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for the first time our special

1:21

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1:31

And Alionia Baranova, performance director for

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1:39

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round. Yes,

1:51

carry me my minions to

1:54

the stage. An

1:58

Alphayan Side quest is about. Ah,

2:06

Here we go. Hello! Hello

2:11

everyone. Well.

2:14

With me to when. Ridiculous.

2:17

Ridiculous. With this is the one point

2:19

where they can ah but well some

2:21

everybody. Ah, this is the time where

2:23

we have to fill up at a

2:25

time as I have to get my

2:27

Dm screen and and laptop and things

2:29

like that for so long. Now

2:32

let's set things. Are welcome.

2:34

For those of you who do

2:36

not know we all high rollers

2:38

we are in these shows are

2:41

we stream on Sundays when podcast

2:43

with you tube All that good

2:45

stuff and this is our side

2:47

quest. A. Sort of special one

2:49

show that is canonical to our campaign,

2:52

but there's not a set time exactly

2:54

when this takes place, so this could

2:56

be in the middle of an important

2:58

off to could be at the end.

3:00

But we'll see where it all goes.

3:02

Okay, I'm ready that he mocked. Oh

3:04

thank. Thank you

3:06

my thoughts Are you there? And

3:09

look I think they deserve another big round of applause.

3:11

The thank you are very special guest the joining us.

3:17

Because this is this is not

3:19

just for suggests were unfamiliar. this

3:21

is well for ammonia. This is

3:24

your first time ever playing. The

3:26

in the first time be easy. On. Me

3:28

plus. Hands and Zebra

3:30

Our second. Phone and only the second time

3:32

for. Also you are playing original

3:34

characters we ah which is can

3:37

be very very exciting. Today

3:39

we find ourselves in the

3:41

world of all fail a place

3:43

of magic and mystery. a

3:45

sanctuary for me. A tunnel was

3:48

of the plane all well above

3:50

also yeah Hangzhou, the crown

3:52

assesses and broken Moon but he

3:54

said to be the prison of

3:57

a powerful divine being pulled

3:59

sovereign. Hidden across all

4:01

fail or the proton, my

4:03

rivals relics of a forgotten

4:05

age and a species White

4:07

House by sovereigns divine Roth.

4:09

The Dragon Empire. A Bill

4:12

Marron is a loss in

4:14

divorce. Content with randoms move

4:16

as powerful futile leaders are

4:18

regions that are safe and

4:21

influenced by the dragons' magic

4:23

and their presence. It

4:25

is in the province of

4:27

cold dry land of the

4:29

Red Dragon. The story takes

4:31

place. The. Beautiful bold town

4:34

of action rests with it's

4:36

impressive powers of as stone

4:38

and right filed roofs, the

4:40

streets a bustling with much

4:43

since tourists, artisans and soldiers

4:45

and as we we've our

4:47

way through the open plazas

4:49

and narrow side streets, the

4:51

looming town houses and beautiful

4:54

shrines we com a call.

4:56

We come across the do

4:58

cool palace the dominus ignore

5:00

I'm home of of the

5:02

dragon. Duke ignore yes and

5:05

his for chronic children. And.

5:07

Waiting inside one of

5:09

these grand audience chambers,

5:11

waiting to meet meet

5:14

with the Dukes daughter

5:16

and barista we find

5:18

five adventurous. Christophe.

5:20

Are you looking to make? Yeah. Please

5:23

tell us who you are playing

5:26

and described overall I am playing

5:28

Roman who is really say oh

5:30

I see the big Him Bo

5:32

must be honest oh yes a

5:34

half giant. He's got great skin

5:36

and along his arms you can

5:38

see the intricate geometric patterns and

5:40

there are no reason for those

5:42

and they'll be revealed later and

5:44

I'll say of every three. But

5:47

so he's a lovely lovely happy.

5:50

Half giant that loves to play the

5:52

flute. He's a bad. When.

5:54

They have that thrown. Thank.

5:56

You very much outlets simply by

5:58

reanimate. Hello. Could you please

6:00

tell us who you're playing and describe

6:03

your character? Fourth place. I am playing

6:05

at Sister Oh Celia Delarosa of the

6:07

House of Blood. And

6:12

she is spending very prim and

6:14

proper thought. maybe looking at her

6:16

nails a little bit. Not looking

6:18

to take. Can be interested to

6:20

see is a very slender female

6:22

figure. She has a thief blood

6:24

red face paint hovering on top

6:26

half of her face, long black

6:29

hair with white in the fringe

6:31

and she has. A beautiful

6:33

intricate dances dress with soared by

6:35

wings and like vampiric armored adorned

6:38

all over her and his blood

6:40

red with at her side and

6:42

he is yes standing to sort

6:45

of looking at the surroundings just

6:47

taking it all in. Wonderful!

6:51

Just store my me I have a lot

6:53

of minister said ah kim could you tell

6:55

us who you're playing into? Scrub returned to

6:57

force Please. Okay, I have to do saying. Hello

7:01

My name is Grass and I'm if I'm

7:03

a little village. Of my moto. Like.

7:07

That. So wells people in the

7:09

audience and it's system in my

7:11

head right now has ah so

7:13

I'm playing glasses of promote who

7:16

is a big alien and or

7:18

a wild heart unsafe you imagine

7:20

a big lion black suspect was

7:22

with white and money says of

7:24

whites curly hair spilling from his

7:27

head and see if you imagine

7:29

the beast should be in a

7:31

beast or in the ballroom thing.

7:34

So maybe and build outfits except

7:36

with. He's

7:38

not button that really. He's

7:41

a D, looks really uncomfortable in it

7:43

is it's syncing him and places he

7:45

didn't really know he had. I'm he's

7:47

already shot levitate and he's already shots

7:49

in a dual unlike Conant a little

7:52

bit and he he's and fears and

7:54

at his main and I had been

7:56

braided for his com and I'll he's

7:58

already like kind of accidently. Not that

8:00

one of the braves and it's companies it's

8:02

a bit to the disaster. he looks very

8:05

uncomfortable and out of place and not sure

8:07

steve bowing a things that not really knowing

8:09

why is this is the fault lies. Are.

8:13

Wonderful! Sanctuary. Off

8:16

jumping back over Casey, he tells you

8:19

you're playing into scrubber Can't afford please?

8:21

Yes! Hello I am playing

8:23

Cz Sisal Hearts. See.

8:28

A is. A

8:30

human she is A roads

8:32

she's very sober t. Inspired

8:35

and beer and she's got an

8:37

fig Blondes karl ah add my

8:39

somebody with embroidery on it and

8:42

florals an a an orange skirt

8:44

she's very of she was like

8:46

a very sweet old girl about

8:48

she does have i'm quite nasty

8:50

the thing zag or on her

8:53

head. Not. Really?

8:55

Wonderful! Tom our of

8:58

You're Playing and scrub attempt to force

9:00

but today I'm playing some see Us

9:02

Oregon. Thank

9:04

you very much a gold drug and

9:06

bought a very human like or else

9:09

like in his appearance. Ah, he is

9:11

looking very happy and comfortable in his

9:13

colder and robes and there's nothing wrong

9:15

with him at all. I'm fine, I'm

9:18

not in any way. He says that

9:20

she'll. Cool guy. He just wants to

9:22

heal the wounds. Oh love that! Know. That

9:24

not want to make friends innocent man

9:27

as. Soon as I wouldn't. He

9:30

doesn't have an well defined with

9:32

you have been summoned to the

9:34

dominance ignoring or to meet me

9:37

that lady and the whistle the

9:39

red dragon daughter of Due to

9:41

Norris whom you have had the

9:43

pleasure of meeting before com and

9:45

when you arrive your bruins was

9:47

grand assembly rooms and within a

9:49

few moments are coming from these

9:51

enormous double doors at the end

9:54

of the chamber which are flung

9:56

open comes a young. Red

9:58

Wagon Hawthorne. The are

10:00

decorated with golden jewelry, she has

10:02

drapes of silk some fabrics over

10:05

how to contact form and she

10:07

moves in with grace and and

10:09

and behind us you're in an

10:11

ability to her as she moves

10:14

on. And she still

10:16

just says with his giant

10:18

clause only. Since

10:21

and he see a number of

10:23

chairs are brought in for you

10:26

on it and see begins to

10:28

transform as magic swirls around her

10:30

body and the see swing to

10:32

a nine foot pole humanoid woman

10:35

still with the big for calling

10:37

horn I'm still with these words

10:39

scales kind of.of over her body

10:42

address the golden and red silk

10:44

than thing. On all these

10:46

colors the flame but still standing

10:48

one nine foot tall are very

10:50

fit and muscular. I'm and see

10:52

kind of justice to you all.

10:54

Ah or before we begin adventures

10:57

I would like to introduce you

10:59

to two companions of mine. I

11:01

would see you to work with

11:03

them in a service to me

11:05

our scores with through that. Oh.

11:08

Yeah, through new friends. I would be

11:10

most grace. Up please

11:12

my does come in and suggest

11:14

is behind us as we see

11:16

what. Let's start Gens you want

11:19

to describe what we see? You.

11:21

See. A. Very

11:23

beautiful. Little sorry.

11:26

About your hi I'm with

11:28

lovely are and skin. And

11:31

feed him sorry Pink

11:33

hair like flowing around

11:35

her Ah with sir

11:38

and with beautiful pink

11:40

and orange and white

11:42

wings. Lovely arm and

11:44

we see next to this of who

11:46

that's been very I would you describe

11:48

what we see as well holding hands

11:50

with the previous ferry. Another.

11:54

Similar sized guys that very. very

11:58

important to get about the script that time there.

12:01

A gay fairy. Hold

12:04

on, let me remember. Blue

12:06

hair, bisexual flag,

12:09

purple skin, lilac skin

12:15

and pink wings but

12:17

not like a dainty fairy, like a strong

12:19

fairy. No, not a hench, like

12:24

a fit. It's like a gay fairy

12:26

would look, you know. A gay woman

12:28

fairy would look. Oh yeah,

12:30

no I'm seeing it, I'm seeing that. Yeah,

12:33

yeah. And we see these fairies

12:35

kind of float, fly in beside

12:37

Lady Embarissa and she

12:39

says would you introduce yourselves, these are

12:42

some wonderful adventurers from the town. Hello,

12:46

my name is Flux, so lovely to

12:48

meet you. This is

12:51

my wife Nevi. And

12:53

no, she does

12:55

not have an infection, she's

12:57

just a little underdeveloped

13:00

in her nasal passages, okay? Hello.

