The. We open on an apartment.
A caramel skinned, dark haired woman shuts her computer.
She sighs. She takes off.
She has a name tag. She takes it off.
She puts it down to the side. It says Cassie Lopez,
interpreter. She puts her fingers out and
tries to conjure something. You don't know what she's trying
to conjure, but it looks like it.
She's looking very, very strongly at her fingers, trying
to make something happen, and nothing does.
She sighs and she says, where are you?
Each of you has received a message from Cassie.
You all arrive your various ways, whether by train, whether
by plane, whether by some sort of magic.
Who do we see as Yarrow starts getting closer to Cassie's
apartment? Euro does not like flights.
They're too high, they're unbalanced.
Your people are a people of the Earth.
Who said that in the Dinebahane we came from three worlds below
the world that we live in now. And maybe it's just the autism,
but quite frankly, planes are suffocating.
And she does not like to be in a tube, billions of feet in the
sky with strangers. As she steps off the plane, we
see an aesthetic that could be called cottage core.
She's wearing a light yellow dress covered in flowers.
Her hair is braided dark brown, almost like it is a brioche loaf
or some fancy sourdough. Her face is light brown.
Her dark brown eyes are darting around.
She's looking for her accent. Yes.
OK, I, I'm at the right station. I got off right.
I'm I'm not going to end up somewhere.
One hand is holding a suitcase where a very elderly raccoon is
also balancing. She's also looking around.
She's wearing a vest that says emotional support animal.
And in her other hand she's holding a foiled over gluten
free blueberry pie. All right, she was down here.
There is one child who just just has been staring at Sunny the
entire flight and continues to as you D board What What kind of
small treat like Usually we joke Werthers, but what kind of small
treat would she. Carry spell St. that Euro
carries, especially for curious children and elders alike.
Are these little green pots? Is pots the word?
No hard candy. They're not Werthers, but
they're close enough. They are solidified Yanaba tea
creams. And she sees this child and just
a moment here, and she reaches into her pocket, one of her
dresses because of course it has pockets.
Yeah. She offers some candies.
And CNA looks at the the child and says just make sure you
don't choke on it. Sonny that don't scare them.
It sounds like they can understand you anyway.
I'm not sure the sheltiest thing you're chattering just.
Yeah, the child had accepted the candy, yelps and walks away.
And he was staring at me the whole trip.
Have you? Considered that you are very
beautiful. It's interesting, you know, DC
is a land of people from a lot of different nations all coming
together with democratic ideals hopefully, and you see that many
people of the supernatural world also consider DC a place to come
together and discuss various things.
You see a a short man in a green jacket and wiry red hair
speaking to another creature with beautiful bark skin and a a
absolute mane of red leaves, clearly making some sort of
supernatural deal going on as you you walk down the street to
get to get to Cassie's. Then who do we see as you jog
all the way from Virginia to get here?
That is right. Fane walks and jogs everywhere
because Fane knows you don't make others serve you and you
should not do any damage to the earth because you're a steward
of it. So he walks, he jogs, he runs.
He only off he only accepts offered help.
So you you see things showing up.
Listen, that's because he does it all the time doesn't mean it
doesn't take a bodily toll. So he's probably like looking a
little worse for wear. He's a little exhausted walking
from Virginia to DC, although they are neighbors and they kiss
is still a trek. So he's probably like sweated
through the white shirt a bit here as far as like fanning it,
outgoing through his bag, trying to see if he has like a new one,
trying to make sure he remains, you know, decent looking, not
obstructing anyone's view. But he does arrive with tattered
shoes, just just looking a little bit shoveled, trying to
get himself put together before he visits this person.
As you are making your way down the streets you see everybody
else, every other mortals eyes just slip from one one side of
this building to the next side of it, but inside a multi
limbed, maybe tentacles you might say.
Creature beckons you in seeing your tattered state and should
you accept, you will experience a short spacation resulting in a
fresh hairdo and nice clothes and a sensible pair of shoes.
I think Fane is going to pull out his like large book of rules
to see if this is the kind of thing he should accept.
Is this vain or is this maintaining good public
appearance? Is this something where he is
forcing someone to serve him? Or is this something where a
person under the goodness of their heart sees someone in need
and wants to help? Is it OK to be a person in need?
And he's just getting lost in in the weeds of everything here and
he looks up. This feminine multi limbed
entity wearing a strawberry apron musically laughs in a way
that sounds like bubbles under the ocean and just like Yanks
you in. When she makes contact with me,
can I use psychometry? Uh huh.
