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Today is Monday, July 1st, and it's time for Dungeons Dragons, so let's go okay. We are back with our best friend in the entire world, Tim Woods.
Thanks for having me.
He's here, appreciate it. It is time for another Dungeons Dragons episode, part of my take. We do this about twice a year. This is our summer. Lore. is it lore?
Adventure, adventure, Summer adventure.
Adventure.
Quest.
Quest and we have special guest Nick back.
Thank you guys, I love doing this. This is my favorite days of the year.
Yeah, and we have his first time ever going on an adventure with us, Maxwell.
Very excited, always cool to have a new player, yes.
You gonna say anything?
Yeah, no thanks for having me. I was allowing you to finish speaking before I finished speaking.
That's also a great start.
Well, yeah, no, I just know how this is gonna go. I'm just gonna replace Hank as the guy who gets killed and fucked, No.
That's not it at all, man.
Exciting Hank was the most excited about this of all. Max, you'll be the suggester.
You'll be the second person killed.
Well, I'll stay, I'm fucked.
So for people who are not watching right now, you should watch because we built a whole new set. Wait, Max Max needs a name and character, yeah.
Are you going to announce?
This is a good point. So, yes, you get to name your character whatever you want, Max, but since you are the only person with a totally new character today, I thought I'd take a moment. I wasn't sure exactly what you might like to play, but I wanted to prepare something ahead of time. And I knew that you played. In one of our previous adventures, a hippo animal companion.
So I gave you a druid who has the power to wild shape into animals and command nature magic. So you're going to be playing a druid today, Max, would you like to name your druid? It looks like a hippo, it could turn into a hippo.
I think only like a hippo, elephant, rhino, fat gorilla, some sort of large animal.
There's other things in here.
Anacondas on here.
Butterbean.
A hunter shark, huh? what do you think about a hunter shark? That's an athlete? Well, that's what it says on here, a place of sosaurus.
You could do a lot of different dinosaurs.
What about Hippo Maximus?
Oh, sure.
I would definitely allow Hippo Maximus.
Yeah, I'll be hippo maximus.
100%.
Absolutely, Hippo maximus is good.
By the way, Tim, also, we should say before we start, we saw your consent tweet.
Okay, I thought that might come up absolutely 100%.
We will be asking for consent before we fuck Hank's dead body.
As we all should.
As we all should. Yes, I will just say that the tweet went up on April 20th. April 20th is my birthday. So anyone who kind of bullied me, just a heads up, I don't bully people on their birthday. That's just a choice.
Maisie also is a friend. So even though it was on a social media platform, private conversation, everyone, I don't know why everyone was rejoining. Also. Third, I'm right, yeah, you are.
I'm right.
When you posted that, you were like, Oh, the guys from part of my take didn't see this. I'm safe. And then, three weeks later, I brought it up out of nowhere.
I just suddenly got this flood of people liking the tweet out of nowhere and I was like, I think I need to. And then somebody mentioned, I'm so glad he brought this up on the pod, I wouldn't have noticed it. I'm like, Okay, I do need to listen to this episode now and find out what happened. I should have known.
I should have known.
What was the tweet exactly? It was nothing's hotter than asking for consent when you know that you have it, yes.
No, that's a fact.
I think a lot of problems, agree?
I'm getting hard right now.
It's a lack of creativity.
If someone's like, Oh, asking for consent? I'm just like, Well, I mean, just have fun with it, kind of. I mean, you can make anything a good time, it's okay.
Yeah, it is.
It's more than okay. So for people who aren't watching, does everyone want to describe what their say, their name, and then what they're dressed as? Sure? Also, you should be watching. This is the set.
The costumes you're banging today, absolutely.
I'm hippo maximus, I am dressed as Hagrid from the Harry Potter series.
I didn't even know you were dressed up.
Oh, yes, I do kind of look like him, am I? Kind of? I definitely look like a great deal, yeah.
Great deal. I'm Greg, two G's, one at the front, one at the end, and I am dressed as an Oompa loompa.
Chocolate Factory. A slave, I think.
Yeah, all right, I'm Norm the Barbarian, I'm dressed as Doc Ock from the Spider-man lore, I don't really know.
I built this costume homemade because my kids love Spider-man, so I thought I'd just put it on at home and chase him around. So I bought them some Spider-man costumes as well. Two for one.
Two for one.
Yeah, it was a two for one deal. And also, what's the vision like? Out of those glasses? I'm like a dog, I can only see black and white.
Yeah, it's really bad.
But I'm here.
Yeah, okay.
