Drufle (GM)
im not even going to try and remember what number this is, but i think it's like 12 or so?

Thicket
close enough

Drufle (GM)
Yeah, he's a slight issue.
But so are all the other things.
So, first things first.

Thicket
I notice one balista that isn't engulfed in flames
can we loot that?

Drufle (GM)
You're currently standing in the middle of a still-flaming field.
Loot?
What would you loot from a ballista?

Thicket
dunno
rope???
bolts?

Wari
run after the demon duh

Thicket
ride it into battle like a noble steed

Drufle (GM)
They aren't exactly fast things.
I wouldn't bother.

Thicket
give it to Rose; a +1 Bow
crossbow, sorry

Drufle (GM)
Very large crossbow.
Well, at least the fire probably won't kill you.

Rose
so can I shoot it

Drufle (GM)
The demon?

Thicket
I think he'll have left by the time we get to the ballista

Drufle (GM)
He's faster than any of you, I believe.
He's also not on the map.

Thicket
we waited too long
trying to figure out what to do
like, 2 to 3 weeks or something

Drufle (GM)
Well, Caecras is to the east(?) of here, not too far off.

Thicket
gave him a headstart

Rose
oh well. marshmallows anyone?

Drufle (GM)
Whichever direction the demon was going.

Thicket
darn, I forgot to bring any
I should've anticipated a bonfire

Drufle (GM)
You throw fire everywhere you go.
You should always anticipate bonfires.

Thicket
can we buy marshmellows?

Drufle (GM)
Pretty sure they aren't invented.

Thicket
D"

Drufle (GM)
Also, the city is burning.

Thicket
D:

Drufle (GM)
Aren't gonna find much in the way of vendors right now.

Thicket
fiiiine
I guess we'll have to run after the demon

Drufle (GM)
Righto.

Rose
really?

Thicket
I still have a Fireball left
I will use it
without question

Drufle (GM)
Unfortunately, due to his higher speed, the demon leaves your sight quite quickly- the trail of black goo he leaves behind, the only sign of his path.

Thicket
is the goo flamable?

Drufle (GM)
Every now and then, you continue to hear the horrible roar from the east.

Thicket
will it act like a fuse?

Drufle (GM)
Go ahead, try to burn it.

Thicket
sure
that's just a control fire I think

Thicket drops a small spark onto the black goo

Thicket then steps back

Drufle (GM)
The black goo sucks in the flame and turns red for a few seconds before reverting to its original state.

Thicket
hmmm

Thicket considers throwing a Fireball at the black ooze

Rose
fun times
can I have some goo

Drufle (GM)
Man, I know you're trying to be a scientist and all, but geez.
Uh, sure?
You can bottle some up.

Thicket
I'm not actually throwing my fireball

Rose
yay. colourchanging makeup

Thicket
ummm
test its toxicity first
also do I have any bottles?

Rose
not for me silly

Drufle (GM)
The ooze is thick and viscous, and also a bit grainy.

Thicket
ah, of course
I have a waterskin

Rose
full coverage

Thicket
I mean, I won't need that anytime soon right?

Drufle (GM)
I like that we're playing with demonic cosmetics while an entire city is being exploded.

Thicket
we have priorities

Rose
not my city

Drufle (GM)
True and true.

Thicket
and its not like anyone trusts a Fae in that city anyways

Rose
unless she is on her back ...

Drufle (GM)
Wari is just being very quiet, staring in wonderment at the goo shenanigans.

Thicket
but yeah, I'll put some goo in my waterskin

Wari
Wari is playing a round of solitaire

Thicket
actually, I'll poor the water out onto the goo first to see what happens

Drufle (GM)
Ruse is baffled into silence.

Wari
poor water

Thicket
I'll get a new waterskin, they're cheep

Wari
"We all have our own ways of coping, man"

Thicket
cheap

Drufle (GM)
The goop turns a clear blue for a few seconds.

Thicket
neat

Rose
yay

Drufle (GM)
Ruse is probably going to ignore your nonsense and just keep walking or running towards the city.

Wari
is it trying to mimic whatever it touches

Rose
lets bleed someone and see what hapens

Thicket
I will definitely put as much as I can into this waterskin

Drufle (GM)
Nyoooooooooom

Thicket
can Dryads, or Fae in general, bleed?