So Fame has a gift where he can learn about a person, place,
thing or event despite touch. And when this, this, this
tentacle woman reaches out and touches and like by proxy,
there's kind of like Lincoln fingers here.
I would like to learn if her intentions are selfless.
Her intentions are very selfless.
You see multiple lifetimes of this small moving spa with
these, with these creatures that show up in times of need for
people of greatness to help them along their way.
When they go on long, long journeys that leave them
bedraggled and they have to show up somewhere looking their best.
She somehow knows, and she's there.
Yeah, Fame takes a moment to remember that the philosopher's
profits guide spiritual leaders of old all accepted help when
they needed it. So he allows us to happen and
lets him get spruced up by this supernatural tentacled lady.
You are almost spit out the door at the end of it looking shiny
and you almost running into a galloping Unicorn essentially
that just kind of brushes past you and goes on its way.
Big city always has so many fascinating things.
OK, we don't have those things where I come from.
It's OK. He like pulls out a little
notebook and jots down accepted help with a little check mark
next to it. Ruhan, how do you arrive and
what do people see? Rohan's not like most demigods
because he's survived and yet not survived certain things.
So I think what happens is dotted around the entire planet
are these caves. They're the kind of caves that
your parents tell you never to go in, no matter how old The
Cave is and no matter how new your parents are.
There's just something about them, right?
They're often poisonous. Thank you for being honest.
And I think here, Turtle Island, North America, probably these
these caves are guarded by owls at this part of the little
tempered continental forest that we have.
He walks into one cave, you know, in southern Ontario and
walks out of another closer to where he's supposed to be.
Obviously, this kind of thing doesn't work in big cities, so
you got to walk in. But it's as simple as that.
He walks into a cave no one should enter, guarded by birds
that tend to, you know, make everyone afraid.
And he walks out of a cave just like it somewhere else.
Interestingly, because it is DC, there is actually a cave in one
of the public areas. It is under a a mound of of Moss
hidden in one of the gardens. And you come out in the owl's
hood, and you blink your eyes, and you are there.
I wander straight off. I don't look left and right
unless I'm crossing a sidewalk or street, and I'm keeping my
head down in general. I'm like, it's almost like I'm
just another person wandering. No one will recognize me, I
hope, because of course, who recognizes the people that
you're not supposed to recognize until, well, until.
As you pass, you do see 3 owls congregate at one apartment, but
you know that right now that is not your job to worry about and
so you do not go check the Oh Death app.
This is a new city. I don't think I've been in DC
once before. I think I'm going to try and
Pierce The Veil of this place. OK, I'm.
Going to roll 2D6 plus judgement to pure beyond the veneer
mortality. My judgement is a 2 and I rolled
double S. Nice.
Sixes. Perfect.
So that's a 14. That is a 14 on A10 plus you can
ask 3 questions. What's happened to this place
recently? The city.
The place is darker and hazier than you expect, as if some
light that is generally there is missing.
You can see pockets of dark clouds, sometimes around
people's heads, sometimes coming out of manhole covers, sometimes
floating out of areas of law making.
There has been a loss here. And per your conversation with
Cassie, you know that part of this loss is the disappearance
of the God of democracy. But it is.
It is visible to you. When did democracy go missing?
It's it's been a little while. You can tell, based on how much
this gloom has spread, that democracy has been waning for a
while. There are almost psychic scorch
marks on the pavement in some places, as if great fights have
been fought to protect the world from good and evil.
And it is clear to you that democracy in this it's it's
hometown, has had to fight many fights.
But a recent fight, maybe in the last couple months, has it lost.
Who is responsible for the nature of DC right now?
Or I suppose I could ask. What you look, you look towards
the capital, towards the White House, rather known often as
this beacon of freedom of the free world, quote UN quote, too
many people. And you see as you Pierce The
Veil, you see the color changes a little bit depending on on how
you what you view the color of this to be.
But it's like a deep red or a deep green.
And you see, is it in the sky? Is it sitting on the White House
like the roof? You see someone that you know
instinctively, it's the God of fascism.
And you see, as you look around, you begin to see which is
different signs of how fascism starts crawling into a place and
devouring it from the inside. You begin to see the signals of
like nationalism, of a nostalgia, this idea that there
is a certain way to be. You see that there is a lack of
freedom, as if the entire area is under a chain link ceiling.
