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icastsword) wrote2025-03-28 06:30 pm
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Session 187: Nerd Pathos
Well, we’ve got these two baby boys. Do we want to arm these idiots? These guys are NPCs. They don’t have levels. Would we like to assign them classes and build their characters, In Character?
We’re still in Skully’s basement. Bulk tells us he’s on a schedule - they’ve got to shoot and edit in the next couple of days. Do we want to do this at night? Bulk and Skull usually do all their work at night, because ghosts don’t exist during the daytime.
Bulk thinks the group is underestimating the amount of stuff he and Skull have had to deal with. They have some footage of the Deadly Cattywumpus! Shane rolls Nature with Advantage while Ant laughs in the background. He rolls a 23, the highest Nature he can roll. "Cattywumpus" isn’t a thing, it’s a word. It means, "When things are going badly, awkwardly, or in the wrong direction." There are like 10 different things Bulk could’ve meant.
Shane asks for a description of the Cattywumpus. It’s the size of a big dog, but it’s lizard-like. They were attacking livestock! Bulk says, rumor has it they’re capable of human speech. He saw them in the Bayou. Shane tells him he probably saw an alligator.
Nellie says let’s review the tapes. Skully streams their tape of the Cattywumpus directly to the TV. It’s an episode of Spooky Bros. Bulk is like Guy Fieri in a Crocodile Hunter hat, wading through the Bayou. Time for a team Insight. Griffin rolls a 10. He’s caught up in the showmanship. The lighting is bad and the cam is shaky.
Everyone except Griffin notice some obvious jump-cuts and some careful editing. Half of the team is highly trained skeptics and the other half is blazingly cynical. It seems like Skully might have spliced in some footage from some old B-monster movies. Griffin TOTALLY saw the Cattywumpus. The rest of the gang, on Skeptic Island, totally identify bits and pieces of B-movies. Jericho rolls History to identify the movies the cuts were pulled from. Unnatural 20. The B-movie in question is the Bayou Bugaboo. It’s from 1947. He straight up calls the Spooky Bros out. "So, the Bayou Bugaboo, huh?"
Bulk genuinely has no idea what Jericho is talking about. Skully rolls Deception: 12. Jericho’s passive perception beats that. Jericho continues to call him out. If he hadn’t been looking for it, he probably wouldn’t have noticed. He describes the scene the footage was lifted from in detail.
Well, now we all know Jericho likes old monster movies. He rolls Persuasion: 30. He sounds like the premier authority on old monster movies. In the background, Griffin is so confused - wait, so is it a Cattywumpus or a Bugaboo? Skully has been caught red-handed. He is begging Jericho with his eyes to play along for Bulk’s sake.
BULK: What are you talking about? There was no girl, I was just there.
NELLIE: So you saw this thing with your own eyeballs, huh?
Jericho asks Bulk for a favor. Would he mind grabbing Jericho something to drink? Bulk asks Skully to do that. Jericho tells Bulk he looks like the kind of guy who can bring a lot of drinks down, he REALLY needs Bulk to go get the drinks. He rolls Persuasion: 24. Bulk is persuaded. He heads upstairs.
Jericho has isolated Skully. "Let’s cut the bullshit, okay?" Skully explains there was a lot of pressure to keep the show going after the Utah Obelisk.
So what IS the most dangerous thing the boys have dealt with, because it SOUNDS LIKE all you’ve been doing is going out into the Bayou where there are gators and snakes.
The most dangerous occurrence they had was they went to an old haunted house and the floor broke under Bulk. They didn’t air that one.
The Spooky Bros haven’t found anything GOOD since they hit it big with the spire. Shane asks if Skully is faking Bulkowski out? Skully says most of their content is public domain stuff. Jericho says he can’t be the only person who’s noticed. Is Skully just clearing out the comments of anyone who points it out?
That’s why they’re so desperate to get out into the sewers - this is their first chance to get something that’s REAL. Jericho points out that they’re not going to get shit if they die.
Skully says he’s done a lot of reading, okay!! In his grandma’s journals, and in other books! There’s stuff out there! It’s all being hidden! The people in this world have a right to know what’s going on.
JERICHO: Boy, you’re playing with fire.
Skully looks confused.
There are people that don’t want other people to know this stuff exists.
SKULLY: I love Bulk, but he’s naïve. He wants to experience this stuff because we both believe in a wider world out there! This can’t be all there is, because what there is sucks.
