Episode Transcript
[00:00:02] Speaker A: Now recording. That's the sound of our secret fourth, fifth member. We have four other secret fifth member of our podcast. Not the one you're thinking of. Shout out to Craig.
This is barely DND or sort of Dungeon Dragons podcast. The favorite one, I might add.
I am your host. No, I'm not. Shout out to Micah. She's not here because she's doing stuff.
[00:00:25] Speaker B: She's the official host now. True.
[00:00:27] Speaker A: We're having fun. We're still rocking and rolling. And now we're playing Pokemon.
[00:00:32] Speaker C: We are.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Please take it away, Zachary.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: Well, welcome back. Accidental Adventures. More that inspired by Boz turning the Orchid Knight into a bee and shoving him in his magical apiary. The last session. You want to be the letter question for today? Huh?
[00:00:45] Speaker A: Best there ever was. Sorry.
[00:00:49] Speaker B: You couldn't see it, but I aimed a finger gun at Landon. Oh, he aimed back.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: Crossbow.
[00:00:54] Speaker B: The what is. Oh, that's right. It's finger crossbows. The letter question for today is if your character was a Pokemon trainer, or specifically Ash Ketchum.
No question. If your character was ash Ketchum, my DND monster would be their Pikachu. It could be standard 5e.
That's fine.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go again.
[00:01:14] Speaker B: Okay. Everyone's excited.
[00:01:15] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: We know this is a good letter to question because people volunteered to answer. That's wild.
Abby asked first, so, no, I don't actually have one.
[00:01:23] Speaker C: I just started to say a joke that I didn't say.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: Okay, what was the joke? Now I want to know.
[00:01:29] Speaker C: It's not a good joke.
[00:01:31] Speaker B: Okay, good boss, what's yours?
[00:01:34] Speaker A: Oh, since boss wants to be the very best. The best there ever was.
[00:01:37] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: And, you know, to catch them is the real test, but to train them is the. Cause I think he would take Zalifax as him.
It makes sense. He's Pokemon sized, right? Like, he's like, the right size, and he has, like, some special abilities that not every other one has that he can do. And he's a little spoiled spunky. So I feel like he'd be like Ash Ketchum's Charizard, too, you know, because, like, Ash had, like, the super strong Pokemon, but, like, he couldn't, like, control him because their bond wasn't deep enough, you know? I feel like Exalifax's spunk would be just like Charizard. It's like they'd be struggling to, like, like, do stuff together at first.
[00:02:19] Speaker B: The other day in the gym at school, they put on the guy who runs the gym Put on the Pokemon episode where Charizard finally listens to Ash. And that was fun.
Ro, what would your Pikachu.
[00:02:32] Speaker E: I don't know yet. I'm nose gozing.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: Okay. Greta.
[00:02:36] Speaker C: Mine would be a flumph.
Greta's an old lady.
She would have a flumph and she would talk to her flumph. And maybe sometimes she would use her flumph as a pillow.
[00:02:50] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. Flumphs are this world's version of crusty eyed white dogs.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: Since nobody's asked for the dnd, I'm calling dibs.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: By the way, everyone did forget. So Landon does technically have dibs. What's up?
[00:03:02] Speaker A: I got dibs. I want to know.
Oh my gosh, why do y'all send so many messages in the chat? I don't understand.
[00:03:09] Speaker B: It's.
[00:03:11] Speaker A: I want to hear what Thoras's Pokemon would be. It can't be one of the guys that we fought. It can't be one of the guys that we thought. One restriction. All right, now, I was buying you time, Jackie.
[00:03:25] Speaker E: Oh, thank.
I don't know. I was like looking. I was like chaotically trying to look through monsters and pick things from this.
[00:03:36] Speaker B: Campaign if you want, if that makes it.
[00:03:38] Speaker E: I know, but I couldn't think of anything that's like a creature. Like, I found this thing that says it's a necrotic bat and it looks really dope and it's an undead.
It's like really cool looking. It's green and purplish black and it looks like a zombie bat.
And I could see Rose trying to tame that thing. Also some kind of like weird animal hybrid. Harpy would be cool because they're kind of musical and lure. You're in with a song. I don't know.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: Abby just messaged in the chat. I want to change Grievous answer to a beholder. And I was like, wow, CR13. That's. That's a big pick.
My pick is an ancient red dragon.
My pick is Zorcrum.
Go.
[00:04:35] Speaker C: Do you want to battle?
[00:04:36] Speaker A: Do you want to battle my Rattata? And I'm like, yeah, here's Zorgrim. Have fun with that.
[00:04:43] Speaker E: I'll send you guys a picture of the cool necrotic bat because it's pretty cool looking.
[00:04:48] Speaker C: Wanna see.
[00:04:54] Speaker B: Pokemon?
[00:04:56] Speaker C: That's awesome.
[00:04:58] Speaker B: Okay, well if. Oh, that's pretty sick looking. If we're gonna go legendary Pokemon are on the board.
Would pick a Tempest Serpent, which is a really high. It's like cr. Like 26 elemental or tempest? Tempest. Snake. Tempest Vesper. I don't know. It's this thing from. I want to say Volos, but I'm not so. And it's just this giant serpent that is a storm and that's really up her alley and freaking sick and metal.
Freaking second dude.
On that note, are we ready for another episode of the Action?
[00:05:41] Speaker A: I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go.
[00:05:48] Speaker E: Good soup.
[00:05:48] Speaker C: I wish I had soup.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: Drinking tea.
[00:05:50] Speaker C: I wish I had soup. I wish I had soup.
[00:05:53] Speaker E: I wish I could give you some of this. It's like the best. I. I would say it's the best soup.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: Just rolling around.
[00:05:58] Speaker A: We call episode 131 the Supreme Court.
[00:06:02] Speaker C: I do not want to do that.
[00:06:04] Speaker D: Dang it. That's better than mine.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: This is episode 131 of the Accidental Adventures Twist of Fae.
[00:06:11] Speaker E: I like that.
I don't want to talk about the Supreme Court right now.
[00:06:15] Speaker C: Me too.
[00:06:16] Speaker B: It's a level 12 adventure. 3488pb film. And yeah. Okay, we're gonna start our session now. That was the worst transition I've ever done.
Three and a half years. That was the worst one.
[00:06:32] Speaker D: All right.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: Setting records.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: Jackie, I don't think that's vanilla 5E.
Did you just Google Vampire Bat D and Google Images?
[00:06:40] Speaker E: No, it's not a. It has a whole page for.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: It's probably.
[00:06:48] Speaker E: It says it's with. It says it's Raven Wood. Blood. Raven Blood.
[00:06:54] Speaker A: My favorite book. All right, Zach.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: My favorite one is.
[00:06:57] Speaker E: Could be anything.
[00:07:03] Speaker B: All right. So while I pick a song.
[00:07:06] Speaker D: Fun.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Guys, we're picking up where we left off.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: I.
[00:07:13] Speaker B: You all stand.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: Do something before they say anything.
[00:07:15] Speaker B: It's just.
[00:07:16] Speaker A: As soon as we done I want to try and do an animal handling check to reach into my apiary, whatever it's called, and try to pull out the. The bee and present it to Yelik Tenant.
[00:07:27] Speaker C: Oh, awesome.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: I would call that the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard if you weren't a bee shepherd. So please do so.
If literally anyone else asked, I'm like, no, you're not gonna get the bee to come to you.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: But I'm gonna burn my inspiration for knowing that bees can heatball and I rolled.
[00:07:53] Speaker D: Nature.
[00:07:54] Speaker A: Nature.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: Nature.
[00:07:54] Speaker A: That is a 18.
[00:07:58] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:08:00] Speaker D: Pretty great.
[00:08:03] Speaker B: Jackie, the source book that you were trying to say that that page is from is the name of the guy.
[00:08:09] Speaker D: Who made the page continuing.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: Or at least the aliens.
[00:08:17] Speaker E: Whatever. It looked legit. I don't care. It looks cool.
[00:08:21] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:08:22] Speaker E: I stand by it.
[00:08:24] Speaker B: Jackie's online looking at AI pictures Being like, whoa, that's really.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: I love the D and D.
Don't.
[00:08:31] Speaker B: Even give me Jesus is a shrimp in that one.
[00:08:34] Speaker E: I am the biggest advocate against AI. That doesn't necessarily look AI, but it doesn't.
[00:08:41] Speaker B: Hold on, that doesn't add up. The other day we were talking and you were like, I love AI so, so much. I wish it was so much more present in art.
[00:08:48] Speaker E: I'm gonna light a fire.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: Then you donated 200 to Chat GPT. And we were like, why would you do that?
[00:08:54] Speaker B: We're like, that's so. It's hugely profitable. You don't have to do that.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: No, that's a non profit that they don't get profit actually. But.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: Yeah, well, nobody's using it that much because it's not making money somehow. But anywho.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: Yeah, no jacket with you.
[00:09:07] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: It has to be funded by something. Anywho, the security one bomb. Bing, bong, bong.