Instinctively, he pulls his vest, his waistcoat around him,
and then tightens up the buttons on the jacket that replaces it.
Everything is slightly darker in colour.
There's a lot more blue in the air, that unhealthy, unnatural
blue, because that's the colour he sees.
Cassie, what the hell have you gotten us into?
Lavie, you arrive weirdly well rested from that nap that your
godparent demanded you take. How do you arrive?
With a travelling motorcycle club who are already on their
way to DC for some kind of events, the kinds of.
People. Who may be the reason why they
have these mechanical contraptions of speed and
thrill, the metal like between their thighs.
Just giving that them that invigoration that they
desperately needed in the time of their youth.
But now they're older and they decided to do something with
their lives to help others. Levi has found someone new who
just joined this motorcycle club, and they're on their way
to an important court case involving something of someone
needing a little bit more like rigmarole, a little bit of
encouragement of, yeah, you're doing the right thing.
We will keep you safe on your way there.
But we're going to go so fast and we're going to the speed
limit is a suggestion. Let's just be honest.
Here. So I love that this is the way
that you arrived because as I was thinking, this is your
Harold speaking, as I was thinking of populating the world
with many denizens of the supernatural variety, one of the
things that I had thought of was in fact a travelling motorcycle
club of Bigfoots, including OG Bigfoot, including Sasquatch,
the Yeti Skunk Ape, many others. And now that happens to be.
The motorcycle club that you are on, you have joined this, moving
this caravan that is heading towards the city to in the more
supernatural court to actually hold a meeting about the
preservation of the Bigfoots. They are the Bigfoots, not the
big feet. I would like to roll to sway
someone. OK, who are you swaying?
It's a combination of listening to the way that all of these
supernaturals talk to each other in the way that they want to
preserve their communities. But then it's also the
comparison of the way that Lavie, who is probably one of
the most still mortally connected of someone touched or
mantled by divinity, and who is truly riding that fence between
the two different worlds. I would like to roll a sway for
Levi to see if maybe Levi can convince them to possibly reach
out to another demigod or some kind of divinity or someone who
has a mortal mortal presence to help them.
Because they might be mistrustful of mortals who have
been doing some kind of harm to their environment.
But there are ones out there who will want to help them.
OK, so you you want to present that you may know a mortal who
may be able to help them, Yes. And you're trying to convince
them of that two. D Sixes.
Yes. I have a plus one in awe.
It's going to be a 8 total. OK, they hear your offer.
Who are you offering to connect them with?
The offer is that they have to find a middle man.
I can find them. The end result?
I know a mortal who can help them, but they have to find the
middle man. The mortal that I'm offering to
them is someone that Levy knows through social media is actually
the one who decided to who wants to freak climb the Redwood.
His name is Trenton. He is a lovely trans man who was
finding what masculinity means to him through doing these like
very masculine oriented things. His entire wardrobe is nothing
but flannel and like tank tops that seem to be a little bit too
fitted in areas. But he's a very sweet man who is
learning about himself, finding himself in nature and has
learned to appreciate nature of what it means to be a human but
be a man. But Trenton is someone that Levy
has helped through many an adventurous ordeal.
The first time Trenton learned how to use a chainsaw because
thought that maybe going into the logging industry was going
to be for him. Levy was there to help him lift
the chainsaw for the first time that Trenton wanted to try to
learn how to drive. Levy was there holding his hand
but also had a proverbial foot on the clutch just in case, or
had a hand on the emergency break.
Like Trenton is someone that Levy knew inhumanity to be a
good person and knows in divinity that there is a good
aspect to him that is waiting to blossom.
The price that they demand is that you reach out to this man
who has, as one of his first manly tasks, thought about
joining the logging community. And they're the price that they
demand is that he spends some time understanding
sustainability and conservation. So as long as you're willing to
have that conversation with him and he's willing to take those
steps, then they are willing to accept his help by finding a
middle man. Yeah, and Levine will accept it
and basically start out the process.
But he's also going to be honest with like, I want to help y'all
and like, I want to give you my homeboys like contact info.
And I'll tell him to do some little bit more self searching.
But like, I got to go find a gal about some democracy going
missing. But it's been sweet and it's
been a nice ride. I'll see you guys on the open
road again, hopefully. But if you ever want to go
skydiving and learn how to fly, tell me.
The Bigfoot skydiving. That'll be a sight.
You know they say when pigs fly, get some piggies on your feet.
And Levi Lou. Opportunity.
