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SPEAKER_00 0:31

Welcome back to the Ravenlands, our Intrepid crew of I was gonna say ne'er do wells, but you're definitely not ne'er do wells. The intrepid band, I should say, of the Folk Vandals Club are all resting after a long day's trip out to this bridge. We are joined as ever always by Marco. Hello. We are also joined by Tony. Hello, people. And by Scott. Hey folks! Right, well that's all you're gonna get this session because you know listen to our previous one and you'll know who everyone is. So let's get going. Short and sweet today. Yeah, no, not preliminary, so you see. Oh, I'm getting straight into it. Okay, well, it's day two away from Juniper Song, and you have spent the night under a very large bridge next to a river, sort of like about 300, 250, 300 foot across. You sheltered very nicely under the nice spring evening. There wasn't a cloud in sight, there was no rain, it was cozy. Did you have a fire?

SPEAKER_04 1:39

Tony, I think you were calling the um and ask us and grey to get the fire going.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, you had a very nice fire, you kind of fell asleep to the dying embers, and you woke up the next morning, which is always good, to the sound of frogs and the bubbling river as it rushes through the um the broken down parts of the um of the bridge uh that you can't cross. You can hear the occasional twang of the of the rope that kind of uh holds the ferry that goes from your side to the other side. Yeah, you wake up to this very fine sort of like wispy mist on the river, which very quickly dissipates as the uh day starts to get sunnier and warm up. It's another beautiful day in the Ravenland. Can you all take one food and one water of your uh in fact make a roll for your not take it off, I forgot forgot what game I was playing there for. Just a second. So on your character sheets, you will see under the gear there is a food and water, arrows and torches. If you could roll for food and for water, if you get a water or two, you decrease your dye by one. And it just means you've eaten more food than you need. Which is exactly what Barador has done.

SPEAKER_03 2:58

Oh, does that mean I reduced my water? I rolled a one?

SPEAKER_00 3:02

Yeah, so if you're if you if you're on a D6 you roll a one, you end up basically using water. But very handily, you're right next to a very large fast-flowing river, which you can quite easily re-reuse your water. And in this case, if you wanted to, if you wanted to go anywhere near the water, you can quite happily refill your water to a D12.

SPEAKER_04 3:23

And also, because I just lost all the water I had. We should probably boil this water.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

That's up to you to decide whether you want to do that. I know I'm I'm I'm talking to the group here.

SPEAKER_02 3:34

We probably should. No point dying of dysentery so far out within a day of leaving. And Duen, do we need more wood this morning?

SPEAKER_04 3:41

Probably we're gonna need them. If you want me to redo the fire.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

You've probably got like a little small stash just to have like maybe some eggs or whatever kind of stuff you might have with you to kind of so I'd have no problem with you not having to forage for again.

SPEAKER_03 3:56

There you go. I'm gonna start boiling water. Okay. The game master is privately rolling dice.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

I I l I love doing it, dear. It's it's great.

SPEAKER_04 4:04

Which is never a good sign. It's perfect. This is what all GMs do, you know, behind their you know, they have their things. They just roll, you know, I always roll in to make my you know my players unease. I always roll, I don't care.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

It seems to work. I see it's when I'm when I'm doing it to my players, it's entirely it's an entirely legitimate psycho psychological technique. Exactly. When it's doing it to me, I don't like it.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Well you'd be pleased to know that um yeah, you can fill up your water. Are you going to I'm gonna be very kind of uh specific just because it's fun, are you going to use your water, then fill up your canteens, and then boil said water one in a in a row and then wait for the water to cool and then refill your canteens? Or are you going to you boil whatever water you have and then fill up your canteens and then next time you want to get water you'll fill up and burn wood and boil water.

SPEAKER_04 5:08

I will just pour I have no water, so I will just bring a big mass of water, boil everything, and then refill my canteen. And these two guys can do whatever they want.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

No, berodor do the same. That's fine, it's just gonna take you a shift to do all of that. So by the time you've faffed around with everything, got all the stuff you wanted, that is no problem.

SPEAKER_04 5:28

Yeah, and and while while I'm doing that, I would ask oh, Beredon, just play play something. You know, this is a very merry morning. Show us, show us how you play your fruit, your loot.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

And berodors, ha ha ha ha. If you insist. And he sits down, finds a rock, a bit of root, a bit of rubble falling off the bridge, and he just strums a light-hearted morning melody as a little backdrop to us everyone's doing their work. So Cass is sort of picking up wood, Tony's poking around, and Grey is off doing whatever it is Grey does 7 o'clock on spring morning.

SPEAKER_04 6:04

Peanut on the trees, you know, a wolfkin, peeing on the trees, you know, marking the territory.

SPEAKER_02 6:08

Marking territory, sniffing bums.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

Okay, yeah, you you spend a good whole portion of the of the of the morning shift doing all that, and by the time it's kind of getting just before midday, you guys are prepared, ready to face the rest of the day. What's the plan?

SPEAKER_04 6:26

I think we would cross the bridge, remember? No, there were kind of these ropes that we could just drag and move. There was something to move back and forth, right?

SPEAKER_02 6:34

We found like a ferry, haven't we? But we weren't strong enough to pull it.

unknown 6:39

No?

