Kingdoms Forlorn: Dragons, Devils and Kings {Part Seven}
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Hey everyone, welcome back to Board Games Unlocked and we are continuing Kingdoms Forlorn. We finished Sir Sancha's quest last time.
Are we mortal [ __ ]
Um, are you
I cannot die. Um,
I want to die.
Yeah, we we also wanted to die. God, I'm tired of you smelling me while I'm asleep. And that [ __ ] ape. It freaks.
Uh, no. I actually went back and uh reread.
He a siliac. Okay. He can't eat glue.
I went back and reread like your entire uh your entire book. No, your entire quest cuz I was just completely zoned. I did get enough sleep.
Okay. This time I have successfully flipped my schedule. Um, but yeah. So, reread your thing. So, I'm like I'm all up to date on yours and I reread your prologue. So, so you're just a curse is pretty much what it seems to me.
Yeah.
From what I I understood that wherever you go, the curse follows.
Yeah. It brings the curse with me.
Yeah. And Yeah. But we're going to dive a little bit more into Stoneface that uh maybe we'll find out why that is the case. Doing quest one. You want me want me to read it? All righty. Well, there's this guys. Look. years ago, I'm sure I've brought this up before, but years ago when I worked for a different company, like the leaders went to like a local school and like read to like kindergarteners. And you don't realize how long Green Eggs and Ham actually is till you're reading it out loud to a bunch of kids. And I was like, keeps going.
This book sucks. Um, but yeah, every time I do this, I'm just like, all right, you guys you guys get it. Crisscross applesauce. Devon, hands to yourself.
No,
I can't strike kids. I already got in trouble for that. All right. Hands of stone. Fronn spurring you on constantly. Your frantic flight from the village takes you to a fog watch fortress under the shadow of the deep fog. There you search for a suitable caravan. Your friend doing much of the talking. Your stonebound exterior makes it difficult to find a convoy that will take you. Out here, everyone is wary of the stone curse. Most travelers eye you with a degree of suspicion. I lost my place. While Fron does the talking, you look down at your gray stone hands, struggling not to imagine them stained with blood.
Need more lotion.
I was just that [ __ ]
It's not enough. It's never enough.
Jeez, Stoneface. like 10 gallons of [ __ ] You try living with eczema.
Uh, no.
Got that Diddy prescription.
You uh you've ruined Stone Face or the Egg Knight with that always Sunny. What the are those fake hands? They're just um finally you attach to one troop heading out into the kingdoms. As the deep fog looms ahead, your heart skips a beat beneath your solid chest. Fronn strides beside you, his curious eyes looking you over from underneath his turban of cornflower blue. He shakes his head and sigh before speaking. How could you be so reckless, Stoneface? The lives of so many. Lost, wasted. You're supposed to know better. I I You begin. But before you can finish, Fron has cut you off. Doesn't matter now.
What's done can't be undone. We'll need to keep moving. And that means we need money. There's spoils of plenty out there in the fog. Despite what folks say, he affirms. You'll see. You hope he's right. For now, you just have to trust in him. And why shouldn't you? He's looked after you so far. I don't know where the uh bookmark is. Do you have your bookmark?
No.
So, this already has abusive caretaker vibes.
Stoneface. Like, I mean, can you even talk? God damn it, Stoneface. We need money. This is uh where we find out Stoneface is like 98 and it's just elder abuse. Uh prepare an expedition to the Principality of Stone. Your starting kingdom is S14, which I already have set out. Uh remove the Stonemason Knight from the encounter pool, which would wasn't even in the encounter pool. So, I don't know why they said like I'm wondering if like we did your quest way later if like maybe we'd be high. But that's that's the weird thing. It's like remove the stonemason knight from the encounter pool, but the encounter pool for the principality of stone doesn't have the stonemason night. And I was like, okay, well, he's not from that. He's from the 10,000 succulent fears. So I was like, oh, let me look at the cuz as far as I can tell, this is the I guess that's the beastiary. But yeah, the what did I say it was?
Oh, stonemason night. Yeah, stonemason night's not until later.
So, just he wasn't in the pool in the first place, but it's telling us to remove him.
Yeah, unless I'm just misreading it. Either way, he's not in the pool. Yeah, he's not in there.
He's not in the encounter pool anyway.
He's going to be the boss fight cuz remember it asked if Stoneface was in the party when we fought him. Uh,
or no. If if he he had to have completed his first round quest,
right?
And
that was for yours, wasn't it?
Yes.
Which we kind of want to read
if we do it.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, well, we should have done his first,
I guess. [ __ ] so.
Yeah. We didn't know till.
All right. Start all over.
We'll restart. Three whole game sessions cuz this is the longest game.
15 episodes. Uh, proceed to the outpost phase. And when you are ready to begin C 00001. Okay. Outpost phase before making our excursion.
How much cash do I have?
Six money units.
Only six. I have 16. No, I'm kidding. I only have six. How much money do you have, Kyle?
You have six money units as well.
Satan.
66.
Um, okay. Well, where would we like to go? We We now have money, so that's nice. Uh, you know what I just realized whenever I was setting up your guys' stuff? I'm like, they have so much more gear. I have shoes and a spear and some little egg little egg keychain.
Three. I mean,
you guys also I guess it's the upgrades. You guys also have upgrades on your stuff.
You have armor.
I have I have an armor, a shield, and a sword.
And a COD piece
and a map.
And a And a map.
And a map. So I kind of I mean we can buy local urchins. So
and that lets us reveal
S1 recon. Um cost three but place one additional kingdom tile on any path leading from the starting kingdom tile. Treat it as unexplored and mark it with a generic token as a reminder. So yeah, we essentially get to reveal what's next to us.
The mercenary deck consists of a level one mercenary cards. the ruined stalker card and an additional mercenary cards you've unlocked. Hired help from the mercenary deck. The party may hire up to four mercenaries for this expedition which gives us like I think it it gives us a expedition ability and a combat ability.
Okay.
Um yeah, we can buy gear cards from the merchant deck.
We're pretty good there.
We can go to the shrine of saints. Any knight with at least one devotion token may discard one devotion token to gain a chosen unlock. Oh, never mind. Never mind. That's something else. We go to the inn. Of course, we get if we all these have an early bird effect as well. So, with us having money, we can actually get stuff.
Uh urchants or mercs
cuz I think we're good cashw or gear-wise right now, especially for this tier. Yeah,
feels like cuz I don't have urgent.
You want to do the urchins? So the first time you would gain So it also gives us an early bird for the recon. Um the first time you would gain threat during this expedition lower this gain by one.
Okay, the first ignored.
Okay, so then if there's one thing that the border duchies resettlement endeavors are good at creating its orphans, these newly Oh god. In [ __ ] Kronos New Dawn, they call the monsters orphans and there's like only four like types of enemies. Like that game, man. That game just was atrocious. So now Orphans is ruined. These newly homeless children often find a home on the streets of the border duchies. Those who survive learn how to earn a gat or two doing favors for others looking to head out beyond the fog. When you're small and quiet, it's amazing how little attention the beasts of the kingdom will pay to you. The grubby-faced youngsters before you now promise useful information on the paths just beyond the fog. If you have the coin, why thy children are the hungriest.
