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the table suggestions, kind of like Mad Libs.

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Okay, so I need a plural noun. Queets.

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Great. Starting right now. That's

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that's... I think both. Saucy.

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Saucy. That's nice. That's

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great. Saucy, please. Ooh.

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Ooh. Movie star or

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animal who's a movie star. Why not? Air

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Bud. Air Bud. Air Bud.

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Air Bud. What did you say?

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Pull that one, that one could be good. Did you?

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There's Beaver with three Bs. A

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bird that ends in ing.

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Swallowing. Bapping. Oh, following. This

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almost got her word out, guys. Come on.

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It's an important event.

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Laura, what you got? Oh, the

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rapture. It's a rapture. Good,

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good, good. Good, good, good.

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Gotta go great. I'm gonna get my everything. Hope

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we all get allowed to play this. An

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NPC name. Carl. Oh,

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no. Beaver. Beaver with

4:44

three Bs. Oh, buh-buh, Beaver. She's right

4:46

now. We'll call him Beaver Carl. How

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about that? Yeah, yeah. Uh,

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position of importance. Missionary.

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Missionary. Wow. Wow.

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No, dude. Yeah, dude. We're both on the

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same way as you. What did you say?

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Missionary. Missionary. Missionary. We're

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terrible. Oh, no. You

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all have some explaining to do. Yeah. A

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silly NPC name, so not

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Beaver Carl. Kevin.

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What? Kevin. Kevin. Kevin.

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Kevin Hedgehog. Kevin

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Hedgehog. This is great. This is great.

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Hedgehog. A

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serious place. Oh.

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More sugary. More sugary.

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More sugary. Very sugary.

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And a verb. Shivering.

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Oh, I see. You brought it all around. Well done.

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Good job, girl. Good job. And

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one more verb. Oh. Sharks.

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Yeah. Great. OK.

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with a gigantic... Well...

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Really? Only

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got weird. Can

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the heroes complete a rapture before the

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monster brings the town down around them?

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the town's elected missionary, who is

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don't do it! Nothing's working! I'm not

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last we left off Bell's Hells after

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gathering mission to the red moon of

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that locale, you

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and in the escape lost a

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friend. Through a heroic sacrifice, fresh-cut

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grass is no more. Gathering

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what pieces you can and making

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a tenuous alliance with Liliana,

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one of the high members of the Ruby Vanguard

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and mother of Imogen, you

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returned. Returned

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to Exandria with her help. Upon

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returning through a brief mission

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and escaping the Titian excavation site, you return

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to the west side

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fortress, where one of

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the numerous stationed elements of

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the Exandrian Accord have

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set up base, preparing for either the

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defense of Exandria or the

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offense on the moon. Upon

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arriving here, still numb with the experience, Keyleth

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arrived, bringing with her

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a friend you hadn't seen in some time. Doreen

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Storm, who had undergone his own

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challenges as of late, walking

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here alone, having lost a brother, and

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had to leave behind other friends.

20:41

Here you were conveying information

20:43

of what you had discovered and given a

20:46

place to rest for the night, exhausted, you all

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reunited, shared a bit about

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what had happened, what you're thinking, what

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shared drinks in the honor of those

20:59

that are no longer with you. Here

21:02

as we come back, after some drinks

21:05

have been had late in the evening, the sorn

21:07

is creaking in, not really sure what

21:09

hour it might be here in the middle of the

21:11

evening. What would you like to do? I'm

21:16

going to assume everyone's

21:18

crashing. Yeah, I

21:21

feel pretty injured. Oh

21:24

god, yeah. That's okay.

21:27

Everything hurts. Oh, yeah.

21:30

It's going to be a couple

21:32

of days before I feel

21:34

right. Yeah, I'm going to...

21:38

What is it? No, it

21:40

just hurts, that's all. I'm

21:46

going to go

21:48

over to Ash, and I'm just

21:50

going to give you a big hug. I'm

21:56

sorry. You

22:01

feel half as bad as I feel. Yeah,

22:11

yeah, I think it's time to go to sleep. I'm

22:13

just gonna... I'm gonna head outside. We've

22:23

been going pretty hard, maybe the best thing is just

22:27

to reset. Figure

22:30

it all out in the morning. Yeah. Yeah,

22:33

sure. We

22:37

have a lot of work ahead of us. We have

22:39

to explain everything we saw. Right, Marilyn.

22:48

Dorian. Yes. I'm

22:52

glad you're back. Oh,

22:55

thank you. I'm glad to be back. I

22:59

wish it was under better tidings. Yeah. Perhaps

23:03

a rat sounds right. Oh.

23:08

Is he all right? Pointing up

23:10

to Ashton, where he just went to bed. No.

23:16

All of us is, but he was with

23:18

F.C.G. the longest, right? Yes. Yeah.

23:21

Hmm? Yeah. Marilyn

23:23

knew him the best. I

23:25

think what's worse is Ashton

23:28

talked many a times about how he

23:30

feared something like this would happen from F.C.G. That

23:34

they would sacrifice themselves in some

23:36

way, shape, or form. Well,

23:42

it's harder. I'm expecting the

23:46

worst or being surprised.

23:52

That's a good question.

23:55

Rest. Seems

23:57

to be the way. Yeah,

23:59

rest. Rest. I'm

24:03

going to go if you're

24:05

asked. Okay. I

24:08

did not go to sleep. I was waiting quietly

24:11

by the side of the door. Hey,

24:17

I, uh, I'm

24:19

really shit at this. Uh...

24:25

Are you okay? No, are you?

24:29

Of course not. I

24:32

want you to know I've been thinking about, I've been meaning

24:34

to talk to you about this, and,

24:36

uh... It's just,

24:39

the timing has always been wrong, and

24:41

it's always, we've just been going so

24:43

crazily, and I think that, uh, that's

24:45

never going to change. Uh...

24:52

Nothing beyond, do you want some company

24:54

tonight? Oh.

25:01

Just... nothing. Just...

25:03

I don't know. If

25:08

I may... Yeah. Um... I

25:14

would love some company, but... Should

25:19

we just... Hold

25:22

on to each other? Oh, that's, I, everything

25:24

hurts. That's honestly what I was really, yeah,

25:26

I don't... Yeah,

25:28

I don't... Again, I'm really bad at this.

25:30

I don't really, uh... Uh,

25:33

yeah, I'm really bad at this. I'm sure

25:35

you've noticed. Bad at what? I don't really know what

25:38

you're getting at. I'm

25:40

getting at things. Uh,

25:45

it makes me nervous. Yes,

25:47

that's exactly, uh, what I was

25:49

hoping you'd say. Just...

25:55

I think I just want a, a mug hug. And

25:58

then... I

26:04

think I want to fall

26:06

asleep. Someone

26:09

and then wake up. But that sounds really nice. Okay.

26:12

I'll try to stay. But I might get a little skittish. I may wake up

26:14

earlier than you. I don't know. I don't.

26:17

That's very likely. No, it doesn't make me weird. Let's

26:19

just go to sleep. I don't know. I

26:21

don't know. I don't know. I don't

26:23

know. That's very likely. I don't know why this is

26:25

making me weird. Let's just go to sleep. I don't

26:27

know. I don't know. Yeah. Okay.

26:31

What's the layout? I haven't been here before. What's

26:33

the layout of this building? What's

26:36

the layout of this building? Here we

26:38

go. So it's a large tent with

26:40

a number of cots and beds throughout.

26:46

But Ashlyn stepped outside of it, outside the door, and

26:48

she went ahead and joined them out there. She's

26:51

been having this conversation outside of the theater. Truly impressed.

26:54

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

26:57

Okay. Okay. Oh,

26:59

so you heard it all. Damn. Orange

27:01

is like, ooh. Nothing. What is it? What

27:04

is it? When no game meets no game,

27:06

pass into the rye. Ash

27:08

was between a rock and a

27:10

hard place. This

27:15

looks like a coddle circle. Everybody

27:17

can see everybody else, but we're just in

27:19

a big tent. Like a yurt. Yeah. Okay.

27:23

So yeah. I can't just... I want

27:25

someone to hold me, and I want to hold on to somebody.

27:29

Can't even remember the last time. Yeah.

27:32

Yeah. Sounds great. All right.

27:39

So the rest of you find your respective

27:42

beds, sharing

27:44

those who wish, until

27:46

eventually the exhaustion

27:49

takes over and you all go into

27:51

a long, thoughtful,

27:55

until immediately passing out rest.

27:59

I think I'll... Orem fights it for

28:01

a while, and even though he's cuddled up

28:03

on the floor, just

28:05

watches all of his

28:07

friends. And

28:10

it feels like he's the last one awake. He

28:12

lets himself pass out. Much-needed

28:20

sleep comes to you all. Yes.

28:23

Yes, people. Fern.

28:32

At some point, the

28:37

fuzziest of half-consciousness

28:40

comes to you

28:43

in a

28:46

lucid dream-type state. It

28:49

plies your eyes open in the dark, in the

28:51

middle evening. Describe

28:55

to me how you were

28:57

arranged with Ashton at the

28:59

moment. Are you wearing your armor? Oh

29:02

no, you're definitely the biggest boob. I

29:05

wore this hardware. Yeah,

29:07

are you going to this background today? I

29:10

think I'm in the big booth. I'm

29:15

just sort of, I'm just

29:18

holding onto them from the

29:21

back and just cutting my head and

29:25

the nape of Ashton's neck. As

29:27

you lay there, your

29:31

eyes flittering open and

29:33

that vastly unblends fuzzy,

29:35

uncertain if conscious or

29:37

not, feeling pushes through

29:40

your blurry blinks. You

29:43

see something skittering on your left shoulder.

29:49

As you glance over and begin to focus,

29:52

you see this tiny,

29:55

fuzzy, gray

29:57

sugar glider-like creature. with

30:00

these dark eyes and these long ears that

30:02

go into these little parts of the edges

30:04

as his arms kind of curled up in

30:06

your shoulder. It's kind of... Can

30:15

you understand me? It

30:21

skitters off your shoulder. I

30:28

got followed. Okay. Make

30:31

a big

30:33

flip. Okay. Okay.

30:38

I'm very tired. Um... See

30:43

you out there too. Thank you.

30:46

I'll follow it. Okay.

30:48

Are you trying to carefully... Okay, so

30:51

I need you to make a stealth check for me to

30:55

absolve yourself of Ashton. Ooh!

30:59

Mm! Fuck.

31:03

Sheesh. Okay. Okay.

31:10

Uh, make a

31:12

stealth check for me. This is... Oh, sorry. And

31:15

your passive perception is halved

31:19

at the moment because of your... Because of your sleeping?

31:21

Because you're... That's

31:23

33 half, so 16. And

31:28

you rolled a... Okay.

31:33

What's your passive perception? Oh,

31:37

um... It's... 11. Okay.

31:41

See carefully and generally begin to pull

31:44

yourself away from the big... As

31:47

you step away from the... Step away from the

31:50

larger copy we're sharing, looking upon the

31:52

spread of all your sleeping friends here.

31:54

The dark of night beyond

31:56

the tent, you see the tiny creature like skitter

31:59

beyond and... stop just be able to look back at you. Well

32:05

you're going so fast! Alright, I'm just trying

32:07

to clop really quietly. Alright. What?

32:10

Oh. Are you okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

32:12

Just, I'm just... I'm

32:14

just... I'm going for a little... walk.

32:17

It's my govation sleep, it's fine. Okay.

