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y'all! four

2:00

points of damage. Oh, guys. That means you

2:02

should have to answer the arrow question. Well

2:07

speaking of arrows, if you were in a

2:09

rock band, which instrument would you play? I

2:11

presume your characters. If your, if your character

2:13

was in a rock band, which

2:15

instrument would they play? This is

2:17

the most easy and obvious one for me. So I'll

2:19

start. I'm curious.

2:22

I am Barbara Dunkelman and

2:24

I play Elgivond breath. The

2:26

hello, John. I play

2:29

the half elf vampire barbarian

2:31

level six. Woo. Currently

2:34

not quite at that level yet.

2:37

But I think it Elgo was in

2:39

the rock band. The obvious answer

2:41

would be the drum because Elga. The animal

2:47

energy. No animal like from the Muppets.

2:50

Yeah. Like, like shredded and axed.

2:52

Oh, she could do that too. I was just

2:54

thinking smashing, smashing, smashing, smashing, just making lots of

2:56

boom, boom, now noises and stuff like that. You

2:59

know, that tracks. Although

3:02

the visualization of Elga, tiny little

3:04

Elga on like a guitar,

3:07

just like that's what I always think. He

3:09

gets tiny yellow. The drum set is also

3:11

great though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I

3:14

go both ways. She does both. Oh,

3:17

that's a combo you rarely see in

3:19

bands nowadays is the guitar, the guitarist

3:21

slash drummer. She picks up where

3:24

people need her the most. She's a

3:26

regular Phil Collins. I'll

3:30

go next. Hey there. It's Chip. He

3:33

T feeling rogue sick standing by. I

3:35

just want to make sure people

3:37

know that when

3:39

people to know who you are, because

3:44

I know you are. It's the best thing in my

3:46

life. You're good friend. Blaine. Oh, I

3:48

blame. Hi there. Blaine. Hey there. So

3:51

I think it's obvious that Chip Heaney,

3:53

you know, he's just, uh, he wears

3:55

so many hats. So he plays so

3:58

many instruments. So I have one

4:00

of them big old, you know, one man band

4:02

outfits, you know, where I push my leg and

4:07

it plays the drum and then I'm playing a

4:09

banjo and I got a kazoo up in my

4:11

mouth and then I'm, you know, bringing my abductors

4:14

together and or my adductors together and then it's

4:16

making a symbol clap. I think

4:18

that'd be real fun. Also

4:20

really quick, when I was

4:22

looking for what the name of that instrument is called,

4:24

because I thought that there would be a name for

4:26

that. One of the Google searches is what

4:29

is the most masculine instrument? There's some

4:31

really sad people out there. Oh

4:33

yeah. I refuse to play anything. What's

4:36

it listed as? Let me go

4:38

back. I didn't even click on it because I

4:40

was like, I just, that's so sad. Oh, it's

4:42

obviously the... It's obviously the... It's the mandolin. Oh.

4:45

Matid's inspiration dog. Really? That

4:47

was a very coordinated... Oh. Masculinity or

4:49

attributed to the man band. Oh, that's a very coordinated... Oh.

4:52

Masculinity is a very coordinated... Oh. Oh.

4:56

Masculinity or attributed to trumpets, trombones,

4:58

and percussions. All right.

5:00

They like to blow it. Typical

5:03

man, am I right? It depends on who you ask.

5:05

Chorus is electric guitar and drums. Chorus is electric guitar

5:07

and drums. I think the contraption

5:10

you're talking about, the triple play, I think

5:12

that's just called one

5:17

man band, isn't it? I assume

5:19

so. Yeah. Is it because men are

5:21

mostly known for having better lung capacity or something?

5:23

Is that why it's a lot of... Well,

5:26

I think in regards to an

5:28

orchestra or a band, like a

5:30

big band, like brass instruments, maybe,

5:33

I don't know. Whereas the violin is

5:35

maybe more feminine. I

5:37

feel like it's like fingers. It's

5:40

like a flute requires more dexterity

5:42

and precision. And then a man's

5:44

just like, push down these blowedas. It's

5:49

a piccolo in my book. All right. Who's

5:52

next? Let's keep this ball going. You want to go, Chris?

5:54

Yeah. Yeah. I

6:00

don't know what I'm gonna guess. Wait,

6:02

wait, wait, wait. I know. Let's play

6:04

a game here. Barbara Blaine Gus. What

6:06

instrument is Chris looking at right now?

6:08

I'm gonna guess it's an accordion. He

6:11

doesn't know what an accordion is? He doesn't know

6:13

what an accordion is. I know what an accordion

6:15

is. I'm gonna guess it's one of those like

6:17

like 32 string like

6:20

weird guitar things that are like beautiful sounding.

6:22

Trixie Mattel, one of my favorite drag queens

6:24

plays once. Barbara?

6:26

Barbara? I said it's like a harpsichord

6:28

or something of that sort. I

6:31

think he's looking at something really weird like a

6:33

pheromone or something. I don't know what

6:35

that is. I don't have anything to do

6:37

with Scientology. I posted a

6:39

picture of it in Slack. Oh,

6:44

it's like a medieval instrument.

6:48

The Broke C. Orbo.

6:51

Wait, say that all without pausing? Broke

6:54

C. Orbo. Okay, so that's one word. Now

6:57

say it as Barney because Barney plays it. Broke

6:59

C. Orbo. I'm Chris Damaris. I play Barney

7:01

Barney. He's doing it. He's doing it in

7:04

the Barney voice. The level thing? A human

7:06

cleric. I'm Chris Damaris. The

7:08

instrument looks like something

7:10

that Bart would have

7:12

bought if he was

7:14

going through a

7:19

midlife crisis. Just like trying to compensate a little

7:21

bit. He's like feet, feet long. I

7:24

also just want to point out that the question was what

7:26

instrument you would play in a rock band. They

7:28

didn't say what era of rock music. Classical

7:37

rock. Yeah, Baroque rock music.

7:40

It looks like it's like an eight foot guitar

7:43

or acoustic guitar with like double

7:45

strings. Like a giant lute. It

7:49

looks like a giant sitar almost like

7:51

upright. A bit sitar-ish. Yeah. Yeah.

7:54

Yeah. Have you ever heard of Bjork? That's

7:57

rock band. Okay,

8:01

so Barney plays the

8:03

Baroque... I

8:05

don't think I don't even know what you said.

8:07

Sar-Sarobo? The Baroque

8:09

Tharobo? I don't know

8:11

what it is either. I don't know. I

8:14

just know visually, I'm like, that's

8:16

medieval. That's not modern. Is this

8:18

a D&D podcast? Yeah, I like

8:20

it. I think it's appropriate. Matid,

8:23

what would Matid play? Oh, yeah,

8:26

my name is John Risinger, and I

8:28

play Matid, Conficus, the Aracokering Ghost Monk.

8:31

And as a musician, I actually... Recently,

8:34

with the development of my

8:37

new abilities, I have

8:39

been able to learn a new instrument,

8:41

actually. What I do is I

8:43

cast Arms of the Asperself, and I play the

8:46

organ, and I play all the parts of the organ. I

8:48

was gonna say the organ for you.

8:50

That's so appropriate for this podcast, too.

8:54

I love a big fan of

8:56

Michael Crawford. I was gonna say it

8:58

was gonna be a flute, because the flutes always remind me

9:00

of birds. They're always like, this is

9:03

a joke for Gus and Gus only. In

9:06

the Garden of Eden. That's

9:09

what I was thinking of. Gus'

9:11

DM character would play like a theremin, because this

9:14

is like a spooky... Yeah,

9:16

but Chris doesn't know what that is. Chris,

9:19

you know the sound at the beginning of

9:21

the old Star Trek theme song? Whooooo!

9:23

Or Doctor Who? Or Good Vibrations

9:26

by the Beach Boys? There

9:28

you go. It's this weird

9:30

instrument that you actually use your

9:32

hands in the air, and

9:34

there's a little frequency rod that registers where

9:37

your hands are, and it makes that weird

9:39

sound. That magic. A bit! You

9:41

know what? You might be right there, Chris. Or science.

9:43

But what is science that we can't explain but

9:45

magic? Oh, that's beautiful. I'm

9:50

the first person to say something like that ever.

9:52

I'm having fun, guys. Let's just

9:54

keep talking about this. Jack

9:58

pulls out a skype from his robes. And,

10:00

the darkness of sparkling dust

10:02

is blowing the cloud towards you all. Wait,

10:04

it's too late. It's too late. The

10:07

shower of the water fizzles across your

10:09

spiritual self. And soon, your spirits soar

10:11

back to the material plane, straight into

10:13

your bodies in the abandoned school house.

10:16

I'm so late! As

10:18

you all gather your bearings, do you realize that your

10:21

bodies have been revitalized? No doubt thanks to Jacques. Everyone,

10:24

you can now mark a long rest on your character

10:26

sheet. Yes! Looks like we

10:28

made it! Do we go up a

10:31

level? No. Okay. Footsteps

10:33

creek on the floorboards behind you and a

10:35

disheveled alchemist steps forward the weathered lines across

10:37

the space sunken in more than ever. I

10:40

believe it's time I told you

10:42

the tale of me. And

10:44

it is just a tragedy. There

10:47

is all your droopy.

10:50

I'm not gonna stay here. It's

10:52

a certain- Okay, go ahead. We're waiting. Just a

10:55

little peek behind the damn screen. Whenever we record

10:57

at home, we're recording at home this episode. For

10:59

some reason, I can't scroll down in

11:01

Acrobat using the scroll wheel on my mouse because if

11:03

I scroll down even once, it goes to the end

11:05

of the document. So the reason you pause sometimes is

11:08

because I'm moving my mouse to the scroll bar at

11:10

the edge and then going down one page and then

11:12

continuing to read. That's where Chris fills in the blank.

11:15

You look tired. I

11:19

was born with a condition and I

11:22

put that through both Talies, Robert

11:24

and Lewis. Oh! That's

11:28

all Arnie needed. Okay,

11:34

thanks, bye! Acting,

11:38

acting, everybody. That's how you do

11:41

it. Chris wins today.

11:44

Oh, I love it. Um,

11:47

yeah. That'd be coffee.

11:49

You broke me, Chris. You broke me. Chris

11:52

is over-cabineted, everybody. Chris is over-cabineted.

