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1:02

gulp of this dazing guzzler will take

1:04

you from Entomb to Exhumed

1:06

in no time. Keep or

1:08

take ten years. Previously

1:11

our adventurers vammooshed out of the

1:13

violently vibrating vamp spire. While

1:16

inside the tumbling tower, the party

1:18

revived their rogue, recovered the count

1:20

chest, mended Eddie, saved Badesia's bacon,

1:23

extracted Quiffly, heisted some hemo

1:26

pieces, and freed the Farny

1:28

family. Lastly, they leaped aboard

1:30

the Grotheth Express with an

1:32

enigmatic elf. Bring

1:35

over a brew. Let's buckle up for this

1:37

bedtime tale. Hello

1:46

everyone, I'm Gustavo Stroll, the Dungeon Master of

1:48

our disgusting Putrid party. I'm going

1:51

to hit our four players with an arrow. Grab

1:53

it and break it in half. This

1:56

week's Role-Playing Warm-Up question is, which of

1:58

the following is most- important to

2:00

your character health wealth or

2:03

happiness. I'll

2:05

go first. Go for it.

2:07

Hey there. It's chip. Hey,

2:09

this is good. Guy, Blaine

2:11

Gibson. I'm a level

2:14

nine T fling rogue volunteer fighter fighter

2:16

X assassin and widower. And I say

2:18

that the most important thing is health

2:20

because you can't have wealth or the

2:23

other thing that I forgot happiness, happiness

2:25

without it. You gotta have, you gotta

2:27

be mentally strong. You gotta be physically

2:30

strong. Cause how are you going to make

2:32

your bell bay bank? I

2:36

take two ready and how are you going to make

2:38

your bank? If you can't lift

2:40

it, how are you

2:42

going to get your money? If

2:44

you can't cut it, honey,

2:46

honey, please go to someone

2:49

else. I think it's

2:51

actually very apt that chip would

2:53

say health because it's actually a

2:55

statistical fact that widowers survive

2:58

shorter than widows. Oh really? Yeah.

3:00

It's really sad. Wow. What an

3:03

inadvertent dig at chip like in many ways, you're

3:05

going to, you're going to die sooner and you're,

3:07

don't worry chip. You won't be alone that long.

3:09

That's the worst statistic. I think I can hear

3:12

today. Hi, I'm

3:16

Chris Damaris and I play

3:18

Bernie, Bernie, the level nine

3:21

human cleric and health

3:24

wealth or happiness. Oh, it's

3:26

happiness because it, well,

3:30

I don't care much for money. The

3:33

only thing I'd use money for is to make the

3:35

people I'm, I'm, I

3:37

care about happy and wow.

3:39

And then health. Well, I

3:42

think it's okay. I just, someone can not

3:44

be healthy as long

3:47

as they're, they're happy and that's

3:49

okay. That's beautiful. So you're

3:51

fine being poor and sick as

3:54

long as you have a smile on your face.

3:56

Sounds like it. Yeah. As long as I'm happy

3:58

with the people that 20

10:00

minutes before everyone else would get there. Okay in

10:02

that case you're sitting alone in the dining car

10:04

the only other The only other

10:07

person in the dining car is

10:09

a brawny disgruntled orc train conductor with ferocious

10:11

eyebrows wearing a blue vest for the name

10:13

tag I know that you recognize him as

10:15

this he's a slowly cleaning up wiping the

10:18

counters down giving you a glance every now

10:20

And I just want to point out I

10:22

this is hilarious that That Blaine

10:24

had the opportunity for us all to be there

10:27

But now he's alone in a train car with

10:29

the conductor and he doesn't have a ticket Disnose

10:34

me I'd

10:37

be oh I'd be forthright with this this

10:39

I don't have a ticket But I'm happy

10:41

to help you seem to be cleaning up

10:43

and as a train conductor you have bigger

10:45

matters to go to So let me hear

10:47

you shushu. It's fine. It's my last

10:49

day on the job anyway what I Can't

10:52

where are you going? Oh, I finally

10:54

realizing my dream gonna become a professor

10:56

at Lofton College in Atra City. Oh

10:59

Yeah, gonna be teaching transmutation. Is

11:02

that like like a Subversion

11:05

of transportation cuz you know you're so good

11:07

at that with the trains as

11:10

Disba kind of sighs letting out a

11:13

gust of air your compatriots walk in it Let's

11:15

be opening time for the dining car because the

11:17

rest of your party walks in I walk in

11:19

and I address Chip and I go finally you're

11:21

here. I was here earlier As

11:27

you're waiting there Zuzu top also walks in oh

11:31

We've been traveling across growth to

11:33

get away from the riots in Atra

11:35

City along with my cousin Lizzie She's

11:37

still asleep though wait riots

11:39

because why oh those already think

11:42

the abralians are behind the wolfman's

11:44

murder and

11:46

so they're Riding because there's

11:48

not a lot of abralians in Atra City are

11:51

there no not a ton So

11:53

they're just riding by themselves. They are riding in

11:55

area 15 trying to get us out of there

11:59

explain us That's

14:00

a 22. You

14:02

don't think it's poison, but you don't think it would be

14:04

something good for you to drink. Okay,

14:07

I do that thing where I purse my lips

14:09

and I don't like liquid pass. And then you

14:11

just kind of catch the cotton in my mustache.

14:13

In that case, only Barney makes a constitution saving

14:15

throw. All right. Barney,

14:19

you down it. I think Barney would actually probably

14:21

like it. It tastes like black licorice and artichoke.

14:23

Yum. That means you're going to poop.

14:26

Barney, you know, down sit, looks

14:28

around, smiling at everybody. And as

14:30

you all are looking at him in the middle of

14:32

his forehead, a third eyeball opens up. On Barney? Yeah.

14:36

Barney. What? And

14:38

at the same time, both of his ears fall off the side of his

14:40

head down onto the table. You never looked better. Can you still hear us,

14:42

Barney, without your ears? What do you mean? I can't hear you.

14:44

What are you talking about? I don't notice a difference with

14:47

Barney. What? I would say you still have limited

14:49

hearing. It's like you still have the ear hole. I don't know. I

14:51

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

14:53

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

14:57

just don't have the ear lobes to

14:59

like funnel sound. Is he

15:01

looking more like an abrillion? He

15:03

looks unusual for sure. What

15:06

do you say about my hearing? So you

15:08

look good, Barney.

15:11

And Elga does the thing where she like nods to

15:13

everyone in points. Right to everyone,

15:15

doesn't Barney look great? Yeah. He

15:18

looks the same. I

15:20

think you all look great too. And I've

15:22

never seen you look so crisp and clear.

15:25

Would an extra eye give him like advantage

15:27

on anything? It would give him disadvantage on

15:30

the three Stooges eye poke. Yeah, I guess

15:32

he's got three to defend now. Advantage

15:34

on intimidating children. I don't

15:36

think like perception maybe. Advantage on

15:38

3D movies. There you go. 4D. I

15:41

think he would see more colors. He'd have more

15:44

colors. He only sees the auras in the third

15:46

eye though. In the back of the car is Sadate

15:49

pacing back and forth by an empty

15:51

booth. Could I go up and talk

15:53

to her? Yeah. I've never seen

15:55

her before. She's an Elvis woman with dark features, black hair. Right

15:58

now she's wearing a navy cloak. and matching

16:00

double-breasted tunic, eggplant pants,

16:02

leather boots, and around her neck

16:05

is a red-ass cock. That must smell. Just

16:07

plants. Just pants made out of eggplant.

16:09

Gah. Yeah, she

16:12

sees you approaching and stops pacing for

16:14

a moment to look at you, Elga.

16:17

Hello, mother. I mean, Miss

16:19

Tempor. Oh. So

16:22

you said you're from Sheets. Have

16:25

you been following us at all?

16:27

Do you know what we've been dealing

16:29

with the last week at all? Do you know anything? I

16:32

don't know a whole lot. I do know

16:34

of Carol's death, which is what brought me back here

16:36

to Vania to try to figure things out. Chip's

16:38

going to walk up. He was going

16:40

to give you guys distance, because I know you'd probably

16:42

had some things to settle through, Mom, but if we're

16:44

talking about Carol. So were you guys like partners? Did

16:46

you guys like know each other back in the day?

16:49

Well, I knew of Carol, and we had

16:51

met before. However, I didn't spend

16:53

a lot of time with her. Oh, you missed

16:55

that. She was recruited as a double agent to

16:57

gather information about Eddie and what he was up

16:59

to. I have so many

17:01

questions. When did I first come

17:03

to Vania? Well, that's

17:07

a long story. I

17:09

was sent by Sheets to go undercover and

17:11

get close to Hugo. I

17:13

needed to find out what he knew about Sheets and

17:15

what we were doing. In

17:17

order to avoid suspicion, I had

17:19

to play the long game, and it took

17:21

decades before he was able to trust me.

17:24

Then he asked me to marry him and

17:26

become a countess. Not long after we

17:29

were married, I became pregnant with

17:31

a child. And nine months

17:33

later, I was giving birth. During

17:35

that process, I was given an elixir, which

17:38

helped with the pain, but

17:40

lessened my faculties. Next

17:42

thing I know, I'm being given two

17:44

twin baby girls. But

17:46

something felt wrong. Hugo

17:48

was acting strange, even more

17:50

so than usual, always looking at

17:52

me curiously. And in my

17:55

stupor, I must have said something to

17:57

blow my cover. He never left me

17:59

alone again. I'm not sure. So

18:01

you get birth to me? No,

18:03

your sister. I think you've been... She

18:05

was twin. Most likely. Yeah,

18:07

she was fooled. Most likely. So

18:10

what's she's position on

18:12

Dagger? I can't

18:14

say too much about sheath. Well, too

18:16

much specifically, unless the director gives me approval.

