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Altheya: The Dragon Empire #16 | Possession of a Dhampyr (Part 2)

Altheya: The Dragon Empire #16 | Possession of a Dhampyr (Part 2)

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Altheya: The Dragon Empire #16 | Possession of a Dhampyr (Part 2)

Altheya: The Dragon Empire #16 | Possession of a Dhampyr (Part 2)

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time on our feather trying to

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1:35

in a sort of brothel in

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1:39

other cases pups more of a

1:42

spiritual or mental contest as they

1:44

are in the the enticing devil

1:46

in currently dealing with a processed

1:49

ophelia possessed by the spirit of

1:51

the scarf lady whom our heroes

1:53

have come to believe is Tyree

1:55

Amend. Drink will tire Tyree Adler.

1:58

One of the former in. I'm

2:01

that is where we stand for the

2:03

has the injuries around with seem. Harmless,

2:06

the spirit of a feel his

2:09

body looking badly hurt but fill

2:11

up ah I'm and yeah definitely

2:13

displaying some helpful mere abilities and

2:15

magic the spirits of more than

2:18

just a normal voice with the

2:20

and on that creature my base

2:22

and yet but is where we

2:24

jump again At the top of

2:27

the rounds are it is Daisy

2:29

followed by. Gruff then Rohan however just

2:31

a reminder I do have a point

2:33

spend like and use them in place

2:35

of things that legendary are currently three

2:38

of three, Twenty Three and three. Vs

2:46

Ruined Lithium pretty rough.

2:50

I think like that a me that this

2:52

has just been hill but he's little bag

2:54

for band credible the ice front and center

2:57

as far. As. Fast

3:01

as protocol of blood from that that last

3:03

wound of this could have blood knife that

3:05

was already dead and buried in the other

3:07

am in fight his skin hardened and absorb

3:09

the blow of the thus the with cramped

3:11

space left like a portion of is a

3:13

portion of his shoulder exposed to this dagger

3:15

to strike now. Rock. And

3:24

I I would like to. Move

3:27

up. In front

3:29

of for a when. Twenty

3:32

twenty five for you can get next to row

3:34

and ah. I

3:38

see. Dance.

3:41

Yeah to have dashes. Bonus action that.

3:44

I want to get and between them

3:46

and. I

3:51

want to use my physical dagger. Not

3:54

okay. My radiant, The Uranium.

3:56

I. See.

4:01

Last. Year try and well

4:03

I'm trying to know cry so I

4:05

did. Yeah well see the she recklessly

4:07

events gooseberries if it's forty restlessly thanks

4:10

you have advantage on and if you

4:12

hit you can ah try and deal

4:14

on normal them a little bit tricky

4:16

to do we like a dagger but

4:19

like Obama on the daddy. different. Go

4:23

up to nineteen o two nine

4:25

teams will hit So ninety four

4:28

five am. So and

4:30

it ruins within five feet of me Know

4:32

in point, the the enemy there's a knows

4:34

the the bag whatnot. You have advances a

4:36

year the idea of exact yeah because advances

4:38

from the reckless or the of his can

4:41

be hard to sell his residence. Or.

4:44

Seven. Eight,

4:47

Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, them. It said

4:50

scenes or trousers. Six points of damage In

4:52

the end. Of

4:55

the only way to hear ya non

4:58

lethal unfortunately a non blood rage of

5:00

previous rage ability reducing that by half

5:02

it is not quite enough to know

5:04

Corral use slammed the pommel of the

5:07

dagger like into her ribs or been

5:09

to wind our knock her unconscious bought

5:11

some how this this year of his

5:13

body is still go Amex will have

5:16

a. Assessed

5:18

ah that will you dumbest as their

5:20

it will gain her Blizzard oil. Is

5:26

all like to? Say

5:29

in my head to throw

5:31

in Celsius. I

5:36

don't know how and in order to determine

5:39

at the end of your sunday the mind

5:41

and to spend more My points to take

5:43

less interaction and she's just going to take

5:45

a. You're.

5:48

Looking pretty hot row and right. Oh

5:50

young men I see Milo. She's.

5:52

Looking viewed as he he can feel

5:54

that a body like he's injured and

5:56

now realizing these. She's

5:58

gonna try and point. You are.

6:02

Okay, that is gonna

6:04

be a. Eighteen

6:07

to hit. Us.

6:12

Is it? Did

6:15

for. With. A little

6:17

more arm I will spend a

6:20

book report analyst. And

6:22

I will say. You

6:25

are empowered by it's ability.

6:27

Ahmed, I'm at Damages converts

6:29

damage. Dell poised to be

6:31

a threat directly. ha. Ha

6:36

and then I will spend the money

6:38

they point to add another Dc for

6:40

it's you have to fight are love

6:43

the faith of spend a mix of

6:45

missile or the thank all very low

6:47

damage role though I have with this

6:49

ah so that is only gonna be

6:51

for a to points of damage while

6:54

he really i rolled one one or

6:56

two will. Happen,

6:58

They thought that doesn't mean I

7:00

did tune seal up an officer.

7:03

Okay, Yeah

7:05

no matter she thinks that she grabs

7:07

your arm daisies and I imagine for

7:09

days acquiring tissue long feared Ophelia by

7:11

thing you arm and of bites into

7:13

the hands pull some of the blood

7:15

away not quite able to get full

7:17

strike but that has yeah end of

7:20

your turn on the sea bass. he's

7:22

gonna know with it it's not feeling

7:24

and civil. Servants.

7:31

Grumbling. Alone as don't let me

7:33

do something at the Stadio Tome. Afraid

7:36

you are in darkness is daisy to

7:38

move forward and you would just die

7:40

and I am underneath. I can you

7:42

roll a d three roll with the

7:44

six or me feel mobile homes, horrible

7:47

dice Iowa. Lighting is perfect, A

7:50

fairy tale of the first

7:52

time. Vault three inverting are

7:54

entering an idea how bad.

7:58

The minsk under that system side that nothing

8:00

nothing else happened. Seems like. I'm

8:03

thirty five hour away from her a

8:06

As and sixteen twenty three boys are

8:08

in that you've actually toy my family,

8:10

my ah, unless try.and as I'm signing

8:12

up on. Both thing I saw on

8:14

the floor and as I tap tap

8:17

tap Sirens and. A Next

8:19

Blaze hours in a green

8:21

light. Switches

8:24

like Nine Nine somehow animals

8:26

and ah are you able

8:28

been is material is grumbling

8:30

feel a bit ah, advances

8:32

have yeah yeah and so

8:34

as a defend against all

8:37

effects of advantage hey I'm

8:39

going on around. Sunset

8:41

sixteen. Would

8:45

normally see of Bilious to be

8:47

seized assets. would normally he ophelia

8:50

bought this go seems to enhance

8:52

herds, elicited shots manages to.on the

8:54

me to this. My

8:56

belatedly say I set the. Tone be

8:58

done before hands So he

9:00

got faith so so he

9:02

gets her role as a

9:04

child. Is been a long and a criticism.

9:07

I need to speed up my time. See the nazi far

9:09

for bring out at night. And.

9:12

And I have one cigarette a mutant or

9:15

yeah well. Also, none of us have ever

9:17

felt leads and of this I saw bioterrorism.

9:20

I think ah as the stuff kind of

9:22

guys guy.on the the deposit. And. Maybe some

9:24

into the wall eyes as good as

9:26

said Manuel and set it aside from

9:29

out. An attack. Ophelia? Okay,

9:31

which bits and cops in the sun.

9:33

Yet again. I'm site is setting that

9:35

so it should be on the item.

9:37

I believe it's a spell as humid

9:39

as if is a salad and six

9:41

ounces. All effects against against a pretty

9:43

podium. I'm. Happier?

9:47

Yeah, Fourteen

9:51

Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen twenties. When

9:53

one considers a big get a big

9:55

with what I was I think I

9:58

phone on a success. Are

10:00

you going com and to new image

10:02

I can say it's away balancing act

10:04

as it's more exciting for me to

10:06

damage you guys the Uk that the

10:08

was bakeries except as the ways that

10:10

at the money had eight with mentality

10:13

save with is what high as damage

10:15

it's this to the believe it's course

10:17

even though I've not specified of nine

10:19

of ram and I inferred it is

10:21

for the siege references for Spanish which

10:23

is good because she's not resistance to

10:25

force them as with that blog fair

10:27

and ah sell the. Flies

10:30

into a failure and knocked into

10:33

her body. The watch as a

10:35

feeling body goes to crumple. most

10:37

falls off. As

10:41

it does, can you roll another

10:43

the six from his Vp? This

10:45

is a positive difference in want

10:47

to roll. I was a month

10:49

wrinkling. Mind that

10:52

not all of a free time. As

10:54

with that, the I five or six

10:56

here. They can or old. Really

10:58

weird. And and up and guys

11:00

trying. To roll land

11:02

flat of him into one. Or

11:08

the family goes around her logs as

11:10

that bloated it would normally knock of

11:12

really unconscious. It's like she goes to

11:14

always fly off the edge but as

11:16

her body limply like goes over as

11:19

the fi scrape and just hippie edge

11:21

of the bows straight Ophelia with her

11:23

wall climbing spider climb ah dampier ability

11:25

is to stood on the as. I'm

11:29

aware of watch almost like

11:31

the forty now would be

11:34

more directly marionette. It very

11:36

or fairly silica thought

11:38

of say fans are

11:40

back up Ah to

11:42

to going. Through.

