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C2E121 Ice and Fire

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Thursday, 21st January 2021
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welcome back. So last we left off the Mighty nine making their way through Ice across and waiting for it.

9:31

That's waiting for, it had managed to hit up to have the satellite AOR in the ruined segments, the excavation sites of small pieces that had fallen from the ruined city before it collided with foreign itself, after exiting the last one with a massive threshold crest in your, I guess, collective hens, the more so than yours, you manage to escape the depths of this ruin.

10:05

You brought forth a, I wouldn't say a, a, a new friend per se, but the survivor have a previous expedition Iver who oddly found a reason to click the link mistrust to you.

10:17

And you kept him along with you for safe keeping and journey to for an hour beyond the ruin to rest for the night before you were a night's rest could complete produces, found that you had been found yourselves by the Tombtakers, who had been aware that you had beat them to the AA to ruin and taken what seemed to have been their quarry in reason for traveling there.

10:45

So it said they beat lined it to you to have a conversation through some odd trickery, Lucy and dispelled your protective dome.

10:54

And as you all sat there gathering yourselves in the snow in a brief conversation led to you agreeing to travel together, perhaps along this journey, share some information, perhaps a line, some of the interests that you carry And

11:14

perhaps Find a way for them to acquire what it is they need from you.

11:20

And so Picking up where we left off You all kind of sit amongst the snow kind of gathering your things as the Tombtakers and Lucien began to make their Trek towards the actual central ruin of AR it's only at a fraction of the time past morning light.

11:40

Or do you wish to try and continue your arrest for a full night's sleep?

11:47

Would that work probably be smart, right?

11:49

I would, yeah.

11:52

Yeah. Oh, I can Stay. I can stay and wait for you bitches up something And

11:57

like, are, is Lucien still sitting right there?

12:00

Yeah. I'll just keep my head over the snow and say, Louisiana, I heard you, you guys didn't sleep either.

12:09

Don't you need to rest.

12:14

I mean, I'm certain we're going to be traveling together for a few days.

12:17

I think rest will have to be taken at some point.

12:22

Yes. Yeah. There's trust.

12:25

Yeah. So lay down, go to sleep.

12:30

I think we're fine for the better part of the coming day.

12:34

Right? Friends and the rest of the Tombtakers all still kind of eyes wide looking a little bleary-eyed but nod.

12:41

Right? So unless you're dragging us behind him, I'd like to make this deal.

12:47

Now we can begin our taste journey With

12:51

weed. Like a minute more.

12:53

We, we did crawl through and underground ruin and fight off a bunch of stuff.

13:00

It would be nice to take a minute, Take

13:03

a minute. If you like takes a small toothpick out and starts like picking it as teeth and, and just walks away in the circle.

13:10

Kind of looking around the environment, a Caleb at this point, you noticed it.

13:14

Wasn't just the dome that vanished the contents of your Amber.

13:19

Also scattered open to the ground around you under the snow that you had to hold him.

13:25

Oh, interesting. Yeah. Well you up for freshness, you know, I've got an interesting question then.

13:33

Oh no. Oh no.

13:34

Here comes

13:41

You just can't keep her in there.

13:42

Oh,

13:47

Hmm. That would be amusing. Okay. There's like a tad level to dispel something like, Hmm, Hmm, Hmm, Hmm, huh.

13:57

Hmm. Sorry. Huggies. We

13:58

learned our lesson on the last time With

14:00

the Amber. Hence the reason for the math you learn what the scope of of course, is it?

14:06

Yeah. I wonder if it it's unreasonable now, you know?

14:11

Okay. Is it actually, you know, cause you, you hit it properly, so it didn't know.

14:14

Oh, you're fine. I forgot.

14:16

I forgot you word to put it in the back of a holding so you can think of that.

14:19

So the thing that we got in the Amber, in the bag.

14:22

Yeah. Okay. And I'll get you on the bottom of the C cool.

14:27

We're smart.

14:30

Sure. We always do the right thing by the way.

14:34

Can I just point out what a difference this photo is from 2019 and this is 2020.

14:38

How

14:38

it

14:38

started,

14:38

how

14:38

it

14:42

ended. This is after 2020.

14:44

How do you lead your right to say I'm just, Oh the boy, let me get a look.

14:51

C Like

14:52

that man is never going to give you up.

14:55

He's never gonna let you down.

14:57

Never gonna run around a little bit.

15:07

Oh yeah. You should. You should Finish

15:09

the rest. Yeah. Lets finish the rest.

15:11

Let's let's not be sorry.

15:13

I have a feeling I'm not a big, very quietly.

15:15

It's like two hours. Right?

15:17

I have a feeling he's not going to allow us to do that unless I don't, we stall or something.

15:24

I'm staying up anyway. So, cause I don't have to sleep from the end of my long rest.

15:28

I just have to chill. He's being very bitchy and he wants us to go now is, well, I mean he's not all bad.

15:36

He has good, horrible oral hygiene.

15:38

You know he's taking care of his teeth.

15:40

Daggone is still Dragons you don't see anywhere.

15:45

That's right. Good.

15:47

So

15:47

I

15:47

guess

15:47

some

15:47

of

15:47

you

15:47

guys

15:47

are

15:47

just

15:47

going

15:47

to

15:47

go

15:47

to

15:47

sleep

15:47

here

15:47

in

15:47

the

15:47

snow

15:47

and

15:47

we'll

15:47

just

15:47

stand

15:54

guard. I can hold Yes.

15:57

Asleep. All right.

15:59

We do an option.

16:01

I

16:01

prepared

16:04

yesterday. I could take us away from here somewhere else.

16:07

What

16:07

does

16:07

that

16:10

mean?

16:10

Well,

16:10

I've

16:10

been

16:10

hesitant

16:10

to

16:10

Banff

16:10

us

16:10

anywhere

16:10

because

16:10

of

16:10

the

16:10

nature

16:10

of

16:10

this

16:10

place,

16:10

but

16:10

it

16:10

is

16:19

possible. So we have an option.

16:21

If we want to roll the dice to spit it away somewhere else.

16:27

Where do we go? Closer in the air.

16:29

Out of here. Do you get us somewhere you've never been before.

16:33

And that seems dangerous to me.

16:34

It's not a great option.

16:36

I just want you to aware of it. I can only get us back to the ballon post.

16:40

That seems possible.

16:43

We've

16:43

been

16:43

there

16:43

going

16:47

somewhere. We've never been, seems foolhardy, but we could, You

16:52

could arrive with like each other's arms and legs and stuff.

16:55

We don't know what could happen. Yeah.

16:58

Right. With butterflies. I'm going to offer it to the whole I'm away from This so Tempting

17:04

for you to all we can do it later.

17:07

It's just, it's it's an option.

17:09

If we arrest, I'm a little hesitant about it as well.

17:12

Because if we leave, they're still going to go about the business.

17:16

They are still going to find another one of these things and it might take them another week.

17:21

I don't know.

17:22

But

17:22

if

17:22

we're

17:22

in

17:22

danger

17:22

I

17:22

can

17:22

do

17:26

it. Okay. Well, should we It,

17:29

is it something that you need that you can cast right away?

17:32

The a F I show them, should we have a signal or something to be touching, Touching

17:38

tips? No, you just need to see, You

17:42

said make a perception. Check for me to talk about a quiet 20 Dungeon.

17:49

Oh, a 20. You roll this way or to 20 total 20 total.

17:52

Okay. No worries.

17:55

The things that I just wanted to mention, we have a pretty good advantage right now because he doesn't know how much we know and we should keep it that way.

18:04

I'm

18:04

looking

18:04

over

18:04

is

18:04

anybody

18:04

looking

18:04

at

18:04

our

18:04

direction

18:04

while

18:04

we're

18:04

having

18:04

this

18:04

conversation

18:04

in

18:04

front

18:04

of

18:04

a

18:04

whole

18:14

And you guys are being very quiet and kind of huddled, but you're not being secretive about having a huddled conversation out in the open.

18:20

You were meaning you are surrounded by snow that fell off the domain and collapsed, but you're all just kind of poking your heads out, like Prairie dogs, the moment, and kind of pushing through it and gathering and having this conversation.

18:29

Yes, exactly.

18:31

Role-playing on these points and we can see all of their party.

18:35

There's no one that is missing is there.

18:38

Right. Everybody is coming for all, all five of the Tombtakers you are aware of our presence of which currently Lucian's turned away from you.

18:44

You kind of looking over towards the sunrise seems to be kinda like stretching, kind of getting himself ready for a journey.

18:49

And the other four are, he's clearly looking over.

18:57

I don't think they're going to let us sleep, Right?

19:01

Yeah. Let's try. Where are you? Where they seem very, very, very charming and, And

19:08

like really nice people. Oh, sure.

19:17

Why don't you guys rock out?

19:19

I'll stay up with you guys.

19:22

A little food and tea for everybody whose been a stay at home.

19:26

I'm going to stay up as well.

19:27

All right.

19:29

Do you guys, within a short time, two things you pick up on one, as you're gathering your things, can of scooping through the snow.

19:35

You

19:35

do

19:35

bump

19:35

into

19:35

a

19:35

piece

19:35

of

19:35

metal

19:35

and

19:35

realize

19:35

that

19:35

the

19:35

snow

19:35

that's

19:35

falling

19:35

in

19:35

a

19:43

pile. Dragons it is there.

19:45

He's just as being very quiet.

19:48

Oh, Oh. I thought he was buried in the snow and he was like suffocated and we didn't help him.

19:55

No, no, no.

19:57

And those conversations, this is the whole time.

19:59

You just, you, you get a sense, like You

20:03

don't know if he's alive and you kind of wait for a second and you see a faint breath.

20:08

Okay. And there's a little part of you that kind of imagines that as soon as any sign of anything weird went down, he basically just hit.

20:16

So you know, the snow And the shorts, and predator, if they call no.

20:21

Cool.

20:25

Do they, do they eat and drink the food?

20:28

I suppose would be my question.

20:29

You offer a tea, right?

20:31

Food. They don't take, but tea, warm tea, three members, except including Lucien.

20:37

But

20:37

after

20:37

a

20:37

15

20:37

minute

20:37

period

20:37

of

20:37

time,

20:37

Lucien

20:37

kind

20:37

of

20:37

sits

20:37

up

20:37

hands

20:43

back. The cup that you offer on those price, Right.

20:48

Is the rain right? Shabby on the road, I

20:53

guess. So Tell

20:55

me and to be rushing you, but we're going out to, on a limb here, trusting that we can travel together for a bit.

21:03

And ah, I would be remiss if I didn't notice at a disadvantage that you all happened to be at, to consider this just safety for us, as you are quite accomplished individuals to have major way through to your and ruins.

21:18

I would not want to find ourselves on the opposite, the end of a seemingly unhappy and tense group of heroes and adventures.

21:29

I

21:29

appreciate

21:29

a

21:29

truth

21:29

before

21:29

politeness

21:29

Just

21:29

being

21:40

upfront. Sure. No funny business.

21:42

If we wanted to be dead right now, he would have already done.

21:46

So that's a true, a little strange or even the truth.

21:52

Yeah. Sure. How far to you, how far do you plan to travel today?

21:56

What is a destination before the sun sets?

22:00

Well, you know, we can certainly make it to, The a river of lover before The

22:04

sunsets probably camp or the side, there might be a bit warmer than some.

22:08

And the other accommodations then first thing in the morning is light.

22:12

Whether it be willing will traverse it.

22:22

Cool.

22:22

Can

22:22

I

22:22

make

22:22

an

22:25

insight? Check on him? Sure.

22:26

Which

22:26

one

22:26

you

22:26

can

22:29

get? What do you have actually killed us?

22:30

Where does he need us?

22:33

And she was going to want to get a beat on his desk. Wait, why did I Role drill twice?

22:36

I don't know. I thought it was still at a disadvantage, but I'm not exhausted anymore.

22:40

And is what did I say?

22:44

I'm going to make an insight check. Yeah.

22:46

20 to 22 Inside

22:50

of the top.

22:52

You get the sense that he's confident they could have.

22:56

Right.

22:56

But

23:02

There are he's with holding for a reason.

23:07

You

23:07

are

23:07

some

23:07

used

23:07

to

23:07

him

23:07

in

23:07

some

23:12

way. And that's why he hasn't just killed you out. Right.

23:15

That was a 20 to This

23:18

as much as you can get through it. Okay.

23:21

Well, are we taking the leader? You?

23:24

Hmm.

23:27

Well, you know where we're going.

23:29

We've been there before so we can take the lead.

23:35

Makes sense.

23:35

And just so we know who, who were traveling It's

23:39

Lucian CRI Zoran, personally.

23:47

Zoran. Yeah. As you all in and, and the ha ha I'll say I'm halfling.

23:59

Hello? Hello, young lady.

24:01

What's your name?

24:03

Outage. Oh, you're Otis.

24:05

Huh?

24:05

I'm

24:08

Beth. Nice to meet you. It's like a tie.

24:10

Did you come from where I grew up in a trust with all originally the places of fucking dump.

24:17

Yeah. We've been, there is a dumb and there's the elf CO's Name?

24:25

Tasha on it.

24:28

Yes.

24:32

So you guys for taking the lead, grab your things.

24:34

Don't

24:34

wander

24:34

too

24:36

far. Strengthen numbers out here in the dangerous, expensive Ice lacrosse.

24:44

You were particularly helpful right now, but sure.

24:48

Good day is young a lot.

24:51

So walk in, maybe some talking.

24:53

If you can stay to pick up it's the rest of the group continues to walk.

24:59

What are you gonna do with daggone saying deeply under my breath, after they take a few steps for me in handling things, can you hear me?

25:10

The

25:17

whisper. That is, you know, you're fairly confident.

25:19

There are a little ways that, of your shot. You hear a voice from under the snow muffled go.

25:23

Don't worry about, I'm going to follow with a chef.

25:29

Come

25:29

back

25:29

to

25:38

her.

25:41

Okay. You were surprised you stumped me.

25:51

Do you love that?

25:52

I

25:52

feel

25:54

that. I feel that the phrase I want the other way, Half of my money is probably just three syllables and thieves can Pluck Where you follow.

26:12

Yeah, we're walking right now.

26:16

I got a full night's rest. Everyone does set for a point of exhaustion who did not complete it.

26:19

That's all of you. It's a short list, which is on checks, right?

26:24

This was going to be on, this is a vintage on ability Checks,

26:26

but literally you put that Under

26:30

conditions under here's the point Matthew Do

26:35

you remember? You've got a short rest. You can just put it in my brain that indeed those of you have to show the rest as you can get them.

26:39

Sure. You are exhausted.

26:41

It is a, a fairly, let's get a, a moderately clear sky for what you've experienced here.

26:46

There are still, you know, a gray clouds, probably, you know, a third of the sky still held by them.

26:51

But quite a bit of blue is picking through it's.

26:54

It's a call more and more beautiful morning out here and you know, travels and it's welcoming.

26:59

If not for the blaring light, that's now finding your eyes and you all kind of trudging through the snow and ice exhausted, but you keep pace with a Tombtakers who are keeping pretty decent pace, not as fast as you would of been.

27:13

Perhaps if you were following a, you have a friend who's guiding you, but not too terribly slow as you are kind of following in their footsteps.

27:22

And they're moving at a pretty decent Pace,

27:26

But they keep on about maybe 20 or so if you have to you and occasionally keep an eye on over their shoulders, they're having conversations amongst themselves to hear a couple of distant laughs you know, their friends traveling, but there's definitely a separation, at least as much as you guys want to keep them, Can

27:45

I have a piggyback ride and keep sleeping on somebody's back?

27:48

I

27:48

don't

27:48

know

27:48

if

27:48

I

27:48

consider

27:48

that

27:48

restful

27:48

sleep

27:48

is

27:48

not

27:48

I'd

27:56

ask. I can try and put you on my shoulders.

27:58

It's just like a girl.

28:03

Huh? The kid who's done with a Disneyland.

28:05

I've

28:05

been

28:05

an

28:13

adult. I'm just going to make sugar and cross the warrior map.

28:17

All

28:20

right. Okay. Is there anything else that you guys want me to do as you journey?

28:24

And we should a long rest regret?

28:27

Yes. You got a lot of regret. Oh, I'll walk up and chat up Otis real quick.

28:31

All right. If, if she'll, if she'll have me.

28:35

Okay. Hey there, Otis.

28:39

Hello there. You see to, I just wanted to follow up on what you were talking about before.

28:45

Do you from frost and wild, right?

28:48

I mean a long time ago.

28:51

Cause we we've been there sort of recently.

28:54

Like we, we went to the, I think we've stayed at the Nissle nook in.

28:58

Do you remember that place?

28:59

All right, right.

29:01

No, I, I remember some of it.

29:03

I do you have families there, you don't care.

29:06

You don't care about your family.

29:09

Don't care if you have any family.

29:11

Oh, but like I'm at a close family.

29:14

Like, you know, husband, wife, you know, something like that.

29:17

Kids not really, not a lot of family work in the orders.

29:22

A

29:22

lot

29:22

of

29:22

family

29:22

work

29:22

in

29:22

the

29:26

order's. Huh? Not really.

29:30

Yeah. That's what I hear about it.

29:32

What

29:32

do

29:32

you

29:32

own

29:32

a

29:38

bar? And I just, I don't, there is no other like, like us then enter the item, run into a lot of us, you know, where I haven't been traveling with any other halflings and this is kinda nice to see a familiar and you know, body.

29:56

You're not a wrong, you're not wrong.

29:57

Travelling with tall. Fuck all the time.

29:59

And she just kind of, Hmm.

30:01

I didn't know.

30:02

You

30:02

know

30:02

what

30:02

the

30:02

worst

30:02

hard

30:02

to

30:02

find

30:06

someone. Yeah, no. With the worst part about what it is, they don't understand if they don't shower for a few days when you walked by someone's ass, it's stinks.

30:15

Right. I mean like, and then we're down. They're all the time smelling crutches.

30:18

And, but, Oh, that is kind of glances briefly over in Zorn's direction and goes yeah.

30:24

Yeah. It's gross. Yeah.

30:26

Well, I don't know what you were a sort of, you know, specialties are, but when the shit goes down, I got you back.

30:34

Right, Right.

30:38

And you got mine.

30:41

Right.

30:41

Is

30:41

that

30:45

cool? Cool.

30:47

All right. Well, I'm going to go check on my, my stinky friends.

30:54

Don't be afraid to come and talk you to join the conversation by and halfway And

31:07

a half and half line. Either way Somebody

31:12

likes to roll for the day is travel.

31:14

You just turn it over here.

31:19

You just didn't I

31:30

feel like you have to, It is good.

31:31

They might cheat in the neck already.

31:35

As you push on through the snow sky remains fairly, Hey,

31:41

what's up with A

31:43

warmer day than you're used to. It's still freezing cold, but some of the days that you've traveled, you actually might catch the little sweat on the inside of some of your first.

31:53

And it's a, it's a nice, familiar, but no issues along the way for the extended eight ish or so hours, you guys continue moving.

32:07

You hit the late afternoon.

32:09

The

32:09

sun

32:09

hasn't

32:09

set

32:12

yet. But the point of rest as being discussed up ahead, and you can hear Lucien kind of turn back and say, we're not far.

32:21

I hope you got your comfort's about, you can come up over that Hill.

32:33

They can points over.

32:35

It's getting towards this group and you all are, and you can see there's a little bit of A

32:40

rise up. It looks like at the crest of a couple of Hills, a bit ahead of you.

32:43

As you all begin to step up to it, you can reach the top and about 10 feet beyond the crest of that Hill, it drops off into what you can immediately see is this expansive river of molten rock slowly flowing from the right to the left South to North, from where you're located.

33:09

Well over a mile across the opposite side is just the Gulf.

33:14

And did you see Occasionally

33:17

gas erupts from it and places you can see dark and the bits where it's cooled and it's cracking apart.

33:24

And then the glow from underneath peaks through and pulls it into separate sections.

33:28

It is ominous and a deadly idea to traverse And

33:35

also kind of hypnotic, you know, start with that for him for hours.

33:40

And it does feel warmer by proximity.

33:42

You get that same feeling when you're on a high tower or something and you have that urge To

33:48

is losing Transpecos Indeed.

33:50

Don't

33:50

do

33:52

it.

33:52

Don't

33:52

don't

33:56

jump.

33:56

He

33:56

is

34:00

young. Very cool.

34:02

Cool. Hate him.

34:04

He's

34:04

Molly,

34:04

Mark

34:08

inside. We just have to say the right like code word to remind him.

34:13

It's like a combination of words.

34:14

was more of like an effortless Dick and leucine is like a concentrated.

34:20

Yes. It's a blur pointed.

34:21

Went to Duke pointed Dick where you can never find a way.

34:26

Yeah. That's about it. You know? Okay.

34:28

What's

34:28

our

34:31

plan. Are we supposed to?

34:34

Yes. I mean with him, what are, what are we doing?

34:37

Are we going to camp? Are we going to camp here tonight?

34:40

Or try to cross?

34:41

You said that you were a camping before you all were pretty tired.

34:46

You probably used to get arrested.

34:48

You had to recruit in the level of, and we go to sleep.

34:52

Hopefully if you don't give us a reason, come, come, that's all scoop out a place to rest.

34:58

At which point they begin, like taking their arms and pulling the snow back to kind of expose some of the ground beneath pushing some over the edge that kind of falls and tumbles.

35:05

You're waiting for the hiss, but there is none.

35:07

And eventually they kind of carve out this little space.

35:10

You can still see the frozen cracked ground beneath it and elements of grade long, dead vegetation and or a grass that maybe is adapted to the colder weather.

35:20

And it seems to thrive any of the snow.

35:22

It's hard to tell, but in this little space here, it seems like Russ can be had.

35:28

And when the proximity it's almost comfortable, maybe a little campfire, but nothing too major, you have to be huddling For

35:38

warmth necessarily before you can utilize your dome.

35:42

Okay. And you know, you can not that a long rest, right?

35:45

How many staff do you have for them? No, I can definitely do is a rich what you can and you got to know, or if they are cool with it.

35:50

So

35:50

when

35:50

the

35:50

snow

35:50

was

35:50

pushed

35:50

into

35:50

the

35:50

river,

35:50

it

35:50

didn't

35:50

have

35:50

to

35:50

because

35:50

it

35:50

just

35:50

instantly

35:50

turns

35:50

to

35:50

vapor

35:50

because

35:50

there's

35:50

no

35:50

a

35:50

lot

35:50

of

35:59

it. And it's magic. Do you want to go look?

36:02

And then I think you earlier, you said that Ice can fruit freeze on the lava Is

36:07

the ice out here? It is weird Or something I'm going to, I wouldn't make it a couple snowballs.

36:12

And Chuck I'm into the river.

36:15

You don't want to go back to normal.

36:16

And

36:16

the

36:16

snow

36:16

just

36:16

kind

36:16

of

36:16

breasts

36:16

and

36:16

moves

36:16

along

36:25

About,

36:27

I pull us a stone, just a stone out of my passions, components and things of that and see where it does gone.

36:37

Huh. But that is good.

36:41

I'm going to one of the work with the water.

36:45

I'm going to cut, Create

36:47

water. And it falls in 10 gallons, a 30 foot cube, like rain, You see to just turn immediately to steam and then rise and dissipate.

37:01

Huh? Are we close to the flow shift?

37:03

The way the flow shift or is it, This

37:07

is what that is. Oh, and we're North of the fellowship.

37:09

That nexus point. Yeah.

37:11

Why would that be? I wonder if the ruins have fused the snow in Ice here with some property where maybe the love of self has some crop that the mother yeah.

37:25

Ice

37:26

weight. Which way do you know snow? But what about ice is E if you guys are, you can make it Ice you'll have water smell.

37:33

All of it is going South.

37:36

I do. Well. Does that make some sounds to North?

37:38

Yep. So it is going up the weird, I will cast shape, water and freeze.

37:45

You can freeze water, I guess I'll pour some, some like water and my hand and freeze it.

37:52

I dunno.

37:55

Sure, sure. Okay. And you pour a lot of water into your hand.

37:57

You have a little block of Ice, You

38:00

know, throw it. Okay.

38:03

You see it hit and scaling.

38:05

Oh, okay.

38:05

Ice

38:05

and

38:08

snow. Okay. How long are the snowballs that I threw or they still like flowing on the top of it or hate disintegrated?

38:14

No, there's the one on top. Just kind of scattered.

38:16

And they're just moving slowly with the flow.

38:19

Interesting. Maybe we can make some ice chunks in the cross ice skate ice bridge.

38:24

I'm going to do Fire.

38:26

I'm going to try a sacred flame just to see if it disturbs the lava.

38:30

You see that the flash have right in the energy, but it has no impact.

38:33

It is molten rock in The

38:36

radiant Fire wouldn't necessarily.

38:38

I wouldn't necessarily, that's a very strange, Hey

38:42

Lucien, have you guys crossed this river before?

38:44

You know, How

38:46

do you do it? You'll see in the morning.

38:50

I mean, we can do it just fine on our own.

38:52

So you asked me, well, I mean, we can, we'll tell you how we do it.

38:58

We'll swap tips in the morning excitedly, But

39:05

He glances over and you see, as a Otis is currently kind of noodling on the ground and, and the central space here, clusters have a bit of the grass and then would their hand across the air becomes a bit of a Fire Few

39:21

more hours a day light.

39:22

Who's

39:22

up

39:22

for

39:22

some

39:22

lunch,

39:22

some

39:27

lunch. Did you say for supper depending been traveling quite a bit for sure.

39:35

All right. You know, they have a heavy pack, which you've seen on, on Zuora in the back and says this massive pack, that based on the shape, the weird oblong shape of it and the weight that he carries it with.

39:47

This one seems to actually contain the other threshold crest from the first room.

39:51

As you said, sit down.

39:53

There's a number of side pouches in the kind of rummaging through pulls out heavy bits of jerky and kind of throws them to each of you.

39:59

There's no spikes.

40:01

If your actions are a little bit Ice Sure,

40:07

sure.

40:07

I

40:07

got

40:07

to

40:07

have

40:10

this. Look at it. See if I can discern what animal it came from.

40:13

Role a nature check.

40:14

Oh,

40:14

wait

40:19

A disadvantage.

40:19

Do

40:19

you

40:19

hope

40:19

it's

40:19

not

40:19

people

40:19

hard

40:19

to

40:19

tell

40:19

hard

40:19

to

40:19

tell

40:28

jerky? Hmm.

40:31

Yeah. Okay. And are you eating other food?

40:33

They're not sharing all of the rations with you, but they're offering something to pepper up, which you brought with you that they assume you take care of yourselves on this journey.

40:39

Now you have a Boba, I'll have a bit of that.

40:43

Boba. I have to pull out some really stale pastries from Nico dramas.

40:51

We need to get you some sort of a falafel like pocket, pocket oven or something.

40:56

I don't know someone was going to make that.

40:58

I mean, someone's got to make a pouch that you just put some dough in and like an hour you've got bread bread, or that seems I'll

41:07

keep an eye out for some sort of amendment, a dough enchantment.

41:11

It's like a little easy Bay, a yeah, a bag of easy bags license, Honestly,

41:16

just like a cold bag that will keep a little bag of Kolding.

41:24

Something like that.

41:26

You feel like that is beyond science and magic's ability.

41:27

I'm not sure that you would be so useful, so much easy to make something harder than it is to make something A

41:35

CRE I'm not talking to that.

41:37

Do they carry anything around their neck, Biles, necklaces, any kind of jewelry, anything like that?

41:43

Perception check a 12 by 12.

41:52

I didn't really Role.

41:54

I mean, you've seen him before all of that, you can make out and amongst like the huddled for and thick a leather and a, almost a blanket like covering a beyond that as well.

42:03

There is a, a thick chain that occasionally appears around her neck that has a circular red stone in the middle of it.

42:10

Like a, like a deep, dark red coloration.

42:14

And just sir, where are the others as well for you?

42:16

You seen just her as long as we are sharing a meal.

42:22

And

42:22

so

42:22

you

42:22

can

42:22

learn

42:22

a

42:22

little

42:22

bit

42:22

more

42:22

about

42:22

each

42:27

other. And I use control flames.

42:29

She can trip and I can manipulate shapes out of the Fire and I make the shape of the city on the Astro.

42:37

C it's crude, but it's a very clear what it is floating about.

42:40

The Fire are you going to make us wait until we arrive before we know what you intend to do?

42:49

Or can you share a little bit in advance?

42:55

I'm just going to be fun.

42:56

Jesus

42:59

Christ.

43:02

Those are cobwebs. Cause it's, I'm the guy who has a right As

43:05

a Christmas tree up for a month after Christmas.

43:07

That's

43:07

the

43:07

joke

43:07

is

43:07

funny

43:07

when

43:07

you

43:07

have

43:07

to

43:07

explain

43:07

no,

43:07

it's

43:07

no

43:18

Right here on the Christmas tree is supposed to be a good look.

43:19

Is that right?

43:21

I think you have a spider on the counter, a tree every year.

43:27

Well, let's see, I'm going to be learning about each other.

43:30

What do you want, where it started, Where

43:35

it's going like that meme.

43:40

I am a fan of history.

43:45

Let's start there, Leans

43:48

back and kind of flicks the toothpick.

43:50

Oh, sorry.

43:53

You

43:53

were

43:53

a

43:53

bit

43:53

broader

43:53

than

43:53

I

43:53

was

43:53

expecting

43:53

a

43:53

quick

44:03

Travis.

44:03

Me

44:03

and

44:03

my

44:03

friend

44:03

is

44:11

here. We're we're from own disparate collective.

44:16

You would say called the Clary orders, Clear

44:21

clarity orders, orders.

44:25

We feel like wine.

44:29

So some of a screw up together, some of us just found Like-minded

44:33

interest in taking the things we learned and eventually sticking out on our own because you've all got, say an inherent dislike of authority.

44:43

And

44:43

in

44:43

our

44:43

travels,

44:43

much

44:43

like

44:43

you

44:43

were

44:43

a

44:43

traveling

44:43

with

44:43

the

44:43

good

44:43

lady,

44:43

if

44:43

and

44:43

ourselves

44:43

hired

44:43

by

44:43

her

44:43

and

44:43

others

44:43

for

44:43

some

44:43

time

44:43

made

44:43

some

44:43

good

44:43

coin,

44:43

did

44:43

some

44:58

travel.

44:58

And

44:58

I

44:58

found

44:58

a

45:03

secret.

45:03

I

45:03

found

45:03

a

45:03

little

45:03

peek

45:03

into

45:03

something

45:03

beyond

45:03

when

45:03

he

45:03

points

45:03

to

45:03

the

45:03

Fire

45:03

something

45:03

with

45:03

promise

45:03

knowledge,

45:03

and,

45:03

and

45:03

I

45:03

looked

45:03

in

45:03

it

45:03

in

45:03

the

45:21

back.

45:21

So

45:21

at

45:21

that

45:21

point,

45:21

leucine

45:21

became

45:21

more

45:21

of

45:21

a,

45:21

more

45:21

of

45:21

a

45:35

costume.

45:35

The

45:35

non-aggression

45:35

became

45:35

more

45:35

of

45:35

the

45:43

precedence.

45:43

That's

45:43

where

45:43

it

45:48

started. I specifically found a book.

45:53

You see, going to be found, the books have a reader.

45:57

I'm not to put this one down.

46:02

So

46:02

what

46:02

are

46:02

you

46:02

all

46:02

doing

46:09

here?

46:09

No,

46:09

you're

46:09

certainly

46:12

curious. You wouldn't follow this far, but you have some sort of history with whatever was piloting this for a while.

46:19

Then

46:19

you

46:19

come

46:19

into

46:22

Join. Are you coming to stop me?

46:24

Well, it's a lot of coincidences.

46:27

Really. We were quite fun to have a friend that alone does draws in a bit.

46:35

You know, it's hard not to be fun to, this is not entirely different on the front of me knew.

46:45

We've seen you with food on your penis, At

46:49

which point every other member of the two takers starts laughing behind the scene's had to slowly turns toward you.

46:56

Miss all of us, tried to pass it off.

47:00

As the plague, you covered it in an egg.

47:03

These are all gravis in a real bad idea, to be totally honest.

47:07

That wasn't me.

47:09

That was an aberration same day.

47:22

Wow.

47:24

I guess there are some secrets I don't have to introduce at some point.

47:27

All right.

47:32

That's not the only coincidence. So it's a few things.

47:36

We have entanglements with the assembly and with our old friend, you're a fragment.

47:44

And

47:44

we

47:44

have

47:44

heard

47:44

whispers

47:44

on

47:44

the

47:44

wind

47:44

of

47:44

this

47:44

city

47:44

as

47:44

well,

47:54

Where it is getting around.

47:56

We are curious about the intersections of those threats of fate.

48:00

I

48:00

can

48:00

respect

48:04

that.

48:09

Speaking of intersections, the book that I found, fascinating read, I can understand most of it, but I have my limitations.

48:21

What is the title? It's Not

48:23

much of a title is to who? It's more of a journal.

48:25

Huh?

48:25

I

48:25

can

48:25

respect

48:28

that.

48:29

Would you like a second set of eyes on it?

48:34

No, I've done that once already.

48:35

And then well, for her Seems

48:42

to involve for you So

48:45

far. So good to know You

48:50

can get somebody who we knew who could possibly understand some of the more complicated aspects of this journal.

49:00

Having done previous work with A

49:02

VAT, winter, her, You

49:05

made a deal, a contract she promised to help helped me Utilize

49:11

parts of this tome to truly reach out to You.

49:19

See, once I started reading it, it was just for fun.

49:22

But

49:22

then

49:22

the

49:22

dreams

49:22

started

49:28

coming.

49:28

Symptom

49:28

was

49:28

spilling

49:28

into

49:28

them

49:28

and,

49:28

and

49:28

wanted

49:28

my

49:28

help

49:28

and

49:28

his

49:28

eyes

49:28

glance

49:28

back

49:28

over

49:28

towards

49:28

the

49:28

Fire

49:28

in

49:28

the

49:41

shape.

