i wasn’t born here yeah
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you’re not a special guest you’re not especially born here
58:46
i never said that special guest should get something so you are able to set up a supply of
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beer for you all um i want you to do one other roll though
58:59
nisk and that’s from your household manager all right
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okay i really 41 and my household manager let me just scroll down here’s 55.
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you know that although this means that you are at least can resupply yourself you’re not
59:24
even breaking even um at the end and the big issue is is that
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the white ball spirit is not here no i’m just trying to hold out until the
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light bull spirit if i don’t do this we don’t have a chance to get the white balls for it to bring in no because you would have run
59:42
out of wine already yeah so that’s that’s what i’m trying i’m trying to set up and manage this place successfully
59:48
and i’m pretty good for some reason pretty good at managing this stuff because i think judging by when i grew
59:53
up on a group our graph had me helped do a lot of this sort of stuff for him
59:59
the the question i have is you’ve you’ve converted the swankiest villa on rich hill into basically
1:00:07
a praxian tavern you probably have a couple of other rooms that aren’t are a little fancier
1:00:14
thank you yeah this is a question do you guys reside on the upper floor away can you do it can you
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give us a picture again because this picture actually showed a bunch of front uh shops which we can convert into
1:00:27
the bar remember the picture you showed yes this time can you guys give me a moment and i will
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look that up for you guys because i believe i put it into the white bull thread didn’t i
1:00:40
i don’t know even though i’m smoking like all the time uh it is actually to try to
1:00:48
help you between i have did you hear me complain about such things i’m not a negative person unlike some
1:00:55
other people who i think everyone in this group worship death i don’t i worship a life i worship
1:01:02
fertility you know what’s the reason i have harmony
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was this one of them guys yeah uh yeah no no no no no no no no
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yeah big one okay the big one was the one you told us that
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it wasn’t quite as big as it is but but i i harmony as well
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i never said i worship harmony it worships life i worship life fertility
1:01:31
harmony is boring you like harmony because you mean that means if everything’s dead it’s harmonic that
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yes that was the picture so you see you see actually all the open shops on
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the front we can convert some of them into a nice bar you see the front on the corner it
1:01:51
fits perfectly it has an entrance from the front and then there’s a letter upstairs which we can block so nobody gets up there
1:01:58
so that’s perfect so you guys are going to live in the upstairs basically no actually everything behind
1:02:04
because of course i want to have the courtyard with the water area and so on and a lot of shrine
1:02:12
but my shrine is in the cellar i agree i think it’s going to be too small but i do believe we can certainly set up
1:02:18
areas be it for the for um tycoor attack the the white bull needs to get that big shrine area
1:02:24
there’s no question but he’s not gonna come unless we you know say that this place is yours and i think our craft will
1:02:30
probably um take it back if we don’t do anything
1:02:35
i’m not loyal to aggress yeah but it’s his house yeah i was never for it it was all the
1:02:42
others who wanted to have that oh that’s that’s so sad
1:02:49
i’m still scared of it
1:02:54
so does this give you guys give you an idea of your so i’ve got a few questions about your
1:03:00
white ball where’s the vomitorium
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so what probably would be a good idea if we have these fine drops to the front is that we put you know the lower ranks can
1:03:18
drink there so they don’t actually go into that actual house and they probably won’t mind um and then
1:03:25
we can have more higher up people who then have special areas at the back
1:03:32
so you’re basically saying you’re turning that courtyard area with the pool into your beer garden
1:03:40
you know the beer slash shrine beer garden shrine religious beer garden
1:03:48
and then we just have the cheaper beer in the front chops and the more expensive beer at the back
1:03:54
okay last question i have do you rent out rooms or or not
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is this an inn is this a um is this a bar
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it uh and and i get and the follow-up question so not really the last question is is
1:04:15
there entertainment um let’s see i’m actually an entertainer
1:04:24
and i believe that i have a connection and once again i sort of didn’t mention this is that i i had an interest in joining the um
1:04:32
the cult let me get the name of it as a drill garcia joe a lay member of drew
