132. Sudden Arrival

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Like people. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Hi, welcome back to Barely dnd. No, because you know what? I wanted to say hi. Thanks for choosing Chick Fil A. This is Micah speaking. That's what was coming to my mind. Guys, I've been at work for a good bit, so. Hi. This is your Sword of Dungeons and Dragons podcast. Your friendly neighborhood Sword of Dungeons and Dragons podcast. We are so happy you have come to join us, and we hope that you are laughing and smiling as much as we are, and we love you. Okay, DM host. Your turn. [00:00:41] Speaker C: Ah, dang it. I was about to say it's. It's kind of a bummer that you didn't say, I'm Micah and I'm not your host, but then you said DM host, so you did it. [00:00:51] Speaker A: Do it again. [00:00:53] Speaker B: Oh, no, man, no. [00:00:57] Speaker C: So welcome back, Bradley D and D. This is the Accidental Adventures We Are. Could the end of that sentence possibly have been. They know what it is. This is the 132nd episode. But before we get into those deets, we have our letter question. Sorry, that was really juking note taking nerds out. The letter question comes from grabuelitigar. [00:01:22] Speaker A: Okay. My letter question is. Well, I. Okay. Think of, like, cottagecore, dark academia. I can't think of any others, but there's. What's the one? Office Siren. [00:01:39] Speaker C: There you go. [00:01:40] Speaker A: Like, all of the, like, funky, like, aesthetics that people will come up with online. Like, hyper specific definitions, words for whimsigoth, Clean girl. [00:01:53] Speaker C: Yeah, as you were describing all those. I was thinking of metal genres too. [00:01:57] Speaker A: Yeah. What would your. What would your character's quirky name for. Quirky TikTok name for their aesthetic be? [00:02:07] Speaker C: And before we start answering. [00:02:16] Speaker A: Oh, dmm, I kind of want to hear Bella Andres just because I feel like. I feel like she would be, like, the person to, like, really get into those names, you know what I mean? Those, like, hyper specific vibe, aesthetic lifestyle, wormholes. [00:02:35] Speaker D: Bella. Andra would have a tick tock account, and she would have a small, like, super dedicated following, but then just the rest of the app would hate her. Yeah, interesting. They'd be making, like, hate. [00:02:51] Speaker A: She'd be just famous enough. She'd be like, yeah, I'm a micro. I'm an Internet celebrity. Just enough to be really annoyed about it, but not enough. [00:03:02] Speaker C: I think that's a great prompt. Starting with nose goes. Oh, that was Jackie. [00:03:11] Speaker D: No, but I had it on my nose already. [00:03:14] Speaker C: Well, there's an objective way to measure this. Did your nose went, uh. Oh, Looks like we're starting with. [00:03:24] Speaker D: Let the record. Let the Court, let the record show that I had my finger on my nose. [00:03:30] Speaker C: What's Rose Hyper specific aesthetic. [00:03:33] Speaker D: Can I. Can I take whimsigoth? [00:03:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I think. [00:03:37] Speaker C: Because if you were more goth, I think you could. [00:03:41] Speaker D: Well, like. Okay, but when whimsy goth is, like, not goth. Like, I know this from selling on depop. No, it's not. Look up whimsigoth. It's like, what do they call whimsical Goths? I don't know, but whimsigoth is like Stevie Nicks. Okay. That's like, the exact. It's, like, witchy and foresty and flowy and, like, lots of flowers and stuff, but also lots of dark colors, which I feel is just row. Like, I feel like whimsy. God. [00:04:16] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. No, Right. You're right. [00:04:19] Speaker D: No, I'm right. [00:04:21] Speaker A: Right? [00:04:21] Speaker D: I'm right. [00:04:23] Speaker C: Not that my opinion really matters on it, but yeah. [00:04:27] Speaker D: It says it's an aesthetic that blends the dark, moody elements with playful, whimsical, and often a romantic touch, using elements of nature, celestial imagery, and soft textures. If that's not ro, I don't know what is. Fault. [00:04:43] Speaker C: I'm really cracked up by. I don't know. I'm looking at pictures, and I'm really kind of cracked up by everyone being like, oh, my goodness, look what we invented. And I'm like, wow, they found the romantic period again. They found transcendentalists. Wow. [00:04:58] Speaker A: I love. I want to go on record and say that I love the transcendentalist. [00:05:02] Speaker C: Who doesn't? The realist didn't. Okay, awesome. Grab. Grab welligarg. [00:05:12] Speaker A: The words that came to my mind were prairie goblin. [00:05:16] Speaker D: I love that. [00:05:19] Speaker A: I feel like that. [00:05:22] Speaker C: That'S real good. If goblin people were real, that would feel a little offensive, but they aren't, so I love that. That's cool. Prairie Gobbo. Pray gob. I like that a lot, guys. [00:05:44] Speaker B: I don't know. I'm looking at lists. [00:05:47] Speaker C: What about. Well, no, you can make up your own. [00:05:52] Speaker D: Like, poor. [00:05:53] Speaker B: That's what I was thinking. It's. It's like cottage core. But if cottage core was all stone, like, it's like a mix between, like, medieval core and cottage core. [00:06:05] Speaker A: Medieval. Yeah. Medieval cottage. [00:06:07] Speaker C: Mid rock. [00:06:08] Speaker D: Mid rock. [00:06:11] Speaker A: I wanna. I wanna say. I want to say a louder beer. Geologist was my take. [00:06:17] Speaker D: Beard geologist. [00:06:20] Speaker A: Yeah. I feel like that was early Craig. [00:06:22] Speaker B: Like, that was early Craig. Now I feel like there's a little bit of dad. [00:06:27] Speaker A: Wrong. [00:06:28] Speaker B: Sorry. [00:06:29] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [00:06:30] Speaker B: Like, these are all very accurate things, but I do feel like he has A bit of cottage core in him. [00:06:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I definitely think so. [00:06:40] Speaker C: Sorry. The thing that just came to mind for me was just Christian rock. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Christian rock. [00:06:48] Speaker D: Because he's a paladin and a rock and what's. [00:06:52] Speaker C: What's my super specific aesthetic skillet? Moving on. Oh, man. Okay. Bellandra. I would say she doesn't have a role in her name. What am I saying? She's all British. Oh, I had a good one and then I lost it. I'm thinking certapomp, which is a self certain. Like pomp and circumstance. Like certified. Yeah, like self certain pomp. [00:07:39] Speaker A: I don't know, I feel like she's like. She's like, oops, sorry. Just like clean Arcana or like. No, go ahead. [00:07:50] Speaker C: Monarch image. Monarchical. [00:07:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:56] Speaker C: Monarch of mage. [00:07:57] Speaker A: That's great. Yeah, that's perfect. [00:08:00] Speaker C: Moth princess. It just. It just starts getting much worse. Dress spell. [00:08:10] Speaker A: Great. [00:08:11] Speaker C: Oh my gosh. Okay, okay. No. [00:08:20] Speaker A: Money is the one that she's like trying to start. [00:08:24] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. She's like, yeah. There's so many people dressing like me and trying to be like me. They're trying to give off bellcore. And everyone's like, no. [00:08:36] Speaker C: Late teens. Bella, Andre. Insufferable. Oh my goodness. ELF equivalent. 18 year old bell. Andra must have been. No, she's human. DND session. This is episode 132 of the Accidental Adventures for the note taking. Episode 132, sudden arrival. Oh, because Micah, the last important detail we didn't tell you right at the end of the session, the archfey were like, okay, we're all concluded. Where do you want us to send you? And I made so many predictions in my head ahead of time. I was like, they'll go back to Ogba. They'll go back to the ship. They'll go to a market to rest. And everyone was like, the next plot objective. And they were like, we're going to Sandor. Put us outside the temple. And they're like, okay. And then that's where we ended. [00:09:26] Speaker D: We didn't say, put us outside the temple, we said put us. We very specifically said that we were very important. [00:09:36] Speaker C: And I took a note. [00:09:41] Speaker D: We had a whole conversation about this, saying that we wanted it to be like on the entrance, like on the edge of the island, so that we. [00:09:50] Speaker A: Weren'T like, not at their front door. [00:09:53] Speaker D: But yeah, I think that's what we. [00:09:54] Speaker C: Entrance of the island. [00:09:56] Speaker D: Yes. [00:09:57] Speaker C: I might have written down entrance of the temple. [00:10:00] Speaker D: I feel like, no. I am like 107 sure that all three of us were like now, we don't want to just like pop right up in front of their doorstep. We want to like be on the edge of the island where we would have pulled up on my phone. [00:10:17] Speaker C: I think it just threw me because I would have never logically assumed that an island had an entrance. So that means my title no longer makes any sense anymore. Huh? Oh, well, moving on. [00:10:29] Speaker D: So sorry. We can pop up the entrance, starting. [00:10:33] Speaker C: The session and just steamrolling and moving and not stopping and not pausing. I'm so sorry. That's okay. If I don't get DM boyed every once in a while, I get too confident. [00:10:44] Speaker D: Somebody tell us in the comments, what did we. [00:10:47] Speaker C: I'm sure you're right. You have keen mind in real life. Is that music audible? [00:10:53] Speaker D: Yes. [00:10:54] Speaker C: Okay, should I turn it up slightly or is it a good volume? [00:11:04] Speaker D: What did you ask me? What was that when I did this? [00:11:07] Speaker C: Micah. To set the scene for Greg in a very. [00:11:12] Speaker D: Greg. [00:11:14] Speaker B: My name is Greg. My name is Greg. [00:11:19] Speaker C: I am Greg. For a truncated version of setting and tone, we're. Oh, listener. Important context. I'm. We're moving backward because we didn't want Micah to miss the opportunity to engage with the whole High Fae apocalypse theory wish scenario. So stepping back a little bit and then once this is concluded, we'll move back forward. Micah, the fun guys are in the Feywild. They took. They accepted Yeliktananth's heed, which you were there for, and they traveled with him to the Feywild. You all just popped out directly at the Seelie Court, which it turns out is a court. And in the briefest fashion. Oh man, I described this for so long last time. You are in the middle of a tropical rainforest. But above it, far above it, there's a tropical rainforest sprawling out in every direction. Below you, there's a big mountain in the center of it with a giant tree at the top. You're not there either. You're above that. There is a pathway of pure pearl leading up away from that mountain, off into the sky. You all stepped out on that, walked out on that, and walked out onto a giant physical court floating alone in the sky of solid pearl. Like 50 in each direction of pearl. Pearl slab. Craig could estimate this to be the GDP of a small nation. I mean really, actually. And you all are standing on it. There's a pool of water in the middle and in a C shape around the front of that court are six giant thrones. Like 10 foot tall floating thrones in which have arrived and sat six archfey they are. All of them are between 15 and 25ft tall. They're huge. They're so much bigger than you. They have a ton of personality and unique visual description. I'm going to do my best to describe them all very briefly. So there's Yelik Tenanth who you know the dark skinned mossy elk, antlered, huge moss afro buff elk leg, lower half. Dude, you know that that's um, Boz's old boss so to speak. Um, and old patron is. And he is seated like kind of at your leftmost. Next to him arrived and sat a giant animal person. Like a Tabaxi, kind of like a huge giant tabaxi except instead of just being like a cat person they were an everything mammalian predator person. So they looked a lot like a bear and a cat and a dog all at once massive. Except instead of being ferocious looking they were incredibly well groomed and fluffy in every sense and like big soft, kind of like house pet fur giant. And that person was very warm and kind and sent out this inspiration to all of you at the beginning of your fight. And the Inspiration was a D20. Yeah, arch face. They're like demigods. And that that individual was warm. Next to that individual was an empty throne that never got filled nor addressed. Next to that throne was a very tall crystalline person made completely out of crystal. Very thin, fragile looking, almost like 19ft tall with an incredibly even tone of speaking. Very unreactive to almost everything said that individual came in riding like a Fae dragon. Next to that. These are all different archfey and you learned the names of each of these individuals. Individuals that if you care but you also don't have to. Next to that individual, the last to arrive was a giant. A giant storm woman. Like a 22 foot tall, blue buff, thick like leather armored woman who arrived in a storm and was very powerful and passionate, intense and had crackling lightning around her fingers and water coming off of her. And then lastly next to her the second to arrive had been Kidsuya Yigi, the archfey that Ro and Greta met forever ago. You guys can't hear a washing machine in the background, can you? No. Awesome. So that Kitsuigi you had not seen Craig, but it was the one that they previously met. She was just this very tall, slender Asiatically featured woman with this like dress made of scales where the scales were constantly rotating and shifting color. And she was very like inquisitive and kind. Is far too simple. But she was, she was passionate and enthusiastic and supportive of Row And Greta, for the sake of her previous connection reaction they'd had. Those were the six figures. Do you want names of people? [00:17:12] Speaker D: Her. I was just gonna say her. And what's his name kind of had like a thing. [00:17:22] Speaker A: A thing. [00:17:23] Speaker C: Very specific. Yellington Kitsie were specified in lore to be lovers of some sort. You don't know the interrelationships of any of the other members of the court. Do you want names? [00:17:34] Speaker B: I would like the names. Can you do the. I'm gonna make a quick tally of name and then a quick like specific description that I can refer back to. To remember who belongs to who. [00:17:44] Speaker C: Excellent. [00:17:44] Speaker D: Oh, and also Greta had cast tongues on you and me on. On Craig and. And Ro. So they started speaking in like a high Sylvan. Not just regular sylvan. And even though Greta and boss couldn't understand you and I figured out the names of the other dudes, I think. [00:18:05] Speaker C: I guess. [00:18:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:07] Speaker C: So for whatever it's worth, we need