SPEAKER_00 6:40

No, we didn't try, it was too dark, it was too late. So there is a very large rope going beside the bridge, the very large bridge, from your side of the river to the other side of the river. The other side of the river, you can see a large wooden ferry, and on this side that you're on, you can't see a way of pulling the ferry across. So, to get to the ferry, someone is going to have to traverse either swimming through the river, hanging onto the rope and climbing across the river, or finding some other way to get to said ferry.

SPEAKER_04 7:18

Well, definitely I cannot do that, you know.

SPEAKER_02 7:21

Like all good bards, I am more than happy to sit here and play music to encourage great feats of climbing and swimming. It's it's probably not actually, you know, ideal if I do them myself. Because my value is in inspiring the party rather than.

SPEAKER_03 7:37

What uh what skill would we use to use the rope to sort of essentially walk and or swim across the river? I don't know how deep this river is. It's gonna be move. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

And or endurance. They're the two that you're kind of looking at.

SPEAKER_03 7:52

Okay, and do we have a vague idea of how deep this river is?

SPEAKER_00 7:56

It looks relatively deep. No one's tested it or figured out how to test it. And how fast flowing is it? It is quite fast flowing. There is definitely a lot of eddies and stuff around all the broken masonry and and parts of the foot of the uh sort of like two middle parts of the bridge. So you can see sort of definite movement. Probably two or three kilometers.

SPEAKER_03 8:18

Grey will say to Veradon, sing me a song to keep me from drowning, and then I just grab onto that rope and go across. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

Don't drown Grey, don't drown grey, keep your face above the water. Don't drown Grey, don't drown grey. Swim, swim because you order. Jesus, I love it.

SPEAKER_00 8:46

I'm hoping they'll give me a die. I mean, you might just decide to jump straight in the water. So you can either tough it out underneath and hand over hand kind of you know go across that way, or you can try and be sort of like more sort of agility-based and kind of be on the top and try and go that way. So you'll doggy paddle. I mean you could swim, you could try and swim. So the rope itself is not in the water. Right. If you were to hang on to the rope, your feet might just dangle in the water, but not much else.

SPEAKER_03 9:22

Perfect, I'll do that.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

Okay. Which case that would be a endurance. Endurance.

SPEAKER_03 9:29

You said that you said either endurance or move.

SPEAKER_00 9:32

If you want to go on top of the rope, it'll be a move. So if you want to do that, that's fine. You mean like rope walk across? Not quite rope walk, but yeah, kind of like it's more about the agility rather than just toughing it out with the strength, which is kind of like the underneath bit.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

Like bracing yourself against this masonry and using the rope to yeah, that kind of thing. I'm doing the agility.

SPEAKER_00 9:52

Okay. If you would like to make a move roll for me, that would be. Do I get any inspiration from our Do you get the inspiration? Well, Troubadour Man, what is your ability to inspire? What is your talent?

SPEAKER_02 10:06

That is a very good question. I think you've got Path of the War. I actually I've got because I've got Path of the Warcry, which if I knock on it will tell me what I can do. It inspires my comrades and strikes fear into the hearts of my enemies. Using it in combat counts as a slow action. So I can emit a war cry that grants everyone a short range to all attacks. So I've kind of gone for the inspire courage kind of bard as opposed to the inspire competence kind of bard by the looks of it. If if I were to draw a comparison to a and other role-playing game that may or may not be more popular than this one.

SPEAKER_00 10:45

Nicely done. So you sound great, but unfortunately, it does not give you any inspiration, Grey.

SPEAKER_03 10:52

Okay. Thanks for nothing, Baradon.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

The genius was there, you just can't appreciate it. That's not my fault, Grey.

SPEAKER_03 11:01

No uh no no modifier for me?

SPEAKER_00 11:03

No, no modifiers, just a straight roll. Oopsie. So no successes, would you very much like to push that? Yep. Okay. Oopsie. It's not enough. Okay. Yeah, so you uh you kind of get up onto the sort of rope, you kind of take a bit of time trying to get up, and then you fall down again. But you hang on, you could probably get no more than 10 feet maybe on the rope, and you you basically slip and hit the water. The water is really cold. Suddenly you're just drenched. You realise that it is relatively fast flowing, and you are probably up to your chest in water. You stand up and you realise the current's taking you, and you sort of like drift for maybe 30-40 feet before you manage to get back onto the bank, covered and so your clothes and your your furs were wet, but yeah. I assume you weren't doing that with all your kit on because that would be crazy. Correct. Correct. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, you're just very wet now, very cold.

SPEAKER_04 12:01

Thank God we I prepared a fire this morning. Come here.

SPEAKER_03 12:05

Could I have tried to once I fell in the water to swim across?

SPEAKER_00 12:09

Yeah, you could you could do, yeah. I mean you it's gonna be hard going because it is quite fast flowing, but yeah, you can feel and that's a an endurance test? That could be an endurance, a move, or a might. You decide, depending on what you want to do. So if you wanna if you wanna kind of like use moves, you'll be fine, but you'll end up downriver on the other side. Whereas might and no might like endurance might be.

SPEAKER_03 12:31

My strength is not, no, I'm not gonna do that. Okay. So yeah, I'm gonna sit by the fire. Anduin, warm me up, cuddle with me.

SPEAKER_02 12:39

Baradon's going to sit a little bit further away just in case Grey decides to shake. Yeah, Grey is definitely shaking.

SPEAKER_04 12:46

Yeah, yeah. I will just well, thank god the fire is still on, so you can, you know, I will just move.