1:04:37
garcia so i think that given this we probably have a chance to get in there so i’m certainly willing in certain times to entertain
1:04:43
and do that knowing that something that we have a chance to get money in i am an excellent singer and i
1:04:50
am a passable dancer if that’s what we need and then i am probably best oration is my best skill
1:04:57
so i definitely think depending on which pieces we can do some of that now
1:05:02
it won’t all be as good for practicing but i do speak practicing very well
1:05:08
in terms of that and we can also get other entertainment later if that makes sense we want to honor the white bull though so i don’t want it to be too
1:05:14
dishonorable for them but right now i’m trying to you know us to survive in this area and having lived
1:05:20
as an orphan i want to do what i’ll do what it takes gina are you going to help out on this i
1:05:26
believe you also have a lot of stuff of course i can’t help out on that i’m a very good singer and a
1:05:33
very good dancer and from time to time i have my
1:05:38
sessions when i maybe i have actually a room downstairs a private
1:05:44
seller area where i can prepare some corpses and so on so
1:05:59
yeah i mean the things that you might you know these things are closed i mean you dance and you die the tavern morgue
1:06:07
the natural boy i yeah it’s probably good i didn’t spend that much time in this role you because i remember it
1:06:14
doesn’t seem like the funnest thing you dance when you die yeah i mean i would never say it
1:06:21
so gina is from the necropolis yes not from no chit
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you dance and you die she actually is from cemetery city
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can that be the next uh runequest t-shirt cemetery city you dancing you dance and
1:06:44
then you die all right so i i’ve got a good
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idea how all of you guys um are functioning in sea season are we
1:06:54
okay with me moving ahead one full season yep now
1:07:00
yeah i would let you guys make experience rolls for c-season but i’m actually going to
1:07:06
ask you guys not to do that right now i want to jump into fire season
1:07:12
if that’s right because in fire season uh argrath makes the decision
1:07:20
because he’s lost almost half his army during this period because the proxies
1:07:26
go home they’re nomads you know they don’t they don’t hang around for this
1:07:31
um the money is beginning to run low on our grass side and the decision
1:07:39
is made that the lunars are weak now or at least
1:07:45
a lot weaker the decisions made to invade dragon pass
1:07:54
especially after news comes that broyan of the hendriki another one of the
1:08:00
warlords in the holy country was killed by the lunars
1:08:06
and the the lunar army is much much weaker than it was in the past
1:08:13
or at least that’s the hope and argrath
1:08:19
decides that he needs to to uh put himself
1:08:25
in bolt home as the princess sartar it is his um he he formally lays a claim
1:08:33
to that um amongst all of his troops and and and and followers of the white ball and
1:08:42
others about 5 000 or so actually more than that but
1:08:49
several several thousand praxians uh plus mercenaries with the idea of
1:08:57
marching on the main lunar temple in uh dragon pass the the so-called
1:09:05
new lunar temple and there’s no question that you guys are are not coming
1:09:13
i mean that’s a given right is there any question that we’re not
1:09:18
coming there’s no question that you guys are not going to be going
1:09:25
you’re going to be going yeah yeah okay is anybody gonna is anybody gonna desert
1:09:35
and stay in new paris i only want to know what i learned actually from the paris necropolis
1:09:41
wall owns ghosts we will have to do that offline if
1:09:48
that’s okay and we are back after a
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refreshing break um i’m going to skip forward weeks
1:10:01
and the army of our graph which at this point uh consists of
1:10:09
let me look at my no notes on this uh it consists of about 1500
1:10:16
bison writers a thousand high llamas a thousand sable riders
1:10:24
another fifteen hundred impala riders and a thousand sodorite mercenaries which is
1:10:30
what you guys sparta rights and and wolf pirates um that’s may not sound like a huge number
1:10:38
of people by by modern standards but that that’s what 6 000 or so um mostly cavalry
1:10:46
it’s a big force and you all are camped
1:10:53
at the oasis called days rest and so this is an oasis in prax it is
1:11:01
fire season which is which means this is prax
1:11:06
in the high summer which come on cobras what is prax in a high
1:11:13
summer like hot and dry and not very conductive to
1:11:20
people who like being on the water i would guess it sucks it’s wonderful here’s
1:11:27
so you can see from here uh day rest which is the oasis
1:11:34
there’s um about 10 15 kilometers away is a a big salt lake
1:11:42
and then there’s um these ancient ruins called henders rest
1:11:50
and the proxian forces
1:11:56
are all going to head from day’s rest and the idea is is to head towards the dundeelos
1:12:01
valley and at the the um upper part of the dundeelos
1:12:08
valley is the new lunar temple and that’s maybe about um another
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[Music] 20-25 kilometers off the map but does that give you guys
1:12:22
a visual idea of of where your army is and your cr you’re riding across or the army is