So, Boz, you fish your hand in your magical Bee apiary and you pull out a bee, close the door and you walk over wordlessly with the destruction of the battlefield all around you. And you just reach up the bee toward Yalaktanon and it starts to float up the wrong way, away from him. He just looks at you. He hasn't smiled at you a lot in all the time you've known him, but he gets a sly smile. He just whispers something and the bee changes its path and lands on his shoulder.
He just nods at you.
[00:09:55] Speaker A: I go back and I stay with my friends.
[00:09:57] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: Each of the fey lords and ladies sit back on their thrones. They look at you, puzzling specifically, the Crystalline One and Turas look back and forth to each other. The Crystalline One nods.
Turas resumes by saying.
[00:10:26] Speaker D: Well, I think you've rather made your.
And there's a pause if the group wants to respond somehow, but they don't have to.
[00:10:40] Speaker A: Oh, I thought he was pausing mid sentence.
[00:10:43] Speaker B: No, she didn't. She didn't say anything beyond that.
[00:10:47] Speaker A: Real quick, is anybody watching Traders right now?
Reminds me of Alan Cumming in Traders. The Scottish accent. That's all I'm going to say.
If you're watching Traders, you know exactly what I mean. It gives the, you know, mysterious Scottish Highland vibe.
I look back and I say, I say, I mean, what do you think?
[00:11:20] Speaker B: She leans forward. It's not that the court defers to her, but there is. Their interactions are interesting. They're all very.
These grooves between them must be well worn. I mean, these have to be old relational dynamics, things that have existed and proven true again and again for a long time. This feels like a very established order around here. Not even like a. Like a hierarchy. Just like a.
Like a found family that's been together forever.
And as she leans forward everyone just kind of looks to her and gives her the space to speak. And she says.
[00:12:07] Speaker D: I believe the man Prince.
[00:12:10] Speaker B: She kind of gives him just this like mocking grin. But he just gets a. A look in his eyes and looks at you all. The pride isn't the right term, but just confidence.
And Kits steeples her fingers and leans back on her throne, strangely seeming to contemplate something very suddenly.
The other two Fae Lords you don't know exchange a glance with each other and they speak to each other in a tongue no one here can recognize. And the words kind of unravel into song a bit.
[00:12:55] Speaker C: Oh cool.
[00:12:58] Speaker B: It's just foreign to you all.
[00:13:02] Speaker D: I'll say.
[00:13:04] Speaker B: Bar can make a rumors check if he wants.
[00:13:10] Speaker C: It doesn't sound anything.
[00:13:11] Speaker A: That is a natural 20. Zachary. I'm not even joking. That is a natural 20. For a total of 21.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: Crap. That's awesome.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: Nobody realized boss only has a plus one to Charisma. The only reason he gets high rolls and stuff is because of proficiency and expertise.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: Hey man, take it where you got it.
Boz.
[00:13:32] Speaker D: This is the most.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: This is like a. Like a mythic fable kind of thing. You didn't think this. You honestly didn't buy it. You've heard some of the deep roots refer to High Sylvan before.
A language spoken only among High Fae and Archfey. And the two exchange a phrase or two and respond.
And they look back to you and they just start speaking with each other in hai. Back and forth. They just kind of ignore you guys for a little bit. And the five of them proceed to begin to sort of debate and converse with each other for a good 10 or 15 minutes. And if you all sit quietly and just listen, perhaps you do let me know if you do something.
[00:14:21] Speaker C: I do.
[00:14:23] Speaker B: If you just sit quietly and listen.
They are comfortable being themselves.
They raise voices with each other sometimes and it's really cool because for just a little bit their conversation kind of becomes a musical. Because this language is like one of song. And it's like it. It's like they speak to each other and it's not like they're singing. It's like the words come out and turn into song notes and unravel into tunes. And so what begins with. What begins as like this firm. Like when Thuras speaks passionately and she starts with Omre Turin. And then it like, like resonates outward. And there's a little bit of like when she does her fist pounds her throne. There's a little with it. And when Yelik Tenanth speaks, his words dissimilate into eerie notes that turn into like whispers that linger for a moment. Kitsiegi's voice echoes and like, sort of harmonizes with itself between major and minor chords. And they just.
Yes.
I shouldn't have said that. That was on me. Honestly.
[00:15:35] Speaker E: No, I am so sorry. I just thought of something.
How long did our thing last? How long did our combat last?
[00:15:47] Speaker C: Wait a minute.
[00:15:49] Speaker E: Because Greta casts. Greta casts tongues on me and Craig.
About.
[00:15:59] Speaker C: An hour.
[00:16:00] Speaker E: Yeah, so would I. Has it been an hour?
[00:16:04] Speaker B: In this moment, no one has any idea what they're saying.
[00:16:06] Speaker E: Okay?
[00:16:08] Speaker B: Except for Craig and Rock, who understand is they debate with each other.
Bizarrely, Craig's the one who knows what's going on. And Craig's. Craig's just. Craig every once while they say something and he just turns to you guys and goes, oh. And goes back to listening to him just looking like the kid who knows what's happening. Their conversation is filled with debate of your merit and the likelihood of your survivability.
They make nods to things you don't understand.
They speak about the worth. Such a grave sacrifice.
And for just a moment you think they could be referring to your lives. But then it becomes clear pretty quickly that that's not at all what they're saying. That if they are to go through with this realm separation thing, then it's going to involve some sort of a sacrifice on their end somehow.
They debate the price and toll of what they're saying.
The. Okay, very coolly.
[00:17:27] Speaker A: Oh, Jackie.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: Slick move that. Inspiration. Jackie, that's way to. Way to. Wait. You forgot the homework. In the best possible way.
[00:17:35] Speaker E: I already have. Inspiration.
[00:17:38] Speaker B: You learn the name of the other two Fae Lords as they. Because they call each other by name.
So there's Yeliktanant, the Mad Prince Kitsigi. They don't use any titles, use any monikers. But there's Yeliktanant, Kitsigi, Thudas. And you learned that the animalistic one covered in fur is Otheanda. Oth E A N D A O Theanda.
[00:18:10] Speaker E: Cool name.
[00:18:11] Speaker B: And that the. The Crystalline one is Sequisadius.
S E Q U E S A R I A S Sequisadius.
[00:18:28] Speaker A: Crystal one, you said.
[00:18:30] Speaker B: Mm.
So the Seelie Court of the Feywilds is Yeluktananth. Kidsiigi, Thuras, Otheanda and Sequisadius.
So Drew posted a meme in the Bailey D and D Discord a while back that just said it's like a tweet of someone saying, narrating how a fantasy author has been found guilty on 287 counts of unpronounceable names and that their punishment was reading their own audiobook.
I responded, well, that's not aimed at anyone in particular. And he just maybe.
Nice, Abby, if you want to turn your camera on and off, you disappeared for me.
So you learn their names and the conclusion they seem to reach. They also, a lot of. Some of the debate is spent kind of briefly on the. The threat to providing you all these gate stones that they don't have a great deal of faith in your ability to keep them safe and the possibility of them falling. One of the brief points that they make with each other is that if one of these stones were to be obtained by acolytes of the Hate King, then that could provide them a way in. And the resounding retort that comes from, I'd say from Atheanda, is that that's kind of a moot point because they're afraid about him coming altogether. So, you know, he's tearing apart realms. They're like, you know, we need to take the risk on these material, pulling jabronis, because if we're not going to trust them with that, it's just really a game of inevitability. And they debate and they debate. You can see that this is very much not a settled point between them.
But with that in mind. Jackie or Abby, are you there?
[00:20:30] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:31] Speaker B: Okay. How about you, huh? How about you all, the three of you guys decide the fate of this little thing? Now, having passed your trial and spoken eloquently, you all are going to give me not an averaged, but a combinative group persuasion check. So everyone's gonna make precision checks. You're gonna add them up. If they pass a total dc, you all will pass. Now, the one thing is, you get a plus 10 to the total. It's a high DC, but you get a plus 10 the total, because the total.
Sorry, sorry. That was very confusing and I should not have said a thing that provided you the time to go.
Once you guys give me all three of your numbers, I'm gonna add them up and we're gonna put 10 onto the total. Because you all spoke very persuasively and honestly at the beginning and. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. I should have. I'll tell you in just a second, Abby. And because you won the combat, so you've persuaded them quite a bit, Abby. The crystalline Fae Lord was Sequisadius. S E Q U E S A R I A S Sequisadius is the.
[00:21:53] Speaker E: D20 inspiration now out of play? It's still active. Okay. Because I didn't use.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: My Fae Lords have some powerful abilities, and that is one.
He's a powerful dude. It's an incredible ability to it too.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: Can we do inspiration on us or.
[00:22:12] Speaker B: No, it has not been done, so.
[00:22:16] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:22:16] Speaker B: It would need to have already happened.
You could guide somebody.
[00:22:21] Speaker E: I'm gonna guide my.