I am Wayne the Hill Dwarf Bard, and I am dressed today as some sort of Viking. I think it was just a Viking costume. I'm not sure if it's a specific Viking, maybe Eric the Red. I'm dressed as Eric the red.
I'm ehrlich, the Warlock and I am dressed as Shrek from Shrek 2.
Not Shrek 1?.
Well, Shrek 2. He's human. Uh-oh, and you're wearing....
Both, right.
Rarely green shrek which you are wearing the hat.
But he is green Shrek in Shrek 2, fact or fiction, at some point?
I don't have my glasses on. You look like Nate.
You're dressed as Nate.
And Tim, what are you dressed as?
I'm just wearing my cloak as usual. Yeah, absolutely.
Also, your biceps are popping. What do you do for those?
I appreciate it.
What do you do for those? I just did a working out during Covid, that's all.
And it's still around.
No, no, I started working out, got it?
I can notice guys should support guys.
I appreciate that, thank you 100%.
Consentually, absolutely.
I definitely approve of all the camaraderie. I like that 100, all right, so let's do it.
Now our adventure today I am really, really, particularly excited about, because this adventure is the adventure that I've been running ever since. We did our last one, the Sunless Citadel, long ago, before our Boulder skate adventure that was a year and a half ago, so ever since then, I've been running this adventure. The forge of fury for the Awls? At this point, I kind of crunched the numbers.
And I've probably run this adventure for over 200 awls out there at this point. So you've got some people who have gone through this adventure quite a few times, or quite a few people who have gone through this adventure once. Who are going to be tuning in, who are going to be very much analyzing how you guys do on this particular adventure.
So this one is one that the fans are going to have played a lot of, and potentially it's a multi-parter. It is an adventure that came out when I first started playing D&D years ago, and they've updated it with every single edition since then. It is known as the Forge of Fury.
And Wayne in particular, this adventure is going to have a lot to do with you because we're starting our adventure. In the town of Blazingdale, which is mostly humans, we've got a lot of humans in this group, but particularly there's a large dwarven population in the town of Blazingdale.
In fact, your family might live in this town. I would leave that entirely up to you. The legend has it. That the reason why there's so many dwarves living in the town of Blazingdale, as well as a good number of gnomes. I will also point out, Erlich, you have heard that there was once a mighty Dwarven fortress in the Northwestern Mountains.
Known as Kundrakar, which translates to the Forge of Fury. It is said that there was a great Dwarven Blacksmith who kept making these amazing magic weapons to slay his enemies, the orcs who populate the mountainside.
Eventually, the orcs got sick of it, attacked the mountain, laid siege for five years, and a hundred years ago, the mountain fell and the dwarves were driven out.
However, it's said that not all the weapons that were created by that master Blacksmith were found. And, in theory, the greatest axe of the Blacksmith Durgeddin has still not been located. Many dwarves in the town of Blazingdale believe that there is a vault located somewhere in that mountain.
And whoever could get in the mountain, deal with the orcs, find the vault and get it open. Would be able to lay claim to one of the greatest treasures in all of the land.
I want that axe.
Absolutely.
I want that treasure.
One hundred percent, you would know that the people who can wield an axe like that would be mainly Arpaladin. Greg. That makes sense, or barbarian norm?
But also Wayne the Bard. Even if axes are not your specialty, you still know that this is an ancestral relic that really belongs in the hands of the dwarves.
I can play a mean axe.
Absolutely at the same time. Erlich You also know that this axe would have enchanted runes on it, that if you were to harvest the power of those runes and, like, destroy the axe.
Would afford you immense power, much like not just one soul, but hundreds of souls.
Right off the bat, it sounds like he would go for the axe for nefarious purposes. He wants the axe to destroy it.
It sounds like everyone wants the axe.
But you want it to destroy it.
I feel like the power could corrupt us all.
Maybe.
I don't even want it.
I don't want it either.
Hank's family's in town.
No PFT's family's in town.
Wayne's family, in theory, might live in this town. I'll leave that up to you.
Yeah, I might fuck your mom.
Back off.
I might throw a little basketball.
You can tell me your mom's not here.
I'll just whisk her to safety.
She says, No consent, Nick.
I knew I had it, absolutely.
Now, Hippomaximus. You would know, as a druid of the nearby region, that the orcs have been attacking human caravans and stuff for years now from the mountain that they took from the dwarves. You also know that those attacks have not been as successful in recent years.