Uh, who wants to pay the three? I guess we could each pay one.
Sure.
Sweet. Uh, you got the pencil. Devin, you need a pencil.
I do need a pencil.
De, you need the tip.
Just the tip.
Kyle, give him the tip. I think it's your turn.
I gave him the tip last time. Damn it. You remembered. All right. But no more, Devin.
I think mine's empty. There it is.
I'm about to be empty. All right. Well,
that's up to you. Where would you uh which one would you like to reveal? K. Now, mind you, we have no I think we're just It sounds like we're just trying to find money for you.
So, does he he reads his we read the story section?
We do. We I we read the intro to the story section, then we do the outpost phase, then I read
Didn't read the rest.
So, we don't know. We don't know what the goal is yet.
Okay. So, we Okay. I mean, I guess we're
Imagine if you did like didn't look like this before the curse and that's what it turned you into. You're like, I had guys I had a chin. You had the full beard now. Now it shave it. It shaved it. So now you're like that guy like like Devon without his beard.
Yep. I'll do it.
It seems like he's almost certainly a boy.
Wow.
It's 2025. Are you kidding me?
It's Trump's America. Woke's dead.
Yeah. The generals had their meeting from warrior from woke to warrior. Like imagine being like a 50-year-old general and you're like even I find this cringe. Like what the [ __ ]
That was rough.
Um what benefits do we get from the
we reveal?
We get to reveal one of the ones from the starting.
Let's do that one.
Do this one. All right.
What's inside?
Hanza Hall. Okay. And then we place a generic token on it. Um, so it's still it's still considered unexplored, but now we know that that's that that's there. Um, yeah, I was just double checking. Treat it as unexplored market with a generic token as a reminder. Cool. And also just let's remember that we reduce threat by one the first time we would gain threat. Well, now I mean I'm down to hire a mercenary.
Okay, we haven't done those yet. Sort of the tutorial.
The tutorial that Kyle so like Kyle missed. Uh mercenary deck consists of all level one mercenary cards, the ruin stalker card, and I don't think we have any other mercenaries unlocked. So
no, I have a quest that unlocks a bard. Dude, I [ __ ] bought. So, they uh in case you're in case anyone who's watching and you guys are interested, they're back on their pledge manager. So, if you want to if you just have $600 burning around burning a hole in your pocket
like I do.
Um like like you do.
Yeah, I'm not credit card debt. I don't expect
max out credit cards for KDM minis. Um no, but uh they had their sleeves
like available again, which I missed out on. I think it was like for this for what I have and then the two expansions it was like 200 bucks it was for damn
and I was like purchase
like cuz we we handle these so many like I hate grimy cars.
Mhm.
Like my oats sworn campaign I'm already feeling it on my cards. Yeah.
Yeah. That it it just it sucks. What am I looking for? the mercenaries. Um, damn it. Where are the mercenaries, Kyle?
Good question.
I'm literally going to have to look them because I actually don't know. I don't know what they look like.
Cuz I don't know if they're they
they're double-sided regular sized card.
They are regular size card. We have 17 mercenary standard guards. I see them. I see them. Okay, that that does help cuz that means that they're going to be right here. Right on the refrigerator. That's not [ __ ] it. Oh, it might be under the divider called mercenary. You know, like you might start
you wouldn't you wouldn't think. You wouldn't level one. Well, there's one. I see. Okay. I'm not I'm So, we have a mage that we can hire. Costs three. During the delve, place the party marker on an adjacent explored kingdom tile.
Oh, so we can just teleport to a space.
Free teleport. And during the clash, place one knight on an empty space up to two spaces away from their current position. So pretty much good good movement.
Yes.
The warrior uh during the delve reduce your vigor loss by up to three.
Okay.
And the clash roll your armor roll or gain power rroll two. He costs two.
Two coins.
Yeah.
Okay. How much was the mage?
Uh oh. There's more people.
Oh, okay.
Uh the mage was three.
Three. healer. During the delve, each knight may roll a red dye and gain plus two vigor for every sword symbol and plus one for every uh chalice symbol they rolled. Squires just gain plus two vigor. And during the clash, one knight rolls their knight power die and gains plus one vigor or discards one condition token for every symbol they roll.
I like the condition removal. That
is nice. The rogue, after you draw an exploration card, ignore it and repeat the draw. and the clash. Look at the top BP card. You may put it at the bottom of the deck. If fighting against mobs, look at a chosen BP card on the mob track instead.
Which one was that?
The rogue.
Oh, I like rogue.
The bard. Oh, I like the bard. During the delve, one knight resets their heat. And during the clash, each knight rolls their knight power die and loses one heat for every symbol they roll. Squires lose one heat. And last is oh the ruin uh the ruin stalker. Okay. Delve. During the travel step, ignore single panzer gates. As long as this mercenary is recruited during the travel step, you may move through shortcuts.
We can already move through shortcuts.
I guess that's true. Those maps are one time use though, aren't they?
Um during Dell, you may move through shortcuts.
Are they?
I tap it.
Oh, you tap it. Okay.
Yeah. So per Dell phase. Got it. You get one use. We have two in the
All right. We're just like like when you're picking someone when you're a captain on the baseball team like Ruin Stalker. Ruin stalker.
But we only have like the warrior and the rune stalker unlocked right now. You said
level one.
Oh, which
I said Yeah, I thought I could have sworn it said all level one.
Oh, it said all level one.
Um, the mercenary deck consists of all level one mercenary cards, the ruin stalker card, and all additional mercenary cards you've unlocked.
Okay. from the mercenary deck. The party may hire up to four mercenaries for this expedition. At the end of the expedition, return those cards to the mercenary deck.
Okay. Um
um Oh, and if we go early bird, we can actually add one random level two mercenary card to the mercenary deck.
Oh, nice.
What else does that final mercenary do?
Oh, the ruin stalker. Um during the clash, remove one rubble terrain tile from the clash board. Yeah,
but I don't want to pay for someone if we're not using half of their [ __ ]
right? Curious the other half.
Guys, I can get a side. We can take shortcuts. Yeah, we already got a map.
Mhm.
So, what else do you provide? Uh, I can get rid of rubble. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay.
Um, I mean, the bard with the heat lot mitigation is nice cuz that seems to be our number one problem. At least it is for me. It is for me, you know, during the down phase. Hey, now that I know my [ __ ] flash tokens don't go away, uh,
I can actually do stuff with my cards.
What does the mage do again?
Mage was teleport. Like during the delve, we can move to an explored location. So, it's essentially like a free backtrack and during combat, we can uh choose one night to have them move two spaces.
Warrior is pretty good. Warrior is good. Um, the reroll or power rroll too is nice, I think. Um, I like out of all of these, I mean, you have so much. Uh,
mage bard is my favorite.
The mage is your favorite.
Mage bard. I like I the movement could be nice.
I like the rogue.
Yeah,
I like being able to look at what the top BP card is and being able to put at the bottom of the deck. I I think yeah, the rogue.