JERICHO: There being "more" doesn’t mean that that "more" isn’t also shitty.
Nellie uses the Message Cantrip to tell Jericho she’s just going to show them.
Bulk comes back. He only has four Coke Zeros, but he’s got a whole buttload of Mr. Pibb!
Crimeny adds a can of Mr. Pibb to their inventory. Griffin also takes a can of Mr. Pibb, but he’s not thirsty, so he hands his to Crimeny. Crimeny has two cans of Mr. Pibb in their inventory.
Nellie tells Bulk to sit back down and we’ll continue this conversation. He sits. "Oh yeah, by the way, have you guys used the bathroom recently? Because I don’t want you to shit yourselves," and she unglamors.
Bulk immediately reaches for his phone to start taking pictures. Jericho tells him if he touches that phone, he won’t have it anymore.
SKULLY: oh my god, are you all gnomes???
Jericho unglamors. He’s got big ol’ feathery goose wings.
BULK: JERICHO’S AN ARCHANGEL!
Now Serra’s gonna blow Bulk’s mind and get her wings out. She floats up into the air and points down at Bulk. "Faith comes in all sorts of forms. It may not be the Christian Bible, but there are deities out there."
Jericho continues to protest that he’s not an angel, he’s half siren. Like lure sailors to their doom? Yeah, kinda? Serra explains she’s not an angel, she’s an aasimar.
Shane is a human man from London, England.
BULK: So you’re still British? We got one right, Skully!!!
Crimeny has unglamored and is standing unobtrusively in the back of the room. Bulk notices them first. He grabs Skully: THEY HAVE TOM SERVO!
Then they turn very excitedly to look at Griffin, who is looking distinctly uncomfortable right now. Nellie and Jericho speak up to defend him not dropping his glamor. Bulk apologizes - he didn’t mean to offend! Griffin tells him it’s cool, he’s not offended, he gets that Bulk is excited.
So, why do you think we have to go around looking like normal humans? Time to talk about the government agency that enforces glamors.
Bulk gets it - he isn’t going to record Jericho and crew, but all this feels like it needs to come down! Nellie agrees immediately.
The lid should have blown off this secret ages ago, considering how many people and how many planes of existence are involved.
The point Nellie is trying to make is - she would love to know what Bulk and Skull think they can do to blow this lid off that other people haven’t already tried. They would be doing people like Nellie a favor if they could end this charade.
They seem to get what she’s putting down.
So their plan for the whole thing was, get footage of what’s going on and disseminate it on the internet, and then remove themselves from the equation. Bulk and Skull put it up, and people downloaded it. Their original stuff was taken down, but a bunch of other people put it up again. The Internet never forgets.
Skully says they don’t have to put it up in one shot, they could release it like an ARG. Nellie says, "What’s that, I’m in my sixties."
This sure is a tangent. Jericho steers the conversation back to the original topic. If the Spooky Bros try to blow this lid, that’s not what’s going to happen.
Nellie explains there are things more dangerous out there than your bugaboo-wumpus. In addition to keeping magic folks on the Down Low, Interplay also works hard to keep other planes in check. If a dragon started to stomp around New Orleans like Godzill, it would cause a lot of problems. So they do their best to keep problems like that out of most parts of human society.
WE are going to a place where it seems like they aren’t keeping up with things. Meaning if there are threats, Interplay might not be neutralizing them properly. The things we’re going to find aren’t going to be things you just glimpse on camera.
SO - circling back to where this all started, we need to make sure Bulk and Skull aren’t just armed with a movie camera down there.
JERICHO: Have either of you actually ever hit anybody?
Bulk has, once. Skully prefers to fight with brain.
...wait, are we talking about giving them equipment??
Crimeny walks up to Bulk and puts a warhammer in his hands. It’s the Dwarven Thrower.
JERICHO: Crimeny, why do you have that!?
Bulk looks to Skully and says, "This is the greatest day of my life!" Crimeny explains that you can’t lose that weapon. If it’s thrown, it will return to the hand that throws it.
BULK: I’M CALLING IT DOOMERANG.
Now Skully is looking at Crimeny expectantly.
Crimeny looks at Skully. They observe he seems like the type of person who doesn’t want to get close to things. Here is a gun.
It’s not actually a gun, it’s a spare hand crossbow.
