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we left off, bells held. Upon arriving here

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me. Random character generator. Fuck. It's fine. I got it.

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We're cool. We're cool. We're good, good, good. Immersed.

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the lake in which it resides, some sort of a

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to the moon propter after leaving some messages to

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the voice of the Tempest, you

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trudge back to the surface and begin to walk

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on foot after a night's rest, through

17:30

the storms as they come and go, until eventually

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some of the storm begins to break

17:35

ahead and you can see the cleft

17:38

valley of a mountain range above and

17:40

ahead of you, where you can see

17:42

the signs of the capital city Kraviras before

17:45

you. As

17:48

you jump in, you have a little

17:50

bit of travel still before you reach the

17:52

city. The means of arrival,

17:55

of course, is up to you. But for the

17:57

remaining leg of the city, you can see the

17:59

city. Give your journey. I need someone to

18:01

go. Had roadie twenty thirty thousand your last.

18:03

I mean you have Young Canada Nine out

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of the I was. In

18:08

a Life as it was awesome. And

18:12

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18:14

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18:16

same since last game role in grades Brolin

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Day for one. Time

18:22

for hope are some every up.

18:25

By the way, I'm gonna make

18:27

ourselves before princess. The

18:29

greed of break loose in

18:31

the medium power dust storm.

18:34

The short lived. As

18:36

the heavy winds begin to swallow your

18:38

vision of the city ahead until eventually

18:40

not far beyond your visual range you

18:43

can't see more. The maybe thirty feet

18:45

ahead of you can hear the heavy

18:47

wind blowing by. You have to cover

18:49

your mouth, you have to cover your

18:51

eyes best you can as you are

18:53

push forward in what you hope is

18:55

the direction the you had recently saw

18:57

before was taken from you. Ah,

19:02

Because. With this close and because you're on

19:04

the surface here, I'm an airborne rule. A

19:07

good subject for me. At

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my. House has actually

19:11

I can say pass without a trace of

19:13

yeah one server? Yes please Hang. On

19:17

uniform trying to hide your

19:19

own thing? Yeah, okay, savior

19:21

else hi. Elon

19:25

to be given us a spin that

19:27

nothing fuck new one another? Yeah ok.

19:31

Thank God do I have prevented. Real

19:34

terms with the dust storm

19:37

has swallowed that visual aura

19:39

or I have decided Thirty

19:42

six, Twenty seven, Fifty eight

19:44

teams on T. Twenty two

19:47

points Him. continuing

19:53

to push forward for the better part of

19:55

the next hours or so doing your best

19:57

to stay low to the ground you cast

19:59

and or so to keep the shadows near

20:02

and the sound itself muffled

20:04

as much as needed over the resurging

20:07

anger of the dust

20:09

storm around you. Now,

20:11

the challenge with Pass Without a Trace

20:14

is it darkens shadows and muffles sound,

20:17

but it doesn't hide all senses.

20:21

There's a brief period where you're stepping past the

20:24

somewhat broken, rocky topography in the

20:26

direction where you've been pushing. In

20:29

past day, like, pseudo cliff face and

20:31

some other outcroppings, you

20:35

feel a faint rumble.

20:41

What do

20:43

you do? Oh, there's just

20:46

like rocky parts of broken

20:49

terrain. There's

20:54

rock coming out of the ground? There's

20:58

protrusions and risen sections of

21:00

platform. Should we get to the

21:02

rock or stand on the ground?

21:04

Good question would be, how far is the

21:06

rock? Yeah. About 20, 25 feet from

21:08

where you guys are currently. Can we fly?

21:13

Hands in the air if you want to run for the rock. Oh,

21:17

really? We're all bald now? Yeah, let's run. I'm

21:20

going to sympathetically bond with one, two,

21:22

three, four. I'm

21:27

the slowest, but okay. Shit. I'm fucked. I

21:30

thought you have a 40-foot running speed, don't you?

21:32

Not anymore. Oh, but he's exhausted. I

21:34

have disadvantage on ability checks and I have 20 foot. One,

21:37

two, three, four. Sorry. There's

21:39

no method to any of

21:41

that. I'm insane. A dire wolf,

21:44

I think, holding Ashton. Can I

21:46

only do this for myself? So

21:48

you all go and bolt for the nearest rock. You

21:51

all go into sprint, kicking off dust as

21:53

you go, pushing to the storm to where

21:55

you recall it was. And you can just

21:58

see the basic kind of dark shadow. outline

22:00

of where it still stands amidst the swirling of wind

22:02

and dust around you. You all dart

22:06

and clamber onto it. And

22:10

you stop and look back. I know

22:24

we haven't come across a

22:27

Bane worm yet, but it

22:29

feels like that was the

22:31

start of it. Right? It's

22:33

beaming. A blade.

22:35

A David blade worm. Do you

22:38

hear any rebels? Do you see the ground shaking at all?

22:40

Make a perception check. Disadvantage in

22:42

the dust storm. I got 28. I

22:50

got nine. 28?

22:55

Not seeing much out there, unfortunately, Imogen.

22:57

But you, glancing past, at first is

22:59

what you hear.

23:01

You hear through the dust storm a little. You

23:08

see this tiny little movement in the dust like

23:11

something emerging from the dust and kicking up

23:14

a little bit in the storm. Can

23:19

I, since I'm still a direwolf,

23:21

can I use your direwolf? Yes,

23:23

you are. Can I use a

23:26

keen hearing and

23:30

smell and see if I can like... Okay,

23:33

yeah. So go ahead and roll a perception check

23:35

using your perception. Ooh, that's

23:37

rare. But you do not have disadvantage

23:39

because it gives you advantage, so

23:41

it's just a straight roll. It's a death straight roll, okay.

23:44

Oh god, real hot. Okay,

23:48

damn. I know, I know.

23:50

Okay. Perception? 23. 23,

23:55

okay. You pick up on this as well. You hear the sound.

24:02

and you glance over and can see this movement in

24:04

the dust kicks up a little bit. You

24:07

see this tadpole

24:11

that looks like a basketball-sized tadpole

24:13

thing that plops out and starts

24:15

rubbing on its back in

24:17

the dust and kicking up this little dust storm on itself

24:19

there. LAURA and MATT and MARISHA and TALIESIN and MATT and

24:21

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24:23

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24:25

MATT and TALIESIN and MATT and MATT and TALIESIN

24:29

and MATT and MATT and TALIESIN and MATT and

24:31

TALIESIN and MATT and MATT and MATT and TALIESIN

24:33

and MATT and TALIESIN and MATT and TALIESIN and

24:35

MATT and MATT and TALIESIN and MATT and TALIESIN

24:37

and MATT and MATT and TALIESIN and MATT

24:39

and TALIESIN and MATT and so much of

24:41

them line up and you can

24:44

tell by them telling you out by themselves. ASHLEY

24:47

and T Z MATT

24:57

and TALIESIN and MATT. Yeah.

25:31

I'm going to jump and flop, was there space between the

25:33

ground and we're going to jump? It

25:36

arcs a few feet in the air before it hits the

25:38

ground and rubs on the ground, getting itself all dusty. Do

25:43

you remember that fairy that we

25:46

saw 100% in the horror? Yes,

25:50

it's like a kiss. It was a lure. I'm

25:52

getting that vibe! Then what

25:54

if it's actually an innocent little creature and we're

25:56

all convinced it's a lure? Six times more.

26:00

Now a baneworm is going to eat the teeny

26:02

little cutie grub. Better him than

26:04

I am. I'm going to speak with

26:06

animals using my communicator's gift, and

26:09

I will whisper shout, Hey,

26:12

you cutie, little cutie, are you hurt? Are

26:15

you okay? As

26:17

you whisper shout, as the creature

26:20

is going to enter the ground, you

26:23

watch Bugs Bunny growing, the ground like this

26:25

little path as it goes around the circle

26:27

before it breaks a little bit, you

26:29

can see this one little central eye that opens

26:32

on the top of its smooth head. It goes,

26:35

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

26:37

blah, blah, it doesn't speak, which leads you

26:39

to believe it's probably not an animal-ness or

26:42

a beast. I communicate,

26:44

I convey this to my friends. But

26:46

it's in the direction, yeah, it's

26:49

about 15 feet away. Symbiotic, what if

26:52

all the creatures here have symbiotic relationships with

26:54

another one? Or

26:56

it could be like a periscope thing too. It

26:59

could be one of a hundred babies. It

27:01

could have a lot of siblings. The fact is the

27:04

kid talk is disturbing. Keeping an eye on this. Okay,

27:07

why don't we just prepare a tax? Just

27:09

go get it. Or we

27:11

could just sit on this rock and wait.

27:13

Wait, wait, wait, wait, I think the second

27:15

we step on sand, we get eaten by

27:18

a bank. More than three minutes. Yeah, it's

27:20

gonna pass, it's gonna pass. It'll pass? Okay.

27:23

Me? It's like a polar bear and

27:25

it never sees food, so it is as patient

27:27

as the day is long. It will be here

27:29

as long as we are. Well.

27:32

You know that? She's a polar bear from two miles and won't stop

27:34

until it comes each year. You

27:38

spored? Technically.

27:43

How could you be defined?

27:45

Yeah. A poodle? I

27:50

agree, let's just wait a few more minutes. Let's

27:52

not provoke. It's not like a pain worm, it's as

27:54

big as an arena. And it doesn't matter

27:56

if you throw a ball bearing 80 feet away, it's gonna

27:58

run us down. Maybe we

28:00

can climb over and visit. It's still looking at

28:02

us. Should we eat a little

28:05

food or something? Hey, can we have a body? We have

28:07

a heart. We do. Should we throw

28:09

the body? Throw the body out, on the ground. Throw

28:11

the body on the ground. We can't. Throw the bodies

28:13

on the ground. Throw the bodies. Put

28:15

the bodies. Yeah. Okay,

28:18

we're gonna start talking by the heart. A chunk of

28:20

an arm. I'm not wasting a head. A dead mondo

28:22

or something? No, it's not the hole. It's

28:26

the bag of holding. It's the berserker guy. Have

28:28

dead bodies in all of our bags? You never

28:30

know what you're gonna need. You never know what

28:32

you're gonna need. You never know what you're gonna need. You

28:35

never know what you're gonna need. It's not small material yet.

28:37

It hasn't even been a day. No. A

28:39

zur-ur-ur. Doesn't smell a little on the inside, though. Throw

28:43

the meat, Chet. So you're throwing an

28:45

arm over there? A elbow to hand.

28:47

Okay. Bros

28:52

beneath. It doesn't take it,

28:54

did it take it with? No, it threw it over

28:56

and it kind of bro beneath. It's

28:59

farming, it's superior. Oh! You

29:02

watch as about close

29:04

to 10 of these creatures suddenly start

29:06

beating frenzy. You

29:09

watch the arm get pulled apart and tossed and

29:11

before they catch the final bits and they wrestle

29:13

and argue over before they all eventually separate

29:16

and dust off and then vanish beneath the

29:18

surface. Oh, that one's gone. That's

29:20

really cool. What the fuck? How

29:22

do we get off this rock, Ben? What if there's so

29:24

many more of them? How

29:27

many body parts do we have? Throw

29:29

a bunch and then run the other way. Book it.

29:32

Yeah. Who has a big area of effect

29:34

stuff, like conical or stuff? That

29:37

would be good. Just calling it out

29:39

there. Let's go. I'm going

29:41

to end this telekinesis lab. Last.

29:45

I'm not laughing. Telekinesis

29:49

can last up

29:51

to 10 minutes. Okay, then can you just?