The orcs have been taking a lot of casualties. Now might be the perfect time, with their numbers whittled down for some people to go into the mountain. It might be that previously it was too dangerous, and now you think the number is down to maybe just a dozen orcs or so. Left still in the mountain. You've heard their war cries of their leader, Great Ulf.
And you know that years ago they used to have a different leader, so at some point in the past decade, there was a transition of leadership. Apparently in the Orc tribes of Stone Tooth mountain, where Khundrukar used to be built, so you know a lot about the nearby wilderness.
I would say that Norm and Greg, you've probably rolled into town. There are a lot of barbarian tribes in the mountains around here. There aren't many paladin orders, but paladins often come into the mountains to accomplish heroic quests. And there would definitely be a small Gnomish population.
Mostly of warlocks in the town of Blazingdale. Now this adventure is special because we haven't done an adventure yet that starts in town, so when you start in town, you can do whatever you want. We're kind of assumed we've met each other, we've gathered in the town square.
There is a nearby tavern, there is a temple dedicated to the God of Dwarves, actually Moradin. There are also potion shops and other places you can visit when you're in town, you can do whatever you want.
And in theory, you can try to get information or maybe supplies that you think you might need for your expedition. However, to see what order we get to do things in, I'm going to ask everyone to do their first dice roll for today, you're going to roll a D20..
The 20-sided die, and whoever rolls the highest is going to get to go first.
16.
16 for Norm.
Norm, you have a plus 2 on your dexterity, so I'm going to put you in for an 18. Oh ehrlich, you have a plus 2 also, so you've got a total of a 3..
Ehrlich, you're going to be going last right now.
I've got a 2.
Oh, okay, Wayne, actually, Wayne, you've got a plus 3 on Dexterity, so with a total, you said a 2, you've got a 5 total.
You're actually still going just ahead of Ehrlich and that's wayne lovely 13 13, absolutely.
And I think you have a plus 1 as a paladin, so Greg, you're going right, dab in the middle and Hippo maximus, I've got a 4, a 4..
Hippo Maximus you have a plus 2, I believe, on dexterity second to last, so that actually gets you to 6. So you're right, smack in the middle now. So order is norm. First, then Greg, then Hippo Maximus, then Wayne, then Ehrlich.
And Norm, you're in town right now, literally, you see a tavern called the Four Swords Tavern right in front of you. And there is also the potion shops and temples and anything else that you might be looking for in a civilized town like this. It's a mountain mining town, you think so, it doesn't have a huge shopping mall or something like that, but you do have places you can go to.
A little cowboy town.
Yeah, a little cowboy town.
Boys, should we maybe split up? Maybe I go to the tavern, see what's up, someone else, go to the potion shop, grab some potions.
I think, yeah, splitting up is smart. Yeah, I'll go to the forest, hang out with my people.
Well, then we can meet before we leave town.
100 you could. Splitting up in town is usually a pretty safe move, 100%.
All right, so I'm going to grab a nice cold Coors light.
Should we have a word to yell that we gather at one point?
Yeah, consent.
Yep, there it is.
We could blow the conch. Maybe, Yeah, absolutely, all right.
So let's hop in the bar, grab a beer and just can I ask some guys, what's up?
You certainly can. As soon as you walk in the bar, the first thing you see is that there's a bartender, classic human bartender with a big beard. He's cleaning a glass, got a big apron, he nods to you.
There seems to be some sort of rich merchant sitting at the bar and then there are four. I must emphasize mine workers, not miners who are drinking and eating right now in the bar.
Miners are drinking.
Mine workers.
Mine workers.
So Tim, you're saying that there's a bunch of miners and then there's a rich financier.
Sitting right next to them, it seems like they're not at the same table. But you're definitely getting the vibe like, Okay, those are the guys who work in the mines, that's probably a mine owner, would be your guess. You also notice in the back room there's some kind of a party going on and you think you hear dwarves singing in Dwarvish.
Is it dwarves or miners?
But you don't speak. Dwarvish dwarves very often are mine workers, yes.
Okay, what do you guys think, should we talk to the rich guy or maybe go to the party?
Finance here, finance here, finance here.
Maybe he'll take us on a trip.
All right, let's talk to Jeff Epstein.
Absolutely 100%.
And his friend might be Maxwell.
As you kind of sit down next to him, he's kind of like, Hello, goodness, good to see you. Quite a brute from the nearby mountains, I see. And he's being very rude to you right now. Would you like to talk to him and try to say something to him, or are you going to do something else?
Yeah, let's talk to him.
What do you say to him?
Well, I'd be like, brute, I'm actually wicked smart.