11:56

Girds, your lines. We're in for one today. In

12:00

possession of my faculty, that's moderate. I'm

12:04

somewhat moderate and intellectual.

12:07

While my alternate personality, Lewis,

12:09

can be quite brute and

12:11

fiendish with insatiable portlivities. However,

12:14

due to my condition, it was difficult

12:16

to maintain any type of regular job.

12:19

So I ended up making a

12:21

not-so-savory deal with an underground organization

12:24

in exchange for the promise of

12:26

a cure of my condition. That

12:29

organization, as you have figured

12:31

out, is talent. Oh. Oh,

12:34

I guess we didn't figure it out. Oh, my god.

12:38

Mr. Myles. Hey, Robert. Is

12:41

this condition something you were born with?

12:43

Maybe it's Maybelline? Or were you? Oh,

12:45

OK. I didn't know if this was

12:47

chemically on set like an experiment gone

12:49

wrong. I was born with it,

12:51

and I've had to deal with it for a long time. The

12:53

head of talent is the coven, and the

12:56

coven deceived me. Instead of

12:58

giving me a cure for my condition, they

13:01

gave me a curse which turned Lewis

13:03

into a monster. Oh.

13:06

Why would they want to do that? That is

13:08

beyond my understanding. I trusted

13:10

that they would give me a cure, but

13:12

perhaps they wanted to try to harness Lewis'

13:15

power and energy for that end. Do Lewis

13:17

and Robert, you have two

13:19

different directions in

13:21

life? Does Lewis actively want

13:23

to hamstring Robert so

13:26

like he would work with the coven

13:28

willingly, or do they have some sort

13:30

of power over him? Not necessarily. It

13:33

was even less possible to deal with Lewis after

13:35

the curse was placed on me. And

13:38

perhaps they sought to control him

13:40

with his reduced difficulties. I

13:43

fled from talent in such a virtual, not

13:45

only for my condition, but for the curse

13:48

as well, taking any odd jobs I could.

13:50

Eventually, I found a janitorial position

13:53

at Lofton College where I met

13:55

Lorenzo Wolfman. Wolfman took pity

13:57

on me, and together we worked to develop

13:59

the therapy. I

14:01

was able to brew a daily curative concoction that

14:04

helped me keep my symptoms in check. However,

14:06

despite all the care I took in trying

14:08

to remain anonymous, Talon finally caught

14:10

up with me thanks to the newly formed

14:12

alliance with Addy. Does

14:15

Robert's wife, your wife, Frank

14:18

Eska, do they know

14:20

about Lewis? What's their

14:22

relationship like? Yes, Francesca

14:24

is aware of Lewis. However,

14:27

thanks to my daily brew concoctions, she does

14:29

not typically have to deal with Lewis. So

14:32

I'm able to keep Lewis, my condition,

14:34

and the Curtain Check. How about your

14:36

boy? Is Lewis a little baby? What

14:39

was his name? Henry! Is

14:42

it a little baby Henry? We dropped

14:44

the H because of Mattid. Does

14:46

Henry know about Lewis? Have they met?

14:49

Henry is unaware. I've looked very diligently

14:51

to keep him unaware of Lewis's existence.

14:54

If you were able to work with

14:56

the Wolfman in order to create curative

14:58

means to keep Lewis at bay, why

15:01

was Lewis out and about in

15:03

Paris as of recently? I've been away

15:05

from the Sarasai Loom, unable to brew

15:08

my daily curative. I

15:10

did have some curative with me. However,

15:13

I have been having to ration it out more

15:15

and more as we spend more time away from

15:17

Atra City. I was on my

15:19

way back to Atra City in order to procure

15:21

more of that curative. But I don't remember what

15:23

happened. We must have been

15:25

ambushed. You were on

15:27

the train, weren't you? I remember I

15:30

was traveling via camel with my family back

15:32

at Atra City, but I don't recall how

15:34

I ended up here in Paris. Everything

15:37

is just kind of blank. Oh,

15:39

he wasn't on the train. Weezer was on the train. Hey,

15:42

Robert. Hey, Robert. Does

15:44

Henry have your disease? Have

15:46

you had Henry displayed any

15:48

signs of having dual personalities,

15:50

perhaps? Henry is at an age

15:52

where we would know if he had it by now

15:55

and he has not shown any symptoms. As

15:57

far as we can tell, the condition is

15:59

not Hereditary, so

16:01

we don't expect Henry will experience any symptoms

16:03

like this Boy

16:06

very Question

16:09

for you mr. Alchemist is

16:12

the potion you use to keep blue

16:14

is that babe maybe it's similar or

16:16

the same Potion that the

16:18

wolf men would take to keep her wolf Look

16:22

kind of that Bay as well. That's a

16:24

very astute question Elga It's

16:26

not the same kind of potion, but

16:29

they are similar in their goals and

16:31

composition They are not the

16:33

same Alchemist I got

16:35

a real important question. This might be a

16:38

real real doorbuster here. I got

16:40

a rash on my elbow Can you prescribe me some sort

16:42

of a cream? Little

16:44

off topic, but it's still very relevant to you

16:46

in your profession She looks

16:48

at your elbow and says that's not a

16:51

rash. That's the laceration. Oh, you've been cut

16:53

on your elbow Okay, just watch

16:55

it and keep it clean got it. Okay, dokey Let's

17:04

show biz baby. Yeah well,

17:07

so Robert, I mean what

17:09

are the next steps obviously you're being sought after by

17:11

Talon and I Don't

17:13

know how much we can trust you because

17:15

you could turn into Louis I mean can

17:17

we it was what's the next mission? Do

17:19

we got to get you some more of

17:21

the the the drinky drink that stops you

17:24

from becoming Louis or what? I

17:26

think the most prudent step at this point It's

17:28

the head back to Paris because

17:30

I say that Eddie and Talon may be looking

17:32

to take over the city and expand the holding

17:37

So when you've turned into Lewis Your

17:41

big troll giant frost giant

17:43

giant troll frost giant. Yes, but

17:48

So that's the only time that's the only time

17:50

we've seen you like that That

17:52

one time I have no memory. Oh, that's

17:54

right. You would have to tell me if you saw me

17:57

at Lewis No

17:59

one died I just have to

18:01

appreciate the way that Chris incorporates information into

18:04

what he's already saying like you could say

18:06

like oh Yeah, you know the red thing

18:08

and someone says the blue thing and he

18:10

goes the red blue thing Roll

18:15

me a Medical

18:22

marvel that Chris Demers I love him Mad

18:26

So you remembered that you have seen Lewis

18:29

more than once you not only saw him

18:31

outside of the tavern But you were engaged

18:34

in combat with him under the ice dome when

18:36

you were at Talon HQ. Yeah Before

18:39

you escaped with him. Well those eggs were just

18:41

staring at us being lures about it. Yeah, well,

18:43

I mean these one We're staring one was staring

18:45

at us. This might be Less

18:48

to robber and more of just

18:50

a I guess wisdom check for

18:53

Chip is this the

18:55

common affliction that happens in

18:57

grotesque the dual personality Mm-hmm.

19:01

Yeah, let's call it a wisdom check.

19:03

We used um, well, that's a 10

19:07

You don't think you've ever heard of anyone else

19:09

having a condition like this throughout your life and

19:11

experience I guards up, but you know, it could

19:13

be any one of us. It could be could

19:16

be Barney. You give me two parties Yeah,

19:19

I think I only have one. Yes

19:21

is one very alive personality

19:27

I'll give a knowing look. I don't know what you

19:29

mean by that stinker begins licking

19:31

his paws Oh Mateed

19:38

hey, how you doing? You know, you just

19:41

you just ran in with jock You

19:43

doing? Okay, you know jock skimpered off

19:45

and you know, are

19:48

you hey? Hey going for like the most

19:52

Like I'm kind of scared embrace right grab

19:54

your shoulder, but I don't know if that's

19:56

the vibe every

20:00

hug for me Feel

20:06

like Matid would feel your tension and then do

20:09

like the bird just head turn around look at

20:11

you kind of thing Reach

20:15

out for the pat on the shoulder then

20:18

becomes like a shoulder rub, but then a

20:20

pet and then I'm like, oh no I'm

20:22

committed I'm

20:28

quite alright. Yes, that was quite a

20:30

lot to learn about him in my

20:32

past But I feel like we came

20:35

out a better person, you know, every

20:37

every experience is an opportunity for learning

20:39

Yeah, I always appreciate that. Yeah, good.

20:42

Good. Are you okay? Are you you

20:44

seem quite tense? I'm

20:47

great. I'm good. We're

20:49

good. You're right. Oh, yeah I

20:58

Think chip needs a hug Are

21:02

we doing hugs? I

21:04

am not quite. I'm not quite to naga Okay.

21:07

Well, I let's I I'm gonna roll

21:09

for initiative I'm gonna I'm gonna do

21:11

a hug with Elga that I'm gonna

21:13

pull in Barney and then I'm gonna

21:15

extend an arm Just

21:18

outreach to my team if they want

21:20

it I'm gonna

21:22

just bring a leg out

21:24

and welcome in stinker. Oh Elga's

21:27

gonna counter your hug by letting you come

21:29

in for the hug She's gonna swoop around

21:32

you and jump on your back and start

21:34

strangling you Barney

21:40

it's just gonna really slowly just

21:42

like you go in for the hug but at like

21:44

a 10% speed. Yeah Just

21:48

open arms waiting Didn't

21:52

I give you a hug last episode

21:54

did you I think I faced through you

21:57

and then gave a hug didn't I? Yeah,

22:00

yeah, yeah. Hey Robert, you want anything on

22:02

this? Uh, sure. Robert

22:06

looks kind of weak, kind of tired,

22:08

but he hobbles over. He looks like he could use

22:10

a good hoe. You look like you could use some

22:12

magic food. Restore some HP. Do

22:14

you need, do you need, do you need, uh,

22:16

uh, uh, some, I could do,

22:18

uh, cast sleep on you, make you go

22:21

to sleep, take a nap. Or we could

22:23

ask him if him turning into Lewis affects

22:25

his health at all or does anything each

22:27

time it happens. Uh, that's a good question.

22:30

Or I can, I just got a party to sleep. Sleep. We

22:33

have no time. He

22:36

went sleep and then face bombed himself. Yep, the curse is quite exhausting. It

22:39

is still unclear why. I'm not sure why. I'm

22:41

not sure why. I'm not sure why. I'm not

22:43

sure why. I'm not sure why. I'm

22:45

not sure why. I'm not sure why. I'm not sure why.