SPEAKER_03 12:51

Yeah, I see as I step out of the water and do the, you know, do the dog shake and then walk over to the fire and Anduin. Anduin is like grabs a towel and starts. And I'm not driving you, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

Yes, you are. And then you're gonna give me a treat. I think you just have that. Cassie Cassie sort of like starts taking off her armor and stuff and sort of kind of has a look at the rope and is testing it, and she's like, okay, I'll give it a go.

SPEAKER_02 13:16

Beridon's in no way distracted by this. Of course not, of course not. And as Cassie's about to dive in, she he he steps up and just strums the loot again.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

Seeing that you kind of tried the sort of like agility way of doing things, Cass basically tries to uh go underhanded and sort of like shimmy through, and she's as she's doing that, but as soon as she gets a little way on, the sort of rope starts to sort of slack a little bit, and you can see she's having a bit of a problem. Would you like as a group, if she got no successes, would you like her to push the rope? Yes, yes. Okay, go, go, go, gas, go, you know how to swim. That doesn't sound good. So I just got three ones pushing the roll. She kind of gets about a third of the way across, and you can see that she's just ends up having her hands on the on the rope, and she holds on for dear life. You're all looking at her, and she's like trying really hard to keep on. Her legs sort of like then go, and then very quickly she just falls into the water.

SPEAKER_04 14:16

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_02 14:18

Pherodon drops the loot and dives straight in.

SPEAKER_04 14:21

I love it. This is a great. Where is the water going to the to the house or the other way around? Where is the water flowing to? Is it the direction of the flow?

SPEAKER_00 14:31

It's no, it's flowing away from from the house. From the mountains, obviously.

SPEAKER_04 14:35

On the mountain, yeah. Obviously.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

So the glacial the glacial river is flowing away from the mountains. Okay. Okay, yeah. Okay. Scott, you dive straight in. Peradon dives straight in. Could you make endurance or move roll for me, please?

SPEAKER_04 14:50

The hero. Go for it. We say that now. This is me rolling. Oh my gosh. Okay, this is a TPK. We are all dying here by the river. He failed and then he pushes in. He got a success.

SPEAKER_02 15:04

Peridon lunges into the into the water. A suddenly appreciates shock factor when he realizes just how damned cold this river water is. And for a second it just crushes all of the air out of his lungs. And so boom boom! And then he can see cats flailing underwater, and he just goes for it. It's the most it's the most inelegant underwater doggy paddling you've ever seen. But it seems to work.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

And all for love. You can see that the cast is kind of like keeping her head above water, and you sort of like get to her. At this point, for you two, they've kind of like been swept down river, and so you're sort of like losing sight of them as they disappear in the room.

SPEAKER_04 15:45

Yeah, I'm following, you know, I kind of let Beridon get all the all the glory of this. Okay. So I just got in case I need to rescue them both.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

So Beridor, by the time you've kind of got to Cass, you're about halfway along the river. You have a choice. You can either come to the side that your friends are at, or you and Cass can try and swim to the other side of the river. How is Cass doing? Does she look like she's like she's struggling or. You can see her hands and stuff are ripped from the rope and she's she's struggling a little bit. She's she's gone from five to two strength.

SPEAKER_02 16:19

So if I I reckon Beraldor's gonna grab Cass and they're just and they're gonna they've they've got halfway across. They may as well try. They're gonna try and strike out for the other bank in case that the river sort of gets shallower on the way over.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

Okay, make another endurance roll for me, please, sir.

SPEAKER_02 16:36

He's gonna have to push it again because again that will that nope.

SPEAKER_00 16:41

That's he's he's the water, the cold water started to sap his strength. Yeah, you both you basically start to flounder. Cass though somehow seems to find a last bit of strength, and he and she then grabs you and you both swim across to the other side. Tony, so Andrew and Gray have kind of like tracked their progress from the bridge, and you probably reckon you go maybe just under a kilometre downriver when they get to the other side, and they basically haul themselves out onto the bank and they are just shattered. You can just see them on the other side of the bank, and they're just laying down in the grass.

SPEAKER_04 17:15

And they're like, Good job, good job, get the ferry. For a second there, I thought that was very elegant.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

Just a minute, just I know just just just a minute. I need to die.

SPEAKER_03 17:27

For a second there, I thought episode two was gonna be the final episode.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

I mean so good is the the fickle nature of Forbidden Lands. Okay. Yeah, you kind of wait there for probably a good 15-20 minutes to kind of get your breath. You realize that you're cold, so can you please take the cold status? Well, should I take some things? Because I'm all No, no, because you just fell in and got out, and and you got warmed up by um by Andrewin. Excuse me.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

You you basically just didn't try hard enough to take the cold condition.

SPEAKER_04 17:58

It was a fire, it was not me. I did I did not rub in.

SPEAKER_03 18:01

Endorin gave me his body heat, it was wonderful.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

What it does mean is that so can you take one point of strength damage from that? I think it might have already kind of factored it in. Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_04 18:11

Look at it, this the good away, Beridon. You're building character now.

SPEAKER_02 18:15

Peridon just lies there in the grass staring up. Okay, she sort of glances over at Cass and then she doesn't say anything. He just goes, That's the worst bath I've ever had.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

Let's never do that again. Sure, that seems like a great plan, Veradon. I think uh yeah, that seems like a good plan. She kind of like gets up, sort of like brings out some of her clothing and shall we? She says, she points back up river.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

Beridon sort of goes, Look, there's no point in walking around in these cold wet clothes, and just takes off his top, takes off his trousers, wrest them out, and just carries them with him to to dry them.