Yeah, good.
I mean, it since we could hire up to four.
The rogue and
we have the cash. I mean, it's not like we're spending our cash on anything right now.
Uh, how much is the rogue?
The rogue is three, mage is three. So, warrior two, mage three, healer two, rogue three, bard three.
I'll hire the bard.
You're going to hire the bard?
I will hire the bard myself.
All right,
then. I guess let's just do the rogue. I
Okay,
we can save the rest of our money. Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at. As you know,
he's just playing me tunes. I don't care about this roleplay. He's just I hired this guy while we John.
He's wearing sunglasses. I don't know what it is, but you have got it.
Um, okay. It just reminds me of Monty Python. Brave. Brave Cers. Brave Cers. Like we run away. I did not run away. Brave has talked Bravely talked his tail and plays a robin.
Uh, okay. So, it's three. How are we paying for it?
Um, I can do two.
All right. Highest roll. Highest roll pays two.
Highest roll.
Yeah. Roll. Roll. Roll off.
You have die over there. Use your own die. Don't touch my dye. You've tainted it. Yeah. See, now I have to pay two. All right. So, now we got these guys. They're over here somewhere. Um, one thing I also forgot to pull out for some reason was the exploration deck. Give it to me.
Yeah. All right. I do have the card this time. when you're about to place a token on a random direction during this place it on a chosen direction instead.
Okay,
we're not going to use that.
And we're not going to use it the whole time.
Yeah. Okay, great. That sounds like a waste of time.
All righty. So, I think that's that's it for the outpost phase. Feels nice that we actually I guess we I mean we can also visit the inn if we wanted to got to go see our wench and we just roll a dieice and see what happens.
I can use a drink. I'm thirsty. I have a mighty thirst.
All right, roll.
Nine.
Nine. Place a chosen resource token on the chosen knight's board or in the night pool. Ooh, a chosen resource. Well, so a resource token, huh? Can I put one of your flesh in there?
I was I was thinking that.
I was like, put a flesh in there, my my dude.
Yeah, I was I was thinking the exact same thing. I'm like, hey, that'll be helpful.
All right, so the only person not getting a quest card will be
Kyle.
Is there anything else we can spend our money on?
Uh, gear.
I think you can buy merchant gear. Um.
Oh, yeah. I think
Marshall.
Okay, I'll set that off to the side. And so I need I get blue. What does he get? You said Marshall.
Yeah, I have Marshall.
That was red, right?
Yes.
Okay. You'll get green.
Green. Orange.
Can I take a look at the gear?
Sure. Um, yeah. So, if we're going to Oh, we're putting a flash token in the night pool.
Yeah.
I'll just put the night pool right there.
It is weird that they have you interact with the nightpool, but it's like where do you expect us everyone to have the board out? Like they're just like, "Yeah, no, you have a you have a massive table, right?"
I do. The gear. Yeah. The merchants workshop. Um, merchant deck consists of all merchant cards of your tier and tiers below and all unlock consumable cards. You may buy any gear cards from the merchant deck. You may reforge any owned merchant gear and you may spend five gold to buy one stone key.
So, we look at merchant here
gold for stone key. Those aren't cheap.
They are not. And they're pretty crucial. Okay. So, said it's all merchant gear of our tier or
Mhm.
All right. That's what you got.
Boy, I just
Yeah. Nothing too I can use any of it.
Yeah. No like gear or anything.
Well, hey, in dragon tier you get you can get a gun. Oh, hell yeah. Just got to get to dragon tier. End of the game.
I didn't realize that was chapter five.
Got my gun finally.
Cut my gun into pieces. Yeah, I only have three gold left. Anyway, I was reading through the 10,000 succulent fears thing just cuz I was like, "Oh, maybe we like how how much of a pain in the ass would it be to implement it?" Um, and they have a picture here with this little like it looks like stairs leading down.
Okay.
And this is already after we've delved deeper and it says, "During your expedition in the sub kingdoms, you may encounter a mysterious stair symbol. for now they don't do anything but who knows what the future may bring.
So right now we
[ __ ] off.
So So to access the sunken kingdom we have to use these little like portals.
Yes.
Okay.
But I don't know how those work cuz I have not read those rules.
Dude, I'm about to crash out.
What are you looking for? me.
Did you lose something or
No, no. I'm just putting stuff up.
Okay.
So, I like I like moved back and then I hit this thing and it like stopped me and All right.
During the um clash phase, am I able to like have more than one weapon at a time or can I
uh I mean, you can have more than one weapon.
I mean, I can I can only use one at a time, I understand, but I can have more than one.
Uh well, how many hands do you have available? because you can only you equip during this phase. So once we delve in, we're set.
We're set. Yeah. Then yeah, I'm not gonna get
Okay. From my understanding, we that's that's like what we brought with us into the
into the delve and it's like, oh [ __ ] I left my bow back at camp.
Okay. So, are we ready to head out?
I'm ready. Sir got his drink, got his bard who hasn't shut up this whole time. Um, I hired uh a rogue. Did I keep I keep misplacing? Where did they go?
Kyle, you ready? Ready to learn more about you?
Let's do it.
Navigating the deep fog is a fraught experience. One that wears down the mind and often pushes one to madness. You flinch at a shadow that looms close within the gray white wisps, but Fron is at your side. A reassuring presence. Keep it together, big guy. Got to be tougher than that. You give him a curt nod, and for once, you are glad your stone face masks your emotions. Um, the last thing you wish is for him to see you afraid or weak, so you try your best to bottle those emotions up when they arise. Finally, you emerge from the mist, and before you lies the principality of stone, the urban sprawl of eyes involved stretches as far as the eye can see. Steepled towers mingling with the abandonment, abandoned homes of once revered smiths and masons. Most imposing of all is Conqueror's Castle, King Idleheart's citadel. Upon those walls, he crushed the alloyed uprising.
Though the city is a desolate sight, the remnants of its grandeur are hard to deny. Cara is not in our party, so we'll move on. As you stare out across the stone gray city, Fron nudges you, pointing to the city's border. Look there. You see that caravan heading into the city? You do. The small train of wagons is moving fertively through Eernvald's outskirts. Fronn grins mischievously like the Grinch. They're bound to have some fine wears on them. He chuckles. What do you think? A Braavian shell game. You've helped Fron stage the uh the con more times than you'd care to remember. You make conversation with the travelers or merchants and he robs them blind. Your graven v is normally enough to keep their attention. You can feel that Fron would rather go after them, but you're not sure how you feel about scamming people here of all places. Surely anyone traveling through such desolation is already having a hard enough time. All right, so you're a piece of [ __ ] I know you're not doing it, but you're enabling it, and that's just as bad. You get to choose. In a realm like this, resources are key to survival, and it's eat or be eaten.
The key caravan could be carrying a wealth of goods. Why not make a quick profit for yourself? Follow the caravan. You gain dishonor one. Wow, Winston. I know. I know. He [ __ ] sucks. Gain dishonor one vice. See? Okay. So, that's what option one. Option two. This is no time for such schemes. The caravan could be armed or carrying nothing of worth. There are other places you should focus your attention. Tell them you're not interested and stay on the path before you. Bane one.
