WEBVTT - Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part One 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:03.160 Cool Zone Media. 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:25.239 Book What have I done? Hello, and welcome to Cool 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.600 Zone Media book Club, the only book club where actually 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:29.800 it's a bunch of podcasters playing role playing games instead 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.640 of reading books. It's not at all a book, that's right. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:34.120 We are trying out something like that. 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:36.600 It's a lot of books. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:38.919 I have so many books on my table because we're 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.760 playing a role playing game this week. We are doing 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.000 something new, and we're going to be doing it for 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:45.680 more than just this week, because I don't know if 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.519 you all have ever played a role playing game, but 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:51.120 it lasts longer than an hour. I'm your host, Margaret Kildre, 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.880 but I'm not actually the game master of this game, 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.360 because the game master is none other than Jason Bowman, 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.760 who's the lead designer of one of the best things 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.040 to have up into tabletop role playing Pathfinder. If you're 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:07.840 not familiar with Pathfinder, Pathfinder is like but it's not 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.600 because instead I like it better than We're going to 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.000 be playing fantasy characters running through a world full of 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:21.720 I think frogs, because the game is called Dawn of Frogs. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.119 That's right. I don't know there's an exclamation mark because 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:26.640 I don't have the book because I'm not the one 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.720 running it, but I like to believe there's an exclamation 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.680 mark after each and every word. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:32.880 Oh, there's definitely jazz hands. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:37.280 Oh yeah, can we call them frog hands? Yes, I 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.840 have a frog hat. Why am I not wearing a 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:40.480 frog hat? 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:44.600 You are wearing chain mail. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.120 It's on my character sheet. This is what I've been 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:48.880 trying to explain to everyone the whole time, and they're 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.880 asking why I'm wearing chain mail. It's on my character sheet. 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:56.480 I have chain mail. So this isn't book Club. We're 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.200 gonna call it the Cool Kids Table or cool Kids 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.400 at the Table. This is not actually agreed upon. I 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.680 just threw this into the script, but without further ado, 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.679 I would like to introduce Jason, hazel Io and Robert 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.680 who are our players and game masters. Only one of 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:12.440 them is the game master. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.960 Well I guess that's my cue. Then, Hi there everybody. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.760 I'm Jason Bowman. I'm the director of Games at Pizo 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.200 and boy, a long time ago, I wrote a little 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.239 game called Pathfinder. These days, i'm the team lead for 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.840 Pathfinder second Edition and all of our board games and 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.840 card games and stuff. So yeah, and I'm excited here 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.040 today to be running Dawn of the Frogs. It's a 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.239 new adventure that I wrote actually, so I'm excited to 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.200 run all of you through it, and I'm sure you'll 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:39.720 all do just great. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.600 I keep calling it rain of Frogs in my head, 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.320 but rain like r E I g h N. But 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.799 that's because of rain of blood. I just keep. 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.360 Thinking there will be no dawn for the race of 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.440 Frogs like goth Mog and Return of the King, but 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.760 instead some guy boys staff frogs. 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.480 Yeah, yeah, that's probably what's going to happen. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.760 Hello. My name is Hazel Akisha. I am mostly just 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.000 an assistant on this podcast. I help pick out the 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.799 stories every week and write little scripts and write a transitions. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:15.959 But I'm excited to be in front of the mic today. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.000 Hey, I'm io. I have a CV and wouldn't you 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.440 like to know it. I love to play the game 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.360 of life and I'm a they them and over to you. Robert. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.880 I'm Robert. I sit on the Internet and do podcasts 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.720 and sometimes, like right now, I play video games or 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.080 not video games games via podcasts. 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:43.120 That's me. There's my introduction. We're actually just we just 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:44.560 live play video games. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.520 I've been trying to sell Margaret on this for years. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.280 Now, but without streaming, Margaret, I do want I don't 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.280 know if there's a co op option for Cyberpunk twenty 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:53.160 seventy seven, but. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:56.000 We could have some fun. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:58.000 I think you like it. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.720 I had to play it, and I hate when the 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:03.880 game tells you what to do, but when the story 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:05.880 is already in the game, it's not as fun to me. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.320 I like the game where you have the giant map 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.640 and then everything is complicated and you run like sixteen 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.360 different economies and you can do evil things if you 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.880 want to, but I actually can't bring myself to ever. 