#204 – Set the Scene 2 - Palladium Fantasy 1E (with Kevin Siembieda)

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Hi, I'm Kevin Sambida of Palladium Books, and you're listening to the Glitter Boys.

This morning, your group of 43 warriors, magicians, mercenaries and hirelings descended from your camp into the Valley of Evil, intent on plundering the riches of the fabled tombs therein. Now, as far as you can be certain, only the six of you remain alive, and even that number is rapidly dwindling. You've been chased through seemingly endless halls, hunted by unspeakable horrors, fallen down grease lined trap pits, and only now found a brief moment to catch a breath in a short, dark stone corridor. After slamming a door behind you against yet another pursuing evil. What, you may ask, happened to the others? Gored and violated by more variations of undead than you bothered to count. Crushed by falling ceiling stones. Stabbed to death by magical blade traps that just kept on stabbing. Torn apart by a pack of monstrously huge ghoulified hunting hounds. Most recently ripped asunder by a horrible enormous beast, which you're pretty sure is a God's damned undead bear. A bear which is even now scratching madly at the door behind you. It doesn't roar, though. Unlike those awful braying hounds, it's almost silent. Isn't that kind of creepy? So, before we continue, I want to make use of something from our very previous episode where we talked about party roles or player roles at the table. One of you should be very willing and happy to volunteer for the player role of initiative tracker.

I can do that.

You got it?

Yep.

Great. Wonderful. Thank you. Take the load off my shoulders. Sean, roll me a D6.

1.

Kevin, roll me a D6.

4.

Okay, currently the four of you and two others have just run down this corridor being chased by this horrible bear thing that just won't die. There's now two less of you as there's two bodies on the floor next to you, one of which is Kellan, who is a human priest of the God Lopnol the Red. Kellan is a lost cause as both of his legs were ripped off and you just barely dragged him in as the bear was trying to finish the deed. You're watching him expire on the ground before you. You're pretty sure there's nothing you can do to save him. There is, however, another person, Voleema. She is a dwarven mercenary. She got poisoned by something. You don't know what, something bad. She's dying. Any second now, the poison will end her life. So before you make a decision on what to do with this, here's the situation. You are lost in these tombs. There is a corridor leading away from your current situation behind you. You have just closed the door, and there is a horrible undead bear thing scratching at it, trying to get at you. The corridor beyond is actually pretty short, maybe 40 paces long. And you see another door at the other end. I'm going to give each character of this group a random roll and a special loot table that I put together. As you take things off of your fallen companion, you have a choice to make. You can try and save this other person and have a fifth companion, but if they die, you each get another roll on the random table. A flute, and there's some good shit on this. Just letting you know.

Can I use recognized poison to decide if trying to save her is worth it, or are you just saying we can save her? We could decide to.

Actually, it's a good thing you asked because you have the potential ability to do this. I know. Because of the group composition. If you use recognized poison. You want to try it?

Yeah.

First roll of the evening.

Yay.

That's a D100. And you want to get equal to or lower.

I got a four, which is good because I only have a 15% in that skill.

Okay. You recognize the poison? It's probably in one of the books. I'm not going to go over.

How lethal is it?

We're going to call it Blackleaf. It's Blackleaf. Normally it's a poison used to kill elves. Unfortunately, one of the side effects with dwarves is lower body hemorrhaging in a very uncomfortable way. And she's almost expired with that knowledge, I'll say that. Buckley.

Yes.

If you wish, you can then try and cure that poison with. I think you have an ability for that.

I do. I do have negate poison. Now, my one question about negate poison is the ability enables the healer to nullify. Blah, blah, blah. Once the process of negating poison is started, the victim takes no further damage. Cool. However, any damage, poisoning, blah, blah, blah. The entire process takes 30 minutes exactly to complete.

With the knowledge of what poison it is. I'll say that you're able to reduce that time by half because you know exactly what it is. You're like, oh, I've dealt with this before.

And in this version of palladium, it has 30 minutes in parentheses. Melees.

Because a melee round is one minute.

If interrupted, the poison starts to do damage within two melees. Negate toxins actually destroys the toxic substance, regardless of harmlessness. So it would take me 15 minutes.

Active minutes that you would need, which.

Is a lot of time.

Yep, it's a lot of time.

Stitch would be more than willing to try, but he doesn't know if we have 15 minutes. But it could buy the person another couple of rounds. Right. You know, so we could play that game.

They will die in one round unless this is begun.

Right.

So if you begin, then we can decide if you get five minutes and the bear is coming through the door, then ditch her.

Yeah. Or drag her thrower of your back. You know, something like that.

In the back.

Well, you're big enough. The troll is big enough that Stitch, next to the dwarf on your back, could maybe keep working on the dwarf to try to save her, you know? Or even in the back if we have to move. Yeah, if we have to move.

And just to recap, because I don't actually know what order I'm going to release these episodes in Stitch. You are a what? A gnome.

I'm a gnome.

Gnome.

Gnome healer.

And Sean, you are.

Bob is a troll mercenary.

Okay. But there you have two other companions who are very well alive right now.

Yes.

Who are they?

Well, we'd have Derzum the Whisperer, the.

Orc shaman slash psychiatrist.

Well, I mean.

Ergo, the whispers I.

Counsel all in order to bring them into alignment with the needs of my.

God, Kirgi, the Rat God.

Rat gods are great. Says Weasel Pete, the Goblin cobbler. Now, I have a question for gm.

Yes?

The dwarf who's been torn in half, he's dead.

Priest. It was a priest of lnel the Red. His legs have both been ripped off.

Yeah, right. Human. What race? What was he?

Human Priest of Lopnel the Red.

And he's dead?

Yeah, yeah, he's got like a couple of squirts of blood left to come out, but there's no way you're going to save him.

All right, well, Weasel Pete is cutting off some pieces for food later.

Okay.

He is a cannibal.

Yep.

And even though he's not a goblin and he doesn't prefer, you know, human meat, it's better than dwarven meat. And he's got a plan where if that bear comes through, even though it appears to be an undead bear, some kind of strange bear, he's gonna throw the dead priest. That's what he gets.

Ah.

That's what he gets for worshiping the wrong God.

Hey.

Kurgy.

Well said, well said.

So he's gonna throw the. What's left of the body at the bear, hoping it might attack if the bear gets in. If he gets in.

Okay, Weasel Pete, I will also have you roll a D20.

Not very good. 8.

You think it's not very good? Okay, Weasel Pete. So as you're searching. So essentially the mechanic here is for each of the people that die, basically giving you a roll on a table of something that you could find off of their bodies to help you out. This is the role. So as you try and you try and portion out the body of your fallen companion, the human priest of Lopnel, and to make him a little bit more easily kickable, digestible, movable, you notice that he has sheathed on his back a scabbard made of chain of metal. Chain. And in that chain is a very large sword. It is a very nice sword. You know he didn't have that when he came into this dungeon.

That rat bastard, thieving scumbag. Well, I'm thinking that I'm also like checking his pockets and stuff. I mean I am a thief and of course I try to draw the sword out of the scabbard.

Okay, I will make a note that the sword is basically twice as big as you are.

I got a physical strength of 11.

Okay.

I can handle it.

It's not giant sized or anything, but it is big.

Yep.

It is a two handed sword with a straight cross piece. The pommel was carved to be a heavy thorn of pointed steel. The handle is covered with leather. Has a loop of leather placed to be worn around your left wrist. There's a gem, a topaz on one side. On the other there's some strange scrawlings and a circle of gold.

So he draws a sword and he says to, I think to the orc, since we both worship the same God, clearly, clearly we're kind of buddies. He's like, I'm sorry, that's Bob. Or who?

No, Durzam.

Durzm. Why don't you use my magic sword? In case that bear comes in, I'll lend it to you. It's just on loan, buddy.

Sure.

So as you were doing this, Weasel Pete, you draw the sword. There's this rippling of color, very, very vague light color, like lighter gray on a gray background. Ripples. And you hear a voice, susserating feminine voice, begin to speak in your head in a bunch of whispering words that sound like they might be various languages. You said you speak Elven?

Yes.

Oh Good. In Elven.

54%. Let me see, let me see if I recognize it.

If the sword uses any Big words. You'll need to roll.

Yes. Just barely.

Yes.

54.

A soft, sensuous feminine voice just whispers in elven, I am not for you. You should kindly put me down.

Yeah, buddy, take the sword.

Weasel is acting strange, but Weasel always acts strange.

I'm gonna just take the sword and it's a sword.

There's another ripple as just color goes up and down the blade. You get the same, and the voice shifts into your language. Unfortunately, I am not for you either.

And this is just in their head.

Okay.

Just making sure.

So it would behoove you to return me.

I will have made the decision to try to heal Velma.

Vlima.

Vlima. Vlima. So I will begin. Resist poison or. Excuse me. Neutralized poison.

Gotcha.

Negate. Negate toxins on her.

And I don't think there's a role for that. You're just.

It just takes 30 minutes.

Again, it'll only be 15 minutes. But that 15 minutes, you might not have.

Absolutely.

Jacob.

I'm going to be looking at the sword and I am going to actually roll my demon and devil lore skill trying to figure out if it's got that. Oh, yeah, I rolled an 11 on that.

This also inspires you. You look at it, you feel there's something strange, and it gives you a. This sounds like a legend you might have heard, but it's hard. You can't the words not come into your mind. But as you rotate it and look, you see that there's some runes on one side of it in a golden circle. Do you have recognized runes?

No, I do not.

You don't? Okay. There's definitely something demonic happening here. Oh.