13:06

Rowan starts crying. By

13:11

the sight, they're so adorable. She's

13:16

not gonna love you. Hello. Adorable. I'm

13:19

not adorable. I'm so sorry. I

13:22

am a warrior. Yes, you are

13:24

so strong and brave

13:26

and so cute.

13:30

Do forgive Rowan here,

13:32

he tends to be a little touched

13:35

in his emotions. I

13:37

don't know what you mean. Calm

13:41

down sweetie, breathe through your nose, out

13:44

through the mouth, her cholesterol you see. Very

13:47

patotate their cholesterol very seriously. Well

13:50

you have a moment to sort of

13:52

make acquaintances for I have a request

13:55

for the seven of you. Tonight

13:57

here in the palace will

14:00

be hosting a masquerade ball the

14:02

night of veils. And

14:04

I would like the seven of you to attend as

14:06

my guests, but I have a

14:10

favor to ask of you. A

14:13

number of, there will be

14:15

three guests in particular, I

14:17

would like you to find these guests and

14:22

gather information from them.

14:24

For you see, one of them has

14:26

recently, well, my friends,

14:29

shall we call them, have recently learned

14:31

that one of these three guests has

14:35

come into possession of something

14:37

of great value or

14:39

power. I do not know exactly what,

14:41

but I would very much like

14:43

to know. Would you like us to

14:46

steal this thing back? My

14:48

dear, not at all. Such

14:51

an uncouth thing. No, I simply wish to know

14:53

what it is and who has it. Oh,

14:56

okay. And Daisy,

14:58

go on Daisy. I do like

15:00

this hands up thing. Yes, please.

15:02

Hi. If we're going to a

15:05

ball, does that mean we're here to wear pretty dresses? Oh,

15:07

my dear, it is a masquerade ball.

15:09

Everyone will be in costumes and masks,

15:12

and I will have anything you wish made for

15:14

you before the ball this evening. Oh, the light

15:17

dress. Oh, I'm

15:20

going to like

15:23

my dear. Yes. And once we find

15:25

this person in question, are you allowed

15:27

to kill him? Well,

15:30

I may ask you to stay your hands for

15:32

now, but perhaps that may be a service I

15:34

come to ask in the future. Depending

15:37

on what this thing

15:39

that they have acquired is, if it is

15:41

dangerous, if it poses a threat to the

15:43

empire or my father, well, then perhaps they

15:45

may need to be dealt

15:47

with, shall we say. That sounds dangerous.

15:49

But yes, please think what you might

15:51

wish to wear. I will have it made

15:53

for you, but I should warn you because

15:55

it is a masquerade ball, and

15:57

many of my guests will be using magic and

16:00

costumes to describe themselves, you will

16:02

need to locate these three in

16:04

particular from the crowd. I have

16:07

very limited information on how

16:09

you can identify them. How many

16:11

guests are attending in total? Oh, a

16:14

number of them. A number? A

16:17

number of them. Oh, okay. More

16:19

than three. Yes, more than three.

16:21

Okay. Perhaps one might say

16:24

less than 30, but more than

16:27

three. Okay, okay. That solves nothing.

16:29

It solves nothing. But

16:33

I do have some information for you. The

16:35

three guests that I would like you to

16:37

find and ascertain if they

16:39

have this object

16:41

or wealth or... I don't

16:43

even know what it is, but they have

16:45

something of value. There

16:48

is Adelaine Dante, a prominent

16:50

weapons and armor merchant from

16:52

Kaldra. They will

16:55

be wearing a costume with red elements

16:57

to it, is all I happen to

16:59

know. They are very proud and outspoken,

17:01

and they have a great admiration of

17:04

warriors, knights, and skilled craftsmanship. Thank you.

17:07

What? Oh, Graff. Graff, knights. Hello.

17:10

I like knights. Yes, they have things.

17:12

They have a strong love of knights. I can

17:14

talk to them about knights. Yes. By

17:17

all means. I know a lot about knights. There

17:19

will also be Professor Kellwin

17:21

of the Imperial Academia. The

17:23

professor should be wearing a

17:25

purple costume. They are

17:27

a radical teacher of planar theory from

17:29

the capital, and they have a love

17:31

of theater and music. And

17:35

then finally, there is Zaden

17:37

Bastian, a wealthy child of

17:40

an influential merchant from the

17:42

Suncrest Isles. Unfortunately, I

17:44

have no information on their costume, but

17:46

they are said to be quite the

17:48

scoundrel. They are a known flirt and

17:51

take an interest in bold, charming individuals

17:53

who like to drink and dance. Yes,

17:57

they don't need hair is what you're saying. You're

18:00

saying they prefer people without hair.

18:03

Bold. Bold, not bald,

18:05

my dear. Yes, bold. Yes.

18:09

Perhaps you can't hear my majestic

18:11

voice enough. It's my fault. It

18:13

is. You're right, yes. Yes.

18:18

So that is what I would like you

18:20

to find. Find out which of these three

18:22

guests in particular has this secret

18:24

object or power or whatever

18:26

it is. And then learn

18:28

about it. That is all. Okay. But

18:31

you will need to find them from amongst

18:33

the crowd of my other guests. A red

18:35

outfit, a purple outfit, a scoundrel. An escoundrel.

18:37

Yes, my dear. Forgive me, but

18:39

what if something were to go wrong and we failed

18:42

your mission? Well

18:46

then, I suppose I would judge

18:48

you immensely and you would earn

18:50

the disfavor of my draconic house

18:52

and likely be branded as failures

18:54

for my long, long life. I

18:57

don't want that to happen. No, I don't think that's... I

19:00

suggest you do not. Don't worry, Flux. You'll be

19:02

fine. We're good friends. Thank you.

19:06

But yes, the ball is this evening. I can have costumes

19:09

and that made for you. I will

19:11

be departing about halfway through to discuss

19:13

important draconic matters, but this should give

19:15

you the perfect opportunity to mingle with

19:17

the crowd and introduce yourself to the

19:20

many guests. How much time do

19:22

we have? Oh, maybe 57 minutes

19:24

or so. 57 minutes. Okay.

19:27

And four seconds. But

19:29

do you have any questions, my dears? Are

19:32

we meant to be taking

19:35

notes? They can make notes. You don't have to

19:37

make notes, but you absolutely can if you would

19:39

like to. Tim's got you. This is just what

19:41

we do. This is just what we do. We're copying your homework. I'm

19:43

on a table of trucks, right? I'm on a note. Yes,

19:45

I'm on a note. I'm doing notes. Tim, you know

19:48

what? He's been a very good boy. I am, Mark.

19:50

Thank you. I'm going up. Thank

19:52

you. You can copy my homework. But

19:54

yes. Not any questions or

19:56

further details. you

20:00

wish to know my dear? Now I'm loving this. Well,

20:03

of course, I love you. You. Oh.

20:09

What does what does Nevi's little fairy fan look

20:11

like? Is it an exact replica of this? Exact

20:13

replica. We love it. We love it. But

20:16

yes, with that in mind,

20:20

you basically have free reign to think of a

20:22

masquerade costume that you might wear. And I'll give

20:24

you an opportunity to describe that in a moment.

20:26

OK. But we're going to

20:28

jump ahead to the evening with you

20:30

guys arriving at the grand ceremony for

20:32

the ball. And I'm going to place

20:35

your minis here on our map. And

20:38

you guys can decide where you would like

20:40

to go. Now, I do your color.

20:42

The colors of your minis don't exactly

20:45

match. But I did my best. He

20:49

did get crafty and put fairy wings on

20:51

to some minis. I did. I did put fairy

20:53

wings at 9 AM in the morning yesterday. OK.

20:57

So how are we going to find these people? Well,

21:00

you just go up to them and ask. A

21:03

boy, oh. Are you Bastion? Adeline,

21:05

Dante, et cetera. Just that's not

21:07

very simple, Gress. It's also not

21:09

how masquerade balls work. Well,

21:12

I've never been to one, so I don't know. I just,

21:14

it's not the honest thing to do. Go after you. You're

21:16

that guy that has that thing. Can

21:19

we have it? New friends? Yes.

21:21

New friends. New friends. I

21:23

love making friends. We have new friends. Do

21:26

you know anything about the masquerade balls? All

21:29

I know is that if

21:32

you maybe just try attacking a few

21:34

people, then, oh, you just see who

21:36

fights back the hardest. And maybe they're

21:38

the guilty ones. I like this one.

21:40

This is the bold strategy. I love this one. I like this

21:42

one. I feel like we'll get in trouble. We'll

21:45

get in trouble. I want to

21:47

break. We're getting in trouble

21:49

if we do that. We're going to start fights. Although,

21:51

if someone does fight us, I will fight back. But

21:53

I don't think that's a good. So

21:55

I'm allowed to fight this, am I? If

21:57

someone hates us, then you can fight them. Okay,

22:00

no fighting first. For now

22:02

it definitely seems to have a kind of calm,

22:04

serene atmosphere. I'll sort of give you an overview

22:06

of what you guys see. The

22:09

grand ballroom of

22:11

the Dooku Palace is decorated with

22:14

silk drapes of purple and deep

22:16

blue, and magical starlight has been

22:18

conjured to hang in this high

22:20

ceiling to softly illuminate the room.

