Dragons and Capybaras 2

It was a Ratatouille. Come on and hear the drum. In a minute or two till two. ... Right. Bottomless phlebotomists float like posthumous hippopotamus. We rest wearily with sweet red wine. Railway Station. The Wedwood Railway Station. ... There's a chip shop in space that sells spaceship-shaped chips. ... Seriously, Cecil, specifically CC my seventh son's sextivist. ... Secretly second in line for Cicero's sixth Senate seat. ... Simon Sassoon stands at the stern of the SS Sassafras. The Sassafras. ... Staring dizzily downwards towards the aqueous substance below. ... The streamlined train travels across Australia. Australia. Australian phobia. ... Crows, clowns, town, townhound, king. Something. ... Slater, a waiter, a waiter who slated... ... Caterer for later. Okay. Got it. Oh yeah, they're so naughty and deliciously wonderful. ... Charcuterie caricatures of secondary sex characteristics. ... Irish moistened matryoshka. Oh yeah, that one's hard. ... Matryoshka? ... Are matryoshka nesting dolls? ... I miss Mrs. McGrumble's mumbles mis... ... I miss Mrs. McGrumble's mumbles Mr. McGrumble's mumbles miserably. ... Bro. Bobot, robot, raby carrots. ... Fresh shangdong broth and special shrimp sauce. That's delightful. That is delightful. Okay, I am going to give my mic 30 seconds of air time in order to separate the white space. And then when I come back, we're going to answer any final questions and then jump in. Sound good? All right. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Okay, I have returned. Oh, and I cannot hear a thing. Uh-oh. Hello. Hello, hello. I don't know if y'all can hear me, but I cannot hear anything from you right now. I do not have y'all. No audio feed from your room. Y'all can hear me? We've got nothing on either side. Let me just check this. Y'all still cannot hear me? Nothing? Okay. Feel free to type in the chat, Uriah. Yeah, we've got nothing. Okay, I'm going to try leaving the Zoom. Test, test, test, test. Uriah, my mic still got me. Test, test, test, test. Test, test, test. Test, test, test. Yee-haw! All right, well, that's a relief. I felt so lonely. Okay, cool. So, I think we are ready to go. The only thing that we need to work out before we jump in is that you all, well, Blaze and Rallymon know each other. And maybe I'll do a lead in, like, you know, since leaving the, you know, the escape of the Dark Sorcerer at the monastery of Lorimar, you have continued into the mountains and you've encountered a new character. We'll do, like, a little quick three, five-minute meeting with Honey Dragon. And then what's going to happen is you all will continue on into this mountain valley. You'll find this entrance to a cave. You'll go into the cave. You'll encounter Cedric, Cerulea, and Cecilia. We will do our, you know, kind of backstory plot. Kaia and I will be Victorian and rude. And then we will go into battle from there. Everybody feel good about that? Okay. I feel great about either one. I think I did the hello and welcome and it felt fine last time, so I'm great about it. Oh, thank you, Uriah. I am going to do that now. Oh, no. Oh, no. Okay. Oh, my lordy. Power devices, other things of that nature. Oh, yeah, Tiamat is the bad one and Baphomet's the good one. Yeah, I think that's right. Yeah, Tia... Right, that's right. Baphomet is another name for the devil, I think, right? It's Bahamut, right. Right. Okay. Well, that should be comedic. Children of a lesser god. Okay, great. I think I'm ready to fire this up, honeybunches. Are y'all feeling it? Last question, Colin. Like, usually I just call all my bits the Realm of the Dark Sorcerer, but since the Dark Sorcerer won't be here... Yeah, I guess I'll just say welcome to the Role Report very special episode. I don't want to, like... Do I just title it Dragons and Capybaras? Like, what? Okay. Maybe I'll call it Realm of the Dark Sorcerer, The Glorious War of Dragons and Capybaras or something like that. Okay. Okay. I love that. Okay, yeah, see if you can work that in. Okay, great. Well, I think let's get this baby on the road then, shall we? Hello, and welcome to a very special episode of the Role Report. I am Ben Rogue. My pronouns are he, him, and I will be DMing this one-shot to give our dear Colin a little break and get a little ridiculous silly playtime. We are very blessed to have a new contender in the arena today with us. Slater, please go ahead and introduce yourself. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, lovely, so glad to have you here, Slater. Go ahead, Colin. 