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Yeah. Regardless. How

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This is today's verbal. Oh, that's cool.

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Nice try. Yeah, excited to do this. You

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know, this is still a new-ish rule set for us

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as well. We played a number of games and things have changed

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many times. If we ever get a little bit of

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a sing-goosey with it, just know that we're also testing it alongside you.

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But nevertheless, I

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believe that concludes our announcement. So let's

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go ahead and jump into tonight's episode

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of Critical Role Place Echo.

4:42

Yay! Oh, my god. Oh,

4:44

my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god.

4:46

Oh, my god. We don't have any opening titles, so

4:48

now we're just going to begin. Oh, my god. Oh,

4:50

my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god.

4:52

Perfect. So. So.

4:55

Mm. Mm. Welcome, one

4:58

and all, to the realm of Lockspire,

5:02

a rolling collection of winding land masses

5:04

that tumble from the mountains of creation

5:06

into the surrounding seas that coil between

5:08

the broken expanse of grassy hills, rocky

5:10

crags, and mysterious overgrowth from the length

5:13

of the builder's bridge to the distant

5:15

ruins of Nyx. Here

5:17

beneath the hallows above, mortals

5:19

mingle with the great many relics and ruins

5:22

of ages long past, now left

5:24

to crumble beneath ambition and

5:27

progress. Here the echoes

5:29

of traumatic wars linger in unhealing scars

5:31

that stretch the land, while

5:33

remnants of vibrant and magical beings

5:36

dance between the sunbeams and ancient

5:38

places of thrumming power. Here,

5:42

the common folks seek revelry and purpose in a

5:44

world that churns in a constant state of

5:46

change. Fortune and

5:48

glory ever call to many, and

5:51

life in Lockspire is rarely dull for those

5:54

with an eye for opportunity and

5:56

an eagerness to walk beyond what is

5:58

comfortable. even so. Older

6:02

and crueler wills lurk within the

6:04

depth of every shadow and in

6:06

the twisted heart of every city, even

6:09

within the most sacred of natural

6:11

places. And it

6:13

is here where our story begins. In

6:17

the late afternoon of a late summer day, within

6:19

a moss-dappled cabin nestled within the outskirts

6:21

of the divine timberland known as the

6:23

Emerald Sky, home to

6:25

the will of Andra, goddess

6:27

of the wild and

6:29

wooded places. Here

6:32

among the ever-climbing perimeter trees,

6:34

within the home of the retired war

6:36

hero Everett Cole, a troop

6:38

of journeyman adventurers bonded through circumstance,

6:41

finished their last meal before trekking into

6:43

the ominous deep of

6:45

the Emerald Sky. As we come

6:47

in into the late afternoon golds

6:50

and greens of the forest, past

6:52

the moss and dust covered

6:56

exterior window, we see the warmly lit

6:58

interior of the humble cabin, the flames

7:00

crackling in the nearby fireplace. We

7:03

shift over to Ser Dante,

7:06

if you would mind describing to me what you

7:09

look like and what you are doing within the

7:11

cabin. Oh my god! Yeah, you're real good. Oh

7:13

my god! I'm not really doing well. Not bad.

7:16

Well, I am an

7:19

approximately 5'10 turtle,

7:23

wearing a Corsair's hat and brown

7:25

leather with a lovely feather on

7:27

top, a blue and white striped

7:29

tunic, and a half cape of

7:31

golden royal blue, leather

7:35

gloves, leather boots, although the toes

7:37

cut out because turtle. I have

7:40

a very fancy rapier and

7:43

a chained weapon of some kind

7:45

with a claw on it and at the moment

7:48

I am attempting to, oh I also

7:50

have a scar on my face, just a little one

7:52

of those, just something for some

7:55

character. And I'm at the moment

7:57

using my hat to fan the

7:59

the fire to see

8:01

if we can get it a bit warmer in here. MATT

8:03

and TALIESIN, as the smoke billows out from your hat

8:06

movement, it fills that space a bit,

8:08

and you hear the sound of the coughing of

8:11

Everett Cole. You see the older human in his

8:13

60s, a shaggy scullet

8:16

on the weathered skin, deeply kind

8:18

eyes that are almost hidden within a wrinkled

8:20

brow that has now overtaken most

8:23

of the front face, but a warm smile as

8:25

he turns to you, coughing. Well,

8:29

I appreciate your help there, sure turtle, but. TALIESIN,

8:31

as TALIESIN, as TALIESIN, as TALIESIN, as TALIESIN, as

8:33

TALIESIN, as TALIESIN, as TALIESIN, as TALIESIN, as TALIESIN,

8:35

and TALIESIN, and TALIESIN. Let me handle the rest

8:37

of the tea. You all just relax a minute.

8:40

Now what? I'm

8:42

just curious about you all. You

8:46

there, big fella. Sorry, the

8:48

accommodations aren't quite to your scale as

8:50

we shift over to

8:52

see Pango. Hi,

8:55

yes, I'm Pango. I

8:58

am very tall. I don't

9:00

really know heights too well. It's either seven

9:02

or eight feet. My

9:04

feet are bigger than yours, so I don't know how that

9:06

factors in. But

9:08

I'm big and I

9:10

kind of, I squint when I'm

9:12

outside a lot because I'm not used to

9:15

being outside. I grew up underground and

9:18

now I'm out and

9:20

traveling with my friends and having a grand

9:23

old time. You might also notice

9:25

that most of my purplish

9:27

skin is covered up with some

9:30

armor, but which is also tastefully

9:33

covered up with some very green

9:35

and very fancy duds that my

9:37

friend Sweet Pea and Oppie stole

9:39

from me in

9:42

the last town over. I'm

9:44

looking pretty fresh. They say I look fresh.

9:46

I don't know what that means, but it's,

9:50

and right now I'm just sort of staring over a Zarlow's

9:53

plate, just wondering if he's going to finish

9:55

all of it because it looks, I

9:58

need more. How about it, you dry shaker? Are

10:00

you hungry, Sten? Oh my

10:02

god. I mean, I don't want to impose, but like I

10:04

could, yeah, I could, I could eat. I can make plenty

10:06

of biscuits, if that's what you need. No need to- He

10:08

is big. If that fecker fell over, he'd be halfway home.

10:12

Well, I'm happy to get you a

10:14

bit of food as well, I suppose.

10:16

Whatever. Brains all your arm. I'm a

10:18

fecker? Does that mean I feck? What

10:22

my grandfather always used to say to me is,

10:24

Zardoch, don't say fucker, it's not polite, say fecker

10:26

instead. Oh, okay. I'll use that. Sort

10:28

of a cheat. I've learned that, alright,

10:31

fecker. I'm writing that down. As he goes and walks

10:33

over to his bookcase, as you kind of sit back

10:35

and cross your arms in confidence, what

10:37

does Zardoch look like? Well, Zardoch is sort

10:39

of the elder statesman of this group, even though

10:42

he's not that old. He's been with the

10:44

larger organization our people have been with, this group

10:46

has been with, for quite some time. And

10:48

while not a mentor, per se, sometimes he has to be a

10:50

bit of a babysitter. They get into trouble a lot.

10:54

Zardoch is about four feet tall. He's a simia.

10:57

Lots of brown fur. Has a

10:59

very regal twined mustache down the sides of

11:01

his face. A little bit scruff of a

11:03

beard, and there's a shock of white in

11:06

his brown hair. He has an always active

11:08

tail that is as communicative as his hands

11:11

tend to be. And he is wearing,

11:13

like, Burning Man pants, and a

11:15

pair of... That is going diagonally across his

11:17

chest. Do you? Yeah, don't

11:19

think so. They're all about

11:21

a rat to brown. I love

11:23

that Burning Man pants are no pants, please. I'm

11:27

not Donald Duck, is that not? Sometimes

11:29

it is those pants, but not today. It's

11:31

a tree's bowline. By the way, I am

11:34

also perching to be in character like a

11:36

monkey, but I am... I feel

11:38

like I might fire at any minute. But I'm living on

11:40

the edge, and I'm going to do it anyway. This is

11:42

the end of the Earth, first of all. Oh, yeah. We're

11:45

in the bathroom. That was just Liam. That

11:47

was it. Perfect.

11:51

I'm good for now. And

11:55

his cheeks are a little red right now because he's

11:57

probably had one or two puts too many. today.

12:00

There it is. Oh. Oh, this

12:03

is certainly quite the

12:06

mildly cruel we've stumbled in. I don't get

12:08

many visitors around here. I'm happy to gauge

12:11

all you said you came out from Fort

12:14

Overmarsh right about 15, 20 miles south

12:16

of here. Pray

12:19

tell what brings you this side of

12:21

the emerald sky. He

12:24

glances over towards the regal-looking

12:26

beetle figure who's been stoically standing,

12:29

staring into the flames. I'm just gonna get the

12:31

first thing. Yeah. No, no.

12:34

No, no, no, no, no, no,

12:36

no. I'm not doing that. I'm

12:38

not doing that. I'm not doing that. I'm

12:41

not doing that. Flap on the little. I'm

12:43

not doing that. Sorry, though. Oh,

12:45

my god. I'm sorry, the smoke's getting

12:47

to you too. Here are some more tea,

12:49

the swan lowening. Comes up and hands you

12:51

a hefty mug of hot steaming. His accent's

12:53

a little pink. Right,

12:55

right. Protection is

12:57

standing there holding onto his staff.

13:00

He has a hard shell that's got blues

13:03

and purples in it, kind of

13:05

shiny with lighter bluish-green eyes and

13:07

large mandibles pointing out from his face,

13:10

very much like a stag beetle. He

13:13

has some kick-ass, like, armored pauldrons

13:15

with points just for flaring maybe

13:17

a little bit of protection. And

13:20

he has larger shells that are

13:22

hiding translucent, like, light blue wings

13:24

underneath his back shell. Yeah, and

13:26

he's just... That's one

13:28

hefty bug. Sure is. And

13:30

I'm just kind of moving like a little trace

13:32

of arcane energy in between my fingers. And

13:36

I'll say, we've been sent out by a larger

13:38

group, the

13:42

Grim Wardens, where we're here to clean up any mess that

13:45

we are tasked with. It's important to us to make a

13:48

name for ourselves. Well,

13:50

you're a part of the Grim Wardens. Ah,

13:54

that's a... Don't normally work this far.

13:56

This... This far is a lot of work.

14:00

of the western side of the continent

14:02

so must be important business I imagine

14:04

we're like a frontier group

14:06

we're called the menagerie

14:08

right is that what

14:10

we settled on yeah

14:12

okay all right all right well

14:16

I'm happy to stay as long as you like

14:18

beyond your way and

14:21

you friends as well I may not

14:23

have enough to feed all of you have a

14:25

you know what I can go ahead yeah I

14:27

think the majority of it went

14:32

to your big friend over here I'm

14:34

sorry I

14:37

could try to barf it up if you want some I

14:40

don't know I don't know okay

14:42

I'll work on it yeah in

14:45

the back in the back in the

14:48

back oh I'm gonna look

14:50

for a bucket as the

14:52

two of you begin to scramble looking for

14:54

a bucket can you describe what we see

14:57

running around around you see

15:01

one girl who is

15:04

short but she looks like very tall

15:06

compared to her her friend here very

15:10

slender with a giant cat she

15:13

is a fun girl very

15:16

like pale almost green

15:18

color and her clothes

15:20

are very flowy she

15:23

wears like a big oversized cardigan and

15:25

resting against the wall is her long

15:28

I think it's a long staff with

15:30

a couple hooks on it and

15:35

she just looks very free

15:37

and floaty about four foot

15:39

so I'm

15:43

right around your side I'm not

15:45

sure yet eight,

16:01

seven, eight. I guess I could be a little

16:03

taller. No, be your height. I'm kind of loving

16:05

this. This is the anti-silhouette test for animation. I

16:09

went so about the same. In every

16:11

group photo, Dango's

16:13

just out of the photo. Yeah. The

16:16

character from Police Squad. You're

16:20

like Gandalf with all the homos. That's very

16:22

good. Yeah. And as you're scrambling for a bucket

16:24

to help Jango with his sudden

16:27

need to be Dango. Sorry, Pango, my bad. Jango

16:30

was your brother. My brother's a bad man. That was

16:32

Mango. Mango was my father. Got

16:34

it. Mango

16:39

is just a food that we like to eat. Thank

16:46

you, Pango. As

16:48

you're running around the bucket, you're excitedly preparing

16:50

for it to ever meal. You've played every

16:52

gift to yourself. What are you

16:54

doing on this? Oh, I'm looking around too. I'm

16:56

trying to help find a bucket. So

17:00

I'm just a little rid of it.

17:04

Just sort of sapphire blue skin with

17:07

a smattering of yellow

17:09

freckles everywhere and huge

17:12

yellow eyes. And my

17:15

cloak is made out of leaves and

17:18

a little hat made out of leaves

17:20

as well. And my

17:22

staff, which I

17:24

found at the bottom of the river. And

17:27

it's so sparkly and it

17:30

was so shiny and I just had to get it. And

17:32

it's constantly a bill of smoke.