I mean, like, I've got literally talk to the sword and go. As a follower of Kirgi and his assorted hosts of demons and devils. Can't we work something out here? I mean, at least tell me where you want to be returned to.

You can either return me to my scabbard and kindly place the loop back upon so no one draws me again, or just set my handle at an angle 45 degrees from the wall and then fall forward.

I'm gonna put you back.

That would be welcome.

I'm gonna slide the sword back into its scabbard and put the loop back on as requested. And, like, I'm just gonna sling it over my shoulder to carry it when that happens.

And when the sword slides back into this chain sheath, you feel a soft kiss on your lips and the words, thank you.

Oh, it's been a while.

And then it's gone.

Meanwhile, weasel Pete has no idea what's going on. He inquires what's going on. And I. I have a recognized weapon quality, so I'm sure I can recognize this. Is this.

You don't even have to roll for this. Just you like. Holy shit. That's a rune weapon. I've heard of these.

Okay. So he says to his friend there, why are you putting my sword back into sheath?

It asked nicely.

Ah, you heard the lady too, huh?

Yeah. I think we might be able to have a discussion with the sword later about returning it. And who knows what the reward might be.

What's going on with the bear? I mean, is the door seeming to be holding.

He is continuing to knock, seems to be holding. It is slamming, and it's a very rhythmic. It's not trying anything other than what it's been doing, which is like a scratching slam and a scratching slam and a scratching slam. Like it's on a repeating record of ursine doom.

So I dive into the bag and I come out as a weasel. And you said there was a hall and a door?

Yes. There's a hallway that extends maybe 40 paces ahead of you, and a door at the end of that.

I'm going to quietly scurry along the wall as a little weasel and listen at the door. Do I see any light on the other side? Do I hear any sounds?

So you begin to head in that direction, and with every couple of feet that you move, the air around you gets colder and colder. By the time that you get to the door, you are almost shivering. The door's really cold. It's not gonna be like one of those Christmas story moments where, you know, you touch it and you're stuck to it or anything, but it is really cold. You listen to it and you hear the loud sounds of wind on the other side.

Okay, not good. I hate the great. The great northern wilderness. It's just too cold. The wolf dog people. I mean, are we in a location.

Where that could just be outside?

It would be strange. Okay, you are in the old kingdom mountains, but you're not high in the mountains. You haven't encountered any weather like this on your trek here or in this valley. And you're underground.

Didn't you say there was another hall?

That's it. There's the door behind you and the door ahead of you. Now behind you, you know, is a horrible bear. There were some devil dogs. There's some twisting corridors. Somebody you think there might have been a vampire, some crazy stuff happening here all Right.

I scurry back to my buddies and I say, yeah, guys, I don't think that other door is an option. It's really, really cold. The closer you get to it, the colder it gets. And when I listen at the door, it was like an ice cube touching it, and I could hear wind howling. I don't know, man. It doesn't. Doesn't sound like a good option to me. So I think we might need to restore our dwarven friend here and try to do something with that creepy bear.

Do you think we're. It's another one of those situations with the witch who wants one of our bones in exchange for passage.

Again, this does feel remarkably similar to that.

Oh, no.

Oh, no, wait. We got bones. He points to the dead human.

Ooh.

Well, hey, you know, we might be able to negotiate.

You're.

You're a weasel. Last time I checked, you could squeeze through narrow things. How tight is the bottom of the door to the floor?

I don't want to do it.

We're right behind you on the other.

Side of the door.

Remember, just look within yourself. Remember the blessings of kirgi upon you and visualize your success.

Was the door. Did it have. Was it wide enough for the bottom of it? I mean, could I squeeze under it?

No, no, no, no.

What if I turned into a mouse?

If you turned into, like a roach, you probably could.

Not sure if they can go that small and buggy. Although I do believe it. I know in the later edition it talks about spider, but frog, toad.

No, I think a very small frog. If you can turn into a small frog, like a tiny little tree frog, then, yes, you could fit through.

Well, I smell first. I smell like. Does it smell like winter? Does it smell like.

Yes, it smells like snow. Snow and winter and ice.

All right, I'm prowling. Where's my prowl? I've got a 39% prowl. It's the noisiest frog on earth.

Your bones are shivering. You can hear the rattling of tiny frog bones.

So I'm not prowling, but I squeeze under as stealthily as possible and see what's on the other side.

Okay, what are the others doing while this is happening? I'm holding the door shut, scratch, thump.

And waiting for the dock.

And I'm just focusing over Voleema and just trying to negate the toxins that are in her body.

Okay, I am about, like 8ft back from the door the bear's at, and I've set my short spear to receive a charge. So if it comes back blowing through there, it's going to run right into my spear.

Got it. Would any of you like to make a search roll on the. The. The dead guy?

I'm assuming. I can't.

If I can. If I can pick up. If he's walked away, I'll pick up the corpse and shake her.

Okay.

See if anything falls.

I want to point out, I said while I was. Before I looked at the sword, you.

Were picking stuff out of pockets.

Okay. If you want, we can have him make another role. This is gonna just gonna be four rolls total.

I gotcha. That was my role. The sword was mine.

But anybody can designate you to roll again.

I will gladly pass my role to someone else because I just want to be Johnny on the spot with a spell on my lips and a spear set to receive a charge.

Yeah, and I'm under a door. You know, it's a panic situation. I guess I didn't continue to dig through.

All right, Bob, I'll start with my roll. How's that?

D20.

Sounds good.

17.

Oh, okay. He also had in a bag a bandolier roll me 2d4.4 bandolier of 4 scroll cases.

I wanted it to be hand grenades.

Well, one of them could be the hand grenade spell.

There you go.

I know better than to read a scroll. I will drop those over by Stitch and kind of grunt.

Yeah, that's definitely gonna be a stitch thing because I'm illiterate as fuck.

Stitch. Like, you know, as Stitch is concentrating, he kind of puts his foot over it, kind of scrapes him underneath him. So the bandolier of scrolls is between his legs.

I'm in the North Pole. But I do want to point out and remind everyone I can read Alvin.

Yeah, I can read Dwarven. So we'll see.

Okay. Yeah, we're going to go back to the. To the tundra that you have now found yourself in. It is basically an endless field of ice and snow in every direction.

I squeezed in enough to see it. I didn't like, hop right in in case the door disappears when I'm inside.

This is the level of paranoia you get.

So my ass is under the door.

Gotcha. From that viewpoint, you see this field of snow extending in all directions. You can hear and feel now the wind that is blowing pretty hard. Not enough to blow someone over, but it could blow a little frog around. And in the distance about 30 paces from you is this hunched over figure in like heavy, heavy twig encrusted robes, lots of snow piled up and this gnarled looking face looks at you and smiles. Coming in, it says, bring your friends.

Do I know this person?

You don't. You don't know this person?

Have I heard of this person?

Tell you what, something about this sounds familiar, but you don't know a name.

Frost demons. Quarterly subscription is not.

All right. I. I ask her. What. What is this place?

Oh, don't you like it here? Come on, find out. It's nice and cold like I like it.

It's a little chilly for me, but yeah, you know what? I'll talk to my friends.

Oh, please do. Tell them to come on in.

Oh, sure. So I hop along.

Goodbye.

Now I get out of there and I go back and tell my comrades what I. What I encountered and. Yeah, sure seems like that witch you guys were talking about. I described her garb and this tundra and the wind and everything. And yeah, she said, come on by. But I wouldn't go until we're. We're powered up with another, our other fighter here. How's the healing going?

Slow. This, this toxin is nasty.

I forget to jump into the bag. I turn into a goblin. Ugly naked goblin. Handsome for a goblin.

Nothing that we haven't seen before.

The door is starting to crack with the impacts of this creature.

Oh, man.

You don't think it has 15 minutes? You don't think it has five minutes?

Well, if we can quickly get to this door that you've talked about. I've bought, I've bought voleema time. I could always start again if we can get somewhere safe. Is there any shelter where you were you found. What did you see?

I didn't see any shelter. You said it was a tundra, so I assume there's no shelter.

Crap.

Well, okay. I would like to do something.

All right.

I'm a courteous troll.

You are noble.

However, I can see now we're talking and thinking too much. I cared about this Valerie, whatever her name was, but the next time the bear hits the door, I use it as an excuse to stagger and I step on her head. Oops. Problem solved.

So Stetch is like focusing and focusing and it's like, like, why is my mat. It just stopped working. And I look over and I'm like, what dog Trolls?

My boots were clean.

Weasel Pete says, well, you always were kind of a clumsy guy. And he starts ransacking your body.

Roll me 80, 20, Kevin.

I will also give a free of that roll for that body.

Nine.

Sorry about your spell.

That's okay. I was like, like stitches the magic Just stops working. And Stitch is, like, really confused. What the hell? Oh, my God. Really?

So you find at her belt that she has a dagger, and it is a dagger that you have actually seen Prior. You've seen someone fall to this dagger, both enemy and a friend. It's a dagger that you know will kill its target. It just takes time.

Wait, it's poisoned with black leaf.

Does she frick herself on her own damn dagger?

No, this is a little bit kind of a different death in that you use the dagger and you try to kill someone, and then it will not.

Stop until that person.

Until that person is dead.

Does he keep stabbing them over and.

Over and over and over?

Sewing machine.

Will that work if you throw said dagger?

That only works. Yeah, if you throw.

The thing is, it's the knife what keeps on stabbing.

He tried. He tried to pocket it. I rolled. Pick, pick, pick, pick pocket. I have a 37%. I rolled a 38.

So, I mean, y' all see him take this dagger and shove it in his pocket.