22:48

I'm not sure why. I'm not sure why. I'm not

22:50

sure why. I'm not sure why. I'm

22:52

not sure why. Uh,

23:00

I'm not sure why Eddie is involved with Talon. With my

23:02

interactions with Talon and the Coven, I have learned that the

23:05

Coven is most strong with all three Hags altogether. So

23:07

when we face them, we need to do

23:09

our best to split them apart. I'm

23:12

actually confused because didn't one of the

23:14

Hags help us- Help us? Out

23:17

of the Talon headquarters? Yeah. Shazzy.

23:20

I have no memory of it. Oh, then this

23:23

is information for you. One of them helped us. It

23:25

seems to be a nicer Hag. It

23:27

was quite lovely. It's good they got us out of

23:29

the ice dome. It was wonderful. Yeah.

23:32

Did she come with us? Where is she?

23:34

Well, she turned to Louis to help us

23:36

and then shoot us away. She

23:39

had influence over Louis. The man that she knows

23:41

you. Hmm. This

23:43

is a very interesting development indeed.

23:46

Okay. Oh, uh, also

23:48

real quick, what triggers the Louis,

23:51

the transformation? What do we need?

23:54

What are some warning signs so that we

23:56

know when he's coming? Anger

23:58

brings out the beast that is newest. Oh,

24:02

oh, so gang whenever whenever it gets a little

24:04

tense for Robert, we're going to go in. We're

24:06

going to get him a group hug. No, we're

24:08

going to whisper words of

24:10

affirmation into Robert's ears, bombarding him with

24:13

good vibes. Okay, and I'm going to

24:15

get him the best shoulder massage you

24:17

could ever you could ever imagine. We're

24:20

just going to surround him by love

24:22

suffocate him with love so that he

24:24

doesn't transform into Louis. All right gang.

24:27

So we need to go to Paris. Perhaps

24:30

we should have absconded as time is of the

24:32

essence. Yeah, or take a

24:34

nap. Fine. You could take a nap and

24:36

then we are going to go to Paris. We will catch

24:39

up with you later, Bonnie. Bonnie, if

24:41

you want to take a nap. Oh, sorry.

24:43

Go ahead. I was going to offer the

24:45

same thing as YouTube. It looks like we have the man. I

24:47

said if I don't take a nap, I just hold them like

24:49

a little baby in my arms. Tofu is in

24:51

a pod. We'll go back and forth.

24:53

If your arms get tired, I'll carry

24:55

them. You're going

24:58

to take me back while he sleeps. Oh,

25:01

that sounds lovely. And I can't

25:03

can't get Barney getting the hook of ours.

25:06

You like put a blanket on top of you. He's

25:08

like pulling the hat on himself and goes, sleep. Oh,

25:13

wouldn't that be nice? So you all

25:15

are back inside that schoolhouse you were

25:17

in previously. It's about 50 feet by

25:20

70 feet. It's still overgrown across an

25:22

ivy. There's two rows of

25:24

toppled desks, wooden shelves along the east

25:26

wall. And you all reappeared where you

25:29

were previously by the large table and

25:31

chalkboard at the northern end, which is

25:33

kind of the back of the room.

25:35

And this is the position that the

25:37

hag by the name of Katrina. Nope.

25:40

That's Katrina was the name of the

25:42

lady and then what hag. Yeah. She's

25:46

from then she rock rock rock

25:48

left with the headless horseman like

25:51

they poured it away. Yes. So

25:54

feel like trying to read into why Gus was so

25:56

descriptive of this room. Is there something we should be

25:58

doing in this room? I'm just

26:01

resetting the scene. Okay, okay. Now

26:03

I was just gonna ask, when we arrived in this room,

26:05

I don't know if we had time to even investigate anything

26:07

or like look around at all. Barney did

26:10

detect magic which led us to checking out

26:12

this part of the room, the front of

26:14

the room, and that was where Francesca was

26:16

behind the desk over Headless Horseman. Katrina. Katrina.

26:19

Ah, names are fun. Uh,

26:22

Katrina was that. So yes, we really

26:24

didn't do a lot of investigation. If

26:26

our little investigative barbarian wants to do some, that

26:28

might be good. And it said something

26:30

on the, I remember it said something on the chalkboard that

26:33

we had looked at. It was

26:35

names of the boys. Correct. There were names

26:37

on the chalkboard. And, uh, Ichabod

26:39

was on there. It was

26:42

Andrine, Bron, Hans, Nickerbauber, and

26:44

Ichabod Crane. Nickerbauker. Nickerbaufer.

26:47

Nickerbauker. Balthus

26:50

and Ichabod Crane. Balthus.

26:53

I don't remember any of that. It

26:55

sounds like you guys are summoning some

26:57

like, anything bad. It

26:59

was just, it was just names. We were activating

27:01

the Witcher Soldier. On the chalkboard. Yeah. I

27:04

don't know. Is there something we can do to just

27:06

do a quick check of the room? Can we, can

27:08

we, perhaps before we leave, we

27:10

should just see if we left anything

27:12

around here. You know, when you're leaving a hotel

27:14

room, you check to make sure you didn't leave

27:16

anything there. Maybe we do that real quick. I'm

27:18

going to check the teacher's desk to see if

27:21

there's any Tamagotchis or Pokemans. You know, that's where

27:23

they put them whenever they take them from the kiddos. Does

27:25

that mean if you find anything else

27:27

other than Tamagotchis or Pokemans, you're going

27:30

to ignore it because you're only

27:32

looking for those things? Yeah, I'm still looking

27:34

for a first edition Charizard, you know. Likelihood

27:37

is low, but these teachers, they don't know what

27:39

gold they got on their hands, you know. Mayblades,

27:42

you know. Other

27:45

toys, yo-yos, Duncan yo-yos. My

27:47

gosh. Yeah.

27:50

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will check the desk. They would know what gold they

27:57

have on their hands if a teacher confiscated Misty Mountain

27:59

Dice. product The

28:08

desk you said there's rows of desks. I will check the

28:10

desk. All right. Does anybody else want to do any Investigative

28:13

I check the teacher desk. Yeah. Yeah, I

28:15

will look Okay, do you

28:17

want to carry? No, I'm asleep Well

28:22

with Barney in my arms, okay, okay

28:24

there a specific place you want to look Well,

28:27

that's the large table is the one that Blaine is looking

28:29

at and then Mattita correct or sorry Yep, and then

28:31

Mattita is looking at the rows of desks. Well, look

28:33

at the shelves. Okay, I'm gonna do Chip

28:36

Mattid Elga because that's the

28:38

order everyone said it. Okay chip

28:40

go ahead and Make

28:43

a call it a Investigation

28:46

check not 20. Oh,

28:48

I'm gonna I better be finding some

28:50

pogs some yak You

28:53

know some some some homies

28:56

with his e So

28:59

that the large table is pretty cluttered.

29:01

There's like some sand rose

29:04

petals dead cricket I

29:06

don't weird. It's just kind of all

29:08

overrun. Okay, make me an arcana check

29:11

chip. Mmm a pog slammers anything good

29:15

16 these look really familiar to you because you

29:17

saw Barney use similar reagents not that long ago

29:19

This is the material components for a sleep spell

29:23

So probably okay gang I found stuff for

29:26

sleep spell if I had to take a

29:28

guess it was probably to put the headless

29:30

horseman asleep from Katrina

29:33

whatever name is that's my guess maybe

29:35

so if they had the headless horseman

29:37

asleep when we got here I think

29:39

they're incapacitated before they were turned. I don't know

29:41

why No magic guy.

29:43

I'm just a simple knife guy You know when

29:45

you all first walked in the headless horseman was

29:47

laying down on the ground with Katrina over his

29:49

body Petite

29:52

yeah, like I said, there's two rows of

29:54

four deaths. So there's eight total make me

29:56

an investigation check Yeah,

29:59

it's a It seems like it's mostly

30:01

a lot of trash. You're able to find

30:03

a broken jar of ink in one of

30:06

the desks. Okay,

30:08

maybe an old-school supply. Okay. Nothing

30:11

here. Elga. Hello. So there's

30:13

four rows of wooden shelves that are lying

30:15

in the eastern wall. They're

30:17

completely intact and thoroughly kempt.

30:19

On each shelf are glass-bowled

30:21

cases housing decapitated humanoid heads

30:24

of various species. There's

30:26

about two on each shelf more or less.

30:28

Go ahead and make me an investigation

30:30

check. With advantage? Yeah,

30:33

because you can get up close on this. Okay, 17.

30:36

You notice, you know, as you're kind of

30:38

looking at it, you notice the third and

30:41

last shelf are missing ahead. And

30:43

you also spot claw marks along the wooden shelving

30:45

in that area. And on top

30:47

of that, you notice a trail of broken glass

30:49

along the floor leading toward the table at the

30:51

back of the classroom over where Chip is. And

30:54

that's where the headless horseman was. Correct. So

30:57

is this like a where he got jumped, I guess? Or

30:59

like they took a head from the shelf to

31:02

put on him or something like that? He said two

31:04

jars were missing, right? Correct. When

31:07

we saw the headless horseman at

31:10

the entrance of parish, was

31:12

the horseman headless or did

31:14

they have like a pumpkin or anything like that?

31:17

I don't remember the description. I

31:19

like the idea of a horseloman. Horseloman. Horseloman.

31:22

Yeah, the horseman was in possession

31:24

of a head at that time.

31:26

What was the head? The head at that

31:29

time was a pumpkin head. A pumpkin head.

31:31

And then when we fought the horseman in

31:33

this classroom, what did he

31:35

look like? It was an apple. It looked very

31:38

strange. Instead

31:47

of a full pumpkin, it was a gourd. Yeah, it

31:49

looked like a pumpkin just like way too small. Not

31:51

right at all. He's had a bad day. So

31:55

then when you encountered the

31:57

horseman here in the classroom,

31:59

yeah. Katrina slash Xerox had pulled

32:01

out a humanoid head. It was, it seemed

32:04

like, I believe I said, was using it

32:06

to maybe control him. They

32:08

were holding that, they were palming that thing. It

32:10

was like something that you were describing, I

32:12

remember during the encounter. The horseman

32:14

himself, did he still have his pumpkin

32:17

head at the time? Yes. Okay. So

32:19

maybe that was his old head, that

32:22

she was somehow manipulating him? And took from

32:24

the jar? Yeah, I don't know why

32:26

it's in here. Could we recall if

32:28

the hags have claws? Yes.

