The Chain, Episode One: Red Sky At Morning

we are MCM productions and we play D&D we are Motorhead are we play rock'n'roll [Music] [Music] that was your that was your logo Phil that was awesome designed by Dan Connolly and then you updated yes so I mean this is it this is the show and I feel like this is probably the most viewers were all over happy so I'm gonna just take a couple seconds and thank all people cluding tom schmuck for that awesome intro you just saw and yunchan for doing the he did the MCD and presents part Yun Chen did the chain intro custom intro for our dandy game and our friend Silvano did Silvana Matthews did all the music you just heard and also I just first of all I want to thank my players for waiting a year it was like a year and a half ago we were like hey where we gonna play dee dee again and like well I had this idea so thanks for being patient also super super thanks to the unsung hero of this entire thing our friend Jerry who is about 30 feet over in that direction in his own room and and if it wasn't for him we would literally not be doing this right now it was close came down to the wire but he pulled it off so let's see what have you folks missed oh I want to thank our sponsor our first and maybe only ever sponsor you you folks back the Kickstarter you folks paid for this these cameras these microphones these lights the studio is all as a result of the Kickstarter and and you have enabled us to glyph this crazy dream where we get to play a D&D live and some people watch and who knows what'll happen the thing you missed is that I promised everybody that you would get to see us make characters live on the stream cuz I thought that would be a lot of fun but then I changed my mind because I thought that would be incredibly tedious and boring and it'd be 45 minutes of people saying wait what is this a proficiency bonus and which I which skill is the one I want to take and that's not interactive and it's not fun to watch so what we did was we all everybody came and made characters and they rolled dice and they generate their stats but they all did it separately so the players do not know this would be the first time many of the players have seen the other characters they've made and we filmed the die rolling part and we made a video that we're all gonna watch now so not only are you gonna get to meet the heroes of this campaign for the first time so are the players okay so now can we tell who that is just buy the dice they're using wooden toys you can't read I think as long as yes I think so so twelve thirteen nine so far I think this is this is a sign of things to come this is Captain average a professor a solution doctor average 15 I think is as good as it gets for this dude too low so I had up my own little house rule which is you get to re-roll the stat if it's below eight I think for eight or lower and then if your total bonuses didn't equal plus two or more if you had a player bonuses if it wasn't plus two or more than you get to reroll and I don't think anybody had to reroll actually a couple of people got the eight or lower problem so this is a human fifth level everybody starts a fifth level fighter battle master which is as close to a warlord the commander lay that guy well the chain is the place to be a ninja Lord 12 well unfortunately there's no way for you to get out right you literally are trapped here it's probably a bad idea Lord it's probably bad I didn't try to get out because you'll trip over something or break something twelve twelve twelve fifteen fifteen this is the most average group ever well I think for last the best stats I think for those number one and number two in the total bonuses well you know if you strategically place your stats and then you pick the right ancestry then you can end up with some decently high stats by the time you're safe level okay you may of course of course yeah cuz neither feel nor Laura's pugilist is a coupling of that guy the lieutenant yes so that ya pugilist is a custom class I think you can get it on the D unskilled they're using my dice those are the Madagascar rosewood the electric inlay fifteen twelve thirteen again once again no one gets a heist at the good news is the good news is your Scouts aren't gonna be low the bad news is your stats are not gonna be totally legal character the difference which is not I did not prescribe that these people just wanna play humans nails is a badass name for a sorcerer Tom sooner or later these guys do not match so who could this possibly be matching dice one of those literally had like 30 sets of dice 16 so far is 16 the high staff in the entire group okay ready for this some pretty good rolls look at this charisma based a lot of people thought paladin when they were like oh that's how high charisma paladin that's very very good guess that's what fills when Phil saw the retainers okay nice it'll record so the ill rigor is a custom class that I built from scratch right so I think if Jerry if things are working well then you'll be able to everybody watching can now read about the I think you ran into him at Starbucks if you're gonna play that this is the this is the party to do it I mean the name of the group is the chain hopefully Jerry has got it set up so that folks can be apart Jerry yeah so I ordered this video in order of the most normal characters to the weirdest characters know from most normal to weirdest no one got an 18 yeah so I think that went pretty well yeah I built Tom want to play Beast Master Ranger he wanted to have a cool pet and we talked about him having like a boule I thought it'd be cool from the ride around on a boule what's a boule it's like it's like it's a lamb it's a giant like rhinoceros sized so I mean I'm fixed to the Ranger for you sort of yeah like I just get bashed something together that people should if Jerry has the link hooked up cherry directly clicked up yes productions awesome MCM productions calm /the - chain should take you to a link those all documents all the handouts and everything including the Ranger that it's not a new Ranger I just kind of replaced some of the existing Rangers abilities and talking to Tom about how he thought his cap clash would work with you know teaming up with being his pet being like a team member that he coordinates with we threw some stuff in there this is all super alpha stuff the ill rigger no-one's ever played this before so you're gonna see a lot of crazy probably overpowered or unbalanced or just broken stuff well actually I prefer I prefer like overpowered stuff because I find it it's easier to down something back right if somebody likes if I like it but everyone agrees this is crazy overpowered I can start dialing it back but if it's broken and doesn't work people just get frustrated out of the game they don't wanna play anymore so let's see oh by the way thanks to our friend Jason for all that awesome character art I think you're not the part also are you guys now we're actually gonna get into this is the pep talk that I normally give my players of new campaign but I waited for you guys to be here and that is that this session might be kind of short because I usually like to just get like one or two combats under our belt and then call it good and do a buncha setup because you guys have never played these characters before we have never played together at this group has never played D&D together so it's probably gonna be weeks or months before you guys actually figure out like who your characters are and you got put somebody put a lot of thought into your backstory but then you got to play the character and things may change you may discover that specialization that you picked you don't like or you can you know the way you're even the class you chose for the background all of that stuff is stuff we can swap out as we play as we find out how stuff works don't worry about any of that stuff you will discover who your characters are over time you don't forget it right out of the gate that's totally normal also you guys have a bunch of magic items Matthew still if not only one person who's really picked well yeah okay there's the Phil took the built of hill giant strength and then everyone else is like I kind of like this I'm kind of like that and then so much this is all completely by the rules fifth edition is a thar's guide to everything I think we used actually the belt of hill giant strength is because fellow youtuber Janie Nicholson came down here to have lunch and hang out and I was almost done in the last item I had to come up with was like what's the coolest died on the chain has and so I just gave this sounds cool and there were a couple things a lot more even the last which was kind of over the top the stuff that you guys don't pay is just going to be in party treasure and that means you guys have access to it but you're not going to be able to get it in schools do want scroll I believe climbing in the Treasury then okay [Music] absolutely but even like role which you know if they're in junior officers or just rank and file around they problem okay so because what I've done is I've printed out cards with everybody's titles of grants and what they do so for instance judge is the leptin master so these aren't on your character sheet because they don't belong to your character they are a title that belongs to the company if your character dies you're gonna pass this on to somebody else phil is the lieutenant yeah the commander the standard bearer and the staff sorcerer so you guys want to go around the table and just say and also Lara's made me a special one you're everyone's favorite wanker there's still a huge especially from Mars thank you so yeah what is your thing dude I am the staff sorcerer I studied The Chronicle during a long rest and choose a spell and no that can be cast at higher levels I'm a cast this spell at one higher level without using a higher level spell slots does that make sense maybe a little bit like a lot of your spell say hey if you cast this first level spells aside for the second level slot it doesn't what stuff yep and that means you get the benefit of that stuff without having to the standard if you fall unconscious after an enemy attack all members of change within 60 inches feet sorry can move up to their speed as a reactions if I go down we can't let that standard touch the dirt okay so the lieutenant once per battle is as a reaction to a senior officer rolling initiative you may swap two officers initiative results so officers are all of us right so if he gets a really good one and he's really cocky one we want him to go first exactly that's exactly right just lets you kind of be like he's the commander you're the lieutenant you are sort of more tactical he's more high level what is the weapon master do the weapon master when a senior officer rules damage with a weapon attack they treat all ones as twos so good roll a one it's just honestly a two that's only for weapon attacks yes yeah little the idea is that judge is just an expert with weapons and spends his downtime kind of sharpening things and making sure you guys have the best weapons the first place yes I'm the commander as a bonus action I can choose a senior officer of the Chane they may either move their speed or gain a free melee attack once per about once per battle that something's even more slightly warlord II than you are yep all right so I think I threatened that this was going to be one of that they pretty kind of cinnamon there's gonna be a big cinematic quasi railroad II opening to this but then as we play over the next like this session in the next session things are gonna open up you guys get a lot more freedom in choice so one of these cameras is up I think that's the one that people can see blues light painting painted this is a Pegasus minis model yeah he did an amazing job with like the torches the torches illuminating the walls and the stained glass is pretty cool yeah we need to have a light behind there yeah if there was a light in here yeah that would be awesome I have no idea there's no top to this but it looks like there's a place to put tops weird all three of these working I think only the middle is the middle one is the one that people can watch on the mainstream I forgot to tell anybody that we have two streams we literally have two streams one is the one you're watching right now MGM the other one is / MC d m2 and I think we need to switch back to the yeah the other ones MC BM - and that's the stream that is the overhead camera and all the tactile cameras and that way if you are obviously if you're on mobile it's not gonna be great but if you're on your computer at home you can be switching back and forth and minimize or maximize any window launched and get yeah you could use simultaneous aim time but the idea is that it's very limited our ability to show you what's happening on the table I tend to run a kind of tactical game so the second stream is literally anis I think it's like 15 frames a second or something like that so it's super low bandwidth this is the Cathedral of Saint Clement the journeyman and it is the largest building in Black Bottom and it is probably the last freestanding Church in all of as Lauria because the Ajax the overlord destroyed all the churches and that was actually quite a white black bottom is a big city it's one of the biggest cities in vaz Laurie it's a port city and it's a six o'clock in the morning it's just after daybreak and black bottom like you guys have been all over the world this is a big city for the locals that live here but you guys have seen an alloy you guys have seen the city of brass so this place is like a hovel to you none of the buildings are taller than like three stories it's a big deal to have a building like this and this is where this is where the final contract of the chain begins what was the contract captain lieutenant this is where you debrief the rest of the party so we've been hired we got to assassinate ajax ajax the Invincibles his wizard yeah the contradict assessing his wizard yeah so if you saw on the opening there was like the contract in the back oh yeah so you know the wizard that makes his castle float yeah that was it and created the war breed that was okay yeah so okay so we have five arrows that you were most likely gonna use mom because I think you're the only arrow boy that we got and I got according to the person that gave us the contract that it'll get through all of his boards it's made out of the same stuff as the teeth of Dragon which is swords we had in write other campaign yeah that Jess's character ran away with and we've been hired by Jess the Baron of the whole wrath who's from the last campaign and Nicodemus character so we got later we've been hired by them we've been hired by them to kill the staff oh wow so well we know as the chain is that Ajax has basically been taking out all civilized life and conquering it and we kind of had a choice to make what we were gonna do what side we're gonna be on the other mercenary company that we know about is dunzo the tower I think they're cold yeah so you know we can either make a stand now or we can be hunted down yeah this is something about this like I remember she said actually yeah you can see it's the contract you can see the things names more so what we know is that he's going to walk out that door at 6:00 a.m. when the bells toll he's in there being a priest in this temple they're trying to switch them over to you worship Ajax if he's the saint and that also happens in last campaign so we gotta figure out what we're gonna do he's gonna be in there he's gonna walk out this door that's it when he comes out we need to come we gotta jump in got it so he's there's people out here there's there's guards at the church my suggestion was that we you know pose as city guards I don't think it's gonna work for you because you're a goblin probably not thinking tells your so your name in man you're gonna be sniping anyway most likely with the arrows so I don't know I assume this is a building right yeah those are buildings yeah yeah you can and those are alleys the black bottom is notoriously with twisty windy narrow streets and the volcanoes are buildings yeah the wards are the wards on him the boards are on him so he's guarded by you know don't you have a ton of like model building something yeah but I don't wanna block everything so uh yeah well we'll use that we'll use that in other scenarios well like if I put a mic here you wouldn't be able to see what the hell's going on that's right so Ivan had a lot of time to figure out tactics for this obviously got it and here we are so the only thing I got is that we come in as city guards so people are gonna think much of us probably Phil and I since we're melee fighter type people we're gonna get up near them we can't attack him I don't think until you can land a hit so that's where we can maybe use your lieutenant ability to make sure tom has the highest initiative I would think that we might get some sort of surprise but who knows if he knows what we're gonna do yeah this is us kind of figuring it out what are these buildings look like they slanted roof flat-topped they're slanted roof yeah okay yeah are there any upper storey windows looking out onto the street uh yeah there are yeah all these buildings have these like private reticent presidencies yeah this is one of the nice parts of town so it's as these are these tend to be two-story building with some three-story buildings yeah there are people kind of it's very light traffic it's just added on but that you know shortly after dawn the bells are ringing for the first service so we were given this contract last night yeah right okay so we've had we've had time to plan yeah you've had time to scout the area out and plan yeah I mean there's maybe like moves maybe like eight or nine people walking around out there was somebody setting up a cart getting ready to sell apples for the church where the two guards and you said that he's inside beating up the priest they're trying to cover their tracks and not beating okay okay you never know yeah cuz maybe the because I don't know if the priest is any power whatsoever but if so might be inclined to us does so what is what is the reaction of people in the city to seeing like horn head and the Goblin well that's a good question do you guys walk around like do you have any aversion to people knowing who you are there's nothing there's no law part of it and we're like this is part of the chain which is a large group of and we all have like black bottom is pretty eclectic because of support city and in fact a lot of people use it to trade like people who have no trade with fast Lauria will trade here at black bottom and as a result you see all kinds of crazy stuff here okay so you see it's not unusual like people it's unusual but it's not like that's never happened so when people see you first like that and actually a tea fling is super unusual and so they'll stop and stare and whisper afterwards and they'll talk about demoness and stuff like that but no one raises a ruckus no one calls the cops right well no one's are much less rare I'm just enabling thinking that if if the street isn't heavily populated right it's gonna look weird to see so well I think Tom should be posted up somewhere where he's gonna have vantage over there is a heavy fog everywhere on the ground it's still very early I don't know anybody's name oh right we should I know I know nails nails and a judge do not actually have a name you're just huh commanders what I'm supposed to be called the commander so your characters probably like Heimlich Lars knows what his character his nickname was before he became the character head was red yeah right so yeah you guys well you guys all remember him most of you probably remember this red all right yeah wait so you go by the commander you go but it goes by the commander yeah okay there's like in front of all the rest of the you know people it would be considered almost insubordinate yeah so it's like the commander's the top he tells us Concannon is it the lieutenant then is like the next yes sir like your character actually saved my dudes life long before so I think you would know my my character's name sweet is it what does it weird you out when does it weird sweet out what other officers in the chain just refer to man as a lieutenant or do you prefer to call okay I think I think he would probably prefer to be like for his friends to call has he seen his many I don't think so did you put your Vinny in your in your drawer oh yeah yes happened I want people to see Tommy so yeah what I was thinking was that it'd be cool