Absolutely 100. He doesn't seem to, he just, Oh goodness, I'm sure yes. For a barbarian of the mountains, I'm sure you're quite savvy and cunning in your tribe.
Do you try to impress him with any knowledge?
Yeah, could I fill out a quick math formula and just pass it over? Be like, See this, buddy.
I will let you roll a D20.
However, your barbarian norm does have a minus one on intelligence, so if you roll a D20, minus one.
I got a 16.
Yay.
15, 15, 15.
Sorry, oh, a 14..
So you do this pretty impressive math formula and then he's like, Oh goodness, you know how to do your arithmetic. Well, there's a little you forgot to carry the form and you did make a slight mistake. But still, it's pretty impressive with a 14 and it's clear. He says, Ah goodness, I've underestimated you, my good friend. As you try to get information out of him, you can now roll with advantage.
He realizes he's underestimated. You roll two times and take the higher number.
17.
17's great.
Six, six.
So we'll take the 17.
You don't have any bonus to persuasion, but you've made a great impression on this guy. You can either ask him for two things like a potion or some money or something like that, or you could get the answer to two questions. You might have. He may have information, but you'd have to think of what information he would have. You know, this guy wouldn't know what's going on inside the mountain.
He's never fought an ORC or something like that, but you could see what he might know, or, more likely, what he could offer you.
What about if I asked him, who knows the inside of the mountain the best?
Oh goodness, I would say that would probably be the elder dwarves who fled from the mountain so long ago. There are still quite a few dwarves who remember the days 100 years ago of the fall of Kundrakar. So I would talk to them, most likely at the temple of Moradin over that-a-way. But there's also some dwarves having a party in the back room. It seems like one of them is a-they're all brothers, nine brothers, one of whom is the oldest and is having a birthday party right now.
They are quite shit-faced, it looks like, and so you might be able to get information easier out of them, perhaps.
Okay, yeah, so let me uh....
How's your character with peer pressure?
Bad is he? yeah.
Oh shit, you might just get drunk.
I might just get drunk.
These dwarves are partying hard.
But I'm bigger than them, mm-hmm.
Yes, you are mm-hmm.
But they're cooler than you, and you will. No, they're definitely not. no, you're looking for their affection. You will probably get drunk with them.
But I'm bigger than them, like it will take me a lot longer to get drunk.
I think you gotta do something like you have to impress them with how much beer you can drink.
Okay, so I'm gonna say, Hey Jeff, thanks for the talk. You're a creep. I got a bad feeling about you. Something's gonna happen to you later, absolutely.
And then I'm gonna go back in the party and I'm just gonna be like, Hey fellas, and then I pound a beer so fast.
Go ahead and roll me a D20 plus three.
Don't embarrass us.
This is your constitution. Saving throw to see. I typically don't count dice that fall on the floor, but I can-.
I can't really move, Can you give me?-?
Yeah, yeah.
I didn't really think this costume through in this aspect.
That's right.
20 Oh.
Amazing, chug, chug. So as soon as you walk in, they've got the boot going. They have got the boot that they are chugging from. And immediately you're like, fill her up and you chug the boot in. Like, record time.
You definitely beat whatever the record is in this town, you're the fucking man, maybe the world record. Yeah, this is sick, they're losing it right now.
They are your best friend at this point.
I want everyone to succeed.
Yeah.
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Do you tell them, like, what mission you're going on right now? All nine of these brothers are chanting, and they start singing songs you don't know. Dorvish. But as they're rocking back and forth and, like, got torches over their head, you keep hearing the word Kundrakar in their songs, it's clear.
They know information. Did you want to ask them anything, or do you want to tell them anything?
What do we ask? I need help, anyone.
Maybe find out where that axe is.
Where are the actors? Oh yeah, where's that?
You guys ever seen that axe?
Any of you guys missing an axe?
What that axe do?
Thousands of years.
The oldest brother, the one whose birthday it is, was asleep in his food. And then he sits up suddenly. Yes, I remember the axe, our father was there the day Kundrakar fell, and he told me that Durgeddin locked his axe away and couldn't get to it in time to use it to fight the orcs. And then the key was cut from his belt and it fell into a chasm far below the mountain. But I remember him saying that the vault was in the eastern portion of the mountain.
That's all we know for sure. You've confirmed the vault exists. We know it's in the eastern part of the mountain, but problem the key fell into a chasm, he says. Either it's lost forever, or maybe the orcs, who can see very well in the dark, they might have tried to find it.
That's his best guess, all right? So, I mean, should I try to just put this eldest dwarf in my back pocket?