18:18

I'm hoping that we can speak to the

18:20

director by infiltrating Final Lock to reach the

18:22

secret entrance of the headquarters, which is where

18:25

we're going now. So

18:28

why would someone give

18:30

you Elga? Hugo held

18:32

many secrets. Some I

18:35

was able to ascertain and get information

18:37

on, and some he never

18:39

fully divulged to me. And

18:41

is it true that Elga is my

18:43

calliope? When I was first

18:45

given Elga, I was very out of it. Hugo

18:48

never told me anything other than that she

18:50

was my daughter that I gave birth to.

18:52

And that was just a baby?

18:55

Yes, you were a small baby at the

18:57

time. Well, Elga, if

18:59

it's true, I'm sorry.

19:03

Well, Bernad, I mean, I guess,

19:06

Dad, I don't really know

19:09

what to call you. You...

19:11

I don't feel like I deserve to

19:13

be your dad because I wasn't there

19:16

for you. And I know you already

19:18

have a dad, and I know I

19:20

don't care for him much because he

19:22

is... he didn't... not

19:24

a great stuff. But

19:26

I haven't been around,

19:28

so I don't think... I don't

19:30

know. Well, that

19:32

makes two of us who are not the big fan

19:34

of my previous dad. I'd

19:37

like to join in on that too. And

19:39

I really wish we had successfully drained his bank

19:41

account. That would be extra. So,

19:44

I know that there's... there's a lot. Hey,

19:47

from one secret assassin agent person to another,

19:49

there's not a lot of stuff that you

19:51

can share. But if we're gonna be helping

19:53

each other out, then we need to give...

19:55

have a little give and take. So, have

19:58

we encountered any other sheath agents? other

20:00

than Carol. I don't have

20:02

exact details on your adventures. As

20:04

far as I know there were no others but

20:07

if you find out otherwise I'm

20:09

not deceiving you. I genuinely don't

20:11

know. Okay and Dewey can

20:14

you tell us who the director is? I

20:16

can't divulge that unless I have

20:19

express approval. Remember if we've ever

20:21

seen someone else with eggplant pants

20:23

because you describing eggplant pants sounds

20:25

familiar. Eggplant pants. Make me

20:27

a wisdom check Barbara or

20:29

Elga Barbara. I'm

20:32

talking to Barbara but we're trying

20:34

to figure out Elga's memories. 16. You

20:36

don't recall seeing eggplant

20:38

pants in the past or you can't

20:40

place ever having seen anything like that.

20:43

This is confusing so if Ugo

20:45

was uh Ugo. Ugo.

20:48

Yes. Juice. Ugo is there. That

20:50

is his name. If

20:52

that gentleman who I will not say his name again so

20:54

that Gustavo does not laugh at me again. Sorry

20:58

Matid. He was in

21:00

he was in the coffin of

21:02

the jail because he had

21:04

let Ugo to Atrocity. Why'd

21:08

he let you go to Atrocity if he's such

21:10

like a villainous man and he then got himself

21:13

absconded by the authorities. It seems like

21:15

Mary was playing the long game of wanting

21:17

to get locked up so that everyone would

21:19

be gathered in the same place all the

21:22

important people and Eddie would free him and

21:24

then they would wreak havoc. Why did this

21:26

buy or fall? Did we figure that out?

21:28

It's probably something to do with all the

21:30

lakes and the rivers drying up and then

21:32

also going off of what Elga's assumption is

21:34

if it seemed like Dracula

21:37

was kind of like hidden away

21:39

because he was remorseful for his

21:41

actions and his you know partnership

21:43

with Ugo. You

21:46

know a trial could be a way of

21:49

bringing him out of hiding. He was in

21:51

his room. He wasn't he wasn't

21:53

hiding very well. Do you know

21:55

anything about me or my family

21:57

or why like how he came to be I

22:00

know that Hugo was a cruel person and

22:03

he often extracted cruelty as punishment on

22:05

people Could be your family crossed

22:07

him and this was his way of exacting revenge

22:10

But he also killed

22:12

dragons as far as I

22:15

know but that was before my time Because

22:17

I know a dragon I think and

22:20

I don't know why With

22:23

that one guy there's one that one that

22:25

came from my watch We also

22:27

didn't go down into like a dragon belly

22:29

or something like that. Yeah, there's like a

22:31

dragon Broden graveyard We're searching for something. We

22:33

fought a guy, but then Eddie got involved

22:35

and I think it's Phoenix was that

22:38

no speech wasn't Wait,

22:40

what was the thing about your watch? He

22:43

made the lost is gone the time of

22:45

Twilight Whatever his thing. He said whenever we

22:47

were fighting this Phoenix my Watch

22:52

it came alive and then it brought if

22:54

someone for the dragon and then the dragon

22:56

knew me he was very hip Fascinating

23:01

Dragon certainly were ancient powerful creatures

23:03

that were here long before many

23:05

of us Their knowledge

23:07

was both vast mysterious and magical

23:11

They knew me and my family. Okay,

23:13

so here's the thing one

23:15

of Carol's dying wishes was that I complete

23:17

her mission And I know

23:20

that I'm not officially inducted into sheath

23:22

But it seems like whatever

23:24

Carol was doing has to do with whatever you're

23:26

doing, you know She does one collective mission for

23:28

the greater good I'm assuming you're gonna

23:31

have to fill us in on things that we

23:33

don't know about So what else is left on

23:35

the table that you haven't told us because I'm

23:37

here to complete my wife's mission To flush it

23:40

out just a little bit more It's not much

23:42

but when I learned of Carol's death and that

23:44

Eddie and Hugo were responsible That was what motivated

23:46

me to return to Vania No

23:48

matter what the personal risk were which

23:51

is when you all encountered me at

23:53

the triclinium I knew I was in

23:55

danger because in the past one night

23:57

Hugo came home blood-drunken, which was not

23:59

unusual for him, but he was also

24:01

in an insatiable rage going on and

24:04

on about how the clans had ruined

24:06

his plans. When I inquired, he lost

24:08

it, and I knew my mission was

24:10

compromised and my life was in danger.

24:13

That's when I tried to take Elga and Evania

24:15

with me, but I was no

24:17

match for a ravenous and enraged vampire. So

24:20

I ran for my life and returned to

24:22

Sheath headquarters. Time passed,

24:24

and then that's when I returned to

24:27

Vania. I have a question too, so

24:29

I assume at some point, Evania was pretty

24:32

normal, but she's acting very weird these past

24:34

couple days. Do you know what happened to

24:36

her while she's like this? That was not

24:38

the Evania I remember. No, me neither. So

24:40

it has nothing to do with the stuff

24:43

that you were taking that kind of drugged

24:45

you up during the pregnancy? That's not some

24:47

sort of like super soldier serum? I

24:50

don't think so. Evania, she's

24:52

not a vampire, but Elga

24:54

is. How does that work?

24:56

Especially if, you know, hundreds of years

24:58

have passed. I mean, I know that

25:00

Evania is an elf, but elves don't

25:02

just stay still in time during their

25:04

youths. You know, they grow up and

25:06

then they kind of, you know, it

25:09

doesn't make sense why she's still a little

25:11

girl. There may be other magics at play

25:13

that occurred during my absence that would explain

25:15

that. You know, what would be super helpful

25:17

gang is if we had like a map

25:20

of who the enemies are. So

25:22

we know who goes up there. We know Eddie for sure.

25:24

Is Evania in league with them? I mean,

25:26

it seemed like they were, she was fighting with him. She

25:29

appeared to be. Okay. But that

25:31

is not really her. She, I don't know

25:33

that book we found with the ancient

25:35

writings and everything like that. Maybe she,

25:38

she got into some funny business and kind

25:40

of, you know, influenced the way she was

25:42

thinking. Choo choo. Next

25:45

stop, final lock. Next stop,

25:47

final lock. This we're talking. Hey, go

25:49

back to your studies. Outside the windows,

25:51

you see lush trees, both broadleaf and

25:53

coniferous whizzing past the train and you

25:55

feel the momentum of the train beginning

25:57

to decelerate. Those trees eat meat. that's

26:00

not the case. Okay Well, that

26:06

we need to be aware of? Oh,

26:09

yes, we on your little board. Can we put

26:12

this lofty part

26:14

of man? Yeah, I agree. She's

26:16

number one public enemy getting through

26:19

final lock will be difficult,

26:21

but we'll deal with those situations as they

26:24

What are we trying to stop you go

26:26

from doing what we're going to sheath

26:28

headquarters, then what's happening? One last question

26:30

for you. Mother ish.

26:34

Do you know anything about Benicia Wolfman

26:36

while she was in washes locked up

26:38

in the Vamspire who could have done

26:40

that? That seems like something that Hugo

26:43

did. I wouldn't put it past him,

26:45

but I don't know. I had just

26:47

arrived at the Vamspire and had started

26:50

my investigation when everything happened. There might

26:52

have been a Vina working under or Eddie working

26:54

for you because he was incarcerated at the

26:56

time. I'm just wondering why they would take

26:58

her daughter. Like maybe it's some type of blackmail

27:01

or like. Yeah, the train

27:03

comes to a stop at final lock station.