[00:22:23] Speaker A: Greg guides himself and I guide myself as well.
[00:22:26] Speaker B: You are not making a roll for Craig or Tello. Just the three players, okay?
[00:22:30] Speaker A: Oh, just us three?
[00:22:32] Speaker C: I got a. Yeah.
[00:22:33] Speaker B: Sorry if that was.
[00:22:34] Speaker C: I got a nine total. They hate me.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: That's very bad.
Everybody else is gonna need to roll pretty hot.
[00:22:45] Speaker C: I'm so frustrated.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: Did you already use your D20 thing, Greta?
[00:22:50] Speaker C: Yeah, I used it in combat and I don't have inspiration and I use guidance and the Fae hate me.
[00:23:00] Speaker B: Well, everybody else might nail it. Let's see.
[00:23:02] Speaker A: I got a 20. Sharon.
[00:23:05] Speaker B: Well, that's nailing it pretty hard.
[00:23:07] Speaker E: I got a 31.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: Holy crap.
Okay.
[00:23:16] Speaker E: They didn't like me at first, but they saw me sing and they were like, she's got a pretty voice.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: You got pipes, Easter. British Snipers got pipes, but that don't.
[00:23:33] Speaker B: Mean it's gone 77. The DC was 65.
[00:23:39] Speaker E: Wait, and what. What do we have? We had 77.
[00:23:42] Speaker B: See you guys pass now. I mean, it's not like a DC65 because it was an additive group thing, but. Yeah.
[00:23:52] Speaker A: So crazy means we each had to roll over 20.
[00:23:57] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:23:57] Speaker C: Sorry, guys.
[00:23:58] Speaker B: Now, obviously, you know, getting everything to go and getting the Plus 10 is a pretty big boon, but.
[00:24:02] Speaker D: Yep.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: So as you. They.
They sing their argument and they resound and they commune and they battle. And eventually, each with different emotional reactions.
[00:24:18] Speaker D: They sort of resign to a consensus.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: And while three of the five fungi are just kind of left to guess what's happening. And it's interesting because Boz and Greta and Tello are not left in the dark. They're just left in ambiguity. There's clearly some sort of a discussion going on. It's just unclear as to what.
And you guys can kind of follow along insightfully, based off of what you understand from the proponents, because clearly Yelik to Nanth is for this. You guys can guess that kidsigi is also kind of vouching for you. So when they make points, people react to them. You can guess. But at some point Roe, you are able to kind of subtly signal to your friends that they've come to a finished speaking point. And the five surviving Fae lords and ladies the Sealy Court turn and look at you. And Thuras resumes and she says and this. This entire. Everything's been sylvan thus far. She resumes and she says.
[00:25:23] Speaker D: We are convinced.
[00:25:27] Speaker B: Those of you who would bind yourselves to these pact.
[00:25:32] Speaker D: We will offer the wish to read the Book of Secrets.
So step ye forth. Those of you who would agree to lay down.
[00:25:51] Speaker B: I will absolutely let it not be a weird thing. Lando. All good.
[00:25:55] Speaker D: Those of you who would agree to pledge your final allegiance not to your realm, but ours.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: Baz. You step forward.
Sequisadius raises their hand, opens it. There's the flash of light and this hollow stupidly gorgeous carved emerald just appears.
[00:26:26] Speaker D: And floats out to you slowly until.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: You can reach up and hold it. It's just like a quarter centimeter of gem and then the inside is hollow.
And you can put.
[00:26:42] Speaker A: What is it called?
[00:26:44] Speaker B: You can put Crystal Gate.
[00:26:55] Speaker C: I think. Greta walks forward.
[00:26:58] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:26:59] Speaker B: Greta steps forward. Sedius turns to you, unmoving, raises a.
[00:27:05] Speaker D: Hand and a similar sapphire.
[00:27:09] Speaker B: They're so tiny in their hand, just.
[00:27:12] Speaker D: Floats out to you till it's far.
[00:27:14] Speaker C: Enough and it takes it. She cradles it in two hands.
[00:27:18] Speaker D: Okay.
Something unknown at this time.
[00:27:27] Speaker E: Ro takes a deep breath, pauses and steps forward.
[00:27:33] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:27:33] Speaker D: Well.
[00:27:34] Speaker A: Boss catches her shoulder as she steps forward and he says you don't have to do this, you know.
[00:27:41] Speaker E: No, I. I do Boss.
[00:27:44] Speaker D: Right.
[00:27:46] Speaker E: And she kind of smiles at him and steps forward.
[00:27:51] Speaker D: Se looks at you.
The hand flashes an all diamond floats out to you, lands in your palm.
[00:28:04] Speaker E: You can put hollow diamond.
[00:28:08] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean crystal gates are hollow.
[00:28:10] Speaker E: Yeah. I just. It cut out so. I didn't know what you said. It sounded kind of like Olive and I was confused.
[00:28:19] Speaker B: Looks back and forth isn't. He says.
[00:28:25] Speaker D: I don't. I don't think I'm the person to know.
[00:28:31] Speaker B: And he just looks up at the.
[00:28:33] Speaker A: It's okay.
[00:28:34] Speaker B: Fake or. But you're close enough to him to feel him trembling just a little. And the confident voice, whatever, whatever he may or may not be preparing. He just says I don't think I'm the one.
[00:28:51] Speaker D: But like I'm patrons, I believe.
[00:28:55] Speaker C: And Sacrasar like takes his. Closes their hand like takes. She like grabs his arm.
[00:29:04] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:29:05] Speaker C: It's like he grabs your hands and.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: He just looks down at you and whispers in insinity.
[00:29:08] Speaker D: And he just says, just focus on keeping up.
[00:29:12] Speaker B: And.
[00:29:14] Speaker C: And she laughs.
[00:29:17] Speaker B: Looks suddenly more.
He looks like pondering something deeply, like frustrated about something.
Though his plan through. He just leans back and his beard is just a massive thick column of moss. He's just sitting there stroking it. He's reaching out over his horn. And Otheanda resumes and says, with that.
[00:29:57] Speaker D: You three, do you choose your way?
[00:30:07] Speaker B: And Kitsie leans to his side and.
[00:30:13] Speaker D: Says, and which of you has the book?
[00:30:18] Speaker C: Look, each of us has it.
[00:30:21] Speaker B: You got here to be opened with a wish spell that one of you guys took from the treasure.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: I have it. I pull it out.
[00:30:32] Speaker D: You could flip a cord right now.
[00:30:33] Speaker B: Okay, so Boz, you pull out a cleather tome, incredibly finely filigreeden made.
Looks ancient, but it's so easily be mistaken for just a book if you had no idea what you were looking at.
Holding your hand. And Sequisadia says, so shall you be first?
[00:30:58] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:31:01] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:31:02] Speaker D: Pauses.
[00:31:02] Speaker B: You step a little further forward, parting yourself a little more from your allies.
Yelakna stands up from his throne and with his huge cloven takes one large step and gap across from his floating throne to the platform, to the court. He walks across it, strides up to you. He gets smaller as he walks to you, growing smaller than all his fellow court members, so that by the time he reaches you, he's only 12ft tall.
And as he towers over you, he kneels down like half kneel, half squat. A very reversiony primal animal way to lower oneself. As he leans his weight over his thick legs and knees, he just says.
[00:31:54] Speaker D: We'Ll see who you are, boss.
Do you wish to read from the book?
[00:32:02] Speaker A: I do wish to read from the book.
[00:32:06] Speaker B: His immensely huge hand cradles yours. Just. It's like a. It's not like an adult hand and infant hand. It's like an adult hand. And like a kitten's paw is the size ratio. Go. As he cups his.
[00:32:18] Speaker A: Before you do this, Zach, I swear, if you pull a Kung Fu Panda and this book opens and it says that I'm the Dragon Warrior, I will never be happy again.
[00:32:29] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:32:29] Speaker B: I didn't want to until just then. And then I'm just picturing you opening it up. The. The page's reflection. You go. It's blank. And then he just goes.
[00:32:37] Speaker D: There is no secret ingredient in the Secret Ingredient Soup.
[00:32:42] Speaker B: The wish is Po joins your party. Is the demon.
[00:32:47] Speaker E: Are you sewing a sock, Abby?
[00:32:49] Speaker C: I am I'm.
[00:32:52] Speaker E: I'm sorry. This is a big moment, but I.
[00:32:54] Speaker A: Saw secrets with the socks we found along the way.
[00:32:56] Speaker C: I'm darning it you. Well, I'm not. It's not darning, but I'm mending it. It got holes in it, and so I'm fixing it.
[00:33:03] Speaker E: I love it.
[00:33:04] Speaker B: Abby is making a sock of secrets.
[00:33:08] Speaker A: She's making the stock of Theseus.
[00:33:10] Speaker C: That is what I'm doing.
[00:33:13] Speaker B: And, yeah, the soccer secrets will be an item in campaign, too.
[00:33:21] Speaker E: It's a nifty item. It just tells you different bean recipes.