SPEAKER_03 18:55

Dry them. Yeah, I would like to remind Beradon and everyone else that the water was really, really cold. That's why he's kept his underwear on.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

Yeah. Cassie basically uh raises her eyebrow to you and keeps her clothes on and continues to trudge back up the room. If you get a catch a death of cold, don't don't blame me, Cass. Don't blame me.

SPEAKER_02 19:15

I'm not one of your cheap village girls. Blame! There's there were there was not a single girl in our village that I would consider cheap.

SPEAKER_00 19:21

She just like kicks some grass and stuff and makes she makes your way up. I take it that Anduin and Grey continue to follow them back up the river to the bridge, and uh okay. Yeah, you kind of watch them as they kind of get to the particularly large ferry. It could probably take a cart if you wanted to put a cart on the ferry, but just about.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Is it like is it like a winch ferry or a sort of a chain ferry type thing? Or is it no hand over hand pull it across the river?

SPEAKER_00 19:48

Pretty much hand over hand pull it. There is a there is another there's another rope that kind of like secures this to the side of the the river, and should should something go wrong, there is a rope that will allow you to pull yourself back to the other side of the river, just not the side that you're on, as in like Tony and Marco's side. So, yeah, you basically get there. Now it requires a mic roll from you, sir. In which case Oh Cass will also try that.

SPEAKER_02 20:14

To be honest, I think Cass and I are about the same at the minute because of the general effects of us being bathed in water. So Cass rolled her whole generous two dice. I have rolled my generous two dice. Excellent! And now success. I somehow seemed to consistently be able to roll a bane on two dice.

SPEAKER_03 20:37

Also, you're you're rolling you're rolling for skills that you're really not.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

So to give you a little peek behind Berador's curtain, there are forced in the strength box.

SPEAKER_03 20:49

You've already given us a peek behind your curtain.

SPEAKER_02 20:53

There are four stats and the four different skills that go with strength. Might endurance, melee crew, and crafting. I have crafting of one. Yay! Yeah, you're not a strong man.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

So you and Cassie take a while to pull yourselves across. It takes the rest of the late after the late morning and early afternoon to basically do that and fight the current. Because you're going up current, it's harder going this way than it is coming the other way. So by the time you get to Andarin and Grey, you just have to kind of watch as you struggle along. You eventually get to that place. And while Cass is holding it, you can throw some rope to Grey and Anduin who can then secure the ferry, and then you can you now have the ferry on your side of the river. Okay. If you don't mind, I will arduous task.

SPEAKER_04 21:45

I will use this shift to do some forage, perhaps. Since I see that they are pooling and it's taking them time, you know, I will just as I go through it, I will go and find us dinner because I have a feeling this is gonna be our day.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

Sure, that's cool.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

Gray wants to Gray's gonna stay by the camp in the fire and make sure that Veridon and Cass don't die. He can do anything about it because they're on the other side of the river, but at least he'll watch.

SPEAKER_04 22:15

Okay. At least we have a nice camp and you can keep the fire going. They're gonna need it, so it's fine. Anna will get us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:25

You uh do some foraging, please.

SPEAKER_04 22:28

I can use my herbalist, I guess. So I think foraging is survival. No. Yeah, no, no, no, but my talent. Can I use my talent herbalist?

SPEAKER_00 22:37

I think turbist allows you that.

SPEAKER_04 22:39

Yeah, yeah, I I can. Yeah, I I have I can use it. It gives me a plus one for the rank one.

SPEAKER_00 22:45

Excellent.

SPEAKER_04 22:46

Perfect. You know, this is what a useful character looks like.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

Like that. I'm learning so much from you, Tony. So much for your character building skills. Oh, so how many dice did you have there, Tony?

SPEAKER_04 23:03

Seven dice and no successes, excellent. And a bane, which is the worst thing because I could have pushed it, if not because of the bane.

SPEAKER_03 23:11

Well, you can push it.

SPEAKER_04 23:13

Yeah, fine, you're right. I'm gonna sleep. Let's do one. Sure. And no sex is there. You go.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

So foraging must have let's see what happens to you.

SPEAKER_03 23:26

Does he like does he like disturb a hornet's nest and get stung everywhere?

SPEAKER_00 23:32

It it could be a very good role for that. So let's have a look. You can. There you go. Okay, right. So yeah, you kind of go wandering on. I mean, so what ends up happening is you kind of go foraging for stuff and you kind of see some berries and various other sort of like plants. You just have to kind of get through a thicket of brush and stuff. By the time you get in, it's kind of pulling at your clothes and ripping everything. You just basically end up, you also find that there's a lot of rocks underfoot as well. So you kind of like end up hurting your you hurt your feet and you sort of like pull your clothes, and there's like all these little sharp spines start cutting into your skin. Then you find, you know, the poison oak, and it's like, ah, for the love of it goes horrendously wrong, and you end up abandoning the foraging, coming out with scratches, scraps, and a particularly itchy thigh and sort of like arm. Yeah. Not not not your best.