Um, do you remember what vice is?
Yeah. What's what's vice
here? I'm just going to I'm going to have Deon look for it. I'm tired. Up. You okay? And everyone can enjoy Winston. Everyone can enjoy my Oh, big boy.
Oh, yeah. Are we doing any side quests?
Oh, uh, no. We already moved on.
Okay. Ciphers.
Let's see. Vices are the opposite of refues. Each vice provides a different kind of penalty related to your merch.
Yep. Yep. That's right. Um it is yeah it's right here you see the virtues bravery tenacity sagacity
okay
or you might so you would get dishonor and then you would
um you would mark the first box of dishonor um see it says when you draw your first positive mortise [ __ ]
Yeah, let's do it.
Yeah,
we're going to rob him.
Yeah, let's do it. Okay.
And then after I read this, we'll have to read our quests, the ones we're doing.
Um, yeah. Gain Dishonor one. Oh, Dishonor one advice. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You sigh, nodding your ascent. Fron claps you on the shoulder, wincing a little as he rubs his palm to massage the feeling back into good man. Always sensible you are steady as a rock. Come on, let's go. Get after him before they get lost in the city. The two of you follow the caravan as inconspicuously as possible. Fron's taking the lead and soon enough you get an idea of where it's headed. Eventually, the traveler's trail leads into the merchant district. Should be easy enough to follow him. Fron's comments. I reckon it'd be worth our time. All right. Um, additional objective. The caravan Fron spotted could be a good mark to steal from.
Reveal the L3 kingdom tile and mark it with a generic token. Nope. It's this one.
Okay. If you follow it to tile L3 during the next travel step on the on the delve round, C 004. Otherwise, place a triple panzer gate on the pathway between those two. This objective is no longer available. Okay. So, yep, that is your current goal is either go that way to follow the caravan or if we go literally anywhere else, we'll read a different section. Uh, all right. Well, got to follow the caravan. I already
I already committed.
Yeah, I already I already agreed.
I got that vice.
Um, all right. So, before we do that, uh, Devon and I need to decide um,
the quests.
Yep.
Investigations, I guess.
Yeah.
I'm going to do the water dance. Um, I three.
Do I don't get any clues. at all.
No. Person on the quest doesn't get clues.
You got your own objective cuz that whether you succeed or fail is based off the story.
Whether we succeed or fail is based off the uh clue tokens.
You having a hard time? Can't find it. De
water dance. Yep. Struggling getting it up.
Ready?
Yeah. Go for it.
The heavy steel gauntlet thuds down on the table in front of you with a loud crack. You You look up to see a rather young, brashfaced boy in his teens, clad in armor that still shines immaculately, not from care and maintenance, but from lack of use. Nar scratch on it. The great knight, Sir, the boy leers, I challenge you. Walk away, boy. You lift your cup of steaming tea and take a sip. Ah, not great.
This doesn't end well for you. I'm not afraid of you, old-timer. I've come to summon you to a duel. I have no quarrel with you, lad, nor you with me. Just drop it and don't bite off more than you could chew. You dare insult me by rejecting my challenge. The boy's cheeks flush near crimson. Realizing you'll get nowhere with reason, you release a sign. The school of hard knocks it must be. Make an investigation mark on your night sheet for chapter one. Draw a clue card. Collect the clues. Donate on the guards to succeed.
I want you to fail this so hard.
Get my ass beat.
Damn it. Died again. Oh.
It's even funnier when you actually hear it. All right. And I don't know. I don't know what I want this. That's not even my book. Damn it, Kyle.
I don't know what I want. Do I go after my sword? I got my f I got this fist spear. I kind of like that. I'm going to do mushrooming.
Mushrooming.
I need I'm going to get high.
Okay.
You guys ever do mushrooms?
No.
No comment. No, Marcy collapsed and I'm not doing those ever.
She You're like,
she just Yeah, it's like, you know, she I I know she said she was doing them. I was upstairs. I forget what I was doing, but I remember I heard a loud bump and then I go downstairs and she is just I hate that I'm telling the story, but she was just pale and sweaty and like against the toilet. the eyes super dilated just she was not having a good time and that kind of ruined the idea of ever trying for me.
I just I don't know why I just imagined that she was just like full on planking.
Yeah.
Yeah. Just planking on the toilet. She was so cold.
Gosh,
dude. Yeah. Uh the one rule I heard is you don't do mushrooms alone.
She hasn't since I think she learned that lesson. I had a friend cuz I I was also I heard a story that just turned me off on him was he did mushrooms with his friends and they just kind of left him and then he like couldn't really remember how to breathe and I so he was like having a full-blown panic attack and I'm like well first of all [ __ ] those friends who just left you but nah nah that's just I'm much better off now acid no
acid
PCP P a gallon gallon of PCP.
Oh, dude. That's the best WKUK skit, I think.
Gallon of PCP.
I do.
It's so good. And uh No, she passed away. Oh, how how long ago was that?
About four about four years ago. No, P.M. 4 p.m.
So today 4:00 p.m. Well, it's 5:00 now, so that was recent.
Uh I won four.
Oh, I don't get all my cards. I actually have an extra card.
Oh, you do? Oh, you unlocked one last time, didn't you?
I got to meet them like a long time ago.
Who are they?
WK.
Why are you showing He doesn't know who that is.
Oh, you don't UK
W. Why is this kid?
How did you know? I heard you guys like talk about that.
That's [ __ ] cool.
I don't have him in my like
Was it like a live show?
Oh, cool.
Nice.
Although Zach wasn't there. The one guy was like super famous now,
I guess. So, yeah, the other guys are doing almost nothing.
Obligated.
I mean, it was really It was Zach and and Trevor who really spearheaded the whole thing.
I was really happy to be able to meet Trevor. Like, I got to talk to him after the show.
Yeah, they seem like they'd be super chill guys. Um, God, they were so funny. That was like they came out like at like peak comedy development years for me, like early freshman, sophomore year in high school.
Uh
Oh, cool.
So, but yeah, that's really neat. And then Yeah, Trevor died. That was that was weird cuz what it didn't he was it
they found him in his backyard. He had fallen off his balcony.
His Okay, that was him who fell off the balcony. kids died or one of the guys in the troop died.
Infected leader.
Oh god.
Cuz I thought there was another guy, wasn't it? It wasn't a Jonas brother, but wasn't there? There was another guy very recently who fell off a balcony and died. He was a pop singer.
I know you're talking about
um these balconies.
I don't know.
Scotch tape.
Had to do it. Had to do it.
Except that one was um a suicide. This one was an accident.
Yeah, Trevor was an accident.
Yeah. Um, yeah,
that's why he killed himself.
Very little thing.
That's why the uh Yeah, there's not many celebrity deaths that affected. Trevor's was weird. Uh Grant Imahara from Mythbusters.
That one was That one sucked cuz the His was just an aneurysm.
Yeah.
And it's like, okay, cool. Nothing to be done about that one,
right? Nothing we can do.