17:36

What I don't know is it's a cigarillo. But

17:40

it's magical to me. I

17:44

have little overalls and

17:47

they're striped and the

17:49

little tops of the overall that he calls the

17:51

little pependers. And I'll choose to come

17:53

up that

17:57

I shove my feet into. So

17:59

I look real. nice and

18:01

smart and my

18:05

name's Oppie. Well

18:08

I thank you Oppie. I appreciate you

18:10

both helping out. Oh what's

18:12

your name? Sweet Pea. Sweet Pea. Pleasure

18:14

to make your acquaintance as well Sweet Pea.

18:17

Sweet Pea and Oppie. That's a, that's a

18:19

pair. I was gonna meet you. Yeah,

18:22

pleasure's nice. Again, even though we've been here for

18:24

a minute. Do you have a prospective leader

18:26

of your troop with a menagerie? You

18:29

seem to be a rather, um,

18:32

presentory individual. Oh

18:34

goodness. My,

18:38

oh this is chilly in the west. And

18:41

I go over to, uh, to Sir

18:43

Dante and I take out my bladed

18:45

fan and I just start helping them

18:47

fan the flames just a little bit. And

18:50

what you see is like a stacked

18:54

caked up fawn. Let's go. She

18:58

is curvy. She has kind

19:00

of like a light dusty rose, uh, fur

19:02

tint to her. And even though she is

19:04

a fawn, she has bunny

19:06

ears, almost like a jackalope. And,

19:09

uh, she has really like

19:11

strappy leather armor, um, and

19:14

a little like cropped leather jacket that

19:17

barely covers anything. But she goes, oh,

19:19

and she covers up. Are

19:21

you, are you cold Miss Bunny? I could give

19:24

you my scarf. Just a little chilly. Oh, I

19:27

wouldn't want to take anything from you. You're so,

19:30

you're so dainty. Um, she's

19:32

got like a lot of, like a kind

19:34

of a garter that she has a little

19:36

dagger built into. And then you see on

19:39

her fan, it's like

19:41

serrated and has sharp

19:43

edges for it that she uses as

19:45

a weapon, as well as has a

19:47

little, a whip that she has wrapped

19:50

around and it's fastened to her

19:52

belt. Here Dante. Thank

19:54

you, dear. Thank you. Here we go. I'm,

19:58

I'm bunny, by the way. Bunny.

20:00

Pleasure to meet you, Bunny. Oh. Well,

20:04

the Menagerie, you're

20:08

here in some relatively

20:10

dangerous realms beyond. I

20:13

don't know how familiar you are with

20:15

the emerald sky here, but the... I'm

20:18

familiar. I've started the

20:20

outskirts of the woods here. Oh,

20:22

right. So you're quite familiar. It is

20:24

a very... a

20:29

lance of fused with the natural

20:31

magics of the realm. Here, Andra

20:34

herself, her will exists towards the center

20:36

lock that holds

20:40

the life force and energy of

20:42

the massive forest. I

20:45

see you're of Andra's folk. Well,

20:47

then perhaps not much of this will be a

20:49

surprise to you then, but just know that natural

20:52

magics of the world can be

20:55

also rather tricksy. Your

20:57

reason I didn't build deeper into the forest. I like

20:59

it out here. It's close enough to keep it

21:01

interesting, but also far enough away where I don't

21:03

get too caught up with the... the

21:08

tricksters of the wood. Though,

21:13

some of the grove children came by, speaking of

21:15

the mighty storm, not but a couple of days

21:17

ago. Isn't that

21:19

who we were looking for? You

21:21

ran into the grove children? As

21:24

we do that, we shift into a brief

21:27

flashback, not but a

21:29

day before within this city

21:31

of Fort Overmarsh. Here, the

21:33

once militaristic outpost that in

21:35

peacetime has taken on

21:38

a new form as a trading

21:40

outpost, ways to

21:42

the south of the Emerald Sky,

21:44

the bustle of the townsfolk are

21:46

walking through the space. There's

21:49

two open mines, one that's falling out of

21:51

use, one that's been discovered as building up.

21:54

You have stumbled into the town

21:56

and made your relatively unseen

21:58

or un-cared-for position. of the city,

22:00

what are you all doing here at

22:02

Fort Overmarsh at the moment in

22:05

this flashback? Mm-hmm. Oh,

22:07

shit. Yep, we're doing

22:09

stuff. Stuff. It's real. You

22:12

mean before? Wet? Yeah. This

22:15

was the day before. It's raining, you said? Sure,

22:17

it's raining. Okay, great. Oh,

22:19

in that case, I'm standing next

22:21

to Oppy and giving him a

22:23

little umbrella with my head. Okay.

22:26

Oh, that's so cute. Anything

22:28

that troubles you, need a fix?

22:32

Need something remedied, wear

22:34

your fix. We're here to

22:37

help. Call the menagerie.

22:39

Yeah. A

22:41

group of four miners themselves,

22:44

dust-smeared carrying materials and tools on them, stop and

22:46

look at the rest of you and just

22:50

keep trucking on through the rain. It's kind of a heavy cell. Nobody

22:53

takes this seriously, though. I feel like we need

22:55

more oomph, more showmanship maybe.

22:57

Look, they've got dogs over here. Look

22:59

at them all. There's like

23:02

seven of them. There's babies over

23:04

here. That's it, we're just going

23:06

to stay here for the day. I hope that's all right. This

23:09

is precisely why nobody takes this seriously. Oh,

23:11

look at that one. Look

23:13

at his face. Maybe

23:15

we need uniforms. Or pamphlets.

23:19

You know, I hear people really love pamphlets. A

23:21

pamphlet? Yeah. A

23:24

pamphlet. They're

23:27

like business cards, but with

23:30

more obnoxious information on them. That

23:32

sure sounds great, Miss Money. I

23:35

think we just need to prove ourselves, you

23:38

know? How do we do that? I think we just get somebody

23:40

to hire us. Should

23:43

we take a job for free just to

23:45

prove ourselves? Let's not say that out loud.

23:48

But I mean, if no one will hire us for

23:50

money, maybe we do one for free just to show

23:52

that we're... Like

23:54

a sample? A free sample. First one's

23:57

free. Then they'll hire us for the

23:59

second one. cro MATT,

24:30

and you can immediately see the

24:32

glimmer of fairy dust and

24:34

Fey magic as a number of these fairy

24:37

folk come flittering through the entryway and circling

24:39

the air, and two other figures wearing shredded

24:43

leathers and heavy tattered

24:46

woolen cloaks bundled around them also look

24:48

for anyone's gaze and they're mostly being

24:51

ignored, much like you've been since you

24:53

arrived. I'll go, I'm going to knee.

24:55

Oh, I think you manifested it, you faker. Come on,

24:57

let's go up these ones out. We

25:01

run up and with a little bit

25:03

of flourish and you hear almost like

25:05

out of nowhere, like it's ethereal, you hear

25:07

almost like this victory music like

25:10

a da da da da. And

25:13

we are perfectly baklut, and

25:16

I just say, looks like you need a menagerie.

25:20

MATT, as you all strike

25:22

this pose, cease to dazzling

25:25

the security. I'm still holding

25:27

two dogs. As

25:30

you all stand there frozen, as it backlit from

25:32

behind, the rain still soaking you all in the

25:34

process. But then just because it has been, you

25:36

see the four fairy folk have stopped and all

25:40

in unison together while the two bundled folk drop their hoods

25:42

and you can see they're both elven lineage,

25:44

they're pointed ears curved up, you can see

25:46

the mud itself washing down the streaks from

25:49

their face and they all look haggard, like

25:51

they've been traveling in harsh weather probably for

25:53

the better part of a

25:55

day or more. Most other folks just

25:57

close the gate behind and are now ignoring this ridiculous

25:59

decision. and getting on with the rest of their business.

26:01

But as they begin to approach the fairies, then give

26:04

up speed and start surrounding, going, hi, hi,

26:06

hi, hi, whoo, whoo, Benazure, that's wonderful, help

26:10

us, please. And they start to squirm. Oh

26:12

no, you have to leave, we had to leave.

26:14

You see, one of them flitters up closely and

26:16

you get a good look at the glow. You

26:18

can see this beautiful looking feminine

26:20

form with elongated arms, these long clawed-like

26:22

fingers, but these bright, vibrant eyes of

26:25

blue. I hold out my staff to

26:27

make a land on it. It

26:29

lands on it and as it does, it's body clutches

26:32

onto it like an insect, like the beautiful fairy all

26:34

of a sudden becomes this odd kind of segmented

26:36

creature, looking at you with the big eyes. It

26:39

was sent from the velvet grove for help.

26:42

We'll do it, we'll help you. For free. Free

26:45

samples. Free samples. They all look

26:47

at each other and the two

26:49

velvet figures go, that was far

26:52

easier than we anticipated. Oh, that's nice.

26:54

I'm trying out our full Menagerie thing. Think

26:57

of it like an open beta. But you

26:59

say there's something wrong in the velvet grove.

27:01

I've heard out of that face. The

27:16

two oven figures, which you see above their faces, they appear

27:18

to be either, they're not identical

27:20

twins, but they definitely look like they

27:22

are from the same family lineage. The one looks a bit older.

27:26

They both have very, very pale,

27:30

almost translucent skin, where you can almost

27:32

see the veins almost appearing in

27:34

parts of it, but you also can't tell which part

27:36

is the mud streak as well. Their

27:38

eyes are beautiful, piercing,

27:42

dark green. And as

27:44

they both look at you all with this alien cocked

27:46

head, we were

27:49

indeed sent out of the velvet grove on

27:52

the eastern side of the sky. Boko,

27:56

the Glenward, the feign

27:58

guardian that looks like a that portion

28:00

of the sky, sent

28:03

us for our own protection. Looks

28:06

over to the younger female, in

28:09

terms of the

28:12

humble heli himself. We're here

28:14

on his behest. LAURA and MARISHA, LAURA, and MARISHA, and MARISHA,

28:16

and LAURA, and MARISHA, and MARISHA, and MARISHA, and from what?

28:20

MATT and LAURA, as if the wildlife

28:22

of the eastern sky has become strange

28:27

and familiar, violent.

28:32

The initial twin turns. MATT,

28:34

as the Excya rivers groan,

28:37

murky, and sent sinister

28:40

and pungent. The

28:44

fairies curl back onto their shoulders, the one that's still

28:46

clutching to your staff. All in unison, they all say,

28:49

and the water's worried. LAURA

28:54

and MARISHA, as if you see within your graces

28:57

to aid us, you would be not just

28:59

indeed be within

29:10

our debt to you

29:12

as followers of Ondra, but within her

29:15

light as well. LAURA,

29:19

as if you're

29:21

a river, and you're a

29:23

stinky, and that's why everybody's so mad.

29:28

It makes people act weird when they got

29:30

stinky water. MATT, as if

29:32

you're a river, and that's why everybody's so mad. It

29:34

makes people act weird when they got stinky water. LAURA

29:41

and MARISHA, as if you get stinky

29:43

water. MATT, as if you're

29:45

a river, and that's why everybody's so

29:47

mad. MATT,

29:50

as if we believe that perhaps they had

29:52

been, but so have

29:54

we, and we have been feeling

29:57

fine. LAURA and MARISHA, as if you're having stomach

29:59

issues. MATT, and

30:06

smears your shoulders. LIAM

30:09

and MATT,

30:12

and the source of the darkened river

30:14

comes from further into the Emerald Sky

30:16

than where you decide. MATT,

30:19

reading the book, and you know the grove that

30:21

feeds the river. That

30:23

is what the

30:25

warden is investigating. Perhaps

30:27

you could meet with him and together you might

30:30

be able to save

30:32

us from whatever strange, ill, intense

30:35

things to permeate our home.

30:37

LIAM, reading the book, we

30:44

will provide a free sample, sort of obligated

30:46

to as well, but it will be free.

30:49

MATT, reading the book,

30:51

and in exchange you could make sure

30:53

that the name The Menagerie is spread

30:56

far and wide. MATT,

30:58

reading the book, and of course,

31:00

under the guiding light of the

31:02

great Oundra, you will be

31:04

considered friends of the wild, I swear. ASHLEY

31:08

Put his Machina off. TALIESIN and ASHLEY,

31:12

sharply, looking forAttent. MATT, grandfather of

31:14

a woman whose sister's mother, yet to not be your

31:16

brother if taken into the residence! TALIESIN and SAMxdux, worlds

31:18

based on ways of family lives. SAM

31:22

bodies being as

31:34

we shift away from the sound of

31:37

rain, we pull

31:39

back into Everett Cole's warm cabin

31:41

interior as the sunset light begins

31:43

to fade and

31:46

finishes listening to the tale, oh, I

31:49

see, that's why you're all here

31:51

to head towards the Velva Grove

31:53

and looking for the warden. ASHLEY

31:55

and LAURA, as if you're in

31:57

the area of the earth. Well

32:00

there's two paths I know of that

32:02

you could probably take there. Choice is

32:04

yours, really. You

32:06

could follow the Wispaalo Trail until

32:08

it ends at Clefthand Rock. Wispaalo?