32:19

I love you, buddy. Bye. Step

32:25

out of a tent. And you can see there are, uh,

32:28

small clusters of soldiers that are still doing their

32:30

inner patrols in the courtyard. You can see the

32:32

tall, kind of scraggly, leafless trees that kind of

32:34

claw their way up into the... uh, what is

32:36

now the absence of moonlight. Uh, in the sky

32:38

right now, Cather has passed beyond the sign, so

32:40

there's not a lot of light on the horizon.

32:43

Beyond just the red glow of Ruud as it

32:45

still sits, kind of, bathing the

32:47

entirety of the Hell catch in that dull red

32:49

glow. Um, but there are torch

32:51

lights still kind of flickering and, uh, magic lanterns that

32:53

hang upon, uh, like, poles that are

32:55

set up within the courtyard, they

32:58

give enough light. No one seems to pay

33:00

much mind to you exiting. You're within the

33:03

walls. Um, you can see the sure-wire, kind of,

33:05

like, dark... tent, tent side to tent

33:07

side to tent side. Heading towards,

33:09

uh, probably the southwestern side of

33:12

the interior. He's going

33:14

so fast. Slow down. You

33:17

can slow down a little bit and look back at you. Thank you.

33:21

And then you used to dart in that direction. Eventually,

33:25

it heads to be, uh, like a cluster

33:27

of a dried bush and one

33:29

of the lanterns that's kind of flickering in the

33:31

low ember looks like this is not one of

33:33

the enchanted torches. It is actually, like, a standard

33:36

torch that is kind of in this low end.

33:38

Uh, the end point of its life cycle for

33:40

the evening's burn, it's not just this low, kind

33:42

of, orange ember. Um,

33:44

and you see the little sugar glider kind of flambards

33:46

down to what looks to be a hole

33:50

in the wall, like a small crack. And

33:52

it kind of turns around and it just looks at you and goes... and

33:56

squeezes down into the hole through the wall. Do you think I'm

33:58

gonna fit in there? MATT

34:02

and sponsorshiplan Oh. Peaking

34:05

on the map with a tent, do I see her? Yeah.

34:12

And do you enjoy the music as I lubricate it? Yeah, I

34:14

absolutely meant itmusic, didn't I? I think definitely. I'm

34:16

just going to peek my head in and see if

34:20

I see anything, before going all the way in and trying

34:22

to pull my ass. You

34:24

look down, it's about maybe roughly that

34:26

size at certain points. It's

34:28

small. A little large for

34:31

a field mouse, even this sugar-lighter creature

34:33

could move through with a

34:36

little bit of work. But it looks

34:38

like the wall itself is probably a good foot

34:41

and a half thick of stone, if

34:44

not thicker. But you can see through the

34:46

other side, you can see the darkness and shadow of the hole.

34:48

And then on the opposite end, you can see the

34:50

red glow on the ground beyond

34:53

it. This is an actual tunnel that leads to the outside

34:55

of the wall. I'll

34:57

try to wiggle through. Okay.

35:00

How? You

35:03

said it's like this big. Oh yeah,

35:05

yeah. I can see it. I

35:08

can see it. I

35:12

have any more. Yeah. It's

35:16

so bad. Shoot,

35:18

I don't have any more

35:21

wild chicks. Oh. You've

35:23

taken a short rest at this point. I like the equivalent of

35:25

a short rest, even that you guys

35:27

have rested for the night. Okay. All

35:30

right, I will wild shape into

35:32

just a little...

35:39

I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm

35:41

gonna, I have a weird thing to

35:43

wild shape into right now, but I really think it'll be cute. I

35:46

wanna wild shape into a cockatiel with a peach

35:48

plum. Wow.

35:50

Okay. Hello. I'm

35:53

not gonna fly, I'm just gonna. Like,

35:55

oh, like the, yes, like

35:57

where they have a snacky feet. Yeah. LAURA,

36:00

SAM, and LAURA. I wanted it to be a little field

36:02

mouse, but it didn't happen. MATT, MARISHA, and LAURA. I

36:04

get it. The inspiration is you can last minute. MATT,

36:06

and she enters. TRAVIS, LAURA,

36:08

and TALIESIN. You

36:11

glance as you're watching from a distance, you're

36:13

peeking beyond the tent and following her up

36:15

beyond the other tent, the little wall is

36:17

quietly following. You watch as her shrink

36:19

down to a tiny little bird and begins

36:21

to walk through the base of

36:23

the wall. TALIESIN

36:27

and ASHLEY

36:31

make its way up the back

36:33

of the Bomosh BeFIFra, going up alrighty- you

36:41

look out like, squeeze

36:44

to the opposite side, get through the

36:46

hole and emerge from the

36:48

south- southwestern side of the fortress's walls.

36:51

Here now you can see the Hellcatch

36:53

Valley itself spreads out

36:55

in all directions. You

36:59

can faintly see the dull

37:03

glow of an impending sunrise climbing

37:06

on the eastern horizon, where the dark

37:09

expanse of the night sky above you, there's

37:11

just that little bit of lighter blue

37:14

that turns to purple and you know

37:16

that the sunrise is maybe about an

37:18

hour or so off in that direction.

37:20

ASHLEY and LAURA are shaking. ASHLEY and

37:22

ASHLEY are shaking. MATT and ASHLEY are

37:24

shaking. MATT and ASHLEY are shaking. MATT

37:26

and ASHLEY are shaking. MATT and ASHLEY

37:28

are shaking. MATT and ASHLEY are shaking.

37:30

MATT and ASHLEY are shaking. MATT and

37:32

ASHLEY are shaking. Leaps off the branch.

37:34

It continues to glide south, cruising across

37:36

the dust. LAURA

37:39

and ASHLEY follow. MATT

37:41

and ASHLEY take flight. Following,

37:44

and you can see as it glides down,

37:46

catches a small bush or branch and leaps

37:48

off and then glides a little further and

37:50

skitters in the ground, climbs up something else.

37:52

It's looking back at you and making the

37:55

chittering sounds and continues to guide you on

37:57

a path. What

38:00

are you doing? Well, I can't fit in that

38:02

hole right that's bigger. That's smaller than me And

38:06

how high I'm at a wall. Oh the wall the walls

38:08

here are about 20 or so 20 or so feet. Oh

38:12

Geez, I'm gonna Get

38:14

a good running start and try to like leap and

38:17

flee bounce off the top of a tent to the

38:19

top of the wall Okay

38:23

I'd like for you to make an acrobatics check. This

38:25

is a relatively high DC given the height

38:27

and Structures

38:30

that are not terribly nearby, but it is doable

38:35

That is 26 26

38:38

will do it so you head back towards the

38:40

wall kind of Check

38:42

out your trajectory wait for some of the guards

38:44

to pass so it's not to make

38:46

them suspicious or weird Run

38:49

up kind of catch the edge of a box leap and

38:51

hit the edge of the tent using that to rebound and

38:53

then go ahead and flee leap off the corner as you

38:55

kind of so they air

38:57

towards the edge you almost You

39:00

realize towards the end that you're probably not going to make

39:02

it and you have to like throw seedling to like Stash

39:05

the edge and get on top of the

39:07

wall and here there's The

39:09

walls here sculpted magically out of the ground So

39:11

even the kind of parapets and walkways here have

39:14

like a naturally hewn Slightly

39:16

uneven look to them, but as you kind of pull over

39:18

the side and look you have a

39:20

beautiful kind of overhead view of the surrounding Shale

39:23

covered landscape of the Hellcatch and you

39:25

can just barely make out the Bird

39:29

When you see you I mentioned the cockatiel you're a brighter

39:31

color Yeah, white with her

39:33

with a huge plant so very much can

39:35

see her kind of this bright red Bird

39:38

creature that's not kind of walking or flying as it

39:40

continues across the area, okay

39:42

Um, I'm gonna stay put and

39:45

unless she like goes so far off that

39:47

she disappears from view It

39:50

guides you on for about five or six minutes

39:53

She's beginning to disappear for that's a yes Okay

40:00

land. You're going to tweak your ankle a little bit, but not too

40:02

much. It'll be fine if you walk it off in a few minutes.

40:05

I can finally follow the path

40:07

and make sure you do not lose perspective

40:11

on this. You continue

40:14

to follow this tiny

40:17

little creature, and it begins to slow

40:19

down a little bit and look back. As

40:21

you approach the cock and feel from a 5D

40:23

distance, it looks at you curiously. Nudging

40:28

you in this direction. Wait. Where are we going?

40:30

I just realized there's... What

40:43

is this a little far? You're

40:52

just so cute. Okay, I'll keep going.

40:54

You're still avert? You're

40:57

still avert. Okay, so chirping at

40:59

the sugar glides. As

41:06

you're getting further away from the fortress, the

41:08

landscape is coming up in large

41:11

rock platforms, these miniature mesas

41:13

of dusty

41:15

rock and stone that rise up the

41:17

platforms. The red light of rutus gently

41:20

being shifted by the faint

41:23

orange glow from the sunrise

41:25

in a distance. You can

41:27

see the trees rising around at

41:30

the stonera. Eventually the creature stops,

41:32

and as you approach turns

41:35

and leaps into the air and

41:38

then just stays there. It

41:41

just stays floating

41:43

in the air. Wait.

41:51

What? Alright,

41:54

I'm just going to float and

41:56

just try to look and see what he's doing. As

42:02

the creature sits there

42:04

in the middle of the air, you watch as

42:06

its shape begins to shimmer and emerge

42:09

from nothing. You

42:11

see a dark armored gauntlet

42:14

headed as the shoulder pauldron

42:16

itself begins to reveal across

42:19

what you can tell to be

42:21

a familiar suit

42:23

of heavy dark fey armor. You

42:27

see a pale figure with

42:29

dark hair begin

42:32

to emerge from illusory

42:34

invisibility as

42:37

the sorrowlord Zethuda seems

42:40

to be now standing amongst this

42:42

open space. As

42:44

soon as Orum saw the sugar glider

42:47

hovering in space, he went flat on the

42:49

ground. The

42:52

figure stands there looking at your bird

42:55

form. Sure.

43:02

Difficult to converse in this

43:04

form, I'd say. I just

43:10

pretend I'm a bird and I just keep

43:12

flying around. You've had a clap? I've had

43:14

a clap. Just

43:18

a bird. Just a bird. Nothing

43:20

to see here. I

43:23

know. Goodbye,

43:25

goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

43:30

All right, you know what? I'm

43:32

going to settle on the ground and

43:36

just look at that and I'm going to drop my while sheet.

43:39

Okay. As

43:42

you revert to your normal

43:45

form standing upon your hooves

43:49

tall and exuding

43:52

the presence that is for Calloway here

43:54

in this shadowed pre-sunrise

43:56

state, the

43:59

sorrowlord looks to you and says, It

44:03

would seem ought to harm his fallin'. I

44:07

smell her ruin upon ye person. The

44:11

smokin' sort of retribution still

44:13

lingers. Well

44:17

done. Hi

44:22

Daddy. Nice to meet

44:25

you. Nice

44:28

to meet you. I

44:32

wish to meet you officially,

44:37

my daughter. What

44:42

do you want? I

44:49

sense you walk with a secret fire. He

44:53

begins to step and walk parallel

44:55

to where you stand, the creature

44:57

still chittering on his shoulder, his

45:00

cloak slowly billowing with each step behind you. The

45:04

flame is charming, living, eager

45:07

to consume in

45:09

an endless and firm something

45:13

not of my make, something

45:16

more ancient.

45:23

I don't know what you're talking about.

45:31

I've truly grown into something terrible

45:35

and wonderful. It's

45:39

all to rise, but rise you do. My

45:45

impatience remains my truest failing, but

45:48

I'm proud to see what you've become. Why?