Uh, that's pretty much it. That's that's all I could think of. Anyway, mushrooming. Now I'm gonna have a problem because I can't because I can't find it.
Give me [ __ ] Can't get it up. Can't find the page.
I can't.
Never been able to.
Jesus Christ. Yeah, you're right. Where the hell are they? Oh, that's chapter five stuff. They're at the very back.
They have very small sections. They do not have a lot of text.
That's I
They should be closer to the front.
Oh. Oh, because get past your Yeah. Yeah, that quest.
Yep.
And there it is.
I too. Okay. Mushrooming. There have been some strange reports from the kingdoms recently. Circling circles of mushrooms sprouting across the realms. Is this a manifestation of the barreny? An invasion? But then why are people talking about them in the barreny too? In among the undergrowth? Something strange is spreading through formations and you should be the one to investigate. You wonder what kind of soup these mushrooms might make. All right, cool. I'm I'm delicious in dungeon. I'm I'm the best guy in that whole anime cuz I
we we ate an egg night.
M. It's good. Every dialogue is I refuse to eat that. Cooks delicious. Good.
Hey, that's pretty good.
Yep. So, make an investigation mark on your night sheet. Draw a clue card. So on so forth. Um, I went and watched the new Demon Slayer movie.
Was it Was it Tits?
It was It was fantastic.
I need to I need to catch up. It looks like it's popping off.
Did you watch all of season two?
What's season two? I think
with Tangen.
Tangen. Yes.
Okay. You could skip season 3. It's just a training arc. It literally does nothing for you. Okay.
Um,
maybe development. Don't you learn more about the Hashias?
Not really. Unless they added more in the in the anime, cuz I've read the whole manga. The training arc is like
four pages pretty much. You really Yeah. You really don't learn much because what they do in is in Demon Slayer, you get you pretty much get like backstories as fights are happening,
right?
Um like in season 2 whenever he's fighting upper who was it was it were they upper six?
Yeah.
Um Yeah. When it's like right before they die, it's like backstory. feel bad for him now. Right before there were,
you know, how they were pieces of [ __ ] before, now they're empathetic.
Yeah, pretty much. Um, but no, the movie was phenomenal and it's following exactly the way the manga is. So, I'm very cuz they're ending it on three movies,
which is the right choice. So,
that's right.
So, this movie was awesome. Very excited for the next movie because it's gonna be even better.
Kyle, you a Demon Slayer fan?
Do you watch anime? I
do not watch much. Okay. Hentai is murder speed, right?
That's generally the only anime I'm into.
Like he just starts quoting off a bunch of hentai. Have you guys seen it? Just came out.
No, I don't know the name. Something
I know the artist, the year, what day it came out, the hour,
every other detail.
Yeah. How many times I've gooned to it?
Uh, okay. So, oh, so that's now we can now we can play
on a scale from zero to gonatron. How much are you edging? Uh, okay. So, yes. How shall we go? We are we moving? Are we following the caravan?
Yes.
Okay. So, we're going to get red. Yeah. So, that will be you.
But this one provides two because it was a twofer.
Oh, yeah. This one was uh it is Yes, it is a large one. So, we're going to gain I forgot it was unexplored. Um we're going to gain just one threat because of the um the urgent
time.
One time. Yeah, two uh yeah two uh two clues. So, it's this one and then
we draw
I forget.
Why did I also forgot how the [ __ ] clues work?
So, I started at page 20ish and then I let it read to me.
Um,
up to page 16.
I let it read to me.
I maintain more than I thought I would.
Travel step. There we go. Right there. I
I remember line of sight.
Yeah. It's like it's the easiest uh thing in the world, but it is Kingdom Tile Anatomy. Found it. Game. Okay. 34 clue. Collecting clues. There we go. If there more than one clue. Oh, that's right. It's the bottom of the of the conditions that I don't have out of the Morris card
of the same card.
Uh, yep. Cuz then it gives you that uh gives you the arrow.
Okay. Yeah, I know it references that a lot for several things that you decided.
Yep. So, it is going to be blue.
Blue.
And I get a generic token.
You do? Why?
Because This has at least two threat.
At least two threat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep. Okay. So, now we are there. And then we got number one.
Number one. A quiet abode. A chosen knight devotes. I have a saint.
You do have a saint. Uh, sure. Go ahead.
I devote. Uh, you have a devotion token over there. You can flip it and there's a two on the back.
Righteous. I forget that's a thing.
All right. Um,
where does this bane come from?
Uh, from last last time.
Gotcha.
Okay. Rust cometh. Remove X single panzer gate tokens from anyone district. If this effect didn't trigger, we gain a curse. Okay, now back to reading. What? How much there are we at?
One.
We're only at one.
Remember the recon?
Oh, it makes
it makes Yeah. The first threat we gain is reduced by one.
Reduced by one.
Yep.
Okay. So, if you follow it to during the next travel step of the Delve round C004, you follow the caravan's trail a little way into the city, but the going is slow. Fronn's growing more impatient. Volunteers to go on ahead. Sees where the travelers are headed. Time passes and you start to worry. The kingdom is a dangerous place and Fron relies on you. He always calls you the muscle to his brains. Oh god. Finally, your friend returns and a ping of relief hits you. What did you learn, Frond? You ask. Well, well, well. Someone's keen, aren't they? He replies with a mocking smirk. I found him.
Kill this guy.
Yeah, I hope he I hope he dies after this.
I found him. They're heading for the old markets looking for a place to hunker down for the night. From what I've seen, there are blas lot. Easy pickings. Someone look a blasoise. I want to know if he's using that correctly.
He's like, he strikes me as this guy who uses fancy words to sound smart, but has no idea what they mean. You hesitate. This is taking longer than you'd hoped and is a further detour. The spire of the Eizer curse stands tall on the horizon, promising the real payday. Are you sure you want to risk that for a smaller score here? Additional objective. The caravan is heading for a safe place to set up camp. You can meet them there and the hustle can begin. Reveal tile S13, which is going to be going up. Yeah. S3 is upside down. probably place a generic token on there to show that it is it is a thing and uh it remains unexplored. This is where the caravan is stopping for the day. If you navigate onto this tile during the next travel step of the delve round, C 00005.
Ooh, that's a real shame for you. If you don't, triple paner gate between it and it's no longer available. Return to the delve. Was I supposed to read? Okay. Well, okay. I might have I might have had to read something else before before this because Okay. So this is I [ __ ] hate this the way it's phrased. So like this is showing hey here's you know read reveal L3 and then if you if you follow it C 004 otherwise place a triple panzer gate between them the objective is no longer available C 00008.
It's like, was I supposed to still read that or because the way it's the way it's phrased,
it sounds like you only do it if
you didn't follow. But then if for this one, this is the caravan stopper for the day. If we don't follow it, then we then it just says return to the del. It doesn't give me a secondary option up here. So, like if we're unable to follow it, which we're not because there's a there's a single panzer gate here and we have no way to get around it.
So, there is a panzer gate there.
Um
I thought it was only if we
if we don't go up there.
We didn't follow it.
Yes, that's what it was sounding like.