29:54

Professor XS, we levitate this rock that

29:56

we're on and we all just go

29:58

rock zooming away. Oh god. That's

30:01

a wild idea. Yeah? That

30:04

is actually a really great idea. Wait,

30:08

what are we doing? Thank you. We're becoming

30:10

rocks? Yes. Is that fake? That's

30:12

a fucking awesome idea. I'm gonna

30:14

cast Telekinesis. Oh, never mind.

30:16

Okay. Let's be off the deck right there. And I'm

30:18

gonna, the rock that we're sitting

30:20

on, this boulder, I'm just gonna focus everything

30:22

that I can and try to raise this

30:24

boulder up into the ground. Okay,

30:27

okay. Mm? I

30:30

swear. Everybody hold on. I'm

30:32

gonna give you an extra D6. I

30:34

don't know, is this a roll that you have to do? No, but thank you.

30:36

I'm giving you a D6. Now you

30:38

can move an object that's up to a thousand pounds in weight. Damn.

30:42

So, how many people are on this rock and how

30:44

big is the rock? I'm

30:47

on here, but. But we're all little. Like,

30:49

think about how many tiny people we have. Like, four,

30:52

five, well he's probably pretty heavy.

30:54

How much? Five fifty together? Like

30:56

one. One seventy five, something

30:58

like that. I would say out of with a

31:00

stone, because it's not stone all the way through,

31:02

so it's probably like, one ninety to two hundred.

31:04

Well, yeah, two hundred at least. Is letters lightweight,

31:07

like, alloy or super heavy? I think it's been

31:09

described as, I've been described as, I've been described

31:11

as, I've been described as, I've been able to

31:13

carry, huh? Yeah, I've been able to carry, huh?

31:15

Yeah, but also the, but also the, but

31:17

also the, probably glass, yeah, it's 250. One is

31:20

a hundred pounds wet. Quarter of a ton.

31:23

You weigh a quarter of a ton? One hundred fifty pounds.

31:25

That is not a quarter of a ton. Eight

31:27

to ten, thank you. Math. Math!

31:31

And then all the rest of us are pretty light. That

31:35

teeny. I'm just playing hard to have to play.

31:37

I'll say. I have six hundred pounds. Okay. Oh,

31:40

no. Oh boy. No, okay. No,

31:42

okay. All right, so, I'll

31:45

say it's possible, but it'll be a series

31:47

of checks

31:50

to maintain your magical will to

31:53

coast, okay? Guidance, guidance,

31:56

anyone? Well, you

31:58

can turn back from the dark. You dire wall. form

32:00

is pretty heavy. Orym

32:02

is going to sit Kris Kruff,

32:05

applesauce, on the stone with his

32:07

blade in his lap and wait

32:09

until the mayhem begins. I'm

32:12

on the other side of it, waiting for the mayhem as

32:14

well. I'm going to use my propeller arm to

32:16

take a couple pounds off. Beautiful.

32:22

Just negate your weight. You barely

32:24

did. As you all cluster up in

32:26

this one section of the rock, you use your

32:28

mind to reach into it and find where

32:30

the elements of shale that surround the

32:32

base of you are most capable

32:35

of being pierced and

32:38

pulled away from the main portion of the rock

32:40

around you. It takes a few

32:42

minutes of concentration to get your mind dug in

32:44

there like wedges and then pull

32:47

it free. You feel it shift

32:49

and lift up, and as it does, you feel

32:53

the faint cracking

32:55

of it in places. It holds, but this

32:57

is fragile stone. You don't want to rock

32:59

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33:02

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33:05

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I'm just gonna float it the

35:15

direction that we wanna go. Okay. Begins

35:20

to shift out into the storm. As the wind's buffeting in

35:22

now, you can feel it kind of like almost rock a

35:24

little bit as it moves. Oh right, there's a storm. But

35:27

you continue to push forward. What

35:31

about those little creatures? Should we throw

35:33

some body parts to the other one? Yeah, like throw them

35:36

away from us, away from us. Who's

35:38

got it? I get out the

35:40

other quarter arm, but I will

35:43

go to work on some digits so I get a

35:45

little like SeaWorld offerings. But

35:47

we don't want them to follow us as a trail. A

35:49

breadcrumb trail? Well. Don't

35:52

make a trail of breadcrumbs. You don't wanna feed the

35:54

ducks. I thought you said come trail.

35:56

Yeah, that's what I heard. Was

35:58

they always on up? Yeah, but it

36:01

needs to be shot far away. Who's

36:05

got a good arm? I do! I'm

36:09

throwing them far. Dude. They do

36:11

like a baseball situation. Oh! It's

36:13

fine. They're fingers! No, I like that idea.

36:19

Pick up an option. There

36:23

it goes. Wait,

36:26

is the wind blowing against us or is it... It's

36:33

blowing towards and off to the side, so Chet throws

36:35

it at kind of like... Go with the wind, Chet.

36:37

Go with the wind. It's going

36:39

into the wind and it's coming back. If he bashes

36:41

it real hard, it can go farther. This thing is

36:43

literally shaped like a paint tenderizer. It's just going to

36:46

turn into a spray. I

36:48

think it's going to work. Just for the visual. Are

36:50

you ready? Sit down. Line. Now,

36:56

the momentum of having to shift your weight

36:58

and swing at this does cause the rock

37:00

to slightly tilt. Could you roll a d20

37:02

and add your charisma modifier to it for

37:04

me? Guidance! I

37:07

have faith in that. No, have guidance on this. No

37:11

weight, that's the saving throw. 24

37:16

is great.

37:20

You hold it together and keep it

37:22

right as you hit the finger.

37:29

I think we're okay. Just

37:33

keep going. I don't like

37:37

it. It's last for ten

37:39

minutes. That's not that long.

37:41

Continue to put your forward. I'm really focused. I'm going

37:43

to speed myself up. You're

37:46

on the cusp of the spell's abilities. You're

37:49

cruising at a steady normal pace. It

37:52

can move 30 feet

37:55

in any direction per round. You're moving 30 feet at

37:57

a time. LIAM

38:00

and TALIESIN, that guy is just perpetually gusting, knowing it's doing

38:02

nothing. MATT, and TALIESIN, but it all helps

38:04

in some small way, but it continues

38:06

to push on until you're far enough away

38:08

where you cannot see the outline of the

38:10

rock where you have briefly

38:12

hidden. Three minutes

38:15

of pushing on. You're getting some fair distance

38:18

on this. Occasionally, it begins

38:20

to pick up. A wind hits underneath and starts to

38:22

sailboat a little bit to one side. Make

38:25

another d20 roll. Or

38:27

plus your charisma, I think, is five. ASHLEY,

38:29

LAURA, and TALIESIN, 19. MATT,

38:33

and TALIESIN, 19.

38:36

You keep it held and

38:38

eventually write it overcorrects

38:40

a little bit, and you all plucker,

38:43

and then eventually get it right back to a

38:46

standard set it can continue to push forward. SAM, TALIESIN,

38:48

and TALIESIN, you're doing such a good job, but

38:50

maybe we should try and land gently just in

38:52

case something goes wrong, because a hard landing would be

38:54

like a ring on a dingerbell. ASHLEY, LAURA, and

38:56

TALIESIN, 19. I set us down once I feel like I've

38:58

got a minute left. MATT,

39:01

and TALIESIN, 19. Sure. All right. I'd say

39:03

you have about six minutes left

39:05

of the spell. For every

39:07

two minutes, you're going to roll. Now

39:10

we go six minutes into it, four minutes left.

39:12

The wind's still buffeting it. Roll another d20 for

39:14

me. TALIESIN,

39:18

LAURA, and TALIESIN, 19. MATT, 14. You got a d6? ASHLEY,

39:21

LAURA, and TALIESIN, 19. MATT, 19. MATT,

39:26

19. MATT,

39:30

19. MATT,

39:33

22. MATT,

39:35

22. ASHLEY, LAURA, and TALIESIN, 19. LAURA

40:01

and TALIESIN, and LAURA, you push

40:03

into the eight minutes

40:06

of it, barely holding on, the rock is

40:14

starting to fart this sucker.

40:16

Now, with each progressive point

40:20

of this, especially with the low roll

40:22

of last time, the rock is starting to crack

40:24

and the edge starts to chip and fall off,

40:26

down below. Is there any reaction as little parts

40:28

of rock are falling to the ground? Do we

40:31

see any creatures coming in? Or

40:33

here, any activity beneath us?

40:37

Not at the moment. Okay.

40:41

Great. I'm going to very

40:44

gently set

40:47

the rock down on the ground. It

40:57

almost immediately crumbles into three pieces as it

40:59

lands, cracking and sundering as it

41:01

hits. But you all step

41:04

back onto the dusty ground. Is

41:07

there still a dust right here? LAURA and TALIESIN, yeah.

41:10

LAURA, should I try to lift everybody and

41:12

move them farther away off the rock so we're

41:14

farther away from this big rumble? I've got a

41:16

minute left. I'm going to try to move as many people as I can,

41:18

one by one, farther away

41:20

from the big stone. Okay. I've

41:25

got a lot of HP, even

41:27

though I'm useless, so feel free

41:29

to throw me first. Okay.

41:33

So you can move

41:35

them up to 60 feet. Okay, great. I'm

41:38

going to move everybody 60 feet away from

41:40

this big boulder. Okay. So as

41:43

it sits now, you've all managed to get

41:46

to the periphery, likely,

41:48

of their awareness. The

41:51

storm's still swirling around you. You

41:53

can all attempt one more group stealth check

41:55

to see if you can avoid them entirely.

41:58

Now, Now

42:00

here's the thing. Here's the thing. Pass

42:04

Without a Trace, you gathered, didn't quite

42:06

have an effect as this was.

42:08

He did it. They did it. That's

42:11

true. I'm blaming it on that. Well,

42:13

I mean, also mine is technically stone,

42:16

like, merged with stone, so I don't

42:18

know if that helps or not, but

42:21

I'm happy to, I'll take whatever you say. I'm

42:23

not going to argue with you. I love it, I love

42:25

the appeal. I love the appeal. I like how you did it.

42:27

It literally says, I'm just saying,

42:30

it literally says, merged with stone, like, on the

42:32

page, but I'm taking that idea. But

42:34

an action doesn't hit different. Yeah,

42:37

yeah, yeah. I'm just like, I'm just, you

42:40

know, I'm a slumber. I'm a slumber. I'm

42:42

a slumber. I'm a slumber. It is a

42:44

pretty baller. But I'm easy. That's

42:47

what merged with stone says, but what does... You can cast

42:49

Pass Without a Trace without my Once for Long Rest. Yeah,

42:51

but it's called merged with stone. So it's a... I'm

42:54

fine, whatever. This is, but you were, okay, you know what?

42:57

I'll take whatever. I won't be fine.

42:59

No, you know what? You know what? Because

43:02

that is the nature of

43:04

your physical ability and

43:06

you concentrating on this instance, I'll

43:09

allow it. Hey! If you

43:11

burn a shadow high later, I totally

43:13

respect that. Just saying. Don't worry, I'm

43:15

noting it. Okay. So

43:18

everyone go ahead and make a group stealth cast. What?

43:23

I hate this. With the Pass Without

43:26

a Trace. With the Pass Without a

43:28

Trace. So. That's

43:33

great. That's great. I rolled a four and a

43:35

five. I rolled a five. We had advantage? You

43:38

everything. Okay. Okay.

43:43

Okay. Mm-hmm. Okay.