SPEAKER_04 24:33

Not my best. Not my best. Itchy thigh, you gotta get that looked at. Very closely, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

And only Beridors around to help you. Okay. Yeah, you uh you make your way back just in time for them to be there, and you kind of just sit down, you know. You're not in the best of moods. You look at his your clothes are ripped and wrought, I mean you're just it's not good, right? Okay, you land, but you're both knackered, you're not gonna be able to pull yourselves across. So it'll be down to the other two to have to do any kind of ferrying.

SPEAKER_04 25:06

Well, hear me out. I think we have a nice camp here, we have the fire. I would say let's rest, take it easy, and we we do it tomorrow morning.

SPEAKER_02 25:14

Put on an impromptu concert this evening.

SPEAKER_04 25:17

Yeah. Why not?

SPEAKER_02 25:19

We've got to stay here for two nights.

SPEAKER_04 25:23

It's funny. We can clearly see that we are not the best survivors.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

But actually, you know, we no we've got a really good camp. So you've got the we've got the bridge which gives us a nice level of protection. We've got running water that is fresh and boilable, and we've got a world-class druid to forage and feed us. What could go wrong? Nothing.

SPEAKER_04 25:45

It's perfect, this is perfect. So let's sing again, I guess. I can play the short now.

SPEAKER_02 25:52

We sing more songs around the campfire, we break out the fruits, the very side.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

So your afternoon shift is gonna spend your afternoon to evening is gonna is gonna be spent basically resting rated and doing it.

SPEAKER_04 26:03

And rehearsing, this is the important thing. We are rehearsing or like big concert we are gonna be doing soon. So this is just practice. You know, it's important to practice, you know. You need to do 10,000 hours to be the best.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

Be honest.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

So Gray, having having seen that Anduin returned from his foraging attempt, yeah, empty-handed and scratched up, maybe limping a little bit because he's got a stub toe or something. Yep. And he just sighs and gets up and he mumbles to himself, must I do everything myself? And he goes out to hunt, and I'm gonna use my hunting instinct talent. Yes. I'm gonna spend a willpower point. Mm-hmm. Nice. And essentially, oh not hunting instinct, I'm sorry, it's path of the forest. Path of the forest, yeah. Yep. When you forage, hunt, or lead the way, you succeed automatically if you spend a willpower point. Okay. You can roll first and spend a point if you fail, but I'm just gonna forego rolling altogether. Okay. So I'll be gone for however long you deem appropriate and as the GM, and I'll come back having bagged, you know. Bring me a D6 plus one. D6 plus one.

SPEAKER_04 27:17

Let's hope we get a big thing. Not a goblin, I hope.

SPEAKER_03 27:21

Not a goblin. So I rolled a two, so plus one, that's three.

SPEAKER_01 27:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 27:26

Hey, look at that, Mom, I can do math. Good job. I'm very proud.

SPEAKER_00 27:30

Yeah, you kind of come back with sort of abrasive rabbits. Yeah, you've got enough for two meals. How that? One pelt, should you want to get one pelt out of it. Cool.

SPEAKER_03 27:40

Yeah, I'll uh yeah, I'll I'll get the pelt out of it as well.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

Cool. And if you want to if you want to convert it to a dice, you have to have someone who can actually cook it and turn it into an actual meal, which I don't think any chef to do that. But it just means that two of you can eat that food instead of having to roll.

SPEAKER_04 28:01

So it's just uh so two people can eat without rolling, so we are only two of them. Essentially, yeah, yeah. That's fine. I can roll, it's fine.

SPEAKER_00 28:08

Um, so you just cook that up and then two of you can have the rest of your rashes. You probably share it amongst yourselves, but yeah, that's just the the nature of the how it works on the on the system.

SPEAKER_04 28:19

And I guess we don't need to roll water because we can boil, and I would say we can just boil it.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

If you don't worry about rolling water, it's fine. You're gonna stay at D12 until you leave the river, essentially.

SPEAKER_03 28:27

And then I don't have to add meat to the my gear because we're gonna eat it this evening, right?

SPEAKER_00 28:32

Yeah, exactly. So it's fine. Okay, cool. Well, you practice and have another lovely evening by the fire. Well, you start to have a lovely late afternoon. Who is on watch? Do we get to remove the cold condition? You can remove the cold condition, that's perfectly fine.

SPEAKER_04 28:49

I think I will do it perhaps because you two are maybe Beredon and Cass are not in good condition. So I will be nice. I will be nice and propose to keep watch.

SPEAKER_00 28:59

Okay. Well, would you like to uh don't fall asleep this time?

SPEAKER_04 29:03

No, it was Beredon who fell asleep. Was it? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

I had a bit once. No one was there to see you fall asleep, therefore you did not fall asleep, right? That's because I didn't fall asleep. That's what that's one of the reasons.

SPEAKER_04 29:17

Can Andrew please make a scaling roll, please? Andrew or Anduin? And cool. There you go.

SPEAKER_03 29:25

Wow, our first success of the evening, I think.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

Yeah. You can see on the other side of the river, someone has kind of gone to where the uh the ferry would have been holed up. You can see just a a small person sort of on the other side of the river.

SPEAKER_04 29:41

That's in the middle of the night?

SPEAKER_00 29:43

No, no, no. This is sort of like going into the evening shift, and so it's still like, you know, relaxing and sort of like eating, and the sun's not quite gone down, and you can see there's someone on the other side of the river where the ferry was. You can see they kind of look sort of over towards the river, but they can't quite see you because you're sort of backdropped with the actual bridge. They're kind of like trying to look. They can see there's a fire over there, but they're like they don't see the people. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:12

Somebody seems to have come to get their stuff. They're furry. Do you see it? Do you see this person?