32:12

Did you say... Wispaalo. That's

32:14

what I said. Clefthand Rock.

32:16

And head towards the sound of the water

32:18

at the Clefthand. That'll lead you right to

32:20

the Ixia River and follow

32:22

that upstream to its source, which has been

32:25

the Velva Grove. The

32:27

other path would be to listen for the sounds

32:29

of the Ether-Caw Crow. They

32:31

tend to wallow in places of dark power

32:33

in these spaces and are drawn to scavenge

32:35

in the wake of tragedy. So if there's

32:37

something going wrong here, their sounds

32:39

are like, well, I'll lead you there regardless of

32:41

the light. What was that story I couldn't make

32:43

it through your accent, Diggie? Ether... Ether-Caw

32:46

Crow. Ether-Caw Crow. We follow the

32:48

sound. Or we follow the path. Or we follow the

32:50

path. So we follow the path or we

32:52

follow the sound. Oh! Why

32:55

are you heading out there? Keep an

32:57

eye out for Wild Cullen. He's

33:00

kind of a rugged ranger and he's

33:03

a warden of Andris Southern

33:05

wood. He's an old acquaintance. I certainly hope

33:07

not. He's

33:09

a big part of you. He's

33:12

a big part of you. He's

33:15

a big part of you. He's

33:19

a big part of you. He's

33:22

a big part of

33:24

you. He warned us.

33:28

He warned us. He

33:32

had enough fear for nearly this. No,

33:35

he's passed

33:37

through, mentioned that there's some

33:40

odd things he's looking into. Not

33:42

long before he arrived at

33:44

my place, so he might

33:46

be also looking around the same spaces. And he's

33:48

a capable fella. So try

33:51

and hold what allies he can to you. He's

33:55

been keeping an eye on

33:57

the Amoranch Log and Gildas of late. MATT,

34:00

and the ranch. MATT,

34:03

now you mentioned the wild cullen

34:05

figure. You, Zarlow, you've

34:07

actually had a brief meeting with this

34:09

individual in the past. TALIESIN,

34:12

with wild cullen or? MATT,

34:14

wild cullen. A brusque but

34:16

honorable figure. You

34:19

remember his bright,

34:21

ice-blue eyes that first made the

34:23

tangled moths, like dark hair, features

34:27

that evoke both human and elven lineage. What

34:29

were the circumstances in which the two of you

34:32

met? TALIESIN, by

34:34

that time I had left my family behind,

34:39

the people of the Emerald Sky.

34:42

I was on

34:44

my own, it was before I found these feckers. It

34:51

was a rough patch and I thought that maybe I'd just

34:53

be a bit of a hermit for

34:55

six or seven months. He

35:01

encouraged me and told

35:03

me that the walk of

35:05

life I'd chosen for myself was too dangerous to

35:07

go along, and that the

35:11

gaps in my soul would be better filled by

35:14

finding others. Find

35:17

some missing pieces. MATT,

35:19

as you pull back from your memory

35:21

of this figure and knowing that he

35:24

might be an ally to seek out

35:26

there, another nugget of confidence seems to

35:28

blossom within your heart. The

35:31

cullen goes, well, if you're going to go out, you want

35:33

to want to go soon before it gets too dark, then

35:36

you're welcome to stay here the night if you prefer to wait

35:38

until the morning. Don't know how

35:40

much of a time push you're currently fighting

35:43

against, but you tell me what you want to

35:45

do. SAM, as TALIESIN,

35:47

as a person of good faith, I guess you have

35:49

to go help them as soon as possible. MATT,

35:51

as TALIESIN, as MATT, and as TALIESIN, and

35:54

as a person of good faith, he runs

35:56

over and starts a bunch of these extremely

35:58

dense... MATT,

36:01

and breaks, yeah. Tacked. MATT,

36:03

and a little way to find out. But nevertheless,

36:05

packs up what little bit he has and sends

36:12

you outside of the cabin. You can see

36:14

the cloud cover has taken most of the

36:16

sky that's visible and before you the dense,

36:19

incredibly tall tree scape

36:22

that eventually becomes the

36:24

heart of the Emerald Sky looms

36:26

before you. What would you like

36:28

to do? Well, there are

36:30

options. There are those. Do we

36:32

know how far off the Wispaloo is from

36:34

this area, the trail? The

36:37

Wispaloo Trail. Cullen tells you that it points

36:40

in one direction. You can see there's markers

36:42

among the trees. Looks like

36:44

there's little carved Xs across the tree markers

36:46

that mark the beginning of it. As

36:49

you step over to see where it is, it's a

36:51

fairly plainly-walked trail. It's not pressed

36:53

flat with much foot

36:56

traffic, but you can see where over time

36:58

it's fairly easy to follow. How

37:01

directly into the center of the forest does it

37:03

leave? Is it just a straight shot? From your

37:05

understanding, it seems like a straight shot. That

37:09

seems dangerous. If anyone's going to head towards

37:11

the center of the forest, it would be

37:13

this straight line. People would be expecting it

37:15

and it's famously dangerous. Actually,

37:17

I think the solution might be a mix of

37:19

both. We'll walk the trail until

37:21

we maybe hear the crow. Did

37:25

Cole tell us what the crow

37:27

sounds like? Is

37:29

there a crow? At

37:34

their call. At their call.

37:37

That's what it sounds like. Look

37:40

at him go. No. Look

37:43

at him go. Look at him go.

37:47

It's a little difficult to

37:49

describe. It's kind of like

37:51

a ghostly crying sound.

37:54

You'll know it when you

37:56

hear it. It's oddly

37:58

human-like. You can't

38:00

you can't like that like give us your your

38:02

impression of it though just to have some sense

38:04

of it Yeah, not much of

38:06

a performer and the old soldier but I'm

38:18

I Don't know

38:20

I'd never seen one. I never went that deep

38:22

ever cold. I'll tell yourself sure though. Thank

38:25

you I took some improv

38:27

classes and I was younger wallet

38:31

picture Didn't

38:33

make it to Sunday company, but

38:36

you know anyway y'all stay safe

38:38

and Well

38:42

You're from here Just from

38:44

the outside my people the

38:46

Dolan's I'm calling her right now the

38:48

Dolan We stuck to

38:50

the outskirts of the Emerald Sky, so I

38:55

That's my family Dolan

38:58

and the Dolan forget that s. Yep. I made

39:00

it up Bring those

39:02

dogs Like

39:11

little sharp pays, but they're fit their babbies

39:13

and they're just No, I mean I thought

39:15

your nipples barked just for the last two

39:17

days Take

39:30

care of moles, but these are like moles with eyes

39:35

What are you gonna name? Oh jeez we should do

39:37

it right now, okay, this is

39:40

twix and

39:46

Twix and twix I just

39:48

start mushing their faces all the wrinkles and

39:50

make their eyes disappear, and then they pop out and

39:52

then their eyes disappear pop their eyes up and

39:56

I shouldn't do that No,

39:58

all right well Minajorie and

40:01

the Grey Wardens stay

40:03

safe. He goes ahead and shuffles back towards his

40:05

cabin, and as he begins to truck in towards

40:07

the path. Tell everyone about us! He

40:10

didn't either. Okay. That's

40:13

exciting. This is why we need a pamphlet. Funny,

40:15

how did you get people to come to your show? I

40:17

mean, there's got to be a way to get the

40:20

ward out. Well, you know,

40:22

sometimes it's great to have revolving

40:24

acts, you know? So we

40:26

would have very famous burlesque performers come from

40:28

all over the world. One of my favorite,

40:30

who is LaFonna. Yeah. She

40:33

was wonderful. She got a little too good for us though,

40:35

and then moved on. What a bitch. I

40:37

know. But she is, I mean, she is

40:40

fabulous. You don't need her

40:42

funny. No. You're funny on your own

40:44

girl. Well, you know, sometimes it's good

40:46

to just, you know, put yourself

40:48

out there. Sometimes the girls would, you know,

40:51

stand in front of the shop and we

40:53

would bark and we would call and we would just,

40:56

you know, drag people in. Sometimes

40:58

a good drink discount always works.

41:00

Solid marketing. We

41:03

were all so all fabulous fighters as well. So

41:06

anytime the town was in trouble, you

41:09

know, we did a little community service.

41:12

Well known, actually. Yes. Oh really? This

41:17

like, kind of low, resonant, kind

41:19

of moaning sound

41:22

seems to like drift through the

41:24

nearby boughs and then you see a shadow kind of

41:27

fly off. Is that

41:30

it? Was that another call? I'm going to go scurrying off

41:32

the tree. Oh, that didn't feed. Okay, you go ahead and

41:34

like, climb up the side of it. Are you going all

41:36

the way to the top? Yes, I am. All

41:39

right, you know what? Well, let's take a look.

41:41

Roll over the shoulder. All right, well. You're so

41:43

close to the dog. But because

41:45

I'm a semi, I have advantage on agility rolls.

41:47

I'm both bouncing and climbing. Indeed. And

41:51

I think this probably involves my

41:53

experience. Look ma, no hands. You're just

41:56

using feet and hands, whipping through the bridge.

42:00

So spend a hope to add your experience. Oh

42:03

that's right. 14, that's fine. Then add the d's. I want

42:05

to kick off these mechanics. So that's a total of a

42:08

year. I'll get there, I'll get there. I'll get there.

42:10

That's a... And then it goes like

42:12

that. That's a roll of a 14

42:14

with hope plus 2 for my experience

42:17

is 16 plus the advantage from being

42:29

a semi-art. 20,

42:32

fantastic. So you take the hope back. Indeed,

42:35

as you watch

42:37

as Zarlow leaps up in a

42:40

series of deft swings and rotations,

42:43

like a master trapeze artist begins to ascend

42:45

through multiple sides of this tree vanishing into

42:47

the canopy above. As you emerge with so

42:49

much momentum that you actually fly out of

42:52

the top of the canopy at about 10

42:54

feet beyond and that slow motion bit you

42:56

have this beautiful view of the sunset top

42:58

of the forest extends for

43:02

looks like dozens of miles in all directions. You

43:04

can see a manner of all different types of

43:06

trees that poke out the top of the canopy,

43:08

you're decimating different regions of the interior of the

43:11

emerald sky, each looking unique, dangerous,

43:13

and alluring in their own way. Everything

43:15

with just that top of gold coloration before

43:17

the sun begins to vanish beyond the distant

43:20

mountain ranges. As Zarlow flies up out of the

43:22

tree cover, his tail scoops up and holds the

43:24

two little dogs close to his side and lands.

43:30

MATT and you see the shape of one

43:33

massive-looking shadowy winged entity

43:35

that dips away from you further

43:39

into the forest. LIAM and MATT,

43:41

as Zarlow's mother, and Zaryk's mother,

43:44

Zaryk, are walking towards the

43:48

tree. But that's all I see. I don't

43:50

think he's ever coming down. Zaryk, how big did it

43:52

look? Hard to

43:54

make up a full distance, but it definitely seemed larger

43:56

than a crow. I

44:00

saw the direction it just went further into the Emerald Sky.

44:05

It went further into the Emerald Sky. Roughly

44:08

in the direction we were going. All right, so

44:10

by swinging Skurry back down, keeping the pups in

44:13

place, the dogs are fine. That's

44:15

a big fucking bird or something up

44:17

there. Didn't look like anything you don't

44:20

want to tangle with, but it's

44:22

going in, so we're going in. Can

44:24

we see it again? We still have some

44:26

good sunlight, or is it starting? You

44:29

probably have another hour or so of sunlight before

44:31

the evening before. That's okay, the night is beautiful.

44:34

Let's go. Okay. Pushing

44:36

further in, who's taking

44:40

point on guiding you along this path? We're

44:42

trying to be clever. Well, you

44:44

know the way around, and I'm very

44:46

good at being a sneaky-eater. We're not

44:48

hiding from anything. All right. Does

44:52

anyone have any foresty

44:55

antigens? How do we know? If

44:57

you're like a wildborn or wildborn?

45:01

Oh, no, we're sneaky. I'm

45:04

wild, but we're fine. I'm a

45:06

bit of a scavenger, so if we were

45:08

looking for items, that could be helpful, but

45:10

I don't think we are. No. Okay.

45:14

I can just be very, very quiet if I need

45:16

to, and I can help a couple other people be

45:18

known. You're smart. Why don't you take a leave for

45:20

the first bit? Someone

45:23

knighted you, right? So you've got to be something. Yes,

45:26

extremely deadly with a sword and very polite

45:28

when I choose to be. You

45:31

know the best way. I think the two of us can... I grew

45:34

up with these parts, sure, but the further in we go, the less

45:36

familiar it's going to be. Well, we'll do

45:38

it together, then. Together? Together.

45:40

All right. So two of you can

45:43

point forward. You march into, and the

45:45

forest itself is undeniably gorgeous. The

45:48

light that does pierce the canopy at

45:50

this point is somewhat faded-in dream-like, carving

45:52

these constantly shifting beams

45:54

of gold that shift past green

45:57

and then eventually phase into the

45:59

nearby. MATT,

46:01

and Fjord.