43:50

A tense few minutes pass. As

43:53

you begin to step as gingerly as you can, the

43:56

element of Earth magic

43:59

that... you feel

44:01

emanate from passion as you

44:03

progress. Makes the dusty

44:05

and rocky ground almost feel like you're stepping

44:07

on a sponge, preventing

44:11

most of the vibration of your footfalls

44:14

as you move. It's odd, but

44:16

it also gives you a sense of comfort and knowing this

44:18

is the best chance you have. Move

44:22

on for about five more minutes, gingerly, from foot to

44:24

foot before you begin to feel like there's a pretty

44:27

good chance that you've managed to escape the

44:30

hunting radius of whatever those entities were.

44:34

Can we still see the city skyline in

44:37

the distance? No. The storm has completely

44:39

enveloped. You can only really see about

44:41

30, 40 feet ahead of you. No,

44:43

it would have helped us see the city outline better. You'd

44:46

be rolled better. Yeah. Wow.

44:48

You know, my rolls are

44:50

reliable. Do we even

44:52

know what direction we're walking

44:55

in? Yeah, you're keeping the

44:57

best you can. Who is

44:59

helming this? In a survival

45:01

sense? In a survival sense, yeah.

45:03

In a survival sense? I could

45:05

do it, maybe. Go ahead and

45:07

make survival for me. I got a plus

45:10

four. Oh, you got a great one, Fjord.

45:13

Whichever one of you wants to

45:16

try and ensure that you can ascertain

45:18

the same direction you were traveling in

45:21

the midst of the storm. I know

45:23

where to go. All right, Fern,

45:25

go ahead and survive for me. 13. All right.

45:30

It's okay. Give

45:33

me two seconds. All

45:37

right. So Fern

45:39

begins to guide you through the

45:41

storm. 13. 13. Another hour passes

45:46

of pushing through this incredibly

45:49

dense, dusty, windswept

45:51

space. And

45:55

you're not sure how close or how

45:57

far you are from your destination. I need

45:59

something else to read. Val pill! All right,

46:01

so that's your add-ins and addaha rolls. Don't Hudson

46:03

roll a d20 for that hour of travel.

46:05

MATT and

46:07

TALIESIN air- Yeah.

46:15

Ah! Oh no! Go after

46:17

it. Just a straight roll.

46:23

18, all right. The

46:25

storm begins

46:28

to subside. And

46:31

right as it does, another

46:34

strange glow of the surrounding

46:36

landscape. The

46:40

entirety of Rudis begins to brighten

46:43

up and flare. As

46:45

it goes off, you all

46:47

feel that same passing wave of energy. The

46:50

two of you are born. You both get your 15 temporary hit

46:53

points. Sweet. On top of the other one? No,

46:55

they would just- Fuck! They

46:57

don't- Stack? That's good, though,

46:59

for everybody that's been on the moon.

47:01

Don't act too excited. You instinctually and nervously

47:03

grab each other's hand right before this is

47:05

about to happen. Yeah. I

47:08

have your attention. And she does drift up

47:10

a little bit. Just instinctually, as the energy

47:12

drifts off the surface of Rudis, you

47:14

go with it like you've been caught in

47:17

a sail-catching wind for a moment. You get

47:19

lifted up, and Lautner holds you anchored before

47:21

pulling you back down as you hold on

47:23

to her. Do I feel any wolfy desires

47:25

in this flash? My vision will

47:28

not define her. I'm sorry, I didn't- No, no.

47:32

As you cling to her for- Sorry.

47:35

I didn't hear that. Do

47:38

I feel any wolfy urges in this flash?

47:40

No. Fern

47:44

float, too, or? You

47:47

do feel the- That

47:50

spirit wolf element

47:52

that you were granted in

47:54

your brief time in A. Shenandoah, still acting as a protector

47:57

and guide here. There's a part

47:59

of you that's there. that's ever shielded on

48:01

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48:03

that one moment that an element of

48:05

the moon itself seemed to acknowledge your

48:07

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48:10

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50:30

I really thought I had it, I'm sorry. I

50:33

really thought I had it, I'm sorry. The wind is

50:35

strong, as far as it's possible. It just added another

50:37

hour of travel. It didn't send you back, but it

50:39

didn't send you towards it either. I...this is a whole

50:41

new... A phalamic route. Yeah,

50:43

yeah, yeah. Look at everything we

50:45

saw in that hour. We saw

50:47

so much sand. So

50:50

many granules of dust. How many? With

50:54

the visibility back, any kind of milestones,

50:58

markers, outposts, anything

51:00

in between here in the city that's starting to show

51:03

where it didn't before. Outposts. The

51:05

sense of life movement, anything. Exceptions.

51:07

Apography. Also,

51:10

images, should we try to reach out and

51:12

contact the volition? Well, because

51:14

we have no...what was sorry?

51:18

Oh, 19. We

51:20

have no concept of where their headquarters

51:23

are, right? We were told it was en

51:25

route to the city. It was

51:27

near the city, but that's all we

51:29

have? Yeah. Should we reach

51:32

out to Ira? I

51:34

think that's what the... Yeah. I

51:37

mean, what if he's just chilling

51:39

with the volition? Yeah.

51:42

Could be. Or if he's sitting right next to

51:44

the right hand of lewdness. Why

51:47

would he be doing that? He goes where it

51:49

benefits him, right? That is true. Let's

51:52

do it. Let's reach out. To Ira? Ira, yeah.

51:54

You want to do it or me? He was

51:56

an ally for a minute. You

51:58

rolled a 19. You said... Where are you? Should we tell

52:00

him we're on the moon? I

52:03

guess we would not. Tell him we're on the

52:05

moon. Sound enticing. He likes enticing. Yeah, that's a

52:07

good one. Okay. Alright.

52:11

I will focus, grip my

52:13

coin, and I will cast Sending on

52:15

Ira Widogast. That's

52:21

his name, right? Mm-hmm. Sure. Yep. That

52:23

is his boy. I know. Focusing

52:30

on your coin in hand. It's

52:36

like there's a

52:39

slight haze between you and the change bringer

52:41

in this moment, and it takes you a

52:43

little additional effort than you're used to to

52:45

establish that connection before you feel that

52:48

divine tether come to you.

52:51

And as it does, she takes and sends it out,

52:54

though itself taking longer to

52:57

find, purchase at

52:59

its destination than you expect. But

53:02

indeed, it does find the essence

53:05

of Ira Widogast. What would you like to

53:07

say? Belle's

53:12

health here on

53:14

the moon with you. We've

53:17

got information and

53:20

treasure. And

53:24

plans. So

53:26

many plans. Tell him I said

53:28

hi. Lana

53:31

says hi. Where

53:34

can we find you? Oh

53:39

my. You've

53:42

finally come along. Welcome

53:46

to the Cribsond land of

53:49

the strange and beautiful. I

53:52

know he's getting poetic. I've

53:59

been busy. watching,

54:03

learning. Aaaah!

54:07

He's gonna make you waste another

54:10

spell. That's alright. He knows it.

54:12

That's alright. He knows it. It's

54:15

alright. He's a friend. You

54:18

waste spells for friends. In

54:25

relation to crevaris, whereabouts

54:30

might we find you? Please

54:33

be specific and brief. That

54:40

we may speak more in person. Lana

54:45

still says hi. But

54:51

where's the funding? No! Faye.

55:02

I'm very interested to

55:04

talk, but

55:09

I want to see how interested you

55:11

are to find me. Am

55:19

I gonna burn another or something? No, no,

55:21

no. We've been given our answer. When

55:25

we burn his voice, is there

55:27

anything in the background? Any sounds? I

55:31

don't think it works like that. He's

55:36

in the Starbucks! He's

55:38

been watching princess right in the back. Brash,

55:41

brash. Brash, brash. Brash, brash.

55:44

Brash, brash. Brash, brash. Brash,

55:46

brash. Brash, brash. Brash, brash. Brash,

55:49

brash. Brash, brash. Brash,

55:51

brash. Brash, brash. If

55:54

you say something, say something. Mind

55:58

the gap! Okay. Okay.

56:02

You gonna reach out to... Hey, I'm gonna

56:04

sail a hussle. Zesh. Zesh.

56:07

I tried before. She seemed very unwilling

56:09

to talk, but... But now we could

56:11

say something like, we killed

56:13

the Willmaster Elsmody. Yes. Elmuda.

56:17

It's very different. Yeah. Elmuda.

56:20

You go down with that one. We

56:23

met and dispatched the Willmaster.

56:26

We feel we have earned the right to

56:29

an audience with you. What did it do to

56:31

us? Do you do it? You do it. You

56:33

do it. What did you do to the

56:35

aggressive? How do you walk up? Hang on. I

56:37

feel dirty. But how do we know for sure that...

56:40

Let her count your moves right now. Real bad. Show

56:43

me on the puzzle. You're super stressed. How

56:45

are you feeling? He's been stressed for like

56:47

three games. Use your toy. How

56:50

did he reach that stress? Well, you

56:52

don't know. You attacked me? I'm

56:54

right around here. Oh, no.

56:56

Cool. Hey, now. We

57:00

need to install an actual meter on the outside of his. I

57:02

can do that. That'd be great. And

57:05

then we can all be aware of when you're about to

57:07

blow. That's a great idea.

57:09

I can write that down for a remember. Like

57:12

a mood ring. Yeah. What

57:14

if... Oh, that is a really good idea. I'm trying to

57:16

read. A mood ring. A mood ring.

57:18

You can read. All right. What

57:21

if... What if Edmuda... It's

57:25

like friends with Zesh. I'm like,

57:27

what if they're going to be mad at this? Zesh

57:30

is anti-Edmuda, I think. They

57:32

are? We're sure about this? Yeah, I think so. Zesh

57:34

is with the rebellion. Sure about having bad

57:36

intel. And Edmuda's not. Okay, okay.

57:40

That's right. Okay. Okay. Well,

57:42

this is transpiring. So I don't want to read you. Oh, sorry.

57:45

Sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you

57:47

had a more interesting storyline, maybe it would be... Yeah.

57:50

Right. What I wrote

57:52

down was Zesh reformed by

57:54

Lauren Shriek. Friends... Shrike. Shrike.

57:58

Puck, I keep doing that. Shrike. The

58:00

Glass Trader Volition Headquarters

58:03

are outside Cravaris, somewhere. That's

58:05

all I got. Thanks. While

58:09

they're figuring this out, you're glancing past and getting

58:11

as much detail as you can on what

58:14

bit of the skyline you can see. There are what

58:17

look to be structured outposts along the

58:19

mountain range that surrounds the city. You

58:21

can see from the inside, there's numerous

58:23

very tall, thin spires

58:26

that have connecting cables

58:29

or banners. You can't really tell. From this

58:31

distance, there's still quite another hour or so

58:34

of travel before you begin to reach the

58:36

outskirts of it. But

58:38

you can see there's like, as much

58:40

as there's nestled in there, there are maybe

58:44

two dozen very fine, tall points,

58:47

like very thin towers that seem to be

58:49

emerging. And those tall, thin points, do the

58:51

banners look like they stretch from top to

58:53

top or from the top down to a

58:55

point near the bottom. Multitudes.