Rose
? but humans do

Drufle (GM)
Fae possibly, Dryads definitely not.

Thicket
darn
sorry Rose

Rose
should we go get one

Wari
i KNEW they were tree people

Drufle (GM)
It depends on the interpretation but usually they're kind of tree-ish.

Thicket
can I cut a piece of my hair and drop it into the goo?
or whatever grows out the top of my head

Wari
can we just get moving tho
this map hurts me eyes

Thicket
we're walking while we're doing this, of course

Wari
there'll be plenty of goo along the way

Rose
i have that poison. should i poor that into it. if the demon is still attached it should get poisoned

Thicket
the demon flies, I think
which is unfortunate

Rose
damn

Drufle (GM)
I can move to the next map, but that is going to be in Caecras.

Rose
why?

Drufle (GM)
So unless we're making a real move towards the city I can't quite do that.

Rose
goo is so much fun

Thicket cuts a small piece of hair off with her rapier and drops it into the goo

Rose
and we stay allive

Thicket
I'm going to take this chance to make an int check too

Drufle (GM)
I can hide the horrible yellow blob.
Thicket:
Intellect Challenge
Roll 18
oh neat
SCIENCE

Drufle (GM)
The goo is thick and murky, and when you drop your... hair? into it, the leafy stuff is absorbed rapidly, and the goo turns greenish and hardens slightly.

Thicket
neat

Drufle (GM)
The goop seems to be replicating the properties of whatever it touches, which is probably why the giant demon monster flies.

Thicket
good to know

Rose
???

Thicket writes this down in her notebook

Rose
that makes no sence

Wari
"hey, what happens if you stuff holy garbage in it"

Thicket
"I do not know. Hey, Rusenfeld"
"Do you have any holy material?"

Drufle (GM)
I wasn't kidding, Ruse is long gone.

Thicket
"Ruse, waaaaait!"

Drufle (GM)
He has no intention of goofing around while his holy city burns.

Thicket
"We need to knoooow!"

Thicket runs off after him

Wari
follow that zealot

Drufle (GM)
To the city!
Wow. that is way louder than I intended it to be.

Wari
jjust as well as I had bruno mars drowning it out

Drufle (GM)
Um...

Thicket
oh HK is here

Drufle (GM)
I'm gonna have to reload the sheet for a second.

Thicket
where did Wari go?

Wari
woohoo double cha-ohhhh

Thicket
surprise, Wari is HK

Drufle (GM)
For some reason, all the character sheets disappeared.

Thicket
D:

Drufle (GM)
They're back now.
The three of you arrive at the front gates of Caecras, where things look... bad.
Hordes of beastmen crowd the streets, and the occasional demon flies through the air.

Rose
oh well. nice knwing you. where is the next city

Thicket
"Well, I predict that this will not go well for this city"
"A shame too...I liked the library"

Wari
"you ain't going anywhere, missy! you're in this shit along with us!"

Rose
who, me?

Thicket
???

Wari
"yeah, you"

Thicket
one half of this conversation is OOC

Drufle (GM)
The great HK is standing over a pile of fomor corpses, and in the distance you see numerous city guards in combat with other still-living beastmen.

Thicket
the other is in character

Rose
i don't do speech marks. I'm allways in character lol x

Thicket
Wari is talking directly to sam

Wari
I just accept that rose has no time to hit the quote key

Thicket
fair enough

Thicket rubs her hands together, making them warm

Drufle (GM)
It's also very hard to see, but Ruse and Yvonne are desperately trying to fend off a huge bugbear and his warg cronies.

H. Knight
"Okay. What. The Hell. Did You Do."

Thicket
"Well, let us get to work"

Rose waves at the battling guards

Thicket
"What makes you think we did this?"

Drufle (GM)
There's Yvonne's nice art, also.

Thicket
also wow look at Yvonne
beautiful

Rose
nice artwork

Wari
golurk art gives me life

Drufle (GM)
I wasn't really able to make a headshot out of it for a nice pog so I just used the whole thing.
She is currently a level 6 Magician/Psychic, and is trying very hard not to die.

Wari
well I suppose we'd better get in there

Thicket
chaaaaarge

Wari
"HUAAAAAAAGH!!!"

Rose puts expensive arrows back into her bag and pulls out ALOT of cheap ones

Drufle (GM)
The wargs immediately turn around at the sound of shouting.

