166. Land of Death

[00:00:01] Speaker A: Hi, and welcome back to Barely dnd. This is your sword of. In Dungeons and Dragons into the podcasts. And I. I am your host. This is Craig Dunley, sort of in a dungeon. [00:00:20] Speaker B: Dragons. [00:00:21] Speaker C: Yeah. You were suddenly Italian. I don't. [00:00:25] Speaker A: And this is the Accidental Avengers. And we will. We are so happy you've joined us. It has been a hot minute, the hottest of the minutes. And we are back. [00:00:35] Speaker C: Oh, it has, actually. [00:00:37] Speaker D: And we haven't seen you guys since last year. [00:00:40] Speaker A: Get out. I'm just kidding. [00:00:43] Speaker C: I was. I was sitting here preparing, and I was looking at everyone's. I was sitting here preparing, and I was like. I was, like, going over. Everybody's, like, volumes. And I was like, okay, 100. [00:00:54] Speaker E: 100. [00:00:55] Speaker C: I was like, I've got Jackie down at 80. And literally the moment I was thinking it, Jackie spoke. And then I was like, oh, okay, I need to turn that down to 75. [00:01:04] Speaker E: And. [00:01:07] Speaker C: It was funny. All right. Yes. We're back for the Accidental Adventures after a little bit of a hiatus. Thank you, podcast listeners, patrons. You guys have been sitting pretty because I gave you the last couple Legend of the New Ones episodes to tide you over. [00:01:21] Speaker E: So that was fun. [00:01:22] Speaker C: But we are back with main campaign, and we're excited for. But it's probably gonna be a pretty crazy session today. This is very random. But just as a quick little fun start to our episode tonight, I completely forgot that in Kastos, it gives us a breakdown of our analytics for the podcast over time. And I think Landon and I were checking that at, like, the beginning, like, you know, the first year or two when we were like, we'll get big. And I haven't checked it. And I checked it again the other day with a reasonable. A very reasonable guest. Because, you know when someone's like, guess how much money I made the other day? And they're like, $14 million. And you're like, well, now it doesn't sound cool that I made 2000 with a very reasonable guess. How many listens does. Do you think the podcast has had. [00:02:08] Speaker D: Like, total since the beginning? [00:02:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:10] Speaker C: Yeah. How many listens? [00:02:13] Speaker B: Thinking conservatively, how many episodes do we have? [00:02:17] Speaker C: We have a hundred. This is 166th episode. [00:02:21] Speaker D: Can I use 5,000? [00:02:22] Speaker B: 5,000? Wait, wait, wait. Don't. Don't. Don't say anything. I'm gonna say we have. I'm gonna say 700. [00:02:32] Speaker C: Abby finally discovered a calculator, and she's going nuts. Let's go. Dude, she was using a calculator. What do you think, Micah? [00:02:41] Speaker B: 7,500. [00:02:43] Speaker C: 7,500. Okay. [00:02:45] Speaker A: No, 2,500. [00:02:47] Speaker C: 2,500. Daniel. [00:02:48] Speaker B: I'm gonna up mine. 800. [00:02:54] Speaker C: Oh, shoot. [00:02:55] Speaker D: Hand and whiskey. [00:02:57] Speaker C: Daniel was supposed to be a surprise guest, and then I said Daniel out loud because his face is on the screen and my attention surprised. [00:03:01] Speaker B: Daniel's been here the whole time. [00:03:03] Speaker C: Oops. [00:03:04] Speaker D: I made the rest of the audience. [00:03:08] Speaker B: I was like, I didn't know it was a surprise. [00:03:10] Speaker C: Ah, dang it. [00:03:12] Speaker B: You could cut it out. [00:03:13] Speaker C: It's not poopy. [00:03:14] Speaker A: Cut it out. [00:03:14] Speaker D: Yeah, you could cut it out. [00:03:16] Speaker C: Okay, moving on. Moving on. I'm gonna make a little note to myself. [00:03:21] Speaker B: Cut. [00:03:22] Speaker C: Dan. Beginning. Oh, SpaghettiO. I'm gonna put this little audio clip on the. [00:03:29] Speaker B: I'm glad that you said the that, though, because I did not know that, and I would have said something. [00:03:35] Speaker C: Well, here we are. Okay, so we have our guesses. Big audio pause for Zach. No, the. Those are great guesses. The podcast has had 14,000 listens. [00:03:48] Speaker B: Huh. [00:03:50] Speaker D: But I was trying to. [00:03:52] Speaker C: Thousand listens. Also. Turns out the average listen for every episode is. Is double digits and sometimes triple. [00:04:02] Speaker D: Oh, my. [00:04:04] Speaker A: Are you kidding me? [00:04:06] Speaker C: Like, we're not, like, make money big, but, like. And our patrons are amazing and are very loyal, but I have completely missed the fact that, like, and, like, even our low episodes, we never. We never release an episode that, like, after a month, doesn't have at least 12 or 15 listens. And so, like, there is a very. [00:04:22] Speaker B: You're kidding me. [00:04:23] Speaker C: There is a very loyal, consistent group of people who are fans of barely D and D. So to those people. So sorry, I didn't know you existed and didn't check for four years. [00:04:31] Speaker D: We love you. [00:04:32] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:04:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I want to say hello to the. Yeah, like, well, because I. I did the math. I was like, okay, there's probably, like, I know my mom listens, and I know a couple of my friends. And so I. I was like, okay, what's 160 times 4? So I want to say hello, like, formally, nice to meet you to all of the people who. Yeah, to all of the, like, I guess, 10 extra people who listen every night, literally. [00:04:56] Speaker D: Thank you for being here. [00:04:57] Speaker C: I hope this feels like your podcast. I hope it feels like. [00:05:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I cannot be clear. I thought we were talking to an mp. [00:05:04] Speaker B: Don't be weird. Don't be weird. But, like, I'd love to hear from you guys. [00:05:09] Speaker C: Also, one more fun thing. I checked the stats on where they're from, so we have one listener in Japan. The majority of our listeners are in. Are in the US but we have a couple consistent listeners in the uk, so hello. And sorry if we've ever done a terrible English accent at some point. [00:05:26] Speaker D: Oh, gosh, you did a lot of. [00:05:28] Speaker C: Time with me saying it. [00:05:30] Speaker F: Abby. [00:05:30] Speaker C: And then we have one consistent listener. Listener in Australia. For real. So hi, everyone. [00:05:41] Speaker B: Hello, Robert. [00:05:43] Speaker D: Hello. Around the world. [00:05:44] Speaker C: All right. But otherwise, I just thought that'd be a real fun thing to get into before we got rolling. Does anybody have. [00:05:52] Speaker F: What? [00:05:54] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:05:55] Speaker C: Anybody have a letter? [00:05:57] Speaker B: I knew in my soul that we had an Australian listener. Australian listener. I, I, I knew you were there in a fragile. [00:06:06] Speaker C: My two favorite phrases so far tonight are, you know what? Zorgo won't see coming a news. And also, I knew in my soul we had an Australian. Those are incredible one liners. [00:06:17] Speaker B: I knew it. I knew it in my heart. [00:06:19] Speaker C: Okay, well, who has a. Who has a letter? [00:06:22] Speaker D: I do. [00:06:24] Speaker C: Okay. [00:06:26] Speaker D: If your character could visit one country that's in our world, where would they like to visit? [00:06:37] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:06:38] Speaker D: I feel like we've maybe done that before. [00:06:40] Speaker C: And who all. But who do you all want the DMNPC to be? [00:06:44] Speaker B: Oh, wait, I want it to be someone. Can we do Nam? [00:06:48] Speaker C: Okay, sure. [00:06:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:52] Speaker C: Let'S. Hold on, hold on. Well, I have the phone up there for. I can't check right now. Let's mix up who we start with, because we always make Jackie start. [00:07:06] Speaker D: Okay. [00:07:06] Speaker C: Okay. Very neutral. Let's have the person who got the most recent haircut start. [00:07:12] Speaker D: He knew I got a haircut. He knew I got a haircut. [00:07:17] Speaker C: That was so worth just hearing Abigail off mic. Go get him, Jake. [00:07:23] Speaker D: Oh, he was huge. [00:07:24] Speaker C: That's so crazy. Go get it, Jiggle. [00:07:27] Speaker D: Okay, I think, Roger, I think Ro would love to visit either, like, Ireland, because it would just be like her. She would be like, oh, you guys kind of sound like me, but not. Or, or she would like to visit. I think she would like to go to. Like, honestly, I think she would thrive in New York City or la. [00:08:03] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, No, I think New York, I think. [00:08:06] Speaker D: Yeah, I think New York. She would be like. And she'd be prestidigitating the street everywhere she walked, but she would have a. She would have a fun time in New York. [00:08:16] Speaker A: Spotless. [00:08:17] Speaker C: I think the other thing I would say is I think current campaign row would flourish in New York. Yeah, I think early campaign row would be get mugged and stuffed in a dumpster, you know, and that's just my two cents. [00:08:32] Speaker B: You know what? I think current campaign row New York. I think early campaign row Louisiana. [00:08:37] Speaker D: Yes, actually. [00:08:39] Speaker C: Yes. [00:08:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:40] Speaker C: Big agree. Big, big agree. [00:08:42] Speaker D: She would. She'd be New York tough, and she'd eat a whole lot of cheesecake. That's for sure. [00:08:48] Speaker B: Is New York a cheesecake? I didn't know this about New York. [00:08:52] Speaker D: What? [00:08:52] Speaker A: Sorry? To our New York. [00:08:54] Speaker C: I don't know. We're gonna get New York, Craig. Go get him, Craig, before Jekyll goes off for a while. [00:09:01] Speaker A: Okay. I was thinking about it, and I was thinking Craig would start off wandering the streets of. Of a city, and I think that he would have had, like, a nice night on the town, you know, kind of a thing. And then he'd see this big old stadium. He's like, that looks cool. And then somehow. Somehow he slips through the cracks and ends up in the ERAS tour, and he, like, ends up in this stadium, bypasses security without even trying. And, like, Taylor Swift is like, oh, my gosh. And then he gets on so weird, makes the tv, right? But then, like, then he goes home and, like, lives a regular life and doesn't even know who she is. He might. No, I actually think he would know, but he's, like, playing it off, and. [00:09:52] Speaker B: Like, you lost me there. [00:09:55] Speaker A: Being famous for no reason. [00:09:57] Speaker C: You lost me on Craig. Playing it off. You lost me there. [00:10:01] Speaker B: I'm confused. What was the question? [00:10:05] Speaker C: Well, Jackie said, any country your character could visit. And then Micah said, the ERAs tour, which Canon now? A country. What's Greta's country? [00:10:22] Speaker D: New York. And I'm sorry. [00:10:23] Speaker C: That's true. So there is no question here. Where does your character want to go? [00:10:29] Speaker B: I think I'm gonna say Argentina because it's really big. And I think Greta would, like. I think she would. I think the pump. The pampas are really beautiful, and I think that it would. I think that would be, like, her home. Are you laughing? Maybe. [00:10:55] Speaker D: He's laughing at what Micah wrote, I think. [00:10:57] Speaker C: Okay, so I forgot. Jackie sent a picture of cheesecake. Abby started answering, and she said, granted. Want to go to Argentina? And Mike is sitting. Chad, I want to taste that with my mouth. [00:11:20] Speaker A: I don't think it was even that funny. I think it's just funny because it's not. It's just cheesecake. [00:11:26] Speaker D: It's just. [00:11:28] Speaker F: No, no. [00:11:29] Speaker C: We're laughing for very different reasons. I'm sorry. What were you saying, Abby? I blacked out. [00:11:34] Speaker B: I think Argentina, because there's some big cities that I think she would have fun in. The pampas are beautiful, and I think. And then I think you can. Do they have penguins in Argentina? [00:11:54] Speaker D: Yes. [00:11:55] Speaker B: So I think Argentina oh, my gosh. [00:11:58] Speaker E: Very cool. [00:12:01] Speaker C: What about blahs? [00:12:06] Speaker G: Salt Lake City, Utah? [00:12:08] Speaker B: Oh, goodness, dude. [00:12:10] Speaker E: What? [00:12:10] Speaker C: Why? Why Salt Lake City? Well, we're clearly not following the rules anymore, just inexplicably. Salt Lake City. Okay. Landon's nodding with a muted mic. Fair enough. Salt Lake City it is. You know, I do have some really interesting. We'd have some really interesting interactions with Boz and a bunch of Mormons. I don't know what would happen. [00:12:32] Speaker D: I think he would upset them. I don't know. [00:12:34] Speaker B: Why aren't they, like soda somehow? Think that he'd really get along with Mormons? [00:12:40] Speaker C: Yeah, I think so, too. What? [00:12:43] Speaker A: There's Mormons so that. Don't they have, like, the soda. The soda businesses? [00:12:48] Speaker B: I would kill balls the same way that a Dorito would kill a Victorian child. [00:12:58] Speaker C: Guys, you're on fire tonight. Where would Nam go? This is a fascinating question because not to people is probably her first instinct. [00:13:10] Speaker D: So you talk. [00:13:11] Speaker C: I can see Nom. [00:13:14] Speaker B: Nom and N. Salt Lake City. I can see there. [00:13:19] Speaker C: I can see Non being really into Scotland. And I think we could find a hundred other appropriate analogs all across the world. I. You know, I think we could find. Excellent. That's just the one that comes to mind, probably because we're watching Parks and Rec right now. But. [00:13:33] Speaker B: To do with Scotland, they go to Scotland. [00:13:36] Speaker C: Ron Swanson, Lagavulin. [00:13:39] Speaker B: But anyway, Mongolia. [00:13:43] Speaker C: That too. Well, I think Scotland would strike a balance that non would like between, like, a level of society necessary to function, but plenty of. Plenty of open land where you don't need to be people, need to be near people. And an acceptable culture of don't talk to me, don't get near me. I'm doing my thing. And I think she would like that. Not to say that Scottish people all fall in that category, but the same way that you can sometimes get that in Texas, you know? So I think. I think she'd be into that. [00:14:10] Speaker B: So. [00:14:12] Speaker C: I think that's what I'm thinking. All right, let's do some. [00:14:18] Speaker D: Did you say some Murder in Dungeons? [00:14:21] Speaker F: Because that's. [00:14:22] Speaker C: No, but for funsies, while working too much as a public school teacher the other day, I was. I was taking a little break from critical role. I'm like two thirds of the way through campaign one, and I was listening to Quest for Refrigerant again, and I went back and listened to. I'm. I think I'm on. I just finished Darien Dangerous. I'm going into the fifth episode, but I was listening to the episode where Russell Russell kills The man and shoves his body in a toilet. And I just really forgot about that. And I was like, wow. [00:14:59] Speaker D: One of my problems as a player, I finally got to be a chaos goblin. [00:15:04] Speaker C: I also forgot about Gary casting everything with Circle, Circle, Circle. But Circle, Circle and Gudina was a mess. [00:15:12] Speaker D: Campaign was chaotic evil. [00:15:18] Speaker C: I think I've made up my mind pretty solidly in Campaign 2. If we need a break at any point, I think. I think we'll have like a return to refrigerant or something to this campaign. For my note taking nerds, this is episode 166 of the Accidental Adventures. Land of Death. [00:15:39] Speaker A: Great. [00:15:41] Speaker D: Sounds great. [00:15:42] Speaker A: That was a great. That was a great transition, Zach, from refrigerant nostalgia. Hey, you're gonna die. [00:15:50] Speaker C: Maybe it'll be fun. Maybe it'll be fine. Episode 166, Land of Death. It's a level 14 adventure. The date is 3488pb. And I believe it's cull the ninth. [00:16:03] Speaker D: Let me see. [00:16:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:05] Speaker C: If you want to look at the calendar, you can tell me what day of the week that is. [00:16:07] Speaker E: Jiggle. [00:16:08] Speaker B: But. [00:16:10] Speaker C: Because I think you guys popped off in the shop on the 8th. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. Dope. [00:16:21] Speaker D: Male. [00:16:21] Speaker A: Neck. [00:16:23] Speaker E: Yeah, my neck. [00:16:25] Speaker C: Excellent, Sue. All right, so I'm gonna. I'm gonna start off by giving you guys a little bit of a setting update just so we know what's going on as we head into the session. It's not going to be a massive. [00:16:38] Speaker E: Switch, but you know. [00:16:44] Speaker C: Okay. Also remember, I don't know. I don't know why this song is louder than all the others, but it always is. So if you need to adjust that volume on the left hand side, you. [00:16:51] Speaker E: Can. [00:16:54] Speaker C: As a little update. [00:16:57] Speaker B: My life hack or not being afraid during combat is just turning the music all the way down. [00:17:05] Speaker C: You've. You've mentioned that many times on recording. So you all have returned from unsen. I assume I have a little question mark there. I assume you'd go back to your house, but you tell me if you've gone somewhere else. But the point is, the party's probably left. But let me know if you're like, no dm, you're stupid. And we stayed in a hotel because we can do that too. But I assume you guys have returned to. To the house in Parsage in a pear Tree, and you've had a day to rest off the horror. And while everyone's back, you know, spells and hit points and all that, everyone feels like Death today, you know, battered and everything, aches and it's awful. You know, you guys feel like you got in a UFC fight and then a terrible hangover and then a car wreck and you've woken up the next day and the magic helps a lot, but you're not feeling good. [00:17:58] Speaker A: Great. [00:17:59] Speaker C: And you all know that. I mean, you have heard from Alandra recently on plans and you got a sending message from her earlier this morning over sending Stone, where she let you know that it was two to three days to the assault on Blackfang, depending on everyone's ability or availability. Because she's let you know that the manabus is gathering together a lot of different allies for this fight. You all are not the only ones. And so you know you have two or three days to prepare and that she would like you all to leave for the land of Zorgrim within The next, like 24, 36 hours is when everyone's going to start trying to arrive there. Because the key detail she has told you all is that no one can arrive at Blackfang. You can't get to it. It's not conjurable magically. [00:18:56] Speaker D: That's what I was going to ask. [00:18:56] Speaker C: That there are those. There are those five towers of the five Lich Lords that surround it, and that those towers are also surrounded by a massive undead army. So you don't want to just show up there, especially if not everyone's there. So the goal is to get people to go to the land of Zorgrim, travel to the tower, and arrive at a rendezvous point there so everyone can meet up strategically. Guys. And then begin their assault. So it's the day after the. The M Cor fight. You guys have. We're going to have like a. A kind of like. Like a little montage period. We're not going to get super into role play here, but we're going to have like a little quick montage of preparatory activities and things you guys are doing before you intend on heading off to the land of Zor. So what'd that party do on this day of rest and preparation? [00:19:56] Speaker D: Rowan, Greta are finishing up Enchanting Telo's bow or attempting to. [00:20:04] Speaker C: Oh, heck yeah. That's awesome. So. [00:20:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I have an ability that makes a weapon magical. [00:20:16] Speaker C: You do? I think it has to be a weapon you use. [00:20:20] Speaker A: Dang it. Yeah. [00:20:22] Speaker C: Non magical weapons become magical. You just. And then you hand it to him. Here you go. [00:20:31] Speaker A: My eyeball falls out. Here you go. [00:20:33] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [00:20:34] Speaker F: Micah. [00:20:37] Speaker C: Girl gets married and she gets edgy. But anyway, that was A joke. Didn't land. Moving on. [00:20:48] Speaker D: Oh, my God, that gift. [00:20:51] Speaker F: What? [00:20:51] Speaker C: All right, so are you talking to me? Yeah, that. The use of that gif was confused me. So, yes, in the home of Parsage, the party's had some time to rest. The consensus around Parsage right now is to kind of leave you guys alone. Not everybody knows what's going on, but they can tell that you're, like, busy. And the news of the fall of the Empire has reached town. And so there is a really weird energy in Parsage right now, where, first of all, it snowed more. You guys have come back to, like, 8 inches of snow, and things have gotten pretty cold and wintry, and they're still putting up decorations for the day. Days of last light. A lot of, like, small wooden lanterns with canvas sides to them outside of homes, and there's a lot of red and white banners and tapestries being hung on the side of homes and from poles, so the town looks festive. So there's this weird energy in the town where people can tell that you guys are really busy and probably with super important things, so they're trying to leave you alone. But also the town is like, well, okay, even the weird energy is itself split because there is a clear fervor and thrill in the town. The town's ready to throw the world's smallest parade because the empire has been overthrown. But also there is a real tension in the town, like, oh, shoot. Overnight, the empire is gone. And so there's in the news of the war as well. Having done that, it's taken some time to reach Parsage, but it has finally arrived. And so the town has a lot of energy in it, but they're trying to stay out of your way. And where you all are gathered inside your home with snow stacked up outside and the town quietly lazily going about its business with smoke rising out of your wood fire stove and the, I think I want to say Anatilia Jeppsum gypsum. Whoever the carpenter lady is, whoever the person working on your oven, even in the snowy conditions, she's continued to work, trying to construct it. Mr. Goober quietly, he's reading an arcane book on the side. He has been really studying up on his magic. That's what he's using a lot of this time for training himself. You all are gathered there and you have Tello's bow, which we're going to retroactively say that you guys have been working on for a couple of weeks in downtime. And you all have been working out enchantments, and you all have been slowly but surely trying to enchant it. You just tried to have it ready for the miscor fight. It wasn't quite there. But this probably your, like, second or third week working on it. I would like you all to describe to me what it looks like in roleplay terms as Jackie and Greta are working together on Tello's bow. What is that? What is the process of them trying to enchant it, which they know requires, like, adding physical inlays with melted precious materials in them, as well as spellcasting into the item? Does all that look like. [00:23:59] Speaker B: I feel like as Ro, you should describe what or you want to if what kind of music you're playing. But I feel like anything that Ro is playing, Greta's, like, just, like, hunched over kind of whether it's her row that's working on the inlays, but just kind of like, gently, like, swaying. And if she's not, like, working on something, she's probably just sitting and, like, swaying back and forth to the music. [00:24:26] Speaker D: I would say the music sounds a little bit like what we're hearing right now, but it's for flavor wise. I would say that Ro is using, like, her, like, deep magic in a way to do it. So it comes out very, very, like, ethereal. Very, like, lots of, like, just harmonies and layers and stuff going over it. She's. She's using soul mender to do this, I think. And in that way, sometimes when the. [00:24:59] Speaker C: Music crescendos, it sounds like four or five instruments are involved at once. And some of them don't even particularly sound like instruments you've heard before, as if it's pulling music from other times and realities. And as this master of her craft plays, little tendrils of purple and gold magic are, like, sort of seeping out from you and wrapping around the item. [00:25:18] Speaker D: And I'd like to say that, and I know, Abby, you can whatever you think flavoring wise for his bow, but I'd like to, like. I'd like to say that some of the inlays we're doing are, like tiny little gold specks along his bow, kind of like his gold freckles. So it's kind of like mirroring him. Yeah. And there's like, these gold flecks falling into place as she does the magic and what we inlaid with. And I don't know what else you. [00:25:48] Speaker C: Want to do, but yeah, while we mention those, let's go ahead and get our first check. I'm going to need an artistry check. [00:25:57] Speaker E: From one of the two of you. [00:25:58] Speaker C: On how you are physically modifying this item. You have a lot of time for this process, so if there are additional abilities or spells that you want to be utilizing, you can be okay. [00:26:14] Speaker B: And we have the help action, correct? [00:26:16] Speaker C: Yeah. Yes. You all are helping each other, so whoever makes the check is going to do so. Being helped. [00:26:24] Speaker D: Abby, do you want to do this one or me? [00:26:27] Speaker B: Can we metagame and see whose status? [00:26:30] Speaker C: You absolutely can. [00:26:31] Speaker D: Okay. [00:26:31] Speaker B: I have a five. [00:26:33] Speaker D: I also have a five, so. [00:26:34] Speaker B: Okay. [00:26:36] Speaker D: What you want. [00:26:38] Speaker B: You can do it if you want. [00:26:39] Speaker A: Okay. [00:26:40] Speaker B: Unless you're. Oh, wait, I have. Wait. Okay. [00:26:42] Speaker C: Zach, aren't you proficient? [00:26:45] Speaker D: Isn't that your proficiency or. No. [00:26:47] Speaker B: Well, I have a. I'm proficient in rumors, but I have a. A star next to it that says add hat. [00:26:56] Speaker D: Oh. Because of your drawing and. All right. [00:26:58] Speaker C: I think that's. Yes. Yes, that's true. No, that's correct. That's correct. [00:27:03] Speaker B: So in that case, can I say that I'm. Well, I want to inscribe words on it with gold. [00:27:11] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:27:12] Speaker B: Would I be able to use my artistry for that? Would you be able to use that for that? [00:27:19] Speaker C: Yeah, you can. [00:27:20] Speaker B: Okay. What would. So does that mean half of my proficiency bonus? [00:27:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:26] Speaker B: Okay, so five plus two. [00:27:31] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:27:32] Speaker C: Well, if you're already. [00:27:34] Speaker B: I'm not proficient in it. Oh. So I would just add two. Yes, I see. [00:27:39] Speaker C: Yes. [00:27:41] Speaker B: My own note confused me deeply. [00:27:43] Speaker D: Well, artistry is intelligence, so whatever you have. [00:27:46] Speaker C: So you can assign it to intelligence, but it's assigned there permanently. [00:27:50] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:27:52] Speaker C: What's your artistry modifier? [00:27:54] Speaker D: My modifier is a plus five because. [00:27:57] Speaker C: You have higher than Greta. [00:27:58] Speaker B: Well, I actually have a six. It just wasn't updated. [00:28:01] Speaker C: Never mind. [00:28:02] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:28:02] Speaker C: Okay, well. Okay, there we go. [00:28:04] Speaker D: We both have. We both have a 20. Intelligence. I know, right? [00:28:08] Speaker A: Jeez. [00:28:09] Speaker B: Well, then why do I have. Oh, okay. [00:28:12] Speaker D: Because you added half. [00:28:13] Speaker C: That sounds so. [00:28:14] Speaker D: Wouldn't you have plus seven? [00:28:15] Speaker A: So. [00:28:16] Speaker B: No, this is. [00:28:17] Speaker A: I have. [00:28:17] Speaker B: I have a. I have a 22 for intelligence, so you might. [00:28:25] Speaker C: I don't. I always forget that you used your deep magic boon to make yourself better at checks instead of actual DND abilities, you dork. So, yes, that means. And if you. If you can add half your proficiency bonus because of all your drawing experience, that means you have a plus eight to artistry. [00:28:40] Speaker D: Yeah, you do. You do the. [00:28:42] Speaker F: You do. [00:28:42] Speaker C: Okay, we got there. It took a long time, but we. [00:28:45] Speaker D: Sorry, we won't do that. [00:28:46] Speaker B: All the other. [00:28:47] Speaker D: We know our stuff. [00:28:51] Speaker B: As I'M going to use my calculator for the easy math. [00:28:55] Speaker C: I'm so proud of Abby. Finally. Guys, look at these dice. They're like stained glass dice. They're not actually glass, but they look like it. My parents got. [00:29:06] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. So cool, huh? If there was a campaign based on the new Knives out movie, Dead man, what was it? [00:29:17] Speaker C: I don't know. I haven't seen it yet, but that sounds awesome. [00:29:21] Speaker A: You gotta see it. [00:29:23] Speaker C: You're the seventh person to recommend it to me. [00:29:25] Speaker B: Get up, Dead man. I got a 24. [00:29:30] Speaker C: Holy crap, Greta. So what's challenging here is that you are using. You're having to use wood inlay tools, which you don't have a lot of experience with. Thank you, Daniel. Moving on. [00:29:47] Speaker B: Do we need to do a silence for Zach? [00:29:49] Speaker C: No, I'm just gonna leave it in. It's fine. It doesn't matter. It's kind of funny. I'm gonna forget again. Anyway. Yes. Anyway, so you haven't used some of these tools that far, and. But you find that. I mean, you are not a young person, Greta, and you have studied some rather incredible things. You've had a lot of experience at this point, and you find an unexpected proclivity with some of these tools. And so as you start carving into the wood, you find that you have quite an affinity for this. And you take that along with the hundreds, if not thousands of hours of your life you've spent scribing and drawing and cataloging, and you find that you are able to inlay this wood really quite well. It looks like it was done by someone who does this, and all of a sudden you find yourself, like, dang. I think. I think that's like a. I think this is, like, a skill I have that you hadn't even really considered for yourself necessarily. Like. Like. Like, I could be a carpenter. This is a thing I could do. And how are you. So you have passed that check. The inlay cuts look really good, and whatever you intend