SE05 EP15 - A Fist of Ravens

[00:00:01] Speaker A: Welcome, friends and adventurers, to another episode of Dungeons and Blackguards. I am your dungeon master, Robulon. Joining me in no particular order, are the players. Tomo. [00:00:17] Speaker B: I am playing Steve Peheman, Level 5 Gloomstalker. Ranger Fighter, Level 2 Rogue, Level 1. I have an owl. [00:00:27] Speaker A: Brandon. [00:00:29] Speaker C: I am ikirutpui Schlay, Level 8 Blood Hunter, half orc. And I have breast enhancements. [00:00:39] Speaker A: Braden. [00:00:41] Speaker B: Hey, I'm Braden. I play Beleague Dagar, half elf. Hexblade warlock, level eight, Eric. [00:00:49] Speaker D: I'm Eric. I play Dr. Zozo brightfeather, a level eight neracochra artificer. [00:00:54] Speaker A: And last but not least, Caleb. [00:00:59] Speaker E: I am the construct, Kaitohe Tata. And I'm a level 8 warforged barbarian. [00:01:10] Speaker A: Previously on Dungeons and Blackguards. [00:01:16] Speaker D: So, yeah, I think. I think Zozo holds the bottle up in front of her, lets go of it, and hangs in the air for a second and then just shoots, like, a crossbow bolt into the back of the kenku. I think the kenku staggers for a second and then starts to turn, and then the spell goes off, and I think the kenku just gets tossed across the room by it. [00:01:44] Speaker E: Now that, like, Zozo has, like, bombed the room. Now it's just like, I need to kick open the door. And we need to rush this room while he's incapacitated. We need to rush this room asap. [00:02:02] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, because I haven't. My next step was going figure out how to open the door. [00:02:07] Speaker E: But if you want, I'm just gonna. Just gonna bull rush the store. [00:02:11] Speaker B: Sweet. [00:02:12] Speaker E: Yeah, Rook's on our bellies. On my back. But if Rook mans the stairway, making sure nothing comes up after us, I'm just gonna bull rush the store. [00:02:24] Speaker A: Okay, well, Rook, that is your decision in front of you right now. You see the door. You see Katoa and Steve crowding around it and beginning to examine how they're gon. Then still below you, you think back and wonder what other defenses you may have awakened and stirred within Hugill Castle. [00:02:50] Speaker C: Yeah, I'll be staying back, man. And to make sure nobody comes up. Now I've got a bolt in my head. [00:02:58] Speaker E: Is that a man bun? Is that the man bun? Like you had rolled cuffs the other episode. So is that the man bun sticking out? [00:03:10] Speaker C: Just going for that hipster look, you know? [00:03:12] Speaker E: Yeah, and it looks good on you, man. Leave it. [00:03:15] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I guess I've still got my swords and everything out, so I'll just be at the ready, watching. Down the stairs. Make sure nothing's coming up. [00:03:28] Speaker A: You put this up next, Kaitoa. [00:03:31] Speaker E: Yeah, so. So my bonus action, I will put this like, hack in Rook's lab of like, if anyone comes up the stairs, you'll blast them with a cold blast and also slash them to death. And now I'm facing towards the doorway and I'm gonna run towards the doorway and I'm gonna smash this door down. [00:04:00] Speaker A: Can you roll a strength? Yeah. [00:04:04] Speaker E: Advantage on strength 17. [00:04:11] Speaker A: Kaidoa, you are rebuffed. The door does not shatter. For the first time ever in the campaign, your favorite enemy does not explode. Yeah. This five. [00:04:25] Speaker B: Is it the structure of the door or was it something else? [00:04:28] Speaker A: This five foot wide door, although it does not just, you know, move down, the hinges rattled. Everything shook. But this door is just out of smashing range as you attack it with a 17. [00:04:48] Speaker E: Well, I gave up my second action to give Rook hack, so I'm done. [00:04:56] Speaker A: And indeed, Kaitoa, with your last moments, you hear through and down into the castle. Still a little bit of cawing and fighting from Sandred's men who still exist in initiative. Steve, you are up. [00:05:15] Speaker B: So I watched Kaitoa just crush into this door. [00:05:19] Speaker A: Correct. [00:05:21] Speaker B: What? So he actually connected with the door? The door just did not break. [00:05:26] Speaker A: Is it correct? [00:05:29] Speaker E: Yeah, it moves. [00:05:32] Speaker B: I'm gonna. I'm going to go for that lock. [00:05:36] Speaker A: Okay. This is a large, large lock. And as you take out Mickey's locksmith set, you must select the largest pick. [00:05:50] Speaker B: Yep. If it. If it helps my scale, I can use a spike. [00:05:56] Speaker A: Oh, what kind of spike? [00:05:58] Speaker B: A throwing spike. One of my throwing spikes. [00:06:02] Speaker A: Oh, I would give you inspiration. [00:06:07] Speaker E: Everyone gets inspiration. [00:06:09] Speaker A: But as you wedge Mickey's tiny gnome lockpick in with a larger spike, you know, you seem to now achieve a little click and the door starts to swing open. [00:06:31] Speaker B: I got it. All right. [00:06:33] Speaker E: Of course. It's so frustrating. And they rage out. [00:06:44] Speaker A: Dr. Zozo. On the outside, the door flies open. You see Kaitoa, you see Steve, who has been kneeling at the lock level of this door. It has been kicked open once it was unlocked. You see the silhouette of Rook and old foot sort of, you know, guarding the upper staircase and the little footpad landing to the Kenku's observatory. And just as all of this happens, the Kenku turns around and is looking at you right in the eyes. Kaitoa, through his shattered goggles and his mask and his raiment, you know, is all destroyed. And you know, he is whipped around as the door flies open and you let out that steam blast. [00:07:43] Speaker E: So Fucking angry. [00:07:49] Speaker B: Hey, Eat him alive. Don't kill him. [00:07:54] Speaker E: Gravel. Grapple. Grapple. Grapple. Crap. [00:07:56] Speaker B: Yeah, you can grapple him. Just don't crush him. Not like the last one. [00:08:02] Speaker A: Don't take me away. And everybody hears Mickey's voice reverberate in the chamber. [00:08:12] Speaker B: Where's the source? [00:08:14] Speaker A: Oh, it's coming from the Albino. Kenku. [00:08:18] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:08:20] Speaker B: Is he mocking us? [00:08:22] Speaker A: To the White Chain to investigate these new rulers of Pol. And you hear Emis's voice. [00:08:33] Speaker E: He's mimicking. [00:08:35] Speaker B: He's. He's. Yeah, he is a Kenku. That was for sure. [00:08:40] Speaker E: He's mimicking people we know. Get him to the ground. [00:08:44] Speaker B: Well, I'm going to. Hey, Kenku. We will kill you. We want answers. Very angry construct and a half orc with I'm sure one of your barbs in his head, they will have no problem turning you inside out. We want to know where Mickey is on that chicken. [00:09:04] Speaker E: 649 your ass. [00:09:08] Speaker B: We're eating raven tonight. [00:09:10] Speaker E: Yeah, we need a menu item. The white chain. Guess what's up? [00:09:18] Speaker B: Chicken Kenku. [00:09:21] Speaker E: Sorry, Zozo. [00:09:22] Speaker D: Kind of offensive. Yeah. [00:09:25] Speaker A: Kenku Masterman. I've been damaged. I must transport out of here. [00:09:32] Speaker B: Where and how? Yeah, where and how? [00:09:37] Speaker A: Open the scroll, you silly bird. [00:09:42] Speaker B: We are now out of combat, I assume, yes? [00:09:45] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:09:46] Speaker B: All right. Where's that scroll? [00:09:49] Speaker A: I'll leave it to you guys. As the Kenku Masterman interacts with you. [00:09:58] Speaker E: Guys, he obviously is the master of disguise. He's mimicking every voice we know. Don't believe a word he says. [00:10:08] Speaker B: Well, so the Canus can recreate before. So he's. He's heard these. What I'm assuming is this is the way he's communicating to us. Where he's giving. He's giving us answers, but he's giving it through the voice of Ms. [00:10:26] Speaker E: I. I smack him right away. [00:10:30] Speaker A: Can you roll a one? D8. [00:10:33] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:10:34] Speaker A: And Dr. Zozo, you hear some chukra? [00:10:39] Speaker D: Okay. Yeah. I was gonna ask. [00:10:41] Speaker E: Yeah. D4. [00:10:44] Speaker B: Do not speak that. [00:10:47] Speaker D: Do I understand what. What the Kenku