to plug this moment into the rest of the other two sessions. So if we could not have two. No, no, it's okay. It's okay. Thank you for being on top of the details. If we could have not too much additional extraneous pausing. So there's yellow table. Who you know, there's Kitsuyegi you could just call KS if you want. The art. The elegant lady, the Blue Thunder lady. Her name was Thuras. T h u r a a s. [00:18:44] Speaker B: So the R is like a d but like, it's like not. [00:18:47] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. Or like a very brief rolling thudas. Then the big fluffy friendly Fae was Otheanda. O t h e a n d a o Thayanda. [00:19:06] Speaker B: It's o t h e a n d a. [00:19:10] Speaker C: Yes. You all put up with so much nonsense for me. Yes. Otheanda. And then the big crystalline in unflappable Archfey was Sequisadius. S e q u e s a r I a s Sequesadius. [00:19:38] Speaker B: And what was the description of that one again? [00:19:40] Speaker C: That was the very tall, almost fragile looking crystalline one who is very placid and unmoving. Gotcha. [00:19:51] Speaker B: Gotcha. [00:19:55] Speaker C: And the way that we're gonna position this for the sake of storytelling is that you have watched Greta, Ro and Boz have all agreed and you have watched each of them go through this process with you. Archfey. Yeah, Y did Boz's. And you saw that Boz agreed, received the stone, Yelecton stepped down off the throne. He opened the book and basically Yelect did a casting of wish which was very dramatic and powerful. Each of the castings looked different. And then after he did, Boz asked a question of the book. And then things happened in Boz's mind. Nothing that you all saw. And then that was him receiving the answer and he came back and told you all. And then for Greta, same deal she accepted kids walked down cast wish. In her own way, Greta spoke a question into the book answer in her mind. Ro same thing Thuras answered cast wish for rock leaving only Athanda and Sequisadius. And Ro was yours one that everyone. Yours was one that everyone witnessed, correct? [00:21:10] Speaker D: Yeah, because I started big song. I think the first part wasn't or something. But then I started Rose was like. [00:21:17] Speaker C: A big song vision that everyone witnessed and was super powerful and cool. And that was that. So now where you all stand lined up before these archfey and their thrones floating in the sky, having just won a battle having wish cast for you. Welcome back to D and D. Micah, you have just watched three of your tello declined your other three party members accepted powerful magics was cast for them and you have witnessed them receive these visions and truth. Craig, you stand lined up with your allies now before the throne and the thrones, the court and all five of the archfey look to you in unabated silence, just waiting for your answer. [00:22:18] Speaker B: Okay, I'll do it. [00:22:23] Speaker C: Okay, I'll do it. That's not what I saw coming. Making a note of that. In which case Craig Sequisadius, that really tall crystalline one looks at you and opens their hand. And as a light, a little light flashes. The last stone just appears and it's minute in their hand like. Like a less than a marble. But this individual is giant. And as they tread very when they move, there is a very small sound of like breaking glass. Like a. And but their, their gesticulations, their motions are soft and smooth. As they stand up, they tread very long strides. This individual has a lot of limbs. And as they tread down, not multiple limbs, long limbs across the throne into the court where they kneel in front of you, there is an oh my goodness, that's an archfey feeling. And also as a lifelong gemstone miner, there's something about looking at a being of pure gemstone in the most magical sense. And they appear to be made up of a gemstone you can't identify. That looks like diamond, but much more reflective. So much so that it's often hard to make out Exact details of their shape and form. It's so like a moissanite, but even more so. And as they kneel before you, they hold out a stone to you, which looks like, like a gemstone kind of. Of the same material. They are like, like an extra sparkly moissanite, which in your hand is sizable, like, like half a golf ball size. It's just a perfectly round stone. You can see its hollow center and its fenestrations. You understand that when you accept it in the future, if you're ever at your last moments and you, you believe Yabran doesn't have a chance, you could crush it and return here. Well, you're agreeing to do that by taking the stone. So this giant, all of the sequisadius, this individual, their palm is slender and all of their digits are so long it's disproportionate. They look like a caricature of elegance. As they hold out their palm, the stone floats there for you to take. [00:24:46] Speaker B: I think Craig is going to look at the stone and this is a very weighty moment. He's in. Not. He's not gripping at it, but after, like hearing other people's debates and like conversations of what could happen or what could not happen if, you know, his family is coming to mind. It's. It's a horrible thought. But I think that he comes to terms with the fact that like. [00:25:25] Speaker C: But. [00:25:25] Speaker B: If said, if Zorgrim were about to destroy the world, everything in it, everything, his family, his everything, he would want to at least be able to save something else in honor of them. And I think that as he comes to, to that resolution, he, like trembling hand, like, reaches out and like, takes the crystal. [00:25:55] Speaker C: Craig is your broad, calloused hand. Your thick hand reaches out. You go to grab the stone and before your skin touches it, it like pulls to your hand a little bit. Like it gravitates to you. And. [00:26:08] Speaker B: Can I make a note? [00:26:09] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:26:11] Speaker B: A very familiar, an almost heartwarming feeling comes to him as he remembers what it felt like to hold old in his hand. And just knowing the familiarity of like, holding something that's bigger than himself returns to him. [00:26:31] Speaker C: I'm feeling a way for a bit. And she comes back. She. She's like, I don't know. Every time we put you back in the game, you're like, I'll open with a touchdown. I don't know why. [00:26:41] Speaker A: That's very beautiful. [00:26:42] Speaker B: Well, I couldn't do combat last time, so I have to emotionally do it. [00:26:47] Speaker C: You're like, I Got a stunt on him somehow. Craig, as you think about that and successfully resist the urge to put it in your mouth. You put it away. [00:26:56] Speaker B: Yep. [00:26:57] Speaker C: At a very padded place in your satchel. Take. Take my Gemstone Warrior. You put it in a very secure padded place in your satchel. And Sequisadius did not have the book before a different person had it. But when they open their other hand, the book is there. The entire book fits very easily in their palm, but is sizable in both hands for you. And it's opened. And you understand that how this process works is you just ask a question to the book and receive an answer. And you are, oh. The book is laid down. And Sequisadius takes their other hand and holds it over it, not touching the book, just in between. And the book lifts up and opens and all the pages unfold between each other. And it's like it's being suspended in an orbit between their hands. In Sequisadius, you notice as the figure comes so close, they have been a being difficult to visually capture. In the same way that when you look at a very reflective diamond, you can see it in great detail. But it's hard. Like, if you're moving it, it's kind of like dazzling. That's a little hard to put down. Its features, they're like that. There's so many different refractions and reflections, reflections within them that like where light catches at so many eagles. You could see the shape of their face, but it's hard to make out the exact details because there's so much reflection up close. You can see the detail. And their face is so lifelike and they are alive. But it's like looking at a statue of an impossible quality realism. And you can see now as you look at them that they are not. They don't look like solid crystal in between. Inside, it looks like a hollow space. And where you look there, you realize that light is emanating out from them. And their eyes, as you get close, you realize there are no eyelids carved. They're just open eyes. And as you look into those eyes, they kind of like emanate a rainbow ish light. And all around, all of you, like, feel a very brief look, just this wave of shock. And as all of you do, you all step back and like, as everybody reacts as they do in that moment, they all freeze. And the movement of the water in the pool stops. And a small insect flying somewhere by the platform. Just its wings suspend in a bending position. And everything stops. Except for you, Greg. You watch as the book just falls back into Sequisarius hands and the pages fall open and like everything is frozen. The other other Arch Fae don't look like they're moving. Nothing looks like it's moving. Sequisadius looks down at you, their head moving, and they say, ask. [00:30:20] Speaker B: Ses, you know a thing or two about being valuable and at the same time, you know, being crystal, like, fragile. I feel similarly. And I need wisdom. So my question is, what can I do to foster trust, forgiveness, love, my family again? What can I do to resolve it? It's been done. It's so fragile. I don't want to mess it up. [00:31:12] Speaker C: Well, shoot. Well, crap. This is the Book of Secrets, so I apologize, Micah. So Greta came to the book and asked, was it my fault about Walter. Killer question. Gut shot. Painful. Answerable. Jackie came and asked something that prompt a vision of the beginning in time and continuation of the old song. Powerful, challenging, very difficult, but do it. Landon walked up and kind of said, how do we win the game? Of course. And I was very challenged to come up with a highly poetic answer that was not a direct answer, but did have important information encoded with it. Never did I suspect you to give me the hardest question. What do I do with that? I don't know. We'll find out. Improv DM Dance So, Craig, as you ask that question, Sequisadius face is very unemotive, the way they have been the whole time. The crystalline portions of the face you've seen can move, but in this moment, there is no reflection from them. Like looking into a steely mirrored statue. And they just look at you and their eyes shift down toward the book. And as your eyes fall down as well, I assume. [00:32:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:49] Speaker C: The book tilts and lifts up out of their hand and a page turns. And as the page turns, it kind of like screen wipes your vision. So, like, the page turns and the world turns with it. And you cease to see the Feywilds, you cease to see the court. You cease to see any of these people you know, and instead you see what you know far better. You see the cold, cool, kind of like slate, like gray stonework of your bedroom, where you have not been in a little over. Well, yeah, just over a year. You see the oak bed, a real show of your financial gain to have wood in Shkonokov. And you see pale satin sheets, carefully folded. And there's stone furniture in much of the way of Shkonokov, not built and brought in, but built out of the wall and Effects. There's a bad portrait resting on a dresser, a dim mirror. And cat is there. She's reclined at the end of the bed. The bed, it's not big because it's made for two dwarves. It's wide, not long. And she's at the end of it, resting against the bedpost. She has all the pillows gathered. She's sitting in the middle of it and she's resting against the bedpost. And there is a ceramic mug next to her on a stand near the bed. Not unlavish living, but you were both previously two very well off individuals, half the income gone now for some time, but successful. And you can piece together that they're having fled. This can't be current, whatever you're saying, but it appears to have passed after your departure. A snippet of a time for which you were not witness. And scattered around her where the linen sheet lays over her lap, are open scrolls of accounts, documents and invoices and ledgers. And you knew she ran accounts for the mining company and the cap conglomerate into which it was absorbed. This is a state in which you could often find her and a ceramic mug resting nearby. You know it contains now no longer hot tea. She always got tea, never finished it. And so you can see the steam that's not rising out of it. And the scrolls are all rolled out and the ink dried. And she has a little ink smudged on the edge of her hand and she's no longer handling them. She's a bit of a workaholic, but that's not happening at the moment. And in her hand you can see that she has another thing you know very well but have long forgotten about where she's holding it in your hand. You can she. You can see that the. The wedding ring is not on her finger, but she's holding this little kind of like bluish black leather bound booklet that you gave her 37 years ago of poetry that you wrote a long time ago. And she's just thumbing the pages, you can see that she's skimming it. And you, you haven't seen that booklet in more than a decade, so she must have drug it out of somewhere. You'd forgotten at this point where you'd stored it in your home. And she's just sliding through the pages and her expression is just really tired. And she stops between two. And your vision is long. It pauses here for some time as you watch her just trace the lines. You watch her read it once, you watch her read it twice, thrice. A fourth time Then you watch her close the booklet, put it down in her lap. She crosses her hands and looks up at the ceiling and she lets her head kind of fall back and thump against the headboard a little hard. And she just studies a point in the ceiling that you can't see in the vision. Some tears well up in her eyes, but they don't break the eddies, they don't overflow her eyelids. And she just doesn't speak. She's just stuck there for a long time in your vision. And your world turns again as you can hear the sound of a turning page. And with a very thin papyral trim to the vision moving as if the world is a page turning in front of you. You. You now see a stone office, you know, well, one I've described in the past. You see errands and based on day and night are very hard to tell. She kind of cough. But you can see that there are these candles, these day candles that burn for about a day and the wax is melted all the way off of it. You could tell that you knew Eren to reuse these penny pincher that he is, but copper pincher I guess. But you can see that it's burned down to a degree, that his shift is long over and he's just still at his office. And there is a stone placard that you all thought about when it was awarded