46:05

The one-worm path before you

46:07

shifts off to one side, and as you

46:10

begin to look back, it almost feels like

46:12

the path you've come on is

46:15

fading behind you, to

46:18

a certain point where about 30 or

46:20

so minutes deeper in, it's

46:23

almost like you don't even see the path that you

46:25

were walking on from where

46:27

you came. You can still see it in front.

46:29

TALIESIN, offscreen, and offscreen, as he's like 10 feet

46:32

off the ground, moving using his feet and his arms

46:34

and his tail to go, keep his toes up. MATT,

46:36

offscreen, and as he's trying to be a little bit

46:38

quiet as I make my way, LAURA, and Fjord, as

46:40

he walks through her

46:42

head, flop over her mouth and he's like, you're

46:44

cute. ASHLEY,

46:47

offscreen, and Fjord, as he's trying to keep his ears

46:49

out for any sounds of quotes. MATT,

46:51

offscreen, and Fjord. MATT, offscreen, and Fjord,

46:54

as he's trying to keep his eyes out for any sounds of

46:57

quotes. MATT, offscreen, and Fjord, as he's

46:59

trying to keep his eyes out for

47:01

any sounds of quotes. MATT, offscreen, and

47:03

Fjord, as he's trying to find

47:05

out who he is. LAURA,

47:08

offscreen, and Fjord, as he's trying to get out of

47:10

his head and getting out of his eyes. MATT,

47:16

offscreen, and Fjord. All

47:18

right. 13 with hope. 13

47:21

with hope. Okay, so you pick a hope. Oh

47:24

wait, you can also add. No, you don't.

47:27

No. Never mind.

47:29

I'm not very instinctual. You've

47:34

taken the sounds around you and

47:37

focus on the surrounding entities and

47:39

creatures and insects and woodland

47:42

chittering, nothing that calls

47:44

your attention to danger before you. You

47:49

do appreciate

47:51

the oddly unwelcome

47:55

beauty. It's the only way you can describe

47:57

this forest. It has an ominous essence to

47:59

it. in its natural state. And

48:02

you can't help but feel a little bit like a trespasser

48:05

in a wood that is aware of your transgression.

48:07

See, Bunny, she loses the thread a little bit

48:10

of what she's doing. You see her kind of

48:12

like dancing a little

48:14

bit. Is she? She goes

48:16

through the forest. Do

48:18

you hear that? It's almost like music. Huh?

48:24

No. Yeah, at least do we hear

48:26

it? You do not. What

48:29

is it, what? It

48:31

sounds like it. No, don't stop. I mean.

48:36

Just the sounds of the forest. You

48:39

know, the cheering of the fox. The

48:43

wind whipping through the trees. It's

48:45

beautiful. Pretty good. It's got its own

48:47

little rhythm. Trying really

48:49

hard to hear the rhythm. I hear

48:52

everything but the rhythm at the moment. It's gonna catch

48:54

it. I think

48:57

I got it. The

48:59

best you can think of as you listen out there is

49:02

as the day begins

49:04

to shift into night, the

49:06

type of sounds that

49:09

fill the air begin to

49:11

become even further formulchemy.

49:15

It sounds scarier now. It does sound scarier

49:17

now. Sex shifted into a mind

49:20

of tea. Yeah, it is a little ominous. Yeah.

49:24

I like it. I wish you'd pick up the pace. Yeah, let's pick up the pace.

49:27

Okay. Pressing on, not

49:29

more than five more minutes, you

49:32

begin to notice some

49:35

of the trees that are on the side of this, bearing

49:38

the same marks of the path as

49:41

you keep an eye out, make sure you're on the

49:43

right trail, begin

49:46

to grow more and more, let

49:49

me describe it as violent. You

49:51

see one tree trunk where, as opposed to the single

49:53

marking, there are four

49:55

massive marks, one like

49:58

cloven Collection. Looks

50:01

like gadgets to have torn through up front

50:03

of a nearby tree. Massive com on the

50:05

smoking room. Three. Movie

50:07

walk a little faster. Hookers.

50:12

In a narrow hung and draw my sword

50:14

just in case. And. Gonna hold my. Next

50:17

step in. Hiring is also a

50:20

lot of to with works are

50:22

okay. An interest in measures. Taken

50:25

mean. Anything

50:28

ever seen. Who

50:30

can go ahead and make

50:32

him knowledge role to analyze

50:34

the details of his on

50:37

earth. Are.

50:47

All are all the hip hop

50:49

the team without more as or

50:51

take a hope. Ah, you glance

50:53

at these splintered sections and one

50:56

they do appear to have been

50:58

carved by either a collection of

51:00

blades or some sort of heavy

51:02

impact that dragged across the side

51:04

of this on but you also

51:07

notice is there at the interior

51:09

of the Miss. State.

51:13

It like a darker stained each of

51:15

these is it and blood is is.

51:17

It sounds like of the deepest part

51:19

of the yeah through you take a

51:21

stick and kind of carve out for

51:23

into the groove and there is an

51:25

a material or substance that kind of

51:28

lingers there as you can pick it

51:30

up with like you have failed. Where

51:32

you can see it's a bluish purple.

51:35

Like a slide jurists or a

51:37

second jam and type texture to

51:40

it. To

51:42

have something to put that in. I gotta get

51:44

back on are you are coming

51:46

soon Subtitle: gone. He doesn't put

51:49

off your fingertips a little. none.

51:51

Really worth a listen to set

51:53

of places else. Can

51:56

I go on? Started to see if it reminds

51:58

me of. He

52:00

does seem to suffer from

52:02

off the see, but that

52:04

claims. To be. And

52:07

caught caused your some train

52:09

a homeland to be sealed

52:11

at like a like a

52:13

fantasy. Chernobyl was a deep

52:16

the garlic a bright crimson

52:18

coloration and you recall those

52:20

images of you and all

52:22

of your family in companions

52:24

yelling, grabbing what was important

52:26

and will and dropping things.

52:28

You charged out from the

52:30

subterranean caverns. Watching this weird

52:33

kind of read we'd like

52:35

expansion. So

52:37

mean texture may be, but the

52:39

coloration is entirely different. more of

52:41

a sop. To now scientists out

52:44

my my staff in it. Gets

52:47

all that numbing stuff on my cell.

52:49

Saga. The stuff

52:51

going numb to scared as are you

52:53

still aren't trees in. I mean I'm.

52:56

I am last five or six feet above

52:58

the most times moving through our our Marcus

53:00

address and of my the Banks sort of

53:02

covers of my my wings my open up

53:05

and right when they start fluttering they have

53:07

a kind of flash for a second using

53:09

a little press. The decision to just create

53:11

a little light as I am the stuff.

53:15

You notice that nine go

53:17

on a garage where you

53:19

bioluminescence omaha that I. Remember

53:22

that very lonely when I drink alcohol

53:24

of know who I had offered. Of

53:26

around the tree and I'm awesome skin.

53:28

Look for any of those group marks

53:30

or higher up the trucking or Samsung

53:33

is my new You lift of the

53:35

has of the lower bows and kind

53:37

of into the density of the immediate

53:39

computed spare. As soon as you break

53:41

past the first couple branches your light

53:43

fills the shattered space there and you

53:45

meet a B C the shine back

53:47

of two pairs of mass of eyes

53:49

right there staring at me. you see

53:52

standing or sitting with in the branch

53:54

what looks to be what would be

53:56

a seven. Foot Pole Apple oh

53:58

that is lurking in there. with

54:00

its heavy wings folded, staring at you.

54:02

Not one, but two heads.

54:05

SAM and LAURA, as one that's staring

54:07

at you is there and the other

54:09

one shifts around towards you, their eyes

54:12

stare, and it's staring at you. And

54:14

you hear that, like

54:17

the big, heavy chest expanding, ooh,

54:21

that fills the space around you where your ears

54:23

almost ring for a second and its wings filter.

54:27

And it says, who are

54:30

you? Kind of yells

54:32

towards you. What do you do? We're

54:36

all attached. We all are fast. I'll take my

54:38

staff and I'll actually just like make the tip

54:40

glow. We

54:42

are with the men. We

54:45

are with the menagerie. We

54:48

are looking for the children. No,

54:50

not looking for children. Who are you?

54:54

Down, down. I

54:58

think you should get down. And

55:01

I'll just float down just in case I'm

55:04

in this creature's space, facing,

55:06

but never turning my back. As

55:09

you watch Kex'im begin to descend from above,

55:11

the bit of light you see the shift

55:14

of movement of shadow above and a small

55:16

handful of feathers dropping out of areas, these massive

55:18

feathers scattering down. As one of the branches seems

55:21

to almost break or snap with a push off,

55:23

and you watch, as

55:25

this incredibly massive owl-like

55:27

creature descends under the

55:30

ground. Now you see it was

55:32

somewhat folded and crouched in the wood, but at its

55:34

full height now, it's almost as tall as you are.

55:37

As it did that push off, did the

55:39

talons have any of

55:42

that familiar sludge on them? Go

55:45

ahead and make an instinct roll to see if you can

55:47

pick up that detail amongst all the chaos. There's

55:50

low light here, but we can go ahead and give it a shot. That's

55:53

an 18 with fear. 18 with fear?

55:56

19 with fear. 19 with fear. Alrighty.

56:00

here for myself. So

56:03

you do indeed get a quick glance at the

56:05

talons. The heavily

56:08

scaled skin that you

56:10

see pushes across it. It has almost like

56:12

an armored exterior to it, but you can

56:14

see the edges of it are crusted in

56:17

heavy callous. The talons

56:19

themselves are jet black and are

56:22

blades in their own right, deeply dangerous

56:24

looking. No sign of any sort of familiar

56:27

liquid that was recently seen on the

56:29

clawed sections. But as you drop

56:31

down to the ground and it looms over

56:33

on top of you, it's focused on you,

56:35

both heads kind of both in the process.

56:38

If you're not sure or two about to

56:40

converse or pull you apart into several pieces,

56:42

I need you to take a stress. Oh,

56:44

back to back stresses! I

56:47

was going to gingerly get in the middle of

56:49

this. I assure you and I, your neighbors, so

56:52

we are so. And these

56:54

are my friends. I'm

56:56

from a ways that way. I'm

56:58

only hearing because we hear there's trouble in the

57:00

vale farther in and the

57:02

rivers all fucked up. We

57:06

are echo. We are echo.

57:10

I'm gonna just subtly just sort of

57:12

put my body between the owl and

57:15

sweet pea and the

57:18

arpy. My cap is just going to start

57:20

to lower just a little and get more

57:23

narrow towards my body and I'm going to

57:25

press myself up against the base of a

57:27

tree. Outside those

57:29

spring-poor pints of darkness.

57:34

I understand if you don't trust us off the bat,

57:36

that's fine. But

57:39

we come with good intentions. And

57:41

the innocent of the young, and I spell

57:44

out the puppies. One

57:47

of the heads looks over towards it. Oh, he's going to eat

57:49

the puppy! No, he's not.

57:51

The other head shifts and is glancing past

57:53

all of you, the entity. We

57:57

have food if you need it! MATTMen.

58:01

TALIESIN and SAM RAVEN, Tips A MATT

58:09

We walk in On'Dra's realm.

58:13

We are one

58:16

of her children, and

58:19

we will eat that

58:22

which we do not trust.

58:24

TALIESIN and MATT We are very familiar

58:29

with the mother of both, and I hold

58:31

up Zor'l

58:34

of Maden'in with a

58:36

leaf-chase. She

58:40

knows me well, and I know her. MATTI

58:44

Make a presence roll for me. TALIESIN and

58:46

MATTI Can I also use Gift for Gab

58:48

with this? MATTI Yes, you may. If you

58:50

want to spend the hope to go ahead

58:52

and add your experience to it, yeah. TALIESIN

58:55

and MATTI Gift for Gab. MATTI Hope

58:59

is pretty fluid. You don't want to allow it to be. LIAM and

59:01

MATTI There's a 16 with hope, with a plus one is 17. TALIESIN

59:05

and MATTI Pretty good. MATTI Okay, that's pretty decent. LIAM and MATTI

59:07

Yes, I do, because I was with both, so I spent it

59:09

and got a bath in it. TALIESIN and MATTI

59:11

Amazing. MATTI You,

59:15

we can trust that the

59:19

others are fresh meat.

59:23

MATTI The other one turns to you. TALIESIN and

59:28

MATTI Tell us, shoulder

59:30

thing, what

59:33

is your proudest

59:36

moment? TALIESIN

59:40

My proudest moment has yet to come, when

59:43

I find the best in sport,

59:47

the man who humiliated me, I'm

59:49

here to be just and well

59:51

known as a hero. head

1:00:00

stays in place because birds are awesome and

1:00:02

weird. While

1:00:04

the other head stares you and whispers into the

1:00:07

side of the other one's head, his

1:00:09

beak's throw. Hmm. Shifts

1:00:14

over to Kex'inn. What

1:00:22

is your greatest

1:00:25

fear? Is

1:00:30

this owl? Subfoot owl in

1:00:33

melee with me? Ah,

1:00:35

it's very close range to you at the moment. Fine.