is saying? [00:10:51] Speaker A: Yes. He said, don't hurt me. As the ravens and the pigeons in the cages with small little cylinders on their left legs begin to regard the interactions of the party, you do hear an ominous flapping of wings. And the huge windows of the observatory begin to be obscured. [00:11:25] Speaker D: Zozo tells the Kenku to call him off and speaking in Chukra, I see. [00:11:37] Speaker A: Hey, Dr. Zozo, how long has it been since you've spoken some Chukra? [00:11:43] Speaker D: Probably a while. I don't Think she gets a chance to speak it very often. [00:11:47] Speaker A: Can you have a quick roll on the roll of your choice and that'll sort of add flavor? [00:11:53] Speaker B: Okay. [00:11:56] Speaker E: I'd like to jump on this Kenku's mouth. [00:12:00] Speaker D: That's I guess probably persuasion. [00:12:05] Speaker A: I like it. Okay. I thought you were going to go. Well then, in this moment, as you see Kaitoa closing the distance between this decimated creature, you are connecting on a language basis. And what did you say? [00:12:22] Speaker D: I said to call off the ravens and tell us what we need to know. [00:12:30] Speaker A: And you know, of course he is saying they're charmed as I was. [00:12:39] Speaker B: So that's the same. The same with the guards we just fought down there or I guess, fuck, I can't even understand what he's saying. [00:12:46] Speaker D: So I ask terms by who. [00:12:56] Speaker A: And the albino Kenku looks very withdrawn within his destroyed costume. And you know, he is saying the word Emis, the emissary. [00:13:12] Speaker B: I figured Steve figured in the fight that those things we fought were already under something else's control. It's just. [00:13:20] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [00:13:20] Speaker B: The question of who and if. He said, Emma's kill the quartermaster. [00:13:27] Speaker A: And the Kenku lets out like a guard voice. [00:13:33] Speaker B: We need. We need to get to Mickey. [00:13:35] Speaker A: Here's the quartermaster and his party. And you hear the voice of the slain castle warden. [00:13:45] Speaker D: Yeah, I relay this information to the rest of the party. Do we believe the canku? What do you guys. [00:13:54] Speaker B: Well, I. It's. Can you do like an insight check if you can't. Yeah, like. Well, I guess you can do insight in the sense of like, body. [00:14:03] Speaker E: Yep, insight. [00:14:04] Speaker B: But like, you don't even necessarily need to understand the. The language. You can check by like body language and. [00:14:11] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, I'll do an insights. [00:14:14] Speaker A: Okay. Insight with advantage, Dr. Zozo. And party. Can you roll group insight? [00:14:22] Speaker D: I rolled 19. [00:14:24] Speaker A: Oh, nice. Okay. And party advantage rules. You guys are just rolling a normal insight roll. [00:14:33] Speaker B: Oh gosh, I'm gonna use an inspiration. That was a two. Yeah, that's way better. Okay, 19 plus 5 for 24, 14 for Rick. [00:14:45] Speaker E: I rolled in nine. [00:14:48] Speaker A: All of you see that this creature is on its last legs and trying its best to answer your questions. Is this creature telling the truth? All of a sudden it looks at all of you and says. [00:15:14] Speaker B: I'm going to. [00:15:16] Speaker D: I translate that. [00:15:18] Speaker A: Okay. [00:15:20] Speaker E: And also I was on the verge of tying the creature's mouth. [00:15:27] Speaker B: We wanted to talk though. [00:15:29] Speaker A: As you stomp up, you are clenching close the beak as the final squeak and squeal comes out of this creature's beak. [00:15:42] Speaker E: I wanted to talk when we want it. [00:15:45] Speaker A: Talk. Qwark was lied to. Qwark was charmed is what you translate. [00:15:56] Speaker B: And we. By our. By our insight, he is telling us the truth. [00:16:03] Speaker A: The party in general is assured that he is not deceiving you. He seems genuine. He also seems like he's about to die. [00:16:19] Speaker B: I will use my medicine to bind whatever. Whatever wounds. Want to at least stabilize him. [00:16:27] Speaker A: Y. Well, he's been catapult shattered. [00:16:32] Speaker