Nat 20 & Unwind – The Pyreheart Accord, Part I: Reflections Before the Fir

0:00 Put your butt in the bed. Now you're going to lay there. OK, fine. And on that note, welcome to that 20 and beyond and on damn it, welcome to that 20 and unwind here on Spotify, our bonus show after the pyre heart accord episode 1. This is our first full kind of story arc. I mean, the, the the House of Fun technically was supposed to happen in one go, but you spent about three hours fireballing the living Christ out of my goblins. Yeah, he's. Half the party thinks that I didn't fireball anything.

0:40 That's right. They came in from nowhere. I don't know what you know. No, as the only one here who was affected by that, you most certainly did not. You were fireball. Did fireball yourself and then me, but then me. So I was, you know, I'm less upset about it, but I just like the truth, OK? I just. It was the Barker, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it was the Barker from like 1000. It was the Barker. OK, God, all right, welcome to the bonus show here after the Pyreheart accord Part 1, episode 1 of that's that story arc. I'm excited for for a story arc. It says because and I've I've told a couple people this off stream and you know, I'll just say it and put it in the universe of of the podcast world.

1:27 Is that this first campaign, quote UN quote. You know, I keep referring to, you know what I'm looking forward to season 2 of crit happens where, you know, I have some absolutely great ideas to do this season 1. What we're doing now is effectively almost like a season 0 for me. I'm testing a lot of different things to see if they work, if they don't work, what works for at least my, my people of, of players. And I think it's really important because campaign, you know, season 2 of of great habits Campaign too is, is going to be a lot of a lot more. I don't want to say work on my end, but now that I have a, an outline of what I want, you know, we may go to another realm, we may stay in Varelios.

2:16 I, I, I haven't fully decided quite yet. So. We may piss on a man. We're all going to piss on a man at one point. I'm definitely going to piss on Dominion. That's as. Far as like I. Don't know about. The piss thing. Pissed is where I draw the line. Whether it's just this one or the next realm. I'm pissed, but that's a different thing. I'm pissed. I have not pissed on anyone and nor have I been pissed on. I am pissed. We've already discussed this. I am. I'm sorry for raining on your parade, literally and figuratively. Yeah, yeah. But but you didn't piss on our parade. You.

2:59 Didn't write exactly you nailed it, but did you? Die but did. You die. Exactly. So yeah, again, we'll just kind of talk about kind of unwind here from the most recent session with the Pyreheart Accord, your first day in the Shatter Peaks. I mean, this is really the first time we've travelled in the Shatter Peaks. So I mean you're over 2 so far on on combat encounters but damn. So can I say if if he was if if the Dominion was still up on the edge like on the ledge instead of down in the chasm wherever they went?

3:41 I do have in my inventory a stone that I picked up from the shatter peaks where they almost killed me. I was going to shove it in their mouth and step on it. Put your mouth on the curb, yeah. It's like that one, that one, I'll call it a Vine, but I think it was a TikTok. It might have been a Vine in this time where it's a guy dressed as a police officer walking up to this guy. And the guy rolls down the window and the officer goes, excuse me, Sir, do you know why I stabbed you? And the guy in the car goes, did you forget? And then the cop just kind of stares at him and goes get out the car, spread your butt cheeks, put your teeth on the curb.

4:21 That's kind of how I would have went, but I would have put the curb in his mouth and then stepped up because I'm just kidding around this, this shattered peak stone. Yeah, yeah. So how we feeling going into this, this this little mini story arc here, How we how we feeling? What do we know so far about, you know, the Dominion, the Hello Host, the. I feel like you, you as Adm, are doing a much better job at the storytelling and getting getting me excited to continue to play. Yeah. I feel inspired. Yeah, I feel inspired. Inspired. I appreciate that. That's something I'm getting a lot better at because, you know, full, Full disclosure, you know, the, the, the use of technology has come a long way in today's storytelling world. And it's I'm more or less relying on that now and just kind of picturing kind of what is, is, is happening at any given point.