46:03

Because I feared that I had

46:05

failed in creating something worthy of

46:07

my borderline. Wouldn't

46:14

this as long be able to hold my contributions

46:16

to the cause, with

46:18

my failure in you? Such

46:23

strong court blood should have produced a rue

46:25

to spawn ne'er greater than a simple farm

46:27

girl. These

46:29

words. Perhaps

46:35

you would just yet to find your potential. To

46:43

unlock it. Perhaps

46:48

indeed my kin would still be the one

46:50

to pass the hall of cage and

46:54

awaken it. What'd

46:58

that mean? I

47:04

apologize. My

47:09

absence as a father through your life might

47:12

be the cause of your... stunted

47:16

ascendance and... I

47:21

intend to correct that mistake. That

47:24

is a living power. I

47:27

don't need you to do anything. I don't

47:29

even know you. Well,

47:35

I don't understand what you want with me. You

47:38

may not know me consciously, but

47:41

part of the demons are

47:43

connected. If you

47:45

kind of look at yourself you can see that faint

47:47

red energy kind of

47:50

glowing ever so faintly off your

47:53

body here in the proximity

47:56

of the red rueidian light. That

48:00

odd kind of drifting,

48:03

dull nightlight glow. Did

48:15

you love you? I

48:19

love you. Love

48:26

you is part of a

48:28

long plan. And

48:30

she played her part well. But

48:37

you're the entire reason I put up with

48:39

any of

48:41

these low bore. I

48:51

think there's greatness in you. That

48:55

I can help you reach it. I

49:03

want you to come with me. Hello.

49:13

To be taught. To

49:17

show goodness. And

49:20

every other brainless

49:23

individual that they don't

49:26

understand the power that

49:28

we hold. The

49:31

vesefidal bloodline contains. Hey,

49:39

hey, I can't leave, my friend.

49:44

I can't, but you know, I do

49:46

want to say since you haven't been around, I

49:50

think just to make it up to me, you should

49:52

give me your amount. And

49:58

maybe I'll think about doing this. I

50:08

appreciate

50:11

your ambition. Oh,

50:17

I could give you whatever you like. Whatever

50:21

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50:24

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50:28

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50:30

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50:34

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50:39

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top tier businesses? Will

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only be on and seventeen you. enter

53:46

your to the nature Maybe

54:06

we can figure something out, okay? Justin, I have made a

54:08

family for myself.

54:14

And I love that I care

54:16

for them a

54:20

great deal. And I don't want to

54:24

leave them. But

54:28

I'm kind of into what you're putting down a

54:30

little bit. I know how I like. I

54:39

can't go anywhere with you. I

54:41

barely know you. How

54:43

do I know you're not? I

54:48

don't know. You're

54:54

something bad. Burns

54:59

of it all. It

55:02

is in our nature to do bad

55:04

things. It's a caraway. Unfortunately,

55:12

there isn't much time given.

55:17

The pace of events is of late. He

55:19

glances up in the direction of ruritus. But

55:23

lessons need not be voluntary. Maybe

55:28

it's important for you to

55:30

face your own demons before we can truly break

55:32

through. Niamh

55:36

reaches into his cloak and

55:38

pulls forth this wicked-looking black-iron

55:40

mirror, this hand mirror with

55:42

a handle on each side.

55:46

And he pulls it from the

55:48

shadow and holds it out

55:50

towards you. And you

55:52

look in the reflection and you see yourself

55:54

looking back. Eminem.

56:02

I'm an I'm an amateur. Hour

56:04

hundred and eleven and with minimal. They

56:08

listen. To

56:11

gossip have to say that earlier in the

56:13

solar roof. With when he

56:15

pulls out the mirror and going to

56:17

cast. Was

56:20

just be scorching ray. Scripture is a very

56:23

bureaucratic yeah the mirror and will look at

56:25

it. Okay, Go!

56:27

Had Rothys i'm silly as or so ago to

56:29

twenty eight on the passenger. Yeah. You

56:32

are. You're going and of ground beyond

56:34

similar rock and you see him skills

56:36

pour forth something and it should be

56:38

assessed and loves to read slain colleagues

56:40

at him with. Of

56:42

a deal that most times more me of

56:44

something you pick the both have a conversation

56:47

is twenty four twenty nine and twenty cents

56:49

a can of go enrolled him isn't. That

56:54

just to do you like some somebody in

56:56

there for the first. Six

56:59

for the second. Ago. He

57:04

says okay. The

57:08

planes hit an impact in the front of

57:11

a mere as they can to filter

57:13

out the final one, kind of burning a

57:15

way to no impact. On the

57:17

mirror surface. But. As you kind

57:19

of looking towards you see yourself and arms as the

57:22

opposite side. Of

57:24

it. And

57:30

once glance and reflections.

57:33

Not too long ago. You

57:35

see a shadowed from the can climb

57:38

her way out s health I'm glad

57:40

you know are stepping on the ground.

57:42

Had emailed notice how do you do.

57:46

As she pulls she says she emerges her

57:48

leg is the last piece it to be

57:50

honest connected to the glass as she tugs

57:52

yourself for he with that final kick. The

57:55

mirror shatters behind her leg as the

57:57

iron. Drops in the. as

58:01

the cuda just lats and launches

58:05

from sight. You

58:08

see the dark fern standing

58:10

there. She's like, ouch, she's out,

58:12

she's out in the wild. Oh my

58:15

god. We

58:18

should've talked a long time ago.

58:20

My gods, you're

58:23

beautiful. Speak

58:27

for yourself. What

58:34

do you want? But

58:40

anyone wants from my realm to

58:43

take care of her. No, no, no, no,

58:45

no, no. She wants to fuck

58:48

with the fuck. She wants to do what

58:50

she wants to do. Her

58:52

neck cracks a little on one side, and

58:54

you see the shadow beneath her begin to

58:56

stretch out from three different points. Oh no.

59:00

Where did we get? As three

59:02

other shadow ferns, reflections of her from

59:04

shattered parts of the mirror begin to

59:06

also form around, then unison,

59:08

they all laugh. On

59:13

the sides, Orym pulls out the

59:15

sending stone and whispers, Dorian,

59:19

Dorian, Dorian, wait

59:21

out, Dorian, for

59:23

tonight outside the city, about ten minutes,

59:27

ten minutes, usual.

59:31

Can anybody hear what you're saying? Even

59:33

the microphone's not about you. Dorian,

59:37

Dorian. You

59:40

get a blast of information into your mind. Little

59:45

sleep apnea. Not a lot. I

59:48

get all of that instantly. It's

59:56

like someone's shouting into your ear. What

1:00:02

did you going to? Miranda. Rights

1:00:05

you have, you know the direction. we're outside

1:00:07

the city and ten minutes. Went

1:00:12

up for everyone in. My

1:00:16

house price. As

1:00:20

it works in months. I've

1:00:22

got a message. Arms and Troubles

1:00:25

Ah, he said. Ten minutes outside

1:00:27

of Tampa Poses? no marriages. Were

1:00:31

no. Way now I'm getting my said you

1:00:33

have we had a long rest. There's a sorcerer

1:00:35

or is this would be towards the cusp of

1:00:37

a long rest. Some know you have not too.

1:00:42

Long rest of Latin I

1:00:44

thought.it's me. I still I

1:00:47

still have exhaustion. You

1:00:49

do so. am I down linemen been

1:00:51

as it's been forced to secede, hours

1:00:53

of sleep, As

1:00:58

they were. No the twenty fifth me

1:01:00

down as to live in or higher on

1:01:02

your just transition to a. Lot

1:01:05

of the day, years and every one sudden

1:01:07

she's willing if I'm rolling for every now

1:01:09

and. Much.

1:01:15

As you can do it. I believe in you. Are

1:01:19

right those been just enough time for first

1:01:22

enough time for for us not for me

1:01:24

Learn how to work for the doctor for

1:01:26

during the was buyers and her fifth earning

1:01:28

former the to that managed to to miss

1:01:30

snow in years or your nose or both

1:01:32

or whatever years and had spell slots are

1:01:35

already or hit points revenue into sleep. Short.

1:01:39

Rest. Would. Have been irresponsible. But

1:01:41

beyond that we are not a fall lot

1:01:44

longer in nothing to have found. That.

1:01:47

The have I still may be healed one

1:01:49

level. And assassin or my son's I

1:01:51

wouldn't. Likely. Know.

1:01:54

How. With the sword rest I was still able to

1:01:56

get a. Extra

1:01:58

Wilde said. Among

1:02:00

some like with interest for the

1:02:02

immediately I tell my first there

1:02:04

is there no official as know

1:02:07

for for missing fan an orange

1:02:09

know or who was I'm shaking

1:02:11

Seven your wings Colossus home with

1:02:13

a slow squeeze up We need

1:02:15

you We need you Have. Used

1:02:18

to. Buddies. Or what it is bureaucrat,

1:02:20

she said. When how far away? What?

1:02:22

But he didn't say where as I know something's

1:02:24

wrong. With only without a fight

1:02:26

and tenure tracked them as I smell

1:02:28

them might have no. Okay, all my

1:02:31

clothes have risen. Ah no. Say ninety two

1:02:33

hundred times? Where? many way. Of. And

1:02:36

with announcers don't know the go

1:02:38

well. As

1:02:41

hundred overheads overheard aware

1:02:43

of preventing and. I doesn't

1:02:45

I was a short rest. One.

1:02:47

Can I just hit on you? Can. Hit elements

1:02:49

are most likely and a New Hampshire

1:02:51

of sort of. My

1:02:56

daughter. Or

1:02:58

your heart? no difference, bed

1:03:01

but there's no sense

1:03:03

of it's. just like over

1:03:05

arsonists. Wish.

1:03:08

You hadn't hadn't have. Find

1:03:11

them. Ducks are now.

1:03:15

Can I use my A follows to

1:03:17

try and figure out which direction they

1:03:19

might have exited the tenth year. Or

1:03:22

so, I'll use perception or survival

1:03:25

with advantage. Of

1:03:27

to just steps that are also very. Advanced

1:03:31

assisted. Ah,

1:03:33

those assists meme. Sixteen.

1:03:36

You again separate the reception or and

1:03:39

prisoners the had present I said perception

1:03:41

or survival for track list of candidates

1:03:43

to the same it takes you a

1:03:45

little bit too billie kind of pick

1:03:47

up the track of where from has

1:03:49

gone on thankfully she was planting. It

1:03:52

was a slow maneuvering and means you

1:03:54

to the edge of the wall. and

1:03:57

to the centrist ends at once and

1:03:59

open wall. You're

1:04:01

in the courtyard and you get to

1:04:04

the interior wall and her tent is

1:04:06

gone. MARISHA and AABRIA wickedly

1:04:14

TALIESIN and AABRIA

1:04:16

aregil, by La

1:04:18

personal perspective. dug

1:04:31

tomorrow. I'm

1:04:34

going to jump and I'm clicking a

1:04:36

point of like a ladder point. Okay. If

1:04:39

there's now a stick

1:04:41

that anyone can use to get over the fucking

1:04:43

wall. Oh great. I'll just do spider

1:04:46

climb. I'm

1:04:48

going to major armor myself and then I've

1:04:51

got underpants. But I did put my

1:04:53

boots on. Okay. Boots underpants. Hell yeah.

1:04:55

Yeah. Can I. Careful

1:04:57

where you grab. Funny.