27:06

Wait really quick. Where's the

27:08

alchemist and is he a sheath agent?

27:11

The alchemist is most likely asleep with Francesca

27:13

on the train. Ah, Francesca.

27:16

Well, give me another sheath headquarters because

27:19

we got a lot of, yeah, we gotta keep

27:21

pulling this yarn. Just do it. This

27:23

is burning over like like Marnie. Marnie would

27:26

be on the train too. I assume you'd left her in the, like

27:29

the sleeping cart. Well, because I don't think I don't

27:31

think Marnie would just get off the train and leave

27:33

them. Yeah. So I, I, I,

27:36

I, I, I, I, I, I, on a

27:38

meta level, like, no, I was going to make a joke about

27:40

that. That's what you did last time. Oh,

27:42

but I, but I did it. I did it.

27:44

I, we heard it though. I know. Well,

27:47

technically I think they were taken from. Yeah,

27:49

yeah, yeah. They left. Um,

27:52

so Marnie wants to go talk with his

27:55

family before we go. Marnie, you journey down

27:57

the train until you find the sleeper car,

27:59

your family. Upon entering,

28:01

Marnie and your two boys look up

28:03

at you with smiles. Marnie, boys, I'm

28:06

sorry, but I have to

28:08

go. What? But we just found

28:10

each other. Look, it's just for

28:12

a little while, I promise. You

28:14

see, Elga, I mean, K'lai,

28:17

V, she has some unfinished

28:19

business. And that means,

28:21

well, I do too. Because

28:24

as much as I want to

28:26

stay here with you and the boys where

28:28

it's safe, well, K'lai and

28:30

V, Chip and Matid, they'll be

28:32

in danger. And I'm

28:35

not wasting a minute more of

28:37

my life being safe while the

28:39

people I love need me. Barney,

28:41

Barney, you make sure

28:43

she comes back to us. Both

28:46

of you. I promise. Stinker,

28:49

you stay here. Look after them. And

28:53

Barney embraces his family one

28:56

last time and then leaves.

29:00

Barney, as you leave the train car, Sadatia

29:02

approaches and says, They'll be safe

29:04

on the train. We will return

29:06

to them after meeting with the director. Chip

29:08

puts his hand on Barney and says, Barney,

29:11

I know that if I had a chance to be

29:14

with Carol again, I'd take it in a heartbeat. Are

29:17

you sure this is what you want? I don't want to

29:19

leave Elga. Or are you? The

29:22

bird I'm okay with. Matid's

29:30

just drinking their coffee and enjoying their time.

29:32

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Matid

29:35

is not. Matid is enjoying their coffee and enjoying their

29:37

time. Barney, it's okay.

29:39

They'll be safe on this train. And you,

29:42

Mitch, and Matid, all best friends, will go.

29:44

Right, Matid? We'll go to discover the sheath

29:46

situation. No one's casting a zone of truth

29:48

right now, right? Because

29:52

we have to find out what, you know, help

29:55

Elga with her family. And

29:57

we're a family. As well, Elga.

30:00

and and ship with our pet bird. This

30:03

is, this is, oh my god.

30:05

Matiteep's stirring daggers into Barney. I'm

30:08

just, I'm good. I'm just kidding.

30:10

Matiteep. Mela Barna's family's bag. Barna

30:12

is all full of the chuckles.

30:14

Matiteep, Matiteep. I genuinely care

30:16

deeply for you and the fact that

30:18

you've come and helped me save my

30:20

family means more to me than anything

30:23

I could say. That's a very sincere

30:25

sentiment from Barney. Oh yeah. Matiteep

30:28

smiles. Yeah. All right, so

30:30

everyone's getting off the train? Way. Yes.

30:32

And you know, this, this kind of reminds me, you

30:34

know, it was a, a flawed movie

30:37

for many reasons, but I thought one of the

30:39

interesting things about the Eternals was the Komeil

30:41

Nanjiani character at the end of the movie, just

30:43

like, like I'm not going to fight. I'm

30:46

not, I'm not going to take part in this. Yeah. And

30:48

it's kind of like where, like the inflection point Barney's

30:50

at, right? He just stays on the train while the

30:52

three of us go. That's why I kind of, you

30:54

know, all presented the choice a little bit. Yeah. I

30:56

mean, I think he, he would in some ways, but

30:59

because Elga. Yeah. No, it makes sense. All

31:01

right. You all get off of the train

31:03

and everyone make me a perception check. Percepting.

31:11

So 11 Barney, 13 chip, 16 Elga, and

31:14

was that a 19 Matiteep? Way. Both

31:16

Barney and chip. The two of you

31:18

get off the train and you manage to avoid the steam

31:20

cloud and take in your surroundings. Nary,

31:22

but a few streams of sunlight pierced

31:24

the dense canopy of trees that now

31:27

surround you. The balmy forest floor is

31:29

carpeted with twinkling toadstools, flamboyant flowers, and

31:31

moist moss. Elga and Matiteep,

31:34

there's no noticeable trail or path

31:36

headed in any particular direction. However,

31:38

to the South, you hear a tree

31:40

falling. Sadate turns to you

31:42

for it says, Sheath HQ is located in the

31:44

hub of Fond du Lac, which is to the

31:46

South, but we should trade

31:49

carefully. The forest is protected by all manner

31:51

of beasts and natural defenses. Which direction to

31:53

the trees South? So that's the

31:55

direction that, I

31:57

guess we were in the forest when a tree fell and we heard it. I

32:00

saw that problem. So if like

32:02

Dracula is to Vania

32:05

what is is Nessie the final

32:07

lock kind of head-on show Yes,

32:13

that is correct, okay, so this

32:15

is so this is like forest but also like there's

32:17

a gonna be a big body of water I'm assuming

32:20

there's a giant statue of a wonderful looking fear bog

32:23

Yes, like Sesness would be the giant

32:26

body of water you're referring to here

32:28

Sessness And

32:30

that's what we were probably supposed to come over in that big

32:32

ship, but all the water was dried out Yeah, look

32:34

at you, correct? Yeah Lock

32:36

Sessness not like landlocked. It's not

32:39

a lock is all the water Dried

32:41

up here, too. You're not by a body

32:43

of water You're not by the law at the

32:45

moment living sedat is just hearing chip talk about

32:48

and speculate and confirming his suspicions about a big

32:50

body of water Hey since I heard a tree

32:52

fall could I take a little fly up and

32:54

see if I? See anything

32:56

else like more trees falling or a hole

32:58

Yeah, you can you can get only so

33:00

high because the canopy is very thick But

33:03

you can you can take a little bit of a

33:05

peak I should say sure Yeah,

33:07

you fly up and you see down to

33:09

the south like just more well in every

33:12

direction You see lots of trees

33:14

of various types, but specifically to the

33:16

south you see a bunch of coniferous

33:18

trees surrounding One large tree in

33:20

the center. Oh This is

33:22

where they have the unobtainian What's

33:26

coniferous what does that mean? Yeah,

33:29

someone someone else went to primary

33:31

school in Texas I see I

33:37

Like this place is nice. Yeah,

33:40

Mati would proceed south. All right.

33:42

What's the weather the weather? Really

33:47

humid and hot chances ray Humidant

33:49

hot yeah Maybe

33:52

a bit of Florida or Texas yeah, but but

33:54

this is ball me is that better? Yeah No,

33:56

I'm just confused because that's not how what I

33:58

would have expected this place almost like

34:00

a rainforest ish. Oh, again,

34:03

not what I would expect. Do I see

34:05

a cafe? No, the cafe's rolling way down

34:07

the train tracks. Oh, is this

34:09

bleeding? Oh yeah. He just, just is

34:11

gone on the train. Good luck. Get

34:13

that colleges. It's not Yamper.

34:15

It's the other one guys, the

34:18

college, the college he's getting

34:20

a job as a professor.

34:22

He's getting away. Loft in

34:25

college. Teaching what? Uh,

34:27

transportation. Oh yeah. Look at that. Inspiration.

34:29

Die for chip. Oh my God. Did

34:31

it. It's like the first inspiration. I

34:34

wasn't a joke for bonus points. What's

34:36

the mascot of Lofton college? I want

34:38

to know it wasn't a potato. That's

34:41

a, I'm thinking of the amford. The

34:43

Lofton tubers, a tiger inspiration, die for,

34:45

uh, for Elga. That

34:48

was a good guess, Barbara. Was it? I

34:50

don't think we had said what it was.

34:53

So canonically, you

34:56

just created it. Also

34:58

Chris remembered Lofton college. I don't know if we

35:00

want to hear you. Yeah, he did, but I'm

35:02

giving it. I made my decision. I've given that

35:05

one a blank. All right. Yeah. So you've

35:07

reached like the forested Northern

35:10

border of Fauna lock, which obviously that's

35:12

why you're heading south. Sadat says they're

35:14

a magical natural hazards here, as well

35:16

as some creatures we'll need to avoid

35:18

as much as possible. Like what air

35:21

roamers and defilines, I'll point them out

35:23

when we see them, but hopefully we

35:25

can avoid them. Paphalumps and woosles. Okay.