on inlaying here will fit the item. Well. I think we landed on rare as the rarity. [00:31:14] Speaker D: Yes. [00:31:16] Speaker C: So what materials, what thousands, gold, worth of material are you using to inlay in the cuts you've made and the reliefs you've made in the wood? [00:31:30] Speaker B: Let me get my. Let me try and pull up the fungi. [00:31:35] Speaker C: And while you are. While you're pulling it up, you're going to need a way to turn that material into a form suitable to enchant this item. [00:31:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:50] Speaker C: Jackie was making a funny face just then. Also, as people Are researching. Other people can be doing things if they want to. If anyone wants to mention anything. But you also don't have to. There's no pressure. It can. It can be the Abby Jackie show if you want. But it is also fine if someone else wants. [00:32:08] Speaker D: That's our theme song. [00:32:12] Speaker A: Um. [00:32:14] Speaker B: So a thousand gold pieces is. [00:32:17] Speaker C: What you said, a thousand gold worth of something. It could be gold. [00:32:21] Speaker B: Okay. [00:32:22] Speaker C: You could like melt gold and inlay. Could be a thousandths gold worth of a powderized gemstone. Yeah, all sorts of others. [00:32:34] Speaker B: Jackie, do you have. [00:32:34] Speaker C: You could melt some gold and powderize some gem and mix them together and put them in the. [00:32:38] Speaker B: There even an idea, Jackie, because I only have 80. [00:32:44] Speaker D: I. I have. I mean I have a lot of platinum that I was thinking we could use. [00:32:51] Speaker B: I was. That's what I was thinking too. Just because that just smelt 10 platinum. [00:32:57] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:33:01] Speaker C: I love making the decision off of what's a flat efficient. But I'm into it. [00:33:05] Speaker D: I mean I feel like that's what we would have done. Like we're like. We don't want to go asking the people around here for gemstones because they're gonna be really confused. I would be down. The thing is is like I have 200 gold pieces worth of chalks and ink. I would be down to like could we use. Well, could I use like part of this. The ink to like smelt on it to color it? [00:33:33] Speaker F: No. [00:33:33] Speaker B: Okay. [00:33:34] Speaker C: No, no. It's. It's not the ink at all. [00:33:37] Speaker D: Then let's do the. [00:33:38] Speaker C: Okay. How do you all smelt the platinum? [00:33:42] Speaker D: Are you taking it out into fire? [00:33:45] Speaker C: How. How do you smelt it into fire? [00:33:52] Speaker B: Duh. [00:33:52] Speaker D: Okay. I. I go to the store. I go to the general store. I'm sure they have a pot. Like we got some pots. [00:34:01] Speaker C: I'll do you one better. At some point it occurs to you, go find the blacksmith in town you're very good friends with and she lends you a small crucible. [00:34:11] Speaker D: That sounds better. [00:34:12] Speaker C: And as you put the platinum pieces into it, you heat it over the wood burning stove for a while. But it doesn't get quite hot enough to smell the platinum. [00:34:19] Speaker D: Yes. [00:34:21] Speaker C: Tongs you borrowed. [00:34:23] Speaker D: I'm going to. Hey, I asked. [00:34:27] Speaker A: I. [00:34:28] Speaker D: Anyone here have heat metal? Cuz I used to have it. I don't think that would actually work. Never mind. [00:34:36] Speaker C: Tell's nearby and he goes okay, well you all have already cut up my. [00:34:41] Speaker E: Crossbow a lot at this point and. [00:34:43] Speaker C: Some of us are singing a magic over it. So I really need to know that this is going to Work. [00:34:46] Speaker G: Work. [00:34:46] Speaker E: Because it's. [00:34:47] Speaker D: It's going to work. Tell out you have used to do. [00:34:51] Speaker A: Back in the old days. Yeah, we just lit a fire. [00:34:57] Speaker C: And then he says condescendingly to you as you hold the crucible over wood fire not hot. To smelt the metal. [00:35:05] Speaker D: Hey, balls, balls, balls. You have a lot of first flame. You got first flame power. Can you. [00:35:14] Speaker G: I'm not getting into this. I'm sorry. [00:35:16] Speaker D: Flame of yours to heat up this for us. [00:35:20] Speaker B: Did we go have them? [00:35:21] Speaker G: I think I can get it hot enough. [00:35:23] Speaker D: Even your flame wouldn't get it hot enough. [00:35:26] Speaker G: I don't really have a lot of controllable flames. I'm sorry. [00:35:30] Speaker D: It's metal. Okay. [00:35:33] Speaker B: Should we ask the blacksmith to do it? [00:35:36] Speaker D: Yeah, we're gonna ask the blacksmith to heat it for us. [00:35:38] Speaker C: Sure. No one else has any other fire spells? I don't really only boss. [00:35:42] Speaker B: I mean, I can. I can take heat metal and then. [00:35:46] Speaker D: I think I've had a heat metal won't do it. It's gotta be like. Because it doesn't melt metal, it just heats it. [00:35:54] Speaker E: Oh, shoot. That's true. [00:35:55] Speaker G: Yeah, I don't have anything prepared that would help do that. [00:35:59] Speaker D: Your first flame stuff Cam. Melt them out. [00:36:04] Speaker G: What feature are you talking about? [00:36:06] Speaker D: I don't. [00:36:06] Speaker E: I don't. [00:36:07] Speaker D: I don't know. You're always throwing flame around. [00:36:09] Speaker G: I don't know. [00:36:10] Speaker E: I'm sorry. [00:36:11] Speaker C: Pause. If you want to make a. An arcana check for me, you can. [00:36:18] Speaker D: Says Row in her accent about flames. [00:36:28] Speaker C: I think you're just thinking Landon, but let me know if you didn't hear that. Okay, Cool, cool, cool. We got a full knot. [00:36:34] Speaker G: I got a seven. [00:36:38] Speaker C: Total. [00:36:39] Speaker G: Seven total with a plus six. That's a NAT one. [00:36:43] Speaker B: NAT one, buddy. [00:36:47] Speaker C: I forget. [00:36:48] Speaker G: NAT ones are. [00:36:49] Speaker C: Boz, you go to consider the proposal and you go to consider the proposal and you're like, well, okay, what if I. And then the raccoon runs up and like bites your leg and sprints off into some other part of the house and you're just. [00:37:02] Speaker B: Ow. [00:37:03] Speaker C: And clears your mind and you're pissed and you just can't deal with it. So that's crazy. Robert's his name. Robert. Okay, Robert. And as. As he bites Boz and runs off, Shpagoober comes running by and goes, robert, we talked about this. No biting people. You're not going to get down there tonight. Keep biting. He's just like grunting after. [00:37:26] Speaker D: We have. [00:37:26] Speaker C: You go to the black spells. 14th level adventurers do not have any. [00:37:33] Speaker B: We rely on the power of community, Zachary. [00:37:36] Speaker C: And relying on the power of community, you, like, offer to pay. And she says, no, no, I gladly do this just for you all. And after more than half. Half an hour, and, like, parson citizens come in, like, oh, what are they doing? What are they doing? And, like, it's this constant, constant tension in the town of people being like, leave them alone, and others being like. [00:37:54] Speaker E: We have to know. [00:37:55] Speaker C: So you're, like, kind of, like, badgered, and you have to, like, throw them some tidbits about what you've been doing recently. But after, like, a couple hours, you have the smelted platinum. You bring it back to the house in a container she supplies you with. [00:38:07] Speaker B: Well, I. I can. I just. Whenever you have time. Can I describe what I put on the bow? [00:38:13] Speaker C: Yeah, that's now. So as you return, you are. You have the. The smelted platinum in hand. I'm gonna need one more artistry check from you to correctly apply this platinum. This is gonna be a much lower dc, but it is a DC Can I explain my. [00:38:29] Speaker F: Yes. [00:38:30] Speaker B: Okay. [00:38:31] Speaker C: And then we can do a check to see how well it turns out. [00:38:34] Speaker B: Okay. Okay, cool. [00:38:36] Speaker D: I think flecked in, too, right? [00:38:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Yes. So there's the gold flecks over it. So I. I think there's, like. I think on the. I had to look up a picture of a crossbow, but I think on, like, the base of the crossbow, where it's kind of wide, Greta puts four little lines, and she puts a little poem. She says, hate is a bolt twisting in our heart's flesh. Love will guide us into life and light. And so the words. [00:39:06] Speaker D: The words. [00:39:09] Speaker B: Love will guide us is, like, in gold. She used some. She smelted some gold coins to make that line gold. And then the rest of it is platinum. And then I think just kind of all over. She does that in Euncinian. And then on the rest of the hilt, Whatever you'd call it, she puts that one line, love will guide us. Stop. She puts it in as many different languages as she can. She's wearing her little glasses, and she just spends a lot of time sitting, carving. Little different. Like that little phrase in different languages. [00:39:45] Speaker C: Abby, that was amazing. Take inspiration, Abs. That was awesome. [00:39:50] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:39:51] Speaker C: I'm still gonna need that artistry check to see whether that. [00:39:54] Speaker F: Crap. [00:39:56] Speaker D: But I'm assisting. [00:39:58] Speaker C: You have advantage. And you can guide yourself, too. It'd be so funny. She gets a. She gets a dine. It's just. It looks like a middle school. [00:40:08] Speaker D: It's like. It's like the tattoo it says, like, Nowhere Gerts. [00:40:17] Speaker B: Okay. Okay, that's good. Okay, I'm gonna guide myself, Stinky. [00:40:28] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:40:30] Speaker B: Oh, sorry. D4s are sharp when you try and pick them up. This is. [00:40:34] Speaker C: This is the most foley like, like 1920s comedy. Like Three Stooges. [00:40:41] Speaker B: 23, 26. [00:40:44] Speaker C: 26. Nice, dude. Greta, you get done. Screw being an adventurer and a high priestess, dude. You're like, you should do this. You're amazing. You get done and it looks professional. And Tello's just like, over your shoulder. [00:41:01] Speaker E: Like, holy crap, I'm going to look so awesome. [00:41:06] Speaker C: And so, Greta, it totally works. You nail the inlay process, and it looks phenomenal. Also, as a quick heads up, did you say 10 platinum? [00:41:17] Speaker B: That's a thousand gold, right? That's a hundred gold. [00:41:20] Speaker D: You know, that's 100 gold. [00:41:21] Speaker C: Platinum is 10 gold. You need 100 platinum. [00:41:23] Speaker D: 100 platinum. [00:41:24] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:41:24] Speaker B: Guacamole. Yeah. [00:41:26] Speaker D: If you. If you don't have enough, I have time. I can mark it off my. [00:41:29] Speaker B: Okay, I do want to make sure. [00:41:31] Speaker C: We'Re clear on that. Yeah, I got you. Hey, hey. It's all good. It's all good. So next bit of the process, you all have successfully visual. You have prepared its. Its conducting items. Now I need spell casting checks from you. Checks with your ability modifier to cast the spell you need into the item. You're going to need to successfully cast Guiding Bolt in the item three times. And then it will have the spell enchanted. Because now that has the. The proper glyph work and conductive material in it. So it has the. The physical infrastructure to receive that spell. You need to cast it into it three times. And for that I'm going to need to check. Check with your wisdom modifier. Greta, you have to. You have to beat the DC three times. Since this is a rare item, you need to pass. [00:42:24] Speaker F: Oh. Oh. [00:42:25] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. Okay, so I know you're in charting it with Guiding Bolt. How many slots? [00:42:30] Speaker D: I think we said three. [00:42:32] Speaker C: Okay. [00:42:32] Speaker B: We said three charges. [00:42:33] Speaker D: Yeah, three charges. [00:42:34] Speaker C: Three charges. Yes, yes. Sorry. Three charges. One level per charge. Yes. [00:42:39] Speaker A: Is this. [00:42:41] Speaker B: Once Tello uses the three charges? Are they gone forever? [00:42:45] Speaker C: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is. [00:42:47] Speaker D: They reset over long rest, right? [00:42:50] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, they reset over a long rest. [00:42:53] Speaker C: That suck. If you did all this work and. [00:42:55] Speaker F: It did it once. [00:42:57] Speaker C: No, you are. You all are making a magical weapon, okay? And honestly, the quality you guys have produced in like two or three works, weeks of work and downtime is pretty. It's really a testament to your skills and magical prowess. Because it would take most people a lot longer. Does she have longer in the future? So given. Okay, so. So three. Three charges. Are you all trying to make this a plus one or a plus two weapon? [00:43:23] Speaker D: Plus two. [00:43:25] Speaker C: Okay. This is going to be DC22. You need to beat DC22 three times, and you can't fail or this fails now. You need to do that with your wisdom modifier. You have time to do this. So you are getting advantage from Roe, as in the enchanting process. And if there are any other spells or any other features or any other magic you want to use to aid in this process, you can. [00:43:50] Speaker D: I'm bartically inspiring her while she does this. [00:43:53] Speaker B: Okay. [00:43:55] Speaker C: Inspiring her for all three. Okay. [00:43:56] Speaker D: For all three. I use all three. All three or three bardic inspirations for you to. [00:44:01] Speaker B: What dice is that, Jackie? I'm. [00:44:03] Speaker D: So you get to add a D10 to each one of those as well as advantage 10. [00:44:11] Speaker B: Okay, so advantage a D10. I'm going to see if I have a Enhance abilities. Where is enhance abilities? We're gonna have a long rest before. [00:44:32] Speaker D: We go to fight. [00:44:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Can I have enhance ability as a cleric? [00:44:39] Speaker C: You can have prepared it. Oh, yes. It is a cleric spell. [00:44:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:42] Speaker B: Okay. Oh, well, it's just advantage, so that doesn't. [00:44:47] Speaker C: Yeah, you already have it. [00:44:48] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. Can I guide myself during this process or no? [00:44:53] Speaker C: On this one, I'm going to say no. And not to try to be a jerk, but because I'm going to say that you are sufficiently focused on what you're doing that you can't also concentrate on a different. [00:45:00] Speaker B: That makes sense. Okay. Okay. So there's the modifier at advantage with a D10. [00:45:08] Speaker C: Yes. [00:45:09] Speaker D: Can she use. [00:45:10] Speaker C: Now, if anyone else has guidance, one of them. Yeah, you could. You could use inspiration. If anyone else has guidance, they could guide her. Someone else could be guiding her. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Greta, I have guidance. [00:45:21] Speaker C: Okay. Craig is. Is guiding you with his magics from nearby. [00:45:24] Speaker B: Am I guided on all three? [00:45:27] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, I assume Craig's sitting here slapping you again and again with it. It's also. Also, in role plays terms, this is taking hours. [00:45:33] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:45:35] Speaker C: Taking the better part of a day. [00:45:37] Speaker D: You got this. [00:45:37] Speaker B: Oh, goodness gracious. Oh, man. [00:45:43] Speaker C: Like everything we're role playing right now is like the. Is the culmination of this process. You guys have spent weeks, like, mapping out the glyph work and getting in, procuring the tools and starting to carve. And it's been a long process. This is just the finalization. [00:45:57] Speaker B: I used my inspiration. [00:45:59] Speaker C: Thank you for letting Me know. Jackie, what whiskey are you drinking? [00:46:03] Speaker D: I'm drinking. It's called smorgasm. It's s' more flavored. [00:46:11] Speaker C: Truly regret asking. [00:46:15] Speaker D: You've seen it before. I have it. I put it in. [00:46:17] Speaker C: Moving on, moving on. [00:46:21] Speaker B: 29. [00:46:22] Speaker C: 29 on the first check. Ready? You smashed the first check. [00:46:28] Speaker F: Rock on. [00:46:30] Speaker C: Does do all of these mechanics help ground this capability and aid your NPC ally? [00:46:36] Speaker E: Yes. [00:46:36] Speaker C: Is this also just a reward for Abby being like have a whole bit of the session where you just get to make checks? Yes. [00:46:44] Speaker B: Oh man. [00:46:50] Speaker A: Oh. [00:46:56] Speaker B: I got a 21. [00:46:59] Speaker F: Okay. [00:47:00] Speaker C: You use anyone else? If anyone else wants to utilize an inspiration for this, I want will say I didn't. [00:47:07] Speaker B: I only rolled my. [00:47:08] Speaker D: I only rolled per diem. [00:47:10] Speaker B: I only rolled my I, I, I only rolled my D20 once. [00:47:15] Speaker C: Ah, okay. [00:47:16] Speaker D: Oh, you didn't do advantage. Okay. Oh, you got a Nat20. [00:47:23] Speaker C: Roll all your other numbers, cuz this could be a 34. [00:47:33] Speaker A: Oh. [00:47:34] Speaker C: Now just as a note, obviously usually you can't use your, you know, this isn't the most important thing. You can't use what inspiration for someone else's check. But you know, I was just gonna let it happen this once, cuz. Okay. [00:47:46] Speaker B: Okay. [00:47:46] Speaker C: And the last, last one. Okay. You could fail now and this could totally fail. [00:47:52] Speaker D: That's really depressing. [00:47:58] Speaker B: Guess what it is. [00:48:00] Speaker E: I don't know. [00:48:02] Speaker B: It's a. Another Nat 20. [00:48:05] Speaker C: Oh, good thing you're using the important roles now. [00:48:11] Speaker D: They are important. [00:48:13] Speaker C: Actually. This is, this is actually very important. Actually this is probably some of the most important roles you'll make today. [00:48:21] Speaker B: It was a 30. [00:48:23] Speaker C: Okay. That's crazy. Grabs. [00:48:27] Speaker E: Phenomenal. [00:48:28] Speaker C: All right. After hours of work as the magic. [00:48:32] Speaker B: Players, her hair is like plastered to her face. She's been like. Can I say that? Like she like. Because she's rolling at advantage. So that's like she's like, she's like casting or she's like preparing the magic and like doing everything to prepare. And then like she gets almost there to like actually cast the spell and she's like, no, it's not right. I have to do it again. So she like does it all over again and just like, just over and over trying to like make sure that everything is just right before she, she actually imbues the item. [00:49:11] Speaker C: Heck yeah. That's awesome. And after hours of work with sweat plastered your forehead with Ro Ro, you are also exhausted. You've been playing for like nine or ten hours. [00:49:21] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:49:22] Speaker C: Keeping all this. Craig, you participating in, in guiding Greta with your magics and supplications and with Tello watching with rapt attention. At the end, you hold a magical crossbow imbued with guiding bolts and a two weapon. Mark that on those three charges and the plus two on tele sheet. However you want, please do market. As a reminder, that is a plus 2 to the damage and to the roll to hit. So he has a plus two to both. He has the charges you can expend and Abby, whatever, whenever you want. Later on, go ahead and name this magical weapon you have created, and you will be the first. The first player in Barely D and D to make your own magic item. Really name. And we will. We'll. We'll put the details in his channel. We can even make a document for it if you want. And this will be a magic item that exists in the world. [00:50:16] Speaker B: Wow, that's awesome. [00:50:17] Speaker C: You've added a magic item to the campaign. [00:50:19] Speaker B: I'll think on a name. [00:50:21] Speaker D: Is it attunement? [00:50:23] Speaker C: It is attuned, yes. Way too strong not to be. [00:50:26] Speaker D: Yeah, no, I figured. But it's not. Hello. Is really attuned. [00:50:32] Speaker C: As you all are finishing this process. Not like, like 30 seconds after, maybe like an hour after. It's like getting into evening and it's cold outside. People are winding down. Nam has already gone to bed. Shipper's like, just kind of staying up with you all, like bringing you all tea, topping off like boz with some whiskey that you guys have gotten in town. Boss, it's not the best whiskey, but it's whiskey. And as you all are there, kind of like unwinding. Okay, understood. You've heard of yes and here's no but. And I stole that joke from Dimension 20. But as you guys are are like winding down and Tello is marveling over his. And to be clear, Tello is like looking over the crossbow going. [00:51:23] Speaker E: But this is incredible. [00:51:26] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:51:28] Speaker E: This means a lot to me, especially because I think this is gonna help me not die. So thanks again. [00:51:35] Speaker C: And as you all are looking over it from nearby, there is a really intense surge of energy and thermal difference. And actually it's probably a different sound. And as the dust like moves and there's like a little lower of bright white light. Also, I've changed the song to a song that is less loud if you need to turn it back up. But there is standing in your home, who you weren't expecting exactly now, but we're expecting sometime soon, a familiar face you have not seen in quite some time. Tall to everyone here. Not taller than Paz, but. But tall to everyone else. An Elegant woman with pale skin dressed in white robes. She has lovely noble tall features. Not incredibly remarkable, but lovely. And she has long black hair that is starting to be streaked with a couple white hairs. And dressed in her fine wizarding garments and her archmake's cloak, Alandra the great Abjure is there and no problem Lando. And so she appears and kind of startles everyone. And Shippa Goober has, you know what, he's drinking a little whiskey and he goes, wow. And standing next to her is another person you all haven't seen in a very long time. Daniel, would you like to describe who is standing next to Alondra? [00:53:11] Speaker F: Yeah, I think so. The last time like the person. [00:53:16] Speaker C: Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. [00:53:17] Speaker F: Good. The, your eyes form a right form around a built dwarf and man, this dwarf you, you don't really, you know, you probably met a lot of dwarves in your time but you remember this one dwarf who all who was wearing the same type of vest and had the same type of tattoos on his shoulder and they haven't gone. And he's just very different from the last time you saw him though because he has an air of like confidence I think would be the right way to say it. And like he has the concentric circles of a captain of the military of long ago now. Yeah, of Kev. Yeah. And he has the Damascus steel blue trident which seems just ever so slightly a bit bigger and nicer and like the ruby, I think it's a ruby of the sapphires. The sapphires inside of each of the little points seem to be just a little bigger. And he's got his vest on, he's got his trousers on and I'm trying to think of anything exciting. Oh, he's got boots now. He's got these like very like snow treading boots on. And encircled on his back is this huge. What's that called, what's that word called? Luminescent. No, that's not the word. Trans. Yes, luminescent. Yeah, luminescent. [00:54:49] Speaker C: Opalescent. [00:54:50] Speaker F: Opalescent, that's the word I was thinking opalescent shield. That's almost as big as he is and looks like it would weigh a ton. And he's got this huge scar on his left eye or his right eye. [00:55:03] Speaker C: I'm looking at the artwork. Yeah, yeah, his left eye, left eye. [00:55:07] Speaker F: I thought his left eye is now like extremely scarred and he's also got like burns all over his face and like his hair has ring grown over them but there's definitely a discoloration on most of his face. But he's got this like, golden eye now. It's like glittering with dust and stuff like that. And the last thing of note at his side is this beautiful scabbard. [00:55:31] Speaker C: Oh, shoot, I forgot. [00:55:33] Speaker F: Yeah, it's a cool scabbard, man. As long as I'm pretty sure that's. Yeah. There this time. [00:55:37] Speaker E: Yep. [00:55:39] Speaker F: It's. It's this cool scabbard of like here I have it written, I have it pictured. And then Zach gave it more of a beautiful one. Aha. Yeah, it's got lots of different things on it. It's got an axolotl on it, it's got a bird on it and it's got like this viney and golden dust on it. And it has just a plain looking sword hilt coming out of the top of it that looks like the military that he used to be a part of in Yazlan. [00:56:12] Speaker C: Yazlan. [00:56:13] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:56:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:14] Speaker F: It's got the eye. Yeah, it's got the eye with blood coming out of it. [00:56:18] Speaker B: Right. [00:56:19] Speaker E: Yes. [00:56:20] Speaker F: Yeah. And it's just a dwarven man who looks like he's been through a bit more than the last time you saw him. As you see Rondgrim standing next to the rest of them. [00:56:32] Speaker C: A person you. You hadn't thought about in a while. And as the magical energy dissipates, Alondra looks to you all. She has. She has bags under her eyes and a couple worry lines around. She looks like she hasn't been sleeping a ton. But she also has a very warm expression. She goes. [00:56:52] Speaker E: I'm here on business and I really hadn't anticipated how glad I was going to be to see you. [00:56:58] Speaker C: Hello, fun guys. [00:57:02] Speaker D: Ro goes up to her and gives her a hug. [00:57:06] Speaker C: She kneels down and hugs me. And you remember Alondra being very sincere, but not the warmest person. But she does. She hugs you. [00:57:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:15] Speaker C: You all have formed a very meaningful relationship at this point. And you also, when she hugs you, it's like a bit tight. And give me an insight check, bro, just for fun. [00:57:34] Speaker D: That's a 29. [00:57:37] Speaker C: Holy cow. [00:57:38] Speaker B: She's a book. She's an open book. [00:57:43] Speaker D: I read her mind. [00:57:47] Speaker C: You do a Vulcan hold on the other side of her neck. You go, I know, but you have always been a reader of people and this is someone who has, quite frankly, become a close friend of yours. And you don't have the hardest time in the world putting together from her mannerisms that she doesn't even look like she's trying. She has a very steady demeanor. She has the outer Shell of a diplomat always. But you can tell that it seems like she's let her defenses down a little bit around you all. And as she hugs you, you can feel that she's very glad to see you all. But there is like a. That hug wasn't just warm, it wasn't just friendly. She wasn't hugging you tight because she was so glad to see you. It's like a hug of relief, like someone who's been worn out or a little afraid, who's finally getting to feel some comfort. And so the hug is a little tighter than you're used to her polite formality. And as she lets go, she puts a hand on either shoulder and she. [00:58:49] Speaker E: Goes, it's been a bit, hasn't it? [00:58:53] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:58:53] Speaker C: And she puts a hand on each shoulder and greets each person. And there's five or 10 minutes of her being like, how did MI schools go? And just explaining, exchanging the pleasantries. And finally she takes a seat at the table. And Shipper's all glad to be putting the seats in the little notches that he's made. And he's bringing her tea as well. And he looks happy to have a role and a purpose again. And there's this moment as he's bustling about the house, bringing you all bread and tea and food where you all are struck by how, you know, his dream was to be like an epic ship captain. And now all he's doing is bringing you all food and he still seems like filled with purpose by it. And as all the light has gone out inside and it's getting quite, quite pitch black outside in the winter, he, like, the windows are shuttered and he brings like a couple candles. It's very dramatic lighting, actually. He brings a couple candles over onto the table so that you guys can see by, but it's just enough to, like, bathed in front of you with dark silhouettes and shadows creeping out behind you. And as you all sit, some of the most powerful people in this world just gathered around a regular kitchen table in this dinky little wooden house. Alandra starts in and goes. [01:00:02] Speaker E: So, about Blackfang. The time has come. We've gathered allies a bit more quickly than we would have supposed. And it turns out that some of them actually have time constraints of their own. So it's not too much to ask of you all. I've bought wronggrim. The woes of the well have finished a bit of their own business. And please don't lose him. They want him back. [01:00:28] Speaker D: But. [01:00:32] Speaker E: You, yes, no, you are remarkably resilient. But. [01:00:41] Speaker A: The times come say we're like a fungi, a fungus. [01:00:46] Speaker C: And she does like a little finger cross like that. [01:00:49] Speaker E: That's quite good, Craig. Yes, very, very droll, but so. [01:00:54] Speaker C: Oh, I'm watching you. She. [01:00:59] Speaker E: The time has come to hand. To the land of death. Obviously you all have a night's sleep, but one of infamy. Yeah, you all are of course, welcome to a night's sleep. I mean, it's not a command, but we all intend to arrive there and to begin heading to rendezvous point. [01:01:25] Speaker C: She pulls out a map she possesses. And I believe you all have a world map as well, but she. She pulls out a map of the isle. And I'm gonna send you guys this map of break. New map. Been a long time since we did that. [01:01:43] Speaker D: New map just dropped. [01:01:48] Speaker C: She pulls out this map. The design and shape of the island is. It's what you'd expect. It looks awful. And she starts pointing out with her finger that like there are these rock structures not too far from where the tower is. You could see from its. From its design and placement on the map that it's not intended to be very hidden. It's not subtle. It looks like the kind of place that someone could just easily put on a map because like, yeah, good luck. [01:02:24] Speaker F: Go there. [01:02:25] Speaker C: And so give me one second and I'm going to. If somebody wants to do some talking or a little role play way in, I'm gonna send you guys this picture. [01:02:34] Speaker E: So if you guys would. [01:02:36] Speaker D: I asked Ren Grim if he's. Do you miss. Do you miss the lighthouse life or are you having more fun out there with the rest of the