11:45

Going. To punch a pretty damn

11:47

fuck up against this is T watches. Yeah,

11:49

like the goes to most kind of feeling

11:51

of feel his body. With White House, he's

11:54

going keep fighting a little bit longer. Until

11:57

would ghost is forced out Perhaps.

11:59

Ah, Yeah honey nothing

12:01

when it's and in French Ophelia

12:03

in your place in this because

12:05

spirit Realm if you're think of

12:07

is that that process you feel

12:10

something change and you watched hi

12:12

rear the spirit Tyree of Have

12:14

Clothing goes back to her clothing

12:16

and you are now in your

12:18

clothing and the In is dramatically

12:20

more yours Now like this is

12:22

not lead in. This is a

12:24

place that is sacred and powerful

12:27

to you and you suddenly feel

12:29

more in control. Not there yet,

12:31

but on the cost of bed

12:33

and you could always see earth

12:35

kind of the cries of growth

12:37

for as and data outside. Whatever

12:39

is being said, you'll even vaguely

12:41

theory now com as you feel

12:43

Tyree, his grip on your body

12:45

weakening and weakening. or and co.

12:48

Ah month but that is grub the

12:50

end of your son or right then

12:52

we go to of rohan. From

12:56

gonna go past Daisy up to Ophelia.

13:00

And. Is going through so

13:02

grab a seat and Fifteen

13:04

doesn't answer off about one. Sided

13:09

be there anyway. I just cannot. Have.

13:14

This is athletic sex and oppose athletic sites.

13:16

Leave Are you going with snow on? I

13:18

most ago a friend to outspend faith in

13:20

that will burn them for the rest of

13:22

the same. Sex

13:25

or another honoring who. Influences.

13:28

Yes sir, you get v six My daddy six seized

13:31

of your twenty six to the. City.

13:35

Or a lot. Twenty. Said. In

13:37

the. Nineteen. I

13:41

rolled and that twenty six from the.

13:45

Sky away with a previous athletic or

13:47

yeah, that would be. Ah, are you

13:49

going to was to for that? Twenty

13:51

eight? Yeah, that might be. Are you

13:53

going to grab Ophelia And just with

13:56

this kind of spirit, I've had him

13:58

sciences loss. assange of them. You

14:00

are you raising a family with? has it

14:02

been in his of raising face on? You

14:05

just want to go to school spring business

14:07

join ami Good grub and one handed see

14:09

just grabs your arm or is holding you

14:11

back. He doesn't run for you and returned

14:13

but you fail to grapple out. Of

14:16

there are putting that was

14:19

about civilly an ongoing soon.

14:22

Was. Been held like this that

14:24

you know being held see.grappling enjoyed

14:26

in my neighborhood on motorways. As

14:28

I say I I will bother

14:30

to inspire. It

14:35

is Draven like if you'd like to know

14:37

as as a census then it would be

14:39

daisies and gruff and maybe one and in

14:41

the finished Nancy's to that's obviously useful to

14:43

prevent have fought inspiration Fifty Six And yes

14:46

I did help. Had

14:48

out of the Ita Uae like were

14:50

and try and grab a feeder discuss

14:52

group box easily use of little most

14:55

fitting as it was as stuff. stuff

14:57

I like when you need Alex stuff

14:59

and and oh give me like a

15:01

beagle hammer most people enhanced ability set

15:03

an attack roll or same. For Ah

15:05

kei well mostly think I'm not going to

15:08

be a sunburn have to dump on don't

15:10

I mean spindle is an urgent because they

15:12

have a Quebec others for months now and

15:14

unscrewed try and sank run where the blood

15:17

with a life sentence Samsung since ah I'm

15:19

in the has some friends. Who

15:22

was an interesting, interesting, interesting.

15:26

Than a reckless again Jets for this is

15:28

normal guy is gonna be a nineteen to

15:30

hit by with his right eye. That case

15:33

I will spend a book for a point.

15:35

At the be six of it

15:37

and then I'll spend another but

15:39

less stress and have up the

15:41

three gonna fix it out and

15:43

iota of going to be ten

15:45

points advancing dalliance of Rohan family

15:47

ties I'm doing soon. that is

15:49

my last have insurance. Okay great

15:51

let's say get a role. for

15:57

him would love to zero to be i

15:59

like eleven So where the

16:01

rusted knife goes to stab, it

16:03

just hardens into stone and the

16:05

knife is off my abs. Off

16:08

your abs. Stone man. You

16:10

know, rips the part of the clothing but does not

16:12

do it. That is the end of Roman's game. Ophelia,

16:15

you... Ophelia, you... Ophelia,

16:17

you... Ophelia, you... Ophelia, you...

16:19

Ophelia, you... Ophelia,

16:21

you... Ophelia, you... Ophelia,

16:25

you find yourself now in this space

16:27

which resembles the court that you've been

16:29

in. And you feel that you have

16:31

come to love so much that you know, but stood on this balcony,

16:34

you see like looking around

16:36

in terror and fear the

16:39

spirit of Tyria, Adler, Tyria Medrick, the

16:42

spirit that you have... You

16:45

know who she is, like you kind of feel like you

16:47

have a greater sense of who she is and

16:49

you see that she's just weeping,

16:51

she's kind of sat on these

16:53

stairs like just softly weeping like,

16:55

it's not fair. I just

16:58

want, I want to make him pay. And

17:01

yeah, she's just crying that. I think Ophelia will

17:03

reach out her hand and just say to her, you

17:06

said you wanted my strength, you wanted what I

17:08

have. You fought for

17:10

yourself every day. Every day

17:12

you got out of bed, every day you breathed

17:15

despite him, what an act of strength and

17:17

defiance. Let's take him down

17:19

together. You will get your revenge.

17:22

She says to you... He

17:26

wasn't always like it, it's

17:28

like something changed. It's

17:30

like he became possessed or

17:32

something. Like things were bad, but... More...

17:38

More his

17:41

depression grew, more violent

17:43

than the anger he became. He

17:45

wasn't the man I loved. Thank

17:48

you. Ah, you don't need to roll, that was really good. Oh,

17:53

you got down too? Yeah, kind

17:56

of connecting with these values That

17:59

in this... The by read know Bavarian

18:01

Rage to Fuel or in this space

18:03

you're talking directly to the real Sperry

18:05

here and you've connected with points that

18:08

are important to her. Like you've mentioned

18:10

things the all relevant to her who

18:12

she is and that connects with Steve.

18:14

Feel that. Essence of Control

18:16

is just about to break. But.

18:19

That is all the time. The I

18:21

haven't thought of paddling all this is

18:24

happening right? But it still though possession

18:26

still there that you feel the three

18:28

years is real willing to let go

18:30

of the for your body at least

18:33

for now club not quite there yet

18:35

Swannery? Yeah job. For those of you

18:37

who are near the spirit. With

18:41

the the rage has been not how she

18:43

was technically knocked out Sir is not fully

18:45

raging anymore. Christ on that. So they have

18:48

the kind of the. The Spirit: The

18:50

feel his face is looking around

18:52

scared being surrounded, weapons drawn by

18:54

to suddenly almost realizing where she

18:56

is like she really aware of

18:58

what was happening before and just

19:00

like crouches down all of her

19:02

hands over her head on and

19:04

just went sour. Not the one

19:06

of those horrifying screams that can

19:08

be her only at a time

19:10

Obama so that is for everybody.

19:13

Bought Daisy Ah is a believe

19:15

your concern you'd winnable concentrated thanks

19:17

How are you guys insects? We.

19:19

Do a couple Now Let's just say the Dc

19:21

ten duty for me. Monday.

19:24

And. Eleven or I

19:26

also yeah will say that the heroism is

19:29

still up so I get some free hit

19:31

points my arm. So if you lost if

19:33

you took the i mean I long would

19:35

have gained three star he'll turn get him

19:37

freed So everybody block Daisy Just gimme that

19:39

wisdom D C Saving for again you do

19:41

have three points of faith I have to

19:44

sign to spend a fake. I mean I

19:46

am I read your guys. This potentially could

19:48

be the end of encounter. I would one

19:50

hundred percent as an idea of i the

19:52

habitat or I target for that attack. Oh

19:56

God. Oh God.

