156. Ash & Snow

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Go, go. [00:00:01] Speaker B: Hi. Welcome back to our barely D and D podcast, the Accidental Adventures. This is your host, M. Micah Craig Williams, soon to be Griffith. And I hope that you have had a good day wherever you are. And we have a great letter question for you that I'm sure that someone has in their brain. Noggin. I don't have one, but I'm sure someone does. And Zach is a squirrel, secretly. [00:00:36] Speaker A: I forgot we did that. [00:00:38] Speaker B: I forgot we did that. [00:00:42] Speaker C: Okay, you had to poop in a bucket. Nut. [00:00:47] Speaker A: Your character was a high school student. What would their favorite and least favorite class be? [00:00:52] Speaker B: Ooh, I like that. [00:00:54] Speaker A: Okay, also. Who is also listener? Landon's not here today. Yeah, he got a door closed and he couldn't figure it out. Who's the dmn? PC? [00:01:06] Speaker C: I want to know. I always say this, but I totally want to know. Feminine. [00:01:14] Speaker A: Jackie, you so basic, girl. [00:01:17] Speaker C: I am not basic. [00:01:18] Speaker D: Listener, behind the curtain test. [00:01:24] Speaker B: Oh, it's working. [00:01:25] Speaker D: It's working. It's working. Thank you, listener. [00:01:29] Speaker A: And your audio does sound better. [00:01:31] Speaker D: Thank you, Len. [00:01:34] Speaker B: So I. [00:01:39] Speaker D: Never mind. [00:01:40] Speaker B: I wondered, y'. All, I know that we've been doing this for a long time, but there are lots of names, and I'm going to admit that I don't remember a lot of them for who goes to what, but the lady that we call on the rock a lot for advice and help. [00:02:01] Speaker C: The one we don't like or the one we do like. [00:02:03] Speaker B: The one we do like. [00:02:05] Speaker C: Alondra. [00:02:06] Speaker B: Alondra. Right. Zach is not frozen. He is just playing. [00:02:12] Speaker A: It was a long time. Tell me it's not good. [00:02:14] Speaker B: It was a long time. [00:02:15] Speaker D: It's a long time. [00:02:16] Speaker C: I want to give. Actually, you know what? I. Real quick. I don't know what made me do this. I want to give a special shout out to our listener, Jonathan, because he is enjoying a Chapel Roan concert as we speak right now. And I'm very jealous and I'm super excited for him, so I wanted to shout him out, because that's happening right now. [00:02:36] Speaker A: Our history teacher from our campus is at that Chapel Roan concert. [00:02:39] Speaker C: Oh, heck, yeah. [00:02:40] Speaker A: With her daughter. [00:02:41] Speaker C: Let's go. [00:02:43] Speaker D: But they're so far away. Jonathan in doubt. [00:02:46] Speaker C: No, it's in us. No. Can't city. [00:02:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:52] Speaker C: It's not too far. Okay. Wow. [00:02:58] Speaker A: What? [00:02:59] Speaker C: What? Abby's sending us ogre Bible memes. I don't know why. I thought that was the Bible. I thought it was the. I thought he was holding the Bible for a second. I don't know. [00:03:11] Speaker A: The Bible. Yes. The DMNPC will be Alondra. Anyway, Rose up first. What class would she love and which one would she hate? [00:03:24] Speaker C: Okay, hot take. We're doing, like. We're doing, like, regular school subjects, right? Okay. I think she would hate music class. [00:03:40] Speaker D: Okay, hot take. [00:03:42] Speaker C: Because she would not want someone telling her how to do the stuff. She'll be like, no, I don't want to do it that way. I don't want to play that song. I don't want to sing that way. And again, let's remember that Ro is just a hop, skip, and a jump from Jackie. [00:04:04] Speaker A: I guess you're starting the class with a ton of enthusiasm. And then, like, two weeks in, being like, I hate this. [00:04:09] Speaker C: Yes, that. That would be okay. I'm just. I'm just doing myself. She. Yeah, it would be a tie. It would be a tie between English and history class. She would absolutely love writing. She would think, especially in their time, she would think it's so cool that. That they have all this paper and she can just write as much as she wants and do whatever she wants. And she would absolutely love history because she would absorb the crap out of it and just be, like, soak up all the history of her world and everything. So that. [00:04:43] Speaker D: Honestly, that makes so much sense for a bard. Like, it makes sense that a bard would love history and English class because, like, traditionally, like, bards, like, yeah, they did music, but they also, like, were, like, the writers and historians of the time. That makes so much sense for Ro. That's such a great answer. [00:05:02] Speaker C: Thank you. It was not a hard one to come up with. [00:05:05] Speaker A: Abby, wait. A way to build people up. [00:05:07] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:05:14] Speaker B: Okay, I think I see I was never in public school, but isn't there a class where they can, like. They cut wood and, like, make birdhouses? [00:05:24] Speaker D: Yeah, woodshop. [00:05:27] Speaker B: I think Craig would love wood shop and. And I think, yeah, that he would despise specifically geometry. [00:05:42] Speaker C: Did you say geometry? [00:05:44] Speaker B: Yeah, Like. Like, he probably hates math, but geometry was probably his least favorite. [00:05:51] Speaker C: Really? [00:05:51] Speaker B: I think it's because I think that he's like, I don't need to know these details about shapes. It's a shape. [00:06:01] Speaker A: He says with a rock in his mouth. [00:06:04] Speaker C: Would he bring in rock? [00:06:06] Speaker B: It's enough. [00:06:07] Speaker C: Would he bring in rocks and try to cut them in wood? Chalk? Be, like, break all the tools for trying to cut it. [00:06:16] Speaker B: He would find ways to incorporate rocks. [00:06:18] Speaker C: Nice. [00:06:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that'd be a big thing for him is like, wood shop, but also, like. Like, marbles inside of the wood so light can come in and like, create, like, light on the walls or something, you know? [00:06:31] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:06:31] Speaker A: It wouldn't. It wouldn't start well. But by his senior year, Craig would be so beloved on the football team. I mean, he would be the heart of that team and the most important position in the O line. [00:06:44] Speaker D: The O line. Oh, yeah. [00:06:47] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Zach has left the building. [00:07:00] Speaker D: I think that Greta's favorite class would be gym. [00:07:03] Speaker C: Really? Gym? Yeah. [00:07:07] Speaker D: I think that every gym class, if they went outside or if they went into the gym, she would just kind of sneak away, and she'd get so good at it that they'd always, like, they wouldn't notice it, or she'd, like, do it right away. And they'd be like, no, Greta wasn't here this class. Like, where is she? She just wasn't. She didn't come to school today. She snuck away really early in the class. Or she'd wait. They'd be like, greta, you have to stop sneaking away. This is so serious. You're gonna get in big trouble. And then she'd, like, not sneak away for the whole class, but then sneak away at the end and then, like, miss the next period. So she would see gym time as, like, a way to, like, get away and, like, escape into the woods and frolic. And her least favorite class would be government, because I think she is very idealistic. And she'd be like, there's so many better ways to do this. And she'd be like, well, this is like. Or she'd be either be like, there's so many better ways to do this. This is, like, slow, or this isn't fair. Or she'd see, like, okay, well, this is how they say they're doing it, but in practice, that's not actually how that works. I think that she would. I think the government would be so frustrating for her. [00:08:13] Speaker C: Would Greta. Would Greta, though, stay in gym class when it was like, dodgeball or volleyball? Because for some reason, I just see her getting right up in someone's face and, like, slamming the ball. [00:08:24] Speaker D: Yeah. She'd somehow, like, add teeth to dodgeball. [00:08:28] Speaker C: What? [00:08:29] Speaker A: I can't play since she bit that guy. [00:08:32] Speaker B: I feel like she'd be at the top of the rope, and that's where she would just stay for a long time. Like, they would try and punish her, and then she would just stay up there. [00:08:42] Speaker C: I picture gym class as the first time Greta accidentally cast inflict wounds, and she just, like, threw the volleyball and just. [00:08:54] Speaker D: Yeah. Oh, my gosh. [00:08:57] Speaker A: Yeah. My student bit somebody the other day. Oh, you teach elementary? No, high School. [00:09:02] Speaker C: I bit someone when I was in elementary school. [00:09:06] Speaker B: Oh, okay. That makes a lot more sense. [00:09:08] Speaker C: No, yeah, No, I was fifth grade. [00:09:12] Speaker A: I can't believe I'm saying this, but already in the beginning of the session, inspiration for O Line. Oh, yeah. That was amazing. [00:09:21] Speaker D: Thank you. [00:09:22] Speaker A: So dumb. [00:09:24] Speaker B: Doesn't even go here. [00:09:26] Speaker A: I should have brought it up again. [00:09:33] Speaker B: Yeah, okay, I got it. [00:09:36] Speaker A: Actually. Yes, I think Alondra would have fit in snugly with school. I don't think it would have just been like, she's not a Hermione. A little more, like, reserved. [00:09:46] Speaker D: Okay. [00:09:46] Speaker A: I think she's a little. [00:09:47] Speaker D: Wait. [00:09:48] Speaker A: Actually, yes. [00:09:49] Speaker D: It's not a rush. [00:09:50] Speaker A: It's okay. All right, but. [00:09:53] Speaker D: Sorry. [00:09:56] Speaker A: You had your mic on that whole time? And he's like. But I took the headphones off. Yeah. So I think she would have been a little more quiet. I think she would have really loved English. Like, I think she's math minded, but I think she loves poetry. [00:10:15] Speaker D: Poetry is mathematic. It really is when you get down to it. [00:10:20] Speaker C: True. Especially haiku. [00:10:22] Speaker A: You just would have. I think she would have liked the inner world part of school because I think her mind is already a place she prefers to be. So I think subjects that allowed her to spend more time there would have made her happy. And then I feel like her least favorite subject would have been an academically rigorous subject that she didn't get because I feel like she wouldn't. She's not the vocal nerd in the class, but she's like, quietly, like, got one of the best GPAs in the school. So I think. I don't know some subject where like, it's. It's the usual. It's like, she should be good, but she doesn't get it. I think she just hate that. Like, probably like chemistry or physics because I view her being like math minded. But like, when it gets applied abstractly, maybe that gets confusing. [00:11:07] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:11:08] Speaker A: I'm just projecting that I was bad at those subjects, but I don't know, something like that. [00:11:13] Speaker C: Projecting. [00:11:18] Speaker D: I definitely didn't like. I mean, I guess I did like my gym class just wasn't Jim. It was. Anyway, sorry. [00:11:25] Speaker A: The backyard. Are