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:24.720 Yeah, you love like Stock Market Simulator, but in space games, yes, yes, Stilaris, Yeah. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.960 Yeah, Stilaris. There were three weeks of my life. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:31.279 Ye, I'm totally neurotypical, but yeah, those are the players. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:33.840 What's the game, Jason, Well. 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.080 Today, everybody, we're gonna be playing donather Frogs and without 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.159 further ado, I think I'm going to just get us going. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:46.279 The dun Meyer is a gloomy and foreboding swamp. Yes, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:50.440 beauty can be found within. In some spots, the sun's 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.720 light rarely reaches the water through the foliage above, while 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.719 in others, brightly colored swamp flowers and insects seem almost 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:02.320 to sparkle. The town of bog Bottom isn't a big place, 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:08.159 but it's one the locals have called home for generations. Yet, 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.080 now that some of the townsfolk have gone missing near 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.920 an old mill deep in the swamp, someone needs to 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.279 find out what happened to them. Spoilers. That someone is you. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.760 The journey to the crumbling landmark takes several hours, and 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:29.200 while arduous, it's uneventful. Many predators lurk in the swamp, 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.599 but there's been no sign of their presence so far. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:38.520 Far off, frogs chirp and croak, and flies buzz dreamily. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.120 The crumbling wooden mill stands amid the mist, half sunken 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.600 into the swamp. The front door has been rotted away, 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:51.000 but the entrance is mostly blocked by thick vines. Someone 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.719 could possibly squeeze through these vines, or perhaps try and 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.599 cut them loose. Perhaps a clue to the villager's fate 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.920 lies within now. The group of you have been in 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:06.960 bog Bottom for some time. You arrived there several days ago, 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:11.680 having just fled from your most recent exploits, and when 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.320 news came to you that these villagers were missing. You 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:18.919 saw an opportunity, perhaps to earn some small amount of redemption, 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.760 or perhaps even more importantly, to earn some coin to 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.440 fill your empty pockets. The four of you have been 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.919 traveling for a few hours. This old crumbling mill is 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.159 not too far away from the swampy community of Bottom, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.320 and now you stand with the mill somewhere up in 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.839 the distance. It's perhaps, you know, one hundred feet away 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.440 or so, looking at each other, sizing up the situation 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.400 and preparing for adventure. But before we do that, I 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.200 think we're going to throw it around the horn and 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.160 let everybody introduce their characters. Maybe tell us a little 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.680 bit about what you look like and kind of what 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.000 you're kitted out with. What do we see when we 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.000 look upon you? Spite? Why don't we start with you? 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:05.000 Well, Spite is my name, it's my given name. I've 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.440 been named much like everyone else where I grew up. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.560 We get named after the virtues. You know. I probably 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.880 talk about my sister Malice a lot. I really look 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:17.640 up to her. Spite is probably all of nineteen or 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.800 twenty years old. She's not one hundred percent certain, and 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:25.360 the crash doesn't keep really exact dates. She's wearing chain mail. 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.880 She has a helmet with a candle stuck to the top, 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.480 you know, so she can see where she's going. I 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.080 don't know why everyone thinks that's so strange. And she 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:36.920 does a lot of things that she doesn't realize people 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:42.200 realize are strange. All of her outfit is completely black 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:48.600 and red, just like normal outfits should be, and she's 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.720 wearing chain mail. She has a morning star that she 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.320 almost always has out because it's practically a fidget spinner. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:00.960 There's a couple javelins strapped to her pack, and that's 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.920 spite she's human. Yeah, she's pretty sure she doesn't actually 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.040 know her birth parents are that kind of stuff as 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.400 a bourgeois like keeping track of actual birth parents does 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.520 not fly or spide is from squash. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.000 Why don't you go next? 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:22.840 Well, imagine a halfling. Great, you're doing it now. Imagine 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:28.000 a dog not so fast. This dog stands like a 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.520 man does, but with thumbs the whole thing. He's a shooney, 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.160 which are nasty little dog men. He's a sturdy trunk 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.440 of a boy, three feet tall and shaped like a friend. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.960 He has a canine face. But if you like, smush 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.560 down the snow until the sinuses were kind of a 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.080 dead end where the air would go in and spin 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.560 around the brain and shoot right back out. Fans of 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.800 phrenology listening may describe his skull shape as fucked up. 