He's like, look, guys, we've seen this dagger kill things before. Do we think it'll work on the freaking bear or on the twig witch? And I'm good at daggers. You know that. I mean, if we need to kill the old biddy because maybe she's a pal. And you guys said something about a witch and bones. We got all kinds of bones. Not a skull, but we got bones.

Derzen is basically a witch. They probably have some kind of professional courtesy. We could just talk to her.

Could be.

We don't got a lot of time. We need to make it up. It's frozen tundra or bear beast.

Let's strip the rest of the stuff.

Off these bodies and head out ahead to the frozen tundra. I don't want to deal with the beast. It took out a lot of people. Yeah.

So you're going to try and strip them down real quick.

Yeah, actually, if they're. If the sack that Bob has is big enough, we can just throw the bodies into the sack and throw them on the back of Bob's shoulder and away we go.

Certainly. Certainly. We want to grab the half a body with the cool sword, because maybe the sword belongs to twig lady. Sure.

But before you open it, let's go ahead and finish the rolls and see.

What other things we've rolled three times so far.

Three times so far. Kevin's done two.

I will do one.

Sean's done one.

A six.

A six. Oh, you find. Roll me a D. Four. Three. Fast. Okay. Cool. A fine set of armor that matches the troll. Troll sized armor.

Okay.

It's a very nice set of armor that the dwarf was wearing, but if you take a minute to resize it, it would be half plate or half armor for you. But still, I would love that.

Yeah, Yeah. I was like, slide it over. I'm like, pulling it off the dwarf.

Like, get dressed quick, man. This door ain't gonna hold very much longer.

Jacob, roll me D20.

You want a D20, sir? D20. I have to have a D20. There's my D20.

I rolled a 12 on the priest. You find a folded note that is in a silk pocket.

It says, don't touch my armor.

It says, don't go into the valley of evil.

Don't step on my head. Sorry.

If you open that note, you find written on it.

I can't read.

Find written on it something. It doesn't look like any language you've looked at, but four statements, short statements, words, sentences. You're not sure.

Okay, whatever. File it away for later.

Sean, roll again.

Let's go for eight.

Eight. Already done that one. Roll again.

Nine.

Already done that one. Roll again.

Let's call it six. We'll just flip.

We'll call it six. Already done that one.

Ten.

Ten with a ten. Okay.

Four and twelve three times.

The priest actually is clutching in his hands this very simple smith's hammer. But you've seen him smash open some bones with that. Or smash open some skulls with it. Yeah.

All right, grab the hammer.

Okay. And two more rolls. One for Jacob, one for Kevin. Yeah. No, Kevin's already done two.

Eight.

Hey, what if it's three rolled? I'm just gonna move down one. Move to the next one that it hasn't. Okay. The next one that hasn't is a large bottle. Potion bottle. A very large potion bottle of a frothing, bubbling red sludge. It has a tag on it with something written.

Okay.

Is it a language any of us read?

It is written.

I can take a look at it.

Yeah, it's written in Elven, actually.

Oh, nice.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, what's this?

Read.

It's written in elven, but it's written in bad Elven. And it says, like the misspelled version of Potion of Healing.

Spelled H E.

E L. Yeah, I'm gonna hand that off to the healer.

Okay.

Well, do I. I didn't reveal that to anybody.

Oh, true. That's true.

Very true.

I just assumed. You know what? Every time we ask him a question, he lies to us.

So what's it say, buddy.

Vial a potion. Poison. And I. I can use poison.

Okay, I hand it over to him.

One last roll.

Three.

Three. Yeah. A large sack full of gold and silver rings, jewelry, dining utensils, candlesticks, and anything else of value that could have been shoved in.

This son of a. Was holding out on us.

Wait a second. I.

Wait, was that from the pers. Was that the person we stomped the head of?

Yes.

Well, okay. They had it coming.

That's awesome. Wait a second. Okay, I throw that over my back. I don't know if I'll be able to carry it. But we'll. Let's. Let's. Let's vomit us out of here really quickly.

Okay?

Yes.

All right. So everybody's going towards the other door. That's plan.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're leaving the bodies behind.

Yeah, yeah, we'll take some.

Well, actually, my character's still naked because he's plans on going under.

As a courtesy to Weasel, I return all of his gear except for one of his daggers, which I've hidden on my person. It's a game we have, so you have to pickpocket it off of me later. It's all right.

He can't turn into things if he's carrying his gear while he can't.

I know, I know.

But I give you the rest of it back unless you want to stay as a frog. Are you. Are you still a frog?

No, I was a goblin.

Mechanically, can you change as many times as you want, or is there, like a daily limit or something?

Once per mealy round, I can change.

Wow.

Cobbles are pretty cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yep.

Yeah. So I'm going to be changing into probably a weasel or a mouse or a white rabbit, something that'll. Or a white weasel that will blend into the snow.

Yeah.

Yep. So I asked you to, you know, just please continue to hang on to my stuff. I'll scout around and.

And that's the only way we know we get our own fair share of treasure, is every time Weasel changes, we check to see what he's stolen.

Since last time, we go through browning.

List, and I go to my gnome friend and I tell him. I whisper in his ear that it's really a potion of healing, and I hand that off to him.

Okay. Okay, Cool.

Cool. Okay, so just quick note about the armor. It has Sean armor rating of 13 and 60 and 60 SDC.

Nice. Okay.

Nice.

All right.

You go into the door.

Yeah.

We head to the door.

You open the door, blast of wind, and you find yourself in a Very well lit area. For all intents and purposes, you are stepping outside into the frozen north. It's just ice snow in all directions. About 30 paces ahead, the woman. Woman you think is an old gnarled hag looking person wearing rags, heavy robe, also covered in snow. Come on in.

She says, assuming weasel is going to try and prowl and he's a white rabbit. I'll make sure as I move forward to kick up some snow. I don't know if there's any kind of aid mechanic, but I'm trying to make it easier for a white rabbit to camouflage.

Okay.

Assuming he's prowling. I'm assuming he's prowling.

Missed my prowl by about a million.

Where'd you get those dice?

They did really well at the be.

Honey. Playing in the snow.

Yeah.

Can I just say how nice it is to be playing with Kevin, who apparently rolls like I normally do.

Well, what have we here? Oh, I recognize you. Come back for more, honey.

Oh, hello.

That's one of my repeat customers.

Oh, hello. Hi. Hi. Yes, you could say that. What's the deal this time passage?

No, same as just give me one of your bones and you get to the other side.

Could we negotiate about somebody else's bones?

See, that's just not no fun from the living. The heartbeat's gone.

Is it going to be.

The fun's gone.

Is it going to be like one per each or can we don't give her ideas.

Just kidding.

That's what I was thinking.

She and I have a history. What can I say?

She's got to give me one bone. One bone.

Okay, one bone.

What do you need those bones for?

Cool. Now. Now. Same deal as before. Teeth count, right? Right.

Let's see how I'm feeling. Since you're a repeat customer, I'll take it too. The others gotta be by one. Jawbones work. It's full of teeth.

I got a real nice molar.

Yeah, you just. You just sit over here and a little kind of a rock sort of materialize around her with a nice little snow cushion on it.

I'm just gonna sit down and wait for the inevitable.

Okay, well, you guys think only us and I'm gonna take care of him. And she stumbles over to where he's sitting and just kind of leans over. Open your mouth wide now, hon. Stick your finger inside. And there's just like a. And then she's got a tooth. That's a juicy one. Oh, yeah, that's good. And she just snaps and it's Gone.

Yikes.

All right, you can move through.

Thanks.

Wait for them though, right?

Good.

Yeah, I'm gonna wait. But it's good doing business with you again.

Of course.

Of course.

I love repeat customers. Makes the collection more personal.

I'm now missing two sets of molars. Life is going to be fun.

It could have been something other than a molar.

I'll sat down.

Yeah, but I'm a shaman and I out of character. I could have used my knowledge of anatomy to come up with much better options. But in character, it's like, what can I part with easily?

Who wants to go next?

I would point out that when I sat down and she did looked apparently like, I was unnerved but not pained at any point during the process.

Bob sits down and says, how about a rib? But take two because I don't want to be uneven.

Two. It's like Christmas. Oh, please. Sit on down here. Sit down.

He's paying for me.

Looks over at you. Looks down at him.

They're very big ribs and his bones are very small.

Since you're so nice, I'll allow it. Come on.

He's malnourished too. He doesn't eat well. These are good bones.

Sit down, sit down, sit down. You might want to lean back for Thea.

Oh, yeah.

She opens her hand up and you know, the flick out the fingers, folds all but one out. And this kind of razor nail is shown. And she just like walks up Chris Kron's applesauce and come here, back here. And y' all are just watching, like her pulling his skin apart. You don't. You don't feel anything though. Kind of tickles. And she just reaches in and. And has two very large troll sized rib bones. Then she runs a finger back across it, zips back up. You have a nice little scar. Controls like scars.

I feel like the armor fits better now.

Frees up some space.

I knew a rock musician who did this one.

I have a question. So, Bob, you said you're gonna throw the bodies into your sack.

We brought some parts, but she said she wants Arbo.

I know, but so I. Yeah, there's.

Some parts in there.

And I go up to you guys and I remind you guys, are we going to show her the sword in case it's meant for her?

Is it made of bones?

It's not made of bones. It was really nice and very colorful. Unlike this place.

I mean, we could.

Out of character.

No.

Because not only because she's untrustworthy, because if it has a sentience, she may consider it taking another person a thing out of character?

No, Bob doesn't know.