1:12:28
moving across um this
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hot dry rocky chaparral and sagebrush country
1:12:41
and i’m going to stop sharing the screen and again to get a visualization is that
1:12:50
everybody here with the exception of neil and i are european actually neil you are european
1:12:56
as well but you’ve lived in you’re lived in the us long enough that that you know what i’m talking about
1:13:01
cloudy i you know has been in sagebrush chaparral country uh and by that i’m i
1:13:10
think of um the great basin of nevada or
1:13:16
jeff yeah that’s a quick question what’s the name of the mountains right outside my door
1:13:22
oh or spain in our flops yeah an awful lot of spain okay
1:13:30
but most of the rest of you all are central in in northern europeana i want
1:13:36
you to get a feel you’re going through tough terrain
1:13:42
like the rurals of brandenburg no no no i have been to the spanish
1:13:48
version so i have some vague idea
1:13:55
i i have street viewed through death valley okay
1:14:03
so yeah we know what you’re talking about all right and the reason i just want to hammer this home is this is fire
1:14:11
season so it’s probably 35 40 degrees
1:14:17
it’s dry dry dry everything is is dried up and the praxians can deal
1:14:25
with this pretty well and kala can deal with this fine uh
1:14:30
nisk you can deal with this as long as you can roll against some practicing skill of yours
1:14:38
all right i roll against my infinite practicing ability
1:14:43
which is um probably customs is more appropriate than that okay and i rolled a four so i’m okay
1:14:50
there you’re for you’re you’re going all lawrence of arabia you know you’re i’ve lived in the way
1:14:57
remember i was exiled for seven years out into the wilds or something exactly exactly garen
1:15:03
this sucks what kind of armor yes that’s what does it suck worse than
1:15:10
spending an entire season covered in ashes but essentially being dead uh
1:15:15
it’s oh it depends on how much armor you’re wearing uh well i mean i’m i’m
1:15:24
given that it’s it’s fairly open land ambushes would be very difficult to organize so
1:15:30
i’m assuming that i’m not actually wearing that much ah okay you tell me that’s totally fine
1:15:36
cole cobras house i come from the southern climate as well so but it’s much easier
1:15:45
yeah that’s true it’s much drier so it re it’s really really horrible
1:15:52
and uh gina yeah i’m i’m missing the humidity i have
1:15:57
actually in my and and my cold catacombs and i’m out in so but it is good
1:16:06
because you know i made a very good decision i brought all gore with me because i had i spent so much
1:16:13
time to train him to do my proper hairstyle he’s also very good with the fan
1:16:19
so he’s fanning me constantly he’s fanning you yeah okay the next key question i have is
1:16:26
the army is divided into several groups it’s divided into
1:16:34
uh it’s divided into basically six groups and i’m going to ask you i’m going to tell what they are and you
1:16:39
can tell me which group you’re going to try to be in there is the bison nation
1:16:45
which is probably the biggest block of the army and that’s head headed by uh anthony
1:16:52
quinn uh aka narmed there is uh the next one is the high
1:17:00
lama nation forces and that’s headed by
1:17:06
omar sharif aka yazurkyo there’s the sable writers
1:17:14
i’m assuming there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that you’re going to be part of that group so i’m not going to describe that
1:17:20
further there’s the impalas which are pygmies um and
1:17:26
i don’t think there’s any chance you guys can participate in that there are the mercenaries
1:17:31
and then there’s the folk all get gathered around the r graph
1:17:39
which group paragraph all right definitely for me yeah our breath i
1:17:47
could also work with adverse mercenaries you certainly could uh could you roll
1:17:55
against your loyalty r-graph neil
1:18:02
uh 21. so success almost as special all right
1:18:09
so you’re able to get yourself uh um around the group with with argrath
1:18:15
and that’s probably about 500 or so people most of them are mounted some of them
1:18:21
are not there’s some weird shamans there’s there’s even a couple of people on chariots
1:18:28
um it’s them probably the most eclectic group uh uh
1:18:34
uh of the whole force and you all are moving forward towards
1:18:40
henders rest when you can see
1:18:46
near uh lined up near the salt lake are is a smaller army
1:18:56
of lunars who have all all faced up
1:19:02
and the it’s a smaller army but there is all sorts of crimson light
1:19:11
around them and the first question i want to want to have is
1:19:17
does anybody have the presence of mind to try to figure out where the moon is i always need to know that
1:19:27
full moon it’s full moon that’s not good who picked this day it’s a
1:19:34
full moon well this is not where the battle was supposed to be
1:19:39
it’s it’s a it’s a full moon you’re you’re almost uh 40 kilometers away from where the battle
1:19:47
is supposed to be so that’s what uh for a usual army
1:19:54
that’s maybe uh another two days away which would have been fine
1:19:59
but there’s all these crimson thing uh crimson lights and and um
1:20:06
crimson uh crimson shadows uh coming out of the uh
1:20:14
other side weird light effects
1:20:19
and the other thing is there’s a giant with the lunars
1:20:27
oh there is a giant
1:20:32
that’s what it looks like it’s like a three-body giant 15 meters high
1:20:42
and it starts rushing into the praxions