Please tell me what it looks like as you arrive.
Well, similarly, I'm not taking a plane mostly because that's
just kind of boring. And it was way more fun for me
to hitch a ride with this touring rock group that just so
happened to be passing through this city.
And so I arrive in this huge tour van that is like all like
kind of banged up. Like it's this was a school bus
that was bought from like some kind of trash heap and then like
redone up as like the coolest tour van they could possibly
get, right? Because there's so much room for
partying on the inside. And so they've spray painted the
school bus to be black with like flames along the side and like
just like skulls and bones and like very like not like
realistic detail, but very, almost like childish aesthetic,
like on purpose, right. To kind of give it a, a just
kind of like a kind of a fun, weird, grim kind of look to it.
And I think the name plastered on the side which they got a
they got a professional like spray painter to to do it and it
just says the bird watchers. So it is funny enough that you
call it the bird watchers because they're all actually
afraid of heights and they need you to install an antenna on the
roof of the bus so that they can get better radio signal.
And you go up there to do that for them.
And you discover that on top of this black spray painted van
with all of the the crossbows and the bird watchers are
written on it, you discover there is a literal nest of
fairies. And these fairies are they have
slicked back mohawks, black hair crazy.
They you know that fairies are glittery, but this is this is an
insane amount of glitter. They're all wearing black with
chains. They're they're all little,
they're all like the size of your palm.
But they have have stolen nose rings and chains from chain
wallets and stuff like that. And they're all dressed to the
nines. And they are literally the
groupies of this band that the band does not know exists.
Oh. Oh guys, I get up there and I
go, yo, oh guys, what are you doing up here?
Oh man, we're travelling with the band.
Yeah, all right, opportunity right now looks they've got like
shaved sides with locks coming down with beads in the colour of
the the bird watchers like whole deal and wearing like a merged
shirt with like torn off sleeves and same baggy jeans as before.
But now they're like distressed and like ripped with like a
chain wallet. And some of these fairies, they
take off their PLUR bracelets, the peace, love, unity, I forget
what the R stands for bracelets. And they want to trade with you,
but they discover that the only thing that is the right size are
some of the beads in your locks. And so they trade beads with you
for their little their little bracelets.
Hell, yeah. And I, I think they're so small.
They're like, their little beads are so small that I basically
just use them like rings and I slide them over my fingers.
Hey, you all want to come in? Oh.
My God, we're going to meet the band, they all scream.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you could totally meet the
band. Big problem.
Can't see you, but oh, I can get you their autograph.
They scream too loud for discord to pick.
Up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got, I got
something they can write on. Let's see, is there anything in
their nest that I could like take for the for the band to
sign? Yeah, they they stole a
teenager's wallet. Oh yeah.
It has it has someone's high school ID in it and some tokens
to a nearby arcade. Is there a receipt in there?
There is a Hot topic receipt in there, yes.
Perfect. I take the receipt and I go,
hey, can you hold me real quick and without waiting?
Assuming that they are just going to do what I said, and of
course they do because I'm #blessed, I just lean backwards
off the side of the bus so for them to grab my legs so I don't
fall off and I'm just gonna knock on the side window of the
bus. Yo how's it going?
Is it a connected? Yeah, yeah, almost there.
Can you all sign this and I just hand him the receipt?
You, you drop off this signature with the fairies and they,
they're just, they're having a party.
They're rocking out to the bird watchers up there.
Yeah, let's go. I do have to set up this antenna
though, guys, So if you don't mind, I'm just going to mess
with this. Just hey, party all you guys
want. Actually, I'm not going to say
you don't do whatever the fuck you want.
I'm not your dad and I'm just going to set up the.
You hear one one of the fairies say to another one, but if he
was our dad, that'd be rocking dude.
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Let's go back to American demigods.
You all arrive at the same time, but what you notice as you are
coming to this apartment building is there is a dark
ominous cloud above this this apartment building and as you
all get closer you see what you might call a hydra. 5 long necks
reach up and two dragonistic faces with long elongated
snouts. They open their mouths and you
just see rows of teeth. They are like a teal blue-green
mix all the way down. Just scales upon scales.
They have giant flippers that press against the ground and and
push them up there. Look a little aquatic.
They stand there, towering, blocking your way, and from
behind them comes another creature, equally large in size,
the face of a man, the body of a lion, the talons in the wings of
an eagle, and snapping like an angry cat behind the tail of a
scorpion. Yara, what are 5 things that are
on your To Do List? Well, I'll figure out what
happened to democracy. That's pretty important.