So, I mean based off if we're following this the icon that's a key or that's a lock like this is a single pan or this is a triple panzer gate. That's a single one. So, I mean, I don't know if we're It doesn't say to ignore
Here, can I read it?
Sure.
Um, it doesn't say to ignore like anything on the thing. It's It's not
Well, I mean, also also, if we were doing this naturally, there wouldn't be a gate there until like we reach this spot. No, there would be a gate there,
but it wouldn't be revealed. Like, this wouldn't be revealed if we were doing this naturally. So, this is unexplored. So, there's nothing indicating a gate forms.
Oh,
when we arrive, the gate will form.
Yeah, you're right. But
so it says
if you navigate onto this tile during the next travel step of the Del Round C005,
right?
Yeah. So we're following. So we made that entry,
right? No, no, no. But like so it does it says you can meet them there like place a generic token on it. Remains unexplored. This is where the caravan going to stop them for the day if you navigate like So it says you can. Yeah. And if you don't place the gate,
right? So the reason why I'm having an issue with that is because let's say we don't. For some whatever reason, we just go down here. Panzer gate is locked. Now there's nothing indicating what his objective is.
That's true.
That's why I'm like, oh, so maybe I was supposed to read 00008 regardless of if we followed them or not, cuz that's going to give him an alternate cuz Well, actually, no. I am supposed to read that because these are alternate objectives because isn't that what it's saying at the top? Alternate objective.
Yeah, because he was like eyeballing a tower like oh there's that's a good payday. There
it is an alternate.
Okay. Yeah. So I So the fact that they put that 00008 in a separate line is probably so going back. So this was after he had found the caravan.
008 would be if he decided to not follow them to the first.
Yep. This would be your overall quest objective. So while he's talking about the caravan, you trail off. As you scan the horizon, you spot a shadow jutting out over the skyline. It is an impossibly tall spire, taller than any in the city, and somehow it has still retained its magnificence. You cannot help but marvel at it if only for a moment. The eyes are Kersh, Fron explains to you. A holy house. Them priests do love their gold, but there's some pretty things in there that'd be worth some goats. Some gros. You've heard of the place, the All Father's Cathedral of Eisenvald. Said to be one of the grandest strongholds of the church throughout the kingdoms. Outshon only by the Cathedral of Cross and the Sanguine Cathedral of Essen. Oh, talking about other expansion uh kingdoms.
More interesting to you, however, is a district. It sits in, the craftsman district, said to be home to countless workshops where great marvels of engineering were made. The toy makers of Eiservald were said to be legendary skilled, having learned at the feet of masters of the machinated state. Sure, sure. The the toy makers, Fron grunts disinterestly. But the church, Stoneface, think of the payday inside their vaults. All right, your objective. Search the principality for anything of value. That big church seems like a good place to start. Reveal the All Father's Church kingdom tile.
Well, that would be if we didn't do that. Is that your zero, right?
Yes.
Well, let's not do that. Let's Let's do five.
No, that's that's fine. I'm just saying if you didn't want to do this, this is your
right.
So,
but I'm going after the caravan.
That's fine.
Okay.
I'm just saying that if you didn't then cuz if if we then read this then it's like, okay, you're on no quest. We'd have nothing to to play this del for.
Um, mark it with a generic token. It remains unexplored. Um, this is your ultimate goal. If you move on to this tile, test insight. Okay. All right. If time is 8 and you have not triggered either of these events, C 001. Okay. Begin the exploration. So, this is your ult like getting here is your ultimate goal.
I understand what you're saying.
All right. Well, I'm just repeating you because if you don't come here, there's an event that happens. Um, and when you get here, you'll have to make an inside check.
Okay.
Um, but anyway, so L2, L2 is right right there. You see this off in the distance? It's very erect. Uh, they weirdly carved veins into it. And uh, yeah. So, following the caravan,
you're just like, "Wow, wow. Let's go after these innocent peasants." I threat down the disarm.
Yeah, threat's going to go down. No.
Um,
can we do an exploration?
Yeah, we'll always do an exploration.
Oh, wait. Before that goes off.
Before that [ __ ] goes off, I'm going to monkey business.
I already read it.
Monkey business. You get to draw two
and pick one.
Well, would you look at this? Well, we got a fog trespass. Place a deep fog token on a random path leading from your current kingdom tile or stone wish shrine. Each knight may gain plus two heat to roll a dieice and resolve an effect corresponding to the result.
I mean, I'd probably say the shrine's better or the the the
the well. The well
and the other one goes back on bottom.
Uh, I believe so. Yeah. Choose the card to resolve and place the other card at the bottom of the equation. I'll take two heat to uh to to roll on the shrine. Yeah, just Oh, I wish Fron would get his skin ripped off.
Hell yeah. I'm taking that 10. Gain a chosen clue token.
Hell yeah.
Nice.
That was worth it. And France is going to get a skin ripped off like in Silent Hill.
Is that for everybody or just one person?
Each night may gain two each.
[ __ ] yeah. Three. Lose a vigor.
Oh, so it's gain two heat and roll to roll.
Oh, [ __ ]
Well, that sucks.
You like going like
seven.
Lose five vigor. Okay. Raise your heat limit by one.
Okay, that's nice.
I'm using this immediately.
Yeah. So, one time use,
I guess. It is. It Oh, they do change on the back. That's cool. At least the rogue does. All right. So, now we'll read what the caravan says.
Uh 005. Yep. Don't laugh if like we read this whole thing. It skips all the way to the final clash. Okay. The cold wind sweeps the timewn streets. Once a thriving home of commerce now empty, save for the statues of the petrified citizenry, victims of the stone curse. You know, in uh the Star War Family Guy Star Wars episodes when uh Peter's getting frozen in carbonite and he just moons everyone. I imagine there's one stone. He's like, "Oh, this will be fun."
He's counting.
Look at this guy.
Woo! It's hot out.
Thirsty.
Oh man. Why is the eyes are in cold? Water so thick. You have to put your mouth around every plastic ahead. The travelers have set up a makeshift camp in the ruins of a crumbling house in front of a row of stalls. You approach and greet them heartily. They look at your stone fac with weariness, but respond with surprise and intrigue at your soft voice and mannerisms. Linda's healing hands. He's just a boy. A wrinkled woman stirring a cooking pot pipes up. Come closer, lad. Sit by the fire. You comply, sitting with a heavy thump.
And engaging the travelers in conversation. Out of the corner of your eye, you see Fran stealing up on their wagons. Now you just have to keep the attention of yourself. Perhaps a story. You know many tales. Have used some of them on similar schemes. All right. You have to put your mouth around every faucet. I want to make sure I get all the water. Perform a test of insight or sagacity.
I don't have either of those.
All right. Well, it's
of what was it?
Inside.
Inside or sagacity. So, inside being the uh you know the cat or sagacity being the owl. Anyone here know what sagacity means? Well, I sage is in the word, so it's kind of like
wisdom more or less.
I mean, with the owl context clues,
Kyle,
it's an eight. Roll die.
You may gain We You may gain a threat to add one to your result. Other knights may gain up to one heat to add one to your result.