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Can you imagine? They seem to be on fire, which at least is a bit stylish, but it, it, oh, yes, it seems to have deigned to think that it is good enough to speak with the likes of us, and clearly I don't think it speaks our language even, does it? Well, perhaps we should just eat it, or put it in a cage, or something like that. Oh my God, there's even a smaller one, and it's not even on fire, but it does speak, it does speak with a civilised tongue. That's, that's quite splendid. I had no conception that something so small could speak so elegantly. Thank you. My heavens, Cerulea, look at this silly thing. It's, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, I've never seen such a silly thing in my life. I have no conception about what it's saying or what it's doing, but, I mean, it looks like food, but also it's, it's so ridiculous and pathetic, I'm not even sure what to do. Right, I think, well, I don't know, I, I mean, I, I feel rather sort of affectionate to it, maybe we should make it one of our pets. I know. Look at all the clay and mud and what not and such. Well, on any account, Cerulea, perhaps we should address ourselves to the, to the well-spoken one. They seem to want something, although I'm not sure what it is, and I suppose we can either listen, and maybe if it gets boring, we'll just eat all of them. I, I. My God, Cerulea, what are they saying? Can you make out even a single word of this? My heavens, my heavens. Well, flattery will get you everywhere, my child, that's been it. Anyway, does it seem to you that they are trying to offer help? I'm not sure what possible help they could be, of course, but does, does everyone seem to have an idea? Right, well. This was in Draconyx later? Okay, okay. Well, I'm starting to understand that this little chittering one, despite any semblance of dignity, does in fact also speak our language. And they have made a very interesting point, Cerulea, which is that we actually do need small beings for this little afternoon's entertainment we're planning to engage in. Which, of course, is that, as you know, the reason why we're here in this cave is because we need to put a dragon egg into the belly of the nearby volcano. Well, what I mean, I was addressing Cerulea, you little whelp. But anyway, I suppose now that you've offered your services, small though they are, of course, we may have need of you. So I'm going to give you a bit more information on our plans and what sort of things that we are doing today. And that is this, that we have seen a future, a rather dastardly and tragic and horrifying future, in fact, where there are no more dragons on the planet. And that some ugly race or species of terrifying little hobgoblins that call themselves humans will be gaining ascendancy on this planet. And that there should be no more dragons for even as much as a million years while they live during a time of cooled planet crust and atmospheric temperature. But, of course, right, I agree, Cerulea, right, they are absolute vermin, just like all the other mammals. And so we, right. So anyway, the point being that what we've got to do as dragons is we know we can't survive this cooling period of the planet. But, of course, we are dragons and we will always regain our ascendancy. And so our goal is to emplace our embryos into the heart of every volcano on the planet such that they can gestate and grow and harvest geothermal energy in order to gain as much power as possible such that when the humans inevitably destroy themselves, perhaps or perhaps not with our help, we shall then regain ascendancy. And so I suppose I'd like to just ask you if you'd like to help us place our dragon egg inside the nearby volcano. It should be just nothing but a little ditty all in an afternoon's work. Is that successful? This egg you mean, Cerulea, is that right? Right. Right. Cerulea, tell us a bit about the dragon you expect to hatch from this egg. So this beautiful egg, they produce this beautiful egg. It's, let's say, about four feet tall. It's black and opalescent and a little bit of that like kind of oil sheen, but with clearly some like golden edged effervescence as it catches the light of the fire inside the cave. And it's basically the most beautiful thing you've ever seen. Right, well. Indeed. Well, thank you for your admiration, of course. It is indeed a beautiful future dragon and we hope that it will incubate inside the belly of the volcano for many hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of years. And then it will take over the planet and of course destroy your little Mermalian kind. So we do appreciate your support here and of course we would never entrust such an egg to you alone being Mermalians. However, since you have shown us the proper respect, we have decided to let you help with the task at hand. Oh, yes, I'm not sure. Well, I'm not sure why we would cooperate. Oh, darling, splendid idea. I do say, what brilliant things you think of. Where does your splendid mind come up with these thoughts? Splendid, splendid. Well, of course, normally I would be concerned about such a silly little ruffian interacting with such a sacred object. But I don't see what harm they can