Rose
not wasting my pretty ones

Thicket
lock on target

Rose
i should be able to shoot everything from here

Wari bumrushes the warg on the left

Thicket
I'll cast a spell, I think

Drufle (GM)
Turn order guys, turn order!

Thicket
oh right

Wari
Give us the queue

Thicket
what do?

Drufle (GM)
Who's going fast?

Wari
me

Thicket
I'm here might as well

Rose
slow
i need to stretch

Drufle (GM)
Go ahead, Wari.

Thicket
"Hold up a second Wari"

Drufle (GM)
Erk

Thicket
oh my fucking god I hope you like getting burned buddy

Drufle (GM)
RAGEPUNCHING

Wari
wari doesn't listen to anything you say

Drufle (GM)
Well, go ahead then!
Wari:
Battleaxe
Attack 16
Damage 5
...is that right

Drufle (GM)
No clue, I never use the macros.

Wari
remind me how to do a manual one again

Thicket
it looks like you rolled wtih 2 boons...

Drufle (GM)
Should just be 1d20+STR+whatever boons you have.

Thicket
aaaaand

Wari
I really should just copypasta the equation

Thicket
yeah that looks right

Wari
oh okay then

Drufle (GM)
Well, it's a hit!

Thicket
can you like, push him a little?

Drufle (GM)
It does a whole 3 damage to the warg.

Thicket
also what mode am I in
I don't remember

Drufle (GM)
No idea.

Thicket
I'll say Air for now

Drufle (GM)
Well, you're going fast, yes?

Thicket forms a molten rock in her hands

Thicket
1 yard radius...bah
I'll just hit the guy on the left square in the face

Drufle (GM)
Go ahead.

Rose
what IS THIS THING

Thicket
its automatic, with an AGI save

Drufle (GM)
A bugbear headhunter.
rolling d20+2 ( 20 )+2 = 22

Thicket
rolling 2d6+2( 3 + 2 )+2 = 7

Rose
FRIEND?

Thicket
YES
oh wait

Drufle (GM)
Definitely not a friend.

Rose
oh good

Thicket
that was not the roll I thought it was

Drufle (GM)
Well, I save.

Thicket
okay I rolled...a 7

Drufle (GM)
Half damage?

Thicket
yeah
damn it
my rolls

Drufle (GM)
The warg quickly dodges to the side, getting a bit of his arm singed.

Thicket hurls a molten rock, hitting the ground beneath the warg

Drufle (GM)
Or his foot.
Also the foot.

Thicket
I mean I think I would hit the ground if I missed
or...he dodged
I can't "miss" only be evaded

Wari
you should know attacks have an arbitrary cutoff range
:P

Thicket
its medium range!

Drufle (GM)
Yvonne's gonna try a thing.

Rose
oooh!

Thicket
stop that bugbear

Wari
hope it's a nice thing

Drufle (GM)
rolling d20+3+1d6( 12 )+3+( 1 ) = 16
Oh shit it worked.

Wari
please don't die you're the only person here wari actually likes

Thicket
nice
:(
you don't like Thicket?
grr

Wari
wari is just an unpleasant person

Wari
it's not personal to you

Drufle (GM)
The air around Yvonne pulses and bends, and the bugbear suddenly seizes up as chains of energy shackle him to the ground.

Thicket
nice

Rose
i can always show you really unpleasant!

Thicket
yes Rose we know

Wari
later

Drufle (GM)
She can only keep this up for five rounds, and it'll take all her concentration to do so.

Thicket
still though

Rose
where is bear?

Drufle (GM)
Ruse is gonna step back and shoot one of the wargs.

Thicket
bugbear is our of the battle for a moment

Wari
oh well I know what I'm doing next

Drufle (GM)
rolling d20+1( 13 )+1 = 14

Rose
i know its in range, and i have a rough idea where it is , so can i volley it?

Drufle (GM)
rolling 3d6-3( 6 + 5 + 2 )-3 = 10

Thicket
okay, we're getting somewhere

Drufle (GM)
Ruse looses a glowing-white bolt that pierces the warg's back, pulsing with power.
Monster turns!

Rose
i know its in range, and i have a rough idea where it is , so can i volley it?

Drufle (GM)
HK's in the way, you don't have LOS.