35:28

Air roams and air roamers

35:30

and defilines air roamers. That's

35:32

Pokemon defilines must be like

35:35

Zeppelin's, but they're like definitely.

35:37

Yeah. Let's

35:40

all travel as quietly as possible. Oh, so

35:42

everyone go ahead and make me a stealth

35:44

check. Okay. Also who's part of our gang?

35:46

Is it just us? And uh,

35:48

it's you four and sedatas and not the alchemist

35:50

and Francesca. No, they stayed 14, 25, 29 at

35:53

disadvantage. I got a 17. I

36:00

didn't say this in our last episode, but

36:03

with leveling up, I was able to add

36:05

ability score modifiers. And so now Mattid

36:07

has a 20 in dexterity and

36:09

18 in wisdom. And

36:12

because of my, what item does

36:14

it? Oh my God, you have pluses and everything. Because

36:16

of my, I haven't, what item is

36:18

it? I don't remember, but I have also, I'm 20 on constitution. But

36:23

just so you know, Gus, still a plus one on

36:26

intelligence. That's all. I

36:28

wouldn't have my party any other way. Yeah. Nice

36:30

campaign. I'm going to be so smart. Yeah.

36:33

So weak, just like just a little brain. Just a

36:35

brain creature. Yeah. You all travel

36:37

rather stealthily to the south and

36:40

you come upon a copse of coniferous trees

36:42

surrounding a large broadleaf tree in the center.

36:44

And at the base of the tree appears

36:46

to be someone taking a nap. This

36:48

is where they make the cookies. What

36:54

does the person or the creature looking look like?

36:56

Take a little chef with a chef hat. It's

37:00

a baker actually.

37:03

It's actually true. A word I

37:05

should have used. Without

37:08

getting closer, it's hard to see exactly,

37:10

but it looks to be like a

37:12

smaller dwarf size humanoid. Hey Barney, you

37:15

should do that like classic Barney whisper

37:17

to wake them up. It's

37:19

the most comforting way to awaken to you. Want

37:21

to get into combat? Oh, is this, this is

37:23

a combat thing. No, I'm just saying. Taking somebody

37:25

in that way, but that clearly puts them on,

37:27

on the, on it. I pointed to Dottie and

37:29

say bad guy. She looks at it

37:31

from a distance and like kind

37:33

of narrows her eyes. It's hard to

37:35

tell from here. Bad guy. The

37:38

tree we're at the base of a, where

37:40

we are approaching that large tree that I

37:43

saw. Correct. You're like at

37:45

the border of a circular opening and the large

37:47

trees in the middle. How big, how large are

37:49

we talking? We talking like there's a city in

37:51

there or like, man, that's an old tree, like

37:53

a redwood old tree. Probably, you know, looking at

37:56

the trunk, it's, it's, it's huge. You know, the

37:58

trunks probably could, could live in. adventure inside this

38:00

tree. No, not that big. Truck's

38:03

probably eight to 10 feet across, but the canopy

38:05

itself is probably at the biggest 650

38:08

to 60 feet. Okay. So just

38:10

an impressive tree. Barney, go over,

38:13

take a sit next to

38:15

the tree and start whittling

38:17

some wood, like what next to the person

38:19

and like kind of loudly. So they like

38:21

might just kind of awaken the mark. I

38:24

got to say, if I was taking a nap in the

38:26

forest and I woke up to an old man whittling next

38:29

to me with that knife, I would pee myself.

38:33

Yeah. You walk over and sit down and start

38:35

whittling. Is there any specific you want to whittle

38:37

or anything you want to make? Um,

38:39

a knife. Just

38:43

like a little like

38:45

a mushroom figuring like just a little, uh,

38:47

yeah. Barney, you start whittling. We'll make him

38:49

a mix. Some kind of check, make a

38:52

hand. Some

38:54

sort of there'd be something better. While

38:56

he's doing that, can I see what kind of clothes this person's

38:58

wearing? Yeah. Let me figure out

39:00

his check and then I'll answer that. Make

39:02

a deck check with proficiency. Barney, make an

39:04

unarmed strike versus this. So

39:07

how does the proficiency work with decks? It's like,

39:09

so just roll your deck check and then add

39:11

your proficiency bonus, which is plus four. Okay. So

39:14

that's 11 plus four would be

39:16

15. Yeah. You start really

39:18

carving out a, a nice looking mushroom.

39:21

Elga, make an investigation check. Am I close enough to

39:23

do it with advantage? If you get close, I think

39:25

so far, Barney's the only one who said he's walked

39:27

up. You're still at the edge of the

39:30

clearing. I want to, sorry. I want to walk up

39:32

very quietly. It will be 12. I

39:34

just got perplexed by a word that I found in

39:36

D and D Beyond recently. No,

39:39

I had a moment recently

39:41

in a DM moment where I didn't know what

39:43

kind of check to do for a hand like

39:45

thing. And I thought sleight of hand would make

39:47

sense, but it didn't feel right. So a decks

39:49

check for this kind of thing feels right. But

39:51

on D and D Beyond, you can click on

39:54

each of these checks and see the description of

39:56

what they should be for. However,

39:58

there's a word in sleight of hand. I've never

40:00

heard before. And it says, whenever you

40:02

attempt an act of leisure,

40:05

domain, ledger, domain,

40:07

ledger, domain, or manual trickery. I've never

40:09

heard that word. That's such a fun

40:12

word. I've never heard that either. Okay.

40:14

It is a skillful use of one's

40:16

hand when performing conjuring tricks is all

40:18

right. Ledger domain. Okay. Cool. Fun word.

40:21

Sorry. Didn't mean to interrupt for learning

40:23

good words. Word of the day. Yeah.

40:25

Ledger domain. So Elga, you had a

40:27

12 on your investigation. You know, you're

40:29

looking, you know, Barney walks over, plops

40:32

down, begins whittling a mushroom.

40:34

And as you're looking, you see that,

40:36

you know, like I said earlier, it's

40:39

a smaller dwarf size humanoid. However, you

40:41

notice the body's actually singed to a

40:43

crisp and its hands are

40:45

clutching onto a small metal box. Oh,

40:48

Barney just sat down next

40:50

to a corpse. Is this

40:52

person, is this person dead?

40:54

Most likely. Yes. They were

40:56

Chris. Barney not know this.

40:58

All right. I figured Barney

41:00

doesn't know. Like Barney was so focused

41:02

on whittling. Oh, Barney

41:04

sitting there whittling. Like, hello

41:08

there stranger. Good morning.

41:12

I have some awkward news to share with

41:14

you. Barney is a person you are sitting

41:17

next to. He's a new friend. I can't

41:20

wait to meet. Well,

41:22

you might be waiting a long time. His name is

41:24

Bernie. We're going to have a weekend at his house.

41:27

Could I go up and see what

41:29

the box this person's holding? Yeah. Both

41:31

Elga and Barney, both you make perception

41:33

checks for me. 18. 8.

41:36

I still think they're alive. Elga, the

41:38

little hairs on the back of your

41:41

neck begin standing straight up. Ambush.

41:44

Okay. Danger sense. Chip and Matidio watching

41:46

this, you know, Barney sitting down whittling

41:48

a mushroom. Elga's, you know, looking at

41:50

this small door size humanoid when all

41:52

of a sudden leaves begin

41:54

falling down from the tree and lightning seems

41:56

to form very quickly under the tree and

41:59

then strike. down the ground around it at

42:01

the base. Both Barney and Elga

42:03

make me dexterity saving throws. This is a

42:05

weird forest. We just got struck by lightning

42:07

essentially. Yes. Dexterity savings? Yeah. So you're

42:09

saying you're thunderstruck? Got it at 20, 22. It's a 12.

42:13

So you're... That's better than that. Is that you?

42:15

Sandstorm? Yeah, do you make that? Is that you?

42:18

Make that sandstorm? Is that anything that makes a

42:20

storm? Sandstorm. Oh, this is not sand. This lightning

42:22

chip. I'm just trying to make

42:24

a callback. I'm just trying to say I know some

42:26

of your combat moves because we are friends and I'm

42:28

trying to make a joke. Lighten the mood because there's

42:31

a dead guy in Barney's trying to make friends with

42:33

him. And we're getting

42:35

struck by lightning. Elga, you dodge out of the

42:37

way of the lightning leaves, but a couple of

42:39

them fall on Barney

42:42

and impact. How does that conduct with his

42:44

metal armor? And not very great. And so

42:47

very well. Am I dexterous enough to also

42:49

have pushed him out of the way? I'm

42:51

going to say no, there wasn't enough time.

42:53

Okay. That's a lot. I

42:56

finally just looked at the damage for this tree. Sorry. I

42:58

got a lot of stuff to roll. And it seems to

43:00

only have hit like in the vicinity of the tree, right?

43:02

Correct. Like right under it. Wow. I

43:05

hope that wasn't damage. Yeah. A

43:07

couple of the leaves fall on Barney.

43:09

Lightning strikes. There's a loud, thunderous

43:11

boom and the tree or the lightning

43:14

does 53 points of damage on

43:17

Barney. Holy moly. Well,

43:19

Barney, look

43:22

at the bright side. You won't get

43:24

struck twice. Elga

43:28

grabs Barney by the like neck collar of

43:30

his armor and pulls him out from away

43:32

from the tree. All

43:37

of Elga's hairs are standing out on

43:39

top of her head as she touches

43:41

Barney. Barney uses while he's being pulled

43:43

away, he's a telekinetic reach to like

43:45

pull the his, what he thinks

43:48

is that other person away from the tree. Yeah. You

43:50

reach out and pull the person and their head falls

43:52

off and the skull rolls around on the ground and

43:55

you pull the body still holding the box

43:58

alongside with you. The team. still

44:00

just watching this just absolutely horrified. I mean,

44:02

just a bad situation just keeps getting worse.