1:20:51
in color yes this is chaos it’s not even tingling could you roll against
1:20:58
your sense chaos i don’t want to fail this because that’s gonna be really stupid
1:21:04
yeah it’s a success but it’s not a good one but yeah it doesn’t matter there is chaos all over the place here
1:21:13
and this thing i this this this horrible thing i mean i don’t know
1:21:20
how big of 15 meters sounds to you guys oh it’s big 50 feet
1:21:25
it’s it’s one and a half buses i mean it’s one and a half buses time
1:21:30
what sort of damage do you think human beings can do to this
1:21:37
not enough nothing and what it does it
1:21:45
i’m going to turn off the stop share so i can i can show this nicely
1:21:52
it reaches into it tears off hunks of itself and throws it
1:22:01
at the practicings around it and you can see that they basically poisonous
1:22:07
chaotic ooze starts dissolving them
1:22:12
do they start developing you know limbs and stuff or is it just dissolving
1:22:18
it’s like pouring hydrochloric acid over folk oh wow
1:22:25
all right so the the the various practicing groups are charging towards us what are you guys doing our graph is
1:22:32
holding um is is looking at this um
1:22:39
but it’s taking no action i’m gonna rapidly don my armor
1:22:49
just uh so i am ready whatever our grass decides
1:22:54
how about the rest of you guys yeah i’m gonna get um get ready for battle yeah basically i’m
1:23:01
waiting for him to pull how it is um whether they seem to do amazing things and amazing
1:23:07
magic and then get ready to attack at that point the fractions are you know i’m not a i’m
1:23:12
not horrible i’m going to see if i can use my
1:23:17
battle ability to determine if this giant is you know steered in any way
1:23:25
from outside or if it’s just blindly charging you know if i see
1:23:30
someone who looks like he or she would be sort of influencing
1:23:36
this giant okay roll against your battle that’s a good use of it
1:23:41
uh yup 41 of 80 something 82. the giant is clearly being
1:23:48
influenced it is moving in a rational direction uh and causing maximum havoc
1:23:56
amongst the praxions meanwhile
1:24:01
from the red moon lights start coming down
1:24:08
and meteors start falling down from the moon
1:24:14
into your forces um i have this question and wherever
1:24:22
before we get to your question gina everywhere it falls you can see people dying
1:24:31
and i would like at this point
1:24:38
in kala you know that this giant is got a praxian curse
1:24:45
its name is quim the spawn of fed and the devil it is one of the most
1:24:52
terrible chaos monsters of prax and the rest of you guys know the lunars
1:24:59
have called in what are called the crater makers now you can ask your question gina i
1:25:06
want you to know if i can use my spirit combat for something yeah well there are spirits coming
1:25:12
there are there are there are um spirits called loons
1:25:19
that are heading down for the moon yeah then maybe i can keep them away
1:25:27
okay i’m gonna deal with that in a moment what’s going on right around our graph
1:25:34
is several of his advisors are saying for him to call
1:25:39
upon the left hand and he says i already did
1:25:48
oh that was the assassins yeah i cannot call upon it
1:25:56
it is too soon um i’ve got a question and our graph
1:26:01
seems our graph uh you so you have all these people around him basically saying
1:26:06
you know call upon your left hand and he says he can’t
1:26:12
[Music] i wonder whose fault that is they’ve got
1:26:18
a lot to answer for that’s for sure
1:26:29
and they are rushing towards you all yes and and your other honorary pirates
1:26:35
there which you obviously are um i think we should we should get to the bottom of who is
1:26:42
who is controlling this giant that would be a productive use of our
1:26:48
time because charging it seems ridiculous can i do something against the control
1:26:55
you tell me this i don’t know his spirit comment you could certainly try to engage in
1:27:01
spirit combat with the uh lunar elementals that are now showing up
1:27:07
in your area and where where the lunar elementals show up and envelop people they start
1:27:14
screaming and tearing into their eyes i’ve got a question um impede chaos
1:27:22
is it a minus 20 to hit per per uh rune point spent or do you stack
1:27:28
with regular magic points no you spit stack with room points okay so i can get a maximum of 60. okay
1:27:35
so what do you want to cast in pks on no it’s basically you cast it on your
1:27:42
target of the spell becomes difficult for chaos creatures to hit but i’m not sure if um you want to cast on yourself on one
1:27:49
of the players on our graph i’m thinking maybe i should cast it on our graph
1:27:59
oh that’s uh how far are we away from the um what was it the holy country
1:28:08
i think it was still far away ah too far away but also
1:28:15
uh i had another question about um dismissed magic is that dismissed magic is that also
1:28:23
a stacking with rune points or do you stack with magic points you stack with room points
1:28:29
yeah because it could maybe possibly do a dismiss magic on the giant if it’s good
1:28:37
but you have to stack it all yourself is the problem yeah that’s the problem and i i i want to
1:28:43
tell you this is the carnage that is going on around you all just while you guys describe everything
1:28:51
is terrible yeah we would like to start okay claudia what are you going to do
1:28:57
yes let’s slash some spirits
1:29:04
yep did you succeed with your spirit combat yes i rolled a 23 on a 70.