do. Adding, covering it with clay, I'm sure, can only protect it a bit. So that's splendid. Go ahead and do your work. Is this magical or rather skills-based? My dear, well, now it's almost as ugly as you, which might help it be disguised from... Right, well, we do appreciate it and I suppose now we should go and step out of this cave and make your task more clear to you, shall we? Oh, no, no. Unfortunately, the place where you'll be taking the egg is across a rather large valley with a bit of a river-y sort of lake in it and then, of course, there's the army on the other side. Oh, I think you'll find they're definitely expecting you. It's a rather large army. No, of course, we would never entrust you alone with this egg and that's why we've got our death cult of dinosaur-riding lizards to support you. Of course, I am sure your intervention within this context will be rather minimal. I mean, of course, why... It's a death cult of dinosaur-riding lizard-men. You've heard of this sort of... I mean, what better... Right, well, of course, if you've got to get an important job done, what you really want is reptiles riding other reptiles. I mean, Cerulea, how do these people not even know these basic facts? Of course, dragons are far above all normal reptiles. We're not really reptiles. We're merely the progenitors of reptiles. My God, no. My God, no. These lower species, they're not very good in bed. I mean, I've, of course, never been attracted to any of them, not even for a moment. Okay. Dinosaur-riding lizards. Let's be clear. This is an important fact. The lizard-men are riding the dinosaurs. So you all come out of the cave. You walk out on Cerulea and Cedric's toattails, metaphorically speaking, of course. And they're wearing metaphorical coats. Right, right. They're wearing top and tails like Eton boys. That's canon now. Great. So you leave through a different entrance in the cave. And this one opens out onto a vast rocky valley. And in the distance, a thousand meters away, you see a massive volcano rising up into the upper reaches of the atmosphere. And on the edge of this volcano is a giant and rocky keep, craggy and fearsome, with all sorts of spikes and effigies of rodents. The faces of ancient rodent ancestors are carved into the rock above the keep. And you can see that whoever has inhabited these lands are clearly of rodent descent and have lived here for long enough to create great and massive art across the valley against the volcano from you. Well, I don't see why we should care a bit about that. Cerulea, do you? So at that moment, Cerulea and Cedric decide to put the egg covered in its clay carapace on top of a palanquin that is on the back of a giant dinosaur. It has big teeth and frills and beautiful greenish turquoise scales. And as you look around this valley, you see that, in fact, there is an entire opposing army arrayed for battle. On your side, the side of the valley that you're standing on, you are seeing two units of dinosaur-riding lizard death cultist cavalry, as well as four units of lizard men infantry. And on the other side, you're seeing at least six or eight units of these rodents. Not robots, rodents. Yeah, well, that would be special. Maybe I should work that in later. So there's a large lake slash river in the middle of this battlefield. And you can see that there are two infantry units on each side. And then there's another very narrow crossing across the lake in the middle that's sort of made out of little cobblestones. It may be difficult to cross. The palanquin and the dinosaur that's carrying the egg cannot cross that. But you could potentially move yourself or some smaller infantry units across that. But the bigger concern here is that there is a huge army of these rodents across the valley from you. And you haven't heard anything about this yet. And I didn't know that you'd be encountering any sort of obstruction in the goal that these dragons have assigned you. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah, well, I suppose that's not the worst idea I've ever had. I mean, I assumed that once we started moving towards them, they'd get out of the way anyway, given our fearsome death cult of... Okay. Well, Cerulea, would you like to sort of fly out there and potentially sort of invite them to parley? I don't know. It's not a terrible idea, perhaps. I mean, these little rodents do seem right well. Oh, splendid, splendid, splendid. All right, yes, that's rather better, I think. Yes, let's send an emissary. So Cedric flies up into the sky and gives the universal sign for parley, whatever that is. And so you see two of the larger capybaras get out of their hot tubs. Oh, we don't know they're capybaras yet. Two of the larger rodents extricate themselves from hot tubs. And you're sort of thinking to yourself, like, wow, these rodents have really nice hot tubs. No wonder they're protecting this land