22:23

You can see that there is a grand set

22:26

of stairs that lead down into

22:28

the main floor. There are two balconies that

22:30

kind of jut out into the room, one

22:32

of which has a little group of musicians

22:35

who are sort of gently playing music for

22:37

everyone to join in with. The other seems

22:39

to be filled with very regal, noble

22:41

looking, costumed guests in deep

22:44

discussion. You can see

22:46

that there is a bar with

22:48

drinks, very beautiful, very unusual looking

22:50

drinks of all different colours set

22:52

to one side, with

22:55

tables and chairs on the other side where people are

22:57

sort of sitting down, having little chats and things like

22:59

that. The centre of the

23:01

room is dominated by a raised darts

23:03

floor, upon which you can see several

23:05

couples waltzing together, sort of

23:07

enjoying this beautiful serene moment. And

23:11

then on the same side as the table and

23:13

chairs, the wall is decorated

23:15

with all different beautiful weapon displays, beautiful

23:18

pieces of weaponry and armour, all hung

23:20

up on the wall in a grand

23:22

sort of motif, all on

23:24

one side. What's that? Quick

23:26

access. Quick access to weapons and things

23:28

like that if you need them, absolutely.

23:30

They do look quite beautifully made, some

23:32

might be ceremonial but some definitely look

23:35

like they've maybe seen action, maybe historical

23:37

pieces and things like that. The

23:40

music is very soft and gentle and everyone's kind

23:42

of doing that soft murmuring that you

23:44

get in a big gathering and everyone's kind of in

23:46

conversation. Giving you an opportunity, you guys can look around,

23:49

for those of you who can see the map, this

23:51

is very representative of the kind of outfits

23:54

that people are wearing, the colours especially.

23:56

So if somebody is, if a miniature is

23:58

red, they are wearing a red... If

24:00

they are a miniature is purple, they are wearing a purple

24:02

costume. All right. But

24:04

yeah, so we're going to go around. I'll make this a

24:07

bit easier because obviously we don't want to jump in at

24:09

once. I'll kind of ask where people want to go unless

24:11

you guys want to jump in and if you've got any

24:13

ideas. I just wanted to tell our new

24:15

friend something. Please. My

24:17

wife Fluxafira

24:20

is in angry hairy

24:23

fairy that a

24:25

scary management for fairy to

24:27

carry. So

24:29

okay. Okay. Well, thank you for

24:31

telling her. Yes. We'll

24:34

be wary. Yes. Thank

24:36

you. I've got just the thing

24:40

and I bring out a tiny pebble.

24:44

This always calms me

24:46

down in times of need.

24:48

I want you to have it. I

24:53

didn't realize it was that heavy. Rowan is about 8

24:55

feet tall. He's massive. Very big hands

24:57

and a huge rock to you. Yes.

25:01

It's the boulder. It was small in

25:03

my head. I'm so sorry. That's all right. I'll

25:05

forgive you. But you're so strong and

25:08

warrior like you can hold. I am but where

25:11

am I going to put it? I'll

25:13

have a drink. I'll take it back. I'll

25:15

hold it for you. It was a nice

25:17

gesture. You're welcome. No problem. We're best friends.

25:20

No, I think I quite like it. Well,

25:24

Gruff, I think what's Gruff kind of

25:26

responding to this is quite

25:28

outside of Gruff's usual affair, right?

25:30

Panic. Pure

25:34

panic. Staring at every I mean, he's in a

25:36

castle, right? He doesn't he's never been in a

25:38

castle. He tries leaning on a pillar and it's

25:40

like, oh no, don't touch that. Almost knocks over

25:42

a vase. Somebody's coming

25:45

by with drinks nearly bumps into there. And

25:47

he's like, oh no. What kind of

25:49

like outfit or mask is Gruff wearing? There

25:53

are two voices in me. The

25:57

first one went a fish. It's

26:01

a fisherman and the

26:04

second one, the saner one, when it would

26:06

look like a cormorant. It's

26:08

a side quest, I think we go with one. It's a

26:10

cormorant. No, you want a fish? I want a fish. We'll

26:13

go with a fish then. I want

26:15

a big cod head like a mascot. Little

26:19

tail like a mermaid. Felacent

26:21

scales. Yeah.

26:24

And I guess like, because it would

26:26

be a mask, right? Yeah, it's a maskable.

26:28

It's like a fish mask. Like a

26:30

masker of macarons. Like a magic

26:33

arp. Yeah. Big magic arp face. Yeah, a

26:35

magic arp face. Please

26:38

don't do it, Nintendo. What

26:41

kind of outfit is nevy wearing? What kind of like

26:43

masquerade ball outfit might nevy wear? She's

26:46

dressed as a red imp. Nice.

26:49

Nice. Go on. With

26:53

a little adventurous mark hat on. Nice.

26:56

A little bow tie. Nice. Little

26:59

red wings on the nose. I

27:01

love it. Does it make a sound?

27:03

Yeah, it does make a sound. What's the sound? I like

27:05

how you've got the teeth. To anyone else, that might look

27:07

a bit strange just looking down your top. There

27:12

we go. Hey, little. Inbong.

27:14

I classic. Yeah.

27:17

We see this kind of like little impish.

27:22

And these outfits can be magical as well, by

27:24

the way. So maybe the fairy wings are temporarily

27:26

magically disguised or something like that. Or you can

27:28

have both sets if you like. That's a great

27:30

idea. I'll go with that. I

27:33

like that. All right. Flux, right?

27:35

Yeah. What kind of outfit has

27:37

Flux got? She's wearing her own. She's going to give Flux.

27:39

But she is also wearing like

27:42

a green lizards half

27:45

mask with like a tiny, teeny, tiny

27:47

nose. Nice. I like it. Economic

27:50

nose. Economic nose. Nice.

27:53

And then what does Rowan do for a masquerade costume?

27:55

Rowan's got a stalagmite for a

27:57

mask. So it's just a point. He

28:01

loves rocks! He loves rocks! He loves rocks!

28:03

So he's like a big pointy... A stalagmite with

28:05

two holes and like he's got

28:07

a long cloak which is like cave

28:10

water. Okay. Oh! That's

28:12

it. He's just walking around like a... Like a

28:14

stone cloak and a stalagmite on his head. No,

28:17

it's cave water. Okay.

28:19

Oh, cave water. And a stalagmite on its own.

28:22

Gotcha. Gotcha. Have

28:24

you ever seen Rowan recently? I can only see this fabulous rook.

28:26

Hello. What kind of outfit does

28:28

Xanthius have? You said, please don't sue

28:30

us Nintendo. I've got a Mario mask.

28:35

The famous cauldron philosopher.

28:37

Exactly. Mario, Mario. Big

28:40

nose. The

28:42

giant eyes. The red cap. Yeah. Red

28:45

is a cauldron color. It's the red dragon problem. Yeah,

28:47

okay. All right.

28:49

I'll allow it. I'm

28:51

going to remember this. Oh. Tati,

28:54

what kind of outfit does Tati have? She's

28:58

probably just very floral

29:00

themed. Big daisy face? No. Like

29:05

a toddler going to like a ghost. A

29:08

toddler Halloween. So she's probably wearing

29:11

like a burnt orange gown with

29:13

lots of florals and an elegant

29:15

floral mask. Love it. Very

29:18

nature-y. Perfect. Yeah. All

29:21

right. I really hope I'm saying the best of luck. Oh,

29:24

God. So, Shannon, what

29:26

is Ophelia wearing to this masquerade ball? I

29:28

imagine Ophelia's got her hair up in like a French

29:30

twist, pinned in with like

29:33

bone silver hair pins with like red

29:35

droplet jewels hanging off of them.

29:37

And then she's got a half

29:39

skull mask made of porcelain. And

29:42

then she's... Her gown is like

29:44

black with like blood red sleeves like

29:47

blending into the black. And it's a

29:49

long floor length trailing full drama gown.

29:51

And she has like a silver armor

29:54

over the top and she is just

29:56

basking in the ball. Loving

29:58

life. I love it. for it. A

30:00

good fit. You're a good guy, right? Okay.

30:05

So I'm gonna throw it to you guys

30:07

now. So everybody sees you enter, a few

30:09

heads turn around, oh whispering pointing in the

30:11

direction. Where do people want to

30:13

go first? Like the different areas. Let's start off good old

30:16

Rowan. Start straight in there.

30:18

The stalag might drift towards the band

30:20

stage ominously. Yeah? That

30:22

checks out. You

30:25

begin making your way over Rowan. There's like

30:27

a set of stairs to the sides that

30:29

lead up and you kind of, the musicians

30:31

take a brief break. They're kind of taking

30:33

a small moment, a little bit of rest

30:36

as you kind of step out onto the

30:38

balcony with them. Rowan's clapping the the last

30:40

performance they do. Phenomenal.

30:45

Oh thank you so much my man.

30:47

I'm not a stalagmite. It's

30:49

me, Rowan. Oh. Hello

30:53

Rowan. I'm not a rock. I'm

30:56

a giant. They're

30:59

looking up at you, they're like, yes

31:01

what a marvelous costume. I

31:04

just want to say your performance is

31:06

stellar. Oh thank you very much. And

31:08

I don't often put myself out there

31:10

but I do have a lute. I

31:13

was going to say you have a most beautiful

31:15

instrument. Oh you think so? Yes of course it

31:17

is incredibly well made. So would you care to join

31:19

us for a spell? I couldn't possibly,

31:21

yes I will. Absolutely. We're just taking a

31:23

brief moment but I think the Master of

31:25

Ceremonies is going to do a formal dance

31:27

in a moment. Would you care to play

31:29

with us for the formal dance? What

31:32

tempo is it? What BPM? Well it depends

31:34

on which one the Master of Ceremonies chooses.

31:37

I hope it doesn't go too fast. I

31:39

haven't warmed up my fingers. Alright

31:41

well we'll see what happens.

31:43

How about that? Maybe we can

31:45

just tune up. I'm a stalagmite

31:47

again. Oh where's Rowan gone? Where

31:50

am I? They look very awkward.