Let's just see how bad.
What does he mean?
Eight.
Eight. Yeah,
I'll give you one.
Well, we can I think we can see it after the result.
After. Okay.
It says we can gain a threat to add one to your result. I don't know if that's before or after.
Um
and then wait.
Yeah. And I have a card that lets me add two to the results.
Oh, really?
Okay. Rock and roll.
Oh, boy.
That's a failure regardless.
Can you roll a test though with heat?
Yeah.
Yes, you can. That's true.
Six.
Oh, six. You're right. Um, so I'll use my card.
Are you on mushrooms today? It's annoying.
I don't know. What's that? What's that little dot mean? I've never understood that.
I don't understand.
I don't get it. Yo, guys, what's it like using your cards?
I bet that's cool. Oh, I also have that night prowess. When you're about to perform in a virtue test or an adventure roll, add two to the result. Did you spend your heat?
Yeah, I'm at four heat.
Full heat. Yours only costs one to do that.
Yes.
Mine's [ __ ] two. God, the flight.
You're not that proud, are you?
No, apparently not.
Mine's only one as well.
Yeah. I'm just a I'm just a slow, dense piece of [ __ ]
You're more like I hit things hard and they stop moving.
Yeah, that's true. I don't even Yeah. Yep. Yep. All right. So, you got it.
Yep. You keep talking and the travelers remain rapidly focused on you for longer than you'd hoped. Place one opening token in the night pool.
The target, the blue target.
There it is.
Yeah.
God, you take take two weeks off of a game and this is like I've never played this game before in my life.
No. No. What?
All right. Your performance is immaculate. They kind of feel bad cuz they think you're a little slow.
Uh the merchants hang off your every word cuz it's very drawn out. Enthralled and enraptured, which is just as well as Fron's being his old self. He rifles through the wagons and soon as stripped much of value, you part ways with the caravan, meeting back up with Fron on the road. The older lad laughs at the traveler's uh naivity out here. They're going to need everything they can muster. And if your success anything to go by, they're far from prepared for the worst of it. All too easy, he boasts as you walk away side by side. He forces a smile. Great work, big guy. Had them eaten out of the palm of your hand. Imagine when they'd find out they've been swindled. I mean, can you picture their faces? I mean, the little ones getting stomped to death.
Fron gaws hardily and you follow. They really lay it on thick. How much of a piece of [ __ ] this guy is.
It seems that way.
Yeah. And you follow suit. Although you can't quash the faint unease you feel. You turn your attention back to the city. You still have time to find other riches in the forgotten homes and workshops. And the prize of the ice certain curse still beckons tanted tantalizingly. Mark 02 on your night choice matrix.
Uhoh.
That's going to come back. Gain five gold.
Oh [ __ ]
Nice returning.
All right. So now we're trying to make it there.
That's enough for a single stone key right there. What? Yep. All those lives at your hands for five gold.
Man, we really [ __ ] on travelers around here. He's robbing them. You're leaving them to die. I went out of my way to help one.
Uh, which one?
That one. Those guys.
Cuz I remember you going after your sword. That only helps you. I went over my sword, but during my story, I I did a nightly task where we we went out of our way.
Yeah, I think you did. Uh Oh, the caravan. Yeah. And Oh, yeah. Cuz I remember reading and even they were like, "We're going to we're going to distance ourselves from you."
Yeah. A bowl of death to you.
Like I think we're better off. Whatever you bring with you, we want nothing.
So be it.
Off we go.
Plus a monkey. Little sir,
why do you have him in a thong?
Little sir, come on.
Cuz he has no security.
He has no ass cheeks to fill the thong.
No, he's a baboon. He He has all the ass.
Is he a baboon? I don't know what kind of monkey he is.
My cat comes to mind, but I don't know monkeys.
Uh, no. He's not a like
I don't know. I don't know.
Yeah, that's a
Maybe it's in the Q&A.
Spider monkey.
Spider monkey. What kind of monkey is
kind of monkey? It looks like
I um I highly highly doubt it's uh I don't know.
Yeah,
it's a monkey.
Yeah.
All right. Well, where are we going?
So, yeah, we robbed them and now we're looking for the church.
The all fathers.
Now, I don't I don't have a goal in I already robbed those people. That was pretty awesome.
Um You know what is kind of weird though is the disconnect with us.
Like why the [ __ ] are we here?
Yeah. Like what are we doing? Like I guess I'm fighting a guy
like the Well, I know but it's like like
you guys are my crew
like and we're just NPC teosing while while you're telling a story. It's just I know they bring in every once in a while, hey, if this person's in your party, something happens. But it's like when that doesn't happen, we just stood here and watch and let him swindle these people. It's like anyway,
I don't know. Maybe it's one of those things like we're off doing our own thing. It's a big world.
I'm off I'm off foraging for stuff and you're off looking in a mirror.
Mhm.
Yeah. Oh god. Oh, it's going to be a shame when this people are robbed of this this handsome fac.
God, we are a mly crew.
Yeah, definitely feels prologish with him anyway cuz I don't feel like friends is supposed to last. So, we need to find
Dude, he's he's dragon tier.
Oh, if he sticks around five for five story sections for Stone Face, this guy, if he doesn't die in his first one,
I sly.
I want him around the whole And he gets worse and worse.
Um, you see Fron bestowing a bright red cap. Oh god. So, we're looking for like a small six. Yeah. Small three, medium four.
Yep.
So, we got Oh, we got 12 and nine,
I guess. So,
Oh, yeah. Small 12 and small nine.
I guess a 15 as well, just to fill it out.
It's called mega make eyes are involved. Great. Again.
So, what does that mean?
That's your uh your your thing like your um exploration cipher. Oh. Oh,
or if anything there is is is of import. There's the small nine if you want to put that up there. And the small 12.
I was like, never mind, Devon. I got it. I can find
What was it? 30. What's the cipher?
31.
I just realized whenever I asked you to look up vice, I handed you the I handed you that, not the rule book. little
H and see pretty sure my
Yeah, literally all of my um
37.
Okay, so we got to put a Del R in there.
I know we read several of these already. So, what's your cipher?
Oh, his is in the 10,000 Second Fears one.
Oh, gotcha.
It's 54.
So, 3154. Here, I found mine real quick. Little sir launches himself from your shoulder, lunging at the tallest stall, scampering across the weathered split wood, seizing hold of the fruit, only to disappointed as he goes to take a ravenous bite. Teeth uh scraping across the salt surface, a petrified pear, stone turned like everything else in this desolate place. There's nothing for you here. What's yours, Seth?
Uh 23. So 3123.
Okay.
Oh, you uh you you you get a pay. You want to read yours?
Yeah, sure. I'm like I never get these.