1:29:11
okay uh rather than to us if it’s okay with you guys do you are
1:29:17
you guys okay with me just handling this in the overall broad contours of the
1:29:22
battle rather than us getting it down uh gina you are actually able to
1:29:29
to dance and force some of the loons off and away from
1:29:36
the central group around our graph you’re able to do that but that is the
1:29:42
main thing that you’re doing you’re basically sitting there and and and you can show me how your
1:29:49
dr strange gesture or your yes you’re you’re sitting there trying
1:29:55
to keep the loons from uh driving you all insane
1:30:01
now those of you guys that are familiar with dealing with loans should be aware that if a loon manages
1:30:08
to come in your presence and overcome you you go insane
1:30:16
it’s like call a cthulhu except way faster uh and
1:30:23
lunar magic is around madness and you can see lot uh away from arthur
1:30:30
from our grass group you can see that there are hundreds of people just going
1:30:36
having complete call of cthulhu style uh uh uh full-fledged insanity bursts
1:30:45
they’re going catatonic they’re attacking each other they’re screaming they’re gouging their eyes out
1:30:51
uh gina is keeping that off you all cobrast garen
1:30:58
and kala nisk what are you all trying to do you can hear that there are people yelling at argrath to call on the dragon
1:31:08
and and our grass says he can’t he’s already done it
1:31:15
is there any way i can get close enough to agra to say is there anything we can do
1:31:24
to revivify you to allow you to call on the left
1:31:29
hand is it your blood or something like that you can go up to him i would let you do
1:31:35
that how about um does anybody else want to be doing something right now
1:31:41
gina’s keeping you safe from the loons uh i’m waiting for the melee that the the
1:31:47
other other attack be it the assassins be at the whatever they’re they wait for maximum
1:31:52
trouble i think and then charging and i haven’t seen it yet so i’m waiting for i’m holding for that
1:31:59
okay in color um i’m itching to actually just charge the
1:32:05
darn thing but i know smart enough not to do it so i’m kind of awaiting the situation
1:32:11
here but i’m casting my um i’m doing one rune point on our graph
1:32:17
a one room point of input chaos yeah do you give you an idea in kala what quim does krim just reaches down
1:32:25
grabs praxions and devours them
1:32:30
uh and cobras how about yourself um i think i’ll stick to to battling and
1:32:37
trying to you know keep people organized despite half of them going mad but casting one rune point
1:32:46
doesn’t take that long and i’m also very good at spirit combat so i can help out after doing that i can help
1:32:51
roll against your spirit combat and yeah not a problem
1:32:58
okay so you and gina are actually really important to trying to keep the loons off the group around our graph cobras
1:33:07
this battle is not looking good at all and you think quim is bad
1:33:13
the cr the meteors falling from the sky are causing as much damage as that uh if not more
1:33:22
and garen our grass says
1:33:30
that the dragon still sleeps he can’t oh um he’s already called upon
1:33:38
it he cannot awaken it further
1:33:48
it’s the dragon is nearly awake
1:33:53
but he can’t awaken it because i’ve already called upon it
1:33:59
can someone else call upon
1:34:04
he asks well he actually he there’s a degree of
1:34:12
irritated contempt from him towards that and he says
1:34:20
sure if you can have you can you speak with the dragons
1:34:28
no but then i just don’t want to watch everybody die and be taken by chaos and he says nor do
1:34:36
i so i thought i would ask stupid question though it may have been it was well intentioned
1:34:43
how bad does garen feel right now i mean i
1:34:52
i think he is honorable
1:34:58
he feels a degree of shame but then at the same time he just
1:35:05
he wants the k he wants the carnage to stop this isn’t the kind of war he he came to
1:35:10
fight there are meteors whistling from the uh the sky and kala and gina
1:35:18
are able to keep the worst of the the loons away from you all uh
1:35:24
you have um around our grip after our grass women are screaming for
1:35:30
him to awaken the dragon and he’s shouting at them saying he can’t he can’t
1:35:36
he can’t do it yet uh and and amongst them
1:35:44
what was that neil we could go and tackle the quaker the um the wizards then the lunar magicians
1:35:49
that are summoning this well the you guys are a little what
1:35:55
okay keep going you guys are a little bit in the ring here because here we are our graph is
1:36:01
you can watch as apraxians hundreds are dying every round
1:36:08
hundreds are dying there’s craters uh crater makers going uh going down i’m gonna give to a count
1:36:16
of five if anybody has a clever idea beyond what you’re doing
1:36:31
what was that is it dragging a ghost no is it dead
1:36:38
no it’s a fetch right spirit kind of thing we don’t know
1:36:46
i’m with second the second side could we see it and talk to it i could i could make
1:36:54
if Enkala can hold up i could do a second side street
1:36:59
and try to see and talk to the dragon i mean we saw it before plays roll uh magic points times five
1:37:09
oh sorry power times five not a problem what you see
1:37:16
is a kaleidoscope of spirits and magic and loons
1:37:23
and and strange chaotic things all around you uh they don’t seem to be
1:37:30
willing to come within the perimeter right around you um i mean in the the perimeter right
1:37:37
around where you all and argrath are but it is [Music]1:37:43
it is weird alien spirits everywhere claudia yes but i try to see
1:37:49
the dragon and there’s no dragon there’s no dragon
1:37:58
and this is the point where our graph says we must retreat
1:38:06
okay and calls for a retreat back incalla are you
1:38:13
willing to retreat or do you want to keep trying to fight the chaos monster
1:38:21
it’s not actually possible to fight the chaos monster and it’s just swooping it’s 15 meters
1:38:27
high yeah we were completely unprepared for that uh yeah i’m i’m feeling an itch but
1:38:35
i’m not stupid so yeah i’ll go with our grant on this we gotta lay a plan to
1:38:42
kill that thing how about you nisk how are you dealing
1:38:47