1:04:59

I don't see anything. And I like. He's

1:05:04

got a handle. No,

1:05:07

I'll carry him up with me if I can. Okay. Between

1:05:10

your spider climb, your hammer,

1:05:12

you guys can all slowly

1:05:15

begin to clamber up the wall. Some

1:05:17

of the guard are beginning to notice this chaos

1:05:19

and like to the most. What's

1:05:22

going on? What's the commotion? Is everything all right? I don't

1:05:24

know. Okay.

1:05:30

Just keep an eye out for anything

1:05:32

that seems untoward. I'm

1:05:34

going to send a message. I'm sending

1:05:36

a message to Orem. Okay. We

1:05:39

don't want any guards to come follow us. What's

1:05:41

happening? Now, while this has

1:05:43

happened, this has been quite a few minutes of their end

1:05:45

of things. So we come back to this point in time

1:05:48

as this shadow fern and the

1:05:50

odd like refraction, the dark refractions

1:05:52

kind of all begin

1:05:54

to slowly circle around you. I'm

1:05:57

going to catch earth bind On the

1:05:59

mainland. Refunding. The mainland. All righty

1:06:01

for the Am. Trying. To find.

1:06:04

Drink. You for that, the better. Ah

1:06:06

this will be initiating. Combat.

1:06:09

Let's go having or. share

1:06:12

of to on them or some I

1:06:14

see the the arms this the. The

1:06:18

creature, the small animals hovering in space, any

1:06:20

word. know its managed with an owner with

1:06:22

a summer. School

1:06:24

know, south, I'm in the bath

1:06:26

or one thousand excuses. I know

1:06:28

I'm not. I'm just saying. That

1:06:33

we get my hands and game. I ever the amount

1:06:35

of the rapidly fussy about i don't think about the

1:06:38

lottery big spoon. Regardless. Of the size

1:06:40

of the hot Start or episode,

1:06:42

about twenty five to twenty five

1:06:44

for or or were not rolling.

1:06:46

No, not yet. No. com. Or

1:06:50

am going to be seen. Ah I got

1:06:52

a ah. Sorry I

1:06:54

got a twenty one one. Our eyes. Aren't

1:07:04

so. Ah

1:07:06

no no no got a

1:07:08

rule. I'm. Because

1:07:13

it was a sugar glider. Man

1:07:16

who are useless. As if I could

1:07:18

node so easy. To

1:07:20

me, she disappeared into this point

1:07:22

here. Or. Have

1:07:25

you been to the fighting Flag over

1:07:27

here where have you wanna gather? Birds

1:07:29

were useless. Filed for the back about

1:07:31

I think both year for have me

1:07:33

his I would accompany you by with.

1:07:39

Your adventure alongside the hills of the Zebra.

1:07:41

Very. Very

1:07:44

different shade. Ancestry from.

1:07:48

This is your dark

1:07:51

are some. some

1:07:53

you disease or the

1:07:56

oh surroundings refracted shudder

1:07:58

sharing and cool map. As

1:08:07

this has continued to trigger, you

1:08:09

begin to cast your spell orm. You have a moment of

1:08:12

initiative here as you are top of initiative order, as you

1:08:14

begin to cast your earth sign. I

1:08:18

would have

1:08:20

already gotten up. If we're saying that

1:08:22

I had this cover and I saw Daddy,

1:08:24

I would have already got it. I'm

1:08:27

going to fucking run out. I'm going to run straight out. 5, 10, 15, 20,

1:08:29

25, 30. I

1:08:34

will use my action

1:08:37

to move further. I will

1:08:39

stop here. I will run into her legs, slide

1:08:42

her back, switch, and you get an extra 4ac to

1:08:44

you. Follow

1:08:53

an animal. That's

1:09:02

it. That's the end of my turn. Finishing

1:09:04

your turn. Fern, you're up. You have an extra 4ac for

1:09:06

now. Earthbind

1:09:11

on main firm. I'm

1:09:20

the main firm. Main bad firm. That's

1:09:24

really cool. That

1:09:28

being the point, is a theory saving

1:09:30

throw, right? It's

1:09:35

a real saving throw of 19. Strength

1:09:41

or dexterity? You're probably

1:09:43

right. I'm looking at the wrong one. I

1:09:46

think it's the wrong one. It

1:09:48

is strength saving throw. You're right. That

1:09:51

will be 13. I believe it's a failure, correct?

1:09:54

Yes, it fails. Okay,

1:09:57

so it is. Its flying

1:09:59

speed is reducing. to

1:10:01

zero. Okay.

1:10:07

So you're concentrating on it. So now

1:10:09

if it was intending to fly in

1:10:11

any way, shape or form it can

1:10:18

knock. Oh, I think I just thought she

1:10:20

couldn't move. I didn't realize it was a

1:10:23

flying situation. Even if she's not flying, she

1:10:25

can walk around? She can walk around, but if she wants to fly or

1:10:28

had the ability to fly anywhere, she cannot. Okay.

1:10:32

That I thought... Did you put the ring

1:10:34

on real firm? Because she's concentrating on the

1:10:36

spell. Oh, it's on concentration ring. Whatever.

1:10:39

That was a dumb waste of a spell. That's

1:10:42

okay. Not necessarily. You don't know

1:10:44

what she did. Maybe she was going

1:10:46

to fly around. Okay. All

1:10:49

right. Do you want to move or do

1:10:51

you want to stay put? She keeps

1:10:53

the AC bonus when she's next to you, right? Yeah. I'm going

1:10:55

to stay put. Okay. Got it. All right.

1:10:57

So with that, the

1:11:01

mirror firm that had come through here,

1:11:04

the familiar side

1:11:06

of this terrible dark reflection

1:11:08

of you that you've fully

1:11:10

extended, the creeping darkness

1:11:12

that filters into the alcans of

1:11:14

her expression in her body, she

1:11:17

steps away to the side a

1:11:19

little bit as the magic takes effect, her head slightly

1:11:21

cocked in your direction. You

1:11:24

waste your gifts, Fearne. You're

1:11:27

a disgrace. She

1:11:29

is then immediately

1:11:32

going to... And

1:11:35

dart forward around

1:11:37

to this space and

1:11:40

is going to go ahead and unleash onto you two

1:11:44

shadow claw attacks. Okay.

1:11:46

First one's going to be 25 to hit.

1:11:48

Yeah. All right. With that, you

1:11:52

take... Hello,

1:11:54

Matt. It's

1:11:58

going to be... seven

1:12:00

points of cold damage as the claw

1:12:03

strikes across you with freezing fear. It's

1:12:05

cold damage? So, so... Oh!

1:12:10

Because I had a fun time with the dread captain. Mm-hmm.

1:12:18

Okay, you can use the reaction to become resistant to cold damage until

1:12:20

the end of the turn. I'm

1:12:22

featuring it, okay. I'm at seven points. Yeah, yeah,

1:12:25

yeah. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. You're

1:12:27

gonna do it? Okay. So it reduces it to three points of cold damage. Alright.

1:12:30

As well as three points of psychic damage from

1:12:32

it. So you take six damage total. Okay. Second

1:12:36

attack is gonna be a natural

1:12:39

20. Holy cow. See

1:12:41

what you got, bitch. Alright. That's

1:12:43

gonna be... That's

1:12:47

four. Twelve points of cold damage.

1:12:49

Okay. Does that happen as well?

1:12:52

Uh... So yeah, these are insurance. Thank you. That's

1:12:55

gonna be six points of cold damage. Okay. And two points

1:12:57

of psychic damage. So seven points? Correct.

1:12:59

Yeah, eight total from that one. Eight

1:13:01

total? Yeah. So that's gonna end its

1:13:03

turn. Okay. As

1:13:06

that one sweeps up there, the other ones are going to... Holy

1:13:08

crap. Where are you at, Fart?

1:13:12

I am... Well, I was able to... I'm at 79. Okay. Because

1:13:15

you short-riffed. Because I short-riffed it. Okay.

1:13:18

All the other ones full-on swarm you from

1:13:21

those four corners. They

1:13:23

all have you flanked, so the rest of them get

1:13:25

advantage on their attacks. Whoa! That's a good one. That's

1:13:28

a good one, guys. So that first

1:13:30

one's gonna make two attacks against you for... Uh...

1:13:33

with advantage. That's gonna

1:13:35

be 18 to hit? No. First one.

1:13:38

Misses you or strikes the armor and slides off. Mm-hmm. Its

1:13:41

second attack is going to be... That's gonna

1:13:43

be 22 to hit? Yes. You take... Five

1:13:47

points of cold damage. That's from the

1:13:49

one on that corner. My boost is two. Yeah, 21

1:13:51

is my boost. Okay. I

1:13:54

produced one on this side, so I'm gonna go ahead and attack you

1:13:56

for twice the advantage. Uh, that's

1:13:58

gonna be 15 to hit. to hit, which misses you. 18 to

1:14:05

hit, which I think misses you

1:14:07

with the armor boost, right? That's going to

1:14:10

be 21 to hit.

1:14:13

That just hits. You

1:14:15

take eight points of cold damage. What

1:14:17

about reduce the five kill? It

1:14:20

reduces it on the same turn,

1:14:23

not round. The first one attacked you twice with the crit. It reduced

1:14:32

that one. It hasn't reduced the ones after that, because

1:14:34

technically they're taking their own different rounds. Oh, and that

1:14:36

would be the end of your turn. Is

1:14:40

that what it says? Let me double check, because I... Until

1:14:50

the end of the turn. Oh, that

1:14:52

turn? The turn, so yeah. Okay,

1:14:54

so I might have not done

1:14:56

those other... Five and eight. No, no, you did. I

1:14:59

did, I did. Everything's fine. So I did

1:15:01

the eight, I did the five. Okay. Right, and

1:15:03

so the last two are 17 to hit, which

1:15:05

misses you. And

1:15:08

that's a plus. Wow!

1:15:11

Matt, listen, you were supposed to leave that

1:15:13

a couple of seconds ago. I'm going to

1:15:15

agree. Are you doing a special dice, or

1:15:17

is it a different... Fuck!

1:15:21

You did this! You did this! 14

1:15:25

points of cold damage. 14 points?

1:15:27

Yes. Okay. And that's going to

1:15:29

finish all their turn. Back

1:15:32

to the top of the combat round, Orym, you're

1:15:34

up with Fearne on deck. They're all just swarming,

1:15:36

Fearne. You hear them all, as they're all just

1:15:39

striking and scraping through. You're like dodging, your armor's

1:15:41

catching some of it, some of it's scratching your back,

1:15:43

and you hear Fearne like screech in pain. I did

1:15:45

that, but the ones around finish after they attack start

1:15:47

cackling. I

1:15:51

like you thinking, is there a song? One by one,

1:15:53

we can have it till the reach of two by

1:15:55

two, we fall. What if one dies, another one has

1:15:57

to die? What if it's a prophetic

1:15:59

story? Flora! Flora Bailey! Keep

1:16:01

that to yourself! Don't say

1:16:04

these things. Okay, so bonus

1:16:06

action, bait and switch, and

1:16:08

I slide our positions

1:16:10

around and give you an

1:16:12

additional, fuck, three points at the start

1:16:14

of my next turn. Could be 10!

1:16:16

An additional... Three AC. Three

1:16:18

AC. And on top of what I already

1:16:20

know. No, we said it. Starting it over. Starting

1:16:22

it over, okay, okay, okay. I

1:16:27

am going to think... Grandma,

1:16:30

Mora, your granddaughter is in trouble. Her father

1:16:32

is here and we have no time. And

1:16:34

I start swinging. Okay. Oh yeah,

1:16:37

yeah, yeah, yeah. Call the cavalry, call the cavalry.