if we could get copper up high off the street but he's a private residences well I mean make an investigation show I don't know if we want to put those in front of the tactical stream I think that's team so I got a seven so this house is much like the other ones it's a it's a nobles house although keep mind that a noble go by bottom is like really nice place but there doesn't appear to be anybody coming in round you know there's activity in the other houses but not in this one so maybe it's it's well I thought I forgot my mini that's cool where's where's Leon Thomas minis dope and that's a mini anime yeah and and it hit bash that thing together like 48 hours there was you know mini like two days ago [Music] okay so then why don't we like at least during the night you know try to get in there and get in the house that looks like it might be oh so then we can sit Oh copper up in the upper window okay yeah that sounds good I mean cuz there's hardly any distance between the front of the church yeah that's definitely within shooting range yes one I have the arrows supposedly have a limited range or they do so but I mean I'm sure I'm sure that's fine who's trying to get into the house this is like technically the evening before or the we want to get copper posted up yeah it's about it's a little after midnight when the commander and lieutenant show up and say alright this is the job and the job is basically alright so I think if you guys are gonna be breaking and entering judge is probably gonna be off on the corner just keeping an eye out and not really getting involved in whatever that is we need you not on the street though cuz people are gonna be drawn to a demon man around right it's gonna be like they know like so I mean it's uh I guess I should say that like it's probably been a couple of days since the chain arrived in black bottom there's like 360 soldiers that are now in the taverns some of which are just right down the street from here so people know the chain is in town the fact it's not a secret that you got it's not a secret that you guys are here and you're it's not unusual for mercenary companies to roll into town especially consuming Black Bottom against a port city and it just means a lot of opportunity for people who have to have earns or make money and they'll jack up the prices and charge you a lot so the fact is especially the fact that like you've got I think all of you have the chain symbol so you know people know if they see they're gonna freak out [Music] [Laughter] so people need to be able to see mystery that's crazy it does look like a transfer and if it's not that see more I love them by the way this is this is Jerry's idea to use regular everyday smartphones as the tackle of cameras because tactical cameras because they are not only really good cameras and he's got these little stands but they have a monitor built into them so we can actually see what you folks see uncatchable screening and that is yeah look we had webcams before and you just we couldn't see what the people what the viewers are watching alright so yeah you guys are about six hours to plan and plot and skiing gotcha so I mean we don't have any feed rogues do we have any kind of dispel any thing like that like what do you have some sort of spell that we can dispel what there something like that we don't right now player well he's got wards and stuff but that's what the harrows afford well I'm more thinking of getting into the house the breaking in in aren't you I can I can I mean I have the used tools and I is is picking walks sleight of hand in 5th edition because I don't have it's a function of having these tools if you have these tools then you can make I think it's a dexterity chef of proficiency I think actually I think actually we have low latency chat turned on yeah I'm curious as to whether or not we can instead of looking it off if we can get an answer from chat that'd be great moderator just went yes I think it works one of these three ways it's your dexterity prosper craft as fast yeah let's go look at that works I'm a huge believer by the way in enfranchising chat and trying to make chat part of the process it's very difficult we have a couple of ideas one of which you're gonna see later in the stream but part of that is just we have mods the mods know a lot about D&D you folks know a lot about D&D the wisdom of crowds means that we might be able to actually save time at the table instead of stopping the game to look something up we could just ask Chad and find out and it's apparently it's thieves tools lets you use your Dex poster oceans in my bar see if I am preferably a back door if there is one there are side doors in the back door yeah come like one in the alley or well also it's it's super late at night 18:18 is more than enough though no one in this part of town has even the noblemen are not used to basically professional they make sure it's coming by to try to break into their house it's a nice lock don't get me wrong by the way it's a nice lock yeah can we all five of these need him before they said they will kill him okay yeah I mean we brought up that we could use more than that but that's all we got okay was the plan that copper and hang out in this place all night yeah slowly over time as members of chain dies like I want to be a goblin just an army of goblins on display so yeah all right so we're in yeah it's an it's a it's a nice house but there are coverings like sheets over everything and there is a very very very thin almost unnoticeable layer of dust somebody's there stairs Dorian Gray or some there are stairs up mmm check it out yeah what do you want we want to get into that one there's a study like like where you would relax and have you know coffee or smoke so stuff like that there's a huge bay window with I got balcony and okay so I'm gonna say post up here sure have you can't watch your back yeah the cat big cat is a large creature so are you do you write it into the building or do okay okay so you you ride you ride this displacer feets into this nobles house and you can hear it behind you because there's this noise this cacophony of a displacement he's just knocking everything over yeah yeah well I mean the big cats do her best yeah it's you know it's not a displace or be size palace so as a result you can hear the sound of paintings on the walls the stairs clattering and falling off and so you know eventual stealth is not really common well I think that the can if we split up but yeah and and if you're not trying to squeeze through this is not this is like you know cats normally like manacles yeah has two hands six legs basically yeah and so yeah and it's it once it gets up there you see you see you're looking you're looking outgoing is a good place to set up copper coming up here and yeah copper is literally riding this thing is head is scraping the ceiling and he's writing on the cat pretty low the cat sees you and the cat just kind of flops down so what do we what do we didn't get to you ask questions I asked but now what do we know about the boards other than that the arrows are supposed to get thrown you know that like the chronicle talks about powerful wizards being able to ward themselves and that the wards happen automatically even if the wizard isn't aware what's going on and they're defensive but they can also do things like warts can do things like summon creatures so the there are lots of cactus to deal with but they're all and they all they typically involve a higher level party like a lot of the encounters the crop the chain have dealt with past thousand years that deal with wizards that hi you're typically higher level and you can do things like you can counter their words so it doesn't actually it sort of assumes that whoever is reading this is high enough level to understand how high-level Wizards work but the idea is they're defensive but they can do things like summon creatures or whatever and they go off automatically the person doesn't even have to be aware is happening do we know what this was Ernest traveling Ollie by the party and if so how many because you're the one to talk to ladies area I did not talk to latest Ariel you talk to ladies Harry off-screen I talk to you guys what was the question I was learning how many uh like if the wizard trapped has to travel alone or the was are traveling with like a group she said he probably will be alone ok the others guards other the church has guards I imagine if he's going there trying to shake up the church that I don't anticipate them running Tuesday and unless they've just sworn oh really fealty right they might it's true good to see it like you know the mercenaries causing trouble yeah I think you know we probably would have asked for a description of this guy right sure yeah never seen him well we didn't have very long in there yeah Matt do we know any like that yeah I just I don't have to describe I guess we know so yeah lady Cyril knows exactly what the students like even though the other people with him or just taking her word for it but Morton looks like nobleman he dresses and really fine clothes he has a cape he has a high collared cape and dr. strange he had was a little it's a it's a sort of doctor stranger and he wears a skullcap he wears a silver skullcap and he you know is somewhat notoriously sinister looking a chapter that wouldn't happen to be over similar-looking cave it's gonna wait for the dragon hike it could be yeah yeah let's Yanks what was your question and if it was a cape that we put in the book okay well I mean he's a Chinese these H accident visibles wizard he's got lots of magic yeah I mean dimensioned or can one it just like you know grab them and jump through and just never see us again alright so we know we're gobble we don't know we know we're copper copper and big cat are gonna be where the rescue flow is gonna be alright what are these other buildings they're also noble girl houses so are we doing there's a tavern just right down the street what was the name of the same for the church Saint Clement yeah he's a saint of mouse he's one of the gods of as Lauren is the god of like knowledge and craftsmanship so it's my question if I try to mail them inwards Ward's are still up do I have a rough idea of what's gonna happen so he said I appreciate this as a reference to the black company in the ambush of the liver as far as I know that spirits probably subconscious otherwise it was fun having Lars reading the black dumping books and being like okay they finally killed the liver I was like that's true it's among the many books you haven't finished great yeah all right so all right so are we doing the town guard thing well he said that we could have been you know wait time we have leading up through that we could have gotten some so we're not out there conspicuously well don't forget you guys you guys have junior officers you can rely on although this is supposed to be top secret so they probably shouldn't know depending on how much I wouldn't know we just need some static questions so I don't think you guys are going to need this but I have actually index cards for all of the junior officers I swim okay so they are around yeah but I don't expect you to need them in combat you just we just have them grab us some uniforms okay no problem they'll take care of that yeah so you and I could be that I love you what you want to do with your guy schmuck uh well I'm from fast Laureus so I don't stick out too much no he looks like a native I don't have points man I'm ahead six tentacle so am i but it's us our colors I don't know you look around yeah this area straight to me yeah oh really yeah okay yeah yeah well what do you think lieutenant should I hang outside and flank him yeah I think we should just get in our guards uniforms and sort of mosey around Lebel act natural yeah and like we'll hang out down here and then when the bells start ringing we'll just start walking no it's not but the the hour is a holy hour a daily so crawl so when the bells up with the bells call people to service so when the bells are these people are gonna start showing up in it is it 630 feet is six squares yes so it's been so long that's right that's right it's only been a week for you right but it's been a long time all right so problem we're gonna be a lot of stuff once combat breaks out that people are gonna forget you and get wrong why you guys were breaking in that place I was just at the corner of Sharpe Ian yeah yeah now we need to figure out warrior where are you gonna be at this corner and we're gonna fill be within cuz this is roughly six to get up if we want to you know charge look I don't know if we're gonna get surprised or anything like that well should be surprised well like an amateur someone I mean this and arrows and arrows and am I waiting from a signal from the commander or someone or am I just oh I used to be and that's what's gonna trigger us worried that people remember my nethack run that is a amazingly successful nethack run that started when I ate my bat gap that's they're afraid that that's gonna happen a big pet cat and big cats can I don't like I mean you guys the guy until this room is appear but judge is a kind of intimidating guy so also judge can definitely carry himself nobly so if the bells start ringing if it's about to be Church time well no that'd be really unusual well Clement the journeyman and the god that he has the same time are both super neutral gods like they are they are he is a god of craftsmanship all right and Saint Clement is the god of apprentices there's a saint of apprentices so it's it's not you're not going to get any kind of like for business you're not gonna get like I'm not gonna like Emily no you're not gonna sell family Nakada there's not gonna be any sense of like good or evil coming from this church okay from judges point of view it's gonna be a completely neutral place yeah because the thing is one of the reasons it's still standing because the only thing is I'm worried about it's like if I grab him and try to do something to them in the wards fire off that might be bad news for me well we we definitely need him to start with the arrows because the arrows are what are going to take down the wards so we can't like we're going to get wrecked if we do anything before an arrow hits so Tom misses were kind of in trouble I'm gonna get ya give me some work well maybe so then maybe either judge could be like sort of around the corner on the side on the side of the thing could be inside like the front door and brush out the front door well I guess let's let's take one step backwards you're a custom thing I have no idea what you can do so you're punch the out if you touch things but like what so like say you're gonna come in and get attacked what what is the thing that you're gonna do to make you be the most effective like I said I'm gonna punch the out of this ass no but like so for here on here I'll start I'm gonna go up and I'm a battle master so I'm gonna use one of my maneuvers which is goading attack try to get in to focus on me mm-hm so you guys can get advantage that kind of yeah that's cool because if if you get if we can set it up so that I have advantage then I can do haymakers which will give me maximum die damage okay but I guess I get I get hurt I get fired Wow yeah but yeah I get disadvantaged on hand makers but you know we could cancel it out like yeah okay yeah what's your chance to hit with your punches like a seven I got a plus eight plus a it's pretty good yeah my I also I can I can do three punches I believe Wow because I get I get an extra attack I connect attack twice instead of once whenever you take attack action and then I also have where's it at the old one-two is a couple of you have to careful with it like actually I might be able to do so Tom what do we have for you like what can we do anything to improve your chance - oh just condone at the bar know a little Eric again I was just gonna mention it okay okay so part of my yeah uh well that's the that's that's the no okay I just call it monster tamer yeah monster tamer so yeah I could be wrong but I think I can do four so one of the one of the abilities that I have is Kenai if I don't move on my turn as a bonus action I can make a wisdom check against an enemy and if I get that one mark if I get one mark on them I'll get advantage on my next attack yeah so I could do the bus as long as you don't move yeah you can use your bonus action to mark the guy so on so one end you can immediately shoot it with your actual if I if I make this yeah but then you're yeah so if I do that just one mark over I can yeah advantage um I think I'm a ways back so I can I can't give you an extra attack there's a bummer man I do have to tax oh you okay the first one will have an advantage if I make destroyed and then that one that consumes the market yeah I definitely want to be within 30 feet of this guy to be able to do I think almost all of my stuff so you're if you're here one two three four five six so your your one or two away from well maybe I should be over by the pillar kind of over here direction kind of opposite of how your nails in here just chillin like a villain yeah I just got there like the way the the heel kicked up on it you're you're gonna try to get it closed we're gonna try to get advantage schmuck what are you gonna do when you comes out the door well we'll see what happens I think I need to wait until one of these arrows hits well no absolutely but we're like it's gonna be that we're gonna plan to basically we're going to set up our action so he comes out of the door Tom gets a shot and Tom taking a strop it's gonna be what I don't have intentionally so I don't have you think I would but my mini collection is somewhat random I don't have you peasant peasant minis these guys are just random Gargas though yeah but there's not this many cards right so these are just random peasants there's actually guys setting up a cart right here selling apples right there I'm eyeing those apples are not couches yes setting up or is he selling he's setting up he's getting ready for the bells to ring people to show up yeah if this were we should like that way you don't think what I said was you sacrifice all if you did that if you sacrifice to language then you guys know the secret language of the chain [Music] [Music] okay okay so okay so what I'm gonna do fireballs bolts so just FYI this is one of the first times table is ever played D&D V battle so it's no surprise do there's miscommunication we're figuring stuff out that's normal sure okay well I guess I mean whenever he comes out after that words go down flowers oh nice okay yeah I know that does all right well I mean they've seen this before what is it you're talking about doing burning hallo mmm I gift an enemy with a fiery halo that infects their mind with infernal thoughts causing them to see allies as enemies so I choose a creature and they have to succeed on the charisma saving throw against peeny which good luck and while under my sway a halo of fire floats above their head and they have to use I basically use my action and I am them and they are just using their allies I had an immediate I thought I look like Billy the Blue Ranger but Marcy's alright we need a solution but I'm glad Jason was still here there boo this is really nice dude the disgrace actually actually it's not a crap see what I've got a pretty beefy deception bonus so as I walk by I'm just gonna give him one of the old listen I just pocket his pocket you're gonna he's gonna steal an apple that he couldn't pay for he's got plenty of money he's got but he just wants to steal kinda like barter with the guy I'll wait away philosophy back so this guy's probably yeah like Oh badass women - shouldn't the partners parts are close to LA where there's about to be a wizard bail that's true that's what he gets your moment a snake again yeah yeah whenever one of town's turned into a bunch of bunnies okay that's what I get so we're just going for long as you get back answer the question Lars can I go refill my water is then crazy that's gonna go down stand by guys question while we're waiting no so it says do you not want me to turn you may use your bone section to make a wisdom persist perception check against an enemy the DC is 8 plus hit enemies hit die if you are successful you have parked to be so huh I'm actually confused how does it maybe that sounds like something combined from something else no keep the keen eye so jealous that you guys were actually able to use the character you don't know what the deuce is that's normal okay like when you attack so but what is it same thing it's a