Give her this pie, because I hope she's still around to get
it. Not get eaten by a hydra or one
of its many heads. And maybe get grandma home and
get her arthritis medications. And also live.
I would like to live very much please.
Live for today, live for tomorrow, live for next week,
live for next year. Outlive these fuckers.
This hydra, as it's reaching into your mind to decide what to
throw at you, puffs and frustration and then sends a
blast of taxes and rent and gas bills and grocery lists and all
of you are just you feeling so many things that the only thing
that you can end up feeling is burnout.
Next to that hydra, the manticore opens his mouth and
it's his teeth. They don't look right and he
hisses out. The exhaustion that overcomes
you from this Manticore and my friends, we are going to enter
into combat with burnout and exhaustion.
Lavie is a pretty chill, live in the moment dude.
He is just kind of existing and then walking up to this
apartment and seeing these creatures trying to root around
in the brains of divinity and trying to be a Dick.
And she's not about that life. And so from one hand, like just
dropping from the sleeve of this like oversized sweatshirt, like
quite literally dropping out of the sleeve into the hand is this
ever extending great sword that just gets shoved over one
shoulder. And Lavie contemplates it.
And it's like, that means I have to get up close.
And I don't feel like doing that right now.
And then from the hood of the sweatshirt pulls out this giant
Lance instead that is like about the same size and length and
sharpness of a javelin that seems to vibrate as soon as
Lavie like smacks it through the air as if to spin it up their
arm and grab it with both. The sword that was once on the
shoulder now disappeared and combined with the javelin
instead, it has this vibration to it of it's a heartbeat, but
it's an irregular heartbeat. It's the kind of heartbeat that
if it's you're at the doctor's office and you're sitting on
that table and the doctor's like your heart's beating really
fast. Are you nervous?
And you're just like, no, I'm cool, I'm good, I'm having fun.
And it's that just pulsating every single time.
And it matches Levy's internal heartbeat right now.
First of all, you are starting a fight so please take a thread
and then please go ahead and smite your enemies.
Who are you smiting first? I think exhaustion.
I've already taken a nap, I don't need another one.
So you're going to roll 2D6 plus prowess 2.
D6 plus 2O that's double s. I got 2 fours which is 8 + 2 is
10. Awesome.
So first for double S, you take another thread.
How many threads do you have now?
Currently three. You have 3 threads.
OK, and then you can choose three from the list below.
Your enemy does not have something for you to disarm it
looks like. So you can exchange harm,
protect yourself, crush them, gain an advantageous position,
make an opening, or take something from your enemy.
I'm going to crush them, take take something from my enemy and
then make an advantageous opening.
Are you gaining an advantageous position or making an opening?
Making an opening. Making an opening, so plus one
to the next ally who smites that enemy.
All right, so how much harm do you do?
For if you have an epic weapon, melee for up close or range for
thrown objects. Anything you pick up will deal 4
harm. I have two epic weapons.
Yes, exactly. It is five harm which is amazing
and it's going to give you 3 harm back.
Do you have? Any armor I don't have any armor
I am wearing and I don't wear a shield.
OK, very good. So you take 3 harm for that.
So basically, how does this look like as you go in with your your
Lance sword? I think it's the the quick
assessment of like, I wanna get up close.
Fuck it. We're gonna get up close, up
close in person. We're gonna become friends and
it's going to be that Levy kind of just implants the this like
really long glance into the ground, vaults up and then comes
down on top of it to where Levy is trying to basically just
impale part of it and pin it to the ground.
So then others can pass by. But it turns into Levy gets
caught in the lashing of the tail that they didn't realize
that because they know what a manticore is.
They know what a hydra is in concept, but they've never
fought one before. But it's fun to have first
experiences. It's okay if you get a little
bit beat up and bitten and stabbed.
Where did you hit like a paw or just like the chest?
Oh, I'm trying. I'm going straight for the
shoulder. OK, so you go for the shoulder
and so then the Manticore exhaustion lashes out, its tail
comes forward and hits you with the scorpion tail, dealing three
damage. Coming out of nowhere, Ron's
like it takes a spring step forward and leaps towards the
manticore. And I'm also going to smite this
is with a + 1 because I'm going to take advantage of that
opening. Thank you so much, Levy.
With that plus one, that would be an 8 an 8.
Here's the thing. Here's the thing.
My prowess may be a 0, but I've got Whirlwind.