Crimeny asks Griffin if he can give Bulk some pointers. Griffin says yeah, he can do that. He asks Jericho if he can use the concert hall to do that. Jericho says yeah, fuck it.
Nellie’s going to try teaching Skully some cantrips.
Okay, let’s time-skip to the training montage. Who’s going to help Griffin with Bulk? Jericho’s the other front-line melee on this team of clowns, so he’ll help Griffy out.
Let’s go through our loot list.
We’ve got the Illusionist’s Bracers that allow a bonus action Cantrip to be cast, we can give those to Skully.
Griffin’s got Serra’s old cast-off shield he can give to Bulk.
Serra goes shopping to get some basic-bitch level 1 baby gear for the boys.
Crimeny will hang with Pip and Skully, to show Skully how not to be a target. Shane will come too.
The concert hall under the office is big enough to train both boys at the same time. Let’s observe Skully’s training first.
Crimeny’s lesson comes with the concepts of perception and attention - where to stand in a group to avoid notice, how to spot and utilize cover, that kind of thing. They go over the psychological theory of how to sneak. Crimeny rolls Performance: 10. Skully rolls Intelligence: 15. He did pretty good! He understands the concept, but Crimeny starts to lose him when it comes to the practical application. Skully attempts to observe attentively, but Crimeny keeps disappearing halfway through the lesson.
Skully and Nellie have a little heart to heart. Nellie talks about what happens to ghosts when things go bad. Long story short, she thought her dad had died and become a vengeful spirit, but it turns out he’s probably not dead! Also her grandpa sucks. Skully says, "Family sucks sometimes, huh?" Nellie agrees. But she’s found a better family. Implying her coworkers. Aww! <3
Now Hilary gets to bullshit how magic works. There are some people who are more inherently magical than others, like Jericho. Skully has a question about Jericho, actually - he says he’s a siren, but sirens don’t have wings?? Nellie rolls a 12 nature. Classical depictions of sirens are like, animal hybrids. Some of them do have wings, Skully guesses, but Jericho’s got some big honkin’ wings. Nellie drops the weregoose bomb. Long story short, Jericho is just naturally magic as shit. He probably sweats a bucket of magic a day.
Technically all things have magic in the same way all things have a gravitational pull or a magnetic field - energy! Just because you don’t have a big magic generator or a way of manipulating it doesn’t mean you can’t use it. There is a Shane-Has-A-Patron side-track. It is possible for basically anybody with the proper skills and knowledge and practice to hijack the magic that’s around you and directing it to do what you want. It’s a little how Rangers and Druids do it, except you’re not asking nicely.
Like the Force in Star Wars, magic is the flowing webbing of reality or whatever. You can learn to control it.
NELLIE: There are some people who are capable of doing it on their own, but most of us need practice.
Nellie is going to teach Skully Mage Hand.
How does this look? Nellie is going to give Skully some training wheels by letting him use her dad’s wand.
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Meanwhile, Griffin is going to start things off with very basic footwork and bludgeoning moves. He’s traded his sword for a warhammer so he can demonstrate more effectively.
Griffin rolls a 13 Performance versus Bulk’s 9 Intelligence. Bulk is trying to add little flourishes. Griffin stops him like, "No. Do it basic first." Bulk has questions. He asks about other planes of existence. Griffin and Jericho give him a bit of a crash course.
Man, he wants to do something cool! Jericho invites him to try. Bulk asks Griffin if Jericho is going to emasculate him in front of everybody? Griffin says there’s a 50-50 shot that will happen, but Jericho won’t hurt him. Bulk likes those odds! He throws his warhammer at Jericho. He throws with disadvantage because of Jericho’s cloak. He rolls a 3 to hit.
Jericho makes a Performance (24) and Athletics (19) roll.
Jericho pivots to the side, bringing his scythe around. He hooks the spinning hammer, and uses the centrifugal force of the hammer and spins it around, sending it back, stepping in after. Bulk catches it, but he’s off-balance. Jericho hooks Bulk’s foot with his scythe and brings him down. He gives him a very good speech about how the things we encounter are going to try to kill him.
Jericho rolls a 22 Intimidation versus Bulk’s 6 Insight.
BULK: Hey, why do you have a crazy awesome scythe? You look like a World of Warcraft character.
The conversation meanders a bit. Bulk starts to talk about his buddy Skull.
Skully doesn’t really do good with people. A lot of people used to pick on Skully because they thought he was weird and creepy. At some point, Skully decided he just didn’t want to engage with people because they chose not to understand.