31:54

So Rowan moved his way up onto the stage and

31:56

you can see the band is starting to tune up

31:58

getting ready. What about any else? Anybody else got

32:00

any ideas? Daisy? Yeah, let's jump over here. Is there

32:03

a buffet? There is,

32:05

yeah there is. You can see that there's a

32:07

table on the far side, it's laden with beautiful

32:10

food and snacks all laid out. You can

32:12

see there's a couple of guests kind of

32:14

milling around that area as well. Daisy's gonna

32:16

go to the buffet. Okay, all right. She

32:18

wants a snack. So Daisy

32:20

makes her way, moving past

32:22

a couple of these guests, you overhear a

32:25

few conversations and you can see that over

32:27

here there are two gentlemen

32:29

guests. One is

32:31

dressed as an is a almost

32:34

dressed as a black dragon. You

32:36

can see that they've done this

32:38

beautiful like black draconic mask. They've

32:40

got these long parfum black robes

32:43

almost looking like a sorcerer and

32:45

they are just shoveling food into their mouth in

32:47

the same way that you are in that kind

32:49

of like fast-paced thing. And next

32:51

to him is a gentleman who has just

32:53

a very simple black domino mask on and

32:56

appears to be wearing just a normal regular

32:59

looking black suit, very

33:02

plain compared to everybody else. And

33:05

he's just sort of stood to one

33:07

side sipping a little drink, sort of

33:09

observing everything else. But the

33:11

black dragon next to just looks over and

33:13

he's just like, what's going

33:18

on? Yeah,

33:20

he's gonna look at what he's doing, realize

33:23

that she's eating too quick and kind of

33:25

compose herself a little bit and not do

33:27

what he's doing. You want to move

33:30

around? I'm

33:33

going to eat all of this. Huh? And just

33:35

consume, hoovering up the food. She's just gonna stand

33:37

at the side of the dance floor and just

33:40

do a little sweep, see who's

33:43

arrived. Like see if I can

33:45

sort of look for potential

33:47

targets to go and talk to you. Sure,

33:49

let's make a perception check. Let's get our first

33:51

roll done for the evening. This is going to

33:53

be d20 plus your perception skill modifier

33:55

and this is kind of the basics of D&D

33:57

for those of you who aren't familiar. 13

34:01

13 so you stand to the side you're kind of

34:04

looking at everything But it's quite crowded the

34:06

dance floor is kind of shifting around people are

34:08

getting ready You probably

34:10

would be able to pick out that there are a

34:12

few different guests all in different places You

34:14

definitely identify all the people in the red

34:16

and purple costumes But it looks like over

34:19

at the bar a kind of

34:21

very heated kind of like discussion is happening

34:23

over by the bar on the other Side

34:25

but as you're kind of like looking at this the

34:28

guy in the plane suit in the black domino mask

34:30

Will just sort of approach you And

34:33

just kind of say Hey,

34:36

how are you doing nice to meet you? What's your name? Oh?

34:39

Hello, she's got Nice

34:44

to meet you. You've got a little cake there, but

34:46

I'm not gonna mind it. It's fine. Sorry. It's really

34:48

good cake Hi, I'm

34:50

Daisy. Well pleasure to meet you Daisy

34:52

my name. I'm mr.. Toons pleasure to meet you Mr..

34:56

Toons Malcolm toons you What

35:00

are you are you a guest of the of

35:02

the lady? Yes? Oh wonderful? I'm

35:04

first masquerade ball I didn't

35:06

know there was gonna be free food. It's great

35:10

forgive me I try and make it a It's

35:13

part of It's sort of a

35:15

curiosity of mine you recently helped with some

35:17

matters here in Ashens rest right there It's been

35:20

some some matters that you've been involved in

35:22

yeah We stay at

35:24

the haunted place. I did

35:26

hear about that. Yeah, that's our home

35:29

I guess a very fascinating thing and

35:31

he pulls out a business card And

35:33

he says my I run a printing house And

35:36

we were often looking for stories and

35:38

research topics and things like that if

35:40

you and your friends are ever interested

35:43

in talking about opportunities I'd

35:46

love to I'd love to work with you and

35:48

he hands you this business card, and it says

35:50

tombs and co printing house All

35:53

right, and he just he just hands you

35:55

that he engages you with a little bit of idle

35:58

conversation And then that we're gonna move on Daisy's

36:01

feeling really proud of herself because she's

36:03

now made another friend. So

36:05

she's gonna

36:08

gather up some pastries

36:11

and then just kind

36:14

of try and hold them maybe in a

36:16

ruffle of her skirt and scoot around to

36:18

near the bar where it seems to be. Yeah, so

36:20

you start making your way there, we'll jump across to

36:23

somebody else. Anybody else have something that they would like

36:25

to jump in and do? You can see that the

36:27

bar is laden with these brightly coloured drinks. You can

36:29

see that the people are starting to gather maybe for

36:31

a formal dance but it hasn't

36:34

quite happened just yet. Any ideas of

36:36

anybody who would like to go? I think, I

36:38

don't know about you, but I think the two of us,

36:41

we'd be flitting around. Yeah.

36:45

Like, we're in business mode now and

36:47

I think we'd be in, like,

36:50

near each other but, you know, kind of going

36:52

under tables, listening to conversations. Stuck in and weaving.

36:54

Or trying to, like, sneak in and listen in.

36:56

Underneath, like, skirts, not in a creepy way. But,

36:59

you know, like, kind of like... Is

37:01

there a non-creepy way to say that? Yeah, no, I'm taking

37:03

that out. Say I'm taking

37:05

that out. It's fine. Under

37:07

clothes, send a clip and things like that. There's, like, curtains, drapes

37:09

that you can hide in, little pillars that you

37:12

can sneak around, even, like, under the tables, like,

37:14

you can duck under those and listen in. Absolutely.

37:17

Yeah, absolutely. I'm still panicking though, like,

37:19

mainly I'm following her. You're following her. Doing

37:21

it. Yeah, absolutely. And I'm like, oh no, oh no,

37:23

don't go too far. Yeah. And then,

37:25

like, one thing... So, as you're doing this, if

37:27

we have Flux make a perception check to

37:29

see if you overhear anything, right, as you're

37:31

kind of flittering around. Yeah. And

37:34

then, never... You can make the same check as

37:36

well, so it's a d20 plus your perception bonus.

37:38

It's a d20. It's a big one. It's a

37:40

big boy. It's a big boy. Yeah, that was

37:42

my one. Yeah. So, roll that and

37:44

then you add your perception bonus. Mine's six

37:47

plus one, so not three. Seven, okay. Mine's

37:49

ten plus three. Ten plus three, so a

37:51

thirteen. All right. So, as you're kind of

37:53

flitting around, Flux, you're getting distracted because as

37:56

you flight near these tables, you look up

37:58

and hanging on the wall... is

38:00

this big spiky hammer and

38:02

you just look at it and

38:05

it's gold and it's engraved with

38:07

fire and you're just like ooh

38:09

and you just like eyes light up as you

38:11

see it and you kind of forget about listening

38:13

in on this. Oh she's gone. She's

38:16

gone. Fine. Matt but

38:18

while you're doing that, Nevi as you're kind

38:20

of listening in you over hear a couple

38:22

of people kind of saying like oh have you

38:24

seen Adelaine around? Oh yes. I

38:26

think that she might be over there talking up

38:28

on the balcony and like you over hear like

38:31

some gossip but you also see

38:34

running along the edge of the wall a little

38:36

trio of mice just like

38:38

kind of like you know, trailing along

38:41

and they look like they're trying to find little

38:43

scraps of food. They're like sneaking around the buffet

38:45

tables. All the food that Daisy shoved in her

38:47

pockets, all the crumbs that fell out, the

38:49

mice are running in grabbing it. I like

38:52

to think that she got the

38:54

dress filled with pockets in it for

38:56

snacks specifically. I respect that. As

38:59

you're moving away you're leaving like a little trail and

39:01

the mice are kind of like chasing

39:04

after it. So I forgot

39:06

to mention that I was a druid fairy. So

39:10

does that mean I need to druid? You

39:12

can do whatever you like and that's the

39:14

wonders of this game. If you have

39:16

to spell speak with animals, I highly recommend

39:18

that. You do. It's all on there. It's

39:21

a lot of words on here Mark. It

39:24

is a lot of words. You can definitely see. So

39:26

all your spells are listed at the bottom there. Well

39:28

I've already heard them saying the thing about the balcony. Yeah

39:31

they think that well these people think that

39:33

Adelaine might be up there but these might

39:35

have like looks like they've got like a

39:37

good periphery of the whole place. If

39:39

you wanted to speak to them you could. Yes

39:41

I'd like to speak with. Sure okay. So

39:44

what you do is you would cast that spell. So

39:46

one of your first level spells you use up. So

39:49

you just mark off that you've used one of your first level

39:51

spells. It's just at the bottom Kim. I've put them all down

39:53

there. I see. This is

39:55

sweet isn't it? Look we've got lovely mother Kim

39:57

helping out. It's very lovely. But really. what

40:00

that is is what does it look like for

40:02

Nettie when you cast magic when you use magical

40:04

spells you know there's almost an element here of

40:06

you channeling some sort of power so what does

40:09

that look like so it's like purple

40:11

glitter that comes from within yeah but

40:14

like gay glitter it's

40:18

a bit shinier it's got a bit of like

40:20

different pints and colors like a bit holographic a

40:23

little bit holographic yes yeah yeah

40:26

yeah yeah love it so we

40:28

see that kind of fall over you loud of it and

40:30

when you do that you hear you can

40:33

now hear the mice the little squeaks and

40:35

chips and things like that become actual words

40:37

and it becomes hey boss they got some

40:39

really good season over here oh right boss

40:41

yeah i've got a big i've got a big wedge

40:44

over here okay

40:50

okay and they kind

40:53

of like the hey is that fairy looking at us do

41:01

i look funny are you? do i make you laugh?

41:04

so Nettie just hides behind

41:06

the fan and starts searching

41:08

for flux flux

41:11

what and

41:15

well i just overheard some

41:17

mice and well

41:20

they were acting the way mice probably would

41:22

oh speak to them Nettie they might be

41:24

useful they're quite big they're

41:27

own they only come up to your hip you're

41:29

fine we've seen bigger mice

41:31

okay go on i believe in

41:33

you Nettie can i do this you can do this

41:35

Nettie do this i think she's having a bit of a crisis come

41:39

on Nettie hey it's all right hey

41:41

we're not scary we're nice mice nice

41:44

nice we're nice mice okay

41:47

this is i'm Tony and

41:49

this is uh this is my boss Tony ha

41:52

ha easy to remember yes okay

41:55

uh have you two seen anything

41:58

such Oh,

42:01

sussy, yeah. Oh, there's

42:03

a lot of that going around here. All these

42:05

people, they're dressed up as other things. That's kind

42:07

of weird, isn't it? Like, you're

42:09

dressed as some sort of thing, but you're a

42:11

fairy. I am,

42:13

yes. Whoa, you are a fairy. Whoa.