44:05

Could I go look at the box? Yeah,

44:07

it's a small metal box, which strangely appears

44:09

to be intact. Could I pick it up

44:11

and open it or? What's in that box?

44:13

If there's any symbols on it? Yeah, it's

44:16

a plain metal box. Nothing's etched into it.

44:18

You pick it up and... Marnie's

44:21

head. Oh no. I just

44:23

watched that through for the first time recently. It's

44:26

a good movie. It's a good movie. It's very

44:28

good. I just hadn't watched that David Fincher one.

44:30

Why did you roll 3D10, Gus? Oh,

44:32

because you find 20 gold pieces. Oh. And

44:34

a picture inside of a dwarven man holding

44:37

hands with a tendril to Bralian. A

44:39

tender old Bralian? Ten drilled. Oh, I thought you said like

44:41

a 10 year old Bralian. I was like, who's he holding

44:43

hands with? That's too slow. I'm sorry, who was the other

44:45

person in the picture? It's a picture of a dwarven man

44:48

with a... Probably the crispy dude. A ten drilled Bralian. He

44:51

was dwarven. We should name him Bacon.

44:53

And it was how many gold you

44:56

said? 20 gold pieces. Sadate says. I

44:58

should have recognized that. There are many

45:00

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literally burnt to a crisp with his hair just like...

48:55

It's like a cartoon, yeah? It's like smoking and

48:57

all every hair is standing straight up. The

49:00

little hair that he has, it's all just like...

49:02

Yeah, yeah. Guys, you're probably going

49:04

to say no to this because you just brought this up, but

49:06

I'm going to ask, on the

49:08

train, Mattid would have looked for an exchange

49:10

area. Is there a place that would have

49:12

been an exchange area for human pieces? Oh,

49:14

that's an interesting question. I was thinking these

49:16

trains are clearly international. I would think that

49:19

would be not on the train, but at

49:21

the train depot or at the train station. You

49:23

didn't have time to look on the way there

49:25

because you were barely able to jump onto the

49:27

caboose, but you could have potentially looked for one

49:29

here when you got to Fauna Lock. You

49:32

want to let me have a retcon? How many HEMO pieces you got?

49:35

Yeah, there's a Travel Hex kiosk

49:37

here that will exchange 32 HEMO

49:40

pieces for... I mean, that's half a life. Well,

49:44

it depends on the level. What level I was at,

49:46

that was half a life. You can exchange

49:48

32 HEMO pieces for 32 gold pieces. I

49:51

will take it because you're being kind. It's not a great exchange

49:53

rate, but that's what you get at Travel Hex. I'll take it.

49:56

Thank you. Sorry to derail it for trying to get

49:58

my monies. All good. had some too,

50:00

but I can't remember how much it was. Whatever.

50:03

Yeah, if you do find and you

50:05

have some, feel free to go ahead

50:07

and just exchange them one-to-one. Okay, sorry.

50:09

So, crispy Barney, don't go near that

50:11

tree. The metal box had a picture.

50:14

A picture of, yeah. And

50:16

a brilliant. A brilliant and probably this dwarf,

50:18

yeah. And you were holding hands, you

50:20

said? Yeah, well, tendril in hand. Sadate

50:23

points out off to the side, off to

50:25

the southern edge of the clearing, like. There

50:27

appears to be a trail there. We can

50:29

take that to continue to sheath headquarters. Is

50:32

there anything other way to protect ourselves from

50:34

like, especially those lightning leaves? Now that we

50:36

see it, let's keep an eye out for

50:38

more drag on leaf trees and steer clear of

50:40

them. I think that's gonna help. I'm

50:44

gonna float. Okay, all of you make

50:46

me a perception check. Okay. As we're

50:48

walking down. Yeah. That very clear.

50:53

Oh, three. I guess it'd

50:55

be a saving throw if he was really about

50:57

to do something to him, probably. I'm fine. Elga

50:59

and Matid, you know, the two of you are

51:01

keeping especially close watch on the tree to make

51:03

sure you keep a distance from it. And,

51:05

you know, as you're looking at it, you can see

51:08

that the leaves that have fallen on the ground and

51:10

the leaves on this tree actually still are shaped like

51:12

drag on heads. Oh. Drag

51:15

on head leaves that caused the leaves

51:17

were the source of the lightning damage.

51:19

Yeah, lightning leaves. Lightning leaves shaped like

51:21

drag on heads. Yeah. And

51:23

is the bark of the tree or the tree

51:25

trunk shaped anything? No, the tree's bark is scaly.

51:29

Oh, is the tree. I

51:32

almost asked the dumbest question ever. I was about

51:34

to ask, is the tree alive? Yes,

51:37

it is. It's

51:40

almost like all plants are. Does,

51:43

I don't know. Does Matid have any history

51:45

of knowing these kinds of trees? Trees

51:48

probably are important to Eric Cochran's. I

51:50

don't think Matid has ever seen a drag on

51:52

leaf tree like this. Wish I had established earlier

51:54

on this campaign that I can talk to birds

51:56

because I'd like to ask a bird a question.

51:58

But that's not how. Hey,

52:00

Sadate, is there any way to weaponize

52:02

these leaves? They seem very powerful. I

52:05

mean, just look at Barney. Unfortunately,

52:11

once they fall in contact with an object,

52:13

their magic and Arcana are expended. You

52:17

want to go get one real quick? I'm good.

52:20

I think I might go get one. Sadate, you know,

52:22

moves some branches aside. It says, come, the trail is

52:24

right here. I want to get one of the leaves

52:26

before it falls and hits the ground. I can't help

52:28

you get one. I want to get

52:30

one. Okay, but one of the inert ones. I just want

52:32

to get it. Yeah, I go get one while he's doing

52:34

that. I could Barney take a short rest. This

52:38

up to the party. How long is the short rest? Probably

52:41

say 30 minutes. He's old. I mean, I can

52:43

also just heal myself. Yeah, but then you're gonna

52:46

blow your spell slots

52:48

for, you know,

52:50

I could totally just kill myself. Healing chip later.

52:52

Tree points. Yeah. Do

52:55

I get one of the leaves? Yeah, I'll say you

52:57

very quickly dart out and get it and come back.

52:59

Okay. I give Barney a, okay. If

53:01

you have to go to sleep for 30 minutes, can I give

53:03

him like a little piggyback ride so he can sleep on my

53:05

back? Do that. I mean,

53:07

yeah, that's up to you. All right. Come

53:09

here, Barney. Yeah. Nap time. Okay. Gus

53:12

set a timer for 30 minutes. Chris has to be asleep

53:14

for that one. Just

53:17

go sit in the corner. So good

53:19

right now. A little nap. That

53:21

does some pretty nice. I love some naps. And everyone go

53:23

ahead and make me another stealth check. Okay.

53:25

Do I need to, if I'm on his back?

53:28

Yeah, you do. Okay. What's

53:33

your modifier? I'm sorry. I'm not the nine on stealth.

53:35

It's a five. I'm proficient. Everyone rolled

53:37

pretty good though. Yeah. You all managed

53:39

to continue making your way further south and

53:42

you need to come upon this winding trail

53:44

beneath a dense canopy of coniferous trees and

53:46

it's really difficult to see more than 10

53:48

feet ahead. These are all the trees, the

53:50

thickets fallen logs and a few stumps. Oh,

53:52

we're in final lock. Fallen logs. Oh,

53:55

no. Itadahu wwala wawala!

54:00

Burn I'm not

54:02

laughing at your next joke. No, that's

54:04

not nice. You know, I will

54:12

As you all are walking along Everyone

54:15

make a perception check

54:17

for me Now

54:20

if I'm trying to nap do I not you though 9 16 19 Elga

54:25

and Mati you all are really on fire.

54:27

Y'all are really good with these perception. I'm

54:30

also proficient in perception checks That's my two.

54:32

That's one of my proficiencies You

54:34

know guys you all are walking you see

54:37

in the trees animals hopping around and there's

54:39

like this weird hybrid almost like a squirrel

54:41

like Lemur jumping treetop to treetop eating leaves

54:43

in the in the in the canopy I

54:45

turned to Sadat and I goes an arama

54:48

or a Delafine He looks at you and

54:50

looks up and then stops her movement and

54:52

whispers. That's an air roamer Not

54:57

directly but avoid getting their attention probably

54:59

for the best that Barney sleeping he

55:01

would definitely want to adopt that bed

55:06

Don a sweet best so they're there they're there

55:08

if they're above us. Yeah, okay They're

55:11

like squirrel like lemurs. Okay, like

55:13

there's a monkey right? Yes similar size and

55:15

everything like that Yeah, smallish just

55:18

before anyone gets mad. I don't think a lemurs a monkey before

55:20

you listen Is it related to them?

55:23

I don't know. I don't think so. Are they

55:25

marsupials? I believe Makes

55:27

more sense. It's a marsupial. Oh, no

55:29

lemurs are primates. I had no idea. I

55:31

thought they were primates I mean, they're they're

55:33

very closely in their wet

55:36

nose primates. Yeah Did

55:38

you see what's the movie with

55:40

the King lemur seven? No,

55:42

what what's the jungle one with Chris?