5:20 Nice. Yeah. Yeah, it's, it's definitely. It seems way more involved now, yeah, if that makes sense. Yeah. Absolutely. I will say I'm finding which. Oh, go ahead. No, go for it I. Was going to say. Which in turn I feel makes us get more involved, if that makes sense. Exactly. Yeah, And what I was going to say is, for me, I'm finding it most difficult personally to understand all the intricacies of a whole world. Right, like. There's all these factions and I don't know which ones are which. And I know we have our little world support guides and stuff, but that's a lot of content too.

6:04 So forgive, forgive the multitude of questions about like, OK, what faction is that? What do they represent things like? That yeah, no. And it's, it's important especially, you know, with with back stories too, and, you know, things that may occur during the entirety of the remaining of the remainder of the arc. Because looking ahead, I mean, this story arc, you know, not to put the cart before the horse, but the season finale of Crit happens is going to be a direct consequence of whatever your actions are in this mini story arc. So, yeah. So I mean, this is, this is no longer, you know, now that like we've had what, 7-8 episodes and of itself, I think this, by the time this one comes out, this will be episode #8 it's no longer about just the side missions. You know, you've, you've upgraded all in rank. And actually if I do my account correctly, 1234, 57123456 you all, all of you in this in in tonight's session will go to rank three of the oath binders.

7:21 Yeah. So you would go to what did I call it? I apologize. Oath carved I. Can look it. I've got it. I was going to say I can look it up for you. Yep. So you will gain. So so far you have advantage in the history checks, you have proficiency in thieves tools, all of you have advantage on intimidation and a couple of things I'll have to take another look at exact exactly what it is. But yeah, I mean, the next one up is awesome. It's going to really start to feel like you are truly senior agents of the of the of the syndicates. But that also means in turn that everything did not beefier. And when you pee on things, they get mad. It's fair.

8:20 They were already mad at me according to my notes, according to my notes anyway, because I I have been here before. I don't know if anybody else, I don't know if anybody else has been, but. Jesus, the old card gives you greater invisibility, Comprehend languages, sending, and invisibility. Yep. Yeah, because I think I did. To make me quiet. Oh, and it gives you advantage on every single skill check. Oh, hang on. These might be out of order because I think they. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, they put it in alphabetical order.

9:01 I apologize. The next one up is Obsidian Diplomat. Well, there's Obsidian and there's Shard Born. Yeah, you're looking for ear. It would be Obsidian that you're looking at. So you would get you would. You would basically have the same thing you have now, except now you also have invisibility at second level 1 Shard a day. That seems more realistic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I apologize. I was looking at my just a list of my home brew items that I've made and they they put it in order instead of order of rarity so. You have to modify the item because it still gives me advantage to all of my skills, so something's not right there. It it doesn't for me.

9:50 When I turn it on, when I. When I turn to it, yeah, I'll have to go back and fix that. I get thieves tools and advantage on everything. Yeah, you're. Right. Yep, I got to go back and fix that. OK. So I have a quick question as well. OK, what's the question? So do the OK time. So like. So do like the bounties I did in this area because I did two of them I believe, correct me if I'm wrong. Like I feel like I'm going to be a target. Not necessarily because the they're more focused on securing the site for the Pyre Hyde Accord. They're not.

10:41 I don't want to say they're not interested in you because you, especially with your your past solo bounties. But they got other bigger shit right now. Right, they've got. I shall remind. I shall remind them. I shall remind them. Remind them. Who you are Augment. The executor of the peace? Sure. The mountains. So let's let's go around the table one time before we take off. Let's get a prediction about what you think is going to be coming in the in the upcoming sessions. We'll start with Castaia. Oh joy, my turn. I love going first, it's my favorite. I know. I really don't know.

11:25 I want to say that like a lot of truth is going to be told and a lot of things are going to be found out by people. And that's that, yeah, that's. Yeah, like things that some people might not want put into the world. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the hollow host operates around truth, operates a long illusion and memory as a as a lot of things do in the world of Aurelius. The Aurelius, you know, is is more about memory and you know, everything that has to do with the magic of a feeling almost so, you know, role-playing your characters move before. And like I said in the in, you know, one of the many announcements that I give, I apologize in advance that you know these. Do not be afraid to role play your character, but in however you wish, because at this point we've played together. Now, like I said, this episode 8 times, you know, and you know, outside of that, I mean Archie and Katie, I mean you and Gene even you know, we've played at Jordan's for weeks now. You know, we've been we've been we know how each other kind of operates.