Rose
i don't need it to volley
i mjust need him to point

Drufle (GM)
Well, you can give that a shot with 1 bane on your turn.
First off, warg time.
This right warg is gonna bite at Wari.
I say bite, it's actually a battleaxe.
Do you have light or heavy armor, Wari?

Wari
"you couldn't bite through a wet tissue, ya mutt!"

Drufle (GM)
Or medium, I guess?

Thicket
well, that's why they arn't biting

Wari
aughh here we go

Thicket
I think Wari is medium

Wari
now OFFICIALLY Wari has always worn medium

Thicket
oh right
that

Wari
I mmean brigandine
but we changed reality at one point through our own delusion

Drufle (GM)
Brigandine is light armor.

Wari
so she's been taking heavy armor damage reduction

Drufle (GM)
Medium armor is chainmail or scale plate.

Wari
I SUPPOSE we'd better start playing this poroperly

Drufle (GM)
Light armor it is, then.

Thicket
oh this is going to hurt

Wari
and if she lives she's looting SOMETHING better

Drufle (GM)
rolling d20+3+1d6( 6 )+3+( 6 ) = 15
Hit, I imagine.

Thicket
eeeeesssh

Drufle (GM)
rolling d6+1( 6 )+1 = 7
That's including the DR.

Wari
yeowch

Thicket
I would like to point out I used Oak Hide prior to this fight
because that is scary

Drufle (GM)
Fair enough.

Thicket
actually wait, that's 1d6 +2
huh

Drufle (GM)
Other warg is gonna go punch Yvonne!

Thicket
oh noooo

Drufle (GM)
rolling d20+3-1d6( 8 )+3-( 1 ) = 10

Thicket
oh that is a lot of ouch

Drufle (GM)
And misses terribly, as Yvonne motions a hand towards him and raises a shield.

Thicket
or was that the attack roll?
oh
well good

Wari
yeah that was to hit

Thicket
I thought that was damage
and freaked out

Drufle (GM)
Off to the side, some fomors stab at some rando guards.

Thicket
but I am overreacting

Drufle (GM)
Slow turns!

Rose
marking bear thingy that HK is pointing to. trick shot and dirty shot

Drufle (GM)
I should point out that the bugbear is currently defenseless due to the chains.
His DEF is at 5 and he can't make saving throws.

Rose
wtf

Thicket
:o

Drufle (GM)
Well, physical saving throws.
He can still do WIL/INT ones.

Thicket
ehehehehe

Drufle (GM)
Fire away, and add your bane from volleying.

H. Knight
rolling 1d20( 11 ) = 11
aha

Rose
rolling d20+2+1d6k1( 5 )+2+( 4 ) = 11

Drufle (GM)
Hit, roll damage.

Rose
rolling 3d6+1( 1 + 5 + 4 )+1 = 11
yay

Drufle (GM)
8 damage it is, then.

Thicket
what is our luck
what is Medium range again?
and what's Short range?

Drufle (GM)
short is 5, medium is 20
not feet though, tiles.
Careful when measuring things with the ruler.

Thicket
oh, I think the bugbear is just in range

Drufle (GM)
aka 25 feet for short, 100 feet for medium.
So, top of the round!
Who's going fast?

Thicket
I will
I'm hurling another Meteor
right here

Drufle (GM)
Righto.

Rose
fast for me

Thicket
that hits both of them, I think

Drufle (GM)
Indeed.

H. Knight
HK shall get out of your way first

Thicket
I'll roll, once or twice?

Drufle (GM)
Once.

Thicket
rolling 2d6 + 2( 3 + 1 )+2 = 6
fuck
you
dice

Drufle (GM)
Warg'll try to avoid it.
rolling d20+2 ( 12 )+2 = 14

Thicket
I really hate these dice right now

Drufle (GM)
6 to the bugbear, 3 to the warg.
Rose, do you want to go now?

Rose
ok

Thicket
can I check to see how the guards off to the side are doing?
gauge is they're winning or losing

Rose
am i still hitting with the -1?

Drufle (GM)
They're holding their own for the moment.
If you're going for another volley, yes you have the bane.

Rose
rolling d20+2+1dk1( 6 )+2+1 = 9

Drufle (GM)
Hit on the bugbear.

Thicket
its a really good thing he's chained

Rose
rolling 3d6+1( 3 + 6 + 1 )+1 = 11

Drufle (GM)
Yeah, I didn't actually expect that to work.