[00:33:25] Speaker C: Blandest Clandon island item, right?
[00:33:30] Speaker B: Zach, tell me Blandis Clandon item. So his massive hand cups are smaller. And as he supports it, it's the most physically intimate moment with Yugta. I mean, he's been rather removed thus far, but in this moment, he's not being gentle. But the way he holds your hand is supportive. And his eyes are still intense and striking. But he cups your other hand again, his hands moving yours like minute toys to rest over the top of the book so that your hands are clasping the book and his hands are clasping yours. So much larger. And he closes his hands around yours. He just looks in your eyes, and that, like, electric green from his bleeds around his face. And all the deep, dark freckles on his face light up with green light in his huge elkhorns.
[00:34:25] Speaker D: Just.
[00:34:28] Speaker B: Energy.
[00:34:30] Speaker D: And you hear him whisper as you wish, and.
[00:34:39] Speaker B: Stillness. Until you all feel this burst of energy just past all of you. Boz, you realize you thought he was clasping your hands in, like, a. Oh, symbolism of the moment. It's because it would have knocked you over otherwise. And he, like, holds you as you take a step back. And everyone from behind Boz has to catch themselves as everyone steps backward, as this wave of just force and light just emanates outward. And as it does, all the water being pushed back from the pool behind you, like, pushes out of the pool and then just starts floating in the air, lifting. And where each of you guys start falling back where you start falling, you kind of catch and have time to brace and stop yourselves and step up, and your breaths feel paused. And his eyes just burn at yours. And as you do B, you swear his eyes open wider and that deep green sinks and falls. And for a moment, you are entranced.
[00:35:40] Speaker D: Looking into the depths of a forest.
[00:35:42] Speaker B: So deep and old and unknowable that.
[00:35:46] Speaker D: You are lost inside.
And there's just this burning moment of.
[00:35:50] Speaker B: Energy before he blinks hard. And everyone.
And as his eyes Open back up.
[00:35:59] Speaker D: He says, you may read.
[00:36:03] Speaker B: He slides his hand away, and you are left holding the book.
[00:36:07] Speaker A: I open it up.
[00:36:10] Speaker B: Also. Before you open it, he just says.
[00:36:12] Speaker D: You must whisper to the book what you wish to know.
[00:36:15] Speaker B: That was. There's a dramatic pause. I'm sorry.
[00:36:17] Speaker D: Sorry.
[00:36:18] Speaker B: Oh, well, you wasted it.
[00:36:23] Speaker D: What do you whisper to the book of many?
[00:36:25] Speaker B: The book of secrets.
[00:36:28] Speaker D: The book of many secrets.
[00:36:31] Speaker A: I whisper.
I whisper. How do I save my. How do I.
[00:36:45] Speaker B: You could have to think about this.
[00:36:47] Speaker A: I take a moment. I do. I do because I want to. I don't know.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: I will so give you a second as a player to think about this.
[00:36:59] Speaker A: I ask, how do we defeat the bloodied one?
[00:37:02] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:37:08] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:37:18] Speaker B: Well, have some player commentary as Zach does some math on what needs to be in the book on his end.
[00:37:26] Speaker C: Math.
[00:37:30] Speaker E: You're gonna roll 76, and then you're gonna cast this spell, and that's the map. No, I'm just kidding.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
[00:37:48] Speaker C: I have no role to play.
[00:37:51] Speaker A: We don't know what Craig does. Craig could also get a wish.
[00:37:56] Speaker E: So depending on what Craig does, are we just gonna insert that into the next session? Just, like, have a little Craig moment? I'm guessing we'll have him. Craig does his thing, and he decides whether he does it or not. And there's just a tiny little role playing from the court, and they're like, thanks for your.
[00:38:15] Speaker A: Thanks for playing.
[00:38:15] Speaker E: Thanks for your time.
[00:38:17] Speaker B: I just have to take very careful notes on everything that gets said next.
So, Boz, you whisper, how do we.
[00:38:23] Speaker D: Defeat the bloodied one?
And then you open the book.
Don't want to move.
[00:38:33] Speaker B: Landon, before I say anything, I want you to know that I haven't put any thought to what anyone else would ask. But I've spent the last two weeks thinking about what you would ask.
I knew you'd hit me with some curveball, and I had no idea for sure. None. But I had three kind of guesses on what you'd ask, and this was one of them. Ish. Really. The other two just.
And I have spent two weeks trying to figure out what it is I'm going to tell you, and in this moment, I have to pick.
So as you read it, Boz, when you open the pages and they slide apart.
Written between them. Roman, you can read.
It says.
Oh, man. Bear with me, guys. Okay?
[00:39:24] Speaker A: Take your time.
[00:39:25] Speaker E: Take your time.
[00:39:26] Speaker B: Here's what we're gonna have to do. Here's what we're gonna have to do. I'm going to say What I'm going to say, and I'm never going to ask to have leveraged the power of this being on recording so much. So take notes. And I know what I mean by it, but I can't be too exact, and I can't give you explanations for everything I say.
[00:39:45] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:39:46] Speaker B: And I need you to interpret it as you do. Okay.
[00:39:49] Speaker A: How do we win the game? So I get. Yeah.
[00:39:51] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:39:53] Speaker B: So I'm gonna say what I'm gonna say. Take the notes you take. If you got other questions, go back and listen to that recording. Okay. We post them on Spotify.
[00:40:03] Speaker A: Sometimes the book.
[00:40:06] Speaker B: The book opens and says. And maybe everyone else takes notes, and Landon just gets to absorb it.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: I'm taking notes. I'm ready to time.
[00:40:12] Speaker B: Okay, then take notes. Take notes. It says.
[00:40:20] Speaker D: The wound which marred the world poisoned the well from which they all drank.
[00:40:35] Speaker B: The poison.
The poison met the liar's heart.
[00:40:51] Speaker D: From this lie sprouted the well of blood which covered over all but the whole world.
The bloodied one, baptized in his own deeds, returns to bathe all the realms in what he cannot wash away inside.
First shall come the heralds, and through the herons shall be opened the gates.
The gates which would tear the veil and permit the destroyer to return to Yellowbrin. Again.
[00:42:38] Speaker B: Sorry. I'm thinking very deeply about how this ends.
[00:43:00] Speaker D: Stem the tributaries and lessen the flow.
[00:43:21] Speaker B: But it is from the poisoned well.
[00:43:32] Speaker D: That the blood must ultimately cease to run.
And then the last.
[00:44:02] Speaker B: The last thing written beneath it says.
[00:44:15] Speaker D: Only truth may undo a lie.
And what was true in the dark is still true in the light.
And there is no further written text.
[00:44:41] Speaker A: Is kind of like, glazed over with golden eyes.
[00:44:44] Speaker B: Okay. I really hope I successfully treaded the line between narrative ambiguity and helpful information. I really hope that didn't let you down. I. I hope that wasn't all mumbo jump. Okay, great. Great, great.
[00:44:57] Speaker C: Yeah. That was.
[00:44:59] Speaker B: You all watched the whole time Boss is reading, he is holding a blank book.
[00:45:05] Speaker C: Oh, cool.
[00:45:06] Speaker B: And his eyes aren't moving. And like Landon said, they're just. It's just golden light where they are.
[00:45:16] Speaker A: I. Is the book shut by itself when. When it's done?
[00:45:19] Speaker B: No.
[00:45:21] Speaker A: Okay. I close it.
[00:45:24] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:45:25] Speaker A: And then I look back at Row and Greta.
[00:45:32] Speaker B: When Boss turns around, the gold is just washing out.
[00:45:35] Speaker A: And I feel like the words are burned into my mind. I don't really need, like, a keen mind to remember it. I feel like each word is now, like, almost, like, unforgettably, like, tattooed on, like, the wrinkles of my brain.
So I Tell them, girl.
[00:45:49] Speaker B: Y.
[00:45:50] Speaker A: And I say, guys, I feel like we can with another question. With two questions, we can pull this together.
But tell me if I'm wrong.
Here's what I think. Now, your question's your question, right? Your vow is your vow. We're all held to our own stuff. So I understand if you have something else you want to ask. But what comes to my mind is, one, who are the heralds? And two, what was the lie?
Because if we have that, I think we'll have a start before my. I feel like before my question, we didn't know what we didn't know. And now we know what we didn't know.
Is there any other questions, I guess, that you guys feel that would be worth asking instead of those?
[00:46:56] Speaker B: Not to detract you all strategize as you will, as players. Remember, this book could. It doesn't have all knowledge in the universe, but it could tell you almost anything.
These questions can come from anywhere. They can continue down this path. They can be almost anything.
[00:47:17] Speaker A: I mean, I feel like if y'all wanted to ask something else, we probably could track down this information. Right. One way or another.
[00:47:25] Speaker B: And I'm sorry, I hope that wasn't pushing you guys away from doing.