49:41

The

49:41

extreme

49:41

in

49:41

a

49:41

different

49:41

mind

49:41

came

49:41

to

49:41

me,

49:49

Looked at us Goddess

49:52

IRA. Jalon one by one of the, some of them came to me and showed me what the city was a collections of mines, finding emergence, becoming one under these eyes of nine each visit, they gave me one of these.

50:12

He reveals The Eye

50:15

on his hand.

50:16

That's

50:16

when

50:16

I

50:16

knew

50:16

it

50:16

was

50:19

real.

50:19

And

50:19

I

50:19

have

50:19

to

50:19

follow,

50:19

have

50:19

to

50:19

learn

50:19

that

50:19

what

50:28

They promised to show.

50:28

So

50:28

trying

50:28

to

50:28

reach

50:28

past

50:28

these

50:28

limitations,

50:28

the

50:28

lady

50:28

was

50:28

to

50:37

help.

50:37

She's

50:37

a

50:37

trained

50:37

liar

50:37

and

50:37

the

50:37

ritual

50:37

was

50:37

sabotage

50:37

just

50:37

as

50:37

opposed

50:37

to

50:37

a

50:37

place

50:37

in

50:37

my

50:37

spirit,

50:37

out

50:37

their

50:37

whole

50:37

shattered

50:37

me

50:37

out

50:55

there.

50:55

And

50:55

many,

50:55

many

50:58

pieces.

50:58

You

50:58

took

50:58

the

50:58

book

50:58

first

51:03

off.

51:03

And

51:03

from

51:03

what

51:03

I

51:03

can

51:03

tell

51:03

him

51:03

to

51:03

try

51:03

to

51:03

take

51:03

the

51:03

same

51:03

path,

51:03

but

51:03

that's

51:03

a

51:03

one

51:03

off

51:03

and

51:03

found

51:03

me,

51:03

put

51:03

me

51:03

back

51:18

together.

51:18

And

51:18

then

51:18

that

51:18

space,

51:18

I

51:18

learned

51:18

so

51:18

much

51:18

more

51:18

about

51:18

them

51:18

than

51:18

I

51:18

could

51:18

have

51:18

ever

51:18

hoped

51:25

for.

51:25

So

51:25

in

51:25

a

51:25

way

51:25

I'm

51:25

actually

51:25

thankful,

51:25

but

51:25

one

51:25

can

51:25

be

51:25

thankful

51:25

and

51:25

vengeful

51:25

it

51:25

at

51:25

the

51:25

same

51:35

time. Where do you think that was?

51:37

One of these pieces of you learn to do an, a grave and ended up in the circus.

51:43

What about the others and where did you go?

51:48

What you would learn about these people at night.

51:53

Jen, if you will, you, the idea of you, you were a singular conscience in every thought you had, it was accompanied by a, a a hundred screaming thoughts fighting for attention.

52:09

We

52:09

are

52:09

a

52:09

dissonance,

52:09

a

52:09

thought

52:09

that

52:09

was

52:09

the

52:09

prison

52:09

I

52:09

was

52:09

sent

52:09

to

52:09

my

52:09

spirit,

52:09

broken,

52:09

blown

52:09

across

52:09

the

52:09

astral

52:09

winds,

52:09

but

52:09

it

52:09

took

52:09

this

52:09

on

52:09

Novum

52:09

following

52:09

my

52:09

sense

52:09

as

52:09

much

52:09

as

52:09

like

52:09

I

52:09

thought

52:09

you

52:09

had

52:09

hers

52:09

to

52:09

find

52:09

all

52:09

my

52:09

pieces

52:09

and

52:09

put

52:09

them

52:09

back

52:36

together.

52:36

Do

52:36

you

52:36

think

52:36

they

52:36

missed

52:36

any

52:36

of

52:36

your

52:36

on

52:36

a

52:36

tight

52:36

or

52:36

you

52:36

were

52:36

lucky

52:36

enough

52:36

found

52:36

that

52:36

the

52:36

sun,

52:36

the

52:36

spot

52:36

had

52:36

been

52:36

vacated

52:36

easy

52:36

enough

52:36

to

52:36

come

52:36

back

52:36

to

52:36

the

52:36

some

52:36

new

52:36

novel

52:36

Novum

52:36

or

52:36

they

52:36

hear

52:36

on

52:36

Exandria

53:08

somewhere.

53:08

Maybe

53:08

we'll

53:08

talk

53:08

more

53:08

about

53:08

this

53:15

tomorrow. It's been a fun conversation, but it seems very one-sided well, you can feel free to ask us anything about the time, you know, we've or come back to life Or

53:26

it got split into pieces and sent into memory prisons, The

53:30

red word and books.

53:31

We've

53:31

gone

53:31

through

53:31

quite

53:31

a

53:31

bit

53:31

of

53:35

danger.

53:35

Some

53:35

would

53:35

say

53:35

blindly

53:35

in

53:35

some

53:35

cases,

53:35

just

53:35

to

53:35

follow

53:35

us

53:35

up

53:35

here

53:35

and

53:35

you

53:35

can

53:35

beat

53:35

us

53:35

to

53:35

our

53:35

own

53:49

game.

53:49

I'll

53:49

ask

53:49

again

53:49

beyond

53:49

just

53:49

idle

53:55

curiosity.

53:55

What

53:55

is

53:55

it

53:55

you

53:55

want

54:02

When you first saw A

54:05

vision?

54:09

Where did you feel? How did you, did you instantly want the power of what you saw or Did

54:19

you feel fear?

54:20

Fear,

54:20

fear,

54:23

immensely.

54:23

That

54:23

was

54:23

a

54:23

bit

54:23

of

54:23

a

54:26

person. Then fear is the natural reaction.

54:28

Now

54:28

taken

54:28

by

54:28

the

54:28

recognition

54:28

in

54:28

your

54:32

faces. You've perhaps seen shades of the same thing to more than shades.

54:43

Hmm. We find ourselves very curious about the power you yourself are all consumed with.

54:52

You are not alone.

54:54

You are friends.

54:55

We

54:55

are

54:55

accomplished

54:58

people.

54:58

I

54:58

think

54:58

we

54:58

are

54:58

maybe

54:58

curious

54:58

if

54:58

there

54:58

is

54:58

room

54:58

for

54:58

us

54:58

in

54:58

your

54:58

plans,

54:58

they

54:58

might

54:58

be

54:58

still,

54:58

there's

54:58

hard

54:58

to

55:11

explain. There's a part of me that just, I feel like you all have a part to play still.

55:17

Like

55:17

you've

55:17

you've

55:17

used

55:17

to

55:23

me.

55:23

Well,

55:23

we

55:23

got

55:23

visions

55:23

too,

55:23

from

55:23

the

55:23

same

55:23

city

55:23

we

55:23

went

55:23

to

55:23

beyond

55:23

coincidence

55:23

at

55:23

this

55:23

point,

55:23

do

55:23

any

55:23

of

55:23

your

55:23

companions

55:36

Have dreams of this city At

55:39

which point to loosen? Can it looks over and they all kind of glance at each other and nod and then a Cree kind of leans forward a bit.

55:49

The dreams that we have are granted through Lucien through the connection that he's offered.

55:59

Yeah. That's not what we mean.

56:02

Yeah. I imagine that if the city gave anybody dreams, it wouldn't might mean they were chosen.

56:08

We do not have such dreams, the non a gun.

56:11

He's the one who has been chosen.

56:13

We

56:13

follow

56:13

in

56:13

his

56:13

steps,

56:13

his

56:13

guidance,

56:13

he

56:13

looks

56:13

over

56:13

it

56:13

like

56:13

a

56:13

smiling

56:13

reverence

56:13

on

56:13

your

56:13

face

56:13

and

56:13

says

56:24

Is it is through him and Lucien chutes a look.

56:27

And she kind of gets a little quiet and it goes back to the city.

56:31

When

56:31

we

56:31

trust

56:31

him

56:31

his

56:31

vision

56:41

And then the sun, nothing. She kinda looks up with a reference and closes her eyes and clutches that stone around her neck.

56:51

Do you think your special solution can be someone who wakes up every day thinks they're different?

57:02

Blessed.

57:04

I spent my entire life waking up every day, knowing that I'm different.

57:10

Look at me.

57:10

I

57:10

think

57:10

a

57:10

dreamy

57:17

That's a new one as the years went on. Didn't start that way.

57:20

A

57:20

lot

57:20

of

57:20

folks

57:20

who

57:20

are

57:20

really

57:20

eager

57:20

and

57:20

kind,

57:20

especially

57:20

in

57:20

shady

57:20

Creek

57:20

run,

57:20

growing

57:20

up

57:20

to

57:20

those

57:20

of

57:20

internal

57:30

blood.

57:35

Be,

57:37

I'd say I feel pretty damn special these days, Not

57:41

everyone's okay.

57:43

Single-handedly been granted the ability to slot her a member of the service assembly by themselves, Right?

57:50

Yep. And you got that, right?

57:51

I

57:51

think

57:51

I'm

57:51

racking

57:51

up

57:51

a

57:51

few,

57:51

a

57:57

Few goals to check off my box. Huh?

58:00

What about that book of yours? Have you minded, vault secrets?

58:07

Not all of it.

58:07

There is some Curious

58:12

pieces I need to suss out.

58:14

And as you can have glances over and eastward direction, I

58:20

know that trust is stretched a little thin around this Fire but you have a couple of eggheads here with a really smart, very good track record where detectives on the line of us will also say that we have something that you are clearly in dire need of.

58:39

And I wouldn't say dire, but certainly convenient Need we have perspective, right?

58:44

And when was the last time that you had anybody who didn't just agree with you all the time?

58:50

How are you ever going to work anything out?

58:55

There is a pause in the stare And

59:00

losing kind of leans forward towards you live in this hard to read almost imperceptibly frustrated and trying to read you before it curls into a grid.

59:15

Oh, I know you're a tight, You

59:19

don't think, you know my type, but at least not long time.

59:24

So this is going to be a fun journey.

59:27

I think so.

59:32

I'll do my best to be as honest as I possibly can.

59:36

I will say I admire those who can live a life of perspective.

59:41

Those who can see their choices from the position have their own mind and make those choices accordingly.

59:53

Oh, you, you miss the point perspective as income from yourself.

59:58

You need others perspective is disagreement.

1:00:03

You

1:00:03

only

1:00:03

have

1:00:03

two

1:00:08

eyes. I know you think you'll have more, but there's really only two.

1:00:12

Okay. And the greens and turns his head, decide to tip your hand of it.

1:00:20

Yeah. There's a lot. Or you don't understand.

1:00:24

I hope so. That's why we're here.

1:00:27

I have plenty of perspective.

1:00:28

And

1:00:28

just

1:00:28

for

1:00:28

the

1:00:28

sake

1:00:28

of

1:00:28

an

1:00:28

entire

1:00:28

book

1:00:28

though,

1:00:28

speaking

1:00:28

of

1:00:28

disagreement,

1:00:28

I

1:00:28

have

1:00:28

the

1:00:28

perspective

1:00:28

of

1:00:28

not

1:00:28

just

1:00:28

myself,

1:00:28

not

1:00:28

just

1:00:28

these

1:00:28

fine

1:00:28

companions,

1:00:28

you

1:00:28

don't

1:00:28

have

1:00:28

the

1:00:28

perspective

1:00:28

of

1:00:49

nine.

1:00:49

Quite

1:00:51

frankly. Batchy is shit individuals from a long time ago, many, many minds, if they have period, and there's plenty of disagreement, I'm

1:01:09

excited to learn And

1:01:12

listen to the clothes.

1:01:12

Don't get to my way to just talk.

1:01:17

All of this is just Talks.

1:01:20

What do you have to worry about you so afraid of appearing wrong in front of us?

1:01:26

Who are you trying to oppress?

1:01:29

This? Isn't a matter of pressing. This is about having a conversation, Right?

1:01:34

And so we're offering you help and perspective.

1:01:39

There's

1:01:39

nowhere

1:01:39

you

1:01:39

can

1:01:42

go. And nothing we can do is I have to many, yes, men Extremely

1:01:46

appreciative of such an offer.

1:01:48

And if I were, I don't know, interested in passing over an extremely important relative that contained all sorts of well sensitive information to individuals that honestly refuse to give over any of the things that is rightfully ours, that we asked for very nicely.

1:02:11

I

1:02:11

think

1:02:11

maybe

1:02:11

our

1:02:11

trust

1:02:11

needs

1:02:11

to

1:02:11

grow

1:02:11

a

1:02:11

little

1:02:15

bigger. What can we make it an exchange?

1:02:17

If you let my friend and I examine your book, we will uncover the last of it for you.

1:02:23

I weight you will.

1:02:24

And you can have your threshold crest maybe right after all.

1:02:33

Let me start a few more days of travel to take.

1:02:35

Let's see how this friendship blossoms produce a spirit of Dungeon.

1:02:43

Do you need us outside of Your

1:02:45

threshold crest to achieve your goals?

1:02:49

No. Do I believe him?

1:02:52

You can say, I didn't know what you were talking about when you said pay attention.

1:02:58

So I immediately shifted my focus to you on my head disadvantage.

1:03:04

I rolled a one.

1:03:05

You

1:03:05

seem

1:03:05

to

1:03:05

believe

1:03:05

what

1:03:05

you're

1:03:10

saying.

1:03:10

Can

1:03:10

you

1:03:10

roll

1:03:10

yourself

1:03:10

to,

1:03:10

you

1:03:10

know,

1:03:10

you

1:03:10

said

1:03:10

he

1:03:10

was

1:03:10

going

1:03:10

to

1:03:10

assist

1:03:17

him? No. You see where it is or your role for yourself.

1:03:20

Then if you needed, Role a disadvantage for himself.

1:03:21

You know, get out of my insight.

1:03:24

Checks are so good with this negative two for a five out of the mind.

1:03:28

Not better than mind to be there.

1:03:32

Yeah. So finds a nine with them.

1:03:34

Is this he's a slippery figure in general.

1:03:35

Hopefully that's, you know, it's not a check box for the, she had a good call.

1:03:41

You call the call tomorrow night And

1:03:46

who has a Molly's coat sit in the back of, I think you have it here.

1:03:51

I have his belt.

1:03:52

And I think you have is I think we gave it to you when you got back, The

1:03:56

pollution is Molly. And just see if that does it.

1:04:01

Yeah. Try and train to assemble the like a Voltron's I've got some eggs who start tried to pull his coat off.

1:04:10

Yeah.

1:04:10

All

1:04:14

right. Well, we'll be here in the morning, right?

1:04:18

Because we can't go anywhere. You can melt people by looking at them.

1:04:22

So yeah. So I'm going to take it up to date.

1:04:26

So can we, We

1:04:29

can tell people by looking at it when you just haven't shown you yet.

1:04:31

Okay. And I'm sure.

1:04:33

Well, you all look a bit tired.

1:04:39

Get some rest. Sure. I sleep on. I think about those last two chapters.

1:04:42

You can crack the night Yasha.

1:04:46

Let's go and look at the lava real quick.

1:04:49

Oh yeah. Yeah. That's good to see it any way.

1:04:52

Okay. Yeah. Give them a better look as good as their look at fun.

1:04:55

You guys. Thanks. Okay.

1:04:57

Will stay safe.

1:04:58

You remember our first date by the lava flow.

1:05:01

So

1:05:01

it

1:05:01

was

1:05:01

kind

1:05:01

of

1:05:01

banking

1:05:01

on

1:05:01

having

1:05:01

Caleb's

1:05:06

tower. You know, I was already yeah.

1:05:12

Yeah. Not like 12 other people around us.

1:05:16

Yeah. I feel like that would make for a very interesting, a first date.

1:05:21

That'd be an uncomfortable, I think I would rather wait for something, you know, not, This not anxiety inducing.

1:05:32

Yeah. Yeah.

1:05:34

Okay. This is weird. Oh, a hundred percent weird.

1:05:37

I don't know how to talk to him either.

1:05:39

I hate him.

1:05:40

I kind of do. But at the same time, I'm I'm I'm I want him back.

1:05:45

It's frustrating because you can see that one person of him at 10% of him.

1:05:53

That is that piece of Molly. Yes.

1:05:54

So it's like, you can see this version of him that's better and good and not corrupted by, well, I was going to say greed and arrogance, but arrogance kind of was always more refined, but it was cute.

1:06:10

It was cute. He was endearing and charming arrogance.

1:06:12

This is a little different.

1:06:15

Yeah.

1:06:15

I

1:06:15

think

1:06:15

we

1:06:15

should

1:06:15

put

1:06:15

a

1:06:15

pin

1:06:15

in

1:06:20

it. Okay. And let's stay alert and please don't die in the meantime.

1:06:28

Don't die. Okay.

1:06:29

The next time we have the tower.

1:06:32

Okay. Okay. That's a plan.

1:06:34

Shake

1:06:34

on

1:06:37

it.

1:06:43

I kicked some snow into the lava Or

1:06:48

maybe we can build a raft, a snow raft, which is build a raft and, and, and leave right now.

1:06:53

You and me. Okay.

1:06:55

Just kidding.

1:06:57

It's a good idea though.

1:06:59

Its a very inviting lets go protect.

1:07:03

All right. Okay. Yeah. That's good.

1:07:07

I'm going to grab you a question. Can we go to the edge of the lava?

1:07:10

Interesting to me.

1:07:11

Oh yeah, sure.

1:07:15

Let's go Squint at as they walked by.

1:07:22

This is not how I pictured tonight.

1:07:25

Going to an app.

1:07:27

Do

1:07:27

you

1:07:27

mean

1:07:27

I

1:07:27

had

1:07:27

a

1:07:27

plan

1:07:27

to

1:07:27

do

1:07:27

something

1:07:27

really

1:07:27

nice

1:07:27

for

1:07:27

you

1:07:27

really

1:07:27

special

1:07:27

and

1:07:27

have

1:07:27

a

1:07:27

one

1:07:27

on

1:07:27

one

1:07:27

moment

1:07:27

and

1:07:40

yeah. I mean it didn't happen, you know?

1:07:42

Hey, I think, you know, you'll make sure to do it at another time.

1:07:46

No, I think I can do it now.

1:07:48

I'll tell you a poem up.

1:07:50

Oh no.

1:07:52

One's ever written me a poem before.

1:07:54

Yeah. I thought, you know, you, you you've just been so distant from us.

1:07:59

I would just want to make, make sure that you know that you were a part of the team and part of the, the family.

1:08:03

And so for us, that's so sweet.

1:08:06

Well, you know, I do what I can or should I, you can sit a bunch of apps and stuff.

1:08:15

Not very Long. I had to write it while we were walking today is really hard to write while you walk.

1:08:23

Yeah, of course it gets all weird. I've tried it in as a rhyme scheme kind of falls apart what it is And

1:08:27

a big, bold, brave Yasha hair.

1:08:31

So long like yummy pasta, Right?

1:08:36

Sturdy as the culture of Tasha.

1:08:38

If you are dirty, we will wash you.

1:08:42

If you cross her, it will cost you.

1:08:45

We'd be sad if we ever lost ya.

1:08:50

Oh,

1:08:50

I

1:08:50

scoop

1:08:50

her

1:08:50

up

1:08:50

and

1:08:50

I

1:08:50

give

1:08:50

her

1:08:50

a

1:08:50

big

1:08:56

hug.

1:08:56

That's

1:08:56

so

1:08:59

nice. Well, you know, I just thought that you needed to hear it from someone because no one is going to tell you, you you're a special out here on these, you know, horrible wastelands, you know, it was going to just look in your eyes and say, Hey you, I like you.

1:09:18

Thank you. This may I keep this?

1:09:22

Of course. Yeah. Yeah.

1:09:24

So this is a very special, I'm going to put it in my, my a flower journal.

1:09:30

Okay. And just remember I was the first person to ever write you a poem.

1:09:35

I will always remember it. All right.

1:09:37

Thank you so much for this. I will always remember it, right.

1:09:41

Well we'll we'll we will, we will we'll do Something

1:09:45

more special. Lets put a pin in This That's

1:09:47

a good idea. Will do a proper of something.

1:09:50

A proper something. Okay. Something.

1:09:52

Yes. Okay. Okay.

1:09:54

All right. Shake it.

1:09:55

Shake

1:09:55

it

1:09:59

up.

1:10:01

Great.

1:10:01

Role

1:10:07

okay.

1:10:07

All

1:10:10

right.

1:10:12

Now. So how are you guys doing?

1:10:15

What do you want to go to talk about it next to the lava?

1:10:17

I'm sure if I were to throw up any, this is where I sort of thing for warmth.

1:10:24

Is that going to be a problem or are we good at asking Lucian?

1:10:31

Yeah. Looking right at him.

1:10:32

No, I mean W warmth is a quite necessary out here.

1:10:38

Okay. You, you guys are going to be good.

1:10:40

I

1:10:40

think

1:10:40

we'll

1:10:40

be

1:10:43

fine. Okay.

1:10:44

I

1:10:44

walked

1:10:44

a

1:10:44

little

1:10:44

ways

1:10:44

off

1:10:44

towards

1:10:44

where

1:10:44

I

1:10:44

saw

1:10:44

everyone

1:10:44

kept

1:10:44

going

1:10:44

back

1:10:44

and

1:10:44

forth

1:10:44

to

1:10:44

all

1:10:44

the,

1:10:44

by

1:10:44

the

1:10:44

love

1:10:44

of

1:10:44

flow

1:10:44

and

1:10:44

I

1:10:44

begin

1:10:44

to

1:10:44

a

1:10:44

ritual,

1:10:44

the

1:10:44

cast,

1:10:44

the

1:10:44

dome

1:10:56

there. You got it. Okay.

1:11:02

And just out of curiosity, have any of us or rather have I have ever heard of the clarity order, right?

1:11:08

You get street check. Any of those names.

1:11:10

C a For

1:11:16

it. But you know that name.

1:11:18

I mean I've, I've read like Todd Orrick.

1:11:21

We know personally, but I try not to spoil This that's from The it doesn't matter.

1:11:29

Well,

1:11:29

my

1:11:29

history

1:11:29

is

1:11:29

dog

1:11:29

shit,

1:11:29

but

1:11:29

16,

1:11:35

16.

1:11:35

You've

1:11:35

heard

1:11:35

a

1:11:35

couple

1:11:35

of

1:11:35

stories

1:11:35

they

1:11:35

talk

1:11:35

about

1:11:35

for,

1:11:35

for

1:11:35

specifically

1:11:35

a,

1:11:35

probably

1:11:35

a

1:11:35

little

1:11:35

more

1:11:35

of

1:11:35

a

1:11:44

boogeyman.

1:11:44

It's

1:11:44

supposedly

1:11:44

a

1:11:44

group

1:11:44

of

1:11:44

odd

1:11:44

outsider

1:11:44

warriors

1:11:44

that

1:11:44

deal

1:11:44

with

1:11:44

dark

1:11:51

magic. And there are some stories that tell them, helping people when certain monsters arise in some thing that they are the monsters themselves.

1:11:59

But most of it's, most of the tails ended with the general idea of just don't go near them.

1:12:06

They were weird and probably not good, but it's just like, I don't know a Guild or a club.

1:12:14

Okay. That's the best, the best that you can make out with memory.

1:12:23

We've got a really cool symbol two.

1:12:24

Is that right?

1:12:27

Anybody else? Like do anything? Where are you going to go ahead and rest down for the night On

1:12:31

the dome? Yes.

1:12:31

One

1:12:31

to

1:12:31

open

1:12:31

for

1:12:31

a

1:12:36

shift. Yes. I don't Even know if we need a shift at this point.

1:12:40

Yeah. Wait, someone's got to stay up. What if they leave or kill us?

1:12:43

Why haven't they done it yet? In fact, it'll be way easier to kill up an hour ago By

1:12:47

fine. I'll stay up to you. Just Let

1:12:49

the smoke cause their sleep. Do your gods.

1:12:52

You can take a second. Watch when you're done.

1:12:56

I'm trying to wake us up 10 minutes before they go.

1:12:58

Yeah. Does it seem like they're laying down to go to sleep at all out there?

1:13:01

Yeah. Everyone's kind of bending down and gathering around.

1:13:03

They're a little Fire let's take the first Watch all right.

1:13:08

Perception. Check from both of you. If you don't mind.

1:13:10

And

1:13:10

this

1:13:10

is

1:13:10

a

1:13:10

vantage

1:13:10

you

1:13:10

as

1:13:10

my

1:13:13

20th. Oh a disadvantage, right balls six, 12, 12.

1:13:21

So I'm on an eventful. I mean the sky is clear, you know, occasionally the clouds come through and occasionally you can plant them and see bits of the star is poking through and the distant dark void of the night sky, the fire right next to the tomb takers begins to dwindle slightly into a warm Ember, but they're all mostly resting.

1:13:40

And except for Lucy and you just kind of just leaning against or a rock and just kind of looking in your direction While

1:13:47

we're having our Watch.

1:13:48

Caleb has taken out the, the color from inside of the following the rules of her last week and that power source.

1:13:58

And I'm just going to start to wild talking to that, but just trying to examine them C if the two things seem compatible, begin the study of these things, you can kind of check that is vantage.

1:14:10

Yes.

1:14:13

Well they're both really low rolls.

1:14:14

A 15.

1:14:17

Mm.

1:14:20

There might be a way, but there's just so much swimming in your head right now from the conversations earlier of the possibilities.

1:14:24

Some of the things that Lucy and said I'm trying to do is just a lot in your mind, I'm trying to occupy that space and you, you can't find the concentration tonight to really put it together.

1:14:35

Perfect.

1:14:35

You

1:14:35

know,

1:14:35

I'm

1:14:35

having

1:14:35

trouble

1:14:35

with

1:14:40

this.

1:14:42

I think mainly because I'm feeling guilty, You

1:14:48

guilty felt guilty about what?

1:14:56

Well, I can't help, but feel like I talked you out here to, Oh, I told you I had a place for you to stay with your family.

1:15:03

I told you I could get you back to your family.

1:15:04

And we are stuck out here on the edge of nowhere with no way out.

1:15:08

And we are heading toward some sort of a precedent.

1:15:11

There's no, I mean, that's not your, you have plenty to feel guilty about in your life without, you know, adding that too to it.

1:15:20

Listen, I deep down inside, you know, I wanted you to talk to me into it.

1:15:26

I want to be with you all.

1:15:28

And

1:15:28

I

1:15:28

feel

1:15:28

more

1:15:28

guilt

1:15:28

than

1:15:28

you

1:15:28

could

1:15:28

ever

1:15:28

know

1:15:28

about

1:15:33

this. I mean, if I don't go home, my son grows up without a mother.

1:15:38

My husband has to find a new wife and he has no, okay.

1:15:44

He's

1:15:44

a

1:15:44

sweet

1:15:49

though. He's very sweet, but like Wharf, but, but it took me a second, but I want it to come.

1:16:05

I want it to be here. And frankly, you know, we haven't had time for it, but you know, I, I I've, I've felt awful about it as well.

1:16:19

And that's like, I can't be here for you for all of you fully and be there for them fully.

1:16:27

It's like, I'm in two places at the same time and mentally, and it's, it's impossible.

1:16:34

So, And

1:16:37

you don't do any of the guilt is still, you know, I've, I've grown so accustomed to having you at my side.

1:16:44

It's been a long time and I just don't want to leave you behind the scenes.

1:16:51

I

1:16:51

don't

1:16:51

really,

1:16:51

you

1:16:51

know,

1:16:51

function

1:16:51

I'm

1:16:51

on

1:16:51

my

1:16:51

own

1:16:51

so

1:16:58

much. You don't. I mean, I don't think any of us really do you know when Lucian was talking about how he's His

1:17:11

spirit was sort of split into parts and scattered a sender, you just made me think about us.

1:17:18

You know, the nine about how we all started.

1:17:23

That's how we were sort of disparate parts of people.

1:17:27

And it took us coming together to feel whole again, I sort of feel bad for the guy because I know what that's like.

1:17:38

And If I left you all, if you left us all, you know, it just wouldn't be the same.

1:17:44

So

1:17:44

I

1:17:44

don't

1:17:44

know

1:17:44

how

1:17:44

to,

1:17:44

I

1:17:44

don't

1:17:44

know

1:17:44

how

1:17:44

to

1:17:44

square

1:17:44

it

1:17:44

for

1:17:44

any

1:17:44

of

1:17:44

us

1:17:44

because

1:17:44

this

1:17:44

journey

1:17:44

will

1:17:44

come

1:17:44

to

1:17:44

an

1:17:44

end

1:17:44

at

1:17:44

some

1:17:54

point. And then, Yeah,

1:17:56

I've got a bad feeling about that.

1:17:57

Don't

1:17:57

want

1:17:57

it

1:17:57

to

1:17:57

this

1:17:57

makes

1:17:57

me

1:17:57

nervous

1:17:57

for

1:17:57

him

1:17:57

looking

1:17:57

at

1:17:57

you

1:17:57

like

1:18:05

that. That's what it is that doesn't help.

1:18:07

So

1:18:07

wrapped

1:18:07

up

1:18:07

in

1:18:07

my

1:18:07

own

1:18:07

bullshit

1:18:07

for

1:18:07

so

1:18:14

long. And this is clearly something bigger than all of us, bigger than them, bigger than he thank you for using the proper grammar.

1:18:22

I

1:18:22

feel

1:18:22

like

1:18:22

it's

1:18:22

going

1:18:22

to

1:18:22

be

1:18:22

a

1:18:22

threading,

1:18:22

a

1:18:22

needle

1:18:22

to

1:18:22

come

1:18:34

out. The other side of this, all of us, any of us.

1:18:39

And then the worst part is if we come out the other side and we survive or win or whatever it is, Then

1:18:48

it's a goodbye.

1:18:49

I

1:18:49

don't

1:18:49

want

1:18:49

to

1:18:49

think

1:18:49

about

1:18:57

that.

1:18:59

Well then good. Think about your guilt and I'll think about mine Check

1:19:08

And that'll keep us company That

1:19:11

is pulling her a hug.

1:19:12

I

1:19:12

love

1:19:16

you. I will always love you.

1:19:19

Thank

1:19:22

you. I'm sorry. Thank you.

1:19:29

Yeah. What a mess. We should wake up.

1:19:31

The hours is taking the next Watch.

1:19:36

We can take next Watch Hey.

1:19:39

Gosh, where are you? Good. I can do it.

1:19:41

I can take her. And I'm not suggesting.

1:19:43

We

1:19:43

forgot

1:19:43

to

1:19:43

look

1:19:43

for

1:19:43

a

1:19:43

wheeled

1:19:49

friend. Maybe you just scan the horizon.

1:19:54

Good night. Good night.

1:19:55

They're

1:19:55

here

1:19:55

with

1:19:55

all

1:19:59

this. I just put a cap on her hands and I go to sleep is making biscuits And

1:20:08

a little hate being awake.

1:20:09

I do too. I don't like being woken up.

1:20:12

I just hate it, but I knew crawl over.

1:20:16

Somebody's sit next to you.

1:20:20

Sorry.

1:20:26

How are you rolling.

1:20:34

Hold on now. How are you feeling with all this?

1:20:37

Oh, this is awful.

1:20:40

Yeah. How are you doing? And it's all you guys talking.

1:20:43

Well,

1:20:43

she

1:20:43

asked

1:20:43

me

1:20:43

out

1:20:43

on

1:20:43

a

1:20:48

date.

1:20:50

C

1:20:51

Yeah. Yeah. She asked me out on a date and we were going to go tonight and then the tower, but it's OK.

1:21:01

There's a lot going on right now. And you know, we have to focus on, on keeping everybody safe and making sure that the world doesn't end, you know?

1:21:13

Yeah. That's the way, like, obviously This, that's the most important C first and foremost, but you can hear the poem.

1:21:19

Well, I was working on it and then I just, I, I kind of ended up writing her letter.

1:21:27

I still have a poem, but I, Right.

1:21:33

I just ended up writing her a letter. I'd felt weird and it felt like really I wasn't ready yet.

1:21:38

So I just wrote her a note and, and then she hasn't yet on a date.

1:21:46

Yeah.

1:21:46

I

1:21:46

feel

1:21:46

like

1:21:50

Right.

1:21:54

I feel like I saw you and Ford getting a very like drapey with each other and just like, you know, the number we were sleeping the other night.

1:22:07

Gotcha.

1:22:09

Josh

1:22:09

gets

1:22:09

to

1:22:09

be,

1:22:09

you

1:22:09

kiss

1:22:09

a

1:22:09

pretty

1:22:09

before

1:22:09

really

1:22:31

Underwater. So I don't think it counts. I thought they counted, but I don't think the gaps.

1:22:34

What did you feel? What did it feel like?

1:22:37

Was it a wonderful, you know what, those butterflies that keep appearing around us.

1:22:41

That was a lot with that.

1:22:43

Maybe they should like flu out of your stomach.

1:22:46

I mean, if you can see the routing them inside, I think wonderful.

1:22:52

Why

1:22:52

is

1:22:52

it

1:22:55

romantic? This is pretty romantic.

1:22:57

How do you feel about him?

1:23:00

I mean, Right.

1:23:08

It kind of feels different than I thought it would after all of the books that I read to, you know, like it feels like, like we know each other really well, you know?

1:23:21

And all of those books that I read it's to strangers coming together and forging this passionate affair and it doesn't, it doesn't feel like that.

1:23:32

It feels like Right.

1:23:37

Like it feels comfortable instead.

1:23:43

Hmm. But in a good way, From

1:23:49

my experience, which is A

1:23:54

lot, I've found that The

1:24:02

passion and the love for somebody is sort of is stronger.

1:24:05

The more you know them and the more you love them.

1:24:10

And you know, I read I've read books, but I don't feel like it's ever really like That.

1:24:17

It's it's better.

1:24:22

But

1:24:27

I'm excited for you. I'm excited for you.

1:24:30

Wow. I can't believe he kissed you.

1:24:32

Did he slip you the tongue or just the tip?

1:24:39

Wow.

1:24:41

I'm going to wait to kiss him again until everything dies down though.

1:24:44

You know, because it feels a little strange to like be making out when, like I know that N a P go to the dome is Lucien still just staring at him, just staring over at the dome.

1:24:54

You know, it feels creepy to do it when that's happening right there.