Stitch is not even really aware of what the heck is going on with the sword. So it's like that's really between. Between Weasel and Weasel and.

Well, the gnome had. You said or you had. The. The orc said it has experience with her.

Yeah, but that entire time. Well, yeah, the orcs had experience with the witch, but the entire time you guys were talking about the sword, I was focused on trying to heal the person who had had her head stepped.

She was so. You were so close.

You were doing Good.

So close.

18 minutes away or whatever it was. But for the sword, I mean, like, I. I don't know.

Sure.

I don't know. What sword? Some talking sword.

Oh, that's right. You don't know anything about it.

I don't know anything about the sword. I'm like, what are you talking about, Weasel?

Turns out our outline.

He's asking you, you know, the witch. He goes, should we show her the sword or. No, I.

You know, it's. She's. She's a businesswoman. We just need passage. I don't want more complications with her.

Yeah, Weasel Pete's fine with that. It was just something you thought we should think about, talk about, discuss briefly, quietly.

Well, what about you, twinkle teeth?

I imagine our healer could pick some kind of bone that is not important to him. Like, that seems like a skill.

Fine.

How about my.

My coccyx? My tailbone? I don't really use that much.

And I've.

It hurts every time I fall down on it, so I don't want it anyway.

Make an argument. Kidneys.

This little chip. It's just a tiny bone.

A little bone?

Yeah, the tailbone. It's a little base.

Right. You know.

You know where she's sticking her finger to get that, right?

Well, you know, it wouldn't be the first time I had someone stick their finger there.

More information I needed to know.

This time I don't have to pay with your money.

Giving me ideas. All right, all right. It's a deal.

So down.

No. How about you bend over?

Oh, yeah, I bend over and pull my pants down a little bit. After many days in the. The dungeons and the gore and the like, the.

We're not clean.

Yeah, we're not clean in any way, shape or form.

I've done it now. They're so cute. Okay, here you go. And just pulls it right out.

I mean, it's not much a bone, but, you know, that's a bone.

It's gonna Hurt when you sit for a while. Thanks. So you heard that before though.

Yeah.

I imagine most people don't think to give her tailbone, so that's a unique.

Yeah, well, you know. Yeah, I like my fingers and my toes and, you know, other things.

So.

Yeah, actually I. I had thought of that myself and that's how I was able to lobby his teeth into my payment.

So, yeah, that was good.

Well, she just waves her hand. Left hand in the air. Another door, very similar to the one that came out, appears right in front of you.

I look behind to make sure there's other two doors. Okay. I'm just making sure she's like, go.

Back the way you came.

That witch tricked us. We're back in the same room.

Damn it.

I mean, you can go back if you want.

Nope.

Something sounds like there. You don't want to, though.

Big, big undead bear.

Whole lot of bones coming this way.

I wonder what the bear will give her. I don't.

I think a whole lot of bones coming this way.

Yeah, the undead bear.

Let's go.

Fine. Let's get out of this cold. I'm with Weasel. I don't like the cold.

Have a nice day. See you again real soon.

No. God damn.

Yeah. All right. Yeah, let's go.

Okay.

I'm not opening up another door and letting the bear in, if that's what she's referring to, but who knows what else it could be?

Yeah.

Let's just exit stage left.

You all head through the doorway and you all appear on the other side. The door just comes to a close behind you, there's a wisp of cold air and a little bit of snow blows in. It just quickly melts away into wisps of nothing. The room beyond is a 50x50 or so room. It's covered with circles and those circles are filled with bones. Now, do any of you have any knowledge of magical runes or circles?

No, I have religious doctrine. That's about as close as I would get.

Excellent. You see what look like five piles, five circular piles of bones set almost in a star pattern around the room. And these bones, we're talking like chest height on a troll.

I don't have runes, but I have circles and symbols.

Okay. Do you recognize these as magic circles? Oh, if you were to get closer, you might be able to identify what they do. Now, there is another magic circle in the middle of this star shaped pattern. And in this magic circle, sitting right on the ground, is a single bone. Looks like a femur, perhaps of a very large person from a Distance you can see it is, like, etched and carved. And as the door closes behind you, it rattles just once, just a little shake. And then the five piles of bones seem to explode as five skeletons step out of them, formed. As they are stepping forth out of these bones, they are forming behind them. Combat music starts playing, and it's time to roll. Initiative.

Don't forget, you're the initiative tracker.

Yeah, I got that.

Everybody roll me a D20, plus your initiative mod. I don't think anybody's gonna have an initiative mod.

What is initiative mod? Okay.

Yeah.

One.

Oh, good. Someone rolled worse than I do. I had a two.

All right, I got a six for the troll.

I got a nine.

Captain, what is your physical prowess?

My physical prowess is 20.

Oh, good.

And a plus. Five to parry and dodge.

Perfect.

Okay.

Yeah. Combat music kicks in, and these skeletons step forth, forming in midair as they are emerging as if they are just walking out of a doorway. Who got the highest roll?

I got a nine.

Okay, with a nine, you're going first.

Well, that's. That's. That's terrifying. I. With my one attack, I will, you know, kind of, you know, ready my staff, which is gnomish size, so it's not. It's basically a large stick, large dowel. And I will take my offensive position directly behind the troll. Basically kind of get ready in case someone needs help and healing. That's all I really can do. I'm not going to charge the skeletons. That's just not going to happen. And then we have.

Bob. Yeah. How far away are the. I'm assuming these are relatively close.

Relatively close. You just stepped into a doorway on one wall of a room that is 50 by 50, and you're coming out in the center of this wall. So I would say that they will be here very soon.

Is there another door in the room?

You don't see any other exit from this room?

That's.

Well, can I rush forward and attack?

You can.

That's what I do.

Closest one?

Yes.

Okay, tell me. Roll me at D6 to figure out which one is the closest.

6.

6? That just happens to be one of the two giant ones.

Perfect. Yes. Obvious. I didn't realize some were larger. Always go for the largest foe.

That's right. They fall down easier.

They do, Nate.

Okay, Bob, you can just rush forward and swing that blade.

Got it.

You're flambay.

Flamberge. I have hand to hand. Mainly gives me a bonus to damage. That's interesting. And a hand merc. Okay. At 20.

Holy yeah. You son of a.

Thank you for loaning me those dice. No problem.

They'll never roll that way again.

Yeah, I forget how crits work.

And it just doubles damage. So roll it.

And then times two, including the bonus it gets.

Times two is literally just says double damage.

Yeah.

This dude is in trouble. 54 damage. Oh, wait a second. More than that.

Add four.

More than that. 58 damage.

Holy crap. Well, with 58, you think you just took out four at the same time. It was really just one.

But it's big.

The amount of destruction that your sword cleaves. It just goes through these phones and just cuts through like tissue paper and it collapses into a pile up in front of you. And then you watch the bones suck back into the pile.

Okay, who's next?

Dursum.

Dursum. And now I know that. Does anybody except for besides Weasel Pete have two actions? No.

Okay. No.

Dursum, you're up.

Do I any chance at hell, given I have knowledge of magic circles, that I recognize them at all and what they're doing or anything?

Sure, I'll give you a roar that.

Sure.

If you're just glancing, I'll give you a roll to give a basic idea. But if you really want to learn more about what they do, and perhaps a little bit of, I don't know, operational instructions, you would have to spend some time looking at them. And that would require being up close and intimate with one of those piles.

Of bones that has a big skeleton coming out of it.

Well, actually not all of them have giant skeletons coming out. Now that they're starting to form, you see that two of them have giant sized skeletons. A couple of them look human sized. One of them looks very familiar, as if there was one just sort of scratching at a door behind you. Previously.

Oh no. A bear.

A bear. Oh God. But then. But then the other one, that's super close to you. Of the five points of this Pentagon. Pentacle. Pentagon. Whatever. It's a rat.

It's a rat.

Just a little rat. Okay, but it doesn't squeak. It just scrape, scrape.

It doesn't have its squeakers.

There's a. I don't actually think there's a percentile for study circles.

I hate witches.

It probably takes 30 minutes.

A doctoral dissertation over three years of analysis.

Oh, wait, I apologize. I've rolled too many. Just one human. All right, I forgot there were five, not six. One human.

So there's one giant, one bear, one human, one rat. There were two giants.

Yes. Yes, you are correct.

All right.

Want to Delay.

Yeah.

Okay, who's next?

Then? We have Whistle Pete. Whistle Weasel. Weasel Pete. Weasel Pete.

Weasel Pete. You're on a two.

No, he was on a one.

You both rolled one.

Derzen was on the two.

He was first. Ready?

I got a nine. Yeah.

Gotcha.

I raided my weapon basically. There was not much I could do.

Yep, you're on a one. And so am I. But you are faster.

Ah. And I'm a bunny.

Yep.

So bunny versus rat, bunny versus rat.

Rodent v rodent combat.

So is this rat, like, do I get to attack it or to attack me? What's it.

Right now it's your turn. So when you go, you know, you're familiar with the back and forth. So when Sean attacked that. That giant. If Sean had not killed that giant, that giant would have been had the opportunity to do the counter attack. So. But right now you're going first. So if you attack and kill this rat and you don't kill it, or you attack it and you don't kill it, then it can counterattack you. But in any case, all of them are going at the end of the round.

So my intention, if it's possible, is to leap over the rat and under or around any other skeleton with my one action. And then I want to get to the bone in the center.

I mean, if you just. If you want to leap from where you are to that as a rabbit, you can just get there. Yeah.

Okay. Because ultimately I want to get there, and then I want to kick the bone out of the circle and see if it disrupts the magic.