Thicket
I wish I could make any useful roll

Drufle (GM)
Another 8 damage off Mr. Bear.

Rose
another 11

Drufle (GM)
Wari?

H. Knight
ok I gotta ask
what's HK doing here and do I have control

Drufle (GM)
He's here because you said you wanted to play as him for this adventure.

H. Knight
...alright then

Drufle (GM)
You can control him, sure.

H. Knight
I won't look a gift centaur in the mouth

Drufle (GM)
Make up for the fact that Sol isn't around.

H. Knight
thank you :D
okay so can I charge the warg wari is fighting

Drufle (GM)
Sure.

H. Knight
ok then
so that's one bane?
and 2 boons?

Drufle (GM)
Sounds right.

H. Knight
righto

Drufle (GM)
And however much crazy damage you'll be doing.
H. Knight:
THROW/PUNCH/KICK
Attack 21
Damage 9
oof

Thicket
what is with our rolls

H. Knight
is that an extra d6 damage?

Drufle (GM)
Definitely a hit, add another 1d6 to that damage.

H. Knight
ok good
rolling 1d6 ( 4 ) = 4

Thicket
phew

H. Knight charges in and clotheslines the warg

Drufle (GM)
Instead of clotheslining him, you straight-up decapitate him.

H. Knight
oh okay

Drufle (GM)
He is mega dead.

Wari
"SWEET FUCK HK"

H. Knight
"What?"

Thicket
well that's one down

Thicket is slowly getting more and more upset that nothing has burst into fllames

Drufle (GM)
HK just kinda trots up and single-handedly destroys a man.
Is Wari going to go fast?
Or slow?

Rose
give me time. I'm filling one with arrows atm

H. Knight
oh yeah slow I think

Drufle (GM)
Alright, monster fast turn!
The bugbear hears what's going on behind him and is slowly sweating.

Thicket
what is Ruse doing?

Wari
"Okay, I'll take the wolf down main street, you take the harbor"

Drufle (GM)
Also bleeding from all the arrows in his back.

H. Knight
"As You Wish, Ma'am"

Drufle (GM)
Ruse is gonna stand on the sidelines to offer support if necessary.
The other warg is going to again try to attack Yvonne.
rolling d20+3 ( 13 )+3 = 16

Rose
can i shoot again yet? its clear now

Thicket
oh no

Drufle (GM)
rolling d6+1( 4 )+1 = 5

Thicket
oh noooo

Drufle (GM)
rolling d20-d6( 8 )-( 2 ) = 6
rolling d20+2 ( 4 )+2 = 6

Thicket
I feel that might be bad

Drufle (GM)
As the warg's axe grazes Yvonne, she lets out a horrendous scream that splits the ears.
rolling d6 ( 3 ) = 3
Both the warg and bugbear take 3 damage and can't do anything next round.

Thicket
wut
the
hell???
Yvonne???

Wari 's ears are ringing

Thicket
what are you???

Drufle (GM)
Psychic scream! It's the level 6 Psychic talent.

Rose
can i let go f this dow string yet

H. Knight
Black Canary, clearly :P

Drufle (GM)
Slow player turns!

H. Knight
rose sez she went fast

Drufle (GM)
So nobody, so top of the round then.
Since all the monsters went fast too.

Thicket
wasn't wari going slow?

Drufle (GM)
Oh wait, was she?

Thicket
I thought so

H. Knight
and yes she was

Thicket
she didn't do anything in the fast round

Rose
rose has

Drufle (GM)
Let Wari go, then.

Rose
rose went fast and did 8 damage.

Drufle (GM)
Whoop, there she goes.

Wari shuffles on over to the warg and casts RESOUNDING ATTACK

Rose
and she is ready to unleash fletched hell
Wari:
Battleaxe
Attack 14
Damage 5

Drufle (GM)
Hit on the warg.

Wari
god I don't like thise macros

Drufle (GM)
That's why I don't generally use them.
They're good for early learning, but once you know the system it's usually better to do it yourself.
Anyway, 3 damage!
Don't you need to roll another d6, though?

Thicket
"You all seem to have this under control"

Wari
rolling 1d6( 6 ) = 6

Drufle (GM)
Righto, another 5 then.
Wari rushes up from behind and plants an axe right in the warg's skull.
He collapses to the ground.