1:00:42

That I

1:00:44

would let my

1:00:47

family down and not

1:00:50

represent my home well,

1:00:53

and that I would go home empty-handed with no

1:00:56

knowledge of where we came from. You

1:01:02

see it turn its head to one side as the other

1:01:04

head shifts back and whispers into the side. Purity

1:01:07

for an outsider. Steps

1:01:13

back a little bit from you. Shifts

1:01:18

over in your direction, sweet pea. I

1:01:25

wish to see a display

1:01:27

of your capability to

1:01:30

survive the darkness within.

1:01:33

Is

1:01:38

there any moonlight coming

1:01:40

down from above? There's the faint,

1:01:42

hispy moonlight visible this deep into the forest, but you

1:01:44

can just see with the right shifting

1:01:46

of your positions, the little glimmer of white

1:01:48

peeking through. I'm

1:01:53

going to spend a whole- oh, I changed it

1:01:55

to book, nerd. You're

1:02:00

experiencing? That's okay. I'm still gonna spend

1:02:02

a whole- She's a fire. No, I'm gonna spend

1:02:04

a whole- Cause I have an experience called Sneaking

1:02:07

Little Mushrooms. Sneaking Little

1:02:09

Mushrooms. How

1:02:12

many is my experience to look around

1:02:14

and find the deepest shadow around me?

1:02:17

Okay. Can I do that? Yeah, if you want to. What

1:02:20

are you attempting to do? I'm attempting to find

1:02:22

a deepest shadow and I'm gonna step against

1:02:25

the tree and I'm gonna fade into the tree. Okay.

1:02:28

And bamf back out at

1:02:30

the other shadow farther away. Okay. Whoa!

1:02:33

Alright, so. So you're

1:02:35

using your shadows then? Mm-hmm. Okay.

1:02:39

Go ahead and roll a- Let's

1:02:42

go ahead and make this an agility check

1:02:45

for me. Agility. To go ahead and see

1:02:47

how quickly you can like vanish into the

1:02:49

shadow without the owl following what you're attempting

1:02:51

to do. Okay. Okay. 17

1:02:54

with hope. Whoa!

1:02:56

I'm going to take a hope. I'm going to fear this

1:02:58

too. Just mind. And

1:03:01

you said that. Alright,

1:03:03

so you go ahead and switch

1:03:05

backward into the tree and then almost

1:03:07

seem to tumble back into shadow where the tree

1:03:09

should be. The smoke goes pfft. And

1:03:13

he watches the bird's wings flip out and it

1:03:15

kind of clutters up quickly. The rest of you

1:03:17

almost think like it's reaching into snatch or

1:03:20

attack your friend and you feel your, you know,

1:03:22

your instinctive protective measures begin to crawl

1:03:25

into order. From the deepest

1:03:27

shadow you just see two bright, sea

1:03:29

green eyes light up in

1:03:31

the shadow on the other side. It doesn't

1:03:33

even see you at the moment. It's currently at the

1:03:36

tree you fell into and it's like inspecting it. Looking

1:03:38

around each side. Before one of the heads looks

1:03:42

back while the other one's still inspecting in the front. And

1:03:44

then- I pfft pfft with my staff onto

1:03:46

the trunk. The other head turns

1:03:49

and the whole mass of the owl spins around. Pfft

1:03:51

pfft pfft. Pfft

1:03:57

pfft pfft pfft.

1:04:01

You may survive still. Do

1:04:07

not let them sully the

1:04:09

goddesses' name." The

1:04:15

head turns around and you watch as they

1:04:17

catch some of the faint moonbeams and you can

1:04:19

see that brief glow in the

1:04:21

eyes as their heads pass before they turn around.

1:04:27

Breaking through the branches and then vanishing up into the

1:04:30

canopy, the first of many

1:04:32

odd guardians here within the Emerald Sky. I

1:04:34

should have asked how far the cleft hand

1:04:36

was. Or what that goof was. He was

1:04:39

asking us all the questions. Maybe we can

1:04:42

call him back down. Hey, excuse me. Should

1:04:44

we just keep going? I

1:04:47

think we're fine. I think we just be glad

1:04:49

he didn't swallow us down and then vomit us

1:04:51

back again. I'm glad

1:04:53

he didn't eat the puppies. Would

1:04:56

he eat these little fellers? A

1:04:58

giant owl would literally eat puppies. I

1:05:00

think if you looked up giant two-headed

1:05:02

owls, it would eat puppies, kittens, small

1:05:04

children. You hear the

1:05:07

snapping of nearby branches. No.

1:05:09

Let's just go. I

1:05:11

think it's just going to be more of

1:05:13

this. We might as well get a move

1:05:15

on. Continue on your trek on foot, watching

1:05:17

around. I

1:05:20

get the sense that

1:05:23

tension in the air and a somewhat iron-like

1:05:25

smell that seems to follow through with the

1:05:27

mists that curl in through the deeper portions

1:05:29

of the forest. That

1:05:31

was a stress I should have marked for the shadow

1:05:33

stuff. Oh, gotcha. No worries. You

1:05:41

hear the ever-following

1:05:43

sound of rustling

1:05:47

in the nearby wood, since your shouts

1:05:49

to the sky seem to have called something's

1:05:51

attention. When you stop to listen, it goes

1:05:54

silent. Oh, no. You

1:06:00

swear you see something massive wandering

1:06:03

through the nearby wood. You

1:06:06

catch the catch of the lights, turn

1:06:08

quickly, and

1:06:10

you hear the faint growl. LAURA

1:06:19

and SAM and MATT tell

1:06:28

you loops ofLaurener on

1:06:31

the night The chief

1:07:01

point and

1:07:11

and when it has been rapture to

1:07:15

keep whatever is in

1:07:17

view of me uh...

1:07:21

their attention on me any ground and

1:07:23

it runs out any sound except

1:07:25

for me and my voice okay so make a

1:07:27

spell cast roll towards the target you see the

1:07:30

shadow shifting in the nearby wood as it's blumbering

1:07:32

in your direction slowly go ahead and roll for

1:07:34

that targets or everyone

1:07:36

around you because i'm a hundred percent

1:07:39

watching i

1:07:45

will spend um...

1:07:48

a whole two years the show

1:07:51

must go on which

1:07:53

is one of my experiences i'm gonna add

1:07:55

my present okay i'm okay

1:07:59

okay okay If to the

1:08:01

founding families were upset. And

1:08:03

will candies. Okay,

1:08:07

I'm so nervous. Okay, that's good.

1:08:09

Omen Eighteen Nineteen, Twenty Twenty Twenty

1:08:12

Two with. Ah, With

1:08:14

fear to return to fear. Is

1:08:19

that a success? That is

1:08:21

indeed a success. and as

1:08:23

you are giving is this

1:08:25

fantastic performance Here in the

1:08:27

center of the shadowed core

1:08:29

of the southern reaches of

1:08:31

the emerald sky, the rest

1:08:33

of you watch emerging out

1:08:35

of the nearby brush a

1:08:38

hoping for mass a quandary

1:08:40

people entity You first catch

1:08:42

it. It looks to be

1:08:44

a hedge bear which are

1:08:46

like these massive star kind

1:08:48

of natural denizens. On fuck out

1:08:50

of the would ah I'm of the but

1:08:52

this one seems to walk with a slight

1:08:54

limp on one side and as it comes

1:08:56

from the faint bit of light you can

1:08:58

see it's sick for looks and nodded. And

1:09:01

shiny and places. You

1:09:04

watches it takes a few steps out.

1:09:06

New direction. It's had a one sided

1:09:08

eyes since be a bit milky. You

1:09:11

can see from the corners of it's face and

1:09:13

it's snout and his ear. There. Is

1:09:15

a dark. Sort. Of liquid that

1:09:17

directs and cakes with and it's for.

1:09:20

You can see. There are bony plates

1:09:22

of protrude from parts of it's body.

1:09:24

It looks to be an unnaturally malformed

1:09:26

this. It's based on what you've previously

1:09:28

experienced your time here and you hear

1:09:31

another growl across the way to. Do

1:09:35

they look? Aggro. I.

1:09:37

Made it a little farther out rather

1:09:39

my height as a split. coming towards

1:09:41

you like it's surrounding a prey on

1:09:43

on trying to run and it's not

1:09:46

on the to hire more quietly sneaking

1:09:48

around it back of this one right?

1:09:50

I'm yeah yeah I'm just kind of

1:09:52

looking around at my part i am

1:09:54

way I'm around and say hi how

1:09:56

are we are as well I'll say

1:09:59

right now. I

1:10:03

love his receivers. Are.

1:10:09

Available those slow moving

1:10:11

her have also. Suffer

1:10:15

most of us banks are

1:10:17

still alive or smell. Oh.

1:10:20

Missing way through this center past year and.

1:10:23

Get all these little fun bits done! This is.

1:10:28

My was it of money? It's kind of

1:10:30

appeared during the performance. Advantage

1:10:32

of me on on I will you hold

1:10:34

our lambert over In this area I would

1:10:37

have been I was I was a started

1:10:39

to sneak around the magazine named as I've

1:10:41

seen her do this before I think. Tango.

1:10:45

And Tsar Laura and Stick and pretty close to

1:10:47

boon I would have been very as close as

1:10:49

I could. Be because we've seen her

1:10:51

do this before and she's drawing a danger

1:10:53

to herself from the house Now I sat

1:10:55

far surpassed. Narrative

1:10:58

is the I said I had a lot I

1:11:00

would have a guess is yes so wherever it's

1:11:02

coming I would have a brilliant he allows with

1:11:04

same close fight. If I know the

1:11:06

one issue but the first one mass move on

1:11:08

the side machine schools during to find a new

1:11:10

hero sustain your the ground coming at a nearby

1:11:13

would in this region so with the so which

1:11:15

direction as an ally of the eyes of their

1:11:17

and here's where. You. Are.

1:11:20

An animal actually little closer sweeping

1:11:22

the end of the top. Of

1:11:25

him to hear of. I

1:11:27

just. And this barriers for one

1:11:30

should is now tire iron for new

1:11:32

an attempt to hit the other as

1:11:34

if there are with a out with

1:11:36

my grappling. With. A gravel or

1:11:38

go for violence or far as a ah yes

1:11:40

far attack. Ah, this measure

1:11:42

in a nursing home? I know as

1:11:44

far as I yeah now I'm sure

1:11:46

there to haven't slept around and. Saw

1:11:50

as unrolling were went on to this

1:11:52

is and one down. So

1:11:55

on I roll one of these

1:11:57

stray and. I

1:12:01

am. it's it's. just as it's a

1:12:03

straight role I believe on strike either.

1:12:05

Also, the street, all our roads, whatever

1:12:07

your. Trait. Is about his

1:12:10

a thank you should be and I'm

1:12:12

remembering again. Which is the deal with

1:12:14

and guess so that facilities are assessments

1:12:16

to scrape by? Nothing. Ah,

1:12:19

outside kids are as soft as has

1:12:21

a team. Was far better I'd how

1:12:23

know? so I don't I thought. That

1:12:27

does succeed at us Now trudging towards

1:12:29

been increased zero hours and stressful as

1:12:31

I bear arms i i pull my

1:12:33

target into close range with me. How

1:12:35

can I with the T real back

1:12:37

with the Cli After it sinks into

1:12:40

it all as sure as a comes

1:12:42

barreling towards me. For a point,

1:12:44

or if I were saying it, I'm pulling it

1:12:46

about. On about.

1:12:49

Two thirds of the way I could

1:12:51

for hims the about there are you

1:12:53

watch as you cannot describe how we

1:12:55

europe or looks like it's this very

1:12:57

long same it seems just wrapped around

1:12:59

a wraparound my belt but then it

1:13:02

seems to also be hidden underneath my

1:13:04

tunic and scott these are like for

1:13:06

this like very beautiful prongs like a

1:13:08

like a. Four. Sided try

1:13:10

that like a quadrant I suppose when it

1:13:12

runs out as a clam sin and then

1:13:14

when I pull it taught it grabs and

1:13:16

the. are more I pushed the

1:13:18

more if reels and faster and. And

1:13:20

like pulls hard to or it's gotten

1:13:22

old amazon and for new it's not

1:13:25

like read towards you flash of not

1:13:27

middle because of the light and you

1:13:29

want to get gentle Rag Overall. Trust and

1:13:31

don't play in the and Dante in the rest

1:13:33

the men as hurry and so I just like

1:13:35

don't even talk and then I focus my attention

1:13:37

keeping up my. In rapture. The other, one. In.

1:13:40

The Woods. Okay, you got

1:13:42

a fourteen. Fourteen. Points

1:13:44

damage on it though as a major

1:13:47

wounds to that and dragged off of

1:13:49

the sides are coming to me then

1:13:51

since you will mere nothing to the

1:13:53

gyms run ah which major action they're

1:13:55

gonna go ahead and spend one fear

1:13:58

it's to more tokens. element

1:14:00

here to spend. I will immediately spend this

1:14:03

one to move this guy running here

1:14:05

at a close range. That'll

1:14:07

get you right up to where Bunny

1:14:09

is on that side there, to pincer.