number I have is it comparing what is it about well you you make a rule do you make a with some perception shadow Wizards one - tyrant at all their PCP basically basically you think it's their level a higher level they are the harder it is for your Thor yeah yeah of course so it's all on you Tom I try to use the phone you come here versus but even if that doesn't work and this guy is too high level which is entirely likely even this guy is way too high level for that ability to work they're still the best archer in the chain yeah they use it that's a shame why isn't it whisper wizards and five four fires the bells ring yeah all right no I apologize for the crudity of the model I didn't have to actually scale yep as it turns I didn't have time to build it just Galen I get a payment so the doors open after the bells ring and a priest comes out and the ramón's of Saint Clement to the journeyman you give me what I'm just listening raptly okay and someone very closely matching the description of Ajax's arch wizard mortem walks out and he and the priest are smiling and having wrapping up some kind of conversation and he notices the apple cart and it's like he's gonna it's like it's like and more time kind of claps his hand on the priests shoulder and the priests kind of you know but then that's sure yeah yeah please don't kill me and they're gonna go buy apples unless somebody does something okay work the I know I don't know if we're waiting for no wait for so I assume I assume yeah that you're ready in action yeah yeah you're you're sitting now stand in the window okay so then that means its mission okay I need a little tape too it's not great I got 14 just want to point out oh by the way if my plan was to play for like an hour and a half take a break play for like an hour a 15 15 awesome entre 17 years so I think he has the highest so probably want to make sure Tom goes first yep that's why we will use my reaction as a it's a senior officer well yeah standby because his things gonna happen immediately like a sumo guy walks out his ready to action is gonna yeah oh oh he gets it he gets a free shot I see okay okay and then you guys you guys have surprised and I forget how surprised works in fifth edition I think consult the chat yeah I think well let me say what I think Italy you guys have advantage on attacks I think is what it boils down to and I think maybe they don't get to act but I don't member by McKean I'm sure somebody watching knows how it works yeah I figure I can see the discord keeping or typing oh crap I have ever video you guys I'll just get a free round if I'm at okay yeah what did you get 17 [Music] and copper it's 2:15 I just posted it [Music] [Music] did you all get your spell cards yeah I'm looking over that well you have a lot of spells that there's no parts yeah that's true I was like I need spell cards for this because uper curious I hope people have had access to yes man I'm really glad we're playing D&D again yeah super glad we're doing this I just suddenly overwhelmed with gladness yeah just like it's just I think the air conditioning just kicked on so it's cool so tis well a few water bottles are actually also I forgot to thank Mary McLain for the overlay this is all art from strongholds and followers so it's not obvious it's not themed for the chain it's from our book I think it a war theme for the chain did just took that and turn it into an overlay with some help maybe cereal death yeah lady the lady circles original player helped us take our our books layout and turn it into a stream overlay which i think is dope as hell and i'm looking at right now and is super impressed with how with the wall and jerry call the animations to work and everything and people are suggesting stuff i'm seeing this in chat already people are saying oh it'd be nice to see like the names on the characters on stuff we will do all that stuff we listen to your suggestions this is our first stream doing this the next one will be better and then one you know that if anybody's still watching you'll notice a lot of improvements alright so I'm gonna give you a free like you get to go okay and then initiatives so go ahead and do what you're gonna do copper so as my bonus to action its yeah top o copper yeah yeah I will use my bonus action mmm Kinari yep okay gonna make a so perception wisdom procession I'm gonna give you advantage on this because he does not know that you're there okay so I wrote to 1919 wait nineteen-year-old 15% of bonuses don't you have plus plus five on your perception this would be to hit I think so total it's always that would mean he would have to it would work if he were like eleventh level it's it's weird the way he you don't seem to get any kind of you know he sees he's somehow moving in such a way that does not present weak points do you can still shoot him stay there but yeah he hasn't made it it's confidence and started yet so you haven't seen how he behaves in combat so we haven't got a read on where exactly is the best place to shoot man okay well yes more than as far as you know in Mortimer Xena so yeah you can't it doesn't it doesn't be seems like you're not getting a read on okay I will shoot them okay here we go yeah this is actually a pretty standard ambush like if we were did to the fact that this is the start of the campaign this is a this is kind of an embossed your putt to shoot yeah I know I feel like I feel like you have literally been well you've been to the house I have to make sure I have been nice okay we all get to go as a tourist so he doesn't know you're there I would say that's I would say considering this is a surprise attack so there's just yeah so I mean it may be that just Kenai is something that doesn't really become useful until combat starts so in situation like this well you already have a drop on them you're a dead man okay so now I'm using my lord arrow you're the red arrow the red area or zone of the watch or red arrow prompts so I have a question yes who has those five arrows I mean you have all five of them I have crossbow so what I have taken one would you give me my crossbows Firebolts oh there you go they're called they're just called the red arrows I have one ever sent I'm gonna use it I feel like maybe ego just is overkill okay I'm gonna use one all right 21:21 well that would serve Stanley so at this point at this point several things happen in rapid succession okay yep aha we did that so the arrow you all see the red arrow go like a dart and smack into Morgan's shoulder and spin him around for a second and the Bishop of st. Clement the gentleman freaks out and takes a step back but then it seems almost as though mortem changes and his cloak and his finery start to transform almost like there was like armor underneath it no ward seems to go off but the process of this armor revealing itself continues until eventually he realized he is literally transforming himself in front of you and it's not morning it's somebody else it's a brass dragon man well that is not the right mini egg but it's a large not literally large but large as a Nadine D large but a huge Dragonborn paladin brass skin so it's not dude that's the dude that killed the other the killed killed the King King omens yeah yeah he's got this he's got this kind of this black well so we all know this but this is the guy who killed a good king omens look at his version of this wizard yeah there was dragon fate Lance's of every color but he is the one who'd be traded the others know there was a hole there was a hole bronze dragon flight yeah and they hate this guy yeah oh so he's a bit like a defector yep mmm-hmm we need to get our buddies from the last campaign so he's got this huge smile on his face right and he looks right up to the window but before anything else can happen the sun goes out oh geez it gets dark okay because this giant structure Oh God it blocks out the Sun goes and it makes a sound like it's a it's a sound you'll never forget it makes the sound that sound it's just like womp and there's this massive floating city hovering over black bottom that is casting the shadow it takes a couple of seconds for your eyes to adjust and you realize all the sun's not out it's just that we can't see it right now and from this floating citadel come hundreds of giant Hawks and oh yeah floating platforms it's hundreds hundreds of la-5 hundreds of giant Eagles people on them come streaming out of this giant Citadel I mean this thing could be as large as black bottom it's hard to see how big it is from down here you're just looking at the underside with dirt and stone the roots and stuff growing out from appearing you know around here up here about you know what is that 60 feet up in here is a figure you have only heard described well holy wait is that Ajax I don't think you've ever seen Ajax a invincible but that Saint Ajax now but that certainly matches the description he has huge wings that beat slowly and give him the flight that he has he is basically as you see him yes he has blond hair he's got blue eyes he looks kind of a philip of macedon look to him the Cape so did that guy yeah and as he descends this is the cutscene by the way I apologize for interrupt your combat but this is the setup as he descends everyone in the area is overwhelmed all the citizens many of them are cowering some of them have fallen to their knees unsure of what's going on the Bishop of st. clement is looking up at ajax an AJAX sees him and sees Mandrake and looks back at the bishop and says again the piece that I have sacrificed so much to bring is disturbed he looks at the bishop and says Bishop Ives I know you had nothing to do with this your life will be spared your church on the other hand and the hawk Lords fly over in each of these giant Hawks is carrying a massive like super cannonball and they each just dropped cannonball after cannonball as you can ball and they smash into the church and it basically disintegrates huge pieces of masonry go flying off pieces of glass go shattering everywhere the buildings over here all fall apart so just big metal bowling balls yeah but they're like they're like they're like they're massive yeah they're like you know artillery fire right world war one level artillery fire I know where did you get these yeah explosion of people on those two you can see if it's that little fiber-optic stuff and let's see he yeah just you see the church being demolished these buildings being destroyed and Ajax's voice seems supernaturally loud like everybody in this entire city block can hear him when he speaks and as the church is disintegrating he says rebellions are so tedious but they must be taken seriously and he makes a gesture with the jade Han this is his turn he is he uses the jane hand and the swirling vortex in fact it looks a lot like the hunger of Heydar except instead of cold and stars it's a hell it's dope yeah it's a dope-ass thing again blues light painting hope I hope I know that the when the stream starts there's a whole bunch of people watching and then over time they're like oh it's just a bunch of nerds playing Dean I hope they stuck I hope you stuck around for this because I think it's a forge world vineyard sometimes some company that makes I think I don't member it's some company that makes hated by our friend blue slight pain this swirling vortex about and he's literally like that big opens over about you know thirty feet in the air and from it is deposited lit up with this huge all its fat jiggling this giant demon you smell brimstone and fire and you can hear for a moment as the thing opens these howling Souls and closes up and Ajax says realm and do something about this William and the demon is in the middle of eating something intestines are going to call hajikko okay boss mmm-hmm it's like you got any preference and Ajax is like dealer's choice and a creature when someone gets to act and he's gonna attack somebody one two three four all sixes I'm gonna read will sixes but I assume I'm gonna make an executive decision one two three four five six well you're the commander you are the commander I had a sea of three four well we're not fighting this right rel we need two reaches out and it looks almost as though the hand that he has that has just all these entrails itself are wrapping around the commander I'm starting firing as to how the applecart business is doing I'm a simple Apple cellar yeah you take 40 points of damage yeah you stole our you survived holy you still alive alright so people are running screaming but it's now your actions Anna what does Judge do oh it's my turn yep so fYI the commander is grappled and lifted and he's being crushed by these entrails the twist and screw around him and you can see his head sticking out as one of them wraps itself around his neck you can see one arm sticking out but he doesn't care to have a lot of motion and I need to get you that super glad they were me they were made for the Wizards though yeah that's why I'm thinking that I don't think I'll use on anyone else cuz it's for like the only information we got is that they were for to take down his boards I mean we could try it but we got four I don't want our contract is to kill that guy yeah like we already lost one because it's on him so sorry yeah some headshot was like lieutenant there's four hit points yeah fill your four hit points this is what we just got from chat you are four hit points away from a battlefield promotion [Laughter] and then we all rise and not interdict that's a completely different there yes interdict again interdict yeah interject it means to get it means to me needs to get in the way of something you want me to leave I want you to because you were so nauseous are you gonna die I probably am going to die but I'm grappled my foot but you are also going also I should say that this is largely just like body language and because this is so quickly yeah but also you guys know each other so well that just a glance okay a lot okay so so how are we gonna work this out so yes you're gonna toss me the thing before I do my thing well I'm gonna get I'm gonna get the turn but I'm good on my turn I'm going to prop and I'm get a second wind and well what would what would dropping I don't think you can drop the arrow like you're you're you'd have to break the gravel like this thing this thing is your your not your only only tiny parts of your body are visible like you can let go of it but it's not gonna fall it's wrapped I'm gonna try something you know so with grapple I thinking you need to make some sort of save well yeah I mean strap a warrior or a fighter my precision so you could probably break out of that yeah maybe the thing is I think I could do something that he will not be able to do well against boldly that will cause him to give it a shot in real well bless as he as he holds you in his hand and as you twist and try to communicate with the weapon master he pulls you closer and says I like officers so whenever I do my billfold Internet yeah okay it says it's a bonus section but I print a spell slot with it yeah does that mean I can do this is a better section for my spell slot and then actually use my real action and still burn a spell slot to do something else depends on what that something else is probably okay I just want like in a single turn I'm very multiple spells yeah there's no there's no research in there you can't cast multiple spells but there are resources you can burn spells lots of different things okay so what I'm gonna do first is as a bonus action is it whenever says price spells what is it always just a first level spells or does it take you so few usually like you can do to make it stronger or something anyway this is a little different it works basically like a paladin's divine smite they stuff like that okay got it okay so I'm spell slot to place a seal on relic yeah that'll be there okay so one of the things I was gonna have liked but hey this guy's way too big for that usually a magnetic disks usually is and put them under the miniature but yeah so you put a seal on this guy yeah okay it's a symbol I think only you can see yeah so I'm gonna do that and then as my cool action I'm going to cast or no actually it's not even a cast it's just it's my invoke authority that I can do get some architect of ruin you are different experts and tell them you jinx me so I choose a target so I choose brogue if they're Curt's compel the credulous so if their charisma is less than mine they must make a wisdom save and if they feel that say if they attack their closest ally if they're Christmas equal to or higher than mine their ability has no effect I believe that their wisdom saved is against my my spell DC probably okay we haven't what my printer does print double-sided by the way well you just have to know you have to know that hey and you have to know how to do it but yeah okay so he needs to make a wisdom save of 16 okay he does he does huh how can he be so wise he is an extra planer Demon Lord he has super high stats sighs is he just rolled like all of Matt's deeds I don't think you can let go of it but it's not clear that it's gonna drop anywhere it's just gonna get lost in in the entrails of whatever extra plane or creature he was pieces on am I am i within like if I move am I gonna invoke opportunity where are you can't even see where you are at the pillar of weight where the church was between was uh how you don't think so cuz he's currently grappling Lars oh no yeah you might from Ajax no not from Ajax okay but you're not you're you're not close enough for rel to do it okay in that case I'm gonna scream Tom do you want to just move me towards you guys up six squares that's out of town this way that way or those welcome to the applecart game hahaha Oh Yankee he might get ya opportunity yeah what are the guards doing right now well it's not they're actually up but they're freaking actually that mean kickball initiative for them mm-hmm who is it freaking out at this point well you know what this is the apocalypse wait did you just run right past dragon dude I'm sorry I got the initiative screwed up tonight I got the initiative yeah Anna does not have a shitty nails my first I will fix that door yeah did I remember haps the dragon guy in that was the dragon I'm gonna whack me okay yeah Mandrake will get a free attack on you if you run costume okay I guess either you have to run past him or the big guy are you gonna run past them well you already used your action okay so use your bonus action that was the thing I just say it against that was no that was the seal okay he's gonna steal on cry okay I was gonna I was trying to find a way if it user actually to disengage but yeah I use action to try and do the thing to UM make him attack an ally okay why don't you go this way and you're not gonna get a tax opportunity I mean I guess that's true yeah I could go that way instead and then try to get up into the building oh man I mean we know we're pretty sure that that's that guy the sword looks like it he's gonna your day up okay so I was here yes I have an airplane mode I need to turn it off I'm know if I like I've always found that especially in this day and age especially if it's not you're turning this in combat and it's late and people are just like what use their phone to check Stanford right right now I just looked up what up ocean of climbing did yeah look things like that my friend Brian like is watching and he sent me like a million texts so that was supposed to be so what happened was Tom was supposed to go first and he wasn't supposed to go first aha and then judged it so I screw that up I apologize I'll figure out this teeny game one of these days so for some sort of CeCe I'm sorry did you move I I didn't the other way yeah cuz I don't want to but I don't get that opportunity from the bronze dragon board good nails it too well all I could think to do is like I mean I'm not gonna be able to the best I could do is like maybe irritate him enough to like turn around I think she's gonna try and kill both of us crowd control I have fear oh but I don't imagine that I can make a demon afeard of me just remember the light or you can double booked it yeah if you if you use your action right and then you one of the things you can do with your action is you can convert your movement into movement that doesn't provoke a tax opportunity so if you need to get out and you need to run past somebody who might otherwise be able to black you you need to use your action to make sure that does that make sense so that's what just happened to Hannah what just happen Ana was she wanted to grunt past Mandrake and but she was like well he's gonna get an attack