55:44

Rock is a zebra Good

55:48

guy, look at their little bulgy eyes. Very cute.

55:51

My cousin worked on a movie called into the

55:53

wild Oh, yeah came out

55:55

the same time that one got buried

55:57

as Madagascar because it was very similar

56:00

That was the ants to bugs life. Yeah.

56:02

Yeah, so it's just a big old squirrel

56:07

John you get a bonus time for teaching me about lemurs

56:09

today Inspiration inspiration

56:11

die I'll take it. Okay

56:13

there above us. We did a perception

56:16

check. We did a stealth check So

56:18

can we just pass these? Yeah, you

56:20

just have to move very stealthily through

56:22

well, I'm floating So I'm not gonna

56:24

step on any twigs Doesn't

56:30

let out one of them old fan

56:32

farts provoking him gotta be just fine

56:34

Do you want me to do I

56:36

mean it maybe carry you Elga? Okay

56:46

The sound of your axes clanging against each

56:48

other Dragging

56:51

in the dirt you are a TSA

56:54

agents nightmare Also, I want to stay

56:56

close to Okay,

56:59

all for you make me a one more self-check here 24 16

57:08

at disadvantage. That's not bad. Andy's

57:11

eating. I think that's why I did so

57:13

well Barney's

57:16

not walking As

57:18

you all are walking, you know, you're

57:20

looking around very carefully. You notice that

57:22

Elga is a glowing very dimly

57:25

in a blue color Create

57:39

some great art you're in your blue period Listen

57:43

I'm trying They all

57:45

can't be winners Right

57:47

over my head. Sorry. I art student here. Do

57:50

I feel anything? No, you feel

57:52

great. I'm just glowing blue. Yeah Is

57:54

she growing in size? Sadat

57:59

a She looks at you and says, Uh-oh. Uh-oh,

58:02

that's a bad thing. Sadaté

58:07

does not have good bedside manner. Oh,

58:09

I mean, you're fine. Yeah.

58:12

My, you said, uh-oh, I heard it. Her team

58:14

at T is like, we need to get her to a hospital

58:16

right now. She begins patting

58:18

you down, looking all over you, Elga.

58:21

One moment. Oh, you have money cursed?

58:23

Did you take cursed money? Was it the box?

58:25

I don't know. Whoa. Penalsa,

58:28

she had the worst. I had the lowest stealth check. Oh, that's

58:30

creepy looking. Oh, good. No, it's

58:32

just a picture of what the

58:34

air amirs look like. It's

58:37

not exactly what I pictured in my mind. They

58:39

look like flying squirrel lemurs. They look like

58:41

lemurs, but with skin between their front legs

58:44

and their back legs. What's his

58:46

face from Momo, Airbender? I

58:48

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

58:51

Yeah. It's Gus. It's

58:53

your favorite film from Shyamalan. I must not have been in the

58:56

movie, which is the only thing that exists to me. On

59:00

the back of your leg, Sadate sees

59:02

something. She pulls out a little dart

59:04

from your left calf. A dart? Yeah.

59:07

Good Lord. Okay. And then the glowing

59:09

around you begins diminishing and you lose

59:11

it all together. Did somebody shoot this

59:14

into me or did I step on something? Sometimes

59:17

the air amirs will do this. Those little

59:19

monkey lemur guys. The monkey's have guns. Squirrel

59:21

lemurs? They got tiny little weapons? Or they

59:23

like... They have little blow guns. That

59:26

is the most cutest and horrifying thing I've

59:28

heard today. Is it painful? Like

59:32

what does it do? It just makes you glow? They're

59:34

doing it to help the defilants. Oh,

59:36

they're working together for a prey. Yes. So

59:39

it's like they target them and then... Wow. So

59:43

they make us glow so that the other things could see

59:45

us easily. Can I perceive if there are any defilines around?

59:48

Yeah, make a perception check. Do you know if they look

59:50

like that? Why did I use the

59:52

word perception? I'm curious to hear. Sometimes

59:54

you just say yes, Barbara. And then you see what happens. I see a

59:56

B. I see a Nat 20. You're

1:00:00

looking you know, Chip, you stop, you decide

1:00:02

to go ahead and look around for defilines.

1:00:04

Describe to us what you're looking for. I

1:00:06

guess anything that would have eyes.

1:00:08

You got to break apart the words.

1:00:11

Okay. What? You know, it's

1:00:13

like defilines is probably some sort of amalgamation

1:00:15

of Latin words or

1:00:17

prefixes or something. Then it's probably some sort

1:00:19

of balloon like creature. I'm just going to

1:00:22

see if anything that stands out as organic

1:00:24

that isn't a tree. So you're looking for

1:00:26

something? Fauna. An

1:00:28

animal. Yeah. Okay. You look

1:00:30

around trying to find all the defilines you

1:00:32

can with your many years of experience looking

1:00:34

for defilines. And yeah, make

1:00:36

a survival check. Why not? Okay. Wait,

1:00:39

is that the spelling of fauna lock?

1:00:41

Is it like fauna? Like FAU?

1:00:43

Yeah. Oh, okay. That's fun. Sixteen.

1:00:46

Yeah, you don't see any defilines. Oh, yeah.

1:00:48

The only fauna you see are the aromers.

1:00:50

Gosh, let me know when I can wake

1:00:52

up. Okay, we'll give you just a little

1:00:54

bit longer and then you'll wake up. Gus

1:00:57

just wants a little bit longer. All

1:01:00

right. So you all continue and

1:01:02

I'll say this time everyone but Barney makes

1:01:04

self checks. You're deep in REM

1:01:07

sleep right now, Barney. Yeah. The

1:01:09

key moment. I can't let you wake up at this

1:01:11

time. Otherwise you have sleep lag or whatever they call

1:01:14

it. Sorry, 22, 25. Talking

1:01:16

about train lag. What? No, no, no. You know when

1:01:18

you like break an REM cycle and you wake up

1:01:20

and you feel worse than you did when you initially

1:01:23

took the sleep. Yeah, it's awful. We're going to be

1:01:25

train lagged because we don't say plane lag. We say

1:01:27

jet lag. So what would be like? Well,

1:01:30

Jets are kinds of plans. Well, but it's like the

1:01:32

jet on the plane. We're doing I'm just trying to

1:01:34

think of like what would be on a train? What's

1:01:37

the locomotion of the train? Wheel

1:01:39

lag. Coal lag. Coal lag. Coal

1:01:42

lag is when your blood gets all solid. They're

1:01:45

not going to still check from you Elga. I

1:01:47

don't know if I did. You did not like

1:01:49

that. Steam lag. That's a good one. Steam lag.

1:01:51

I like that. Oh, yeah. I like that. I

1:01:53

like that. That's when the summer sale hits and

1:01:55

I just. Yeah. That's

1:01:58

when you miss the sale. peek

1:04:00

inside and see what it is and you

1:04:02

see a glittering dagger inside along

1:04:04

on top of an open chest of

1:04:06

gold coins you know since you were

1:04:08

low and sneaking up you notice an

1:04:10

abundance of orange fungus growing on the

1:04:12

undercarriage of the wagon seems

1:04:15

tempting I do like knives I'm a

1:04:17

bit of a knife guy just picturing

1:04:19

right now Tom Hardy in Mad Max

1:04:21

just going that's a trap can I

1:04:27

investigate for traps can I

1:04:29

see if there's any traps

1:04:31

investigate for traps yeah why

1:04:33

not yeah a

1:04:35

good rogue thing yeah yeah I think

1:04:37

I should get like a candle

1:04:41

that helped make a perception check well

1:04:44

I'm looking I had to look it

1:04:48

up like it used to be something you could

1:04:50

do now it's just you do a perception check

1:04:52

17 like

1:04:56

smug grin as he crossed his arms and said

1:04:59

he's so proud you you know investigate you

1:05:01

know before you touch anything you're kind of

1:05:03

like a Indiana Jones you know when

1:05:05

he's looking at the the gold idol and Raiders of the Lost

1:05:07

Ark yeah you like run your hand across your mouth yeah oh

1:05:09

is chip gonna take

1:05:16

an indigenous people's rare

1:05:18

artifact away I look back at

1:05:20

my teen with a glare you

1:05:23

know as you're looking you don't find

1:05:25

a trap per se on it but

1:05:27

you realize that this whole Grove appears

1:05:29

to be dusty it's like everything is

1:05:32

covered in an orange like pollen this

1:05:34

is like every movie has taught me

1:05:37

do not trust mushrooms I'm gonna hold

1:05:39

my breath and I

1:05:42

think I'm gonna head back to the group I'm not gonna touch the

1:05:44

knife on top of some gold gold c Connecting

1:06:00

to grab it or make you

1:06:02

grab what my that's not me my mate is telekinetic is

1:06:04

like a different type of major Okay to

1:06:06

grab what then you mean this dagger? That's

1:06:15

my teeth in character Something

1:06:20

lashes out at you doing a hundred

1:06:22

points of damage as you

1:06:25

are walking back to the the

1:06:27

group out from under He

1:06:30

just looks like a mushroom Under

1:06:41

two of the trees pounce to what

1:06:43

appear to be like the ethereal looking

1:06:45

lions are those the deaf

1:06:47

ones deaf alliance definitely

1:07:01

Well did was what's the is

1:07:03

the knife cool at least what

1:07:05

knife I picked it up the dagger These

1:07:12

are these are um Spectral

1:07:15

I have clothes made of this 16

1:07:18

Elga. What thank you. Yeah, I mean Barney. I

1:07:20

did 18 I didn't do my double initiative because

1:07:22

I didn't You know

1:07:24

all right. I have advantage

1:07:26

on mine, which is why I wrote twice all right

1:07:28

Did they're like are they displacers? No? Are

1:07:31

they are they in the displacer family? No,

1:07:34

like you know the lie that like panther,

1:07:36

okay? I

1:07:39

don't think you heard me are they displacers? What

1:07:42

if we keep getting into the nitty-gritty on this I

1:07:44

rolled a nine I rolled a ten all right Barney

1:07:46

from your perspective You see chip walk up to the

1:07:49

wagon and then with a big dumb grin on his

1:07:51

face turn around and start walking back to the rest

1:07:53

of the party and as he does so to Ethereal

1:07:56

ish lions dash out from under trees

1:07:58

and charge at him Okay.