we ready? Are we ready? Ah, sorry. Are we? I spend all week long with people I can't be sassy to, so. [00:11:39] Speaker C: So he takes it out on us. [00:11:42] Speaker D: But no, because. Because in the past you've said, like, I'm too sassy to my high schoolers and it's coming out on you guys. So which is it? [00:11:50] Speaker A: Yeah, Sassy with Me. It's like a. It's like a. [00:11:53] Speaker C: You have to survive, so then you have to like, bottle it in class. [00:11:57] Speaker A: I can't. I can't. Like, like, like they set themselves up sometimes and I can't turn around and be like, you know. Anyhow. [00:12:04] Speaker C: Yeah, that's why I'm not a teacher. [00:12:06] Speaker B: Wait, I have a quick question. Is this the best that the WI fi has ever been on. On your side? For me? [00:12:13] Speaker C: Quite possib. So you need to stay there forever and ever. Right. Right where you are. [00:12:20] Speaker B: So funny. If I move a little, like. If I move like a foot over. Gone. [00:12:26] Speaker C: Oh, gone. [00:12:29] Speaker A: Looks like that optimal external conditions for your enzyme. [00:12:35] Speaker D: Oh my gosh. [00:12:37] Speaker A: Someone. [00:12:38] Speaker B: Someone in the world understood that O line. [00:12:41] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Without further ado, this is episode 156. [00:12:48] Speaker C: No, it's 107. Oh my God, it is 156. I marked it wrong in pen. [00:12:56] Speaker A: Oh, not a big deal. It's just a mistake you can never fix. [00:13:00] Speaker C: Oh, now it looks so bad. [00:13:03] Speaker A: No, I do not tell the high schoolers about the podcast. One, because I don't think I want them hearing all this. But two, because they know about us. Technically, if I mention the podcast at school, it's like a conflict of interest somehow, because, yeah, they would obsessively support and probably pay money on the Patreon, which I do not want them doing. So that is the real reason. So episode 156 for the Note taking nerds, Ash and Snow. [00:13:33] Speaker C: Exactly where we left off. Because it's been a month and I'm like, where was the moment we left off? [00:13:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Do we. Do we want a little recap before we keep. [00:13:42] Speaker D: Yes. [00:13:43] Speaker C: Yeah, maybe I need to get back in the zone. [00:13:48] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. It's an. It's a. It's a tale as old as time. We're five minutes into the session and Abby's like, oh, Dice. [00:13:56] Speaker D: We haven't played for a month. It means that my D and D stuff has stayed exactly where it has been for a month. [00:14:03] Speaker A: Fair enough. To recap or do. Do they want me? [00:14:08] Speaker D: I would like one. I would like you to do it. [00:14:12] Speaker A: Does anyone want to recap? [00:14:14] Speaker D: I think you should do it. [00:14:18] Speaker C: No, I want you to do it. [00:14:20] Speaker A: Okay, well, hoping somebody fill in gaps if I'm missing something because it's been a while for me too. But I mean, we. No, actually, I do know we left off right at Killing the Heart, so remember, you all killed the fighter. The unnamed bugbear fighter who we never really learned more about. Then eventually, it took a long time, but the Dragonborn Barbarian was killed with a lightning bolt. And then the rogue slipped away and hunting down the Count took a very long time across the field. And also, remember, you guys are at however many spell slots you've expended, however many hit points are lost, you're there again. So you guys are at d death's door. Half of you, Blood Aid, and every. I assume everyone has exactly two spell slots left altogether or something. I mean, you guys are spammed. [00:15:13] Speaker C: I got four. [00:15:16] Speaker A: No, I stand corrected. And in the course of defeating the Count, Craig cut his hand off, and that hand, when a ring fell off, his form was revealed, and he turned out to be a Rakshasa. Not that that's anything you all actually know how to identify, but he turned out to be like a tiger dude with backwards hands, and there was a whole lot more going on there. And when you all killed him, he turned to ash rather than just a body. And then the body began reforming and you all got out door in the jar in the drawer and had to break the jar to kill the heart. And we ended with. In the middle of the small hours of the morning, middle of the night, in the dark, Tello having stabbed the heart, shouting with tears in his eyes that he's a fun guy. And the heart also melting into kind of like a sludgy ash in the sort of steaming snow. And we will pick up with that. The party is. Can we. Is music playing? Yes, there we go. [00:16:30] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:33] Speaker A: We pick up. Also remember, you guys can adjust the volume on the side. We pick up with the party. There you all are in the same place in the broad open field region of Unson, known as Legendur, as you were told by Miscore's tip. And you all stand there. The flat, very flat field around you is just. Just ransacked. There is still snow all about. But, I mean, it's like when, you know when you've, like, been playing, when, like kids have been playing in snow like all day long. So, like half of it's, like torn up and, like pressed down and exposed ground. So that's all around from all the fighting. And then huge swathes of the ground around you are no snow, and instead charred, burnt earth from all the fireballs that were going off. Most of you are very badly wounded right now, and magic has helped heal and seal a lot of those wounds. But a lot of you all have burnt clothes and burnt hair and burnt marks over you, and some have bad slash marks. And you all are covered in your own dried blood. I mean, all. All the sorts of things that would help. It really is magic is so much of what keeps you all alive in these circumstances. The ability to repair those wounds and repair internal damage. And the boss's. He has released his call lightning. But the storm, the local small storm he was making, has begun to pull clouds back to this part of the sky that had been clear. So the clear night sky, sky filled with stars and the cold moon above are beginning to, like, be blanketed by cloud cover. It's like reforming around it, as if he created enough of, like, an ionic potential difference in the atmosphere that, like, clouds are just gathering at this place and reforming from moisture in the air. And. And so it's. It's actually getting darker around you slowly but surely, because the light of the moon is slowly but surely being, like, held behind the sun. So it's getting dimmer and darker. And you all stand there with two dead bodies. No, let me take that back. You will stand there with a burnt pile of carbon. That was the warrior, the unnamed warrior. And then you are near a horribly charred, maimed, and largely from the upper torso, exploded dragonborn barbarian who's just kind of gone and obliterated. And then there's a pile of ash nearby, along with a smaller pile of ash with broken glass all around it. You all are as tired and worn on so many levels as you've ever been. Physically, yes, but emotionally, spiritually, just in every level, distraught and spent. And there are tracks in the snow leading away from where the roguish figure ran. And you all stand there in the night, and it's quite cold. [00:19:26] Speaker C: How. What time is it? I know you said it's like middle of the night, right? I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. [00:19:33] Speaker A: No, you'd be able to feel. It's like. It's like between 1:30 and 1:45. Maybe like 1:30. Okay, eight, very early. [00:19:42] Speaker B: I turn to Boz and I say, what do you think we should do. [00:19:48] Speaker D: Girl? [00:19:50] Speaker A: Boz pulls his pants down and poops in the snow. [00:19:54] Speaker B: That's a great point, Boz. Everyone follows suit, pooping a bunch. [00:20:02] Speaker A: Canonically, for the duration of the session. Boz is overwhelmed by the events and exhausted and just spent. And he's just having a seat on the ground, thinking quietly, and he'll do whatever the group does. [00:20:14] Speaker C: I think Ro is to go off, like, we're kind of in, like, a clearing, right? Is. [00:20:19] Speaker A: Oh, you cannot get around open, flat ground for. In any direction. It's just. [00:20:24] Speaker C: Oh, like there's not, like, trees or anything. [00:20:27] Speaker A: No. Why did I think there was flat field? Oh, no, we always do. No matter the landscape I describe, we always think there's trees. [00:20:35] Speaker C: Like, where's that tree? [00:20:37] Speaker A: Who's that tree, though? [00:20:39] Speaker C: No, that's perfectly fine. I was just confused of my thinking. The best of us row is going to go off, like, a few hundred feet, like, not super close to, like, the bodies or whatever. And she's going to. She is going to cast Leman's tiny hut. [00:21:02] Speaker A: Okay. [00:21:03] Speaker C: And get that set up because we're also spent and everything. There's no, like, there's no. There's not gonna be any traveling tonight or anything with our spell slots, but we can at least get warm and there and all. So she's gonna sit and kind of. [00:21:17] Speaker A: Ritually, y' all keep describing your actions. I'm gonna grab my. My blanket. But keep describing your actions. [00:21:22] Speaker C: Okay, so she's gonna go. Yeah, she's gonna go over there and. Yeah. [00:21:28] Speaker B: Do you think that we should announce or, like, contact anyone back who's important that we killed the Count? [00:21:39] Speaker D: Who was someone. [00:21:40] Speaker A: Who. [00:21:40] Speaker D: Who was. Is that Craig saying that was talking to Alondra? [00:21:46] Speaker B: Yes. I think it would be important that the news gets back. [00:21:50] Speaker C: We also contacted the. The Countess. Yeah. Is who's talking to. Yeah. [00:21:56] Speaker D: Okay. [00:21:56] Speaker C: So, I mean, we could. I guess we could do one of you guys. I never. I never met her. And you guys have the. She holds up her wrist, her blank wrist and says, sorry, that was rude. That was uncalled for. And says. And says, which one of you guys want to call her? And I guess let her know of the good news so that she. [00:22:24] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean, do you want to do that, or do you want me to. [00:22:29] Speaker C: I guess tell her. I could if y' all want him to, but. Or what is tell doing? Actually, pretty. [00:22:41] Speaker A: He's on his knees where he was when he was stabbing the heart with his hand. And the blood from the heart is still caked up his glove and up his gauntlet. And he's also got, like, ash stuck all over him in the blood from where it turned to ash. And that, like, dark is on his arm. Okay, Craig, press digitate, dude, press. And he doesn't even really seem to notice. He's just kneeling in the snow with burn marks all over him, just staring, I think. And the knife is downward in his hand. He hasn't let go of it. He's just staring where the heart was. [00:23:18] Speaker C: I think I would. Or. Go ahead, Abby. [00:23:21] Speaker D: I go over and, like, put a Hand on his shoulder a little bit and just give him some pats. And then I walk over to the pile of body and I just like dig my. [00:23:30] Speaker A: As you, you place a hand