19:58

Seven. Seven. Seventy

20:02

most are important, and I've devised less than

20:04

five under. Seven. Again

20:07

some film level of my my build

20:09

a brief i have yet disco ball

20:11

rolls out a good day for all

20:13

but even with the fate ice cream

20:15

with a think I can offset the

20:17

fate of both row and and the

20:20

present Visigoths a hen fighting.happy take find

20:22

them Sam Oh my God Out of

20:24

our son hours to find Scalia or

20:26

guess you'll find nice to yes we're

20:28

is now one of the you wrote

20:30

it down. The

20:32

growth and daisy okay looking at

20:34

and she's like on the ground much

20:37

clutching. Her light face on my holding

20:39

her hands of reason just be screaming

20:41

kind of finish his arm onion three

20:43

her is prone so affects them against

20:45

or have advantage on both as a

20:47

rage is no longer that so the

20:49

vex these years This is not the

20:51

so frightened animal at this point. This

20:54

is a. More rational person.

20:56

ah I'm a would have been

20:58

Memphis is go census anita death

21:00

saving for from you I am

21:03

afraid Oh god ok ah yes.

21:08

Is wrong with me? You're going to five

21:10

is one failure on the failure of ah

21:12

they're on normal their actions so get some

21:14

super friendly round of it is Daisy. says.

21:24

Sweet side Rowan

21:26

to my. Tan

21:30

lately? Yep, quote forth.

21:34

From a. Valid

21:38

Damage. As

21:42

a a points of hailing services like

21:44

glowing golden boy that from my hands

21:46

right said daisy kind of reaches down

21:48

places a hand of Roman watches this

21:51

mysterious golden light Normally once the she

21:53

falls into place goes into his body

21:55

and you see some the wounds nut

21:57

back together as revenue com the com.

22:00

This frightened still but

22:02

conscious. I'm and

22:04

myself. My access racks

22:06

an ice chests. Can

22:09

I sit down on the floor in front? Of.

22:13

The spirit. Was

22:15

no no no more offensive. When sit

22:18

down hold my hand back to her

22:20

can sit or it stone action so

22:22

no gimmicks. check just yet. But yeah

22:24

you are bad. Very clear you know

22:26

from the motivational be yeah like a

22:28

has. A like I want to speak and.

22:31

No harm her anymore because you

22:33

know not raising true and I

22:35

guess we get a gruff ah

22:37

I will ah Level One cure

22:39

wounds on Institute of Health I

22:41

have run I'll who works as

22:43

of the hills a heavy As

22:45

you move back I need to

22:47

touch thought the I mean by

22:49

yes it is as it is

22:51

so I fear of the touch,

22:54

the South Korea and our level

22:56

one serving as a momentary panic

22:58

as you move the phillies body

23:00

light. Looks up a new by brandishing this

23:02

night but clearly see that you're moving away does

23:04

not take an opportunity attack. Six

23:08

Six and her much.

23:11

So that your eyes kind of flashy

23:13

once again yes, the growth as your

23:15

action. I

23:18

will turn back to face

23:20

Ophelia. Go. And

23:22

I think he can see from Daisy. I

23:24

went to kneel, Down

23:27

to. Do

23:29

you still have your arm or axes? It

23:33

would be yeah yeah Kiss and everything that

23:35

just because it's easier if you are getting

23:37

ran outside and it's not the thirty scary

23:39

but it shows that you are armed you

23:41

know I mean like it's like having some

23:43

be in full armor kind of wine is

23:46

still always be your neely it's very non

23:48

confrontational book just the of for my benefit

23:50

trying to think that characters perspective he'd i

23:52

think he'd fall has had as well. the

23:54

i said he's not making eye contact is

23:56

not really like looking for him in the

23:58

case with injured soon. Rohan I

24:00

will say at the end of the

24:03

turn as a chance the spirit might

24:05

try and Gareth the anything like happens

24:07

to scare her of fine how she

24:09

might smile for handle again but for

24:11

now is just kind of voice shaking

24:13

looking terrified all of you but row

24:16

in the chosen a romans fun and

24:18

he just woke up. A

24:21

poet scrap of the way. To

24:24

discuss Pentagon and wouldn't be in like a friend

24:26

on will be like good a panicked way addict

24:28

way. So you have to move away from. Has

24:30

you'd probably did this way for sale.

24:32

was like throwing away about Dallas Stars

24:34

that he could crawl. If you don't

24:37

want to cover all of the said,

24:39

you're crawling. Prime object, Discover what is

24:41

your second offensive action against and so

24:43

like he doesn't panic or anything like

24:45

that, but you do scrabble in fear.

24:47

her arm special movement is a reaction

24:50

you looked upon. section. Of

24:55

gives think that. Caught

24:59

it. And about how

25:01

engine of for humans to make sense

25:03

like some good runs could scared of

25:06

this point to roll the into the

25:08

stock for the fear in this instance

25:10

you makes a while you're still find

25:12

out that at a loss until sunday

25:15

conditions of deployments and ophelia so you

25:17

on just sat there on the stairs

25:19

i rear and of looking at you

25:21

and you can see that like. Wall.

25:26

The difference between that spirit

25:28

that you saw with just

25:30

this got carved up face

25:32

like one i barely still

25:34

functioning, the broken windpipe, the

25:36

tattered clothes like mouse he

25:38

just looks like of just

25:40

a normal woman, just a

25:42

regular everyday person Just going

25:44

about their lives and see

25:46

will look to you and

25:48

say. promise

25:55

me I

26:02

will. The

26:07

last possession token is removed from

26:09

the spirit and Ophelia.

26:12

Everything goes white and

26:15

then suddenly you are sat

26:17

on the ground, Daisy holding your hand,

26:19

a few of your friends scattered. Rowan

26:22

and Xanthius, the fear leaves immediately

26:24

as you watch as Ophelia's head

26:26

droops and

26:28

then when she breathes it is Ophelia. And

26:31

that supernatural fear is gone. The

26:34

lights all come back on. Ophelia

26:39

is it? Is that you? Is

26:41

it over? That is... Daisy? Rowan are you all

26:43

okay? Are you going to bite me again? I bit you?

26:46

Daisy I'm sorry I bit you! It's you! She's

26:48

back! It's Ophelia! Where's...

26:51

The... Er... Scard

26:53

Lady. You see

26:55

hovering just behind Ophelia.

26:58

And pushed out of the

27:01

body you see a much more frightening visage of the

27:03

Scard Lady Tyria

27:18

whatever you want to refer to her

27:20

as but now once again the horrid

27:22

sort of slash marks across the face,

27:25

the bruised windpipe. Promise! Yeah.

27:29

I was

27:32

going to say can I use one of

27:34

the charges of my ability

27:36

and so

27:40

that she can talk to me in

27:44

my head and she can communicate and she

27:46

doesn't need to struggle. You can certainly try. I

27:49

can try? I don't know what... Roll your die. I

27:51

don't know what but it's not a check to do it. Roll

27:53

the dice see how long it lasts first of all. Okay.

27:57

Five Hours. Okay Five hours. We're.

28:05

Reason I'm on Did:

28:07

couldn't telepathically communicate. So.

28:11

Yeah you feel daisy name nimble

28:14

say to you with a one.

28:16

I have not tried something of

28:18

this like before but. I

28:21

have established contacts with magical things before

28:23

with Navy base. And.

28:27

And you feel this kind of ribbon of light.

28:30

Of your mind and it touches

28:32

the the spirits the spare almost

28:35

size weights. very slow motion like

28:37

trying to pull away from it

28:39

but as it touches you feel

28:41

something connect. Hi

28:43

I don't want you to The

28:46

struggled to speak to us. Poses.

28:51

And hearing you but you're not speaking

28:53

of you can see me if. You

28:56

can. A can

28:58

see the goes to Mrs. Yeah,

29:02

you don't need to see, you don't need

29:04

to strain to to speak this way if

29:06

it's more comfortable for you, To some

29:08

sort of whizzes something of. It's just

29:10

that an ability that I have. I'm.

29:15

But I just wanted you to know that we're not.

29:17

We're not gonna hurt you. We want to help. Others

29:20

have come before. They.

29:23

Clerics chat and others

29:26

and try. Try

29:31

to banish me. Ah

29:33

me. I keep.

29:36

Acting. I thought you were

29:39

like them. I

29:41

didn't like. People being in

29:43

a in. The

29:49

public, the rest of you daisies just

29:51

by locked eyes. Did

29:54

I was just looking one that away? I

29:56

know they urgently I can fully I did

29:58

where there is an accent yeah. Yeah,

30:00

I can listen to people to do it

30:02

too, so I could tell if you'd like

30:04

to have somebody included. I could include

30:07

Ophelia because I think he's connected.

30:09

Cecilia. Show of force. I would

30:11

probably include a serious that she

30:13

could hear organ the conversation. Yeah,

30:15

absolutely. I

30:18

just we. We were given this.