of opportunity on me because I can't run past him without and ignore him right and in order to run past him and the defensive buzzer do it takes her action and she'd already use direction so that's the trade-off is you can try something but then if it fails whether it succeeds or fails if you want to move past any of these people they might get a free attack on you gotcha this is actually he's selling apples pants I'm selling apples now he's now he's drumming animals in the soil drawers business but it turns out it's a seller's market all right well let's see I realized this Hobson's choice well I'm wondering is do our guys so so I think I think I'm and I think we did not worry about me and if you know playing in character I think that would be the thing so what I'm gonna do now is because I had my bow out intending to shoot I don't know if Matt's gonna let me do this but I'm gonna actually try to shoot into where Thomas so Tom can recover the arrow and leave I don't know if it's gonna work after it's been shot once but I don't see what else we got I can use my Hobbit you know what else we're gonna do with it and I can use my action shirt to heal a little bit but he just did 40 points of damage to me so even if you throw it like here I can I'm gonna go downstairs yeah we'll see we'll see on my turn where I might do it but that's all I can thank you well you're gonna want to try for a treat from the graphics but that's gonna take my action so I see since our thing is we complete the contract you're right I should try I need to get that back to you guys because you she hasn't really liked charisma she just blew it on that tom is also for this but he can't do anything you could try to shoot him but I don't think we're gonna kill this guy at level 5 the job was to kill um more than the warden or to thank you guys immortal and we got our job yep and I'm so playing a character if I can hit him with fear and succeed he will drop you that'd be awesome what's the safer here is it wisdom wisdom he is a really good wisdom like my that's good that's good money means it was like a 20% chance anybody could say yeah so I mean it depends how it rolls I mean you get you're activating your movement you're not that far from off the board so you're actually yeah like you're five or six will get you off the board so you could do it then book it it is worth a shot yeah I'm going to you might be an arranger yeah I'm gonna move well if you do that you're not able to get out of there what laura's is kind of planning your movement yeah and he's saying if you want to move your max movement that way to get out then just stay then spending ten feet moving that way won't get you off the map in other words if you move ten feet that way to cast the spell you won't have enough movement left over to get off the map as well our society well you get close enough to try and cast this so don't you go for walk right in front of but I can go there and then I can I can split move and attack and I can we actually got together I think you were here with this we got together with Tom and just ran a couple danger about calls because he's never little went great okay I was like okay Tom don't you get your ass kicked I mean technically yes yeah like also yeah yes it was super useful he thinking some stuff out and learn how to use the spells and learn some tactics and stuff I have not been using thirty Jerry am i safe to use the the players thing to change in issues and stuff it could be one back if you want sure okay thirty oh sorry I'm counting him no you're right yeah I'm mistaken if I hate your comes are schmuck okay I can run initiative from here and having that change and since I'm the one that calls initiative anyway so you're gonna cast a spell great yeah I sneak up behind him and I gaze at his humongous warty ass phrase over me and I can tell it to fear me okay go ahead and make a second mark off the spell oh what's the DC 15 it was worth a shot yeah do you what what do you have movement left I do have my left - you look ugly so that's five ten fifteen to get forty work you were here right yeah we're here 20 25 30 and it is hey your grapple should I just like I'm not gonna I mean I'm I'm one of the senior officers here I'm not just gonna drop drop these guys panic this guy tries to panic and falls on his ass nice this guy panics the applecart someone starts trying to drag his car his oxen have run but he's trying to pull slowly pull his apple cart from what's happening and you know the hawk Lords are continuing to bomb the city they haven't stopped oh they're bombing the city okay I'm not just bombing no yeah well rebellions are you know tedious but they have to be yeah all we did was shoot an arrow at that guy yeah and he's wrecking the whole city because of that well seems a bit suspicious Wow well maybe we were set up over let's see it's like somebody calling you poopoo head and then you I mean look look at this cape dude he's obviously how dare you those are fighting creases no one calls me that part of this cave yeah you should be on your turn shouldn't i five be king certainly my emperor of the world no what's that I said look at that guy shouldn't he be the Emperor world yeah he definitely thinks he deserves a Warhammer many isn't it I think it is but it's got it's got a unique head in a unique hand I think yeah but it is a it is a straight-up there was somebody in shirt was but somebody and Chad went during a hex dream I was talking about getting a I described what Ajax looked like and I got a whole bunch of really good suggestions and this was I want to get like a 75 millimeter mini and just to make them look like right it wouldn't be to scale but to impress people but yeah I think that's that is literally what Ajax looks like like he looks like a noble leader his blond hair blue eyes he looks like you know the hero of the people not these people these people are all going to die but but some people some great all right so that will come oh I'm covered big guy so I'm gonna move and I don't know how much I can move with Wow that's the same I can see you gonna use your for now no this one turns out to be a bad idea you're gonna use a mouse move it so basically actually I think we make an animal handling check me and Anna Landing check and you can command your mount to move its movement and that's your movement okay I didn't know if there's a Oh Carter something there's yes he has to make a check to have his animal key while he's riding his annal he has basically like a riding check and it doesn't take an action right but if he's not if he's not in tune with his animal then it's only gonna move 30 feet which is but if he's if he's being a good writer if he's kind of good at being a ranger Pet dude and then he will get his pets full movement which is 60 feet nice which is quite a lot and if you fail they just don't movers no no no if you fail you just move through you got it okay the question is are you good enough are you a good skilled enough to be able to what you said off yeah uh best ranger alright okay or was it hey hey hey hey I'll try this dice against you in NY and the couple does looks like a it's not hard it's not nine nine is not good you look at 30 feet of movement and you're right in your back um how do i how do you get up from there yeah well you have a couple of options you can either have big cat leap right out of the window which in your experience would be no problem for big cat Oh bacon has six legs they are you could try to go backwards down the stairs and get out the front door or they door yeah with a side door which would be probably the rest of your movement and then some no I'll jump if it's if he's if it's I guess if he's he can he's like a cat he can hit make a safe or not okay absolutely does does does he have any skills probably not he's but creatures have creatures have skills like people proficiencies so it's same like the middle section Tom after the stats after the list of stats where it says strength X underneath that would say skills if there were dark vision passive person okay so go se go ahead and make go ahead and make a yeah go ahead make a dex check and add +3 to it okay yeah plus we could get some mercury in 25 min in the sea what if they're weighted 28 no problem yeah so you're able to you're able to leap out of the where do you want to win right here yeah no problem no problem okay senior officers of the chain you all see Connor odd big cat come bursting out and and just like a you know a cat always lands on its feet and the tentacles are waving and because and then I'm gonna move this way all right you move you move that way and as you as this thing slinks along its legs don't seem to be moving very quickly but it's got six of them almost like a spider and as it goes by realm it turns us did you have a cat he rides around so you make your cat I don't question your apparently you can't quite the checkbook copper at mercury it would dissolve it that would be a terrible way to find out thank God for chat letting me know you can't put copper mercury because how do you like is this way definitely not it's now a liquid when I when I bought it on the little description it says like one of the questions was will turn green after boxes copper yes yes it well so you know what they say about their any pennies where those have been so I'm not quite done no don't you have another view an action or if you want yeah you have you have three more red arrows time I feel like they told specifically this is for excuse me that's my emotional support displace of these this is working great I can't tell if these are comments from chat or their from the moderators but I love getting the getting the comments from chat it's my emotional support displacive basin I'm not gonna use my arrow I think I'm trying snaring strike to stop him from moving did we specifically need all of these arrows I mean we got game is five we got we got that one in four states Isaiah five bullets and once we're out of those bullets we're and we can't complete the job when they took the job you know was a half work with them and the half work said that five arrows was a waste of Oreos because they were only gonna get much that sounds like Nicodemus yeah five boroughs is a waste of forums cuz you only get one shot well so no I don't think we should know all right I'm wondering now if I should try because we got one leg has one in his bot in his shoulder oh it actually wound him no because he was smile and after he got hit based on the description okay but it's like in I'm still yeah okay it's probably like the if you know their true name thing and it's edge tonic or something I think he's just using disguise self or something you probably like anticipated like the wizard real wizard probably can't risk going out like on his own so they probably just send somebody who they know can like you know shouldn't shut up if he gets attacked yeah I mean you could get a shot off far away what you were gonna oh yeah um I guess he's probably pretty strong it's a strength save I mean I think he did 40 damage to me so yeah I don't think I'm stuck starin i KITT just gonna be a waste yeah you might as well that's right if I gotta lose the body it's a bad guy in like 16 that is correct that's pretty typical Matthew 100% I'm a big believer in recycling I recycle all the PCs and the bad guys some of those bad guys are still kicking our ladies are still kicking around I use my bonus action I take an apple like the tentacles reach out a new piece grab one apple and one tentacle ferries it up to you yeah yeah cats don't like apples all right that was a Tom it's now a little transaction oh you've gotta get used to do this through I don't know first stream who dis look at this figured out tell me how the Java love lightning works yeah somebody throw it you're gonna burn it like you're not gonna get it back so yeah when you throw it it turns into a bolt of lightning bases yeah but if then it's gonna stick into something and we don't recover it it's gone I think you can throw it and not say the command word and then it's just normal javelin but otherwise if you throw it and say the command word it turns into I'm just doing this from memory it turns into a lightning bolt okay do it but you do have to physically recover it it's not like magic no correct when you early enough the command transforms only buliding five feet wide hundred twenty feet long each creature the line so it can affect many people must make a very reasonable DC 13 Dec save and take 46 lightning half as much on a safe it turns back into a javelin we were used as the target you make a ranged weapon attack on a hit counts as a magic also might kill the commander it doesn't you said it was five feet you said it was five feet wide Boston Oviedo says the lar should play the applecart I mean it's not it's not it's indiscriminate damage right I mean could potentially kill the cow like why is my skin feeling worried I was like oh that's not really my skin that's why I got the other thing because my hands just got destroyed by building that house anyway like we would we would try to save the captain yeah I don't I don't think that's the case I think please we complete the job but like you say company man but that's again that's not I mean I'm the only one here to read the black company but that's not the contest and he tries to give you know drop off the chest somewhere they can get it but he's and he you know he does what he can but he's and he crashes that magic carpet then he dies but I have four health I'm grappled by this thing Ajax is right here the night's right there mm-hmm like you're not dead yet yep you're right I have four hit points but I mean we were in your experience does the lieutenant leave people behind in my experience the lieutenant completes the job and the job is done here well he can't get your yeah no I mean I drop my dude doesn't leave people behind if you read my backstory you'd know that that's your action come get me dude I'm just trying to think of what I mean I think the javel javelin of lightning is a chance to drop it mm mm you uh I mean I might be sacrificing it well I can recover if you know these guys you brought up two infested buttcrack yes face it right at me in real life well there's no there's no there's no facing in D&D so we could turn them around if you haven't seen the Magister you we're just talking about character can I can I is it a religion check is like being a tiefling I want to Knievel's I want to kind of get an idea like if this guy's up killing the commander like do we have some to worry about like is he gonna try and like you know resurrect him against this kind of thing yeah that would definitely be a religion sir okay fourteen it's certainly I mean they'll have the commander's soul baking them yeah and what if somebody else kills well that's a good question I don't think I don't think this you don't you're if you roll higher you might get a clear answer but for what you rolled I think that you know certainly if this demon kills the commander then if this demon kills the commander then they're gonna have the commander soul and what they do with that you're not sure but they can use it to fuel things they might be able to use it to bring him back and make him a tall they might learn everything the commander knows about the about the chain well that kind of but you don't know that bill right actually a judge could explain that talking takes no time but it's up to you whether or not yes what would judge what would judge chain sign to the lieutenant like kill commander save soul it's up to up to Phil have a lieutenant enter what's that I think that's this is do I know this is not the done thing but this is cool yeah my guys been around like he's been around you can have other planes and you've been doin to the world below so I don't think I mean he's not gonna just be like oh that's right absolutely knows that kind of stuff can have yeah Plus judge is kind of the local expert on fiends and demonology and stuff like that like judge is a paladin of Asmodeus right so a judge talks about it yes yeah judge judge is a paladin of Asmodeus yes so then so looking at this guy yeah I just got a link to the TV Tropes shoot the hostage I don't know I don't know I mean I think I don't think my character would expect that we could kill this thing all right no but might you try to do whatever you could desperately right well I'm trying to I'm thinking okay so based on the circumstances what would be what would he think is the most prudent thing to do right would it be to kill the commander so he doesn't get his soul eaten by a demon was it yeah or like try to hurt the demon but you guys haven't even heard the demon yet I mean the only chance there is is that möhippa demon and somehow he drops the guy yeah well you're just even if you hit me with the Lightning you're just gonna knock me unconscious you're not gonna doing it you have to do it's like what three times my hip points to kill me how much boys doing right now or what's your maximize 44 he'd have to do 48 hit points oh geez so basically the the only thing I can really is for the javelin atom and hope that he drops them if you if you javelin the commander and the commander went unconscious mmm a lot of creatures a lot of creatures stop attacking unconscious things to focus on the threat you played aiming for yeah but I mean this dude probably just eaten I'm glad everybody like their retainers a bundle said cuz you're gonna get to play with yeah I mean I'm thinking that that like out of desperation I'm gonna I'm with three javelin who you javelin I'm gonna throw it at the demon okay to try and get him to drop its bite be quiet is the lightning bolt is that what it said yeah this might be wide in 120 feet long yeah I mean I should you can definitely angle it upwards if you want to avoid hitting other people and I mean if you have enough movement you could maybe try to hit both well to end now I mean I'd have to get I have to get over here I would use all my movement to get over there people want high-res photos of the minis and we will provide them yeah that's because we're incredibly happy with the work that blues like being did although I might be able to move to the side and catch they're like this way yeah they're the ruins of the church Dragonborn what's it oh that's mandarin man Mandrake the betrayer he was the captain of the bronze dragon flight not the best train here so we got Morton and Mandrake he likes ends well I mean things I mean yeah I mean this feels like one of the end Lars is also playing all right so how many spaces would I have to move to be able to get Mandrake and and big sloppy in the line you're pretty much you're gonna hit them so 30 feet I mean you have to get you want steam engine yeah you'd have to get like here stay in a line actually actually no you could do it from here if you stood here no no no they're not at me they're not they're not yeah they're not unfortunately they're just far enough apart that one 5 foot wide line could not get both of them just keeps going it's literally like a 46 lightning man can I get up in them and look yeah don't have anything yeah yeah I think most of the rest of us are used to it from code names but yeah when you lean and you forget whatever you start to back out so this one see the mods are doing amazing or so are we talking the base yeah I gotta hit the any of these squares if you can intersect if you can inspect any so any square that the base touches so basically I need to get here I'm thinking yeah that would do it sure what did you this is also gonna pass priest Oh hey Jack specifically said I knew yeah but he's consorting is consorting with the enemy alright so then I guess what I got to do is I'm gonna try and hit well they actually you just say yes it's just 46 are you I'm right here yeah oh it doesn't stick into rel just keep it all you aiming at rel no well actually that's a good question my guess is it turns into a lightning bolt and then I think it falls to that then he I really hope I get us booking area I'm gonna roll 20 damage do I don't get to add my stream oh no I told a lie it doesn't really work like a lightning bolt so but you know what'll happen is it'll it'll I'm gonna make a ruling it's gonna embed in Ralph's okay so he's the target so it's gonna go zap zap zap anybody in anybody between you and relegates gonna zap and then stop it oh you hit somebody do I get why I don't I don't die I probably don't have my strength to that since I didn't have to roll javelins or javelins uh no because there's a spell no what you're doing is you're basically