on his shoulder and in a very quick motion he brings the dagger, the knife, the blade end halfway up to you, just like. [00:23:43] Speaker D: I give him another. It's okay, he's gone. [00:23:48] Speaker A: He nods and he just kind of. He's on his knees. He sits back off of his knees onto his butt, brings his knees up to his chest, not full fetal position, but halfway there. He like rests his arm over his knees and he like, you watch him very consciously like lower his hand and it's like he has to try and pry his fingers off the blade, sit down, drops it in the snow and he rests his other hand up on his gauntlet and kind of like pulls his cape around him a little bit because also it's cold. You guys are. And he's like panting there, his breath just catching in front of him in the cold and he's got like tear stains all down his eyes and he's just like nodding slowly and breathing. And he also died. Yeah, 40 seconds ago. So he's just sitting there, just breathing, but he's just like trying to come down. [00:24:44] Speaker D: I go over and I, I like like dig my shoe into the, into the pile of ash where his body was in like a, like I'm it like I'm like in a disrespectful manner. Like, I like, I don't know, like just scowl and dig my. [00:25:04] Speaker A: You rub your heel into it. [00:25:05] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I, I grab a little, I like scoop up some of the ash and I bring it and I, I like get crouched down like on my, like sit on my heels and I like show tell and I say he's. I like hold it in my hand and then like rub it in my fingers until it falls in the snow. And I say he's, He's. [00:25:32] Speaker A: Yeah, okay. [00:25:45] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:25:49] Speaker A: And he just starts breathing really deeply and tearing up and he lowers his head in between his knees a little bit and he, he's just kind of like, you know, he's there barely. [00:26:01] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [00:26:06] Speaker B: I think I am going to like seeing that Greta's doing some good friendship stuff. And I think I'm going to take up the responsibility of calling the Countess. [00:26:22] Speaker A: Okay, Craig, you pull out the stone and grasp it and think of. Yeah, the slender, pale, magnanimous, red headed figure you met some time ago. Head of the most powerful. Well, one of the two most powerful criminal Organizations in the world. Yes. Abby. [00:26:38] Speaker D: This. If Craig makes a call, does Craig have to take the sending stone out of his mouth? [00:26:43] Speaker A: Yes. [00:26:45] Speaker D: Okay. [00:26:47] Speaker C: I feel like you're going through a tunnel. I feel like. [00:26:57] Speaker A: You feel the connection established. [00:26:59] Speaker D: Craig. [00:27:02] Speaker B: Are you awake? This is Craig. [00:27:06] Speaker A: Craig, please. Of the stone. You up? [00:27:12] Speaker B: He's married. [00:27:16] Speaker A: You hear a voice returned Craig, that says Monsieur d', Onley. Yours was not the voice I would expect at this hour. I would hope that your Druidic friend is still with us. [00:27:32] Speaker B: Yes, he is. We just got done with a very intense fight. Quite literally, everyone is okay. But felt that I was in the best mental state to make this call. I wanted to let you know. I wanted to let you know that the count is dead. [00:28:00] Speaker A: LA owes you every favor, Mr. Dunley. The fun guys are. If you were not close to the fold before, you have my favor now. Oh, Dunley, that is good to hear. Thank you, Craig. There is no amount of wine here that can console my fears. And I have been awake all night waiting. I am very glad to hear your deed is done. Thank you. Genuinely, I did. If I may be of service. I'm glad to be. [00:28:42] Speaker B: I did want to let you know that he had three compatriots of sorts with him. I'm sure to, you know, hired murderers, things of that sort of. We killed two of them, but one of the rogues did run away. [00:29:03] Speaker C: And. [00:29:04] Speaker B: We were too distracted by the count and fighting him off to catch him. [00:29:11] Speaker A: Understood. Only I am not quite so concerned of this. I imagined he would hire a detached professional. But it is still important information. Thank you for relaying it. [00:29:27] Speaker B: I'm happy to know that the city is safer. So relieved. Oh, families are safer. [00:29:38] Speaker A: May I be a further service? [00:29:40] Speaker B: Craig, this is all you can rest easy tonight. [00:29:46] Speaker A: La Palma Ver owes you. Thanks. Sleep well, master warrior. [00:29:52] Speaker D: Thank you. [00:29:54] Speaker B: Good night. Any ends of the connection? Okay, good news I'm sure will spread. [00:30:06] Speaker A: The space around you is growing increasingly dark as that storm cloud made from Greta's firestorm and Boz's lightning storm is growing and growing and it's lessening in thickness and just turning into a thick cover in the sky of clouds and snow is actually beginning to resume fall at this temperature very slowly, just falling down in flakes. Nearby Roh, the purple dome is very softly illuminating the space. It's not like a beacon. It's very softly. If you get really close, you can see where the light bleeds onto the reflective snow. It's quickly becoming really the only source of light out here. Is anyone doing Anything with the space remaining, anyone searching for anything or just everyone's going to huddle together into the hut. [00:30:57] Speaker B: I say we can search in the morning. I would like to huddle in the. [00:31:05] Speaker D: I'm gonna very quickly. I'm gonna very quickly go loot the bodies. [00:31:23] Speaker A: Okay, give me an investigation check. There are now for the sake of detail, bodies is a funny word here. So you go to examine where the more martially clad warrior was. And Greta, I mean there's a weapon scattered somewhere to the side, but that's like he was incinerated. There is a dense mass of carbon where he was a foul smelling sulfurous. Just hunk of dark charred matter that's kind of been burned into the earth with it and blast marks all around it. There is nothing to search for. Nothing has survived the impact. You go to where the dragonborn barbarian was and there is a bottle, there is a body and that there is a lower torso. But the lightning bolt which struck her blew her head and shoulders apart. And then the structure around that portion of her was scattered at some distance. So there are parts at distance, but it is gruesome. And around the body. Do you want, you can make an investigation check therefore if you want. [00:32:42] Speaker D: I got a, got a 21. [00:32:52] Speaker A: Okay. I mean it's not impossible. There was more around the barbarian that was of consequence. But all you can find right now is her maul. [00:33:06] Speaker D: Okay. [00:33:07] Speaker A: It has seemed to survive the blast. And a reminder the mall she has is not. It's not like a, like a, like a, a pole in a head. It is a spine. It is a spine with where some of the vertebrae have been worn down to be gripped. And then at the head is a skull. And you realize now as you get close that the, the, the spine and skull have been very lightly dipped in a metal which is cool over it. And as you go and touch the metal coated spine and skull that have all been held together in the snow, you touch them and they are still warm. So you get the feeling that this may have survived the blast even as a function of possibly being a magical weapon. And it is still covered in blood. Some is a slightly different hue, like a reddish but a little more purple. You get the feeling that might have been hers. But some of it is a deeper red. It's almost a little greenish. And you get the feeling that these might be remaining stains from the accals. [00:34:22] Speaker C: Ah. [00:34:24] Speaker A: It'S a grim weapon. [00:34:26] Speaker D: Okay. I take it with me and I ask, I asked rotopress to take it. [00:34:34] Speaker A: It's so big. [00:34:36] Speaker D: I Like, lug it behind me. [00:34:39] Speaker A: Four and a half feet long, and. [00:34:40] Speaker D: It weighs probably taller than me. [00:34:42] Speaker A: Thirty pounds. [00:34:43] Speaker D: Okay. [00:34:44] Speaker A: Maybe 40. [00:34:45] Speaker D: Can I move it? [00:34:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just real heavy. [00:34:49] Speaker D: Okay. [00:34:50] Speaker A: I mean, how much does Greta weigh? That's a thing on a sheet. [00:34:59] Speaker D: I move it. I lug it behind me. [00:35:03] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. [00:35:12] Speaker D: Can I ask. I ask Rota Vegetative for me. And I. [00:35:16] Speaker C: Okay, yeah. [00:35:16] Speaker A: It is cleaned now. It's simply the skull. I'm getting closer to it now. You can see that there are harsh carvings in it in a very like, sort of in a tongue that is sharp and harshly marked and has a lot of, like, arches to its length that are contrasted by a lot of really sharp lines. It's a beautiful script. Harsh, but beautiful. Does anyone here speak Draconic? [00:35:37] Speaker D: I do. [00:35:41] Speaker A: You can read. Let me double check. [00:35:44] Speaker D: No, I can't read if. [00:35:46] Speaker C: Wait, can't you read with your glasses? [00:35:49] Speaker D: Yeah, I speak primordial. I don't speak draconics. So I lug it. I, like, lug it back to the thing. I ask Ro to prestigitate it, and I get it cleaned up and stuff like that. And then I sit and I pull out my spectacles and I put them on and I inspect it and I read it. [00:36:08] Speaker A: As you look it over, the text shifts in your sight. Those glasses, you finally got yourself the bicycle. And as you look through them, Greta. You all watch Greta intensely reading, her eyes even bigger on her head, to the bifocals. And Greta, as you scan them, they are text and draconic. It's poetry. Very violent, short poetry. It's poetry about battle and killing. And you can see that they are also. They're arranged in such a way that the text makes very abstract, simple glory glyphs. And you are not identifying right now. You have to use a spell for that. But you are so very arcanely accustomed at this point. I will let you make an arcana check to try and identify what this. What this glyph work might very basically associate to. [00:36:57] Speaker D: Okay. [00:37:02] Speaker A: Good. You do be priest of the Goddess. [00:37:04] Speaker D: Of Knowledge, so that's going to be beautiful. Easy. That is a 33. [00:37:14] Speaker A: Okay. With a 30 freaking 3, it occurs to you that this. This enchantment looks robust but rudimentary. It looks like it is evocatively enchanted. So. And you are even seeing that there are connections here to a sort of elemental focus. Ah. With a 33, you put together. This is probably why the mall was covered in fire when she was wielding it. So it looks like the mall can set itself on fire. [00:37:46] Speaker D: That's pretty cool. [00:37:48] Speaker A: It is pretty cool. [00:37:51] Speaker D: Can I. She was a dragonborn. Okay, okay, okay. I might cool. [00:38:06] Speaker A: In the course of searching for bodies, Greta, with a 21 investigation, I'll say that it also occurs to you to go search where the Count's pile of ashes were. [00:38:15] Speaker D: I go search the pile, yes. [00:38:18] Speaker A: Would you give me another investigation check? [00:38:24] Speaker C: Can I say while she doing that? I've kind of tried to, like, lead. If. If he'll let me tell. Into the hut to, like, sit down. [00:38:32] Speaker A: And he's cooperative. He's not quite shell shocked. He's just, like, wildly overwhelmed. Also exhausted. Everyone is so tired. You're all so tired. And he. He sits down. He goes to the hut and sits inside, and it's just not well. He begins busying himself, pushing the snow out of the bottom of the hut so that it's dry where you all are gonna be laying. Greta, what'd you get on that second investigation check? [00:39:09] Speaker D: I used guidance, and I got a 26. [00:39:13] Speaker A: Okay. You find there is the large pile of ash, and then there is a smaller pile of ash nearby, not the one in between all the broken glass. And it occurs to you, oh, yeah, the hand Craig cut off. And in that pile, as you search around, you find a ring. It is a gold ring and a very fine, high carat gold ring. And pressed. It's rather simple. It's smooth. And pressed into it are four or five different faces. Four or five humanoid faces, like, sculpted. And each are very detailed and intricate. There's nothing else on the band except for that. And then each of the eyes are inset with different gemstones, which is impressive because they are very small. It is the tiniest bit of gemstones that are set masterfully in each of the eyes. You find this ring. You find also a second ring. And now I need you to roll me a D4, because there are three different rings. It could be. [00:40:21] Speaker D: That's a two. [00:40:25] Speaker A: Okay. Very fun. You find now in its place. Oh, you find another gold ring. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Talk amongst yourselves momentarily. I can get you reference art for this. [00:40:40] Speaker C: I want to know if. If I remember correctly, we saw him even though we weren't seeing him really, in most of the places that we were seeing him the last few times until this encounter, he was wearing rings, wasn't he? Like we always saw him. He always had on, like, like, a bunch of rings. He wore rings like Ro wears necklaces. [00:41:08] Speaker A: What you find, it's in Lauren reference. Now, what you find in the Snow. Also among it is a gorgeous, well polished, smooth ring that is set with, I mean, highly polished emerald that also has flecks of blue in it. And a, A very delicately sculpted hummingbird is on the outside of the ring itself, inlaid with the gemstones to look like the feathers of the bird. Very intricate, delicate. And this is the other ring you find so pretty. [00:41:41] Speaker D: That's beautiful. [00:41:43] Speaker A: You find these two rings. Okay. [00:41:51] Speaker D: Okay. I, I take these back to the, the, the hut. [00:41:58] Speaker A: Okay. [00:41:59] Speaker D: I, I ask what are, what are ro. What are your hit points? [00:42:15] Speaker C: If I had to put a number on it, it'd be like a 26 of like 111. No, I'm just kidding. I'm at 26. Do you show us the rings? [00:42:28] Speaker D: Yes. Yeah. [00:42:30] Speaker C: Would you like me to. Should we identify them? [00:42:38] Speaker D: I was going to. I just didn't want to use up all my energy. [00:42:41] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, I think, I mean, I'm like, I'm not feeling great by any means, but I think, like, if I, I'd probably sleep it off mostly. I do have enough, I do have enough juice to identify those if you wanted me to, though. [00:42:58] Speaker D: Okay, how about. I'll do. I hand, I hand you the one that we saw on the count and I, I'll do the hummingbird one. [00:43:05] Speaker C: Okay. [00:43:06] Speaker D: But before I do, I'm gonna cast. [00:43:13] Speaker C: Your. [00:43:14] Speaker D: I'm gonna heal. [00:43:16] Speaker C: I was gonna say. Wait, is tello at like one hit point right now? [00:43:18] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:43:20] Speaker C: Boy, Craig, are you right? How are you? How's Craig looking? Is he bloodied or anything? [00:43:30] Speaker B: Never been better. [00:43:32] Speaker D: Okay, out of my 114healo with cure wounds at the third level. Okay, so I'll do the math. [00:43:44] Speaker A: And Greta, as you heal him, he really leans into it. He like, leans into your hands. He can only lean so far because you're so small to him, but, whoa, you guys are besties. But he leans into the healing and there's just a lot going on in him right now, in an obvious sense. But like, as you look at him, Greta, you can see that, like, things are unwinding. [00:44:14] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:44:14] Speaker A: You know, there's a tension that is lowering and as it's lowering, it's like other things are bubbling up. And you can see it on his face. And okay, he just looks like he is gonna be in the middle of it, but he leans into the healing of some of the wounds seal themselves up on him. And in the temperature controlled warm tut, you heal him. And he just nods and just lays straight down. He unbuckles some of his leather armor and Just. He's out. Ro. Identifying the ring you're holding, you find that this is a ring of greater disguise. It's an attunable magic item. And when worn, it casts a very powerful illusion on a person. Someone can choose what they want that illusion to look like. And the illusion can change your visual appearance, your vocal quality. [00:45:21] Speaker C: Wow. [00:45:22] Speaker A: Your scent. Wow. Your size up to one size class. And your physical sensation, so unlike other illusions, you feel the illusion too. So you look, feel, sound, smell different. Wow. [00:45:42] Speaker D: That's powerful. [00:45:44] Speaker A: You get the feeling that this is what the Rakshas was using to sow a effectively pass himself off as a human man. [00:45:50] Speaker C: Gracie. [00:45:54] Speaker A: Greta, as you call upon the wisdom of Ioun, you identify a ring of evasion. I'm gonna read you the details, but this is a very classic 5e item, so you can also just Google this. It is a rare ring, requires attunement, and it has three charges. It regains 1. D3. It expended charges daily at dawn or D4 minus one if you're wearing the ring. When you fail a dexterity saving throw, you can use a reaction to expend one of its charges and just succeed instead. [00:46:25] Speaker D: Wow. [00:46:27] Speaker A: A very powerful crazy. [00:46:29] Speaker D: That is powerful. Okay. [00:46:37] Speaker A: With your successful checks, I will also say that there may have been money on the armed warrior. It has been smelted, if there was ever any. But there are coin pouches attached to the Barbarian and the Count Blais. So first of all, could whoever wants to. Well, actually, could. Greta, could you roll me a D100? Or Abby, Micah, could you roll me a D100? And Jackie, could you roll me a D 100? [00:47:19] Speaker B: The. The D100 is paired with which dice is it? A D10. [00:47:23] Speaker A: The D10. Yeah. Show off then. [00:47:26] Speaker C: Micah, I got a 43. [00:47:30] Speaker A: Okay. Ro, you find 43 silver pieces on the Barbarian. [00:47:37] Speaker D: I got a 77. [00:47:40] Speaker B: It's a 42. [00:47:43] Speaker A: Okay. Can you tell that We've been doing D and D with accents for a while. Everyone responded in voices. So true. [00:47:51] Speaker C: Not even our voices. Just voices. [00:47:54] Speaker A: Abby, you find 70 what? 73. [00:47:58] Speaker D: 77. [00:48:00] Speaker A: 77 copper on the barbarian. And Craig, 42 gold. [00:48:06] Speaker B: Wow. Wow. I'm a rich man. [00:48:11] Speaker C: If I were a rich man. [00:48:16] Speaker B: What's that? What's that document where we. Where we put all of our money? Dollar information. [00:48:22] Speaker D: It's fun. [00:48:23] Speaker C: Guys. I was just putting it in my. [00:48:26] Speaker D: Inventory on my laptop shop. Doesn't work, so I can't send anything on Discord. [00:48:32] Speaker C: I'll send you the link. [00:48:34] Speaker B: Micah, that's appreciate business. [00:48:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I Think it's pinned in one of our channels. [00:48:39] Speaker C: I think so too. [00:48:40] Speaker A: In fact, I think there's a channel called Party Inventory. [00:48:42] Speaker C: Yeah, I just put that silver in my. In my own money, if that's fine. I just. I was just like. [00:48:54] Speaker A: Now, this is the part where I really want you guys paying attention to some detail. You also find on the barbarian, you find 400 platinum. [00:49:11] Speaker D: Whoa. [00:49:14] Speaker C: Whoa. [00:49:16] Speaker B: 400? [00:49:17] Speaker A: In a kind of separate bag. [00:49:20] Speaker C: Separate bag. And on the. [00:49:22] Speaker A: On the count. Well, on the count, among his ashes, you find a coin purse that's very heavy, and as you open it, you find that it has. Hold on, math. It has. Yes. It has a thousand platinum in it. And you all put together. Oh, he probably had an advanced payment on each of them, and then this was the rest of the payment to be divided among them when everything was done. [00:49:55] Speaker D: Wow. [00:49:56] Speaker A: So he was bankrolling them. [00:49:59] Speaker C: Wow. [00:50:00] Speaker D: Wow. [00:50:01] Speaker A: So as you guys pick up 1400 platinum, you are aware that this is equivalent to 14,000 gold? Wow. [00:50:08] Speaker C: Yikes. Where do we put this, y'. [00:50:12] Speaker A: All. [00:50:12] Speaker C: Do y' all want to divide it, or do you want to. [00:50:18] Speaker D: Dividing. [00:50:21] Speaker C: Yeah, okay. Yeah. [00:50:23] Speaker D: Oh. [00:50:25] Speaker B: Let'S. I don't think that we should divide it. [00:50:30] Speaker D: Really. [00:50:31] Speaker B: I don't know. I think it in one place, but. [00:50:36] Speaker C: That way, if we. I mean, I like having money on me if I need to, like. Right. [00:50:41] Speaker D: But every time we go shopping, it's like, well, how much do you have? [00:50:43] Speaker C: How much do I have? [00:50:45] Speaker D: You know, I think it. [00:50:46] Speaker C: Yeah, we could. I mean, as far as carrying that, Zach, is that a problem? You said it's 1400 total because the. [00:50:56] Speaker A: Platinum pieces are such a high denomination. Like, it's heavy, but it's not like. Like. Like a trunk of gold. Because, you know, each of the platinum pieces is worth so much. [00:51:06] Speaker C: If we split it five ways, we each get 280, and that gives Tello. I mean, because that's tello as well. Do you want to just do that? [00:51:15] Speaker D: Is that good, Micah? [00:51:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm good. [00:51:18] Speaker C: So each quick buffs. Okay. [00:51:22] Speaker D: You all are aware that has a lot of. [00:51:26] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe Greta should hold his two Eddie, Because I feel like if we put until his inventory, it's just falling into a dark hole forever. [00:51:33] Speaker C: Okay, I'm gonna write it in Landon's money. [00:51:36] Speaker A: I'm gonna say you all, as players, are aware that 1400 Platinum, if we were converting to our money, is roughly equivalent to $4.2 million. [00:51:45] Speaker D: Yeah, that's bananas. [00:51:49] Speaker A: B, A, N, A, N A, S. [00:51:55] Speaker D: B this banana. [00:51:58] Speaker A: She's so cute and kissy. [00:52:00] Speaker D: Wow, that's ridiculous. [00:52:05] Speaker B: So we all get 2,800 and then someone gets portion or what? [00:52:11] Speaker