to him because it was given to him by his father in law for increases in efficiency in the mine, streamlining of production. And at the time you gave him a pretty salient and clear point about how all that it meant to hang a Kefkan Award in his office. And it's seeing it here in this vision brings to mind the fact that when you all rescued them, it wasn't in the office and you hadn't really thought much of it at the time, but you can see it now dashed to pieces in the center of the floor. And his office is. His office door is closed and the little metal lock mechanism above the push section of the handle is pushed to. He looks like he's been here well past everyone else. And he just has his hand, his palms pushed very hard up into his eye sockets and he's leaned over his desk, which has no papers on it. And there's like a solid 10 seconds before he heaves an uneven sob. And it's just a very exhausted belabored crying that's going on. And he's just still in the vision there, breathing heavily. After a moment, you can barely hear him sort of like and division remains there on him for a moment until there's a really quick flash of movement. His father's son not missing out on the physical genetic component of athleticism. And in a really quick spin of movement, he just stands up out of his chair, which goes falling backward. And before it can reach the ground, he grabs the back of it with a hand and hurls it all the way over the desk. Just one really angry like, and it launches across the room and the wood clatters across the floor. Sounds like something breaks. And in the same motion, before the chair has even quit moving, sliding, his hand cups up into a fist and he just brings it down on the table. And his hands removed from his face. You can see that his eyes are so red and there's tear stains on his face and he just. It's a weird display, but he just squeezes his palm so hard that his knuckles turn white. And he just like, kinda like a very rage like scream with no sound. He just quiet yells, just like, like to nothing. And tears are streaming down his face. And he stands there for a moment, heavily, like. And then he, like a kid, just plops down on the floor and backs up against his desk and just breathes there, tired for a while. You can hear another page turn and the world slides. And in a new moment you see Aaron very much not as you left him with Ekmund Kai. He's bald, which is weird. He's got like a buzz cut, but that's it. And his beard is really grown out, but tied together in a clasp. And you can see him in open Dion Danak landscape where the temple you left him with is. And he has a bowl of soup in his hand, steaming a little. And it's early morning, which he's not a fan of traditionally. And he's sitting out on a flat rock, and behind him you can see the rising butte and the winding stone pathway and the entrance to the temple beyond it and the marking above it. He's just positioned not far from where you all are in a way that no one present for this experience would know. He's sitting on the rock that Boz and Tello were when they had that momentous conversation. He's sitting there in front of the temple and the sun is just rising slowly, warming up his face. He's got the soup in his hand and his eyes are closed and he's just breathing deeply, breathing in the steam. And you see Zhall, whose name I think I'm correctly remembering, his wife, walking down the steps and she has a bowl of soup of her own and she sits down next to him and she takes his hand, setting the stoop down in front of the stone. And when he opens his eyes, they look calm, but they look exhausted. And he leans to the right and just leans his head over under her shoulder. Jaw is only half dwarf, she's half human. So they're, they're a funny mix because her, her, her like facial proportions are taller than his, but she's his height because she's half human. And she, she is of the race to be bigger than him, but she's just a shouty, so she's just a little shorter. And her shoulder's just beneath his and he just leans his head over on her shoulder. She starts saying something that in the vision you can't understand, but she's just talking calmly to him and his hand is in hers. And the soup bowls are just on the stones in front of them, steaming lightly in the morning. And they're just talking quietly. And the page turns and your world shifts again. And you look now at a grave plot. You know it is where there are not. It is a memorial in Koshnikov. In Koshnikov culture can be harsh sometimes beautiful, others harsh. Some the beans do not believe in preserving the bodies of the dead. And it is a memorial at the edge of a subterranean cliff with a tremendous drop into a source of great heat that no one has ever ventured down to see. And this is the point over which bodies are lowered to fall. The memorial is this yard of stone emblems carved into the ground with visual symbolism of the person released over the edge and name and descriptors. And as well as a family title, this is where your father was buried. And you see now your placard. And on it Aaron and Cat's names are not inscribed. It's yours alone, buried as though a single man. And in the vision there's so many other tile memorials next to it with inscription on it you can't really read. Yours is the focal point in the vision. And in the vision you can hear the familiar of your own armored feet. And your armor, your full plate armor walks up to the marker and the visor of the helmet is lifted up and no one is inside and it cares. With it minister at its side, your other magical sword. And it walks up to the glaive, the grave plot, and just stands there a moment before pulling out the sword facing downward. And your armor holds the blade in either hand facing down, kneels and softly places the blade down into the center of the placard. And with a motion too soft to break the stone just. And the placard fractures and snaps as the blade tip pierces it. And the suit of armor pulls the sword out, pushes it back into its scabbard, and just stands in that kneeling position before this little green root grows up and blossoms into this golden flower. Very simple. And the flower sort of alights with this golden rainbow ish first flame fire that burns above it. As the perspective of the vision moves on the flower in the suit of armor, for a moment, it shifts a little bit, back up. And you see on the broken grave placard, your name is gone now. And you have to piece it together for a moment as the little stones are broken apart. But you can see that written across it is in Dwarvish is, yet still even the grave gives birth to green. And you remember that language from your vision at the Wellspring. And resting on it is your wedding ring next to the flower. Actually, it's around the base. So where the stone emblems of your placard fractured, your wedding ring is in the center now, like as if the flower grew up through it. But your wedding ring is broken into pieces. And it's like as if by some invisible force just pushed back together. And the pieces aren't reforged, they aren't melted, they're just back, but split. The page turns for you to look into the gleaming face of Sequisadi is looking back at you, unflappable and unmoved. And they look at you very calmly, without too much regard. And there's just no answer from them, none to your inquiry, none to your question. They close the book, stand tall, and they hand the book, as we had previously canonically said, back to Greta, who has it in her inventory via the previous conversation, and they tread back to their throne without saying another word. Do you want a moment of, like, just personal roleplay for Craig in the wake of that vision, or do you want to move back to the current point in time? [00:52:28] Speaker B: Just one moment, just one moment of reflection. I think he's going to call after. I think he's. I think he doesn't understand, doesn't fit into the box of understanding that he. I think he's gonna cough to them, wait, but I don't know what is it? He didn't say anything. [00:52:55] Speaker C: Interrupting the question is Sequisadius, who. Who has already turned away from you and is treading back to their throne. As they stop and turn back, the severe angularity of their visually Challenging face seems sharper than ever. And those uncovered eyes are very piercing as they. They look at you, but completely expression neutral. And they just turn and say, these are your visions. I have no answer for you. And then they turn back forward and just tread back to the throne and sit down. And for the rest of the party, you look at Craig, who received a casting like Sequis Sardius lifted their hands, the book rose. And then the moment after they placed their hands down and the book closed. So to you all, it looks almost as if nothing happened to Greg, as the frozen moment in time was just about a lapse for you all. And Sequisartius treads back to their throne. [00:54:12] Speaker B: I don't know what to. I don't know if that was good or bad. I don't know. Maybe it's a current explanation of the state that I'm in. Maybe it's good. I don't know. I'm hopeful. [00:54:45] Speaker C: Craig is just quietly voicing this aloud next to you. That's. That's all the current circumstance. You don't need to interact with that. But that is currently what's happening. [00:54:54] Speaker A: I'm gonna walk up to Craig and like just put my hand on his back and just kind of pat. [00:55:00] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm gonna walk up to the other side of him just so that he's kind of like embraced by both. [00:55:06] Speaker B: Sides, kind of, you know, what the heck, Boss? You just gonna stand there? No, I'm just kidding. [00:55:13] Speaker D: Boss is like another plane right now. [00:55:22] Speaker A: Boss is floating in time zone. His eyes are. [00:55:29] Speaker C: Boss is just pissing off the edge of the High Court platform. Did I miss something? [00:55:34] Speaker B: Boss is Zorum. [00:55:37] Speaker A: We turn around. Boss is in. [00:55:40] Speaker C: What the heck, Boss. Boss kills Craig. And I think that's. [00:55:47] Speaker B: I think I'm content. [00:55:49] Speaker C: Yeah. With no further translation, explanation or segue. [00:55:54] Speaker D: Boom. [00:55:55] Speaker C: Smash cut. The rest of the conversation with the archway happened and you all are stepping through the gate, which I have just been informed leads to a scenario I had not prepared for. And so we are going to once again come up with some violent improv of improv. [00:56:15] Speaker D: So why does it have to be violent? [00:56:19] Speaker C: Don't tempt me. [00:56:20] Speaker B: Or it will be so I can continue talking. [00:56:24] Speaker C: I just didn't want to waste having stepped through gate. Through a casting of the gate spell of the Archfey, you all step out into. You step out of the Feywilds and Ah, different song. And back into Yalabran. There is an imperceptible dryness to the air. Your senses are flooded by a lack of what you're sensing, you know, you step back into the not magically sweet taste of the air from the feywilds, the not over bright colors, just back into a more tepid present comprehensible slight gradient shift of reality. Specifically, what you step into is dry forest, dry tropical forest. It's all of your feet crunch on a very thin layer of leaf litter. And not the leaf litter you might think of from deciduous American forests, but very long thin leaves that are very thickly ribbed and veined that have all twisted and turn like all of them have turned in on themselves. And it makes their very thin layer very crunchy on the floor. As each of you and as Jackie very helpfully reminded me when Boz walks out, it goes from his little curved elf jingle bell boots and then Craig is clickety clackity in his armor as always. And you all step out into this very darkly browned forest floor and there is no sky above you, only an emerald dappled light traced canopy 30 or 40ft up. And the forest around you has some lower canopy, but it's almost all very tall old growth canopy being supported by these thin trees that waver and move as they grow up, that have crown branches high above with thin limbs that just spread out over you. And the ground is very uneven slopes up and down in topography quite a bit. And you all are just present there the same day you completed the bewildering keep the same two hours you fought before entertained and received wish castings from the archfey. Whatever your previous hit point total and slot expenditure was, that's where you are now. [00:59:06] Speaker D: I got 29 hit points. [00:59:09] Speaker C: The party stands there on one of the wildest days of their lives. If I remember correctly, your third level slots are expended. Your third level is your highest, right? Your third level slots are expended and I think one of your second level. And then as far as hit points, let's just take 40 off and call it at that because boss didn't send me any notes. Landon, whoever the real person is and we'll say that's where you are. [00:59:34] Speaker A: Okay. [00:59:37] Speaker D: Did this seem like. Well, no one. Okay, hold on, let me gather my brain, my brain thoughts. [00:59:45] Speaker C: There's a really big neon sign flashing that says Sandor. Sandor. Sandor. [00:59:51] Speaker D: Welcome to Sandor. [00:59:53] Speaker A: Are there any like around or signs of people around? [01:00:00] Speaker C: As it was recently specified that you were not dropping off in front of the temple. You stand alone in the rainforest and the in the dry tropical forest. [01:00:09] Speaker D: So like okay, it's like a dry Top. Okay. And do we see like the ocean behind us or anything like that? Like we're kind of in the middle of the. [01:00:21] Speaker C: A lot of forest. [01:00:23] Speaker D: Okay. Okay. Just wanted to make sure. [01:00:25] Speaker C: Valid. I mean, you could have assumed I would have described it, but. [01:00:29] Speaker D: Valid question. Yeah, I know, I know, I know. I just wanted to make sure I didn't. I didn't miss it somehow. Hey, can I hear anything? [01:00:38] Speaker C: Make a perception check, Greta. You now ridiculously perceptive person. [01:00:42] Speaker D: What's it smell like? [01:00:45] Speaker B: Rain and forest. [01:00:50] Speaker C: Well, this is the sort of thing I'll indulge you on. You know how to get me. It is. The smell is strong. Strong. It's not a strong smell, but it is such an intense diversity of scent. Like. Excuse me. It is such a. It smells like a great quantity, a great abundance of a non abrasive scent, if that makes sense. So like, okay, a mild scent in massive density, it's hard not to smell smells very much like rotted leaves, that kind of pleasant fall smell, but a drier scent. A very dry version of that. If that is something like. [01:01:34] Speaker D: We shouldn't light any fires is what you're saying. [01:01:38] Speaker C: With a survival DC of 2, you bet. This place would go up in flames. [01:01:44] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:01:46] Speaker