INKY: Ant, don’t try to give me pathos for these nerds!
We’re still in Skully’s basement. Bulk tells us he’s on a schedule - they’ve got to shoot and edit in the next couple of days. Do we want to do this at night? Bulk and Skull usually do all their work at night, because ghosts don’t exist during the daytime.
Bulk thinks the group is underestimating the amount of stuff he and Skull have had to deal with. They have some footage of the Deadly Cattywumpus! Shane rolls Nature with Advantage while Ant laughs in the background. He rolls a 23, the highest Nature he can roll. "Cattywumpus" isn’t a thing, it’s a word. It means, "When things are going badly, awkwardly, or in the wrong direction." There are like 10 different things Bulk could’ve meant.
Shane asks for a description of the Cattywumpus. It’s the size of a big dog, but it’s lizard-like. They were attacking livestock! Bulk says, rumor has it they’re capable of human speech. He saw them in the Bayou. Shane tells him he probably saw an alligator.
Nellie says let’s review the tapes. Skully streams their tape of the Cattywumpus directly to the TV. It’s an episode of Spooky Bros. Bulk is like Guy Fieri in a Crocodile Hunter hat, wading through the Bayou. Time for a team Insight. Griffin rolls a 10. He’s caught up in the showmanship. The lighting is bad and the cam is shaky.
Everyone except Griffin notice some obvious jump-cuts and some careful editing. Half of the team is highly trained skeptics and the other half is blazingly cynical. It seems like Skully might have spliced in some footage from some old B-monster movies. Griffin TOTALLY saw the Cattywumpus. The rest of the gang, on Skeptic Island, totally identify bits and pieces of B-movies. Jericho rolls History to identify the movies the cuts were pulled from. Unnatural 20. The B-movie in question is the Bayou Bugaboo. It’s from 1947. He straight up calls the Spooky Bros out. "So, the Bayou Bugaboo, huh?"
Bulk genuinely has no idea what Jericho is talking about. Skully rolls Deception: 12. Jericho’s passive perception beats that. Jericho continues to call him out. If he hadn’t been looking for it, he probably wouldn’t have noticed. He describes the scene the footage was lifted from in detail.
Well, now we all know Jericho likes old monster movies. He rolls Persuasion: 30. He sounds like the premier authority on old monster movies. In the background, Griffin is so confused - wait, so is it a Cattywumpus or a Bugaboo? Skully has been caught red-handed. He is begging Jericho with his eyes to play along for Bulk’s sake.
BULK: What are you talking about? There was no girl, I was just there.
NELLIE: So you saw this thing with your own eyeballs, huh?
Jericho asks Bulk for a favor. Would he mind grabbing Jericho something to drink? Bulk asks Skully to do that. Jericho tells Bulk he looks like the kind of guy who can bring a lot of drinks down, he REALLY needs Bulk to go get the drinks. He rolls Persuasion: 24. Bulk is persuaded. He heads upstairs.
Jericho has isolated Skully. "Let’s cut the bullshit, okay?" Skully explains there was a lot of pressure to keep the show going after the Utah Obelisk.
So what IS the most dangerous thing the boys have dealt with, because it SOUNDS LIKE all you’ve been doing is going out into the Bayou where there are gators and snakes.
The most dangerous occurrence they had was they went to an old haunted house and the floor broke under Bulk. They didn’t air that one.
The Spooky Bros haven’t found anything GOOD since they hit it big with the spire. Shane asks if Skully is faking Bulkowski out? Skully says most of their content is public domain stuff. Jericho says he can’t be the only person who’s noticed. Is Skully just clearing out the comments of anyone who points it out?
That’s why they’re so desperate to get out into the sewers - this is their first chance to get something that’s REAL. Jericho points out that they’re not going to get shit if they die.
Skully says he’s done a lot of reading, okay!! In his grandma’s journals, and in other books! There’s stuff out there! It’s all being hidden! The people in this world have a right to know what’s going on.
JERICHO: Boy, you’re playing with fire.
Skully looks confused.
There are people that don’t want other people to know this stuff exists.
SKULLY: I love Bulk, but he’s naïve. He wants to experience this stuff because we both believe in a wider world out there! This can’t be all there is, because what there is sucks.
JERICHO: There being "more" doesn’t mean that that "more" isn’t also shitty.