so carefully. So two of the rodents step forward, and let's say they meet you on this little pathway in the middle of the lake. So I have these tokens here to denominate people from your side. So now you're in parley with these rodents. And what happens is that they don't even give you a chance to speak before they begin holding forth. And you hear the one more regal one say, What do you think you're doing here supporting these vile reptiles? This is sacred land of capybara, and you must remove yourselves and reptiles immediately or face... Yes, Krustin, they must remove themselves or face the devastation of giant capybara siege mortar. We already make excellent statue ourselves, and we will not be... Yes, we already make more magnificent statue than anybody else can possibly make. Great... Yeah, just play three characters at once, no big deal. I was like low-hanging fruit. Well, that is very nice ocarina. Maybe you play it for us. Maybe you play nice little ditty for us and we reconsider what sorts of tunes. Do you know any nice capybara music to impress? Yeah, go ahead and roll a performance check to see if you can play the ocarina effectively. Okay. Oh my god, that is worst sound I have ever heard in my life. You clearly must be in employ of disgusting reptilian creatures. Right, right. So, problem is if we have dragon egg inside heart of volcano could cause major obstruction to hot tub. We rely on thermal vent to keep our hot spring warm and as you know capybara's main goal in life is to soak in hot tub with lemon. And if you... Lemon make it so that water very nice and citrusy. If you have never taken hot tub with lemon, I don't know what to tell you. You are making mistake. Yes, we... You can see why we do not want to give up way of life. It is very nice, we have hot tub, we have lemon and we refuse to leave and refuse to let... There are... Yes, lemon trees are grown... We do not reveal location of sacred grove. Yes. So, the dragons are... Sorry, the capybara general Cornelius and his lieutenant Creston are gonna do their best to persuade you to defect to their side now. You should... Even though these dragons are very canonically hot and sexy, they lack important mortal fiber and they are attempting to disrupt our ecosystem and you... Maybe let's try a different voice for Creston, like a little more like... Yes, King Cornelius. Right. Creston... Creston the lieutenant is small and fierce. So, you know, just keep that anger in there, Kai. Yeah, feisty, exactly. So, Creston is also talking about the siege mortars and how they're like... This is their secret and ultimate weapon. Other than hot tubs, lemons and capybaras, the only other resource that the capybara army has is two massive siege mortars that they use to defend themselves. These are monstrous cannons. Well, the siege mortars are loaded with lava from the volcano. So, yes, Creston, tell them about siege mortar and why it's so effective against dragons. This is correct. We can destroy any foe with effective use of siege mortar. Yet another reason why, if you don't want to die, you join us now. So they roll up... They roll persuasion, let's say, first on Ral, that was a 17, then on Blaze, 15, and then on Honey Dragon, also 15. Or your love of dragons, potentially. Yeah, sure. Just roll a flat 20 and you can decide. I don't really care who says you're wrong. Oh my lord. Woo! Okay, so King Cornelius says, time to make a decision. We retreat back to our battle lines and in 30 seconds, siege mortars begin firing. You're either with us or against us. We have very... The area of effect of siege mortar is incredibly large. If it hits one thing, it hits all things. Sounds like a dubious plan, but, you know, it's your life on the line. If you fail, if you succeed... If you succeed, better for us. If you fail, you'll be dead. No problem. Okay, is reasonable... Okay, so Blaze, you're going back to the dragon lines. Okay, but with an agreement, an attempted agreement with the cavy bearers to engage in this ruse. Okay. I love this subplot. Great job, team. 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Aha. Right. And your panties are all getting mucky and liquidy up in your junk. Yeah. Mud butt literally means like you kind of pooped him. You pooped him a little. Okay. Yeah. That is a meaningful distinction. All right. Great job calling that. Put this on the B-Reel. Let all our listeners know that the people who pay for Patreon should know about the technical distinction between mud butt and swamp ass. Yeah. Totally. Totally. All right. So, okay. What is the difference between swamp ass and mud butt? Okay. Great. Great. Seems legit. Seems legit. Okay. So, what are we going to do here? We've got a battle unfolding. We've got siege mortars firing at dragons. There's going to be a lot of stuff. We can do more or less siege mortar or dragon intervention, but, of course, I would