Rose
should my arrows have done an extra d6 then?

Thicket
"I'll leave that bear-looking creature to you"

Drufle (GM)
No, it's a warrior thing.

Rose
oh

Wari
"Yvonne!" You Okay, girl?"

Yvonne Lariel is panting and coughing, still trying to hold the bugbear in place.

Yvonne Lariel
"Thank the gods you guys finally showed up! What took you so long?"

Wari
"we had to run around a big fire"

Thicket
I am going to assume Thicket can't hear this conversation
also uh oh

Yvonne Lariel
"Fire, right, makes sense. Can you please kill this angry bear man before I pass out?"

Wari
"we kinda had a big problem outside"
"and sure, yeah!"

Thicket
I feel like she's going to have a stern word with Thicket later

Thicket calls out

Drufle (GM)
Right then, now it's top of the round.

Thicket
"Do you need help killing the bear creature?"

Rose
rolling d20+2+2d6k1( 13 )+2+( 1 + 5 ) = 20

Yvonne Lariel
"Any help would be cough greatly appreciated!"

Drufle (GM)
Hit, roll damage.

Rose
well that's defo a hit
rolling 6d6+1 ( 4 + 3 + 2 + 4 + 4 + 1 )+1 = 19

Drufle (GM)
And then do your EO.
Wait, what????

Rose
half that sorry

Thicket
uhhh

Rose
rolling 3d6+1( 6 + 2 + 6 )+1 = 15

Thicket
oh well

Drufle (GM)
Geez, what kind of monster-slaying arrow was that.
12 damage it is!

Thicket
is it dead?

Rose
and then my second on

Drufle (GM)
Nope.

Thicket
how bad does it look?

Drufle (GM)
He is so full of arrows.

Rose
rolling d20+2+2d6k1( 13 )+2+( 4 + 3 ) = 19

Drufle (GM)
It's kinda hard to tell, considering he can't move or do anything.
Hit, roll damage without trickery.

Rose
rolling 3d6+1( 6 + 6 + 6 )+1 = 19

Thicket
wtf

Drufle (GM)
Motherfucker, Rose.

Thicket
why

Rose
i get it twice

Wari
cuz of level 5?
or something

Rose
rougue cunning

Thicket
is she the only person who can roll well enough to make a damn difference

Drufle (GM)
Oh yeah, you're right.

Rose
hell slayer

Drufle (GM)
Rose, somehow from the other side of the battlefield, lets loose two arrows and splits the bugbear's skull in twain.

Rose looks pretty smug

Drufle (GM)
Yvonne sighs and the chains around the bugbear vanish.

Thicket
I have done one useful thing as Thicket and that ended in summoning a demon

Wari
Your fireballs are bad and you should feel bad!

Yvonne Lariel yells over to Rose.

Rose
you all owe me arrows

Yvonne Lariel
"NICE SHOT"

Wari
woopwoopwoopwoopwoop

Thicket
why the fuck am I even here

Drufle (GM)
For that sweet, sweet DR-ignoring damage.

Thicket
yes
all fucking 6 of it

Drufle (GM)
I admit, I am starting to see Mopp's point.

Thicket
I can't roll anything

Wari
finally

Thicket
to get any fucking thing done

Drufle (GM)
Even with the DR balancing things in magic's favor, arrows and punches are doing far more damaged.

Thicket
because you keep roll 20s!

Drufle (GM)
Granted that has a lot to do with your obscene rolls, guys.
I think luck is just not working in Thicket's favor today.

Rose curtsies

Drufle (GM)
This will be some amazing data for the sheet, I can tell.

Thicket
its never been in her favor
ever
period

Rose
i needed some luck recently x

Yvonne Lariel
"So, uh, that giant floating tar pit and the massive glowing minotaur, those are your fault, I take it?"

Thicket
"I have seen only one of those things"

Wari
"It's Thicky's fault"

Thicket
"Excuse you"
"You all were there too"

Rose
can i shoot the other 3 thingies

Thicket
"And none of you had any better ideas"

Wari
"wait what?"

Thicket
the other thingys are dead

Wari
"glowing minotaur??"

Yvonne Lariel
"Right, well, whatever is whose fault, they're kind of sitting in the main square tearing things up."
"Yeah, the towering black minotaur? The one with the glowing runes all over it?"

