Stealthy Approach

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Stealthy Approach is the 5 minute second episode of *1 For All*. It was first released on November 20th, 2019 in Australia on YouTube.

## Synopsis

While trying to enter King Jerald's Royal Garden the party encounter a lone guard blocking the path. How will they deal with the situation?

## Plot

The episode opens on two guards (both portrayed by Kendall Drury) as one rotates off his shift, leaving a singular guard at the stairway entrance to what are presumably lavish gardens. The party (Antrius, Evandra and Nixie) discuss their plan to enter. Nixie suggests since there's only one guard they could take him out, but Antrius says if they're spotted, the guard will sound the alarm, and so they have to do this quietly.

The scene cuts to the players (Antonio, Eva and Nicole) and Pat Percer at the table as Pat asks what they would like to do. Antonio proposes they try and sneak past, to which Eva brings up that Evandra wears plate armour, which isn't conductive to being stealthy. Antonio says Antrius will go alone and take them out silently, which prompts Pat to ask for a Stealth Check, which he fails.

Antrius begins to sneak up while playing the Mission Impossible Theme on his lute. He very obviously crosses the front of the stairway in full view of the guard, then begins to sneak up the stairs, while singing loudly about how he is sneaking. He tries to do a roll across the steps but fails it, and is spotted by the guard shortly after, who tells him to halt in the name of the king. Only nobility are allowed to enter the garden, and Antrius tries to strike up some humorous conversation, but is told "begone ye low-born knave, lest ye face the King's justice" by the guard, who then wields his axe threateningly at Antrius, who flees.

Back around the table, Eva smugly says she saw this coming, and Antonio antagonistically asks if she has a better idea. Eva says she's got this and cracks her knuckles, rolling intimidation, but fails.

Evandra walks up to the guard and attempts to intimidate him. She tells him he can pretend nothing ever happened, and tries to snap his axe handle as a threat, but can't manage it. The guard says he'll pretend that didn't happen, and Evandra begins to flee as the guard says the same thing to her that he did to Antrius. Antonio smugly says he saw this coming.

Nicole says that Nixie walks up to the guard. The music changes to indicate incoming disaster as Nixie runs up the steps and says that is "easier getting past a dead guard than one that's alive" and casts fireball. Both in and out of character they try and tell her not to, but she does it anyway, killing the guard. They all begin to bicker about the choice she made. Pat tries to interject, but they're too caught up in arguing to realise they all need to roll a Perception Check. Pat puts several minis of guards down on the map and the three fall silent. He asks them to roll initiative, and the episode cuts to the title card.

## Cast and Characters

All the characters that appear in this episode.

 Evandra
 Nixie
 Antonio
 Eva
 Nicole
 Pat Percer
 Guards

## Trivia

* This is the first episode to have the iconic *1 For All* dice roll intro sequence.
* This is one of (number here) episodes where all the NPCs are portrayed by Kendall Drury.
* The filming location for the out-of-character shots changes this episode. It stays as this location (?).

## References

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