1:16:39

Air drop! Uh, I have

1:16:41

no flanking with anybody, so... Okay,

1:16:43

I'll just hit the one next to Fern. The

1:16:47

one next to Fern, which one? Uh, sorry. That

1:16:50

one. This one? Okay. All right. That

1:16:53

is 20 to hit. That

1:16:56

hits. Okay. I'm

1:16:58

not using all my stuff right away. 20, that's 20... No,

1:17:06

that's 12 to hit. 12 points of damage. Okay.

1:17:10

Yeah. Next hit. So

1:17:14

then that's another 12 damage. And

1:17:20

11 points of damage. So

1:17:23

I'm just hacking away at her goat

1:17:25

legs. Low, um, action

1:17:27

surge. Okay, go for it. 23

1:17:31

to hit. That's

1:17:33

11 points of damage. 27

1:17:37

to hit. Nine

1:17:39

points of damage. 24 to

1:17:41

hit. 10

1:17:44

points of damage. Just on one of them. Striking.

1:17:48

Each hit, you carve into it. You see

1:17:51

where the flesh cuts. There's a brief, looks

1:17:53

like a reflection of the light behind it.

1:17:56

Almost like the mirror itself is reflecting within

1:17:58

the wound before it closes and gets... bloodied

1:18:00

with black within. So

1:18:02

does it look like this thing was

1:18:04

hurt or does it look like... It

1:18:06

looks like it's bleeding and the black

1:18:09

kind of blood-like liquid that's dripping from

1:18:11

it but each time you strike it's

1:18:13

like scraping a razor across a glass

1:18:15

surface for a moment and then it

1:18:17

bleeds out. Okay, and the mirror

1:18:19

is shattered on the ground, right? It

1:18:21

looks like it, yeah, it's just left there. Oh, it's

1:18:23

just on the ground. It's not shattered. Well,

1:18:27

there's like broken mirror shards around the ground.

1:18:29

Iron frame, right? Yeah. Uh... Iron

1:18:32

frame! And that's it. I just did my ground.

1:18:34

Okay, that's the fern. That's your fern, you rip.

1:18:37

Okay, I am

1:18:39

going to activate

1:18:43

the spark of Roshan. Yeah, let's go,

1:18:45

let's go! Okay.

1:18:48

Isn't it dangerous to do that red after? Who

1:18:51

gives a shit? This is bad! It'll add

1:18:53

two more points. Two more at

1:18:55

points. Oh! A exhaustion to you.

1:18:58

When I drop it. When you drop it, yeah.

1:19:00

Okay. You're gonna be real... So I'm gonna be real fucking

1:19:02

tired. You're gonna be chill. Just a little sleepy, beep, beep,

1:19:04

beep. Yeah, just a little bit. But I... We

1:19:08

do. We're in trouble. Okay.

1:19:11

It makes it easier to find you. Try it.

1:19:13

The camera's mirror. Absolutely. But they also

1:19:15

feel like letters. We could bonfire in the middle of the arc.

1:19:18

Okay. You just ignite around

1:19:20

you. The air

1:19:22

itself seems to burn in steam as you take on

1:19:25

the elemental form within. Um... That's

1:19:27

an action to make the transformation? That is an action. Okay.

1:19:30

So you still have your bonus action. Um, my bonus action,

1:19:32

uh, I am going

1:19:34

to, um, pop out Mr. Okay.

1:19:39

Shoo-boo. Shoo-boo. Shoo-boo.

1:19:42

Shoo-boo. Shoo-boo. Where do you

1:19:44

want Mr. to land? Uh, I

1:19:46

am going to put him... Put him over there, kind

1:19:48

of by... Yeah, right... Yeah, on the other side, yeah.

1:19:50

Where you can still hit them. Yeah. Uh...

1:19:55

You can, like, screech out and look at the other,

1:19:57

like, various dark friends around. Looking

1:20:01

very unhappy. All right. You're

1:20:04

on the trade. All right. Finishing your

1:20:06

go. The shadow

1:20:08

form is themselves chuckling in

1:20:10

unison. This weird, slightly offset around

1:20:13

you. This

1:20:17

one shifts from this

1:20:19

side here to move

1:20:22

in. And

1:20:25

is going to go ahead and take

1:20:28

another round of two strikes on you. Because

1:20:31

you are in the melee of one of the other

1:20:33

forms, it gets advantage in the attack. You

1:20:36

can see that's going to be

1:20:38

17 to hit.

1:20:42

It does not hit you. But

1:20:44

when they take a melee attack, they take

1:20:47

a d8 with 5 damage. Hit with, which attacks you. Whenever

1:20:49

a creature hits you, sorry. Okay. Second

1:20:52

one against you. That is

1:20:54

going to be a 24 to hit. That

1:20:56

hits. That does hit you. So roll any fire damage. Two

1:21:01

points of fire damage. All right. On

1:21:03

the main shadow form. So

1:21:05

because it's now directly

1:21:07

you are within melee with one

1:21:09

of the other ones, it gets its voice

1:21:12

thief sneak attack on you. So

1:21:14

that means it's going to go ahead and do damage

1:21:16

stand points. That's going

1:21:18

to be 6 points of cold damage. Plus.

1:21:23

6 points of cold damage plus 2 points of psychic damage. 6

1:21:26

points of, say one more time, sorry? 6

1:21:29

points of cold damage. And

1:21:31

6 points of psychic. Plus

1:21:33

an additional 19 points

1:21:37

of sneak attack damage. Oh! You

1:21:40

okay? Mm-hmm. I

1:21:43

need you to make a constitution saving throw. That's

1:21:46

27 points of damage. And a

1:21:48

concentration check. Yes. And

1:21:51

did you call this the voice thief? That does a

1:21:53

damage. Correct. Do

1:21:56

not fail this. I think because

1:21:58

I have an exhaustion, I get it. I get

1:22:00

a I get a disadvantage, okay Okay,

1:22:07

so Both

1:22:11

but the first strike misses the second one when

1:22:14

it strikes you she doesn't go for your

1:22:16

chest her grass goes around

1:22:18

your neck and Carves

1:22:20

across the front of your throat the cold

1:22:23

feeling there's no blood. There's no scar you

1:22:25

see a splash of dark, but it's there's

1:22:27

no blood and then as you go to try and like

1:22:31

Your voice is gone Cannot

1:22:34

cast any spells Yeah,

1:22:50

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Finishing

1:22:55

out We

1:22:57

are going to now continue to kind of swarm

1:22:59

around you Shit

1:23:06

Strike me on your own that's

1:23:08

going to be 16 to

1:23:11

hit V means verbal, right? Yeah,

1:23:19

she's a 20 that misses to the first

1:23:21

one goes straight for you twice And

1:23:23

it just can't quite figure out what part of the flames

1:23:25

to go for in your current form but when I cross

1:23:27

the way there that's going to be a

1:23:31

26 to hit But

1:23:33

let's take fire damage, okay So

1:23:37

okay Seven

1:23:40

points of fire damage and you take six points of cold damage Oh

1:23:48

All right, not doing good the

1:23:51

second attack for that one That's going to be

1:23:53

a 19 to hit misses you because of war

1:23:55

them missus and then the last one is

1:23:57

going to tag you twice natural 20 Oh

1:24:01

my god! Okay, okay. That's gonna, that's

1:24:03

a shitty roll. You take eight points of cold

1:24:05

damage. Okay. And then its

1:24:07

last attack is going to be a... Oh?

1:24:12

Oh? Twenty. Twenty

1:24:14

to hit? Twenty to hit? Okay, okay, okay. Just

1:24:16

to hit. And you take...

1:24:18

That's gonna be all the both. Uh, six points

1:24:20

of cold damage. And also roll

1:24:22

prior damage as well. Oh yeah? Yeah.

1:24:25

Actually, for both of those, right? How

1:24:27

many hits did you do? Eight, twice.

1:24:29

Okay, seven. Okay. And

1:24:32

one. Okay, so what's... You

1:24:37

see as they're striking you, they're chuckling

1:24:39

as they're just swarming you, like

1:24:41

a feeding frenzy of terrifying hunters.

1:24:43

They're just like ripping and tearing

1:24:45

through you and flames and elements

1:24:47

of strange kind of dark

1:24:49

fire tendrils, what would be blood, but now

1:24:51

almost looks like volcanic melted rock kind of

1:24:53

splash out in directions before they cool. And

1:24:56

as they pull back, their fingers are searing and you see

1:24:58

them kind of like mixed from the pain,

1:25:00

but still kind of fully immersed in

1:25:02

the pleasure of the hunt. Orem,

1:25:05

you're watching them just go to town on your flaming friend here.

1:25:08

That finishes their go. Orem, you're up with Fern on

1:25:10

deck. Okay, the one that I talked originally is one

1:25:12

facing her head on, correct? Yeah,

1:25:15

I'm gonna dive through the

1:25:18

flames of Fern's... between Fern's

1:25:20

legs. Okay. Underneath, bait and

1:25:22

switch. Give you a good roll. Seven.

1:25:24

Plus seven to your 18 right now. Plus seven to my 18?

1:25:27

Yes. I

1:25:29

will attack that one in the lead. That

1:25:32

is an 18. 18 hits. Okay.

1:25:35

It's all more, Orem, you got this. It's

1:25:37

10 points of damage. A

1:25:40

natural 20. Yes. Four,

1:25:43

it's just 10 points of damage because I have roll

1:25:45

low for roll low. And

1:25:47

then... Oh, I thought you said you'd smell us.

1:25:49

Seven to hit. No, you didn't. 17

1:25:51

misses. It will use its

1:25:53

reactions. It will use its reaction to use

1:25:55

slippery dash. So now it can use its

1:25:57

reaction to move it to speed without provoking it. opportunity

1:26:00

attacks. So we're just going to go ahead and

1:26:03

move around and shift to

1:26:05

the opposite side of burn.

1:26:07

You don't want to be different dash for

1:26:09

you guys. I'm going to

1:26:12

use my bonus action to

1:26:14

do second wind, just

1:26:16

to give myself a little more HP.

1:26:19

Bonus action, save the day. Come on, come on, come on.

1:26:21

Okay. All right, go ahead and roll

1:26:23

that for yourself. Oh,

1:26:26

16 total. It's

1:26:28

all right. I

1:26:30

use hit dice for my short rest. And

1:26:33

that's it. That's all I got. I'm just holding my

1:26:35

ground, protecting. Okay. Fern, you're up. Okay.

1:26:41

Um, um, um, everything

1:26:45

I have left is verbal. Okay. What I'm going

1:26:47

to do is what I'm going to do. Oh, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh,

1:26:49

whoa, whoa. Mr. Is going to take some shots. Mr.

1:26:52

Is going to take some shots from the shot

1:26:54

with shots, shots, shots, shots, shots. He's

1:26:58

going to take a take some shots at, at main.

1:27:02

Okay. Go for it. Yeah. At main. Okay.

1:27:11

Um, oh, we're still far. We're

1:27:14

still far. Yeah. As of right now, you guys

1:27:16

are just starting to get your clothes on. Well,

1:27:19

we were over the wall. We were over the

1:27:21

wall. I was

1:27:23

going, you guys are going further ahead. I'm just

1:27:26

clinging to the side of Dorian's face. One

1:27:29

minute. Yeah. That you guys

1:27:32

all started when he sent the message and he sent the message

1:27:34

right before it started. 21 to hit 21

1:27:36

hits. Okay. And it's, uh,

1:27:39

six points of damage. Whatever

1:27:41

fire damage. And

1:27:43

I'm going to, that's what

1:27:47

I got last guy. I'm going to,

1:27:49

I'm going to deactivate the spark of,

1:27:51

where's Orym? Shit.