42:16

Well, yeah, I mean, we've seen a few things. There's

42:19

one guy, I think he's

42:21

over there and he's drinking the funny drinks,

42:24

and there's something odd about him. Something

42:27

weird about him. It's like there's a weird smell.

42:30

Do you know what I mean? Absolutely. Yeah.

42:33

Yeah, he's got a weird smell about him. I

42:35

don't like him. Maybe I'll send the boys to take

42:37

care of him. A lot

42:39

of the oversized folk have got a weird smell

42:41

about them. Yeah. But this one's

42:43

particularly weird. It's like a weird smell.

42:46

It's not like, you know, people smell

42:48

like food, but he

42:50

smells like not

42:53

food. That's

42:56

definitely sus. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

42:59

I don't know if there's like kids talking about

43:01

all these shiny things. Shiny

43:03

things. Okay, great. I'm gonna tell

43:06

my wife about this. We

43:09

love to see it. Thank you,

43:12

allies. Yeah. I'm

43:14

gonna tell my wife, because I'm

43:16

a little bit more nervous in

43:18

this mortal realm. What are you nervous about? Dying.

43:22

Oh yeah, that's a good one to be nervous about, yeah. Yeah,

43:25

perfectly understandable. Where

43:27

we're from, we're immortal, but now we're here and it's mortal

43:29

and scary. Oh, that sucks. So

43:32

go really, really. Yeah, you know, we're mice.

43:34

We live like a few years and then we die. It's

43:38

a nice attitude to have about that, really. Hey, you gotta

43:40

embrace it. It's all

43:42

about presence, really. Wait,

43:45

wait, you have a lovely time. Thank you

43:47

very much. We're gonna go eat loads of

43:49

cheese. I respect that deeply. Thank

43:51

you. I would do the same in

43:53

your shoes, in your paws. Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna tell

43:55

my wife. The wife

43:57

told me that there's someone sus. I

44:00

don't remember all the details because I was quite nervous.

44:02

Okay. I've never spoken to Mice before. Which one? Can

44:05

you point it out? The guy

44:07

that smells bad. The guy

44:09

that doesn't smell like... like

44:11

food. Something, something. She

44:13

smells unusual. She's somewhere over there.

44:15

Should we ask the Rockman? Yes.

44:18

Rockman, can you... How's your sense

44:20

of smell? So as you guys... I'm just

44:22

going to get to a little bit, because as you

44:25

guys have this conversation, Rowan and the band up on

44:27

the balcony, he's kind of moved up there now. And

44:29

as you turn to look towards Rowan and make your

44:31

way up to him, those of

44:33

you, so Ophelia, Xanthius and Graf, you

44:35

guys are still at the kind of

44:37

front area of the thing. And

44:40

this gentleman comes out and he's

44:42

like, Oh, ladies and gentlemen, it

44:44

is time for one of the

44:46

great dances of the evening. Please

44:48

fetch your partners, as it is

44:50

time to indulge in the

44:53

Kelskaran Waltz. And you see

44:55

that everyone begins partnering up. Oh,

44:57

uh... Great big dance. So

45:00

the two fairies are already there. Dance for

45:02

dance. Yeah, the dance for dance. Me and Ophelia partner

45:04

up. Okay. Graf, as

45:07

you're stood there, you

45:09

see this dwarven lady kind

45:12

of make her way over to you.

45:14

Big sort of braided thing. She is

45:16

dressed up to almost have like a

45:18

water nymph kind of outfit, very flowing.

45:21

And she kind of goes up to you and goes, I

45:23

see that you're a fish. I

45:32

suppose I am. Yeah. I

45:34

haven't had a bath in the week. Oh.

45:38

Ah. I was going to ask you to dance, but now

45:40

I might not. Oh, but you said I smell fresh. I

45:43

said, you're a fish. Oh, a

45:45

fish? Yeah. I am. I'm

45:48

water. Would

45:50

you care to dance? Oh,

45:53

bloody hell. Oh,

45:57

mistress, I be on it. to

46:00

dance. We're really bad at this. Oh,

46:03

I've never been to a baller before. All

46:05

right, well tell it what, just try and not to,

46:07

I'll leave and you just go with it, all right?

46:09

Okay. And take your paw. That's on

46:11

her dress. Oh, turns it a little bit.

46:13

Oh, bloody hell, I'm sorry. Maybe

46:15

this was not the best idea. Um,

46:17

and you begin, she begins kind of dragging you

46:19

over towards it. Um, those of you who are

46:21

interested in dancing, this big sort of ball begins

46:23

to take place. Okay. Daisy, you're kind of weaving

46:25

your way through towards the bar area. She's dancing

46:28

while she weaves through.

46:30

Sure, sure. Um, and you

46:33

begin to sort of like this, this

46:35

coordinated dance begins to take effect. What

46:37

I would like is for everybody who

46:39

is dancing, okay, give me a either

46:41

performance or acrobatic skill role.

46:43

So this is a d20 for

46:45

Janetta. Uh, this is a d20

46:47

plus your acrobatic or your performance

46:50

skill. All right.

46:52

Rowan, I'd like you to make a performance

46:54

check to see how well you play the

46:56

band. Can I just say Rowan is panicking

46:58

with the band. He's got a group huddle

47:01

with the band. Right. What is a waltz?

47:04

We're talking three, four, four, four. Just

47:06

listen and try and follow along, big

47:08

guy. Don't worry about it. I'm sure

47:10

you've got this. I'm

47:13

a strong mainly because

47:15

Mark doesn't know what

47:17

to put. Um, but yeah, so

47:19

let's get some of those dice rolls. So, uh, let's start

47:21

with Rhiannon. What do we get for our role? A

47:24

10. That's acceptable. Yeah. Okay.

47:27

Um, 21. 21.

47:29

Daisy is weaving her way through. Yeah.

47:33

Like you've kind of got like a little hobbit shuffle kind

47:35

of going on. It's great. Uh, what about

47:38

Xanthius as you are partnered up with Rhiannon? I'm

47:40

sorry, Ophelia. I got

47:43

a five. Oh, I

47:45

feel like it's like Ophelia and Xanthius

47:47

like dragging each other along. Like Ophelia.

47:49

How do you do this in Xanthius?

47:51

This is nothing like This way Xanthius.

47:53

No clockwise, clockwise. Don't go near my

47:55

chest. No, you're anticlockwise. You're

47:59

hopeless. I'm just, I'm hungry!

48:01

Oh, the nerve! We're gonna come back to

48:03

this argument in a minute. You

48:07

would lose that fight. I'd lose that fight. I'm dead as hell.

48:10

Ruffus, what did we get on our roll for Gruffus? This

48:13

big awkward lion rolled a 17. A

48:15

17! We

48:17

love to see it. So actually, do you

48:20

know what, Gruff? There is a moment where,

48:22

and I, you go, if you don't

48:24

like this, feel free to go with me, but

48:26

as soon as you start moving, this dwarf has

48:29

such a grace to her, and you realise, oh,

48:31

this is, watching the birds, watching your ice diver

48:33

birds, the flow of the ice flow, you

48:35

begin to kind of get a vibe for this,

48:37

and you begin to take the lead, and you

48:39

twirl her around, and you really make

48:41

a bit of impression. You and Daisy definitely are

48:43

standing out as you're moving through. I'm gonna come

48:45

back to you. I'm doing it. I'm coming back.

48:48

Okay. You dip her. And I just

48:50

drop her. She definitely kind of

48:52

like gets a bit flustered as you dip her down. What

48:54

about our fairy couple? How did we do over here? We

48:57

both got six. Oh. I

49:00

tell you what, why don't you guys tell me, that's

49:03

bad, what does that look like? Hell,

49:05

that's bad. What

49:07

was the question? What does that look like, this

49:10

terrible dance that you two have done? We

49:13

just keep on getting distracted and

49:16

flying in to people. Believing

49:19

like a trail of glittery fairiness, as you

49:21

guys... Boo! Boo! Boo! Like

49:23

when a fly tries to get out of a window. I

49:26

like that. I'm

49:28

really confused. You move a lot at

49:30

a time. A pinballing around. Bing-bonging around.

49:33

I'm bing-bonging around. Oh, I love it.

49:36

We're gonna come back to that because I feel like

49:38

that's gonna interact with Ophelia and Xanthia. Yeah. But

49:41

lastly, our musician Rowan, how did Rowan do? Rowan

49:43

did all right. He got a 19. Oh! Can

49:47

I also... Yes. Noticing this

49:49

whole fly situation. Yeah. Can I

49:51

throw out a bardic inspiration through my performance at

49:53

these two? Well, I'm gonna do you one better

49:56

than that, Chris Strong, because your music is

49:58

so good, I'm gonna say that... everybody

50:00

here basically gets

50:02

a Barnak inspiration dice from you.

50:04

You get to hold on to

50:06

it. Rowan's music, you see the

50:09

band, they're very good, but as

50:11

Rowan pulls out this beautiful stone-carved

50:13

lute, he really takes centre

50:15

stage and the music flows over the

50:17

dance floor and everybody's just enamored by

50:19

this music. They begin looking up in

50:21

your direction. Oh wow, totally taken in

50:23

by this. And even your... What

50:26

can I say? Sorry. Yeah, no. It's indulging. And

50:28

then all of you feel this

50:30

kind of like the music of Rowan just

50:33

seems to resonate with you and inspires you

50:35

to maybe do better. The

50:38

pixies bump into Xanthius and Ophelia,

50:40

kind of sparking the argument of

50:42

like, you guys kind of striking.