1:24:57

Yeah.

1:24:57

It's

1:24:57

given

1:24:57

us

1:24:57

as

1:24:57

a

1:25:02

leader. You can hear us. Can you hear us?

1:25:04

Listen, can you hear us?

1:25:07

Hello? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

1:25:14

Right?

1:25:17

Well, I'm excited for you.

1:25:18

No pressure, whatever happens, but how beautiful to explore those things?

1:25:27

Yeah.

1:25:30

I look over at both sleeping.

1:25:33

I cover her up because she is like starfish a lot for Blake.

1:25:37

Look

1:25:37

at

1:25:37

her

1:25:37

arms,

1:25:37

arms,

1:25:37

like

1:25:37

how

1:25:37

fun

1:25:37

conduces

1:25:37

a

1:25:37

leg

1:25:37

over

1:25:37

Kayla

1:25:47

Is a pretty tight in here. You know, Really

1:25:50

tight. I don't think we have theirs. I'm ready to sleep in that I can sleep anywhere.

1:25:54

But man, after sleeping in that tower and having your own place with a fireplace and It's

1:26:00

nice.

1:26:06

Well,

1:26:06

I

1:26:06

hope

1:26:06

we

1:26:06

make

1:26:06

it

1:26:09

through.

1:26:09

I

1:26:09

don't

1:26:14

know. I want it to go on.

1:26:16

It's not good. And I hope we can have a part in taking it, taking it down, whatever that means.

1:26:30

Okay.

1:26:34

Okay. Okay. If you finish your Watch who's taken last week.

1:26:38

This wasn't bullshit.

1:26:40

Okay. Bow and you just bow.

1:26:43

Alrighty. All right, I'll do it. Okay.

1:26:45

If you guys text on a watch, right?

1:26:51

It's like Fox in here deeply Boba farts.

1:27:00

One

1:27:00

per

1:27:03

day.

1:27:03

You

1:27:03

can

1:27:03

still

1:27:08

awake.

1:27:08

I

1:27:08

poke

1:27:08

my

1:27:08

head

1:27:08

out

1:27:08

and

1:27:08

this

1:27:08

is

1:27:08

a

1:27:08

sit

1:27:08

in

1:27:08

the

1:27:08

back

1:27:08

they

1:27:08

were

1:27:13

watching. Yeah, it's really creepy.

1:27:16

Does he, does he blink?

1:27:19

I put my head up again. Does he blink make a perception?

1:27:22

If you were watching from a disadvantage with this is a really good role of 15 and a 19, 19 total, as you can tell, you're not seeing them blink.

1:27:33

Now it's below freezing outside.

1:27:37

How is this eyeballs not freezing out of his sockets?

1:27:40

They might be. They might be frozen open, perhaps.

1:27:43

This is our chance.

1:27:44

I

1:27:44

don't

1:27:44

think

1:27:44

it

1:27:47

is.

1:27:47

I'm

1:27:47

going

1:27:47

to

1:27:47

be

1:27:47

you

1:27:47

take

1:27:53

one. I'll take a break.

1:27:55

We've

1:27:55

got

1:27:55

a

1:27:55

few

1:27:55

Ninja

1:27:55

stars,

1:27:55

left

1:27:55

brain

1:27:55

pop

1:27:55

up

1:27:55

the

1:27:55

reflection

1:27:55

in

1:27:55

the

1:27:55

Moonlight

1:27:55

and

1:27:55

all

1:27:55

you

1:27:55

see

1:27:55

is

1:28:08

Bob.

1:28:08

Hey,

1:28:08

I,

1:28:08

I

1:28:08

meant

1:28:08

to

1:28:08

tell

1:28:08

you,

1:28:08

I,

1:28:08

I

1:28:08

just,

1:28:08

it,

1:28:08

I

1:28:08

live

1:28:08

on

1:28:08

the

1:28:27

real. Yeah.

1:28:29

Wait. Okay. It would all be, I was pretty.

1:28:33

Yeah.

1:28:33

What

1:28:33

do

1:28:33

you

1:28:35

mean? Okay though, right? It's okay. No is good.

1:28:37

I, I guess that's so exciting.

1:28:47

Was she like, like leaning it?

1:28:51

Was she like Intuit or is she like, okay, no, it wasn't.

1:28:58

She

1:29:02

Seemed to happy. And I came here was my move is really tough.

1:29:10

Yeah. That's, that's pretty magical.

1:29:13

Yeah. I mean, I kinda, like I noticed like, there's like a breakfast and you guys were like, not make a guy contact and like a weird way.

1:29:23

Oh, Oh, it might be weird now.

1:29:25

No, no, no. I think it was just like, after, after that moment and you know, your, like, you don't want to give anything away, so you try to avoid each other, but also you're really infatuated, so it's not working, but you did great.

1:29:39

I got to dive right in.

1:29:41

It's good. Like why, Why

1:29:44

don't you just, it doesn't seem like we have a good PR pre from anything.

1:29:49

So after the statues sucked her life or whatever, who knows how long we have.

1:29:59

Yeah. Super dark know On

1:30:02

that note.

1:30:03

I kind of, we were in, like, we were just walked through a creepy forest and we we're like a mile beneath the earth.

1:30:11

And I kind of asked Josh on a date, On

1:30:16

a date.

1:30:22

Yeah, yeah.

1:30:22

She

1:30:22

said,

1:30:26

yes. Yeah. That she was a shit. She was like really excited.

1:30:28

She was like, I'm happy about this.

1:30:30

Cause like, I don't know.

1:30:33

I

1:30:33

just

1:30:33

wanted

1:30:33

a

1:30:33

fresh

1:30:33

start

1:30:33

with

1:30:38

Yasha. Cause we've been through so much.

1:30:39

I was thinking about it the other day.

1:30:43

I've fought Yasha like four times in hand-to-hand combat.

1:30:50

Yeah, you really did.

1:30:52

Yeah. Right. Like we've had more physical contact through beating the shit out of each other than anything else.

1:30:58

So it kind of feels like there's like a little bit of this, like past baggage.

1:31:04

I don't know the Memory. Yeah.

1:31:06

I'm with you. Yep.

1:31:08

So it just felt like maybe, maybe a date, but kind of full disclosure.

1:31:15

The last time I went on a date, like growing up, my idea of a date was to get tipsy and then commit Be be any and then get more tipsy.

1:31:26

And then maybe in the night with blackmail, depending on how to be in any way.

1:31:30

Wow. Your romantic life is really unique.

1:31:35

Yeah. Yeah. You were at a date.

1:31:37

You're gonna go on a date. Like, you know, Well,

1:31:40

it's the same thing. We could die tomorrow to get dye at any point.

1:31:45

And I think a lot. Why don't you just like, you know, go on to have a picnic by the lava or something?

1:31:50

Well,

1:31:50

peek

1:31:50

my

1:31:50

head

1:31:50

out

1:31:50

to

1:31:50

the

1:31:53

Lucian.

1:31:53

That's

1:32:00

Right. That's creepy.

1:32:02

Yeah. I look at Lucian.

1:32:04

Is he blinking yet?

1:32:11

Oh God.

1:32:12

You

1:32:12

can

1:32:12

like

1:32:12

sit

1:32:12

up

1:32:12

a

1:32:15

bit.

1:32:24

I know.

1:32:24

Anyway,

1:32:24

I

1:32:24

figure

1:32:24

I

1:32:24

could

1:32:24

just,

1:32:24

I

1:32:24

don't

1:32:24

know,

1:32:24

the

1:32:24

next

1:32:24

time

1:32:24

we're

1:32:24

in

1:32:24

the

1:32:24

tower

1:32:24

to

1:32:24

make

1:32:24

some

1:32:35

adjustments. So, you know, I have a little quiet night of some dinner, eat some bugs.

1:32:39

Yeah. You're just going to find like a, a quiet spot.

1:32:41

Like what's above our rooms just to go to the very top.

1:32:44

I'm sure there's like a moonlit starry night.

1:32:48

You can take advantage of Caleb

1:32:52

would lend out. He is like penthouse, you know his upper school.

1:32:57

Cause we've never seen it. You know, they are of course just sneak up.

1:33:00

It'll be super romantic and it'll be like a B and a without fucked up and everything.

1:33:05

Go with what, you know, go with what, you know, I

1:33:10

kind of like this. All right. I kind of like this.

1:33:12

All right.

1:33:13

Do

1:33:13

you

1:33:13

have

1:33:13

the

1:33:13

best

1:33:16

ideas? Hey, good job.

1:33:18

Thanks Kevin.

1:33:19

Keep

1:33:24

it. All right.

1:33:25

You guys finish your Watch And

1:33:30

the sun isn't yet rising when you finish your eight hour rest and she went to bed relatively early, waiting for the next morning to come.

1:33:38

Yup. Oh God.

1:33:40

The 30th bed.

1:33:42

What it is still surreal though is, and all of them, Steve

1:33:47

spent out here in this frozen wasteland that is Ice will cross.

1:33:52

There is something odd and beautiful and ominous about that bright orange glow, that peaks out of the darkness all through the night.

1:34:04

As you all kind of wake up and begin to get your things and mentally prepare yourself for whatever is a head.

1:34:12

You can just see the, just the darkness of the snow beyond the source of your light and the Fire and just to pitch black.

1:34:21

And then the burning orange glowing embers of this river is stretching from right to left.

1:34:29

I'm

1:34:29

going

1:34:29

to

1:34:29

hear

1:34:29

the

1:34:29

Tombtakers

1:34:29

can

1:34:29

have

1:34:29

a

1:34:29

thousand

1:34:29

of

1:34:29

them

1:34:29

getting

1:34:29

up

1:34:29

and

1:34:29

talking

1:34:29

amongst

1:34:36

themselves. And a little bit of food is being cooked and distributed amongst their group.

1:34:40

You guys kind of get yourselves, roused fed and ready just as the sky begins to slowly turn to a lighter color.

1:34:49

It's a, still a fairly clear DEI.

1:34:52

And you hear the singing.

1:34:56

Well, fuck You.

1:35:00

You, you have that. You bring this of course.

1:35:02

And she is, I

1:35:06

get the address and Otis comes by and starts like Pat and you on the shoulder.

1:35:10

And like you already finish the meal was finishing meals.

1:35:15

So

1:35:15

you

1:35:15

see

1:35:15

a

1:35:15

Cree

1:35:15

stuck,

1:35:15

stuck

1:35:15

out

1:35:15

to

1:35:15

the

1:35:15

edge

1:35:15

and

1:35:15

you

1:35:15

pull

1:35:15

out

1:35:15

and

1:35:15

you

1:35:15

roll

1:35:15

out

1:35:15

this

1:35:21

scroll. It's like a long piece of almost leather, like parchment thick, begins to quietly read, Looking

1:35:29

it up. And then you know, About

1:35:31

a minute later of reading, This shouts.

1:35:34

One phrase out in the scroll just to finish is not on fire, but almost like just a, a, a glowing cinder.

1:35:42

Like you, like you watched heat, coil back a fine silk gossamer material, and then it's gone Then nothing great.

1:35:53

Looks back to Lucy and nods.

1:35:57

Right. All right. Is your warm things together?

1:35:59

Got to hear things about, what do you say?

1:36:05

Role

1:36:05

10

1:36:10

minutes.

1:36:13

The Role to see how many minutes it would be. What did you roll?

1:36:15

Role Do

1:36:19

you have, can I have to say during our Watch I attuned to the smartly purchased a ring of fire resistant.

1:36:25

You got it.

1:36:26

Hey,

1:36:26

look

1:36:26

at

1:36:30

that. We're here.

1:36:31

That

1:36:31

was

1:36:31

a

1:36:31

goal

1:36:31

long

1:36:34

game. The fun game, going to be looking at the sky, looking at it, right at that point, you look up and you can see clouds beginning And

1:36:48

together and darken.

1:36:50

You

1:36:50

needed

1:36:50

a

1:36:50

storm,

1:36:54

huh? Indeed.

1:36:55

So I made one.

1:36:58

That's impressive.

1:36:59

Can you do it again?

1:37:01

There was at this girl was just the one at a time bomber.

1:37:07

Hmm. And overtime over the next 10 minutes, nifty a light snowfall begins to drift from the now dark covered gray sky above.

1:37:16

And as The snow falls onto the flames below, just like the snow you would tossed, it begins to gather until you begin to see patches of snow, that block the glow from beneath giving almost leaping stone.

1:37:33

And then there's more time passes seems to be coating the river somewhat.

1:37:43

Do you see like the heavy pouches set up now with Zuora and carrying the large pouch?

1:37:46

You know, just carrying his objects, clicking around inside is a hurdle, I guess, and say, Oh, over the shoulder and you watched the whole kind of repair themselves and go, All

1:38:01

right.

1:38:04

I think it's time to travel, But

1:38:08

let's do it quietly.

1:38:08

You

1:38:08

see

1:38:13

The best of we stepped gingerly, fiery spirit sometimes weighed in the spring stream.

1:38:19

Cool. So I hope you brought your quiet shoes.

1:38:23

Sure. Do you have quite shoes?

1:38:24

I have to pass without a trace.

1:38:26

That's right. That's good.

1:38:28

So, you know, if we're going to be moving now, anyone they would want to join us to move quickly.

1:38:37

Yeah. I mean, we're all going together for it. If you have anyone who would want to follow where we wanna go.

1:38:46

All right, cool. The search for our way down, the embankment I am with that, you all begin scouting along the edge of the, the cliff face that leads down into this river of lava.

1:38:57

It doesn't take more than 20 minutes or so before you find what it looks to be a bit of a jagged path that eventually leads to the surface.

1:39:04

And at this point now, you know, the snow has been gathering where you are.

1:39:08

You can occasionally see bits of the orange glow breaking through, but now it's just this like slow moving powder.

1:39:17

Wow. As you kind of begin to step down in kind of a single file path formation to the bottom, which is a Lucian goes and takes that a little, it looks like a, a, a smooth stone.

1:39:32

Not quite sure what it is.

1:39:34

And he takes it and throws it out and it hits the stove and the snow just kind of, Puff's a little bit sticks his foot out.

1:39:43

And it crunches in the snow kinda feels a bit.

1:39:47

You expect that you all with a smile, There

1:39:51

is a leap, right?

1:39:59

Right.

1:40:05

Okay. Is he being to step out one by one?

1:40:06

The Tombtakers begin to kind of make their way into the center of the lava river, waiting for you all to catch up.

1:40:16

Go, shall we we'll cast pass without a trace on a show us how many people can you affect with them.

1:40:23

So

1:40:23

do

1:40:23

underwater

1:40:23

breathing

1:40:23

to

1:40:23

refill

1:40:23

before

1:40:23

we

1:40:23

go

1:40:23

out

1:40:23

there

1:40:23

and

1:40:23

share

1:40:23

within

1:40:23

30

1:40:23

feet

1:40:23

of

1:40:32

me. Okay. So you were getting you, you guys end the Tombtakers.

1:40:36

No. Okay.

1:40:37

You got it.

1:40:40

Of course. Before we go out to like leave a note for a wheeled friend or anything, anything that we need to tell you, I guess you can always mesh messaging.

1:40:48

Frankie is also probably rethinking.

1:40:52

Why are you doing something In the lava or no?

1:40:56

Oh,

1:40:58

I'm casting a waterwalk on myself and a protection from energy.

1:41:02

Right. So, okay.

1:41:04

I'm just trying to manage the last hour.

1:41:07

Okay.

1:41:07

You

1:41:07

were

1:41:07

talking

1:41:07

about

1:41:07

dumping

1:41:07

The

1:41:07

yeah,

1:41:07

but

1:41:07

it's

1:41:07

but

1:41:07

it's

1:41:07

got

1:41:07

the

1:41:07

same

1:41:13

anymore. Yeah.

1:41:20

Some of the, the star Wars as well to have it out to him.

1:41:24

You got it. Yeah. The latest there in your hand, faint glow lighting you up just right off the edge way though.

1:41:30

They are the five Tombtakers they were looking and kind of weighting expectantly.

1:41:35

Oh, well it's on the river across the us.

1:41:37

No, there on the river. It's a long way to cross, but you guys are moving together for a mile away.

1:41:40

A cross, right? Yep. Yeah. A little over a mile.

1:41:42

Yeah, you're right. I follow them.

1:41:44

Yep. Okay. Yeah. That's right.

1:41:46

And so there'll be four lengths to this journey for the first link.

1:41:49

I need everyone to, Role a communal stealth to check.

1:41:53

I'm going to use my transmitter's ability to not bring a spouse a lot.

1:41:57

And I'm going to turn it into a white ermine or white winter weasel.

1:42:00

Okay. Okay.

1:42:04

If you will be doing that, we'd be writing on one of your friends.

1:42:06

Then If

1:42:08

I have to, I was thinking it would be small and light on the snow.

1:42:11

That's true. And you still have to make a sound check for your weasel for you guys.

1:42:14

You can do that. Okay.

1:42:15

So 28 to 28.

1:42:19

Nice. Ooh, we got the same as the way the natural one.

1:42:24

Got it. Okay.

1:42:25

35, 26.

1:42:30

Okay. A 21.

1:42:32

Okay. 34.

1:42:34

Okay. The fucking resoles man.

1:42:37

It wasn't a pleasant. It was just plus 10.

1:42:46

Okay. And some decent rolls all around the first quarter of the journey.

1:42:50

You all quietly kind of gathered together the still two slightly separate crews, Right.

1:42:59

Stepping in the snow, falling around and do you every now and then some of the snow will separate as the embankments pull.

1:43:06

Cause the lava flow beneath does not have a continuous flow.

1:43:10

It shifts and changes as parts. Cool.

1:43:12

And break. And occasionally you'll just see like an orange glow up here to the right of you.

1:43:17

And you have to kind of carefully maneuver around.

1:43:20

Anxiety

1:43:23

builds. Use your ring too, to do what you want me to like push you in or so by a test, the poacher dice, it was clearly important.

1:43:32

All right. All right.

1:43:35

Now, for the second length of This, as you began to make your way towards the center of this river on everybody, make sure And

1:43:42

checked and assume that one is the weed loan was going on.

1:43:45

Yeah.

1:43:52

Wait the land and it stays up.

1:43:56

Okay. That's what a treat for 27 33 30.

1:44:02

Yep. 39, 26, again, 31 31.

1:44:05

Good round the room And

1:44:08

covered quite well for the Tombtakers who did not have a good round at that time, they took a few steps in, at one point you C some of the snow kind of crumples inward, and they're just a bright orange glow and you see Otis kinda, and Zorin kind of grabs them by the Scruff of the neck and pulls in the Backwoods, Which

1:44:26

one is carrying the threshold crash name or something.

1:44:30

And where do you guess Zuora, who has the large pack on the back?

1:44:32

I'm the only pack that is a large enough and appears to be full enough to be Carrying

1:44:38

it. It's a backpack on a ship on the timing of that back.

1:44:42

Okay. You guys now a continuing to the center of this and you've reached that midpoint where looking front and back, it is an equal, distant journey.

1:44:53

And you see elements of the river kind of shifting a bit more pockets, begin to open, light begins to pour through, but it seems to be working.

1:45:05

Okay. If we can have everybody Role stuff checks again for the third length of just Okay.

1:45:23

Okay. 26, nice money.

1:45:28

Okay. And 1741.

1:45:33

Okay. I'm trying to date total, right?

1:45:38

Yes. 31 31 30.

1:45:41

Nice. Okay.

1:45:42

Oh,

1:45:48

no.

1:45:48

Unfortunately

1:45:48

you

1:45:48

had

1:45:48

to

1:45:48

Role

1:45:48

a

1:45:55

45.

1:45:55

It

1:45:55

was,

1:45:55

it

1:45:55

was,

1:45:55

it

1:45:55

was

1:45:55

a

1:45:55

pretty

1:45:55

decent

1:46:00

Group. D C twice a week with the Tombtakers.

1:46:02

I had a terrible round. There was a natural one in there that also skewed it heavily in a bad place.

1:46:07

But

1:46:07

as

1:46:07

you

1:46:07

all

1:46:07

are

1:46:07

carefully

1:46:07

making

1:46:07

your

1:46:07

way

1:46:07

across

1:46:07

one

1:46:07

of

1:46:07

the

1:46:07

straps

1:46:07

on

1:46:07

the

1:46:07

pack

1:46:07

kind

1:46:07

of

1:46:07

snaps

1:46:07

and

1:46:07

it

1:46:07

swings

1:46:07

a

1:46:07

bit

1:46:07

in

1:46:07

this

1:46:07

door

1:46:07

and

1:46:07

loses

1:46:07

his

1:46:22

balance. Instead it's the ground with a heavy hit or no, he gets back up quickly and he's, he pulls up the snow pulls off on the outside and kind of the, the powder beneath it as being stepped on is a little bit now glowing with the orange.

1:46:33

And there's a quiet moment is listening as well.

1:46:37

And you're all just going to tense up.

1:46:38

It's

1:46:38

not

1:46:38

a

1:46:38

solution,

1:46:47

right? I think we're okay.

1:46:47

Let's keep going.

1:46:49

You

1:46:49

can

1:46:49

use

1:46:49

this

1:46:54

Shit Beauregard.

1:46:56

It's never, it's never good.

1:46:58

Ruth through to Caleb, As you all were walking forward, you see, you've become familiar with some of these orange clothes at the beginning of kind of break through as the floats shift's in the snow gets pulled apart.

1:47:11

You

1:47:11

watch

1:47:11

as

1:47:11

one

1:47:11

pack

1:47:11

of

1:47:11

snow,

1:47:11

a

1:47:11

lot

1:47:11

of

1:47:11

orange

1:47:11

begins

1:47:11

to

1:47:11

emerge

1:47:11

and

1:47:11

you

1:47:11

watch

1:47:11

the

1:47:11

snow

1:47:11

begin

1:47:11

to

1:47:11

rapidly

1:47:11

melt

1:47:11

and

1:47:11

a

1:47:11

steam

1:47:11

begin

1:47:11

to

1:47:24

rise. As you see a figure begin to drift up a top made of roiling flame, that kind of like pops up like a gopher through.

1:47:35

It's go for a whole kind of to look at.

1:47:37

And as you see that there is no features.

1:47:39

It's just like an entity of Fire rolling and shifting, but you swear, you see eyes you see, and then glowing in a kind of appears back below.

1:47:51

Aye. Aye. Aye. I grabbed gestures on and I, I pull her close to me and I'll use my channel divinity to create a Marine layer.

1:48:00

Okay. And a fog extends anybody within five feet of me is like obscured.

1:48:05

So

1:48:05

I'll

1:48:05

just

1:48:05

start

1:48:05

reaching

1:48:05

out

1:48:05

and

1:48:05

pulling

1:48:05

like

1:48:05

the

1:48:05

tea,

1:48:11

If you do, you can still see and it radiates out for 20 feet from Right.

1:48:14

Yeah. Oh, right, right. Oh, wow. Okay.

1:48:16

So, you know, when you gather closer to Ford, you know, come here as we can close.

1:48:22

I was going to say, Hey, if this shit is going down, should we use it to it as an opportunity to, to take the other car, the threshold, cross a road.

1:48:29

I'm just throwing that out there. That's not a bad idea of, do you think a ton of his back to his parents don't want to stay quiet, quiet.

1:48:40

And the weasel stands up on to a little hind legs and then just goes and grows up Yasha.

1:48:47

I see you guys are having this conversation in.

1:48:49

You can't really see much because of the fog around you, except for the people immediately around you.

1:48:53

And as you can just take a step forward, your foot gets extremely warm.

1:48:58

Okay. And you glance down in the snow where you were stepping is melted away and you can see the orange glow behind and you just pull your foot back.

1:49:06

And as you looked back in the space and you see, this is kind of flaming face, you can appear up through, You

1:49:14

should run.

1:49:16

And that's where I take a break.

1:49:17

how

1:49:17

is

1:49:25

that? How far into this river are we?

1:49:28

We had just about maybe two thirds of the way.

1:49:32

Oh, I'm not a good spot to get in, to fight.

1:49:34

And I think the fog Could

1:49:36

actually be like a game Always

1:49:38

worked before.

1:49:39

It's

1:49:39

gonna

1:49:39

be

1:49:43

fine. I have opinions, but I'll wait.

1:49:46

I could drop It.

1:49:48

I can drop the ball. We'll figure it out. Regardless.

1:49:49

Here's the phone to dump in the

1:49:53

Oh

1:49:53

yeah,

1:49:53

there

1:49:53

we

1:49:53

have

1:49:58

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welcome back. All right. So last we left off the Mighty nine.

1:52:15

Oh

1:52:17

yeah. We're having an issue. Fire on the snow covered lava river shit.

1:52:22

As you adjust to come across the midway point, close to about the two third section, realizing with Ford's fog clouds surrounding you, that these flame entities are now coming up from beneath and apparently do not undergo the same benevolence to the snow that the river itself does.

1:52:47

One begins to burn up from below and almost 10 is the Asha toppling in.

1:52:51

So

1:52:51

what

1:52:51

do

1:52:51

you

1:52:51

do

1:52:56

run?

1:53:00

Well, we were all in this fall cloud. That's where we kind of like tied it and the things to his face up underneath the fall class.

1:53:05

Yeah, well, yeah, just to kind of write on any three Asha was standing and she almost fell in a pullback.

1:53:10

The only question is, are we leaving just with him? And we joined to grab, Right?

1:53:13

It's now a rising up as an AZ part of that, all of you are now on fire Where

1:53:26

do you protect it?

1:53:35

It kind of like zooms a bit. Now that you see as a full fledged Fire elemental has burned up from a neat, the snow and the snow melts away.

1:53:43

And that one section reduction of a standing, you guys kind of stepped back.

1:53:45

And now there's this large gaping open space where it is just glowing fiery love of the heat just immediately hits your skin and causes you to wince.

1:53:54

And the edges of your brows begin to curl back as the, as the Hare burns away.

1:53:58

And now the large Fire mental is right there in front of you.

1:54:02

And it just rushes through you all immediately and you all catch fire as well.

1:54:08

So I don't like that.

1:54:10

You all take, well, four points, a fire damage fast and got rolling.

1:54:17

And if you take too, I also I'm happy to.

1:54:19

Yeah. And we did get along the rest, correct?

1:54:21

Yeah. Yes we did. Right.

1:54:23

And the protection from fire indeed.

1:54:25

So you take defendants as well, but you are still on Fire, which means you have to take an action to try and put it out.

1:54:31

And as you guys glance forward, you can see the, the Tombtakers are kind of taking stock of This.

1:54:39

As you can see other ones starting to push through the snow around you all, and leucine just goes, all right, rolling.

1:54:45

And you see him pull just blades out.

1:54:48

And as he does, you kind of like carves them across his forearms and you see this kind of Ice material begin to build up on the outside of the blades.

1:54:57

As he prepares his Ice blades and starts running.

1:54:59

What are you guys doing? I

1:55:01

cast polymorph polymorph I cast Palio palsies, morph on Yasha and push vets on myself at a giant.

1:55:09

Okay. I'll I'll pass polymorph double-time on me and and I'll pick up Ford El Legolas swing on top of conduces.

1:55:21

Okay. And start flying.

1:55:24

Okay. You guys will just go with that.

1:55:26

Yeah. And as we're going forward, can I keep an eye on the Tombtakers?

1:55:29

Yeah, definitely.

1:55:31

And you all take six points, a fire damage. Cause you were still on Fire.

1:55:34

Okay. Nobody is tempted to put it out yet. Can you take three?

1:55:37

Can you take three? All use a first-level spell to create water again.

1:55:40

And I'll make that ring cloud, that 30 foot in front of where We're

1:55:44

going to fly. Cool. Like a carwash that's sick.

1:55:49

Yeah. All of that. And so as The happens to all the union eco forms take off the spray hits you.

1:55:55

That's it does the flames begin to do to turn into steam and it puts it out immediately on all of you, right?

1:56:05

Perception check. Oh yes. And I want to, I want, I want to say the Tombtakers as well as we can see the order, then they were running.

1:56:10

Go for it.

1:56:11

You know, maybe she does better 12 for me, my perceptions balls.

1:56:17

A 23.

1:56:19

Yeah. 23. Yeah. Okay.

1:56:21

You do see, as you are all kind of just kind of taking off in that direction, upward you're passing over the Tombtakers and you glance down at them and you can see the other elements kind of flashing around and Lucy kind of looks up as you guys go by and he goes, you're probably more strop immediately.

1:56:39

Wait, what did you do? What did he do though?

1:56:41

Like a hand motion.

1:56:43

Yeah. You didn't make a hand motion at all. He just looked at him.

1:56:46

I looked up at you guys and turned his head a little bit.

1:56:48

Yeah. So there's no counter spelt, even chance is just insane.

1:56:51

There's you know, spell. Okay. Ooh.

1:56:53

What the shit is that?

1:56:56

And if all of the polymorph is just shifting, all of you are all just rising up are now continuing and an arc through the air over the Tombtakers and are now like VAT to collide on to the banks of the snow in front of them.

1:57:07

Need you all to overlap.

1:57:09

Robotics checks, spots, boy, The

1:57:12

cocoa cocoa slow fall, and a natural 18 for 28 for me, a 13, which for me is a pretty good.

1:57:23

Okay. 17, 14 to 2115.

1:57:32

Well, you all manage the tumble. You don't take any heavy damage from this.

1:57:35

Just a, a mild, it'd be two points reduced to one, because if you all were all pretty well, except for you, if you take a full two points of legend and damage and you are prone, okay, wow.

1:57:44

At the Bush point is you all kind of like, Oh, you know, at least he goes, we're staying together.

1:57:50

We discussed this and he is just running back and you can see one of the elemental to kind of like soups up from underneath, behind it, leaks back.

1:57:58

She takes two swings with his blade.

1:58:04

Sure, sure. Yeah. That's right.

1:58:08

Do you? Yeah, nothing.

1:58:09

I

1:58:09

mean,

1:58:09

like

1:58:09

you

1:58:09

said,

1:58:09

it's

1:58:09

all

1:58:09

about

1:58:14

Otis. I was going to suggest you try to grab Otis, but, or wait is Otis.

1:58:19

Zora is the one carrying the bag, but Otis is the easy to use this one, the person that a lot Alrighty,

1:58:29

slash is twice. And you see cars through the side of the, one of these things you can elect flickers back angrily and he just continues to go into a run the rest of his group, getting their weapons ready.

1:58:37

You can see now is they do so they draw a blades they're like hooks or little pointed bits of embracers and hidden within gloves and elements where like, as they draw, they kind of cut through themselves.

1:58:48

And the blood kind of familiar to a lot of the stuff you saw Molly do, the blood can of course the edge of the blade and then begin to enchant the edges of their weapons.

1:58:58

And

1:58:58

they're

1:58:58

all

1:58:58

going

1:58:58

to

1:58:58

do

1:58:58

a

1:59:01

run. And they're looking at you as well as like a, come on, go.

1:59:05

All right. So what are you guys doing this round?

1:59:10

And I'm running, I guess yeah. Running right for it is for us to create I'm going to help Florida.

1:59:15

Okay. So you guys would be a little bit behind the rest of the group right now.

1:59:18

Does that mean the Tombtakers are catching up with us?

1:59:20

And so our group is the head of the Tombtakers.

1:59:24

Okay. All right.

1:59:26

We'll see you here while they're. This is more of just like a general order of how you guys are traveling and kind of who's ahead.

1:59:32

Who's behind, we'll say to you, Tombtakers All

1:59:41

catching up right about here.

1:59:43

Look,

1:59:43

we're

1:59:47

missing. I don't think you all should, is out there Is

1:59:51

right Up here with you.

1:59:53

All right.

1:59:55

Oh yeah.

2:00:01

Ooh. There's the Tombtakers.

2:00:02

Which

2:00:02

ones

2:00:02

are

2:00:06

wet. Well, you know, with us.

2:00:15

Yeah, yeah. They're right there. Yeah. So you guys land and slide and they're going into a run and they're just catching up right behind you as you guys are all going.

2:00:21

And so what are you doing?

2:00:23

And at this point I'm going to run, but I'm going to try to run just a little bit slower so that Zuora and who's coming up on my way.

2:00:31

What is that? My right side will pass by me.

2:00:34

Okay. But I'm looking like I'm running full speed.

2:00:37

I'm just looking like I'm maybe not as fast as everybody else.

2:00:40

Okay. You got it. So you are kind of slowing down a little bit.

2:00:44

The rest of you, you kind of push through it.

2:00:46

I'm going to do the opposite of what just is doing.

2:00:49

And I'm going to step out of the wind and try him just full bolt ahead of everybody.

2:00:57

Where do you have to have a little bit more of a kind of false behind the bit Lucien kind of comes up the side to you.

2:01:02

Crea actually it goes on quite a bit faster than the backseat in the form of allowing that the rest of them kind of begin to catch up with a gesture almost in like a, a flicking pattern.

2:01:13

There's the three of them are around you at that point.

2:01:16

Okay. Alright.

2:01:17

Now you can see the elementals that began to burst through, or like now gliding through the snow and just carving paths.

2:01:24

So you can see the kind of dark top as it is still the morning light.

2:01:29

Hasn't quite written. The sun hasn't quite Crested the distant mountain.

2:01:32

So it's still a very dark rather than the underlay below of the molten rock below.

2:01:36

And it's now peaking through and spaces.

2:01:38

And now, and it's own way as a carving, almost like somebody who is drawing across the edge of a star and you can see these streaks burning to come across your path ahead as they're kind of intersecting and trying to find a way to keep you in the space.

2:01:52

So they're not coming directly at you, but they're starting to make the path ahead of you challenging.

2:01:57

You guys continue to run for it and run forward.

2:01:59

And there is now a couple of gaps here going to have to jump past And

2:02:05

not fall in. Okay.

2:02:06

Oh boy. So

2:02:08

as you all go running, I need you all to make athletics checks for me to go ahead and just ensure that you can leap across the cross lava.

2:02:17

Okay? Yeah. I'm ignoring what he did.

2:02:20

I'm turning into a giant owl on staying low to the ground.

2:02:23

Okay.

2:02:25

You turn it into a giant owl will say, this is this for you.