with this are you gonna follow our breath this is gonna follow our graph he’s loyalty is to him and if this has to
1:38:53
take some plane we’re just to take some pride from it that’s okay because it’s more important our gut’s gonna know we
1:38:58
gotta fight later how about you garen you gonna die at this point or are you gonna follow
1:39:04
uh our grath i’m a i’m a bodyguard i will not leave our grass side however
1:39:09
irritating he may find me cobrast i know what you’re trying to do yeah you’re going to run away right
1:39:16
well you know in an ordered fashion gina i retreat
1:39:23
carefully with fighting more spirits okay i’m gonna knock us forward a few
1:39:31
days when the retreat finally ends over half the praxions are gone
1:39:40
oh i am very busy um when our groth the retreat goes
1:39:48
all the way back to um uh prax and our graph
1:39:55
is our graph is beyond shattered from this
1:40:01
i mean there’s there’s there’s thousands of people died in this
1:40:09
uh many of the practices just leave after this um
1:40:16
and there’s recriminations constantly
1:40:23
from people around saying you know why didn’t you call upon the dragon why didn’t you wake to be a dragon and
1:40:30
all he can say is i couldn’t
1:40:36
true the dragon was not there
1:40:41
and this is the point where i think we want to end for the evening it gets us ah
1:40:50
we’re back in new pavis our grass army has been has been beaten
1:40:58
there’s no no recriminations against you all half his forces are gone and
1:41:05
[Music] that’s the point i would like us to go to unless there’s something you want to
1:41:11
do do we still have our house or did somebody take it over oh nobody oh anybody who would dare take
1:41:18
it over marched with our graph okay
1:41:23
so can i just ask so what’s the um the macro state of the conflict at
1:41:32
the moment so obviously our graph took new paris we then marched out and were
1:41:38
butchered and tried to invade dragon pass were soundly defeated
1:41:46
are the do we have any idea if the lunars are gathering to try and reclaim their territory or
1:41:54
have have they kind of expended their resources in keeping is where we are in enforcing if we’re willing to go forward
1:42:01
a little bit further it is it is do we want to stop at this point
1:42:06
or do you want me to go a tiny bit further i’m good with a tiny bit tiny bit yeah
1:42:13
claudia we good with going a tiny bit further tiny bit all right
1:42:21
how depressed do you think things are in new pavis when you all return
1:42:26
uh pretty darn bad uh our grass own charisma is able to keep
1:42:34
a couple thousand of the praxions willing to stay here but a lot of the
1:42:40
praxian bands are are are going into uh prax
1:42:46
and our graph gives us um in the Orlanth fashion you know
1:42:54
everybody gathers and and there’s assemblies all the damn time and people yell at each
1:43:00
other the subways and and and make incriminations um and one of the incriminations that
1:43:08
our breath constantly uh is given multiple times is
1:43:15
you can speak with the dragon why didn’t you call upon the dragon you
1:43:21
could have destroyed the limbs okay i’m gonna at that point if i’m available i am going to cast
1:43:26
glamour then i am going to cast charisma and i am going to try and orient and my
1:43:33
my oration is and basically saying do not blame our grass for what our grass has not done and i’m
1:43:41
basically going to basically say because of course you know i apologize
1:43:46
you know that’s a very well anti-male thing to do when the bad things happen to say that is um it is sad to say that our
1:43:51
graph cannot summon the dragon because we were unable to to guard him fully from the black fang assassins if you are looking for someone
1:43:58
to blame blame them and blame the lunars or blame me but do not blame our ground
1:44:05
okay sorry i i leaned back here for the audience here and now kevin
1:44:12
i’m doing this but but he to him he feels it’s a dude you know thousands of people died as a
1:44:19
result of this so you’re saying it was your fault i’m
1:44:24
saying to blame the black fang i’m saying to blame the lunars but do not blame our grass
1:44:34
out of character should he have marched when the dragon wasn’t ready
1:44:39
probably not there is he has to take some blame here
1:44:45
he probably is
1:44:54
i’m also very sorry i do not take iris blame i’m not that i’m not loyal to him and
1:45:02
you don’t have to i did yeah which i don’t find very smart
1:45:09
it’s not a matter of being smart it’s a matter of doing what i feel is right and trying to make up for it and i will
1:45:14
offer to make up to help autograph some of the dragon if i can
1:45:19
i would i would offer my life to appease the spirits of the dead and to redress
1:45:26
the wrongs i have done our graph spirits are happy i made sure
1:45:32
i i i took care of that okay as long as you do the proper sacrifices with food
1:45:38
actually their families have to do that uh the spirits are happy don’t worry about the spirits
1:45:44
well our gross reaction to all of this is alternating between being um depressed
1:45:53
and violently angry at everyone around him um
1:45:59
his um and his his his comments to people
1:46:06
are along the lines of the dragon will awaken i have spoken to it
1:46:15
i could have awakened it but i have i have used the left hand too much
1:46:22
to to accelerate things
1:46:32
of being too what you call it
1:46:37
wanting too much too fast he says the left hand
1:46:44
um uh if you if i had but a little more time
1:46:53
the dragon will awaken and he tell any and he defies anybody
1:47:01
if anyone doubts him the dragon will awaken and that will be a sign
1:47:10
um of his pow of of of of of the power of the left
1:47:17
hand why did he march why did he leave what’s driven him out
1:47:23
can i make some kind of idea role or you can and so what intelligence times five
1:47:31
something or battle battle half battle half battle battle so 34
1:47:38
ah no no 45 oh brass do you want to try to do the same you’re getting back if he comes to me
1:47:45
and says why did he march i could try and say well as a
1:47:51
um yeah that’s 39 of 82. okay cobrast your view of it is is that
1:47:58
our greth is like hero wreck like all wolf pirates
1:48:03
uh very much on a must go on the offensive even if you don’t have the strength