1:27:54

Okay. It goes boom, boom. It goes boom, boom. Well,

1:27:58

I think it's going to be I

1:28:00

mean, you're going to die. Okay,

1:28:10

in that case, fucking... But so

1:28:12

could Orem. No, he's fine. Nuke

1:28:15

your friends to save yourself. Okay, all

1:28:17

right. I can't talk right now.

1:28:20

I'm going to deactivate. You're

1:28:25

dropping your form? Well,

1:28:27

you're wanting to stay on your own. I'm

1:28:29

just confirming. I'm just

1:28:31

confirming. I need to get confirming. I

1:28:35

know he was so excited. He's

1:28:37

excited. He's barely containing it.

1:28:41

I'm going to do it. I'm

1:28:43

going to do it. I'm going to do it.

1:28:47

You're going to die. I'm going to

1:28:49

die. I'm going to hit. I

1:28:53

forgot to ask you to roll for concentration on the earth line. I did

1:28:55

and I failed. That was

1:28:57

the one. It's been

1:28:59

a very effective spell. That

1:29:01

was for the voice piece. Oh, okay.

1:29:05

Oh, wait. I rolled again.

1:29:07

It's a advantage. Okay,

1:29:10

17. 17

1:29:13

would be okay. Okay, so it still saves? Cool.

1:29:17

So I'm going to deactivate.

1:29:21

The DC for that is 18. Dexterity

1:29:23

saving throw. All treasures

1:29:26

within 20 feet. 20 feet. And

1:29:29

it is. That's all of them including.

1:29:32

What was the DC in that?

1:29:36

Say again. What was the DC? All

1:29:40

right, so for the main one. Natural 20. So

1:29:43

they succeed. I'm kidding. I've rolled all those

1:29:45

things. Not you, the main one. That

1:29:48

one is going to be 16. It's

1:29:50

a failure. A

1:29:53

natural one failure. Super failure. And that's going to

1:29:55

be a. So many ones. That's going to be

1:29:57

a 20. So. Succeed,

1:30:01

fail, fail, succeed. Okay. Okay, so

1:30:03

half damage. What

1:30:09

the heck?

1:30:13

Relately. Hang

1:30:16

on. Is there

1:30:18

about a second ahead or in a band? Yeah.

1:30:21

I thought we were going to take a nap

1:30:23

and talk about our feelings. I

1:30:25

know! We're taking a nap. What

1:30:27

the fuck? I'm

1:30:30

glad you guys got some snuggle time. Like

1:30:33

two hours. Both

1:30:36

with my cranks. Way more than that. That

1:30:39

was like six hours. Okay, that's way

1:30:41

better. Unless you were

1:30:43

awake for a while. It was

1:30:45

the non-hurty arm. 23

1:30:49

plus 18. Uh, hey.

1:30:57

That's cool. Fuck

1:31:01

you. Take 20 or 21. As

1:31:10

you revert

1:31:12

back to your form and step back onto

1:31:14

your hooves, the heat emerging

1:31:16

around you in waves, you see as two

1:31:19

of the shadow fragment ferns

1:31:21

cackling and

1:31:25

themselves just shatter out. Okay,

1:31:27

okay, okay. Both

1:31:31

of these look very hurt. They're

1:31:34

very hurt. Alright, alright.

1:31:36

Was that an action or was that like a bonus

1:31:38

action? That was a, that was a, that was

1:31:41

a, I'm just saying, is it like a free action? Is

1:31:43

it a free action to drop the form?

1:31:45

Do something else. It was an action. And

1:31:49

then I already did a bonus action with Mr. Flamin's room.

1:31:51

Do you have any, do you get

1:31:53

like a round of something or are

1:31:55

you now just down? No. That's

1:31:59

it. That's all she wrote. I

1:32:01

should take two points of exhaustion now, so now I'm at

1:32:03

three. Because

1:32:06

I had one. Right, so it'd be three.

1:32:08

Got it. Well,

1:32:10

you had two, because you hadn't finished the full rest, because you

1:32:12

had two at the end of last. So now I have four.

1:32:15

So you have four points. What happens if four points of exhaustion

1:32:17

be in? I don't know if I've ever

1:32:19

met anyone that's hit point. Hit point maximum is half. Oh,

1:32:23

wow. That is better for her right now. No, that's

1:32:25

true. Wait, so. Disadvantage

1:32:28

on everything. And you're

1:32:30

like moving speed and slow. Moving speed, have. You

1:32:33

got that, Chili-neck. Disadvantage on ability checks,

1:32:35

disadvantage on attacks and saving throws. I'll

1:32:37

be fine, I'll be fine. I'll be

1:32:40

fine. You're good. All right,

1:32:42

to finish your turn, Vern? Yeah. All right. Cackling.

1:32:45

This one's gonna go ahead and attempt to lift off

1:32:48

the ground, but cannot because of the earth mine. Oh!

1:32:52

Yay! I thought it went through the draw. Something

1:32:54

came in handy. No, she actually had help. She

1:32:56

was able to keep it. She's gonna go ahead and

1:32:58

dart up here. Why?

1:33:01

Why? And is going to go ahead and attempt to

1:33:03

leap onto the platform over there. She can't. She's

1:33:08

on the corner, barely. What's

1:33:12

she trying to do? What's she trying to do? I

1:33:16

don't like it. There we go. She's

1:33:18

dead! Make up in the field. Either

1:33:20

of them are ready to put the. Putty. Putty's

1:33:23

gonna need to put this one. Putty, putty. Putty,

1:33:25

putty, putty, putty, putty, putty. Putty. Putty.

1:33:28

Putty. Putty. Putty. Putty.

1:33:31

Putty. Putty. You

1:33:34

want it, you want it? You want

1:33:36

it, blue. What? She's gonna go

1:33:38

ahead and. Too fast, oh, she's good. She's gonna

1:33:40

go ahead and put her hand up here. Oh,

1:33:42

I get it. They do not get their

1:33:44

advantage on the attacks, but they're both going to take two

1:33:46

void dart strikes at you. As they stand

1:33:49

up there, their hands begin to crack with

1:33:51

dark black-purple energy and they. Swoosh,

1:33:54

swoosh, swoosh, just laughing into the air. They

1:33:56

throw them at you. The central one

1:33:58

up there on the far end. is going to head and roll.

1:34:01

That's going to be 22 to hit.

1:34:06

No? No! No! This

1:34:08

time. Because I have a 24 right now. All

1:34:12

right. Plus seven. Second attack is going

1:34:14

to be 20 to

1:34:17

hit. Woo!

1:34:21

They both managed to just go wide. Over here at

1:34:23

the corner of the dark. What a

1:34:25

motherfucking halfling shield! That's going to be a 26 to

1:34:27

hit. Oh,

1:34:29

that is. All right. Roll low. Do

1:34:31

you ever react to roll? Roll low. Roll low.

1:34:34

I know. I already looked. This is

1:34:36

going to be six points

1:34:38

of psychic damage. Oh, you've turned away. How

1:34:40

many? Six points. I am

1:34:43

down. Oh! Woo! OK.

1:34:47

OK. Burn falls to the ground unconscious. Wow. That's

1:34:49

part of the void dart. If

1:34:51

she hits, she can teleport to

1:34:53

an unoccupied space within five feet of the target. What?

1:34:57

No! No! And

1:34:59

with the second attack, it's going to go ahead and strike you.

1:35:02

Oh! That's your death save. What

1:35:04

is happening? That's an auto

1:35:06

hit. Or

1:35:09

advantage on the hit. That's

1:35:12

going to be a 25 to hit. How

1:35:15

much was this? Four. It

1:35:18

hit. It hit. It hit. Auto

1:35:20

crits. That's two death saves. Are

1:35:25

you allowed to die? Why should I die? You have to

1:35:27

die. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.

1:35:31

What is happening to our campaign? It's OK. It's

1:35:33

OK. Here for it. It's OK. It.

1:35:37

That finishes their turn. Orem, you're up. I

1:35:39

think I have a healing potion still, because I had

1:35:42

two or three at one point, and I

1:35:44

used one in the last battle. I think they got...

1:35:47

I think I gave you one after you were up. Let

1:35:49

me bet you with this. I have.

1:35:52

I have a two more, because I know we move things around.

1:35:54

I have way more than I'm supposed to have. I think I

1:35:56

still have one. I'm not going to

1:35:58

push it. to say I have

1:36:01

one, because I did not have four. I

1:36:03

am going to start

1:36:06

pouring it into Fern's mouth, that's an

1:36:08

action, right? It's an action to administer

1:36:10

it to an unconscious. I do that,

1:36:13

and then I step over her and hold

1:36:15

up my shield and give her an additional two.

1:36:19

How much does she heal?

1:36:22

Oh, right. That's

1:36:25

two. It's

1:36:28

just two? No, nine. Thirteen

1:36:31

plus four, right? So, seventeen. So

1:36:34

you heal seventeen, you're now back to consciousness? Okay.

1:36:36

How do I even bring

1:36:39

it back? Oh, here we

1:36:41

go. Seventeen? I see. Seventeen? Add sixteen.

1:36:45

And now your AC bonus is just plus two. That's

1:36:51

it. I use my action to do the

1:36:53

potion, and I'm standing over her to hold

1:36:55

up my shield. That's a wowie wowie, sorry.

1:36:57

I fucked this up. No, I'm fine, you're

1:36:59

fine. So, seventeen hit points,

1:37:01

you're up Fern. So

1:37:03

now, finishing your turn, you're over her

1:37:05

body on the ground, shield out, you're

1:37:07

conscious, on the ground, prone, the shadow

1:37:09

of Orym over you, like, desperately guarding

1:37:11

you with your shield, you're

1:37:13

back into yourself, your

1:37:16

voice is returned, because it's been around,

1:37:19

and she was not actually able

1:37:21

to voice thief you from up close. It only

1:37:23

lasts until the end of the next round, so

1:37:25

your voice is returned, you're conscious. What are you

1:37:27

going to do? Okay. All right. So,

1:37:29

what we're going to do here is, scorching ray.

1:37:35

What level? The

1:37:38

highest I got, which is third. And you can't escape,

1:37:40

you can't turn into a fucking bird, bounce, like... Orym,

1:37:43

you're still there. Big bird. So third

1:37:45

level is four rays, correct? Because I

1:37:47

brought out mister, so I only have, that

1:37:49

was my last, I wildshaped into the cockatiel, and

1:37:51

then I brought out mister. So

1:37:54

that's four rays of third level, right? Four rays, Steve.

1:37:56

So four attacks, who are you raining them at? I'm

1:37:58

maiming a mat, Mike. main first?

1:38:08

All the main one? All the main one. Well,

1:38:10

let's do... We'll roll for one. First

1:38:13

one? First one is... Oh,

1:38:20

well my baby, that baby, that baby, that baby, that. Yeah,

1:38:22

I feel like it's really hot. It's so

1:38:24

hot. So hot. Uh,

1:38:26

uh, uh, 20? 20

1:38:30

hits. Okay. You're never getting that. So

1:38:32

go ahead and roll damage on that one. Okay. It's

1:38:35

a 2d6. The

1:38:37

second one is 17. 17 misses.

1:38:40

Okay. That

1:38:42

was so noisy. Bitch.

1:38:49

Four points of damage. Four points of fire damage. Okay,

1:38:51

third one. Uh,

1:38:57

um, natural one? I'm going to manage. Last

1:38:59

one? Uh,

1:39:02

natural 19? Okay, that definitely hits. Roll damage.