Rose
i can still see 3 things battling guards here

Wari
"We only saw the giant floating tarbaby"

Thicket
"We have only seen the tar demon"

Yvonne Lariel
"Oh, well, there is ALSO a very tall and angry glowing minotaur in the town square."
"I guess that one wasn't actually your fault, sorry."

H. Knight
"Can We All Please Concentrate On What is In Front Of Us, Please?"

Thicket
"Okay so..."
"Based on my research"

H. Knight gazes over at the formors

H. Knight
oh ok

Thicket
"The tar of that demon takes on the properties of whatever it touches"

Drufle (GM)
The fomors are indeed dead, guys.

H. Knight
guys did good work

Drufle (GM)
Hence the little skulls.

Thicket
"That might help if we can find the right material"

Rose
no glasses on

Drufle (GM)
Ah, pardon then.

Thicket
"This also includes fire"

Yvonne Lariel
"That's great, I think... I'm gonna sit down for just a second."

Rose
so we are done here now then

Yvonne Lariel sits on a nearby box.

Rose
next village everyone?

Thicket
there are so few other villages
this world is kinda going to shit, even without the demons

Rose
no offence but this one is fucked

Thicket
true
but like
its pretty much the last big city, I think

H. Knight
"We Have To At Least Try To Solve This. If You Make A Mistake And Do Not Correct It, That Is A Second Mistake."

Rose
so smaller ones coud be fun to

Thicket
Drufle, how many cities are there?

Drufle (GM)
Total, in all of Rul? Or just in the general area?

Thicket
"I do not know what you are implying"
general area I guess

Rose
in total

Drufle (GM)
Caecras is the only actual city in the area, there are the Free Cities farther to the east, but those are havens of horrible lawlessness and general bad stuff.

Rose
lets not stay too close to this one

H. Knight
sounds like a nice time

Drufle (GM)
And other various cities across the continent of varying size.

Rose
and that sounds perfect

Drufle (GM)
Caecras is by far the largest.

Rose
was...

Thicket
you would be assaulted by pirates constantly in the east

H. Knight
it's now the world's largest rubble pile

Drufle (GM)
The pirates are a problem, yeah.

Rose
hmmmm. sounds like fun. then i would eat them

Drufle (GM)
Well, I'll be honest, I don't have the town square map quite done yet; I expected the fight with the bugbear to take far, far longer.

Rose
pirates are no problem for me when i can take down everything i see with my bow
coffee break?

Thicket
I think pirates a bit stronger than fomors

H. Knight
yeah I'm done
it's too hot today

Thicket
we can't really continue without Sol

Drufle (GM)
Yeah, alright by me.

H. Knight
everyone take a siesta
pull up a pile of bricks

Thicket
I am
so damn tired
of my horrible rolls
I want to do actually damage

Drufle (GM)
Maybe next week you'll get your luck back????

Thicket
fuck, I HAVE a lot of potential damage

H. Knight
better weather through this
and get drumun back in

Rose
you dod last time. you blew everything up
did

Thicket
against a portal that couldn't move

Drufle (GM)
Yeah, the amount of damage magicians [can] do is absurd.
Can being the operative word, I believe.

Rose
the bear didn't move either

Drufle (GM)
I think that's the "balancing" factor here, to be honest.

Thicket
and I fucked it up
I only did 6 damage to the bear

Drufle (GM)
Magic has a much higher possible damage cap, but weapons have a higher average damage.
So punching and axes and bows will do good damage consistently.
Meanwhile, magic [could] demolish an entire group of monsters at once, or give them a little tickle.

Thicket
I can't use fireball because you dopes keep running up next to the enemy before I can throw it

Rose
but we all know the winds of magic are constantly shifting

Drufle (GM)
Yeah, something like that.
Magic is very volatile in this world.

Rose
one strong breeze and everything is fucked

Thicket
next time you do that I -WILL- throw the fireball anyways
you're well being be damned

Rose
and there are two massive demons in the area soaking it all up

Drufle (GM)
To be fair, only one of them is technically a demon.
The other is technically a beastman.

Thicket
we need Beastkiller weapons from fire emblem

Drufle (GM)
Pfffft.