E: Yeah, but I found him in silence. Or like I've been trying to bind him. [00:16:39] Speaker A: He is restrained. Kaitoa, can you roll a grapple check? [00:16:42] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:16:43] Speaker A: And he's gonna roll at enormous disadvantage. But a huge creature. Again, almost taller than you. Kaitoa. This albino Kenku, who seems to have been wearing, you know, almost like a plague doctor's outfit. [00:16:59] Speaker E: It's a strange Jack, right? [00:17:02] Speaker A: Strength. [00:17:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:05] Speaker A: 18 is going to be restrained by you. [00:17:09] Speaker B: I am going to. Yeah, I'm going to call on kodamas. [00:17:15] Speaker A: Oh, the kodamas of the forest. Okay. And then Kaitoa, the final words of the creature here are permitted by your say. Neck. Hold on. [00:17:30] Speaker E: Who does number two work for? [00:17:35] Speaker A: The Wizard's Guild. [00:17:40] Speaker B: Those assholes. [00:17:44] Speaker E: Why do you work for them? [00:17:50] Speaker A: I don't work for them. Why are you with them and Dr. Zozo? You know, as you translate this. They are simply the messenger of the castle. [00:18:16] Speaker E: They manipulate all of us. What do they have against you? [00:18:21] Speaker D: We should probably stabilize him before. [00:18:24] Speaker B: Before Steve is our last healing spirit. [00:18:28] Speaker A: Can you roll those kodamas who although are not in the presence of a force glade or a urban park, nonetheless manifest. [00:18:41] Speaker B: It's 1 minute of D6 return. So it's 10 D6. I guess in the end, if I. [00:18:50] Speaker A: Okay, does anybody intervene as a one minute healing circle of like super cute little, you know, mini crawling out between. [00:19:01] Speaker B: The mortar of the. Of the stone. [00:19:05] Speaker E: Taitoa would be like, why are you working to the guys? Like I am the messenger between life or death. Why are you working for them? [00:19:17] Speaker B: Doesn't work for them. He was used by them. [00:19:21] Speaker A: But why? [00:19:22] Speaker E: Why? [00:19:24] Speaker B: Because we need him to stay alive so he can show us how to get to them. [00:19:29] Speaker E: Start talking. They want to keep you alive. I want to see you dead. Start talking. [00:19:35] Speaker A: Kenku Masterman. I'm the new emissary here on mission and edict from the Wizard's Guild. Where is this the white chain bullshit? How does she charm Dr. Zozo? You understand that the Kenku is answering the party's questions with mimicked actual quotes. This creature is actually mimicking things that have been said. [00:20:11] Speaker E: Bullshit talk that I've heard before. [00:20:15] Speaker A: Kaitoa, as you sort of confront the kenku's strategy in dealing, you know, with the party's collective questioning. Although their raiment and you know, their mask have not been mended, Their physical hit points have been restored over this minute that you grill them. And what is the rest of the party doing? [00:20:44] Speaker B: Show us how to finish the job on Emerus. We started it. We're gonna finish her. [00:20:50] Speaker A: Only Rube. The cube permits transportation via scroll. Here's the last one. [00:21:00] Speaker E: I'll have to go by another way. [00:21:04] Speaker B: What's the other way? [00:21:06] Speaker D: Was that Emma. [00:21:08] Speaker A: And the kenku starts pointing downwards. Downwards into Hugo Castle. [00:21:16] Speaker D: Is Emma still here? [00:21:19] Speaker A: Emmas has flee'd within Bolb. And Mickey has been transported to Chosm the Wizards Guild and the Brass Towers. [00:21:35] Speaker B: So I miss. I miss Left on foot by non magical means. How did you. How did she charm you? I really need to learn this language. [00:21:53] Speaker A: Zozo, can you translate that? [00:21:55] Speaker E: Getting really frustrated. [00:21:57] Speaker A: You know, this is a very interesting interaction. As all of a sudden there are hundreds and hundreds of birds attacking the glass walls of the observatory. The Kenku looks around in shock Roll initiative. [00:22:20] Speaker E: How do we control the ravens. [00:22:29] Speaker A: And the kenku? The