50:45

And that's when we see one

50:48

of the gentlemen who's kind of dancing with you, the

50:50

two of you bump into Xanthius

50:52

and Ophelia, who then bump into

50:54

this basically kind of... He

50:57

is a orc gentleman and he's

50:59

dressed to be a bit of a bandit. Like

51:01

he has like a highwayman's mask on, he's got

51:03

like leather armour and things like that on. And

51:06

he very drunkenly is like, what

51:09

are you guys doing? I'm

51:11

trying to dance, at least I am. I'm trying

51:14

to dance. You are both awful.

51:18

Oh? And you nearly made me

51:20

drop my very shiny thing that I've

51:22

bought. Shiny thing you say.

51:24

And you see that he holds up

51:27

a kind of silvery key

51:30

with rods embedded into the side of it.

51:33

And you watch as he holds

51:35

it up, the fairies and their

51:37

fairy magic trails over this

51:39

silvery key and something

51:42

happens. Red

51:45

lightning shocks

51:48

along this strange alien looking

51:50

key and then suddenly

51:52

it explodes outwards and several of

51:54

the nearby guests are struck by

51:56

this red lightning as this key

51:58

begins to swirl. and grow

52:01

in size and you watch

52:03

as the people struck by the red lightning

52:05

including the gentleman who was holding it, their

52:08

arms and their face becomes covered

52:10

in this red crystal as

52:13

you see this ancient device

52:16

turns them into strange creatures.

52:18

This was easy. I think

52:20

we found it. Your

52:23

terrible dancing has revealed something.

52:27

I was doing wonderfully. I

52:30

was doing wonderfully. Oh no. Look

52:32

at Mark's cute little box. Wait, look at

52:34

that. How many things are you putting down there? Oh

52:37

don't worry about that. It's got quite a few

52:39

minis. Yeah? I've got a box full of minis. I've got

52:41

a box of them. Why did

52:43

you bring so many? You shouldn't have

52:45

given you that bit. Have you checked what he brought

52:48

with him? He put his box in

52:50

the boot of the car and I was like, Hey

52:52

Mark stop. You can stop now. Mark stop. I won the ball.

52:54

Mark please. 1,

53:00

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Alright that's good.

53:02

We see one up close. You then see the

53:05

weapons wall of the weapons that

53:07

you were admiring earlier. A number

53:09

of those weapons are also struck

53:11

by the red lightning. They animate

53:13

flying off of the wall and

53:16

they begin to spin out of control.

53:18

Right. And that

53:20

my friends is where we're

53:23

going to roll initiative.

53:25

Oh good. Mark's trying

53:27

to kill us today. Yes I

53:30

am. That's a lot of minis. Right.

53:34

You want to reevaluate this before we continue?

53:36

Let me go down. So let's start with

53:39

Chris from Rowan. What did we get? I got a 14.

53:41

Rowan at 14. Jen. 10. 10 for Fluck. A

53:48

Leonia. 12. 12 for Nevi.

53:51

Nevi 12. What do we get for Gruff?

53:54

A dirty 20. A dirty 20. So dirty.

53:58

So dirty. Dantheus. Natural. Well,

54:00

twenty! Oh, okay! Okay! Uh,

54:03

Daisy! Eleven. Eleven

54:06

for Daisy, and then Ophelia. Uh, natural

54:09

seven. A natural seven. I'm

54:13

gonna roll for our bad guys. So,

54:16

we have the animated weapons at

54:18

five. We have the

54:20

corrupted guests at twelve.

54:22

Okay, corrupted guests. Corrupted guests.

54:24

And then finally, the artifact.

54:28

Eighteen. Uh-oh. So,

54:32

you see in the middle this

54:34

key, this strange device, and one,

54:36

now that you see it, as

54:39

it swells in size, there

54:41

is something easy. Easy. There

54:44

is something, we've got twenty minutes in my game. The

54:47

artifact. Yeah, go on. There

54:49

is something oddly familiar, because you have seen

54:51

something similar of this form. Yes, I have.

54:54

You know, this

54:57

artifact is from a proto-Majai

54:59

vault. Why would I know that? Why would you

55:01

know that indeed? The proto-Majai vaults are these things

55:03

of long dead mages that once lived here on

55:05

this world

55:08

and were wiped out, and they left behind

55:10

these vaults of treasures and power that

55:13

nobody really understands. So,

55:15

you see this thing pulse, and it begins to

55:17

pulse. Boom! Boom! Boom!

55:21

But, the first person to act is gonna be Xanthius. I

55:23

don't wanna. You won. I don't

55:25

want to. So, Raph is

55:27

gonna be up here with our... This

55:30

is the thing about getting that twenty on initiative. You've

55:32

gotta be the decisive one. Yeah, I should have lied.

55:36

One. Sorry. The fairies are gonna

55:38

be over here as well, dancing.

55:40

Daisy's been making her way over

55:42

here. Rowan's up on the stage,

55:44

perfect. Right, so Xanthius,

55:47

hit me. What? No! Hey,

55:50

baby! There's too many

55:52

things here! I'm leaving! Bye! See

55:55

ya! I'm running! What are you doing? I'm

55:58

getting out of here! Okay. I'm gonna

56:00

kill myself from the messy dancing of Ophelia. Yep.

56:03

And I'm leaving. Okay. You're

56:05

gonna run to the entrance. Bye! 5,

56:07

10, 15, 20, 25, 30,

56:09

30. You're leaving? And

56:11

I'm gonna cast Mage Armor. You're gonna cast Mage Armor

56:14

on you. Yeah. Okay.

56:17

So you cast Mage Armor, you begin running. One of these corrupted

56:19

deaths though, as you run past, is gonna get a swipe up

56:21

you. That is gonna

56:23

be, A, 23 to hit. Close?

56:26

You're way above. Even

56:29

with your Mage Armor, you're gonna take 5

56:31

points of damage and I need a dexterity

56:33

saving throw from you. Oh, okay. 14

56:36

is just enough. So

56:41

as it swipes you, it kind of

56:44

catches your arm and some of that

56:46

red crystalline substance tries to

56:48

like grab onto you. Oh.

56:51

But you manage to quickly dodge

56:53

away. That is your action and movement and anything

56:55

else you would like to do? Nah.

56:57

Alrighty. Welcome everyone. Dirty,

56:59

Dirty 20 Gruff. I'm

57:02

so dirty. Sorry.

57:04

Second voice. Grathes

57:08

is going to turn to his dance partner.

57:10

Yes. Madam, this has

57:13

been a great honor. But for now, get

57:15

your sense of safety. I'm gonna go hit

57:17

that thing. And

57:21

he turns towards the artifact, the artifact.

57:23

Yeah. This big thing in the

57:25

middle is the artifact. And as he

57:28

squares up and starts marching towards it

57:30

in a great grumpy fashion, armor of

57:33

oak and thorns start sprouting

57:35

up his body. So we see

57:37

this armor of wood and vines begins

57:39

to form like a knight's armor over

57:41

Gruffith, made of nature

57:44

and plants. And I'm gonna hit it. Great.

57:47

Go for it. A little bit.

57:49

Bardic inspiration? I'm gonna... Extra

57:51

d6. You can add it. Okay, I'm

57:54

gonna do that. You can choose to add it after you've rolled. I

57:56

rolled a three. Yep. Plus

58:00

a six that's an eight plus

58:03

six. I rolled a six on my body

58:05

inspiration. Yeah, so it would be 11 That

58:08

yeah This

58:10

thing is immobile. So an 11 actually

58:13

hits. Oh, yeah Yeah,

58:16

you can see that it's just hanging in the

58:18

middle But it's pulsing and that pulsing is getting

58:20

quicker and quicker Eight

58:22

points of damage eight points of damage great

58:24

to know So then

58:27

the staff and just give that a great break

58:29

what yeah So you see

58:31

the staff collides into it and kind of fragments

58:33

a part of it kind of breaks off And

58:36

you see that it pulses more angrily. That's your

58:38

movement and action graph and bone section, right? You're

58:40

done That's all I got all right at the

58:42

end of two characters turns The

58:45

artifact lets out a pulse and I'm

58:47

gonna generate a random effect for it

58:51

Random of so I

58:53

need all of you To

58:55

make a strength savings.

58:58

That's what they see your plus your

59:01

strength modifier. Yeah It's

59:04

not gonna be good for you So

59:08

strength same for from xanthea three

59:11

three excellent Daisy six

59:13

six Ophelia

59:16

14 14 is a success. Yes Five

59:20

is a failure. What do we get for Navey? I take offense

59:22

to this minus one here You're

59:25

gonna have something is gonna be weak for

59:27

yours. It's your strength. Come on packages. You're

59:29

very wise and powerful Seven

59:31

seven unfortunately a failure. What about flux nine

59:33

nine is also a failure for flux and

59:36

then for Rowan 11 is a failure That's

59:39

everybody but I believe You

59:44

are all five ten fifteen a bunch

59:46

of you are pulled closer to this

59:48

artifact I'm trying

59:50

to run away guys just Pulled

59:53

in gruff you already did This

59:56

danger where we go everyone else

1:00:00

I feel like it wasn't pulled actually. I believe

1:00:02

that everybody, all of the guests are like thrown

1:00:05

in and knocked to the ground AHHHHHHH!

1:00:07

AHHHHHH! YEAH! AHHHH!

1:00:10

Screaming! AHHH! What's happening?

1:00:12

As they fall down, anybody

1:00:15

who comes within 5 feet of this artifact,

1:00:18

you see that that same crystalline substance

1:00:20

kind of falls over them. All

1:00:23

of you who failed are going to take 7 points

1:00:26

of necrotic damage. So you're going to

1:00:28

take 7 damage. That's spicy! So

1:00:30

on your hit points Alina, there should be an area

1:00:33

for you to mark down damage that you take and

1:00:35

things like that. Alright? Tell us to

1:00:37

bring pens. There's going to be danger. I'm sorry. As

1:00:40

you're all kind of wound sucked in as

1:00:42

this vortex of force kind of pulls you

1:00:44

all in. I have resistance to necrotic damage.