SPEAKER_03 30:20

Great sleeping.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 30:22

I thought it was before, I thought it was before they were sleeping. If they are sleeping, then I don't say anything, of course.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

He's basically gone, he's basically gone off to bed. Yeah, okay. Is Beridon also getting an early night?

SPEAKER_02 30:33

Um, Beridon is pretty exhausted after, you know, having to do some physical effort for probably the first time in 21 years. Yeah. So I'd say he's probably asleep at the moment.

SPEAKER_04 30:45

Okay, so just try to distinguish this person and yep, if not, I I kind of try to to see where they go or they do. Are they going to the direction of where we think there is this house? Or are they going farther downstream?

SPEAKER_00 31:02

They kind of look at the river and then they disappear directly away from the river, so they disappear over the sort of like fill the view. So you don't know whether they turn left or right from there.

SPEAKER_04 31:12

Okay, so that could be something.

SPEAKER_00 31:14

And then you kind of, you know, continue to keep watch. As it gets dark, you then see a small light on the other side of the river. It looks like someone else is setting a camp up. Okay. And then you start to flag a bit because you've been up for the rest of it. Which one of the three sleeping people would you like to wake up for the evening?

unknown 31:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 31:34

Wake up grey.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

He's having a dream and his paws are twitching, you know, and he's he's growling in his sleep. He's chasing things. So when when when you wake him up in the middle of his dream, he almost lunges for your throat and then he realizes who you are, and he's like, Oh. Yeah. Did somebody gonna talk? What's the matter? Your turn.

SPEAKER_04 31:55

I need to go to sleep. Anything I should know about? Yeah, they seem to be like somebody came to get the ferry. Yeah, camping on the other side, you might see the fire. So I would say we need to be careful tomorrow morning. Why don't we say hello to him? See what happens. See what happens.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

And I go to bed. Cool. Uh the day closes. On another very interesting day out in the Ravenlands. And the morning comes along, nothing happens grey overnight, and you wake up pretty much like you did the day before. It's another nice morning. There's nothing more to tell you. You know, the river's kind of like swimming going past again, you've got the sounds of sort of wildlife. There's probably a bit more of a mist this morning on the on the river, but then but again, within sort of like an hour of waking up, the mist is burnt off.

SPEAKER_03 32:46

What about that camp on the other side of the river?

SPEAKER_00 32:49

Yeah, you saw the flickering light for a good portion of the dark end of your shift, and then it disappeared as obviously burnt down. And then you didn't see anything and you haven't seen anything since.

SPEAKER_03 33:00

So, like the sun comes up and there's nobody over there?

SPEAKER_00 33:03

Yeah, you never saw the person, they were just away from the river, so they weren't actually within view, but they were just over the horizon, as it were. So you could see the sort of like light from their camp. But obviously as the night wore on, the camp well down, so obviously they didn't keep the fire up all night.

SPEAKER_03 33:20

I'll shout out, uh hello there! I say, I say hello there.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

It echoes around the um the bridge, um and Daphne wakes anyone who isn't up yet, uh. You don't get a response. Fuck 'em.

unknown 33:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 33:41

Fuck who? Can two of you please roll your food? Whoever whoever whoever you'd like making it. Yeah, I can do it. Okay, I'm okay. Uh do you want Cass to roll it or does somebody else want to roll it?

SPEAKER_03 33:52

I'm gonna give the other rabbit to Cass. Oh sorry. Sorry, Beridon. No, ladies first.

SPEAKER_02 33:59

Totally understand. Makes a food roll. Where is his food gone? You keep forgetting that food ends up on your gear sheet.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's um it's a really handy little way of doing it and controlling it without having to like have like 16 packs of food. Yeah, that's fine. You all eat last night and you kind of obviously got plenty of water. You've all rested, so you've all gained back any strength and any damage you've had to any of your your stats. Okay. I guess it's a matter of going across the river now. Why not?

SPEAKER_04 34:28

Do we recover the weeds and all the damage or yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine.

SPEAKER_00 34:32

Just just click the little rest button on your carrot sheet and it will do that for you. There you go. Right, well, it's time for a uh a bit of uh pulling you're back into sort of pulling yourself across. But this time you'll get a plus one because you're going with the river. I imagine that you're going to let Cass do a lot of the hard work because she has the might, unless anyone else has might.

SPEAKER_04 34:55

I think Grey and Cass.

SPEAKER_00 34:57

If you want to help her, then feel free. We'll help. Cool. So I'm gonna give you a plus two, and she's gonna roll and see how she does. Well, she got two successes. So, yes, she she along with you guys, she got three successes in fact, you end up letting yourself go, you put all your gear on Europe on the ferry, and actually it takes you a fair bit of the way, and then you can pull yourselves in. As you're sort of about maybe a hundred foot from shore, you see the person that's on the other side of the shore step up, you can see them. They are wearing sort of travelling garb, they can see you as you're sort of like pulling yourself in, and they kind of wave at you.

SPEAKER_03 35:44

We wave back. I say, you know, the polite thing to do when someone says hello is to say hello back.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

He basically shouts to you and says, Sorry, I couldn't really hear you that much, and you kind of realize that he when he shout when he shouts to you, you kind of get sorry. It's just it's really kind of over the sound of the water and stuff. You realise he probably couldn't have heard you from the other side of the river.