1:12:01

And I'm going to use my great

1:12:03

axe of gaining. Okay. To strike at

1:12:06

it. And that is a 27. That

1:12:09

hits. Doing 20 points of damage. Wow. I

1:12:12

don't like that. That's a big hit. That's a big

1:12:14

hit. Raging 17 plus three. Okay.

1:12:17

And I will do it again. Yeah.

1:12:22

Axe so nice. That hits. That

1:12:24

hits. That hits. Doing

1:12:26

21 points of damage. Wow. Elga's

1:12:28

so strong. You leave my

1:12:31

friendship alone. You think

1:12:33

I don't know what you're called. Defiliant.

1:12:36

Defiliant. Defiliant. Defiliant.

1:12:38

When you say friendship, it sounds like friendship.

1:12:40

My friendship alone. Double on punty. Okay. And

1:12:44

then that should be it.

1:12:47

Okay. Did you take your form

1:12:49

with your rage? I did not specify. I will

1:12:51

take the form of a tail. Yeah. Reaction.

1:12:54

Give me your reaction. Okay. I

1:12:57

think Sadat's turn after Sadat is Defiliant, the

1:12:59

one that you attacked Elga. So I would

1:13:01

think Sadat would run up right next to

1:13:03

you Elga to also be up in the

1:13:05

face of that Defiliant. And

1:13:08

as she's running up, she pulls out an

1:13:10

intricately carved bow. And

1:13:13

then from point blank range, pulls back the string and

1:13:16

unleashes two quick arrows at the Defiliant.

1:13:18

Cool. Is she rushed out

1:13:21

to do that? She's an elf. She

1:13:23

just comes a little closer. I think metagame wise,

1:13:25

she wants to help protect Elga. Okay. And

1:13:28

try to... I think there's reason. Yeah. Present

1:13:30

another target for the Defiliant so that Elga doesn't necessarily

1:13:33

get hurt. Okay. A J'Mama bear. Yeah.

1:13:35

I mean, this woman did raise Elga essentially from baby. Yeah.

1:13:39

So that's a 24 and a 13, the 24 hits. She

1:13:43

fires one of the arrows hits doing

1:13:45

eight points of damage and it

1:13:47

impacts into the ground through the

1:13:49

Defiliant's tail and kind of pins

1:13:52

it in place and holding it to

1:13:54

the ground. Whoa, wow. It is that

1:13:56

Defiliant's turn. It is unhappy

1:13:58

about now being restrained. And you

1:14:01

see a puff of gray smoke and it disappears

1:14:03

from the spot it was at. Spectral

1:14:06

lions. I wonder if

1:14:08

this is... are there two of them? Or

1:14:10

is this just one that's making you want to see them?

1:14:14

Okay, Matid, it's your turn. Could

1:14:16

I... the lions not within visualization? The one that

1:14:18

we attacked? Is the lion in the room with

1:14:20

us? You do not see it. Okay. Defilin.

1:14:24

Right? Yeah. Could

1:14:27

I check to see if I see it?

1:14:29

Yeah, sure why not. Make me an arcana

1:14:31

check. That's a nine. Yeah, you

1:14:33

do not see it. You do not know where it went.

1:14:35

Okay. Yeah, I guess I'll go for the other one. Okay,

1:14:38

the one to the west that is glowing blue. Actually,

1:14:40

which one did you cast fairy fire on? That's

1:14:42

the one that slipped to the west. Perfect. Can

1:14:44

I go up to Sadase? Yeah.

1:14:48

Matam, do you still have that docked? No,

1:14:50

I threw it on the ground. Okay.

1:14:52

Well, just ruined my plan. They're

1:14:56

worthless normally. Okay, then I'll

1:14:58

go attack this other defilin.

1:15:01

Defilin. Defilin. Defilin. Defilins

1:15:04

and woosles. Frank Eska. Yeah, I want

1:15:06

to use... Actually, how far

1:15:08

is Chip from that one? He got

1:15:11

pulled a little bit by Barney, so I'd say like 25 feet. Perfect.

1:15:14

I go right up on that lion, and I use... Defilin.

1:15:17

Defilin. That's

1:15:21

the name of the creature. I go right up on the defilin. Yeah. Words

1:15:24

are important. And I use

1:15:28

my sling of the sandstorm, and I use

1:15:30

sandstorm, and I can expend three charges to

1:15:32

create a whirlwind of coarse sand and a

1:15:34

20-foot sphere. Ooh. Spent...

1:15:37

Spentered. Spentered on me. Spentered.

1:15:40

Some might call it centered. All creatures of

1:15:42

your choice in the area have to make a deck-saving throw, and

1:15:45

it's 12 plus my proficiency. So

1:15:47

16. I've got

1:15:49

plus three on that. The DC save is 16. Well, I

1:15:51

rolled a four. Just gonna roll me some lovely little damage.

1:15:55

21 points of damage? What are you, Elga?

1:15:57

Slashing damage. And... they're

1:16:00

blinded until the end of their next turn.

1:16:03

Matato B. All right. And

1:16:05

if they're blinded, do I get like advantage on anything?

1:16:07

Well, you already have advantage on your attack rolls because

1:16:10

of the fairy fire. Oh, cool, cool,

1:16:12

cool. Then I'm going to go ahead and stab

1:16:14

this cat with the spear of the superior baker,

1:16:16

18. That hits. And

1:16:19

that is another D8. Seven plus

1:16:21

seven is 14. All right. And

1:16:24

with my muffin of stardust, when

1:16:27

I make it a successful attack, I

1:16:30

can choose to take advantage on a roll before

1:16:33

the end of my next turn. Okay. So

1:16:35

I'm going to proc that, or just remember that I

1:16:37

have that because I've forgotten I've had that since you

1:16:39

gave me that muffin. Um,

1:16:42

and then since I have a bonus

1:16:44

action still, I'll

1:16:47

just do flare blows. That's a quick and easy.

1:16:49

All right. That's an easy, dirty hit. That's 16.

1:16:52

That hits. Okay. D6,

1:16:55

four plus five is nine. All right.

1:16:57

And that is 21. 21

1:17:00

points. Is that 21 to hit? 21 to hit.

1:17:02

Yeah, it hits. And I rolled a six plus five, 11. There's

1:17:06

a lot of damage. What was that? Like

1:17:08

55 points or something? Yeah. I

1:17:11

don't know. I'm just saying, I learned to say yes

1:17:13

to Gus math. It was 55. Trust

1:17:17

in the Gus. He's like a calculator. Kind of. And

1:17:19

I'm done. I used to do academic competitions

1:17:21

when I was in elementary school, where you

1:17:23

just did math without a- You, surprising. No

1:17:25

calculator and no scratch paper. Only write answers

1:17:27

down on the paper. That is impressive. We're

1:17:29

just beating the dates off with a stick,

1:17:31

right? I used to be okay

1:17:33

at doing like long, like multiplication

1:17:36

and stuff in my head. There were like tricks

1:17:38

to it. I don't think I did any more.

1:17:40

Terrible. Cool. Chip, you're

1:17:42

up. Okay. Anyway, enough about that nerd stuff.

1:17:44

Let's play some D and D. More math,

1:17:46

more math. So Matid is within, would

1:17:48

you say Matid is within five? Yeah,

1:17:50

I went to melee range for the

1:17:52

spear. Okay, then I'm going to run

1:17:54

up and

1:17:56

use my Arbon Blade of Blurbling.

1:18:00

And because Mattid is within five feet then

1:18:03

that gives me the Because

1:18:06

you yeah, you're Billy view stink die question

1:18:09

teacher. Yeah. Yeah Oh, you can

1:18:11

use sneak dive if I'm close you don't need to go hide as

1:18:13

long as someone else is within five feet Yeah, you leave

1:18:15

the sneak-dye prop cool. Then there just want to

1:18:17

make sure you use your sneak 21

1:18:25

that hits okay, and then I do the Whoo,

1:18:29

that's 10 piercing and

1:18:31

then I do an

1:18:33

additional 1d4 acid damage So

1:18:40

that's 12 total 12 total are yeah

1:18:42

and then Sneak

1:18:45

that you got 5d6 Wow. You

1:18:47

wanna roll along? Sure. Okay. Okay. Here

1:18:50

we go That's

1:18:53

a Plus

1:18:55

6 it's 10 plus 3 it's 13 plus 6 that's

1:18:57

19 Plus

1:19:02

2 that's 21. I was fine. Is that 5? Yeah

1:19:10

For wait, what how many how many d6 was

1:19:12

it? Wait

1:19:14

5 wait. Oh She's

1:19:17

saying the two How many these

1:19:19

things it's 24 you're at 24 5d6. Okay, you got

1:19:21

to 21 at five rolls Wow

1:19:29

That's pretty beat up looking good.