Bring him with you.
You do think that one of these Dwarven brothers would come with you right now? This is Magnus Steeltoe is his name.
Oh, I think we should bring, yeah, Magnus Steeltoe, you want to come party with my boys?
Oh yeah, hell yeah, absolutely, you seem cool, Norm, I'm coming with you. And Magnus seems like he's a fighter, but he's not a fighter on the level with us. He's only got maybe like a dozen hit points.
He's got one axe attack per turn, he can help, but probably help more as cannon fodder than anything else.
No, we got to protect him, I like him.
Yeah, yeah, Magnus Steeltoe, you're with us.
And Greg, that'll bring us to you next. Very good turn. Norm, Yeah, great turn, great turn.
Didn't get into a fight with anyone.
Since I'm the paladin, I think the temple makes sense for me to go to.
Yes, absolutely. The moment you arrive, even though you're not a dwarf, they see your armor, they see your holy symbol. you're a holy knight riding into town incidentally. Greg Important question At this level, you get a steed that you can summon. It's not an actual animal.
It's a spirit, a celestial, an angel that takes animal form. It, of course, can just be a horse, or it could be something else, if you prefer, like a dire wolf or a I don't know, big warthog or something like that. Do you have a particular animal you want to be riding into town on?
A moth, please, a moth, yes.
Yeah, hell yeah, absolutely okay. Cool. You come in at night, of course, the lights of the city twinkle below you. You landed and people are talking about this moth that has sort of been stabled in the town square.
I'll say, yeah, you're riding, they don't want you flying the moth around town, but you're riding this giant moth. Through the streets, right up to the temple, they see your holy symbol, your Holy moth. They say, Brother, welcome, please come inside. You can tell there's a very old Dwarven priest in a withered chair that they're carrying around a little bit, and there are other Dwarven priests kind of roaming around.
You'll also notice they have a whole tabernacle set up with holy healing potions inside of it.
Okay, do I have any sort of trinkets on me?
You do? Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I want to give the old guy like a ring, absolutely, I want to give him a holy trinket.
100. You give him a little sacred relic from a town that you came from, and immediately this old guy, thank you. Yes, this was once in dwarven hands long ago. We shall put this back. And they have a whole reliquary where he kind of puts this ring on the shelf with all of the others.
You've just earned advantage on any persuasion checks you do, and I think you have a persuasion bonus of like, plus four or something on your sheet. I think, oh yeah, yeah. Under skills, I think you have pretty good persuasion for getting information out of people, so under skills, do you see...?
I have persuasion plus six.
Plus six now amazing, so if you try to persuade people you have advantage. You roll two times and take the higher number, and you add a plus six to your total.
Okay, yeah, I would like to ask him what he knows about this axe.
Absolutely 100. Roll two times on the D20. Tell me what you get as a higher number.
A. ten.
Ten good so far.
And a four.
A four, so we'll take the ten plus six, that's a 16. He's going to give you two solid pieces of information. What do you want to know about the axe? What he knows about where it is, or what he knows about its power?
Let's go where it is.
Where it is, he confirms that the vault exists, it's somewhere in the eastern part of the mountain. But I know we already got that information, so he's going to confirm. There's not just an axe in that vault, there is also other magical weapons, magical armor and tons of gold as well in that vault.
He also knows that the orcs would have been able to find the vault. It was not a secret vault by any means. It was a huge, 30-foot-tall, 30-foot-wide vault. Door. The orcs would be able to find it. But unless we haven't seen any orcs carrying any rad magic axes, they could not have gotten the vault door open. It's a very secure vault door.
You'd have to be really good at picking locks, or you would have to be able to find the key somehow.
To this elder dwarf, I would like to know, Is this power worth having or will it corrupt should it stay locked away?
Great question.
Thank you guys.
The good news, No. Durgeddon was a great Blacksmith. He was almost cursed by vengeance. His family had been killed by orcs.
That's why he started making these amazing axes, so he imbued his fury into them, but dwarven fury only makes axes even more radical. It didn't make it cursed or anything. But at the same time, there are many dark forces that seek to claim this axe. And so having it is a danger, not because it will corrupt you, but because other people will be like, Oh, you're an ally of the dwarves.
That makes you an enemy of me. Orcs would not like this axe very much.
Good guy with an axe, though.
Absolutely.
Better than a bad guy with an axe.
I'd rather be a good guy with an axe than a good guy without one. Mm-hmm.
Yeah, you'd rather have an axe and not need it.
Than need an axe and not have it exactly.