SPEAKER_03 36:07

Oh, a likely story.

SPEAKER_00 36:09

The as you get closer, he basically stands and watches you, he's not obviously helping you with anything. That's human. He is a human, he's wearing sort of dark magenta and black robes and sort of like travelling gear. He's got this large travel cloak which is kind of like wrapped around himself, and he's flapping around and he's obviously stepped on it. He's kind of like getting rid of all the dirt.

SPEAKER_04 36:30

Okay, so we crossed the other side, I guess. We managed to reach the other side.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

You did where are you heading, stranger? He says I'm I was gonna come and um do some fishing, but it appears that you have sequestered the uh the ferry. You can't fish on this side of the river? Well, I was gonna fish in the centre. But that's okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:52

It's once once we're done with the ferry, you can have it to fish to your heart's content. Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_00 36:57

Is this ferry yours? Quicker if you help us get in. He says, Oh yes, sorry, and he kind of like wanders down to the shore and sort of like starts pulling, you're like pulling, it's like, this is a bit awkward, but okay. And he kind of like grabs the the wooden thing and pulls it forward and ties up a piece of rope to the shore to allow you to kind of stabilize it. I would ask him if he This is not my ferry, no.

SPEAKER_04 37:21

This belongs to the the town. What town? You see, we are a touring music band, and we will be very interested in knowing where your town is so we can perform for you guys. So this belongs to Ravensong Village. You'll be so kind as to show us this map that they have. Where is it located?

SPEAKER_00 37:40

He looks at you and says, You have a map? You can see him, he's kind of he's quite gaunt, as you sort of like now see him. He's quite a con guy, and he's got sort of greying hair, he's got all those stubble and stuff, quite pot mopped. Clearly, he's obviously had some kind of disease or plague or something at some point. He says, You have a map, wow. And as you kind of show him the map, he looks at it and says, Oh wow. He says, Oh yeah, definitely. He points to the house that's on your map to the south.

SPEAKER_04 38:08

But you say this is called Ravenstown? Ravenstown? Uh Ravenstone.

SPEAKER_00 38:14

Ravenstown. Ravensong. You can't miss it. If you follow the trail south, we basically points down the river. He says, follow it down the river, just off the edge of the river, you'll see a palisaded town. That's that's Ravensong.

SPEAKER_04 38:28

Is there who is the leader of your town?

SPEAKER_00 38:31

That's not my town, I'm not from there. I wander around. Do you have a name, stranger? I do have a name. He says that my name is Brother Caldrick. Brother of whom? I am a brother of the Rust. I see. I follow the teachings of Rust. And uh who are you? Is he alone, by the way? He's alone, as well as I.

SPEAKER_04 38:49

I introduce myself Anduin from Juniper's song, Druid.

SPEAKER_00 38:52

Hmm. And singer. A druid? I see. I don't I don't know Juniper's song. Whereabouts is that? That's on the other side of the river. Okay. Question.

SPEAKER_03 39:03

Yes. I had some dealings with the Rust brothers, didn't I? You have, indeed. Can you can you remind me what that was?

SPEAKER_00 39:10

Well, they wanted to convert you to the ways of Rust. And you obviously want to be converted, so they decided they'd like to hunt you down for a bit of sport.

SPEAKER_02 39:17

Rust are Rust brothers generally considered like bad? Are they are they sort of de facto seen with suspicion and enmity or are they just Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

They are from most goodly folk. Generally Rust themselves, so they basically believe through pain and suffering is the way forward. They also are the ones that in fact, who's got law? Make a law roll. I think I do.

SPEAKER_02 39:41

Let me just double check. I do, yes. And watch me roll multiple ones.

SPEAKER_00 39:47

Uh maybe not. How many successors did you have, sir? Two successes. Yeah. So they basically follow the the god called Rust and his wife Heme. The Rust brothers themselves are mmm. What can we how the best way to describe them? So they spread their word through throughout villages during the blood mists. It turns out that the Blood Brothers had found a way, or the Rust Brothers had found a way to basically wander through the Blood Mist. And it became a very powerful tool for the Rust brothers during the time of the Blood Mist because they could travel from village to village and bring news and supplies and various other things. So they very quickly, during the course of the Blood Mist, built up quite a lot of power base. Most villages and towns had or have a Rust brother who is a someone who leads in theological matters, unless there is either a Raven sister or one of the other gods, priests or priestesses. So Tony, definitely for yourself, you're a druid, and you're a druid of you know Juniper and I guess of the of the woods and the land. So you probably would not be a fan of the Rust brothers because they basically believe that only through pain, suffering, and essentially rusting the ground, and they pr they pretty much wander around not so much now since the Bubmist is gone, they're finding that their power is starting to wane. But essentially, yes, they will they will try and convert as many people to rust and heme as possible.

SPEAKER_02 41:21

Is there general consensus that we that they'd be sort of chased out of villages on site or are they are they told are they depends on like political, you know, when political parties come and door stop you? Yes, you can sort of say no thank you, but beating them around the head with their own shoes is probably considered a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 41:40

It depends on the village you come from. Probably from Juniper's song, because you're all about equality, you would probably say no, we're fine, thank you very much. We have our own beliefs here, off you go, uh please go somewhere else. That's probably what you would say.