30:20

In for just do you

30:23

think? Some some good deeds of

30:25

around and we would really like

30:27

to six it up for you

30:29

but as we don't want. We

30:32

don't want to harm you. We want to

30:34

help. And we find out that. Family

30:38

Something horrible happened here. Try.

30:43

Hard on. Me: But

30:46

I call. On.

30:52

Killed me. Became

30:57

so cool. He

30:59

became so violent.

31:03

It wasn't like cable. He

31:06

was so sweet He had

31:08

such dream. But

31:11

the charge a made everyone

31:14

hate us and it made

31:16

him made every. Something.

31:23

Like. Angrier,

31:30

All. Night. And

31:34

then he turned on me. He.

31:37

Was jealous and other men

31:39

looked at me. And

31:47

strangled. I

31:50

don't know what happened after that. Icons.

31:57

something is stopping me We

32:01

would like to find out what that is so that we can

32:03

help you. But

32:06

if it's okay with you, if

32:08

we can just be around the

32:10

inn, we mean no harm, but we

32:13

would like to try and make

32:16

it look pretty again, like

32:18

it used to. And

32:21

we would like to just

32:23

use it as a place to rest for now, and

32:25

then we can go out and we can look for a

32:27

solution for this. She

32:31

thinks to you in the scarred face.

32:33

She almost zooms in closer now to

32:36

Daisy, coming alongside

32:38

Ophelia, almost like leaning around Ophelia, and

32:40

you can sense this like ghostly shape,

32:43

kind of almost protect, like not protectively,

32:45

but using you to protect her. Like

32:50

having formed this kind of bond with

32:52

Ophelia, but looks at you, Daisy,

32:54

and it's not a pleasant sight. It's

32:57

quite discomforting to have this very

32:59

disfigured face, but also knowing the gruesome truth

33:01

behind it. And in your mind, you hear, Please,

33:09

no reflections, no

33:12

windows or mirrors. I

33:16

cannot promise that

33:19

my mind will not

33:21

become unstable, but I will try.

33:25

It has been a long time, and

33:28

I am cold and

33:30

alone, and I want

33:32

to be at peace. We

33:37

can do that. No reflections.

33:40

We can talk to you, if you want.

33:42

If you ever want someone to talk to, then

33:45

I can do this, which, I

33:47

guess. Please do

33:49

not bring others here. Okay.

33:52

I trust. And

33:55

she kind of almost puts a hand around Ophelia's

33:57

shoulders and reaches out her hand for you, Daisy.

34:00

And Light does look at the other three, but obviously isn't

34:02

communicating with them, right? Find

34:08

the ones responsible And

34:12

I feel that there is something

34:15

else that stops me from

34:17

passing on But

34:19

I do not know I'm

34:22

sorry You begin to see

34:24

that she's kind of almost beginning to fade Kind

34:28

of dissipating Begins

34:31

floating back I'll try

34:33

if you first do need to talk

34:38

You can talk to me Thank

34:40

you And

34:42

with that she vanishes into the therioplane There

34:49

is a moment of stillness Bloodied,

34:54

battered, bruised, but we

34:57

all look to one another Were

35:00

you speaking out loud like during that for everyone else

35:02

to hear? No, it has to be in, it has

35:04

to be telepathic Okay Ro

35:07

just had his hands over his eyes So

35:10

he couldn't look at the spirit that whole

35:12

time. Okay. I will

35:14

tell The group

35:16

what the conversation was so that they

35:18

know Sure,

35:21

absolutely Okay,

35:23

okay. No, no mirrors. No reflections. No windows.

35:25

We can we can do that. Don't bring

35:27

anyone else in Okay,

35:31

we need to figure this out ourselves Well,

35:35

she's gone it's okay, Rowan I

35:38

learned that Well,

35:40

I told you all this There's

35:43

something that probably keeps her here We're

35:48

not the knife and the source no

35:51

what it is But

35:53

we need to find the cavern or cavern

35:55

at least Well, I'd

35:57

like to well apparently But...

36:02

But nobody's ever looked so we don't know if that's true.

36:05

Yeah, can't be certain. We need to research

36:07

it. Really. Okay.

36:09

But we could look around... I mean we

36:11

have the rest of the night. We could look around the

36:13

rest of the house. I think we

36:15

should probably rest. I think that might be

36:17

best. You'll have to. The situation and I'm

36:21

terribly sorry for

36:23

what happened. Well, look at

36:25

you! That wasn't you. I

36:28

know, I know. I was

36:32

the one that did it to you. I know. Not

36:35

mentally, but physically, yes. No!

36:39

I'm sorry. No, it's

36:41

Percy. Percy, yes, Percy. Percy,

36:43

Percy. Percy makes his way up. He can see

36:45

that your outfit's been a bit sort of tattered.

36:47

Oh, thank you, Percy. Begin to amend it, amend

36:50

your hair, like, you know, sense

36:52

that things are not as

36:54

they should be. His default orders come into play.

36:57

Thank you, Percy. It was

36:59

scary having Ophelia coming at

37:02

us, but like Xanthia

37:04

says, it wasn't you

37:06

behind those eyes. No, it

37:09

might have hurt you back a little bit

37:11

to sort of speed up the

37:13

process of getting you back. Yeah, as a point, Ophelia, you are

37:15

technically the one who hit the point. Oh,

37:17

wow. Yeah, you're very bad. You are very

37:19

badly injured. You have stab wounds and broken,

37:21

you know, bone. You know, you've been beaten

37:23

up. Okay. We

37:26

should be apologizing for, I

37:28

mean, for this, but also,

37:30

I mean, we didn't help

37:32

in any way. I don't know where you went,

37:34

but we didn't know what to do. I didn't

37:37

know what I was doing either. I was just trying

37:40

to talk to it, or her,

37:42

I suppose, since this

37:46

is sort of in my wheelhouse, I suppose.

37:49

I was just trying to appeal to it as

37:51

a friend. I think it

37:53

worked. I think it worked with

37:55

what you did as well. I will tell

37:58

you mechanically, the... spirit

38:00

is kind of going to be

38:02

friendly for a period of

38:04

time and this is a case of like

38:07

not intentionally but as the spirit you know

38:09

spirits are in a kind of bad way

38:11

and their madness and the nature of their

38:13

deaths and things can twist their mind it

38:15

may become that Tyria becomes unstable in the

38:17

future so this isn't like a she's never

38:19

gonna attack anybody again or anything like that

38:21

but you have definitely bought yourself time. You've

38:23

got a window. You have a window of

38:26

time where she's friendly and she

38:28

is gonna be you're gonna treat her as

38:30

a friendly creature she will be present at

38:33

nighttime but she

38:35

will not attack any of you. If

38:37

you bring other people to the inn that

38:39

may go out the window but

38:41

she is at least a moment.

38:44

Yeah, yeah, likewise yeah things like

38:46

reflections and windows might also trigger

38:48

her to basically become

38:51

unstable you know and lash out.

38:54

And the windows currently there's none. They're

38:56

all wooden shutters yeah

38:59

they were being magically held closed like

39:01

without the ghost power to keep them

39:03

closed they kind of swing open and

39:05

they're not very secure but

39:08

not that anybody seems to be really sneaking

39:10

into this place later night. Nighttime. Yeah, it's

39:12

also like it's haunted and everyone's terrified at

39:15

this place. But we do we have any

39:17

indication of how much time it's necessarily bought

39:19

us I mean it's not like an hour.

39:21

No, but you don't know how long it's

39:23

not yeah it's not I'm not gonna you're not gonna have like

39:25

an hour. You might see signs

39:27

of like yeah you'll

39:30

be able to tell. Yeah, yeah. Well

39:33

definitely rest I think. It's somewhere for us to rest

39:35

just now that we don't need to pay for. But

39:38

maybe we should. If we could somewhat

39:40

close the shutters and. Yeah, yeah.

39:42

It is not a comfortable place to

39:45

rest but you can rest here. It's

39:49

free. I mean there's this. Which is what

39:51

David is thinking. There are beds up in

39:53

the in-room so the big double bed in

39:55

the in Tyria's room and then you have

39:57

these three bedrooms that are like in rooms.

40:00

and they have vents? They're not. They're so

40:02

dusty. They're like dusty, like the bed, like

40:04

the straw mattresses are like completely ruined. Like

40:06

it's not going to be the most pleasant

40:08

night's day. They all got pressed to ditch.

40:11

Um, but also you guys have got things like your

40:13

own bed rolls and stuff that you've brought with you.

40:15

You can lay those guys down. Basically, the, what this

40:17

is going to be is, is, is going to be

40:19

as if you were camping out in the wilderness with

40:21

no benefits. So all you can do is rest here.

40:24

Um, you won't get all of your hit points back,

40:26

but you will get most of them back. Yeah, I

40:28

got a bed roll. And also a two person tent.