32:31

Yes, they do. Yes, they do. Sorry.

32:33

Okay. We're in a weird way. We

32:37

can't recall. Yes, they do. So

32:40

I think that's a good theory, that the hag,

32:42

that Shirak took the head from

32:44

the jar, since the glass leads

32:46

to the table where they

32:49

were doing that spell on Ichabod,

32:52

and then did, took control of

32:54

them. But there's two

32:56

missing, which means there's another head in

32:59

play here. And can I wake

33:01

up? Okay, so Chris wants to

33:03

play. Okay,

33:05

Barney, I'm putting you down now. Good

33:07

morning, Barney. Wakey, wakey. What's

33:09

Chris gonna do? This place looks just

33:11

like the place we left. We

33:14

have not gone anywhere. We've been investigating

33:16

this classroom. Oh. We're

33:18

on the ground for an Ed.

33:22

We are missing one. Oh, there's a bunch in

33:24

those jars right over there. Let's go look at those. Oh,

33:27

I'm so glad you were asleep this entire

33:29

time. Can we, can we, can

33:31

we, can we, can we, can we, can we, can

33:33

I take a head? Do you say, can you take

33:35

a head? Yeah, like one of the heads, a jars.

33:37

Sure, why not? All right, which one? Well,

33:40

you tell me there's this, it's all different

33:42

kinds of humanoid heads. Is

33:44

there a specific kind of humanoid you're looking for? I mean, there's

33:46

elves, people, humans. What are you in the market for there, Barney,

33:48

what kind of head? I don't know. I

33:51

think I'm in a nice. In

33:53

case the headless horseman needs a new one. All

33:55

right, yeah, you can take a human

33:57

head if you want. This one looks nice. What's

34:01

okay? What's your your your weight

34:03

for your inventory? I wonder Yeah,

34:10

it's more like 10 to 12 is it not what

34:12

movie is that from Jerry

34:16

McGuire I'm trying to weigh my own head,

34:18

but it's hard because it's connected to my spine The

34:23

average human head weighs 10 to 11 pounds I'm

34:27

pretty sure Chris is at least 30. I mean look

34:29

at that Wrinkly

34:32

brain up in there Do

34:35

we feel like we have a exhaustive classroom?

34:37

We might want to add to perish I'm

34:39

just gonna look around one more time Game

34:41

Boy colors mighty max Yogiocards

34:44

anything you're gonna find what you're

34:46

looking for. I think we should probably head out no Okay,

34:49

fine. We leave we got if we head

34:51

to perish I Will

34:53

say that again we should head out no pun intended.

34:56

There you go If

34:58

you want you can take out from the desk that you did fine

35:00

chip that's up to you Barney

35:03

do you need any material components for sleep?

35:05

It's like okay. There you go. I throw

35:07

it out. Here you go. Here you go Yeah,

35:11

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35:13

to Barney, you know The sand moves aside and

35:15

you find a blue ice white dragon Oh Bag

35:21

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40:50

the schoolhouse and you know make your

40:52

way back to crew under me which

40:54

was that kind of abandoned town you

40:57

pass north of Paris on the way

40:59

back through. Like I said it's all

41:01

abandoned buildings and ruins. I clean me

41:03

down. Yeah. Hey, so give yourself an

41:05

inspiration. I'm just giving away these jokes.

41:07

Everybody's getting inspiration guys. Good job guys.

41:10

As you're walking through crew under me

41:12

the hag eye that was given to

41:15

you by Shivy begins to glow again

41:17

in green light until it suddenly splashes

41:19

and blinds everyone. Everyone makes an arcana

41:21

check. This thing keeps going off. Is

41:24

it trying to tell us something? It's

41:26

a one critical fail. Eleven.

41:29

Twelve. Seven. Just stellar roll.

41:31

Thank you. The stellar roll.

41:34

Thank you. Our barbarian has

41:36

the highest arcana check. The

41:38

best. It tracks. So

41:41

Chip, even though you rolled a one your roll is

41:43

a five because it's a plus one. Yeah, I didn't

41:45

know what the rules are with critical fail. Somebody was

41:47

yelling at us for the 20s and ones. So the

41:51

checks are independent of that. Like critical

41:53

success or like that's more for like

41:55

attack roll. So for your check you

41:57

always give the number because sometimes. Cheques

42:00

could be incredibly high like a check might be

42:02

a 30 however however if Chip

42:06

decides to do a backflip and you roll

42:08

a one. Yeah Gus will punish you. Okay.

42:10

Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely I don't

42:12

have my nerf gun with me today. All right,

42:14

so we'll go from lowest to highest chip and

42:17

Matid five and seven chip Monk, it's difficult to

42:19

make out but you chip monk you have you

42:22

give a vision while you're blinded You

42:24

have vague glimpses of an underground greenish

42:26

River and caged animals Okay,

42:29

Barney and Elga you

42:31

all See a hideous

42:33

green hag severely mangled and it

42:35

seems to be locked in a

42:38

cage with animals Is

42:40

the one that let us go in Ivy Shivy

42:43

was green. Yes Barney

42:45

and Elga you do recognize it as site Do

42:48

we get any feeling like this is

42:50

currently happening or is it like a well? So

42:53

a hag eyes are as a real eye-coded

42:55

in orange and often fitted to a pendant

42:58

Haggly very little vision of it. It's really

43:00

used an action device. See what the eye

43:03

sees It went off before

43:06

Yeah, so if there's a good

43:08

chance you could be seeing something

43:10

as it is The

43:12

animals are they attacking the head?

43:15

No in cages. No, they're just hanging. It sounds

43:17

like she was like What

43:24

type of creature are hags do we so

43:27

yeah hags are all fae in

43:29

grotesque Thank you. So just

43:32

to answer your question. Okay, good

43:34

to know it would appear the hags are

43:36

preparing to invade Paris We must

43:38

make haste to their land But

43:40

be warned the common node So

43:46

their headquarters is in Paris or did we

43:48

just escape their headquarters you

43:50

escape their headquarters Which was that

43:52

Talon HQ? It was in coven

43:55

north which was like the northern part of Paris

43:57

that the coven has taken over. Yeah, remember it

43:59

was like bordered by that river and

44:01

you all got there by going through the mausoleum.

44:04

You were led there. Yeah, thinking about that. They

44:06

were helping us. Correct. From

44:08

the underground passes from the mausoleum. Should we get

44:10

back up? Because we kind of got our butt

44:12

kicked and you're not Lewis no more. I

44:15

have a question though. You said that they're the strongest

44:17

when all three of them are together, but it seems

44:19

like one of the three is now in

44:22

jail with animals. Indeed. But

44:24

all that matters is proximity. Roughly

44:27

how far? Like a Bluetooth connection

44:29

kind of situation. It

44:32

varies, but the closer, the more

44:35

power. All right. We just need to get

44:37

a few walls between them and that hag. Well,

44:39

you have that thing that since people

44:42

other dimensions, I do. Well,

44:45

what an interesting and perfectly placed

44:47

story device. We

44:51

are not nearly as smart to navigate this

44:53

story and all these little like, let's go.

44:57

So we need to make our way through Paris.

44:59

We need to make sure we do not get

45:01

seen or heard by one of the spies. And

45:03

then we have to take down some eggs. We're

45:05

totally fine. We can do this. Are they looking

45:07

for us? Spicy chucks. Oh, yeah.

45:10

We escaped them and we also fought out

45:12

of lots of their aglings. I imagine they're

45:14

looking for us. And we got like, oh,

45:17

there's probably like a weapon to them.

45:21

While you all are talking about this, you hear a

45:23

very faint. Jack.

45:26

I forgot to tell you, I got me

45:28

when you guys left the

45:32

Australian plane. I had a

45:34

final goodbye with Jack and

45:37

he gifted me a new friend.

45:39

What? What is this? Well,

45:42

do you remember we left the room? Yes. At

45:44

the end of the podcast when John and Gus had a moment with Matin.

45:46

I love that we do that because now I am. We

45:49

don't know. We'll have to listen. What was the

45:51

color? Was it a little? God

45:53

making orange. Are you kidding me? We

45:58

have an orange puppet. I don't

46:00

remember. I don't remember. There was an actual description.

46:02

I'm going to get it right this time. What was it? It's

46:05

great. It's great. Okay. And

46:08

I did, I think I mispronounced the French

46:10

pronunciation of his name, and so I'm going

46:12

to try to get it correctly this time.

46:15

Everyone, I would like you to meet Gigi. Gigi.

46:18

Gigi. Gigi. Oh,

46:20

about that guy. Gigi. For

46:23

the birthday cat who built us

46:25

in Paris. That

46:28

was elegant doing a vertigian accent.

46:30

It was great. Can I hold

46:32

out my hand daintily for Gigi

46:34

to sniff to see if I

46:36

pass the vibe test? Yeah, make

46:38

an animal hand. Come on. It's

46:42

a minus one, but I'm feeling it today. You

46:45

line it today? Eight. Gigi

46:48

gives it a dainty sniff, but doesn't seem

46:50

too enthusiastic about it. Fair. Maybe

46:54

it's because you just wipe your butt. A

46:57

cat's love is earned. You got to take time. You

46:59

got to trust the process, gang. Cats

47:03

are animals all about consent. That's right. So

47:06

if your cat hates you, it's probably because you're not being nice to it. Anyways, go

47:08

on. Sorry. Yes, I

47:10

have a little kitty. This is Gigi. I

47:12

love him already. Hey, Gigi, I would

47:14

die for you. Interesting

47:19

choice of words because the description that was read

47:21

in the previous module when you all were out

47:23

of the room was it's a

47:26

small ghostly gray kitten. Oh,

47:28

it's wait. Does Gigi

47:30

actually incorporate? Can I check? Can

47:34

we make it so because then I feel like it has a little

47:36

bit of plot armor. No harm will

47:38

come to this cat. Yeah, it

47:40

is an incorporeal ghost. Great. That's

47:43

awesome. That's great. Yes. So

47:46

he was he just mewing just to just introduce

47:48

himself. Yeah, just a reminder. Hey, thank

47:50

you. I say that

47:52

this is so cute. Welcome to the family. And I turn around

47:54

and I walk away. My eyes

47:56

get really big and I'm like, I'm surrounded by

47:58

dead people. All of them are dead. I'm the

48:01

only one alive. If I did, what is happening

48:03

here? That's true. Chip is

48:05

surrounded by trolls. I'm followed by

48:07

death. I dealt death out throughout my work,

48:09

and now I am followed by the dead.