C: And there is a slight moisture, but it's only hot on occasional breezes. The temperature is. It's very subtropical. So it is warm, but not like actively hot. Just pleasantly warm. Where? Not like pleasantly cool? No, much less somewhere like low 80s. [01:02:13] Speaker D: Okay. [01:02:14] Speaker C: The only person here is Craig, who is perpetually a little too warm in his full plate armor. Grabby, did you want to look at the details on observant just then? [01:02:28] Speaker A: Yes. I read that last bullet point to mean that my passive perception goes up and my investigation goes up. I didn't change my perception score. Do I get to change my perception score? I changed my passive perception. But I can switch them or update it however you'd like. [01:02:52] Speaker C: So here's the thing. The way I'm reading this, it only looks like it changes your passives. [01:02:57] Speaker A: Okay. [01:02:57] Speaker C: The confusing thing here is I could have sworn could have sworn that it changes your active perception score. Like I could have sworn that's how observed servant works. So let me. I'll tell you what. Why doesn't someone do or say something while I look something up real quick? [01:03:23] Speaker D: Okay, go ahead. You. You do you grads Grabs. Grabs us, I think. [01:03:34] Speaker A: Probably just takes it a deep breath and like. Like checks up on the rest of the party to make sure everyone's okay. Because that was crazy. [01:03:45] Speaker D: Greta. [01:03:46] Speaker C: Role play Some conversation, if you like. [01:03:48] Speaker D: Do you think, Greta, that I'm. Like, I don't. I don't really know how this place works, but do you think we could rest some before we go meet or find any people or, like, I know we had kind of talked about it, but, like, are they gonna be upset that we're here or, like, I feel like I'm a little tired. I don't know about you guys, but I'm dead exhausted. I am. [01:04:19] Speaker A: I was just thinking. I think we should either camp here or maybe look for an inn if there's a town nearby. [01:04:29] Speaker B: Are there towns here? [01:04:31] Speaker D: I didn't know. I didn't know much about this place. [01:04:34] Speaker A: So I. I think so. I think that there's a small or. [01:04:38] Speaker D: Okay. [01:04:39] Speaker A: And if not, we can always come back chill. [01:04:41] Speaker D: With, like, random people showing up. [01:04:47] Speaker A: I know that there's several groups that are pretty touchy, but I assumed that there was a, you know, a regular. Ish port town. I don't know if that's true. If we're. If we're worried about it, we could always just camp here and just make sure we have someone on watch. You could make a tiny hut. [01:05:12] Speaker D: I could make a tiny hut. That is true. Wait, maybe. I don't know. Let me. Let me check my vitals of how much magic I got. Yes. I could make a tiny hut. I could make one tiny hut. [01:05:25] Speaker B: She looks at this magic clear bottle of magic juice and sees how much she has left. And for some reason, every time she falls asleep, it refills. [01:05:34] Speaker D: I got enough. [01:05:35] Speaker B: I'd like to make a tiny purple and green. Purple and green juice in a bottle. It's just green juice. [01:05:44] Speaker D: Tello's the one refilling it each night. It's just grape juice. Should we. Should we call up. I know the. We can do it in a minute because I feel like they may be preoccupied at the moment to. To speak to us, but should we call up spagoober or. Or the, you know, the crew to see, like, how far away they may be? Just. Just to check on them. Check their coordinates. Because I know we had told them to meet us here, right? So we could call them in a bit? [01:06:17] Speaker A: I could also figure that out. I could also call. Actually, I don't know anyone. I don't think at my temple, I could call, actually. [01:06:30] Speaker D: Funny. Sorry. I didn't mean. [01:06:33] Speaker B: Remembering we were homeschooled. [01:06:37] Speaker D: There's just a hotline to. To your temple. It's like, hold on. Let me just see if someone's there. [01:06:43] Speaker A: I Might be able to. I could write a message in my journal and possibly that would get to them. [01:06:49] Speaker D: Yeah, that's true. [01:06:51] Speaker A: But I. I'll try that. [01:06:54] Speaker D: But, you know, hey, you, DM boy. [01:06:58] Speaker C: Smash. Cut back to the observant question. From what I can read, everyone is just treating it like the passive, which makes me think I misunderstood it in the past. It still increased your wisdom score, right? [01:07:14] Speaker A: It did, but I already had a 20, so I just left it at 20 because it says maximum of 20. [01:07:18] Speaker C: So then as I understand, I guess it only increases the passive, which just meant I misunderstood in the past. [01:07:25] Speaker A: That's what I thought. I just wanted to. But it does increase my investigation, right? [01:07:29] Speaker C: Your passive investigation is will. [01:07:32] Speaker A: Okay, but not my. [01:07:34] Speaker D: Not what is passive investigation? [01:07:39] Speaker C: A thing I haven't been particularly using previously and I'm going to start trying to use to validate the use of Abby's feet. Basically just like. Well, the same as passive perception. Noticing things that you wouldn't have otherwise seen, but in an investment, investigatory way. [01:07:58] Speaker D: But I'm saying, like, how do you calculate it, please? [01:08:02] Speaker C: Same as passive perception, 10 +Mod. If you could just prompt me at times to be like, does my passive investigation. Because I'm gonna have to train that muscle. [01:08:13] Speaker A: So I'm gonna change that back to what it was. [01:08:21] Speaker D: Okay, wait, so what is your passive perception now? [01:08:26] Speaker A: 20. [01:08:28] Speaker D: Nice. We got two 20s in the party. [01:08:32] Speaker A: Okay, so I just call it 20. [01:08:34] Speaker C: 20 vision. So what was that perception check from 15 years ago, Greta? [01:08:41] Speaker A: It was a 13 plus a 5, so an 18. [01:08:46] Speaker C: Okay, first roll of the session. [01:08:49] Speaker A: And really quick math, if you guys would notice that noise. [01:08:53] Speaker C: 40 minutes. So I was very impressed with the speed of that math, Greta. You were looking for signs of people as you look around. [01:09:06] Speaker A: I was listening for people. I was asking what I could hear. [01:09:10] Speaker C: You see? That's right. You listening for. [01:09:13] Speaker D: You could hear. [01:09:13] Speaker C: Thank you for that clarification is definitely helpful. You see, you hear. You hear the occasional drift of breeze shake the tree branches. You hear their unenthusiastic clapping of leaves. You hear a distant trilling call, some reptile or amphibian or bird. And you hear. You hear, like a sudden light leaf impact from a heavy object, a dense animal dropping to the forest floor or a branch. But no present sign of any social life. [01:10:06] Speaker A: Okay. [01:10:07] Speaker C: Nothing you witness at this moment. Okay. [01:10:12] Speaker A: Can you help me remember what I've. Or maybe this would be a history check. Or maybe I just remember each other. What I know about the culture surrounding. I know that those two societies are. [01:10:26] Speaker C: Pretty hostile Importantly, little. That's what you. That you all have up until this point learned very little. You know that they are this cloistered, sequestered order of individuals. The. The order of a. Who gather all of this information, especially what is magical pertinent from around the world. You know that they have a monastic order attached to their clerical tradition. The clerical tradition being focused on this record of knowledge. The most monastic tradition being focused on the defense of it and the retrieval of information from around the world. And that is about all you know. And you also know that Sandor happens to be somewhere in its premises as well. Home to the Blades of Sandoria, an entirely separate organization devoted to, well, who knows what culture or group of people they may or may not be attached to. But you know that they are a organization of people who are like a monastic order, highly trained as a group of people to rent out their services, which are exclusively killing. They are, they are world class assassins. Social influences from this. [01:11:48] Speaker A: Do I remember or reading anything about like a town or like tavern or a port? [01:11:58] Speaker C: Man, I want to say no so bad, but it is you. Why don't you give me. I'm gonna. [01:12:07] Speaker D: Where did we tell Goober and them to land? [01:12:11] Speaker C: Your directions were. Go to the island, find a port. But don't get too close in case things are bad. Don't get near the assassins. Get near. Not too close. Somewhere near Heck. [01:12:23] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:12:24] Speaker C: Very variable and all over the place and attempted to be detail. [01:12:30] Speaker D: Nice. [01:12:32] Speaker C: I'll tell you what, Greta, you can make me. I don't know about history because it's a pretty separated culture. You can make me a rumors check, Ruben. [01:12:42] Speaker A: Oh goodness gosh dang. That's gonna be a 11. [01:12:48] Speaker C: No. Okay. [01:12:51] Speaker A: Okay. Well, in that case, I think Brett is going to take out her journal or her sketchbook, like Ioun notebook and she is going to write down some basic like kind of what you just described, like dry forest, you know, like the, the leaves and the trees and stuff like that. She just, you know, she's very aware that these people know about the ecology of the island that they live on. But she's gonna like give her little contribution. Any bird sounds or interesting bugs that she sees. And she's going to like, she's in her book going to write out a question and she's going to ask sort of like she's like posing a note to herself. But she's aware that other people have access to this and that her patrons at the temple can. Assuming they read this. She's gonna ask. She's Gonna make a list. She's gonna make bullet points. She's going to put how to ins ways to ensure safe passage question mark. Or on Sandor question mark. Customary respectful practices for entering the temple, question mark. And places for party of weary adventurers to stay question mark. And it's like she's. I'm sure she does this often. Like right little notes to herself. But she's doing it very intentionally this time to see if she can gain any knowledge from her knowledge. And then she's going to close the book and just like sit for a little bit while other people are chatting and whatever. [01:15:06] Speaker C: Anyone else doing anything. [01:15:08] Speaker D: I'm going to call Spaghuber up on the sending stone. [01:15:16] Speaker C: So an only slightly spittle cuttered setting stone. [01:15:22] Speaker D: I'm gonna press to digitate that because we're no longer in the freewell. I press the digitate the crap out of that thing. [01:15:31] Speaker C: Prestigitation flows from you freely feel no consequence. And there's just this. After the day you've had wondrous and awful alike. You still have a couple recently active stab wounds. Also saw a vision granted to you by a practical demigod. What a day. But the relief you feel move down your nervous system as you cast. And there are no consequences. [01:16:00] Speaker D: Hashtag bless. [01:16:01] Speaker C: Glorious. [01:16:11] Speaker D: Yeah. And I'm gonna. I'm gonna say hello. Spagober. Come in, Spagoober. Fun guys too. [01:16:21] Speaker C: How are you doing? [01:16:22] Speaker D: I'm doing. I'm doing good Spoober. How are you? [01:16:26] Speaker C: Yeah, it's them. It's them. I'm getting a call from them. [01:16:29] Speaker D: Yep. [01:16:34] Speaker C: Everybody. Rose says hi. [01:16:37] Speaker D: Could you tell me what day it is? Cooper? [01:16:40] Speaker C: Of course. Of course. It's the 31st of what color line? It's my neck. [01:16:50] Speaker D: Okay. I just wanted to make sure. [01:16:53] Speaker C: No problem. Are you guys back from the fay wives? [01:16:57] Speaker D: Yes, we are. We are in Sandor. That's so great. [01:17:04] Speaker C: Wow. This is the closest you've been to us in a really long time. [01:17:07] Speaker D: Yeah, some. Some really nice Fae dudes zapped us here. Okay. [01:17:13] Speaker C: Sounds pretty you guys. [01:17:14] Speaker D: Yeah. So we just wanted to. To check in with you. Are y'all doing okay? Is. [01:17:20] Speaker C: Oh my goodness, we are great. You know we're getting pretty good at this whole like you guys go do something and we do our thing. I mean not like you guys worked a part of us. We're really good at that. And of course we're all the fun guys together. But you know the part B crew is just really just kind of vibe and just kind of like chill and you Know, just kind of like getting along. Yeah, We've been learning to do a little bit of music together. It's not really good, but having fun with it. I'm teaching everybody. See Santis. [01:17:46] Speaker D: And then, well, well, I got, I got a new. I got a new loot. So when we get back, maybe I can teach you and we can jam or something. [01:17:56] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. What's there? Well, let me tell you, the singing is really great, but it could use your accompaniment. [01:18:02] Speaker D: Well, I can do. [01:18:03] Speaker C: I've been trying to do some of the workouts with Bill Free and pl. That's not so great. N's been teaching us all to throw maps. We're not so good at that either, but we're just having a good time. We're not on the shore of Sandar because you guys were all like, on the shore, but we drifting near like, kind of like a half mile off of shore. [01:18:21] Speaker D: Okay, so you are close. Wonderful. [01:18:24] Speaker C: We've been here for probably like a week and a half, kind of. [01:18:27] Speaker B: Okay. [01:18:27] Speaker D: I'm so sorry. No, that's okay. [01:18:30] Speaker C: I mean, you guys have to go do your adventure. I mean, if you guys were secretly wasting a bunch of time for no reason, that kind of poo poo. But we guys obviously know that that is not happening and that you guys definitely not really focused on your mission. No, it's all good. We understand. We understand you guys. [01:18:44] Speaker D: Cool. We're, we're here. We just landed here, and we're not exactly sure. We're in the middle of, like, a forest and we're not exactly sure where, like, basically where, like, the bad meets the good. So once we kind of figure out where the bad people are, where the good people are, we'll let you know where you can, like, dock and then you guys can stretch your sea legs. Because I know you guys have been out there for a while. [01:19:12] Speaker C: Yeah, that sounds fine. [01:19:14] Speaker D: Okay. [01:19:14] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I mean, whenever we can go inland, that sounds good. But I mean, you know, we're doing fine here. We're doing that. [01:19:19] Speaker D: Okay. Okay, wonderful. I'll, I'll