albino kenku. This giant Kenku. Dr. Zozo. It's looking at you plaintively. It does not know how to control the swarm, but it clearly understands Kama. You know it's answering Kaitoa's question to you. It does not know. [00:22:51] Speaker D: I think we have to find Emma's. [00:22:54] Speaker E: Yeah. D20. [00:22:57] Speaker B: That's a natty 20 for Steve's. Yeah, Steve's initiative. [00:23:03] Speaker E: 20 for. [00:23:05] Speaker D: I got the same. Yeah. Non natty 20. [00:23:07] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:23:07] Speaker A: So who has the higher natural initiative? [00:23:13] Speaker E: I got a 16 or a 14. Six. [00:23:17] Speaker D: I got 17 plus three. [00:23:21] Speaker B: I got a natural 20. [00:23:23] Speaker A: Steve is up first. [00:23:27] Speaker B: Hell plus three. [00:23:30] Speaker A: Steve Zozo. Kaitoa Rook 13. Okay. Steve. Zozo. Katoa Rook Beleg. Hold him one sec. [00:23:41] Speaker E: He's on my back. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Leah. [00:23:47] Speaker B: Having a wet dream right now. [00:23:52] Speaker A: Why? I did not. [00:23:56] Speaker E: I did not. [00:23:57] Speaker B: I did not. [00:23:58] Speaker E: I did not. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Bellik is on to some nonsense. Yeah, poor guy. [00:24:08] Speaker E: Did not. But at least he's on Maybach. [00:24:13] Speaker A: He is carried. Kaitoa, you are good friend. You would not betray me. [00:24:20] Speaker E: I. I would. I am happily to at least have a bit of hindered movement. Because he is a friend. I would not. [00:24:33] Speaker A: Okay, we gotta move on. [00:24:36] Speaker B: Bellik just looks like Tommy Wiseau to me now. [00:24:42] Speaker E: Exactly half the hair. I did not. [00:24:52] Speaker A: So belly did roll at disadvantage, and rightfully so. And he will be very low. Oh, that is a two for Belleg. And so the Kenku. Oh, gotta roll for him. Hold on, Kenku. Okay. In Initiative. So still the Kenku in your midst. You don't have somebody at the moment who is wielding a weapon, and yet they are rolling initiative. [00:25:23] Speaker B: So these ravens are behind glass, Is that what you're saying? [00:25:28] Speaker A: Not a third of them. Right. That open window from which the previously charmed Kenku Masterman was taking shots with his threaded bolt darts is admitting many, many beaks into your vicinity. They didn't roll bad at all. Yeah, they're coming after Zozo. As in. They're coming after Zozo in Initiative. Although they do have a taste for Zozo. [00:26:00] Speaker B: I'm looking to. Is it Steve's turn? Let me just. [00:26:04] Speaker A: It is. Yeah. So you're. You're top in initiative. [00:26:06] Speaker B: Okay. I'm going to cast hail of thorns. [00:26:12] Speaker A: Okay. And you have one window open where ravens are swarming in. You have two quadrants of windows where, just like the birds in Alfred Hitchcock, they are beating against the glass windows. I mean, there are dozens and dozens of swarms of ravens. [00:26:35] Speaker B: Kill them all. [00:26:37] Speaker A: Okay, Steve, Sweet. [00:26:39] Speaker B: So hail of thorns. [00:26:40] Speaker A: Hail of thorns. Roll on AC. You guys know the AC? It is 12. [00:26:46] Speaker B: Okay. So the first attack, definitely gonna hit 14 plus, plus three. [00:26:57] Speaker A: Okay. Do they roll against your hail? [00:27:00] Speaker B: Oh, yes. They must take dexterity safe. [00:27:04] Speaker A: Okay. Nope. [00:27:07] Speaker B: Okay, so the D4, the initial bird or whatever I hit takes 21 damage. [00:27:17] Speaker A: Okay. [00:27:18] Speaker B: And then the spike I threw explodes, and it's a D10 for anything that fails the dexterity safe. Take D10. Do I just roll one D10 for the spray damage? [00:27:30] Speaker A: Yes. On. I'm including three groups. [00:27:34] Speaker B: Okay. So I pulled 10. [00:27:36] Speaker A: Oh, shit. So all of them here at the aperture of the open glass windows. These gorgeous, gorgeous glass windows are being sprayed. [00:27:47] Speaker B: So I just did, like, center mass and then five feet of that. [00:27:51] Speaker A: Fantastic. Look at the damage. Look at the spray damage. [00:27:59] Speaker D: Just feathers