48:12

Oh, I'm dead. I mean, I'm not dead.

48:14

I'll go through you, by the way. Yeah, you

48:16

got good hears. You got keen hearing. All right,

48:18

keep it to yourself. I'm very alive. Just have

48:20

lived for a long time. I mean, what

48:23

seems like long because I'm a child and time

48:25

feels like it goes on very long time, you

48:27

know. One year out of 10 is

48:29

the 10th of my life. It's crazy. Okay,

48:33

so we are going to Barish and

48:35

we need to be stealthy. Yeah,

48:38

so you're going to have to try to travel

48:40

stealthily. And we've done this before, like group stealth

48:42

checks. But before we get to that, how do

48:44

you all want to try to get back to

48:46

the Talon headquarters in Covenord? Well,

48:49

how far away is it? It's

48:52

not terribly far. You all

48:54

are just north of Parrish, but

48:56

you are for where you are. You are outside

48:58

the city walls. Where is Covenord

49:00

located in the in the Parrish greater? It's

49:03

between you and Parrish. It's the northern Covenord

49:05

is the northern portion of Parrish. So you

49:07

can either go back via

49:09

the mausoleum like before, or

49:12

you can go over the wall directly into Covenord

49:14

from where you are. It's really up to you.

49:17

And I think one of you even mentioned about

49:19

trying to find backup. I don't know if that's something

49:21

you want to try to rally the troops. I mean,

49:23

if this place is about to be invaded, surely they'll

49:26

want to bring some of the guys back.

49:31

patches or whatever. Oh, yeah, they were

49:33

like the Rennies. The Cabelaries. Yeah. We

49:36

should alert them. Right. The favorite

49:38

word. You said that right as

49:40

Micah sent that to me as well in black.

49:43

It was like the exact same moment. Yes.

49:46

Perhaps the cavalry could be of assistance to

49:48

us in our dealings with the Coven. Okay.

49:52

Let's go round up the cavalry. I'll

49:55

call them. Help. Help. I'm

49:58

going to learn. Help. fire

50:00

if you need help because if people

50:02

not coming here yeah a bunch of firefighters

50:04

are gonna come our way I'm already here

50:06

all right I wouldn't hate as a volunteer

50:08

firefighter I would not call for a false

50:11

fire I will people just say

50:13

one we can start a fire no you

50:16

know we don't start fires we

50:19

put out the fires we didn't

50:21

start the fire man right

50:24

it was always burning okay so if we want to

50:28

find the cavalry but governor is

50:30

between us and bearish then

50:32

we would need to somehow go around

50:34

or I guess we might be able

50:36

to reach it through the mausoleum right

50:39

right cuz there's what there's a

50:41

there's an entrance into the mausoleum that we

50:43

exited out of that brought us

50:46

out in front of that haggling town

50:49

correct and so we'd have to go

50:51

back in there and that could take

50:53

us through to all the

50:55

way to parish but then wasn't

50:57

was the Talon headquarters underground through

51:00

there so the way that you

51:02

all got there is when you went to

51:04

Talon headquarters initially you went into the mausoleum

51:06

inside a parish and then made your way

51:08

up to Talon headquarters and then

51:10

the way you left there was you went

51:13

back out and then you escaped you

51:15

came out of that tree in Covid-ord and that's

51:17

when the hagglings attacked you and you fled and

51:19

climbed over the wall to leave Covid-ord and then

51:21

end up here at where

51:24

you are now and over a wall and

51:26

then we found ourselves in sleepy Hollow okay correct

51:29

I don't know how do we find the cavalry

51:31

at this point in an expeditious manner that's

51:34

a few guys well you're

51:36

outside of Paris you're outside the wall

51:39

so I just say that because ship

51:41

keeps yelling help you're probably less likely

51:43

to find them by yelling help here

51:46

because you're outside the wall let's boogie

51:48

down to Paris let's go which we'd

51:50

have to do by going like what

51:53

around the exterior of the city not

51:55

climb the wall but we climb the wall we're in

51:57

Covid-ord good lord okay I'm so sorry

52:00

Yes, yes, yes. Let's go around the wall and

52:02

then climb it once we're out of the governor

52:04

part of the parish Do shoot

52:06

is that what we could do Gus? Yeah, you

52:08

can absolutely do that Yeah, okay, everyone make me a

52:10

survival check to see if you see what you I'm

52:12

gonna pass this one Saying to see if

52:14

you survive 15 9 16 23. Oh Okay,

52:20

everyone except for Mattid pretty much remembers this but someone

52:22

pointed out last time we did a survival check And

52:24

I got the lowest one. They thought it was funny

52:26

that the ghost gets the lowest survival check There

52:31

was a river that kind of

52:33

cut parish into two parts and

52:35

it was that river that divides

52:38

Parish the device covenant or it

52:40

I should say from the rest of that That's

52:42

what you tried to go across that bridge. Correct.

52:44

That's where you first saw the cavalry and

52:46

that's what separates Covenant or from the

52:48

rest of parish so Ostensibly if you

52:51

wanted to get back into parish you could

52:53

walk around the wall until you see that

52:55

river cross it You know, you're on

52:57

the parish side and then cross the wall into Paris

53:01

What I was going to suggest Nobody

53:03

get this in theory. All right, it's

53:06

an organ trail reference. Yeah One

53:10

of those internal laughs we had bombing

53:12

bombing I had a gust of air

53:14

come out my nose L.

53:18

O. L. O. L. O. L. L. Yeah, hello

53:20

mayo So you're you're

53:22

you're essentially northeast of Paris, right? Let's say you're

53:24

looking at the wall you're facing southwest looking at

53:26

the wall for covenant Is if you want to

53:28

get you know walk around the wall to get

53:31

back into Paris you could either go to your

53:33

right? Which is to the west or

53:35

go to your left which to the east of Paris?

53:38

Basically, which which direction do you want to

53:40

climb the wall and we're on the So

53:43

shortest path is a straight line. So go

53:46

down to the eastern side of parish Okay,

53:48

for reference. That's how you all first entered

53:50

parish when you first got there a couple

53:52

of episodes We

53:54

go that way. Yeah Okay, you

53:56

had you know kind of from where you are

53:58

kind of selfish and then you know And before

54:00

too long, you see the

54:02

river emerging from the walls of Paris.

54:04

And you know that you've crossed the

54:06

point where Coventor is on that wall.

54:09

So, you know, you walk up to the wall again.

54:11

And once again, you're faced with a 60 foot tall

54:13

wall. No seem way to get into. Help.

54:18

Two heads peek over from the top of the wall, looking

54:20

down at you all. We

54:25

see what the heads are like who they

54:27

are. Yeah, you recognize the badges of the

54:29

cavalry. Seems to be two members of the

54:31

cavalry. I think you're all good to be

54:33

able to see that from 60 feet down. 60

54:37

feet. Yeah, they're big. Huge and

54:39

huge. Ambulance. Yeah, I am. I

54:41

quickly, I quickly

54:43

stop my team from answering. Oh, we

54:46

need to be very careful. They said

54:48

that the government has ears

54:50

everywhere. So we do not know if these

54:52

are cavalry that we can throw. Oh,

54:55

how do we get there? Oh,

55:05

you know, I just cast it. So true. If

55:07

you're in the zone of truth, I don't have so much truth.

55:10

I'm glad Matid tried to stop

55:12

you guys from saying anything and

55:15

it did nothing. So

55:18

Gus, what happened? So they

55:20

look at each other confused and then look

55:22

at you to look at you. You guys

55:24

again. It says, I'm sorry, Barbara, you're your

55:26

audio kind of clip. What was the question

55:28

you asked me? Okay,

55:38

I got you. Oh,

55:43

okay. Yeah. Again, they look at each other

55:45

and say, we are the cavalry guys.

55:47

I don't have zone truth. So they might be telling

55:49

the truth. They might be telling a lie, but you

55:51

know, my instinct says they're telling the truth. Now you

55:54

answer us. Who are you? I'm

55:57

Barney. I

56:02

can confirm that he is Marley. And

56:05

you are? I am

56:07

Elga Von Braff, a

56:10

little girl who is very innocent and young.

56:15

It's true! Everywhere! We

56:18

are but a group of wayward

56:20

travelers who are once convicted

56:22

for murder, who are not the

56:24

murderers. We are good

56:26

people, so the truth! Elga,

56:32

you make me a deception check, you're not young.

56:34

They don't know that. Yeah, but you

56:36

got your...they're gonna see if they know or not. Sixteen!

56:40

Sixteen, all right. That's good, that's good. Matid

56:42

has their eyes closed and is just focusing

56:44

on Braff and blanking

56:46

out everything else out and just

56:48

centering themselves, grounding themselves, and just

56:51

being in the moment. That's what

56:53

Matid's doing right now. Ooh, sop.

56:56

The two cavalry look down

56:58

and say, okay, well, good

57:00

luck. Can

57:04

we have some of your luck?

57:07

Their head peeks back over. What do

57:09

you mean? What brings you

57:11

to Paris? We're here! What

57:14

we love is that we are big fans

57:16

of Parisian cuisine, and we've come here to

57:18

partake in and by

57:21

in your luxuries. Not murderers!

57:23

We're here to die for!

57:27

Good. You make a perception check,

57:29

Matid. Perception? I'm sorry, not perception. Deception.

57:32

I got my wrong exception. I'm rolling it again. I rolled

57:34

an eight. Matid, zone of truth, zone of truth. Twenty-one.

57:38

Oh, okay. Why do you roll again? Do

57:40

you have lucky? I use my inspiration. Oh,

57:42

inspiration, I got you. Okay. Sorry,

57:44

I didn't say that. They do, they kind of nod like, Because

57:47

it is quite good. Okay,

57:49

you are me and they are... Perfect. That

57:51

was a plan the entire time. That was

57:54

exactly from front to back exactly what we

57:56

should have done. Yeah, exactly.

58:00

good as a go team. Barbara you

58:02

did it like all like but I

58:04

imagine Elga like pops their collar as

58:06

she's saying that. Like yeah that's what

58:08

I meant. Just a frilly little collar.