1:19:31

Okay, and then I'm gonna use

1:19:33

my bonus to go into hiding

1:19:36

Kind of action. Okay, so Yep 27

1:19:42

and a 24 27. Okay. Yeah,

1:19:44

you're a sneaky. Okay. All right. It's

1:19:46

that defilin's turn. Who's gonna attack? Typical

1:19:51

humanoid harassment. I would never expect

1:19:53

any more from your kind and

1:19:55

it disappears with a puff of

1:19:57

smoke. Oh my god Yeah,

1:20:03

but like he's talking he sees

1:20:06

it talking deaflin he's so cute

1:20:11

Deflin if you can hear me, I

1:20:13

am so sorry you did you know

1:20:15

attack us first, but like did they

1:20:17

yeah Oh, well they were running at us. Well,

1:20:20

he told us to roll initiative. So this is

1:20:22

Gus's fault. Yeah I

1:20:30

was trying to make you attack each other Well,

1:20:35

I hope you all are happy with you with yourself All

1:20:40

right, so you sit off he just kind of like

1:20:42

shakes her head don't listen to those deaf one

1:20:45

But they they talk I think

1:20:47

they're just manipulating us. It's working.

1:20:49

They're difficult. Come on. Let's

1:20:51

continue Okay. All right after a bit more

1:20:53

trekking through trees and thick thickets You all

1:20:55

start to hear the soothing sounds of water

1:20:57

lapping on shore You also

1:20:59

notice more gnarly roots cropping up from the soil in

1:21:02

this part of the forest Sadat a

1:21:04

holds up a closed fist with one hand and

1:21:06

then a single finger to her lips everyone

1:21:08

roll perception check 17

1:21:13

16 16 as well Seven

1:21:20

There's a lot of per checks

1:21:22

persuasion perception performance Chip

1:21:25

it's taking everything in your body

1:21:28

not to make a sound you're thinking of a funny joke you

1:21:30

heard earlier and For

1:21:32

some reason it's just like really tickling you right

1:21:34

now The

1:21:36

other three of you just pass some trees

1:21:39

up ahead You hear footsteps and you can make out

1:21:41

two voices chatting to each other It

1:21:43

sounds like one of them mentioned something called

1:21:45

corner cops and the other says ma

1:21:47

have mercy on us and a moment later Sadat a

1:21:49

lowers her hand. It sounds like we're

1:21:51

in the clear There were a couple of

1:21:54

final oceans nearby and we don't exactly fit

1:21:56

in with the locals on a lotion final

1:21:58

lotions. Yes the locals Final Oceans is

1:22:00

kind of like the same thing

1:22:02

as Nessie, like kind of

1:22:04

aqua, fairing creatures.

1:22:09

Not always necessarily. They're more

1:22:11

beastiel looking creatures. Beastiel

1:22:13

as in like they're furry. They

1:22:16

can be. And a cornucop? Is that

1:22:18

like? That's what they were. We thought

1:22:20

they might be saying. Yeah, they might be saying. Oh,

1:22:22

might be saying it. We did well enough to bypass

1:22:24

Faunaloc's defenses, but now comes the hard part. Sneaking

1:22:27

through town and reaching sheath HQ. Yeah.

1:22:30

Why do we need to sneak into this town?

1:22:32

The Faunalocians aren't fond of humanoids. But could we

1:22:34

have to deal with some more racist people? The

1:22:36

Faunalocians aren't fond. We

1:22:38

are currently sitting a few hundred feet

1:22:40

from the shores of Loch Cessnes, and

1:22:42

headquarters is due southeast at the shoreline.

1:22:44

But there are potentially several dozen locals

1:22:46

between us and our destination. We

1:22:48

need to find a way to sneak through

1:22:50

town unnoticed or blend in with the Faunalocians.

1:22:53

Usually I'm alone and well stocked with the

1:22:55

resources from sheath, but I'm afraid we

1:22:57

are on our own until we sync up with HQ.

1:23:00

Any ideas? How do we blend

1:23:02

in with them if we don't know what they look like?

1:23:04

Well, we just don't want to be noticed. You said we

1:23:07

were approaching water. Is

1:23:09

Loch Cessnes along the shore?

1:23:11

This is Loch, this water is Loch Cessnes. And

1:23:14

there is water, right? Like it's not dried up?

1:23:16

Correct. Is, uh, you know, and you

1:23:18

all heard the sounds of, you know, water lapping or hitting

1:23:20

the shore. Well, that's what I'm

1:23:22

asking. Is, is this a city that is on

1:23:24

the land or is this a city that is

1:23:26

on the water? On the land. Okay. I

1:23:29

realize in D&D you have to, you have to

1:23:31

ask those kinds of questions. Perhaps we could, uh,

1:23:33

could we approach it via the water? Like

1:23:35

swim across? We can try that.

1:23:37

I wouldn't recommend that though. There are many

1:23:40

hazards in the water. It would be more

1:23:42

difficult. Okay. Is there anything we

1:23:44

could maybe do to ourselves, our person, to

1:23:46

make us blend in and not seem like

1:23:48

humanoids? If you have anything that

1:23:50

helps disguise yourself. I mean, I have

1:23:52

some concealer of unsightliness. I'm not familiar

1:23:54

with that. We can try that or

1:23:56

we can try sneaking. What's the concealer

1:23:58

of unsightliness? It

1:24:01

turns you invisible along with anything you are

1:24:04

wearing or carrying on your person lasts for

1:24:06

one hour Oh dang that does sound like

1:24:08

that would work very well then yes, but

1:24:10

that's uh, that's got like one use I'm

1:24:12

assuming it's so that would cover one of

1:24:14

us another one of us has a visibility

1:24:16

powers Well, I can't go invisible for one

1:24:18

minute and No

1:24:22

because it's a fourth level spell Do

1:24:24

you have like a disguise kid or anything like that? She

1:24:28

hears you Barney and says you could try sneaking

1:24:30

along in the trees to close as much distance

1:24:32

as possible and then use your Ability for the

1:24:34

final minute to run through the clearing to get

1:24:36

to the entrance to sheath headquarters That

1:24:39

can't look up and see what like what's the light you

1:24:41

want to know if you can fly as it dim Sure,

1:24:44

because because of all the trees I'll say sure Okay,

1:24:48

I'll put on my concealer Chip is going to

1:24:51

disguise himself and then I saw my teeth and

1:24:53

Barney are going to fly who is chip And

1:24:56

you look and chip is already disguise himself. I

1:24:58

am I

1:25:05

Think you're like Jean Parmesan in a rest of development

1:25:09

Crappy disguise on all right

1:25:11

everyone make me stealth checks But I tell everyone

1:25:13

have advantage except for you Barney Just make a

1:25:15

normal one since you normally disadvantage and I'm flying

1:25:17

up Mm-hmm, just cuz uh

1:25:19

you all came up with some creative solutions

1:25:21

here Nat 2030 23

1:25:26

I rolled a 1 I critically fit. I think a

1:25:28

30 is the highest check I think I've

1:25:30

ever gotten Yeah, it's pretty good.

1:25:32

It's really impressive and there was

1:25:34

a one Barney. Yeah, well it luckily for you

1:25:36

This is a group check so everyone Manages

1:25:39

to do okay You all make your way sneaking

1:25:41

and trying your best to avoid the locals and

1:25:43

you eventually come upon an isolated Cops of shady

1:25:46

trees where you find a lonely stump covered in

1:25:48

lichen Sadat he looks around for a

1:25:50

moment then furtively steps forward She brushes off some

1:25:52

moss from the trunk and you see it the

1:25:54

sigil of sheath hidden in the grain of the

1:25:56

bark Sadat he reaches out into the

1:25:58

air and grabs something just above of the stump, then

1:26:01

she lowers her arm into the stump and you all

1:26:03

hear the soft sheathing of a blade. The

1:26:05

stump twists and lowers into the ground, revealing a

1:26:07

spiral staircase beneath the earth. Quickly

1:26:09

now, everyone inside. Okay, here I come. You

1:26:11

all make your way down the staircase into

1:26:14

humid darkness until you finally reach the floor

1:26:16

of a vague room veiled in shadow. The

1:26:18

stump and staircase twist back into place above

1:26:21

you, thus extinguishing the last bit of light

1:26:23

from the room. A voice echoes in the

1:26:25

chamber. I wondered when you

1:26:27

all would find your way down here.

1:26:30

I was beginning to think you were getting cold

1:26:33

feet. You hear the striking of a match

1:26:35

and a small flickering flame illuminates the face

1:26:37

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1:26:40

coat with a high collar. Welcome detectives. I'm

1:26:43

Director Carl Weiser of

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I can't get over how he just said ancestral milk.

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I feel like you can get more fresh milk than

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ancestral almond milk. But

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it's heritage. Mmmmm.

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I have no idea what that

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