will launching a fire okay I got 20 damage you hit a target that I have a seal on I'm gonna go ahead assume the seal and I rolled 26 damage I do 28 between the two of us okay maybe I'll drop the captain normally I have you guys track damage to bad guys but in this case this guy has so many hit points yeah you noticed the javelin arch into our candlelight butt cheek and there's like a little and a little like black scorch mark on it since he doesn't say no I mean appears to have worked it's just this is a huge demon okay a 46 lightning bolt is not enough to him he gotta be reaches around with his giant axe or any kind of scratches his ass boy there's something poking at me does he drop the c'mere did-did-did chump you take any damage man Drake man Drake saved into a calf damage okay so he took ten I had the priest deal my with with my actually I don't think he was yes he is is I think you have no using priests he does not make his saving throw he was badly wounded and falls to the ground but he seems just to be like it seems to be mostly cowering Phil so the lieutenant throws this javelin it turns into a lightning bolt it arcs it hits the bishop knocks him down he seems alive but unwilling to get up it scorches Mandrake's face and causes them to turn away and embel embeds into realm causing a slight tremor in relics and that is that is the it's the push your arm through meat and blood okay so I'm gonna fire this way so you can make an acrobatics check or enough actually I think that would be an action and you just took your action quick oh no I did second one that's opposed Robbie you're gonna fire the I'm gonna fire there that's gonna be your action yeah but I'm a little five eight two attacks dos attacks por favor so I can at least uh I can at least make way down yeah that's interesting you can still make it you can still make a regular attack with a javelin because it can do its damage in addition to the lightning damage that's right because whenever I used to using your rope javelin damage and the easy it's easy Christmas thing it's as big as a house so you roll 4d or way number of javelins damages roll twice your strength once 26 so it's just a virus oh you don't get to re-roll it it's just that instead of one it's just - yeah that's what I create this no no a critic written is just you roll the weapon down you roll your damage again okay are the damages you roll it again I think that's javelin is just visits judge so critically javelin is just 36 and you have a weapon that's 1 d6 I see yeah you have a weapon master so like when you when you were passing out the treasure when Judge handed the javelin to you judges like hey I can sharpen sharpen sharpen sharpener Katanga ice little bit sharper than also that's for plus my strength which is crazy so 9 damage so he has 30 negative got it got ya the javelin sticks in him thank you for chat for crack event mind you I think this javelin lightnings about to off to the interval so do I need to roll to fire the arrow over here or uh do you need to roll the fire the arrow over there yeah you're a fifth level experienced soldier commander of the chain so we can ask strapless I have a second attack in a while can I use my second attack with a different weapon or is that one uh yeah does counts as part of your anywhere I'm gonna try stab them in the eye okay what am i two-handed sword and that's not gonna be hit twice 14:14 it's huge like it's it's hard it's almost impossible to miss damage okay actually when you hit with a weapon attack expend one superiority die and attempted to storm the target that's probably I might as well yeah you're the drop one I have your choice that it's holding hey there it is a superior died of damage role and the target must make the strength saving throw is probably gonna build a few drops the object so that's a not is that the one is that the max that is the max so seventeen wait 17 more damage it's now 17 DC ODC 17 drink strength god oh well sorry you struggled people eat unable to unable to get him to releases there's a lot of folks because you know I've this I didn't write these rules and so I'm sort of making stuff up on the fly as we go like really animal handling just fine like that and as long as it seems fair and makes sense to me then we can revisit stuff afterwards it's pretty typical look stuff up after the game and figure I has this work so does the stop the game but we have if you want to talk about the rules and how how terrible I am an implemented I believe we have a whole separate sub channel just for rules discussion which we created on purpose I think it's a room in the chat which we created on purpose for people to go talk about rule stuff and thereby leave the main chat for discussion of the story so it's like yeah rules complaint room well yeah that's true you know people people who have invested a lot of time into learning the rules want to show off that they know the rules and I completely respect that and we and I like to play by the rules that's the reason I want to have chat available so when we do stuff wrong they could be like oh you're trying to sound but it's more like if I make a ruling on the fly and it's it's not according to the rules that's no problem we'll just go back later in the next game and I'll do right yeah that's the process of learning the game and that's something any DM should be comfortable doing are you done so that's the yeah okay cool all right well let's see I have we are going to cut to back to the cinematic because it is now a Jackson realms turn all boy huh so you notice now at this point that either because of Ajax or realms presence there are demons coming out of doors and windows chasing people out of their homes and you see members of the chaîne like you see angel fall out or jump out of a second-story tavern window and land on his feet and this spike demon sticks his head out and angel who is not completely dressed is hurling daggers at it and stabbing in the eye and driving it back and does this halfling turns and sees what's going on and it's down that alleyway so I don't think I don't know I think maybe judge can see him in terms of judges people are running screaming all the normal citizens are freaking out huh can I sign back to the angel sure actually you see cook come bursting out of the double doors of the same tavern and with a giant meat cleaver and cook sees you so I think I signed to him because they both can see me right they're both sent me the message so I think I signed a Jax here commander truck commander in trouble yeah well with you with you in his hand realm turns to a Jackson says just this one boss and a jack says no no kill them all so as a jack says that he kind of floats forward and you notice all the fog on the ground starts to kind of move and swirl it seems as though it's making a vortex centered on AJAX rainbows no no no he doesn't even seem to notice it it swirls and rotates and took into this kind of like little whirlwind a little tiny tornado spinning white tornado with that the fog whips around almost like cloth it becomes so solid that the cloth is spinning this thing that was once fog and a figure materializing oh you may need a camera on that yeah a beautiful elven I don't think any of your you two have seen this character before the rest of you have not this is the woman you met last night and she is very pale elven skin unnaturally pale bright resumix bloodshot eyes and she has she pulls from the robes of her dress this ornate elven sword that is quite obviously valuable and almost certainly very powerful are any of you none of you guys are elves or have any kind of familiarity with millennia or probably I speak elvish I mean I did grab an owie that's true but you didn't grow up like a mirror Pannell for that yeah she takes this sword and plunges it into a Jax's back or worse or she would get him but Ajax at the last minute steps aside the sword misses him by an inch and he grabs it with the Jade and using the Jade hand he grabs a Ryan and pushes ladies Ariel down like he's trying to force her to kneel yeah and he says to Lady cereal he has a smile on his face like like this is the thing he was waiting for and he says your father kneeled to me and lived because he knew this is an age of men and he moves to clench his fist and ladies Ariel unyielding not forced to unlike her father who was mortal she is a vampire Lord and she is strong enough to resist she does not go to her knees she pulls out a second elven artifact sword Ajax clenches his fist and Orion the Master Sword detonates Wow ladies Ariel the vampire the vampire queen her flesh starts to shred and disintegrate as the energy from the sword is released and she howls in pain and frustration and it echoes throughout the city and the explosion from the destroyed sword turns her body into a vapor and it blows away holy cow there is a detonation of this energy this opalescent energy that rises up into the sky that fills the air and kind of chorus gates across the land and looking up seeing the stuff in the sky the camera pans down and the camera and now it is cut seeing that we are looking we are looking at a forest and in the forest our three carts and there's a handful of what looked like normal peasant Carter's it's dark here wherever this is and they are looking up at the sky and they see this energy wash across the sky and panning into the third cart going inside there's a woman recumbent lying in the cart she has a gold skin she has a white hair and she has our glasses for eyes and she's she's awake she seems like she's suffering from like some kind of sickness like what we would expect somebody would like to Buerkle osis to have and her face is kind of twisted in depression and sadness and she says Sariel you and life leaves her body and her eyes turn back to normal normal eyes and her body ages like a thousand years and slowly collapses in the cart and then we're almost done and then as though waking from a nightmare is another woman who sits on a throne in what looks like a mausoleum and like ladies cereal she's human but likely to Cyril she has pale white skin and red lips and bloodshot eyes and she's like she just was sleeping and was awoken by some horrible vision and she looks around her mansion this dead lady who rules over a dead City and says ladies organ and this black sucked manifests immediately into the figure of a lady Knight with this heavy armor big badass sword huge helm you can see her face and she is filled with hatred being here ladies organ says my lady and this woman says the game has begun bring me the book and lady's organ kind of sneers she doesn't like whatever compulsion is on her that forces her to obey and she says by your command and then realm use this a special attack against a creature I can't you can't go home and play Kingdom Hearts he's gonna know my soul but you could pick up my weight like all that the cinematic stuff you guys didn't see we didn't see it I rolled that fancy one okay yeah you can only do this to somebody who's already grabbed I hope that all of those have like numbers on them it or not can't display your happiness oh yeah the old numbers funny I don't think I have any eggs that are pips Oh Dean states oh don't you boys stay around for well wait I can do the second one oh no that's right I have 13 you take 68 points what's your total points 44 44 so you go what' Richard what we're at 12 I was at 13 that's over 44 are you through 48 you said so it's 50 oh yeah go you're dead Phil nice ear [Applause] oh hang on to this because realm starts eating your dead body but put the commander his head into his jaws and rip you see the sinew of the commander is neck stretches his head pops off he starts squeezing the commander and drinking its blood taki takes no time Thank You blues we're about to take a break we're about to take a break because about to run on a hard drive space and then we'll come back and probably 10 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes does the does the new commander have any kind of announcement or order I'd like to before we go and break before we go yeah you're in charge now you're in charge now sweet I think we need to get the out of Dodge that sounds reasonable be back here look be back at about 10-15 minutes thanks [Laughter] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I have a button labeled we're back so hopefully now yeah well this is a conversation by the way that we should have welcome back I guess something I want to point out was this dope-ass table that we have the I bought even before with us we had the Kickstarter is from Rathskeller and I feel like it's doing pretty good so thanks to the folks at grass Keller's it's not an ad or product endorsement or anything I just like their table also largely there's a reason for one event announced because we have a whole bunch of people in our community who are super awesome and who regularly gift subscriptions and I think at least some of them they explained that like it's because this is the only way we have to like give you money besides to support your content besides our own five-dollar subscription or the strongholds in followers book so I have you know we've created a patreon you know a patreon at patreon /mc DM I think there are two levels five and ten dollars a month and we will come up with some rewards I don't know what off the top my head but I just wanted to because like twitch takes half of your subscriptions which I understand they've got a business to run but I wanted to give those few people who wanted to give us more money the opportunity the opportunity to do that because that keeps the giving and a lot of money off the Kickstarter but that money is gonna run out and it's revenue that is gonna keep the doors open ultimately so we do have a we do have a patreon and also people who have Amazon Amazon Prime get a free twitch subscription that they can that they can throw to a streamer once a month and they can they have to manually do it each month but if you link your Amazon your twitch accounts those of us those of you who've been following my new hack streams already know this you can subscribe with a twitch Prime free doesn't cost you anything and we get some money so that is going to help keep the doors open and the lights on and you know we'll be playing D&D either way make awesome content who knows what were we talking about before we went on break I sent me gonna get the out of Dodge yeah know how so so I want so like I was asking Lars are you going to are you gonna roll new stats I said you could just use I think I know if you saw this but Lars is like hey that's that's I literally only got to play this dude for one round he's dead I'm not gonna roll new stats okay well I don't know I don't regret your stats are so if you want to roll and thereby maybe get better stats you can do that but then you start with what you get or if you want to keep what you rolled because your character adds actually life expectancy as it turned out of about two rounds then go ahead and do that and he said he was thinking about playing actually has a okay my retainer he has a retainer these are in order to Simba I think somebody already know this an order to simulate the idea that the chain is a mercenary company and these are just the senior officers and there are junior officers and then a whole bunch of people soldiers and we're using the retainer rules from strongholds and followers so King is one of the retainers and I didn't think they're necessarily needed to be a direct correlation between the player creating the retainers and then running it these are just the junior officers in the chain but king is the one retainer that Lars made King is an exorcist and that's where we left this you don't know what kind of cleric Kings gonna turn into but if you want to you can run and we will just assume that King is a king as a fifth level cleric of some sort but there could be combat coming up in which case we're not actually gonna know what his stats are and a third level retainer will not survive that combat okay gonna play okay so King is gonna stick around with the other retainers who are some of the junior officers of the chain are all looking to the new commander and the commander he said we got to get the out of Dodge but how does the commander express that all right so all right so black bottom is a port city correct and they're destroying black bottom yes like the whole city I sparked me you can't see the whole city but like but you can see the hawk Lords are flying around kind of doing their thing yeah yeah okay where what direction what direction is that's see here but their erection is the harbour that way that's not all right and who is closest it's this way all right so at this point yeah go ahead if you like because the realm is not particularly interested in which people he attacks or yes and Ajax is gloating over the death of a serial so at this point if you guys want to retreat you can and you can get out of this combat but then what you do next is up to you like I said I don't I don't I don't think we can beat this this guy and like there's demons all over the city yeah it's not gonna be poor scattered to the wind you can see that what there are members of the chaîne there are soldiers in the chain they're the the chain has about if you guys were fighting an army you would have about three units of infantry maybe one of those units would be special like sappers or Scouts or something like that these guys are taking heavy morale hits right now people members of the chain I've seen the commander died was dead run and it looks as though this is gonna be around alright so where's the Chronicle The Chronicle is with this guy King is the Chronicle and where is he he is you know on one of these streets the the retainers are always gonna be like one encounter behind you guys alright so they're gonna follow you and they're gonna go and they're gonna do what you say but they are trying to they're the junior officers they're trying to stop the rest of the chain from completely disintegrating in Salvage at least one unit of soldiers so you guys are always going to kind of be one step ahead of them they will follow you all right so all chained here or there's about 360 soldiers they actually call themselves that look like only recently they started this probably won't last much longer but they call themself days because it's about how many days around the year they call themselves the calendar they thought they were starting all UNIX months but that was that was just them being clever and there was no way three all 360 alright so Anna's character is closest to the heart so what I'm thinking is that you need to get to the harbor commandeer ship even if you go if like are there any kind there might be I don't know I don't know your career retainers well there might be retainers who would be good at right but they're not here no they're I mean they're really they're there one encounter behind you guys so when you guys get to wherever you're going they if there's a battle there they won't be in the battle but when that battle is over cuz never battled might last if a long battle might last 30 sites well obviously I mean I think we're not gonna be far behind her carrot Anna's character but I mean we're over here we can't we're not gonna be able to take that road right we're gonna take a different Road we have to go around or sorrow this way don't don't worry about me I can definitely use my looks or maybe you scare the somebody where's the Treasury actually I don't know who the treasurer is right now I don't know if you selected one but if you guys where are you trying to get to the Harbor the dots to get okay and so get out of the Treasury to be with two-shoes sure just go ahead just so the way the Treasury works is it's literally a giant box full of gold and gems and it's a it's a giant lockbox it takes at least two people to carry it to strong people and so the it's got a size how much gold is in it measured by a d6 and anything you could buy has a rating of like you know a suit of armor might be a 1 right buying a galleon might be a 6 right like we did we need to pay off a prince that might be a six and so depending on what you're using the Treasury for that would either the dye or if it's cheap enough if the treasury's currently like a six and what you want to buy is a one if you wouldn't even need to do anything you can just afford it and you get it and somebody with a really high charisma couldn't negotiate and try to get the cost level of something down one I don't think we had said negotiate but just the two shoes can two shoes