say what critically is happening here is that the palanquin is going to move forward towards its goal every couple of minutes of play consistently, and the dinosaur cavalry and the lizard infantry are going to be trying to keep it moving forward while the capybaras attempt to impede it, and then the key weapons on the dragon side are the dragons themselves, the canonically odd dragons, and the capybara weapons are the siege mortars. So, man, I really wish we had Lucy here inside to play the roles of canonically odd dragons. They were very funny. Yeah. So, you know, we're going to do that. Yeah. That would take a lot of mental bandwidth, although they definitely did drop my Victorian English theme, and Lucy was like, I showed them my cloaca. I was like, okay, this is better. Let's go with this. No, they're canonically odd southern dragons. Right. Okay. Well, clearly, there were references about this that I didn't know about, and they were delightful. Right. Hmm. Okay. So, I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next one. Maybe if you got a tree branch from the front yard and used an engraving tool. Oh, Oliver is my favorite. Oh, yeah, dude, they really love that. It's like, you know, it's part of their species being. You just have to supervise them, which is tiresome. Right. Everybody's got their own personality. It's rather beautiful, isn't it? 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100. Okay. Great. Yeah, good luck. Deception track on dragons? Oh, yeah, it's because clay. That'll work. Sure, sure. All right. Great. So, we got Kaya back in their seat. Almost. Welcome back, Kaya. Finishing that cereal. Way to switch between three. Oh, you can't hear me at all right now, can you, Kaya? Of course you can't. Nope. All right. Duh. That's frustrating. Okay. So, are we ready to be back, Kaya? How's your headphones? All right. You have prepared all three of your headphones. Okay. All right. And we're back in five, four, three, and we're back. We, when we left, there was the firing of siege mortars in the sky and the screech of dragons as the dragons were being slain. When we left, there was the firing of siege mortars in the sky and the screech of dragons as the palanquin carrying the dragon egg moved towards the western passage across the lake. As my friend Colin likes to say, broadcasting is a visual medium, and so I will give you a little bit of the layout of the map. So, in order to remind you, exactly, in the northern part of the map are the Capybara King Cornelius and his trusty sidekick Creston, and they are surrounded by legions of Capybara infantry who have been roused from their hot tubs to take up pointy sticks in defense of their land. And they're all canonically now wearing speedos. Actually, no, they're not all doing that. I think a lot of Capybara like their jump to air, but some of them, the ones that are racing Capybaras, are, they're... I expect, save to not look at the joke, but there are some speed Capybara who are actually hasty units of the Capybara infantry who move twice as fast, and they move down towards this crossing where they see the palanquin moving, and they engage the first front line troops of the lizard death cult infantry. So we're going to roll some D6s here. Does anyone want to roll D6s for the lizard infantry? Since you're purportedly on their side right now, I would need a 6D6 roll if you can muster that. All right, the Capybara infantry has rolled adequately, but not great. There's three fours, a one, a two, or no, two twos, and a three. Yeah, totally. So I would say they match up pretty well. No one is in route. No one is advancing. They are fighting one another, but I think the lizard infantry is maybe forcing a slight delay in their attack. So there's a slight hole in the Capybara lines of this advance card as the lizard cavalry and their egg palanquin approaches towards the bridge. So now we are going to give a turn to all three of you. What happens next in your role as you are apparently simultaneously attempting subterfuge against the dragons and their goal against the Capybara? All right, so I'm going to give a turn to all three of you. So I'm going to give a turn to all three of you. What happens next in your role as you are apparently simultaneously attempting subterfuge against the dragons and their goal against the Capybara? All right, so I'm going to give a turn to all three of you. What happens next in your role as you are apparently simultaneously attempting subterfuge against the dragons and their goal against the Capybara? All right, so I'm going to give a turn to all three of you. 