[00:47:28] Speaker A: No, I just. I want you to. Guys, as a player, I want y'all to feel completely 100 comfortable to ask whatever question y'all want. Like, it's not going to hurt my feelings and I'm going to be completely okay if y'all want to ask something about Rose, mom or something about Greta, your history, you know, like, I don't. Like, I don't mind.
[00:47:43] Speaker B: Like, it's like my mom's middle name.
[00:47:45] Speaker A: What was my mom. What was my mom allergic to?
I don't know.
[00:47:51] Speaker B: Those really vegan Yelik.
[00:48:03] Speaker D: Tananth puts the.
[00:48:06] Speaker B: He hands the book back to whoever wants to take it next. So he just. The book is in his palm and he just reaches it down and back toward whoever will take it next.
[00:48:16] Speaker E: As Bob steps away from him, Ro nods to Greta.
[00:48:20] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
[00:48:22] Speaker B: Greta nose go.
[00:48:28] Speaker C: Greta takes the book.
[00:48:31] Speaker B: Okay. Yalaktanth just gives you a very intense.
[00:48:35] Speaker D: Look, lets you slip the book out.
[00:48:37] Speaker B: Of his hand, stands up and walks.
[00:48:39] Speaker D: Back to his throne.
[00:48:41] Speaker B: Kitzi EGI rises from her throne.
[00:48:44] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:48:45] Speaker B: Looks Grace graciously and smoothly over to you.
[00:48:50] Speaker D: She just stands nearby, waiting, giving you time.
[00:48:57] Speaker C: Okay. Is she waiting? Okay. I have the book.
[00:49:01] Speaker D: You have the book?
[00:49:03] Speaker C: Okay. I look at her for, like a go signal.
[00:49:10] Speaker B: She steps closer to you, kneels down.
[00:49:13] Speaker D: Her dress folds and Shifts in color.
[00:49:16] Speaker B: As she gets down to your level.
She just looks you deeply in the.
[00:49:21] Speaker D: Eyes and this sharp smile spreads across her mouth. She says, you're certainly changing your story, eh?
[00:49:35] Speaker C: He smiles and nodded.
And Greta's, like, probably very close to tears.
She's probably, like, sniffling. And she has the book.
And she just. She nods to Gitiagi.
[00:49:59] Speaker D: Nods to you, says, do you wish to read from the book Many Secrets?
[00:50:07] Speaker C: Edith says, yes.
[00:50:09] Speaker B: As she does, she folds your hand up around the book like a prayer. In between, she clasps her hand on your side, crossing her fingers. In between, she reaches her mouth all the way down to her hands and.
[00:50:23] Speaker D: Just whispers in between her fingers.
[00:50:29] Speaker B: That last line just.
There's a pause before all around you, all of the dust scattered on the battlefield just.
[00:50:43] Speaker D: Lifts and starts drifting upward.
[00:50:46] Speaker B: And dust falls and disintegrates before multiplying into soil.
A little wisp of broken plants just.
[00:50:59] Speaker D: Raise upward and bloom. Everything around you seems to slow and calm, and each of you just feel the breath pass in and out of your lungs as if time has gotten heavy and still.
And everything just gets calm. And Greta, as you open your eyes, you look around at a world where you feel like for a moment, you can see everything.
You feel like you can feel the light reaching and touching your skin.
You can feel the breath touching your blood and your body.
Like you can watch the specks of dust roll across the stone.
And her wish is just this long, full, heavy moment before she slowly blinks her eyes. And when she opens them, everything just is normal.
She moves her lips back from her hands clasped around yours.
[00:52:07] Speaker B: Also, she's gigantic right now. She also got smaller when she walked to you, but still so much bigger than all of you, specifically, so much bigger than you. And as her head's like half the size of your body, and as she.
[00:52:20] Speaker D: Leans back, she says, ask your question and the book will tell you.
[00:52:27] Speaker B: She just slips her hands away from yours and stands up and treads back.
[00:52:30] Speaker D: To her throne and sits down.
[00:52:34] Speaker C: You're just going to hold the book and she's gonna glance at Tella and she's gonna close her eyes and she's gonna try asking the question in her head instead of speaking it out loud.
And she's gonna, like, sit and focus on the book and ask.
Well, she's gonna say it out loud in, like, the most quiet Dimitri, imperceptibly. Yeah, she's going to.
[00:53:04] Speaker B: There are things people cannot hear.
[00:53:07] Speaker C: Even the Sealy Court.
[00:53:09] Speaker B: Well, I mean, maybe not them, but.
[00:53:12] Speaker C: But she's Gonna whisper just like, mumble. She's gonna say, is it. Is it my fault that Walter died?
And then she's gonna open the book.
[00:53:24] Speaker B: Okay, well, make me answer something that subjective.
Oh.
[00:53:57] Speaker D: Y'All just gonna play D D?
Greta, you open the book, and.
[00:54:31] Speaker C: As.
[00:54:31] Speaker B: The pages fall apart, why were you opening it?
[00:54:34] Speaker D: To holding what you asked.
Written on the left page is a date.
[00:54:45] Speaker B: A date.
[00:54:48] Speaker D: With a time.
[00:54:50] Speaker B: And time is a thing difficult to measure at this point in history. So the very, very long sequence of numbers that follow are kind of unintelligible to you.
[00:55:01] Speaker D: But you know that date and the time makes sense.
[00:55:06] Speaker B: It is roughly the day's blur from.
[00:55:09] Speaker D: That time for you, the day and hour Walter died.
And below it is a different date and a different time, one that hasn't happened yet.
And below, in below his text explaining that the second time is when Walter would have died without you.
On the other side of the page.
[00:56:07] Speaker B: Is something startling enough that you are.
[00:56:15] Speaker D: It is frightening for a second because you look at a drawing of Walter, his face, but it is not your drawing because the drawing is so.
[00:56:37] Speaker B: Realism is a form of art that is developed at this point in history.
[00:56:41] Speaker D: But this is more than realism.
[00:56:44] Speaker B: Drawn in black and white is Walter's.
[00:56:48] Speaker D: Face on the other page.
[00:56:52] Speaker B: It looks at you still for a.
[00:56:53] Speaker D: Second before the expression relaxes slightly and you realize that it is Walter's face.
The face smiles at you as the ink on the page moves.
[00:57:11] Speaker B: And you all watch Greta hold an empty book.
Greta.
[00:57:15] Speaker D: You watch the face smile up at you and saying what no text written on the page could say.
You hear him speak.
Not an image or a recollection, but Walter out there now in a place where you are not.
[00:57:42] Speaker B: Because you can see there is another.
[00:57:45] Speaker D: Space for a date at the bottom of the page that has no time and date recorded.
And the face says.
Walter says, I'm trapped in your memory, but I'm free.
Your memory of me might be stuck, but I've been free for a long time. Time, stinky.
I look forward to seeing you again.
[00:58:50] Speaker C: And gritted fin.
[00:58:54] Speaker D: The face on the page dissolves.
And where it runs off, there's just enough ink behind to write text that just says no.
[00:59:20] Speaker C: I think Greta, like, just releases a sob.
And then just like.
Like sinks to the ground with the book and just sits there holding it.
[00:59:38] Speaker B: Tello can't see what's on the pages, but he just walks up and kneels.
[00:59:41] Speaker D: Down next to you and puts a hand on your shoulder.
[00:59:43] Speaker B: He doesn't even look at you.
[00:59:44] Speaker D: He just kneels there with.
[00:59:51] Speaker C: She like tries to keep her tears from falling on the pages.
[00:59:59] Speaker D: As they stream down your face. You just paused there for a little while, crying softly.
What do you do with the book?
[01:00:21] Speaker C: I think I.
I turn to Ro and I look at her.
[01:00:31] Speaker E: I.
I go up to her and I put my hand on her shoulder and squeeze it and just nod to it or not to her. Did I say nod to it?
[01:00:49] Speaker B: No.
Greta, it dinner.
[01:00:56] Speaker D: Do you pass the book off?
[01:00:58] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:01:01] Speaker B: Oh. It's a small book and it's surprisingly heavy in your hands.
And as it slides away from your hands, Greta, tell her, just leans you into a side hug and rests his head down on yours.
Greta. Ro. As you hold the book, you look around to the Seelie Court, unsure of who it is who would meet you.
And oddly, as you stand there holding the book for a moment, no one gets up for just a moment.
And Athea in the turns and looks.
[01:01:38] Speaker D: To his left at the empty throne.
Kitziyyegi does as well.
[01:01:45] Speaker B: There's just this moment of silent recognition.
[01:01:48] Speaker D: Before Thuras stands and rises.
[01:01:55] Speaker B: She does little soundless arcs of lightning just of electricity from the chairs from which she rises. She just takes one. It's a 10 foot gap and she just crosses it in a stride.
She walks across and kneels down.
She reduces her size, which takes her down to about 16ft tall.
And kneeling, her head is still eight feet above you.
Hold on and you watch her breathe for a second and close her eyes because there's still a thrum of energy and electricity arcing across her. And you put together that she's calming the proverbial storm inside of her enough so that when she touches you, she doesn't harm you just to touch you.