world? [01:02:50] Speaker F: Well, you know, funny you should say that. I've been thinking of the lighthouse life. Seems like a different life entirely. But yes, at times I do miss the simplicity of it. Waking up every day not facing things that are trying to kill you and your very existence. [01:03:13] Speaker C: It is peaceful. [01:03:14] Speaker F: It's good. But not having a purpose or showing really doing anything to stop evil does wear on you after so long. So it's good that I'm able to help the warriors who are. I don't know if you've met them, but almost gods, I would say. Demigods to say the least. They're incredible. I mean, one is like the wizard who kills anything at the snap of her fingers. There's one who says things I don't even comprehend and understand. And one who has deeply affected the world with his own thoughts and feelings and relationships. It's really quite, quite amazing. [01:04:14] Speaker D: Well, I mean, we met Janice Quite a while ago and have had a few encounters with her since then. And they seem like a pretty great crowd to run with. [01:04:25] Speaker F: They are. They face lots of death, though. So, yeah, I'm glad to come to this group and face more. [01:04:32] Speaker D: Yeah, it's just a side step. Not really. Really. [01:04:37] Speaker F: Well, hopefully this one won't end in the whole town getting destroyed. [01:04:44] Speaker A: We try our best to keep towns going. [01:04:47] Speaker D: Land good. [01:04:49] Speaker A: Yeah. If anything, we're here to fight the, the, the powers of the town, the bad powers, but not the buildings. We like the buildings to stay there. [01:05:04] Speaker F: Yes. Buildings are important for towns to function. [01:05:08] Speaker A: How much do you bench press? [01:05:16] Speaker C: Inspiration. Phenomenal. [01:05:20] Speaker F: He takes it back for a second and he's like, I. I bench press to God. Oh. And carried him for like 10ft before he died in my arms. But he was heavy. I mean, I, I'd say like half. A. Half a trebuchet probably, you know. [01:05:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:49] Speaker C: As. As Craig is having this measuring contest with Rangoon and Craig, you're the buffest guy in a room and have been for a long time. This dude's huge. You both look like little bodybuilders. And it's kind of uncomfortable that you're like, yeah, they're like, you, you've come a. You've come very far with your ego. But it's, it's getting tested again, but a long times. He's a dwarf and his beard's very full. And you're like, but if you guys will go to Lauren reference as you're having this kind of measuring comment contest, like, and you're sitting there like, looking at your own muscles, like, my arms are bigger. [01:06:25] Speaker A: I'm doing that thing where I like holding my wrist and like pumping my hand. [01:06:32] Speaker C: That thing that guys do where they like, cross their hand behind their bicep to push it out more. And yeah, as you're sitting there doing this, Alandra is pointing out on the map and if you guys will go to Laura reference, there is the map of Zorgrim. [01:06:46] Speaker B: I hate that. Another beautiful map, Zachary. I do. But it's. [01:06:52] Speaker D: I mean, I love it. [01:06:53] Speaker A: Like, I hate it, you know. [01:06:54] Speaker C: Thank you. [01:06:55] Speaker F: Thank you. [01:06:55] Speaker C: I worked very hard on it. She points her finger and she says. [01:06:59] Speaker E: Your real goal here is not to wind up on the left side or the western side of the continent. [01:07:07] Speaker C: There is. [01:07:07] Speaker E: It's a very large subcontinent and it's very easy to become lost in a lot of the further structures and honestly, dangerous, dangerous features and topographies of the landmass in the far west in the foul Furnace they call the volcano. There's actually a great worm who lives there. And so you want to avoid that location at all costs because that would. [01:07:35] Speaker C: Be another. [01:07:38] Speaker E: Nearly impossible conflict that we would not be able to aid you in. But if you can end up in the east, you want to head north. And as the topography gets more severe, there is a bunch of fractured earth, really obsidian spires that stab out of the earth in horrible shapes very unnaturally. And if you can keep going up north from the. [01:08:01] Speaker C: I kind of lost your poise there. [01:08:02] Speaker E: For a little bit. You can keep going, going north from there eventually, if you can amass. There is a very large, prominent, almost a small mountain that rises up from all of these smaller stone crafts that stab up out of the earth. You can gather in its shadow to the east. It is a sufficient distance from all the towers that we could plan and rest there and then assault Blackfang together when we intend to. [01:08:30] Speaker D: Okay, okay. And your. [01:08:33] Speaker E: Your penultimate goal is not to end up in the. [01:08:36] Speaker C: What is happening with her voice? Okay, I'm gonna dial in here. I'm calibrating. [01:08:39] Speaker D: Okay. [01:08:40] Speaker C: Long week of teaching. She says your ultimate goal there. [01:08:45] Speaker E: There her voice is. I finally found it, is to not be in the far south. Do not come anywhere near the Bleeding Spring. It is terribly dangerous in its magics. But what is more, without playing too many cards that are not ours to play, Xavian's sister, Savina, who's also a warlock of the Hate King, has. They've informed us that she has become the Herald of the End, and that she is recently from the Bleeding Spring, summoned for acolytes of Apocalypse, for Horsemen of the End of the world, if you will. They are obsidian beings who were once lesser gods in their own realms, who Zogrim has killed, turned to his servants, and brought to this realm to destroy. We don't know their whereabouts at the moment, but do try to stay away from the Bleeding Spring. [01:09:52] Speaker D: So is Javian's sister. Is she the one that if she were to die, she would be the one to open the. You say that really assume that. [01:10:09] Speaker C: And Alandra sits back and goes. [01:10:14] Speaker A: We. [01:10:14] Speaker E: Were supposing many figures. We had not supposed her. I don't know. No one had suggested that thus far. I suppose that could be. We're not certain. [01:10:27] Speaker D: Yeah, I. I also tell. [01:10:30] Speaker C: Most of the beings thus far have been. [01:10:33] Speaker E: They've needed to be Neody in their power. But she has become almost celestial now in her form. [01:10:41] Speaker D: I just wondered if she summoned four acolytes of the Apocalypse that Sounds kind of vague. [01:10:50] Speaker E: What the intentions are from here, we're uncertain and are trying to quantify at the same time that we try to come up with countermeasures at the same time that we try to plan an assault. For now, we're just focused on trying to get to Blackfang. [01:11:06] Speaker D: I also tell her about the. Just the three questions I asked because I don't think I told. [01:11:13] Speaker C: I think. I think you had. [01:11:15] Speaker D: Oh, no, I hadn't told them. I hadn't told them. Cannabis. [01:11:20] Speaker C: She takes it in. She measures. She measures the input. [01:11:23] Speaker E: And she says, that's valuable knowledge. Someone we know. Well, that doesn't really clarify. It could be a reanimated shistha. It could be Savina, I pose. Could be a number of other figures. Cochrane still seems the most likely target. Yeah, but it also could be the others. It's very unclear at this point, if I can be entirely honest. [01:11:47] Speaker C: And she needs her forehead as she. [01:11:49] Speaker E: Sips on some tea. I'm not sleeping well. And it is becoming quite difficult not become paralyzed by the innumerable decisions and the impossible questions. We just have to commit to a decision at some point. [01:12:06] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:12:07] Speaker E: Even if it dooms us all so. Because in the end, all anyone can do is make choices. I suppose. I'm sorry. I might have lost some of my regular eloquence. I'm a bit at the end of my rope. [01:12:24] Speaker C: What were you saying, Ranger? My apologies. [01:12:25] Speaker F: I think Rangoom would pipe in here because he has some frustrated feelings about this stuff. And he says, yeah, and I believe she has made her choice very apparent. [01:12:40] Speaker C: Wronggrim in this moment, that you have to express your very reasonable frustrations away from people who are related to her. You know, people who have very close bonds. There is this kind of momentary satisfaction in the way that Alandra just kind of nods, you know, with. With no real other bias, no personal attachment to her. And you have this moment of like. [01:13:07] Speaker E: Yeah, that feels good. [01:13:08] Speaker C: Because she is just kind of like, yeah, she has. And she agrees with you as you say it. And Alandra carries forward with the thought. [01:13:18] Speaker E: And she says, in light of this, we ask that you all set out tomorrow if you can. I'm dropping wrong Grimm off, as it were. I have to re. Coordinate with other allies. We are again trying not to convene all of the Manabus in this assault, in the same way that we're trying to keep the wars of the well away, if this is also some horrible trap. But I myself and gumbertimp will be bringing allies together to Try and make this as possible. I've not come empty handed. [01:13:56] Speaker C: And she pulls out this elegant little. It's almost like a coin purse from her side. And it's an incredibly well refined and sleek bag of holding that's so small, you're like, how could anything be in there? And she unclips the silver clasp and. And lifts it up. She slips out a potion that not only shouldn't fit in the bag with all bag of holding, but even shouldn't be able to fit in the aperture of the front. And as she pulls it out and slides it on the table, she slips out slowly but surely. One, two, three potions. And they're this silvery glass with this almost gold liquid inside. And she says. [01:14:34] Speaker E: We are becoming quite slim on resources, and I give these to you as tools of last measure. [01:14:42] Speaker C: But. [01:14:44] Speaker E: To be quite frank, and we would appreciate if you didn't repeat this to others joining the assault. There are many who can die. We need you all to make it to Shiztha. So these are the remaining potions of Supreme Healing we have. [01:15:02] Speaker C: And mechanically, Potions of supreme healing are 10 D4 plus 20. [01:15:07] Speaker B: Whoa. [01:15:09] Speaker C: 10 D4 plus 20. She hands over three. And she says. [01:15:14] Speaker E: These are to use at your discretion. We would encourage you to not use them before you reach Shista. But of course, you all are very capable and can make excellent choices for yourselves. At this point, you all have probably seen more battle than I have. Well, probably not, but so they can be used with Shiztha. And if you are able to preserve them even beyond that conflict, though that is very wishful thinking, please feel free to use them beyond in what I'm sure is not the end of our. [01:15:45] Speaker C: Troubles. [01:15:48] Speaker E: With great labor. [01:15:49] Speaker C: And she, like, subconsciously rubs one of the bags beneath her eyes. [01:15:53] Speaker E: I've brought you something else. [01:15:55] Speaker C: And she pulls out another small vial. Rongrim, you recognize this one? This looks a whole lot like the one that Court brought to Janice and Javen. [01:16:04] Speaker E: She pulls out. [01:16:04] Speaker C: This one's quite small, like, only. Only about an inch and a half high. [01:16:08] Speaker E: Tiny. [01:16:09] Speaker C: And it has this very ornate glass receptacle. And inside is this fluid that seems to glow. [01:16:17] Speaker E: And she says, this is a potion of rejuvenation. Specifically, a potion of rejuvenation. Greatest rejuvenation. Use this in only your most dire need. They have taken months to make. I don't believe I would be able to supply you with another. Use this only in your most dire hour. And if it can survive this conflict, we encourage it to do so. But you all Judge it well. [01:16:46] Speaker C: And she explains to you that this is a long rest in a bottle. Then you drink this, you get all your hit points back, but you get everything back. Your spell slots, all your abilities, all your features. And this is essentially one of the most. One of the most. Jackie, I just saw your note message from the map. One of your most. One of the most powerful potions immortal could mean could possess on the material plane. [01:17:19] Speaker E: And she says. [01:17:20] Speaker D: Holy crap. [01:17:21] Speaker E: Please. [01:17:25] Speaker D: Did you just say pass and sip, Mike? [01:17:30] Speaker C: Everybody gets a kid die in a slot. She clarifies. At Craig's suggestion. She clarifies. [01:17:37] Speaker E: And she said, well, Master Dudley, I guess it's her Dudley. Now, as I've been informed by some of you. [01:17:46] Speaker F: It'S. [01:17:47] Speaker E: It's really only good for a single individual. If you're trying to divvy its uses among others, it would just not take effect. And as the person who worked over it, please do not waste. [01:18:00] Speaker A: Will not waste. That will go directly to someone's mouth and stomach and. And ability. [01:18:08] Speaker C: I was expecting a different third. [01:18:09] Speaker E: Thank you, Craig. So sorry. [01:18:15] Speaker C: She rubs her brow again, takes another. She takes a long sip of the tea. She drinks half the mug and puts it down and she goes. [01:18:22] Speaker D: So. But if I. [01:18:23] Speaker A: Something different in there. [01:18:27] Speaker E: No, I. I need to remain sober now. [01:18:31] Speaker C: And it's. It's like this fun comment and then like. [01:18:36] Speaker E: Need to be keen minded at the moment, but. Oh, is there anything else fun, guys? [01:18:47] Speaker D: Go ahead, Greta. [01:18:48] Speaker B: Go ahead, go ahead. [01:18:49] Speaker D: I was just curious if you're. You're going home this evening, correct? [01:18:55] Speaker E: No, but I'm returning to others. [01:18:58] Speaker D: Okay. How do you think, in your opinion. I know you're getting tired of advice and maybe this is a dumb question, but how do you think it best for us to get there since none of us have been there. [01:19:14] Speaker E: No, no, bro, this isn't a dumb question at all. [01:19:18] Speaker C: Dast. [01:19:19] Speaker E: Forgive me, I've. I can't believe I've forgotten to clarify this with you. No, that was information I was supposed to relay on. Sorry, I'm so tired. [01:19:27] Speaker D: No, you're fine, you're fine. [01:19:30] Speaker E: No, we do have important information. If you arrive very far from the land nearby the tower, which should be your goal, you can fly, but I warn you to be careful. The land of Zor Grum is every bit as awful as you would imagine it. There are horrible creatures which stalk at skies. Wyvern like draconic creatures made of shadow and gloom that fly through the clouds and so fly only if you must. Another reason that we hazard you to stay Far from the bleeding bring. Is that many of these obsidian souls? You've not run into many. [01:20:21] Speaker C: Wrong. [01:20:21] Speaker E: Grim's well acquainted. [01:20:25] Speaker C: They are. [01:20:25] Speaker E: They are souls of those who died in the skyfires and the hateful. And more specifically, in the hateful, but that Zogrim's hateful magic has made into beings of obsidian, and they wander the plains near the spring. Greta, they are much as those which