40:30

Yeah. Uh, in case you want to block

40:32

out the light for anyone. Yeah, there is

40:34

a massive hole in the roof over here.

40:36

Like for temporarily you could like stretch the

40:39

top. Yeah, it is kind of raining a

40:41

little bit and stuff. Yeah. Okay. I'll

40:43

spend my time doing that and set up a bed roll. I think it

40:45

would be a good idea if you're spending your

40:47

time doing that. I, I

40:50

think we should maybe go around the house to

40:52

try and buy as much time as we can.

40:54

Find anything that can reflect, try to

40:56

cover it up, hide it or something. Um,

40:58

actually that's the one good point. I need

41:00

to go back, not a retcon necessarily, but

41:02

I want to go back to almost a

41:04

flashback. Rowan, when you felt

41:06

the saving throw against the frightening scream,

41:08

the terrifying visage, what do you think

41:10

Rowan would have seen? And it has

41:13

to be something almost like a very

41:15

primal fear for Rowan. This could be

41:17

like seeing Ophelia killing one of your

41:19

new friends. This could be

41:21

seeing your loot breaking

41:24

apart or something. You know, you tell

41:26

me what this could be. I

41:28

have a good idea for Xanthius because I created

41:31

his demons literally. I

41:35

think it would be Rowan similarly

41:37

losing control of his own body and hurting

41:39

someone else. Becoming the kind

41:41

of big bruiser, raging, you know,

41:43

like bully basically and causing harm

41:45

that he doesn't wish to see have

41:48

done to others. Yeah, great. So you

41:50

see yourself almost as this red

41:52

eyed rage is like, yeah, murderous rage

41:54

kind of thing. Yeah, so that's what

41:57

we see with that. Okay.

42:00

Nice. Well, I want

42:02

to check in with Gruff as well, Kim. Anything

42:04

that you want Gruff to do or say or

42:06

anything going through Gruff's mind? Are you okay as

42:08

a player? I think I'm dying slightly

42:10

as a player. Yeah. But

42:13

I think I also just got my hearing back in

42:15

one year, so that's cool. Swings

42:20

and roundabouts in this corner. I

42:22

think Gruff, like, as he kind of

42:25

sees, you know, everything calming

42:27

down, everything going back to normal, he's

42:31

just going to quietly start sweeping one of

42:33

the rooms while everyone's still chatting, because he

42:36

wants to go to bed. He's getting into

42:38

it, yeah. He got thrown off a balcony.

42:40

He's very tired and very sore. And

42:42

while they're all talking about all the nice things and

42:44

all that, and I'm like, no one's in any immediate

42:46

good, she's pissed off upstairs. I'm just going

42:48

to sweep one of these rooms and get my bedroll

42:51

out. Absolutely.

42:54

So you begin prepping one of the rooms.

42:57

You guys can take a long rest here

42:59

before you hit the button. There'll

43:02

be a need to be a little bit of manual stuff. Daisy,

43:06

Gruff and Ophelia, you

43:09

guys can restore half your hit points. So if

43:11

you've lost any, basically, rather than going up to

43:13

full, you will regain half of what

43:16

you can ignore. You can go up to half HP, basically.

43:18

You can recover enough HP to half. So I've got 22

43:20

out of 27, so... So

43:23

you can't gain any more from a long rest,

43:25

because the conditions here are not comfortable, right? So

43:27

if we're already at half, we can't... If you

43:29

can't go above half HP, yeah. Because

43:31

the resting here is very unpleasant.

43:33

It's very uncomfortable. You've got no

43:35

food. The beds are

43:37

really gross. It's all damp. It is

43:40

not a pleasant stay. You can spend

43:42

hit dice as if it was a short rest. If you want

43:44

to spend your hit dice, you can. And

43:46

you'll regain half of your hit dice as normal.

43:48

You get all your spells back. You get all

43:50

your class abilities back. Rowan

43:53

and Xanthius. And

43:56

you both failed the saving

43:58

throw. Yes. you

44:02

sleep does not

44:05

come nicely for either of

44:07

you you cannot get

44:09

out of your minds when you try

44:11

and rest the horrifying

44:13

twisted visage of Tyria

44:15

of the things that

44:17

you saw in that moment of fear

44:20

and there is almost like a

44:22

cold clinging to you that you cannot

44:24

shake no matter how much fire or

44:27

warmth or blankets you try and find

44:30

you find no comfort in rest

44:33

you do not regain any hit points from

44:35

a long rest and also

44:37

I need you

44:39

both to reduce your constitution and wisdom

44:42

by one each oh my

44:44

god the

44:47

Constitution and wisdom oh

44:50

my god my wisdom is so nice you

44:52

don't know if this is permanent if this

44:54

is temporary you don't know what this is

44:56

but you do you are aware that when

44:59

you wake up you do not

45:02

feel rested you feel

45:04

worn you feel

45:06

very tired your

45:08

mind is kind of feeling a bit

45:11

scattered like you do not feel good

45:13

you feel as if

45:15

a supernatural force feels like

45:17

you feel very unwell unwound

45:19

yeah like drained and unwound

45:21

basically Kim's gonna say feel like

45:23

me every day come here to escape man out of

45:25

character obviously

45:30

your characters don't know this I'm gonna trust

45:32

you guys with this knowledge yeah you are

45:34

under a supernatural effect you

45:38

will need to find out what that is and what

45:40

you can do about it but I

45:42

will tell you it is not it is not

45:44

necessarily permanent but it is ongoing

45:48

yeah now does that have because

45:52

it hit me twice no so

45:54

if you it's just one thing now if that did reduce

45:56

your like say your con was 12 and you've gone down

45:58

to 11 You lose four hit

46:01

points as well, don't forget. Because

46:05

you lose a point of constitution, so you're

46:07

hit point max- Sorry, three points because you're

46:09

only level three, three hit points. Your maximum

46:11

HP is reduced by three, if you lost

46:13

a modifier. So I didn't lose a modifier

46:15

on con, I did lose a modifier on

46:17

con. So that will only apply for saving

46:19

frozen stuff afterwards. Pardon my wisdom, it's bad.

46:23

Seven. Yeah. So

46:26

for you, and I think that's very apt because

46:28

for you, even in your

46:30

waking moments, you cannot shift that. Like,

46:32

you're going to become that. That is harsh. That's

46:36

your future. Like, that is, you're

46:38

on borrowed time, man. Like, for

46:42

Rowan, yeah, I don't know if he did knock you down on

46:44

modifier on con. Yeah, it

46:46

did. So yeah, minus three, maximum HP. So

46:50

do we actually, as

46:52

characters, recognise that we are- You

46:55

know that you feel bad. Like, you're like, I

46:57

don't feel good, I feel bad. Like,

46:59

you are, and you're aware that you're

47:01

like, you just can't get these horrible,

47:04

and like, that cold, like, you can't

47:06

like, get warm, things are not good.

47:09

Things are not right. You are very much aware of

47:11

that. Even with the fire inside? Even

47:14

with the fire inside, it's like, it's clinging, it's

47:16

like, maybe it's even worse, it's

47:18

like having a hot inside, but your outside

47:20

is so cold. Oh. Like a poorly cooked

47:22

baked potato. A poorly cooked baked potato.

47:24

What a very nothing worse. That is

47:26

an Englishman's curse. But in reverse, it's

47:28

like a reverse cooked potato where it's

47:30

really hot in the middle, but it's

47:32

cold on the outside. I don't know.

47:36

Englishman's curse upon you. That you cook them

47:38

by like, heating up a knife and then

47:40

just shove it in. Yeah. Yeah. It's like,

47:42

it's frozen dinner and it's like, it's still

47:44

frozen in the middle. Oh,

47:47

outside. I'm sorry everybody. That's how I feel

47:49

right now. Okay.

47:53

Yeah, that sucks, bro. So,

47:57

yeah, I would have wanted to.

48:00

I guess well if people were setting up tents or

48:02

having some time like if I do wander around The

48:05

tavern into some of the rooms we haven't been in to

48:08

cover up reflections or whatever There

48:10

is none remaining like every window has been

48:12

broken any mirror that existed has been broken

48:15

There is nothing left that can cause a

48:17

reflection trashed. Yeah, that's what and you're yeah

48:19

You can begin to see that it's so

48:21

trashed It looks like basically there is like

48:23

an area like you look into the garden

48:26

like anything there even out in the street

48:28

like that lamppost one of the ever lights

48:31

is broken That is and

48:33

that's the only thing within the radius of the

48:35

the street basically That

48:37

seems to be affected Indeed

48:41

Indeed how far? What

48:43

if we can investigate that you can do

48:45

whatever you like one other thing before we jump back into a

48:47

little bit more of gameplay This

48:50

now sets up because you've encountered Tyria and you

48:52

kind of have a clearer idea of what's going

48:54

on This is basically

48:56

a quest quest a lot If

48:59

you can lay Tyria to rest

49:02

you will level up So if you

49:04

find the source of tyrots causing if you can lay

49:06

her to rest Which might not be one thing it

49:08

might be multiple things if you lay terrier to rest

49:11

you will gain a level So if you gain another

49:13

level and you come back and you play to arrest

49:15

you're going to that's another level, baby Also,

49:18

there might also be another reward if

49:21

you can get if you can discover the secret

49:23

There might be another rewards to this as well write that

49:26

down put in the quest log Give

49:28

it a catchy name you think Kim's not writing that I

49:30

know she is well the surely the

49:32

quest file is Tyria's rest Okay,

49:48

and that involves get

49:50

justice find cavern Late

49:53

I read to rest is West objective

49:55

kill cavern. I'm hearing kill cavern kill

49:57

cavern. Yeah, I feel here

50:00

It could be part of it. Part one. Part one.