She does. Some of the swirling mist and force and thrum around her cools slightly.
And as she holds her hands open, she just says.
[01:03:10] Speaker D: When you are ready.
In this moment, her gaze feels emboldening.
[01:03:19] Speaker E: Ro looks directly into her eyes and nods and says I'm ready.
[01:03:30] Speaker D: And as you hold the book, she.
[01:03:32] Speaker B: Clasps her hands around yours and makes two very round fists and squeezes hard force fully sufficient to break all the bones in your wrists and your little handsy wansies. But it doesn't really touch your skin very much. There's enough gap between the base of her hands for your wrists to fit. She's just making a very solid field around your hands and all the hair is on you stand up and you feel a very intense tingling around your hands. As if just her hands being this close together charges them with electricity. She looks up at all the rest of the fun guys and says, it.
[01:04:10] Speaker D: Would be wise to step back.
[01:04:15] Speaker B: Teller gets up and walks all the way to the other side of the court.
[01:04:18] Speaker C: I step back.
[01:04:20] Speaker D: Okay.
[01:04:20] Speaker B: The party follows a distance.
She looks at you, Row, and she.
[01:04:25] Speaker D: Says, do you wish to read from the Book of Secrets?
[01:04:35] Speaker E: I do.
[01:04:39] Speaker D: As you wish.
[01:04:42] Speaker B: As she says that last wish, she says, as you.
As all around her, this roiling cloud of dark mist that suddenly feels like it has been rising below the platform platform for like 10 or 15 minutes, as if it was always there, just rises up over everything. Everyone is shrouded in darkness, plunged into it. And in the storm you can just hear.
[01:05:21] Speaker D: And row.
[01:05:22] Speaker B: Your heart is filled.
[01:05:23] Speaker D: It's filled you. You feel energy. You feel thrum.
[01:05:29] Speaker B: You feel your heart.
And as the shocks of lightning resonating to thunder, your heart is not in.
[01:05:55] Speaker D: Time with them, it's driving them.
[01:06:00] Speaker B: As the thunder rises and the lightning snaps, there's a flash of light.
[01:06:08] Speaker D: Row.
[01:06:09] Speaker B: You open your eyes from the flash of light.
The storm is dissipated and everyone is kind of uncovering their eyes and lifting their hands from their ears. You all stand where the storm is dissipating around the platform.
[01:06:23] Speaker D: And Theodas never closed her eyes.
[01:06:26] Speaker B: She's just staring at you with the.
[01:06:27] Speaker D: Eyes she kept open the whole time. She says, you've got fight, little one.
She smiles and she slips her hands away.
[01:06:41] Speaker B: A few last arcs of she rises.
[01:06:45] Speaker D: She walks back to her throne.
[01:06:46] Speaker B: She just says over her shoulder without.
[01:06:48] Speaker D: Looking, ask and breathe.
[01:06:52] Speaker B: She climbs up on her throne and sits down and returns to size.
[01:07:06] Speaker E: Bro Opens the book.
[01:07:11] Speaker B: Did she ask a question before she opens the book?
[01:07:12] Speaker D: Because.
[01:07:13] Speaker E: Oh, well, yeah. Yeah. I don't know why I was thinking open the book first. I'm nervous.
[01:07:17] Speaker B: There's a lot going on.
[01:07:22] Speaker E: I really hope this question isn't Stupid girl.
[01:07:26] Speaker D: It's your thing.
[01:07:26] Speaker E: I know, and I wrote it out so I think it's worded correctly.
[01:07:32] Speaker B: I promise I'm not going to rule stickler you right now.
[01:07:35] Speaker E: Okay.
Ro holds the book and she asks how.
How does the old song connect the podcast past of my mother, me now, and the fate of our world to come?
[01:08:30] Speaker B: I'm writing that down.
[01:08:32] Speaker D: Okay.
Holy crap, Jackie.
[01:08:55] Speaker B: Okay, every question has been like tiered for me and now the last one, I'm like, well, good luck interpreting that one, Zach. We're not going to take a brief 30 minute intermission while Zach watches.
[01:09:10] Speaker E: Sorry.
[01:09:14] Speaker B: No, don't apologize. This is your thing.
This is the conclusion of the entire lost Lands arc I mean, you earned it. I just.
[01:09:23] Speaker D: How does the on song connect the past of my mother?
Bro.
You finish asking the question, and with very slightly trembling hands, you open up the book to no words at all and no drawing, but lines horizontally crossing the page filled with figures.
Sheet music stands before you.
[01:10:11] Speaker B: Far too complex.
[01:10:12] Speaker D: Too many notes at once stacked up over each other in arrangements that don't add up.
Could you give me an ability check to try and decipher what you see?
And I'll let you pick the check.
[01:10:32] Speaker E: You'll let me pick it?
[01:10:35] Speaker B: I mean, you can't give me an.
[01:10:36] Speaker D: Endurance check right now, but, you know.
[01:10:41] Speaker B: You can't do a deception check, but, yeah, you can find something that applies.
[01:10:46] Speaker E: Would it be performance or arcana?
[01:10:49] Speaker D: Take your pick.
[01:10:53] Speaker E: I'm gonna go with performance.
I feel. Well, it's. I mean, I don't know. They're both the same. I'm just trying to feel like what works best here.
I feel like it would be performance because it's my craft. It's my. It's how I read music, how I.
[01:11:20] Speaker B: See it, how I. Greg guides you.
[01:11:23] Speaker D: He can see your focus.
[01:11:27] Speaker E: Not I.
[01:11:28] Speaker B: Shut up.
[01:11:29] Speaker E: Not. I got it. I got it. At 20. I'm not even. I swear to God. I'm not kidding.
[01:11:34] Speaker B: It just the fourth Nat20 of the night, so.
[01:11:38] Speaker E: And Craig guided me.
[01:11:40] Speaker B: Craig guided you?
[01:11:41] Speaker E: Holy. I'm going to say a bad word.
[01:11:45] Speaker B: Not on death podcast.
[01:11:50] Speaker E: It's a 36.
[01:11:53] Speaker B: And that is our new campaign record.
[01:11:58] Speaker C: No way.
[01:11:59] Speaker B: Is it? Oh, Jackie, I don't know. There's a really high roll from boss at one point. It's either that or this one.
[01:12:08] Speaker D: Wow.
[01:12:09] Speaker C: Wow.
[01:12:11] Speaker E: Holy crap.
Sometimes the dice man play a better story, man.
[01:12:17] Speaker B: I'm telling you. Telling you, that's. That's either our new record or our second place. That's crazy.
[01:12:25] Speaker C: Wow.
[01:12:25] Speaker B: Dang, guys row.
You see it after a moment.
[01:12:33] Speaker D: You can't play it directly.
[01:12:36] Speaker B: It's parts, and they all get played at once.
There is no way to play this music except with old magic, with deep magic in deepest speech.
[01:12:53] Speaker D: Because you can produce multiple voices at once, multiple notes.
[01:13:00] Speaker B: You understand that to play this music is not simply to use your fingers.
[01:13:05] Speaker D: Correctly on your lute, but to evoke the correct magics, to command these different sounds to play at once, to create through creation, magic, a superphysical position that can't exist otherwise.
[01:13:32] Speaker B: The 36.
[01:13:33] Speaker D: You understand.
[01:13:33] Speaker B: How do you pull around a loot?
[01:13:42] Speaker E: Yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna pull out my mother's loot. Soul mender.
[01:13:52] Speaker D: As you slide it around.
Do you begin playing?
[01:14:00] Speaker E: Yes.
[01:14:06] Speaker D: Bach could never.
[01:14:10] Speaker B: Yo Yo Ma would weep.
[01:14:14] Speaker D: Your fingers slide and strum and it.
[01:14:16] Speaker B: Is a gorgeous tune at first.
[01:14:21] Speaker D: But Ro begins speaking in voices that deteriorate and shift and dissolve. And those sounds resonate outward into whistles and hums and notes that overlay and hang and stick and paint the walls of the reality around you. Every new sound builds on the last one.
[01:14:52] Speaker B: She plays impressive chords, she forms complex arrangements. But it is not the pieces, it is the whole.
And as they play together.
[01:15:04] Speaker D: The song begins to force imagery that you all can witness.
[01:15:13] Speaker B: Imagery reflective of a vision you had.
[01:15:17] Speaker D: A long time ago in a temple.
And all of you, along with the Seelie Court who may or may not have ever witnessed this, watch again as the world is formed.
As Ro.
[01:15:37] Speaker B: You play that tune once more.
[01:15:39] Speaker D: But this is interesting.
[01:15:40] Speaker B: Because as your body is possessed, as.
[01:15:45] Speaker D: Your mind is consumed by performing is the wrong word. By conducting this song, you recognize it as different.
And as the vision of Yalabran forming continues, as the wellsprings flow, you watch them flow over a world that changes.