Thicket
and Spirit weapons too for that matter

Rose
bing and glowy= the same to me

H. Knight
oh so
there's one demon

Rose
big

H. Knight
and one empowered minotaur?
that's unusual

Drufle (GM)
There's the Huge tar demon thing, plus what's known as a Void Bull.

H. Knight
hmmmm

Thicket
fucking void bulls

Rose
leather time

Thicket
void leather?

Rose
why not

Thicket
does that make good armor?
or purses?
boots maybe?

Rose
human leather isn't so bad

H. Knight
okay before we do anything else

Drufle (GM)
A hulking monstrosity with huge, curved horns, pitch black fur, and fiery runes carved into their flesh.

Thicket
human skin is too thin

H. Knight
Wari is going to loot some heavy armor
or at least medium

Drufle (GM)
Pffft.
Sure, go take some.

H. Knight
and HK is going to get a fuckining lance

Rose
not if you cure it right. they make great canvases

Thicket
maybe, but not armor

Drufle (GM)
You can find some medium armor, not necessarily heavy.

H. Knight
ok

Rose
bones are good for that

Drufle (GM)
You're in the wrong district for there to be any heavy metal plate around.

Thicket
what did these beastmen have on them?

Rose
laminar style

Drufle (GM)
They all just have hard leather.
Beastmen never have more than light armor unless I specifically give them better.

Thicket
now I just...need to figure out what I can do with the demon goo

H. Knight
is scale mail medium

Drufle (GM)
Yes.

Thicket
maybe I can redeem myself

H. Knight
kay-oh
-1 defense?

Rose
I'm going to get my arrows back out of that things back

Drufle (GM)
Yep.

H. Knight
good call

Thicket
don't arrow heads usually pop off?

Rose
and collect the pelt whilst I'm at it

H. Knight
depend on the arrow
some are designed to be re-used

Drufle (GM)
For special ammunition, you can only recover half of what you used.
So Sayeth Ye Book.

Rose
i used 1

Drufle (GM)
Oh.
Then you can have that one back.

Thicket
rounded up or down?

Rose
final kill shot
thanks x

Drufle (GM)
Right then, I guess I'm gonna go eat some lunch.

Thicket
what is even in these stalls?

Drufle (GM)
Fruits and vegetables, I think.
As you may have guessed, I didn't make this map.

Rose
are you maing the next one?
making

Drufle (GM)
Possibly? I sure have the free time to do so now.
Depends on whether or not I want it to look like total garbage.

Next time
The great fight!

H. Knight
you gotta practice

Drufle (GM)
People are probably gonna die.

Rose
can i get some mega bull arrows?

Drufle (GM)
At this point? Definitely not.

H. Knight
you have to kill a mega bull first

Rose
damn

H. Knight
and use its materials
to craft them

Drufle (GM)
Aren't exactly many vendors out at the moment.

Thicket
and hope you carve off the right bits

H. Knight
we're in Monster Hunter now

Thicket
or else you'll have to fight like, 10 more

Rose
can i not just break into the places around me and find weapons

H. Knight
Twenty Bull Asses

Drufle (GM)
You can honestly probably extract some exceptional stuff from these monsters.

Thicket
its all vegis and fruit here

Drufle (GM)
I mean, maybe?
But it's gonna be like, daggers.
MAYBE a short sword.

Rose
what about gold?

Thicket
the beastmen here?
or the demon and void bull?

H. Knight
a record-setting bugbear bezoar

Drufle (GM)
The beastmen have spears and battleaxes here.
The demon and void bull.
These beastmen are plain and boring.

Thicket
can I extract...magic???

Drufle (GM)
We'll see if you survive long enough to find out.

Thicket
step one: throw Fireball at Demon
see if it explodes into flame

Rose
can anyone heal rose as well, se is just too proud to ask

H. Knight
On the next episode of SHADOW OF THE DEMON LORD

Rose
she

Drufle (GM)
Oh sure, Ruse has plenty of healing.

Thicket
I've used up all my healing berries

H. Knight
same for wari please

Thicket
And Yvonne
she got hit too

Rose
14 out of 35

Thicket
also she's exhasted

Drufle (GM)
Yvonne has her own healing potions, she'll be fine.
Let's see here...
Both of you heal 1.5 your rate.

Rose
brilliant, thanks

Drufle (GM)
And with that, I'm gonna go.
Questions to telegram, as usual.