50:03

It could be part one. Do all the rest of the

50:05

owl. Yeah. Yeah. Lay

50:07

a spirit to rest peacefully. Please. Peacefully.

50:09

Or just lay a spirit to rest. We

50:11

have to. Is it morning now? Yeah. By

50:14

this point, yeah, we can say that it gets warm. Unless there's anything

50:16

you guys want to do during the night, but like you said, I

50:18

think it's with everything that's gone on, it's probably a quick pass out

50:20

and... Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay,

50:23

you want to stay for the life. Yeah. It

50:25

is morning. Sun comes up. You

50:28

do not encounter Tyrea the rest of the night and

50:30

when Sun is up, there is this

50:32

kind of... There is that

50:34

feeling of being in a place that's

50:37

abandoned and quiet and now you know

50:39

she is still here but

50:42

is not able to necessarily manifest in the same

50:44

way during the day. But that presence does not

50:46

go away. Like you might

50:48

occasionally see like down on the bar,

50:50

like these broken cups and broken tankers

50:53

that have been left get like moved.

50:55

Like one of them just kind of moves to

50:58

the side as if somebody is pulling it across or shifting

51:00

out of the way. Oh, there might be that thing where

51:02

you pick up a shot of glass

51:04

and just in the reflection over your shoulder you just

51:06

see the scarlet. You just said reflection bro. Yeah.

51:10

But yes, in this case, it's more

51:12

that if I read a video, yeah,

51:14

like you put it down again. That's

51:17

cool. Nice. Brody.

51:19

Not good. Oh, I want it home.

51:22

No, I am also. In the morning.

51:24

Oh, could we spend hit dice? Yeah.

51:27

You and Rowan, you can

51:29

take a short rest now if you want to spend

51:32

hit dice and you regain hit dice but you don't

51:34

know hit points when you take a long rest. I

51:36

see. Okay. Bad.

51:39

It's real bad. If they

51:41

for the case mechanics. You can also be healed. Like

51:43

so like, you know, Gruff can cast kill wounds on

51:45

you. If he wants. If

51:48

he wants. The frightening conditions still there. No, no, that was

51:50

gone when that's gone. Tell me about

51:52

prep and spells are going like I'm prepared. You can

51:54

change any spells you want. Yeah. So

51:57

when you when you wake up, you can choose what spells

51:59

you prep protection. What does that look like for Gruff

52:01

though? I'd be interested to know like what is

52:03

the ritual that Gruff does to change

52:06

the magic that he has access to because he's

52:08

a druid. Gruff's a druid but not in a traditional

52:10

druidic sense right in a long way. Yeah, it's

52:12

kind of a complicated thing. Is

52:14

this like going through martial practice? Is

52:16

this like training to be a knight?

52:18

Is this reflecting on ballads and songs

52:21

of knights? I have a really dorky

52:23

idea. You're

52:25

gonna hate it. I kind of almost have

52:28

this image of him in the kitchen

52:30

prepping the fish but just the ritual of prepping

52:32

the fish. Like that very most radical he's very

52:34

skilled at it, something he's done for a long

52:36

time. And that is

52:38

almost meditative for him. Like just it's again

52:40

it's something he knows. He grounds it. This

52:43

is within his realm of control. And

52:45

maybe that. No, I think

52:47

that works. Like fishing is what your connection

52:49

is to nature is fishing right? Like an

52:52

ice and cold and things like that. I

52:54

think that you know definitely is like there's

52:56

probably an element here of like as you're doing

52:58

it you're going through these mantras and things like

53:00

that in your mind that you've been taught of

53:02

like ways to connect to the earth. And

53:06

although it's you know preparing fish for

53:08

a morning breakfast or whatever it's also

53:10

like feeling the garden outside, feeling the

53:13

wood beneath your feet, beneath your paws,

53:15

extending your senses out into the world.

53:17

But it is this calming thing you

53:19

have done a hundred

53:21

thousand times before and it just brings you that

53:23

calm like yep I know what I'm doing and

53:25

that puts you in that mindset. I love it. Yeah.

53:28

So yeah you can change any spells you know you

53:30

just probably I think you have a number of spells

53:32

you can prepare per day. Yeah. It's normally weaves in

53:34

one level. You take Shalei out.

53:36

You put a cube right back in. Say

53:39

like yeah yeah. Shalei.

53:41

Nice goes in, guts him out. Nice goes in,

53:43

guts him out. I was thinking of that. He

53:47

would probably be singing sea shanties under his

53:49

breath. He would be you know singing songs

53:51

of home and the water. Oh

53:53

hi icy boy. Hi that

53:55

kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

53:58

Yeah. Great, I love

54:00

that. See, I think it's normally your

54:02

wisdom modifier plus your level is how many spells

54:04

you can prep and then you can prep spells

54:07

from whatever levels you can cast from. Three.

54:10

So it'd be three plus three. Three, six. While

54:14

that's been decided, Rowan will,

54:18

if anyone's stirred. I

54:21

feel he's in the outbuilding. Okay,

54:23

oh no. Yeah,

54:25

so a feeling outside you've gone out into

54:28

the garden. I think she slept in the

54:30

outbuilding. Okay, yeah, sure. Just because she's still

54:33

wary of the possession and stuff and

54:35

doesn't want to get possessed

54:37

again. Yeah, no, so you went

54:39

outside. The garden does not attack you. You

54:41

make your way out into the little shed. It's kind

54:43

of like a shed at the moment, like a barn.

54:47

It's in about as good condition as the rest of

54:49

the seven. And yeah, you

54:52

sleep peacefully in there. And then yeah, you wake

54:54

up the next morning looking around, it's a fairly

54:56

usable space. But

54:58

yeah, what's Rowan doing? Don't

55:01

ask to wake in here. I

55:04

mean, I imagine we probably wake at a very similar

55:06

time having done the same man of sleep. I

55:09

think that I guess pretty much I'm stumbling

55:14

out of my room. He gruffs that me up. He's doing

55:16

fish in the kitchen. Daisy's

55:18

not an early writer. Daisy's done better.

55:21

Uncomfortable as it is. She has wrapped

55:23

herself in as many blankets as she can. I

55:26

think if I hear any noise. I

55:29

brought in burnel, that blanket is paying

55:31

off, buddy. Like I would have got

55:33

almost exactly zero sleep where

55:36

it feels like if I was ever asleep,

55:38

it was for like one minute to every

55:40

hour. Yeah, I hate that. Exactly that kind

55:42

of feeling. Close your eyes. It feels like,

55:45

imagine that with a supernatural coldness and

55:47

just yeah, and like your mind being

55:49

plagued by these horrible frightening visions. So

55:51

if I hear anyone getting up, I

55:54

will also begrudgingly wake

55:56

up. Because you have a rough night as well. I

55:58

did. Awful,

56:00

actually, Rowan. No

56:03

sleep for me, unfortunately. Well,

56:07

if you're like me, I've had a lot of time to think

56:09

about how we can sort

56:11

this out. Okay, sort

56:13

the ghost out? Yeah. Okay.

56:17

If we want to keep this place, that is. I think it would be beneficial

56:19

for the locals anyway to

56:21

help. But I

56:24

was thinking. Do

56:26

you remember when we took

56:30

poor Halfling to fix the landblighter's light,

56:32

and they were possessed, and it was

56:35

all based on the negativity of the

56:37

broken light? Yes. Do you think

56:39

it's related? Well, there's

56:41

a broken light outside.

56:45

Is that...it's on the road,

56:47

though. Is that still within the control of...? I don't know,

56:49

but... Do you think

56:51

there's a...one of those devices in it? I

56:54

don't know. But I've had

56:56

so long to think about it. Okay.