[01:16:16] Speaker B: The visions are passing and they are.
[01:16:20] Speaker D: Too much for you.
[01:16:22] Speaker B: You see things you can't comprehend.
[01:16:24] Speaker D: You see things you can't digest.
You see things that dazzle you and amaze you.
[01:16:30] Speaker B: But.
[01:16:33] Speaker D: Coming up with clear interpretations is challenging for your mind. The Seelie Cord falls silent.
[01:16:42] Speaker B: They are.
[01:16:46] Speaker D: Bound to what they witness.
[01:16:49] Speaker B: Perhaps able to see things you can't.
[01:16:52] Speaker D: Perhaps learning things they've never known.
You watch a world flaw.
[01:16:58] Speaker B: You watch a world open.
[01:17:00] Speaker D: You watch doors from other realms open.
You watch the world fill not with beings that rise from the dust, but from beings that walk from other places.
You watch them grow and disperse.
You watch them rise, fall and rise and fall until they quit falling and they just rise.
They build and they fathom. They imagine and they develop.
They create.
They create beautiful things, but they can't stop.
They create upon what they've made.
They develop until they crush themselves.
They explode outward until they implode inward.
And in scenes we'll call them.
You watch the height of the most gilded age devolve into conflicts that set the sky on fire.
And you watch hate fall down like rain over all the people below.
You watch voices turn into ash that rise up like smoke.
And you watch fertile soils become mass graves.
And they fall.
And then slowly they rise up from shade and shadow until these vague far impressions begin to look like a world you know.
And you watch a woman like you, but not you, get caught up in this story.
You watch her sail.
[01:19:37] Speaker B: You watch someone drop a dragon egg. You watch.
[01:19:42] Speaker D: Stories weave together.
[01:19:46] Speaker B: And here is hard to take it all in.
[01:19:50] Speaker D: But you do get moments of clarity.
You get moments of your mother's life that you see her.
You watch her play.
[01:20:04] Speaker B: You watch her laugh.
[01:20:06] Speaker D: You watch her be wrong.
[01:20:08] Speaker B: You watch her be wrong about being right.
[01:20:12] Speaker D: You watch her heart break.
You watch her hurt people.
You watch her be hurt.
You watch her love people. And you watch her be loved.
You watch her find an orbit.
You watch her drop it in the sea.
You watch her take up another.
You watch her find a far west wood.
You watch her fill it with light.
You watch her drop it in the sea.
You watch a dark, shadowy shape rise up from waters and try to take her.
You watch her run across waves to a far strange land that you know familiarly.
You watch her find someone.
Then you watch her find you.
You watch her hand leave yours for the last time.
One so big and one so small.
You watch her return to the waters to face what crushes her and pulls her down to the dark depths.
And those depths become the dark spaces between the hollow, resonant chamber of the lute. You hold the one from which you play that evoke all these images.
And you watch the bright light in your own eyes. In the past, learning to play. Those chords match colors you've seen in a wellspring.
And you understand in this moment how a song play. Two go. Never quit playing.
It changed tone. It changed shape. It changed genre.
But you hear it now in the cadence of your breath and the tempo of your heartbeat.
And in the vision as you look into your own eyes, in those dark pupils, you see a dark night.
You see a night where every star was blotted out of the sky like a vision you saw long ago.
You watch a fire rise with smoke that covers all the earth.
In the vision you all witness, everything fades.
There is cessation of breathing.
All the living lights snuff.
All the wellsprings turn.
But in that darkness, you still hear that song play.
And Ro, you begin to understand how that wrong. How that song could never stop playing.
And a little flame long kindled in your heart lights a little brighter.
And when Ro begins to resolve her last notes, everyone blinks themselves out of the stupor of that dance you find in your hands. Row.
You've put the lute down some time ago.
[01:24:25] Speaker B: The sheet music is gone.
[01:24:26] Speaker D: And you were holding the book.
And there are only two sentences written.
The first says on the left page, what is true in the light is true in the Dark.
And on the right it says even the voids resound. Excuse me? Even the still voids resound. With the song.
There is nothing else written.
[01:25:41] Speaker E: I think like a tear of rose falls and hits the page.
And I think as she kind of shakes out of the almost like trance she was in from that she looks up to the Seelie Court and looks back at the.
[01:26:24] Speaker D: You find they are looking at you.
[01:26:30] Speaker B: Like all of the sudden, for just.
[01:26:32] Speaker D: A moment, as if for just a.
[01:26:34] Speaker B: Moment it was not them who called you there, but you who called them.
[01:26:38] Speaker D: There for a moment before they seemed to remember their majesty.
[01:26:54] Speaker E: She looks to the rest of the fun guys one by one and just.
I think she's doing everything she can to not just fully break down.
And several more tears fall from her face and she looks back down at the book one more time before she closes it and just kind of sits there.
[01:27:38] Speaker D: Ro as you close the book, Yelek S. Nonth gets up from his throne again, makes himself small.
Take the text from you.
[01:27:52] Speaker B: Well, no text at all. Takes the book and he starts to walk back before Greta. Could I get an odds or evens? He is the madness after all.
[01:28:05] Speaker D: To the end.
[01:28:07] Speaker B: Odd dice walking by you.
[01:28:15] Speaker D: It's crazy how often you guys get those.
[01:28:18] Speaker B: It's really statistically improbable. Walking by, he just stops and turns his head and he says, you can make an argument.
[01:28:26] Speaker D: This belongs to me, but perhaps it should be returned.
[01:28:34] Speaker C: Oh.
[01:28:35] Speaker D: Do you get the feeling you could give this back to the library it came from?
[01:28:40] Speaker C: Yes.
[01:28:42] Speaker D: I'd hate to be the one who handed it off to the courier who couldn't take it.
[01:28:49] Speaker C: And it like laughs at that.
[01:28:52] Speaker D: He doesn't.
[01:28:56] Speaker C: She holds her hands out and she says, I'll do it if you ask.
[01:29:06] Speaker D: He leans down and he says, I won't ask.
[01:29:09] Speaker B: And he just drops it in your.
[01:29:11] Speaker D: Hand that you bear her consequence. He just walks back to his throne and grows back to size and sits down.
You can put the Book of Secrets in your inventory.
[01:29:25] Speaker B: In parentheses next to it, please write artifact.
[01:29:29] Speaker C: Artifact.
[01:29:31] Speaker B: It is technically an artifact in D and D. Artifact. I mean, it's homebrew, but it's artifact status.
[01:29:40] Speaker C: Wow.
The court looks at you in her cloak.
[01:29:46] Speaker B: Sedius.
Greta, you put it in your cloak and it's almost like the pocket seals itself behind Sequis Sadius leans forward from their throne and says.
[01:30:03] Speaker D: Our business is concluded.
[01:30:05] Speaker C: Then we can't leave yet.
[01:30:11] Speaker B: Their eyebrows race.
[01:30:13] Speaker C: No, no, no. I say.
[01:30:14] Speaker A: That.
[01:30:14] Speaker B: That's.
[01:30:14] Speaker C: That's me as a player.
[01:30:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I Know.
[01:30:17] Speaker E: No, no, we can't.
[01:30:18] Speaker B: I want to make you do this now.
[01:30:20] Speaker C: No, no, no, no, no.
[01:30:22] Speaker E: She was saying that because. Because Landon had to go to the restroom.
[01:30:26] Speaker B: I know. I'm enjoying making you squirm.
[01:30:29] Speaker C: Okay. Well, I say, no, no, we can't leave yet. And then I look to boss.
[01:30:35] Speaker E: Rose.
Rogue gathers herself and stands up and tries to collect herself to go back to her to stand next to her party members.
[01:30:50] Speaker C: Well, I. I come up and I come up and like put a hand on Rose shoulder and like help her up if she wants it.
[01:31:00] Speaker E: Yeah.
[01:31:02] Speaker B: Bizarrely, as Rose stands, all her hair falls off.
[01:31:06] Speaker E: Don't you do that.
[01:31:07] Speaker B: Uncontrollably farting.
[01:31:10] Speaker E: No, never her. That's so wrong to do to me right now.
[01:31:19] Speaker B: Well, we call a narrative interruption.
I've got. I don't know. The scene is so concluded.
[01:31:38] Speaker C: They didn't have something to say.
[01:31:40] Speaker B: Towers are cool.
Really? Like mine.
[01:31:44] Speaker C: What does the book look like?
[01:31:46] Speaker E: Yeah, explain the book again for us, you know. Okay.
[01:31:52] Speaker C: Again.
[01:31:54] Speaker B: Let's see.
I'm sure I can come up with something more.
More.
Oh, okay. In the last Legend of the new ones combat I can't tell you that. But I can't tell you. Hit a.
She can twin spell disintegrate. As you all saw that time she fought with you guys.
[01:32:18] Speaker E: Did you say twin spell?
[01:32:20] Speaker B: Sorcerers can twin spells. So a spell that's targeted at one person, they can target it at two.
[01:32:27] Speaker C: That's crazy.