58:58

They're crossing in all directions. Yeah, like a

59:00

whole series of connections. Like an

59:03

odd bit of ship sail, rope

59:07

system rigging, but just across this tall,

59:09

thin skyline above the city. This is an

59:12

outpost, you say? No, this is in

59:14

the city. You can see these tall, a

59:17

dozen tall, thin spires with ropes

59:19

or banners. In or on the edge of the

59:21

ghetto? All throughout the

59:23

inside. If

59:25

we could arrange some sort of meeting spot, you

59:27

could tell Zesh that we

59:30

have El-Munas body. That's

59:32

like a shell of... That's right. To

59:35

prove things. We

59:38

still got pieces. We still

59:40

got pieces. They probably

59:43

suffocated in the hole. I

59:46

wasn't able to open it up. Is El-Munas

59:48

still alive in there? No, they're not. They wouldn't

59:50

have been, right? They were out

59:52

of air. The arms that you threw were from the

59:55

juggernaut, I believe. They were from the juggernaut. And

59:57

Muru, you guys don't have a corpse of. We

1:00:00

don't know. It's in the hole,

1:00:02

but the last

1:00:04

place we saw it was in the hole. We don't know.

1:00:06

Last place you saw it was in the hole. We don't

1:00:08

know, we don't have a table of mountains. Yeah. Yeah. Just

1:00:11

to put it to sleep, the outposts that

1:00:13

were up on the rocky hillside or mountainous

1:00:15

areas, how far away, like far? Just

1:00:18

a big, final black pudding. A little, it's

1:00:21

an hour to get, just walking to the city

1:00:23

itself. It's probably a good two hours to kind

1:00:25

of climb, get along the outer edges and climb

1:00:27

up to where they are. Got it, got it.

1:00:30

Okay. I'll try to send the... Yeah,

1:00:32

I mean, I think it's right. This

1:00:35

body of Al-Muda is really going to be the thing

1:00:37

that makes the time for us. Just to send it

1:00:39

to you, you're right. You're right, you're right. Just a

1:00:41

question, just to toss it out there. Because

1:00:44

we've never been to a city like this and we only move through

1:00:46

the farm. Is there any point

1:00:48

to hitting an outpost? What

1:00:51

does that mean? There's an outpost, like an early

1:00:53

warning area that's away from the city. It's like

1:00:55

two hours, not in the direction of the city,

1:00:57

but out there, but you could figure out what

1:00:59

the guards are like, what kind of defenses they

1:01:01

have, what kind of capabilities might we see at

1:01:04

the main city. Do they have anything stashed in

1:01:06

an outpost that's got less people in it than

1:01:08

city walls? You're going to... We still would think...

1:01:11

Oh, sorry. Or in city, just

1:01:13

figuring out how not to insult every person

1:01:15

that we come across. What would

1:01:17

be so obvious if we go into Cravairs anyway?

1:01:19

No, there's so many. It's a big

1:01:21

city and there's weird

1:01:24

people from the surface all over right

1:01:26

now. I bet they're getting

1:01:28

used to the weird. How would

1:01:30

they even know... One

1:01:32

from another? That we're particularly unusual. One

1:01:35

thing we're missing is, is there a... Yeah, first

1:01:37

we have a question. Oh, I forgot.

1:01:41

Is there a code word that people say

1:01:43

when they see each other or a greeting

1:01:45

or a handshake or a medallion that we

1:01:47

could take off somebody and or say,

1:01:50

we came from outpost, blah, blah, blah, under

1:01:52

the command of Mike

1:01:54

Shinoda? One more

1:01:56

meeting with a smaller... Mike Shinoda.

1:01:58

I got too much. I'm

1:02:01

all right with that. Yeah, either

1:02:03

way though. We should contact that.

1:02:05

Yeah. Yeah, they might have Evolution

1:02:08

might know how to get around as well All

1:02:12

right I'm

1:02:15

gonna send a message Okay, I'll

1:02:18

do it You

1:02:29

didn't trust us before Maybe

1:02:36

the dispatching

1:02:39

of enmuda will convince you We

1:02:46

need to find the volition. He likes

1:02:48

more We're

1:02:53

here to help outside

1:02:57

for verus Make

1:03:04

a persuasion Yeah,

1:03:13

it's funny Can't

1:03:16

retroactively guide them for them. Okay 20. Hey

1:03:25

You begin to Think that maybe

1:03:28

they didn't hear you or they're ignoring you There's

1:03:30

a brief period where there's no response

1:03:33

until eventually they do Come

1:03:36

back Look

1:03:46

If you must talk Find

1:03:49

me in the jagged edge Within

1:03:53

the clutch jagged

1:03:55

edge clutch we have a location MATT

1:04:00

and LAURA, and tell

1:04:03

J'Doh that you

1:04:06

are of the vanguard, and

1:04:13

looking for a contract.

1:04:24

I like that we're all writing it down. Just in case. MATT

1:04:27

and LAURA, and cross-reference spelling, it's great.

1:04:29

I'm drawing for you. I

1:04:35

heard J'Doh. What did you want to say? J'Doh.

1:04:39

J'Doh. J'Doh.

1:04:43

J'Doh. Okay.

1:04:47

Okay, in the clutch, that seems like a neighborhood in crevaris, probably,

1:04:49

right? Yeah, jagged edge within the clutch. Okay.

1:04:53

All right. Are

1:04:56

you heading towards one of the... Towards the city or

1:04:58

towards an outpost? Outpost is a

1:05:00

diversion, but if it's smaller, we could

1:05:02

either try and blend in, we could...

1:05:04

Learn some information. ...observe, or we could

1:05:06

hit them, take their stuff. I think

1:05:08

it's better to start small, yeah. I

1:05:10

agree. What's the ball? Nothing.

1:05:17

Nothing. When we get close to the outpost,

1:05:19

that might not be a bad idea. Yeah, that's

1:05:21

a good idea. Yeah, let's swing by

1:05:23

an outpost. I agree. Also, we

1:05:26

don't really know what the jagged edge is. Yeah, let's

1:05:28

swing by an outpost. We took

1:05:30

off our uniforms, right? Our Van Dyne uniforms?

1:05:33

I thought we were wearing them, but... We took them off for

1:05:35

some reason, but we could put them back on. Up

1:05:39

to you. Let's put them back on. If we do go to

1:05:41

the outpost, what

1:05:43

if they alert the city? Like, what if something

1:05:45

bad happens? That's true,

1:05:48

but maybe we can send in our

1:05:50

stealthiest, wealthiest, invisible people. We

1:05:52

could also just attempt to blend in

1:05:54

and just try and see what happens.

1:05:56

We could do members of the Vanguard

1:05:58

coming through. Yeah, both of those

1:06:01

is if it's gonna go bad it would

1:06:03

be better to be bad at an outpost

1:06:05

than the main city Yeah, so let's yeah

1:06:07

and haven't tried your like little summoning of

1:06:09

a Roy Lauren yet, right not like in

1:06:11

escort No, because I think

1:06:15

back on it. Yeah, I've had In

1:06:23

I Have a career

1:06:25

in period. Yeah, and I've

1:06:27

had Vanguard one. I mean

1:06:29

talk me running it's volition one I

1:06:33

can make myself look like one All

1:06:36

right. Yeah, no, you have okay. I've

1:06:38

been kind of like playing around at

1:06:40

night. Mm-hmm And

1:06:43

just trying to like help me see if I can

1:06:45

look Practice

1:06:47

my magic and sometimes I can look a little

1:06:50

different I

1:06:52

You're so beautiful. I know but I'm just

1:06:55

saying I want it to look different It'd

1:06:59

be great Okay,

1:07:06

that's amazing I

1:07:10

mean, I know you can also summon but maybe we can have if

1:07:13

there's more Here's

1:07:16

my question Well

1:07:19

most of the Roy Lauren Not

1:07:22

to be not to be an ace a no, no, let's do

1:07:24

it. We gotta break it We gotta see most of the

1:07:26

Roy Lauren speak to telepathically To

1:07:29

each other. They don't use their mouth. Yeah For

1:07:32

you just staring them Fonder

1:07:37

right now when someone speaks to you in

1:07:39

that way, are you are you completely

1:07:41

zeroed in on where it came from? Like

1:07:45

if these three were Roy Lauren you're

1:07:47

not and one of them spoke would you know which

1:07:49

one it was coming from? The

1:07:59

mother I'll be able to hear, but

1:08:02

if they're talking, if they're trying to talk to us. If they

1:08:04

direct it at firm, but then you

1:08:06

could just sort of open your mind and hear

1:08:08

their thoughts. Direction? And

1:08:10

you just look wide. What if we're televised

1:08:12

and gone to everybody else? In

1:08:15

your experience, if it's

1:08:17

an entity that you're familiar with their essence,

1:08:19

you can recognize their essence. Otherwise,

1:08:22

it is directionless until

1:08:24

the source makes itself known.

1:08:27

Or it's a strong enough connection that you cannot deny

1:08:29

what it is. But the

1:08:32

brief conversations you've had with Rylorn in

1:08:34

the past, and since you've arrived here,

1:08:37

it's only because the only

1:08:39

real signature is they're there and looking

1:08:41

at you when they talk. Otherwise, you're

1:08:43

not sure you'd be able to tell where the

1:08:45

source was. Okay, so long as you stay

1:08:47

away from them. Just give them a

1:08:49

nod. Yeah, and I could just be like, you know, and

1:08:52

I'll be like, penis. Also,

1:08:55

as long as it's not someone

1:08:57

that's met us, because then they

1:08:59

know your brain voice. Right. If

1:09:01

somebody's met us, then we're in

1:09:03

for a fight anyway. Just stroke

1:09:05

your chin a lot, like tap

1:09:07

your head. All the

1:09:10

stuff I mentioned does whenever she speaks to me is mine.

1:09:12

Yeah, that's what I do. Everyone's in, I'll just say,

1:09:17

Well, wait, let's see your disguise. Let's see who gives

1:09:19

it. Or that's going to wake us up a long

1:09:21

time. Let me see. Is

1:09:24

it effortless? I know it's for me, it

1:09:26

is. We

1:09:28

know. Okay. You

1:09:30

can see. It

1:09:33

lasts for an hour. It lasts

1:09:35

for an hour, so I would have to,

1:09:37

I think it lasts for an hour. I just have like a

1:09:39

hunch. How far away from the outpost are we? You

1:09:44

have a little under two hours of travel,

1:09:46

and it's like climbing up the side of this

1:09:48

smaller mountain. It's

1:09:50

a hike, switch back up there, and you'll be doing it out in

1:09:52

the open. Oh, the hike? There's no

1:09:55

forest cover. I mean, switch

1:09:57

back in the mountain will protect it, but at a

1:09:59

certain point. You will become the spinner. We

1:10:02

put on our uniforms again. It's weirder

1:10:04

to be from Exandria,

1:10:06

not Vanguard. Plus,

1:10:10

maybe nine times out of ten, people

1:10:12

just see a group of Vanguard with

1:10:14

Rylor and from a distance it checks

1:10:16

out and don't even stop. So, hopefully.

1:10:20

How many times can you do it? Did

1:10:25

we see what the caravan looked like? Was

1:10:27

it like, did we see the thing where

1:10:29

the carts were like? The two

1:10:31

people that saw them and got a good look at them

1:10:34

can describe that information. But

1:10:37

the carts themselves are not too

1:10:40

dissimilar to Exandrian carts. They're a bit closer to the ground.

1:10:42

The wheels are kind of at an angle. And

1:10:45

they were being pulled by the... Lucky

1:10:50

Buffalo. Yes. There

1:10:52

were cores. Make it first the front. There

1:10:54

it is. Also, sorry, just

1:10:56

spitball and chat. Master

1:10:59

craftsman. Legendary. Legendary

1:11:01

with wood. How's your

1:11:03

mask making? It's

1:11:05

pretty good. Could you craft a

1:11:07

handful of curved dark

1:11:09

crystal masks for all of us? It'd

1:11:15

take time. Plus, how much wood do you have?