1:00:46

Then you take only half Daisy. Good stuff.

1:00:50

Then we next have, so after

1:00:52

Grasnus, it would then be Rowan.

1:00:55

Hello. I'm Rowan. Rowan

1:00:59

is going to spend his entire action

1:01:01

doing the following. He gets pulled forward.

1:01:04

The uh, the selec mite, the

1:01:07

selec mite, flies off his

1:01:09

face and you can see the fear

1:01:11

behind his eyes at seeing this artifact

1:01:14

from the proto-majai. The

1:01:16

geometric patterns on his arms are rippling

1:01:19

with a sort of energy and he's going

1:01:21

to spend his entire turn in fear. Okay!

1:01:24

Very fitting for what happened to you

1:01:26

in the mysterious past. But yeah, you

1:01:28

remember the flashes of the light and

1:01:30

explosion. No, please. Alright. You

1:01:32

know what, Kristian, I'm going to give you inspiration because that's

1:01:34

really great role playing for your background. You can have inspiration.

1:01:36

That was pretty good role playing there, Marl. It was great.

1:01:39

You're playing for your character. We love to see it. I

1:01:41

ran in fear too. Yeah, but this

1:01:43

is not relevant to your character. No, no, you...

1:01:45

That was just being a coward. Oh yeah. You've

1:01:47

done too much. Um, alright. Next

1:01:51

up, we're going to have Nevi and then the corrupted

1:01:53

guests are going to go. So, Nevi, you're going to

1:01:55

be the next one to act. So, you can do

1:01:57

movement. You can take an action and a bonus.

1:02:00

action what would you like to do what would never be doing

1:02:02

this situation now now the thing is we

1:02:04

spoke about invisibility but it's not on this

1:02:06

piece of paper yeah it's a special

1:02:08

ability you have so you can turn invisible as

1:02:10

great how do I do that you just tell

1:02:12

me that's what you do I do that sandy

1:02:16

everybody so yeah we see that same

1:02:18

kind of glittery pixie magic right and

1:02:20

you just vanish from sight as

1:02:23

you immediately just in fear response vanish turn invisible

1:02:25

and now you can move or if you have

1:02:28

any other bonus actions you can do those as

1:02:30

well can

1:02:32

I move closer to my wife you absolutely

1:02:34

can you guys are currently next to each other oh

1:02:36

but you can you can definitely kind of like because

1:02:39

I'm assuming you want to get away from the big

1:02:41

scary yes so you can scoop behind keeping

1:02:43

your distance but still staying a little bit close

1:02:46

oh can I

1:02:48

heal myself you

1:02:51

can if you're in your animal form yes oh

1:02:54

no but you could turn into an animal

1:02:56

now if you wanted to an invisible one you want

1:02:58

to be an invisible animal yes what

1:03:01

kind of animal would you turn into a

1:03:03

giant spider a giant spider

1:03:06

an invisible giant

1:03:08

spider the one man

1:03:10

I forgot to bring it will look

1:03:14

like a wolf but you are a giant spider

1:03:16

now and you are invisible

1:03:19

yes so you kind of feel your form as

1:03:23

you turn into a giant spider but that

1:03:25

is gonna be the end of your turn

1:03:27

I'm sorry if anyone's arachnophobic all right the

1:03:29

all of

1:03:32

the sort of minions are

1:03:35

going to just attack whoever's around

1:03:37

them so Daisy unfortunately

1:03:39

one's gonna come towards you one's gonna

1:03:41

attack a civilian this one's

1:03:44

going to run towards Rowan this

1:03:47

one is gonna run towards gruff this

1:03:49

one's gonna come off the flocks

1:03:52

and then these two are gonna turn on

1:03:54

some other folks back here And

1:04:00

then this one, yay! As

1:04:02

they just come rushing in. So Daisy.

1:04:04

Oh, hello. That is gonna be a 13 to

1:04:06

hit you. A 13? Yes. Aww.

1:04:10

Misses, you dodge out of the way. Rowan, that is

1:04:12

gonna be a eight to hit you.

1:04:14

No. So in your trembling free, you

1:04:16

manage to defend yourself. Flocks, this is

1:04:18

gonna be a attack against you. That is gonna

1:04:21

be a 22 to hit you. Oh!

1:04:24

Big hit. Yeah. That

1:04:26

is gonna be seven points of damage to

1:04:29

you as it kind of strikes into you

1:04:31

with its slashing claws. And then I need

1:04:33

you to make a dexterity saving throw for

1:04:35

me, please. Which does? A

1:04:38

big d20 plus your dexterity saving throw.

1:04:41

Eight is easily enough. Plus two, so 20. So

1:04:44

again, the same thing, it strikes you, but before

1:04:46

these red crystals can jump onto you, pull yourself

1:04:48

away and avoid being corrupted by whatever this is.

1:04:51

You manage to pull yourself away. Go, go, go.

1:04:53

I think the rest all attack NPCs,

1:04:56

so we don't have to worry about those. They're dead. We

1:04:59

then jump to Daisy.

1:05:04

I am going to keep my

1:05:06

distance, but Gruff is- One

1:05:08

is right next to you. From

1:05:11

the big- From the big aspect, yeah.

1:05:14

That does seem to be the source of this power,

1:05:16

by the way, whatever is affecting the guests that is

1:05:18

coming from that zone. Gruff is next to

1:05:20

it, so I get sneak

1:05:22

attacks. Yeah. So

1:05:25

I'm going to summon a blade

1:05:28

made out of radiant light, and

1:05:30

I'm gonna throw it at the big thing.

1:05:33

You see this blade of light, and then you lob

1:05:35

it towards the big artifact. Let's go for it. Its

1:05:38

AC is 10. Uh,

1:05:40

that is a 14 to hit. That is gonna

1:05:42

hit, and you can apply sneak attack damage. Heh,

1:05:45

heh, heh. Nah,

1:05:48

nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

1:05:50

14 damage. 14 points of

1:05:52

damage. This radiant blade strikes the

1:05:55

arse bank, and its silvery metal

1:05:57

that it's made from seems to

1:05:59

crack. And it seems

1:06:01

to break away and almost shrink a little

1:06:03

bit in size and the red lightning blasts

1:06:05

out Anything else on your turn

1:06:07

Daisy? I'm going to summon a smaller

1:06:09

dagger as my bonus action That

1:06:12

as well That

1:06:15

is only a nine to hit those so

1:06:17

I don't hit that is unfortunately gonna miss the first blow

1:06:19

taking a big thing After you do all

1:06:21

of that the art practice is gonna pulse again And

1:06:24

this time all of you no saving throw all

1:06:26

takes five necrotic damage this thing kind of just

1:06:28

brows Like let's out

1:06:31

this blast of almost like an odd

1:06:33

tone like As

1:06:37

it zaps everything and then we come to

1:06:53

She's gonna move away from her invisible

1:06:56

giant spider She's

1:06:58

gonna go to She's

1:07:00

gonna fly up. Yep and aim for

1:07:02

the top of the artifact. Yep, and

1:07:06

She's gonna rage like fury.

1:07:08

Oh, you've done it now. What

1:07:11

does it look like when flux rages? She

1:07:13

sets on fire? Everything

1:07:17

is on fire her eyeballs her hair

1:07:20

Her toes eyeballs eyeballs on our

1:07:22

own plant. Yep. Oh, no Thinking

1:07:25

I could try and balance your ball But

1:07:27

yet this flaming fairy just flies up to

1:07:29

the thing you bring out your big mason

1:07:31

and yeah You're gonna do a big yeah,

1:07:34

and my big fucking nice. Alrighty Well

1:07:36

the artworks automatically take to fire damage from

1:07:38

you raging So you see that kind of

1:07:40

that cracking and barking of the the top

1:07:42

of the artifact seems to almost prepare itself

1:07:44

ready for the attack So

1:07:46

this is an attack roll d20 plus your

1:07:48

attack bonus 18

1:07:53

plus five for 20 three big yeah the hammer

1:07:56

comes slamming down now you get to roll the

1:07:58

damage and don't forget to add the 2

1:08:00

from rage. Which one?

1:08:03

What? I

1:08:06

made a fact. 2d6. So

1:08:08

2 from rage. It should be plus

1:08:11

5 with the rage. 5.

1:08:13

2d6 plus 3 plus 2 for rage.

1:08:15

These ones. Oh I don't have... Oh I do. I'm not

1:08:17

going to be good for a blog post. 3

1:08:21

and a 5. Plus

1:08:25

5 as well. Plus

1:08:27

5. So 13 points

1:08:29

of damage. The hanna comes slamming

1:08:31

down and you watch as

1:08:33

that top cracks and splits open. They

1:08:35

are not quite destroyed but such a

1:08:38

heavy hit dealing a massive blow to

1:08:40

this thing. As it splits

1:08:42

open. As

1:08:45

you do that would have been 2 other goes. So

1:08:48

you watch as the aspect pulses once

1:08:50

more and you see these little corrupted

1:08:52

guests. And

1:08:55

they come running towards the

1:08:57

source of their rage. What are

1:08:59

these little noises? And

1:09:07

all of the little minions are going to

1:09:09

get a free attack against all of you.

1:09:11

So Rowan. 16 to hit. That will hit.

1:09:13

It's going to be another 5 points of

1:09:16

damage. I'm going to use my stubborn endurance

1:09:18

to stop that. Love it. Let's go roll

1:09:20

it and see what we get. No.

1:09:24

No. Yeah one sec. Oh

1:09:27

it's cocked. 10 plus

1:09:29

2. I mean yeah 5

1:09:31

points. You negate all of it. Your body hardens

1:09:33

as the blow hits. Yeah it does. Ophelia. 24.

1:09:37

You're going

1:09:39

to take 8 points of

1:09:41

damage as this thing slams

1:09:43

its fist into you. Flux.

1:09:47

The first attack is going to be an 11 to

1:09:49

hit you. What's your

1:09:51

AC? AC is what

1:09:53

the armor. Oh 14. 14.

1:09:56

It misses you. It does. There's a second one.