[01:32:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:32:29] Speaker C: Wow.
[01:32:31] Speaker B: There's a lot of things sorcerers can't do, but the things they can do, man, can they do them.
And just kind of just a description for that's. That's what a good class should sound like, I think kind of. But unless we're talking about half classes. But she burst magic disintegrated or. No, she twin spell disintegrated and then she burst magic. Something you also saw her do when she fought with you guys. That thing where if she rolls at her damage doubles and that is the thing that got that insane amount of damage. You guys heard that one time. I think it was like 130, 120 damage or something like that.
Well, this last. You know the highest damage that's ever happened in a barely D D recording. Except for that time that you guys played the Nordstrom one shot and Yepen dropped Daniel's character from the sky after Hadouken beaming him and that was the most damage. But any who I still think is that one of the two.
I know you do and you've never been so mathematically wrong. One of the spells she shot at one of her targets missed.
So she only hit one of her targets, cast it at a very high level, and then rolled better than she's ever rolled. So the one target she hit took 130 damage. The one target.
[01:34:00] Speaker C: Wow.
[01:34:02] Speaker E: How many times were they killed?
[01:34:03] Speaker B: It's very likely she would have dealt more than 200 damage.
[01:34:07] Speaker C: Wow.
[01:34:09] Speaker B: She almost set new all time record. But it just barely missed. He's back, boys.
[01:34:14] Speaker D: He's back.
[01:34:15] Speaker B: My boss friend's back.
Are we still there? The group is. Yes, the group is very much concluding their business. And. Oh, he gave moment for the last book.
[01:34:27] Speaker E: He gave the Book of secrets to Greta.
[01:34:30] Speaker B: Oh. To return to Ioun in the life.
[01:34:33] Speaker E: Yeah.
[01:34:33] Speaker C: In the Courier. I am the chosen courier. What can I say? I love to.
[01:34:38] Speaker A: Okay, okay.
[01:34:41] Speaker E: Like Frodo with a ring.
[01:34:42] Speaker A: To ask the question.
What.
What happens if Baba Yaga gets the black rock?
[01:35:00] Speaker B: What a move.
All right, Landon.
There are some reactions through dust just looks puzzled as if whatever this is, it's not super in her dominion.
Immediately exchange glances, catches it and kind of flicks his eyes to Kitsiegi. Sequisadius gives a very puzzled look.
And not puzzled's the wrong one. Bemused.
And both the curious wanderer and the mad prince look like they have something to say. Before Sequisadius sort of interrupts and says.
[01:35:45] Speaker D: That feels like the sort of question one could have asked the Book of Many Secrets.
[01:35:53] Speaker A: Yeah, fair enough. I just was wondering if it was like bad enough that you guys knew about it or anything, but I thought it'd be better to ask about evil guy.
[01:36:05] Speaker B: Sequisadius continues unexpectedly and says Baba Yaga can be.
[01:36:13] Speaker D: No, he'd say it right. Baba Yaga can be a difficult creature to predict, even for us.
But that stone is the binding between your coven crown and Bishop.
[01:36:33] Speaker B: Information your party knew. They continue by saying.
[01:36:39] Speaker D: One would imagine, given both its power and her past behaviors, a great deal of destruction, largely at her own erratic pleasure.
But if there was any purpose to it, I would guess great revenge or spite upon a given individual.
Okay.
[01:37:18] Speaker A: Only what, Zachary?
[01:37:20] Speaker D: Only a guess, I guess.
[01:37:22] Speaker B: Okay.
[01:37:24] Speaker D: All right.
[01:37:27] Speaker A: Thank you, guys. We'll uphold our promise if it comes to be needed. Oh, last question.
If everything goes well, what's the last thing you'd like the Hate King to hear as he draws his last breath?
Like, what would you have us say to him?
[01:37:43] Speaker B: Many, many exchanges are held. And Yeluktananth gets an amused sort of concerned look on his face one folds into the other. First it's a smile, and then he.
[01:37:59] Speaker D: Looks a bit dubious.
[01:38:00] Speaker B: Kitsugi leans back from that question Athanda puffs up.
Sequisadius remains unflinching but does not engage. It is Thuras who leans forward and.
[01:38:18] Speaker D: She says, be careful, young mortal.
[01:38:31] Speaker B: But.
[01:38:34] Speaker D: If I had to pick and then.
[01:38:38] Speaker B: She tells you what it is she would want you to say to him and it is something I can't repeat on this podcast.
[01:38:45] Speaker C: I was just thinking that. I was just thinking that whatever it.
[01:38:49] Speaker A: Is, I'm gonna have to say it when we win. One day.
[01:38:58] Speaker B: After this, Kitsugi looks at Greta and says, I would send you all back the way that I once.
[01:39:09] Speaker D: Came, but if I did it that.
[01:39:12] Speaker B: Way, I think we'd be ripping your boss friend apart. As you all recall the staff and its pulling apart and how that's all a part of Boz now.
And so Yelik Tenant flits a gaze and Sequisadius looks at all of you.
[01:39:29] Speaker D: And says, where would you like to go?
[01:39:39] Speaker A: Do you want to go to the island one with the people?
[01:39:43] Speaker C: Yeah, I say.
Oh, I say.
DM do I know anything about like.
[01:39:59] Speaker B: Whatever the end of the sentence is? The answer is probably not, but let's see.
[01:40:03] Speaker C: Okay, well, I was gonna ask if I know anything about like I don't want to go. I don't want to like just appear.
[01:40:09] Speaker B: Also not to drag it on. We are incredibly close to the time limit.
[01:40:13] Speaker C: Okay, I just say I don't know. Island of Sandor.
Okay, Feel like we need to be specific.
[01:40:25] Speaker A: I'll move the dock the entrance. Not randomly in the wilderness on a mountain somewhere that we can get inside the place.
[01:40:34] Speaker E: It drops us 300ft in the air.
[01:40:38] Speaker A: But please don't monkey Pause.
[01:40:39] Speaker B: I say I never have and never will. Guys, come on.
[01:40:44] Speaker C: Outside the entrance to the grounds of the Tyoun folk.
Outside the entrance of the grounds.
[01:40:56] Speaker B: Sequisadius looks puzzled for a second, shrugs their crystalline shoulders, raises a hand and this multicolored gate door just snaps with energy into existence.
[01:41:17] Speaker C: Can I see through the door?
[01:41:20] Speaker B: No, it's a gate. The last one.
Just party walk into it.
[01:41:28] Speaker E: Row knots to each one of them. Yes, I do too as like a thank you.
[01:41:34] Speaker C: You too.
[01:41:36] Speaker E: Not like a weird bowel thing, but.
[01:41:38] Speaker B: Just like have to specify that. Okay, I will never interpret I nod as I pull my pants down and poop. I'm never going to interpret it that way.
[01:41:47] Speaker E: Well, that is what I actually did, so. Just kidding.
[01:41:52] Speaker B: Well, initiative the fun guys. One by one.
Walk out of the Seelie Court and the Feywilds and return to the material plane. Just head straight to the next plot point. That's a change of pace, let me tell you. You're giving me a clear vision on what we're doing next time, and I can appreciate that.
Okay, that's that. That's the end of the episode. We don't usually end it quite so abruptly, but I'm very devoted to respecting the time limit we set in the past, which we don't usually come so close to. But big, big, huge session.
0.01 levels for the session, but 0.01 per wish. So that means we're at 0.04.
So that's another 0.04 to your total.
[01:42:50] Speaker E: So 12.72, guy. We became level 12 at like the mid January. What's happening? Crazy.
[01:43:04] Speaker B: When you do big stuff, levels can go fast. Also, combat helps things, but helps a lot. I was also a little generous with counting the big Mike transformations as monsters, but, you know, hey, maybe I'm thinking about what level you need to be at the end. So that was a great session.
We're just going straight to Sandor. I gotta do a little bit rearranging in my notes, but that's great.
[01:43:32] Speaker C: So excited.
[01:43:34] Speaker B: I'm not complaining. That's a wild move. And I'm very curious to see how it pays out. I really thought you were gonna do a couple of things first, so this is gonna be fascinating.
[01:43:43] Speaker C: I didn't. I hope I didn't screw over our plan, guys.
[01:43:46] Speaker B: Well, I don't know how many times I have to say this, but there is no. You can't mess it up. All you can do is play.
[01:43:51] Speaker E: I think we're good with this. We can always teleport somewhere else with a tree or something.
[01:43:56] Speaker B: That is true. You could show up and go. Hold on to that. And then you could run away.
[01:44:01] Speaker E: Yeah, if we have a teleportation circle or tree, we'll find a way.
[01:44:06] Speaker B: What an insane session.
I I. Life's an incredible adventure. You're an important part of it. Anybody? Anything else?
[01:44:14] Speaker E: A dream is a wish your heart makes.
[01:44:17] Speaker D: Okay.
[01:44:18] Speaker B: Skibidi wapingada on that unfruitful note.