Okay. So you leap forward and give it a good kick. This isn't your natural form. I'll have you roll. Roll a strike to hit it. I mean, it's. You just. It's not going to parry or dodge, so bonuses.

It would be 21.

Oh, Jesus Christ. Yeah. Yeah. You kick that damn bone all the way across. It clatters against the wall. You're playing Pogs, but it does not disrupt any of the skeletons.

I figured it was a long shot, but it was worth it.

I'm only going to count that as one attack because, I don't know, you have a. What's your speed?

My speed is 10.

Yeah, that was good enough to totally get there and do that. So you'll get another. Your other attack in just a moment. When do a round with these things. The rat is emboldened and it's going to rush forward and try. Try and bite little rabbit. Yeah. That's a 13.

You dirty rat.

But he gets a Free parry.

If Kevin can convince me that a rabbit can parry, then yes.

Well, sure, man. It's got kicker feet.

Okay?

Kicker feet.

Rabbits are always kung fu fighting.

I roll the 13 and I'm plus five to parry.

Okay. Yeah, you managed to totally, totally avoid the one point of damage it would have done the.

Damn it. Well, you've seen his hit points. He cannot afford that one hit point.

So let's see how these are going to divide their attacks. Well, Sean. Okay, well, this one runs up. These guys apparently don't have an attack bonus, and it straight up misses you. Nice. One of the humans is running over at Derzum, who was standing there looking at the circles, trying to figure out what do I know about them. When the only human shaped one rushes up and it slashes at you with these. This kind of bony appendage. 16 is my attack roll.

I'm gonna try to parry that.

Okay.

That would be a 21.

Nice. Wow, you guys are doing so much so, so good against these things. And the. Let's see, the bear bears decided it likes gnomes.

No, I disagree.

Yeah, bear I'm not delicious bear has said it likes gnomes. And the bear is doing a double raking call. Ooh. Wow. Okay, so one is an automatic miss with a net one, and one is going to be a 13.

I will attempt a parry with my little staff. We'll see if this happens. I'm going to guess it's. I got a 12. I don't think that works because you got a. Wait, what did you get? A 13, unfortunately. Oh, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Do you have a plus one anywhere?

Yes, my staff gives me a plus one, so I got a 13 total.

There you go. Then you win. Yeah, don't check Perry the Bear. And now, Weasel Pete, you get one last action this round before we reroll initiative.

I want to kick that little rat right in his mouth. I don't know what a rabbit kick would do. I assume, like, 1D4. I mean, well, I mean, technically I'm a goblin as a rabbit, but I don't know. I mean, I don't know how you want to play that.

It feels like a rabbit kick's just gonna be. I would assume, you know, one as.

Someone who's actually been kicked by a rabbit multiple times. Actually, I can see a case for at least a 1D2.

You know, if only. If only this book had a comprehensive guide to all of the animals of the Palladium world, but.

Oh, wait, it does.

I did look at the Animals. I didn't see rabbit, but rabbit.

Rabbit slash hair does one point of damage.

Okay.

Yep.

Hey. Better. Nothing.

Hey. Yeah, I mean, it's. It's a rat skeleton. Shouldn't need much to kill it.

Great book this is.

I know. It's amazing.

God.

So ahead of its time.

Whoever wrote this was just like firing on all cylinders when they did it.

Yeah. We got to get that guy on.

Sorry.

See what he's been doing the last 30 or 40 years. I haven't heard anything.

Get him in here.

So I rolled a nine to hit, but I'm also plus three to strike because of my physical prowess. Oh, that's totally gonna be a 12.

Oh yeah. Totally gonna hit. I don't think these things are really smart enough to parry or dodge. They're just run forward and murder.

Do I do one point of damage?

You do one point. It's not enough to take it out.

Yeah. Unlike some other systems, it's a non man of arms. You don't parry for free.

Right?

Right. No, no, no. If you have hand to hand, non man of arms, you do because you have the hand to hand skill.

Okay.

Yeah, but if you don't have hands.

The rule just says if you're not a man at arms, you don't get to pay for free. That's specifically what the number.

I know. I think there's another.

I mean, if we do want to throw shade at Kevin, we could do that. He's here.

I can say I wrote this game 41 years ago. Don't remember the GM's call, but I think it was probably that they could. No. Yeah, the old game. I don't think you could.

This came up in our Saturday game because we run mostly first at Palladium. And I remember like we spent some time and looked it up and found out that yes, as long as you have the skill, as long as you paid for the skill, you get to parry. But if you don't, then you are not considered a fighter and then you can't.

Yep. So that is correct.

You did not waste your action. So if you would like. Jacob, do you have the skill?

No, I do. I have hand to hand mercenary. So then you can parry for free.

So that didn't cost your action.

Right.

You haven't done your action this round.

Right.

So I mean, I looked it up. There is no role for studying a circle. It's just.

It should be a percentile skill.

It's not. It's a. It's a. One of those occ ability things.

It's based on the wizard. There's a wizard.

Right. And I looked that up, and there isn't one.

I tell you what, we're just gonna make a call here, okay? You know that these are necromantic circles of some kind.

Great.

Just from your standpoint here, and you are pretty damn sure that their activation is somehow linked to that bone, and that perhaps study of one could reveal more about the other.

Well, I'm going to take an action and grab my vial of holy water I have as a clergy member and toss it on the ground at the center circle, hoping to shatter it and splash it with holy water all over the place.

Gotcha. Tell you what, I'll give you. Roll me a D20 and get under your IQ on this.

Weirdly enough, I am Kevin. Again, I thank you so much for being here, because apparently you're sucking up my usual horrible dice rolling today.

So you're acting pretty quickly. You're like, okay, I gotta do this. And you go to throw this when you realize the bone's not in the middle of the circle anymore. Oh, there's a rabbit.

Got a rat.

Dad. I'm gonna start looking around frantically for the bone then.

Okay?

That rabbit bastard.

You find it, but you won't be able. You won't have time to do it. We're gonna roll initiative again, folks. Jesus. Sorry. Excuse me. Excuse my friend.

We flagged the show as adults for a reason.

Yeah. Yeah.

All right, Weasel Pete, what did you get?

I forget you guys are rolling sixes for initiative D20. Oh, that's what I think. So in that case, I rolled a 16.

Nice. And I stitch got a 12.

Bob eight.

Derzum.

12.

All right.

And you're going faster than me.

GM dose.

That is a 50 improvement for the GM. A 50 improvement.

The profanity was not indicative of a good role.

That wasn't a Fuck yes.

Weasel Pete, you're at the top with a 16.

Do I realize what he was trying to do with the vial before he realized it was gone? Or am I just wrapped up fighting a rat?

I will give you for this one. I'm gonna have you roll a D20 and try to get under your mental endurance.

Mental endurance. Oh, 12. I. Oh, shit. I rolled a 12.

You got it on the. You nailed it. So, yeah, you're able to put two and two together. Battlefield awareness kicks in. You see him grab something. It looks like a vial, and he's going to chuck it. Then he stops right when he sees it's you.

So I do realize he's going for the bone.

Yeah.

I'm going to try to leap to the bone. I know where I kicked it.

Okay. Yeah, leaping to the bone is not going to be a problem.

Okay.

And.

I don't know if I want to pick it up. I try to kick the bone to where he is.

Okay, I'll have you make a strike roll for that.

Yep. And I rolled terrible, but. So I rolled a five, but I'm plus four to strike, so that's a nine.

You kick it in his direction, but he's still gonna have to make some movement to run over and grab it. Tell you what, roll me a die. Evens. Good odds. Bad.

Which die? Oh, yeah.

Okay.

You know what?

Yeah.

Bad three.

Okay. You kick it right over to him. And the bone comes to a stop right underneath the bear. But it's close to him.

It's close to him, though.

Who's next?

Stitches or dersome with a 12. Do you want to go? Actually, I have probably the higher pp.

Yeah, I think he said you'd go first.

Yeah, I would. I have a 16. I. Oh, Jiminy Christmas. I will. I have a speed of 10. Can I run over and attack the. The rat? I'm gonna run over and hit the rat. I'm gonna help because. Yeah, I'm gonna help the. The rabbit out because, you know, because I'm a nice guy.

So you're just taking the thing that's the same size as you.

Listen, listen, listen. I gotta help. I gotta kill the rat. I got a six to strike the rat.

Yeah.

And I do. Oh, actually, no, it's a D4. It's a D4 for me. It's not a D6.

Don't get carried away with it.

I do a total of two to the rat with my staff.

Got it. You do two points. You hit it. Fortunately, you do not beat its armor rating. And it takes it and turns at you.

Oh, no. Oh.

If it were had an assistance, it'd be angry, but now it just sees a target. Okay, who's next? Dursum.

Dursum.

Well, I had plans for that bone, but fuck that bone.

We could still throw it underneath the legs of the bear.

Yeah, I'm gonna toss that holy water vial, trying to smash it on the ground next to the bone, possibly catching the bear in the wit. But that's just a side benefit.

Interesting. Okay, roll a strike.

That's a 15.

A 15. Yeah, we'll totally hit it square. It shatters on the bone, explodes, holy water goes everywhere, and the bear starts to smoke. It doesn't appear to have any effect on the bone for this, though. I'll say. I don't have the rule handy, so I'm just gonna make a call. 2D6 damage.

That's an 8.

Oh, okay. The bear dissolves in holy water. Yep. These things suck.

Well, we're attacking undead with holy water.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think.

Say verse my face.

You'd be next.

Yeah.

Wanted to say Troy.

Yeah, Bob is next.