1:09:58

It goes to strike you as well. Well, that's

1:10:01

a 12. So these two things try and strike you, you're

1:10:03

flying up in the air, they just can't get to you

1:10:05

at all as you move around. And

1:10:07

then Daisy and Gruff, we've got a couple against

1:10:09

you, 16 Daisy and

1:10:11

then 17 Daisy. Yes.

1:10:15

How, what type of damage is it? It's gonna

1:10:17

be, blah blah blah blah,

1:10:19

6 slashing and then 4 slashing, so 10

1:10:21

total. Okay. And then

1:10:23

finally Gruff, that is gonna be a 16 to hit you. It

1:10:25

does not. It does not

1:10:28

hit you, you deflect it with your armour of broken thorns.

1:10:30

So you kind of send off all of these guards as

1:10:32

they're rushing to attack you. Let's

1:10:34

see, flux, idiot, Ophelia. Did

1:10:37

you hit Zantheus just out of

1:10:39

Fincher? No, he doesn't have an

1:10:41

enemy next to him. Oh no,

1:10:44

wait, there's one I forgot. Yeah. Oh

1:10:47

yeah, that doesn't... Don't blow at me.

1:10:51

7 points of slashing down. I'm down.

1:10:55

I'm naturally down. So

1:10:58

as this thing pounces on you as it makes

1:11:00

a leaping attack, it knocks you to the ground,

1:11:02

Zantheus. I

1:11:05

don't know, as these

1:11:07

insane guests corrupted by some protomacic magic

1:11:09

does that. But then we're gonna jump

1:11:11

to Ophelia. Ophelia will raise her blood

1:11:13

whip and walk until she's within

1:11:15

about 10 feet into the big red pillar thing. Yeah,

1:11:18

you can do that without provoking an opportunity attack

1:11:20

as well. And she would just say,

1:11:24

Cursed relic, you'll pay for ruining

1:11:26

my nights and she'll rage. Rage

1:11:28

as well, we've got the two barbarians for raging.

1:11:32

When Ophelia rages, we see blood

1:11:34

almost pulse through her body, right?

1:11:36

And the almost heartbeats sound like...

1:11:41

The fangs elongate, the eyes turn

1:11:43

red, just fury over her face. Great,

1:11:45

what are we doing with the attack? So I'm going to

1:11:47

attack and I'm gonna do a reckless attack, so

1:11:50

I have advantage. Eight,

1:11:52

on the first, nine plus...

1:11:57

Four, thirteen. 13

1:12:00

to hit yeah, is it here? Yeah, this thing's immobile. It's very

1:12:02

easy to hit, but it seems quite tough Alrighty

1:12:05

1d4 plus 2 oh my god 5 6 7 7

1:12:11

points of damage this artifact is so

1:12:13

close to breaking as the whip kind

1:12:15

of wraps around the bit where it's

1:12:17

split and pulls a part of it

1:12:19

breaks away And you

1:12:21

see that the weapons that were animated just

1:12:23

clatter to the ground I should do doing

1:12:25

is you've damaged it enough for whatever power

1:12:28

But these corrupted death their eyes

1:12:30

seem to almost become red glowing

1:12:32

orbs as they're like And

1:12:35

then they almost become ready to surge again

1:12:37

I'm you see lightning forks

1:12:39

off the artifact and

1:12:41

all of you Can you make a strength

1:12:43

saving throw for me, please you are down

1:12:45

don't worry about it. I'm like am I

1:12:47

gonna take damage here We'll

1:12:50

find out We're about to

1:12:52

find out if this is canonical So

1:12:56

another strength saving throw from everybody let's start down

1:12:58

here. We'll start with gruff 14 is

1:13:01

a success What do we get for

1:13:03

nevi? 14

1:13:08

14 is a success Rowan 18 18 success Bantuis

1:13:13

is down 14 14 success 20

1:13:17

yep success, so it is only poor

1:13:19

nevi Giant spider

1:13:22

who is a giant spider

1:13:24

invisible gets thrown 15 feet

1:13:26

back and nevi you are

1:13:28

gonna take Six

1:13:31

points of bludgeoning damage Okay,

1:13:35

so as you slam back the pains of

1:13:37

coming through your body in that spider like

1:13:39

form you kind of land on your back

1:13:41

flip over shaking Hey

1:13:46

Yes, what happens to me? You

1:13:48

will take an automatic death saving okay because

1:13:50

you take damage from being thrown back on

1:13:53

for one of three Yeah,

1:13:55

I'm also gonna move your miniature. I'm just laughing around

1:13:57

this ballroom at this point Throw

1:14:00

me against the wall you get thrown

1:14:02

at Daisy's feet instead. Oh, that's very

1:14:04

convenient. It's very convenient In

1:14:09

fact xancias you are the first to go in a brand

1:14:11

new round of an That

1:14:14

means we make a death saving throw see

1:14:16

if xancias died Hey,

1:14:20

if I roll a one you roll a

1:14:22

one right now. This isn't canola. Can you

1:14:24

imagine? Watch this right?

1:14:28

14 it's a success You

1:14:31

are still dying, but you are getting better

1:14:33

yeah, I'm about to make some huge moves

1:14:36

though I'd love I'd love to see

1:14:38

it gruff it I'll

1:14:40

attack again Six

1:14:45

plus five 11

1:14:47

me And then

1:14:49

so if I hit I'm sure I'm

1:14:52

hanging out fact. Yeah, so five six seven eight

1:14:54

points of damage a point help me see

1:14:59

The artifact is crumbling

1:15:01

away nearly destroyed And

1:15:04

you see that several of these creatures

1:15:06

as it's being damaged almost the the

1:15:09

corruption around them Begins to vanish and

1:15:11

they turn back into the guests that

1:15:13

they had been earlier As

1:15:16

we see several of like reappear as

1:15:18

they once were They're

1:15:22

still making that weird noise So

1:15:28

that was your turn we

1:15:30

then go to do do do do do Rowan

1:15:33

Rowan steals himself and

1:15:35

he gets out the pebble that he gifted Allies

1:15:40

forever Let's

1:15:44

see how he does that's

1:15:46

the natural 20 Oh You

1:15:56

what as the

1:15:58

stone strikes the artifact,

1:16:01

shattering it, breaking

1:16:03

apart, and in its place, hovers

1:16:07

a red sort of

1:16:09

unusual like being of energy, kind of

1:16:11

just hovering in place. It

1:16:15

seems weakened, it's there but it's

1:16:18

not there. It's kind of half

1:16:20

between this world and another as

1:16:22

it just hovers in place. The

1:16:24

artifact shattered. Whatever remnant of power

1:16:26

it is on this, it's this

1:16:28

last vestige of thing. And we

1:16:30

go to...Nevi. You

1:16:35

are a big spider. This energy being

1:16:38

is hovering there, it seems to be the source

1:16:40

of whatever it's doing. I really don't want

1:16:42

to do this but maybe

1:16:44

I melee attack. Not

1:16:47

that one, so roll a d20. So

1:16:50

the giant spider comes skittering

1:16:52

along and you're invisible,

1:16:55

Nevi, so you have advantage which means

1:16:57

you get to roll twice and take

1:16:59

the highest one. I said

1:17:01

I didn't want to do this. That's

1:17:11

a one and that's a seven. Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. So

1:17:13

you use a seven. Twelve. Twelve

1:17:15

is enough to hit. It's enough to hit this thing,

1:17:17

it's immobile and grand. So now you roll the damage

1:17:19

for that attack. Nine. Nine

1:17:24

points of damage. Now

1:17:27

if I'm correct it also does some poison damage

1:17:29

as well. Could you please make a DC 11

1:17:31

card saving throw? Natural

1:17:34

one. I don't know what's

1:17:36

happening. So

1:17:41

as the giant spider bites into this

1:17:43

being, seemingly it's physical

1:17:45

enough that your venomous fangs of

1:17:47

the spider inject poison into it

1:17:49

and it becomes wracked in pain

1:17:51

and you now roll the extra

1:17:53

poison damage. Baby, look

1:17:56

at me. I

1:18:00

mean it's a

1:18:03

special allow it allow it

1:18:05

allow it. It's

1:18:09

a good luck. Much

1:18:14

better 12 with

1:18:16

the previous damage you dealt just

1:18:18

enough as this energy being

1:18:21

vanishes as the poison

1:18:23

seems to send it back to some other

1:18:25

place and the corruption affecting

1:18:27

the guests recedes forming like a red

1:18:29

sand that pulls off their body and

1:18:31

lands in the floor as never you

1:18:34

strike the final blow and the guests

1:18:36

are saved. Congratulations

1:18:41

and here's that. That

1:18:44

is gonna be as the party is

1:18:46

saved by all of you guys you're fine. They don't

1:18:48

just make a test save. Sure. Ten

1:18:51

on the back. You're fine. We

1:18:53

see like the part of your heralded

1:18:56

hero Lady and barista thanks you the

1:18:58

mystery of exactly what happened.

1:19:00

I actually rolled the rest of my death

1:19:02

days I'm dead. Well

1:19:06

luckily gruff and daisy would have been able

1:19:08

to heal. I would have killed you. I'm

1:19:10

going for the key guys but

1:19:13

whatever mystery whatever the whoever the person who

1:19:15

brought this was whatever it was that's maybe

1:19:17

a mystery for another time but you are

1:19:19

lauded as heroes Lady and barista grateful

1:19:21

that you saved her masquerade ball many

1:19:23

of the guests here very grateful and

1:19:25

thankful for your aid as that is

1:19:28

the success and that's all we've got time for on

1:19:30

my violent wife is proud of me. I

1:19:33

think I think a big round of applause for both of our

1:19:37

very very well. Yeah

1:19:41

that is unfortunately everybody all we

1:19:43

have time for today. Thank

1:19:45

you all so much for joining us for this. I'll stay inside

1:19:47

quest. It's only a 72. Thank

1:19:51

you all so much. Big. Well

1:19:53

let's do a round of applause for Chris

1:19:55

Kim Rhiannon Katie and Tom. Thank

1:19:57

you. And

1:20:00

another big round of applause for our special guest

1:20:02

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1:20:05

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1:20:07

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1:20:28

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