can definitely be the treasure for out and maybe forever alright so then you're the standard-bearer right I've got a guy who might know a guy a guy who might know again is it when your retainers yes boots boots all right well I mean oh yeah the dualist yeah that makes it yeah so what I want I think I wanted to do is I want I want copper to book it on his done big cat catch up with Hannah right or with judge judge will get us a ship you can you know use the Treasury don't use it all try you know if if if copper catches up to him then when you get to the ship you can raise the standard so that all of our guys know as many of our guys as we can yeah know where to go are you communicating what your goal is to the junior officers and yes yeah I'm probably using chain sign really okay it's as much well I mean because I don't want those guys to hear overdoing alright fair enough we're like spread the word like tell everybody and you're being just kept and yeah and it's basically like put the word out to get to the docks okay well getting to the docks is gonna because the city is now literally on fire mm-hm because there are demons running through the streets and those of you who have fought demons before these aren't you're not it's nothing like this right they're the kind of things that you would expect to fight and probably deal with normally but for peasants and they're being ripped apart right getting from you here to the docks there's gonna be a skill challenge alright so skill challenge does something 4th edition that I quite like and what we do is you guys use your skills to describe to me how your character can make it easier to get to the docks without getting in a fight right and you can only each this is cool so you have to get six successes before you get three failures you're going to get to the docks right that's not an issue the question is how what what happens once you get there is there it's are a ton of demons there because it took you guys too long to get there or did you guys get there ahead of this wave of chaos that's rippling through the city so you're gonna get there no matter what skills you use you have to be trained in the skill you have to be proficient in the skill and each person can only try each skill right what beach skill once right so if you tried I'll give you a couple examples like if somebody wanted to use there are gates throughout the city and the city guard are closing the gates trying to stop stem the tide and stop the demons from getting from one quarter of the city to another you could for instance use your athletics to try to bend bars and lift gates and open one of these gates and that would if you made it that would be a success but if you fail then you waste time with this thing this it turns out to be too heavy and you accumulated failure so it's always a risk reward scenario but you got your soonerlater you got to get six successes the only question is can you do without getting any failures and in fact in fact I know if it's gonna work but chat is going to take the role of the citizens of Black Bottom and they are gonna have some effect over your successes or failures because it's up to them to decide how did the citizens of Black Bottom react to what's happening there should be a straw poll I know that Jerry is super overloaded right now but I will check and see there should be a straw poll where they have three options give me a minute I just heard the voice of God say give me a minute your three options don't bother don't bother voting in chat right now cuz it's we're nuns no way to track everybody voting but you're in your three options also Phil correct me if I'm wrong but sweetness from black alright it's been a long time since you bigger stuff has changed and black loud was always notoriously squirrely together it was never designed to be a big city it grew that way doesn't matter but you will be able to convert one failure into a successful well let me just tell you I've got a couple skills up here you have this one you might be the guy you might make all six of them my my background feature yes my virgin background here gives me the city secrets whoo when I'm not in combat I and any companions I lead can travel between two locations in the city twice as fast as my speed would normally allow in addition to that yeah as a pugilist I have street smart so basically that's super cool once I have caroused in the settlement for eight hours or more which oh yeah you guys right I know all public locations in the city as if I were born and raised there and you cannot be lost by non magical means while within the city I mean I was born and raised here you were born and raised here so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just use the board here to mark successes and failures you guys need to get one too [Laughter] you could set up a little whiteboard here well yeah but are you trying you can sure yeah and here are three failures so you guys are trying to get six successes before you get three failures I wish my to skill challenge and the size of your background you guys already have a success total between all of us correct got it okay yeah you can cast you can cast invisibility yes but is that gonna help the chain get through like it's like a company it's what we used to call the a-team scene that is now an obscure reference but it is you guys moving together as a group so uv-visible means that you're not gonna have a problem getting to the docks but if you want to leave these people behind then you know he doesn't have that if judge doesn't have that skill we might actually be able to catch up with judge somewhere over here and then go as there are lots of different ways to use skills I have written down but it's up to you guys to kind of give me some examples like it gave you that one you know you could it's up to you to determine how do I use my skills to do this but there was a bunch of different scenarios like you could use perception to notice an empty building that you could cut so it's up to you guys to you this is your opportunity to use your skills creatively how could you use the things you're proficient at to use players each player can only use each skill once but like let's imagine you all have athletics right you could all you could each individually trying to break through these gates intimidation is yeah that would be great yeah there's definitely guards that are trying to stop people from moving through the city and you could make an Intimidator and the thing is if you make it the guards are gonna help you try to get through that's a success if you fail the guards try to stop you and now you've got you're not get this not be a combat you could prolly dispatch a city card pretty easily special love you guys but that takes time that's a failure is there any so intimidation we're totally worth is there any so I can move through non-magical terrain I can move through difficult train gonna affect me some alone you can move through it stealthily abnormal pace or did slow me I don't know if there's any situations where well this isn't this isn't this isn't this is just regular but a trip oh I didn't know if like that's joint buildings would would have been like doing something you could combine that with like an investigation check to see can I find a building yeah that is ruined that these guys wouldn't be able to get by but if they follow me if they follow me they can get through but that would require you making an investigation check to see do I notice can I determine that there is terrain like that so that you could then use your special ability to lead the rest of the group and you know there's no requirement that you have to do yeah right I could just persuade these guys yeah persuade on the shoulder listen man noticed but I've got the Linux check cover schmuck Cruden they got to get out this whole city thought about joining us today that's actually a good point is it part of the theme of this campaign is rebuilding the company because you guys have been there have been times in your memory where there were 10,000 soldiers in shame you're a kind of a low a bat only 300 so if you're ever gonna do anything about what happened today you're going to need more soldiers alloy yes yeah yeah the fall of all the way yeah all right see let's do it yeah I'm ready it's up to you guys it's you I've described the scenario so need to take the initiative interest are rolling to start telling me what skills you want to use there's no order to it there's no initiative it is the 47% so as you guys move through the city and King for instance this is is mentioning hey we should try to like see if we can you know recruiting these people at these city guards they must be the tap the city is going crazy it is now just a nothing but a collection of grab a stick and finish it because the chap decided that it's 47% voted for the city's they had the option they had the option that they said the city schools could try to help you guys right which would have gotten you a success or that the citizens could decide we want to live and therefore we're gonna help Ajax and that would have gotten you guys a failure yeah but because they basically go to that this guy they didn't know that they'll I knew what they were reveling I'm in charge of interpreting where their reactions do you think so what's your describe how you're gonna use your skill I'm going to use persuasion yeah that sounds good to sway everybody to help us out of here yeah there's as you guys because you guys are by far the most organized thing happening in the city right now and there are three guards that try to stop you from going they're saying stuff like martial law and get into a buildings for your own safety and that guy's coming and they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna hold you up unless you go ahead wrong 16 you have no bonus to persuasion listen there we go yeah that 16 would have been enough these guys are just normal city guards so what does it you say to them what does Neil say I take a long pull on my cigarette listen guys this day is not gonna get any better [Laughter] yeah I think I think I'm gonna make a note that that in fact I need to write down but that's gonna help with the size well they're like alright well then we're with you yeah I mean guy walks up to you he's like like you guys are like more competent than even like the captains of the guards I could just see him like walking through the crowd everyone's freaking out just like yeah I find that Apple that I stole take a bite all right so that's I guess a bit too bad all right well any of this strength II stuff I can go for that and go ahead and make a shot there's a closed city gate before you uh-huh and it's like you know it's not it's light but it's like 16 feet huh yeah so moving it it's made out of wood plus 8 yeah that's 26 yeah so what was the main uh it was made out of wood yeah the commander now now the commander commander suite just runs up to this thing commander suite and he just clocks it right he's not there's no common gate he literally like as a boxer and he just punches the thing and the thing explodes cuz he's got a belt a pill giant strength he's you know what's happening here hits what are you hard anyway yeah so the would just splinters into a million pieces of now there is literally no gate and there are watchtowers on the gate and one of the guards like is watching this news and he tumbles and falls off and snacks on the ground and knocked out just purely based on I just marked that as a success correct I don't want ya any guy in the company that's gonna faint over that well because he was kind of like gobsmacked by what you just did was kind of leaning over to watch and then kind of yeah the moment away from does anybody else have any other stuff they might think of any other uses for their skills except he's dead each get one skip we we can only use one skill skill once you can use as many skills as okay yeah so this card captain yeah a guard captain stands before you and says you know by order of the Lord Mayor no one can move through this gate there are demons running around what is your role 16 are you serious holy Sh a proficient oh that's right you have 48 on your tongue she gets to add double her permission to modify her when she's making persuasion cease the demons and he's like what is your command he's following you guys you guys I slowly accumulating cards and by the way these are you know guards are there like first level or you know virus there they're perfect perfect recruits for the chain and they know we need the chain our famous I know you guys are so you can arrange I feel like I should be able to do some sort of perception thing to me well you could you were correct tom you could like knowing you could make a survival check and see if you could lead the group through the sewers that would a lot yeah because there might not be any demons down there yeah I'll try that okay then 11 13 13 these DVDs aren't that hard actually 30 is the DC for them yeah there is a sewer entrance that's got an iron cover over it and you're a goblin you're no way yeah no problem so how do you communicate to these guys that this would be a faster safer way to get to the city I feel like what this something do with the banner maybe like that's good idea like I have the banner and maybe I raise it and I somehow by signal you know how the others traffic cones signals like oh sure sure sure somehow like oh like this big cat running the circles so people see the banner oh yeah that means like come here or something like I found a way so yeah the rest of the chain including all you know the junior officers and the people that they are leading see copper on big cat spinning around and then the tentacles big cats tentacle and grab the manhole cover and pull it off and copper big cat jump into the sewer do you guys follow yep is that a faster way yeah yeah absolutely well just cause like I said my guy knows this city well super trooper 86 can we panic again really strong perception as well so I could so deception I'm not proficient in it so I would not double for proficiency for deception is that correct correct you have to be proficient in the skill - so let's see what you were saying deception who has deception yeah yeah there's a there's a patrol that there's a band of demons wandering through the city and they look in your direction but they don't immediately appear to recognize that you guys are who they're looking for uh who are they looking for well they're almost certainly looking for you guys but they don't necessarily know one human from another and that that's you guys so there's a moment of their were they pause I I would I would cast a minor illusion down a down an alleyway adjacent to them and create the sound of rallying members of the change oh that's awesome yeah okay go ahead make a deception shot yeah no problem yep yeah these these demons hear that and they are immediately drawn to it and they bark and gabble in their heathen lingo and start charging down an alleyway okay so that happen you guys go through the sewers for like I don't know it's probably like ten minutes because it's a big city alright but you aren't booking it and there's no one higher it smells bad you know the smell of offal is in your nose and now you're knee-deep in the waste of the city but can I just say when I as were going through it I actually think it smells pretty good when they were playing and they were on a raft and they had to make a skill check in the swamp and somebody failed their skill check yeah so coppers like oh great and then you guys emerge from the sewers and so was that we do Marcus we didn't mark the silly though so you guys are seven eight nine ten we played for like two and a half hours before the break so we're getting okay you guys as you emerged from the sewers you can see the masts of ships right but it's still quite a ways away many buildings so you're definitely going in the right direction and that's when you see the band of demon and that's when nails casts distraction the demons all book it and I believe that's your six success correct that was yes by the way that is a I believe that is an easy skill challenge like a hard skill challenge will be something like it's always three failures ends it but a hard skill challenge will be you need twelve successes but given the circumstance been wonders increase the d c-- know the d c-- depends on the skill you're using in what you're trying to do each skill you're trying to use is a scenario has a different DC so there might be so for instance like if you can come up with the way to use Arkana in this it probably would have been weird and obscure and not super relevant to escaping a city so it so it so if it were allowed that would be a very high DC right but a lot of stuff you guys did was really straightforward and escaping the city in a scenario like this however it would not have been easy for you guys to so yeah you guys make it to the docks you guys are here yeah go mini cannon we got all that art for your dude what a waste of money that's right i'm gonna invade another D&D campaign to bring it back one of the little tripods that holds all the curtains whoa should we move our guys out of the way hello how I spent my weekend sweet what we're saying it's sweet know me sweet now I'm gonna have to I think I'm gonna have to name a new commander no tenant that's true that's true King I'll have a new character I'll make them does that does not move actually none of the parts really move although you can pick it up and it does it does it's just it's just sticky kind of took it yeah the layers are really interesting that's the main reason that so you can simply get up different fights under yeah you can have a running battle that went from yeah this was actually this is um dark ops is the name of the company and this is the sea wolf I don't remember how much this was but it's pretty cool and apart from the masts which ship are very tricky and actually some of these are not glued in some of these would just come off if you took them off the it was really easy put together it took like five hours to do everything but the masts and then probably another three or four hours to do the masts only because like I said it was really tricky and the problem the number one problem is the dowels the dowels like all of these parts dark Ottomans and they come on a thing you punch them out and they are machined very precisely but the dowels they just ordered and so they come it's like oh this one's nine millimeters thick but actually it's twelve right and I I spent most of my time as animal to test to sanding these things anyway Andy right bla bla gonna tell them about your special made name don't show it to him Wow anyway so this you guys are ahead of the junior officers who themselves are ahead of the rest of the company but you are now at the docks and which what what was boots saying those boots when he's like we got to get the docks and you're like I know a guy I know a guy okay well it's a it is a lady in fact lady and Margaret messing him captain correct yes oh so boots is correct me if I'm wrong boots is like a swashbuckling swashbuckler duelist kind of a theory Odin yes he's real honey okay's from capital so yeah boots yeah boots knows the captain of the row so CLO and that is so boots is like I got and they're also CL is a huge it's one of the largest ships in heart right now now there are there is basically an army of people running to these ships right all of these ships are people are they want to get on these things right they want to leave and the end of you know the crew of the Rosso CLO are mostly ryokan and they are in the process of like loading cargo and they're looking at you guys running toward them and they're all these real ones have typically have like dark skin and dark hair and they dress very especially those sailors dress really flamboyantly and you can see them all on the rigging and stuff working this large crane crane yeah basically working a large wooden crane with weights on one in the biggest and they all stop and they're like so what does what does boots say what does boots do what does what do boots do there is they're made for walking there is a way that goes up to I mean that's that's in dock it's not going anywhere wait a second but it's getting ready to leave boots runs up the plank and demands to see the minutes to speak to Lady Margaret as you start running up the plank the crew members all call for somebody whose name you recognize Modesto Edisto is the first mate and this you know naked to the waist earring be