12:34 Yeah, months and. You know, I feel like I'm evolving too, not to butt in, but like. No. And that's, that's what, you know, starting DND is about, it's about knowing that you're going to come into it as a novice, but you lean on the people who are veterans at the table. You learn and you tell a story because a lot of people forget too, that Dungeons and Dragons is, is not necessarily combat focused. You know, it's, it's, it's telling a story and you know that the DM leads that story to a point. But and that's that's the one thing when I first started DM ING, you know, 7-8 years ago with, you know, Nero Jesse, my cousin, you know, he was he was I railroad I and you could attest to this, Jesse, I railroaded a lot like I was nose deep in the book pretty much the entire time. I had no idea what homebrew was.

13:28 And it lately it's just about just think of something off the cuff, you know, and. That's that's what makes it fun to me. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. I mean on that. I mean nearest what, what do you think will be coming up? Well, I'm a little concerned just because all of my magic comes from memory, so if things are disrupted there I'm curious how it'll impact me positively or negatively.

14:11 But I feel like like something big, regardless of, you know, if we stop the accord or we don't stop the accord, it's going to be a big impact either way. And then recovering the Dominion relic I feel like is a good second quest line or second objective because I mean the word relic makes my my sticky hands itch and want to get it. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I mean, your character is rooted in memory. It the roots run so deep with memory with with Nero.

14:54 So yeah, it's an interesting point. If the memory gets disrupted or, you know, is not be able to use as much, yeah, I mean, it's going to be a tough time for you, you know, and maybe on the opposite side too, you know, there's a lot of memory at this, you know, and there's going to be a lot of memory at this accord. Maybe you can use that to your advantage kind of thing. Yeah. That's what I was going to say, Like if, if memory gets lost, you know, go somewhere, maybe I'd commandeer it. Yeah. Ogman, what do you think? I guess I'm hoping to regain some of mine, seen as how like before the before the syndicate, I really don't remember. Yeah.

15:43 You're on a like a side quest. Yeah. You, yeah. We don't have a whole lot of who you are still. I mean you, you know who you are now, but memories of old, you know of, of childhood and you know things like that in your youth and that's all. Or even even who I was as a man before the Syndicate. You know, it's just so that that memory basis is, I don't want to say it's important to me, but it's very intriguing that and you know, the Dominion that's that's also intriguing to me as well, because I want as many of them gone.

16:29 Oh yeah, no in character. Yep. Samara, what about you? If anything, as far as all nervous, I think that she avoids trying to remember a lot of what has happened prior to the joining the syndicate because, you know, casualties of war. Are a real. Thing. So it will be interesting to see where she goes. She's not going to love this. Zebulon. I'm predicting that this accord is not just a simple signing of a peace treaty sort of thing.

17:17 I'm guessing this is a larger ritual that's going to cause something bad to happen for us. Hard to speak to specifics, but I think it's a a grander thing than we know at this point. Yeah. In a magical way, yeah. Yeah, and I mean, you're the you're the listener as well. I mean, you've been here now for 8 episodes. Tell us down in the comments below what, what you think is going to happen. You know, give us your, give us your theories, give us your, who you're rooting for, if you will. You know, we appreciate want to hear from you in the comments. So, yeah, great section guys. That was pretty good teamwork wise. You're blasting everybody into Kingdom come. We have a We have a guy who's good at memories. We have a rogue who is not all that she seems. We have a fighter who is scared of losing her weapons. We have a shapeshifter who shapes into many things and many faces.

18:23 And we have a guy who pees on other people. Perfect. Not many can say that. Huh. No, they cannot. I mean, how many DD games have you listened to? Have you ever, ever once heard of people urinating on people? Nope, I got to say that's a first for me. So. Yeah, we, we do. We do a lot of firsts here. There's more to come, I'm sure. Oh yeah, and stick around because it's it's coming up episode coming now. So if there's no another episode below this one, click on it. We're going to venture on. So for everybody here at the three P3 Podcast network, I'm Spencer Hart. We'll see you next time. Bye.