2:02:29

And

2:02:29

as

2:02:29

long

2:02:29

as

2:02:29

you

2:02:29

stay

2:02:29

low

2:02:29

to

2:02:29

the

2:02:29

ground,

2:02:29

loosening

2:02:29

does

2:02:29

not

2:02:29

cancel

2:02:29

your

2:02:35

form.

2:02:42

Oh yeah. You'll be saving me. In fact, I'm going to, I'm going to, yeah, I won't.

2:02:47

I'm going to float like two feet above everyone's heads.

2:02:50

Okay. And I'm just she's This as I fly, you got it.

2:02:56

And just looking for a misstep.

2:02:57

All

2:02:59

right. Natural 20 for a 26.

2:03:02

Nice. It's a natural to, so that would be a five.

2:03:09

All right.

2:03:09

Oh,

2:03:09

I

2:03:09

need

2:03:09

an

2:03:09

acrobatics

2:03:09

as

2:03:09

a

2:03:14

flyer. I'm sorry. You were flying. You're fine.

2:03:15

18 six, six, three.

2:03:19

Oh, all right.

2:03:21

All right. Not

2:03:23

at a 28, but I'm really scared for my team.

2:03:27

Right? Do you leave off and turn and you see them all like leaping and you see something sliding it's the snow kind of sends him off guard in the momentum shift.

2:03:33

Right? The aerial flip over one of the lava flows.

2:03:35

And I turn around at a go, come on guys.

2:03:37

And I C The three people just keep it.

2:03:40

No

2:03:43

shit. The two natural twenties in a row for the Tombtakers or was that shit before?

2:03:47

Yeah, I know. Right?

2:03:50

We got okay.

2:03:53

No, no. And he, and he does, as you can to fall in you here, this feels big PT hand can grab the back of your coat and lift you up and send you back onto your feet.

2:04:01

Scrambling ahead. Can I use a reaction?

2:04:04

What are you trying to do using my slight of hand?

2:04:08

Can I try to loosen the second strap?

2:04:10

That's holding on to it? Yes. Come on, Come

2:04:12

on a new, this is what you were doing. Cola.

2:04:14

Wow.

2:04:18

Can I guide myself on this hand?

2:04:21

The fee. Okay.

2:04:27

18,

2:04:28

18. Okay. You, as you kind of get lifted back up, you can reach over.

2:04:33

This

2:04:33

is

2:04:33

real

2:04:35

quick. There's a brief moment you have. And as you can to reach up for the, the strap, it's right there, his hand pastures and says, just hold alone.

2:04:43

And he just keeps running, but he's clasping you there to it.

2:04:46

So you couldn't loosen it at all.

2:04:48

And he is, seemed to, as he saw something, but he assumed that it was going on.

2:04:53

And so he's just kind of holding you there. It's odd because in this moment there is kind of a sense of, of working together.

2:04:58

That was a fucking gamble.

2:05:00

And

2:05:00

he

2:05:00

is

2:05:00

now

2:05:00

holding

2:05:00

you

2:05:00

right

2:05:04

there. As you all continue to run forward, you know, Die.

2:05:11

No, nobody Are

2:05:14

the only person who's closer to us to try to help. You would be here.

2:05:16

A little Kaleb would be in the vicinity.

2:05:19

If you want to go ahead and Beth, the two of you can try to try and catch up.

2:05:23

And there is, this is farther ahead, right? There is a little behind you And

2:05:28

they were both going down, right.

2:05:30

You will. And I will have to choose between Yahshua.

2:05:34

Could you say Josh? Take the healer?

2:05:35

Well,

2:05:35

we'll

2:05:35

work

2:05:35

on

2:05:39

that. Okay.

2:05:39

All

2:05:43

right. 'cause you were flying while a clear value is just a stated, I'm a living do over all right.

2:05:55

So a pallet. I remember those days.

2:05:58

Yeah. I just need a, a, a dexterity check from both of you.

2:06:02

And it's just the decks check using the decks of your hours as well.

2:06:05

Oh, okay.

2:06:05

I

2:06:05

don't

2:06:05

know

2:06:05

what

2:06:05

the

2:06:05

hell

2:06:05

is,

2:06:05

but

2:06:05

it

2:06:05

was

2:06:05

a

2:06:05

super

2:06:05

low

2:06:05

Role

2:06:05

you

2:06:05

chose

2:06:19

poorly.

2:06:19

I

2:06:19

rolled

2:06:19

a

2:06:22

one. it is an ability check.

2:06:26

It's not it's it's it's you just don't want to use your damn halfling.

2:06:31

Lush, no skills. This isn't a halfling luck.

2:06:33

I have no skills was a proficiency guarantee.

2:06:36

No, it's a proficiency. You're right. For the a, is that how it works for the, the, the, Yeah,

2:06:42

hopefully I have to be proficient in the skill, but you said a dexterity cheque.

2:06:46

I am not a proficient in dexterity.

2:06:48

This is correct. But a halfling when they role the one you tried it and reroll, you, you guys are talking about.

2:06:54

That is true.

2:06:55

It's

2:06:55

a

2:06:55

shame

2:06:55

I

2:06:55

ran

2:06:55

with

2:07:04

it. Yeah, you're right. I'm just double checking for my own sanity.

2:07:06

You know, you, you both, unfortunately the rush of it, temping to swoop down, you can just goes down a little quicker than you thought and Yasha, you tripped and ended up going over it.

2:07:19

And you, you, you hit it and just pushing through the pain, you continue to push for it and kick up over and land.

2:07:26

But as you do your leg And

2:07:29

You hear Yahshua's yell, scream out in the midst of this.

2:07:36

Yeah.

2:07:38

Yeah. Let's go ahead and roll some damage here. Number of access.

2:07:40

But yeah. Yeah. I do Took

2:07:43

multiple games to slowly.

2:07:45

Yeah. I can't use my action to help for that.

2:07:48

Was that was your action to help her. Is that okay?

2:07:50

And I was going to cap, do I have a reaction to try to that'll work?

2:08:02

Do you take 60 points of fire damage, but you know, because she is only half a person now that's awful.

2:08:21

Okay. Okay.

2:08:22

Stay at that point.

2:08:26

The fire damage too, you were just to have the 25, you can say, well, that sucked and that sucked.

2:08:34

I have a role a half, and I'm going to spam to share any father.

2:08:36

I can make myself with space to do for this.

2:08:39

Cause I, no, I can't run. Yeah.

2:08:41

As long as you fall on the hit, the magic assistant and the heat still burns' you, as you scale it a bit, and then you hit the other part of the snow bank and come up and do you feel cinch in the pain's there, but the magic did to help cushion that for you.

2:08:52

So I'm, I'm on fire ground at the moment, at the moment you are you okay?

2:08:56

Yeah. You guys just like, cause you were running the momentum hits and then just brief little parts.

2:08:59

Even if you impact you kind of skit off and giving you a pushing for you, the limits, I'm curious for you, you know, they're out of it.

2:09:05

Yes. Oh crazy.

2:09:06

You know, the little things.

2:09:08

So moving forward, you guys now reach just continuing to run the little points, the three quarters Mark on this.

2:09:15

What are you all doing at this juncture is they're still more to it.

2:09:18

More to go. Yeah. They're still coming up and popping through and we're just saying, what are you doing at this moment?

2:09:22

I know you, you just jumped past This you've got a bit of ground.

2:09:25

And so you can kinda see a head.

2:09:27

You, you, you have made at three fourths of the way across this river.

2:09:30

Now I'm kind of trying to, Because

2:09:35

I know I'm faster than any than everybody else turned to.

2:09:37

My idea was that I can kind of forge a path a little bit.

2:09:40

So I'm going to kind of stop, turn around and make sure my whole, my whole team is there and I'm going to continue forward and try to navigate what you do.

2:09:49

Notice, what do I notice Is

2:09:52

the elementals all kind of like when below a bitch and right, as you can glance around and look the opposite way, you see four of them now there's, there's four that are active at the moment, all come up and you can just sweeping in different directions in front to kind of again, carving this large arch to, to block you off and then just partially in it.

2:10:12

But just like you watched her just melting, kind of a semicircle.

2:10:16

I tried stop and I turn and I yelled to the flank.

2:10:19

As soon as I see what the, what they are doing.

2:10:21

And I say, I go to the angles and try and direct people to try and maybe beat them.

2:10:28

God, that's a terrible idea. I

2:10:29

hear that in preemptively grab could do SIS and Yasha by the Scruff.

2:10:34

So they have control of their arms and just lift.

2:10:36

I don't take off into the sky because they don't want to get dropped, but we'll take them above the ground and start to veer to the right toward to try to cut off that.

2:10:44

Am I lying?

2:10:45

You know, you're not cast steel.

2:10:47

Okay. And this is Andy I'll show you send it to people before.

2:10:51

And it was a pretty high right there. Heavy right By

2:10:53

the points.

2:10:53

All

2:10:56

right. All better. Yeah. And so you guys are going to drift off the bat side, lifting and pulling it into the rest of you guys.

2:11:02

What are you doing?

2:11:04

Can I, as I get the sense, I'm still at a far enough ahead to you.

2:11:07

Does it look like a gap that I can still clear?

2:11:10

Right. Okay. So you can try and rush off and see if we can clear the gap before it goes.

2:11:13

Does it look like I can like possible yelled?

2:11:17

I'm going to go for it. I'm going to ride You

2:11:20

at one way with the, with the store razor on my feet, just to kind of hover above the ground.

2:11:25

But I'm like also watching to see what gesture and bow and you just did the best they're doing.

2:11:29

You've got, I'm just kinda of like waiting.

2:11:33

What are you running?

2:11:35

You should, we can have a little off the ground, you know, hovering that space.

2:11:37

You're going to go ahead and make your try and leap off at this angle.

2:11:41

You said I'm going to, I'm basically playing chicken with the element tolls correction there, going to try and beat them.

2:11:49

Yeah, yeah. Right. What

2:11:51

is your monk? Speed. You all, you have to go for it.

2:11:54

You can't beat them. Okay. Can I do that? Yeah.

2:11:56

You know, it'll cost you a, a key point, but with your speed, you just share across the ice and basically cut it off.

2:12:02

And as the beginning of carve their way past you, you just A

2:12:05

Dodge on a train with jumping in.

2:12:09

And the one continues their with carving a wider space to be a harder to leap over.

2:12:12

But now they have divided in to one's going after you.

2:12:15

And the other one is continuing its path, which means it gives a slight opportunity on the left or left side to make two easier jumps as, as opposed to one.

2:12:23

Okay. I turn around and I see what's happening.

2:12:25

I'm going to kind of a three point landing in the shit and I'm going to yell to the group.

2:12:29

And I was saying, go to the left and I'm going to try and do some sort of flourish and keep cutting the other one away.

2:12:36

Okay. Yeah. Right. You got it.

2:12:39

I'm going to look at Jordan and say, I can help us get out of here.

2:12:42

I'm going to fucking do it quick.

2:12:45

All right. I'm going to, polymorph also into a giant Eagle.

2:12:48

Okay. And I'm going to pick him up.

2:12:51

Okay? Come on, come on, bitch.

2:12:53

Do something. Cool.

2:12:55

Alright. I'm going to have to pick him up and try to hook my claws.

2:12:58

I pick him up under the, like between the strap or they could potentially be saving him, but also break the strap as I'm lifting him up.

2:13:07

Aha.

2:13:11

Oh, no. Okay.

2:13:14

Just to just sure. I'll grab who's right.

2:13:17

Is anybody else in front of me? Otis Otis in front of me, Otis

2:13:23

would be in front of him.

2:13:25

It is to try to help out.

2:13:27

I got one cloth holding.

2:13:30

Right, right, right. I understand that.

2:13:32

You can go ahead and go ahead and make a right.

2:13:34

The whole trend machine. Oh, I'm not trying to like, I'm trying to help them And

2:13:38

Otis, doesn't see you transform into this Eagle and suddenly there's Claus upon.

2:13:42

So, so they're just going to try. And is that a strength?

2:13:46

Yes. That would be a strength. It's a 21.

2:13:48

Natural

2:13:51

one. Nope. You got okay.

2:13:52

She's got to have like luck.

2:13:54

You

2:13:54

don't

2:13:54

get

2:13:54

to

2:13:54

choose

2:14:08

yours. You gave them theirs.

2:14:10

Join acres.

2:14:12

So I'm an agent of chaos.

2:14:20

All right. So Bose carving them off. You have currently used your action and transform, which means you slowed down a little bit.

2:14:26

How are you holding on to, to Zoran underneath their kind of lifting up and carrying forward?

2:14:32

'cause you were kind of slowing down a little bit and that moment, although where does the speed of the Giant

2:14:38

Eagle? Yeah, I believe it's.

2:14:39

Is it 60 feet? 80 feet.

2:14:41

80 feet. Oh yeah. That more than makes up for the one of the space.

2:14:43

So you do you manage to, while you slowed down to do the casting, you do jump ahead a little bit and then you carry that forward and you are now the way ahead as well.

2:14:51

Okay. Oh God. I liked it. The owl Eagle and the Eagle.

2:14:55

This is a way to message me at a faster Matt.

2:15:01

Be happy you have a wings You

2:15:05

could have instead, just maid, you writing a giant Yasha.

2:15:12

Awesome. All right.

2:15:15

With that, they're all gonna get you moving forward, forward your way, way over here now.

2:15:22

But they're starting to shift to this direction to try and utilize the space that you've given and shifted this way.

2:15:29

What are you all doing?

2:15:32

Are we doing with The? I, my trio went to the right.

2:15:35

I'm taking him too. Right. And

2:15:37

you go to the right. It is a thick, like almost 15 foot wide gap that they've burned in across the snow.

2:15:43

That with their speed going to start just going to fold they've they've basically cut you off that direction without going over it.

2:15:50

Okay. But I'm in the air and there's, is there any kind of like anything burning up or smoke or anything or was it just that the snow is missing in front of him?

2:15:57

It's just the snow and you see steam rising as they carve through.

2:15:59

But the, the, the glow now lights up.

2:16:01

I'm going to risk going on Up another five feet and just keep heading on an angle in that direction.

2:16:07

Okay. I'm not trying to make it look like I'm taking off right.

2:16:10

There is no interference and you go, okay, so you were at work and we're nowhere near any of those creatures, right?

2:16:15

They are not within 30 feet of us. Not at the moment.

2:16:17

Okay. We're more interested in preventing your travel beyond.

2:16:23

Alright. So the people who haven't gone yet, I will grab Otis.

2:16:28

I will reach Out

2:16:30

my hand to Otis or back in her and be like, come to the left to the left.

2:16:36

Oh, This nods and run past. And then she goes on to cast Fantasma force on her, In a box.

2:16:49

The left.

2:16:51

I

2:16:51

am

2:16:51

now

2:16:51

terrified

2:16:51

by

2:16:56

it. All of this, You

2:16:59

acting like I was helping. I wasn't gonna do anything outward.

2:17:02

Natural 20. Cool, Cool.

2:17:05

Maybe if you have to think a little bit of a lie down at some point, No.

2:17:11

So as long as you say that and Otis runs past, you whisper the incantation, a notice to kind of question as a kid, as a glance that you and continue to run past because it was doing a double move, but you used your action.

2:17:23

You're having to kind of slow back a bit so you can pass each other as old as skids ahead, I'm going to go to bed and it continues running with it.

2:17:32

It's Right

2:17:32

there

2:17:35

Living this way to catch you up for, but are you doing a, just flying behind them?

2:17:41

Keeping pace with those that are question marks like a jester.

2:17:47

All right. So he's been with them. Okay.

2:17:49

You got it. They're now all having to leap and the ones, the only ones you have to jump at this point are a vet.

2:17:55

And then let's go ahead and do that.

2:18:01

'cause you divided it. It's two small jumps as, as opposed to one really hard one.

2:18:05

So go ahead and roll twice.

2:18:06

What, what am I ruling?

2:18:08

Sorry, this would be a athletics to leap across.

2:18:12

Okay. 15 and 17.

2:18:17

Nice. Took a while. So, all right, so we'll go across the team here.

2:18:24

Yeah.

2:18:26

Okay. Okay.

2:18:28

All right. So the first pass, you all run jumping over.

2:18:32

The first art that goes continues passed as the elemental is kind of backing around to try and catch up.

2:18:36

The second one comes up.

2:18:40

Ooh,

2:18:46

Okay. They all go running and leap and you watch it as Cree into it.

2:18:53

And kind of like rolling to one side, stumbled across the ground as a quickly, Lucien turns and grabs one of her hands and picks her back up and goes, come on.

2:19:03

And they all keep running.

2:19:04

The other is a leap across find, but you can see crease kind of limping a bit.

2:19:09

Corey

2:19:09

was

2:19:09

going

2:19:09

to

2:19:09

go

2:19:09

ahead

2:19:09

and

2:19:13

write.

2:19:18

It's sad because I feel like I want to help everybody at the same time is like, if you don't want to like help them and stuff, It

2:19:28

gets crazy. Took 49 points.

2:19:41

The fire damage.

2:19:43

Instead of heal. Since they're going to go ahead and cast a High

2:19:46

level cure, third level cure wounds, enterprise 29.

2:20:08

Sorry. I'm like, no, no, No, no.

2:20:09

Tension is real.

2:20:11

All

2:20:13

righty. So hurt is still running.

2:20:15

They're all pushing. You guys are getting closer and closer.

2:20:17

You can see the bank on the opposite side.

2:20:20

As soon as we cross over the embankment.

2:20:23

Yep. The gap. I don't want to put Zuora in down.

2:20:26

Okay. And fly low. Did my attempt at making the strap weaker with my claw.

2:20:32

Do any good?

2:20:35

You're not trying to break it right now. You're just trying to make it a weaker.

2:20:38

You can make it seem like I don't want it to snap immediately.

2:20:40

When I let him go home. I want him to feel like I didn't fuck up the bag, but if it rips it, rep's got it.

2:20:48

And want the bag to fall into the fucking lava.

2:20:51

Okay. I'm not trying to steal the bag on the back to fall off with him.

2:20:55

I understand. Go ahead and make a strength check for me using the strength of, Of

2:21:00

your Eagle forum.

2:21:02

I

2:21:02

need

2:21:02

to

2:21:02

transition

2:21:02

over

2:21:02

because

2:21:02

it's

2:21:02

a

2:21:02

scan

2:21:08

And how do we know? Like where is it? Okay, wait, let me go.

2:21:11

Strength, not transition 20.

2:21:14

Okay. 20. Okay.

2:21:15

So that is some pretty, I will say some pretty decent control over the strength on This.

2:21:22

Are you trying to sell it and hope that it hits the level or you just trying to weaken it?

2:21:26

You have control over this because of that.

2:21:29

Role I'm

2:21:35

going to hit the lottery.

2:21:35

Okay,

2:21:39

good. So as you release him, the other strap, snaps and immediately begins to give way this would, this would be, as you were what you said, you sit him down, right?

2:21:51

Hmm. Because you carried on the other side, which means there's no longer, the longer love of beneath you.

2:21:56

Okay. So pulling the strap would mean it would fall off.

2:21:59

Okay. It means it wouldn't hit. The lava just means now he has no straps.

2:22:01

He is having to carry with his hand. Okay.

2:22:03

So he pulls back shakes, bruh picks it up and he's kind of just lugging it by this kind of a loose strap.

2:22:08

Now it's like the shitty backpack you had in high school that broke.

2:22:12

Then you kind of books, you just kind of clutching it.

2:22:14

That's kind of where he's at now. And he is running, running.

2:22:16

The other elementals are swooping around and they're doing this wide arch carving to the snow.

2:22:19

Try and cut you off one last time before you reached the opposite bank.

2:22:22

Okay. So with this what's everyone one last Time.

2:22:26

Okay. Okay. I am, I'm still sprinting a hat.

2:22:28

I'm assuming. Do I still have that one hot on my ass?

2:22:30

You do.

2:22:33

So there's like one on the side, in two on this side that are living around and this one was just kind of catching up, but you you're faster than all of them.

2:22:38

If you want, I'll

2:22:39

continue forward towards the end big a minute.

2:22:42

I just want to keep cutting this guy and make him not a problem.

2:22:44

And so whatever direction or which way.

2:22:49

Yeah. Yeah. I'll check. Can I kind of do like a big loop?

2:22:51

You can add a loop and wide, you can do that.

2:22:54

We'll carve a path in front of everyone else.

2:22:56

I don't want to do that. That's exactly what I'm trying to do.

2:22:58

Right. So you would probably go this way then for that.

2:23:01

Okay. So Beauregard Goes wide over here While

2:23:05

the rest of you are drifting towards where they're swirling around eight is going to cross over just barely.

2:23:10

Before you guys get there at the speed that they're traveling and kind of cut you off with a secondary circle.

2:23:14

One site is a single jumped, thinner.

2:23:19

The other is a lot thicker on a harder one to make.

2:23:21

I assume everyone wants to go towards the easier side.

2:23:25

Yeah. Yeah. Can I, is there anyone that I can pick up and help over?

2:23:27

There is no.

2:23:29

Ashley

2:23:29

seems

2:23:32

hurt. Is, is still hurt. No. Can, this is healed or is produced is still here, right?

2:23:36

I'm fine. I'm W, we're both good at her now on their flying.

2:23:38

And I took 20 points, a damaged four and a half damaged for Fire.

2:23:45

Okay. Then I'm going to pick up, if I get, I'm going to pick you up a Doosan I'm

2:23:50

in a, I've got to do is I'm

2:23:54

going to pick up loosen.

2:23:56

Okay. And vet.

2:23:59

Okay. Can you grab the Lucy? And, and as you swoop down, you can see Lucy and running blades still out like glances over.

2:24:06

And actually doesn't even glance over one of the I's in the back of the neck, come in and looks up at you and the arms just go out like preparing and you grab both of them up, lift up.

2:24:19

And as you can pull them up over the way, they don't have to worry about any checks at this point.

2:24:23

I'm all right.

2:24:27

And you don't have to either cause you were flying.

2:24:29

Nope. That's it right there.

2:24:36

Yep. All good.

2:24:37

A natural 20, The

2:24:44

all jump over the F the final aspect of this.

2:24:47

This is a bandage cause he is carrying something heavy and he's got it.

2:24:50

He's off the cuff balance. It's not a backpack.

2:24:52

He's carrying, I got a bag of salt.

2:24:57

He has a pretty high strength And

2:25:02

he rolled the natural 20. If you have to, if he had failed on this, he would have lost it in the lobby.

2:25:07

Okay. Okay. Okay. But he Role the national 20 Plastic to underscore Matt's point.

2:25:13

I

2:25:18

was. So with you, I know such a good was a good setup.

2:25:21

It was a good setup.

2:25:23

Right? So as you all go to Russia, Jansport, so as you all kind of been rushing up to the end, you can see the, it begins to lift up this one's less of a cliff face and more of a, kind of a heavy, vertical climb on a snowbank.

2:25:35

So it's going to be challenging to climb up quickly without actually slipping and falling backward towards where the lava river is.

2:25:44

So

2:25:44

as

2:25:44

everyone,

2:25:44

who's

2:25:44

not

2:25:44

currently

2:25:44

being

2:25:44

held

2:25:44

by

2:25:44

an

2:25:44

Eagle

2:25:44

or

2:25:44

flying,

2:25:44

which

2:25:44

is

2:25:44

now

2:25:44

that's

2:25:44

all

2:25:44

of

2:25:53

you. That would be them.

2:25:55

So what does that mean?

2:25:59

Oh, well you, haven't got an, a, you're being chased by one of these.

2:26:02

Okay. And as they all reach to make me and the other elemental is a kind of swirled around and they're all trying to make their way now towards Beauregard, who was the only one that's currently right at the area.

2:26:12

And so we got that going. They're all going to try and make it On

2:26:14

the side.

2:26:15

You

2:26:15

got

2:26:15

that

2:26:19

going.

2:26:19

The

2:26:19

only

2:26:19

one,

2:26:23

The one who's in danger on that one would be a typhoon who I'm trying to get up there ends up kind of falling back and you can't seem to get past enough heavy powder and just show up in the slide, back to the bass.

2:26:35

But all of the rest of you get up and over onto the edge of the cliff, whether it be by Eagle or a flying bird claw, or climb up over the side and turn back.

2:26:45

As you see Teflon, slipping back in the snow to the edge, this point, the Tombtakers going to look at each other and Let's

2:26:54

see, what is it?

2:26:57

A stable place for where the group is landed.

2:27:01

Yeah. It's you are outside of the danger of The the lover And

2:27:04

not on any dangerous sliding back down where we Are.

2:27:06

You guys are all up and on the lip now.

2:27:08

Yup. All right. I'm dropping. I'm dropping my form.

2:27:10

I will cast levitate on Thai foul.

2:27:14

Okay. Oh, is he watches let to have like the means to fall back in the bottom and then levitate shipping.

2:27:21

It's going to limitate up a bit.

2:27:22

You can't move.

2:27:24

It's just kinda there you can do.

2:27:27

And so a grabber on the fly over a month and give her a note.

2:27:31

Right. Okay. And as you do, it's, it's like nudging something in space.

2:27:33

She's against the drift.

2:27:36

It's the snow and kind of, kind of, it's like a glitter keep going.

2:27:41

Yeah. It's, it's almost like a reverse, reverse HIL slide where she was going to hit the snow and then slides up the bank at the top of the embankment.

2:27:48

And she continues going to kind of an angle before a Zoran with Freon was grabs the ankle and pulls her down.

2:27:57

Clocking everybody on the lip now is both is still out way off.

2:28:00

And on the side, I had a smell. The elephant Bo

2:28:03

is still down in the river, like running quickly.

2:28:05

And as you look behind, there are now four elementals.

2:28:08

I'm going to drop and leave and go after Beau.

2:28:12

Okay. You got it.

2:28:12

So I'm sorry you go, you go, you got it.

2:28:20

I'm sorry. Both Of you are now rushing.

2:28:23

What's your flight speed is 60, 60.

2:28:25

Well, you actually were kind of still cruising that same space since you are the one that actually brought it people up and drop them off.

2:28:30

So you are around a head.

2:28:31

So Ford, what are you doing?

2:28:37

I turn it around. I see what he's doing.

2:28:39

I'm going to just try and like, Oh, try and meet him in the middle.

2:28:42

As I hold my arm up. As I keep a running, Which

2:28:45

is a little bit faster with a double move at your fly speed, you move a little bit fascinating elemental.

2:28:48

So as they were like starting to triangulate and catch up to her, and C carving these like four golden paths of burning lava through the snowfields a little bit of a blue light getting brighter in the sky.

2:29:00

You can just start seeing the tops of the snow.

2:29:02

That's still a decent to step off.

2:29:04

And as Bose running is starting to come up behind her, she's still keeping away from them, but they're starting to, to cut off any space and she's not gonna show up for herself.

2:29:12

And the bank mint has now turned into cliff side.

2:29:15

Oh Lord. And so as you look back and see forward to catching up to you, there was a moment where you can reach back And

2:29:20

I'm going to like, like volt off of the embankment and kind of do a back flip over the always extra.

2:29:31

Go

2:29:34

ahead. You make an acrobatics check for me. Yeah.

2:29:38

Okay. 15 that's that's enough.

2:29:42

It is. As you, as you run in rush for me to see that happening, you kind of dig a heel in and begin to slide, which means you get an ice patch, but you don't know that Patrick's going to end up on your feet are still in contact with the snow.

2:29:51

And God knows if you were to actually slip beneath the surface or find an element where it was open ahead of you.

2:29:55

But with that, you find yourself coming to the edge you leap up and with the momentum you hit the edge, kick off and flipped backwards.

2:30:02

The elementals was going to swoop in underneath.

2:30:04

At that point on your arm is out. You watch as for this comes from the other direction And

2:30:13

you know, And lifted up almost the second time.

2:30:15

Your arm has been jerked out of its socket in recent days, but you find, you know, lifted up in the air as the two of you kind of almost like Superman in the movie fly, you know, to meet everybody else is on the edge.

2:30:28

It's not really that great. So I'm like holding my elbow.

2:30:31

And so it is to keep it in the socket.

2:30:36

Well, it does start to have an inner monologue Kako though this feeling feels so safe and who is this man turtling drop us to really be together forever.

2:31:01

So as you all can stay there for a minute on the defense weapons drawn in at the ready, breathing, heavy seeing now kind of The weird.

2:31:08

Can you read the weirdly beautiful Patterns

2:31:10

carved for the snow that give this like golden sigil, look to it in a way that it kind of swirls and cuts off and changes direction, all these deaths that a way to do on this path that you managed to avoid as the elemental to kind of carve around and again, look back and you were late and slowly sink into the love of below.

2:31:27

It's the hissing of steam that breath, everyone looks around at the same.

2:31:34

Right?

2:31:36

Right. Well done.

2:31:38

Apologies for the rough start. I just Don't

2:31:42

like being abandoned. You realize you could have just told us we could have flown across the Multiple

2:31:48

times and you wouldn't of had to deal with any of that Hindsight,

2:31:52

20, 20, all of that.

2:31:53

Oh,

2:31:53

I

2:31:53

get

2:31:53

a

2:31:58

perspective.

2:31:58

That's

2:31:58

a

2:31:58

good

2:31:58

example

2:31:58

of

2:32:02

that. I have my foot jammed into the snow.

2:32:09

It's kind of it's the robing payment Going

2:32:13

to be a red and kind of boilie for a while, but at least it's there.

2:32:15

Yeah, it hurts, but Oh yeah.

2:32:18

You want me to find that on that? Yeah, because we don't expect a terrible devious intent on your part with where we're heading.

2:32:25

Maybe do include is a bit more in your planning and strategy we have, as you can see quite a bit to offer none wrong.

2:32:35

Let's

2:32:35

talk

2:32:35

about

2:32:35

them

2:32:35

as

2:32:35

you

2:32:35

walk

2:32:43

And as you all can look each other and loosen him against to put his weapons back, the sides I'm going to collect is orange.

2:32:50

You have to pack up now and he's kind of clutching the, the, the loop.

2:32:54

Right. And I'm so sorry. Thank you for saving me.

2:32:57

Are you for saving me?

2:32:59

All right. Okay.

2:33:01

And they were getting trudging off and all of you can look back except for you look over at Otis.

2:33:04

Who's just going to, Huh?

2:33:10

Hi. Yeah. Didn't didn't die.

2:33:14

Huh? Neither of us died.

2:33:15

That's good.

2:33:20

Ms. Turns around and falls after Lucien.

2:33:27

So Did you guys continue on for the remainder of your second day of travel?

2:33:32

I would like somebody to roll in the Right.

2:33:40

Five, five, Oh, no, not five.

2:33:44

Anything for five, five alive.

2:33:45

Finally, five Input,

2:33:52

Heavy Ice fog, unfortunately does swell on this side of the lava bank lowering visibility.

2:33:59

Right?

2:34:02

I need everybody to go ahead and make a group survival check to see if they can track through and maintain direction on this And

2:34:09

at Coleville okay.

2:34:10

North, is that what happened?

2:34:18

W that's a minus 17.

2:34:21

17. Does my keen mind have any effect on this Role And

2:34:25

this instance? No than a natural one, Because

2:34:30

this is not about looking at the key.

2:34:32

Mine usually is like, Oh, look around in the runnings. Look at the sky.

2:34:34

You have no visibility here. And it's not a magical, you know, innate a maturity.

2:34:39

Yeah. Cheers. So I'm not sure what you got it.

2:34:42

Oh, 19, 1912, 2313.

2:34:48

Only. You could have reroll that, right?

2:34:50

It is not looking good.

2:34:51

I like, I like low rules for this right now for Tombtakers.

2:34:58

Oh, no, go ahead and lie. Shake some federal.

2:35:01

Yeah.

2:35:01

That's

2:35:01

the

2:35:01

tipping

2:35:01

point

2:35:05

You spend most of the day lost.

2:35:06

Oh, trekking forward to you.

2:35:10

It was a high D C on this and you guys did not roll.

2:35:14

Great. And they did not. Role great.

2:35:15

And the natural one was two failures on the skill test.

2:35:18

And so yeah.

2:35:21

So nothing terrible happens.

2:35:24

But what happens is it does add an additional day of travel to this journey.

2:35:27

And the next day you all would have a point of exhaustion.

2:35:33

Lucian, are you sure? You know where you're going?

2:35:34

You

2:35:34

know,

2:35:38

These lands are a bit strange. Ah, and I think we're all trying to guide each other in a very incorrect direction.

2:35:45

No, no. We're all following you.

2:35:47

As the de facto leader, we are not all following each other.

2:35:51

We're following you. And you have to know, it seems like quite a bit of you are making your own path as well.

2:35:55

I

2:35:55

guess

2:35:55

I'm

2:35:57

lost. All right.

2:35:58

I

2:35:58

like

2:35:58

it

2:36:10

more. Do you, do you, do you see like he is filled with frustration?

2:36:12

He, this is the first time.

2:36:14

He's the first time he's had to show a little bit of limitation and he's not happy about it.

2:36:20

Oh, relatable. He's mortal the winters.

2:36:27

It's like an easy process.

2:36:40

Well, we've all had a day. Let's go ahead and bed down.

2:36:42

I'll take a rest here in a safe spot.

2:36:45

Then we'll continue on first thing in the morning, You

2:36:47

need help finding your pet or should we, I'm just kidding a little.

2:36:52

If you move before you and friends, You

2:36:56

know, you actually have a question about that because when you sleep, not for a while, One

2:37:06

of the many gifts of the sudden of them More

2:37:13

time to think to and to Watch I

2:37:17

like sleeping.

2:37:17

How do you miss your meaning?

2:37:20

Oh, I can still dream.

2:37:27

Like some of them sleep while others are away.

2:37:30

So like part of you is sleeping.

2:37:32

Well, other parts is that how it works?

2:37:35

You work in cycles. Like, are you dreaming right now?

2:37:41

And this is a moment, but I wouldn't mind some perhaps in a bit of, if we can get a bit more comfortable where we can do that.

2:37:48

Yes. It's snowy out here.

2:37:50

Sorry.