56:59

I...my mind was elsewhere,

57:02

Rowan. Completely different place, I

57:04

think. But if

57:06

you want me to have a look at this

57:09

land, and I've taken up another one before... Well,

57:11

maybe we could look at that. But also, I

57:13

might ask, anyone that's been here

57:15

longer than four years, when

57:17

that broke, was it because of

57:20

the...the ghost? It's

57:23

worth a try. Smashing everything, or was

57:25

it broken prior to the enticing devil

57:28

going under? It

57:31

would mean that these lanterns

57:33

have been like this for years,

57:35

though. Where? The

57:38

effect this might have had on the entire city. It's...uh...town,

57:40

city. Um... It's

57:44

worth a big town. Big town. Small city.

57:47

True. But my

57:50

mind is muddled. It may not be a good assessment.

58:00

one of these discs in you don't need to

58:02

make a check because you know you know what

58:04

you're looking for now. I'll give Xanthius like a

58:06

little boost a boost up yeah I mean how

58:09

awake are we right now how actually willing

58:11

are we to be quite a zombie yes yeah

58:13

but also don't want to be haunted again

58:15

yeah that's true I'm pushing through it I will

58:17

does this wake you up like scrambling outside

58:19

on the right

58:24

yeah right I team

58:27

rocket out of the bat. There you go animatics

58:29

to get that one. To

58:34

get the visual layout as well for you

58:36

Ophelia right the main the the building you're

58:38

in is within the fenced enclosure of the

58:40

space it's not on there but

58:43

the the outbuilding is in the fenced enclosure of

58:45

the inn's land yeah and so you would have

58:47

to go through the inn to get onto the

58:49

street there's no direct access from the street to

58:51

your little building but

58:53

yeah you can kind of come out and stood

58:56

in the garden through the the iron fence that's

58:58

all rusted and bent you see these two by

59:00

this broken street light with Xanthius being boosted

59:02

up imagine you see it as we're walking

59:04

over it's just like

59:08

a shuffling foot

59:11

and then yeah you get almost leap

59:13

on the lamp coast because you just

59:15

stood on my shoulder. I would try

59:17

to take a part. Yeah well I

59:19

said you don't need to make a

59:21

check because you've done this before and

59:23

if you were... Just

59:27

glass shard bouncing off my face. I

59:29

don't even throw my just drops on my

59:31

face. Gliding in glass and going... I

59:34

don't feel it. By little

59:37

shards of rain falling down. Ophel.

59:41

Xanthius. Yes. If you had

59:43

not found that

59:45

disk in the Riverside district there's

59:48

no way you would know. Okay. But

59:52

knowing what you know begin

59:55

examining the everlight and sure

59:57

enough you find... very

1:00:00

similar but it looks

1:00:02

less complete. Maybe

1:00:05

like a prototype or a

1:00:07

first attempt. Okay. But you

1:00:09

find a near, not

1:00:12

replica but like yeah, an earlier

1:00:14

version of the same sort of

1:00:17

disc that's inserted into the base of

1:00:19

this magical light with that

1:00:21

same symbol and that same marking. I'm

1:00:24

like examining it quite close to my face. I

1:00:27

look down. Rowan. I

1:00:30

kick down and come and run, run, run. Yeah. You're

1:00:32

not gonna. I'm

1:00:37

gonna make a point. You guys are not knock-less.

1:00:41

I have a grand night's sleep. So

1:00:44

Fida comes out, I'm holding the thing.

1:00:46

I'm like asleep, sliding down a pole,

1:00:49

standing on top of Rowan, also sliding down

1:00:51

a pole. My sunglasses don't turn around, go

1:00:54

for it. Grumpy hog. Grumpy

1:00:56

hog. Grumpy hog. Grumpy hog. Grumpy hog. We were.

1:00:58

We were. I need more wine. No,

1:01:02

we're having an apple off. Rowan. Rowan.

1:01:06

So it's true. It's true. A very old

1:01:08

version, a bit differently different to the one we found.

1:01:11

Now, if we can corroborate.

1:01:14

Corroborate? Yes. Did you guys keep the other

1:01:17

disc? Did you give it? You did. Yeah,

1:01:19

I didn't think you gave it to the

1:01:21

five points. You showed it to. Oh yeah?

1:01:23

We wouldn't have. Okay. Yeah, look.

1:01:27

I've got the other one. Okay, this is either true

1:01:31

and these two specific lamps that we've

1:01:34

investigated cause negative

1:01:36

energy. Okay. Or every

1:01:39

single lamp has it and

1:01:42

we need a third control. I

1:01:45

mean, there's another lamp just down the street.

1:01:47

Unless. The. The

1:01:49

bar. You could pick a random one like anywhere

1:01:51

else. We don't know the full effects of these

1:01:53

lamps. Just. Enraging or

1:01:56

negative emotions. It just seems

1:01:58

suspicious to me. Both this

1:02:01

and the other one involved some

1:02:04

form of possession and

1:02:06

negative energy. But do you recall

1:02:08

if the bathhouse also had these

1:02:10

lanterns? You

1:02:12

could go by, have a quick look. Because

1:02:16

if that was manipulating the

1:02:18

spirits there as well, that's

1:02:20

another effect the lanterns could have. It's worth

1:02:22

a check, I suppose. But I mean, we

1:02:25

can't go dismantling lanterns. No,

1:02:28

there would be. No, it's only because this one's broken

1:02:30

that really nobody cares that you're like pulling it apart. But

1:02:32

you do have a feeling that if you were to

1:02:34

do this like on the big main streets, the

1:02:37

guards would probably be like, what the hell

1:02:40

are you doing? No, get down. Like, technically

1:02:42

that's city property. Technically

1:02:44

guild property, but the city is, you

1:02:47

know, supports it. I'm gonna go to a

1:02:49

latte fun. Please.

1:02:51

Get us a couple of coffees. Yes, I would

1:02:53

love one. Thank you. Also speak to Maeve. Okay.

1:02:56

And ask her if she knows anyone that's

1:03:00

lived here for the last four years and knows how

1:03:02

long this has been broken for. Yeah. Yeah.

1:03:07

If you want to skip past all that, that's fine. Yeah, we

1:03:09

can do that. Like, unless anybody else has got something. You mentioned

1:03:11

that you're going to the cafe. You'll hear, give

1:03:14

me cake. I'm

1:03:16

gonna get many cakes. Many cakes. Because

1:03:19

of last night. Yeah, sure. You

1:03:21

make your way down the street, not

1:03:23

far to a latte fun. You see

1:03:25

Maeve, sort of in there bright and

1:03:27

early. Oh,

1:03:30

hello there, Rowan. It's lovely to see you again.

1:03:33

Welcome. Morning. Um, oh, you've been, you've all, it's

1:03:35

only been a day and you've been in here,

1:03:37

what, three times already? Somebody likes their coffee. I

1:03:39

do. We also love our cake. Oh, well, we

1:03:41

can do a big package of that. No problem.

1:03:43

You'll have to pay this time. Is that all

1:03:45

right? Oh, absolutely. No problem. We can put

1:03:47

a couple of coffees and some cakes together. Not

1:03:49

a problem. Lovely. How much? Did you stay in

1:03:52

the inn? Yes, and it

1:03:54

was a terrible idea. Well, I could have

1:03:56

told you that. It's haunted. It's got that

1:03:58

ghost. The ghost attacked. And it's

1:04:01

okay. But you stayed the night anyway. You stayed the

1:04:03

night. Well, you're a brave soul, aren't you? I think

1:04:05

we're onto something. And I think you can

1:04:07

get to the bottom of this and let

1:04:10

that poor spirit lay to

1:04:12

rest. Well, that would be wonderful. I know,

1:04:14

but it's going to take some time. Now, how

1:04:17

long have you had a latte fun here?

1:04:20

Ooh, I mean, I've been here

1:04:22

about two years or so. Right,

1:04:25

do you know anyone that comes in

1:04:27

here that's been a local

1:04:29

for a long time? Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

1:04:32

There's Hush. He comes in most mornings. In

1:04:34

fact, you saw him yesterday, the old fella.

1:04:36

Right. Yeah, he lives and

1:04:38

she points. And she points, there's like,

1:04:40

down more towards the gate. There's

1:04:42

like a little house wedged between these

1:04:44

two tall kind of townhouses. And there's

1:04:47

like this older looking building that's

1:04:49

just like wedged between them. And

1:04:52

it's like a cobblers. It's like a little cobbler shop

1:04:54

with like a little bedroom, like second floor. And

1:04:56

she's just like, yeah, it's just, you know,

1:04:59

Hush is a shop just down there.

1:05:01

He lives there just down there. But he normally comes

1:05:03

in. If you give it a few minutes, he'll probably

1:05:06

come by. I'll wait right here for my cakes and

1:05:08

coffee. Yeah, it'll take me a minute to get those

1:05:10

all sorted for you anyway. You've come

1:05:12

in quite early. So the cakes, I just need to go

1:05:14

and finish up. But if you don't mind waiting, I'll fill

1:05:16

them all out. We'll just round the corner anyway if you

1:05:18

want to. Do you want me to bring them over or?