And certainly better than letting it fall into evil hands. An ORC could use this axe against us, potentially, though I'd say Durgeddin's axe might burn in their hand or something like that, you would know.
Am I out of questions to ask?
I'd say that was more of a half a question, okay, one more little piece of info.
Is there anything you can give me to help me?
He when he hears that you're going to Kundrakar, absolutely, with even just a half of a question. Gives you not a regular, but a greater healing potion just in case you need it, so I'm going to mark down you've got a greater healing potion. If you need to, either feed that to somebody or drink it yourself. To gain back hit points, you absolutely can, it'll heal back 44 plus 4 hit points. That's a good chunk of your health.
Yeah, I'll kiss him on the top of the hand and go.
Absolutely yes, 100. He puts on the ring so you can kind of kiss the ring and the other priests kind of salute you and wish you well on your quest. To Kundrakar Greg, well done.
So Greg just gave an old man a ring inside of a church and then kissed him.
Oh, I got gay married. Yeah, you did, I think you're married.
The dwarf, The old dwarf, also realizes at the same time Oh, we're gay, married now.
I have an old husband.
Does that mean he has to come with us, too? Honeymoon?
Actually, he wants you to stay home and take care of the temple with him. But he says, first, you know what? If you want to bring this oldest fuck dwarf, you absolutely can.
All right, first of all, that's my husband.
So shut up.
Absolutely 100 yes, apologies.
Did you marry him?
If you ask him for consent, he can bring him with you.
Yeah, fuck him, let's bring him absolutely 100 my gay husband.
This is the High Priest.
I'm not gay, but I do have a gay husband.
Hey, happy Pride Month, thank you.
Absolutely, we'll just high priest Mr. Greg.
Why does this always happen?
Greg Amazing turn. And that will bring us then to Hippo maximus, Hippo maximus. What would you like to do?
You said there's a forest close by.
There is a forest, I would like to go there, be with my people.
You have a small grove of druids.
Yes, 100. Go to your people as you kind of find your people. And the best part is other people would not have an easy time finding these druids. They're secreted away.
You also have a secret language you share with the druids that only you all can speak and stuff. Also, you have magical spells that allow you to talk to animals and do other nature magic, talk to plants, that sort of thing. So make sure if you have any questions about any of your spells, let me know. But when you rendezvous with the Druids, I'll say there is a hierophant.
The high druid of your circle is an old woman, and she says, Oh, greetings, welcome back. Hippo Maximus. Her name is Giraffe Maximus, and so what would you like to say to her or ask?
I guess if she knows anything about this axe, I feel like we know a lot about this axe, though.
We do probably know a lot about this axe.
That was a really good question. Hippo maximus, Do you know anything about this axe?
We know about the axe well. I feel like that was what I was supposed to say, but I don't know if that would be allowed.
You can ask her about the axe.
Who do you think the MVP should have been?
Something like that.
Go ahead and roll a D20.
You have advantage because this is your druid circle, so you can roll two times. However, I don't think you have the persuasion skill, you have a plus one on this.
Maybe ask where the axe is?
Ten, we already know where the axe is.
You got an 11 total. You're only getting one piece of information, or maybe an item or some other kind.
Just get some food. I would like some items to get me to the journey of the Axe.
Yeah, he needs energy, he needs power.
So she'll give you a choice, she could give you a healing potion. Those are always helpful, you can't have too many of them. She might have a little something that might be able to augment your magic.
She might also be able to set you up with a guide who could bring you to the mountain without any trouble otherwise.
You would be our best guide, it would be the survival skill for guiding us to the mountain.
So everything would go through me exactly, I would be the leader, I would be the guide.
In a certain sense.
I would like that to be me.
Does he lose hit points? It's been almost 20 minutes, he hasn't had anything to eat.
I mean, you could make a constitution save if you get too hungry.
No, I just need to be the guide, that's all. Don't worry about the food intake, That's Henry's. Erlich is the one who worries about the food intake.
That's true, he gets very cranky.
He gets very cranky.
Got to keep that blood sugar.
So Max, what are you doing?
I'm taking the guide.
You're going to take the guide, absolutely, she gives you the guide. You can choose any animal you want. I'm going to say it's a bird who suddenly flies down from a tree and lands on your shoulder.
I'm going with a bird, I like a bird.
What kind of bird? eagle? Yeah, birds.
Let's go birds.
This eagle comes swooping down and lands on your shoulder, and this eagle has a magic spell already cast on it, so you don't need to cast anything. It can talk, and this eagle tells you that not only can it guide you to the mountain, it also has seen something strange.