2:37:50

Well,

2:37:50

let's

2:37:50

sit

2:37:50

up

2:37:50

and

2:37:50

they

2:37:50

can

2:37:50

go

2:37:50

ahead

2:37:50

and

2:37:50

begin

2:37:50

carving

2:37:50

snow

2:37:56

away. We can't make our super comfortable at a time when you can.

2:37:59

But do we want to share that These

2:38:01

buckets?

2:38:05

Yeah. All right.

2:38:05

I

2:38:05

mean,

2:38:05

is

2:38:05

there

2:38:05

a

2:38:09

tower? Yeah.

2:38:12

You probably have to ask for permission.

2:38:14

Otherwise you might just negate it then what do you think also fine.

2:38:19

Just doing the dome. If you feel like it'll reveal our cards just to for them.

2:38:43

I think someone must make a really hard look.

2:38:54

A little dog pad. right there on this lady.

2:38:59

So

2:38:59

what's

2:38:59

the

2:39:04

plan.

2:39:07

It's your call? I guess we'll take a little space for ourselves and put up the dome very well.

2:39:18

C

2:39:19

You think her journey is going to go a little longer than anticipated and they all begin to build up their sleeping arrangements.

2:39:26

Not far from the dome. Okay. So I lead the group about 40 or 50 feet away and I start to cast a mansion.

2:39:32

It's the tower Anchor with my back to them and with a wand in front of me and my back directly between their group and me takes a minute And

2:39:43

I wait and I used to look at everybody And

2:39:50

I lead everybody in really fast is at work.

2:39:53

And then I dropped the door and it disappears.

2:39:56

Okay.

2:39:56

Oh

2:40:00

boy.

2:40:00

Oh

2:40:02

boy.

2:40:05

You all to step into the mansion. The door is closed behind you here in the mansion.

2:40:14

Okay. So this is a bit of an experiment.

2:40:16

They

2:40:16

may

2:40:16

be

2:40:16

aware

2:40:16

that

2:40:16

we

2:40:16

are

2:40:16

in

2:40:16

here

2:40:16

and

2:40:16

I'm

2:40:16

just

2:40:16

allowing

2:40:16

for

2:40:22

it. And even if that is the case, we can get a hot meal and a comfortable time and enjoy our rooms and then they can continue on.

2:40:29

But we have as much time as we need to think and talk and plan, Wait,

2:40:35

a month to talk to Bruce and coffee the floor before they, they, they undo this.

2:40:49

I have word of recall.

2:40:51

Prepares lets you do to, could you say what is that we could potentially bad for us all back to your house right now from here.

2:41:00

Yes. Yep. I don't know if it would work.

2:41:03

You might not. We're in a different dimension right now.

2:41:07

It doesn't matter. So maybe the rules of Ice across town Would

2:41:12

we want to, Well, that's the question.

2:41:14

That is a brilliant, that is a brilliant use here.

2:41:17

But if we leave, they spend another week or so finding another one of these things, even, even two or three weeks, we're not going to bump back here where I'm going to have to travel back slowly.

2:41:29

So we are no longer a fly on their own And

2:41:34

we can bounce back here.

2:41:36

No, we've, we've got a way out.

2:41:37

We don't have a way back then. I think we, I think that's a great idea.

2:41:41

I think we saved that ticket.

2:41:43

Yeah, We definitely can try it.

2:41:45

And I've been picking up stones every day and wrapping them in a paper and labeling them to bring us back here.

2:41:54

If I have something from a location, it makes it a little safer too, to Banff there.

2:42:01

So everyday I take a little jars.

2:42:03

I have a little sorting system and I take a little something with me every day.

2:42:07

It's a good idea. They can be anything And

2:42:12

anything from the location. So I generally look for, I mean, I have underwear, a turtle butt for a place like this.

2:42:19

It's just more rocks. Why underwear out of all?

2:42:23

Cause of death, add some extra Well,

2:42:29

you

2:42:29

know,

2:42:31

And it's still a gamble. It's still a gamble and things can go on.

2:42:35

Yeah. It basically would be letting them do what they're going to make it.

2:42:39

You can communicate with anybody. We can't message anybody from in Here.

2:42:42

Can we, I can send messages, right?

2:42:44

Mm. But we're not sure if they can hear in here, you shouldn't Be

2:42:48

able to invite, you know, I Know

2:42:50

if we invited them in Caleb, there's no way that you can mentally construct this place to have isolated.

2:42:56

Chamber's where no one can hear anything.

2:42:59

Okay.

2:43:01

I mean, I, I cannot predict what he is able to do.

2:43:05

What I can reconfigure This to an extent.

2:43:08

I mean, it is a tower and I can segment, I can separate, I can lock, but I don't want to bring them in here.

2:43:17

Even if we don't go anywhere, at least we get a Knight to ourselves.

2:43:21

Oh yeah.

2:43:22

At least be able to gain a little bit of control.

2:43:28

And it might be a really angry when we come out as well.

2:43:31

They wanted to talk to them. They could have, they could have killed us on the spot if they want it to just add it a week to their reality without us, Can

2:43:38

they dispel this tower at any moment?

2:43:41

You know, maybe we just, I assume we would just flop out comically.

2:43:47

You can't tell the port.

2:43:51

Can you try again? So we can tell a port?

2:43:55

Yes. I got the threshold crest.

2:43:57

Yes. I too lady, a lot of eyesore and or something if we wanted to Teleported

2:44:03

out, but we stay here. The easiest thing to do And

2:44:05

it is to send it to them or we have been, but I could wing it.

2:44:10

Yeah. That's not a bad idea because we could continue to just operate.

2:44:15

Like we haven't. And as long as he doesn't know, but then what if he does well, what if we walk out the door and he's like, ah, E Something

2:44:25

with you right before and we can go get another one is good.

2:44:31

I can have a sense.

2:44:33

It's not on yet.

2:44:34

Oh, Whoa.

2:44:37

A cast, a spell on the illusion.

2:44:41

It's been me the whole time.

2:44:46

Okay. So yeah. Let's, let's work that out.

2:44:48

If we come out and he's like, Oh, I don't smell it.

2:44:56

That is a perfect. We find it on Fire it's now a pirate property.

2:45:01

Very

2:45:01

authentic

2:45:06

area. So If he is like noodle, got it.

2:45:08

They

2:45:22

were like, Oh no.

2:45:23

And we have a go and get another crest.

2:45:26

Right. Is all of our throats if you die or you And

2:45:29

he realizes we don't actually have anything, but at least you won't be able to take it from our dead bodies.

2:45:34

Yeah.

2:45:34

Some

2:45:34

cold

2:45:34

comfort

2:45:34

in

2:45:37

that. Right. Well, I didn't, I mean, they could have, they could have just killed a half of us back there and they didn't, then they would still have access to it.

2:45:44

I don't think that, I don't think the crest is keeping us safe.

2:45:49

I think it's more complicated than that.

2:45:51

Well, I Think that we would slow them down, but not stop.

2:45:54

Yeah. Yeah.

2:45:54

But you can just drink hot cocoa and go to bed.

2:45:58

I like the idea of teleporting it far away to somebody who might be able to help us with a note.

2:46:03

There aren't a lot of arguments against not doing it.

2:46:06

Yeah. I'm not against it either. You can at least just send it to Them.

2:46:11

At least on the continent. I would get it to a whole nother place.

2:46:15

At least we, you know, we can get it if you know, Need

2:46:17

it soon if he gives it back.

2:46:19

But we haven't been to our ethic is I don't think that it's as easy to teleport there as it is to teleport it to you.

2:46:29

You still have dramas. So yeah, here it Is

2:46:32

dangerous, but yeah. And you put it in the hands of the cobalt sill Vesterbro I

2:46:38

think, I think we need someone.

2:46:39

We

2:46:39

could

2:46:39

send

2:46:39

it

2:46:39

to

2:46:39

Nicole

2:46:39

and

2:46:39

you

2:46:39

can

2:46:39

tell

2:46:39

a

2:46:39

lot

2:46:39

of

2:46:39

where

2:46:39

it

2:46:46

is. Yeah. Because I have a, I can't see what's going to happen here in Ice across, but we can send it there and you can definitely talk to her and she can get it like a display.

2:46:57

Okay. Right. And then Laura would do what?

2:47:00

Take it to another continent who knows.

2:47:03

Right. You would do with it. Maybe it's best that we wouldn't know Alerting

2:47:07

forces that something bad was coming, coming down.

2:47:10

The I mean, we have more connection with YUSA.

2:47:18

We'd be able to get him. Right.

2:47:19

I think, I think it's the right choice.

2:47:22

I think we need, I think, I think you are, people are too hello.

2:47:29

Maybe we send it to you, sir. Yeah. I just did the same.

2:47:33

You just worry that even if he doesn't slice her through it, because he doesn't want to kill us.

2:47:36

That if we go out there without it, he'll somehow sense it and be like, why are you fuckers with me?

2:47:43

I don't need you anymore. Let's talk about that part.

2:47:45

Like if the bag of chips Brings another dimension, right?

2:47:47

Another plane of pocket plane, you can't right.

2:47:51

You can't see something in another day.

2:47:53

You can't, even if I'm scrying on somebody, if they're not in this plane of existence, I can see them.

2:47:58

I used to do all kinds of stuff.

2:48:01

But if you knew where it was the whole time, why didn't you just take it and Zack and I feel, yeah.

2:48:07

Okay. And he's mentioned himself, he's like, Ooh, you serve

2:48:11

So,

2:48:14

You know, you See

2:48:16

life a very interesting things to do And

2:48:28

you have to break a sweat after all, he dropped us from the sky with no effort at all.

2:48:33

And we are floating On his ego right now.

2:48:36

And I kind of want to keep it that way.

2:48:38

He thinks that he's better than us. And he is underestimating us.

2:48:41

The more we keep him in that sweet spot, the better we'll be.

2:48:44

It means he can be surprised.

2:48:49

You looked pretty pissed off earlier today. Okay.

2:48:51

Yeah. And then we got him over a bank.

2:48:55

Right? Wait, how can you not do it?

2:48:58

Do it now, Caleb, I've

2:49:00

got to get it out. Do you want to, he's going to dispel it.

2:49:04

Know he's going to dispel it. It should be answered the doors door Otherwise

2:49:09

To dispel it. Yeah.

2:49:10

Amber comes out.

2:49:12

I'll send it to Kayla.

2:49:13

You know, I put a note Was

2:49:18

like in the bag, put it back on the floor. On each of the door, The

2:49:22

wall underneath one of the jackets were still down in the giant entry hall with a stained glass window is just sort of

2:49:28

And now there is, and he's we see it in the snow ism.

2:49:32

You do Standing

2:49:34

kind of outside and doing this.

2:49:40

No. Can I help you? Yeah, you can talk through it.

2:49:46

I was just curious as to where the strange port led, This

2:49:53

is my house. They are going to have a comfortable night before trudging through the bleak frozen North tomorrow.

2:50:04

You didn't mention you had at home before I

2:50:07

have you told us everything.

2:50:08

No, but you've told me so a little while I have a tower, I carry around to my pocket and only we fit in here.

2:50:16

Thank you. We'll see you in the morning.

2:50:18

Oh

2:50:18

no,

2:50:21

no. Oh no. To, There

2:50:24

is a brief moment of anxiety before suddenly you're surrounded by a cold sensation as all of you fall on to the Ice snow hands and knees thrust from the interior of the tower.

2:50:38

What a Dick Lucien standing there Bobby and goes.

2:50:42

I

2:50:42

was

2:50:42

just

2:50:45

curious. But once again, trust has to be earned and there's been a few actions in the past day or so kind of looking over towards That.

2:50:55

They had Me

2:50:57

a bit on edge.

2:50:58

And so when there isn't a forthright discussion, I have reason to believe that there is some funny business and you still have something that I need.

2:51:08

So why don't you come join us by the Fire or make your offense?

2:51:12

He dome once more, this, this makes me uncomfortable And

2:51:17

it was going to have a hot meal.

2:51:18

I

2:51:18

was

2:51:18

going

2:51:18

to

2:51:18

have

2:51:18

a

2:51:18

car,

2:51:27

A hot meal to spend another night on the see-through dome altogether.

2:51:39

If

2:51:39

you

2:51:39

don't

2:51:39

have

2:51:39

a

2:51:39

Marine

2:51:39

LER

2:51:39

hot

2:51:54

box.

2:52:11

Cool. Cool.

2:52:11

I guess we'll just Join you by the Fire then all of the dome right on the, in the Fire are you comfortable with a dome?

2:52:22

This has a bit more comfortable to be fair.

2:52:25

I feel like a, he did disclose what we were going to do is that we were going to take a Knight to ourselves in our own house.

2:52:33

So

2:52:35

fine.

2:52:35

This

2:52:35

isn't

2:52:35

an

2:52:35

argument

2:52:35

of

2:52:35

semantics

2:52:39

here. This is just being careful.

2:52:40

Well,

2:52:40

you

2:52:40

kind

2:52:40

of

2:52:40

keep

2:52:40

talking

2:52:40

about

2:52:40

trust

2:52:40

and

2:52:40

it

2:52:40

definitely

2:52:40

feels

2:52:40

like

2:52:40

it's

2:52:40

a

2:52:40

one-way

2:52:40

street

2:52:40

in

2:52:40

this

2:52:49

situation. So We

2:52:52

saved two of your compatriots today.

2:52:55

You saw me save your compatriots life and she turned into the Jeep, burned a spell to save one of yours, man.

2:53:02

You love you, actually.

2:53:03

You are welcome.

2:53:05

Thank you.

2:53:06

Just going to look back at you again.

2:53:14

Well set up here to rest.

2:53:17

Well, And

2:53:22

it turns around and begins. Walking back to the rest of the crew.

2:53:24

You can see his, his patient presenters demeanor that he's continued to bring is dropping steadily with each altercation in the patient is wearing a thinner and thinner with each conversation where you have that effect on people know Kind

2:53:46

of like it.

2:53:46

The

2:53:46

dome

2:53:46

is

2:53:51

better. No. Yeah. At least it's warm in the dome.

2:54:00

I walk off towards the Tombtakers.

2:54:03

Okay. Grabbed Bo by the wrist, like a behind me.

2:54:08

Okay. As you approach, you can see they're kind of set there things on the side, you know, they pulled out some elements to eat just now at this point in the day, the light is beginning to change into sunset.

2:54:20

After a strong, you know, eight hours of trudging through difficult terrain and being caught in that terrible fog.

2:54:28

And as you approach the L kind of glance over listening is taking a seat back on this kind of slight little depression in the snow, almost in like a, a, a leisurely stretch.

2:54:45

So we don't like each other.

2:54:47

You don't like us.

2:54:49

We don't like you, but we are working towards the same thing with similar goals.

2:54:54

And we have days left before we reach our destination.

2:54:58

Tomorrow,

2:54:58

you

2:54:58

may

2:54:58

have

2:54:58

a

2:54:58

hot

2:54:58

meal

2:55:04

And a bed and cat massages, anything you can dream of if we can work together.

2:55:11

And

2:55:11

we

2:55:11

do

2:55:11

not

2:55:11

know

2:55:11

what

2:55:11

you

2:55:11

are

2:55:11

doing,

2:55:11

C

2:55:11

you

2:55:11

know

2:55:11

that

2:55:11

there

2:55:11

would

2:55:11

have

2:55:11

been

2:55:11

a

2:55:11

lot,

2:55:18

A great way to start the night's conversation.

2:55:24

You have been keeping us captive for multiple nights.

2:55:26

You started This on the wrong foot.

2:55:29

You make an effort to keep us from bolting it, the first chance we have, I'm

2:55:37

not keeping you from bolting. If you want to leave, you can leave.

2:55:40

How do you reckon you can say that?

2:55:45

Right? Well, just take this precious package that you care so much about it, and we'll just head off on our own.

2:55:50

Yeah. Your presence is a convenience.

2:55:52

You have Thorton.

2:55:53

Every spell we have put forward to simply survive.

2:55:57

Tell

2:55:57

us

2:55:57

how

2:55:57

we

2:55:57

are

2:55:57

not

2:55:57

captives

2:55:57

in

2:55:57

the

2:56:04

situation.

2:56:07

I'm careful, especially around practitioners of magic, have a bit of a history, especially those that walked alongside such individuals.

2:56:18

Pardon me? For my mistrust of certain aspects of the arcane.

2:56:23

That's I don't know, might be hanging out in the unspoken wings of our arrangement.

2:56:29

So I'm careful not offering free to leave, but if you were, it would be annoying what you have.

2:56:41

Isn't so precious.

2:56:42

It's

2:56:42

just

2:56:45

convenient. Let's save some time. Here's what I propose.

2:56:47

I'm very curious.

2:56:49

I love books and learning.

2:56:52

Show me your book.

2:56:54

Don't give it to me.

2:56:56

Show it to us.

2:56:57

Let us look at together.

2:56:59

Look at it together and try to ascertain what it is.

2:57:02

You have been unable to.

2:57:03

You

2:57:03

can

2:57:03

stop

2:57:03

us

2:57:03

from

2:57:03

leaving

2:57:03

at

2:57:03

any

2:57:07

time. It seems share a little bit more of your knowledge.

2:57:11

Enjoy a bed tomorrow night.

2:57:13

What

2:57:13

do

2:57:13

you

2:57:13

have

2:57:13

to

2:57:17

lose? We can't leave. We've tried twice.

2:57:20

Role a persuasion check.

2:57:22

Can I give an advantage? Being here?

2:57:24

You are so persuasive.

2:57:26

So persuasive.

2:57:28

I would say this is a straight role for him and that's fair.

2:57:32

And he's combative. If anything, if anything cracking.

2:57:39

Yeah. Yeah.

2:57:42

25. Whoa.

2:57:43

Geez.

2:57:48

Well, the thing on it, When

2:57:52

like to know the nights, while I arrest, you're going to die.

2:57:56

How

2:58:04

many more days to AR to, how do you travel with this one?

2:58:09

They've learned.

2:58:11

I have to deal exactly conditioning motherfucker.

2:58:15

And the hazing process is a little steep. Once you make it to that, if you go quite fun to the eye, a use a contract and start to make a food appear in the Fire and cats and books and books, and gets and books and feed it.

2:58:32

And all the things that they will enjoy in the tower tomorrow night, all of that can be yours.

2:58:37

Talk to you a leader Also.

2:58:40

And I do tarot card readings.

2:58:42

That could be fun, which is about, sorry, following you guys on this.

2:58:53

As long as you both walk away and she bursts out immediately attention shifts and goes, C knows.

2:59:00

That's a nice song.

2:59:02

Do you want me to read your tarot cards?

2:59:05

Certainly.

2:59:05

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Molly. Does that change their opinion of it?

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them in order in front of you And

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the empire kids share them as a dead pan.

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Nine. Oh, how fucking perfect.

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Wow. Okay. Oh, wow. Swear to God.

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crazy. It's that? Oh my God.

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Shatters a city.

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Shut up.

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That's so fucking perfect. What?

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I'm like, where did you make this shit?

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As I said, you do the, by the cards, the cards, they did it by the numbers that we live here.

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We have it. We have a random poll system.

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Yeah. It's Tara.

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Everything's justified.

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Yeah. It's cool. Really cool.

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That was a double hand.

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Okay. Okay. I am.

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I'm living for that. I'm living for this like weird power dynamic.

3:04:02

So you guys are, writers are amazing.

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They're really on point.

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All of it is for us to then to look really good shit.

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Extreme

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circumstances. Yeah.

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Yeah. Oh man. History a little bit for the world.

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Yeah. Dream the world to come and pick you up from there next week, man.

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I hope he takes us up on. I hope, may I ask a question?

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Yes. I know what Molly's deal was is Lucien they, or he, Lucy is here.

3:04:35

He is. I wonder if he is going to take us.

3:04:38

I hope he takes us up on his offer. Cause that seems awkward and interested.

3:04:41

That was a very high Role.

3:04:42

And we'll kind of see how the next day plays out at dinner.

3:04:47

You guys were playing a very unique, a game of, can we be, like you said, the prisoner challenge, push and pull shifting roles, mutual intimidation.

3:05:01

And it's like riding a line back and forth is fucking fascinating.

3:05:06

I love, Oh, there's moments in this room.

3:05:09

It's like, Okay,

3:05:12

This is a Be okay.

3:05:12

Keep me on my toes.

3:05:14

Hold on it. But we'll pick up there next week.

3:05:16

Thank you all for joining us every 20 to 21, 20 to 21, hopefully much here.