everywhere. [00:28:01] Speaker A: All three swarms of ravens that were funneling in to the first window here be shredded. Anything else to get? [00:28:14] Speaker B: Two more attacks. [00:28:15] Speaker A: Okay. [00:28:17] Speaker B: The second one doesn't hit. Best I got was a 6. Third one. 11 plus 3 for 14 to hit. You know, that hits 3, 6, 16. [00:28:32] Speaker A: 16 damage means that you've blown back most of the remnants of what's in front of the window. And yet, nonetheless, how many more ravens? Are there anything else in your move? [00:28:46] Speaker B: That's it for me for this turn. [00:28:50] Speaker A: Okay. As the Spray of thorns gives you one moment of daylight. All of the windows are blackened. The crows. They ate at my brethren after the last battle in the Goblin Wars. Says Oldfoot party. I would like to check in on AC as 36 swarms of ravens try and make it through the aperture of the one quadrant of open glass windows. I would like a check in on AC Dr. Zozo. [00:29:29] Speaker D: My AC is 14. [00:29:31] Speaker B: Okay, the name of this episode should be A fist of ravens. [00:29:39] Speaker A: That is 15 damage. Dr. Zozo. Okay, rook 10. That's not even close with modifiers. [00:29:50] Speaker E: No. [00:29:51] Speaker A: You fend off and bury the beaks. Critical one. Kaitoa, you're also. [00:30:01] Speaker E: I left Rook with the the frost damage. So Rook actually could use Chrism to fend off the stairway. [00:30:12] Speaker A: The swarm of crows or ravens that attacked you just crit failed. So I will give you the help action on any subsequent roll that succeeds. Here we go. Steve, what's your A17? [00:30:24] Speaker E: Rooks in a stairway with a extinguished ball in his lab. [00:30:31] Speaker A: Two D six. Two and three plus two on each. So that is nine. [00:30:38] Speaker B: Nine points. [00:30:39] Speaker E: Nine. [00:30:39] Speaker B: Nine. [00:30:41] Speaker A: And through your defenses strike the beaks. Next in line. Beleg. That is a 16 plus modifiers. No problem. Past Beleg's breastplate and we're gonna roll two D6. [00:30:59] Speaker E: He's on my shoulder. [00:31:01] Speaker A: That is two and a one. That's about as low as you can go. But it is +4.7 and Beleg. Can you please take 7 off of your character sheet? Please? Okay. Have we attacked everybody? [00:31:19] Speaker D: Did they attack the kenku? [00:31:23] Speaker A: No, the kenku does not get hit by the beaks. So as the afternoon jebruaries sky sun is blackened out by the wings and beaks that could spell your doom. [00:31:47] Speaker E: I'm sorry. I set Rook up in this hallway with a fire extinguisher of cold blast. And I did not hear at all about him like fending off people. [00:32:02] Speaker A: But at the top of the order now is Rook. [00:32:06] Speaker C: Hey, I'll blast. [00:32:08] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:32:09] Speaker A: You are being swarmed and attacked. Your party is 80% in the Kenku's chamber. You have been left at door watch. And yet you are assailed. [00:32:22] Speaker C: Well, didn't hit me, but I'm going to Kris blast. What is the modifiers for Kris blasts? [00:32:31] Speaker A: So it is a 15 foot cone. It is a roll a D20 plus your normal attack modifiers. It's a frosty backpack. [00:32:45] Speaker B: Frosty backpack you say it is a frost thrower. [00:32:52] Speaker C: It's a 25. [00:32:53] Speaker A: Okay. It's the swarm of ravens that attacked you. You roll damage D4 cold dam. It's a spritz. This is a cold spritz. This is not a poison spritz. [00:33:08] Speaker C: Ah, I like the poison one, but it's a three. [00:33:11] Speaker E: You could attach. One would think you could with your poison spritz, spit it into the cold blast frozen poison. With your secondary action, you could bit at the same time as cold blasting. [00:33:29] Speaker C: And he's going to cold blast and then spritz with poison at the same time as doing. Okay, well, then they've got to roll con. [00:33:38] Speaker A: Okay. Oh, no. You have caught not 1, 2, 3, but 4 of the 36 swarms of ravens. Roll damage. [00:33:52] Speaker E: Instead of, like, cold blasts, they're now poison shards that, like, stab every bird. Like, well, now, instead of being like cold