1:11:18

Not enough. Not like that. Do

1:11:21

you need this? I pull out a giant red wood.

1:11:25

The whole... They're

1:11:28

protected. That would be amazing. Oh, no.

1:11:32

Not here. They're everywhere. With

1:11:35

time, I could do that. And

1:11:38

supply. Also,

1:11:40

if we kill enough people, I could just take their faces

1:11:42

and... Oh. I

1:11:44

could do that. But I was thinking... I

1:11:47

wouldn't. Make sense, little hand. Little Hannibal? Little

1:11:49

Hannibal. What if we gave you all of

1:11:51

the toys that you whittled us? No

1:11:54

way. It's too precious. Well, you could use that wood.

1:11:56

I am not giving up anything. I don't have glue.

1:11:58

I definitely don't have glue. nails.

1:12:04

Never mind, I don't want to know. It's

1:12:07

a good idea. MARY M and MARY M MARY

1:12:27

M and MARY M MARY

1:12:48

M and MARY M MARY

1:13:10

M and MARY M. MARY

1:13:16

M and MARY M. MARY

1:13:23

M and MARY M. MARY

1:13:44

M and MARY M. 18

1:14:00

with a 27. Oh yeah, you're right. Okay. Quickly

1:14:07

you find the most direct route you

1:14:09

can that involves the least amount of

1:14:11

dangerous rock climbing. Thankfully

1:14:13

you have a rock person. So even

1:14:15

the few bits that are challenging you

1:14:17

have between you and now, did

1:14:21

you leave behind one of the two rods or did you take

1:14:23

them both? Okay. So

1:14:25

yeah, so yeah, with these rods and the

1:14:27

climbing is not a huge challenge. Exactly

1:14:30

where to go. But for this hour of travel, let's

1:14:33

see how the weather and such occur. So

1:14:36

I'm going to go ahead and roll a d20 for me. You

1:14:39

don't want to do it. You can do a lot. I

1:14:46

hate rolling it. Cause I feel like I'm going to

1:14:48

roll something. Yes.

1:14:50

I'm going to roll something. I don't want to get to it

1:14:52

in five rolls. 15. Yeah. The

1:14:57

sky remains clear. And as you begin

1:15:00

to reach the summit of this kind of

1:15:02

surrounding range of broken mountains, the city of

1:15:04

Kaviras is now even more visible off to

1:15:06

the side. The rest of you can see

1:15:09

these like top spires that you had made

1:15:11

out of the distance. They're,

1:15:13

you know, kind of a smattering of them

1:15:15

about three dozen across this surface and the

1:15:17

city seems smaller than you expected. You

1:15:21

know, for being the central civilization

1:15:24

here, it's probably, probably

1:15:28

half the size of Drusar. As

1:15:31

far as like the number of, you know, surface

1:15:33

of buildings, what you can see amongst these towers

1:15:35

beneath them are these

1:15:37

masses of structures around

1:15:40

them. You see these buildings that

1:15:42

are just carved from stone with

1:15:44

kind of round window

1:15:47

and doorway portholes as well

1:15:49

as other like somewhat half domed exits

1:15:51

and entrances. They

1:15:54

are put together like,

1:15:57

like, like egg clusters almost. they're

1:16:00

amassed in sections and chunks.

1:16:04

You can

1:16:06

see a little more of the city from this

1:16:08

vantage point. You also see the outpost tower that

1:16:11

you are currently working towards. It's

1:16:14

not terribly massive, but somewhat rock-carved,

1:16:19

rising tower, maybe about 40, 35

1:16:23

feet tall. Simple.

1:16:26

You can see there are a number

1:16:29

of windows built into it. There's an

1:16:31

entryway and stairs. There are two figures

1:16:33

standing on the top, looking

1:16:35

down at all of you, and one

1:16:38

that is already beelining to walk in your

1:16:40

direction. You've already turned yourself? It's

1:16:42

time. Not

1:16:45

before. Turn

1:16:48

around, sneeze. This guy's self-eminent turn. Should

1:16:50

I look in the mirror? Should I

1:16:52

look like one of

1:16:54

the Imperium, or should I just do

1:16:56

a regular? Regular. Imperium.

1:17:00

Guidance. Oh,

1:17:03

you know what? No. I'm going to...

1:17:06

Misguide me. Enhanceability.

1:17:11

You have advantage on charisma

1:17:14

stuff. Great. As

1:17:18

you all begin to clamber

1:17:20

over the edge of the rock, you transform yourself,

1:17:22

and you're taking on the form of... An

1:17:26

Imperium by Lauren. The similar garb

1:17:28

that you saw that the Willmaster

1:17:30

was wearing, the same intense, dark

1:17:32

shark eyes, the

1:17:37

heavy bone cleft

1:17:40

on the skull protruding out back. You

1:17:43

step before the rest of the crew that's

1:17:45

walking with you, and your vanguard outfits. You

1:17:49

can see now, the figure that's approaching

1:17:51

has a huge shawl of wrapped

1:17:53

material over their shoulders. It looks

1:17:56

leather-like. The color itself just

1:17:58

blasted of any color, but... brown

1:18:00

and red. You can see it quickly

1:18:02

or as thickly wrapped around the shoulders

1:18:04

and hides the left

1:18:08

arm. They're

1:18:11

very tall, and they're not Ryloran.

1:18:14

This being, you haven't

1:18:17

seen a figure like this before, maybe about

1:18:19

eight feet tall, very

1:18:21

thin, and from what you can see, the

1:18:23

lower half of the body, aside from the

1:18:26

leather-looking chest plate and torn

1:18:28

pants that start up at

1:18:30

the knee, the rest of the legs

1:18:32

below are bright

1:18:35

gray fur and these

1:18:38

clawed-like feet that dig in with

1:18:40

each step. By-petal?

1:18:42

By-petal.

1:18:45

The head itself has similar

1:18:48

material to the shawl

1:18:50

and cloak that it has. It goes over the head, and

1:18:52

there are these goggles that are set up on the forehead.

1:18:54

You can see this

1:18:57

being, it's humanoid, but it's furred

1:19:00

on the edges. It's gray and white,

1:19:03

fur coloration. This way

1:19:06

you can describe it, it's

1:19:08

a Sasquatch-esque-type entity. It glumbers

1:19:10

towards you all, and you can see in its

1:19:13

one exposed hand, it

1:19:15

looks like there's some sort of a... You've

1:19:19

not seen an object like this before. It looks

1:19:21

almost like a crossbow, but the end

1:19:23

of it has a bit of that glass, affixed

1:19:26

it in an upward hooked arc.

1:19:29

As it begins to step forward,

1:19:31

it holds it at a

1:19:33

calm angle at its side, letting you know

1:19:38

that it's at the ready. It

1:19:43

doesn't seem to make any sort of statement or say

1:19:45

anything. It just stands and... So

1:19:47

far so good. Keep

1:19:49

the ruse up. We're all

1:19:53

together, right? We're all together, but we haven't

1:19:55

decided what we're gonna fucking say when we got

1:19:57

here. That's what I was talking about the caravan, maybe our

1:19:59

caravan. broke down, we came to the various

1:20:01

outpost. Yeah, that's a good joke. Sure,

1:20:04

I'm gonna stand behind,

1:20:07

like directly behind Fearne and

1:20:11

think to the guy. No,

1:20:14

I know recruits or something. Yeah. There

1:20:24

are names we have, Omuda and everything else. Yes, yes,

1:20:26

yes, yes, yes. New

1:20:29

recruits for the Vanguard. I

1:20:34

don't care if man broke down. Yours

1:20:39

was the nearest outpost. Squish your hands, too.

1:20:42

No, don't do that. No, sorry.

1:20:47

Five, six, three, four, and a half. No,

1:20:50

no. Yup.

1:20:53

That's the one within my head, dammit. For

1:20:57

I need you to make a deception check for me. Oh,

1:20:59

no. Oh, okay. It's good,

1:21:02

it's Christmas, you got an advantage. Okay,

1:21:04

okay. Oh,

1:21:07

that's good. You have advantage. Okay.

1:21:11

Okay. You

1:21:20

hear in your voice, as it kind of looks towards you,

1:21:23

kind of cocks my eye a little close, and goes, we'll,

1:21:28

I don't know why you bring recruits up

1:21:30

here to our kind

1:21:32

of outskirt locale, less than a

1:21:34

society or a Buddha. Whatever

1:21:39

we can do to help you, just

1:21:41

let us know. And

1:21:43

if you're kind of like, put your other hand up

1:21:46

underneath, and you see like kind of the clawed fingertips

1:21:48

kind of like run some of the

1:21:50

snot from under its nose. As

1:21:54

you were. All

1:21:59

right. and

1:22:01

rests it onto its shoulder and

1:22:04

turns around and starts walking back towards

1:22:06

the tower. And shouts out,

1:22:10

We're fine! SAM and LAURA, oh, with his voice?

1:22:12

MATT and TALIESIN, yeah. SAM, oh, okay. TALIESIN,

1:22:14

you're fine. SAM, they're fine. SAM,

1:22:18

from where we are sitting, do

1:22:21

we see other folk upstairs? MATT, you see two figures on the

1:22:23

top of the tower, and they're still sitting

1:22:25

and watching. SAM, and are they the same type

1:22:28

of creature? MATT, it's

1:22:30

hard to tell, both wearing

1:22:32

the same head covering

1:22:34

that both shades, but

1:22:36

they both have goggles over their eyes. Actually,

1:22:38

one of them probably has it up. One

1:22:41

of them looks to be Boromoto, though

1:22:44

a little more of a militaristic

1:22:47

energy to them. You can see they

1:22:49

have this long, some

1:22:52

sort of a ranged weapon. TALIESIN,

1:22:56

didn't pack out our supplies very well.

1:22:58

Do you guys have any water we

1:23:00

can have? MATT, as

1:23:04

you approach, the first figure

1:23:07

is walking alongside you, and goes,

1:23:10

I'm sure we could work something

1:23:12

out here. Looks

1:23:14

back to you and kind of... LAURA,

1:23:19

what do you want from you? I

1:23:23

say from her head, I say, what do you

1:23:25

want from me? MATT, are you not hearing anything? LAURA,

1:23:28

no, he's focusing on her. MATT,

1:23:33

I just want to

1:23:35

make sure I get everything straight on this,

1:23:38

but the commanding officer is

1:23:40

so I can ensure

1:23:42

that you and your troop have been properly

1:23:44

put into our

1:23:46

records. LAURA, you

1:23:49

don't recognize the Willmaster? MATT,

1:23:55

I'm going to get a sip of the shit out of

1:23:58

you. MATT, the Willmaster? MATT, he's going for it. Yeah,

1:24:00

I could. It

1:24:10

was crooked and it wasn't even

1:24:13

leaning into anything. Twenty-two.

1:24:18

Twenty-two. Okay. My

1:24:23

apologies. Don't get a lot of Will

1:24:26

Masters or Will anybody up this side of the

1:24:30

range. We

1:24:34

have, by all means, looks

1:24:38

confused and steps back a bit and sets

1:24:41

his weapon to the side and steps inside

1:24:43

the tower and pushes past. You can see now

1:24:45

the door, it doesn't close. There's a

1:24:47

heavy curtain that's split in the middle. And he

1:24:49

pushes it aside as he heads. I stay around, I feel. Go

1:24:51

on in. Looking around.