tell everyone else and see what we can do. [01:19:26] Speaker C: Well, she's telling me important. Okay. All right. [01:19:29] Speaker D: Yes. [01:19:30] Speaker C: Platforms me to tell you that whenever we can talk somewhere friendly. She'd love that because I'm going to include some of her language. But we have been on okay. Something, something sea for a very long time, and we would like a place to doubt that's kind of safe. [01:19:44] Speaker D: I definitely agree. I, I, we, we are going to figure out. We're gonna tell Her. [01:19:52] Speaker C: We're gonna. [01:19:52] Speaker D: We're gonna get our. We're. Let me put cloth on the phone. Put Ploth on the phone or on the stone. [01:20:00] Speaker C: Oh, no. I don't know if this is the right time, Ro. She's gonna let the bit. [01:20:05] Speaker D: Okay. [01:20:06] Speaker C: Psy. Psy. Mood. [01:20:08] Speaker D: Okay. Well, I just wanted to tell her. [01:20:10] Speaker C: No, I can't. [01:20:11] Speaker D: I. I have some stab wounds I'm attending to. And then after that, we will stab on pl. After that, we will figure out where you. We can dock you. I promise. [01:20:23] Speaker C: You said something about killing a kua. [01:20:25] Speaker D: Okay, within the next 24 hours, talk. [01:20:28] Speaker C: To you guys, and I'm just so glad to hear your voice and. Oh, my goodness, guys, no, it's. They've been through a lot. I'm sure it's been some sort of an adventure. No, I'm not going to say that right now. Oh, my goodness, guys. Yeah. Okay. [01:20:43] Speaker D: Okay. We'll see you all in a bit. [01:20:45] Speaker C: They say they love you. Okay. We love you guys, and it's okay. So call us whenever you want. [01:20:51] Speaker D: Bye. Okay, bye. Guys, we need to find a place for them to dock. I'd think things are getting tense. Very tense. [01:21:00] Speaker B: No, I think that they were actually really happy, really excited to see us. That's what. That's what that was. [01:21:06] Speaker D: I don't think so. You didn't hear the same conversation I heard, Craig. I don't think you heard the conversation at all. [01:21:13] Speaker B: I just feel. [01:21:19] Speaker A: We're just going to check her book. It's probably been, like, five or 10 minutes, but she's anxious and. [01:21:27] Speaker C: The same notes from the previous page. [01:21:30] Speaker A: Okay. [01:21:30] Speaker C: No response. Okay. [01:21:32] Speaker B: Why can't people be more active on Wikipedia? [01:21:36] Speaker C: It's. It's not a search engine. That's not what the book. [01:21:39] Speaker B: Wikipedia. [01:21:42] Speaker D: I'm gonna. I am going. Okay, guys, what if. Okay, you said there were some bad guys on here, right? Like assassin? Like people? [01:21:56] Speaker A: Yes. Very powerful, very strong. [01:21:58] Speaker D: Are there, like, hunter? Like, what if I became a bat and I flew out to the ship and helped them figure out, like, where we could dock? [01:22:12] Speaker C: I just want to interject here really quickly and say that I was kind of. I was worried about the session for two reasons. One, I had a little less time to write than usual. And two, I was like, well, we need to do Micah's bed at the beginning. I don't know if we're just like, are we going to get all the plot stuff in order? And now that we're back, all of my worries are melting away. As I remember, we've got to do this nonsense for a while. They're going to get gooby. They're going to talk about things. I'm fine. This. There's no rush. Anywho, back to this. Just a fun little DM feeling. She was in a Dodge mod. [01:22:48] Speaker D: Understand what we're doing is not important then. [01:22:51] Speaker C: And also because I misunderstood and thought we were just opening on you guys plopping out in front of the front door. That also comes into my perspective. [01:23:00] Speaker A: So I think we could either. I think maybe we should just camp here, sleep for eight hours, maybe 8.5 hours. And then. And then whatever we have to face tomorrow, we will have the energy to face. Ro, what time is it? [01:23:24] Speaker D: Damn. What time is it, ro? [01:23:28] Speaker C: It feels early 3ish. [01:23:31] Speaker D: It's early 3ish. [01:23:32] Speaker C: Got a return to the reorientation with Yalabin you now understand has to do with a magical connection to Agba and that you're just. There's Ro. There's just so much. No magical flagellation. No magical beard. Casting's working again. You can feel time. You're just like. [01:23:52] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, okay. [01:23:56] Speaker D: I mean, I could. Yeah. I mean, if you wanted to, I could. I could. Never mind. No, I couldn't. I was gonna say I could. [01:24:08] Speaker C: Like, I think don't let the man tell you what you can't do. [01:24:12] Speaker D: Well, no, like, I was gonna polymorph and carry us all. Like, if you guys would rather, like, sleep on the ship so that you could sleep in your own beds or something, you know? [01:24:21] Speaker C: You know, Carolan is. Is women's focus month, so. [01:24:27] Speaker D: I didn't know that. Hello. I think that's amazing. I love that. [01:24:33] Speaker C: I think so. [01:24:37] Speaker A: Every other month. [01:24:38] Speaker B: Craig, I'm sorry that felt like everything. [01:24:42] Speaker C: To talk about with you and Catherine, but I say. I say go for it, bro. Let them stop you. Don't let them tell you what you can't do. [01:24:50] Speaker D: I feel like you're. I feel like you're egging me on Tello or something. [01:24:55] Speaker C: Ro, come on. Does that feel like me a little bit? [01:25:00] Speaker D: Little bit. I'm. [01:25:02] Speaker C: I'm really tired from, you know, same maybe hour. [01:25:06] Speaker D: I guess. Maybe we should just camp. I can protect us with the. With the hut, but if you want. [01:25:11] Speaker C: To turn into a bat, don't let to stop you. [01:25:14] Speaker D: Yeah, but I don't want to get, like, shot down, you know? [01:25:19] Speaker C: Maybe you don't. [01:25:20] Speaker D: Yeah, maybe I do, though. [01:25:22] Speaker B: Already's asleep, Ro. Already asleep. [01:25:26] Speaker D: Ro sits down and starts weaving the. The hut around everyone. [01:25:31] Speaker C: Craig, it does take 10 minutes to take your armor off. Were you doing that the whole time everyone was talking? [01:25:36] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:25:36] Speaker C: This conversation probably buckling armor and taking things off. [01:25:41] Speaker B: I know where this is going. [01:25:44] Speaker C: The party just anyone else has something to do where they are in the forest floor and starts like setting down bags and everyone's disassembling armor. And also to be clear, you guys, it's one of those days. You guys are living a pretty crazy life this year in the almost a year you've been together. And it's. It's another one of those days. Been a while, but that was complete. A magical tower. Meet demigods. Witness universal truths. Travel to another plane of existence. An island. And it's. It's. I. I really do want to hearken that you guys should think back to just about the most tired you've been and that's how your characters feel right now. But also think of some of the worst physical pain you've been in because everybody's got a couple stab wounds. It's a rough moment and if not also magically encouraged. And an incredible day, a really confusing one. And everybody sort of like disarmors and lays down. There's lots of pretz digitation to go around cleaning everyone as Ro. Everyone gives everyone their dry showers and the group just kind of hunkers down. Now it's worth noting that it's three. So, you know, you can go to sleep now, but that is. [01:26:59] Speaker D: That is a time I think. I mean, I. I'm ready. I think Ro is ready to sleep. [01:27:06] Speaker A: We've probably been up for a long. [01:27:09] Speaker D: Yeah, we've been up for like over 24 hours, I feel. [01:27:11] Speaker C: Yeah, you all have been up for about 10. [01:27:17] Speaker B: What. [01:27:18] Speaker C: What you got is a lot of sessions, but you guys went from room to room to room to room to room, then left the. Went to the court, then came here. This. This is. This has been one day and you got an early start on the tower. [01:27:32] Speaker A: Well, we also. Oh, did we take a break before. [01:27:35] Speaker C: Going to the tower and this is so important. Nope, you guys went straight in. This is so important. Not only is this the same day you completed the tower, and the same day you went to the High court, and the same day you met the archfey, and the same day wish was cast for you, and the same day you read the book, and the same day you traveled back to Yabran, this is also the same same day you trekked up the side of the mountain, went into the cave of darkness, met the giant Kraken, and divine interventioned your way to the tower. That's all the same day. Yeah. [01:28:04] Speaker A: Crazy. I say we camp here, and maybe, maybe. Maybe Greta doesn't go to bed right away. Greta would probably want to maintain her sleep cycle because she's an old lady, so she's probably just scribbling in her notebook until, like, taking, like, notes for herself. Well, I mean, they're all for herself, but, like, she knows that the Sandor people are. [01:28:31] Speaker C: I can still hear you guys. Could you guys. For a separate reason, could you guys give me just kind of, like, a couple minutes, like, talking and roleplay and stuff among yourselves? I really appreciate. Give me one second real quick. [01:28:40] Speaker A: Yeah, no problem. [01:28:44] Speaker D: Ro is gonna, like. She's just gonna kind of. I think after she makes the hut, she's just gonna kind of lay down and, like, I feel like Ro, for the first time, is like, sawing logs. Like, she's just. It's been a day. She. She usually doesn't get stabbed this much in combat, mind you. Yeah, she's usually in the back. She. So she's. She's. She's out. [01:29:15] Speaker B: I feel like Craig is in kind of a pissy mood because everyone got answers like, that were very, like, obvious. I feel like maybe I'm wrong. I wasn't there, but, like, no, we. [01:29:30] Speaker A: Don'T know what we only saw. [01:29:32] Speaker D: Well, like, y'all saw Rose, and Boss told us what his was, right? [01:29:38] Speaker A: Oh, I think so. [01:29:41] Speaker D: But Bosses was not very straightforward. It was like a whole. Yeah, it was like, poem, basically, of us needing to decipher. [01:29:51] Speaker B: Oh, and mine was great. Go ahead. [01:29:54] Speaker A: Go ahead. Oh, go ahead. I was using. Mine wasn't like a yes or no. I mean, it was actually. I did, I think, get a. But it was also. There's a lot of ekitra stuff to interpret. They're all very interpretive. [01:30:08] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:30:09] Speaker A: But go ahead, Craig. [01:30:10] Speaker B: I think Craig knows that he's on the right track, but I think he's kind of in a pissy mood because he's like. I was just reminded of all the damage, like, visually what I had left behind. And I think that he's frustrated because that's not what he intended when he asked the question. To know, which is a part of the answer. Taking accountability for your faults is a part of the answer. But I think for him, it was just a reminder of, like, the damage that he was already aware of and not a. Like, there was a little bit of hope at the end, but I think he's still, like, he's way. He feels more weighed down, and he was like, Hoping to feel encouraged. Encouraged and like, inspired, but like, he felt weighed by. [01:31:02] Speaker A: The. [01:31:02] Speaker B: The pressure of. Of what was left behind. You getting some clean floors there back. [01:31:14] Speaker C: What? [01:31:15] Speaker B: It sounds like a vacuum. [01:31:17] Speaker C: Hoffa's hair. Drying her hair. A. I very politely asked if we could not do that on the nights I record exclusively in the future, because the only times that's happened this month have been when we're recording. But that's okay. I was very polite about that. And she was like, yeah, no problem. So that's. Sandor has a magical sound of hair drying sometimes. [01:31:38] Speaker D: So I think that makes sense, doesn't it? [01:31:43] Speaker C: Loud or is it not? [01:31:46] Speaker D: That's the sound of Ro snoring. Her snore. [01:31:53] Speaker A: No breaths. [01:31:56] Speaker C: It's. She just inhales for eight hours. [01:32:01] Speaker A: Dude, she is so oxygenated. She is, like, ready to go. [01:32:04] Speaker B: We don't have diaphragm. [01:32:08] Speaker C: But is. Is it like, really loud on the recording or. [01:32:10] Speaker A: No, I think it's okay. [01:32:12] Speaker D: Yeah, it's not that bad. [01:32:15] Speaker C: So you guys. So you guys just talked about it, right? Okay. Everybody went to sleep. [01:32:21] Speaker D: Yeah. Rose asleep. Craig is upset. [01:32:25] Speaker C: Ish boss is out. [01:32:26] Speaker B: He went to bed upset. [01:32:28] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:32:28] Speaker B: He doesn't want to talk. [01:32:29] Speaker C: Craig's asleep. [01:32:30] Speaker A: Are we saying that we, like, hung out until bedtime and then went to bed, or are we just gonna sleep till 7:00am which everyone ro. [01:32:37] Speaker D: Conked out. Wait, okay, also, in Tele 3:30, would it. [01:32:42] Speaker B: Would it be safe to say, like, just to keep our schedules on track of sleep, that we did some kind of conversationing and then went to bed around like, maybe like six? [01:32:53] Speaker A: That's what. [01:32:53] Speaker D: No, I'm gonna sleep through the full night. Like, it's not gonna be eight hours. Like, it's gonna be like 16 hour thing. [01:33:01] Speaker A: Okay. [01:33:01] Speaker D: Like, I am. I need that. I need the. The disease. I don't look this beautiful without some more sleep, guys. And then she conks back out. [01:33:12] Speaker B: Craig is gonna toss and turn, figure out he can't fall asleep, and then just begin, like, like fervently journaling until like, 6 and then fall asleep. [01:33:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:33:24] Speaker C: Okay. Okay. [01:33:25] Speaker A: Red is probably like, something about. [01:33:28] Speaker C: Okay. Just walking around inside the hut, collecting. [01:33:31] Speaker A: Leaves and like, print, like, rubbing bark. Rubbing stuff just for her own, like, fun. [01:33:39] Speaker C: When was the last time I talked about how much I like your characters and how much you've learned to embody them? It's not a competition. D. And D isn't a competition. And you shouldn't make comparisons, but also suck at all the other DMs in the world. [01:33:55] Speaker A: She's probably like, just sketching bugs until like, seven or eight. And once the sun, like, hits like, golden hour, I'll say she. She decides to go ahead and take the first watch. And while she's watching, she sits in the hut and she now, at this point, pretty much. Pretty much exclusively, like, is journaling or like I say, journaling. Writing in her notebook, taking notes, reading old notes, just absorbed