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.880 He has piercing green eyes positions somewhere between predator and prey, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:04.560 often facing the same direction. His friendly face is positively 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.600 littered with jowls and folds and tufts of unruly bad 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.160 boy cow licks that were you to see it in 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.640 our world, you would think, ah, a monument to man's hubris, 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.360 or maybe some sort of joke that God is playing 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.160 on wolves. But in this crazy mixed up world of Pathfinder, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:26.440 he's a New York eight. He has long, flowing hair 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.400 that can only be described as bitchin, and he wears 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.640 a military style beret right on top of his damn head, 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.200 a belly button so deep it touches his spine. He 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.079 wears a half cape and a chain mail crop top 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:44.439 with a Mediterranean chest hair situation trailing down to leather 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.000 cut off breeches to cut a figure we can all 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:51.840 agree is really really sexy. He's got a big knife 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.280 that's also a gun with the serial number filed off, 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.080 so it looks like the fucking buster sword taped to 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.920 a derringer. He used to be a gentleman bank rob 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.240 for the rev until he got caught because he kept 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.080 shooting his name into the side of banks. But these 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.600 fine adventures all busted him out. What else his pronouns 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.240 any pronouns? Despite exclusively referring to himself as a he. Yeah, 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.640 he's one of those kinds of guys, but don't let 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.199 that fool you. This guy's great, and podcast listeners across 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.920 the nation agree. He's got a lot of heart, a 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.360 lot of chutzpah, and what the French call is certain. 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:32.360 I don't know what his name is, squash. Please don't 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:32.960 wear it out. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:36.880 I'm so glad I'm not following h. 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.800 Murdy. I do not envy you, but you can follow 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:42.200 up that. 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.600 I didn't write myself a script for how to introduce 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.120 my characters, so listeners please bear with me. I am 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:55.400 playing Sister Murdragana Bow also as Murdy. She uses she 0:10:55.679 --> 0:11:00.040 her pronouns. I am a half org Cleric for you 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.680 nerds out there, Technically I worship a rastal. However, I 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:08.040 have found myself as part of an erstwhile soup cult 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.360 to the God. You know, we're all about taking care 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.400 of the community. We hand out food, we give alms, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.920 you know, maybe like food not bombs. Maybe like a 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:22.160 Catholic workers to say, I would face cast Murdy if 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.920 I was making the HBO special as tng Era Denise Crosby. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:30.080 I've got light green gray skin and jet black straight hair. 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.560 Got triangle bangs, you know, the kind slick back lopu 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.440 and if you care about that kind of stuff. I'm 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.920 wearing a black linen dress which is aline insensibly swushy. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.840 I got leather pouches and pockets on a built around 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.480 my waist, sort of like a waitress apron, again fitting 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.880 with the soup nun theme. Got leather armor, so sort 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.200 of like a cute, tight fitting crop top out of leather. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.040 Just imagine it draw me some nice fannert. Yeah, I know. 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.600 I got one cool pauldron, very important. You can often 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.840 see me wielding a soup ladle and a chef's knife, 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.400 and I also have a cauldron full of a magical 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:11.640 perpetual stew on a bindle for easy carrying Murdy. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.000 Soup Nuan soup nan. 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.720 Last, but certainly not least trant introduce yourself. 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.720 Well, yeah, so, you know, unlike the boss where I 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.160 come from, they didn't name us for our virtues. So 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.560 I got named for my dad, and he was not 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.280 a guy with a lot of virtues. Alcan stars in 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.440 h city for some people, but not my family. My 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.520 dad and my dad's dad made gunpowder, and they raised 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.320 me not to make waves, not to complain, not to 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.480 have an issue with the fact that, you know, my 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.319 whole life was living in a fucking slum making gunpowder. 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:48.959 The only thing they taught me that was of much 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.480 use was how to make gunpowder, and I got too 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.400 good at that, and then I did some things with 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.480 it that made me have to leave town in a hurry, 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.000 which is how I met up with this crew who 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.120 had some ideas for how to use the stuff I 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.040 knew how to make. That I preferred to the things 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.959 I was raised to do, so that's what I do. 