1:24:53

Okay. Casual, looking the

1:24:56

fuck around. Okay. You

1:24:58

come inside. Two

1:25:00

things you notice. On the

1:25:03

inside, there are these glass lanterns hanging

1:25:06

that are kind of lowly lit, but as soon

1:25:08

as you and this figure step in,

1:25:10

they brighten by proximity and flicker slightly to light

1:25:12

the inside. You can see there's the open window

1:25:14

that looks off to this edge. You can see

1:25:17

there's a staircase that spirals up to the next

1:25:19

level above in the tower. It's

1:25:23

relatively simply furnished. This

1:25:25

is a handful of chairs and stools

1:25:27

set around the space. You

1:25:30

can see there's what you expect to

1:25:33

be a barrel, but the

1:25:35

material itself doesn't appear to be wooden. It's

1:25:38

almost lopsided, almost

1:25:40

like it melted a little in the sun. But

1:25:44

the figure walks over and kind of reaches inside and

1:25:46

pulls out some sort of dried, scratchy-looking material and starts

1:25:48

gnawing on it before sitting back on

1:25:50

the stool. Looks back at

1:25:52

you. I

1:25:56

don't know what else you want. Just water.

1:26:00

MATT, over

1:26:02

me, points to another

1:26:06

glass jug that's right next to it. That looks

1:26:08

like it's partially embedded in the ground. You can

1:26:10

only see the top half of it. The

1:26:12

jug itself has a screw top

1:26:15

that comes off and is easy

1:26:19

to pull free. There's a bone-carved

1:26:21

ladle that's resting inside of it,

1:26:24

and you can

1:26:29

immediately hear the sloshing as you

1:26:31

move it around inside. It's liquid at least. Has

1:26:36

it been pretty dead around here lately?

1:26:40

There's been a lot of business, a

1:26:43

lot of folks going in

1:26:45

and out. Where are the rest of you doing? I want

1:26:49

to see if there's a place to

1:26:51

get a view. I want to see

1:26:53

the city. You

1:26:56

can go towards the edge of the mountain range a little ways off

1:26:58

from the tower, or just the top of the tower. I

1:27:01

was thinking about going to the top of the tower. I'll

1:27:04

join Ashton. I don't want to be

1:27:07

looked at too closely. I'm going to stand

1:27:09

next to Fearne and pretend like I'm her

1:27:12

right hand. If we

1:27:14

go up to the top of the tower, are people going to be like,

1:27:16

where the fuck are you going? Or is it pretty easy to wander up?

1:27:20

I mean, it's easy to wander up. There's

1:27:22

a staircase that leads up further above. And

1:27:24

two bodies up there, right? Three total so

1:27:26

far that we've seen. I'm

1:27:29

going to wrap myself up pretty

1:27:31

tightly, googles, and cover as much as my

1:27:33

face can. And look, I'm

1:27:36

the bitchy member of the group. I'm just like... Okay.

1:27:41

Don't talk to me. Chase, you can't give me that. I'm

1:27:44

preparing for a terrible dust up there.

1:27:49

And also when he came out, just

1:27:51

his general appearance, anything different or that

1:27:53

stood out, uniquely

1:27:55

from the other Vanguard that we've seen appear anything

1:27:57

different from the kind of stuff we're wearing. Yeah,

1:28:00

they're not wearing vanguard vestments. They're just

1:28:03

wearing kind of survival vestments

1:28:05

with heavy kind of folks Slightly

1:28:09

more of a militaristic look but it's all definitely

1:28:11

weathered so these

1:28:13

folks They

1:28:16

definitely feel like the kind of individuals that would be

1:28:18

set on the outskirts to keep watch for an extended

1:28:21

part of their lives Got it. They're

1:28:23

all the pure little crusty. Liberia. Yeah

1:28:28

So as you're sitting there you're kind of

1:28:30

looking at you still kind of chewing It's

1:28:35

been hard out there for us, how do

1:28:37

you do it as

1:28:39

long as you have? So

1:28:43

it's always been sorry,

1:28:46

we're not is Soft

1:28:51

But I tell you we're learning

1:28:54

I'm trying to fit in Soft

1:28:58

is right though cut myself

1:29:00

all the time a little further

1:29:02

up there in years. Oh, oh But

1:29:06

my knees and my back are just they're

1:29:09

killing me especially these flares plants is back

1:29:11

to you and goes Do

1:29:14

I hear anything? No, do I hear

1:29:17

anything? Are you listening into his mind?

1:29:20

Okay Are

1:29:22

you using the tech thoughts? Uh-huh. Okay

1:29:25

tech thoughts you come in partially into it and you hear

1:29:30

Really think they're gonna be of use some of

1:29:33

them appear to be a little Little

1:29:37

plump ready to fall or

1:29:40

fall dead any minute I'll

1:29:48

say I

1:29:56

Can feel I'm looking at me. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'll

1:29:58

just do like a It's

1:30:00

enticing to many. These dreamers,

1:30:03

they don't know what they're

1:30:05

in for. Ooh.

1:30:10

You respond and he nods for a second.

1:30:14

I don't know what all that

1:30:17

business is, but I

1:30:21

could use less dryer time. So

1:30:24

whatever it takes, take

1:30:26

them below. We

1:30:29

will. We'll

1:30:31

make use. Can

1:30:39

I get you anything? You seem a

1:30:42

little off-kilter. No,

1:30:44

I'm just sick of these dreamers.

1:30:50

I'll finish with my... I'm

1:30:52

gonna sit down and just like,

1:30:54

act like I'm meditating or

1:30:56

something so he stops talking to me. Okay.

1:31:00

You're going all the way up on the line.

1:31:02

Where's my phone? I can go over with my

1:31:04

propeller hand and just start blowing a fan in.

1:31:08

Thanks for the water. I really

1:31:10

feel the old pouch. I'll

1:31:17

start heading back towards the exit

1:31:19

of the hut as I'm scanning. Any

1:31:22

weapons, gems, any panes

1:31:25

of glass, anything that could be used as

1:31:27

a communication device, anything like that. Make

1:31:30

a perception check. He does exit, by the way.

1:31:32

After you sit down, he gets up and starts

1:31:35

heading back out of the tower. We're

1:31:38

alone now? Temporarily? Temporarily in this room, you're alone.

1:31:41

If we're alone now, I'm going to start ritually casting

1:31:43

a spell. I didn't realize I could cast it ritually.

1:31:45

Oh my god. I don't want

1:31:47

to waste another fucking fifth level. I used one

1:31:49

already on... I'm ritually casting

1:31:52

Telepathic Bob. He was talking

1:31:54

in my head, he just kept looking at me. 16

1:31:56

for the inside of the bottom of this tower. that

1:32:00

are there, and they have a, the

1:32:02

surface of them is a rough

1:32:04

glass texture to the outside, and they're

1:32:07

still brightly glowing in your

1:32:09

presence. There's

1:32:11

no other weapons in this

1:32:14

base floor. This seems almost like

1:32:16

a general entryway, other than a

1:32:18

sitting and conversational space. It's fairly

1:32:20

empty. Okay, I'll just keep

1:32:22

moving out since I don't want to give

1:32:26

off too strong of a vibe. And then

1:32:28

Sasquatch looking for the left of

1:32:30

the door that we entered. Yeah, he went out

1:32:32

through the curtains. The exterior from where you entered.

1:32:34

And how long have we been traveling since we

1:32:36

came up from underground? Let's

1:32:39

see, that would be... I'd

1:32:44

say it's probably been about, well,

1:32:47

it's two hours since we, two

1:32:49

to three hours since we started, which was

1:32:51

a few hours, an hour since

1:32:53

you left from underground. So about four hours

1:32:55

since you left. Which means you probably have

1:32:57

two more hours on the... We

1:33:00

cast the mind one as soon as we

1:33:02

came up from underground. Right, yeah. So it

1:33:04

would be four hours left. Okay.

1:33:10

And meanwhile,

1:33:13

the two of you step up to the

1:33:15

second floor. As we are a minute

1:33:19

by ourselves as we head up the tower,

1:33:21

I'm going to tell Pate to go invisible. Don't

1:33:26

worry. You

1:33:29

come up to a second portion of the tower.

1:33:31

There's looks like a middle floor that has three

1:33:34

window portals on the sides of it.

1:33:36

You saw from a distance. As

1:33:38

you get to the second area, there are two

1:33:42

tables set and three figures that

1:33:44

are sitting. Three Brylora. All these

1:33:47

various chairs are

1:33:52

looking at each other before they

1:33:54

all look

1:33:56

over towards you. you

1:34:00

were right behind her, but you're probably the

1:34:02

first one to emerge, and

1:34:04

it glances over in your direction and one of them goes into

1:34:07

your mind, welcome. I

1:34:13

can talk back, right? Give

1:34:16

it a shot. Good

1:34:19

to be here. I

1:34:21

just keep going. They

1:34:24

just walk, or watch as you

1:34:26

pass by, heads slowly turning, acknowledging

1:34:29

you as you continue onward,

1:34:32

and they all slowly look back at each other in silence. I'm

1:34:37

going to be a very quiet city. Well,

1:34:39

we'll see. Can I

1:34:41

follow the guy that gave the water outside of

1:34:44

the lower floor of the tower?

1:34:47

Yeah. Can I say? Can I

1:34:49

counter right up and go? Excuse me, one more thing. I'm sorry

1:34:51

to bother you. Listen, I'm really

1:34:55

trying to impress the Willmaster, but I'm

1:34:57

doing this for my family. You look

1:34:59

like you would make your parents very

1:35:02

proud. I've forgotten that there's this outpost

1:35:04

in it. You really don't know. Master,

1:35:07

they're going to duck a little bit your

1:35:09

way. Could you remind me of

1:35:11

the name? Tyran

1:35:15

A. Tyran A. That's right.

1:35:18

Tyran A. Thank you so much. Thank

1:35:21

you. And

1:35:23

I'll walk off a little bit. Make a

1:35:25

deception check for me. I

1:35:31

have to toss up on that guy still. Okay.

1:35:38

You just watch you walk off and you seem like you struggle

1:35:41

up to what looks like a sitting rock at

1:35:45

the edge of that cliff and he sits up on it

1:35:47

and just starts looking off over. Keeping

1:35:50

an eye. Occasionally he'll pull out what looks like

1:35:52

a weird spyglass thing and look

1:35:54

off in the distance as you head back to

1:35:56

the tower. And I'll just show him my back. It's

1:36:00

unassuming. Waiting for the

1:36:02

rest. All right, the two of

1:36:04

you get all the way to the top. And there,

1:36:06

this is just kind of an open, kind

1:36:09

of like a half-crenellated, it's almost like a

1:36:12

somewhat sawtooth pattern to the

1:36:14

top of the tower, so given areas to

1:36:16

kind of either look hidden

1:36:19

or to take protection if you were to get into

1:36:21

sort of a firefight. But

1:36:25

the two figures that were up there originally are sitting up

1:36:27

there, almost like they were waiting for you to arrive. You

1:36:32

see one of them looks

1:36:36

very much like the first figure that came to

1:36:38

you, though female, you can see her. She has

1:36:40

these curved tusks that one of them goes straight

1:36:42

and one almost curves back into the cheek where

1:36:45

it's pushed into the skin a little bit. And

1:36:50

she has her goggles up and has

1:36:52

what looks to be an Exandrian firearm

1:36:55

across her lap. Fucking

1:36:57

Percy! I've

1:37:00

gone to the moon! I've made it to the moon!