you've informed us killed your friend. There are hundreds, if not thousands, scattered among the land we have found. As awful as the place is that there are frequent ravines carved through the earth. You don't get a good look at what's above you. But the few times we have traversed the land, we traveled largely on foot through those. But there's really no safe place there. Also, be careful. Lava flows are common in the land, and if you find tunnels, do not go into them. They are not naturally created. Well, not by geological events. Biterology. They've been carved by very large worms. [01:21:41] Speaker D: Once we get to Blackfang, are we going in that day, or will we be camping or anything? [01:21:52] Speaker E: No. Well, we won't really have time to camp, but we'll have a couple hours to strategize and speak and prepare. [01:22:00] Speaker D: Understood. [01:22:02] Speaker E: That was a phenomenal question, Ro. Thank you. [01:22:06] Speaker A: Zach, I have a question. [01:22:08] Speaker C: Yeah, Mike, what's up? [01:22:10] Speaker A: Those creatures would be considered undead in combat, right? [01:22:14] Speaker B: No. [01:22:16] Speaker C: No. [01:22:16] Speaker B: Wait. What? [01:22:17] Speaker C: There are undead creatures ahead of you in your future. If you're talking about Shista's forces, then yes. The obsidian souls are not what they are. Their own special kind of obsidian monster. What? [01:22:30] Speaker B: Zach, I don't think that's real. I think you made that. [01:22:33] Speaker A: I would have assumed they were undead. I'm glad I asked. [01:22:37] Speaker C: The souls trapped inside of them are souls, but they are not undead. [01:22:41] Speaker D: That's just depressing. [01:22:43] Speaker C: Yep. Yeah, they're a different kind of monster. [01:22:49] Speaker A: Cool. [01:22:51] Speaker C: Yeah, Absolutely. [01:22:54] Speaker F: Okay. Pica. [01:22:56] Speaker D: Stupid. [01:22:58] Speaker A: What? That was Jackie Landon's. [01:23:01] Speaker C: Landon's. Oh, wow. I'm giving Michael all the credit here. Jackie, that was phenomenal. [01:23:06] Speaker A: I'll take it. [01:23:07] Speaker C: Landon commented in the chat, rock can't die. And then Jackie commented, but it can roll. All right. [01:23:19] Speaker A: You think if we just make it into a certain form, we can, like, go to the ender portal? Go through the ender portal? Because it's obsidian. [01:23:26] Speaker D: Wait, if we like it. [01:23:30] Speaker E: I'm sorry, Craig, I'm not familiar with. [01:23:32] Speaker C: Get out, get out, Austin terminology. [01:23:35] Speaker E: I don't. [01:23:37] Speaker A: Zach said, return to role play. [01:23:42] Speaker B: Greta walks up to. To Alandra, and I think she looks especially Grandma, right now she's just wearing her robes. She's just kind of like. Her hair is kind of undone and, like, long, and she kind of like totters up. And she just puts a hand on Alondra's shoulder and she says, like, leans into it. She says, it takes a lot of strength to make these decisions, and you're doing a. You're doing a wonderful job, and this is all very scary, but I want you to know that I'm. I'm putting my trust in you guys and I believe in you. [01:24:28] Speaker C: You've known Alondra as a very poised person, and you are struck by how quickly and easily she reacts to those words. She pulls the mug in between her hands. She kind of slumps into her chair a little bit. She stares very deeply into it, and tears immediately brim the rims of her eyes, and she presses her lips tightly together, the least composed you've ever seen her. [01:24:50] Speaker E: And she just says, thank you, High Priestess Smallstar. Words of wisdom, indeed. It is hard, but you know. [01:25:07] Speaker C: I'm. [01:25:07] Speaker E: Quite serious when I say. [01:25:09] Speaker C: And she wipes a tear away. [01:25:14] Speaker E: This is an awful place to be, these moments, these choices, and no one should have to be in them. And I'm very glad that you all are stuck in them with me. And it's selfish, but I mean, it's. I really appreciate that. I had never imagined I would see such awful days. I had ever not. I'd likewise not imagined that those days would be so equally filled with wonderful people. So thank you. [01:25:45] Speaker B: Greta just rubs her. Rubs her shoulder like. Rubs her back a little bit. [01:25:49] Speaker C: Yeah. She does not fight it. She takes a of lot long sip of tea. [01:25:53] Speaker E: She doesn't say anything else to you all. [01:25:54] Speaker C: She just rests there in that moment for a couple minutes. And finally, after a pause, she says. [01:26:01] Speaker E: There'S really nothing I'd like more to stay in your lovely company, but I have another meeting to get to. [01:26:11] Speaker F: So. [01:26:11] Speaker E: Thank you for the tea. [01:26:13] Speaker C: And she brushes her eyes and she casts a little flourish of magic as she pressed to digitize herself and. And she looks a little more put together again. And as her hair realigns, she says. [01:26:24] Speaker E: Good luck, funguys. We'll meet you in the shadow of the mountain. Wronggrim. [01:26:32] Speaker F: Thanks for the traveling. [01:26:35] Speaker C: She smiles at you and she gives you a surprisingly earnest face. [01:26:39] Speaker E: She says to keep them safe. Wrong. They're my favorites. [01:26:45] Speaker C: And she stands up from the table and puts the mug down, and she turns and looks directly at Shpaguba and. [01:26:50] Speaker E: Says, thank you for your hospitality. [01:26:53] Speaker C: Shpaguba and he goes, you're welcome. She walks to the center of the room. She looks up and she nods confidently. [01:27:02] Speaker E: And she says, until we meet again, Fungus. [01:27:07] Speaker C: And with excellent skill and expertise, she rapidly moves out the glyphs for teleport and speaks a word of confidence and disappears. And you all are left there. [01:27:28] Speaker F: I think I would in the midst of this just like go over to Spookoober and be like quartermaster. You've done well. I've enjoyed all the drinks that you've given tonight. I also agree. [01:27:39] Speaker C: I've heard about you. [01:27:41] Speaker F: Hi. [01:27:42] Speaker C: You don't have to speak so far. Like to me, I'm Specuber. And he holds out the softest little dwarf hand you've ever seen. [01:27:50] Speaker F: Hello. Good to see you. [01:27:52] Speaker C: I think you're round grim, right? [01:27:55] Speaker F: Yes, yes I am. [01:27:56] Speaker C: We had the briefest of interactions when I docked our ship at your isle, but it was very short. I stay down the ship mostly. You look good. You've. I mean, I don't know what your workout routine is, but it's working. [01:28:12] Speaker F: I. I wouldn't recommend it, but thank you, I appreciate. [01:28:15] Speaker C: That's probably true. No, if you're anything like my fun guys, that's probably true. Craig, you and him should work out together. And he points at you. Craig. [01:28:22] Speaker F: I would love to. You know, Craig does look like kind. [01:28:25] Speaker C: Of similar strength, you know. [01:28:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess I bet I can address him. [01:28:34] Speaker C: He gives the warmest smile to Greg and then he gives this super quick little look to row like I know what I'm doing. And then he goes back to talking and he goes, but were you needing something, Mr. Round Green? [01:28:48] Speaker F: I mean, I haven't had a good a piece of hardtack in a long time. If you have any laying around, just let me know. I'll devour it. [01:28:59] Speaker C: In a truly bizarre moment of irony, I actually don't. I did on my ship. But actually what I have are a lot of like, good foods. Would you like a different kind of bread? Give me a little bit. Okay, I'll throw it together for you. [01:29:24] Speaker B: And I say to. Oh God. [01:29:27] Speaker C: Oh, girl. [01:29:29] Speaker B: You say the wrong gun. I say, I just. I was talking to your friend the other day. I called him up and he visited really fast. Nifty. [01:29:38] Speaker F: Oh, the one on the island? [01:29:41] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:29:42] Speaker F: How is he doing? [01:29:45] Speaker B: He seems to be doing okay. [01:29:47] Speaker F: That's good. I was hoping he wasn't. [01:29:49] Speaker B: Everyone's a little stressed. [01:29:52] Speaker F: Oh yeah, yeah. The heralds of death coming to the world really does put a strain on the whole relationships Aspect of things. But you seem fine. You look great from the last time I saw you. [01:30:05] Speaker B: Thank you. You look great too. How are you enjoying life on the road? [01:30:12] Speaker F: Oh, it's just. Well, it's been harrowing the past few days and weeks, but other than that, it's been good, you know. [01:30:22] Speaker B: How did you get involved with the warriors of the well? [01:30:26] Speaker F: Well, you see, our mutual friend, I told him I'd like to be of actual importance once more. And so I asked him if I could. He took me to a. He took me to a wellspring. I entered and I then joined the warriors after he pooped me over there. Lots of traveling by the method I just did. [01:30:58] Speaker C: It's. [01:30:59] Speaker F: I've gotten used to it now. Now I haven't thrown up in a while from the transportation, but you know, we were. We were in the Bitterlands for a while with we Woo's family. [01:31:11] Speaker D: Oh, in the Bitterlands? [01:31:13] Speaker F: Oh, yes. Mightily cold. Colder than any wind on the ship I've ever been on. And then. Well, there's a lot of things that happened, you know. Some of them I think Xavian wouldn't like me to express unless he expresses it. [01:31:30] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:31:33] Speaker F: Janice just coming into her own, you know. She's like, you know, one of the most powerful casters I've ever seen. I'm sure you are all high caliber as well, but man, she doesn't understand how powerful she is, I don't think. And UEG is a. [01:31:54] Speaker B: A. [01:31:55] Speaker F: A joyous face to see. And I've used a trebuchet to kill a Draco Hydra. That was exciting me. And we will push that. [01:32:05] Speaker C: You guys don't know what any of those words mean. [01:32:08] Speaker D: Rose face. Rose kind of like nodding, but she's. [01:32:12] Speaker B: Like knowledge, domain book. [01:32:15] Speaker C: Actually, I. Greta would probably know what a term she is, but. [01:32:18] Speaker A: Friend. [01:32:18] Speaker B: Grim. [01:32:19] Speaker A: I'm curious. Through all of your adventures, do you work out every day. [01:32:27] Speaker B: Michael. [01:32:29] Speaker F: Craig. [01:32:30] Speaker D: Craig. Craig and I do. Don't we. Craig. I work out with him and Ro like shows off her arm and it's like. [01:32:37] Speaker A: It's. [01:32:37] Speaker D: It's nothing. There is nothing there. Like a little something. [01:32:42] Speaker A: There's gotta be a little something. Scientifically and physically, there's gotta be a little something. [01:32:48] Speaker F: I mean, there's persistence. Persistence is half the battle. You know, I. I do work out every other day. I think with we Woo Wee Woo is. She's a maniac when it comes to working out, but we enjoy a few spas and fights and everything else. Do you work out, Craig? It seems like. [01:33:12] Speaker A: So I was gonna Say if you stuck around a little bit longer, then we could. I. I work out with you. [01:33:29] Speaker F: I would. I would. There would be nothing better than to. To have a workout date with you, my friend. I think that would be. [01:33:36] Speaker A: It's not a date. [01:33:38] Speaker F: Oh, yes, of course. [01:33:39] Speaker D: Yes, of course. [01:33:45] Speaker A: He was kind of, like, hoping for, like, a bromance moment of, like, friendship, but, like, hated that he was that, like, obvious. So he, like, turns kind of. [01:33:56] Speaker F: Yeah. [01:34:00] Speaker A: But that guy thing where you. [01:34:01] Speaker C: Were like, oh, no, I've showed affection. [01:34:04] Speaker A: I might be there. [01:34:06] Speaker F: Oh. [01:34:06] Speaker A: And I. [01:34:06] Speaker F: Like, what time? [01:34:09] Speaker A: I don't know. Just. I wake up. So I. Whenever I wake up, if you're there, then I'll. I'll join. [01:34:15] Speaker F: Sounds good. I'll see you in the morning. [01:34:19] Speaker A: The rest of you, it just might happen. [01:34:23] Speaker F: Of course, of course. [01:34:24] Speaker C: Like. [01:34:28] Speaker A: Someone else. [01:34:30] Speaker F: You have. [01:34:31] Speaker D: You. You have gold on you like we do now. All of us have, like. You got some gold. [01:34:43] Speaker F: Do I? [01:34:44] Speaker D: Do you? Don't you? Didn't you say you did? Am I crazy? [01:34:47] Speaker F: Oh, yeah. [01:34:48] Speaker D: Okay. [01:34:48] Speaker C: He's. [01:34:49] Speaker F: With a knowing nod and a bit. [01:34:50] Speaker C: Of a smirk, he looks at you. [01:34:52] Speaker F: And he's just like, yeah. Yes, I. I have touched the Maker and its magical powers in incredible ways. And then he just kind of, like, silently looks off in the distance, looks up for a little bit, looks down at his hands, and then he goes on. He says, are you all followers of the maker and viewers of the power that he gives? [01:35:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I am. [01:35:22] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Craig's a. Craig. That's. [01:35:25] Speaker A: You're like, did you just call me Craigie? [01:35:28] Speaker D: No, I said Craig is. I said Craig. [01:35:34] Speaker C: I do believe I heard Craig. [01:35:37] Speaker D: You. [01:35:38] Speaker F: You. [01:35:38] Speaker A: You insulted me with that. [01:35:41] Speaker C: Tello leans over from where he is in the next room, sleeping on his tea, and he goes, you want to be called Greggy now? [01:35:49] Speaker A: No, backtrack. I'm just gonna answer the question that was asked before that. I, I. The Maker and I are buds. I talk to him sometimes, and he talks back. Sometimes he doesn't. [01:36:02] Speaker C: Is that so? [01:36:04] Speaker D: Yeah, I talked to him like, ish. [01:36:10] Speaker F: I have many questions about the Maker. Do y' all by chance have to. Or something about doctrines or ideas about him or something? I was. I was asking this terribly strong and terrifying man on a boat the other day about it, but he gave me only vague generalities and hatred of gods and all that. But he said there should be something somewhere, but I just haven't found it. [01:36:39] Speaker D: Greta might can help you out there. She's like, knowledge God lady. [01:36:46] Speaker B: So dm, correct me if I'M overstepping the powers of my item. But Greta pulls out her incoatrum, and she just kind of flips it open and flips to, like, a page about the Maker. And am I correct that I can look through all of my past notes? [01:37:04] Speaker C: It possesses all of your notes and knowledge. [01:37:07] Speaker B: Okay, okay. [01:37:12] Speaker C: But everything that Greta would have compiled could be written there, whatever she had. Yeah. [01:37:16] Speaker B: And I imagine that she writes about. She's like, in downtime. That's probably an activity, if I can say that, that she's just adding to her notes about it. And she definitely would have recorded. [01:37:32] Speaker C: This flexible metal book is open in front of you, and Greta's old hands nimbly, deftly, move through it and move to pages where there are scripts in her text, where, like, there are, like, images that will move on the page in response to her in dense, careful shorthand. And she has a bunch of notes that appear to be from her own knowledge and