Was confused. Everybody seems to be attacking the rabbit, so he's going to attack the rabbit.

Oh, no, the rat.

The rat. I was gonna go for the big ones, but the rat seems to be the target, so.

God, no.

Flamberge at the. At the rat. That's good. 10, 11, 12.

That is enough to hit and beat its armor rating.

Okay.

I just want to know how much damage you do. It only has one hit point.

Your strength bonus is.

My absolute minimum is 13. Yeah, I was going to say, well, 21.

Jesus. 21 points of damage to a skeleton rat. You not only kill it, you kill it in such a way that the bones essentially splinter, disintegrate in front of you. That at least one rat's worth of bones do not return to that pile. Good job. That leads to things. The one that generated the giant now. Now generates another skeleton, pops out. This one is shaped like a wolf. The one that had the rat generates another skeleton. Oh. Another giant pops out of it. And has anybody else? Those are the only ones that have fallen. Right, right. Yeah.

Which.

Okay. And the bear.

Bear, yeah.

The bear generates one. Ooh, another bear. And what we got left is a human and another giant. So that one giant, I believe, was whacking on the gnome.

Yeah. I kind of try to move away from it, but it's probably following me.

Yeah.

It turns and it's like, I'm gonna go stomp on that gnome. So now there's a big stomping pile happening right in the middle of the room.

This is not going to go well.

The staff probably has a good parry bonus, though, right?

Yeah. I have a total of a plus three parry.

Okay. One attack. It's going to do in a double call. One doesn't even hit because apparently these dice that Shud gave me are hating me today. Thanks, Shaw. But the other one is going to hit an eight.

I will attempt to parry. I got a 14 to parry.

Bam. He managed to parry the giant. Good job. There's a human is the only one that's left. And that one is running towards Burzum. Burzum oh, that's 12. Time for te parry.

That's a. Oh, I'll take that. That's a 17.

Okay. Man, you guys are doing so well.

Well, we're not dying quickly.

And now, goblin, you get your second action.

Yep.

I'm going to. If I change back into a goblin, is that going to count as an action?

I think it takes an action to do so.

Yeah, I would think so. That'd be my call too. I want to leap to where. Where. Where that bone is with the etched stuff in it. I want to leap. Leap to it as a rabbit. I can't pick it up so.

Well, this could be cool to picture is if you leap at it and change mid leap into the goblin landing on the other side.

So you would allow that?

I will allow it. If you can make a. Make a roll a D20 versus your physical endurance. You want to get equal to or lower then.

Okay, that'll be tough. It's only a nine. I got a seven. Yeah. Low rolls.

Whirl, Goblin. Just the rabbit leaps through the air.

Hop, hop, hop.

Nake. Well, here we go again.

And now there's a naked goblin holding the bone.

Naked goblin with his bone. Yes.

Yeah, yeah.

Another initiative around, folks.

All right. Initiative.

Nat 20.

Natural one.

I'm traumatized by the goblin.

Okay, 19. Oh, nice.

I got Nade.

And he's fast.

Bob a two. All right, cool. All right, so the GM's at the top with the 20.

Okay.

And now there are five enemies.

Now there are five enemies.

Yeah, and one of them's a wolf. We got a wolf and another bear. And what did I say the other one was? That came out? I forget. It was.

Giant.

A bear.

A wolf.

A giant in addition to our human.

Got it. Okay.

We made the skeletons bigger is what we took off.

We keep upgrading the skeletons. I'm not sure about this.

Okay, there are now two giant skeletons trudging towards the center. And they are just attacking indiscriminately. Since there's a gnome and a troll in the center, we're gonna figure out how this works. The Rabbit left a 1, 2, 3, 6.

Yeah, that seems fair.

Okay, they're both pile driving the troll here. Jeez. Okay, one doesn't hit, one hits on a seven, one doesn't hit and one hits on a six.

So a seven and a six.

So good last session.

And I get to parry both of those. Is there any.

Well, what about armor rating? The troll has that partial armor of armor rating.

But that's if I don't parry It'll hit my armor too.

Correct.

Okay.

Missed the first parry. Succeeded on the second. So one of those hits me.

Oh, my God. I finally called somebody. Some damage. One point of damage to your armor.

Wait, does he have a he has strength bonus on top of that? No.

Just one.

Oh, wait, no, but you remember. No, I rolled the wrong thing. Not one D12. It's two D6. Oh, much better. Eight. Eight damage.

Okay.

To the armor.

To my new armor. Yeah, that's fine. Bear is much better than hitting the gnome, actually.

You are.

Yeah. You got lots of health. I got lots of health.

Bear versus Orc. Who win. Oh, those are two hits and a seven. And a 15.

I'm gonna try to parry.

Yeah, with that one.

That's a. A ten.

The ten beats seven. So the next one's a fifteen.

That's a fourteen.

Is that with your bonus? Yeah. Okay.

You're taking two. Two hit points.

Oh, locked out.

I'm wearing armor, sir. I'll take that to my sdc.

What?

Oh, yeah, you're right. That was above my ar.

Yeah, it's above your armor.

Yep.

All right.

And the wolf. Forgot about the wolf. We're going to say wolf's going after goblin boy. Yeah. Come on.

No, it's instinct. It's instinct to chase the rabbit. Have kicked in.

I have rolled it anymore.

I have rolled a minimum of three natural ones every round.

Good job.

Yes. Thank you.

The players commend you.

But I am going to hit you with a 13. From the Wolf to the goblin.

I Parry with a 7.

What did you parry with? Not to be a grump, but you. What did you parry with the bone?

Oh, the bone.

That's actually awesome.

The rune covered bone.

I like this idea.

Yeah.

Parry with a bone. That takes. Yep. You managed to avoid it. You guys. So that was the beginning of the round.

Yeah.

All right, Whistle Pete, you're up. You got your bone and there's a wolf on you.

So my original plan was to grab the bone and raise it up and say, stop. But they got a freaking wolf on me. That doesn't work. Yeah. What the hell? I raise the bone up and I shout, skeletons. Stop.

It's a great image.

It is. I want to see this in the next Palladium. The next Palladium F supplement. A naked goblin in the back somewhere holding this big femur.

Okay. You feel magic power coursing through this thing, and it begins to enter your body through the hand. Then it changes its mind and just goes right back into it. And unfortunately, nothing happens.

Dang, who's next?

Maybe we need a spellcaster.

We have Dirsimal.

I blew my action because I got an. I did one auto parry, but when I sucked up the second one.

You can keep parrying.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm gonna roll for an 11 on that wolf.

Ooh. 11 will hit and break its armor rating of 7. Cool.

That's a one point of damage spear.

Yep. I mean, spears versus bones aren't really the best thing, so. One point of damage.

Got it.

All right, who's next?

Bob, there's a human.

There's a couple of giants, a bear, a human, and a wolf.

Two giants. Yeah, exactly. I think the human.

The two giants have been beating on you.

I know, I know. But if I kill them, they just go back into the pile and come back out.

So why defeat the bad guys if they regenerate?

Well, I was thinking if there was something I could shove in the bag and just leave it in there. It won't respawn. But the giants are too big. Shove the human skeleton and I can only hit one.

You did really well when you killed the one before.

I'm gonna. There's a wolf on the goblin.

Yep. You could go help the goblin.

And there's. But there's a human on you. You know, I'm gonna go for the wolf. I'm not sure what he's doing with that bone, but that seems important. So I'm gonna attack the wolf.

Okay. So you're running over there to where he is with the bone and the wolf.

Yes.

Okay.

Leaving me with two giants. He's got it.

I've got it.

It's fine. They're gonna follow me. I insult them. You have too many ribs. I shout as I run over there. On it. That's a 13.

That's gonna.

That's gonna hit.

Yeah.

With the flamber.

Yep. Just so you know, I will tell you, these things all have an Armor rating of 7. Except for one that hasn't been. Hadn't happened yet.

23 damage.

20. Jesus.

46 plus 9. It's hard to roll real low on this.

Yeah.

Okay, so, Weasel Pete, you're standing there, you raise this bone high, and you're totally prepared for something awesome to happen. But then nothing awesome happens. And that wolf is suddenly like. There's a moment where you think even the wolf is like, wait, is something gonna happen? Wait, hold on. Wait. Nothing's gonna happen. The wolf is rearing back. He's gonna do. And then just out of scene left, the sword just comes down, smashing Right into it. Obliterating it.

Yeah, every time you hit something, it just turns into bone dust everywhere.

Okay, wait, the goblin still has an action. Yeah, yeah, I will say I will. Can I. Yeah, you stuff the bones in a bag. I don't want them to go back in the pile. It's good. It's troll logic.

I think that's everybody. No. Has the gnome gone yet?

No, I'm last. I'm at the bottom. I will. I watch the troll run away from me. This look of terror comes across my face.

What are you you doing?

Maybe they didn't see you.

Yeah, no, they actually swung at me. I think so. I will. Yeah. I will go toe to toe with.

Two giants and a human.

Two giants and a human.

Just not gonna go for the record.

The player advocated for me helping the goblin.

That's okay. So I will. I will take a swing at the. The giant. I got a.

19.

As long as you get a seven or higher, you hit.

And I hit four, which is the ridiculous part.

I actually did.

I did two points of damage.

To the giant.

To the giant. I smacked the giant.

I mean, that hurts it, but it.

Doesn'T really do much.

Doesn't really do much.

And then I'll try to move away. You know, kind of like follow the. The troll.

You just sort of like slap it and run away.

Exactly.

Well, I mean.

I mean, my. My staff is.

Is. Is.