1:14:11

That one is

1:14:14

going to go ahead and rush forward and

1:14:16

is going to take a strike with its

1:14:18

claws towards you. That's only a

1:14:23

seven. What's your evasion? Ten.

1:14:25

Ten. Nice. All right. Expecting

1:14:27

it to come at me. How do you avoid this attack as

1:14:29

it runs towards you? Once

1:14:32

again, I'm fully confident in what

1:14:34

happens. As it comes to me,

1:14:36

I do a pirouette

1:14:38

out of the way. As

1:14:40

I do, I draw my bladed fan

1:14:43

and I drop down to one knee

1:14:45

and slice it across the front of

1:14:47

its chest. Cool. So it's

1:14:49

like one move. Hell yeah. Yeah.

1:14:51

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It stumbles

1:14:53

off to the side and catches itself. And I

1:14:55

will attack with my fan. Okay. Once I finish

1:14:58

it. If I can do that. Once you finish

1:15:00

your turn. Yeah. Indeed. Now it's

1:15:02

going to go ahead and spend this other

1:15:04

one here to have a second one rushing

1:15:07

out of the wood behind it. Another one. That's

1:15:09

a little baby. It doesn't quite get up to the

1:15:11

edge to do much, but it rushes out, following the

1:15:13

others. Looks like this was a hunting wandering pack. And

1:15:15

the one that you went after, I'm going to

1:15:17

spend that token to activate it. It's going to

1:15:20

go ahead and charge up to you now, eventually

1:15:22

closing the gap after you tugged it beyond where

1:15:24

it was. It's going to go ahead. No! The

1:15:28

first name is

1:15:30

Sir, right? All right. So, should we go

1:15:32

ahead and do it? Yes, Sir, circumference. Aha.

1:15:35

That's going to be a 14 to hit. What's your evasion? My

1:15:37

evasion is 13. That's

1:15:40

going to hit. Yes. All

1:15:42

right. So taking those dice there. Great.

1:15:48

All right. I'm going to spend a

1:15:50

fear to go ahead and use corrupted strength to add a d12

1:15:52

to that damage. Oh, no! It's

1:15:55

going to be 20 points of damage to you. 20 points of damage?

1:15:57

Well, I'm going to have to spend some time. armor,

1:16:00

then. I'm going to knock a point of armor

1:16:03

off, which brings that

1:16:05

down to 13 points of damage, I

1:16:09

think, which is much better. I will take that, and that's

1:16:11

a major. It's

1:16:13

just a major room, which is 2 HP. MATT,

1:16:16

reaches out and takes one heavy swipe out.

1:16:18

You watch as its massive claw comes through

1:16:20

the air. That long string of a weird

1:16:23

oily surface substance glimmers, and

1:16:25

the light is there as its heavy claws strike

1:16:27

into your armor. You

1:16:29

also get knocked back at a

1:16:31

very close range. TALIESIN and MATT, I don't get my retaliation attack. I

1:16:33

take it. MATT, unfortunately, it literally

1:16:35

knocks you out of melee range before

1:16:37

you get a chance to the force

1:16:39

of its strength pushing you beyond. TALIESIN

1:16:41

and MATT, LAUGHTER MATT,

1:16:44

MATT, and TALIESIN, LAUGHTER MATT,

1:16:46

MATT, LAUGHTER MARISHA, LAUGHTER MATT,

1:16:48

LAUGHTER MARISHA, LAUGHTER MATT,

1:16:51

LAUGHTER MATT, LAUGHTER MARISHA, LAUGHTER

1:17:23

MATT, LAUGHTER MATT, LAUGHTER MATT,

1:17:25

LAUGHTER MATT,

1:17:55

LAUGHTER attack

1:18:00

you for an 11. What's

1:18:02

your evasion? Yes, evasion is 13. 13,

1:18:04

great. So it goes to bite its massive jaws. And

1:18:08

close, how you got? I just spin

1:18:10

around really fast and all my skirts kind of

1:18:12

flare up in its face. You

1:18:15

think it's tangled its nose for a second and it's like a dog under

1:18:17

the blanket. Amazing. You

1:18:19

kind of yank around a little bit but eventually you

1:18:21

pull away and it's gone. A

1:18:25

dog is in. All right, so that finishes its go. Can

1:18:28

I tell with these things charging up if

1:18:31

their condition looks at all, I've healed

1:18:33

lots of animals. They're all similarly corrupted.

1:18:35

I just have one mini with the cool bones. For sure.

1:18:38

No, I understand that but I'm just saying

1:18:40

for all of them and I'm using this

1:18:42

one that's attacking bunny as the example,

1:18:44

do they look healable or do they

1:18:46

look beyond in my experience?

1:18:48

In your experience, it's tough to tell. If

1:18:50

you want to go ahead and make an

1:18:54

instinct roll to see if you can kind of

1:18:56

glean from your experience an understanding of nature

1:18:58

and the creatures around you. I do, I

1:19:00

do, I do. Or

1:19:03

you can do knowledge if you prefer.

1:19:05

What are the two? I'm gonna do

1:19:07

instinct and

1:19:10

I'm going to, no, I'm just gonna do a

1:19:12

struggle. That

1:19:14

is a 13 with fear. 13

1:19:17

with fear, all right. Take that fear back. All

1:19:20

right, the corruption that's on

1:19:22

them doesn't seem like it's

1:19:24

completely pierced to their essence.

1:19:27

It just looks like a surface sickness that is getting

1:19:29

worse. It may be

1:19:31

healable. Okay, I'm gonna run

1:19:33

and jump on the back of the closest

1:19:35

one that's now by Sweet Pea and

1:19:38

I am going to do

1:19:41

healing hand. I'm gonna heal a medium turn go so

1:19:43

I can think some more of these. Right,

1:19:45

I'm gonna make a spell cast roll and

1:19:49

target a creature other than myself and melee on

1:19:51

a success. Mark a stress to heal the target.

1:19:54

Two hit points or two stress. I'm gonna try.

1:19:57

Try to heal it? Yeah. is

1:20:00

a 15 with hope, so

1:20:02

that makes the roll. I'm going

1:20:04

to give it... I'm going to

1:20:06

clear it of two stress. MATT So cleared

1:20:08

of two stress. LIAM to hopefully calm the

1:20:11

poor bastard down. MATT Nice, you're driving. MATT

1:20:13

I know. MATT So as you reach

1:20:15

out and grasp the side of this

1:20:18

bear, it's terrifying things, the

1:20:20

slobber and ichor that's dripping from

1:20:22

it. He

1:20:24

pulls back and it brings one heavy claw up as

1:20:26

you reach out and gently touch the side of it.

1:20:29

There's a flash of divine energy that filters through you.

1:20:31

LIAM that's all right, Vax, that's all right. MATT

1:20:34

as you grasp the side of it, it

1:20:36

pulls away like it's recoiling from a burn.

1:20:38

As it does, you can see the energy

1:20:40

flow across it, and a lot of those

1:20:43

strands of darkness begin to fade away and

1:20:45

the shape begins to shift ever

1:20:47

so faintly smaller. You see it not restored completely, but

1:20:50

it definitely

1:20:54

seems a bit confused at the moment.

1:20:56

I'm considering it vulnerable for the moment.

1:20:59

LIAM and MATT Oh. SAM

1:21:01

and MATT Oh. Seeing it in

1:21:03

its confused state. We're still killing

1:21:05

these things, right? I don't know

1:21:08

what's going on, so I'm going to jump down.

1:21:10

Between the two bearers, would

1:21:13

I be within very close range of

1:21:15

both of them? MATT You would be. TALIESIN

1:21:19

and MATT I do what I do. So

1:21:21

I take my gigantic phallic

1:21:24

sword, and

1:21:27

I'm going to swing away in a

1:21:30

large arc that will hopefully hit

1:21:32

both of these bearers. First,

1:21:36

swinging at the vulnerable one. So do I add

1:21:38

a d6 to that? Because it's vulnerable? MATT We

1:21:40

will, yeah. So you make one roll, add

1:21:43

it to both, and then you apply the d6 to that for

1:21:45

that one target. SAM and MATT I'm rolling with

1:21:47

a greatsword, so do I just do a straight

1:21:50

roll, right? MATT Yeah, so what's the trait for

1:21:52

the weapon? It's strength? SAM and MATT It's strength.

1:21:54

MATT Yeah, so you roll 2d12 and then add

1:21:56

your strength modifier. SAM and MATT Let's go, beefcake!

1:21:58

MATT and TALIESIN Come on! Come

1:22:01

on, come on, not great. 13 with

1:22:03

hope. 13

1:22:08

with hope. You gain a

1:22:10

hope. But as you swing wide

1:22:12

with your weapon, 13 with hope, did

1:22:14

you add the d6 to it? Is

1:22:17

that the vulnerability? That's against the one target. So

1:22:19

it misses one of them. Plus six.

1:22:21

Plus six, it hits the other. Which one do you want to

1:22:23

hit? The one that he healed or the one that is behind

1:22:26

you? Do you? I want to

1:22:28

hit the vulnerable one. Actually, no, that's exactly what

1:22:30

it should have been. So

1:22:33

you swing wide, the first one, the massive one

1:22:35

that just rushes into the field, just dodges out

1:22:37

of the way of your blade. The other one

1:22:39

swings around and strikes the one that's currently pulling

1:22:42

away from Zarlos. Go ahead and roll damage on

1:22:44

that. I'm going to do swing, I'm above the

1:22:46

very length. I got

1:22:48

you, sweet pea.

1:22:51

It's 2d10 with mine,

1:22:53

plus a whole bunch. So

1:22:56

that's... holy shit. 20

1:23:00

points of damage, plus,

1:23:04

because I rolled with hope, that's

1:23:07

another d6 on top. So that's

1:23:09

23 points of damage. 23 points of damage.

1:23:11

That is a severe wound to it. That one,

1:23:14

that bear is looking wrecked. As you swing past

1:23:16

your blade hitting the side of it, it was

1:23:18

still in the middle of recoiling. It tumbles off

1:23:20

to its side, falls and has to

1:23:22

right itself. You can see there's a massive gash across

1:23:24

the back of it. It has that

1:23:27

desperation in its eyes. It

1:23:29

looks less terrified, or

1:23:32

less terrifying than it was, and now it's starting to

1:23:34

look a little terrified. I

1:23:37

don't know if I feel bad. The quickest way

1:23:39

is the best! What? The

1:23:43

quickest way is the best. I'm

1:23:48

going to, while Pango has

1:23:50

distracted that one, and he's

1:23:52

attacking it, I imagine it's getting

1:23:55

up I'm going to dart away from it. And

1:23:58

I'm going to run, and I'm going to beeline straight. for

1:24:00

the one that Sir Dante has

1:24:02

intact. And right as I run towards it,

1:24:04

I'm gonna slide down and try

1:24:06

to sweep my staff under its legs

1:24:08

and hit its leg. Great, go

1:24:11

ahead, roll down. Can I add something for a tag team

1:24:13

to roll here? If you have the hope to spend it. How

1:24:15

much hope is it? How do you hope? Okay,

1:24:17

so yeah, that's right, because they send in two on me, I have to

1:24:19

spend it. I mean, you can help an ally for a hope and add

1:24:22

a d6 to her roll. I will definitely help. All right, so go and

1:24:24

spend a hope and you get to add a d6. Add a d6? Or

1:24:27

you can roll a d6 and she can add it. Okay. Oh,

1:24:30

that's bold. You're gonna get a

1:24:33

d6. Okay, d6. Yeah, you'll have

1:24:35

four. Yeah, that's good now.

1:24:37

Okay, that's 13. 13

1:24:41

misses. Oh, but it was with hope. So

1:24:43

you get a hope back at least. But as you

1:24:45

slide under its legs, it picks one of its massive

1:24:48

back clawed legs up and almost stomps down on you

1:24:50

and you barely dodge out of the way, but it

1:24:52

catches you off guard, which brings it back to you.

1:24:54

Was that with your staff? It

1:24:56

was. Did you add your instinct? I did. I

1:24:59

love how she's 13 years old. I know. Yeah.

1:25:02

There's four. Yeah, no, that's not

1:25:05

good. I'm gonna spend both of those tokens there

1:25:07

to activate Buzz with B. This one's gonna turn

1:25:09

around on you while this one's gonna

1:25:11

shift. This

1:25:14

one is still, I'm gonna say it's still with this one,

1:25:16

it's gonna activate on you. Pango, so the

1:25:18

one that's spinning around and shifting its attention on

1:25:20

the sweet piece and go ahead and make a

1:25:22

giant swing. On sweet thing. Towards you. That's gonna

1:25:24

be a 16 to hit. No.

1:25:28

Oh no, I'm gonna use an armor. Okay.

1:25:32

Well, the 16 to hit hits you. Oh yeah,

1:25:34

that hits. The damage is going to be seven

1:25:36

points of physical damage. Seven points, okay.