I don't need to use prowess, I'm going to use Judgement instead.
Which brings it up to A10. I can use Judgement instead of
Prowess to smite my enemies, but it's going to incur some
collateral damage and I cannot select the protect myself
option. That gives you a 10, right?
So choose three from the list. I smile a little bit because I'm
frustrated. It's been a very frustrating day
in the death field and I leap onto its back, roll over, and
then just smack my foot directly into its tail and then through
its tail until it severs. And then I just roll off, pick
up the tail and hold it out in front of me like it's a weapon
of itself. As you go to pick it up, you get
clawed on the back of your neck for two by its claws were to
harm. Notably, there's no blood coming
out of these wounds. Fane, who's just kind of like in
the vicinity, is not much of A fighter by any means, but he
sure is a helper. So I'd like to provide aid to
one of the upcoming combatants. I'm kind of doing this blind,
but I also have the gift or the the move of trusted advisor,
which gives me a + 1 on provide aid rules and nine, I'm
going to give a + 1 And I'm just, you know, I'm, I'm
watching the other two clearly equipped for the situation.
I have wandered into this and I I know that these are creatures
that have done ill and done wrong.
So instead of engaging and interfering and what is clearly
happening, I, I turn, I'll, I'll say I turn to opportunity as I
recognize this being as part of the fabric of everything I've
seen in the world, thinking if anyone's going to have an Ave.
into what they do next, it'll probably be this one.
So I provide. Aid.
By the way, I imagine the scene playing out, these monsters
appear over the apartment horizon.
Here I was just standing there, suitcase raccoon pie in hand.
Oh no, I am not suited for this. Amazing fighters come in
synchronized, perfect in their movements, cutting this monster
part, taking injuries, just oh, oh.
She looks down. Caesar pie.
I'm going to bend fate and just bend away from the monster,
hiding her face, holding the pie out and hoping that maybe she
can calm down one of the heads just by giving it a bite of
food. Maybe it's just hungry.
All right, absolutely. Go ahead and bend faith for me.
From the big nasty D Sixes. I wrote double sixes.
Nice. All right, so a you get a
thread, they each of them gets a thread whenever they roll double
S and those threads, they know the different ways that they can
spend them or they can use it for advancements.
So on A10 plus you choose two boons and one bane.
For that bane, I'm definitely going to get stung for a few
moments, much in the way that an overexcited animal will dig
into, whether it be a trash can or a carcass.
This hydrahead is going to get too excited and throw me into
the side of a building, stunning me for a bit.
But the blessing that is going to be gay is I'm going to give
this to Ruhan. I will give you health.
I will recharge you there. The scent from the pie is so
intoxicating and delightful and homey and safe.
And then you can inflict harm if you want.
You can inflict 1 harm ignoring armor on the hydra by calming
down and putting to sleep one of the heads.
Exactly. Sleepy time meets it just OK has
such a good meal it wants to lay down.
All right, so that is 1 harm to the hydra ignoring armor.
Having just arrived here on this bus with all these rock stars or
indie rock group, what what whatever level of popularity
they are and seeing this issue I'm going to see, I'm going to
try to convince them to. I do.
OK. I do have one suggestion because
I realized one thing is with the whirlwind that that Ruhan used
causes collateral damage. So what that could have been is
people on the sides except your band.
You could convince your band to lure all those people away from
where rocks come crashing down. Yeah, yeah, I'm done for that.
OK, cool. So you would use AW.
You would roll AW. Yes.
OK. And you have a + 1 to AW.
Yeah, that is a 10. Perfect.
So OK, so to explain a little bit about what happens.
So the V came in with their with their Lance shoving it into the
shoulder of the of the manticore piercing through it's just
natural armor piercing it to the ground and gets hit by the
scorpion tail. Ruhan coming in sees that the
scorpion tail is really much a problem and takes a leap lands
on the manticore and shoves a foot through the tail.
As the tail comes off, it begins swaying back and forth and
knocks over a entire. There's like just a wall there
that is a decorative wall and it knocks it over.
That wall is coming down upon a crowd of people who just
happened to be eating at this cafe.
But Opportunity and his bandmates come come out and he
he yells out. The bird watchers are here.
And with that cry and that awe, everyone's like whether they've
heard of the bird watchers or not, they realize they need a
signature. They all come out of the cafe as
the wall topples over where they were just once sitting.
Does Levi recognize Ruhan being someone who has had a near death
experience? Did Ruhan actually say Levi's
name whenever he entered into the fray?