SPEAKER_03 41:53

Fair enough. Well, Gray is going to spend his last willpower point. I had two because I was damaged. Yep. And I'm gonna use my hunting instinct talent. Okay. So I designate him as my prey. He's my prey for one day because I've only I only have the one point to spend. And also it gives me a plus one bonus to attack him, which is exactly what I'm going to do. Okay. I'm gonna kill this motherfucker. I'm gonna gut him like a fish.

SPEAKER_00 42:24

Okay, cool. Well, that's that that's let's let's jump to that, shall we? Ready about things that are gonna happen. I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt as uh as an action beforehand. Can you get a freebie action before we start the combat round? Excellent. Come on then.

SPEAKER_03 42:39

Is that a melee roll? It is a melee roll. Okay. And I have a plus one. So, first combat of the card session. Damn it! Okay. Well. Everyone can tell by the cursing that I failed my roll, and I have two veins.

SPEAKER_00 42:56

So, did you want to uh push that or are you gonna you're gonna just let that uh go as a failure? I'm gonna let that go as a failure. Okay, well, in that case, initiative starts. And unfortunately for you, Lot, he goes first. He sees you jump at him. How are you attacking him? Are you sort of like slicing him with a knife, a sword? What are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 43:15

Uh I was attacking him with my spear.

SPEAKER_00 43:17

Okay, so yeah, you rush forward and you kind of like stab him with the spear. He realizes that you're obviously doing that and he kind of has obviously judged your intentions and steps back to the side and he basically pushes who's gonna be who's it gonna be? Let's make a roll very quickly. Okay. So he basically rushes Beridon to push past you, to run away, basically. Let's see if he does. Woohoo! A whole two dice. Okay, not much success.

SPEAKER_02 43:45

He he doesn't need to rob. Berodon is just gonna let him go.

SPEAKER_00 43:49

Well, he basically barges your shoulder and basically runs straight towards the river. Tony, what's Angelo gonna do?

SPEAKER_04 43:56

And the shock. I wasn't expecting this at all. I'm looking at the other Gray like what are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 44:04

Killing what needs to be killed. You see the Cassie looks at you, Gray, and says, Okay. Cassie pulls a knife out and throws it at the at the fleeing the fleeing broth brother. And that knife goes flying into the river, never to be seen ever again. What's Grey gonna do?

SPEAKER_03 44:24

Gray is gonna run after him and kill him. Hey man, they make it they captured me and tortured me. Can you make a move roll for me, please?

SPEAKER_00 44:33

Yes. Yes, I can. Let's see what made his move. Okay, I got my successes. One move roll for me, please. Would you like to be kind and give your player a a bonus? I'm not gonna give you any bonuses for like randomly just killing some random dude on the road.

SPEAKER_03 44:49

He's a Russ brother, he's not a random dude, he's a creepy cultist in the kidnapping. Hey.

SPEAKER_00 44:54

I'll tell you what, you've got 100% on him, right? I'm a plus one. You designate him as your uh your prey, so. Okay. No successes. I'm gonna put you Okay, well, okay, you would get a success, but you take two damage flatter justice. Well, you get a success! Okay, you just tumbled him as he's about to like plunge himself into the river and you get tried to get attacked. I'm gonna shove his face underwater and drown him. Oh easy. You're gonna get to f hit him with something before he jumps into the river. Okay. I'll bet you wanna jump into the river and fight him in the river.

SPEAKER_03 45:27

I don't wanna fight him in the river now. Okay. And do I get a modifier because I caught up with him? Yeah, get a mod get a plus one. I I already get a plus one because of my plus one, so supposed to plus one. Excellent, that's what I like to hear.

SPEAKER_00 45:41

Him from behind as he's running away, swinging for his life from some creature.

SPEAKER_03 45:46

Yeah, and I like you know, I took that two damage to my agility because I probably tripped over a boulder on the way as I try to jam this spear into his back. Two successes!

SPEAKER_00 45:59

Okay, right, well, what is the damage of your spear? The damage is one. Damage is one, so it means you can do two damage if you take the other success, so it'll be two damage. Okay. Okay. Yeah, you basically rush behind him and you shove your spear as hard as you can into his back. He doesn't appear to have any kind of armor on, as you can feel the spear pierce his side or his chest, or lower lower chest area, and the force that you kind of came and tripped and pushed, you go straight into him and you put out, and you can see blood immediately soaked through his unit as he stumbles and falls mid almost mid-jump straight into the river as he then comes up, waves his arm around a little bit, and then disappears underwater again, followed by a staining of blood and streaking in the water. And I guess that's where we'll leave this session for tonight.

SPEAKER_02 46:58

I know how to close them, don't I?

SPEAKER_03 47:00

If in doubt, brutally murder every stranger you meet on the road. No, no, no, not every stranger. Not every stranger, just the Rust brothers.

SPEAKER_02 47:09

Okay. How many strangers have we met on the road since we left Juniper Storm? One. Right!

SPEAKER_03 47:19

Attacking murder strangers, right? No, no, no, no. 100% attacking murder Rust brothers.

SPEAKER_04 47:26

I'm thinking we're gonna marry two other band.

SPEAKER_00 47:31

I think a couple of you are. I'm not sure about the other one.

SPEAKER_04 47:37

I'll just tell you from the from the club. Um I'm so sorry. I mean Your your your your tambourine doesn't well.

SPEAKER_03 47:47

You don't know what they did to me, my tambourine after the drums asshole.