experience about what she's learned about the maker, including, like, little notes on a temple she found and sketches and diagrams and all sorts of things. Sorry. Please continue, Abby. [01:37:59] Speaker B: Can I make a check? Maybe rumors or maybe just a history check if. If she would know if such a text exists? [01:38:10] Speaker C: You can give me a history check. And while we're at it, what I'll say is I don't want to cut this short because I do love the inner character roleplay. I. For the sake of logistics, I will need us to be arriving where we're headed soon. But. [01:38:22] Speaker B: But. [01:38:22] Speaker D: But. [01:38:22] Speaker C: But I do love this, and I don't want to cut it short. [01:38:25] Speaker B: Okay. Thank you for. [01:38:28] Speaker C: I got you, dude. Trying to be more proactive about that. [01:38:31] Speaker B: We got a 28. [01:38:34] Speaker C: Holy cow. Greta, you do know of a land in the far south called Chaskin, and you've heard about it a bit from your allies, you've heard a bit. A bit from lore, and you are aware that while there are some scattered ruins of elder societies from the Elder Age and from the Platinum from the Platinum Age, you aware that there are probably ruins scattered around Yala, but in uncommon places, but that in Tjoskin specifically, you actually heard from Janus one time that they found an entire intact city. Well, no, intact is very much the wrong word, but not double and rust, not dust and rubble, and that there were some texts there and that for a society at the time, that would. [01:39:17] Speaker E: Have been so tough. [01:39:18] Speaker C: Very aware of the Maker and would have had such vast libraries of arcane insight and history and religion, you know, were someone to travel there, they might Be able to find some robust text and lore. But you're also that. That's kind of all you know on the subject. You would just. You would reason that. Were texts to be found somewhere. They could probably be fine there. [01:39:44] Speaker B: Okay. I share this. [01:39:46] Speaker F: Okay. Thank you so much, Greta. I. I will put that on my list. After we save the world to go find this place. [01:39:59] Speaker B: Greta kind of perks up, and she says, if you. I'd love to go with you if you. If you make the trip. Just. That sounds. [01:40:07] Speaker F: Yeah, I love to have people go with us. Oh, let's. Let's make it a fun guy adventure after, shall we? [01:40:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Just give me a call if you decide to go. [01:40:18] Speaker F: I will definitely have someone call you. [01:40:20] Speaker C: I. [01:40:21] Speaker B: Okay. [01:40:22] Speaker F: I. I am. I look towards Craig a little bit, and then I look like, giving a side eye. I'm like. I'm not as magically inclined as most of you. I really just hit things very hard. Sure. Very much like Craig here, but not nearly as good, apparently. I just kind of, like, give a little. A little side eye and just be like, I'd love to. I don't. I, like, look at Boz, and I'm like, I don't believe I met Boz last time the rest of you were there, but I didn't. I heard the name, but I never put a face to it. Yeah. [01:40:59] Speaker G: Yeah. I don't think I was there. It's nice to meet you. Welcome to the team. [01:41:03] Speaker D: Hi. [01:41:03] Speaker F: Nice to meet you. And I. I gave up eloquence a long time ago. You're not an elf, right? Like, no. No. Where do you hail from? [01:41:17] Speaker G: I hail from the lost Lands. My mom was a tree, and my dad was. [01:41:27] Speaker F: Your dad was a what? [01:41:32] Speaker C: My mom. My mom. [01:41:35] Speaker G: My dad. My dad fell in love with a tree. [01:41:41] Speaker B: When an elf and a tree love each other very much. [01:41:46] Speaker F: Okay. [01:41:47] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Oh, my God. [01:41:50] Speaker F: Just pull back for a second and just like. [01:41:57] Speaker D: I've never had to make her. [01:41:58] Speaker G: Anything's possible. [01:41:59] Speaker D: Balls and I are the same, like, race kind of as you can see. And she. [01:42:04] Speaker F: She, like. [01:42:04] Speaker D: She, like Russell's boss's hair. Like, she reaches way up and Russell's hair and rustles her own. [01:42:12] Speaker C: Oh, are you related? [01:42:14] Speaker D: Not that we know of, but, you. [01:42:16] Speaker F: Know, not the same tree. [01:42:18] Speaker D: He was the first person I ever saw that looked like me, so I have a special place in my heart. He's like a brother to me now. [01:42:27] Speaker F: Well, that's. I mean, very tricky. Thank you so much for this lesson. So many things to ask questions here about, but it seems you are all exhausted from your adventures. I. I don't mean to take up all your time with all these questions, but I do enjoy a good talk. And your quartermasters quarter quite good at his job, I must say. [01:42:51] Speaker D: Is there anything we can get you? Do you need anything before we go off? Like to fight or you need any? I mean, there's a little bit of a town outside of our home if you need to go get anything. [01:43:09] Speaker F: I guess I could just use a helpful understanding of what each of you in the siege we might be encountering. How I could best help you all with the fighting. I. I usually stand in the middle and take a bunch of hits and hit things back. [01:43:28] Speaker D: That sounds. [01:43:32] Speaker F: It's only caused all of my scars in life, but it's. It's good nonetheless. It doesn't have my friends die like they have in the past, so I enjoy that better than anything else. How could I be helpful in your battle? [01:43:51] Speaker D: Well, Greta and I usually tend to help heal. And Gretcha, we also can do a little damage, but we're a little more squishy than the rest. And Craig, obviously, as you can tell, is. [01:44:09] Speaker F: Must be in the front lines. [01:44:10] Speaker D: Big strong guy. Yeah, he has a little bit of magic. Now. Tello is our shoot from afar man. And Balls just kind of. I mean, Balls goes in and does stuff that we don't usually know what's gonna happen, but he usually kicks some butt, so. [01:44:28] Speaker F: Pa. The front liner as well. Well, that is a welcome change from my past few. [01:44:35] Speaker C: Not anymore. [01:44:36] Speaker D: Okay, never mind. I'm sorry. [01:44:38] Speaker G: No, I don't really. No, I don't. I. I used to be, but not. I don't really have the build to do that anymore. So now I'm just kind of like a support guy too. [01:44:47] Speaker F: Support? Well, it's always good to have more support, boss. [01:44:50] Speaker D: We all support now. [01:44:54] Speaker F: If I needed to get healed in a pinch. [01:44:59] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:44:59] Speaker F: Who should I get closest to? [01:45:01] Speaker G: All of us. [01:45:02] Speaker F: All three of you. [01:45:03] Speaker A: Don't get close to me. [01:45:05] Speaker D: I would say, though, Balls. Well, I would say Roe and Greta usually are the ones that heal the most. And Balls can save his spell slots audibly. [01:45:15] Speaker B: But if we're. [01:45:16] Speaker A: If we're. If we're being honest, it's probably row the most. [01:45:22] Speaker F: Row the most. [01:45:22] Speaker B: Because, guys, I'm so afraid of dying. I'm really. I'm really not gonna heal this stuff. [01:45:28] Speaker F: Time. [01:45:29] Speaker D: Okay, wait. I'm really. [01:45:30] Speaker B: This time, I'm so. [01:45:31] Speaker D: You're gonna be on a. You're gonna be on a broom, Greta, as we Talked about the other day. [01:45:39] Speaker B: I would like, I would like to say I have, I, I have like a pretty strong feature regarding undead, so I mean, I can just like kill all of them within 30ft of me. [01:45:56] Speaker F: Does that target alive people too? [01:45:58] Speaker B: If they're. No, if they're not that strong. So I don't know if it'll work here, but I'm gonna give it a shot. It might be too low. [01:46:11] Speaker D: Yeah. Real quick, before we get some sleep. I have, I have some potions and some spell, some healing, so if you need. And we also have some diamonds, so if you go down, as long as you're not, as long as your body's there, we can bring you back. Okay, real quick, before we go to sleep. Who wants to take each of these potions sitting here to have on their person? It doesn't mean you have to use them, but we need to put them in each of our inventories so we know who has them. And also I have one. I have two greater healing potions. No, I have one greater healing potion. What does everyone else have and where are these going? [01:47:04] Speaker B: One. I have one. [01:47:06] Speaker D: You have one greater healing potion. [01:47:08] Speaker B: Balls. [01:47:08] Speaker D: How many do you have? How many healing potions you have? One. Okay. Craig, do you still have yours? [01:47:18] Speaker A: Don't ask me that question. I think I, I have one vial of bottle talent. No healing. [01:47:25] Speaker D: Did you. Okay, did you use yours? Okay. [01:47:33] Speaker A: What? [01:47:35] Speaker D: No. [01:47:35] Speaker A: Okay. I don't think I wrote down that I had one. [01:47:39] Speaker D: Well, everyone got one at the beginning of the me score fight that unless you use. [01:47:44] Speaker C: Greg used his on deck saving throws. [01:47:49] Speaker A: I did. [01:47:49] Speaker D: Or his healing. [01:47:51] Speaker C: Yeah, no, he had a healing. I was talking about bottled talent. [01:47:55] Speaker D: Yeah, no, no, I'm talking about the healing potion. [01:47:58] Speaker C: I'm dumb and silly. [01:47:59] Speaker D: Okay, who all's taking one of these guys? [01:48:05] Speaker F: Sounds, sounds like Craig could use one. [01:48:08] Speaker B: I, I, I say, do we have time to go buy more healing potions or not? [01:48:15] Speaker D: Probably not at this point, no. [01:48:19] Speaker B: Okay, because we're leaving tomorrow. [01:48:22] Speaker F: Can I take one and put one in Craig's pocket? [01:48:28] Speaker C: Are you trying to be sneaky or are you just trying to do it? [01:48:32] Speaker F: You just fell asleep. [01:48:33] Speaker C: Give me a sleight of hand for fun. [01:48:39] Speaker D: That's what I mean. [01:48:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Then I have. [01:48:42] Speaker D: So you have one. Okay. [01:48:47] Speaker F: Negative in this one. That's awesome. A six. Oh, an eight. [01:48:52] Speaker C: Well, Craig, what's your passive perception? What's your perception? [01:49:02] Speaker A: Well, let me get to it. Let me get to it. Everything's in a line. [01:49:06] Speaker C: Confusing line. [01:49:08] Speaker B: Everything's in a line. A confusing line. [01:49:12] Speaker A: 6. [01:49:15] Speaker C: So that means that you would usually have a 16. So you have half because you're asleep. You have half of your race. Regular score eight. So you got an eight, Daniel. [01:49:24] Speaker F: I did get an eight. [01:49:26] Speaker C: Meets. It beats it. You do this. It's not slick. You all watch as Craig has passed out of the table with his arm. His head over his arm. And Wrongdon gets up, picks up one of the bottles, clinks it. And then he like walks around the table. And the. The spikes at the bottom of his boots made out of ice are. It's the wood. And like Craig shifts a little bit, but wrong lifting his legs. And then finally as he's slipping it in, bumps Craig a little bit. And Craig snorts, but still stays asleep. [01:49:54] Speaker A: No, he does not. He does not snort. He farts. Let's be honest. [01:49:58] Speaker C: You're right. You're right. I'm sorry. He's like. [01:50:00] Speaker A: Let's be honest. [01:50:02] Speaker C: But you are just sneaky enough wrong him to. You are just. You are just sneaking. Oh, sneaky enough to. [01:50:14] Speaker F: Oh. [01:50:14] Speaker C: Get to get the. [01:50:16] Speaker F: The. [01:50:17] Speaker C: The potion to his pack without. [01:50:21] Speaker A: Pack. [01:50:21] Speaker C: Without waking him up. You have a. You have a potion of supreme healing. [01:50:25] Speaker D: And a greater healing one because you didn't use yours last time. I'll. I'll take one of them and have it on me. The potion of supreme healing. Who wants. [01:50:39] Speaker C: So Craig has one. Bro has one. [01:50:42] Speaker D: Who wants to take the long rest one. And who wants to take the or greatest rejuvenation and one more supreme. [01:50:48] Speaker B: So you want one who has. Who gets the most stuff? [01:50:54] Speaker G: I don't really need it. [01:50:55] Speaker A: I don't think. I honestly think that restoration be best in boss's inventory. [01:51:03] Speaker D: The rejuvenation, you mean of the long rest in a bottle? Yeah, I think Boz or Greta. [01:51:10] Speaker G: I think here's. I think it should go in the person who has teleport. That's my guess. [01:51:16] Speaker A: Oh yeah. [01:51:17] Speaker G: I think that's gonna be the thing we will need. [01:51:19] Speaker D: Wait, why? [01:51:20] Speaker A: Because if we need to get the. [01:51:22] Speaker F: Heck out of there or if we. [01:51:23] Speaker G: Need to get somebody out of there. [01:51:25] Speaker D: Okay, well, I'll. I'll take it and I'll. I'm not. I won't use it unless we like absolutely need it. Like, I'll give it to whoever needs it. [01:51:37] Speaker B: Landon, do you want the supreme healing potion? [01:51:45] Speaker C: Yeah, potion. [01:51:47] Speaker B: I wouldn't mind having that if nobody else wants it. [01:51:50] Speaker D: Yeah, because you don't have a greater potion. [01:51:52] Speaker F: I will rely all on your spells. [01:51:56] Speaker E: Okay. [01:51:57] Speaker D: We. We got you on Grim. We're not gonna let you. We're not gonna let you die with the fun guys. If you're gonna die, you at least got to do it with the warriors. [01:52:05] Speaker F: Of the well, that would be sad. [01:52:11] Speaker C: Tello audibly laughs and sips more of his drink. [01:52:17] Speaker D: I mean, I'm just being honest. If I were to die, I'd like to die with my party. You know, I. [01:52:22] Speaker C: That's sweet. [01:52:23] Speaker E: Meet to. [01:52:23] Speaker A: We're. [01:52:24] Speaker D: We're. We're to this point where we can openly talk about our own death. [01:52:28] Speaker C: No, no, no, it's fine. You know, I'm just gonna go to bed. And he, like, leaves. [01:52:34] Speaker A: Craig wakes up and starts taking off his armor right in that room. Oh, and a half awake, half asleep mess. He starts just. And then he, like, makes his way slowly, like, leaving pieces of armor on. [01:52:54] Speaker D: The ground. [01:52:56] Speaker A: Getting to bed. [01:52:59] Speaker C: Goobers coming behind you, picking them up, carrying them after you. [01:53:03] Speaker D: Zach, can I. Is the. Is the greatest rejuvenation bonus action to drink, action to administrate to someone else, like other potions? [01:53:10] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah, same. [01:53:11] Speaker F: All. [01:53:11] Speaker C: All punctuations, all potions function the same. [01:53:13] Speaker D: And I will. I'm making it very clear that I will only use this in, like, whoever we need to give it to administer. I'm not going to lightly use this just so everyone knows, like, it's going to the person that needs it most in a situation. [01:53:28] Speaker F: Got it. Party. [01:53:31] Speaker C: Go night night. [01:53:32] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:53:33] Speaker F: Oh, yeah. [01:53:34] Speaker C: Having thoroughly talked out their strategies, the fungi retire to their. To their beddings. And they take. [01:53:44] Speaker E: Honestly, a stressful night's sleep. [01:53:47] Speaker