1:37:02

That was actually going to get to the moon, but

1:37:04

that is pretty impressive. I mean, terrible. Rolling

1:37:08

to identify if it's actually a white stone build. Never mind,

1:37:10

Kerry. The

1:37:13

other one you see is this kind of crotchety,

1:37:16

somewhat grinning-looking remortal

1:37:19

who is just sitting

1:37:22

on the opposite side, same

1:37:24

kind of head guard with the hood up, the

1:37:27

odd, solid hillside-like person outline that

1:37:29

they keep here as the dust

1:37:31

is blowing by, their goggles are

1:37:33

still on brightly and they have

1:37:35

that cherub-like cheeks pressed

1:37:38

and folded beneath it. And the

1:37:41

mouth is half-cocked into a grin. And

1:37:44

they themselves have another one of those

1:37:46

crystal-pointed-like handheld devices that the first gentleman

1:37:48

had. And they just look

1:37:51

them over as you step up. They're waiting. The

1:37:54

female kind of furred figure with

1:37:56

the tusks just

1:37:59

kind of looks at both sides. who you all know from

1:38:01

one of those. Hi,

1:38:03

hi. Hey. Hello.

1:38:08

Just up here for the view, if that's okay. Had

1:38:10

to get some fresh air from all this dust. Ugh,

1:38:13

it's exhausting. Very fresh. I

1:38:16

just walk past and lean over the edge of the

1:38:19

crenellated parapet and just

1:38:23

slump-looking outward. Not

1:38:26

interested. Why,

1:38:30

why, why are you here?

1:38:34

Well, how here do you mean why are we here

1:38:36

right here, or why are we, I don't

1:38:39

know, I, uh, it's

1:38:42

weird to say I've never been on the moon before, but it's not

1:38:44

your moon. I, I'm just,

1:38:47

uh, this is, this is a lot

1:38:49

to look at. While Ashton distracts them,

1:38:51

I'm going to talk to Patay and

1:38:53

tell him to go to a

1:38:55

little scout of the surrounding area

1:38:59

and look through his eyes while I... Sorry,

1:39:01

this is just kind of boring for you,

1:39:04

but I've never seen this before. What the

1:39:06

hell, what's it like? Oh,

1:39:09

down where I come from? Yeah. I'll

1:39:14

make you a deal. If

1:39:17

you ask me a question, I'll ask you

1:39:19

a question. We can go back and forth. My

1:39:24

first time... You go over towards the other figure and you

1:39:26

see the, like, kind of furred woman arms crossed at this

1:39:28

point now where the rifle crouched, and the lad goes, Oh,

1:39:31

be careful. You

1:39:34

don't like the question, you don't have to answer it. Did

1:39:37

I want my end, too? Okay.

1:39:42

Okay. Oh,

1:39:44

I can see. You can

1:39:46

go first. It's

1:39:49

what this strawberry tastes

1:39:51

like. It's...

1:40:04

Almost like, do you have,

1:40:06

have you ever had sugar? I

1:40:09

don't know, it's sweet out here. It's very, very

1:40:11

sweet and it's just

1:40:14

very, it bursts with water. And

1:40:18

if you cook them, they become like really

1:40:20

syrupy and it's just, oh, it's so good.

1:40:22

It's very sweet. It's

1:40:26

like a sponge of sugar. If

1:40:28

that's a, you can never get enough

1:40:30

of them. They're hard to, they're only

1:40:32

around certain times, but they're really good.

1:40:35

MATT You see like this drool isn't

1:40:37

slowly dripping off the side of its

1:40:39

somewhat pulled in chin. TALIESIN How do you

1:40:41

know what a strawberry is? MATT

1:40:43

I've seen them nicely. TALIESIN Yeah,

1:40:45

that's right. MATT

1:40:48

Well, hopefully they'll get fixed. They're

1:40:51

worth it. Do you

1:40:53

spend much time in the city? So if I ask

1:40:55

a question about the city, you might know, or are

1:40:57

you just up here all the time? TALIESIN I only

1:40:59

go for provisions. I spend most of my time here.

1:41:02

MATT So you wouldn't know like, I've

1:41:05

never been here? What's

1:41:07

the best bar or food in the city?

1:41:09

Like, you know, the strawberry's great. Like, if

1:41:12

I wanted to really- TALIESIN I see a

1:41:14

second question, are you two asked now? MATT

1:41:17

Yeah, go ahead. TALIESIN What's

1:41:19

a blueberry taste? MATT and TALIESIN

1:41:22

As we come to, you're

1:41:26

currently ritually casting, and

1:41:28

what are you casting? SAM I do.

1:41:30

Telepathic Bond, which I've only just now

1:41:32

realized I could have been casting ritually

1:41:35

every single day of this campaign. MATT

1:41:38

and TALIESIN Oh? TALIESIN

1:41:41

Well, better lighten it up. MATT

1:41:47

and TALIESIN

1:41:50

But I'm

1:41:53

sure the ritual has verbal and somatic in

1:41:55

all these components, so I'm trying to make

1:41:57

it look like I'm just sort of like,

1:42:00

doing a beep-bop boot. Yeah, like a power

1:42:02

down, power up, power down. 10 minute ritual

1:42:04

casting. So we'll say from that point, we're

1:42:06

about halfway through the casting. You

1:42:08

are searching around for, through

1:42:11

Pate, what are you looking for? I would love to

1:42:13

look for, if

1:42:19

there's any groupings of armaments, if

1:42:21

I can tell vivid

1:42:25

pathways through the

1:42:27

outpost and into the city, can I

1:42:29

get an idea of machines

1:42:31

of war to start

1:42:34

to try and get a beat on

1:42:36

what they have. Go ahead and roll

1:42:38

for Pate's perception. Is through Pate. Ah,

1:42:40

fucking god. I know. Do

1:42:42

I get advantage, since I have

1:42:44

an advantage on abilities checks

1:42:47

with this? Technically, it is your perception. I'll

1:42:49

allow it. It's

1:42:51

my perception, but through his eyes, so I have to

1:42:54

roll his charisma. Oh

1:42:56

yeah, so in this instance, they probably know

1:42:58

then. But

1:43:01

what if it's a stone thing? It's part of

1:43:03

my stone shape thing. It's stone

1:43:05

stuff. You

1:43:08

have the stones for me. Come

1:43:10

on, come on, Pate. It

1:43:13

was almost a natural 22. 10,

1:43:17

okay. From this

1:43:19

high up, there's this faint details. What

1:43:22

he does pick out, the immediate thing he notices,

1:43:24

is just beyond the cliff

1:43:26

edge, beyond the tower, there

1:43:29

is a massive, smooth funnel

1:43:32

that leads outward. And

1:43:35

you begin to pick

1:43:39

up details around

1:43:42

this mountain range that surrounds the

1:43:44

city. There are multiple other outposts

1:43:46

that keep watch in different positions,

1:43:48

but beneath each of these, another

1:43:51

one of these massive funnels opens up

1:43:53

and comes to a stop as it curves down the mountain range,

1:43:56

like a massive horn. That

1:44:00

sounds like. Hope

1:44:02

you never find out. But

1:44:06

it's carved into the ground? Carved

1:44:09

or built into it, yeah. Cool. Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.

1:44:14

You hear ringing through the surrounding echo.

1:44:19

Glancing down into the city, you can see numerous

1:44:23

winding, tangled streets. This

1:44:26

city, for as refined

1:44:29

as you maybe expect,

1:44:31

aspects of a

1:44:33

society that's been doing dealings with lewdness and

1:44:36

the like, the

1:44:38

surface of this creveres is

1:44:41

fairly empty, and the structures

1:44:44

and makeup of the city itself looks

1:44:47

kind of dilapidated, or

1:44:49

at least has suffered

1:44:51

the elements for a long time that a

1:44:54

lot of its fine details have worn off,

1:44:56

or it just... Elements

1:45:00

of it almost remind you of Bassar's in

1:45:03

an odd way, and the fact that it

1:45:06

looks like it is in disrepair, and

1:45:10

you don't see a bustling series

1:45:13

of open thoroughfares in central streets.

1:45:16

You do see figures moving through, but

1:45:19

sparingly. Okay.

1:45:26

That's as much as Patak can make out, but... Don't

1:45:30

worry, I got it all right here. Can

1:45:34

I have him focus in

1:45:36

a little bit more, while if we have a

1:45:38

little bit of time, to see if he can

1:45:40

specifically seek out passages

1:45:43

or entrances to underground

1:45:45

thoroughfares? All

1:45:48

good, let's see what I can do. Okay.

1:45:51

You've been used to glide-off. Meanwhile, we come back

1:45:53

to the top of this tower. Not nearly as

1:45:55

sweet, but it helps, you

1:45:58

can have a lot of them and they just burst. quick.

1:46:03

Your friend is happy to help if

1:46:05

she can answer any of these questions.

1:46:07

I really want to find

1:46:11

some good drink while I'm

1:46:13

there. I love it here so far. Well,

1:46:16

it's been a bad day, but I

1:46:18

need a drink, and I want

1:46:20

to find something real good. Spreaky's

1:46:23

Drip. Spreaky's Drip?

1:46:26

Good name. Do

1:46:28

you know what neighborhood it is? I don't want to... I

1:46:30

know I already look weird, but I just want to kind

1:46:32

of blend in. On the side

1:46:34

of the clutch. This side?

1:46:37

What's the clutch? On the

1:46:39

edge of the clutch in the

1:46:41

crumble below you find the drip.

1:46:44

Oh, between the clutch and the crumble. I

1:46:49

appreciate that. One

1:46:53

more question you ask, I'll give you one more. What's

1:46:59

an apple taste? I

1:47:02

thought you were going to go with raspberry. That's impressive.

1:47:08

Oh, I love apples. They're very... This

1:47:10

is happening. I

1:47:13

wanted to wander out after the

1:47:16

Sasquatch looking individual

1:47:18

and just sidle up and

1:47:20

not get the jump on them or anything.

1:47:22

Just walk up and stare in the direction that they're staring.

1:47:28

Can I ask, they told us when we

1:47:30

got here to

1:47:32

keep our head on

1:47:34

the swivel, that the

1:47:36

attrition, I think...

1:47:42

Jump on you from out of nowhere? Do they make it in

1:47:44

this far? I'll

1:47:47

look south of the shoulder towards you. You're

1:47:53

lonely, CUM. Well,

1:47:56

maybe you won't. He points

1:47:59

out and you can see... Along

1:48:01

the mountain range, there's one section of the

1:48:03

hill that is blackened and crumbled. You can

1:48:08

see there's ruins of

1:48:10

what looks to have been an outpost at

1:48:13

one time. How'd

1:48:15

they do that? They're

1:48:21

everywhere. I'm

1:48:26

a little green on the battlefield.

1:48:32

How do you know when they're coming? From

1:48:37

what I've been told, it's just kind of

1:48:40

a gut feeling. Maybe

1:48:43

deception check. You poke the

1:48:45

bear. I'm literally green. Twenty.

1:48:54

Oh! Dirty twenty. Yeah,

1:48:56

roll a nineteen. Kind of looks

1:48:58

you up and down. Spits

1:49:01

in the ground. Just

1:49:05

keep your wits about you and if

1:49:07

you hear something loud and dangerous, you

1:49:10

run. I

1:49:13

knew that. Why

1:49:20

are you here? Well,

1:49:24

I was having

1:49:27

dreams back home and I met

1:49:30

this other lady she was having

1:49:32

them to, so. We

1:49:35

came together. We met more. Welcome

1:49:39

to the hellhole. Feeling

1:49:42

more and more like that every day. How's

1:49:49

that work? And I look

1:49:51

at his device. He

1:49:53

hides it under the cloak. I

1:49:57

don't know, how's that work? He

1:49:59

looks over it. with your sheathed

1:50:01

weapon. Stay

1:50:05

with it. This

1:50:07

will die me. Oh

1:50:10

my, anything bigger, I can't

1:50:12

lift it. He

1:50:15

told me to start small. Vanguard

1:50:18

may have accepted anybody these days.