Nellie uses the Message Cantrip to tell Jericho she’s just going to show them.
Bulk comes back. He only has four Coke Zeros, but he’s got a whole buttload of Mr. Pibb!
Crimeny adds a can of Mr. Pibb to their inventory. Griffin also takes a can of Mr. Pibb, but he’s not thirsty, so he hands his to Crimeny. Crimeny has two cans of Mr. Pibb in their inventory.
Nellie tells Bulk to sit back down and we’ll continue this conversation. He sits. "Oh yeah, by the way, have you guys used the bathroom recently? Because I don’t want you to shit yourselves," and she unglamors.
Bulk immediately reaches for his phone to start taking pictures. Jericho tells him if he touches that phone, he won’t have it anymore.
SKULLY: oh my god, are you all gnomes???
Jericho unglamors. He’s got big ol’ feathery goose wings.
BULK: JERICHO’S AN ARCHANGEL!
Now Serra’s gonna blow Bulk’s mind and get her wings out. She floats up into the air and points down at Bulk. "Faith comes in all sorts of forms. It may not be the Christian Bible, but there are deities out there."
Jericho continues to protest that he’s not an angel, he’s half siren. Like lure sailors to their doom? Yeah, kinda? Serra explains she’s not an angel, she’s an aasimar.
Shane is a human man from London, England.
BULK: So you’re still British? We got one right, Skully!!!
Crimeny has unglamored and is standing unobtrusively in the back of the room. Bulk notices them first. He grabs Skully: THEY HAVE TOM SERVO!
Then they turn very excitedly to look at Griffin, who is looking distinctly uncomfortable right now. Nellie and Jericho speak up to defend him not dropping his glamor. Bulk apologizes - he didn’t mean to offend! Griffin tells him it’s cool, he’s not offended, he gets that Bulk is excited.
So, why do you think we have to go around looking like normal humans? Time to talk about the government agency that enforces glamors.
Bulk gets it - he isn’t going to record Jericho and crew, but all this feels like it needs to come down! Nellie agrees immediately.
The lid should have blown off this secret ages ago, considering how many people and how many planes of existence are involved.
The point Nellie is trying to make is - she would love to know what Bulk and Skull think they can do to blow this lid off that other people haven’t already tried. They would be doing people like Nellie a favor if they could end this charade.
They seem to get what she’s putting down.
So their plan for the whole thing was, get footage of what’s going on and disseminate it on the internet, and then remove themselves from the equation. Bulk and Skull put it up, and people downloaded it. Their original stuff was taken down, but a bunch of other people put it up again. The Internet never forgets.
Skully says they don’t have to put it up in one shot, they could release it like an ARG. Nellie says, "What’s that, I’m in my sixties."
This sure is a tangent. Jericho steers the conversation back to the original topic. If the Spooky Bros try to blow this lid, that’s not what’s going to happen.
Nellie explains there are things more dangerous out there than your bugaboo-wumpus. In addition to keeping magic folks on the Down Low, Interplay also works hard to keep other planes in check. If a dragon started to stomp around New Orleans like Godzill, it would cause a lot of problems. So they do their best to keep problems like that out of most parts of human society.
WE are going to a place where it seems like they aren’t keeping up with things. Meaning if there are threats, Interplay might not be neutralizing them properly. The things we’re going to find aren’t going to be things you just glimpse on camera.
SO - circling back to where this all started, we need to make sure Bulk and Skull aren’t just armed with a movie camera down there.
JERICHO: Have either of you actually ever hit anybody?
Bulk has, once. Skully prefers to fight with brain.
...wait, are we talking about giving them equipment??
Crimeny walks up to Bulk and puts a warhammer in his hands. It’s the Dwarven Thrower.
JERICHO: Crimeny, why do you have that!?
Bulk looks to Skully and says, "This is the greatest day of my life!" Crimeny explains that you can’t lose that weapon. If it’s thrown, it will return to the hand that throws it.
BULK: I’M CALLING IT DOOMERANG.
Now Skully is looking at Crimeny expectantly.
Crimeny looks at Skully. They observe he seems like the type of person who doesn’t want to get close to things. Here is a gun.
It’s not actually a gun, it’s a spare hand crossbow.
Crimeny asks Griffin if he can give Bulk some pointers. Griffin says yeah, he can do that. He asks Jericho if he can use the concert hall to do that. Jericho says yeah, fuck it.