1:25:41

I'm still gonna use, mm. That

1:25:44

marks it down three. That's your

1:25:46

armor score, yeah. That would take it down to

1:25:49

minor, so yeah. All right, so you only mark one hit point on

1:25:51

that? Yeah. So your armor takes some of

1:25:53

the blow as you get knocked back, the wind almost getting

1:25:55

kicked out of you. My guard again. That's

1:25:57

a really good piece. As

1:26:01

you say that, the other way behind you, goes

1:26:04

to a giant swing towards you. That's going to

1:26:06

be a five to hit. What's your evasion? My

1:26:08

evasion is four. Right

1:26:11

as you finish your phrase, you're going to hit from the

1:26:13

side heavily, and I'm going to spend a fear on

1:26:15

this. Go ahead and add the complete strength

1:26:18

for that. Add additional d12 on that damage. That

1:26:21

is going to be 16 points

1:26:23

of physical damage. 16

1:26:26

points. I

1:26:28

will also spend an armor. No. I

1:26:32

can spend hope for some. I have

1:26:34

something here. What is it? What is it?

1:26:36

Stall wars. I can spend a

1:26:38

single hope to reduce the damage by

1:26:40

nine. So through

1:26:43

my sheer force of anger

1:26:45

at seeing a fine piece of

1:26:47

clothing damaged, I just sort of, my whole

1:26:49

body tenses up and the tense muscle sort

1:26:51

of like a

1:26:53

rock wall takes most of the damage. Off

1:26:56

your back. I take a minor. Miter

1:26:59

Moon, so just one hit point. Yeah, one hit point. Okay. All

1:27:02

righty. You do get marks on the heavy

1:27:04

attack, so it does push you back, but

1:27:07

it just slams you into the other bear, since there's

1:27:09

nowhere else for you to go in that regard. All right,

1:27:11

that's going to finish my go there. Okay.

1:27:14

So I see a sweep

1:27:16

he's taking off. I don't

1:27:18

know what he's doing today,

1:27:20

but I'm hitting this one. Stick

1:27:22

my tongue out and then swing from a branch. Yeah,

1:27:25

come on. I

1:27:28

kind of get over it as I'm swinging.

1:27:30

I kind of like get

1:27:33

my, get my, my staff going. I

1:27:40

don't really know why it has to do this. And

1:27:43

as I go, my

1:27:45

staff is going to shoot out some, some smoke

1:27:48

is going to come out the top and it's going to

1:27:50

turn into a cinder grass. And it's going

1:27:52

to go straight into the big boy

1:27:54

over there. Over here. Yes.

1:27:56

Which is a success. The target

1:27:59

instantly burst. flames. It's great

1:28:01

in a forest. It's

1:28:03

like 1d20 magic damage. MATT

1:28:05

and LAURA go ahead and roll against the target

1:28:07

as you swing underneath the branch from your tongue,

1:28:09

landing, letting the flames flicker off the top and

1:28:11

then land. LAURA and MATT and LAURA go to the

1:28:14

next stage. MATT

1:28:16

and LAURA, oh no! That's a

1:28:19

six with fear! That was a

1:28:21

pain in me, thank you, it's

1:28:23

united! Oh, it's

1:28:27

much bigger when I got closer! MATT and LAURA,

1:28:29

as you swing in the air and your staff

1:28:31

is trying to light up and it's like,

1:28:34

the flames not igniting, but as you do

1:28:36

the bear turns around and opens its mouth

1:28:38

towards you as you're rushing, and it's not

1:28:40

igniting, it's not igniting! You have to biff

1:28:42

at the last minute and roll out

1:28:46

of the way and let the spell go. As

1:28:48

you stumble to the ground,

1:28:51

shifting back to its way,

1:28:53

I'm going to spend a

1:28:55

fear to add some more

1:28:57

tokens to the action tracker

1:28:59

here. LAURA and MATT, maybe we shouldn't

1:29:01

make Andre angry. MATT and

1:29:04

LAURA, as you rush in there, because

1:29:06

you rolled a fear, you failed with

1:29:08

fear, which is really

1:29:18

not great. So it comes to me, I got the fear on

1:29:20

that one, I spend that to get some extra tokens, I'm going

1:29:22

to spend them right now to activate all three of them. I'm

1:29:24

going to spend a fear

1:29:27

to get rid of the vulnerability

1:29:29

on that one. All three of them are

1:29:31

going to activate now. Both of

1:29:34

these are going to still

1:29:37

focus on you since you're one with the mass of

1:29:39

a swing that went around. That

1:29:42

one, because you're the one who failed and you're the

1:29:44

one who leaps in the air and you just manage

1:29:46

to dodge out of its mouth, the bear now above

1:29:48

you is going to bring both of its claws up

1:29:50

and try and swing them on top of you. That's

1:29:53

going to be 18 hits. LAURA and

1:29:56

MATT, oh no! another

1:30:00

fear to add the corrupted strength on that. Ooh,

1:30:03

no. Okay, that's going to

1:30:05

be a 22 points of physical

1:30:08

damage. ASHLEY and LAURA, okay,

1:30:10

okay, okay, okay. So I'm going to have to do an

1:30:12

armor spell because that's my severe. So take

1:30:17

it down. MATT, you can just

1:30:20

be three hit points, no big deal. No,

1:30:22

but if it's over the severe, then you

1:30:25

just take down my three. No,

1:30:33

you take three. Minor is one, major is two, and severe is

1:30:36

three. And

1:30:38

if I use an armor slot, it takes me down

1:30:41

to the next, to the major. So

1:30:44

it should be just two hit points. You

1:30:47

can send multiple armor slots, too, to reduce it. I'm going to hit

1:30:49

points. I mean, this is the

1:30:51

first time I'm getting hit, so I'm

1:30:54

going to take all three. Yeah! All righty.

1:30:57

That's a strong body. Let's go. The

1:30:59

other one, the other two are going after you, Pango.

1:31:02

That's going to be a six to hit. Hits.

1:31:04

Everything's going to hit. That's going to be a

1:31:06

nine to hit. I'm going to save that fear,

1:31:08

so they're both going to do straight damage to

1:31:10

you. One of them is going to be 13

1:31:13

points of physical damage. Okay, that's

1:31:15

my major threshold. And the

1:31:17

other's going to be six points of damage. My

1:31:19

minor threshold. Can I knock the major

1:31:22

one down? Sure. I'll spend

1:31:24

another hope and knock it down.

1:31:26

So that's two minors. Two minors, such

1:31:28

as two hit points. Oh boy. And

1:31:30

you're just being tackled from both sides. At least

1:31:32

it's not the little ones. I must protect the

1:31:34

little ones. All righty. So

1:31:37

that's going to finish my go. Sarlo. Come

1:31:39

on, come on! Texas Cubs are running

1:31:42

around the side. And

1:31:44

as I'm running, you see my mandibles start

1:31:47

to light up. They start blowing in

1:31:49

the front, in the red, and a little

1:31:51

sphere of fire starts to coagulate

1:31:53

right in the middle. And I'm going to use Wild

1:31:56

Flame. So I'm moving right

1:31:58

in between the bears alongside. They

1:32:00

are paying go and I'm going

1:32:02

to use Wilde Flame or to

1:32:04

fire up a magical arcade fire

1:32:06

of the great race. Murder

1:32:10

of magic person I am a magic

1:32:12

person or that is and in night

1:32:14

sorry twenty with P O L think

1:32:16

that it's success and when I make

1:32:18

an attack roll with fear of evil

1:32:20

wizard from the School of war I

1:32:22

added d six to the damn and

1:32:24

all night anymore which is sick and

1:32:26

other to school sick so sick that

1:32:28

day saints and get a bad thing.

1:32:32

So nine points of damage to both of them.

1:32:34

Nine point to damage already. I'm.

1:32:37

Sorry Eleven points of them to and eleven

1:32:39

point of damage our it's had some major

1:32:41

to both of them are the one that

1:32:43

you had nothing and the is really not

1:32:45

enforced. The ground itself unconscious and hurt them

1:32:47

and a couple flames going to burning off

1:32:50

in the sides filled. With

1:32:53

is now is no longer part of the fight. I'll

1:32:55

just. Leave. It there reminder Ah, the

1:32:58

other one six the heavy flame hidden can.

1:33:01

See where you are you rush by

1:33:03

ah know that was and fear not

1:33:06

going to go and tickets from activates

1:33:08

Both of those of us of is

1:33:10

there on my turn spin and ignoring

1:33:12

thing goes in a rush up towards

1:33:14

you or this and snit it's new

1:33:16

it's assault on hobby. Ah the attack

1:33:18

against off he is going to be

1:33:20

our three. I'm pretty sure your vision

1:33:22

beaten three. Rate this all right. So

1:33:24

now it's like slamming. There are. Other

1:33:28

ways you clawbacks on one that comes loving towards you

1:33:30

The planes to can bring off the edges of it's

1:33:32

first. Lesson

1:33:35

to be and eight when

1:33:37

I have aged seven seven

1:33:39

scientists have already off swings

1:33:41

and we towards us going

1:33:43

to be a city pointed

1:33:45

physical damage so far from.

1:33:49

Suffer. From.

1:33:54

Fifteen to sort out. Your daughter.

1:33:57

Oh my gosh, Driver:

1:34:02

Or a yes or no in the becomes a major

1:34:04

source of to have forced to have points know when

1:34:06

you. Are levels

1:34:08

man. I

1:34:11

seem to have a member or I'm right

1:34:13

behind this thing. Simon a very quietly walk

1:34:15

up to pull out my Raytheon and says.

1:34:18

Stab. It's hopefully approximately where

1:34:20

the sun sun with had

1:34:22

signs if it wasn't are

1:34:24

set up on are already

1:34:26

or rights nasa earth and

1:34:28

so Roman citizens plus presence.

1:34:34

Of does a lot around Over onto

1:34:36

nervous as the wrong guy said was

1:34:38

damaged areas. Come on. Ah

1:34:41

well as. Horrible.

1:34:43

As it's ten with hopes and with

1:34:45

hoped unfortunately such said Mrs. But you

1:34:47

do get a mark of above that

1:34:50

bring it back to mean and the

1:34:52

go ahead room and to tell them

1:34:54

that I just gotta have turn on

1:34:56

you know ah and it's going to

1:34:58

go had make a strike you know

1:35:00

that's to be an A team who

1:35:02

are thus that hits that hits and

1:35:04

an awful to damage rolls or four

1:35:06

points of physical damage or that's below

1:35:08

my minor census taker stress stress on

1:35:10

and also say I'm finally going to

1:35:12

use my bloody retelling since. When

1:35:14

I think our damage from a creature as

1:35:16

and Millie ranked I may mark a stress

1:35:18

to immediately deal weapon damage to the creature

1:35:20

at have proficiency. Great. So that's just

1:35:23

I roll it's and I had to

1:35:25

buy them as well. It was. you

1:35:27

know, and it's them or dicey. Proficiency

1:35:29

soon house a half years and years.

1:35:31

as much one than social interaction. When

1:35:33

when do you to. That's.

1:35:36

Oh that's very nice. That's a. That's.

1:35:39

A seats beat All right to

1:35:41

test minor wound. Well most important

1:35:43

and ah yes it or yeah

1:35:45

so you recites. Go

1:35:47

ahead and strike it back in with and

1:35:49

retort and as you hit kind of pulls wait

1:35:51

for the minor had been out for me

1:35:53

to face off against you have much of

1:35:55

it is my go on longer and silo and

1:35:58

a hearing his friends started to cry. and

1:36:00

around and look down at for there

1:36:02

are buzzing her on the ground and

1:36:05

as a suspension kisses palm and hold

1:36:07

out and then instantly starts a monkey

1:36:09

look towards office. And run up

1:36:11

behind her. Arms race or run

1:36:13

up behind him. sorry as exchange. This stance

1:36:15

on a plate has some alfa mood. I

1:36:17

was raised, I. Just right and

1:36:20

I'm going to place my hands

1:36:22

on the top of his slimy

1:36:24

ahead and use air. My divine

1:36:26

wielder a ability sparing touched it

1:36:28

just works works. Once the long

1:36:30

rests you can touch creature and

1:36:32

he'll take to he has sick

1:36:34

when spots I suppose I just

1:36:36

litter straight up in your eyes

1:36:38

as you do in Vegas. There.

1:36:41

He is pretty big brown eyes as wow to cure I

1:36:44

hope. I

1:36:47

feel my last article a little bit. Numb and I

1:36:49

start second office line from an

1:36:51

alright alright alright alright. I'm

1:36:56

gonna lift that like us and.

1:36:58

Swing. It down that instead of actually

1:37:00

see a down lies are gonna light up

1:37:02

and just like a bunch of spectral blades

1:37:04

are gonna like warm in the air and

1:37:06

slammed down into the baron. Said in one right.