1:39:04

Um, six points of damage. Six

1:39:07

points of fire damage. God, that

1:39:09

was such a shitty thing. Yeah, for a number of

1:39:11

reasons. How do you want to do this? Oh! That

1:39:15

fire blast took him down to only 10 hit points.

1:39:17

You did four and six. Oh! Oh!

1:39:21

Okay, is that me? Mayme? Mayme?

1:39:24

Mayme? Mayme? Mayme?

1:39:26

Okay, okay. Um, I'm just

1:39:28

gonna, I'm just, just,

1:39:31

just, I'm just gonna get

1:39:33

up on my knees and my muff, muff,

1:39:35

muff. I can't do this. I can't

1:39:37

make this cool. I just shoot him out from,

1:39:39

from my, my force. Okay, so standing up there

1:39:41

at the top, you see the morning in the

1:39:43

red light, the shadow version of you that's kind

1:39:46

of taunted the exterior, the very fair edge of

1:39:48

your, your dreams and nightmares, cackling up above. As

1:39:51

you unleash this, this

1:39:53

series of blasts of flame, so then they go wide

1:39:55

and your fury, the last one strikes,

1:39:57

true as it does, you see it impacts. It

1:40:00

seems to vanish. It continues

1:40:02

to laugh. Takes

1:40:05

one big breath and you watch as this low, dull, glowing

1:40:08

crack kind of pfft, pfft,

1:40:10

pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft. It begins

1:40:13

to splinter throughout before it

1:40:15

shatters like a white hot mirror into a

1:40:17

thousand pieces on top, just pfft, scattering

1:40:20

out and pfft, plummeting to the ground in

1:40:23

hundreds and hundreds of shards of broken glass.

1:40:26

And then I just look at Mr. Please help.

1:40:29

And I'm gonna have him take

1:40:32

the flaming seed and shoot at the last standing.

1:40:35

Last one, go for it. I can go ahead and roll.

1:40:38

And the last one stays up even though Prime went

1:40:40

down, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah,

1:40:43

that's a natural 19 plus stuff. That

1:40:47

hits. Um. Okay,

1:40:56

okay. That

1:41:00

will be, uh. Who

1:41:03

taught her? Why am I, where are you? Sorry.

1:41:07

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

1:41:09

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

1:41:12

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

1:41:15

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

1:41:19

Sorry. Okay, guess

1:41:22

who used his right ammunition in the gun? Oh, what'd

1:41:24

you say? Guess who used his right ammunition in his gun. Whoop.

1:41:26

Yay! It's

1:41:29

like one of those big, like. Hot guns,

1:41:31

like, pop guns. Like, yeah. Yeah.

1:41:33

It's more like a potato gun. It's like a potato gun. Yeah!

1:41:36

By the shoes, poop now. Small potato guns. Um.

1:41:39

Additional fire damage from ability too. Well,

1:41:42

plus also, which I've been forgetting to

1:41:44

do, I roll

1:41:48

a D8 because the enhanced spawned. Correct.

1:41:51

Oh, great. Yeah. That

1:41:53

chicken's gonna work so much better now.

1:41:55

Yeah, now I'm gonna win. Uh, okay.

1:42:00

It's a plus, it's so... It's

1:42:07

hard to read. Nine

1:42:11

points of damage. Nine points of

1:42:13

fire damage. How much? Nine.

1:42:16

Nine points of fire damage. It's so hard to

1:42:18

read when you're freaking out. It's

1:42:20

so hard because you can't find anything. Get

1:42:23

shot with the flaming excrement from Mr. Pistols.

1:42:34

Get out. Shadowfern

1:42:37

takes the hit. This is standing

1:42:39

there and still remains standing. Does

1:42:43

that finish your turn? Yes, it does. At the end

1:42:45

of your turn, the Shadowfern, still looking forward,

1:42:47

still the flames from the impact. Mr.

1:42:50

Strike still stands there before flickers and

1:42:52

then just... The

1:42:56

vanishes. They disappear

1:42:58

at the end of the turn. But

1:43:02

here, in the midst of

1:43:04

this heavy breathing,

1:43:07

adrenaline pumping quiet...

1:43:10

How many people did you survive with? How much

1:43:12

roll am I back? Fuck! I

1:43:15

start straining my ears for that. Oh

1:43:17

no! Yeah!

1:43:21

That's a water! And

1:43:24

you glance up as the

1:43:26

edge of this rock surface seems to shift. And

1:43:33

you notice the chameleon color change of

1:43:37

the massive fae dragon form of glomglut that was just

1:43:39

perched across that had changed the color of its body

1:43:41

and wings to blend in with the

1:43:43

surroundings. Now

1:43:47

stands up and looks

1:43:51

down at the two of you as

1:43:53

you see the sorrow lord, Aetion Zafuda,

1:43:55

on its mount,

1:43:57

just clapping. So

1:44:03

it seems, maybe

1:44:06

pressed a little closer to the edge. Maybe

1:44:09

it's not self-preservation. Maybe

1:44:12

it's protectiveness. Oh my

1:44:15

god. Well,

1:44:19

we are always, always, enemy-hungry. He

1:44:25

just stands there looking up atop. As

1:44:28

he, kind

1:44:31

of now sitting atop the dragon, doesn't even

1:44:33

pay mind to you. As I

1:44:35

stand up, I'm going to stand up in front of

1:44:37

him. You

1:44:42

are capable of greatness, Ferb. Why

1:44:45

do you insist on shackling yourself

1:44:47

to low-born sheep? Why

1:44:53

do you cling to shreds of

1:44:55

morality when your heart

1:44:57

screams? To be free,

1:45:00

to take what you wish. What

1:45:05

do you think I wish for? I

1:45:20

don't see any more. That's

1:45:25

what I care about. Why

1:45:29

would I want to go to this place? They

1:45:34

all seem like they're fucking miserable. I'm

1:45:39

going to be attesting to all my need. Then

1:45:43

you pass. Now

1:45:52

I know what's important to you. Perhaps

1:46:00

I need to develop

1:46:03

an expression. I

1:46:09

see such promise in you. A

1:46:12

glimmer beneath your halloween words.

1:46:17

You will emerge your true self. You

1:46:20

are my child. I

1:46:23

know our nature. We

1:46:27

hold it back, but it's fighting to be

1:46:30

set free. Lulith

1:46:35

is vanguard and fault and dust. Seminar

1:46:38

and her court legacy can crumble for while

1:46:40

I care. Let

1:46:43

your field of black become

1:46:45

the Vourer of Gods. May

1:46:53

you take what is rightfully yours and

1:46:56

cast to ask my disappointment in you. Embrace

1:47:00

your essence. Step

1:47:02

into your destiny. I'll

1:47:05

be watching. As

1:47:12

Glumglut takes to the sky, screeching

1:47:16

up above the sunrise light now,

1:47:18

beginning to show a peaking

1:47:21

bright orange threatening to

1:47:23

break through. At

1:47:25

that same time, shortly after that screech, you

1:47:28

hear bells begin to ring from the

1:47:31

fortress across the way. The rest of you,

1:47:33

as you're climbing over the wall, hear that

1:47:36

screech up in the sky above. Immediately,

1:47:38

the soldiers start, In

1:47:40

the sky! Attack and dragon! Dragon! Bells

1:47:43

going off, people start to mount Ballista, and

1:47:46

you watch as Glumglut begins to circle

1:47:48

above where you are. As

1:47:52

it does, you

1:47:54

begin to hear the

1:47:57

sounds of Ballista being let loose. and

1:48:03

then the ground about 15 feet from where you stand.

1:48:06

Maybe closer to the wall. You

1:48:16

walk in a turn and begin heading in the direction of the

1:48:18

fortress, and begin to see these mounted

1:48:20

arcane defensive weapons that are being

1:48:22

charged up in this faint bluish

1:48:24

green glow. As Gloamglap,

1:48:28

there's a slow swoop over both of you. One

1:48:32

final pass by, two of them let

1:48:34

loose their charge. Bolts

1:48:37

of deep blue-green energy go striking hundreds

1:48:40

of feet out in their direction, just

1:48:43

barely argument over where the two of you

1:48:45

stand and just passing below where the dragon swooped.

1:48:48

As it begins

1:48:51

to fly off eastward in the direction of

1:48:54

the Tishtian site, more

1:48:57

just a simplest, they begin to arc off in

1:48:59

the distance. You feel you are

1:49:01

no longer in immediate danger to the array.

1:49:04

As you begin to approach, you

1:49:07

begin to see your friends up on the wall, as all

1:49:09

of you begin to see now, Fearne

1:49:11

and Orm approaching, looking

1:49:13

a bit harried, Fearne

1:49:16

looking in a rough place. Fearne,

1:49:20

I almost didn't come after you. I don't know

1:49:22

what I would have done without you here. I thought you were going

1:49:24

out to pee. What?

1:49:27

No, I, there was just a

1:49:30

really cute creature, and I

1:49:32

followed it, which is the dumb thing to do, but

1:49:34

I'm sorry. Come here, Ann, let's just

1:49:37

get back inside. Hey. Hey!

1:49:39

Wha-ha! What happened? But we came

1:49:41

as quick as we heard! Oh god, you look like

1:49:44

shit. Yeah. You feel like

1:49:46

it? Dropping the

1:49:48

hammer down for another handheld to

1:49:50

handle to get up and over the... Come

1:49:54

on, come on. Maybe we find the door. They

1:49:57

will find him. Let's go around the front door. Yeah, yeah,

1:49:59

okay. Thanks, Doris. I'm

1:50:01

gonna flip down then. Everybody

1:50:04

down, who's coming down? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll kind of

1:50:06

walk with them. Fern just got rocked.

1:50:09

Really? I'm gonna come straight up to her and put

1:50:11

my arm on her shoulder. Are you okay? And

1:50:14

then as I do that, she's gonna feel

1:50:16

a little more from my hand, and I'll cast Pure

1:50:18

Wounds for sure. Like, she looks bad, bad, right? Yeah,

1:50:21

I gotcha. Good.

1:50:25

And... four, three, four,

1:50:29

five... Seventeen. Go

1:50:32

ahead. Hey,

1:50:35

Daddy. Daddy's here.

1:50:37

What did he want? I

1:50:40

can't believe you're still standing. Well,

1:50:42

he didn't want to hear me.

1:50:45

I think he just... he

1:50:48

wanted to test me. For what? I

1:50:53

don't know. He

1:50:56

said something about... a hollow gate?

1:51:00

Did you hear that? It's

1:51:02

in the me like he was talking about

1:51:04

Fern. In

1:51:08

the vessel. I

1:51:11

remember he... He

1:51:14

feels like he manufactured you. You...

1:51:21

sort of revealed yourself. He's going to

1:51:23

come looking for her. He made

1:51:25

it pretty obvious he's coming back. He wants you to

1:51:28

be the one that Pidathos goes into. The

1:51:31

vessel. I'm

1:51:38

sorry, did you say that dragon was Pearl's

1:51:40

father? Perhaps that. I

1:51:43

can't believe there's like a mean

1:51:45

guy who rides the dragon. Oh, okay.

1:51:48

But the dragon's name is Gunglot. How cool is

1:51:50

that? The dale's name is Shannon Wood,

1:51:52

the thuda. All right. Look, I'm free.

1:51:56

Good enough. It's

1:52:00

like a big mess. Well, we

1:52:03

can't let him take you if that's what he

1:52:05

wants. No, no. No. How

1:52:08

did he find you? That's what

1:52:10

I was thinking. We've

1:52:13

made our presence pretty well known.

1:52:16

Sure. We bamfed out

1:52:18

from the moon. We walked a distance.