58:10

Yeah yeah yeah. The cavalry had to

58:12

disappear behind the wall again. Okay we

58:15

now need to get up the wall.

58:17

Do you have a rope

58:20

or anything? Yes! I

58:22

agree! Do they pop their heads up for a

58:24

third time Gus? Yeah if their

58:27

heads pop back out. Can you not

58:29

just go through the wall? Oh!

58:31

Some of us are carved out! Some

58:34

of us are not! Right

58:36

then, we'll head. They toss a rope

58:39

over the wall. Perfect. But

58:41

it's the entire rope it's not tied

58:44

to anything. I grab it and fly

58:46

up and tie it to something. Yay!

58:48

Oh my lord we need to get

58:50

into this city. He just thrown your

58:53

bad ass! I mean that's exactly what

58:55

we asked. I

58:59

want to meet these jokers. I gotta give credit to

59:01

Micah that was his idea. Uh

59:05

okay yeah Matid take the rope ties it for

59:07

you all and you all are able to uh

59:10

heave yourselves up over the wall. These

59:13

are you know we said about 60 foot tall. They're

59:15

pretty thick. Part of all of you except for Matid

59:17

make an athletics check just to see how successful you

59:20

are in this climbing. Three! Oh!

59:23

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

59:25

One! Oh my gosh! I rolled a one!

59:27

Oh my gosh! I rolled a one! One

59:31

five! Yeah! I rolled a one

59:33

plus two! So three six twenty

59:35

two. Elga you just like scamper

59:38

and fly up that rope like no problem.

59:41

This is supposed to be just like a gimme roll. I

59:43

was just looking at having you roll for the sake of

59:45

having the roll. Chip and Barney you two like

59:47

it's like gym class in middle school all

59:49

over again. You cannot get up the rope

59:52

to save your life. You're just like flailing

59:54

around you know swinging around at the end of

59:56

the rope. Not able to make any progress up at all.

1:00:00

uh Barney being in front of me for why

1:00:02

I can't go you

1:00:06

look up and it's just straight old man

1:00:08

unboxers Oh

1:00:34

Barney make another athletics check let's see if that uh

1:00:36

if I gave you motivation to go

1:00:38

Elga we could just cut the rope and

1:00:40

you know it would be a release

1:00:44

that we would read immediately feel in

1:00:46

so many ways my teeth 19 no

1:00:51

is quite a taxing

1:00:54

chips horns give a little poke to

1:00:56

Barney's button he realizes he's in danger

1:00:59

and quickly begin scampering up the rope

1:01:01

that makes it to the top clearing the way

1:01:03

for chip to make another attempt all right 21

1:01:07

yeah and that was the old man out of

1:01:09

the way you're able to easily climb up top

1:01:11

of the wall and rejoin all your friends I

1:01:14

Barney wants to mend his underwear oh okay

1:01:17

you've got mending right yeah yeah I got

1:01:19

two holes in it those were some holy

1:01:21

underpants I saw more than I cared to

1:01:24

share with the glad all right so

1:01:27

y'all are over the wall and you've

1:01:29

re-entered a parish on the east group

1:01:31

side I think Barney and chips

1:01:33

parents announced to be called holy pants all

1:01:38

right so what's the plan at this point we

1:01:41

have to go talk to the cavalry

1:01:43

try to convince them to come with

1:01:45

us there's two dudes right then I guess we could

1:01:47

talk to are they still there or did they

1:01:49

walk off yeah oh they're still

1:01:51

there they're loving watching you guys

1:01:54

I know we look a lot more intimidating up

1:01:56

here than we did down there probably because we're

1:01:58

a lot bigger up close But

1:02:00

you're not able to be afraid. You

1:02:03

are quite the teeth, so... Okay,

1:02:05

well, there's no need for that. Anyway...

1:02:09

I pick up Elga and put Elga

1:02:11

right face to face to them. What

1:02:13

about now? Anyway,

1:02:19

we need your help. That's

1:02:23

what we're here for. We've helped

1:02:25

you so much already. That is

1:02:28

very true, so... What restaurant would

1:02:30

you recommend? No, bardy-bardy-bardy. Oh,

1:02:32

I thought we were getting food.

1:02:34

We are getting food. We are

1:02:36

getting food. We start reclaiming the

1:02:38

rope and putting it back up. Listen,

1:02:41

we've uncovered a plot against Parrish by

1:02:43

the Coven, alright? They have your

1:02:45

leader, they have the headless horsemen, and

1:02:47

they might be approaching and

1:02:49

trying to take over the rest of the

1:02:52

city. So, like, this is like, you

1:02:54

know, danger, danger, settle alarms...

1:02:58

Bad stuff is happening. We need your help.

1:03:00

But not fire! No fire, though.

1:03:03

Not yet. Hey, Gus. Yeah? I

1:03:06

want to say this before you respond. While they're

1:03:08

saying all this, I'd like Mati

1:03:10

to ready an attack. Oh, smart.

1:03:13

In case what? In case they

1:03:16

do something that we don't want them

1:03:18

to do. In case they're

1:03:20

Coven. If they do

1:03:22

something suspicious, we'll... That's a good word

1:03:24

for it. Suspicious or hostile? Are you gonna

1:03:26

kick him off the wall? We'll

1:03:28

see. This is Parrish's! The

1:03:33

Coven will never advance as long as we

1:03:36

stand guard. Okay, what are you thinking? That's

1:03:38

what we're hoping. Your leader is

1:03:40

gone. They have him. So,

1:03:43

like, you're, you know,

1:03:45

not full force. And

1:03:48

also, he could, like, influence you, you

1:03:50

know? Like, he's like your leader and you see him,

1:03:52

you're like, Oh, that's our dude. But, you know, he

1:03:54

could be under their mind control. Listen, it's bad

1:03:57

stuff. Bad juju. Make a persuasion.

1:03:59

I hope we need to say that I have plus 10.

1:04:02

Oh, wow. It's an 18 plus 10, 28. Yeah,

1:04:06

they seem 28. Wow. Yeah,

1:04:08

they seem very concerned about what

1:04:11

you said one of them asked.

1:04:13

What do you mean exactly by

1:04:15

they have our leader? How

1:04:17

do you know that? What did you see? Okay,

1:04:20

so, Matid

1:04:23

take it away because, I

1:04:25

don't know, I'm, nope, nope, nope. Oh, God. You

1:04:28

is? Okay, so, all

1:04:30

right. Do you remember a couple of days

1:04:32

ago when there was an ice dude who

1:04:35

had captured a lady and then your boss

1:04:37

was there and he like saved the day,

1:04:39

right? That was super cool, super heroic. Okay,

1:04:41

yeah. We outside the Tomatoban. That's right, the

1:04:44

one without the door that you have to

1:04:46

go through the window. Okay,

1:04:48

so. It was also like hours ago,

1:04:50

by the way. It wasn't a couple of days ago.

1:04:52

It's very weird. So, that

1:04:54

lady happened to be a hag

1:04:56

in disguise, all right? No.

1:05:00

They still do it. Yes. The

1:05:02

headless horseman and they

1:05:04

were like, you know, smooching and

1:05:06

stuff like that. Well, we like

1:05:08

followed them to an outside location

1:05:11

and bada bing bada boom, it's a

1:05:13

hag. They revealed themselves and then they

1:05:15

were mind controlling the headless horseman. Also.

1:05:19

They had like, they had a head. It was

1:05:21

like a head. Oh, yeah. This

1:05:23

head. We,

1:05:26

that sounds very troubling. In

1:05:28

trouble. Where did you say they are?

1:05:30

Where can we find them? Well, I'm

1:05:33

afraid of them. We are guessing that they

1:05:35

are probably in Kavanard. Yeah, Kavanard. At

1:05:38

their headquarters in there. Yeah. Can

1:05:41

you lead us there? I

1:05:44

mean, yeah. Yeah. This sounds

1:05:46

like this requires the coverist full response.

1:05:49

Yes, yes, I do. With the 10-10-4,

1:05:51

the six riders. With you, the question.

1:05:53

Yes. I cast, visited the Astra

1:05:56

self and I checked on the inside of

1:05:58

what they just said. Yeah. I want to

1:06:00

roll for vibe check. I don't know. This feels like

1:06:02

they're like, Oh yeah, just take us. Yeah, no cool.

1:06:05

So this is just the astral self gives

1:06:07

you wisdom of the spirit, which gives you

1:06:09

advantage on insight check, which is what I

1:06:11

want to do. Okay. So

1:06:14

yeah, then make an insight check with advantage roll

1:06:16

for vibe check. And then after that, we'll do vibe

1:06:18

check with chip 2026. All

1:06:21

right. Nice. Uh, what

1:06:23

do we get a vibe check from you as well? Okay. What am I

1:06:25

doing? Perception? If, if Pee

1:06:27

Wee Herman was here, we'd be

1:06:30

going to the line part. Mati

1:06:41

like, it's like the mask appears over their face.

1:06:43

It just kind of like pops down. Yeah. You

1:06:46

know, the, the two cavalry look at you a

1:06:48

little quizzically, but both of you think that they're

1:06:50

being sincere with their concern and their offer to

1:06:52

send assistance with you. So there's a sarcophagus. What

1:06:55

was this place called? Mausoleum. There's

1:06:59

a mausoleum with a secret entrance underneath.

1:07:01

We found this because we were also

1:07:03

hoodwinked into helping a hag, but

1:07:06

we got in a fight with them

1:07:08

and escaped. So I'm

1:07:10

just like laying it all out there. I really hope

1:07:12

you guys are on her side. Cause like this is

1:07:14

bad juju bad stuff's about to happen. We're trying to

1:07:16

help perish. We want to say perish and

1:07:19

our friend, the headless horseman. Yeah. Your

1:07:21

leader. Well, you all know

1:07:24

that parish in general is that strong

1:07:26

contention with the covenant. And you know,

1:07:29

you think that they would be very

1:07:31

concerned about this kind of very specific

1:07:33

Intel and these two, you know, cavalry

1:07:35

say, we shall head to the motherly mallieu and

1:07:37

you can show us how to get there. Okay.

1:07:42

Yeah. Should we get back up?