1:05:20

No, no, I'll come back. All right, no, okay. You

1:05:23

wait a little bit. And sure enough, maybe within

1:05:25

sort of like 20 minutes, this

1:05:29

old kind of flat

1:05:31

cap wearing, bristly,

1:05:34

big mutton chops down his side. He looks

1:05:36

like maybe he's got like a little bit

1:05:39

of dwarven blood in him, but he's not

1:05:41

a full dwarf. He doesn't have the earth

1:05:43

skin, but he's definitely short and quite well

1:05:45

built. Very wiry. He looks a

1:05:47

bit like Andre from Dark Souls. He's kind of got

1:05:50

like a big chunk of white hair on his flat

1:05:52

cap, but he's very muscular. And he kind of comes,

1:05:54

he's wearing like a pair of leather overalls and a

1:05:56

white. You're in,

1:05:58

man! May you

1:06:01

please? Sayin' that.

1:06:03

Woah! Hello there, big

1:06:05

man, big boy! Could

1:06:10

I? Come

1:06:12

talk wherever you're from, I say.

1:06:15

Good morning, Hush. I

1:06:17

have your usual right. You know, you know

1:06:20

my name? Yes. I've been speaking to Maeve.

1:06:23

Oh, you've been talkin'... Oh, alright. I have your

1:06:25

usual for you. I've paid for it for you.

1:06:29

Even better son! There's wonderful, free,

1:06:31

free, free black coffee. I'll take

1:06:33

it any day you are. Do

1:06:35

you mind? I'm open to your

1:06:37

time. For a free coffee, you

1:06:39

can have a bowl at a moment, you can have

1:06:41

a minute. I

1:06:44

feel like a minute, it's less than a moment. I

1:06:47

have a question for you. You know

1:06:49

the spooky tavern. Oh, sure do! Seen

1:06:53

the scarred lady myself with me good

1:06:55

eye. We've seen one of his eyes

1:06:57

is wooden. Is

1:07:00

that the good one? No! This

1:07:02

one is full of cat racks. We've

1:07:05

seen her too. Oh, scary,

1:07:07

eh? Now, do

1:07:09

you know if the light that's

1:07:12

outside the lamp light is light? Eh?

1:07:15

Did the scarred lady destroy that? Or

1:07:18

was it destroyed before the enticing

1:07:20

devil went under? Do you remember

1:07:22

that area being in darkness? I mean, I

1:07:24

remember lots of things. Hush

1:07:27

has got a... my mind's like

1:07:29

a fortress, you see. But

1:07:31

I've got a route through it. You go

1:07:34

through all the rooms and the chests

1:07:36

and the things and the... Well, you see

1:07:38

now, I remember. It's

1:07:40

funny you mention it. It's been broken twice. Twice?

1:07:44

Yeah! You see, back when that K-Von fella

1:07:46

he bought, the enticing devil, he gave me

1:07:48

that awful name. Terrible decision. Stupid idea. I

1:07:50

don't know why he thought it was any

1:07:52

good idea. But

1:07:55

he bought the place and then, you

1:07:57

know, the light broke. Not

1:07:59

long. after he bought the

1:08:01

place and I remember him complaining that

1:08:03

he paid the lamplighters guild he gave

1:08:05

him some money and said he wanted

1:08:07

him to fix it and to make

1:08:09

it better because he wanted to have

1:08:11

a light outside his property that was

1:08:13

newer and fancier. And

1:08:16

then the light broke

1:08:18

again because when the scarred lady

1:08:20

was around she can we think that

1:08:23

she broke it you know she if you. She

1:08:26

breaks windows as well. Exactly we said all the

1:08:28

windows break you know you hear them I remember

1:08:30

you could hear them in the night and

1:08:33

shatter in the glass and howling and

1:08:35

screaming and all that business. That

1:08:38

has been very enlightening. Well. Part

1:08:41

of the pun. Oh. A light

1:08:43

pun. That's

1:08:45

very good great boy. Very good.

1:08:48

Well I hope I hope that's been useful

1:08:50

to you. I

1:08:52

hope that's been useful to you. Very useful. You're

1:08:55

so tall Ma you can't even hear me up there

1:08:57

can you. It's difficult. You're like they're on the top

1:08:59

of the mountain. True. Oh. Is

1:09:02

that a howl. Yeah. Okay.

1:09:05

Raise my wall. Lovely to meet you Hush. Yeah lovely

1:09:07

to meet you too. Thanks for the coffee big boy.

1:09:11

You're welcome. He

1:09:14

sips it like this he goes. He

1:09:17

doesn't drink it fully he has to like sip it as he

1:09:19

goes. I'm fine I'm fine as hell. Yeah. Oh

1:09:22

good. I gave my love to Maeve. She's

1:09:24

right there. Love you Maeve.

1:09:26

She was in my bad

1:09:28

eyes. It's like cold. That's his name.

1:09:31

Hey yeah. She was

1:09:33

in the perfect of bad eyes. Man she

1:09:35

really brushed past the raised by wolves part.

1:09:38

Not to it. Unravel

1:09:41

this pun. I now have to add Hush. The cobbler. He's

1:09:43

the rooftop assailant. Maybe he could be anyone. Bring

1:09:45

me anyone. I relayed

1:09:48

this information back to whoever wishes

1:09:50

to hear it with coffees and cake. Yep.

1:10:01

It was fixed after

1:10:04

being broken and enhanced.

1:10:07

And soon after the

1:10:10

terror unfolded, maybe

1:10:12

that was when this device was placed

1:10:14

inside it after it was repaired the

1:10:16

first time. In the...

1:10:19

I've got the old and new one, right? Yep.

1:10:23

Can I be examining that?

1:10:26

I don't know what

1:10:28

the runes or what necessarily this thing does,

1:10:31

right? But is there... I mean, these guys

1:10:33

were all told quite specifically by Blackwing what

1:10:35

it does. What it does, but I mean,

1:10:37

like, I want to almost

1:10:40

try to get an understanding of what

1:10:42

the old version was, compared to what the

1:10:44

new version is. Sure, sure, sure, sure. To

1:10:46

try and understand what the... I guess the

1:10:48

process, the understanding of the process.

1:10:51

What's the different thing you're talking about? Watch

1:10:54

this drive. You have no faith? I

1:10:57

have no faith. I'm afraid not. You're

1:10:59

faithless. Has my Arcana taken a hit?

1:11:01

It has not. Fine. Kind of, finally.

1:11:05

Finally! I

1:11:07

mean, this would be quite a high DC to get loads

1:11:09

of information. I'll give you... Yeah,

1:11:12

so what's your question exactly? I want

1:11:14

to... I

1:11:17

guess I want to try and understand what is

1:11:19

wrong with this one that they had to make

1:11:21

this other one, the newer one. What

1:11:24

did they... What's improved? What's improved?

1:11:26

Why is this better? Yeah,

1:11:28

so I think that from

1:11:30

your rudimentary examination, you

1:11:33

think that... Because you remember Blackwing

1:11:35

telling you something about the newer one you found

1:11:38

that it was faulty or it had something wrong

1:11:40

with it. Looking at

1:11:42

this one, you think

1:11:44

that there was a similar problem,

1:11:46

right? That this older version was

1:11:48

almost... It was too

1:11:51

highly tuned. Its effects were too strong.

1:11:54

And it looks like in the newer one, what they tried

1:11:56

to do is make it more subtle

1:11:59

and... and soften it, but

1:12:01

obviously the one you have was malfunctioning, like

1:12:03

it broke. But you have the feeling that

1:12:05

the improvement they tried to make was to

1:12:08

make it less intense.

1:12:10

Okay. It also had

1:12:12

a bit of a bigger range as well, the old

1:12:14

one. Okay. Like

1:12:17

they've dampened it a little bit. Right,

1:12:19

okay. With

1:12:22

that role and that knowledge, because

1:12:25

we do have to end a little bit early today, that

1:12:28

is where we are going to

1:12:30

end today's session. Okay. Well,

1:12:32

I mean, the landlakers again, Shakespeare. Darn

1:12:37

you. It seems somewhat connected to

1:12:39

it. We're

1:12:41

going to bring down that guild. Yeah. I'm

1:12:44

shutting down. At least the ones who might be involved in whatever plot this

1:12:46

is. All of them. Burn them all down. Maybe

1:12:48

it is all of them. It's all of them. They're

1:12:50

rotten to the core. Sure. Huh?

1:12:54

It's set last week. It's set this week. Burn the place to

1:12:56

the ground. We're not going to burn our place to the ground.

1:12:58

No, we'll leave it one standing. Everything. One

1:13:00

building around the back and rest. Yeah. The back and

1:13:02

rest. Yeah. The

1:13:04

back and rest. Promise. On

1:13:06

that note, thank you very much everybody. That is going

1:13:09

to be it for today's episode of

1:13:11

Fails of the Dragon Empire. Thank you so much for joining us.

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