in her sketchbook because she has gotten so good at taking watch. And she's been doing this for so long that she trusts her passive perception to just like. Like, she is a 20. She trusts that she, like, looks up every once in a while. [01:34:42] Speaker C: Gonna call that beautiful little dovetail of roleplay, story passage and feature adoption and inspiration there, buddy. I really liked that little. That was slick. [01:34:53] Speaker A: I wanted to use my quest of. [01:34:55] Speaker C: Me represented your character and worked in a mechanical feature all while. That was great. I loved that. [01:35:03] Speaker A: Yeah. So that's what she's going to do, because I feel like she can do that now that she's got the high perception. And I feel like that's totally how she would pass her watches. So that's what she does. [01:35:16] Speaker C: I love it. Could. Oh, does someone have something to say? Does someone have a peep? Boop. Does somebody piss? [01:35:21] Speaker A: She passes the watch. [01:35:22] Speaker C: I'm gonna start with this, Greta. We're gonna start from odds or evens. [01:35:27] Speaker A: Ooh, I'm gonna say odd. I love the sound of the dice then. [01:35:39] Speaker C: So since that went over the way it did the dice, since the. I mean, look at that thing. Wow. Now that we've rolled, now that we've not gotten the odds or evens, could you. Do you want to roll the D100 and I know the number, or do you want to pick a number and I roll a D100? [01:36:00] Speaker A: I want to roll it. [01:36:02] Speaker C: I'm. Okay, okay, okay. I have my number. [01:36:09] Speaker A: Okay. [01:36:11] Speaker C: And if you are within a certain distance of the number I've picked, something will or will not occur. So go ahead and riggity that. [01:36:25] Speaker A: Wrong. [01:36:25] Speaker C: Wrong. [01:36:26] Speaker A: That's going to be an 80. [01:36:29] Speaker C: Okay. All right, great. Don't worry about it. So, Greta, the only person still awake, Craig having fallen asleep not long ago. The golden hour is much earlier than it was previously because we're in kale lan in fall. Now we're at the end of fall. You guys have been in fall a bit, but where you all. Where you are in this forest, you're kind of in this rutted position. You're, like, on a slanted hill where, like, the topography is Higher than you on one side and a little lower on the other. And for looking out further in the distance as you explore the area makes it look like this whole position's high up on a hill. But it just looks all a little uneven where you are, because in the way of dense, canopied tropical forest, you're really not getting a good perspective on anything too far away from you. And as the sun sets before Craig falls asleep, because you are aware, having been as well traveled as you are, Greta, that the sun is still setting. As your world goes dark in the way of being below a canopy where night comes faster and morning comes later than where it does from beyond the tree cover, the shadows grow long and they dance, and the quiet forest rises. In sound, you find that where you are, there are a couple calls. There is a. And there's like a trill. But there might be other sounds, there might be other diversity that you're never aware of because there is something here. And whatever it is, there's a lot of it, and it's loud. There is some sort of a. Something. Give me a. [01:38:36] Speaker D: A. [01:38:36] Speaker C: A nature check. As practiced and traveled and studied as you are. [01:38:44] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Sorry. 28. [01:38:54] Speaker C: Okay, calm down there, little freak. [01:38:56] Speaker D: Sorry. [01:38:56] Speaker C: So you know exactly what this is. And in fact, you're so good at this that as the sun starts to set and before you're really starting your watch and you're sort of impatiently searching the world around you, both out of curiosity and a little bit out of anxiety, you find the source of the noise. One of the millions of sources of the noise. It's an insect, and it's making this sound, a sound that sounds a lot like a hair dryer. But to add a little visual storytelling effect, it's like that, but it's got a little bit of this, like. So there's this, like, grinding vibrato tone on it, but it's like that. And they are these long, thick beetles, real Snickers bar, little Snickers, minis of beetles, big old creatures. And you know, actually, enough about. There's no real entomology at this period in time, but naturalism to recognize that this isn't quite a beetle. Some similar related invertebrate, some sort of an insect. It's like a cicada, but instead of having a fed, a head in a kind of triangular shape. It's got a very boxed shape, and the top of its head has a crest that dips down and it's. Its body is a little wider in its segment, and there Is a hollow rut running through this entire creature. There is a ridge. Its head is ridged to the side, its abdomen carapace ridge to the side so that there's like a channel running through the middle of it. And as you get close to it, it's lifting up its wing cases and then beating its. Its wings incredibly fast next to each other till it makes this very trill passage of air that runs between the channel of its body, creating this little whistling sound which isn't too loud until millions of them do it. And these insects are like kind of a dullish brown on their back. They match the tree bark, but. And the tree bark is not coarse and raised and cork like and riverine like, like an oak. It is very flush with the tree. It is. It is bark that looks just like the tree's skin that you'd have to cut away and peel to know it's. It's. It's that outer layer. And these insects match the bark on their back. But when you grab one and lift it up, its underside is a really bright red. [01:41:23] Speaker A: Oh, cute. [01:41:24] Speaker C: Very highly pigmented. And the millions of them in the forest are making this cacophonic vibrating trill hair dryer air passage sound. And it's the sort of thing you could not fall asleep to if you hadn't just had the most brutal 24 hours. So, yeah, it's the exhaustion that helps you all endure this. [01:41:51] Speaker A: Oh, cool. [01:41:52] Speaker C: But that's the world around you. And as you retreat back into the hut, slightly palely luminous purple in the darkness, you look out into the now world swallowed up by shadow. Just black. There's a little bit of some sort of light making its way through the trees, but not enough to make out anything in the world around you. Just to tell which way up is in this dark void. And you're on the leaf litter and you're just in the dark in the hut. Do anything else during the passage of your watch or. No. [01:42:30] Speaker A: She probably sketches the Beatles and writes notes about them. Yeah, but I think. Yeah, I think that's probably it. [01:42:42] Speaker C: Okay, Greta, who do you wake up at the end of your watch? [01:42:56] Speaker A: I say, craig. No, boss. [01:43:01] Speaker C: Okay. As you wake up, the player character for a player who's not here. He. He gets up and goes, oh, hey, Greta. Nonchalant response. And he stretches and moves his items together and he says, is it my turn for a walk? [01:43:20] Speaker A: Okay. [01:43:22] Speaker C: Oh, sorry. Woke up. Twisting bug. Go ahead and take your watch. I got this. [01:43:29] Speaker A: Okay. So I do that. [01:43:33] Speaker C: Okay, Greta, you fall asleep and I'm Gonna give myself an odds or even say odds. He's an odd guy. Okay. 9. He doesn't do anything wildly behaviorally erratic and instead does things very nondescript because it's one or the other with Landom. And Oz watches quietly. At some point. Micah and Jackie, could you guys both roll a D20? [01:44:03] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:44:04] Speaker C: To determine who Boz wakes up. Make it a little interest. [01:44:10] Speaker B: I got a six. [01:44:12] Speaker C: What'd you get, Jackie? It was completely silent. That's because you're muted. That makes sense. This is the way. [01:44:16] Speaker D: I got a 19. [01:44:18] Speaker C: Okay, good. Roh. In the still dark hours, but with a slightly cooler temperature, you are woken up by Tello, who must have had a watch before. Whoever had a watch before him. And he wakes and Ro you just woken up to a light rock rocking and the sound of it's your turn to start at the R and B. [01:44:43] Speaker D: Well, yeah, watch get up. Okay, I'm up, I'm up, I'm up. [01:44:49] Speaker C: Okay, bye. And Tello, who hates taking watches and you all have learned really shouldn't be relied upon for them. As sleepy as he is, lays down on his on his bed roll and goes. It's okay. I didn't see any. Anything. Mostly my close days and great. Well, you are up for your watch. [01:45:09] Speaker D: Okay. [01:45:12] Speaker C: It is still pitch black around you. [01:45:14] Speaker D: Okay. [01:45:14] Speaker C: You just awake in a. In fact, everything would be complete black if the. The hut wasn't very lightly luminous. And you wake up to the sight of, I don't know, a thousand of these beetles gathered on the hut. It's a very slight light source and they're all over the top. And you're like, oh. You heard the humming in your sleep. [01:45:39] Speaker D: Rose. It's inside the hut. Look like right up against it looking out. Because she's like, what's with the beetle? [01:45:49] Speaker C: They're. They're not there. You can see out of plenty of it because they're all kind of on the top of it in this dense mass just on top. [01:45:58] Speaker D: What happens if I hit it? Just real life, like not to wake up people, but just like tap a little bit. [01:46:04] Speaker C: You like bounce your hand against the throne. Against the throne. Your hand just passes through the semi permeable layer through which you are. [01:46:12] Speaker D: Oh yeah, duh. [01:46:13] Speaker C: And you just briefly just like touch 100 beetles real fast and then kind of sharp. [01:46:19] Speaker D: Row, row, row is still asleep. Okay. That's why she did that. Not because I don't know my spells that I've cast a million times. [01:46:28] Speaker C: Do you want to make me a. [01:46:31] Speaker D: I do. [01:46:33] Speaker C: Well then in that case, could you make me a. Yeah. [01:46:40] Speaker D: Hey, it's gonna be a 24 hot dang. [01:46:48] Speaker C: First roll for row. Okay. And then I'm gonna do something completely unrelated and inconsequent. Actually, no. First, I need you to roll me a D. 100. [01:47:00] Speaker D: Odds are evens. [01:47:01] Speaker C: First. No, no, no. That was already determined. Oh. This is all about a secondary tr. [01:47:12] Speaker D: That's a 36. [01:47:17] Speaker C: Okay. [01:47:18] Speaker D: I don't like your face. [01:47:20] Speaker C: No, don't worry about it. Now I'm going to make a roll for nothing. [01:47:24] Speaker D: I just want to know how close I was to your number. [01:47:27] Speaker C: Okay. I have to do math now. [01:47:31] Speaker D: Math. [01:47:32] Speaker C: Interesting math. [01:47:36] Speaker D: Math is red. [01:47:38] Speaker A: Oh, Martha's so totally red. [01:47:45] Speaker C: Ro. Sit there watching. It's a lot of dark. It's okay. [01:47:53] Speaker D: Okay. Oh, no. [01:47:56] Speaker B: Oh, no. [01:47:56] Speaker D: I don't like your face. [01:47:58] Speaker C: Ro. [01:48:00] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:48:02] Speaker C: Do you. Have you ever been camping? [01:48:04] Speaker D: Yes. [01:48:05] Speaker C: How much time have you spent outside at night? [01:48:08] Speaker D: Quite a bit. [01:48:09] Speaker C: Okay. Have you ever had that moment outside in the dark where you think you see something and you just. You're just stuck there for a couple minutes trying to pick apart shadows and figure out whether or not a shape in the darkness is anything or isn't anything? [01:48:26] Speaker D: Yes. I have. [01:48:29] Speaker C: Hasbro does that for about 10 minutes, just serious, just peering and watching and thinking. And you are able to finally determine that there isn't anything. There's the shape of something that you realize is nothing until you reconsider it and then reconsider it a third time and realize it is something. And in the classic backpack, hanging on a doorway, like, 60ft from the hut, there is what was not a person. And what was not a person until. Holy crap, that's a person. And there is a, like, silhouette of a crouched figure about, like, up the hill about 60ft away, just kind of balanced very still in between the bases of two trees. Just kind of a fairy still silhouette. And it was really hard to tell anything about the map. It is dark. The only reason you're getting anything is that there is a very. When I say slight, I mean slight trimmed to their silhouette from the only light source, which is the dome in the forest, as well as there's something on them that's picking up a little bit of light around the chest. And you weren't able to get anything about who or what they are until, like, you determined twice in a row that you were just seeing, like, more kind of like base tree trunks lit up until that moving shape just shifts very slightly. And that's when you realize it's a person watching you all quietly in the middle of the night, from a distance. [01:50:14] Speaker D: Like, what time is it? You said it's still pitch dark. Like, are we talking, like, midnight, or. [01:50:19] Speaker C: Are we talking, like 3am like, it feels orish. [01:50:23] Speaker D: Okay. [01:50:26] Speaker C: Later in the season, under canopy, you get the feeling you're not gonna see sunlight for a while here. [01:50:30] Speaker D: Yeah. Who's the closest person to me in the hood that's asleep, but, like, closest to me where I can. [01:50:41] Speaker C: I love it. [01:50:41] Speaker B: Do what, 18? [01:50:43] Speaker C: Whatever you want. I got a five. What'd you get? [01:50:51] Speaker A: Greek 18. [01:50:55] Speaker C: Craig's the closest. [01:50:57] Speaker D: Okay. [01:50:58] Speaker B: Oh, and I got your back. [01:50:59] Speaker C: Having been rid of old's magic some time ago, he is once again snoring while sleeping. [01:51:07] Speaker D: I grab. I grab Craig's leg and just kind of keep and, like, pat it. [01:51:12] Speaker B: Like, Craig, Craig, Craig. [01:51:15] Speaker D: Like, like, I'm not. I'm. I'm doing it while I'm still looking at the spot. I'm, like, worried I'm gonna forget it. So I'm just like, craig. [01:51:26] Speaker C: Greg, make me a sleight of hand. Check. [01:51:31] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:51:35] Speaker C: This doesn't have to be like. [01:51:38] Speaker D: It's a seven. [01:51:41] Speaker C: Ro. Micah, please continue with your roleplay. In an instant, as you reach back for Craig and pat his leg, that figure just melts back into the shadow. As you're waking up, Craig. [01:51:56] Speaker B: Craig, like, reaches down. He's, like, kind of squirming, and then he takes your hand and he, like, shake it, shakes it and goes. It's a deal. He's, like, having a business dream. [01:52:12] Speaker D: Business dream. I'm writing that