C: 280 platinum. [00:52:14] Speaker B: Oh, my bad. [00:52:16] Speaker D: 2,800 gold goal. [00:52:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:27] Speaker D: I keep calling you Landon Zach. What is the title of the document you sent for the opalescent tome? [00:52:39] Speaker A: Magical items of the opalescent tome, I would assume. [00:52:42] Speaker D: Sorry, silly question. [00:52:44] Speaker A: Happy Saturday. [00:52:45] Speaker B: He's like, I'm getting ready. [00:52:46] Speaker A: I'm gonna break it that big. Guys, I ate a whole dinner and I feel like I could eat another dinner. [00:52:59] Speaker C: I did not eat dinner. Probably should have. [00:53:01] Speaker B: You could eat another dinner. You should. Girl dinner. Girl dinner it up. [00:53:10] Speaker A: Does the party. [00:53:10] Speaker C: I did eat a big one. [00:53:12] Speaker A: Does the party go? Getting that O now. [00:53:18] Speaker C: Yeah, we go again. And I was over in the hut. [00:53:21] Speaker A: That's right. Everybody's in. That's true. [00:53:23] Speaker D: I would like to identify the. The mall, please. [00:53:28] Speaker A: Okay. [00:53:28] Speaker C: The place where teens hung out. Okay. [00:53:32] Speaker B: That's where Stranger Things always is. [00:53:36] Speaker D: Interesting. [00:53:40] Speaker A: Oh, true. [00:53:41] Speaker B: It is right to more is in the 80s. [00:53:43] Speaker D: I can't find. I can't find it. [00:53:47] Speaker A: I'm so annoyed. [00:53:48] Speaker D: Could it be in Lauren reference? [00:53:50] Speaker A: It should be. I imagine. I've sent it there. [00:53:54] Speaker D: Ah, I found it. [00:53:56] Speaker A: Heck, yeah. Greta, as. And I'm. I'm assuming at this point half the party is already asleep as you are. [00:54:02] Speaker D: Spending awake with the scary, scary mace small thing. [00:54:07] Speaker A: The last one awake just with the it sitting in your lap as you focus on it, Greta, you channel some of Ioun's divinities. I'm not focusing too much on the spell casting right now because I assume we're just like, hey, let's just keep moving. As you make a connection, the wisdom is imparted upon you that these are columns of polypos. Is the name of them all. Columns of polypos palapos being P A L A pos. [00:54:36] Speaker C: Okay. [00:54:39] Speaker A: So columns of polypos. And that. [00:54:41] Speaker D: Can you spell it again? [00:54:44] Speaker A: Yes. P A L P L, P A L A P O, S. Okay. Columns of polypos. And I mean, that's not any lore, but that is the title. And its abilities are that it is a magical mall. It has a plus one to hit into damage. And as a bonus action, a wielder can set it on fire. While it is set on fire, every attack deals an extra 2d6 fire damage, which is a lot. And every time, while it's on fire and they are holding it, they become 2D6 resistant to fire damage. Every time they take fire damage for any one source, they roll 2D6 and reduce it by as much. [00:55:38] Speaker D: Okay, awesome. [00:55:44] Speaker A: You're also aware that the wielder can use a bonus action to make the eyes of the skull leak blood. Whoa. [00:55:51] Speaker D: That's really classy, I think. [00:55:54] Speaker C: Classy. [00:55:57] Speaker B: It's like in Stranger Things when an L bleeds through her nose, but it's, like, in her eyes. [00:56:05] Speaker A: It's like Stranger Things when they're in the mall. [00:56:10] Speaker B: It's like in Stranger Things. [00:56:14] Speaker A: Thank you, Mike. [00:56:17] Speaker D: I would like to use one of the items that I was so excited about, but I fear I have forgotten about until this moment. I would like to. Whenever. When everyone's asleep, I'm worried that it's not the thing you're thinking of and that you're going to be disappointed. [00:56:36] Speaker A: It is the one I'm thinking of, I imagine. [00:56:38] Speaker D: Okay, well, when everyone's asleep, I want to take out my. I want to take out my curious speaker. [00:56:47] Speaker A: It's the one I was thinking. I knew it. I know you. [00:56:50] Speaker D: I want to take out my curious speaker and speak the command word. Just, like, hold it in my hand and, like, speak it and listen to what it says. [00:57:04] Speaker A: Okay. So, Greta, you pull out from your clothes, cloak. It's very heavy. It's a heavy rock. This gorgeously polished, dark black skull carving, but little. And not perfectly anatomically accurate. A little more abstract, clear what it is, but representative. And its eyes, the two set gemstones. And as you whisper a question, as you whisper to it the command word, I need you to roll. Well, are there. Are there any details with that, or just that you ask it? [00:57:36] Speaker D: I'll read it. It says once per long rest. Speak a command word, and it will speak a piece of previously unknown information to you. Yeah. This information is random and may range from any number of topics, perspectives, or uses. [00:57:53] Speaker A: Okay. All right, so here's what I'm going to have you do to add in a layer of randomness. You're gonna roll a D100 for me. Now, you are gonna pick a number, not me. [00:58:05] Speaker D: Oh, okay. [00:58:07] Speaker A: So you're gonna pick a number. Actually, let's totally flip it. Why don't I roll a D100? So you're gonna pick a number. Okay, I'm gonna roll a D100. And depending on if I get really close to the number you pick. Yeah, it's gonna be something, whether contextualized for you or not. Something that's like, ooh, girl, that's some hot chisme. Now, if it's really far away, it could be completely unrelated. Okay. [00:58:34] Speaker D: Okay, I have my number. [00:58:38] Speaker A: Can you tell me. [00:58:39] Speaker D: Okay. It's 77. [00:58:41] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. I rolled 40. [00:58:47] Speaker D: Okay. [00:58:48] Speaker A: Exactly. Okay. Okay. So you speak its command words and the eyes and the gemstone, just momentarily. [00:58:58] Speaker D: What color flare? [00:59:02] Speaker A: It's like a pale white flare from each. It's just like. And then a voice comes out of it and says. Hold on, hold on. I. I had something, but then I decided that I want to contextualize it a little more. Okay. Okay. The iron in Kefkin sands are the blood of long dried well spray. [00:59:51] Speaker D: Whoa. [00:59:56] Speaker A: Whoa. [00:59:58] Speaker C: Can you say that one more time? [01:00:00] Speaker B: Yeah, can you say it one more time? [01:00:03] Speaker A: The blood in Kefkin Sands or. No, the iron in Kefkin Sands is the blood of long dried wellsprings. [01:00:10] Speaker D: That's crazy. What does that mean? [01:00:16] Speaker B: You said the blood of long dried. [01:00:19] Speaker A: The blood in Kefkin sand. [01:00:22] Speaker D: The sand. The iron in Kefkin sand. [01:00:24] Speaker A: Excuse me. Sorry. Thank you. The iron in Kefkin sand. The iron in Kefkin sand is the blood of long dried wellsprings. [01:00:32] Speaker D: Wow. That's crazy. [01:00:35] Speaker C: That's cool. [01:00:36] Speaker B: I'm writing that down for Landon. [01:00:38] Speaker D: That's a good fact. [01:00:40] Speaker C: Rock fact. [01:00:41] Speaker A: Oh, also, as a note. As a note, the curious speaker does not speak in metaphors. [01:00:50] Speaker D: Okay. [01:00:52] Speaker A: It speaks literally. [01:00:53] Speaker D: Do I know if it's always telling the truth? Because it does. [01:01:00] Speaker A: Well, no, no, no. Alondra described to you. Yeah, it tells the truth. Now, I mean, it doesn't mean that there couldn't be perspective. [01:01:08] Speaker D: Right. [01:01:08] Speaker A: On it. [01:01:09] Speaker C: Like, if. [01:01:09] Speaker A: If there is a possible subjectivity. You don't know where that subjectivity lies, but if it's telling you, it's not gonna lie. Observable phenomena. It's just fact. [01:01:20] Speaker D: Wow. Wow. [01:01:24] Speaker A: So this is not a poetic metaphor. The iron in Kevin Sands is the blood of. Of long dread wellsprings. Whatever that means. [01:01:31] Speaker B: Wow. Oh, my gosh. Wait, we probably have so much time to, like, interpret all of this, but I was thinking, hopefully. Are y' all frozen? Am I frozen? [01:01:45] Speaker D: No, no, no. Whoa. [01:01:47] Speaker A: Seriously, Micah, the best your Internet has ever been. [01:01:49] Speaker C: Don't say that. [01:01:50] Speaker D: Knock on wood. [01:01:51] Speaker C: Knock on wood. [01:01:54] Speaker B: So I was thinking, okay, if it's in Kefkin sand, then there's probably a spring, a well spring, close by, like. [01:02:08] Speaker C: Well, close to the Caspian sands. Yeah. [01:02:11] Speaker B: Yeah. So that's probably a locational point we can note somewhere. Is there sand? Wait, Zach, would we know everywhere? [01:02:23] Speaker A: Greta, why don't you give me a history check? [01:02:27] Speaker D: Whoa. [01:02:29] Speaker A: Abby said. I love this. [01:02:31] Speaker D: Oh, I'm going to use my inspiration 30. [01:02:36] Speaker A: Okay, Abby, give me a look. I'm going to sit down now. Sorry. [01:02:48] Speaker D: It's a 29. [01:02:51] Speaker A: Okay. Greta, you are aware that Kefk, the actual continent, is a very arid place. There are belts of green in the far south. But that the vast majority of the continent is semi desert to desert and that there's variability in its topography. There are mountains and buttes and like, I mean you wouldn't have the words for this, but like a tectonic cliff rise on the western like edge of the continent, but for the most part almost the whole thing. Like there's some dry short bunch plains, but the majority of the continent are different kinds of like arid and semi arid land. And the majority of the continent is desert though at for much of the year a cold desert in the far north. So like, because there are. There are cold deserts and so part of it is cold desert at certain times of the year, but that it is a largely desert place. So that kef is filled with sand. That does not help much. [01:04:00] Speaker B: He said. Hey guys, somewhere there. [01:04:07] Speaker D: We don't know what the blood means. So. Yeah, it means that that kind of implies like hurting it or something. But interesting. [01:04:20] Speaker C: Well. [01:04:21] Speaker B: Well, he said that he doesn't speak in metaphors. [01:04:23] Speaker D: Right, right, right, right. But because it's not a metaphor doesn't mean that we don't know all. [01:04:30] Speaker B: It's true. My interpretation is that we should go look for wellsprings. If we get more. [01:04:36] Speaker D: In the Chefkin Nation. Let's do it. Let's go. [01:04:38] Speaker B: Let's go. [01:04:39] Speaker A: In the Kafkin, the mighty Kevin. [01:04:43] Speaker C: Do the Kevin have. Do the Kefkins have a national anthem? [01:04:52] Speaker A: I don't want to hear. [01:04:53] Speaker C: I'm not wonder. [01:05:03] Speaker A: Give me a K. Give me an E. Stab. [01:05:09] Speaker C: Do any of the nations have. Enough. Do any of the nations have a national. [01:05:14] Speaker B: My nose is burning from the chips. [01:05:18] Speaker C: Do any of the nations. I'm serious. I'm asking a question. [01:05:21] Speaker A: Yes. [01:05:22] Speaker C: Do any of the nations have a national anthem? [01:05:28] Speaker A: Do you. Did you ever watch the animated Jimmy Neutron. [01:05:31] Speaker C: Yes. [01:05:32] Speaker A: Show. [01:05:32] Speaker C: I loved Jimmy Neutron. [01:05:34] Speaker A: Do you remember the character Bulby? [01:05:37] Speaker