1:07:44

We will have the squad of

1:07:46

riders join us. Okay. So that's

1:07:48

eight together. Are you

1:07:50

part of the squad? We are part of

1:07:52

the squad. So four in addition to us

1:07:54

six total. Are you tough dudes? This

1:07:57

looks a little bit like, Oh, you're

1:07:59

on our. here has been known to work

1:08:01

out every now and then. Okay, I can

1:08:03

see. Oriana, what's your name? What's your name,

1:08:06

fella? Ah, yes. Jima

1:08:08

Perra, Sergeant Leozard. Ah,

1:08:11

Leozard. That was there, Lieutenant

1:08:13

Oriana. Oriana, Lieutenant, okay. Oh,

1:08:15

salute. Not like the drinking

1:08:17

kind, like a little, like, you know, like military.

1:08:20

This isn't like a stolen valor thing. All right,

1:08:22

let's just go. Let's go to the mausoleum. You

1:08:24

would actually salute is the way to say hi

1:08:26

in French. That's what I meant the whole time.

1:08:31

I think you mean salute, which is health,

1:08:34

which is also a toast in Spanish. There

1:08:36

you go. We're so

1:08:38

cultured here. We're

1:08:40

so cultured that we can't keep track of them.

1:08:42

Yeah. As we do all

1:08:45

of our non-offensive accents, not

1:08:47

offending anyone who actually speaks with that accent.

1:08:50

Duolingo, hit us up. Oh, yeah. Please.

1:08:52

We need money. Ooh, could the alibi

1:08:54

be a big bad at one point?

1:08:56

The Duolingo alibi. Ooh, I

1:08:58

guess we go ahead and head to the

1:09:01

mausoleum. So

1:09:03

I was going to have you

1:09:05

all do stealth checks to try to remain

1:09:08

undetected. But, you know, if you found,

1:09:11

yeah, at this point you found cavalry instead

1:09:13

and essentially they're going to escort you. So I

1:09:15

wouldn't, you aren't going to obviously have to make

1:09:18

those stealth checks to try to move stealthily through

1:09:20

the city. I still can if you want. I

1:09:22

have advantage. No,

1:09:25

no. So you all re-enter the

1:09:27

mausoleum, you know, it's a white alabaster

1:09:29

building with column portico's and floating stone

1:09:32

sign that reads mausoleum U. And

1:09:34

just like before, there's a set of stairs that lead underground into

1:09:36

a tomb. So does everyone make

1:09:38

me a survival check to see if you all

1:09:40

remember how you actually went through here? I

1:09:46

rolled a one for 13. I

1:09:50

actually remember that episode, but I don't. Now

1:09:52

I don't. Well, you can just phase through

1:09:54

things if you really wanted to. I guess.

1:09:57

It's like falling. Three of you rolled pretty well. Yeah. Oh,

1:10:00

yeah, so I still keep failing

1:10:02

on all the survival checks. What

1:10:04

is going on? Also, if we

1:10:06

need the legitimacy, we have those

1:10:08

deputy badges from Weiser. Weiser.

1:10:11

I don't think he did. Yeah, that's more of a more

1:10:13

of an avallarity. Yeah, but you know, it's like we're,

1:10:15

you know, like, hey, you know, we're also kind of,

1:10:18

you know, you know, enforcement

1:10:21

officers. Yeah. Well, wait, what are their

1:10:23

badges? They're they're headless horsemen. They're horsemen.

1:10:25

They're pumpkin. They were like a horseshoe.

1:10:28

Right. On a pumpkin. Okay. Can we get

1:10:30

ones that have like a little gourd and

1:10:33

we're like trainees, you know, like little badges,

1:10:35

little cute little badges. I'm just collecting badges,

1:10:37

you know. No, he's a

1:10:40

Pokemon trainer. Chip,

1:10:43

make me a wisdom check. Uh-oh.

1:10:47

Hmm, that's a zero. I

1:10:51

drool. Yeah,

1:10:53

no, there's a This

1:10:55

must be impossible to get something like that.

1:10:57

Okay. Oh, what could have been? Blay's just sitting there with

1:11:00

his mouth open. What could have been? All

1:11:02

right. So you all are able to

1:11:04

remember your way through the mausoleum

1:11:06

to get there the way that you were led before.

1:11:08

He took a bunch of wrong turns. So I would

1:11:10

just had to correct guiding them. Yeah,

1:11:13

keep just pulling them back and guiding them

1:11:15

along the way. So once again,

1:11:17

just like before you enter Talon

1:11:19

headquarters from the southern portion. And

1:11:22

as you all are arriving pulling into this

1:11:24

area that you know as being Talon headquarters,

1:11:26

you see that the coven is sending

1:11:28

out what appears to be a horde

1:11:31

of haglings via secret tunnels. The secret

1:11:33

tunnels that you just came through. Secret

1:11:35

tunnels! And you back towards them is

1:11:37

the mausoleum. So all this is

1:11:39

going on, we'll say each of you could

1:11:41

take a turn to do whatever you want.

1:11:43

Let's call it like a surprise round to

1:11:45

get ready, whether it's an action, bonus action,

1:11:48

movement, scouting ahead, getting

1:11:50

a position, whatever you want. You

1:11:52

said that there's a horde coming. Like is it

1:11:54

from one? They're all entering from one spot and

1:11:57

is it like from that one

1:11:59

tunnel? Don't know if that actually describes

1:12:01

what Gus does. You

1:12:03

all emerged from that tunnel that you entered

1:12:05

from the mausoleum, and as you enter and

1:12:08

you're kind of hiding to survey the room,

1:12:11

a horde of haglings leaves this

1:12:13

big room you're in back out through the tunnel you

1:12:15

just came from, like they're heading into

1:12:17

parish now. And we're trying to stop them,

1:12:20

like ambushing. That's up to you. Everyone

1:12:22

can take a turn. You all tell me. How do

1:12:24

they not see us if we came out of the tunnel

1:12:26

that they're not going into? That's a very

1:12:28

dark cavern. Remember, it's not above ground. You all

1:12:30

are underground. And honestly, they might. I'm going to

1:12:32

make some rolls here in a bit. So this

1:12:35

is your chance to either hide or, you know,

1:12:37

figure out what it is that you're going to

1:12:39

do. You all just kind of have like first

1:12:41

jump here. Quick meta talk. If I wearing my

1:12:43

cloak of displacement, can I also be wearing a

1:12:45

robe of serpents or is it one or the

1:12:47

other? One or the other.

1:12:49

Okay. I'm going to go into hiding

1:12:51

and just at a advantageous

1:12:54

spot. Actually, do I see any

1:12:56

of the leaders? Do I spot

1:12:58

any senior hags? Why don't

1:13:00

you make me a perception

1:13:02

check from here? My favorite.

1:13:06

Eleven. Yeah. So you, you know,

1:13:08

look out back into this room

1:13:11

and you see two of the hags in the

1:13:13

center of the room close to

1:13:15

that that water in that river that

1:13:17

runs through the middle of the

1:13:20

headquarters. I'm just going to move forward and

1:13:22

go into hiding. Okay. Make a

1:13:24

stealth check. Okay. This is that advantage. That's

1:13:26

a 21 and a 21. Pretty good. All

1:13:28

right. Who else wants

1:13:32

to go? How many is the horde

1:13:34

like number wise? Are we trying to

1:13:36

find them? It's a lot. Well, that's up to you. Are

1:13:38

we kind of thinking? I don't

1:13:41

know. Because maybe the cavalry

1:13:44

will come just the right time

1:13:46

and I'll fight them like that.

1:13:48

Who knows? Yeah. They're also trying

1:13:50

to stealthily take positions up.

1:13:52

It looks like maybe they're trying to, you

1:13:54

know, they're kind of coordinating, trying

1:13:57

to figure out how to encapsulate as many

1:13:59

as possible. I imagine we don't want them

1:14:01

going through this tunnel. Is there like

1:14:03

a ten foot radius spot that would

1:14:06

Stop them that they would have to go through in order

1:14:08

to enter the city a choke point Yeah,

1:14:11

it doesn't quite get that thing.

1:14:13

It doesn't get all the way down to ten feet.

1:14:15

I'd say at its Tidus

1:14:18

it probably gets down to 15 17

1:14:22

feet somewhere in that area. Let's create a job

1:14:24

to point. I have a Magic

1:14:26

circle I create a ten

1:14:28

foot radius twenty foot tall cylinder magical energy

1:14:31

So they're not a point on the ground

1:14:33

that you see and then I can choose

1:14:35

one or more of the following types of

1:14:37

creatures I can choose fae and it affects

1:14:40

those creatures They can't willingly enter the

1:14:42

cylinder by non-magical means if

1:14:45

the creature tries to use teleportation to enter They

1:14:47

have to make the charisma saving throw and

1:14:49

they have disadvantage on attack roles against targets

1:14:52

within the cylinder targets within the cylinder can't

1:14:54

be charmed frightened or possessed and When

1:14:57

you cast the spell you can select to

1:14:59

cause its magic to operate in the reverse

1:15:01

direction preventing a creature of specific types and

1:15:03

leading the cylinder so I could

1:15:05

either capture a bunch of them in the

1:15:07

cylinder or create like

1:15:09

a Barrier where

1:15:11

we could fight from yeah, that's super useful.

1:15:14

Did you describe a choke point those 15

1:15:16

feet Gus? Yes, it's about

1:15:18

15 feet is the most narrow it gets to

1:15:21

maybe place it in the center And then we

1:15:23

have two people on either side or

1:15:25

I could also cut off a bunch of them split

1:15:27

them up like the two that Were the two that

1:15:29

we're trying to split them up. I could cast Oh

1:15:32

the spell and keep them from waiting. Yeah I

1:15:34

would say yeah, if that's the case, I'd have

1:15:37

that at the ready, but if we deploy it now

1:15:39

It's a one-minute cast so I need to like do

1:15:41

it. Oh You're

1:15:43

funny to like do it before we go in okay Can

1:15:45

I do that Gus where I split like the hags the

1:15:48

two that are bad into different groups?

1:15:51

Well, you know the two leaders the two

1:15:54

hags. I'll tell you well, why don't you Barney? You haven't

1:15:56

rolled me one Why don't you make me a perception check

1:15:58

net 20? Before I get

1:16:01

to that, just so we were all on the same

1:16:03

page about the spell, you know, I see you have

1:16:05

all the components for that spell. You would have to

1:16:07

make sure you remove some of

1:16:09

the ones that it says from your inventory. Okay.