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:09.160 I make bombs and allegedly other things that all have 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.280 more or less the same goal, which is to cause 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:15.120 problems for anyone in an area that I don't really 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.760 like what's going on there, or I'm just kind of 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.960 bored and I want something loud to happen. All of 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.560 these things are acceptable. I'm about six foot, non into 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.160 script looking, which has been helpful in the past because 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.840 it's really nice not to get recognized. I try to 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.440 wear a mask whenever I'm doing anything particularly interesting. I 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.520 keep as many bombs on me as I feel like 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.440 I can wear without exploding, and I usually avoid that, 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.920 although not always, as you can tell from the scars 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.600 on my hands and my neck and a couple other 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.680 parts of my body that I don't generally share with 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.080 other members of the adventuring troop because it's a bad 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.640 idea to shit where you eat. I keep a couple 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.440 of holdout pistols, one under each shoulder, and I keep 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.840 a blenderbuss on my back in case, you know, I 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.840 need faster solutions to problems, but I really prefer to 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.120 solve things with the mix of gunpowder and alchemy. It's 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.200 just easier that way. You don't have to be there, 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.600 you don't have to see what happens afterwards. You can 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.679 just watch the pretty lights and then run like hell. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:14.720 The reason we're in a backwater like bog Bottom is because, 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.320 as people might have guessed from what they heard, we 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.680 blew up a jail and let everyone out, and we 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.480 thought everyone in town would treat us like heroes, and 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.520 shockingly they did not. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.120 In my experience, they never do when you blow something up, 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:29.880 even when you. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:30.760 Give them soup. 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:32.560 I really can't thank you enough. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.600 So for the people at bog Bottom, they might see 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:41.080 four fresh faced adventurers, but in reality they have four 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.480 dangerous malcontents in their mist But there are villagers that 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.840 need rescue. And as I mentioned before, your coin purses 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.000 are very light right now. In fact, the sea captain 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.320 that brought you to the Isle of Quartos dropped you 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.840 off at the shore when he found you didn't have 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.560 enough money to make it all the way to Absalom, 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.920 so you were just kind of left at the shore. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.200 You're lucky he didn't drop you off in the middle 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:10.520 of the inner seat. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.640 I offered to pay him with a bomb, and he 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.000 took that as some sort of threat. 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:14.680 I don't know. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:19.120 As it turns out, boats don't really like bomb payments, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:19.960 not good food. 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.800 We're gonna pay him later anyway, possibly with a bomb. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.480 Oh, I'll pay him, Uh huh, that's sours. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.920 He's a pressing people. I'm a champion just by. 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:36.400 The Yeah, he's oppressing people. By demanding that you pay him. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.360 Huh yeah, fucking fascists everywhere I look. 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.720 So the four of you are currently standing outside of 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:50.480 this old mill. The base of this mill is made 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.040 of fieldstone, the upper floors look like they're made of wood. 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:57.040 The entire thing is tilting kind of dangerously to one side. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.200 This is a windmill, and most of its blades are 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.520 fallen off. There's like the fragment of one and the 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:07.240 skeleton of another still attached to the front of the building. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.480 Although you can't imagine that the mills inner workings are 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.480 intact at all. In fact, you can see one of 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.960 the kind of blades laying in the swamp muck next 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:20.080 to you. Up ahead, you can see the darkened entrance 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:24.480 that goes inside the mill's interior. You're here primarily because 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.120 the people who went missing were out in this area 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:31.400 doing some swamp fishing, and they just never came back. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.080 So you've arrived at this kind of old, crumbling mill. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:39.520 As I mentioned before, the way in looks kind of blocked. 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.120 There's vines. You could maybe squeeze through it, or perhaps 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.600 you could cut them away. There are I'm sure other 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.960 options as well. This being a swamp It is pretty 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.680 damp and muddy around these parts. The ground underneath you 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.600 kind of makes a squelching noise with every step, but 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:58.800 as you get closer to the mill itself there is 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:00.560 a bit more firmer round. 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.360 Does it look like anyone's been here? 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:03.560 Like? 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.000 Does it look like like are the vines disturbed in 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:07.440 any way? 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.040 It definitely looks like the vines haven't fully grown over 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.400 the opening, So it's quite possible that something's been going 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.160 in or out. But if you want to know more 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:20.720 about whether or not perhaps anybody's been coming this way recently, 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:22.480 I would ask for one of you to make me 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.160 a survival check to look for tracks. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.920 Any of us any good at that I got plus three? 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.400 I'm decent at that I've got plus four? 