clad ryokan with a bandana around his neck and this kind of almost the spirit flamboyant mustache says Oh their friend I know it don't I know you good let's do my boy Oh God what what is what is Boots's actually I don't know if there's no if I wouldn't know your real name but he calls you by some other nickname right because he you probably used some weird alien I'm hearing several yeah exactly yeah and he remembers he remembers one of those hmm and he says what do you have to do with this uh well I uh he's trying to stop you from getting on the ship so you can just make a persuasion check to see if you can get past this guy alright and see if you can talk to the captain listen my friend remembered that one time with that one thing when I really helped you out no anyway I remember this is not how I remember it I do not remember I remember you being quite a pain in the 14 well you do know him oh it's that guy sorry he might not be proficient oh yeah no it's just that he's but he does have charisma so he's gonna be I think what's the rule is gonna be +2 with crispo's + is it +3 with charisma and +6 with these yeah yeah so your plus if you get +3 from Crosman sorry and you remembered the captain's name right yes do you do you use that when you're talking to this guy like to impress him with your mid-level of course okay so definitely you know reminding good estou of your relationship with captain massing ham will get you I mean he's like captain and so meanwhile what are you guys doing by the way are you guys walking at the plank are you guys waiting at the base on the docks waiting to see what happens well I mean I think the standard-bearer needs to be getting you know like I'm ready hundred only make sure that our guys any of our guys that are coming know to get here I think like we need to make sure that whoever our chronicler is yeah King King King is well you guys hold it with no failures so that means not only does obviously the standard bearer makes it but it means King make so it also means the treasurer makes it Wow okay one of the things you guys could have done is if you needed to you could have jettisoned the Treasury in order to convert a failure to success I think I think we need to start just we just start getting on a ship well there's a whole but okay but yeah I think well I mean I don't know I mean it depends on his on boots a success right right because if boots is not being successful then then I mean I think we're just gonna push our way well these guys these these sailors are all marked alright they all have like fashions right but they have it there and so they're uh they're basically like a unit of infantry on their own right they're not their light infantry so if they wanted to stop you you know especially just like the five years I would there would be a fight and now you guys are a lot more experienced than a bunch of sailors on the ship but they're watching gheh desto seems to be negotiating okay let him do his thing he's like home but he's not he's not saying kill this man right right and there are guys with crossbows they don't use bows they're guys with crossbows no one's firing and there does seem to be a tech between Kadesh no and boots okay well definitely bring bring the Treasury up closer okay yeah no problem yeah the junior officers actually it's two shoes right yeah two shoes we'll have the Treasury brought up in this giant chest go bump on the and all of the sailors all stop yeah because it's a suspiciously large treasure shaped chest wow this is catches there this will give her their attention it'll let them know that we can pay you see a barn show your family just regular citizens many of them not fully dressed it's not yet even 6:30 in the morning running at this ship and the they all get to come okay well happen how do you any of it or any of our men here oh yeah it's taking time but slowly more and more memory so it's how are you gonna take like hours to get everybody in the chain and there's no one I don't know that we have hours right but I mean any of any of the soldiers are here I think they need need to you know this is our ship right so the sailors when they see these guys coming I'll get em the crossbows with these citizens but when they see you commanding copper to hold these guys off what does copper do so the soldiers are trying to get on sorry regular everyday people are trying to get godmom people are these guys this mob of people which are growing by the moment is like my god it's like watch right and so yeah yeah you give the command from the you know you probably have like using just animal handling and your position and your heels and stuff like I gave his big and big cat knows you really well yeah yeah stands up any Flay's his to explains to tentacles and they shut her and the people just stop go ahead okay I don't know if I if I get to do this to reply but like displacement so yeah sure yeah so now there's like it's hard to see looks almost as though he's melting into the etheric plane or something as this figure with Brewis stretches and smears across reality and people stop and they look and there's another boat over there I think and they all start running away and then they spread these fork and there like screw it they're just going on the path of least resistance right so this woman approaches and you can you these guys kappa you can hear her heavy boot steps and she is dressed like a Vaz lorry and she's a bad lawyer descent she's a big Li right she's like six feet tall she's wide and she's got this kind of classic tricorn captain's hat on she's got hair that maybe it was read once before she spent a lifetime in the Sun but now it's super bleached it's like strawberry blonde it's like flax just sticking out from under her head just big red cheeks she has freckles and she's like boots hell are you doing here lady vetting them it has been far too long well I do remember our last meeting with fondness as do i in fact I wish that we were meeting again on happier circumstances is this your fault did you do this she put the city is like on fire right there's there's a giant floating Citadel hanging over everything you guys by the way are now out from underneath that okay right to float you can now see there's a name for it it's the cry stop ellipse cry stop Alice CH ry s okay it means city of gold is this your fault did you do this no rather well listen that's not important right now I'm wondering how I might convince you to agree with me that it might be a good idea to movin up my men here and set sail for somewhere else she looks at the Christ operas and looks back you sis who's chasing you uh I really wouldn't worry about that and cadastro says it's Ajax isn't it uh okay yes it is you're being honest okay she says black gods you're asking us to make an enemy of Ajax the invincible well he's not here right now so I think if we set sail you know quick as you like her first mate Podesta was like me there are yeah you can stand by him yeah sure well no I'm just use the things things are starting to go a little sideways so I'm thinking we need some persuasion there's some intimidation boots this is I mean don't get me wrong boots I like you but this is a complex situation you're walking into the middle of she says and and a good gesture goes and then judge presents himself what gods she says again judge is gonna you know actually she look shot huh yeah anyway so he's gonna explain you know I'm not trying to get you all in trouble hey are those real which ones it's just point of yours oh yeah okay no she's not that she's not that she's curious but she thought that would yeah so he's an explained how real fast well yeah um explaining they're not you know they're not looking for trouble like they can certainly pay their way if that would make things easier for them and in fact that Ajax was after their commander who has since been eaten and they would like to leave the city for greener pastures she's money like how much money it would take a lot and she looks at a doorway this there's a doorway over here you guys can't see but she's like I mean it would take a lot yeah you know it doesn't mean is you can't there's no there's a doorway down into the hole I mean look at this cargo I mean we're talking about what you thousand what your price well how much you got which it could be worth it could be worth my ship she says to make an enemy of Ajax and you can hear that the men are like we need to get out of here how many of our men are here well all of the junior officers are here okay and I would say well depends are you gonna use the Treasury or you gonna use their persuasion are you gonna combine the two somehow and we're gonna try and persuade are you gonna try and persuade your way on without having to use money I would rather not intimidate them especially since we need a favor there's like we don't well here's my thought is we could take the captain all right judges no tour you've worked with judge judges notoriously like behind the book judges judges bottled and like super lawful okay so if there's a way if there's a way to do this without burning bridges life's always easier when you make friends which come off of what lot for what you're a priest of Asmodeus you could probably guess and be correct well no we certainly wouldn't be a chaotic act we would just be getting rid of the captain and installing a new one chaos is usually involved in a Hannover term Union of those sorts well I can order you to do I mean it's gonna be no but now go ahead it's gonna be tough finding anything crew well after you kill no remember when we found the ghosts and the first campaign reserves that and you can use all the things you know like you can convince them by talking about like look the longer we're here we're all going to die there's several things that you can do in that to your role it's up to you how you guys use your resources you can just make a persuasion check which I mean you're doing a pretty good job I'd like to I'd like to see if I can use my persuasion to basically I know we're gonna have to pay but I would like us to ideally not pay so much okay so the combination of boots being here and then having some kind of prior relationship and then me stepping up and kind of persuading this captain that you know hey we're not trying to mooch off you like we just want to get to capital go ahead make a going make a thirty so by the way there are demons now flooding onto the docks now the docks are huge this is a big big structure there are many boats but there are demons flowing and cadets toes like captain we have to leave yeah because I think Delaney is just like sort of she sees the chest that you guys have and she's like we can work out a price after it get on all right is there like a TripAdvisor for escape galleons how many dollar signs is this crying I mean Cobra yeah so yeah you guys get about you guys get the okay so here's a question like the crane it's gonna take another you know a couple of rounds to load this cargo up and it's make it substantive eight for them to load the cargo well if we if we wait a little while does that mean more of our guys can get here uh yes yeah but we might have to fight yeah it could maybe have never being a strand there was an I can maybe shoot some demons and air as they're coming about that what are we talking like that we can take uh individually yep but not as a little like a baked pork yeah it's basically a army of demons us marching for the city well I mean it might just be the matter of like like how much is that cargo worth captain oh you don't know who you're pissing off can use your he'll giant like just it's a combination of pulleys ropes and also weights and so yeah if you brace yourself against the mass you could just start yeah yeah I mean it's it's it's very heavy but you were supernaturally strong and so yeah you just say yeah grab this thing and yanking it and looked kringles all right like that wrenches around each each time you pull it it moves this like 30 degrees and you drop this giant package on it's you know it's like bound together what's I'm looking for like a giant crates like giant crates nailed shut alright and they go coop and they land on the deck and they're all in netting and the netting collapses and yeah a little bit yeah alright so we need to order our any of our guys that are here to get on the guide on the damn boat okay looks like you get you get you get about between 60 and 70 guys on the boat and is that I mean they're close yeah yeah and now there's just demons everywhere the they are pulling up anchor yeah and the sails are already it doesn't look like this the sales are already and they start you know slowly pulling out now that you guys are on board now that the sailors are all in the rigging doing their jobs moving around like they were like it was regular just walking on the ground now a flood of people are coming at the docks people are jumping off the docks trying to get on this boat and it's only like right now it's only like five seven feet away but the ship is slowly pulling away and people are just jumping into the water and these demons are starting to just rip people apart do we I'm how much space do we have on the boat still hate so Gabby no there's I mean I mean did our guys fill it up no there's a lot of those I mean they fill up they pack the top deck but there's like three different levels below this thing you know what can carry you well I mean any of those people in the water look like other ships none as big as this but also there are some three masters are also a pulling leg and at this point you see as these ships are escaping the harbor all these tiny little dinghies are trying to get away you see this tiny floating figure that actually does look a little bit like this or like this character represented as Morton was described to you and he's super far away and kind of floating around and from him spells are meeting yeah and one of the galleons as is pulling out of port gets hit with one fireball and then another fireball the masts are destroyed and the ship starts listing and sinking and he's you know got some kind of crazy extended range on his spells they allow them to stay how far away is he you can't get it sent it could be a thousand feet so not within armor aurait not within weapons range 320 actually you would probably recognize that this is like battle magic this is magic that you only have access to when you have a strong this is there's his stronghold is right there and so it it decimates units right the entire crew is now very heavily motivated to make sure that the sails are properly rigged and the Rosco's yellow is in spite of being the biggest ship in poor it's it's somehow built for speed and so it is accelerating and there was at least one other ship a pirate ship well I mean like a merchant merchant ship for godot says it is early in our relationship for us to be is calling each other names he's like how would you like it if we all refer to you with filthy murderers do we do some piracy you know who can say piracy is in the eye of the beholder my mother always said so there's one other galleon that's that's kind of keeping pace with the Ross OClO and captain massing ham is at the mast and she's barking orders to the crew and the entire crew all move as one person and Gaston is up here trying to kind of coordinate the efforts of the riggers and as you guys the wind fills the sails and the sky above you it's now like 7:30 8 o'clock in the morning it's a bright beautiful day and you can see the giant floating Citadel is retreating getting smaller and smaller as you pull away from the city and this one other ship and she points and she knows the name of the ship it's called the sparrow and she's like eyes on the sparrow because she's using them as kind of a gauge to see how well are we doing and she's like we should beat them and the process yellow is pulling ahead and these giant tentacles come up from the water and start wrapping themselves around the sparrow and you can see the tiny figures on the ship it's a it's a bad Lorient ship you can see these guys they they don't look like pirates they almost look like they're in uniform you can see them hacking and these chemicals but there are you know dozens of them and they slowly wrap around the ship and break it in half and pull the ship below water and Wow captain massing ham says who it turns to boots and says which one of you is in charge commander you really know how to make things tough for me where are we going capital well someone's not going to be happy with that and there was a this dude comes out of the hole and let's see perhaps yeah he's a heifer and he's he's you guys are I don't know how familiar you you would be with this but he's wearing a Jax's livery and he says turn the ship around and as he's talking other other half works start coming out of the hole there's like there's a bunch of them and they all have they all have the symbol of st. Ajax on their on their two barns on their clothing on their shields and it's all eleven o'clock it's funky place it's not oh my god Wow okay anyway thanks for putting up with the final contract of the chain and now it's just a question of how you guys get kappa and as i said before like the first half of that super super cut scene ii and then there's what do you guys do and the skill challenge and now you guys are a little more in control and it's still gonna be a little railroad e from here to capital but like this encounter it's gonna be lots of stuff I use guys to do and then once you get to capital is gonna be very kind of open the world sandbox e and so cool so anyway I think that's it I think we streamed Indy for the first time I hope you guys had fun and our is also played we gotta get any work for you we got to talk to Jason and get any work for your new dude how many Infinity stones does Ajax have now well your last a good question during the break and it didn't come up and that is did lady cereal drop the other sword yeah and the answer was yes so but so now Ajax has at least one of those just degraded you saw you saw I described it as a Ryan it's not clear whether or not I certainly somebody in the chain is familiar with these ancient elven artifact swords and then now you guys are on the ship you can kind of talk about what happened and part of that is that was a Ryan the Master Sword and it makes you basically invulnerable to all weapons and it's gone now yeah and what what what the power is of the teeth of the Dragon when the Master Sword is broken is unknown but they were pretty sure that the second short sword she pulled out was scorpius's Eliza also so something you have to decide and we should do it either right now or we should wait and talk about it next time we stream so the folks don't miss anything is who's the lieutenant I mean yes it could be Lars is character that's up to you because they already have ranks and you can only have one but but somebody could give up their rank and become lieutenant but then that means so the relationship between the commander and lieutenant is the commander decides what jobs do we take you don't you don't necessarily really issue orders and that would be bad leadership to be constantly telling her what to do the lieutenant figures out okay how are we gonna do this mm-hm right neither one of them really is the tactics commander that would be like the sergeant if there was one of nobodies like that so you guys are still free to play your characters in combat whoever you want but that's lieutenant's job to kind of like coordinate the effort after the captain decides what we're doing so that's something you can think about Lars I assume you'll have a new character you work here you have nothing else to do but make a new person keep saying VARs PTO key departs I think that's it I think we're done I think we're gonna sign off thanks for watching as I suspect this is the largest crowd we're ever going to stream to I think probably a lot of East Coast folks have probably already logged off will upload the video to YouTube as soon as we can that probably means Friday morning and then we'll do probably a campaign diary tomorrow and I'll talk about what happened and we'll do a live stream world-building live stream eleven o'clock on Saturday and we might talk about this but the one thing that I want to wait to talk about is the death of the captain because that's gonna require me talking to lawyer's office offline and so when we do the post-mortem on this I'm going to declare that off-limits for now but not later later we'll talk about it otherwise thanks for watching everybody see you next Wednesday