3:05:23

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3:05:23

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3:05:30

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And welcome back. So, unless we left off, the mighty Nein making their way through isle cross. Make it through. They're waiting for it. I'm waiting for it. Okay. Had managed to hit up two of the satellite Nein ruined segments, the excavation sites of small pieces that had fallen from the ruined city before it collided with foreign itself. After exiting the last one with a massive threshold crest in your I guess, collective hands, but more so in yours. You managed to escape the depths of this Nein, you brought forth a, let's say, AAA friend per se, but the survivor of a previous expedition naiver who's oddly found reason to quickly get mistrust you and -- Mhmm. -- you kept him along with you for safe keeping. And journeyed for an hour beyond the ruins to rest for the night. Before your nights rest could complete, Producers found that you had been found yourselves by the Tombtakers who had been aware that you had beat them to the a two ruin and taken what seemed to have been their quarian reason for traveling there. So instead they'd be lined it to you to have a conversation. Through some odd trickery, Lucian, dispel your protective dome. And as you all sat there gathering yourselves in the snow, A brief conversation led to you a dream to travel together. Perhaps along this journey, share some information, perhaps align some of the interests that you carry, and perhaps find a way for them to acquire what it is they need from you. And so picking up where we left off, you all kind of sit amongst the snow kind of gathering your things as the Tombtakers and Lucy Nein to make their trek towards the actual central ruin of aor. It's only but a fraction of time past morning light. Do you wish to try and continue your rest for a full night sleep. Would that work? It'd probably be smart. Right? Nein would. Yeah. Yeah. I would I can stay I can stay up and and wake you bitches 7pm, something goes wrong. Like, are are is Lucian still sitting right there? Yeah. I I'll just quickly My head, I don't know. Over the snow and say, Lijian, I heard you. You guys didn't sleep either. Don't you need to rest? What I mean, I'm certain we're gonna be traveling together for a few days. I think rest will. Have to be taken at some point. Yes? Yeah. There's trust. Yeah. So lay down. Who just sleep? Oh, I think we're rest. I think we're fine for the better part of the coming day. Right, friends? And rest of the all still kind of eyes wide. Looking a little blurry eyed, but nod. Right. So Unless you're dragging us behind him and would like to make this deal now, we could begin our day's journey. We'd we'd like a minute more we we did crawl through an underground ruin and fight off a bunch of stuff, it would be nice to take a minute. Take a minute if you like. Thinks his mouth toothpick out and starts like picking at his teeth and just walks away in the circle kind of looking around the environment Caleb, at this point, you noticed it wasn't just the dome that vanished. The contents of your amber also scattered, opened to the ground around you under the snow. That camber was in the Oh, that you've had a little bit. Oh, interesting. Yeah. We did that. We double wrapped it for freshness. Yes. Fresh. I've got an interesting question then. Oh, no. Oh, no. Here comes best of luck. No. No. You just can't keep her in there. Oh, Oh, Hmm. That would be that would be amusing. Okay. There's like a tad level to dispel something like, Hmm, Hmm, Hmm, Hmm, like tenth level to spell something something. huh. And sorry, Haggies. We learned our lesson on the last time with the Amber, hence the reason for the ban. We learned what the scope of, of course, is it. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if it it's unretrievable now. No. Okay. Because actually, no. Because you you hit it properly, so didn't nothing happened. Oh, man. You're fine. I wonder how happened. I I forgot to put in the bag of holding. So Good. Thank you. So the the thing that we got in in the amber in the bag -- Yep. -- okay. -- in the pocket the bottom of the seat. Cool. We're smart. Yeah. Sure. We always do the same. We always do the right thing. By the way, can I just point out What a difference? This photo is from twenty nineteen. This is twenty twenty. Oh, man. How it started? One man. How it ended. This is after This is after twenty twenty. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Can you your rights, Sam, just for yeah. Oh, wow. Just like that. Which is boy. Let me give it a look see. Look at him. Baby. That man is I'm never gonna give you up. It's a nice place. He's never gonna lift you down. never gonna run around. I'd love to hear you. Or deserve you. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I love it. Oh, yeah. We Well, I shouldn't know. You shouldn't finish your rest. Yeah. Let's finish the rest. Let's let's not You're gonna try to do that. I have a feeling I'm not a big, very I have a feeling. I'm gonna speak very quietly. It's like two hours. Right? have feeling he's not gonna allow us to do that unless, I don't know, we stall or something. I'm staying up anyway. So, cause I don't have to sleep from the end of my long so because I don't have to sleep from the end of my long rest. I just have to chill. He's being very bitchy and he wants us to go now is, well, I mean he's not all being very bitchy and he wants us to go now. Is Well, I mean, he's not all bad. He has good oral hygiene. you know, he's taking care of his teeth. Dagging is still Dagging, you don't see anywhere. That's right. Good. So I guess Some of you guys are just gonna go to sleep here in the snow, and we'll just stand guard. I like the cold. Yes. Sleep. Alright? We do an option I prepared yesterday. I could take us away from here somewhere else. What does that mean? Well, I have been hesitant to manifest anywhere because of the nature of this place, but it is possible. So we have an option if we want to roll the dice to split it away somewhere else. Would we go closer into aort? Out of here. Did you get something you've never been before? Having this comment? That seems dangerous to me. It's not a great option. I just want you aware of it. I could probably get us back to Ballant Post. That seems possible. We've been there going somewhere we've never been seems foolhardy. Okay. But we could we could arrive with, like, each other's arms and legs and stuff. We don't know what could happen. Yeah. Right. With the other place. We could I'm making tea and going to offer it to the whole I'm away from this, so tempting to do. Or or we could do it later. It's just it's it's an option. If we rest, I I'm a little hesitant about it as well because if we leave, they're still going to go about that business. They're still going to find another one of these things. It might take them another week. I don't know. But if we were in danger, I could do it. Okay. Well, should we It, is it something that you need that you can cast right it something that you need that you can cast right away? Yeah. FI. So then should we have a signal or I need to be touching. Touching tips. K. No. I just need to see. Here's this. Make a reception check for me. Tapes sound. We're doing we're could look quiet. Twenty. Dungeon. Oh, a Oh, a twenty. He rolls away or a two twenty total? Twenty total. Okay. No worries. I didn't like twenty. Else that I just wanted to mention. We have a pretty good advantage right now because he doesn't know how much we know. And we should keep it that way. I'm looking over as anybody looking in our direction. Wow. We're having this conversation in front of a whole bunch of enemies. You guys are being very quiet and kind of huddled, but you're not being secretive about having a huddled conversation out in the open. Mhmm. You're I mean, you're surrounded by snow that fell off the dome when it collapsed, but you're all just kind of poking your heads out like prairie dogs at the moment and kind of pushing through it and gathering and having this conversation. Yes. Exactly. Propylene at those points. Mhmm. And we can see all of their party. There's no one that is missing Cree is there. Right? Everybody's accounted for. All all five of the Tombtakers you're aware of are present, of which currently, Lucy's turned away from you, kind of looking over towards the sunrise. Seems to be kinda like stretching kinda get himself ready for a journey. And the other four are he's clearly looking over at you all. I don't think they're going to let us sleep, don't think they're going to let us sleep. Let's try. Let's try. Yeah. We we will. They seem very, very, very, very charming and handsome and, like, really nice people. Sure. Why don't you guys rack out? I'll stay up with doosie and Yeah. I'm just making a little food and t for everybody who's gonna stay up. I'm gonna stay up as well. Alright. Do you guys, within a short time, two things you pick up on one, as you're gathering your things, can of scooping through the guys within short time, two things you pick up on. One, as you're gathering your things kind of scooping through the snow, you do bump into a piece of metal. And realized that the snow that's fallen in a pile, Dragon is there. He's just being very quiet. Oh, I thought he was buried in the snow, and he was, like, suffocated, and we didn't help him. No. No. Not helping us come first stays this whole time. He just you you get the sense like, You don't know if he's alive and you kind of wait for a second and you see a faint you don't know if he's alive and you kind of wait for a second and you see a faint breath. Okay. And there's a little part of you that kind of imagines that as soon as any sign of anything weird went down, he basically just a little party that kind of imagines that as soon as any sign of anything weird went down, he basically just hit. So he did the snow. He's following a short snagger and predator. Gotcha. And if it's all. No cool. Do they do they eat and drink the food, I suppose, would be question. You offer tea. Right? Food they don't take, but tea, warm tea, three members except, including Lucian. But after a fifteen minute period of time, Nein kind of sits up, hands back the cup that you offering those. Right. Right is Nein. Right? Should I be on the road? I guess so? Tell me to be rushing you, but we're going out a limb here, trusting that we can travel together for a bit, and I would be I missed if I didn't. Notice that the disadvantage that you all happen to be at. Consider this just safety for us as you are. Quite accomplished individuals to have made your way through to Euora and ruins. I would not want to find ourselves on the opposite end of a seemingly unhappy and tense group of heroes and adventurers. I appreciate the truth before politeness. Just being upfront. Sure. No funny business. If he wanted you dead right now, he would have already done so. That's true. Little strange even. That's true. Yeah. Sure. How far do you how far do you plan to travel you today? What does our best the nation before the sun sets. I don't believe now we can certainly make it to the river of lava before The sunsets probably camp or the side, there might be a bit warmer than the sun sets. Probably camp along the side there. Might be a bit warmer than some of the other accommodations. Mhmm. Then first thing in morning's light, weather be. Willing will traverse it. Cool. Can I make an inside check on him? Sure. Which one would you wanna kick out? Would he have actually killed us or does he need us? I just kinda wanna get a beat on his desk. Wait, why did I Role drill Wait. Why did our role Why did our role twice? I don't don't know. I thought it was still a disadvantage, but I'm not exhausted anymore. And it's What did I say? I'm gonna make an inside check. Yeah. 20 to 22 Twenty two. If I'm inside the tower. You get the sense that he's confident they could get the sense that he's confident they could have. But Right. But There are he's withholding for a reason. Mhmm. You are some use to him in some way, and that's why he hasn't just killed you outright. That was the twenty two. That's as much as you can gather. Okay. Well, are we taking the lead? Are you? Hmm. Well, we know where we're going. We've been there before. So we can take the lead. Makes sense. And just so we know who who we're traveling with, it's it's Lucian Cree, Zoran, What's over? Oh, dear. Yeah. There's me. Zoran. Zoran. Yeah. Zoran. Zoran. And And there's I'll say Happling. Hello. Hello. Young lady. What's your name? Otis. Oh, your Otis. Huh? I'm there. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you as well. Nice to meet you as well. Knowledge did you come from? Oh, what I grew up trust involved originally, but the places are fucking dumb. Yeah. We've been there. It is a dump. And there's the alfkos. I'm Tycho. Tycho. Yes. So, because we're taking the lead. Grab your things. Don't wonder too far, strength of numbers out here in the dangerous expanse of ice across. Not that we're particularly helpful right now, but sure. Good. Day's young. Lots of walking. Maybe some tuck in. He begins to pick up as the rest of the group continues to walk. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH DAGEN? SAYING DEEPLY UNDER MY BREATH AFTER THEY TAKE A FEMES UP SO AM IN HOW happening things cam. You hear a you hear a Amazing. Thank you. It's just no more long line. When you The whisper. That is, you know, you're fairly that as you you're fairly confident there are a little ways that I've earshot, you hear a voice from under the snow muffled, go, don't worry about me. I'm gonna follow with a safe understood. Nein Here. That's weird. Okay. I'm a fat brother. Okay. Surprised he still to come with this, but she'll hurry. How high are you, man? I won't. You guys are half and not very big. Can be a love love. Yeah. Exactly. I feel that. I feel that the phrase I want the other way, feel that the phrase I want other half of my money is probably just three syllables and these can't. So pluck. Okay. We follow. Yeah. We're walking. Alright. now. I got a full night's full night's rest, everyone does set for a point of exhaustion who did not complete it. That's all of you. Okay. Which is on checks. Right? This has been exactly on just as advantage on ability checks. Yeah. But Where do we put that? Under conditions, under at the very bottom. Body. But do remember you got a short rest. I think I'll just put it in my brain. Indeed. Those of you got short rest, did get that? Sure. Great. Your exhausted. It is a a fairly let's get in, like, a moderately clear sky for what you've experienced here. There are still, you know, great clouds probably, you know, a third of the sky still held by them, but quite a bit of blue is peeking through. It's it's a call more and more beautiful morning out here in your travels. And it it's welcoming if not for the blurring light that's now finding your eyes and you all kind of trudging through the snow and ice exhausted, but you keep pace with the Tombtakers who are keeping pretty decent pace not as fast as you would have Nein, perhaps if you were following your friend who's guiding you but not too terribly slow as you are kind of following in their footsteps and they're moving at a pretty decent pace. But they keep on about maybe twenty or so feet ahead of you. And occasionally, just keep an eye over their shoulders. They're having conversations amongst themselves. Hear couple distant laughs. You know, their friends traveling, but there's definitely a separation at least as much as you guys want to keep. Can I have a piggy back right and keep sleeping on somebody's back? I don't know if I can do that restful sleep. Just thought I'd ask. I can try to put you on my shoulders. Just like a crime. Just like, The kid who's, like, done with Disney Land live after six o'clock. Yep. I don't think I've been that kid Nein that adult. Just got, like, sugar across the lawyer map. Alright. Is there anything that you guys want to do as your journey? And we should a long rest so impressed. Yes. You got the letter address? I'll I'll walk up and chat up Otis real quick. Alright. If if she'll if she'll have me. Okay. Hey there. Well, hello there. You seemed I just wanted to to follow-up on what we were talking about before. Do you you're from Frost and Wild. Right? I mean, a long time ago. Oh, okay. Because we we've been there sort of recently, like, we went I think we stayed at the nestled nook in. Do you remember that place? Alright. Right. No. I I remember some of it. I your family's barrier. Don't care. You don't care about your family. Don't care if I have any family. Oh, but like I meant close family, like like, you know, husband wife, you know, something like that, kids? Not really. Not a lot of family work in the orders. Not a lot of family work in the orders, Yeah. Not really. Yeah. That's why I hear about it. What do you own a are you on about? I just I don't there's no other like like us, then in a day, I don't run into a lot of us you know, I haven't been traveling with any other halflings and it's kinda nice to see you familiar, you know, body. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. Traveling with tall folk all the time. It's just kind of Hmm. I didn't I don't know. You know what the worst part to find someone on your level? Yeah. No. But the worst part about it is, they don't understand If they don't shower for a few days when you walk by someone's ass, it stinks. Right. I mean like, and then we're I mean, like and we're down there all the time smelling crutches and butts notice kind of glances briefly over in Zoran's direction and goes. Yeah. Yeah. It's gross. Yeah. Well, I don't know what your sort of, you know, specialties are, but when this shit goes down, I got you back. Right? Right. And you got mine. Right. It's so cool. Cool. Alright. Well, I'm gonna go check on my my stinky friends. Chorus Chorus Don't be afraid to come and talk. You too? Nein the conversation. Nein halfling? Buy in halfling or buy in halfling. Either one. Okay. Somebody like to roll for the day's travel. Who's turn? Is that correct? Over here, please go. Got it. Think it's you. Okay. Just a a big You know, deep twonin. Less than a hair. Mhmm. Eight. Eight. Like, we've done eight before. Eight is good. You might see them now. already hit it. On. As you push on through the snow sky remains fairly, you push on through the snow, the sky remains fairly tight. Yay. What up. What up. A warmer day than you're used to. Still freezing cold, but some of the days that you've traveled, you actually might catch a little sweat on the inside of some of your furs, and it's it's nice, familiar. But no issues along the way. For the extended eight ish or so hours you guys continue moving, You hit the late afternoon. The sun hasn't set yet, but a point of rest as being discussed up ahead, and you can hear Lucy and kind of turn back and say, we're not far. Hope you've got your Comforts about you. Comforts. Up over that hill, it kinda points over just gliding towards his group and you all. And you could see there's a little bit A rise a rise up and looks like the crest of a couple of hills ahead of you. As you all begin to step up to it, you can reach the top and about ten feet beyond the crest of that hill, it drops off into what you can immediately see is this expansive river of molten rock slowly flowing. From the right to the left, south to north, from where you're located. Well, over a mile across to the opposite side, it is just a gulf And it's just occasionally, gas erupts from it and plays boxes. You can see darken the bits where it's cool and it's cracking apart and then the glow from underneath peaks through and pulls it into separate sections. It is omnous and a deadly idea to traverse. They're also kind of hypnotic, you know. You know, instead of that for for hours. And it does feel warmer by proximity. You get that same feeling when you're on a high tower or something and you have that urge. Yeah. Lucy turn backwards. Indeed. Don't do it. Don't don't jump. That is young. Okay. Cool. Alright. Pretty cool. Bye. Eat him. Never he's molly Mark inside. He's not. We just have to say the right, like, code word to remind him. It's like a a combination of words. Mally Mark was more of, like, an effortless dick and the scene is, like, concentrated. Yes. It's a play pointed pointed dick. Pointed dick. Worse. Can never fun. Mhmm. Yeah. It's funny. No. Okay. We wanted to That idea. What's our plan? Are we supposed to Yes. I Nein, for him, what are what are we doing? Are we gonna camp it? Are we gonna camp here tonight or or try cross? He said we were camping before. Yeah. Don't look pretty tired. You probably used to be harassed. Yeah. We could. Are you gonna push us in the level when we go to sleep? Hopefully if you don't give us a reason. Come come. Let's all scoop out a place to rest. At which point they begin like taking their arms and pulling the snow back to kind of expose some of the ground beneath, pushing some over the edge that kind falls and tumbles. You're waiting for the his but there is Nein. And eventually, they kind of carve out this little space. You can still see the frozen cracked ground beneath it. And elements of grayed, long, dead vegetation and or grass that maybe is adapted to the colder weather and seems to thrive beneath the snow. It's hard to tell. But in this little space here. It seems like rest can be had. And with the proximity, it's almost comfortable Maybe a little campfire, but nothing too major. You guys won't have to be huddling for warmth necessarily. Before you could utilize your dome. Can you? No. You cannot not let alone rest. Right? I mean, it's supposed to do that. No. I can definitely do that. I was rich what can't. And you've gone now if they are cool with it. Will this spell it anyway? When the snow was pushed into the river, it didn't hit because it just did that he turns to vapor because there's no lava and it's magic. Do you wanna go look? I And then I think you earlier, you said that Ice can fruit freeze on the lava think earlier he said that ice can freeze on the lava. Yeah. Oh. Is the ice out here? Is it weird Or something I'm going to, I wouldn't make it a couple something? Yeah. I'm going in I would like to do that. Snowballs and chuck them into the river. Okay. Do you wanna go look to this? No ball. This node just kinda breast and moves along. Why? What is it about? I pull us a stone, just a stone out of my passions, components and things of that and see where it does pull a a stone. Just an a stone out of my pouches components Mhmm. -- in front of that and see what it does. Gone. Huh. But that is the side is Oh, weird. I'm going to Will it work? This is will it work with water? I'm gonna cast create water and it falls in ten gallons, thirty foot cube like rain. You see, just turn immediately to steam and then rise and dissipate. Huh? Are we close to the flow Are we close to the flow shift. The the flow shift is This is what that is. Oh, oh, we're north of the flow shift. Yes. That nexus point. Yeah. Why would that be? I wonder if the Nein ruins have infused the snow and ice here? With some property or or maybe the lava itself has some property. With the lava. Yeah. What about ice? Which which means Like, there we no snow, but what about ice? So I'm not You have any ice? You guys are You can't make ice. We don't have water, so that love is going. Love is going south of Europe. I do. Well. Does that make some sounds to make some sound North? Yep. So it is going up the weird, I will cast shape, water and So it's going up the Weird. I will cast, shape water. And freeze we can freeze water. I guess I'll pour some some, like, water in my hand and freeze it. I don't know. Sure. Okay. You pour a little water into your hand and you spray it in cold. You have little block of ice You know, throw throw it. Okay. You see it hit and skid little bit. Oh, okay. Ice and snow. Okay. How long are the snowballs that I threw? Are they still, like, flowing on the top of it? Or have they disintegrated? No. There's still on top. Just kinda cattered, and they're just moving slowly with the flow. Interesting. Maybe we can make some ice chunks and you sail across. Ice skates. Icebridge. I'm gonna fire it. I'm gonna try a sacred flame just to see if it disturbs lava. You see the flash of lightning energy, but it has no impact It is molten rock and the radiant fire wouldn't necessarily I wouldn't necessarily. That's very strange. Hallecy, and have you guys crossed this river before? Uh-huh. How do you do it? You'll see. Nein the morning. I mean, we can do it just fine on our own. So you asked me, well, I mean -- Interesting. -- but we can he'll tell you how we do it. Okay. We'll swap tips in the morning. Excitedly. But advances over and you see his Otis is currently kind of kneeling on the ground and and the central space here, clusters up bit of the grass and then with their hand across the air and then becomes a bit of a fire. Few more hours a day life. It was up for some lunch. Some lunch, did you say? Yeah. Or supper, depending. And traveling quite a bit. I could eat -- Yeah. Sure. -- sure. Alright? Yeah. They have a heavy pack which you've seen on on Zoran's back. It's this this massive pack that based on the shape, the weird long shape of it and the weight that he carries it with. This one seems to actually contain the other threshold crest from the first ruin. As he sets it down, there's a number of side pouches and kind of rummaging through, pulls out heavy bits of jerky and kind of throws them to each of you. There's no spice up your actions your birthday. Pass. Sure. I'm gonna just look at it and see if I can discern what animal it came from. Roll a nature check. Nature check. Seven. Oh, wait. Disadvantage. Mhmm. Seven. You hope it's not people. Hard to tell. Hard to sell. Delicious. Turkey. Are they eating it? Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. And you're eating other food. They're not sharing all their rations with you, but they're offering something to pepper up what you brought with you. They assume you took care of yourselves on this journey. I need to pull back. Of a bit of that. bubble. I have to pull out some really stale pastries from Nico I pull out some really stale pastries from Nicodranes. We need to get you some sort of math in a lot like pocket pocket oven or something. I don't know. Someone's gotta make a pouches. I mean, someone's gotta make a pouch that you just put some dough in and then, like, an hour you've got bread. That seems. I'll keep an eye out for some sort of entangement. A dough enchantment. Like a little easy bake. Yeah. A bag of easy bake. A easy bake. Licensed stuff to go. No. Honestly, just like a a cold bag that will keep, you know, like a little bag of cold ink, something like that. I feel like that's beyond science and magic's ability. I'm not sure. No. It would be so used far. So much easier to make something hotter than it just makes something cold. A CRE I'm not talking to Cree, I'm not talking to that Do they carry anything around their neck vials, necklaces, any kind of jewelry, anything like that? I think perception check. Twelve. With this and finish. Yep. Twelve. I didn't really roll. I mean, you've seen it before, all that you can make out amongst, like, the huddled fur and thick leather and almost a blanket like, covering and beyond that as well. There is a a thick chain that occasionally appears around her neck that has a circular red stone in the middle a like a like a like a deep dark red coloration. And just her were the others as well? Frank, you've seen just her. As long as we are sharing a meal, perhaps we can learn a little bit more about each other. Mhmm. I use control flames can't trip. Mhmm. And I can manipulate shapes out of the fire and I make the shape of the city on the astral sea. It's crude, but it's very clear what it is, floating above the fire. Are you going to make us wait until we arrive before we know what you intend to do? Or can you share little bit in that sense? Red crumbs can be fun. Jesus, Christ. My goodness. Those are are cobwebs because it's I'm the guy who has, like, his Christmas tree up for, like, a month after Christmas. It joke funny when you have to claim Oh, dad. It would be a brisk brisk brisk brisk brisk brisk brisk brisk brisk brisk brisk. Let's know. It's kind of a spider commentary is supposed to be good luck. Is that right? Yep. That's the A spider commentary every year. Well, let's see. We're gonna be learning about each other. What do you want? Where it started or where it's going like that meme. Well, I am a fan of history. Let's start there. Lanes back, kind of flicks the toothpick. Oh. Sorry. You're a bit broader than I was expecting. Okay. Quick try. Well, I mean, my friends here. We're we're from own disparate were We're from home. Desperate collective, you would say, called declarae orders. Clear clarity orders, Clear a orders. Oh, alright. We're clear a orders. We flick wine. So some of us grew up together. Some of us just found like minded interest taking the things we learned and eventually sticking out of our own because you've all got to an inherent dislike of authority. And in our travels, much like you were traveling with the good lady, We found ourselves hired by her and others for some time, made some good coin, did some travel. And I found the secret. I felt a little 7pm into something beyond Nein of the fire, something we promised. Knowledge. And when I looked in it back, So at that point, losing became more of a We're of a costume. The garment became more of the presence. That's where it started. Specifically, find book You seem to be fond of books? Have your reader. Not too. Couldn't put this one down. So what are you all doing here? I know you're certainly curious. You wouldn't follow this far, but you have some sort of history with whatever was pilot this for a while. Are you coming to join or are you coming to stop me? Well, it's a lot of coincidences, really. We were quite fond of our friend. So that alone does draw us in a bit. No. It's hard not to be fun to this. You're not entirely different. And the friend we knew. We've seen you with food on your penis. At which point every other member of the tube tankers starts laughing Russians had slowly turns towards humans. All of us. You tried to pass it off as the plague. You covered it in egg. It was a real gross and a real bad idea to be totally honest. That wasn't me. That was an aberration. Same dick. He actually lapsed to himself together. Well, I guess, there are some secrets I don't have to introduce at some point. Right? That's not the only coincidence though. It's a few things. We have entanglements with the assembly. And with our old friend, your fragment. And we have put whispers on the wind of the city as well. Word is getting around. We are curious about the intersections of those threats of are curious about the intersections of those threats of fate. I can respect that. No. Speaking of intersections, the book that I found. Fascinating read. I understand most of it, but I have my limitations. What is the title It's not much of a title to it. It's more of a journal. Huh? I can respect can respect that. Would you like second set of eyes on it? No, I've done that once done it once already. Didn't end well for her. Seems to end well for you. So So far, so good. Bannush. We were seeking somebody who we knew could possibly understand some of the more Complicated aspects of this journal. Having done previous work with the lady, went to her, made a deal a contract. She promised to help help me utilize parts of the stone to truly reach out. You see once I started reading it, it was just for fun. But Nein the dreams started coming. Something will spill it into them. And it wanted my help. And his eyes glance back over towards the fire and the shape Daydreaming different mind came to me, lucked us. Gardious IRA. Jalon one by one of the, some of them came to me and showed me what the city was a collections of mines, finding emergence, becoming one under these eyes of nine each visit, they gave me one of alone one by one, the son of him came to me. And showed me what the city was. A collections of mines finding emergence. Becoming one under these eyes of nine. The each visit they gave me one of these. He reveals the eye on his hand. That's when I knew it was real. And I had to follow. I had to learn at which They promised to promised to show. So trying to reach past his limitations, the lady was to help. And she's a train liar. And the ritual was sabotaged. Supposed to place in my spirit, out there whole, it shattered me out there. It's in many, many pieces. She took the book first off. And from what I can tell him, try to take up the same path, but If someone often found me, put me back together. Nein that space, I learned so much more about them than I could have ever hoped for. So in a way, I'm actually thankful. But one can be thankful and vengeful at the same time. Why do you think that was? One of these pieces of view landed in a grave and ended up in the circus. What about the others? And where did you go that you would? Learn about these people. Imagine if you will. You the idea of you, your singular conscience, and every thought you had was accompanied by a hundred screaming thoughts fighting for attention. Weird dissonance. A thought. That was the prison I was sent to Aeor. My spirit broken and blown across the extra winds. But it took this one of them. Following my sentiments like I followed hers to find all my pieces and put them back together. Do you think they missed any? here right now. Are you? Well, lucky enough, found this This body has been vacated and easy enough to come back to. There's some madam noble. Mhmm. Are they here on Alexandria somewhere? Maybe we'll talk more about this tomorrow. It's been a fun conversation, but it seems very one-sided. You can feel free to ask us anything. About the times, you know, we've died or come back to life or got split into pieces and sent into memory prisons. The red word and Redwood books. Gone through quite a bit of danger. Some would say blindly Nein some cases. Just to follow us up here and even be just to our own game. I'll ask again beyond just idle curiosity. What is it? You want. When you first saw your vision, What did you feel? Did you did you instantly want the power of what you saw? Or or did you feel fear? Oh, fear fear immensely. Yeah. I was with a person then Aeor is a natural reaction. And I take it by the recognition in your faces. You've perhaps seen shades of the same thing too. More than shades. Hmm. We find ourselves very curious about the power you yourself are all consumed find ourselves very curious about the power you yourself are all consumed with You're not alone, you have friends. We are accomplished people. I think we are maybe curious if there is room for us in your plans. There might be still. There's it's hard to explain. There's a part of me that just I feel like you all have a part to play still. Like you've you've used to me. Well, we got visions too. Yeah. From the same city. We are a beyond coincidence at this point. Do any of your companions Have dreams of this city dreams of the city? At which point, Susan kinda looks over and they all kind of glanced at each other nod and then Cree kind of leans forward a bit. The dreams that we have are granted through Lucian, through the connection that he's offered. Yeah. That's not what we mean. Yeah. I imagine that if the city gave anybody dreams, it might mean they were chosen. We do not have such dreams. The nonagon. He's the one who has been chosen. He follow in his steps. His guidance. Looks over with like a smiling reverence in her faces. It is through him, and Lucy shoots a look. Which kinda gets a little quiet and goes back to sitting when. We trust him. His vision. And the solemn of him, kinda looks up with reference and closes her eyes and clutches that stone around her neck. Do you think your special lotion? Give me someone who wakes up every day. Thinks they're different. last. I took my entire life waking up every day knowing that I'm different. Look at me. I think it dreamy. That's a new one as the years went on, didn't start that way. A lot of folks are really Eager kind, especially in Shady Creek run growing up to those of internal blood. Yeah. Let's say I feel pretty darn special these days. Not everyone's. okay. Single handedly been granted the ability to slaughter a member of the Cerberus assembly by themselves. Right? And you got that right? I think I'm wrapping up a few a few gold to check off my box. What about that book of yours? Have you mined it for all its secrets? That's all of it. There's some curious pieces I need to suss out. As he kind of glances over in the eastward direction. I know that trust is stretched a little thin around this fire, but You have a couple of eggheads here. I'm really smart. Very good track record. Yeah. We're detectives. A line of us. I also say that we have something that you were clearly in dire need of. I wouldn't say dire, but certainly convenient need. We have perspective. right? And when was the last time that you had anybody who didn't just agree with you all the was the last time that you had anybody who didn't just agree with you all the time? You ever gonna work anything out? There is a, like, pause, and to stare and listen, kinda leans forward towards you, lips, somewhat pursed this, like, hard to read almost imperceptively frustrated and trying to read you before it curls into a grin. Oh, I know you're type. I don't think you know my type at least not a long time. Oh, this is going to be a fun journey. I think so. I'll do my best to be as honest as I possibly can. I will say, I admire those who can live a life of perspective. Those who can see their choices from the position of their own mind and make those choices accordingly. Oh, you, you miss the point perspective as income from you you missed the point, perspective, doesn't come from yourself. You need others. Prospective is disagreement. You only have two whys. I know you think you have more, but there's really only two. I think And the greens and turns his head, decide to tip your hand of grins and turns his head to decide You keep your hand a bit. Yeah. There's a There's a lot. You don't understand I hope hope so. That's why we're here. I have plenty of perspective. Just for the sake of that entire book, though. 7pm of disagreement. I have the perspective of not just myself, not just these fine companions nor the perspective of nine, quite frankly, batty as shit individuals from a long time ago. many minds of that period, and there's plenty of disagreement. I'm excited to learn. And I stand close. Don't get in my way. Just talk. All this is is just talk. What do you have to worry about? Are you so afraid of appearing wrong in front of us? Who are you trying to impress? This isn't better pressing. This is about having a conversation. Alright. And so we're offering you help Nein there's nowhere we can go. And nothing we can do is I have to many, yes, men go and nothing we can do. I have too many yes men. I'm excited. Extremely appreciative of such an offer. And if I were unbilled, interested in passing over an extremely important relic that contained all sorts of, well, sensitive information to individuals that honestly refuse to give over any of the things that is rightfully ours that we asked for it very nicely. I think maybe our trust needs to grow a little bigger. Why don't we make it an exchange? If you let my friend and I examine your book, we will uncover the last of it for you by wage or we will, and you can have your threshold crest. Maybe after all, let me start few more days of travel to take. Let's see how this friendship blossoms. Good news spirit engine. Do you need us outside of Do you need us outside of your threshold crest to achieve your goals? No. Do I believe him? You can say, I didn't know what you were talking about when you said pay Inside check is this all the social. Up. I didn't know what you were talking about when you said pay attention so I immediately shifted my focus to you. I used to get my head disadvantage. Yes. I rolled a one. You seem to believe what you think. It's good. Shit. Can you roll yourself too? Or No. You he was gonna assist him. Well, no. No. You see where it is or your role for say your honor. You you you you roll for yourself then. You did roll this advantage himself. Yeah? I'll get out of my inside checks are so good with this negative two for a five. Better than mine. Actually, not better than mine to be fair. Yeah. So finds a nine with So find a nine with them. He's a he's slippery figure in general. Totally. It's, you know, it's not a Chuck bridge. Good call. Good call though. Good call tomorrow night. Do we wear as well? Who has Emily's coat? Sitting in the back of think you did. You did. I have his belt. I think you have his I think we gave it to you when you were at address solution is Mollie and just see if that does it. Yeah. Try and try to assemble, like, a volt. I've got some eggs. We started trying to post cold. I've kept going on. Yeah. All Alright. Well, we'll be here in the morning. Right? Because we can't go anywhere. You can melt people by looking at them. So now. No. Only a ticket everyday. So can we we can 7pm people by looking at them. We just haven't shown you yet. Okay? I'm sure. Well, y'all look a bit tired. Sure. Let's get some rest. Sure I sleep on it. Think about those last two chapters. You can't crack the night. I Yasha, let's go look at I'd love a real quick. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to see it anyway. Okay. Yeah. Give them a better look as good as their look at a better look at this. Better look. Mhmm. A fun you guys. Thanks. Okay. We'll stay safe. Do you remember our first date by the lava flow? So was kind of banking on having Caleb's tower. You know, I I was thirty. Yeah. Yeah. And not like at twelve other people around us. Yeah. I feel like that would make for a very interesting first date to be an incomparable one. I think I would rather wait for something don't know, not this, not anxiety inducing. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This is weird. A hundred percent weird. I don't know how to talk to him. I don't either. I hate him. Yeah. I do it, but at the same time, I'm I'm I'm I want them back. It's frustrating because you can see that one person of him, that ten percent of him that is that piece of molly? Yes. So it's like you can see this version of him that's better and good and not corrupted by well, I was gonna say, greed and arrogance by arrogance kind of was always mauling his hair. It was just fine. But it was cute. cute. He was endearing and charming It was endearing. Yeah. Charming arrogance. Yep. This is a little different. Yeah. I think we should put a in it. Okay. And let's stay alert and please Don't die in the meantime. Don't die. Okay. Next time we have the tower. Okay. Okay. That's a plan. Shake on it. I kicked some snow into the lava kick some snow under the lava. Okay. But maybe we can build like a raft. A snow raft. We should just build a raft and and believe right now. You and me. Okay. I'm just kidding. It's a good idea though. It's a very inviting Let's go protect oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go. Okay. As she comes back, I'm gonna grab you, Ashan. Can we go to the edge of the lava? Just a Nein? Yeah. Sure. Let's go. I just squint at Beth as They walk by. This is not how I picture tonight going. It's an apple. I'll be here. What do you what do you mean? I had a plan to do something really nice for you really special and have like a -- Oh. -- one moment and Yeah. I mean This didn't happen. It's only, hey, I I think, you know what? We'll make sure to do it at another time. No. Think I can do it now. I don't want you a poem up. Oh, no one's ever written me a poem before. Yeah. I thought, you know, you you've just been so distant from us. I just wanna make make sure that you know that you're part of the team and part of the the family and so That's that's so sweet. Well, you know, I do what I can. Should I You can I'll it, Gaye. I'll I'll bunch up some It's not very long. I I had to write it while we were walking today. It's really hard to write while you walk anyway. Of course, it gets all weird. I've tried it in as a rhyme scheme kind of falls apart what it is I've tried it a bit. The writers team kind of falls apart. What? No. No. It's fine. Big, bold, brave, yasha. Hair so long like yummy pasta. Right? Sturdy as the cauldron of tasha. If you're dirty, we will wash you. If you cross her, it will cost you. We'd be sad if we ever lost you. Okay. Oh, I scoop her up and I give her a big I scoop her up when I give her a big hug. Oh, that's so nice. Thank you. Well, you know, I just thought that you needed to hear it from someone because no one's gonna tell you you're special out here on on these, you know, horrible wastelands, you know, one's gonna just look in your eyes and say, hey, you. I like you. Thank you, Veth. May I keep this? Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, this is very special. I'm gonna put it in my my flower journal. Okay. And just remember, I was the first person to ever write you poem. I will always remember will always remember it. Thank you so much, Beth. III will always remember. Mhmm. Right? Okay. We'll we'll we'll we will we'll do something more special. Let's put a bit in this. Yeah. That's a good idea. Yeah. Let's Yeah. We'll do a proper something. A proper proper something. Okay. Something. Yes. I'm in. Okay. Alright. Shake on it. Let's shake up. Yeah. Great. Such a dick. Oh, what control? Oh, wow. Okay. Alright. Master. What? So how are you guys wrestling? Doing. What? You wanna go talk about it next to lava? If I were to throw off any this is where I sort of thing for warm you know. Is that going to be a problem? Or are we good? Are you asking Lucian? Yeah. Looking right at Mhmm. No. I mean, warmth is quite necessary out here. Okay. You you guys are going to be but I think we'll be fine. K? I walk a little ways off towards where I saw everyone kept going back and forth to followed by the lava flow and I Nein to ritually cast the dome there. You've got Okay. Medici. Oh, sorry. Just out of curiosity, have any of us or rather have I have ever heard of the Claré order? Make it a street check. There you go. Nein of those names? Correct. CLA. Yeah. It's no Claré. Oh, like that one. Claré like Yeah. Alright. That's how spell it. Wait. You know that name? I mean, I've I've read Like Tell Doric. Yeah. Exactly. Like, we know personally, but III not to spoil this. No. That's still nuts. It doesn't matter. Lovely. Well, my history is dog shit. But sixteen. Sixteen? You've heard a couple of stories. They talk about from if if from a genre specifically, probably a little more like boogeyman. Mhmm. It's supposedly a group of odd outsider warriors that deal with dark magic, and there are some stories that tell them helping people when certain monsters arise and some saying that they are the monsters themselves. But most of it's most of the tales end with the general idea of just don't go near them. They're weird and probably not good. But it's just like, I don't know, a guild or a club. Okay. The best that you can make out with memory. Got a really cool symbol too. Mhmm. Anybody else like to do anything? Or are you going to go ahead and rest down tonight? What On the the dome? Yes. One two open Aeor shift. Yes. I don't even know if we need a shift at this point. Yeah. Wait, someone's got to stay Tom. It's gotta stay up. What if they leave or kill us? Why haven't they done it yet? Nein it'll be way easier to kill us an hour ago. That's fine. I'll stand up too. So Let the smoke cause their the smoke has your sleep. Dear god. Yeah. I can I can take second watch? Wake me up when done. K. Thanks. Wake us up ten minutes before the Yeah. Does it seem like they're laying down to go to sleep at all out there? Yeah. Everyone's kinda bedding down and down wrapping up around their little fire. You think first watch? Alright. Reception check for both of you if you don't mind. Yes. A disadvantage was my twenties. Oh a disadvantage, right balls six, 12, Oh, disadvantage. Right? BOSS. Six? Uh-huh. Twelve twelve. Somewhere in eventful, Nein the sky is clear. You know, occasionally the clouds come through and occasionally Lanceman's seat into the stars poking through in the distant dark void of the night sky, the fire right next to the Tombtakers begins to dwindle slightly into a warm ember, but they're all mostly resting except for Lucy and just kinda just leaning against her her rock and just kinda looking in your direction. While we're having our watch, Caleb has taken out the the collar from inside of the fallen holocaust. Mhmm. And that power source, and I'm just going to start to while talking to Beth, but just Try to examine them, see if the two things seem compatible, begin the study of these things. Take your color check, a disadvantage. Yes. Yeah. Well, they're both really low rolls. Fifteen. Mm. There might be a way, but there's just so much swimming in your head right now from the conversations earlier, the possibilities, some of the things that Lucy and said Nein trying to there's just a lot in your mind trying to occupy that space, and you you can't find concentration tonight to really put it together. Perfect. You know, I'm having trouble with this. I think mainly because I'm feeling guilty. Go ahead. You guilty felt guilty about Guilty about what? Guilty about what? Well, I can't help, but feel like I talked you out here to, Oh, I told you I had a place for you to stay with your can't help but feel like I talked to you out here. To Oh, I told you I had a place for you to stay with your family. told you can get you back to your family, and we are stuck out here on the edge of nowhere with no way out. And we're heading towards some sort of precedent. There's no, I mean, that's not your, you have plenty to feel guilty about in your life without, you know, adding that too to No I mean, that's not your you have plenty to feel guilty about in your life without, you know, adding that to to it. Listen. I deep down inside. No. I wanted you to talk me into it. I want to be with you. All. And I feel more guilt than you could ever know about this. I mean, if I don't go home, my son grows up Without a mother, my husband has to find a new wife and he has no game. He's sweet though. He's very sweet, but, like, woof. But I got that. But took me a second. haven't even got it. But but I wanted to come. I wanted to be here. And frankly, you know, we haven't had time for it, but, you know, I've I've felt awful about it as well. But it's like I can't be here for all of you fully and be there for them fully. It's like I'm in two places at the same time and mentally and it's it's impossible So And you don't do any of the guilt is still, you know, I've, I've grown so accustomed to having you at my not doing a very the guilt is still, you know, I've I've grown so accustomed to having you at my side. It's been a long time. And I just didn't want to leave you behind night. I don't really function on my own so much. I don't I mean, I don't think any of us really do. You know, when Lucian was talking about how his his spirit was sort of split into parts and scattered asunder. Just made me think about us. You know, the nine about how when we all started, that's how we were sort of disparate parts of 7pm, and it took us coming together to feel old again. I sort of feel bad for the guy because I know what that's like. And If I left you all, if you left us all, you know, it just wouldn't be the I left you all, if you left us all, you know, it just wouldn't be the same. So I I don't know how to I don't know how to square it for any of us because this journey will come to an end at some point and Yeah. I've got a bad feeling about that. Don't want it to. This makes me nervous. But him looking at you like that? That's better. That doesn't help. And so wrapped up in my own bullshit for so long, and this is clearly something bigger than all of us, bigger than them. Bigger than he. Thank you for using the proper grammar. I feel like it's gonna be threading a needle to come out the other side of this, all of this. Any of us. Well, I'm in the worst part is if we come out the other side and we survive or win or whatever it is, Then it's goodbye. I don't wanna think about that. Well then good. Think about your guilt. And I'll think about mine. Check. And that'll keep us company. That is pulling or a hug. I love you. I will always love you. Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you. I don't know what I miss. We should wake up the eyes. Okay. Just taking the next watch. I can take Nein watch. Hey. Gosh, where are gosh. Are you good? Yeah. I can do it. I can take her. And I'm not Russia, Chester. Ugh. Oh, you forgot to look. Look for our weird friend, maybe. We just scan the horizon or something. Yeah. Good night. good night. Hi. Here, here, wait, oldest. I just put cat in hands and I get to sleep. Just making biscuits. Hello. I hate being awake. I took too. I don't like being woken up. Me neither. I just hate it. Oh. But I Nein, crawl over somebody and sit next to Iasha. No. Sorry. How are you are you? Oh, yeah. Hard pocket. Hold on. Hold on. No. Oh, we're feeling with all this. Oh, This is awesome. Yeah. How are you on board doing? I saw you guys talking. Well, she asked me out on date. She wants. Yeah. Yeah. She asked me out on a date. And We were going to go tonight in the tower. Oh, no. But it's okay. There's a lot going on right now and you know, we have to focus on on keeping everybody safe and making sure that the world doesn't end. You know? Yeah. That's that. Like, obviously, this that's, like, the most important thing. First and foremost. But did you ever the pop? Well, I I was working on it, and then I just I I kind of ended up writing her letter. I still have a poem, but I Right. just ended up writing her letter. It felt weird and it felt like a really I wasn't ready yet. So I just wrote her AAA note. And yeah. And then she I have another day. Yeah. I feel like Right. I feel like I saw you and Ford getting a very like drapey with each other and just like, you know, the number we were sleeping the other feel like I saw you and Ford getting very, like, 7pm with each other. Drape. Just, like, you know, the little we were sleeping the other night. Gosh. Gosh. Gosh. Drapey. Gosh. One. Guess to be. What? Hi. And it was awesome. Have you have you kissed somebody before? Only four, really? Under water, so I don't think it counts. I thought it counted, but I don't think it counts. What did you feel? What did it feel like? Was it wonderful? You know those butterflies that keep appearing around us? Felt a wobbly bed. Maybe they, like, flew out of their stomach. I mean, if these times are unraveling them inside, I think. Mhmm. Oh, wonderful. Was it romantic? It's pretty romantic. How do you feel about him? I mean, Right. kind of feels different than I thought it would after all of the books that I read, you know. Like it feels like like we know each other really well, you know. And all those books that I read, it's two strangers coming together and forging this passionate affair. And it it doesn't it doesn't feel like that. It feels like Right. it feels comfortable instead. Hmm. But in a good way, in a good way, well, from my experience, which is not a lot, I've found that the The passion and the love for somebody is sort of is passion and the love for somebody sort of is stronger, the more you know them. And the more you love them. And, you know, I read I read books, but I don't feel like it's ever really like that. It's it's better. But I'm excited for you. I'm excited for you. Wow. I can't play the kiss too. Did he slip you the tongue? Okay. It tastes like just a tip. Mhmm. Wow. I'm gonna wait to kiss him again until everything dies down there, you know, because it feels a little strange to, like, be making out when, like, I know I know peek out of the dome. Is Lucy still just staring at? Still awake just staring over the dome? Yeah. It feels creepy to do it when that's happening right there. Yeah. Yes. Can I assist you? wonder if you can hear us. Can you hear us? Yes. Yes. Yes. Can you hear us? Hey. Can you hear me? Can you happy. It's pretty darn thing I can't do. Well, I'm excited for you. No pressure or whatever happens. But how beautiful to explore those things? Yeah. A look over both sleeping. I cover her up because she's, like, star fished and being off her blanket. Look at her arms. And that's one arm, like, half on conducive, like, a leg over caleb. This Is a pretty tight in tight in here. You know, you know. I'm pretty tight. I think we have there's I'm ready to sleep in the I can sleep anywhere, but, man, after sleeping in that tower and having your own place with fireplace and it was nice. Well, I hope we make it I hope we make it through. I hope we destroy the city. I don't do. I want it gone. It's not good, and hope we can have a part in taking it taking it down, whatever that means. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Mhmm. You finished your watch. Who's taking last watch? Oh, bro. This wasn't bullshit. Okay. Bo and just Bo. Alrighty. Oh, I'll do it. Okay. Let's do a good taste. And I'll watch. Sub, Someone's like, thoughts in here. Deeply, bulb affords. Only one one per day. How it seemed still awake? I poked my head out. It's still awake. Yeah. He's just sitting there back there watching. Yeah. It's really creepy. Does he does he blink? I put my head up again. Does he blink? I mean, perception. After watching company disadvantage. With this 7pm. Oh, that's a really good roll of fifteen into nineteen nineteen total. Think total? You're not seeing him blink. Now it's below freezing now. It's below freezing outside. Oh, his eyeballs aren't freezing out of his sockets. They might be. They might be frozen open. Perhaps this is our chance. I don't think it is. Oh, nice. Tell me, you take one eye, I'll take the other key. Great. Great play. I've got a few ninja stars left. How many moons? Oh, this game. Bop up. up. Yeah. She the reflection in the moonlight and all you see Bob. Hey, I am. I meant to tell you IIII told I told Justin and I like. How I how I You did. Sorry to Yeah. On the on the, like, real. Yeah. I went okay. It went okay. I was I was pretty nervous. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do you mean okay though? What's okay? No. It's good. III we kissed. Exactly. Sister. That's so exciting. Was she, like, like, leaning it? Was she, like, intuitive or was she like, okay. I don't know. No. It wasn't. Yeah. No worries. She seemed to 7pm I all I could just hear was my -- Yeah. -- was really tough. Yeah. That's that's pretty magical. Yeah. I mean, I kinda like, I noticed, like, there was, like, a breakfast and you guys like, not make a guy contact in, like, a weird way? Oh. Oh. It might be weird now? No. No. No. I think it was just, like, after after that moment and you know you're, like, don't wanna give anything away so you try to avoid each other, but also you're really infatuated so it's not working. What do you do great? I gotta dial it in. It's good. Why? Like, why? Why don't you just, it doesn't seem like we have a good PR pre from Why don't it just It doesn't seem like we ever get a pre pre from anything. So after the statues -- Yeah. -- sucked to life forever. Knows how long we have? Yeah. That's that it's super dark. No. On that note, I kind of we were like, we were just walked through a creepy forest and we were, like, a mile beneath the earth, and I kind of asked Josh on a date. What? You asked her on a date? Yeah, But she said She said yes. She said yes. Yeah. That she was she was, like, really excited. Like, I'm happy about this. Cause like, I don't because, like, I don't know if there's I just want fresh start with Joshua because we've been through so much. I was thinking about it the other day. I've fought Joshua, like four times in hand to hand combat. Yeah. He really did. Yeah. Right. Like we've had more physical contact through beating the shit out of each other than anything we've had more physical contact through beating the shit out of each other than anything else. Mhmm. So it kinda feels like there's like a little bit of this like past baggage. I don't know. Memory. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you. Yep. So it just felt like maybe, maybe a date, but kind of full just felt like maybe maybe a date. What kind of full disclosure the last time I went on a date, like growing up my idea of a date was to get tipsy, and then commit ABNE, and then get more tipsy, and then maybe in the night with black male depending on how the BNE went. Wow. Your romantic life is really unique. Yeah. Yeah. You're a day you're gonna go on a date like No. Well, I'd say we could die tomorrow. Drew could die at any point, and I think lot. Why don't you just like, you know, go grab a picnic by the lava or something? Well, 7pm my head out dilution. That's not Right. That's creepy. Yeah. I look at Lucian. Is he blinking yet? There's a. There's a. Oh, why not? Oh, girl. You kinda, like, sit to a bit. I know. Anyway, I figure I could just I don't know. Next time we're in the tower, Yes. Make some adjustments. So, you know, I have a little quiet night of some dinner, eat some You know, have, like, a little quiet night, have some dinner, eat some bugs. Yeah. You just gotta find, like, a a quiet spot. Like what's above our rooms just to go to the very Like, what's above our rooms? Just go to the very top. I'm sure there's like a moonlit starry night. You can take advantage of night you could take advantage of. No wonder if Caleb Woodland out. He's, like, lighthouse. You know, he's upper school because we've never Nein that. Of course. Just sneak up. It'll be super romantic, and it'll be like ABNE without fucked up and everything. God. So with what you know, go with what you know. Okay. Okay. I kinda like this. Okay. I kinda like this. Alright. Alright. You have the best ideas. Hey. A good job. Thanks, Kevin. Got this. Alright. Okay. Alright? You guys finish your watch and And the sun isn't yet rising when you finish your eight hour rest and she went to bed relatively early, waiting for the next morning to sun isn't yet rising. When you finish your eight hour restaurants, you went to bed relatively early, waiting for the next morning to come. It's old people. Yep. Oh, god. Seven thirty. It's time to bed. What is still surreal though is And all the three. All the nice Steve spent out here in this frozen wasteland that is ice will cross. There is something odd and beautiful and ominous about that bright orange glow. That peaks out of the darkness all through the night. As you all kind of wake up and begin to get your things and mentally prepare yourself for whatever is ahead. You can just see it's just the darkness of the snow beyond the source of your light and fire and just pitch black and then the burning orange glowing embers of this river stretching from right to left. We to hear the Tombtakers kind of rousing them getting up and talking amongst of the selves and a little bit of food is being cooked and distributed amongst their group. You guys kinda get yourselves roused, fed, and ready. Just as the sky begins to slowly turn to a lighter color. It's still a fairly clear day. Nein hear loose and go. I love fuck. Cree, you have that of course. And she just get the others around and Otis comes by and starts, like, patting y'all the shoulder and, like, You already? Yeah. Alright. Finish your meals. Finish your meals. We see crease step up to the edge and pull out and roll out this scroll, this like long piece almost leather like parchment thick. Begins to quietly read, looking up and then about minute later of reading this shouts one phrase out and they scroll. Just vanishes. Not Nein fire, but almost like just a glowing cinder. Like you like you watched heat coil back of fine silk gossamer material and then it's gone. Nein the gray looks back to us in the woods. Right. Alright. Get your warm things together. Gather your things about What do you say? Let me roll. About ten I'd roll to see how many minutes it would be. What did you Would you roll a d ten, d twelve, d four? Do you have, can Can I also say during our watch, I attuned to the smartly purchased ring of fire resistance? You got Hey, look at that man. We're here. Thousand gold. Long game. Long game. Yeah. But it should be like Topical to the sky. There's reason looking up at the sky. What are we looking at? Right at that point, you look up and you can see clouds beginning together. And darkened. Oh, you needed a storm. Indeed. So I made one. That's impressive. Can you do it together or was that this girl? It's just a one time. Bummer. Hmm. And overtime over the next 10 minutes, nifty a light snowfall begins to drift from the now dark covered gray sky time, over the next ten minutes, nifty, the light snowfall begins to drift from the now dark, covered gray, sky above. And as the snow falls onto the flames below, just like the snow you had tossed, it begins together. Until you Nein to see patches of snow that block the glow from beneath, giving almost leaping stones. Oh, boy. And And then there's more time passes seems to be coating the river as more time passes, seems to be coding the river. You see, like, the heavy pouches set up now with Zoran carrying the large pouch. I was carrying his objects claking around inside what hurts, I guess, we say, over the shoulder. And you watch as they all can prepare themselves and go All right. I think it's time and travel. But let's do it quietly. You see, best to be step gingerly. Biery spirit sometimes wade in this burning stream. Oh. Cool. So hope you brought your quiet shoes. Josh. Do you have quite a shoes? I have a lot of trays. Hey, that's quite a shoe. It's good. So, you know, if going to be moving now. Anyone that would want to join us should move quickly. Yeah. I mean, we're all going together for it. Yep. anyone would want to follow -- That's what don't worry. -- where we wanna go. Yeah. Alright. Let's search for a way down the embankment. And with that, you all begin scouting along the edge of the cliff face that leads down into this river of lava. It doesn't take more than twenty minutes or so before you find what looks to be a bit of a jagged path that eventually leads to the surface. And at this point now, of the snow has been gathering where you're you can occasionally see bits of the orange glow breaking through, but now it's just this like slow moving powder. Well, as you kind of begin to step down in kind of a a single foul path. Formation to the bottom, watch Lucy and goes and takes that a little looks like a smooth stone. Not quite sure what it is and he takes it and throws it out and he hits the snow and the snow just kind of puffs a little bit. Sticks his foot out and it crunches in the snow. Kinda feels a bit expecting you all with this smile. Does Elite. Right. right? Right. See that. This guy. Follow-up. Okay. Is he being to step out one by he Nein just stepped out one by one, the begin to kinda make their way into the center of the lava river waiting for you all to catch up. Let's go, shall we? They will cast pass without a trace on us. Okay. How many people can you affect it then? Let me look. So do underwater breathing. Three feet. Before we go out there Make sure within thirty feet of me. Okay. So are you getting you you guys and the Tombtakers? No. Just us. Okay. You got it. Oh, boy. Before we go out there. Should we like leave a note for our weird friend or anything? Anything that we need to sell? I guess we can always mess message him. Brinkie's also probably Were you thinking about using something in the lava or no? Oh. Oh. Like, I'm I'm casting a water walk on myself and protection from energy. So -- Okay. -- long as it's protected from energy less? Half an hour. Okay. We were talking about dumping the Yeah. But it's but it's not the same anymore. Yeah. Mm-mm. Can't do it. I'll summon the the star races as well as to have it out. You got it. Latest there in your hand. Fainted glow lighting you 7pm. Just right off the edge way. though. They are the five Tombtakers they were looking and kind of weighting the the five they're looking and kind of waiting expectantly. Mhmm. What was On the river across it? No. They're on the river. It's a long way to cross, but you guys are moving to get it a mile across. Right? Yeah. Yeah. A little over a little over a mile. Alright. If I follow them. Yep. Okay. Yeah. right. And so there'll be four lengths to this journey for the first So there'll be four lengths to this journey. For the first length, I need everyone to roll a communal stealth check. Oh. Whoa. I'm gonna use my transmitter's ability to not burn a small slot. I'm gonna turn into a white Irmin or White Winter Weasel. Okay. Let's death. If you'll be doing that, we'll be running one of your friends then. If I have to, I was thinking it would be small and light on the snow. That's true. Are you still gonna crystal check for your bezel form? Yes. You can do that. Okay. So twenty eight. Twenty eight. Twenty eight. Nice. We got the same. Yeah. This is as we need a natural one. Got it. Okay. Thirty five. Twenty six. Okay. Twenty one. Okay. Thirty four. Okay. It's fucking useless, man. It wasn't it wasn't. It was just plus ten. Less ten. Okay. Okay. And some decent rolls all around the first quarter of the decent rolls all around. The first quarter of the journey you all quietly kind of gathered together, though still two slightly separate crews. Right. Stepping the snow falling around you every now and then some of the snow will separate as the impatements pull because the lava flow beneath does not have continuous flow. It shifts and changes as parts cool and break. And occasionally, you'll just see, like, an orange glow appear to the right of you and you have to kind of carefully. No. Menuv around the anxiety builds. Use your ring to to do what? You want me to, like, push you Aeor oh, but didn't let Why test the merchandise? It was clearly important every time. Alright. Alright. Now for the second length of this, as you begin to make your way towards the center, of this river already. Everybody make another stop check. Let me assume that one is the weed longest. But I'm getting going because That's what through. Hey. That makes sense. Way. Really? Thirty. And it stays up. Okay. That's okay. Four twenty seven. Thirty three. 30. Yep. Thirty nine. Twenty six AM. Thirty one. Thirty one -- Wow. -- good round of rolls and covered quite well for the Tombtakers who did not have a good round that time. They took a few steps at one point. You see some of the snow kind of crumples inward and there's just a bright orange glow and you see Otis kinda and someone kinda grabs them by the scrap of the neck and pulls them back and it's down. Which one is carrying the the threshold pressure? Same or something. Aeor you guys, Zoran, who has the large pack on the back. The only pack that's large enough and appears to be full enough to be carrying it. It's about back in the shape of the diamond. The same the same as that back in it. You guys now continuing to the center of this, and you've reached that midpoint where looking in front and back, it is an equidistant journey. And you see elements of the river kind of shifting a bit more pockets begin to open, light begins to pour through. Uh-huh. But it seems to be working okay. If I could have everybody rule stuff checks again for the third length of just this trial. Okay. Okay. Twenty six. Nice. There's money for money. Okay. And At seventeen Forty one. Okay. I'm empty. Total. Right. Yes. Thirty one. Thirty one. Thirty. Nice. Okay. Oh, no. Unfortunately, you had to roll a forty five. It was it was it was like a pretty decent group DC. Twice a row, the gym tickets had a terrible round. There was a natural one in there. That also skewed it heavily in a bad place. But as you all are carefully making your way across One of the one of the straps on Zoran's pack kinda snaps and it swings a bit and Zoran loses his balance and instead It's the ground with a heavy hit. Oh, no. It gets back up quickly. And as he pulls up, the snow pulls off on the outside and kind of the the powder beneath that was being stepped on. There's a little bit now glowing with the orange, and there's a quiet moment. This thing was well. And you're all just going to tense all just can tense up. It's not a solution. Right. I think we're okay. Let's keep going. Week. Conducers. Shit. Bull regard. It's never I know it's never good when it shoots you. Caleb. Yay. No. As you all are walking forward, you see you've become familiar with some of these orange glows that begin to kind of break through as the float shifts and the snow gets pulled apart. You watch as one pack of snow, a lot of orange begins to emerge. And you watch the snow begin to rapidly melt and steam begin to rise. As you see a figure begin to drift up a top made of broiling flame that kind of like pops up like a gopher through its gopher hole, kind of, to look at And as you see, there's no features. It's just like an entity of fire, rolling and shifting. But you swear you see eyes, you see something glowing and kind of appears back below. Van Van Van. III grabbed I grabbed Jesters on and I I are close to me and I'll use my channel divinity to create Nein layer. Okay? And a fog extends anybody within five feet of me is, like, obscured. Mhmm. So I'll just start reaching out and pulling, like, the two Every every other five feet you can still see, and it radiates out for twenty feet. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, right. Oh, okay. So Yeah. When he okay. Gather close to Ford. Yeah. Yes. Come come here. As we get close, I would just say, I If this shit is going down, should we use it as an opportunity to take the other threshold crested run? I've just thrown it out there. Trying to say, not bad idea. Do you think it's on his back? Do you think it's on his back? No. I'm just I'm just saying, hello. Go ahead. Go ahead. And the weasel stands up on to a little hind legs and then just goes and grows up Weasel stands up on two little hind legs and just goes up and grows up. What's freaking. Yeah, sure. As you guys having this conversation. You can't really see much because of the fog around you except for the people immediately around you. And as you kind of take step forward, Your foot gets extremely warm and you glance down and the snow where you're stepping has melted away and you can see the orange glow behind and you just pull your foot back. And as you look back the space, you see this kind of flaming face. We're getting to Aeor up through. I personally think You should should run. That's where I take break. Men. How far how far far into this river are we? We are just you're about maybe two thirds of way. the way across. Oh, man. Not a good spot to get in the fight. Oh, no. And I think the fog could actually be like a danger. It's always worked before. It's gonna be fine. I I have opinions, but I'll write it. Okay. I know you. I could I could drop it. I could ball. We'll figure it figure it out. Regardless Use the phone to dump Oh. Oh. Yeah. Uh-huh. There we have options. We have options. Accept. 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Tox machina is back on the Internet. This is Brian w Foster host of the Tox machina. Legendary critical role talk show. Talks Makena airs on critical role's twitch channel every other Tuesday at seven PM Pacific. Episodes are available on Creative World's YouTube channel the following Thursday and right here in the critical role podcast network one week later. See you on the Internet. And welcome back. Alright. So last we left off the mighty Nein. Oh, yeah. We're having an having an issue fire. On the snow covered lava river, shit. As you had just come across the midway point, close to about the two thirds section realizing with Ford's fog cloud surrounding you that these flame entities are now coming up from beneath. And apparently, do not undergo the same Benevolence to the snow that the river itself does. One begins to burn 7pm from below and almost 10syasha toppling in. So what do you do? Run what? Did I go? Don't run? We're all well, we're we're all in this fall cloud. That that's where we kinda, like, tied it and that thing Cloud is keeps face up underneath the wall cloud? Yeah. Well, yeah. Just, like, kind of, right underneath the Joshua's standing, and she almost fell in and pulled back. The only question is, are we leaving just with Ajam? Are we trying to grab the air? 555. It's now rising up. Okay. And as a part of that, All of you are now on fire. A metaphorically. Ford are you protected? So here's just so tough. He's the real. So I'd kind of like zooms up. And now what you see is AAA full fledged fire element pull. Has burned up from beneath the snow, and the snow melts away. And that one section of your nostril standing, you guys can have stepped back And now there's this large gaping open space where it's just glowing fiery lava the heat just immediately hits your skin and caused you to wince and the edges of your brows begin to curl back as the as the hair burns away. And now this large fire element is right there in front you. And it just shushes through you all immediately and you all catch fire. No. Well So I don't like that. You all take well, four points of fire damage -- Oh. -- that's not really gonna that you take too. I also I'm halved as well. And we did get along with us. Correct? Yeah. Yes. We did. Correct. Protection from fire season. Indeed. So you take to dinner as well. But you are still on fire, which means you have to take an action to try and put it out. And as you guys glance forward, can see the the are kind of taking stock at us as you can see other ones starting to push through the snow around you all, and Nein goes, Alright. Run-in. And you see him pull just blades out. And as he does, you kind of like carves them across his forearms and you see this kind of Ice material begin to build up on the outside of the as he does, you kinda, like, carve them across his forearms and you see this kind of icy material begin to build up on the outside of the blades as he prepares his ice blades and starts running. What are you guys doing? I cast Palomorf Palomorf. I cast Palomorf. Palomorf on Yasha and push Veth and myself a giant eagle. Okay. I'll I'll pass polymorph double time on me and caducus, and I'll pick up forward a leg less swing on top of caducus -- Okay. -- and start flying. Okay. Forward you guys always go with that? Yeah. As we're going forward, can I keep an eye on the Tombtakers? Yeah. Definitely. Well, you all take six points of fire damage because you're still on fire. Okay. hope nobody's attempted to put it out yet. Correct. Tombtakers three. You take three. I'll use a first level spell to create water again, and I'll make that rain cloud, that thirty foot cube in front of where We're going to fly. Cool. Like a car wash. Okay. That's big. Yeah. I'll love that. And so as that happens all of you and your Eagle Ford take off the spray hits you. As it does, the flames begin to Nein steam and it puts it out immediately at all of you. Awesome. Cool. So that's No. No. I think so. Make reception check. Oh, yes. And I wanna I wanna I wanna see the two takers as well. I can see the order that they're running in. Go for it. Maybe she does better, twelve for me. My perceptions -- Yeah. -- balls. Twenty three. Yeah. Twenty three? Yeah. Okay. You do see as you are all kind of just kind of taking off in that direction upward, your passing over the Tombtakers and you glance down at them and can see the other elements kinda flashing around and Lucie kinda looks up as you guys go by and goes. Your polymer strap immediately. Wait, what did you What did he do? What did he do? Dropped Cancel the We went like a hand motion? He didn't make hand motion at all. He just looked at it. him. I looked up at you guys and turned his head a little link up with you guys and turn his head a little bit. So there's no counter spell even chance. It's just insane. There's no spell Okay. Oh, what the shit is that? High noon. And the poly the polymorphs just Shifting all of you are all just rising 7pm. Are now continuing in an arc through the air over the Tombtakers and are now, like, about to collide onto the banks of the snow in front of them. Nein you all feel like a bad explanation. Oh, boy. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. So far. And a natural eighteen for twenty eight for me. Thirteen, which for me is pretty good. Okay. Seventeen. Okay. Triple fourteen. And one. Fifteen. Cool. Well, you all managed to tumble. You don't take any heavy damage from this just a a mild. It'd be two points reduced to one because if you all rolled pretty well except for you. You take a full points of leisurely dance. Oh. And you are prone. Okay. wow. At the Bush point is you all kind of like, Oh, you know, at least he goes, we're staying At the which point is you all kind of like, oh, I can't listen to this. We're staying together. We discussed this and he is just running by and you can see one of the elementals kind of like soups up from underneath behind the links back. two swings with his blades. My fucking dice. sure. Yeah. That's in the hole in the hole. Hitch twins. Do Do. Yeah. Nothing. Let's see. Worsham and Alava. I mean, like you said, it's all about Otis. I was gonna suggest we Try to grab Otis, but Or wait. Is Otis? Right, please. Zoran's the one carrying the bag. Yeah. But Otis is the is the one to push him a lot. Alrighty. So runs away. So that's just twice since he carved through the side of one of these scenes and kinda like flickers back angrily and he just continues go into a run. The rest of his group getting their weapons ready. You can see now as they do so. They draw blades. They're like small hooks. Or little pointed bits and bracers and hidden within gloves and elements were like as they draw, they kind of cut through themselves and the blood kind of familiar to a lot of the stuff you saw Mollie do, the blood kind of coat the edge of the blade and then begin to enchant the edges of their weapons. Back. And they're all going into a run, and they're looking at you as well as like a come on. Yeah. Yeah. Here we go. Alright. So what are you guys doing this round? Yeah. Run, my guess. Yeah. Run. Right. Ford is Ford is What I'm gonna help forward up. Okay. So you guys will be little bit behind the rest of the group. Yeah. now. Does that mean the Tombtakers are catching up with us and So our group is ahead of the team takers the group. Okay. We'll see here while there this is more just like general order of how you guys are traveling. And kind of who's ahead, who's behind. We'll say the kind of all catching up right about here. I feel like we're missing a first I don't think yasha is a dragon. No. Yasha is. Right up here with y'all. Oh, god. Oh, god. No. That's my pleasure. Yeah. Oh, there's the Tombtakers. Which ones are wet? Whoa. Whoa. Well, you know Cree? No. Zoran. I got them. Here's me. They got them. Yeah. Oh, so there's no parking parking there with us. Yeah. Yeah. They're right there. Yeah. So you guys land and slide and they're going into a run and they're just catching up right behind you as you guys are all going the room. So What do you do? Oh, running at this point? I'm gonna run, but I'm gonna try to run just a little bit slower so that Zoran who's coming up on my way. What is what is that? My right side will pass by me. Okay. But I'm looking like I'm running full speed. I'm just looking like I'm maybe not as fast as everybody else. Okay. You got it. So you are kind of slowing down little bit. The rest of you kind of push forward. I'm going to do the opposite of what Jess is doing, and I'm gonna step of the wind. And try him just full bolt ahead of everybody. The way ahead of everybody. The word Where do you have to have a little bit more of a kind of false behind the bit Lucien kind of comes up the side to it up a little bit. One of them falls behind a bit. Lucian kind of comes up side to you. Cree actually goes on quite a bit faster with the back seat form allowing that. The rest of them kind of begin to can't show up with Jester almost in like a a flanking pattern. There's not the three of them around you at that point. Okay. Alright. Now you can see the elementals that began to burst through are like now gliding through the snow and just carving paths. You can see the kind of dark top as they still the morning light hasn't quite risen. The sun hasn't quite crested the distant mountain, so still very dark other than the underlet glow of the molten rock below and it's now peeking through in spaces and now and its own way is carving almost like somebody is drawing across the edge of a star and you can see these streaks burning to come across your path ahead as they're kind of intersecting and trying to find a way to keep you in the space. So they're not coming directly at you, but they're starting to make the path ahead of you challenging. You guys continue to run forward and run forward. And there is now a couple of gaps you're gonna have to jump past and not fall in. Okay. Okay. Oh Oh, boy. So as you all go running, I need you all to make athletics checks for me to go ahead and just ensure that you can leap across Relax. Across lava. Okay. Yeah. I'm ignoring what he did. I'm turning into a giant owl and staying low to the ground. Okay. You turn into a giant owl will say Is this for you? Oh, thank you. And as long as you stay low to the ground, Lucid does not cancel your form. Oh, yeah, you'll be saving me. fact, I'm gonna I'm gonna yeah. I won't I'm gonna float like two feet above everyone's heads. Okay. And I'm just Jesus. Yep. I Nein, as I fly. You've got it. Just looking for a misstep. Help. Alright. That's real. Twenty for twenty six. Oh, nice. It's a natural to, so that would be a A natural too. So that would be a five. Alright. All right. Oh, I need an acrobatics as a I need an acrobatics as flyer. Oh, sorry. You're flying. You're fine. Ten. Ten. Ten. Nein. 6630, good nice. Alright. Now at twenty eight, I'm really scared for my team to do it. You leap off and turning. You seem like, leeping, and you see some sliding as the snow kind of since I'm off guard development. Right? an aerial flip over one of the lava flows, and I turn around and go, come on, guys. And I see, like, three people just blipping. Yeah. That's really good. Oh, shit. It's like The two natural twenties in a row for the Tombtakers or was that shit natural twenties in a row for the toothpick. That's Aeor it. know. Right? Mhmm. We got got this. Okay. So what does it mean? No, no. And he, and he does, as you can to fall in you here, this feels big PT hand can grab the back of your coat and lift you up and send you back onto your Any any does. As you're gonna fall in you hear this feel this big meaty hand kinda grab the back of your coat and lift you up and send you back onto your feet scrambling ahead. Can I use a I use a reaction? What are you trying to do? Using my slide of hand, can I try to loosen the second strap that's holding onto it? Yes. Come on, Come on. Come on. I just let it. I knew that's what you're doing. Come on. Can I guide myself on this? Don't It's a reaction that was a reaction or not. Okay. Eighteen? Eighteen? Okay. You as you kind of lift it back up, you kind of reach over. This is real quick. This brief moment you have, and as you can reach up for the the strap that's right there, his hand clasped shoes and says, just hold on. And he just keeps running, but he's clasping you there to it. So you couldn't loosen it at all. Okay. And he has seemed to his he saw something, but he assumed that it was He's just coming on. And so he's just kind of holding you so he's just kinda holding you there. It's odd because in this moment, there is kind of a sense of a of working together. That's a fucking gamble. Oh, much. And he's now holding you right there. As you all continue to run forward, you die? No. Nobody's the only person who's close enough to try and help you would be Caleb. Caleb would be in that vicinity. If you wanna go ahead and or Veth, the two of you could try to try and catch where's caducus? up. And there is, this is farther ahead, there. This is further ahead. Right there. Yoshi's a little behind you. And they're both going down? No. Yoshi. Right. Yeah. I gotcha. Going up too. I will You gotta choose between yash or could you Take yash. Take the healer. We'll work on that later. Alright. Because you are flying Wow. A clear value is just stated. That's good. Thank you. I'm a living do over. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. So, Alan, I remember those days. Yeah. I just need a a dexterity check from both of you. Oh, just a decks just a decks check using the decks of your owl as well. Oh, okay. Here we go. I don't know what the owl was, but it was a super low roll. You chose poorly. I rolled A10, god. That's a bad. It is an ability check. It's not. It's it's it's Can't you just for what? Use your damn halfling luck. No skill. This isn't halfling luck. I have no skill. Oh, so it's proficiency. No, it's a It's proficiency. Right? For the is that how it works for the the the the Yeah. But I have to be proficient in the skill, but you said a dexterity check. You're at one. I am not at efficient dexterity. That is correct, but a halfling when I roll one. Try to reroll. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. That is true. Shame. Well, I okay. Right? Just double checking for my own sanity. Wow. Oh. So yeah. No. You you both, unfortunately, in the rush of it, tempting to swoop down down. It kind of goes down a little quicker than you thought. And, Yasha, you trip Nein end up going over and you you You hit it and just pushing through the Nein, you continue to push forward and kick up over and land, but as you do your leg. And you hear Yash's yell scream out in the midst of this. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go and roll some damage here, number axes, but Yeah. Yeah. I do. Took multiple games to slowly. Yeah. I can't use my action to help or can I? That was that was your action to take or is that Oh, okay. I was gonna catch my. Mhmm. Do I have a reaction to try to move that work? You take sixty points of fire damage. Oh. Oh. But I have not foot. No. Because She's only half a person now. That's awful. That's Okay. Okay. Mhmm. Okay. Stay on the line. The point of fire damage to you reduced the house to twenty five. Five. Well, that sucked. And that sucked. I have a role a half, and I'm going to spam to share any I roll it happily and I'm gonna span I touched twenty five. I kinda wanna off a space suit for this. Cause I, no, I can't this because I know I can't run. Yeah. No. And so as you as you fall the hit, the magic assistant, the heat still burns you. You just skid a bit and then hit the other part of the snowbank and come 7pm. And and you feel singh the pains there, but the magic did help cushion that for you. So I'm I'm on fine ground at the moment. At the moment, you are. Okay. Good. Yeah. You guys just like because you're momentum hits, and then just brief little parts even if you impact, you kind of skit off. Oh. You can be pushing four of the momentum. Kerry, you know? They're out of it. Yes. So crazy. Yeah. These are little things. So moving forward, you guys now reach -- Just continuing to run -- The little point. -- the three quarters mark on this. What are you all doing at this juncture? Is there still more to go? Yeah. They're still coming up and popping through. I'm just saying, what what are you doing at this moment? I'm right now, you you just jump past this. You've got a little bit of ground. Mhmm. And you can kinda see ahead. You you you have made it three fourths of the way across this river now. I'm kind of trying to because I know I'm faster than any than everybody else trying to my idea was that I could kind of forge a path a little bit. So I'm gonna kinda stop, turn around, make sure my whole my whole team is there, and I'm gonna continue forward. Okay. And try to navigate. What you do notice? What do I notice? Is the elementals all kind of like sh went below? Oh Aeor. of a bitch. And right, you can't glance at her and and look the opposite way. You see four of them now, because there's four that are active at this moment, all come up and you can just sweeping in different directions in front to kind of begin carving this large arc to to block you off. So just partially it. But just like you watched her just melting, kind of a but it's, like, you watches are just melting kind of semicircle. I try stop and I turn and I yell to the flank as soon as I see what they're what they're doing and I say, go to the angles and try and direct people to try and maybe beat them. God, that's a terrible idea. I hear that and preemptively grab caducis and yascha bite the scruff, so they have control of their arms and just lift. I don't take off the sky because I don't wanna get dropped, but we'll take them above the ground and start to veer to the right toward to try to cut off that. Am I am I now or flying? Yeah. You're not cast heel. Oh. Produces and yachting then? Yeah. Wait. I've got a carat two people before. Yeah. Feels pretty high. Right? They're heavy. By the points. Alright. All better. Yeah. So you guys drift off the bat side, lifting him two. In two. Right. The rest of you guys, what are you doing? Currently at seventy Can I as I since I'm so far enough ahead, does it look like a gap that I can still clear? Okay. So you're gonna try and rush off and see if you can clear for it. Does it look like I can? Like, the tab? Possible. Yeah. I'll I'm gonna go for it. I'm alright. You could sort of throw You at one way with the, with the store razor on my feet, just to kind of hover above the one line with the with the star razors. Okay. And my feet just kinda hover above the ground, but I'm, like, also watching to see with Jester Imbo and He just Beth are doing. You've got it. I'm just kinda like waiting. Okay. I I So as you're running, You should, we can have a little off the ground, you know, hovering that can all lift off the ground, you know, hovering that space. You're going to go ahead and make sure trying to leap off at this angle, you said? I'm going to, I'm basically playing chicken with the element tolls correction there, going to try and beat I'm gonna I'm basically playing chicken with the element. Tools. Right. So you're rushing you're rushing at the direction they're going to try and beat them. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. With your monk 7pm, you only have to roll for it. You can beat them. Okay. I do that. Yeah. You know, it'll cost you a, a key point, but with your speed, you just share across the ice and basically cut it it'll cost you a a key point, but with your speed, you just sure across the ice and basically cut it off. off. And as the beginning of carve their way past you, you just as they begin to carve their way past, you just emerging a train. Nein a train -- Yep. -- which is which jumping Nein Dodge Whits them. The one continues. They're both carving a wider space It'd be harder to leap over, but now they've divided two. One's going after you and the other one is continuing its path, which means it gives a slight opportunity on the left or left side to make easier jumps as opposed to one harder one. Okay. I turn around and I see what's happening. I'm going to kind of a three point landing in the shit and I'm going to yell to the I'm gonna kind of three point landing this shit. I'm gonna yell to the group and I say go to the left. And I'm gonna try and do some sort of flourish and keep hiding the other one away. Okay. Alright. You got it. I'm gonna look at Zoran -- Mhmm. -- and say I can help us get out of here. We can fucking do it. Wait. I'm gonna polymorph also into a Giant Eagle. Okay. And I'm gonna pick him up. Okay. Come on. Come on, bitch. Do something cool. Alright. I'm gonna pick him up and try to hook my claws. I pick him up under the like, between the strap, like, that I could potentially be saving him, but also break the strap as I'm lifting him up. Oh, no. Okay. You haven't anybody else? Just just Sure. I'll grab who's the right Is anybody else in front me? Otis Otis in front of me, me, Otis? Does Otis in front of me? Don't bother Otis. Otis would be in front of us. It is to try to help Tried to help out. That's good. That's good. I got one clause. Golden Zoran one. Right. Right. I understand that. Go ahead go ahead and make a grapple shield machine. Oh, I'm not trying to like I'm trying to help him. I understand. Otis doesn't see you transform him to this eagle and suddenly there's laws of puns. So so they're just gonna try and Is that a strength? Yes. That would be a strength trick. Twenty one. Natural what? Nope. Yeah. Okay. She's got a half like luck. You don't got them. You don't have them at all. Okay. Okay. Use yours. But he gave them theirs. Just the joy Just join your sneakers. I'm an agent at chaos. Yes. Interesting. Alright. So Bo is carving them off. You have currently used your action to transform, which means you slow down a little bit. Howard, that you're holding on to to Zoran underneath there, kind of lifting up and carrying forward. Because you're kinda slowing down a little bit in that moment. Although, what is the speed of the Giant Eagle? Yeah. I believe it's it's a sixty feet? Thirty feet. Oh, yeah. yeah. That more than makes up for the one of the more than makes up for the for the space. So you do you manage to, while you slowed down to do the casting, you do jump ahead a little bit and then you carry that forward and you are now the way ahead as you do manage to well, you slow down to do the casting. You do jump ahead a little bit and continue to carry that forward and you are now the owl Way ahead as well. Yeah. Okay. Eagle eighty. Oh, God. I liked looked at the owl. The eagle and the eagle. Just the eagle. Yeah. It's good luck. It's a message, man. It would be faster, Matt. Be 7pm to have wings. I could have instead just made you writing a giant yasha. Nice. It didn't work. Awesome. Alright. With that, they're all gonna continue moving forward. Moving forward. You're way way over here now, but there's certain shift to this direction to try and utilize the space that you've Nein. shifted this way. What are you all doing? How are we doing with my Trio went to the right. I'm taking them to the right. And you go to the So to right, it is a thick, like, almost fifteen foot wide gap that they've burned Nein across the snow that with their speed going they're just going full, they've they've basically cut you off that direction without going over it. Okay. But I'm in the air And there's is there any kind of like anything burning up or smoke or anything? Or is it just the the snow is missing in front of us? It's just the snow. And you see steam rising as they carve through, but the the the glow now lights up. I'm gonna risk going up another five feet and just keep heading on an angle in that direction. Okay. I'm not trying to make it look like I'm taking off. Right. There's no interference. we go trapped. Okay. So we're we're and we're nowhere near any of those creatures. Right? They're not within thirty feet of us? Not at the moment. Okay. They're more interested in in preventing your travel beyond. Alright. So all people haven't gone yet. I will grab Otis. I will reach out my hand to Otis or back in her and be like, come to the left to the left. Notice nods and run past him. And I and as she goes, I'll cast enthusiasm for us on Aeor. Okay. Everything you own in a box. To the left, I am now terrified by all of this. I believe people. I was Acting like I was helping. I wasn't gonna do anything I wasn't gonna do anything outward. Natural twenty. Okay. Cool. Maybe few of them, they just got a little bit alive, though. At some point. No. So as long as you say that and Otis runs past, you whisper the incantation, a notice to kind of question as a kid, as a glance that you and continue to run past because it was doing a double move, but you used your So as as you say that and Otis runs past, you whisper the incantation and it was kinda clutches it it was a glance at you and continue to run because it's doing a double move, but you used your action. You're having to kind of slow back of it, so you kind of pass each other as Oda skids ahead. And then it goes, and continues running for customer. What goes there? Moving this way to catch up for what you do? I'm I'm just flying behind them. Keeping pace with those that are question marks like a pace with those that are question marks like Beth and Jester. Alright. So keep in with them. Okay. You got You got it. They're now all having to leap and the ones only ones you have to jump at this point are Veth. And Nein them. So let's go ahead and do that. Because you divided it, it's two small jumps as opposed to one really hard one. So go ahead and roll twice. What what am I rolling? Sorry. This would be athletics. Good leap across. K. Fifteen. And seventy. Nice. Too good holes. Alright. So we'll go across the team here. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Alright. So the first pass, you all run jumping first pass you all run, jumping over the first arc that goes continues past as the elemental is kind backing around to try and catch up. The second one comes up. Ooh, Okay. They all go running and leap and you watch as Cree into it and kind of like rolling to one side, stumbles across the ground. As quickly Lucy and turns and grabs one of her hands and picks her back up and goes, come on. They all keep running. The others leap across fine, but you can see Cree is kind of limping bit. Cree is gonna go ahead and write. It's sad because I feel like I want to help everybody at the same time is like, if you don't want to like help them and stuff, because I feel like I wanna help everybody at the same time as, like Kill them. You don't fly for us. Can you guys really do. I wanna, like, help them. And it's not because Cree took. Forty nine points. The fire of fire damage. So instead of heel, instead going to go ahead and cast a high level pure wounds. So I have to throw a couple of curing ones. That's pretty sweet. That's the enterprise. Twenty I know. Sorry. I'm like, no. No. No. No. No. No. Attention is real. Yeah. Alrighty. So, Hertz still running they're all pushing you guys are getting closer and closer. You can see the bank on the opposite side. As soon as we cross over the embankment -- Yeah. -- the gap I'm gonna put Zoran down. Okay. And Fly Low did my attempt at making the strap weaker with my claw do any good You're You're not trying to break it right trying to break it right now. You're just trying to make it weaker? I'm trying to make it like I don't want it to snap immediately when I let him go. I want him to feel like I didn't fuck up the bag, but if it rips, it rips. Got it. I want the bag to fall into the fucking lava. Mhmm. Okay. I'm not trying to steal the bag. I want the bag to fall off of them. I understand. Go ahead and make a strength check for me using the strength of your Eagle form. Need a transition over because this that's crashing. How do we know, like, where is it? Okay. Wait. We go strength. Twenty. Okay. Okay. Eagle. So that is some pretty, I will say, some pretty decent control over the strength on this? Are you trying to sever it in hopes that it hits the lava or are you just trying weaken it? You have control over this because of that role. Whoa. I wanted to hit the ladder. Okay. good. So as you release him, the other strap snaps and immediately begins to give away this would this would be as you were 7pm you said you set him down. Right? Mhmm. Hmm. Because you carried on the other side, which means there's no longer, the longer love of beneath you carried another side which means there's no longer longer lava beneath you. Okay. So pulling the strap would mean it would fall So pulling the strap would mean it would fall off. Okay. He wouldn't hit the lava, which means now he has no straps. He's having to carry with his hand. Okay. So he pulls back Shit. He picks it up and he's kind of just lugging it. By this kind of a loose strap now. He's it's like the the shitty backpack you had in high school that broke on your MacBooks. Yeah. You're just kinda clutching it. That's kinda where he's at Nein. Running running. The other fundamentals are swooping around and they're doing this white arc carving through the snow to try and cut you off one last time before you reach the opposite bank. Okay. So with this, what's everyone doing? One last time. Okay. Okay. I am I'm still sprinting ahead. I'm assuming. Do I still have that one hot on my do I still have that one hot on my ass? You do. So there's like one on this side and two on this side that are living around this one is just kind of catching up, but you you're faster than all of them if you wanna be. I'll continue forward towards the embangement. I just wanna keep guiding this guy and make him not problem. Okay. So whatever direction it is. Off the side or which way? Yeah. Yeah. I'll check. Can I kind of do like a big I kinda do like a big loop? You can. A loop them wide? You can. That will carve a path in front of everyone else. don't wanna do that. That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid. So you would probably go this way then. Fine. Okay. So vologuard goes wide over here. While the rest of you are drifting wards where they're swirling around. It is going to cross over just before you guys get there at the speed that they're traveling and kinda cut you off at the secondary circle. One side is a single jump thinner. The other is a lot thicker and harder one to make. I assume everyone wants to go towards the easier side. Yes. Can I is there anybody I can pick up and help over? There's Yeah. If you just wanna go ahead. Sasha seems hurt. Is the officer still hurt? No. Can, this is healed or is produced is still here, Cadusa's shielder. Is cadusa still hurt? I'm fine. I'm we're we're both good overnight now, and they're flying Nein my I took twenty points of damage in Florida. And I'm yeah. I'm just half damaged fire. Okay. Then I'm gonna pick up Sugae, I'm gonna pick up to do and I'm I'm Nein a I've got to do so. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm gonna pick up Lucian. And that Okay. So you grab Lucian and Veth. As you swoop down, you can see Lucian running blades still out. Like, that glance is over. And actually, there's even glance over. One of the eyes in the back of the neck and neck and Nein. Looks up at you. And the arms just go out like preparing. And you grab both of them 7pm, lift up and you kinda pull them up over the way, they don't have to worry about any checks at this point. Alright. And you don't have to either because you're flying. Don't put that there. Yeah. All good rules. Oh, and sort Nein twenty. They all jump over the the final ass suspect of this. This is a bandage cause he is carrying something heavy and he's got man. Because he's carrying something. He's got he's off balance. It's not like a backpack. Uh-huh. He's carrying. He's got a bag of dodge. Oh, Salt. He has a pretty high strength. Nein a natural twenty. No. If had If he had failed on this, he would have lost it in the loft. Okay. Okay. Okay. But he rolled natural twenty. classic to underscore Matt's point. I was with you. I was with you. I know. Such a good it was a good setup. It was a good setup. Bank. Right? So as you all go to Russia, Jansport, so as you all kind of been rushing up to the end, you can see the, it begins to lift up this one's less of a cliff face and more of a, kind of a heavy, vertical climb on a So As you all go rush She's Jan sport. So As you all kind of being rushing up to the edge, you can see the begins to lift up. This was less of a cliff face and more of a kind of a heavy vertical climb on a snowbank. So it's gonna be challenging to climb up quickly without actually slipping and falling backward towards where the lava river is. So as everyone who's not currently being held by an eagle or flying, which is No. That's all of you. That would be would be them. So That's what I mean. Oh, well, you haven't got it. You're being chased by one of Okay. And as they all reach the omen, the other elementals have kind of swirled around, and they're all trying to make their way now towards Bow Regard, who's the only one that's currently right at the area. And so we got that going. They're all gonna try and make it up the side. Got that going. The only one who's in danger on that one would be Typhon who tried to get up there and ended up kind of falling back and can't seem to get past enough heavy powder and just into the slide back to the base, but all the rest of you get up and over onto the edge of the cliff, whether it be by eagle or flying bird claw, or climb up over the side and turn back. As you see Teflon, slipping back in the snow to the edge, this point, the Tombtakers going to look at each other and As you see, kind of slipping back in the snow to the edge. This point, the kinda look at each other, and let's see what this has. Is it a stable place where where the group is landed? Yeah. It's you are outside of the danger of the the lover and not Nein an dangerous sliding back down where we are. You guys are up and on the lip now. Yep. I'm dropping I'm dropping my form. I will cast levitate on Typhoon. Okay. You watch his lip hit, like, he has to fall back the bottom and then levitate. Shipping is gonna levitate up a bit. Can't move It's just kind of dark to do. Get someone crack. And so a grabber on the fly over a month and give her a so grabber. Yeah. I'll fly over a nudge over a nudge Nein the right direction. Okay. And as you do, it's it's like nudging something in space. She's I mean, it's the drift. It's the snow and kind of kind of Yeah. If you ever It's it's like a let her keep going. Yeah. It's it's almost like a reverse Preet. Preet. A reverse hill slide where she's gonna hit the snow and then slides up the bank up the top of the embankment. Uh-huh. And she continues going at kind of an angle before Zoran with on was grabs the ankle and pulls her down. Walking everybody on the lip now, his bow still out way off. And it's on side. I had to spell the elementals. Bo is still down in the river, like running still down on the river, like, running quickly. And as you look behind, there are now four elementals. I'm gonna I'm going to drop and leave and go after drop Beth and Lucia and go after Beau. Okay. You got it. Uh-huh. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, we you go. You go steeper. You got it. I'm sorry. Both Of you are now of you are now rushing. What's your flight speed? Sixty. Sixty. Well, you actually kind of still cruising that same space since you're the one actually brought people up and dropped them off. So you are around the head. So, Ford, what are you doing? I'm just trying to see Bodie's ahead. Like, I turn it turn around. I see what he's doing. I'm gonna just try and, like, try and meet him in the middle as I hold my arm up as I keep running. Yeah. You move just little bit faster with a double move at your fly speed. You move a little bit faster in these elementals. So as they're, like, starting to try mungulate and catch up to Aeor? he carving these like four golden paths of burning lava through the snowfields? A little bit of blue light getting brighter in the guy can just start seeing the tops of snow that's still decent to step on. And as Bo's running and is starting to come up behind her, she's still keeping away from them. But they're starting to to cut off any space if she's not gonna drop there herself. And the bankman has now turned it into cliffside. Oh, Lord. And so as you look back and see Ford catching up to you, there's a moment where you can reach back. gonna, like like, vault off of the embankment and kinda do a back flip over the little strap. Yeah. Fully cut Always extra. I think -- Yeah. -- go ahead and make an acrobatics check for me. Yeah. Okay. Fifteen. That's that's Okay. So as you as you as you run-in rush For me, see that happening, you kind of dig a heel in begin to slide, which means you've hit an ice patch. Well, you don't know that patch is gonna end and your feet still in contact with the snow. And God knows if you were to actually slip beneath the surface or find an element where it was open ahead of you. But with that, you find yourself coming to the edge, you leap 7pm, and with the momentum, you hit the edge, kick off and flip backwards. The fundamentals gonna swoop in underneath. At that point on your arm is At that point, your arm is out, you watch as forwards comes from the other direction. There you go. Yeah. And you're lift it up almost the second time your arm has been jerked out of its socket in recent days, but you find yourself, no, lift it up in the air. As the two of you kind of almost like superman the movie fly, you know. Yeah. We're down to meet everybody else on the edge. It's not nearly that graceful. I'm, like, holding my elbow. And so it is to keep it in the so I just keep it in socket. I'm like, oh my god. Well, it does start to have an inner monologue Kako though this feeling feels so safe and who is this man turtling drop us to really be together start to have an inner monologue. Gaco, though. What is what is is he? feels so safe. Who is this man? I'm straining really hard. I'm hurtling. Trump assumes you're able Will we beat together forever? So is y'all gonna say that for a minute? On the defense weapons drawn at the ready, breathing heavy, seeing now kind of the weird Can you read the weirdly beautiful weirdly beautiful patterns carbon through the snow that give this, like, golden sigil look to in the way they're gonna swirls and cuts off and changes direction. All these possible deaths that awaited you on this path that you managed to avoid. As the elemental's gonna carve around again, look back and really and then slowly sink into the lava below it. The hissing of steam. That breath, everyone who looks around, listening goes. Right. Well done. Apologies for the rough start. I just don't like being abandoned. You realize you could have just told us We could have flown across multiple times and you wouldn't have had to deal with any of that. I didn't say twenty twenty or that. Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. A good example of that. I have my foot jammed into the snow. Yeah. It's kind of the throbbing pain with it's gonna be red and kinda oily for a while, but at least it's there. Yeah. It hurts, but Yeah. You wanna be fine. On that. Yep. Can't practice. We don't expect a terrible devious intent on your part with where we're heading. Maybe do include us a bit more in your planning and strategy. We have, as you can see, quite a bit to offer. You're not wrong. Let's talk about things as you walk. And And as you all can look each other and loosen him against to put his weapons back, the sides I'm going to collect is you all can with each other and lose him against to put his weapons back on the sides, everyone begins to collect Zoran cannot has to pack up now and he's kinda clutching the the loose strap. And I'm so sorry. Thank you for saving me. Are you for saving me? right. Okay. And they were getting trudging off and all of you can look back except for you look over at again is trudging off and all of you can look back except for you look over at Otos who's just going. Huh? Hi. Oh, yeah. Didn't didn't die. Neither us died. That's good. This turns around and falls after Nein. So Did you guys continue on for the remainder of your second day of you guys continue on for the remainder of your second day of travel? I would like somebody to roll in busy twenty PM. I was like me. Cold ill meat right now. 550, no. Not five. Anything to five? Five to five. Five to five. Twenty five. Input. Heavy ice fog unfortunately does swell on this side of the lava bank. Lowering visibility Right? need everybody to go ahead and make a group survival check if they can trek through and maintain direction on this. Stannett Colville. Okay. North is that what? No. Yay. One two. W that's a minus a minus seventeen. Seventeen. Does my Nein mind have any effect on this role? Nein this instance, no, than a natural one. Because this is not about, like, looking at this no. My mic usually is like, look around the roundings. Look at the sky. You have no visibility here, and it's not a magical, you know, the navy. Yeah. Cheers. So natural one. Got it. Oh, nineteen. Nineteen. Twelve. Twelve. Twenty three. Thirteen. Only when you could reroll that. Right? Mhmm. Not looking good. I like I like low rolls for this. Now for Tombtakers. Oh, no. You have a lot. Shakes them better. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or, yeah, that's that's the tipping point. You spend most of the day long Oh, shrekking you over city? Yeah. You it was a high DC on this, and you guys did not roll. roll great, and they did not roll great. And the national one was two failures on the skilled tests. So yeah. So nothing terrible nothing terrible happens. But what happens is it does add an additional day of travel to this journey, and the next day you all will have point exhaustion. Fuck. Pollution? Are you sure you know where you're going? You know, these lens are a bit strange. Uh-huh. AND I THINK WE'RE ALL TRYING TO GUIDE EACH OTHER IN A VERY INCRACT DIRECTION. Reporter: NO, WE'RE ALL FOLLOWING YOU AS THE DEFACTUAL LEADER we are not all following each other. We're following you. I don't know. Seems like quite a bit of you are making your own paths as well. Yes, I'm lost. Alright. Don't be a dick about it. Shack, like, oh, she's more like this. I like it more. You do you do see, like, he has filled with frustration. He this is the first time he's the first time he's had to show little bit of limitation and he's not happy about it. good oh, relatable. He's mortal. He's like Like this a lot. It's her mouth. You're like, yeah. You got a winter's grass. It's like -- Yeah. -- like yours. It's like amazing process. So not vegan. Well, we've all had a day. Let's go ahead and bed down. Take rest here Nein safe spot and we'll continue on first thing in the morning. Do you need help finding your pet or should we just kidding. Little humor between friends. Wait. I actually have a question about that because when Do you sleep? Not for a while. One of the Nein gifts to the son of him. More time to think, to contemplate and to watch. I like sleeping. Now do you miss anything? Oh, I can still dream. Like -- Oh. -- like some of some of them sleep while others are away. So, like, parts of you is sleeping while other parts Is that how it It's like a plan. Work in cycles like Are you dreaming right now? And this is a moment, but I wouldn't mind some perhaps in a bit of, if we can get a bit more comfortable where we can do at the moment, but I wouldn't mind some perhaps in a bit if we can get bit more comfortable. Well, we can't do that. Yes. It's snowy out Snowy out here. Sorry. Let's set up and then go ahead and begin carving Snowway. We can't make our super comfortable time. Sure. We can. But do we wanna shave it? These buckets? Never able to go back. I mean to retire. Yeah. You probably have to ask or permission, otherwise, who might just negated them. What do you think? I'm also fine. Just doing the dome if you feel like it'll reveal our cards. You just too. No. I broke another one. Oh, charitable. Oh, no. You just buy it like a million from I think someone must make like a really hard credit. I'm just gonna I'm feeling a like a little dog pad behind my waist. Super absorbent. Right right there on the side of the bed. Dog disease. Oh, no. So what's the plan? I mean, it's your call. I guess we'll take a little space for ourselves. And put up the dome. Very well. Say well. Looks like her journey is gonna go little longer than anticipated. And they all begin to build up their sleeping arrangements not far from the don't. Okay. So I lead the group about forty or fifty feet away and I start to cast a mansion. Yeah. It's the tower. Hooker. With my back to them, with a wand in front of me, and my back directly between their group and me takes a minute, and I wait, and I just look at everybody. And And I lead everybody in really fast is at lead everybody in really fast. Does it work? And then I drop the door, it disappears. Okay? Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Mm-mm. You all step into the mansion. The door appears closed behind you. You're in the mansion. Okay. So this is a bit of an experiment. They may be aware that we are in here and are just allowing for it. And even if that is the case, we can get a hot meal and a comfortable time and enjoy our rooms. And then we continue on, but we have as much time as we need to think and talk and plan. 7pm. Wait. That's a talk. Tell them to Bruce and Poppy. Sorry. This learn before they they they undo this. I have word of recall prepared. What's that you do too? Could you say What's that too? What is that? We could potentially ban for us all back to your house right now. From here? Yes. Yep. I don't know if it would work. It might not. in a different dimension right now. It doesn't matter. So maybe the rules of ice are crossed up. It doesn't what we want to? Is that something Well, that's the that is the question. That is a brilliant. That is a brilliant use here. But if we leave, they spend another week or so finding another one of these things even even two or three weeks we're not going to bump back here. We're gonna have to travel back slowly. So we are no longer a fly in that ointment. We will be going back there. We can't bump back here. No. I mean It's we've we've got a way out. We don't have a way back out. Okay. Then I I think we think that's a great idea. think we saw that ticket. Yeah. We definitely can try and I have been picking up stones every day and wrapping them in paper and labeling them. To bring us back here? Well, if I have something from a location, it makes it a little safer to to ramp there. So every day, I take a little I have little sorting system and I take a little something with me every day. It's a good idea. It can be anything. Anything from the location. So I generally look for I mean, I have underwear, a turtle, but for a place like this. It's just me old rocks. Why underwear out of all? Because Beth. Ah, I had some extra Well, but And it's still a it's still a gamble. It's still a gamble and things can go very wrong. Yeah. It basically would be letting them do what they're going to do. We can't communicate with anybody. We can't message anybody from Nein here. Can we? No. We can. I can send messages. Mm. But we're not sure if they can hear in here, you shouldn't we're not sure if they can hear in here. You shouldn't be able to, though. If we invited them in Caleb, there's no way that you can mentally construct this place to have isolated chambers where no one can hear or anything can I mean, I I cannot predict what he Lucyne is able to do? But I can reconfigure this to an extent. I mean, it is a tower. And I can segment, I can separate, I can lock. But I don't want bring them in here. Even if we don't go anywhere, at least we get a mate to ourselves, Yeah. At least we were getting a little bit of control. And it might be a really angry when we come out as might be really angry when we come out. Yeah. well. They wanted to talk to wanted to fuck them. They could've they could've killed us on the spot if they wanted to. Just added a week to their reality without us. Can they dispel the tower at any moment? I don't know. Maybe. We just I assume we would just flop out -- Mhmm. -- comically. You can't teleport an object, can you? Sure. can. Yeah. So we could teleport. Yes. I could threshold crest Yes. Like, two lady Allura Visorin or something if we wanted to. Teleported out, but we stay here. The easiest thing to do send it somewhere we have been, but I could wing it. Yeah. That's not a bad idea because we continue to just operate like we have it and as long as he doesn't know. But then what if he does? Well, what if we walk out the door and he's like, uh-uh, you you don't have something with you right now than you've had before. And we have to go get an another one. That's that's good. I can sense it's not on here. Whoa. A cast, a spell on the cast spell on the illusion. It's been me the whole time. Thank you. Okay? So, yeah, let's let's work that out. If we come out and he's like, oh, I don't smell y. Special to grid. That is a perfect. We fight on pirates now. So what's it going? You're going. You're going. You're putting a pirate. Pirate. Properly. You want to Fair enough. Fair enough. Fair enough. Fair enough. So if he's, like, noodle got it, god's your burden. They were like, Oh we're like, Oh, no. And we have to go get another crest. Right? He slices all of our throats and we die. Or he places And he realizes we don't actually have anything, but at least you won't be able to take it from our dead realizes we don't actually have anything, but At least you won't be able to take it from our dead bodies. There'll be some cold comfort in that. Well, I didn't, I mean, they could have, they could have just killed a half of us back there and they didn't, then they would still have access to didn't I mean, in those four things, they could've They could have just killed half of us back there and they didn't and they would still have access to it. I don't think that I don't think the crest is keeping us safe. I think it's more complicated than that. Well, I think that we would slow them down but not stop them. Yeah. Yeah. You could just drink hot cocoa and go to bed. I like the idea of teleporting it far away to somebody who might be able to help. With a note, there aren't a lot of arguments against not doing Yeah. I I'm not against it either. You can at least just send it to Essak. You can at least send it on continent. I would get to the whole another place. But that way, At least we, you know, we can get it if you know, least we know we can get it if we need it soon. If he gives it back. But we haven't been to where Essex is. I don't think that it is easy to teleport it there as it is to teleport it to you. You still have so drama, sir. Yeah. I feel like you're so Is dangerous, but dangerous, but Telefon. We could put it in the hands of the cobaltzel. That's it, bro. No. I think I think we need someone we could send it to Nicodranos, and you could tell Laura where it is. Yeah. Because I have can't say what's going to happen your nice little cross, but we could send it there and you could definitely talk to her and she could get a lickety split Okay. Right. And then Laura would do And then a Laura would do what? Take it to another comment. Who knows what she would do with it? Maybe it's best that we wouldn't know. Alerting forces that something bad and is coming coming down the I mean, we have more connection with Usa. We didn't She trusted him. Right? I think I think it's the right choice. I think we need I think I think your people are to Can I go? Maybe we send it to you soon. Yeah. Maybe I'll just do my thing the same. I just worry that even if he doesn't slice our throats because he doesn't wanna kill us, that if we go out there without it, he'll somehow sense it and be like, Why are you fuckers with me? I don't need you anymore. What about that part? Like, if the bag of holding is another dimension, right? Another plane of pocket plane, you can't another plane, a pocket plane, he can't. Right? You can't see something in another dimension. Can't even if I'm scrying on somebody, if they're not in this plane of existence, I can't see that. My eyes do all kinds of stuff. But if he knew where it was the whole time, why didn't he just take it? Exactly. Yeah. And I feel yeah. And he he's mentioned himself, he's like, Oh, you serve a bigger preference to this. So, you know It's a good thing. That You see life very interesting. Officer is incredible. I'm a dinosaur. I'm a dinosaur. I'm a goosehead. Alright. A good name. Maybe he thinks he does not need to break a sweat after all. He dropped us from the sky with no effort at all. We are floating on his ego right now, and I kinda wanna keep it that way. He thinks that he's better than us and he's underestimating us. The more we keep him in that sweet spot, the better will be. It means he can be surprised. You looked pretty pissed off earlier today. Yeah. And then we got him over a bank. But Wait. How can he Oh, knock it the door. Do it doing now Caleb. Gotta get it out? Do you want to? He's gonna dispel it. He's gonna dispel it to Aeor. Should we answer the door or should we answer the door? Otherwise, he's going to dispel it. Yeah. Amber comes out. Send it to Caleb. No. No. I put it. No no. You've been in the back of my bag. Put it back in the back. Put it back in the floor. The floor into the door. The wall underneath one of the junkers were still down in the giant entry hole with the glass windows just sort shimmers, and now there is and he's we see him in the snow ASM? You do. Standing kind of outside and doing this. Now can I help you? You can talk to it. I I was just curious as to where the strange port led, was just curious as to where this strange portal lead. This is my house. We are going to have a comfortable night before trudging through the bleak frozen tomorrow. Didn't mention you had a home before. Have you told us everything? No. But you've told me so little? Well, I have a tower I carry around in my pocket and only we fit in here. Thank you. We'll see you in the morning. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. don't know. I don't know. There is a brief moment of anxiety before suddenly you're surrounded by a cold sensation as all of you fall on to the Ice snow hands and knees thrust from the interior of the a brief moment of anxiety. Before suddenly you're surrounded by a cold sensation. Has all of you fall onto the icy snow, hands and thrust from the interior of the tower. What? A dick. Lucy and standing there above and goes. I was just curious, but Once again, trust has to be earned. And there's been a few actions in the past day or so kinda looking over towards That's it had me a bit on edge. And so when there isn't a forthright discussion, I have reason to believe that there's some funny business And you still have something that need. So why don't you come join us by the fire or make your fancy dome once more? This this makes me uncomfortable. I was gonna have a hot meal. I was gonna have A hot meal to spend another night on the see-through dome meal. Hot meal. Let's just spend another night in the see through dome altogether. Know if it'll help I have Nein there. Not boxing total. What was that? Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Yeah. I guess we'll just join you by the fire then. Oh, the dome. Right? More damage Nein the fire? Are you comfortable with the dome? There's been more comfortable. To be fair, I feel like he did disclose as what we were going to do. Said we were gonna take a night to ourselves Nein our own house. So fine. This isn't an argument of semantics here. This is just being careful. Okay. Well, you kinda keep talking about trust and it definitely feels like it's a one way street in this situation. So We saved two of your compatriots today. You saw me save your compatriots life and she turned into sheep, burned a spell to save one of yours, man. To love you. Actually, you're welcome. Thank you. Yeah. Kinda looks back at you again. Well, set up here rest well. And And it turns around and around and begins walking back to the rest of the crew. You can see his his patient presentory demeanor that he's continued to bring is dropping steadily with each altercation. The patients is wearing thinner and thinner with each conversation. Have that effect on 7pm. I kind of like The dome is better than nothing now. Yeah. At least it's warm in the least it's warm in the dome. I walk off towards the walk off towards the Tombtakers. Okay? A grab bow by the wrist. Nein stuck behind me. Okay. As you approach, you can see the kind of set their things on the side. No. They pulled out some elements to eat. Just now the at this point in the day, the light is beginning to change into sunset after a strong, you know, eight hours of trudging through difficult terrain and being caught in that terrible fog And as you approach the Alcon of Lance over, and Lucina has taken a seat back on this kind of slight little depression in the snow, almost like a leisurely stretch and because So we don't like each other. You don't like us. We don't like you, but we are working towards the same thing with similar We don't like you, but we are working towards the same thing. We have similar goals. And we have days left before we reach our destination. Tomorrow, you all may have a hot meal and a bed and cat massages and anything you can dream of. If we can work together, We do not know what you are doing. Seeing that out there would have been a great way to start the night's conversation. You have been keeping us captive for multiple have been keeping us captive for multiple nights. You started this on the wrong foot. You make an effort to keep us from bolting at the first chance we have. I'm not keeping you from bolting. If you want to leave, you can leave. How do you reckon you can say that? Right. We'll just take this precious package that you care so much about and we'll just head off on our own. Yeah. Your presence is a convenience. You have thwarted every spell we have put forward to simply survive. Tell us how we are not captives in this situation. I'm careful, especially around practitioners of magic, have a bit of a history, especially those that walked alongside such careful, especially around practitioners of magic, have a bit of a history. Especially those that walked alongside such individuals. Pardon me if I mistrust of certain aspects of the arcane that I don't know might be hanging out in the unspoken wings of our arrangement. So I'm careful. I'm not offering free to leave, but if you were, it would be annoying. What you have. Isn't so have isn't so precious. It's just convenient. Let's save some time. Here's what I propose. Mhmm. I'm very curious. I love books and learning. Show me your book. Don't give it to me. Show it to us. Let us look at it together, look at it together, and try to ascertain what it is you have been unable to. You can stop us from leaving at any time it seems. Share a little bit more of your knowledge. Enjoy your bed tomorrow night. What do you have to lose? We can't leave. We've tried twice. Role a persuasion a persuasion check. Can I give advantage Nein here? You are so You're so persuasive. I would so persuasive. I I would say this is a straight rule for me. Yeah. That's fair. It's combative. If anything if anything One would it be? One would it be? Cracking knuckles. Yeah. Yeah. five. Whoa. Jesus. I think on it. When -- Yeah. -- like Nein nights while I rest, you're not. Disobey to me. A hundred percent I am. How many more days till AR? Two, how do you travel with this one? They've just learned to deal exactly conditioning motherfucker. And the hazing process is a little hazing process is a little steeper. Once you make it to that, you go quite fond of that. I use a cantrip and start to make food appear in the fire and cats and books and books and books and books and books and cats and people and cats. Nein all the things that they will enjoy in the tower tomorrow night. All that can be yours. Talk to your leader. Also, I do taro card readings. That could be fun. I said I was following you guys. I just wasn't talking okay. As as you both walk away and she bursts out, I Nein, attention shifts and goes. See, no, that's a nice offer. Do you want me to read your terror codes? Certainly. Really? You know, I learned this from Molly. Does that change your opinion of it? No. I'm just curious. Okay. Oh, boy. Oh, well then sit down with me, then we'll sit down across from Felician? Like grab you by the wrist, just to quiet I grab oh, by the wrist, just a quiet Aeor Gook. Hold And then I got to pull on my I gotta pull up my list. Give me a second. He sits in front of you. His sword's clinging into the side. cool. You take it out on the deck of cards and I'll fan them out in front of him and say, choose three take out the deck of cards and all. Fan them out in front of him and say, choose three cards. Sid Cox's side reading very clearly the the lack of confidence in the delivery. Set them in order. Nein front of you. The Empire Kids share them as a dead pan. He does so. Okay. Roll a d twenty, sir. Nein. Oh, how fucking perfect. Wow. Okay. Oh. Yeah. I swear God. Okay. So flip over the first card. This is the card of your past, and I looked down at it. Oh. This card. You can pick. Oh, so weird. This card is history and the dream. A fucking crazy. It's that. Oh my god. It gives a smile and a nod.eyes on blinking. Oh. A massive creature shatters a city. Shut up. That's so fucking perfect. What? Okay. Flip the next card. Roll a d twenty. It's the image of the calamity. One. Oh, no. This card oh, this is your present. You see? The tyrant. Two dragons fight each other in a figure eight. The one facing you is red. Flip your last card. This is your future. Eighteen. This God is so is so important. You're good At this. Can you just the is the card. I want you to roll it D61. Facing you as death. It's not necessarily about the English Nein, you know. Some people think that death means a rebirth. Something must end or something new to begin. This right hand twitches, like, twice. How do you feel? Thank you. That was interesting. We've always been ugly curious from a distance about such strange hobbies. Thank you for indulging in the offer. Of course. We gather up carts. He stands up and kind of walks uncomfortably. Towards the the rest of the Tombtakers. Can't blame the cards you made? A motherfucker. No fucking crazy with those plugs. No. As you kinda sit there looking at the cards and see him sit down, facing away from everybody. You pick them up and begin to walk back to the rest of the group as they're sitting up their camp. We're gonna go ahead and end tonight's episode. I'm so proud of you. I am so proud of you. Yeah. That was amazing. That was awesome. I've lived in my cat. I'm like, where is the host? Did you make the shit else that you did it by the cards? I did it by the cards. I did it by the numbers that we listen. We have it. We have a random poll system. Yeah. Tara. Everything's is justified. Yeah. It's cool. Really cool. That was It was a double hand toy. It was like a zick. Okay? I'm ready. Okay. I'm stuck in the land on the boat. I am over. I'm living for for that. I'm living for this, like, weird power dynamic. How much are you guys? All writers are amazing. Our debt. I mean, they're really on point. COVID has forced us to look really good shit. Extreme circumstances. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. History of the world, the world before the world. Yeah. Dream of the world becomes. It's fun. But, man, it will take off from there next week. Man, I hope it makes us up on I hope may ask question? Yes. I know what Molly's deal was, is Lucy and they or he? Lucy and is he? He. Okay. Yeah. I wonder if he's gonna take us I hope he takes us up on his offer because that seems awkward and -- I understand. -- that was a very high role and we'll kind of see how the next day plays out. To have dinner. You guys are playing a very unique game of killing me. Like I said, of of prisoner challenge, push and pull, shifting roles, mutual intimidation, and it's like writing a line back and forth. It is I'm is fucking fascinating. I love it. Oh, there's moments in this room. It's like, okay. This is a Be would be okay. Keep me on my toes. Hold on I love it. We'll pick up there next week. Thank you all for joining us. Happy twenty twenty one. 7pm twenty twenty one. Hopefully, much. 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