C: If you explain what they look like to me. [01:05:39] Speaker A: Vaguely Norwegian exchange student. [01:05:41] Speaker C: Yes. [01:05:41] Speaker A: With like the brown bull, kind of. Okay. Do you remember how when he was running for president in the school, he had that song that went slap, slap, slap clap clap clap. Slap slap slap clap clap clap. Do you remember that? [01:05:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:05:54] Speaker A: That's the national song of Zedge. [01:05:56] Speaker C: That's the national song of all of Zedge. [01:06:00] Speaker A: No, just the orphanage Ro is from. So I haven't written that. [01:06:05] Speaker C: Ro is working on rewriting the national Anthem of day. [01:06:10] Speaker A: Excellent. [01:06:12] Speaker B: From this moment on, Zach is going to drive in his car in his commute, and he's going to try and come up with a national anthem. Now that Jack has brought it up. [01:06:23] Speaker A: The trees in the wood that's in the west are real big and tall, deep in the horizon. Anywho. And the party goes schlep. Does anyone take any sorts of watches or do you guys just. We're tired. [01:06:50] Speaker C: Should watch. Yeah, we should do the watches. [01:06:53] Speaker D: And I do my. I do my. My. I talk to my rock. Identify. I identify my. The mall. That's not mine. And then I. I wake up row. [01:07:08] Speaker A: Okay. All what you were doing on your watch. Excellent. So Greta goes slept. And Ro is awoken. My Abby will forget again that she has her mic on and she just goes about her business and talks to people. [01:07:20] Speaker C: No, she muted herself. [01:07:22] Speaker A: Oh, she muted herself. [01:07:24] Speaker D: Ro. [01:07:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:07:26] Speaker A: Do you do anything in between particular on your Walsh? [01:07:33] Speaker C: I ride a national anthem. No, I'm just kidding. I sit, I stay in the house. [01:07:39] Speaker A: Clap, clap, clap. [01:07:41] Speaker C: I. I stay in the hut and I just. I sit there and every now and then I'll kind of just shift. So I'm look, you know, so I'm checking all angles. I mean, I'm sure I'm just looking into the dark, but I'm just looking to see if I see any, you know, weird light or movement or sound. Okay, maybe a couple times I stick my head out the hut, just my head to hear. [01:08:08] Speaker A: And every time. Every time you do cold. [01:08:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:08:12] Speaker A: And then you bring it back in. You're like, oh, that's better. Dark. Well, give me a perception check. [01:08:25] Speaker C: Is this my first speaks and tongues? [01:08:27] Speaker B: No, I'm just kidding. [01:08:30] Speaker C: My first D20 roll of the session. Christ. [01:08:33] Speaker D: Wow. [01:08:34] Speaker C: Oh, oh. [01:08:35] Speaker A: Ow, ow. 29. 29. [01:08:46] Speaker B: I started watching New Girl and I forgot how good it is. [01:08:49] Speaker C: Yeah, it's so funny. Love, Max Green. [01:08:52] Speaker A: There's. There's just no other show that stupid and like. Well, no, stupid's not the right weird. It's just so weird. [01:08:59] Speaker C: It is weird. [01:09:00] Speaker A: I really like that. Like there's whole bits that's just like. If you're weird. This isn't funny. [01:09:05] Speaker C: You give me unapologetically match. [01:09:08] Speaker B: I think the one thing that made it really special. And I will be so, so short on this. Cuz we're in D and D. Is that quite literally they had so much room to improv and they would try to outbit each other. [01:09:19] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [01:09:20] Speaker A: So. Yes, ma'. [01:09:26] Speaker C: Am. [01:09:26] Speaker A: I cannot find a music I like right Now, I like your mug mic. [01:09:32] Speaker B: It's not mine, but it's a cool mug. [01:09:35] Speaker C: It's big. [01:09:37] Speaker B: Yes. [01:09:39] Speaker A: 29 row. Perfect. Well, now I have. Now it's really eerie. I have to put music. [01:09:45] Speaker C: Oh, great. I see a zombie. [01:09:50] Speaker A: Oh, no, no, I just meant that it was eerie because it was quiet, because we always had to. [01:09:54] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [01:09:55] Speaker A: So, Ro, as you watch, out of the. Out of the hut, it's just perfect. Still. Darkness. Just quiet and still. And it's. It's here in the dark that it becomes worse. You know, that, like, there's nothing to do. There's nothing to escape. So you're just stuck there with everything. With Bill Freeman, Plough's death, with Tello dying hours ago, with Greta almost dying, with you almost dying, with the horror of the Count being that thing, with all of it, with the violence. You're just stuck there. But it's peaceful, deeply peaceful. And you are struck by how hours ago this place was roaring flames and bolts of lightning striking the ground from the sky and a sword tearing it apart in 2000 pieces and slashing people. And now it's just still like it never happened. Your watch continues. Do you do anything else or do you awake Craig? [01:11:27] Speaker C: I think I go and wake Craig. I just sit. I just sit in the silence of it all. [01:11:35] Speaker A: Kebarg. You are gogan en rogo schlepper Canon Rosen. [01:11:48] Speaker C: No. [01:11:52] Speaker A: We cannot hear you, Micah. Oh, now I can hear you. [01:11:55] Speaker C: Oh. Oh, it froze that way. [01:11:59] Speaker B: Can you hear me? [01:12:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:12:01] Speaker A: Yeah, we're gonna hear you now, Micah. Yeah. Can you hear us? [01:12:07] Speaker B: So, no, yeah, I can. But the green circle was not present. [01:12:09] Speaker A: So I was like, ah. [01:12:11] Speaker B: Anyways, I'm going to say before, during the transition between Ro going to sleep and, like, me getting ready for the watch, I'm just going to kind of like pause, you know, because we do this all the time. It's a very routine thing, you know, what you're expecting. It's very habitual. But I think I'm just going to pause the habit of it and I'm going to kind of like, as like, I'm walking away. I'm going to reach over and, like, grab Rose arm and then, like, look at her and just not like. But just kind of like a hang, kind of. [01:12:46] Speaker C: No, I'm just like. I'm like, she's sleepy. [01:12:50] Speaker B: I do. I'm really glad you're alive. And I. [01:12:58] Speaker C: You. [01:13:00] Speaker B: I know that you were kind of a later addition to the party, but it. I. I don't know. I don't know what we would have been like without you. Probably not branded, that's for sure. But. But just want you to know that I'm so happy to be doing this with you. Part of the team. And I'm just really glad that you're still alive. [01:13:34] Speaker C: Something you don't see a lot from Ro. She. Her eyes both just start to, like, well up. You don't see her cry a lot. [01:13:47] Speaker B: And did the snow get in your eyes? Is it melting? Oh, no, those are just tears. [01:13:51] Speaker C: Okay. I'm. I'm. I'm really glad you're alive too, Craig. I. I'm. I'm proud to be a fun guy. It's just been a very difficult few days. And she just reaches out and hugs Craig. [01:14:38] Speaker B: He, like, bear hugs her. Like, I think that because he's so strong, like, it almost feels. Feels he. His goal is to, like, wrap his arms around you and like, it just create, like, a safe. Like, it just feels safe. That's what he's trying to, like, convey. [01:14:57] Speaker A: To lock, not to squeeze. [01:14:59] Speaker B: Yes. [01:15:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:15:03] Speaker C: She just kind of like, as tight as her strength allows her to. [01:15:09] Speaker B: And then, like, you know, whenever it's like, wrapping up, he, like, kind of. Kind of like pushes you a little bit. It just kind of teases you about. I don't know. Oh, I didn't know you could cry. [01:15:19] Speaker C: Like. [01:15:20] Speaker B: Oh. Kind of a thing, like. [01:15:23] Speaker D: Short orphan. [01:15:32] Speaker A: I'm so glad you're alive, orphan. [01:15:43] Speaker B: I think Craig is gonna spend the watch making snow angels. And he leaves the hut. [01:15:50] Speaker C: You leave the hut. [01:15:53] Speaker B: Oh. [01:15:56] Speaker A: You can go outside and make snow angels. I'm not. Dragon's gonna swoop down on you. I just mean, like, you could do that. I was just clarifying, if I understood your action. [01:16:09] Speaker B: You might be like, snow leopard pounces on you and murders you at the instant. [01:16:18] Speaker D: A snow leopard discount this. No, I don't. [01:16:22] Speaker B: Leave it. [01:16:23] Speaker D: What were they calling stupid? [01:16:26] Speaker B: Stay in safety and be responsible. I think he's just going to. I don't know. I think that this watch is tough. I think this is watching stuff. He's like, I'm bored. I don't know what to do. And I think that he's probably tying everybody's shoes. Laces together. [01:16:41] Speaker A: Give me a. Give me a perception check, right? For the. For the time that you're on watch. [01:16:46] Speaker C: Okay. [01:16:48] Speaker D: Ms. Earl is a mountain lion. [01:16:53] Speaker B: That my friend saying right now, Abby. [01:16:56] Speaker D: Well, because the last one was a tiger. Thank you, Micah. [01:17:03] Speaker B: That would be a eight. A solid eight. [01:17:07] Speaker D: Asleep. [01:17:13] Speaker A: I mean, you know, dark and snow and cold. [01:17:17] Speaker C: Oh. [01:17:19] Speaker A: Yeah? Yeah. [01:17:21] Speaker B: I tell everyone. [01:17:27] Speaker C: Ro doesn't have shoelaces. [01:17:29] Speaker B: I don't think if you have shoelaces, they're tied together. [01:17:34] Speaker C: Boss has little jingle bells. Why is the music bad? What happened, Craig? [01:17:40] Speaker A: Something moved. [01:17:40] Speaker C: Ah, crap on a cracker. [01:17:43] Speaker B: I wake everyone. [01:17:44] Speaker D: Stop it. [01:17:46] Speaker C: I wake everyone. [01:17:47] Speaker B: I wake everyone up. [01:17:48] Speaker C: We drip and fall. [01:17:52] Speaker A: What is it? Everyone trips over each other in a circle into each other. [01:17:59] Speaker B: You're kidding me. I wake everyone up. [01:18:01] Speaker A: See something in the dark. Move. Okay. [01:18:03] Speaker C: I wake up. [01:18:05] Speaker A: Row and Greta, you are awoken. [01:18:06] Speaker B: There's something moving in the dark. [01:18:08] Speaker D: Are my shoes together? [01:18:10] Speaker B: I did not tie your shoes together. This is not the time to tie shoes together. [01:18:15] Speaker C: I was. I don't wear it. Ro canonically does not wear her shoes while she's sl. Sleeves. [01:18:21] Speaker B: Put on your shoes. [01:18:23] Speaker C: Take notes. Zach's taking notes. [01:18:25] Speaker A: No. [01:18:25] Speaker B: Respectfully, put on your shoes. [01:18:31] Speaker A: Awoken in your stupor. [01:18:32] Speaker C: No. I ask her what? I ask him. [01:18:34] Speaker A: Where. [01:18:34] Speaker C: Where did you see something? [01:18:36] Speaker A: Got to give me a perception check. As you look out into the dark. [01:18:38] Speaker C: May I as well? Huh? [01:18:44] Speaker D: Can I use my passive. Can I use my passive investigation? [01:18:48] Speaker C: May. May I look? [01:18:49] Speaker A: No. Would you get in your perception check? [01:18:51] Speaker C: May I perceive. No. [01:18:54] Speaker D: I got a