You approach 3123. Yep. You approach the grounds of the Hanza Hall, looking all about uh for there a smaller building sitting in the shadow of the larger structure. Over the door, the crossed cleavers of the Flash Horden. Not a proper order hall, just a small station, one of many spread across the kingdoms. Long abandoned of course, but for a flash richer who knows where to look, there could be useful supplies and information. You shunt the door open, your bulk and powerful shoulder, overcoming the warped frame and jammed timber. Within a dark kitchen, utensils long rust of the way, fireplaces choked with dust and ash. As you move deeper, a rattling noise makes you turn. Weapons at the ready. A figure stumbles from a back store room clad in leathers and armed similarly to you. A fellow flesh ritter. He offers a sheepish smile explaining the contract he is currently pursuing. You accept his offer to join you. Another sword at your side couldn't hurt. Gain the level two warrior mercenary for the remainder of this expedition.
Take a free one.
Hell yeah. It does not count towards our limit. Level two.
Hell yeah.
Fly boy. That was the one we didn't get that I kind of wanted.
Right. Ignore a failure or partial success effect of an encounter is during a delve. And when you are about to perform an armor roll, add your knight power dye to the armor dice pool twice.
Okay.
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet. Um,
so is that one now like permanently unlocked?
Uh, no. Just for the remainder of this encounter.
Got is what it said. So So Yep. Love it. Um, I'mma do Well, I guess we're not at the uh start of a delve round yet.
Yeah. So, we still need to read his little section here.
I can find it.
So,
like 314.
What was 3154?
Yep.
How does that work exactly when it says add it to the pool twice?
You just add the dice twice. You just add two of your knight. That seems crazy.
Yeah. Well, he's a level two. How much would he cost?
So, your power die,
right? You get to add two of those
uh to your armor dice pool. So, yeah, it's just one time one flip.
Okay.
And then he's gone. You get two uses.
You get two uses.
Okay.
Yeah. 3154.
That would be overpowered.
Yeah. 3154 isn't in here. Oh, wait. Unless I'm looking at the wrong thing. Oh, exploration. I was looking at Kingdom Mysteries. Um, the market lies in silence now, but it is not empty. Dozens, hundreds of statues fill the paths between the faded silken awnings of the stalls. People caught in the instantaneous outbreak of a cursed bloom. The moment when the stone curse swept through the transformed uh, and transformed grown men and women to gray, unyielding rock in seconds. Some saw the doom coming, their friends and neighbors transforming before their eyes. You spot one petrified figure trying to run, her wrist caught by an unaware friend who had already turned. Oh, that sucks. Let go of me. You try not to meet their eyes, walking amongst them as you are.
You can't help feeling guilty that you get to live and move unbburdened while they had to perish in this horrific way. Nothing for you here.
There's nothing for you
except guilt and misery. Start of the Dell phase. I'm going to gain a heat. I'm actually going to play one of my cards. to where is it? To do pickled rations um at the start of the uh delve round, gain one threat uh to place a flesh token on my night board. Cool. And this uh Oh, and we also you guys are remembering to do these up at the top left, right? when you do a delve card.
Um, yes.
Okay. And this goes into delay. All right.
Um, when we play delve cards,
delve cards, you get the wide effect at the same time. Clash, you even choose whether to do the effect or or the top. Whoops. There we go.
So with this one,
so you get that benefit if you play that card. So there's another opening card. So I was going to say, you know, just add that to the pool.
Yeah, that's all I have.
Okay, then where are we going?
I mean, we can
um I say 12.
Okay,
12 and up.
Yeah. See, I mean, we lose that threat I just gave us.
Time goes up. Everything I do is like just open steam of pickles. Pickle stench and
pickle stench.
Is that's medium six.
Yes, medium six.
Okay. Um, exploration cards. The night hunt. Gain one curse for each unlocked path leading from your current kingdom tile. If this effect would cause you to gain curse over the limit, ignore it and place a single parent or gay token on the path you came from or of stone and rust. Resolve a kingdom adventure.
Kingdom adventure.
I'd say a kingdom adventure.
So, a kingdom adventure.
Nice. So, a kingdom adventure. We We don't get many of these. Uh let's go ahead and have kingdom mysteries. Exploration Ciphers. I think Kingdom Adventures. All right. Uh, someone to roll me a D 100. Go for it.
So, what is 10's place?
Okay.
21.
Pestilence.
That doesn't sound good. You come across a vast shallow pit, a mass grave. you realize with a lurch. Dozens of bodies lie on its bottom, all in varying states of petrification and decay. The stench is chokingly powerful, and there in the in their midst, a figure rise in pain. Armored like yourselves, the terrified knight is partially submerged in the tide of corpses. They look to you with desperate eyes. Dozens, hundreds of tiny th hundreds of tiny things squirm and writhe around them. Worms or insects, it is hard to tell. What you can make out from this distance is the advancing tide of stone that is encasing their flesh. Cracks and fissures mar their muscles while the skin of their cheeks and forehead are already calcified. They reach out to you with a stone encrusted hand.
As a group, choose help the poor wretch. In spite of their infection, you cannot leave them till they're consumed by whatever repulsive creatures fon this pit. You reach down extending a hand to them. You twitch at the rough feel of their skin, their palm and fingers already solidified by the curse. You hope that this plague will not pass from then to you. They thank you for your aid and stumble away from the marsh soon vanishing from your sight. Who gain two cursed one night may suffer bane too to devote Jesus.
Or stay back. Uh the curse of petrification has taken hold of their flesh and will claim them soon enough. It would be madness to expose yourself to this affliction. You turn your back on the pit, ignoring the rapidly fading pleas of the stranger. Much harder to ignore is the weight that occupies your hearts as you leave them behind you. Each knight gains two heat and may discard one Bane token.
May discard a Bane token.
Um I don't have two heat.
Yeah, I don't have two heat either.
So we gain two heat.
Yeah.
So what's
I mean if we can't we can't. I mean it's just a gain we can't take,
right? Um,
yeah. As far as I'm aware, I can't think of anything in the rules that said you have to be a like if you can't resolve an effect, you can't choose it,
right? We're already at max, so it's just
I'm just uh Yeah, I guess leave him behind. That's kind of my vote. Seems like I feel like Stoneface should be able to get him out without any issue.
That's right. Yeah, if Stoneface is in your party, yeah, you just pull him out,
right?
And then Fly Shredder stomps his head. It was a mercy. Uh, I mean, yeah, the oper I mean, I'm not I don't want to touch him. The bugs themselves are gross.
And that'll be two curse on top of already one. I'll put a three.
Yeah, that'd be brutal. And someone would have to suffer Bane, too. I guess they could suffer Bane two to devote, but
Bane like I can I have uh six Bane because I have a my weapon gives me plus one to my bane limit.
Oh, yeah. So, you could
I could handle it, but we don't want the curse. Yeah. If we had zero curse, I'd say maybe because we don't gain curse that often.
Uh, all right. Well, we were just like, gross.
Sorry.
Sorry, man. Let's leave. So, we all have max heat.
I am now.
Okay. Yeah.
Oh, and so is we are all maxed out on heat
and you can discard your bane.
Hell yeah. I feel better. I feel good about that. Oh, what a disgusting human being. Okay. Shall we continue? And we shall next time on uh Board Games Unlocked. Yeah. Uh because it's already an hour and 20 minutes.
Jesus Christ.
Are you serious?
Wow.
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