1:52:20

We were asleep in a tent and

1:52:23

covered from the sky. He came through

1:52:25

the bridge as well, right after

1:52:27

us. We're

1:52:29

in an outpost not that far from

1:52:31

the Malleus Key. It just kind

1:52:34

of teased me a little bit. I woke up and there was

1:52:36

a cute little creature and I followed it. You've

1:52:38

got to stop following cute creatures from...

1:52:40

I know, I know, I know, I

1:52:43

know. It didn't

1:52:45

seem like it was... How

1:52:47

about we compromise with just a buddy?

1:52:50

Yeah. Yeah. There's no reason to

1:52:52

start. I didn't want to wake anybody up because everybody

1:52:54

was so tired. It was dumb. It was dumb. I

1:52:58

understand. Bring a friend. But I'll bring a

1:53:00

friend this time. I feel like

1:53:02

shit. Do you have something from

1:53:04

your dad's? Terrible. Do you have

1:53:06

jewelry or a piece of armor or something from

1:53:08

him? Like an heirloom? He shook off the people

1:53:11

at the bottom of the Malleus Key. So

1:53:13

how was he able to come right to you?

1:53:15

And we've got to tell

1:53:18

the tempest because this place is compromised. Yeah. Yeah.

1:53:21

I mean, it's just me? Like because I'm a

1:53:25

kid? I mean, maybe

1:53:27

they know where this encampment is and maybe

1:53:29

they said a little... What kind of creature was it?

1:53:31

It was a sugar glider. Whatever that is. Oh man,

1:53:33

yeah. What was I supposed to do? As

1:53:36

a note too, like this fortress isn't... You

1:53:40

know, it's an encampment that's built to defend itself

1:53:42

and the position where it is... Defensible.

1:53:46

It's defensible but it's not cloaked or

1:53:48

anything. I

1:53:50

mean, it would have been a little

1:53:52

rodent was able to get in. I was running out.

1:53:54

Yeah. He

1:53:56

was flying over the city being like, Callaway!

1:54:01

our impression of this place

1:54:03

where they've gathered, they're not broadcasting

1:54:06

their presence here, right? Yes, people

1:54:08

might know that this fortress

1:54:10

or whatever it is is here, but they're not making

1:54:13

a big to-do about being here, or are they?

1:54:16

Not at the moment, but you do know that many soldiers currently

1:54:19

are encamped here and more on the way. Some

1:54:22

sky ships do come, as

1:54:25

well as others that are magically transported. It

1:54:27

is a slow building of forces,

1:54:29

both to play defense to

1:54:32

these various portraits around Malieski

1:54:34

and to mount an eventual offense

1:54:37

once the information

1:54:39

that you've gained can be consolidated with

1:54:41

the various captains to decide on a plan.

1:54:45

Okay. You definitely tried to murder him

1:54:48

on Rurits, so. But

1:54:50

he lets you live. Yeah,

1:54:52

yeah. He spoke a lot of

1:54:55

honeyed words. He

1:54:58

wants to recruit her. And

1:55:00

it sounds like from the way he was talking that

1:55:04

he could give a fuck about Ludenus or

1:55:06

any of the others. Well, he never got a long coat on.

1:55:13

He's going to fight for himself. He needs to

1:55:16

be a spirit. My

1:55:19

mom says she's not with Ludenus. Your

1:55:21

dad says he's not with Ludenus. He's got every man out for

1:55:23

himself. Well, you know,

1:55:27

I'm a deep believer in judging somebody by the company

1:55:29

they keep, so. Also,

1:55:31

not a bad thing. The more

1:55:33

fractured they are. The weaker they

1:55:35

are. Yeah, boy. One

1:55:40

more time. What's from Ludenus? Fill

1:55:42

in the room. Good. Fill you in.

1:55:44

Ah, hurry. We'll fill in Dorian as

1:55:46

we head back towards the tents to

1:55:48

try and get these two to complete. We'll fill you in, Robbie, on

1:55:51

the break. Yeah. First it out. I'm

1:55:53

RP-ing Laura. LAUGHTER As

1:55:58

the two who are working... for

1:56:00

where, from the reheat and encounter, finish off the rest of

1:56:02

their evening's rest, the rest of you take the time in

1:56:04

the early morning to fill Dorian in

1:56:06

with some of the more complicated details

1:56:09

of the Ruby Vanguard, Ludmus Deleth, what

1:56:12

has transpired and what is to come. As

1:56:14

the sun rise in the early morning and warmth

1:56:16

begins to take the Hellcatch Valley, we're going

1:56:18

to take a break. Did he

1:56:20

say the hallowed gate or hallowed cage? The

1:56:23

hallowed cage. Hallowed, hallowed,

1:56:25

hallowed, hallowed, hallowed cage.

1:56:27

Hello? Where I'm

1:56:29

totally passed out in the goat leg, Chris. I

1:56:32

think that is what you did. After all.

1:56:34

Yeah, like petition site is the overall site

1:56:36

where the mountain is. So when you wake

1:56:38

up you'll be three down. Three down of

1:56:41

this crater right around. Really? The other side

1:56:43

of my wall. Well, there were so many

1:56:45

bad moves. I'm not known. I'm far west

1:56:47

of the petition. Think about it. You had knocked

1:56:49

out those two. That would

1:56:51

have been it. And fire damage every time they

1:56:53

hit you and also fucking jumped you in the

1:56:55

alley. I forgot that there was a lot of deep

1:56:58

charters in my house. You were one death save

1:57:00

away, so it was good. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah,

1:57:02

that was, it couldn't have gone any better.

1:57:04

Well, I can't know. Go to the right. Okay,

1:57:07

okay. We're gonna go. There's

1:57:10

good conversations for after the episode.

1:57:12

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now... what can I say. DEC

1:58:30

the open blue sky with

1:58:32

the occasional distant white cloud in

1:58:34

the distance still

1:58:36

overshadowed by the ever-present

1:58:39

glowing beam in red moon. But

1:58:44

the fortress is still a bit of buzz from the

1:58:46

events of this morning. There have

1:58:48

been long bouts of quiet with

1:58:51

short skirmishes with whether

1:58:53

it be exterior guardians or testing

1:58:58

scouts from the

1:59:00

vanguard's positioning. But

1:59:02

the sight of that beast has definitely set

1:59:04

everyone on edge. But

1:59:09

you are awake and the day is yours. What

1:59:11

would you like to do? I

1:59:16

did want to grab the what's

1:59:18

left of the mirrors before. Is

1:59:22

that something that we can retroax our voice? Sure.

1:59:25

Yeah. You say you grabbed the

1:59:27

remnants of the shattered mirror and

1:59:29

it is about this large

1:59:31

here in its hand size. Kind

1:59:34

of a cool twisted, spiraling

1:59:38

dark iron metal exterior.

1:59:41

And just the frame or pieces of the mirror

1:59:43

too? Just anything that's left.

1:59:47

Handful. Shatter. Yeah. I

1:59:52

don't know about you, but it does not feel safe

1:59:55

here. I

1:59:58

know it's protected in the battlements

2:00:00

and everything else, but we

2:00:03

got to get off the axe. Not just because of Fern.

2:00:05

We stirred

2:00:08

up a hornet's nest up there. They're going to come

2:00:10

looking for us. I think there's a

2:00:12

lot of liability to these people more

2:00:15

than anything. I think we are

2:00:17

the axe. I don't know. I don't think

2:00:20

there's anywhere to go anymore. I don't know.

2:00:23

Running seems silly at this point.

2:00:25

We could get further away than

2:00:27

a hundred feet from the Malleus

2:00:29

Key. We're a little close.

2:00:31

I think we fill everyone in on what's happening

2:00:34

and what we found. We

2:00:36

find out from Everrowa more about

2:00:38

the plans. She mentioned Aeor, right?

2:00:42

That's where Loomis is right now. We

2:00:45

have to tell everyone. I want to get

2:00:47

a better sense of what everyone

2:00:49

here at the Tempest, all of them, intend

2:00:51

to do next. Maybe we can

2:00:55

call a meeting, bring

2:00:57

Everrowa, bring everyone, and swap

2:01:01

info. Do we do it now? Yeah.

2:01:04

Do we feel like there's any

2:01:06

merit while we're still on this

2:01:08

side of the globe to visiting

2:01:11

Imaharijo regarding

2:01:14

FCG? Or is that? The fragments that

2:01:16

we also got from where we were

2:01:19

up on the moon. I would much

2:01:21

rather be going somewhere than running from

2:01:23

somewhere. Isn't Joe here?

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He's an ambassador. Oh, wait. I

2:01:29

think he's here, right? Was

2:01:34

Joe here or was he with

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the Ashari? You're

2:01:39

uncertain where he is at the moment. But

2:01:42

he had been with Keyleth. Oh, we left him

2:01:44

in Whitestone. Okay.

2:01:49

He's still distracted. Keyleth

2:01:52

first? Yeah. Okay.

2:01:57

You gather your things for the day and... take

2:02:00

long for you to notice

2:02:03

that the energy is a little

2:02:07

lifted. There is presence and

2:02:09

purpose to some

2:02:11

of the more elite guard

2:02:13

within this space. The central war

2:02:15

tent where you were first introduced

2:02:18

to some of the Exandrian Accord here, you

2:02:21

can see the security detail around it is a bit

2:02:23

thick. It gives the

2:02:25

sense that there at least is some sort of

2:02:27

important figures meeting. If

2:02:31

you approach around this time, you

2:02:34

can see partway

2:02:36

in through the central open tent that there

2:02:38

are figures having a discussion, and

2:02:41

you can hear the voice of the Tempest,

2:02:43

beyond the edge of the material

2:02:46

itself, as well as a few

2:02:49

other hushed voices. As

2:02:51

you approach the guard, they take note

2:02:54

and one of them steps forward. There

2:02:57

is a meeting. But it

2:02:59

is important to speak to

2:03:02

the council. ASHLEY and LAURA,

2:03:04

it is, if you could tell the tempest

2:03:07

of the Xavier

2:03:11

Blade. MATT, circle her

2:03:13

here. LIAM, steps inside behind the cloak. It's

2:03:15

a brief little whisper. MATT, you

2:03:19

may enter. MATT, pulls aside and you

2:03:21

enter within and you can see the central

2:03:23

pillar of the tent has

2:03:26

been pulled open since a lot of the

2:03:28

sunlight comes in and fills the space with

2:03:30

the warm light amongst the other hanging

2:03:33

chandeliers that are affixed on the various

2:03:35

chains and cables that sit within the

2:03:38

center, keeping the area well lit, regardless

2:03:40

of the shading. You can

2:03:43

see the large table, it's bubbles spread

2:03:45

out, and present indeed

2:03:47

is Keyleth, the voice of the tempest.

2:03:50

You also see Topher Batoris

2:03:53

and Ki Mandozzi. The

2:03:56

earthquake of Groom is not present, or

2:03:59

any other figures, these three currently having

2:04:01

a conversation. As you

2:04:03

step inside, you see Keyleth turns and smiles

2:04:05

and nods, but you can see the lines

2:04:09

under her eyes. She looks like she probably hasn't

2:04:11

slept in a bit, and there

2:04:13

is a bit of a lean to her body against

2:04:15

the table. Does

2:04:18

she still look like she's

2:04:20

recovering from her wounds?

2:04:26

Best you can tell, let

2:04:29

me get inside her medicine check, actually. Okay,

2:04:33

they're the same? Are

2:04:36

they? They are. Thirteen.

2:04:41

Thirteen. You don't see any

2:04:44

visible wounds, and

2:04:46