blasting the outside, penetrate with poison. [00:34:06] Speaker B: This is cold poison. [00:34:08] Speaker C: Rob. This is actually gonna be. Because I'm. I'm past level 5, so I actually add another die. So it's 25 total on the poison damage. [00:34:19] Speaker A: Frozen poison. Can everybody else in the party roll a dexterity saving throw? Rah rah party. Can you dodge this? Beat a 10. Folks, you're really glad if you're avoiding this because those four swarms of raisin. Raisins. Fuck. [00:34:46] Speaker E: Again. [00:34:47] Speaker A: The fucking delicious swarm of rais. [00:34:52] Speaker D: California lanterns. [00:34:54] Speaker A: They are dashed into the walls. And if you have rolled above to get away from this, you are indeed lucky. [00:35:06] Speaker D: I rolled a 14. [00:35:08] Speaker A: Zozo, how do you get away? How did you get. [00:35:12] Speaker D: Zo fled up to the ceiling. [00:35:14] Speaker A: Okay. [00:35:15] Speaker E: I rolled a 16. [00:35:18] Speaker A: Okay. [00:35:19] Speaker B: Steve rolled the nine. [00:35:22] Speaker A: Not you, Steve. That is under 10. [00:35:24] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm gonna give Steve my inspo. I have one left. [00:35:29] Speaker A: You modified your spray. [00:35:32] Speaker B: I just read the last second Steve's mouth was open. [00:35:38] Speaker A: You still have to roll. [00:35:41] Speaker B: Steve rolled a one. [00:35:46] Speaker E: No. [00:35:48] Speaker C: Yeah, I tried, Steve. [00:35:49] Speaker B: I tried. I appreciate that. [00:35:53] Speaker A: And you get a poison icicle right in your face. [00:35:59] Speaker B: No. Is it lemon lime flavor? [00:36:04] Speaker E: No, it's mosquito flavor. It's flavored. [00:36:07] Speaker C: It's raisin flavor. [00:36:09] Speaker B: Burnt wiring flavor. Oh, Steve, this is just damage, right? 25 damage. Yeah. [00:36:21] Speaker A: Ouchy. So who else in this room. Everybody else. Was able to avoid Rook's area of effect? [00:36:30] Speaker E: Yes. [00:36:31] Speaker D: No. Okay. I'm the only one. [00:36:33] Speaker B: I'm the only one with the leeches, huh? [00:36:36] Speaker E: Backpack. [00:36:38] Speaker A: But yeah, we'll give Beleg. We'll give Oldfoot a pass. And the outside of the observatory glass windows is still replete with the cawing and the beating of wings and beaks. And they search now for the open windows. And again, four swarms of ravens coming into the observatory center. The telescope is knocked over, and they swoop in. That huge window is still open. What are you guys doing? Initiative is still on. [00:37:24] Speaker E: Smashy, smashy. [00:37:26] Speaker C: Somebody close that damn window. [00:37:33] Speaker A: And that, friends and adventurers, is where we'll have to leave you tonight on this episode of Dungeons and Blackguards. [00:37:57] Speaker B: Sam. [00:38:42] Speaker E: We need to a close the window and also smash everything or poison it. [00:38:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:52] Speaker D: Nice. [00:38:53] Speaker E: Yeah, I like. I like the acid spit with the cold combo. Yeah. [00:38:58] Speaker D: Yeah, that's pretty sweet. [00:38:59] Speaker E: Sweet. [00:39:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:01] Speaker B: I just need to learn to keep my mouth closed. Yeah. Steve's getting really good at opening doors, though. [00:39:17] Speaker E: I. I was pretty pissed that I couldn't smash that door down. That was frustrating. [00:39:25] Speaker B: Slammed into it. Steve does a little click, click, and then pushes the door open. [00:39:31] Speaker E: Yeah, that's my jam, usually. And it was like, yeah, this. That was frustrating. And then was like, oh, now I have this cocked crossbow. I had to use it. I have to just burn that by shooting someone. I had to shoot someone. [00:39:55] Speaker D: Chekhov's crossbow. [00:40:01] Speaker E: I had to shoot someone. It's already cocked. We need some dark magic. [00:40:10] Speaker D: Or we close the window and make a run for it. [00:40:13] Speaker B: Close the window, wave at them, run away. They'll smash. [00:40:19] Speaker D: Use that time then, like, close the door and run down the stairs. Or just funnel them through the