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.920 All right, go ahead and give me a survival skill. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:34.360 Check though. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:37.760 A right first roll of the game? 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.440 That is it ten on the dice, so total of fourteen. 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.160 Looking around, you can tell that there are definitely some 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.760 tracks in the muck, but it's a little hard for 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.400 you to make out whether or not they're humanoid tracks 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.480 or perhaps animal tracks. The ground here is just so 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.840 soft that the recent rains and mists have kind of 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:58.960 worn it into just kind of a morass. It's clear 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.000 that there's been some traffic. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:06.760 Hey, squash, every time I step it sounds like your name, scorsh, scorsh. 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:11.040 The swamp is alive with a sound of squash. Is 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.840 this mill? This mill is pretty dilapidated. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.040 Yeah, yeah, it doesn't look like this mill has been 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.880 in use for several years at least. 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:24.800 Is there some like crumbling infrastructure. Maybe a cool dog 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.040 could do a flip intwo like big holes in the roof. 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.400 That's way too high up. I mean the mill itself 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.080 is probably about forty feet tall. 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.280 You don't know this dog, but point. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.800 Your acrobatic skills are truly legendary. But you're you're pretty 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.280 sure you couldn't flip up that high. Your best bet 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:43.600 is going to be to try to wiggle through the 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.959 vines or cut them away or something. 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.840 I take out a dagger and walk up and start 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:50.560 cutting vines. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.199 Okay, this is gonna take forever, trance. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:57.359 You know I could do that faster. Good point, Good point. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.119 I step back. I'm gonna grab one of my u 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.679 what are they called the uh bus? 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.000 No, No, I've got I've got bombs. I don't want 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:07.560 to use them. I've got a versatile flask. Can I 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.680 use one of those to make a lesser alchemists fire 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:10.879 and try to burn the shit away? 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.479 Yeah, you can give that a shot. So you you 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.919 break out your versatile vial and using some of the 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.240 reagents that you have on you kind of squirreled away 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:20.520 in the many pouches that you have. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.240 See, this is why I've been collecting and drying pea. Everybody. 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:28.399 By the way, saltpeter doesn't just grow on trees. 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.760 I thought you just were composting it. 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.720 Kind of The issue isn't that I didn't believe you. 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:36.919 The issue is that I did believe you. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.840 So why don't you go ahead and throw a bomb? 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.760 So go ahead and make unattack. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.040 Le Yes, okay, okay, I get my D twenty. 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.320 I'm standing back by the way. I know I was 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:51.280 up there with a knife a moment ago, but I leave. 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.320 That's a good move because that role did not turn 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:54.840 out great. 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:56.359 That's a four. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.760 And then let's see here one of my plus plus 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:01.679 so nine. 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.400 Well, it doesn't quite hit the mark. The bomb kind 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:08.320 of hits the wall next to it. And while it 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.040 does sear some of the vines a bit you're gonna 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.280 wager that they're so damp and kind of swollen with 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:16.960 swamp buck that your bomb really probably isn't gonna have 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:18.439 too much of an effect unless you want to use 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:19.920 a lot of them. 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.320 You know, there are problems that molotovs don't solve. 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.520 I say, all right, I think I've got I mean, 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.080 we could try a reverse Molotov. I could freeze them 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:34.879 flov is, like drinking it or something that's called a 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:35.600 good Thursday. 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:39.480 Every time I throw a Molotov, there's one problem. And 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:41.639 you throw a Molotov and boom right away, you got 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:42.680 a different problem. 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:43.200 Mm hmm. 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:44.879 Definitely stole that. 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.920 Yeah, anyway, Yeah, team, I'm gonna cut it with my name. 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:50.960 Yeah, let's go back to sword, all right. 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:54.520 So this isn't gonna be an attack role. It's more like, 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.280 can you pry it open and use your blades and 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.679 weapons to destroy it? So we're gonna call it an 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:02.399 f LETEX check. Anybody got athletics you can try that. 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:03.720 Oh I'm good at that. 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:05.920 Yeah, why don't you give me an athletics check? 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:08.199 In the crash? Would they make us? I mean, we 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.760 choose to run every day and do a lot of 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.800 exercises for the revolution and the glory of God. I 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.040 am too busy saying that to actually be paying attention 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:19.679