dirty 20. [01:18:57] Speaker A: Okay. [01:18:58] Speaker C: I said, may I perceive? I got a 23. [01:19:06] Speaker D: Oh, let's go. [01:19:09] Speaker A: Craig points out the direction of the hut. He was looking. And none of you all see anything. [01:19:14] Speaker C: Cool. [01:19:15] Speaker A: And both of you catch. Out of the corner of your eyes from a different direction, a figure circle off just at the distance of perceivable light and then back off a bit again into the shadows. [01:19:31] Speaker D: Okay. [01:19:31] Speaker C: Did you say perceivable light? [01:19:36] Speaker A: At some point, it's just total darkness. [01:19:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:19:38] Speaker A: Some of the light coming off to the hut goes to a distance, and a figure trails at the end of that light. Like. [01:19:42] Speaker C: Okay, so it's not like someone had, like, a torch. [01:19:46] Speaker B: Wait, I'm preparing. [01:19:47] Speaker A: The figure is shrouded. [01:19:50] Speaker B: My. [01:19:51] Speaker A: They're like, wearing circle, but was tall. [01:19:54] Speaker C: They're what? [01:19:55] Speaker A: Zach, do you have that spell slot? Craig? [01:19:58] Speaker B: No, we don't get our spell slots because we don't have. [01:20:00] Speaker A: No one's completed a. A long rest here. [01:20:03] Speaker C: What did you say, Zach, about. You said they're what? [01:20:06] Speaker A: The figure is tall and, like, wearing cloaks. [01:20:09] Speaker C: Do they look. [01:20:10] Speaker D: Did it look like a humanoid? [01:20:13] Speaker C: Yeah. Does it look like the rogue? [01:20:14] Speaker A: I mean. Yeah, like, definitely bipedal. Steps in and out. Looked a little bigger. Oh, the rogue was. Lift away. [01:20:24] Speaker B: Can I do command? [01:20:28] Speaker A: Sure. Can you read the details of command for me? [01:20:30] Speaker B: Yes. You speak One word command to a creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn. [01:20:39] Speaker A: What's the range? [01:20:41] Speaker B: It's about 60ft. [01:20:46] Speaker A: Give me a perception check, Craig. [01:20:48] Speaker C: Come on. [01:20:49] Speaker D: Delicious. [01:20:50] Speaker C: Come on, Craig. You see that? You see that thing? [01:20:53] Speaker D: 18. Greg. [01:20:58] Speaker A: I guess I'm gonna. I guess I'm gonna make a wisdom saving throw. What's your spell save, Craig? [01:21:06] Speaker B: My spell slave. I have it in my master dock. One sec. [01:21:09] Speaker A: Not the spell slave. [01:21:11] Speaker B: No spell save. [01:21:13] Speaker A: Not that one. No, no, no. [01:21:16] Speaker D: What? What? [01:21:17] Speaker A: The one. No, no, no. [01:21:20] Speaker C: 17. [01:21:22] Speaker A: Okay, you said slow, Micah. I know. [01:21:26] Speaker B: I did. [01:21:27] Speaker C: My bad. [01:21:28] Speaker A: Well, this person has a huge wisdom saving throw bonus, but rolled a two, dummy. [01:21:35] Speaker C: Not you, them. [01:21:36] Speaker A: There's Craig. Describe that spell casting for me with I assume is one of your last. [01:21:41] Speaker B: Spell slots, as he's. No, no, no, it's not. I used all my. I used all my level three and four, but I still have my one. [01:21:52] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Okay, your twos and your ones. Excellent. Okay, so describe this for me, Craig. [01:21:57] Speaker B: I'm gonna say as he, like, points to where the person was, like, automatically, like, self defense, as he's feeling very protective and very vulnerable, there's going to be, like, just a slight color of enchantment. And can I say, as it's working, the eyes in the dark on the other person kind of flash the color of his magic. [01:22:22] Speaker A: And what is your command? [01:22:24] Speaker B: Guys? This is what I don't do. Okay, Can I. Do we want him? [01:22:28] Speaker A: Oh, Micah, this is all you. Oh, no, no, Micah, this is all you. [01:22:32] Speaker C: It's just one word, though, right? [01:22:34] Speaker A: What's your command? What do you say? [01:22:36] Speaker C: One word. [01:22:37] Speaker B: One word. This is all you I'm going to say. Approach. [01:22:43] Speaker A: So Craig points out into the darkness, and his hand, his maker symbol, flashes from under his armor, and he shouts, approach. In the darkness. And out in the dark, you watch as two golden flashes of tupedum lucidum reflect high off the ground. And stepping into the very dim light from the shadow is a tall figure, broad, with, like, heavy cloaks around the shoulders and body. And as the hood is pulled back a little bit, you see a round face covered in orange fur and dark stripes, with feline ears rising up, tiger head and long, muscular tiger limbs with clawed hands. Step forward. Forward, out of the darkness. [01:23:29] Speaker C: Do we know this person? [01:23:32] Speaker A: The individual begins approaching closer, walking steadily and under the commands under. Under the command spell. They have, like, a sort of dead look on their face and are walking. [01:23:41] Speaker B: Steadily before I prepare my weapon. [01:23:43] Speaker A: Greta. Greta. And okay, Craig, pull out star Splinter. Greta and Ro, you both instantly realize looking at them, the hands on the wrist are facing the right way. Facing the correct way. [01:23:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:23:57] Speaker A: Okay, so there is like a seven foot tall tiger man walking out of the darkness. And he is huge. [01:24:05] Speaker C: It's not someone we know. [01:24:07] Speaker A: Thick, heavy fur, broad face. I mean every bit the size of like a Siberian tiger, but stood up into the proportions of a man. The, the frame on the shoulders are huge. And for a moment you flashed back to the Count's true identity. But then the hands are the right way on the wrists. And also he's bigger than the cowboy. [01:24:26] Speaker D: Are you wearing any rings? [01:24:27] Speaker A: And even through the cloak, heavily muscular. And is stepping through the snow, walking directly toward the hut now at a slow pace. [01:24:36] Speaker C: I still feel like it's giving us a little bit of a shock to see another tiger man, since we haven't ever seen one and we see two in 15 hours. [01:24:45] Speaker A: Well, I'm assuming that he and Boz are still asleep for the, the sake of things. Craig woke up you two. And then they're out. [01:24:51] Speaker B: Because, you know, okay, I'm going to call out into the darkness. We don't want trouble. If. Or I'm going to say, wait, command. We do not want trouble. Please state your intention. [01:25:06] Speaker A: Okay, I'm look at the details of command real quick. It's one round. So somewhere in these six seconds also. Why did the music stop playing? Do you still hear it? [01:25:27] Speaker C: Yeah, it's still playing. [01:25:28] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's just a little. [01:25:29] Speaker A: Okay. Six seconds in, the figure just kind of stops suddenly, looks startled and the brow furrows a little bit angrily, realizing it was under the effect of magic. And the individual kind of stops, realizing that they've walked much further forward than they intended to. And they like take a step back. And as they do, this really long, thick feline tail like half swishes around them through the snow and back. The figure reaches back and pulls a tremendously long bow off of his shoulder and holds it down. A long bow that like. And it's like got like gold tracing in the deep wood. But it. An arrow is not knocked. He just holds the bow and holds it down his waist and takes a step back in a sort of semi defensive stance. And out in through the darkness, you all hear a voice say, you all are fun guys from. [01:26:22] Speaker B: Oh yes, yes. [01:26:24] Speaker C: Of different voice. Wait, is it from him? [01:26:28] Speaker A: You are fun guys? [01:26:32] Speaker D: Who's asking? Yes, who's asking? [01:26:37] Speaker A: I need to know if you all are fun guys. [01:26:40] Speaker C: Who are you? [01:26:43] Speaker A: Listen Are you all fun guys? [01:26:45] Speaker B: Yes. [01:26:46] Speaker A: I need to know that first. [01:26:47] Speaker D: Do you like fun guys? We can be fun guys if you like fun guys. [01:26:52] Speaker A: I am here to find fun guys. [01:26:58] Speaker D: Yes. Are you here to kill some guys? [01:27:01] Speaker C: Yeah, we. [01:27:02] Speaker A: So you all are fun guys? [01:27:03] Speaker C: Yes, we are the fun guys. Who are you? [01:27:05] Speaker A: I am not here to kill fungus. [01:27:08] Speaker B: Oh, thank you. [01:27:09] Speaker A: Find out if you all are fun guys. [01:27:11] Speaker C: Yeah. Who are you? [01:27:14] Speaker A: Why would you cast magic on me? [01:27:16] Speaker B: Because you just got done from a big fight. Wait, guys, guys, wait. Hold on. [01:27:21] Speaker A: He, like. He, like, stopped, looks around at all the damaged area and looks back at the dark and goes, please. Oh, no. Yeah, that's my bad one. So you are f guys? [01:27:32] Speaker B: Yes. One of the guys that we had fight, fought escaped, and we were trying to make sure it was not you were not him. [01:27:40] Speaker C: So, yeah, we're in the middle of nowhere and you come lurking up on us while we're asleep. [01:27:44] Speaker A: The other person was also, like, a really big tiger person. [01:27:47] Speaker C: Well, no, but we couldn't see you that far. [01:27:51] Speaker A: And he gives you, like, a face. [01:27:53] Speaker B: Like, I couldn't see you. [01:27:55] Speaker D: Wait, can I do an insight check? Can I do an insight check? [01:27:58] Speaker A: I'm very sneaky. Yes. Give me an insight check. [01:28:00] Speaker C: There was a big tiger guy. [01:28:03] Speaker A: He puts the bow back on his. [01:28:04] Speaker D: Chest, like is this person. [01:28:06] Speaker A: He stops when you say that row. And he goes. There was another big tiger person. [01:28:10] Speaker C: Yeah, but his hands were different. Your hands are normal. His were like this. And she, like, holds hand this way, but yours don't look like that. Who are you? [01:28:24] Speaker D: He's joking. [01:28:26] Speaker A: Or like, yes, Abby, you could still. I've said yes to the inside check. [01:28:31] Speaker C: Who are you? Rosa. She stands up and she sticks her head out. The rose sticks her head out. [01:28:38] Speaker A: I can't. Oh, my goodness. One of you at a time. Wow. It's like coming. [01:28:43] Speaker D: I don't know about you, 22. [01:28:45] Speaker A: Okay, Greta, what were you trying to insight from this individual? [01:28:48] Speaker D: Who are you? [01:28:51] Speaker A: So from his mannerisms, you wanted to learn what his name was. What was your insight check for? Why did you roll a check? [01:29:03] Speaker C: See if he was joking for real or not. [01:29:05] Speaker A: Okay, this individual comes across to you as being very serious at the moment. [01:29:11] Speaker C: I stick my head out. Just my head. [01:29:14] Speaker A: Okay. [01:29:14] Speaker C: And I say, who are you? [01:29:16] Speaker A: He fires an arrow. No, no. He goes, he. He's put the bow back over his chest now. And he goes, I am Tira Jean Bona Fet. Do I know the fun guys? Yeah. [01:29:30] Speaker C: Yes. We are the fun guys. There's five of us. We're all here. What's up? [01:29:35] Speaker A: I will send you to find the fun guys. [01:29:37] Speaker C: By who? [01:29:38] Speaker D: Who sent you? [01:29:39] Speaker