stairway and pick them off as they come through. [00:40:29] Speaker B: I mean. I mean, luckily, like, physically, they can't all get in at the same time. So if we just, like, keep pummeling them at the windows, I don't think. [00:40:40] Speaker D: The other two windows are gonna last very long. Yeah, if we stick around in that room, like, those other windows are gonna break. [00:40:47] Speaker B: I guess if we. If we pull back to the hallway, then that is definitely, like, a physical. We basically make our thermopylae. [00:40:55] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:40:56] Speaker E: What if I match plank the windows, like, every table gets, and we create a pinch point. And now they have one window, and I just sit by the window, just chopping. [00:41:13] Speaker D: Yeah, if we can block the windows with stuff. [00:41:16] Speaker E: Yeah, that might work. It depends how many windows there are. [00:41:21] Speaker D: I think there are the three. Like, three big windows. [00:41:24] Speaker E: Yeah. Yeah, we could. We could block the windows. Like, one window, two windows. Like, Rook takes one, Kaitoa takes the other, and then the, like, third window is now, like, the funnel point. [00:41:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I've got one more of those. I've got the ability to cast one more of those. Hail of thorns. [00:41:46] Speaker D: Yeah, nice. [00:41:48] Speaker B: Get them piled into, like, an area. We can. [00:41:50] Speaker D: I can start talking like Molotov cocktails. [00:41:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess you got the. Let's Just light the entire top of this tower on fire. [00:41:59] Speaker E: Yeah, but, like, the swarm is like, dude, this is a huge battle. And especially I. I took massive damage from a few of the crows. [00:42:13] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. I'm hurting right now. [00:42:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:16] Speaker E: Like, I think I took like 20 points. That one round of combat in the courtyard, it was like. That is like a massive amount of damage from a swarm. [00:42:31] Speaker B: I was doing okay until I ate Rooks fucking burnt wiring juice. [00:42:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:40] Speaker E: He. [00:42:40] Speaker D: He spits that out of his mouth. [00:42:42] Speaker B: Yeah. What's that? Old, like the old Japanese wrestler who used to do that? [00:42:47] Speaker E: Oh, yeah, He. [00:42:48] Speaker A: He doesn'. [00:42:49] Speaker E: Acid splash like a spit. [00:42:52] Speaker D: So he just spit in your mouth, basically? [00:42:54] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. He like, opens his palm and just spits acid. Yeah, it's kind of like Mortal Kombat. Like, what's his name? [00:43:05] Speaker D: Oh, reptile. [00:43:07] Speaker E: Reptile, yeah. He's an acid spit, right? [00:43:10] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:43:11] Speaker E: Opens his palm and he like, spits ass in your face there. [00:43:15] Speaker B: Like a Japanese wrestler that used to do that in the 80s. Like, you just, like. You have this like, green spit and. [00:43:21] Speaker D: There'S the guy with the green tongue. [00:43:23] Speaker B: It's like a. It's like a weird acid spray or something like that. This Japanese wrestler in the WWF used to like. His special move is he'd spit acid in people's faces and it was like this, like. It was basically. He must have put like. Like a weird little pill in his mouth and spat like this. Yeah, just green goo. [00:43:45] Speaker D: Yoshihiro Tajiri, maybe. I just looked up WWF acid spit and. [00:43:51] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:43:52] Speaker B: Found a video. [00:43:55] Speaker A: Found a video. [00:43:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:58] Speaker E: God bless the Internet. [00:44:04] Speaker B: That'S hilarious. [00:44:07] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:44:09] Speaker E: I ran. [00:44:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:11] Speaker B: This is what Rook did to me. [00:44:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:22] Speaker B: The green juice. Awesome.