Is gnome size, so I foot stick that I'm just hitting him with.

Yeah, yeah.

And ankle.

Yeah, exactly.

Everyone else is gone. So I think it's time for your second action there, Weasel Pete.

Yeah. So my dilemma is, do I try to destroy the bone or do I hit a skeleton with it? I don't think there's any skeleton on me, near me at the moment.

No, the bone is important. We just haven't figured out how to use it.

That is definitely the gist here. I would say try to destroy the bone, but.

So I am going to try to destroy the bone. I slam it into the floor.

What's your strength?

Not bad. Eleven.

Yeah, I was going to say pretty good for a goblin.

Yeah. Very good for a goblin. Roll.

Roll me a D100, Kevin.

Hopefully an 8 is good.

Wow.

If it was under strength, it was time to roll.

Yeah, under strength, it cracks. Doesn't break, but the crack starts rippling across it. And tell you what, we'll just do the bone pile that is, like, right behind you where the thing landed in front of and you grabbed it. The bone pile behind you just explodes outward. Make A roll me a D20 and add your dodge bonus. Yeah, we'll just make it a dodge save.

Oh yeah, the shrapnel.

Yep.

I've got 15 with my plus five bonus.

That's pretty good. Troll, you're there too.

16.

Oh, nice. Yeah, you both like step out of the way or maybe hunker down and the shrapnel just explodes.

Well, the gnomes running that way probably not there yet. He's like, I'm coming to explode. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Thanks for reminding me. You also make a dodge roll. I appreciate that.

I know I'm like running that way. I'm gonna get cover and then it explodes like. Yes, run into the claymores. That's the best idea. 18.

That's. Jesus.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, we're used to things exploding when we common.

It's usually the compatriots that we're with that we don't know the name of. But you know.

Okay, new round. Which one I'm guessing is probably going to be the last one. Oh, make a note that I got a 14. Got it.

Stitch got a 13. Whistle Pete, initiative roll.

Oh, sorry.

That's okay.

Only a 10.

Okay, Bob.

17.

Nice, Dersum.

16.

Okay, so at the top of the round is Bob.

I'm going to break the bone. He's trying to follow instructions and nobody communicates in this group. So I'm going to swing the flamberge at the bone.

Okay.

The one that the goblin's holding.

Yes.

What initiative did the goblin get?

The goblin got a 10.

Do we know. Do we know what the monster's got?

I mean, I was going to tell you to hit it, but I mean.

I will hold my action and I will say to. To Whistle Pete, drop the bone. Yeah, coordinate. Like hold it or drop it or I better hit it. But I will hold my attack until he has a moment to prepare or drop it and run or whatever.

So.

All right, Durzam, you're just holding that.

Bone right at the moment I'm holding it.

I'm getting ready to cleave it with the flamberge.

So you're basically readying the action.

I'm readying an action and communicating in my best goblin.

Well, I'm gonna cover you by stabbing at this wolf again.

Wolf's dead.

Oh, the wolf is dead. Wait a minute. The wolf is dead.

The wolf is dead. There are two giants and a human following me.

One of the giants is badly damaged.

Yeah, that was. I thought I'm gonna throw a Spear at the gnome? No. Well, no. Literally am throwing a spear in the direction of the gnome.

But the giant.

But at the giant.

But at the giant.

Okay.

How do you feel about crit ones? No, it's a 19.

19.

I was gonna say. You hit the gnome.

Yeah. What's the damage on that?

That's a four.

Four.

And that over its armor.

It does. Yep.

That.

That hurts.

It.

It doesn't go down, but it's chipping off its bones, basically. Is anyone next?

The GM is next to 14.

Okay. The pile of bones that had generated the bear. No, the wolf. Y' all are in front of the one that had recently generated the bear. Pile of bones that generated the wolf generates another bone creature. And it's another giant. Oh, no.

Okay, this is great. We can fight as long as we like.

It's like an exp generator.

The two giants and the human both turn and just rush forward at the troll. Human fucking misses. You only miss on a really. Like a one to four.

One to four? Yeah.

Yep. I keep rolling ones and fours. The 16 is gonna hit.

I thirst, but they're very pretty.

And the 13 is gonna hit, but if you parry it, it'll just go to your armor.

Okay, so it's. What are the two?

16 is the first one that's hits not from a giant.

I did not parry that. That's going to. Oh, that's going to hurt.

Ooh, that's nine damage to you.

Actual damage to you.

Ouch. Okay, that's.

I could take that.

It's okay. I go after you.

And then another one's from the human.

I'mma fail to parry that one as well. So that's. How much to my armor?

The armor takes three.

Okay.

That's all me. Nope. Yes, because you killed two giants and a human and the wolf last time, so that's all that's left. That can take an action.

Who is after the gm?

All right, so Stitch is next. Whistle Pete, you're at the bottom. So Stitch will now next to the troll. Reaches up, touches the troll.

I'm going to parry that.

Get the hands on me.

Touches the troll.

Troll.

Jimmy Chris. Healing the troll for six.

Thank you.

That was a horrible roll on 2D6. But that's okay. 2D6 plus two. And I got six.

Oh, okay.

Yeah. So I heal you. I go heal you from damage and then proceed to hide the hell behind you because there's two trolls, a human and a bear.

Three trolls.

Now a human and a bear.

Okay, I believe that leaves Whistle Pete.

With the Combined action. That.

Yeah, whatever. Whatever I will do will depend on what Whistle Pete does there, Weasel. I don't know why I keep calling him Whistle Pete.

Sorry.

Whistle Stop Pete.

I dropped the. Actually, I don't want to drop it because I might skitter. I put the bone on the ground and I say, destroy this damn thing.

I could do that.

The naked goblin throws a bone on the ground. Unfortunately, he said it to you in Elvish, so you have no idea.

When he panics, he speaks in goblin. Oh, wait a. I understood him, even.

Yeah. Yeah.

Do I still. I need to make an attack roll? If he's holding it in place for me on the ground, I would say so.

Okay. Okay. Yeah, just don't get a one.

I got more than a one.

Okay.

Fourteen on the die. Okay.

The amount of damage that you could do is notable. It's enough to destroy, to cleave right through it. And when you do so. Unfortunately, nobody braced for this.

All of them explode.

Oh, no.

I said I hid behind the troll.

That's true.

Gotcha.

You did.

All the remaining piles and the remaining skeletons explode. I'll have each of you make a dodge roll. Except, well, the gnome. You'll get to make a dodge roll as well. But I'm gonna give you a plus four on this.

Oh, okay.

And the Goblin still has an action left.

Technically. Yeah.

A dodge roll.

I'll give the goblin at a plus four as well.

Well, I already had a plus five.

Yeah.

So with my plus five, I have 17. With four would be 21.

There you go.

I rolled a 17 plus three plus four. So I got a 24.

Yep.

There you go, goblin.

I got an 11.

Okay.

One up the goblin.

Jacob.

How does a four sound?

That sounds like a number. Probably not a number you wanted to roll. Oh, no, I got more healing.

There's gonna be a porcupine going.

Anybody who did not make the save, which would be both the troll and the orc, takes nine. No, 18.

Does my armor take any of that?

You know, that's a good call.

That is a very good question.

No, because I rolled an at 20 on that.

Oh, okay.

I'm not gonna double it.

So. So. But it doesn't. It hits in vitals.

It hits.

Okay, so 18.

18.

Hmm.

It's really good that you healed me. Thank you.

Anybody who didn't make the save only takes nine.

Oosh.

Okay.

Okay. So nine damage and 18 damage. That's a lot.

That. That was significant.

Yeah.

Oh, wait, who's. Wait, who had. How many hit points did weasel Pete have 12. Oh, okay. But you made the save like me.

He made it so he. So he's only at 3.

And had I not healed the troll. The troll.

I. I'm at 4. I would have been down if you had not healed me.

You're almost dead. Okay, good.

I'm at 6. I'm doing better than most, but I'm at 15.

Yeah. So.

And now the. The floor of the room is just a sea of bones.

Nice. Does a door appear?

The door's been there.

Yeah, you could have just ran through the room.

You could have just. No, the other. The door you came in and it's been there. Yeah, but there's no other door.

There's no other doors out of this room.

That's why I was hoping a new door appeared. I don't want to go back to the frozen tundra.

No.

Damn witch. I will quickly go about and do some triage and let's see.

I can't remember.

I need to read real quick. I can't. Medicine helps clean everything. First number is controlling diagnosis. Second is to actually.

Okay, I get to count all those kills.

At this point, I think you've got enough ISP to do some healing.

Yes, I do.

I believe the shaman has the healing touch. Because it's written in the class that they do. Because it even has details on the shaman selling the healing touch. But I don't wouldn't imagine that it would have that in there if they couldn't do it. Yeah, shamans are cool.

It doesn't say you have the healing touch. It just references you to selling the healing touch, which is annoying thing.

Okay, so you must have it if you can sell it. Who wrote that damn book?

I know someone who didn't want to play a shaman, apparently just like put it in there.

Where is it? It's under the. Yeah, it says selling the healing touch.

So you gotta have it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So between the healer and the shaman.

But it doesn't say it explicitly. Under clerical abilities, it says if a good alignment you possess all of the cleric abilities of the gods of light. If about anarchists are evil, then it's all the gods of darkness. However, both the gods, both priests can heal and touch. The gods of darkness is slightly weaker, but it's still useful.

Okay.

No, wait. No. The gods of dark is identical. What am I talking about?

Between the two of us, we probably could heal. I can cast it three more times. So. And you can cast it several times.

You can do it every other round.