1:48:12
it’s very much that’s that’s very much how how you wolf pirates operate you you you look for every weakness that
1:48:21
that the other side might have and did not have any appreciation that the leaders were
1:48:26
willing to able to throw this much strength
1:48:36
you get where you’re going when you take these risks though right i mean if you didn’t do this yes that’s not the right thing that’s
1:48:42
just that’s just mistake but he says he should have been more prepared going for one of the main temples in an area that’s
1:48:49
bound to be a lot of opposition in that area against that temple kind of mighty opposition as well and
1:48:55
then not be prepared at all for it but i mean that’s just what what i think with
1:49:00
my my limited knowledge of the situation is his response to anybody is
1:49:08
that the dragon will awaken soon and anyone um if if
1:49:15
if you doubt him he will have proof okay
1:49:22
soon i don’t really doubt him i’m pissed off like there’s a cold
1:49:30
anger in me towards my shaman who did not prepare me for this he was be playing stupid petty games
1:49:37
instead of actually letting me get the power to fight against the chaos like we’ve always spoken about
1:49:42
which is the reason i’ve been going this path so one of the things i’m gonna do is go find him and face him
1:49:50
and explain to him the horrors that we saw and experienced and tell him
1:49:57
that if he now defies me in joining and awakening my fetch
1:50:05
he might as well just stop because then he’s not in his for the fight is in for his petty games
1:50:12
yeah okay i i’ll we will carry that forward to the next session i want to end this though in earth
1:50:20
season how depressed are things a season
1:50:25
after this defeat eight weeks has gone by
1:50:31
gina are you even loyal to this guy anymore i was never loyal to this guy
1:50:37
are you even supportive of this and the point is i mean it gives me a job
1:50:46
i mean there’s there’s not a lot of activity at the white bull shrine after that battle
1:50:52
i never was in the white bull shrine i was in my own shrine in the cellar
1:50:58
and i was very busy actually uh doing all the corpses and ghost
1:51:03
dancing and so on so i mean and i’m the argus is an interesting guy and says you
1:51:11
sing with the dragon it’s cool but i i’m not dedicated to him
1:51:17
okay how about the other four of you guys are you here anyway gina i mean because it’s a job a lot of that
1:51:26
there are a lot of that and i like actually to have some money to have the hairstyle
1:51:31
that’s that’s not about my
1:51:37
how about the other four i just wanna is anybody beginning to have serious doubts i’m having some serious doubts uh he was not
1:51:44
able to face chaos at all and he is the white bull and he actually
1:51:50
called a retreat against really vile vi all chaos is vile but
1:51:58
that was very disappointing and i’m thinking is it the right call well is the right
1:52:04
spirit cult to follow how about the other three my my loyalty
1:52:10
hasn’t wavered but uh some scales have fallen from my eyes
1:52:18
to some extent i thought i was following you know uh caesar and it turned out i was following
1:52:24
uh the the way i’m seeing it neil
1:52:33
um nisk actually has a little different attitude he also believes that we failed him he feels that guilt of now that he
1:52:39
realizes more and yes i think that it’s not us to blame we’re not the ones that black playing
1:52:45
but we could do more and if i look at that for example for as the followers of the white bull
1:52:50
we didn’t bring the rightful to support him we have not gotten that trying we have not done those things and you
1:52:56
know it’s you know my my family left starter and were driven out by the londoners this wasn’t going to be easy i’ve been up
1:53:02
with autographs for years i’ve gone through the whole world we didn’t succeed every time so
1:53:07
i i have no qualms that he’s going to succeed and do well um but i do think that we’ve got to work
1:53:12
a little bit on our side and for me i want to double down on getting that damn shrine done and how about um
1:53:19
well i’m i’m mainly loyal to him as the chieftain of the wolf pirates um
1:53:26
and as such it is not not sure if that’s what wolf pirates
1:53:32
should be doing um going around having battles uh
1:53:37
freeing lands and stuff like that that’s not really our style so i’m a bit skeptical i guess
1:53:45
but uh nisk do you orate that your view of it yeah yeah it discourages
1:53:51
everything [Laughter]1:54:04
he will support you fully in working with this shaman he will support you in getting there he will travel into the wastes
1:54:10
he will watch after your llamas as he um and you hurt your animals while you do
1:54:15
your rituals and in return he asks that you help you commit to the white bull to forming
1:54:21
the shrine to bringing the spirit that we need to support our grass in the times and i’m sure it will help us fight okay
1:54:30
um the last big question i have is anybody that’s watching our grath
1:54:37
our growth is actually spending even more time than normal on his smoking
1:54:44
hazia and discorporating
1:54:54
it’s very normal isn’t it in color it could be something for something or is he drowning his sorrow
1:55:00
in housing he’s trying even harder to get the spirit back just to show that’s one way of looking
1:55:07
at it probably all right so i want a mic i want to mark a negative on your loyalty
1:55:13
our grath uh cobras yeah i think that’s fair enough um
1:55:18
i want i’m gonna deal i’m gonna after the next scene i’m gonna let garen decide what he um
1:55:26
how he feels about it and how Enkala feels about it nisk
1:55:32
no way you’re being totally loyal uh and gina has no loyalty
1:55:38
the next scene is in earth season um around the time of the harvest
1:55:46
there is a giant thunder from the west
1:55:53
everybody in the city looks to see what’s going on there is this huge rolling
1:56:01
sound from the west and the west of uh towards sartar towards dragon pass
1:56:09
and there is everybody in the city comes out to see what’s going on
1:56:15
and there is a line a brown line rising from the uh
1:56:23
from the horizontal up into the sky i want everybody to make
1:56:30
a power times five for all
1:56:36
except 21. got yeah success yep 22.