Channel: Matthew Colville

Views: 642,250

Rating: 4.8999128 out of 5

Keywords: Dungeons and Dragons, D&D, 5e, Actual Play, Matt Colville, The Chain, The Chain of Acheron, MCDM Presents

Id: l6u_VDYpI3g

Length: 225min 11sec (13511 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 02 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/HammerPope]

Assuming the group was aware something like this could happen and REALLY trust the DM, I'm ok with these choices Matt made.

Constructive criticism for future streams is the inclusion of music and less cross-talk/table chatter while someone is talking.

With music, I know you can't use most music due to royalties and licenses, but there's plenty of royalty free music from Kevin Mcleod and composers similar to him that you could use. It helps establish the mood.

As for cross talk, I know it's common in most normal games of D&D, but it REALLY takes away from the viewer and I don't think it's much of a sacrifice for the players.

Other than that, my wishlist is to have both the main stream and the tactical stream (Matt has another stream dedicated to the battle map which I think is a great idea) to have the time visible, so that it's easier to sync the two if you're watching the VODs. Or some other way to make it easier to sync up. I spent a lot of time trying to sync the two up.

[u/Lilo_me]

I gotta say I loved this. I was smiling the whole way through. A lot of people have made criticism of the cross talking and the tangents and stuff like that, but that's what brought the show alive for me. It felt like a GAME. I loved that they got distracted by their minis at the start, wouldn't you?

A lot of people seem to be wanting this to be more like Critical Role, but we already have a Critical Role. Hell we've got several. And don't get me wrong I love Critical Role, but it scratches a very different itch.

[u/99213]

Edit: already addressed - https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/all1lh/matt_colvilles_new_dd_stream_is_starting_now/efhxiyc/?context=3

Am I missing something about how they rolled their stats? The first person they showed rolling has this:

5+4+3 = 12
6+5+2 = 13
4+4+1 = 9
so far so good...
5+4+4 = 14...?
6+5+3 = 15...?
5+4+2 = 12...?

And then later someone else has 6+5+1 = 11......

I hope this is just the person making the video messing up, not actually an error on their character sheets.

[u/elfthehunter]

I really liked the stream. It was totally different from CR (which I also religiously watch) but it was fun watching 'regular' people play D&D. I find ever since I've been DMing I've been much more critical of Mercer's DM choices, but that was nothing compared to how much I disagreed with Colville's choices. But I am looking forward to the campaign diaries and future sessions.

edit: I would recommend watching them play Codenames if you had trouble connecting with the players. I find that I liked all of them, but I remember not liking many of them in the original Colville streams before his Kickstarter. So if you want to watch it but are having trouble connecting with the players, I recommend watching them play codenames.

[u/Martin_DM]

I tried so hard to get into this, I’ve been a MCDM fan and I’m excited for them. But after 45 minutes of figuring out where to place their minis for the first fight, I just can’t do it. I’ll watch the campaign diaries and everything else, but livestream D&D is not for me.

[u/SiegeFlank]

I really liked it. Great production values and storytelling, and a really strong setup for what will be an interesting campaign. The characters are interesting and I'm excited to see them fleshed out.

I think a lot of the criticism I've seen tends to be negligent of some premises that were laid out in the first place: It's mostly meant to show an average group of friends just playing the game and having fun, and the first session was intended to be rail-roady and provide a lot of setup.

All things considered, I think they succeeded at what they set out to do. It's not for everyone but that can be said of most anything.

[u/MrLuchador]

It was decent. I'd prefer one broadcast rather than a duel broadcast, with someone managing the camera switches so we can see the battles.

'Ignore' twitch chat, please - don't look at the numbers while you're streaming, it'll distract you big time. I'm not sure if this is what was knocking Colville out of rhythm, but there was something not right.

Characters and potential story seems good though. I like the rank system.

[u/mournthewolf]

This is a great of example of why Critical Role is so popular. I love Matt Colville and think he is an amazing DM and great with the game. I like him better as a DM than Matt Mercer. It enforces what makes Critical Role so great is it's players.

Critical Role, since it's players are all actors, have incredible charisma and they make things very entertaining by their interactions with each other. This group has very low charisma and are just not particularly interesting people so the game gets entirely carried by Matt Colville.

So all you new DMs out there who look at Critical Role and think you'll never be a great DM. It's up to your players to make the game great, not just you.

[u/mr_mutzley]

I thought it was really good and I’m surprised at some of the criticisms, maybe people expected something more like CR.

Stuff I liked: - the players felt like normal people not professional actors/comedians/voice actors, I’m sure they’ll RP more as time goes on and we will get to know them and their characters better; - the story and the setting have loads of potential. I love the premise and the level of world building is awesome; - the set pieces were epic, the way Matt described them was extremely cinematic. - great product values, art, minis etc.

Stuff that I didn’t enjoy so much: - too much cross table chat, that was really distracting. Our DM often calls us on that and we aren’t even broadcasting; - too much looking at phones etc. Matt seemed super distracted at times and maybe that’s just how he is, but I’d prefer less of that. Again this is somewhat frowned on at our table; - a bit too much ‘metagaming’ to correct this they just need to strategise in character rather than out of it; - somewhat lite on RP but that’ll come i’m sure - (watching some of it a second time) Man the combat dragged at points with a mixture of ‘what can I do, will will I do, what are we doing’, what someone else thinks someone should do. That’s fine for a first session. But they need to know when they’re up next and have their actions primed and ready to go. That speeds up combat, makes it more interesting and actually creates more ‘space’ for RP.

Other thoughts; - Finding some means of integrating a view of the battle map / grid more. Maybe cutting between a view of the 6 of them and a view of the table. - Keeping the run time down, I don’t know how everyone gets time to watch these 4 hour episodes every week! - Campaign diary! (Narrated by Matt in a video - I bet these could be awesome and a great way of keeping up with the story). - Matts strength is story telling / talking, is there a future perhaps even non D&D project that involves him doing some very of old skool verbal story telling OR could there be supplementary lore videos told as stories.

All in all I enjoyed it.

Edit: added an additional comment.