1:50:20

Sits back in his chair and shifts

1:50:23

his focus away from you. While

1:50:26

this is happening, you are now about seven minutes

1:50:28

into this ritual, as

1:50:31

two of the Rylorah from the mid-floor begin

1:50:33

to descend the steps. Wow. Oh,

1:50:36

come on. I'm fine. Should you get up

1:50:38

and go? Just outside? Just

1:50:40

outside. Just

1:50:42

gotta walk away. Yeah. Here

1:50:45

in your head, Wheelmaster,

1:50:49

we were not aware we would be having

1:50:53

an appearance of any of the will. What

1:50:57

do you require of us? In

1:51:01

her head or her images? No, in Fern's head.

1:51:12

I look at you and say, what? What is it? What

1:51:14

is it? What are they saying? Can I talk to you?

1:51:16

Yeah, you can talk to me. I'm in your

1:51:18

head. They had, they wanted to know. They wanted to.

1:51:21

In Master. No,

1:51:25

no, no, you have to. You forget? No, I didn't.

1:51:28

What do they want? He's just talking to me at

1:51:30

the same time I'm trying to talk to you. Yeah,

1:51:32

yeah, yeah, don't move or put your hands down. They

1:51:34

both look at each other and narrow their eyes a

1:51:36

little bit. What they should do, like

1:51:39

if they had anything for them to do, because they were like,

1:51:41

Wheelmaster. Look at them, look at them. I

1:51:44

need nothing from you. Go about

1:51:47

your business. Make

1:51:51

a deception check. advantage,

1:52:00

right? Ooh, that doesn't have a 20! Wow!

1:52:05

Go look at another one. Is

1:52:07

that the first roll? It's good because you

1:52:09

don't have advantage on it. Oh, phew! I

1:52:11

believe. Do you mean to

1:52:13

concentrate to richly cast something? I

1:52:15

believe so. Yeah, but it doesn't matter. That was 23. Oh,

1:52:21

golly, golly! My

1:52:26

mistake. Please.

1:52:30

Give our appreciation to the

1:52:32

will, and should they

1:52:34

be looking for more, aid on

1:52:36

the ground, wherever eager to

1:52:39

be relocated. Please.

1:52:43

That's clutch. Yeah,

1:52:45

100%. And one of them looked at

1:52:47

each other and began to

1:52:50

back up the tower once

1:52:52

more, somewhat sheepishly. Phew!

1:52:58

In their heads. Oh!

1:53:02

You finished the ritual? And

1:53:05

then, let's see, do

1:53:07

they have to be near me for this to activate?

1:53:09

We're not that far. That's

1:53:11

true. Everyone has

1:53:13

to be within 30 feet, so I'm just going to make

1:53:17

a quick loop around the tower

1:53:19

and try to activate

1:53:22

our mental bond. I'll

1:53:25

say you can gather everybody from a distance to know where

1:53:27

they are and let us know. Hey, hey, we're online, we're

1:53:29

online, we can talk to each other in our heads. Oh,

1:53:32

God. Oh, my God, you

1:53:34

could have been ritually casting. I

1:53:36

just figured out how to do this spell

1:53:38

today. But if you cast

1:53:40

another concentration spell, does it break it? No. It

1:53:43

works for eight hours now. Holy

1:53:45

shit! It's

1:53:48

a fifth level spell, so I've only had fifth level spells

1:53:50

for like, don't I? It lasts for an hour. It

1:53:53

lasts for an hour? It lasts for eight hours.

1:53:55

Delphatic bond, which this year is one hour. Oh,

1:53:58

really? Oh. Really?

1:54:00

We totally used it like it

1:54:02

was eight hours last night. We did, but you know. You

1:54:05

could have been ritual casting it this whole time. Okay.

1:54:12

Clutch. Can you keep

1:54:14

ritual casting it all day long, like

1:54:16

unlimited times? Yeah, I just

1:54:18

haven't had ten minutes to do

1:54:21

it. Rituals are awesome. And it costs interiors

1:54:23

each time you do it, depending on the spell. Oh.

1:54:25

Two eggshells. Great. You don't have to

1:54:27

go to a grocer. Yeah. I

1:54:31

have eggshells from my baking material. That's true,

1:54:33

you would. But I should probably need some

1:54:36

more. Caleb's eyes have rolled backwards into his

1:54:38

head, out his mouth, and across the desk.

1:54:40

I'll use one of those. All

1:54:43

right. Chetney's out front, just collecting the guys' intestines like

1:54:45

a power cord. I couldn't help myself. It

1:54:49

could be too funny. So

1:54:54

have we gleaned as much as we're going to

1:54:56

glean from this gleam? Should we get the last

1:54:58

question? Ask one more question, and we'll get out.

1:55:01

Pat Kay was doing one more. Chris, a

1:55:03

little sour, great baked in a pie. But

1:55:05

anything I should do, I don't want to

1:55:07

embarrass myself down there. I want to

1:55:09

come back. I know that's weird. I can see how this

1:55:11

can get old. Like, how do I not just piss

1:55:14

everybody off? I tend to piss

1:55:16

a lot of people off. You

1:55:18

don't talk. That's hard.

1:55:20

Anything else? No, I have the

1:55:22

question. My turn. Actually,

1:55:26

I've got to go, but I'll tell

1:55:28

you what. If I'm back down

1:55:30

this way, which the way things are looking, I will

1:55:32

be, I'm going to figure out how

1:55:34

to get some fucking fruit up here. Please.

1:55:40

What? I'm already heading

1:55:42

down. What's

1:55:44

a pear taste like? Pear!

1:55:50

It's like staring at me. We

1:55:53

all hear that from the power. Head

1:55:56

back down, and there's the three right lower and

1:55:58

the middle area. They're now like diligent. looking

1:56:00

out the windows. They're now very intently

1:56:02

looking and holding their post. I

1:56:07

want to head down with Ashton, but did

1:56:09

Paté find anything? Passageways

1:56:13

underground? Entrances? Roll

1:56:18

another perception check for

1:56:20

Paté. Come

1:56:23

on, Paté. Roll high. Paté.

1:56:28

Paté Tate. Paté. There were some rolling.

1:56:33

Yep, that'll do it. That sounds like better. Right

1:56:35

now, why is it on the ground? Sorry.

1:56:37

Oh, I keep looking. Oh, come on back.

1:56:40

Come on back. Okay. Hey, where are you?

1:56:43

Where I fucking left you in the

1:56:45

tower? I'm heading

1:56:47

downstairs because I can't wait for

1:56:49

you alone with these weirdos. Okay.

1:56:52

He's making his way in. Okay. All right. You

1:56:54

all slowly gather back towards the base of the

1:56:57

tower. For the

1:56:59

time being, from what you can tell, you

1:57:01

haven't been sucked out. What are you doing? Could

1:57:06

I have used the time that we were here

1:57:11

to put my circle

1:57:14

back on? I

1:57:16

took it off because... Because.

1:57:20

And now, Odehahn can track us,

1:57:22

and if this spell goes away, which it will, in

1:57:24

four hours and we don't have another scroll, I want

1:57:27

to not be able to be tracked. Okay. Yeah. I'll

1:57:29

say you can

1:57:32

go ahead and take the time here as you were sitting

1:57:34

about talking, setting up this

1:57:36

ritual spell. More

1:57:39

of a short rest to go ahead and attune it. So I'd

1:57:41

say you can definitely put it on you, but to attune it,

1:57:43

you need a little more of a break. Got it. Say

1:57:47

hello! We're all bonded, right? So

1:57:50

in the head, is there anything

1:57:52

else we want to try to unravel

1:57:54

here? I like it. We got a

1:57:56

lot. I've got a place to drink in the city. I've also

1:57:58

got a bit more... of an idea of

1:58:01

what the jagged

1:58:03

edge is. We can

1:58:05

run from the will, the clutch.

1:58:07

This place was called Tiran A,

1:58:09

like Tiran Dash A, or like

1:58:11

Tiran. T-Y-R-A-N, Tiran A. Just put

1:58:14

it right. I tell them, I

1:58:16

tell everybody, I was

1:58:18

able to see these outposts, and also

1:58:21

for them scattered all up and down

1:58:23

the edges. And they each have these

1:58:25

like giant war horns carved into

1:58:28

the rock. And it

1:58:30

didn't look like many, uh, much

1:58:32

of the population was off the

1:58:34

city. Kind of looks like the

1:58:36

city could get blown off the face of

1:58:39

the moon with one big goth. It's

1:58:41

pretty raggedy, but I'd

1:58:43

be willing to bet most of the population

1:58:46

is underground. If they

1:58:48

need war horns, at least we know that

1:58:51

every single thought isn't just sunk

1:58:53

across the distance every second of the day.

1:58:56

Yeah, that's true. I have neither of that. I

1:58:58

get the feeling knots are more than thoughts are like

1:59:00

needles in these stacks at this point.

1:59:02

You gotta know what you're looking for, you

1:59:04

gotta be looking for it. Otherwise, it's kind

1:59:07

of like you, it's just noise. Yeah, unless

1:59:09

you're someone like Ludinus, you can project

1:59:11

like he did all over of Andrea. I

1:59:15

look at the trashy scribble. Nothing. Okay.

1:59:19

Should we head into... The city.

1:59:22

Yeah. And boy, next time we

1:59:24

come here, we have to bring a fuck ton

1:59:26

of food, because boy, dreams apparently have made everybody

1:59:28

really weird about food. It's true. They've all asked

1:59:30

about food. I don't know. Yeah.

1:59:34

Oh, yeah. Next time. That's a good

1:59:36

thing to know, actually. I'm gonna spill that fucking bag.

1:59:39

I don't know if what we're doing here, Fern, is

1:59:41

gonna keep being a good idea. I know, that might

1:59:44

be really scared me. Really, when they're looking at you,

1:59:46

I'm like, we're really talking to her, I don't know.

1:59:48

Yeah, we're already. I almost just talked out loud because

1:59:50

I got scared. Yeah. But I was

1:59:52

like, shit, I don't know if she's hearing. It

1:59:54

worked. It did work. And if we were telepathically

1:59:57

bonded, it would have been. She's

2:00:00

here. Maybe it'll be fine now. Yeah.

2:00:02

Yeah, but hey you guys figure out

2:00:04

what's wrong with it in front of

2:00:10

20 or so minutes Let's

2:00:14

all circle around like

2:00:16

we're her guards. Yeah All

2:00:20

right, and we have to do a fair

2:00:22

how far away I

2:00:24

mean you're right on the edge of this mountain range

2:00:27

You can see where like this is this collective valley

2:00:29

where the majority of the city sits Near

2:00:32

where those horns were you did also

2:00:34

see there were like walkways Head

2:00:37

that like went deep into the mountain range and let

2:00:39

it straight into the city Okay, I'll

2:00:41

kind of guide people from what I saw I

2:00:43

guess does that mean we're just

2:00:45

gonna be zigzagging between more of these towers

2:00:47

the entire way like tell like I think

2:00:49