A: Who sent the great abjurers? Alondra. [01:29:46] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, we know her. Why were you sent to find us? [01:29:52] Speaker A: I was told you are friends of her. Anyone who's friends of her is a friend of me. [01:29:56] Speaker C: Okay. [01:29:57] Speaker A: I was told you're in some trouble, so I. I come to get you. And he looks around and he's like, it looks like you want to drop. This is bad. [01:30:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:30:06] Speaker A: You explode a person. [01:30:09] Speaker C: Ish. [01:30:11] Speaker D: I step out of the hut and I said, what's your name? [01:30:14] Speaker A: That's the most violent thing I've ever seen. [01:30:16] Speaker C: Yeah. Who are you? Rose steps out completely. [01:30:21] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:30:22] Speaker C: Who are. [01:30:23] Speaker A: I'm Girard. [01:30:25] Speaker C: I'm sorry. You woke us up, dude. [01:30:29] Speaker A: I did? Well, I. I mean, I. I tracked you all down out here, and then. [01:30:35] Speaker C: I was like, are we easy to track? [01:30:37] Speaker A: What's up with that? No. [01:30:39] Speaker C: Okay. [01:30:40] Speaker A: Really? Good. [01:30:41] Speaker C: Okay. [01:30:41] Speaker A: So I came out and then I was like, I'm gonna find the fun guys. And then. But then it was like a big purple bubble. [01:30:51] Speaker C: Yeah, that's my hut. [01:30:52] Speaker A: So I was. [01:30:53] Speaker C: You cold? It's warm in there. [01:30:57] Speaker A: Really? [01:30:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:30:59] Speaker A: Well, I'm supposed to get you all out of here. Oh, but the point being. [01:31:02] Speaker C: Okay, this. [01:31:03] Speaker A: This is not the subject. I was going to Vanu, and then there was a big purple bubble, and I was like, what's that? So then I started walking and I was worried, and he points to the exploded Dragonborn. That was you? [01:31:13] Speaker C: No, no. [01:31:14] Speaker A: And then I was like, well, that's no good. So then I was moving around and I was trying to figure out what was going on with the. All of this. [01:31:19] Speaker C: Understood? Okay. Yeah. [01:31:21] Speaker A: He like reaches a thumb up to scratch his chin and this like two and a half inch claw comes out of his chin and like scratches or out his finger and scratches his chin and he lowers it back down. [01:31:33] Speaker B: To go. If you guys. [01:31:34] Speaker C: Wait, where are we going? Where. Where were you sent to bring us? [01:31:39] Speaker A: Is. Well, I thought you all were going to be further away. Okay, so if is. I thought I was going to find you all closer to like a morning time, so. [01:31:50] Speaker C: Okay. [01:31:50] Speaker A: It would take a long time in the night to get back to my home, but I was going to take you all the way back to Le Bo. And then I have a home there on the edge in the deep recesses. And I was going to let you guys stay, rest for a while. You know, hospitality. [01:32:05] Speaker C: Okay. [01:32:06] Speaker A: That's what you all are in for. [01:32:08] Speaker C: If we. If we rest a Little bit. I mean, we could get there quick. [01:32:15] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, sure. [01:32:16] Speaker C: I mean, I could. I could zap us or fly us there. [01:32:20] Speaker A: We. [01:32:21] Speaker C: Okay. [01:32:22] Speaker A: Do what? [01:32:24] Speaker C: Yeah, like, me and that one, the sleeping tree over there. We could, like, fly us there. [01:32:32] Speaker A: That was green. [01:32:34] Speaker C: Yes. I mean, so am I. A little bit, but he's molding. [01:32:37] Speaker A: You can fly. [01:32:39] Speaker C: Yeah. If you turn into, like, a. An eagle or something. Yeah. [01:32:43] Speaker A: You are druid? [01:32:46] Speaker C: Sure, yeah. [01:32:48] Speaker A: Druid. I'm. I'm in a conclave. Yours. [01:32:53] Speaker C: Oh, I'm. I. She. She reaches back in a hut. She goes. I'm a. I'm. I'm. I'm with the plants and all that. But, like, I play. I'm a. But, like, I can do a little bit the plant stuff. But that was, like, flaming. [01:33:10] Speaker A: He's a druid. [01:33:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:33:13] Speaker A: I mean, we. We used to have a school here. Centuries, but. Yeah. [01:33:18] Speaker C: Oh, old are you. I mean, that was kind of rude, but. [01:33:24] Speaker A: But I'm in my 40s. I don't want to get more. [01:33:28] Speaker C: Oh, that's not. Well, I mean, you're younger than me. Okay. [01:33:32] Speaker A: Do you want. There were people for me? [01:33:37] Speaker C: Okay, understood. [01:33:38] Speaker A: Generations. [01:33:40] Speaker C: Have you been travel. Do you want to. I don't know if you'll fit in the hut, but we can try and make it work. [01:33:50] Speaker A: No, I'm not going to feel it. But you. [01:33:53] Speaker C: Well, I mean, it's warm in there. [01:33:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, I stay warm. Really? [01:34:01] Speaker C: Well, okay. [01:34:01] Speaker A: I'll sleep outside. Like, I can sleep in this. [01:34:06] Speaker C: Okay. I mean, you could put your feet in or something if your feet get cold. By the way, this is not flirting, Ro. This is sleepy, bro. Sorry, I'm reading all the messages. Oh, my gosh. [01:34:34] Speaker A: So he. Excuse me. I misspelled that. I misspelled that. Hold on. [01:34:41] Speaker D: No. [01:34:44] Speaker A: Sorry. Sorry. Chat. All right, listen, we're abandoning you for. For this. [01:34:50] Speaker C: There's a lot in the chat that I'm not liking. Okay. So I guess we're gonna trust you, and I guess we'll see you in the morning. [01:35:09] Speaker A: I. Yeah, I'm gonna stay right here. [01:35:11] Speaker C: Okay. [01:35:15] Speaker A: I'm really tired. I'm gonna go to sleep now if that's okay. [01:35:17] Speaker C: Okay. [01:35:19] Speaker B: Do you have anyone? Do you have anyone? I'm sorry. Abby just said something super funny in the chat, but I don't know if. [01:35:34] Speaker C: We can repeat that here. Highly inappropriate in the chat. [01:35:50] Speaker B: So I was wondering, do you have anyone, like, at your house? Like, is it just you? Is it. Who's. Are we gonna be taking anyone's room on accident? I don't want to intrude. Who you got there? [01:36:08] Speaker A: No, it's just me. [01:36:09] Speaker C: Okay. [01:36:11] Speaker A: You're not gonna fight me, right? We can just. I'm gonna go to bed. [01:36:15] Speaker B: My mind's. [01:36:16] Speaker C: No, you seem chill. Okay, you guys. Yeah. [01:36:21] Speaker A: Way out. Warning. When you go back, okay. I'll let you sleep late. [01:36:27] Speaker C: No, we. We're good. We don't usually. Okay, good. [01:36:31] Speaker A: Good night around like a battlefield. And he goes, you should sleep. You're going to die from. Not. People don't think so. But you can die from not sleep. You can die from it. [01:36:44] Speaker C: I've heard that. Yeah. [01:36:45] Speaker A: He know a guy. Okay. And you know a longer. [01:36:53] Speaker C: Yeah, we know a lot. [01:36:55] Speaker D: While Row and the tigers are talking, I very like. I like Homer. Into the bush, merge back into the. Into the. [01:37:06] Speaker A: He goes, my God, you're so funny. Micah make these jokes out loud, dude. [01:37:17] Speaker B: It's just easier to get a word. [01:37:18] Speaker A: In on the chat. Well, true, true. [01:37:20] Speaker C: Whoa. [01:37:29] Speaker A: Adam already was gonna say, so he. [01:37:30] Speaker C: Goes, oh, because Abby or Greta fused back into the hood. [01:37:34] Speaker A: If you. If you really know who Elandra is, what she look like. [01:37:43] Speaker D: I just. [01:37:44] Speaker B: I mean, Craig does not say that. Craig does not say Ro. [01:37:49] Speaker C: Ro takes her loot. It can. Well, no, she can't do that. Row describes her in great keen mind detail. [01:38:01] Speaker A: That's what she looks like, you know? [01:38:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:38:05] Speaker A: What's she always drinking? [01:38:07] Speaker C: Tea. [01:38:09] Speaker A: Okay. You know her. [01:38:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:38:13] Speaker A: But don't. [01:38:14] Speaker C: Don't make tea with these leaves. Okay. [01:38:18] Speaker A: What? What? [01:38:20] Speaker C: Nothing. We're gonna go to sleep now. [01:38:22] Speaker A: What did you say? [01:38:24] Speaker C: I said, don't make tea. [01:38:27] Speaker A: The flowers, these in your hair. You do. [01:38:29] Speaker C: No, they grow there, but. But you can't make tea out of it. [01:38:33] Speaker A: You grow leaves out of your head. [01:38:35] Speaker C: Yeah. Do you not see them? They're right there. [01:38:38] Speaker A: I don't. [01:38:39] Speaker C: She plucks one and hands it to them. [01:38:41] Speaker A: I don't know. That's okay. I don't want to make. [01:38:43] Speaker C: But don't eat it. It's poison hair. It's poison. [01:38:48] Speaker A: I don't want your poison hair. This is gross. [01:38:52] Speaker B: Isn't it crazy how you never, ever meet someone who can literally grow flowers in their hair? It's just so cool that, like, someone of a kind just makes. [01:39:03] Speaker A: He's, like, looking at Craig now, and. [01:39:04] Speaker D: He goes, like, wonderful. [01:39:06] Speaker A: I'm going to sleep over here. I'll wake you up in the morning. And he, like. He, like, lays down and he, like, flops the way that cats flop, like, onto a side. And he's huge. He's, like, seven and a half. No, but he's really big. I mean, that is a lot of muscle. And he's like seven and a half feet tall. And he just. Into the snow, it, like from next to him, he goes, good night. And then he lays his head down. [01:39:42] Speaker C: Ro. Ro kind of looks around, she looks at Craig and she goes, do we need. Does someone need to take Walch or Bro? [01:39:51] Speaker B: You can do that. [01:39:52] Speaker C: I'm just kidding. But I was already. I already took a walk. Can I wake up balls and just tell him what's going on? And he watches the rest. Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. [01:40:01] Speaker B: And then wake him up. [01:40:02] Speaker C: Okay, I thought you did. Okay, good night, Craig. And Ro, like, settles down. [01:40:09] Speaker A: Okay, Craig, at some point you wake up boss. And he goes, what? What? Sorry. Imagine this is a steam deck. What? Yeah. No, I don't. No, no, look, let's just. Why don't. Why don't we just call Alandra or. Let's go back to ports. Plenty songs. Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'll watch at the party. [01:40:41] Speaker B: It is. I'll do what the party does. [01:40:42] Speaker A: Okay. I'll do what the party does. Okay. And then you guys go to sleep. And then he goes, I'm going to sell something the party owns. And then. And then there's a watch. [01:40:55] Speaker C: Business moves. [01:40:59] Speaker B: And he's our band director. [01:41:01] Speaker A: And then an important NPC is called without consulting the party, and the session ends. And that bizarre, strange final note is where we're going to end episode 100 of the Adventures, which are accidental. We'll talk later levels at the end of next session, but everybody can go on a quick Brack and listener. We will be back soon. So life's an incredible adventure and you're like a big old important part of it. Okay, so, like skitty, what do. Yeah.