down. He's having a business dream. [01:52:18] Speaker C: That's real good, dude. [01:52:21] Speaker A: Hello. [01:52:23] Speaker D: Okay, so. [01:52:24] Speaker B: Oh, no. And I think that your hands were so tiny that he kind of, like, wakes up because it didn't feel realistic to his dream. [01:52:33] Speaker D: Okay. [01:52:37] Speaker C: Craig, you groggly. Wake up. [01:52:39] Speaker D: What are you saying? That little. With people with little hands can't make business deals? [01:52:45] Speaker C: Yes, yes. Corporately. [01:52:47] Speaker B: We're saying if it didn't match the description of the person in the dream, then maybe he was shaking a hand with a giant. [01:52:53] Speaker D: True. [01:52:53] Speaker C: No, we're making a statement about people with small hands. An affronting, offensive, aggressive statement. What are people doing in the scene, Craig? [01:53:01] Speaker A: Well, I'm. [01:53:01] Speaker D: Ro is still looking at. Ro is still looking at the spot, but she's talking to Craig. [01:53:07] Speaker C: You carefully study the darkness there. [01:53:11] Speaker B: What is it, Craig? [01:53:13] Speaker D: I'm on Walch. I need you to listen to me. There was a person. Wake up, Craig. There was a person. Oh, shoot. [01:53:20] Speaker B: Oh, shoot. And he, like. [01:53:22] Speaker C: And, Craig, you Groggly, blink, Wake up. [01:53:24] Speaker B: He's, like, grabbing. He's like putting like a, like one of the armored gloves on the wrong hand. [01:53:29] Speaker D: No, Craig, stop. He's like, in the dark, in the. [01:53:33] Speaker C: Dark, just goes. [01:53:37] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, Craig. [01:53:39] Speaker D: There was a guy like, or a person like, as he does are startled. [01:53:44] Speaker C: Off the top of the dome going. [01:53:47] Speaker D: There's like. It was like 60ft up that way. And there was someone just crouching there. [01:53:52] Speaker C: I'm gonna throw up. [01:53:53] Speaker D: Okay, okay, you're not helping much. She goes back and hits and hits Greta. [01:54:00] Speaker B: No, he's putting on his armor. It's just. [01:54:02] Speaker D: No, but she's also hitting Greta. [01:54:04] Speaker A: Now Greta's awake. [01:54:07] Speaker C: Also, really important to point out no one's had a long run rest yet, but please continue. Not completed yet. [01:54:13] Speaker A: Okay, who's been asleep since 3:00pm yeah. [01:54:16] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness, you are so right. I apologize. [01:54:18] Speaker D: For 13 hours. [01:54:20] Speaker B: Crap. I purposefully waited. [01:54:23] Speaker C: Okay, it's 1:00am Never mind. Anywho, is it 1:00am Actually, you know what? That's not fair. Odds or evens for who? [01:54:35] Speaker D: Wait, someone said even. [01:54:37] Speaker C: Someone said, I haven't looked yet. Which of it. Which of them was it? [01:54:41] Speaker A: I'll let you go, Micah. [01:54:43] Speaker B: No, I don't like that pressure. I'll leave it up to you. Have fun. [01:54:46] Speaker A: Okay, even. [01:54:47] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh. [01:54:50] Speaker C: What a time to pick evens. Okay, it's earlier. Nobody's had a long rest yet. [01:54:54] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh. So it's 1am sure. Is that what you said? [01:54:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:54:59] Speaker A: Has Jackie had a long rest? [01:55:02] Speaker C: No. So what's the party, though? [01:55:03] Speaker D: Yeah. Huh? [01:55:06] Speaker C: Okay, fine. [01:55:07] Speaker D: Three to eleven. I've had a long rest. [01:55:10] Speaker C: Got me. Okay. [01:55:13] Speaker D: Okay. So I, I hit Greta and I said, greta, yeah. I'm so sorry. [01:55:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:55:21] Speaker D: I'm still looking forward. I'm just still the whole time, I'm, like, trying to scan to see if they come back. There was someone up there, like, 60ft away, crouching, I think, watching, they pooping. [01:55:39] Speaker A: Okay. [01:55:41] Speaker D: And then when I, I made a little bit of noise to wake up one of you, and I think they went away, but I don't know if. I mean, it might not be bad, but usually someone walks. Watching you in the dark is on my list of nefarious things. [01:55:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:55:57] Speaker C: On my list. [01:56:00] Speaker A: Okay. [01:56:02] Speaker D: I, I, I, I think Greta would. [01:56:06] Speaker A: Wake up Faz and Tello, who have had a long rest because they went to the same time as bed as Ro, and inform them of the situation. And then she's gonna say, okay, wake up. [01:56:22] Speaker C: Tello, who sits up, blinks with one eye first and then a full second later, the other one and goes, tell them, babe. And then Craig or Boswell, except. And goes, what? Huh? Funny comment. What is it? [01:56:39] Speaker D: What is it? [01:56:39] Speaker C: I have a long. Do I have any points of exhaustion? Do I have any points of exhaustion, Zach? No, you don't. Okay, cool. I'm gonna change up my spell and then boss does that. [01:56:48] Speaker D: I mean, Greta, you can go back to sleep. I just. Because I know you need rest. I just, I don't know, I got vibes and I wanted to tell you. [01:57:00] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I hope that the archfey didn't send us to anywhere bad. I hope that they sent us to somewhere chill. And as long as they did, we are just passing through. [01:57:26] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:57:27] Speaker C: Yeah. I voted for Congress. [01:57:30] Speaker D: Okay. I. What is Congress? I, I, I am going to stay watching and y'all go back to sleep and I'll wake you up if they come back. [01:57:43] Speaker A: Okay? [01:57:44] Speaker B: Craig is so groggy. He's just going to stand up and like, kind of talk into the distance. Not too loud, but just talk into the distance and go. If you're chill, we're chill, but you come and mess with us. Chop you, you up. He goes and lays back down. [01:58:04] Speaker C: I whisper, craig stands up with four pieces of armor on, the rest off, and goes says all that his head, only the very top of his hair sticks out of the dome, which lifts up a couple people when he stands up. And then we sit back down. The Beatles are still outside of the dome. And he just sits back down and lays down all. Taking all of his armor off but leaving one. [01:58:24] Speaker B: We should be fine. [01:58:26] Speaker A: We are in the. [01:58:26] Speaker B: I say he, yeah. [01:58:27] Speaker D: I say, yeah, we are in the dark. [01:58:28] Speaker A: Level one row is enemies to the. [01:58:31] Speaker D: Dome row is gonna do I need to recast the dome? Is that what you're looking up right now? Because it only lasts eight hours. [01:58:41] Speaker C: Oh, you feel the dome flickering? [01:58:45] Speaker D: Do a bunch of bugs fall on us? [01:58:50] Speaker C: I mean, it's not gone yet. [01:58:52] Speaker D: Ro immediately starts weaving it back. [01:58:57] Speaker C: Okay, why don't you give me an odds or even so whether or not this casting duration is falling right before the end of the spell. [01:59:03] Speaker D: Okay. [01:59:04] Speaker C: Right. [01:59:04] Speaker D: I'm gonna give you an odds is what I'm gonna give you. Because the odds are ever in your favor. [01:59:12] Speaker C: Okay. You play and you play nervously. [01:59:15] Speaker D: Are they in my favor? [01:59:16] Speaker C: Right. Is the dome fades it. [01:59:22] Speaker D: Beautiful. Beautiful. Ro is now going to stand up and walk on the inside of the dome around to see if she sees anything else during her walk. [01:59:37] Speaker C: Very small perimeter. You can walk yeah, it's tiny. [01:59:40] Speaker D: And she's not. [01:59:41] Speaker C: Am I correct? And that everyone else has gone back to sleep? [01:59:44] Speaker A: No, I think Greta's okay. [01:59:50] Speaker D: Greta, go. Greta, go to. Go to sleep. [01:59:52] Speaker A: It's okay. Greta goes back to sleep. Does she have to sleep for another eight hours to get the long rest? [01:59:59] Speaker C: Holy crap. No, not. Not only would I never be so cruel of a dm, but I also don't think that's the way long rest work in dnd. And also, I just wouldn't do that because that is a. Makes sense. You can sleep six hours, be woken up, sleep three more hours, and feel like you slept nine hours. That's how that. I get my best sleep, when I woke up in the middle of the night and then go back to sleep. So you're fine. That would be a jerk. [02:00:21] Speaker A: So, yeah, I do that. But I. I sit, like, right next to Ro. I've almost got, like, my hand on her foot or something. [02:00:30] Speaker C: Like, you each give me a perception check or one of you gets a perception check and advantage. [02:00:39] Speaker A: Can I use my passive investigation? [02:00:42] Speaker C: You can. You can stick with your passive perception if you want. [02:00:46] Speaker D: Okay, I'm going to roll a perception check. [02:00:51] Speaker C: Okay, so then that means you should. [02:00:52] Speaker A: Want to do it at advantage, bro. [02:00:55] Speaker C: Here's the thing. You shouldn't be able to do both, but since 1.1 is passive, I'm gonna say that you can still give road. Oh, that's a dangerous. That's a dangerous wait. [02:01:07] Speaker D: But since we both have a 20 and passive perception, I mean, we're just like eagle eyes. [02:01:14] Speaker C: Yes. You can have your 20 passive and still give her advantage. This is the reward of your feet. Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. That clears, doesn't it? Right? Yep. Good polite lobbying. Thank you for convincing me. [02:01:29] Speaker D: Well, that's gonna be my. [02:01:37] Speaker A: Good polite. [02:01:37] Speaker D: Lobbying at 24 again. [02:01:44] Speaker A: Nice. [02:01:48] Speaker C: Just below. [02:01:50] Speaker A: Oh, no. [02:01:51] Speaker D: Roe. [02:01:52] Speaker C: After watching for some time in the darkness, that person's not gone on the other side. Now, 40ft down the hill, they're just standing in the dark. Standing, very aware of where shadows cast, not behind anything near a tree, but just standing in the dark with their silhouette. [02:02:18] Speaker D: Do I see a weapon or anything? [02:02:20] Speaker B: Hey, Zach, what's up? Currently, I'm home alone for the weekend in a forest where the windows are open and I'm staring out into the dark. Oh, be so kind. Oh, be so kind. [02:02:33] Speaker C: That sucks for you. So. Oh, close your eyes. Micah. This isn't real. DND's fake D. And D is not real. Sorghum's not real. Real I mean, metaphor. That doesn't matter. So what could I have said? Micah? You know he's not real. Ro, as you look out with a 20. Oh yeah. [02:02:56] Speaker B: Micah going to be like, oh my gosh, is that Zoram? Is that. He's in the fort. [02:03:05] Speaker C: Good one. So good one. Micah and Luna just did something. Three student. My not like Maya and Luna. Maya is like on the kitchen island in front of me with her head in the sink drinking water out of something. And Luna saw her butt, jumped up, slapped it, and Maya fell forward and dipped her face. It was like three stooges. [02:03:25] Speaker D: That's. [02:03:26] Speaker C: You can't write that. Oh my goodness. Love cats. I have to get a picture of this. So focusing on dming. [02:03:36] Speaker A: Will you share the picture? [02:03:37] Speaker C: Not taking a picture of my. My cats instead. Oh, that's the funniest thing. I'm gonna make that my phone. Background row with a 24. This person having rolled a 22 for stealth. You can make out that again. Everything's very vague and indistinct. But this individual's remained very self confident in their stealthing. And they've stepped just a little closer to light of the dome. And there's so much about them that it's still just silhouette, but you can pick up a slight glint now from something on their chest and something at their hip. [02:04:12] Speaker D: Can I do an intuition check? No, I'm just kidding. Did you say something near the. What, their back? [02:04:19] Speaker C: Chest? Hip? Calf. [02:04:22] Speaker D: Oh, calf. [02:04:23] Speaker C: Different, very faint sources of light reflection. [02:04:28] Speaker D: Okay, Ro's gonna to take a different approach. She is going to. No. Yes. What would Ro do? For real? Okay, so Rose tried. So Rose kind of stopped pacing the whole dome. And she's just pacing back and forth right there now so it doesn't look too obvious. And she kind of. She kind of pats Greta with her. With her foot. [02:05:07] Speaker A: Awakens. [02:05:09] Speaker D: I thought you were awake. That's the only reason I did that. Oh, okay. Well then never mind. I thought you were awake. I'm not gonna wake you up again. I for some reason thought you were awake. My bad. [02:05:19] Speaker A: I'm just. I just CRO. I just like fell asleep right next to you. [02:05:22] Speaker D: I understand. So since it's just Ro. Ro is going to. Ro's going to pace back and forth there and just see if he or if the figure does anything else. She's trying to be nonchalant about it. [02:05:40] Speaker C: Sort of a check. Should this be Ro? [02:05:42] Speaker D: Give me a nonchalant check. [02:05:48] Speaker C: Pick a check from. Pick a check from Charisma. And let me Know which one you want it to be? [02:05:51] Speaker A: Okay. [02:05:54] Speaker C: I got a piss. [02:05:55] Speaker D: I think performance would work because she's trying to put on a performance that she's of. [02:06:03] Speaker C: What are you trying to perform? [02:06:04] Speaker D: Okay, she's trying to perform that she's just watching out into the distance and that she doesn't really see this thing. [02:06:13] Speaker C: You're trying. You're trying to be convincing of being a chill dude. [02:06:16] Speaker D: Yeah, Ro is trying to be chill. [02:06:19] Speaker C: I am. I am. Okay. Okay, here's what I'm going to say. Or I mean, you can make this a persuasion. Are you proficient in persuasion and performance? [02:06:33] Speaker D: I am not proficient in persuasion, but I am. [02:06:37] Speaker C: Well, here's the ruling. [02:06:39] Speaker D: I'm going to make performance. [02:06:44] Speaker C: Oh, Micah. That was funny. Micah commented, you know when you figured out dnd when you word your actions super carefully to get a certain. [02:06:50] Speaker D: What about deception? Would deception be better? [02:06:53] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay, so here's. Here's what I'm gonna say. [02:06:55] Speaker D: Okay. [02:06:56] Speaker C: If you can roll, but I'm gonna say you can't add your proficiency just because the thing you're proficient with is musical performance. So you give me a performance check without your proficiency. If you pick a different one of these and you're proficient in them, you can maintain the proficiency. [02:07:13] Speaker D: A deception. Would that work? [02:07:15] Speaker C: I am fine taking a deception check. [02:07:16] Speaker D: Okay. That's. I'm. I'm proficient in deception because I'm just trying to deceive. [02:07:22] Speaker C: But you're definitely. You are doing and going through things that you are trying to. [02:07:28] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:07:29] Speaker C: Portray the opposite of. So I'm fine. Yeah, not too much. [02:07:33] Speaker D: Okay, That's. That. [02:07:36] Speaker C: Is that snap. Okay. Felt a whole lot like that guy from Phineas and Ferb that his cousin is marrying. The episode that they make a big eye sculpture. Just that. Okay. [02:07:49] Speaker D: Funny enough, that's. That's gonna be a 24. Again, I'm just rolling. 