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All right, so they take two shots from the siege mortars. There's an 11 and a 5. They're aiming at the dragons who are in motion. Let's say Cedric takes a little bit of singeing to one of the wings, but is really not in any way negatively affected. A couple points of damage. All right, so they take two shots from the siege mortars. There's an 11 and a 5. They're aiming at the dragons who are in motion. Let's say Cedric takes a little bit of singeing to one of the wings, but is really not in any way negatively affected. A couple points of damage. All right, so they take two shots from the siege mortars. There's an 11 and a 5. They're aiming at the dragons who are in motion. Let's say Cedric takes a little bit of singeing to one of the wings, but is really not in any way negatively affected. A couple points of damage. But the main action right now is that the egg is under the bridge where Honey Dragon has moved it to, and Cedric and Cerulea are aware of this attempt at subterfuge. So now you're back in initiative. I'm cool with whatever order y'all want to take. The dragons are still 30 feet from you, so there's no melee combat you can get. Okay, so another attempt at fear to the western or northern dragon – or, sorry, dinosaur-riding lizard-man death cultist cavalry. Yeah. Okay, western. Rolling fear. Go for it. Oh, okay. They rolled a 16. Right. Right. Go ahead and roll another deception check to see if they notice you. Okay, great. Although your feeble attempts at subterfuge, they're too engrossed in battle and retrieving the egg to notice you, so none of that matters. All right, who's next? Cool. Who are you aiming at? Oh, okay. Brave, but foolish. Anyway, fuck around and find out. What could go wrong? Ah, that misses. Nope. Okay, miss, miss, miss. Right. Anyone want to talk some shit while you're at it? Well, insofar as you are, like, you know, pretending to help the dragons and really just causing confusion and subterfuge, you're not losing insofar as your presumably, like, secret intention is to help the capybaras. And so everyone's stuck on this bridge. There's a big bottleneck. We're going to go ahead and roll some infantry combat between four units of capybara infantry and two units of lizard infantry. So someone roll me 66s. Yeah, it doesn't really matter how much they add up to. We're more like, we're kind of doing this Warhammer style, like, what causes a wound and what doesn't. So let's say, like, a four plus causes a, or a three plus causes a wound. How many wounds do we have? Okay, that's pretty good. The, the capybaras just rolled four wounds in their first two units and three wounds in the second two units. So now go ahead and roll, roll some saves. That was four, that's seven wounds. Go ahead and roll like a five plus save for your, for your wound. Right, no, roll 66s and see how many are worth more, more than five, either five or six. Okay, great. That's pretty good. So again, we're sort of like the, the capybaras do have more, more soldiers to bear in this combat. And the, the lizards are, are definitely taking casualties, but they are, their lines are not breaking. And now they're still, they're not exactly bolstered by the, by the dragon lizard, or the dinosaur lizard cavalry, because the dinosaur lizard cavalry is trying to retrieve this egg. But, but they're holding the line. Okay, so roll for deception to make the fake egg, or I guess, no, you should be rolling, I don't know, Colin, what, what do you roll when you're making stuff? Okay, great. No, I think it's dex. You want to make it look good. So this is a dex with, with proficiency for, for Potter's tools. It's really great when you have your DM here. It makes DMing a lot easier when you have your DM to tell you what, what they would do. Lovely. Okay, okay. Right. Yeah, right. And, and, and so I would say you get to roll, like, so you made a good one, you, you rolled high enough to make a good one? Yeah, yeah, go, go ahead and roll it. Oh, no. Okay, this thing is like this, this really warped, ridiculous object. You've got more clay on you that, and, and basically the, the subterfuges. Okay, well, what, a d3 tier in that one, okay. So, wait, what, Colin, what does the proficiency bonus do? It doesn't give you advantage, right? Okay, okay. So this is, this is still just pretty disastrous. Like, you have not failed to make a good, or you have failed to make a good replica of the egg. You're, you're still here. You're under, under the bridge. You know, Cerulean and Cedric can't exactly see you, but they know shadiness is taking place. So, so now Cedric and Cerulea are flanking you on both sides of the bridge as you stand underneath it, and Cerulea, or Cedric says, Little worm, we knew your feeble mammalian wit would betray us. We never trusted you for a moment. And now look at your attempt to trick us with this awful artifice. Indeed, Cerulea, deeply pathetic. So Cedric is gonna spit some acid your way. We'll just do a, like a straight up accuracy, you know, attack. It's a 10, so let's say they have a bonus. What's your armor class? Okay, so that, that misses. And then Cerulea, do