It knows that there are two. It takes you a while, It's like the air that is hard to see through. You're like, you're talking about smoke. It's like, Yes, that.
And he's seen two sources of smoke on this mountain, one seems like it's coming from a campfire from the front of the mountain. The western side where we've heard the mountain door into the mountain is. You also know the eagle's saying there is smoke apparently at the top of the mountain for some reason as well, but you don't know what that would be about necessarily. So you got us an eagle guide who's going to be able to lead us to the mountain and have some interesting, weird information.
Good stuff, hippo maximus.
Can the eagle talk to everyone else, or just to me?
I will leave it up to you.
I would like for the eagle to only talk to me.
The eagle will whisper in your ear. It doesn't understand names this eagle. I'm an eagle. what do you mean? And you can name it whatever you want.
Big dom.
Big Dom Yeah, Big Dom is good.
It says, My name is Ka, but I'll go by Big Dom, absolutely Big Dom. The Eagle 100 now Hippo Maximus. You still have a bonus action, but I do want to take this opportunity just to let you know. The only thing you can really do with the bonus action is. Turn into an animal. So you could turn into an animal right now if you wanted to, or you could wait until a future turn.
I'll save that, save that. Nah, I'm going to save that.
Dude, you've got a double eagle.
Why not double eagle? I'm going to save that.
You have a chance to double eagle right now.
Yeah, I'm going to have a double eagle later, it's going to be tough to fly in a cave. Man, you don't know that.
You should have double eagles.
You don't know how big this cave is.
Alright, we'll remember that. You can definitely wild shape into an eagle, by the way, you could turn into a same size eagle or a bigger eagle.
We'll remember that you didn't double eagle.
I will double eagle at some point, I'm not wasting my double eagle this early.
You'd just be an eagle for life.
You could stay in your eagle form for future turns.
Sounds like he's not confident in his eagles.
Nah, it's too late, I'm staying in my shirt.
You could save the double eagle, absolutely.
I don't want to double eagle too early, like the football team did last year, we've got a double eagle late in the season.
Think about it.
I thought about it makes sense.
Yeah, think about it.
Good turn, Hippo maximus. Absolutely, that is going to bring us to Wade.
So Max found a bird. Yes, okay, that was his entire turn, way to go, dude.
Yeah, you found a bird in the woods.
You're good dude.
You guys don't know anything about guidance, you know nothing about guidance.
You want so badly for this entire game to go through you.
It does go through me.
You're trying to snatch this game.
He just said that I am the leader of this tribe right now, leading us to the mountain.
Actually, big Dom kind of is.
Yeah, Big Dom can only talk to me, though.
Big Dom only has one person's number here.
Yeah, I met big Dom one time and he liked me way more than you.
You want me to text big Dom the Eagle right now?
We're talking about an eagle in this game right now, named Big Dom. I don't know what you guys are talking about. Is the eagle safe from an Orc Chief? Are the eagles good against chiefs?
This eagle only has, like, three hit points. Yeah, it's not a particularly sturdy chief.
Like, if the eagle's sleeping on the ground and my guy, what's his name, Steeltoe?
Magnus Steeltoe.
If he just accidentally like, steps on the eagle.
His name's Steeltoe.
Yeah.
Literally, Yeah, okay, all right. I hope that doesn't happen.
Was this eagle, like, really good two years ago, and now there's questions about whether or not the eagle will still be good?
It does seem to have some silver feathers, kind of like machines.
Let's just say, let's hope this eagle stays safe.
Don't say it, what?
It would be a shame if the eagle died.
Don't say the shame word.
Okay.
PFC No pressure, we all have dates.
Yeah, you have dates. Max has a bird, he's gonna fuck, okay, so I'm amongst my people, right?
You are amongst your people, you know, there's a huge Dwarven population in town, maybe even your family.
Okay, so what else is in town? Bring your sister.
You know, there's the temple of Moradin, temple of all Dwarven kind, you know? There's like potion shops and stuff, the local bar. If you're looking for something else, like a shop that sells other things, potentially there's a lot of different stuff in this town.
Is there a weapon shop in town?
There's definitely a weapon shop in this town.
I think I should go to the weapon shop.
The issue is that we have weapons already, and it would be hard to get better weapons. The better weapons we could get are magic weapons. They might sell those, but they're generally pretty expensive. And that's part of why we would go to the mountains to get some magic weapons. But if you go to the weapon shop, they definitely do sell weapons, you know what?
I'm gonna go visit my family.
Absolutely 100%.