1:37:10

Now what they're called that's called well

1:37:12

as ah so go ahead and as

1:37:14

a as an actress so that they're

1:37:16

hoping and they go ahead and all

1:37:18

your. Mouth

1:37:22

Yes as. Really

1:37:26

get that swells less eleven for the

1:37:28

hill fault and I didn't even add

1:37:30

me man. Said so whenever they

1:37:32

would definitely succeed as. Much

1:37:35

as I get a whole bag

1:37:37

you to hold back. okay and

1:37:39

then that will go far as

1:37:41

not. That great isn't one to ten

1:37:43

magic damage. I would have better his you

1:37:45

and Miss Death Vanessa hand. Or looks as

1:37:48

l and size or had Roland is him as

1:37:50

been. Assessed.

1:37:55

Ah, it's like a drizzle of was

1:37:57

this. One blade.

1:38:00

The thing to do the

1:38:02

heard like. City

1:38:05

has undergone. A

1:38:08

sign outside of the every artist who worked

1:38:10

on his car. In

1:38:13

there. Are

1:38:16

I always worked for some next

1:38:19

or I am going to look

1:38:21

over at Handle an Ice and

1:38:23

see to move away from. Single

1:38:28

this and me something over to me. I

1:38:32

don't like. Ssssss

1:38:34

you are that are. You

1:38:37

are destined for greatness as. You

1:38:40

know, What

1:38:42

You're looking At: The nursing boom and an energetic.

1:38:44

And as such a side that

1:38:47

missing I contacted by side of

1:38:49

nine Eleven has a devout christian

1:38:51

women enemies over his. Mean.

1:38:54

You think we would make the

1:38:56

great duel And first. You

1:38:58

know he did. Narrow and heartbreaking.

1:39:00

saddam. That starts to play. Me

1:39:03

and all my close allies can take

1:39:05

the hope. So eventually

1:39:07

cause. I

1:39:09

was no, was a mean close as

1:39:11

English, super close as a brush with.

1:39:14

Everybody but Sir Dante. Unfortunately, just

1:39:16

though the rings thousand. And

1:39:20

nine holes in them ago. When.

1:39:22

We try a little a little duel

1:39:24

with. And I want to do a

1:39:26

team up. Or you do tag team

1:39:28

roll back the all right it's three Hope cost

1:39:31

on not only with in all three my hope

1:39:33

I win approval or right? So what do you

1:39:35

both was doing them? What are we both doing

1:39:37

on. You know that light on

1:39:40

that move and like partner dances

1:39:42

were. Like the one person bends over

1:39:44

any other like uses the bat. Would

1:39:46

you like a player award for. best

1:39:49

zip through the upswing stuff i'll do

1:39:52

the tickling different areas in line behind

1:39:54

me i have a week him both

1:39:56

attack this pair of that era when

1:39:59

after after taxes you both are no

1:40:01

rush here is a dancing duet spinning

1:40:03

over blades and massive blades swinging as

1:40:05

you do. Are you

1:40:08

both making attack rolls with your weapons in as part of this

1:40:10

attack? I'm going to use my fans. I can roll an attack

1:40:12

as well. So

1:40:14

with a attack team roll, one of you initiates and

1:40:16

spends three hope, and you can only initiate it once

1:40:19

per session. But you both roll, and

1:40:21

then you take the higher of the two for both

1:40:23

of your actions, and if you're both doing damage, you

1:40:25

add the damage to get. Both

1:40:29

of you. Choose a

1:40:31

better roll for the two of you, then you can buy your

1:40:33

own. Use my platform. So I will do as she said and

1:40:35

take her on my back and spin around, but even though she

1:40:37

said to just do

1:40:43

it once, I'm going to try to go around and

1:40:45

around and around. You got it. So

1:40:48

it's like spring move? Yeah. I

1:40:51

call it lindy hop. Bring it fire.

1:40:55

Let's go. That was great.

1:40:59

And with the side differential, he's just like,

1:41:01

17 fear, or? Or,

1:41:05

oh wait, 19, 16 with hope. I

1:41:13

mean, if we take the

1:41:15

hope roll and the tag team move

1:41:17

like this, do we both regain hope?

1:41:19

How does that work? I

1:41:22

just broke the game. I

1:41:24

recall it. No, you're both

1:41:26

getting the roll, so you would both get a hope. Should

1:41:28

we do that? It's one lower, but I think it'll

1:41:30

hit. 16 will hit. I

1:41:33

hope it will. Okay,

1:41:35

16 with hope does hit. Okay, get

1:41:38

that whole back. Excited about

1:41:40

numbers. So both

1:41:42

of you guys roll your damage and then add them

1:41:44

together. Okay. It

1:41:47

is 2 to 8 plus 2. Okay.

1:41:51

Even though she did. Four. I

1:41:55

got 11 damage. Mine

1:41:57

is 13. whoa,

1:42:00

19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. So

1:42:05

24. So,

1:42:07

put the weapon to 35 points of damage. That

1:42:11

is double its severe threshold, which means it's

1:42:13

four hit points, which is what had left. So

1:42:17

how do you want to do that? Yay! But

1:42:21

there you go, Hannah. It hits so hard, I feel like

1:42:23

we're gonna hit it straight into our bug friend, but

1:42:26

we can't, we shan't do that. No,

1:42:28

no, no. Thanks, Shin. How

1:42:33

do you want to do this? Well,

1:42:36

I feel like, okay, so

1:42:38

we're doing, we hit him a few times,

1:42:40

hit him a few times, but then you

1:42:42

do a toss, and I

1:42:44

do a barrel roll. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And

1:42:46

as I come down from the barrel roll,

1:42:49

I'm just gonna impale it. Yes, and I will

1:42:51

go up from underneath, and maybe we can just shoot

1:42:53

over in the middle. Oh, we just steal it in

1:42:55

the middle? And

1:42:57

then just crumbles to the ground, draw

1:43:00

your blades out of the ready. Sorry,

1:43:02

sweet beast. Alrighty.

1:43:05

Whoa, that was really fun.

1:43:09

I told you, you're a star. I

1:43:13

sort of bend over and walk away a

1:43:15

little bit. I don't care. That

1:43:18

one's bad, this one's up? That

1:43:21

one's up still, yeah. Yeah, I see that happen as I

1:43:24

watch one of my spectral blades go, shh. I'm

1:43:27

fine, I'm fine, if you want to

1:43:29

go. Alright, tag team. Alright,

1:43:31

tag team. Oh, 23. Sir

1:43:34

Dante. Yes, yes. Shall

1:43:37

we try them together? Rolled

1:43:41

out the fucking tag team. Leave the way, Mr.

1:43:43

Offman. There's definitely nothing bigger waiting towards the end

1:43:45

of this game. No, definitely not. I want to

1:43:47

use my staff. Do it, do it, that's what

1:43:49

it's about. You can do tag team once per

1:43:51

session. You can initiate one once per session. Oh,

1:43:53

initiate one. So I can initiate one. It'll

1:43:56

probably be three, help the new cell though. I

1:43:59

get two, apparently. All right,

1:44:01

so I am gonna All

1:44:13

right, I just want to try to use my

1:44:15

staff so I'm just gonna get

1:44:18

it going again I'm

1:44:30

going to toss around while you're doing this and wave

1:44:32

my hat with one of my arms and prepare for

1:44:34

strike on the other points of

1:44:37

smoke much like the fire It

1:44:41

moves yes, and the

1:44:43

smoke will try to sort of wrap itself

1:44:46

Around the bear okay, okay,

1:44:48

and just slowly start to just All

1:44:52

right great. What are you casting for this?

1:44:54

I'm just using my staff. Hell yeah, go

1:44:56

for it all right Go ahead

1:44:58

and roll your respective attacks. I'm going

1:45:01

to add dramatic flair right

1:45:03

by saying I'm afraid you're about to meet

1:45:05

a grisly end Next

1:45:08

to hope Yeah,

1:45:11

I'm into it all right wait, so

1:45:13

do I send it in my spending

1:45:16

hope since we're talking you're spending three

1:45:18

Oh three because of me yeah When

1:45:22

an ally initiates a taxi roll with you they

1:45:24

only spend two hopes to do great. Oh great Yeah,

1:45:27

that's just two for you, and then you spend one

1:45:29

I spend one for my 14

1:45:38

15 16

1:45:44

19 with fear unless you've got I

1:45:46

rolled eight with

1:45:49

hope 19 with fear yeah

1:45:52

19 with fear I'll take the fear But you both get

1:45:54

to go ahead and combine your damage on this attack right

1:45:56

smoke the smoke rolls around as you're kind of building up

1:45:59

with your your hat.

1:46:01

It can swirl and mass around the bear

1:46:03

as it seems to be now completely invisible.

1:46:06

LAURA, ASHLEY, and ASHLEY, I forgot to add my sneak

1:46:08

attack damage on my previous roll. Can

1:46:10

I add it? I rolled

1:46:12

it, it was seven damage. MATT, LAURA, and

1:46:15

ASHLEY, I know! MATT,

1:46:18

LAURA, and ASHLEY, I know. MATT, LAURA, and ASHLEY, I

1:46:20

know. LAURA, ASHLEY, and ASHLEY, I

1:46:22

know. MATT, LAURA, and ASHLEY, I know.

1:46:25

MATT, LAURA, and ASHLEY, I know. MATT,

1:46:27

LAURA, and ASHLEY, I know. What, you always get

1:46:29

a sneak attack? MY such an ally as

1:46:31

in melee? LAURA,

1:46:35

ASHLEY, andstyne can also

1:46:37

spend any number of hope before the attack

1:46:40

and added more dice, but I didn't do

1:46:42

that, so I'm only adding it. MATT, MATT, and ASHLEY, I know. MATT,

1:46:45

MATT, examples on your active

1:46:57

V-er threshold, which is three points of damage. How do you want

1:46:59

to do that? MATT,

1:47:02

MATT, and ASHLEY, go

1:47:04

ahead. I think you've got him in the

1:47:06

strangle and smoking class. ASHLEY, MATT, and

1:47:08

ASHLEY, the smoke that's coming

1:47:10

out of my glorious staff,

1:47:13

a little pink, a little magenta,

1:47:16

a little periwinkle with little

1:47:18

sparkly celestial looking, and it

1:47:20

just wraps around the neck of the bear, right

1:47:22

in the body, and it's just getting tighter and

1:47:24

tighter. Do a little cartwheel underneath, get right

1:47:27

under it, and give him a tricky honor.

1:47:29

Be straight through the throat. You withdraw

1:47:33

and you see it crumple to the

1:47:36

ground as the weird liquid seeps out

1:47:38

of its wounds and out of its

1:47:40

jaw. The two slain bears are now

1:47:42

laid to the sides. They're

1:47:46

suffering at an end. The partially

1:47:48

healed one over there unconscious. As

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you all catch your breads

1:47:56

taking in for most of you, the renewed

1:47:59

understanding of the dead. dangers that wander here,

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though from your experience. A different

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kind of danger than you expect them.

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Oh. Oh!

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welcome back. So, ending of that

1:49:12

combat, I had three tokens left over. I'm going to

1:49:15

spend two of them to get

1:49:17

a fear, and that

1:49:19

last one just goes away. So,

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here as the adrenaline begins to fade and

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you all stand around the

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two deceased corrupted

1:49:28

hedge bears, and the one that

1:49:30

hangs onto the edge. You

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take in the intensity of what's around you. What do

1:49:35

you do? MATT Only this one. TALIESIN

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And on my bear

1:49:42

weight, I'm

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going to lay hands on its ribs

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and see how she reacts. MATT

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That's not your fault, Gertie. Does

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she seem calm to me? MATT,

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as a hurt, but calm in your presence, at

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least. Your hand is the one that brought her

1:50:07

back from some brink. MARISHA,

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ASHLEY, and LAURA, and SAM, can you fix your darlin'? LIAM,

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as a hurt, but calm in your

1:50:15

presence, at least. Your hand is the one that brought her back from some

1:50:17

brink. Andra's gaze.

1:50:23

I will use a

1:50:26

different feature. I'll

1:50:29

use... Mending

1:50:33

touch. So this

1:50:35

is for quieter, slower moments. I'm

1:50:38

going to take a few moments and the

1:50:41

medallion around my neck starts to

1:50:45

glow gently, illuminating the two dogs peeking

1:50:47

out from my hips.

1:50:52

And I will give

1:50:56

this bear two

1:51:00

hit points. Okay. And

1:51:03

while he's taking that time, everybody

1:51:05

come close to where he

1:51:08

is, and I'll also cast

1:51:10

mysterious mist, and my

1:51:12

wings will start to flutter, and a little thick

1:51:15

mist starts to surround us, anyone that's in

1:51:17

a very close distance makes us hidden. Is

1:51:19

there a spell cast real quick? There is,

1:51:21

yeah. I spend a hope to do

1:51:24

it. I'm

1:51:27

going to amend my feature-wise. It should

1:51:29

be one hit point, unless I tell

1:51:32

the person or creature

1:51:37

I'm healing something about myself or learn about them.

1:51:40

You know, when I was a young

1:51:42

one, I met

1:51:45

one of your cousins, and

1:51:48

I was injured. Had

1:51:51

a broken leg, and

1:51:53

still feel it when it rains. And

1:51:58

that one, one of your cousins, he... He actually

1:52:02

grabbed me by the scruff, held

1:52:05

me under my feet, and

1:52:08

limped me back to my home. So

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