you, do you want to attack them? Okay, yeah, do you want to spit acid or swipe with your tail or attack with claws or, yeah, what, what vengeance do you think this? Okay, splendid. So go ahead and roll a, a, a, a to hit roll. Yeah, and you get to roll two because you have two claws. Okay, so what's your armor class, Ralph? Okay, great. So both of them miss, wow. Oh, darling. Right, right, right. Okay, so the dragons somehow miss in these attacks, which, you know, is lucky for you, otherwise you'd probably be dead right now. So, oh, darling, these little critters seem to be a bit smaller than I was expecting. I'm not sure how to pin them down, but anyway, certainly we'll get them next time. So then we cut back to, to Crustin and, and Cornelius. Duh, Crustin, attack them, attack them with siege mortar and maybe it's, it's time we go into battle against them. I, I think we are, we have upper hand and it is now time for us to take fight to enemy. So fire siege mortar. That's a 15 against Cerulean and a 16 against Cedric. Those both miss. There's, there's, there's minor damages, but, but it is hard to hit a dragon and they, they don't want to fire their siege mortars directly into this, this cluster of, of, of melee combat. Because they'll surely destroy their own, their own fighters. Crustin, we do not fire siege mortars on our own people is part of the law of Capybara. We always are valiant and protective of our own in combat. We never give anything but lemon to our friends. Oh. Okay, great. So now we are back as a top of combat and the, the cavalry is, is, and the palanquin is going to attempt to move forward against the, the Capybara infantry. Um, so I am going to roll 66s again. Oh, whoa. That was a huge roll. Okay. This is, this is a two sixes, two fives, a four and a two. So this, uh, go ahead and roll 66s someone for, uh, for Capybara defense. Okay. So yeah, this is really bad. We're going to go ahead and just delete two of these Capybara units off the map. Um, yeah, so, uh, the, the dragon, uh, death cultists are pushing forward. They, they pushed the palanquin, uh, a couple of, of units forward. We're maybe now like three fifths or two fifths of the way towards the goal in the Capybara keep. Uh, so there's, there's a lot of, uh, battle and the flames of battle are occurring. Um, and you're still attempting your subterfuge, but, but, uh, Cedric and Cerulea are onto you. Uh, what are you going to do next? Okay. So you go to, to mend that you're, you're fake egg that they already know is fake, but what could go wrong? Oh, okay. Uh, so you make a really good fake egg this time. What, what are you going to do with it? Okay. Uh, so you make a really good fake egg this time. What, what are you going to do with it? Okay. So, uh, roll, roll a strength and a deception check. 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I'm going to retreat a bit from the battlefield to, uh, to lick my wounds, but, um, no doubt my death cultists and, and companion, Cedric, will deal with you soon enough. Mwahahahaha. Okay, uh, roll to hit. 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So, okay, so, so other, other characters need actions now for a minute. So, Krustin and, and King Cornelius move up towards the battle lines now. And King Cornelius delivers a rousing speech to the, to his fellow capybaras. And he says, if we are marked to die, so be it. But if we live, the fewer capybara, the greater the share of honor. I pray thee, wish not one capybara more. I am not covetous of gold, only lemons and hot tubs. But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. I would not lose so great an honor as one capybara more. Rather proclaim it, that which have no stomach in this fight, let them depart and return to their hot tub. I shall send them plenty of lemons. This day is called the celebration of the namesake, Krustin, Krustin Krathien. They that outlive this day and come back to hot tub will yearly on the vigil give lemons to their neighbors and say, tomorrow is Krustin's day. Then will they rise from their hot tub and show their scars and say, these wounds I got on Krustin's day. And Krustin Krathien shall ne'er go by for this day of the exploding volcano from this day until the exploding of the volcano. But we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few. We band of capybaras. Capybaras now in their hot tub shall think themselves accursed for they were not here on this field of honor as we fought these canonically hot dragons on Krustin's day. Krathien. Krathien immediately orders the glorious firing of the mortars. So they're aiming at Cerulea and Cedric. Oh, there's a 19. This is working. Oh my God, a 19. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God, a nat 20. Okay. Krustin. Oh, I love this. His speech just worked. That's very joyful. Okay. So Krustin and, or sorry, Cerulea and Cedric are both hit directly with siege mortar. They're not dead, but they are wounded. Oh, oh, this is, oh my God. Darling, darling, I think we may have underestimated. I'm feeling pain for the first time in absolute centuries. I am experiencing actual pain. I'm terrified. And I think we both better just move back here and make sure to protect ourselves. This is all too awful. I do feel so, no. It seems we've been betrayed by mammals after all. And this is obviously awful. I agree. I agree. So then, so as they fly away, Cerulea and Cedric say, now my death cultists, fulfill your vow. Fight to the last lizard to destroy all these awful mammals. And so now there's gonna be additional combat between the dinosaur-riding death cultist cavalry and the infantry, the Kavivara infantry. But the Kavivara infantry are inspired by the rousing speech delivered by King, you're right, the Creston's Day speech, the Creston's Day speech. So cavalry unit one, we've got, ooh, that was a big, that was a big roll. We've got four hits from cavalry unit one and two hits from cavalry unit two. Fight back. Let's have you roll two sets of D6s. Yes. Yes. Okay, great. Okay. So at this point now, as a result of these rolls, everything except for the death cultist cavalry is destroyed. The lizard infantry is gone. And one of the death cultist cavalries is at half strength. Meanwhile, one more Kavivara infantry has been wiped off the board. But given their inspiring speech, they are holding the line and they are not retreating, despite the fact that the palanquin is still advancing. So let's say they move back a couple of the units, but they retreat in good order with a rear guard action defended by a Kavivara unit. Okay. Oh, so there are units on the other side of the lake. They're skirmishing, but not relevant to this combat. Yes, well, they're fighting valiantly, but they didn't hear King Cornelius's glorious speech. So, right, right. Okay. Okay. So now the Kavivaras are valiantly holding the line. I guess, does it, Kaya, why don't you roll for Creston to see if Creston can inspire the other Kavivaras to come to the aid of the Western for combat? Roll persuasion. Okay. Okay. Okay. Attempting to inspire them with Lemoncello later, which is, of course, a Kavivara favorite, no doubt. Lemons being a critical resource in this community. So, but they did not hear you. Apparently Creston's voice was a little too high to carry across the lake. So now the dragons, you are outed. They know that you are their enemy. This cavalry knows that you're the enemy. So there's going to be really probably not much more possibility of subterfuge. So what do you want to do to try to stop the advancing lizard cavalry and the palanquin? Yeah, I think you teleported the real egg to under the bridge, but the dragons knew that, but it's not clear that they were able to actually communicate that information. So now the cavalry is advancing with the palanquin, but I also, the palanquin, if you did take the egg, is now empty. So you're not going to be able to take the egg. You're not going to be able to take the egg. If you did take the egg, it's now empty. There's no fake one on there. So I guess let's, we're going to just roll an immediate perception check amongst the cavalry to determine whether or not they noticed that they have actually lost the egg. Okay, they just rolled a 20. It must have been that Cerulea notified them. So now they're sending back certain units under the bridge to retrieve the egg. They know you're there, but, okay, great. So you're rolling deception. Oh, okay. Oh, okay, okay, right. So they didn't actually see it get removed. So now it's possibly believable you could do persuasion. Okay, so you want to persuade them to believe that the egg you're holding is the real one. Okay, go for it. Okay. All right, Owie, you, we know you're bad, and you better put that egg. Back on this. In fact, just give me that. I'll take it from you. Okay, so they roll a strength check. Yeah, they take the fake egg and they put it on the palanquin. Right, and now for your deception and awful betrayal, we are going to attack you fiercely. And so now we're just going to roll like a standard Warhammer combat. Okay, great. So they, oh, they rolled poorly. There is only one damaging attack there. There is only one damaging attack there. So each of you just roll a D6 to save and, yeah, like a D6. Okay, so everybody saves. You're not even harmed by this. And now they're, the Khabibara infantry. Okay. You will never be invited to our DEFCON and we'll call the DEFCON because we're willing to die for our beliefs, which is basically that the dragons are right about everything. So, anyway, we're moving on with this palanquin as the dragons have ordered. So. So now they're going to have some more combat. Yeah, they're not doing well in this combat. Okay, that was a little better. 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