Nellie’s going to try teaching Skully some cantrips.
Okay, let’s time-skip to the training montage. Who’s going to help Griffin with Bulk? Jericho’s the other front-line melee on this team of clowns, so he’ll help Griffy out.
Let’s go through our loot list.
We’ve got the Illusionist’s Bracers that allow a bonus action Cantrip to be cast, we can give those to Skully.
Griffin’s got Serra’s old cast-off shield he can give to Bulk.
Serra goes shopping to get some basic-bitch level 1 baby gear for the boys.
Crimeny will hang with Pip and Skully, to show Skully how not to be a target. Shane will come too.
The concert hall under the office is big enough to train both boys at the same time. Let’s observe Skully’s training first.
Crimeny’s lesson comes with the concepts of perception and attention - where to stand in a group to avoid notice, how to spot and utilize cover, that kind of thing. They go over the psychological theory of how to sneak. Crimeny rolls Performance: 10. Skully rolls Intelligence: 15. He did pretty good! He understands the concept, but Crimeny starts to lose him when it comes to the practical application. Skully attempts to observe attentively, but Crimeny keeps disappearing halfway through the lesson.
Skully and Nellie have a little heart to heart. Nellie talks about what happens to ghosts when things go bad. Long story short, she thought her dad had died and become a vengeful spirit, but it turns out he’s probably not dead! Also her grandpa sucks. Skully says, "Family sucks sometimes, huh?" Nellie agrees. But she’s found a better family. Implying her coworkers. Aww! <3
Now Hilary gets to bullshit how magic works. There are some people who are more inherently magical than others, like Jericho. Skully has a question about Jericho, actually - he says he’s a siren, but sirens don’t have wings?? Nellie rolls a 12 nature. Classical depictions of sirens are like, animal hybrids. Some of them do have wings, Skully guesses, but Jericho’s got some big honkin’ wings. Nellie drops the weregoose bomb. Long story short, Jericho is just naturally magic as shit. He probably sweats a bucket of magic a day.
Technically all things have magic in the same way all things have a gravitational pull or a magnetic field - energy! Just because you don’t have a big magic generator or a way of manipulating it doesn’t mean you can’t use it. There is a Shane-Has-A-Patron side-track. It is possible for basically anybody with the proper skills and knowledge and practice to hijack the magic that’s around you and directing it to do what you want. It’s a little how Rangers and Druids do it, except you’re not asking nicely.
Like the Force in Star Wars, magic is the flowing webbing of reality or whatever. You can learn to control it.
NELLIE: There are some people who are capable of doing it on their own, but most of us need practice.
Nellie is going to teach Skully Mage Hand.
How does this look? Nellie is going to give Skully some training wheels by letting him use her dad’s wand.
-----
Meanwhile, Griffin is going to start things off with very basic footwork and bludgeoning moves. He’s traded his sword for a warhammer so he can demonstrate more effectively.
Griffin rolls a 13 Performance versus Bulk’s 9 Intelligence. Bulk is trying to add little flourishes. Griffin stops him like, "No. Do it basic first." Bulk has questions. He asks about other planes of existence. Griffin and Jericho give him a bit of a crash course.
Man, he wants to do something cool! Jericho invites him to try. Bulk asks Griffin if Jericho is going to emasculate him in front of everybody? Griffin says there’s a 50-50 shot that will happen, but Jericho won’t hurt him. Bulk likes those odds! He throws his warhammer at Jericho. He throws with disadvantage because of Jericho’s cloak. He rolls a 3 to hit.
Jericho makes a Performance (24) and Athletics (19) roll.
Jericho pivots to the side, bringing his scythe around. He hooks the spinning hammer, and uses the centrifugal force of the hammer and spins it around, sending it back, stepping in after. Bulk catches it, but he’s off-balance. Jericho hooks Bulk’s foot with his scythe and brings him down. He gives him a very good speech about how the things we encounter are going to try to kill him.
Jericho rolls a 22 Intimidation versus Bulk’s 6 Insight.
BULK: Hey, why do you have a crazy awesome scythe? You look like a World of Warcraft character.
The conversation meanders a bit. Bulk starts to talk about his buddy Skull.
Skully doesn’t really do good with people. A lot of people used to pick on Skully because they thought he was weird and creepy. At some point, Skully decided he just didn’t want to engage with people because they chose not to understand.
INKY: Ant, don’t try to give me pathos for these nerds!