1:16:11

That is a very powerful spell as you can

1:16:13

tell. That's why it takes time to cast and

1:16:15

it also has material components that are a little

1:16:17

costly. So just to kind of keep it in

1:16:19

check, if you do end up casting it, make

1:16:22

sure you remove the necessary items for your inventory.

1:16:24

Okay. So yes, you

1:16:26

can totally do that and

1:16:28

you know, kind of create this choke point where

1:16:30

you all just came through to stop these

1:16:32

haggling. However, on top of that, there are

1:16:34

the two hags in the room, which there's

1:16:36

about five feet between them. If you wanted

1:16:38

to, you could try to separate them, like

1:16:40

put one inside the circle and the other

1:16:42

one not in the circle. In

1:16:45

front of them, kind of in the middle of

1:16:47

the room is the headless horseman who's

1:16:49

looking at the hags as well. Off

1:16:52

to the east is a

1:16:54

cage filled with animals and

1:16:56

Javi the hag. Javi. Out

1:16:59

to the west is like a

1:17:01

pile of magical oddities. And

1:17:04

then out to the southeast appears to be a

1:17:06

pile of corpses. And then

1:17:08

walking around as well, besides

1:17:11

the horde of haglings, there's also

1:17:13

various groups of darklings wandering around,

1:17:15

seeming to be getting ready for

1:17:17

some type of battle. This is

1:17:19

world boss battle. And

1:17:22

I say all this because

1:17:24

you rolled a really good perception check. And

1:17:26

I don't want you to think these haglings are

1:17:28

the only thing in here that you're facing.

1:17:30

Catch it. The whole army. Hey,

1:17:33

I think that they should probably send back for more of

1:17:36

the camera. I don't

1:17:38

think six or eight dudes is going to do it. The

1:17:41

horde. How spatially how much space

1:17:43

are they taking up? Like if I was to

1:17:45

do that 10 foot radius, how

1:17:47

many what percentage of them would

1:17:49

it encapsulate the horde of haglings? Yeah. So

1:17:52

there's quite a few of them with a 10.

1:17:55

It was a 10 foot diameter circle. 10 foot

1:17:57

radius. So I guess that would be even better.

1:18:00

That'd make 20. Yeah, yeah, you probably get

1:18:02

the majority of the horde of haglings in

1:18:05

that can I have? I

1:18:07

just kind of generally said can I hide

1:18:09

can I make movement towards? Shivy

1:18:11

and and also still be hidden like like max

1:18:13

out my movement without being detected sure absolutely you

1:18:15

roll so well Absolutely, I have something that I

1:18:17

want to do, but I want to give Barbara

1:18:19

an opportunity cool Yeah, well, I want to fit

1:18:21

the wealth out of finish up with Barney. I

1:18:23

don't know if you can cast that or not

1:18:25

Yeah, I'm gonna cast it With

1:18:27

the group like is it better? You don't think it's

1:18:30

better to trap off all the all the bad

1:18:32

ones and we could just like group

1:18:34

boom boom boom from afar

1:18:36

Or separate the two bosses

1:18:38

the two tags. I'm assuming

1:18:40

that that Matid is gonna

1:18:42

do that Interdimensional thing to separate I'm

1:18:44

gonna try to get Shivy out of the cage

1:18:46

so that they could potentially run away Or

1:18:49

help us in the battle. So maybe

1:18:52

we coordinate with Matid I

1:18:54

have one I have I have a way to get Shivy away

1:18:56

But if you don't want me to do that I can do

1:18:58

some I mean still your call I'm just saying if we're gonna

1:19:00

hit the goal is to separate them Maybe

1:19:03

Barney focuses on capturing one and then

1:19:05

Matid try to teleport the other I

1:19:08

know we're capturing all the big hordes so we

1:19:10

don't have to fight them and we just deal

1:19:12

with the bosses. Yeah, that's That

1:19:14

works for me. I would say that I would lean

1:19:16

towards Yeah, you would want to start casting that like

1:19:18

getting the job I think that this is like a

1:19:20

tenuous lead on this whole thing. I don't think we're

1:19:22

gonna be yes But

1:19:24

I'm curious what Elga and Matid are gonna get

1:19:27

into Could I I don't know

1:19:29

what this necessarily does? I've never I don't

1:19:31

think I've ever ready to spell before but cuz I

1:19:33

ready the cone of cold spell

1:19:37

Cold you get that from Fangs from

1:19:41

Casting time what do you have in

1:19:43

mind? I was just gonna target a

1:19:45

bunch of the Haglings

1:19:48

it's a 60 foot cone and they have

1:19:50

to make a constitution saving throw. Otherwise, they

1:19:52

take 88 of cold damage So

1:19:55

what would you wait for like for them to get close

1:19:58

right up on you and then you cast it or? What's

1:20:00

your plan here? Yeah, just to kind of see like the majority of

1:20:02

them group up in a to like really make

1:20:04

the most of That 60 foot Sure,

1:20:07

so you're gonna kind of position yourself and wait for them

1:20:09

to get closer and then spring it on them Yeah, tell

1:20:11

me what so it sounds like you're gonna want to be

1:20:13

hiding to do that So why don't you make me a

1:20:15

stealth check to see if you can try to make sure

1:20:17

they get as close as possible Beautiful

1:20:22

dagger you got there. I thought the

1:20:24

anything ship is still hiding Nice

1:20:27

nice beautiful nice Wow, that's an

1:20:29

11. All right. Is that it for

1:20:31

you Elga? Am I also

1:20:33

allowed to rage now you want

1:20:36

to? But

1:20:38

don't forget yeah, if you don't attack

1:20:40

or take damage within the next round

1:20:42

it goes away. Okay, hold on That's

1:20:45

it for Elga. Okay, Matid a

1:20:47

far a shivey for me from where you

1:20:49

all entered shivey's kind of on the Farthest

1:20:52

east wall. I'm gonna do some counting.

1:20:54

We're facing north, right? Yeah,

1:20:57

I say roughly 100

1:21:00

120 feet something like that. Okay, and your

1:21:02

movement speed is that distance you can go

1:21:04

in one turn Which

1:21:07

is correct six seconds ten

1:21:09

seconds Six seconds

1:21:11

six seconds. Okay, I want to

1:21:13

incorporate move into the

1:21:15

ground and then head

1:21:17

towards Shivey, okay

1:21:20

So would then if since you're giving us

1:21:22

this opportunity to take a turn basically I

1:21:25

can go my distance to shivey

1:21:27

Yeah, yeah, so you would

1:21:29

like are you talking about like double move? Yeah,

1:21:31

I guess Let's say

1:21:33

yes. I'm asking that. Yeah. Okay, you can totally do

1:21:36

that then I can get all the way Underneath

1:21:39

shivey. Okay great. So

1:21:41

to recap we just say something. I'm gonna double

1:21:43

move if that's the case So that's 80 feet

1:21:46

plus I'm gonna do the hide which I

1:21:48

what kind of is that called? Yeah,

1:21:52

wait, where are you moving to I

1:21:54

was also gonna move towards shivey just kind of in that general

1:21:56

back area I want to get the jump on him. I want

1:21:58

to like go around as much as I can. Okay.

1:22:02

So if Matid ends their turn inside an

1:22:04

object or creature they take 1d10 force

1:22:07

damage. Oh yeah I'll take it.

1:22:09

Okay. Roll it. Four. I

1:22:12

take four damage. That's terrible. Okay so to

1:22:14

recap chip double moves while hiding trying to

1:22:16

close the distance to Shivy gets most of

1:22:18

the way there with 80 feet. Barney

1:22:20

is starting to cast that spell.

1:22:23

We can say it goes off here pretty quick

1:22:25

right? Says you're since you already started casting it

1:22:27

and you were casting it to create the choke

1:22:29

point right not to split the hags. I should

1:22:31

probably split the hags right. I'll split the hags.

1:22:33

I need a decision to. I'll split the hags.

1:22:35

I'll split the hags and get as many of

1:22:38

the other hags as possible like trandly blip haglings

1:22:42

in there as possible. So the haglings are

1:22:44

nowhere near the hag. Okay okay well then

1:22:46

I'll just split the hags. So you want

1:22:48

to cast it basically on one hag without

1:22:50

the other one right so that there we

1:22:52

can find it. Okay and then Elga

1:22:55

is kind of hiding waiting for the haglings to get

1:22:57

closer to use Kona cold on them.

1:22:59

Yeah. And Matid

1:23:01

is underground under Shivy

1:23:04

and it their turn there. Taking four damage. You

1:23:09

hear a muffled. As

1:23:14

you are sneaking over chip

1:23:17

the hag guy in your possession suddenly glows with

1:23:19

a green light and you hear a shriek of

1:23:21

laughter fell from the purple and blue hag. The

1:23:24

green hag cries out from

1:23:26

the nearby keys. Shurak and

1:23:29

Skitch begin chanting. We have

1:23:32

you. You've

1:23:35

got a beacon in your pocket. Shurak

1:23:39

and Skitch join hands and their

1:23:41

feeble figures rise into the air.

1:23:43

Shivy's cage also rises into the

1:23:45

air behind them. On each of

1:23:47

their foreheads a third green eye

1:23:49

appears. Oh one claw three talons

1:23:51

are coming united three

1:23:54

hags one

1:23:56

sisterhood our powers are united all

1:23:58

three hags erupt. with thickly green

1:24:00

flames and a softly blue throughout the cavern.

1:24:02

One of the first times since you've seen

1:24:05

them, all three hags no longer appear as

1:24:07

decrepit old crumbs. Instead, a

1:24:09

trio of fearsome and miserable witches. Everyone

1:24:12

roll initiative. Oh my god. I

1:24:34

response purple skin, two horns,

1:24:36

ten fingers, two metal fingers,

1:24:38

one tail. Five, five. We

1:24:42

can see you. 21

1:24:46

as well. All

1:24:48

right. So when we come back next week, we're

1:24:50

going to have Elgin Barty leading us off with

1:24:53

Chip, Ben Matid, and

1:24:55

we'll see what happens in the next week's episode

1:24:57

of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. I'm not sure

1:24:59

if I'm going to fight. This is bad. This

1:25:01

is bad. The heed just has to hang out

1:25:03

underground for a week. Yeah. How

1:25:07

much damage is going to be?

1:25:11

It's going to be gone forever. I'm going to reroll a

1:25:13

new character when we come back. But

1:25:15

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