You know what he didn't until, just as you know, the truck
comes by, gets all those people away, he does look at you and
say thanks. Oh, it's it's nothing but a
thing. You got any more of those tricks
you can use? Because I have an idea.
All they do is just flip around the Stinger of the tail and say,
well I got a new weapon I'm anxious to try.
Do you want to try to cut its head off with me?
Which one? This one and basically like
shoves like is basically pulling out the blade from the
manticore. I'll go for the eyes.
And then leaps off from the broken piece of tail that was
left behind. This poor thing.
I feel sorry for it. And moves to jump onto its face
with its Stinger. Fantastic, I gained a thread for
explaining a battle strategy. Perfect.
With Divine might it is described that I can in the book
that I cannot like whip around a tank by its cannon, but I do
have like strength to me. Is it possible that if I succeed
my smite my enemy's role, that Levy could drag this basically
weapon that is impaled in the shoulder across?
I want to go shoulder to shoulder on this thing.
Trying to decapitate it, yes, Or at least trying to immobilize
it, because if you cut off those tendons, it can't attack anybody
else. OK, so that's what I'm aiming
for here is up. And if I succeed and I'm able
to, I want to give Ruhan like that forward again for whatever
move you would like to do in the collaboration attempt.
Makes sense which? Is why I wanted to make sure
that is going to be a 11 actually.
You're going to exchange harm, you are going to make an
opening. I I would say take something
from your enemy, which is their life.
Does that count? Yes.
Fantastic. As he kind of distracts the the
manticore by going for the eyes with the Stinger and it kind of
is more swiping randomly, you are able to cut through this
manticore shoulder to shoulder and you take just one harm.
That's what happens when you've got to wait on your shoulder.
I got a big old goose egg on my head.
That's how I'm dealing with the Hydra and an empty pie tail
although. Even though you are stunned,
Sunny is not. She's a raccoon.
Of course she's going to bite that.
She's absolutely going to bite that.
Being in fame's mind, there's a justification here, a a reason
to engage in violence. These are things I can create
sloth in humanity. These are the things that can
create apathy and lead down a road to destruction.
So I'd like to justify using my ability of one shot, which is I
can attack someone immoral at any time and I can treat A6 on
smite my enemies as A7 or A9 result.
How are you going to smite? Well, the only way that a person
who was obsessed with things being fair and earning their
heap can, I'm going to throw the book at them.
Very much so with with the logic of like, there's a bug flying at
me, so I'm going to grab whatever is nearby and swat at
it. So I just felt like raising this
book up, like high above my head, ready to bring it down.
Cain and Abel style. So what happens is that one of
those one of those Hydra heads eats that pie and just kind of
collapses. The other 4 Hydra heads look at
it, what is it doing? They look back and they all go.
One goes for, one goes for opportunity, one goes for Thane,
and one goes for Yarrow and the one that goes for Thane, Thane
just takes this giant book that he's been carrying around and
just smacks it on the head, doing 1 harm and knocking it
out. I, I, I pick my book back up and
I look at the others and I'm not normally one for this sort of
thing, but we were in danger. Yarrow, please roll me prowess
for your raccoon to engage the enemy.
Right, that's 1 + 1 5. 50 boy, OK?
There we. Go I have a concussion.
Sunny Yashi goes sees the head coming for you and goes to dive
and like take a hit but just kind of miss times it and goes
sailing as the hydra comes in and takes a chomp of your
stunned body and you take 2 harm.
Everything's great. This is going just fine.
I think for the head that's chasing after opportunity,
opportunity is looking at a bunch of people that they don't
know fight a big thing that it doesn't know.
And when this big head starts like chasing after them, I think
there is just like the kind of the instinct to go what the fuck
and start running and go, I don't know what this is.
I didn't do anything. Leave me alone and I'm going to
just kind of run in the direction of like a light pole
to try to get its head to not instinct, like not actively
trying to do this, but there happens to be a light pole here
and I'm going to try to bend fate to try to get its head to
run into a light post. You do have a + 2.
Absolutely do the bend fate. Yeah, 6 + 3 + 2 is 11.
Awesome. Choose two boons in one vein.
OK, so I'm going to go with heal one harm.
I mean sorry, inflict 1 harm. OK.
I'm going to give someone else Fates Favor and I'm going to
give it to, I mean, I guess between the two people cutting
it to ribbons, which of you wants, which one of you wants
Fates Favor? Give it to Ruhan.