And it just needs ISP or Does he get it for.

He just gets to do it.

Oh, my gosh.

Somehow the healers. Not the best healer.

The healer is like. But here's the thing. At third level, I get resurrect for a permanent ISP penalty of 10.

Yeah, but still.

But still, I could actually resurrect people. Right? Like at level three. At level three. But you lose 10 ISP permanently for doing it.

Jacob. How. How, How. How. Down is jam.

I got six hit points left. I'm doing fine.

No, but. But how many did. Did you lose?

Oh, I lost a ton. I started at 24. I lost 18.

Okay, so in an uncharacteristic act of generosity, Weasel Pete says, well, you know, if you heal me up. Because he doesn't need a whole lot of hit points anyways. He only has 12. He says, don't forget, Derzum. I gave you that potion.

You gave it to me?

Yeah. You gave it to the gnome.

Yeah.

However, it's poison. Don't drink it.

No, you know, I think. Let me read that label again.

Well, I would. I. I would. We'd go around and do some healing. Take a few minutes and. So healing touch only works against other people, so I would.

But there's two of you.

You can.

You can exchange. Yeah.

The difference is, is you're just running around healing people. I'm making them praise Kirgi.

Right, exactly.

Which I already do. Right.

Yeah. So I heal the.

My own house rule for clerical healing is that if you are out of combat and you are healing somebody who is of the same faith as the cleric, then it's just full power.

Right. That makes sense.

Yeah. Your God's like, good job, bro.

Yeah. So the shaman can heal Weasel Pete pretty quickly here. I heal durzim for 12, which gets durzam up. And.

And then if you need the potion, use it. Or we can save it for later, because who knows what we're about to run into, so.

But I cannot heal myself, though I am specifically for.

That's why he gave you 12?

That's why I gave him 12. Yeah.

Yeah.

I. I don't. He can heal me even if I don't believe his faith. Yeah, but will he?

That's a good question.

I mean, are you willing to praise Kirgi?

I will sacrifice my next two meals to the rats. It's very hard. They're so small. It's hard How?

But Kirgi in his natural form, is a giant rat with a massive maw.

That's it. Oh, okay.

Wait, what's your.

Okay.

Yes. Fine. But then I'm not sacrificing my meal, else.

Well, then all you have to do is say out loud, praise Kirgi.

I'm rolling my goblin. I'm not going to defoul the giant tongue with that praise Kirby. Whatever. Whatever. Long live the rat stuff. Well, you're a very good priest. Did I ever tell you you're a good priest?

Yes, As I lay my hand. And we really need to talk about, you know, your need to be overly flamboyant. Especially in social settings when you're feeling anxious and you get three hit points back. You just have to endure this combination religious dogma, doctor indoctrination and deep soul searching regarding your need to be flamboyant.

It feels wrong to use a flamberge and not be flamboyant client.

But what are you compensating for by using the flamberge? What need inside of you does that?

While the psychiatry session is going on, I do a bioregenerate and heal myself a little bit. And then I kind of look through the room a little bit more, through this bone dust, and see if there's anything else in here or any other exits.

Nope.

Nothing.

No exits. Nothing but bone. And then again, the only piece of treasure in here.

We broke.

We broke. Great.

There is nothing says weasel Pete. So, you know this witch, she collects bones. We're fighting bones. Should we be killing this?

I, I, I, I mean, we could, we could do that. We could do that.

Into bone hell. She knew she were gonna die. I'm just gonna create all these things.

I have no idea.

I will look. I'm gonna open the door and just.

Look out very carefully.

Open up the door and look out. Maybe it's changed. Maybe.

Oh, yeah. Maybe it's not a frosty wasteland anymore.

I mean, it probably is, but, you know.

So with this, we're gonna bring this to a close. You open the door and a gust of wind blows out and you see the same wasteland up ahead. And as they're doing their psychiatry and discussion of what to do, you see this woman, the same person out there about 30 paces away from the door, just looks up and goes, repeat customers. I love you. Come on in, let's talk. And then we fade to black. What do you mean, meditate?

I shut the door.

So that's Palladium Fantasy, first edition for folks. I know you're new to this, Kevin, but what did you think of it?

I liked it. That was fun.

And for anybody not on the know, this was Direct pull from the Tombs of Grave Adventure in the back of.

The book, which I have to apologize for. I didn't realize you were actually running it from. Running from the Tombs of Grassudi. Otherwise I would not have referenced the witch at all.

Dude, when you said that, at first I was like, oh, did he go there? And then I'm like, no, that's cool. That's cool.

I mean, we're experienced players.

Characters allowed me to play the repeat customers game.

Yeah, absolutely.

I am just. I have this mental thing where every character has been through the tombs of Yserdi in their backstory. I just made the reference off the cuff without thinking about it, and I'm like, holy shit.

So I have a list. I went through everywhere that someone could possibly have gone through in the tombs and ended up in this spot without having to go further down. And I was like, okay, went through all of these rooms, found these are some bits of treasure that you might have found and added them to a list. And then a bunch of other random stuff some of the characters might have. Like, one of them is a bag of silken undergarments, which is from. Which could have been found a bag full of princes, obviously. Silken undergarments. But the sword, Kevin, I'm guessing you're familiar with Death Kiss, the sword?

Yes.

If any of you had held that for longer than a moment to put it away, it wouldn't have been nice.

No.

Yeah. It very specifically hates people of selfish alignment. Oh.

Oh, interesting.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's it.

All right.

And when y' all are doing your characters and coming up with your alignments, and I'm just like, they're all selfish. Oh, this is nice.

I was just trying to play in character and that, by the way, I thought everyone did a great job. I thought people really played nicely in character, especially Mr. Troll Boy here, you know?

That was great. Yeah, the Goblin. I love it.

I think we did pick the right. Speaking of alignments, I think the alignments were.

Alignments were spot on. Oops.

Crunch.

It's like the Cormans, you know? I'm like a rear gun. I'm trying to heal.

I'm trying to.

Oh, really? You're just gonna play that game? Okay, well, I tried.

I helped with the healing initially.

I usually play unscrupulous on unscrupulous or unprincipled characters, but since the whole group was going anarchist and I was a thief, I figured, well, you know, anarchist would make the most sense and fit in with the team.

You know, when I was younger, I played a lot of selfish alignments, or I was like, aberrant. This is the best alignment ever. And the older I get, I'm like, most people I know are pretty good.

Yeah, I think I'm just gonna be good. We fundamentally had to turn our back on the potential of any other survivors and just be like, we're leaving.

Yep.

I loved it when you step in the troll stuff.

Decision taken out of your hands. Okay, well, here we go.

That was great.

You know, and then, of course, being anarchist, all of us, and then two of us being worshippers of Kurgy the rat God, it's like, yeah, that's what we get. Worshiping the wrong God.

Right?

Yep. And then there's the gnome, hoping no one steps on him.

Exactly.

That was good. Kevin, thank you for joining us for this. This was a lot of fun.

Yeah. Thank you for inviting me.

Yeah.

We truly hope you enjoyed having just a little casual break without having to think too much about it.

Yep.

Yeah, absolutely.

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You'll love it. And another thing, speaking of Christmas, it's the Christmas surprise package season.

Hell, yeah.

We're shipping those out like crazy. They're awesome. It's a great deal. Deal. I know you guys have hyped it up in the past, and it's just a great deal. If you especially like autographs, you know, we're happy to sign it. Every single book. We're not generally making turtle products available because it's brand new. I mean, you know that. That's. That's probably not something you're gonna get if that's on your wish list. But check out the Christmas surprise package. It is the best freaking deal in gaming. Agreed. And fun. It's just so much fun because you never know exactly what you're going to get.

Yeah.

And I'm glad to hear the turtle stuff is going to be available. I didn't get in on the backer side of it, so. But it's something I'm interested in, so I'm glad it's going to be available soon.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

I really want to get my hands on the red ones once they arrive.

Oh, yeah.

People have been. People in our Discord server have been posting pictures and unboxings and stuff, and. And all the pictures that I'm seeing of the art in the red, they're like, man, this art looks good. And it even looks good in the color. But right here with this black and red, it's just perfect.

I mean, you know, a lot of people. I'm surprised how many people don't realize that the Ninja Turtle books, comic books, originally came out as black and white books. But this takes it farther. And in fact, I'll repeat the story we told early when we were talking about these is we wanted. Originally, we're thinking of just spot color. Like, originally, all the turtles had red masks, and we're thinking, you know, we give them all red masks. We do spot reds here and there for, you know, various things, lighting and whatnot. And we contacted Freddy Williams, personal colorist to color these on, on, on Freddie's recommendations. And the guy didn't really know what we wanted. He's fabulous artist himself, by the way. Fantastic colorist. And so he sends us these samples and we're like. He's like, is this what you had in mind? And we're like, no. But yes, because he grayscaled everything and put in these reds was not like just a flat red. It's got reds have different hues and tones. It has, you know, touches of yellow. Yellow. So, so it's a nice warm reds. And, and they're just beautiful in the books. Yeah, they're, they're. The black, white and red books are, are truly unique, I think. And, and, but all of them are just beautiful. And you know, the dice are really cool. The, the mutagen green dice are pretty awesome too. And the game shield. So, yeah, all that will be going up this week. Check it out. Check out the, the surprise packages. Check out the Turtle products products. Tell your friends, please, about both and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year's everybody.

To you as well.

To you as well, to everybody out there. Thanks for listening and you know, go get your surprise package and join us. Let us know what you think about the Ninja Turtles games and yeah, we'd love to hear from you.

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