24. [02:07:54] Speaker C: Apparently, this is episode 132. 24. 24. So as you row, you. You do your pacing, and the figure appears to be not frightened away. [02:08:10] Speaker D: Okay. [02:08:11] Speaker C: There is nothing. There is nothing to read on this faceless, detailless silhouette. But you do get the feeling you are good at reading people. And in the flesh, from their continued presence, you get the feeling that the person has not put. They feel as though they have still lost your sight, that they have evaded your vision. And with that choice, this figure remains to stand and watch for another two minutes. And then you watch as the very slight details of their silhouette that you're catching onto just kind of melt back. And the Worst part is, at no point do you hear them on this crunchy forest floor. [02:08:54] Speaker D: And this was at a different. A totally different. Yeah, like a different cardinal direction, too. Like, they were over here and now they're over there. [02:09:03] Speaker C: I mean, not quite 180, but yeah. [02:09:05] Speaker D: Okay. Okay. [02:09:07] Speaker C: When they felt spotted, they moved their way to a different place on Gotcha. And, in fact, there was so very little on what you could pick up about them. Same person. Different person. [02:09:17] Speaker D: Yeah, we don't know. I'm gonna continue to walk around and look for in. I'm gonna. What? [02:09:30] Speaker C: I mean, I don't want to keep reading Micah's comments because she's commenting them silently. But they're so funny. She went. I hope the listeners know how I find y'all funny, because I'm always muted. Muted when I laugh. [02:09:41] Speaker B: No, for real. And by the time I unmute, it's already, like, moved forward. So I can't even react to the fact that you made a finish with Ferb reference that I found so stinking funny. [02:09:51] Speaker C: This is. This is unimportant. And another little DM screen moment. But the NPC stat block I have from what I'm using right now is 4 years old. And I was trying to remember what the stealth bonus on these guys are, and I, like, picked a number, and then I just pulled it up. I got the number. And not even because I had it written down in their abilities, but because I correct. Like, if you add their decks and their proficiency, it comes out to the bonus. I thought it was. Let me tell you what. [02:10:27] Speaker B: Dang he demon, though. [02:10:29] Speaker C: Anyway, bro. Guy gone, you in dark. What you do? [02:10:33] Speaker D: I start searching for more guys in the dark as I'm walking around. [02:10:38] Speaker C: And Ro, as you feel the passage of time, you feel it move with you. Feel time crawl onward with nothing else. Just staring at dark for the next 15 minutes. Walking around searching. Your nerves pricked and pulled upon. What? [02:11:19] Speaker A: Piss girl. [02:11:21] Speaker D: Cool. I guess. Does this happen till the end of my watch? [02:11:29] Speaker C: Like, are you asking me whether or not you continue to watch till the end of your watch? [02:11:34] Speaker D: No, I'm watching till the end of my watch. But I'm, like, searching to. I. I continue to search till the end of my watch. [02:11:41] Speaker C: To the end of your watch. [02:11:44] Speaker D: And no more. [02:11:47] Speaker A: Enola. [02:11:52] Speaker D: Okay? [02:11:54] Speaker C: You feel as though there is time enough for one watch more. [02:11:58] Speaker B: Wake me up. Wake me up inside. [02:12:01] Speaker C: Wake me up. I can't wake up. [02:12:04] Speaker A: I wake up, has long rested and. [02:12:08] Speaker C: Everyone has no long rest. [02:12:10] Speaker D: Who did I know? [02:12:15] Speaker C: And you wake up Greta. And then Greta's away. Okay. Would you guys be able to have, I think, I think by length of episode and time for the second session. We need a little more time, but I'm about to piss this chair. Could you guys just roll each other for a second? I've asked you guys. Yeah, yeah. [02:12:35] Speaker A: Do I have a full long rest? [02:12:38] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah. [02:12:39] Speaker A: I just wanted to be. So I just did not role play. [02:12:42] Speaker C: And talk and do your thing, Greta. [02:12:46] Speaker D: So I'm waking up. I'm waking you up for. I think it should be last watch, but I. You know how I. I woke you up and saw the one guy. Well, I either saw the same guy or, or a different guy. I don't know for sure. Standing over there and she points to the exact spot. He stood there for a few minutes and then just kind of disappeared. And for the next few hours, I didn't see anything else. But I'd keep. I mean, I, I paced this place, but I didn't leave. Okay, Just keep an eye out. I don't. I don't know if they're good or bad or my imagination, but I felt in my gut that it was somebody. [02:13:32] Speaker A: Okay. Are we good? If you go to sleep, is the hut going to stay up? [02:13:38] Speaker D: Yeah, it should be up another four hours. Yeah. [02:13:42] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Okay. Is that. Do you think that the sun will be up then? [02:13:48] Speaker D: Yeah, it should. I think if it, if it was 1:00am 4:00am yeah, it should. It should. My watch started around 1:00am so. Yeah, it should. It'll be about. Yeah, it will be good. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Wake me up if you need anything. [02:14:07] Speaker A: Okay, I will. [02:14:12] Speaker C: You're up. [02:14:15] Speaker A: She's up. She doesn't watch. She does not look at her book this time. She is probably standing the whole time and like, not pacing the perimeter, but like just turning in a circle, like looking all around. [02:14:32] Speaker C: Why don't you be like a. Like an odds or an evens? [02:14:36] Speaker A: I'm gonna do an evens. I tried to be like Boz and it didn't work and I'll never do it again. [02:14:43] Speaker C: Okay, what was your perception check? [02:14:48] Speaker A: I have a passive, passive perception of 21 and a passive investigation of 20. No, sorry. Passive perception is 21. Passive investigation is. No, passive perception is 20. Passive investigation is 21. [02:15:05] Speaker D: 21. That's crazy. [02:15:08] Speaker C: True. So this brings up an interesting point. I have had many players say, if I have a passive perception of this, can. Can I ever get below it on a perception check? And the way I rule it is on an active perception check, you still can. Because the idea about Passive perception is. It is the ability to notice things you weren't looking for. The ability to see things passively. Right. So it's like, if I'm focused on this, am I noticing all that? [02:15:36] Speaker D: Yeah, that makes sense. [02:15:38] Speaker C: Now, that being said, I still don't know know that this isn't a scenario where your passive perception doesn't apply because this is still about like, picking things up at your periphery. So what I'm going to say is right now we're just going to treat your passive perception like a DC that I'm interacting with somehow. Okay, you said that you have a passive perception. Now the passive investigation, remember, investigation is like active searching. So maybe it still applies. Investigation is. So I guess your passive investigation still kind of applies here. Maybe. [02:16:19] Speaker A: I mean, I am in the future. [02:16:22] Speaker C: I'm going to rule like it is right now because investigation is different than looking around. And this is definitively looking around, but isn't investigating. I don't know. We're going to use your investigation right now. 21, right? [02:16:31] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. [02:16:38] Speaker C: Math's hard. Okay, Got it. All right. You watch Nothing. [02:16:54] Speaker A: Can I guide myself? [02:17:00] Speaker C: I don't know that you can guide yourself on something passive. And I also don't know that you can guide yourself after I made a roll and made a face and then you were like, fair enough. Well, I'll tell you what. You can guide yourself if you want to make an active perception check that. [02:17:16] Speaker A: I would like to do that just in case. Yeah, I was. Yeah, I knew that. I know that I can't rector and. [02:17:22] Speaker C: You can guide yourself before. Before or after you make a check. So that's fine. [02:17:26] Speaker A: Okay. That's gonna be a 15 with my active check. [02:17:36] Speaker C: Okay. [02:17:39] Speaker A: Okay. So I don't. So cool and swag. So cool and fun and swag. [02:17:50] Speaker C: Anything else? I kissed Maya, but she definitely just been in the cat box. [02:18:00] Speaker B: That's nasty. [02:18:03] Speaker C: I still love her. [02:18:08] Speaker B: Y'all should really wake me up. [02:18:12] Speaker C: As time passes and the the hours waned, with Greta trapped in her indecision, light finally starts to meet you in the forest. Not like, oh, there's the dawn, because you are still deep in a forest in fall. It is right at the end of your watch that any light begins to warm up the canopy. And there's even periods where light is there and darkness remains. But as late early morning, as mid morning begins to warm up the day, you're not exactly the timekeeper of the group. And light begins to accompany the dawn. Greta, your keen perception does pick up on individual hour hours later. And not so much un individual as. Not necessarily one individual, so much as five around you, all at different distances, all standing near to behind something, but not quite it, are five different sort of variations of dark brown and green studded leather clad individuals with weapons at their side. Slightly greenish brown, very short half capes that all have different little emblems on the breasts of their armor. All of them are holding different variations of ranged weapons, some with cross crossbows. In fact, four of the five have crossbows, one has a longbow and none of them are cocked, but all of them are loaded. And as the sun warms up, you just watch all five of them in a diverse circular pattern surrounding you all in your dome. Greta, could you give me a retroactive strategy check? [02:20:21] Speaker A: Yes, I would love to do that. [02:20:23] Speaker C: I love using our custom skills. [02:20:25] Speaker A: I'm also going to add guidance. [02:20:27] Speaker C: This is fun because this was all a result of random roles. Like it was like a series of things had to happen to get us here. Otherwise it would have just been none of this. What is strategy Ender intelligent. [02:20:44] Speaker A: Why don't I have that? [02:20:45] Speaker C: Is it not on your sheet? Huh? [02:20:47] Speaker A: No, but I have all of the others. [02:20:52] Speaker C: That's okay. [02:20:55] Speaker A: So about that. [02:20:57] Speaker C: That's okay. [02:21:02] Speaker A: It's gonna be a 20. [02:21:05] Speaker C: Okay. Oh, that's really good, Greta. You pick up whoever these individuals are, the one who was initially wasting you all must have left. Left. And this is a group that's come back. So wherever they return from, you must not be too far away from because whoever these people are, they had some scout who happened to find you in all this. What an unfortuitous role determined by an incredibly close close proximity on a D100 the second time. And if this island is any. If it's of any significant size for them to have come, seen you, departed and returned. Wherever home base is for whoever these people are, it can't be more than like an hour and a half or two hours hike away. [02:22:02] Speaker A: Okay, okay. [02:22:04] Speaker C: So they are there and the sun is warming. [02:22:07] Speaker A: How bright is it, would you say? [02:22:12] Speaker C: Bright enough to see some details. Now, they're a diverse assemblage of race here. There's an Elven individual, a dragonborn individual. There appears to be. There is, fascinatingly, a pixie among them. A very punk metal looking pixel pixie there is who's so hard to spot that for a little bit you thought there were four of them, but there are five. And there is. There is a. There's a hobgoblin among them. And why don't you give me an odds or evens, Greta. Been so many of those in this. [02:22:54] Speaker A: Oh, sorry. I rolled. That's going to be an even for me. [02:23:00] Speaker C: Okay. There is also a being of heritage you have never seen before. There is a person whose upper half is scaled, whose features are very slender and serpentine, and whose lower half. No, excuse me. You have seen one such individual before whose lower half is just a long coiling snake, cool length. There is a another yuan ti anathema among them. And the five individuals are just around you, watching in still silence. There's sufficient light around you to see it's dim light. Right now. Everything's dim light, dim amber. [02:23:46] Speaker A: Okay, go ahead. Sorry. [02:23:48] Speaker C: Well, that's episode 132, so thank you for listening, everyone. I hope you all enjoyed it. What an excellent session. And we'll call it there the patrons. [02:24:05] Speaker B: We're like, we're not gonna have combat. There's not gonna be any combat today. [02:24:10] Speaker D: There's still there may not be. [02:24:13] Speaker A: We should engagement. I think we should try to talk. [02:24:15] Speaker B: Where's our blanket? [02:24:17] Speaker C: Depends on what happens next. Okay, so that's the session. I'm gonna really. I may or may not need to change a lot of plans for the next one. Everyone gains 0.02 levels. [02:24:36] Speaker B: Okay. [02:24:37] Speaker C: And we are all gonna go on a. [02:24:39] Speaker D: Does that put us at 12.74? [02:24:43] Speaker A: No, there's five of them. [02:24:45] Speaker D: Okay. Yeah. You'll have to tell me on break. I snuck away for a second audience. [02:24:50] Speaker B: I'm gonna go start a load of laundry. I'm not gonna lie. Oh, we're still recording. Just so everyone knows, I'm gonna start a load of laundry. Zach is not frozen. [02:25:05] Speaker D: Pretending to be frozen. [02:25:07] Speaker B: Elsa. [02:25:10] Speaker D: Poop joke. Fart joke. [02:25:14] Speaker C: Dang it. Okay, tell me that wasn't impressively still. Tell me. [02:25:20] Speaker B: It really was. You won. I was Won the mannequin challenge. [02:25:24] Speaker C: Yeah, I really think I would have had you on that 10 years ago. Said poop joke. Fart joke. Abby. I love that. That's so cool. [02:25:33] Speaker A: Anyhow. [02:25:36] Speaker C: We'Ll see you guys later. Life's an incredible adventure, and you're an important part of it. Skippity wap and Dada. [02:25:41] Speaker D: Yeah.