1:56:42
90 90 yeah it’s actually a power times five because i
1:56:48
have an 18 power so you succeed yep you see a jet
1:56:56
a true dragon rising from where you all were
1:57:04
a true it’s like eight kilometers long
1:57:10
oh this is if we were playing call of cthulhu i
1:57:15
would force you all to make sanity checks this is a huge thing rising and it is
1:57:23
just a wave after wave of of you look at this and you can
1:57:29
feel it in your mind is this stargraph dragon and it’s a
1:57:36
huge dragon rises into the sky and you could see rock and everything
1:57:43
falling down and it’s it you know you look at the horizon of where it was this was the direction you were marching
1:57:50
towards
1:57:56
is here but how often did he talk about the dragon was going to be awakened
1:58:02
yeah but i don’t know this is a this there is i mean i i want you to
1:58:08
imagine what it would be like to see something
1:58:14
eight kilometers long rise slowly into the sky rich how would he
1:58:20
wha wha how would you imagine this would look like
1:58:26
i imagine it’s like seeing a mountain range suddenly decide
1:58:33
it didn’t like the angle the sun was hitting yes and just
1:58:40
begin to slowly rotate um well any doubts i i i feel like i
1:58:46
might need to make some kind of penance forever doubting even even even misjudging his military
1:58:52
factfix right now how about you and call off
1:58:59
this is the biggest thing you have ever seen move
1:59:06
in the world actually to be honest even for the point of view of somebody of the 21st century
1:59:11
i’ve never seen anything eight kilometers long move into the sky i’m trying to visualize
1:59:18
like an entire like mountain range it’s a mountain so yeah and it flies
1:59:25
up into the sky and blocks the red moon
1:59:32
and it’s flying towards the moon i was gonna eat it and actually for a
1:59:39
while eclipses the moon
1:59:45
and then well i want to move forward to the rest of you all
1:59:51
cobra uh let’s deal with uh nisk what is nisk’s reaction
1:59:56
this is i’m our best dragon nisk is right right on and he’s very excited and he’s like you
2:00:03
know i mean if he could tell i guess he’s looking to see our guys got around so he’s not going to be able to see him i don’t know if our guts came out or
2:00:08
anything our breath is on our growth is on a six-week long hazia bender
2:00:14
all right so he thinks it’s related to that so he’s pretty anything that blocks out the red moon is a great for him in dealing with those
2:00:21
guys gina second sight
2:00:27
the distance of this is like uh 200 kilometers away
2:00:34
i talked to the ghosts are you gonna spend a rune point yes even
2:00:40
the ghosts are aggravated there’s that this is there’s something awakening up
2:00:49
okay something has been awakened how about you cobras yeah i’m
2:00:57
getting slightly uneasy because you know having seen autographs being angry and
2:01:06
now he might have this this huge dragon at his beck and call
2:01:11
yeah it’s going to be a dangerous time
2:01:17
this is the event called the dragon rise and a true dragon for the first time
2:01:24
in centuries woke up rose into the sky and all of the
2:01:31
accounts say that it rose into the sky flew towards the red bone balloon
2:01:36
the lunar empire managed to repel it at terrible cost
2:01:41
and beneath where the dragon rose is where the in the new lunar temple was
2:01:49
and all of the forces of the lunar empire and dragon pass was based
2:01:55
and our graph only been and this will end it our breath comes out of his hauseea haze
2:02:02
probably wearing nothing but a loin cloth still hides the kite and says
2:02:09
it’s woken
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and that’s where i would like to end this session i hope that’s a a good uh a good cliff point
2:02:23
yep so with that i want to thank everybody for uh a wonderful game and let’s turn off the recording
2:02:31
great thank you

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