OK, I give it to Ruhan and then the bane that I'm going to do is
let's say something bad finds me.
Something bad finds you. Yeah, why not?
It hits its head on a light post that I run by as I'm running, as
I'm running away from it, I'm running.
This is I'm hashtag blessed things just happen for me.
I'm running away and it hits its head on a light post as it tries
to chase me because. It goes to hit you, it just ends
up hitting the light pole instead so hard it knocks itself
out. This is again going to
distracted enough to give Fates favor to Ruhan and something bad
finds you and that brings it back around.
You know what? It's not like I can die anymore,
which is a morbid thought, and that does get me a thread, but
we'll talk about it later. He's going to like you provided
the distraction, but this time he's going to put his arm back
and fling the Stinger directly into one of the hydra's faces
because again, you don't want to chop it off.
So why not poison and impale it? I have fortune's favor.
I also have a plus one from the last time around.
Yes, you do 3D6 and take the top 2 which are two sixes.
Nice take another thread. And that brings me up to five
threads. So I'm going to take an
advancement sooner or later, but that's not important right now.
What's important right now is that Ron, like, tosses the
Stinger like a javelin directly at the eyes of one of the hydras
heads. Whatever is still standing, I
think there's still 2 waving their heads about.
Yeah, yes, I'm going to do it with prowess this time around,
because why not? I was never going to be
overwhelmed for the second time in a row, which means that I'm
still going to choose three, because of course I will.
In this occasion, I'm going to exchange harm once more.
I'll take some harm. They'll take whatever that
Stinger does. I will protect myself and I will
crush them. Awesome.
So protecting yourself means that you only get one harm.
Crushing them means that you do a second harm.
So you toss it like a javelin and it takes one of the heads
out. The remaining head goes ahead
and bites, but it kind of like half bites.
It doesn't get as good so there is just one head left up.
Ron holds up the arm with the teeth of the head that is still
like holding on to it. Up.
If you don't mind. Got one more?
For you. All right, all right, all right.
You know, it's just getting a little old.
This isn't fun anymore. Hey, Auntie, Uncle, can you give
me a hand maybe? And I'm going to use my
Ascendant spoof Grand Master like a chess master.
Every aspect and strategy of the battlefield unfolds before you,
and you reveal the plan you had the whole time.
You turn the title battle and win the day.
Describe how. And what did that ascendance
move? Because something else was
coming towards you. Because something bad was
finding. And if something bad finds
opportunity, right now, all 5 of you are there.
So something bad finds all of you.
So survival instinct whispers in your ear and tells you a dragon
of apathy has seen what is happening and is diving down
from the the sound that you heard was a roar from the sky.
And the dragon of apathy is is diving straight for you.
And you take your your blades and you swing them around like
it's a double bladed sword. And in one go with the blade
side you take out the last hydra head.
But as it is the last hydra head and you cut straight into the
body, it ends that you have smartly waited until all of the
other heads were downed to take out the last head and it is not
able to split. And then you look up at the
upcoming dragon and you throw that Lance.
That Lance that you said was shaped like a javelin.
You throw it straight for the heart of this incoming dragon of
mossy green and black scaling, and this dragon just comes
straight, falling down to your feet and clatters there.
Would you like to become obsessed with preparedness?
Reduce your Max harm to six boxes.
Move harm penalty to three harm. Reduce your lowest attribute by
one. Or takes Fates dissuave disfavor
to sway mortals? I'm going to become obsessed
with preparedness. OK, So what has happened As
you've taken this ascendance move, you have taken on more of
your godly form. You are one step removed from
mortal dumb. Three steps removed.
You go into godhood. These three monsters lie at your
feet. The monsters of apathy and
burnout and exhaustion, 3 things that stop us from being able to
fulfill our role in democracy. Lie at your feet.
Cassie burst through the doors, now free from where she was
contained. And they sign it.
What are the names of the band? We've God so OK.
I accidentally almost gave the actual band member names of the
band the bird watchers for a bunch of friends of mine.
I don't. Think so?
We're we're gonna. We're gonna basically, basically
it's Captain Jack Sparrow and then the Chickadee, the
Chickadee kid. They're all named after.
Birds and and I can't think I can't think of two more bird
names. There's Owl Boy, yeah, there's
and there's just Raven and they also.
Find Owl Boy Can Owl Boy be the bassist?
Yes. Our way of such famous energy
Jesus Christ. Our boy, I love him.