They'd get very angry if they knew I was in town.
Absolutely, they probably have weapons and stuff, too. Amongst your family 100, you can definitely go visit them. Where would your family? what kind of house would your family sort of live in?
I think in a cave.
They're dwarves, so they might have an underground house below the City streets 100, so they got this cave kind of set up immediately. Your parents open arms. You're my boy. Welcome home, Wayne, Wayne. Absolutely. Your brother Garth is there as well.
Garth or Sorry, your cousin, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you've got all your siblings, all your cousins are gathered in the cave right now. They are all embracing you, and they're all having. They're putting together a dinner now to celebrate your arrival in town.
Okay, great. So I'd like to talk to them and see what they know about how to access this cave door. Like, where exactly that key might be?
You haven't seen your family in so long, that's what you're going with.
Yes, yes, it's transactional.
Absolutely, you're particularly good at persuasion. You have about six and you have advantage on them, of course, because they're your family. So you can roll two times on the D20 and take the higher number.
Oh, sorry, that's a D20.
Oh, that's a 30.
D20.
Okay, D20?
Here we go, 15..
Already great.
Pretty good.
And 7.
7 with a 15 that's plus 6 is a dirty 21, and with a 21 in all, you get three things from your family. I am going to say, you mentioned like, are you focusing more on, like other ways you said, into the mountain or to get into the vault?
So I think we need to find where the key is right is the key, because we can't break into this vault, it's too secure. I think the only way that we can get in is if we have the key.
They tell you that they had heard from an ORC that they didn't capture, but like a local caravan was fighting against the orcs, they took a prisoner. One of your brothers was on that caravan. And he says. When they interrogated the ORC, they said that one of the orcs had found a key recently. And it was just a casual note, while they were like, torturing him, kind of.
And you didn't think anything of it, or he didn't think anything of it until you mentioned that you're looking for the key to this vault. At the same time, no orcs have shown up with any gold or magic axes or anything, so even though apparently an ORC has found the key. They still haven't opened up the door yet because they're too dumb now. Absolutely.
You could ask more about what do you know about, like who found the key? or why are they not opening the door? or you could ask something else.
Can I borrow some money?
You could definitely borrow some money. They're going to give you a hundred gold pieces and with that you could buy two healing potions or buy other stuff.
Okay, so do I get another question, or is that it?
You get one more now.
Okay, I want to see which one of my families really ride or die like, who wants to come with me on this great adventure?
Mm-hmm 100. You can definitely get one family member to come with you. Would this be your cousin, your brother, one of your parents, who would you like to bring?
Sister, Back off, Do I have a sister?
You could have a sister like hot.
Like full-blood sister or step-sister.
Is she hot to him?
You could have a step-sister.
I have a step-sister. Yeah, I'll bring my step-sister. Oh, nice.
Step-sister.
Uh-huh.
She immediately wants to know your quest. She says, What are you doing, step-brother? and she is going to join you on your quest 100%.
She sounds hot. Yeah, absolutely.
That's her, she talks like this.
Good to see you.
Good to see you, absolutely.
I'm stuck.
Is she a strong woman?
I'm going to roll her charisma. First of all, your sister is super fucking hot, step-sister. She got a 19 out of 20 on the hotness scale.
That's wild, that's a solid 9.5..
What hockey team would she be a fan of?
18 out of 20.
Those are huge doors and titties, dude, that's so sick for you. Yeah, they are.
Another question What hockey team would she be a fan of? The Edmonton Oilers?
Yes.
Okay, yes.
Absolutely yeah, 100%.
Does she want to join?
Yes, 100. And you know that your sister has gotten drunk in bars, step-sister has gotten drunk in bars, kind of sometimes had some fun.
Is it sister or step-sister?
Step-sister, step-sister. I keep saying, sister, step-sister.
Are we certain, or can we find out later that it's just sister?
I'm going to roll for that secretly.
Okay.
Good to know, I didn't know we did secret rolls here.
Absolutely.
I hate to bring this up, but I've actually been following your step-sister on Instagram for a while.
Oh, that's messed up.
Wait respectfully, respectfully.
Did you know she was my step-sister?
Might have.
We still don't know.
Yeah, we still don't know she could be a real sister.
She doesn't seem to have an onlyfans. Okay, oh yeah, I just rolled for it. I have an onlyfans.
She swiped up on my story, said Lmao. It wasn't even a funny post.
You have a business opportunity. It sounds like, unless you want a name for your sister, I'll name her Vera, unless you have someone else. Oh, I like that.
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