C: And it is the next morning that everyone gathers together. Shipping has prepared for you a very hearty breakfast. And he packs a bunch of food. He knows that you all have the magic to feed yourselves. And he packs you with a bunch of food anyway, puts it in, like, heavily wrapped cloth and makes portions for you as well. [01:54:04] Speaker E: Ranga. [01:54:04] Speaker C: And he says, okay, this is for your journey. Please be careful. Okay? I want you guys to come back to me. [01:54:11] Speaker D: Goober on the cheek. [01:54:13] Speaker F: Well, I might not come back, but. [01:54:16] Speaker C: Well, that's. I was really talking about them, but. Yeah, but you're great, too. I hope you survive as well. [01:54:22] Speaker F: Oh, no worries. I understand. [01:54:23] Speaker C: I understand, you know, dwarf code. And he, like, gets all your canteens and fills it up with fresh water, and he goes, remember, it's going to be really hot there, so don't. Drink your water quickly. Drink it very well. Maybe it's cold. I really don't know how it works, but drink your water slowly. [01:54:37] Speaker D: Okay. [01:54:40] Speaker C: All right. Thank you. I love you all very Much. [01:54:45] Speaker D: We love you, too. [01:54:47] Speaker F: Now. [01:54:47] Speaker G: Now, I know that we signed a contract a while back that if we die, you get all our stuff. And I just want to let you know that's still okay. [01:54:54] Speaker C: Just get out of here, all right? Come back to me. Okay. [01:55:01] Speaker G: But Boz walks over and hands him the bees and says, but I need you to take care of these. If we do die, just get him back. [01:55:08] Speaker C: He doesn't miss a beat. He takes him. He pulls him to his chest and he holds them and he says very seriously, I will. If I have to say, all the way back around the world, I'll do it. Oh. [01:55:24] Speaker F: You'Re the. [01:55:24] Speaker C: Be the. [01:55:26] Speaker G: And hopefully if we die, we'll leave you a world to sail around. So if. If you have a world to sail around and we don't come back, I would say it's worth it. [01:55:38] Speaker F: True words. [01:55:38] Speaker C: He nods. He nods knowingly in agreement. [01:55:42] Speaker E: He says. [01:55:44] Speaker C: That'S what we're all doing this far. [01:55:48] Speaker E: And. [01:55:51] Speaker B: He. [01:55:51] Speaker C: He pauses on the. We are all thinking of the occalls who give their lives in the street. And he continues, and he says, but if you can, please do try to make it back, because I really only want to sail this world with you all. Absolutely. Okay, we'll get going. I'll give it a real. I'll talk to you forever. [01:56:13] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah. [01:56:14] Speaker A: Craig wraps him in a hug, lifts him up and squeezes him, and then, like, does this. And then sets him down and feels. [01:56:22] Speaker C: Embarrassed after a bunch of his joints. Pop. And he. He looks you back and he goes, I love you, too, buddy. [01:56:30] Speaker B: Everybody. [01:56:32] Speaker D: Well, are we teleporting there? [01:56:34] Speaker C: Yes. [01:56:35] Speaker D: Okay. [01:56:36] Speaker A: That's what I thought. [01:56:37] Speaker D: Okay. [01:56:38] Speaker C: I just wanted to make sure. And as you. As you ready your spell, Rowena, as you think of this terrible land described to you a place to which you have never ventured, I'd like you to. As a reminder, this is. This is a new location to you. [01:57:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:57:01] Speaker F: So. [01:57:03] Speaker C: You'Re going to. That's not a bad idea. Hold on one second. [01:57:14] Speaker D: I can't find my pencil. [01:57:21] Speaker B: Oh, I'm so afraid of it. [01:57:22] Speaker D: All right, fair enough. [01:57:23] Speaker F: Micah. [01:57:23] Speaker C: Problem resolved. Okay, so you're gonna want one later. But, Ro, with the nature of teleport. [01:57:37] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:57:37] Speaker C: You are not familiar with this location. So this is going to fall under. [01:57:45] Speaker D: Under burp. [01:57:47] Speaker C: Yes. Oh, buddy, this is gonna fall under description. [01:57:57] Speaker D: That's great. This is a great time. There's no other better way we could. [01:58:02] Speaker C: False description. [01:58:03] Speaker D: Great. Great, great. [01:58:09] Speaker C: Yes, player. [01:58:17] Speaker B: I am wondering. I. [01:58:35] Speaker C: And what might that mean that you're wondering? Player? You can do it. Attack that sentence. Feel confident? [01:58:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Okay. [01:58:45] Speaker A: Never mind. [01:58:45] Speaker D: Okay, Kool Aid man. [01:58:48] Speaker C: Okay. [01:58:49] Speaker F: All right. [01:58:50] Speaker C: That was goofy. [01:58:51] Speaker D: Okay. [01:58:52] Speaker B: Okay. I'm sorry. I thought I had an idea, but I do not. [01:58:55] Speaker C: Okay, all good. All good. Is everyone gathering around Ro? [01:59:00] Speaker B: Yes. [01:59:01] Speaker F: Okay. [01:59:02] Speaker C: All armored up to hand to the land of death. Tello. Tello puts his new. He hooks his new. Well, he's enchanted now. Crossbow to decide. [01:59:09] Speaker E: Me says, let's go kill a lich. [01:59:17] Speaker C: Are you casting, bro? [01:59:18] Speaker D: Yeah, I am. I kind of just kind of look off into the distance, and then I start casting. [01:59:23] Speaker C: You begin. You begin. The motion is very complicated. For teleporting your loot, it requires like. Like, it's this, like, really complicated, like. Like descending and ascending scale. And as the layers start building and building and building, the energy starts swirling up around you. And you all can feel the energy building and. Ro, I need you to roll me a D100. Why don't you roll it in your big skull tower? [01:59:48] Speaker D: Okay. [01:59:49] Speaker C: What else? Jackie, for the rest of this episode. It doesn't. For the rest of the. [01:59:56] Speaker F: At all. [01:59:57] Speaker C: For the rest of this episode, could you put your little skull on red headlight? [02:00:01] Speaker F: Oh, yeah, that's for good. [02:00:04] Speaker D: That's earlier. And I was like. [02:00:13] Speaker C: It's not for courage. [02:00:15] Speaker D: Okay, I put it on. Okay. I put it on red for a second, and it was like, yellow. And I was like, what? [02:00:21] Speaker C: Yay. [02:00:21] Speaker F: Well. Oh, that's so sick. [02:00:23] Speaker C: We have to send a picture of that to the patrons. All right. [02:00:27] Speaker D: On camera. What do I have to get the. [02:00:30] Speaker A: Mouth open and then there's a light inside the mouth, but it's cool because the mouth is unhinged and it can roll your dice. And that's what makes it cool. Okay, no more picture needed. [02:00:42] Speaker C: They're loving this. [02:00:43] Speaker F: Got him. [02:00:45] Speaker A: So now that I know that they're there. [02:00:49] Speaker D: This is. [02:00:50] Speaker B: Now that I know that they're there. [02:00:51] Speaker A: No. [02:00:52] Speaker D: Well, I already rolled, and I know that it's bad. Very bad. [02:00:56] Speaker B: Oh, goodness. Oh, my gosh. [02:00:58] Speaker E: Why don't you tell me what you want? [02:00:59] Speaker A: Don't you have guidance? [02:01:01] Speaker D: Guidance won't do anything. [02:01:04] Speaker C: I'll tell you what. If you want, you can. You can add a D4 on to try and get it to go up. [02:01:08] Speaker D: That I can tell you right now with the roll I got. That's not gonna help us. [02:01:12] Speaker C: You have inspiration. [02:01:14] Speaker D: I do not. [02:01:15] Speaker A: Can I hand her mine? [02:01:16] Speaker F: Did you roll a one? [02:01:18] Speaker G: The dice tell a better story. Zach, we gotta follow, we gotta look, we gotta. [02:01:22] Speaker C: What'd you get, bud? [02:01:23] Speaker D: I rolled a 10. Okay. If it's if. Okay, this always. [02:01:27] Speaker C: You started to say the word. [02:01:29] Speaker D: Well, if it's if one of the ones is a 10, that's in the teens, right? [02:01:37] Speaker F: So the. [02:01:38] Speaker C: On which this one D100 or this. [02:01:40] Speaker F: One is a 10. [02:01:42] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [02:01:43] Speaker C: If the D100 is a 10, you're in the teens. [02:01:46] Speaker D: Yeah. So that's going to be an 18. [02:01:50] Speaker E: But. [02:01:50] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah. [02:01:52] Speaker C: And as Ro's power collects everyone and. [02:01:57] Speaker F: I trust you, Ro. [02:02:00] Speaker D: I don't like me. [02:02:03] Speaker C: It is as everyone sucks together. I'm gonna need you to give me an odds or evens, Jackie. I mean, I already know the general class of what's going to be happening odds. Does it phenomenal. [02:02:22] Speaker D: I don't like this. My face is so hot now. [02:02:26] Speaker B: It's not your fault, Jackie. [02:02:30] Speaker C: Oh, no. I rolled an even number. What a bummer. That was an eight, Rose. And so. Okay, one more, Jackie. One more. [02:02:45] Speaker A: One more. [02:02:46] Speaker C: One more odds. [02:02:48] Speaker D: Oh, one more. Odds are evens. [02:02:50] Speaker C: Two things have happened. Let's see if a third does. [02:02:52] Speaker D: I'm gonna go with odds again. [02:02:56] Speaker C: On 11. Okay. Okay, okay. That could have been worse, but it's still bad. Oh, I'm giddy at the mishap. All right. And so, Ro, as you. [02:03:10] Speaker D: Because you made me turn it red. [02:03:14] Speaker C: Oh, wait, hold on, hold on. This music's a little bit. It's a new song. I have some new songs, so some of these are a little. [02:03:19] Speaker B: I didn't like that one. I don't like that one. [02:03:21] Speaker C: I'll be using it later. But I don't like that, Ro. As you gather everyone up in your power and everybody disappears, you all and you all appear with the forward thrust of motion. And you all step forward as the spell often thrusts you forward. And you step to nothing as you. Oh, you all are falling. Immediately. You all take in all around you. I'll tell you what, Jackie. [02:03:56] Speaker A: No, no. [02:03:57] Speaker C: Let's be truly fair. Let's make this dice. Jackie, why don't you roll me a D100? [02:04:04] Speaker D: Do you really want me to? [02:04:06] Speaker E: Yep. [02:04:07] Speaker A: Bug speed. [02:04:08] Speaker C: And then. Micah, I also want you to roll me a D100. [02:04:13] Speaker D: Are you kidding me? [02:04:16] Speaker C: Well, I rolled. I'd like you to roll me a D100. [02:04:20] Speaker A: You roll it with. [02:04:22] Speaker G: They were like, please don't fly. Don't fly there. It's not good. Good if you fly. Just don't fly. Whatever you do, don't fly. [02:04:31] Speaker C: Would you get what you get, Jackie? [02:04:34] Speaker D: Well, I rolled another 10 on that, so it's an 11. [02:04:38] Speaker C: Excellent. What you get Micah, 11 total. [02:04:41] Speaker A: When you roll a D100, is it just 100 or do you also roll the D? [02:04:45] Speaker C: You also roll the 10. That gives you the ones place. [02:04:48] Speaker A: Okay, that is. [02:04:49] Speaker B: Can even like, look at my dice. [02:04:52] Speaker C: A what? [02:04:52] Speaker A: Micah 51. [02:04:54] Speaker C: 51. [02:04:55] Speaker F: All right. [02:04:55] Speaker C: What'd you get, Abby? [02:05:00] Speaker B: I got a 98. [02:05:03] Speaker C: All right. Daniel, could you give me one of those rolls too? And I'll take another as well. [02:05:07] Speaker F: I got 15. [02:05:10] Speaker E: All right. [02:05:10] Speaker B: 15'S a good number. I like that number, man. That's a good number. [02:05:13] Speaker C: Did you get Lando? 15's your friend, right? [02:05:17] Speaker G: I got 64. [02:05:19] Speaker C: Excellent. Roughly 250ft in the air. The fungi are plummeting above you as you all. I added your numbers together. You're a bad guy tonight. I'm twirling the mustache. You all find yourself suddenly thrust into. Into a screaming flurry of wind from every ending. And you all find yourselves plummeting out of the air. Dark black clouds royal above you snapping with red lightning as far thunder. And below you, you find a darkened black landscape stretching as the party Oz. [02:06:05] Speaker G: Looks the landscape to try and discern where they are. [02:06:09] Speaker C: All right, pause. Give me also. You guys are falling so fast. Give me. Hold on, hold on. Boz, what did you get on your. Give me. Give me a survival check. [02:06:26] Speaker F: All right. [02:06:27] Speaker C: You're really good. [02:06:27] Speaker G: Let me use my inspiration. [02:06:29] Speaker C: Okay. [02:06:34] Speaker F: Oh. [02:06:36] Speaker G: Not feeling very survivally today. I rolled a one and then I rolled a. Oh, I rolled a three. But I have a plus 11 in survival, so that's 14. [02:06:46] Speaker C: That's hilarious. 14. You are not at all familiar with the landscape, Oz, but its general description looks hellish and abysmal. Feeling, specifically two words. [02:07:00] Speaker G: I love what he's trying. [02:07:02] Speaker C: Yes, yes, yes, yes. Sorry. You get the feeling you have arrived at the land you were trying to head to, just not at all in the way you meant. Yeah, you want to be. [02:07:15] Speaker G: What Boz is looking for is. He's trying to spot. Is there a lake below us? Are there mountains? Is it flat? [02:07:22] Speaker C: Is there like scars in the screaming landscape? [02:07:25] Speaker G: Landscape as a general topography. [02:07:27] Speaker C: Yes. As you are rolling, you see, you see. You do see. Sharp upward, jutting massive like. Like crowns and teeth of stone in the distance. But you're also seeing in the blur of you rolling and tumbling. Thank you. The new songs are awesome. Shout out to ascii. He rocks. He dropped a new album recently and I picked up some songs and I'm very excited to introduce them to our campaign. Ask I I. That is my official plug. I I support him and his royalty music all day long. His royalty free music. You also spot a number of like, deep gashes of ravines in the landscape. And everything glitters with this, like, dark black. The landscape isn't brown the way stone should be. Everything's gray and black and ashen. And you also see thin rivers of light below you. There's probably lava as well. That's what you take in in a screaming moment. Jackie, what are you doing? [02:08:21] Speaker D: I polymorph into a giant eagle. [02:08:25] Speaker C: Excellent. You're casting it on yourself. [02:08:28] Speaker D: Yes. [02:08:29] Speaker C: Okay, I want you to give me a dexterity saving throw at advantage to try and successfully get your limbs in coordination to cast a spell on yourself while falling like this. [02:08:41] Speaker D: Okay. [02:08:41] Speaker C: So. [02:08:42] Speaker D: So Dex, save at advantage. [02:08:44] Speaker C: At advantage. Because it's on yourself and not another person after this. I'm going to Micah, then I'm going to land Daniel, then I'm going to Abby. Yes. [02:08:52] Speaker D: The first. The first roll was enough. [02:08:54] Speaker G: This is our second time being thrust into the air unexpectedly. [02:08:58] Speaker C: It is. [02:08:59] Speaker G: And we're not casting Neiman's tiny hut this time. [02:09:02] Speaker C: So does that give us any bonus? What'd you get? What'd you get? Jackie? [02:09:11] Speaker D: Thank God for advantage. That is a 22. [02:09:17] Speaker F: Oh. [02:09:18] Speaker C: You successfully polymorphs yourself into a giant eagle as regal. But there's this. There's this panic like, and you in a blast. And you turn into this full. This golden green accented eagle. [02:09:33] Speaker D: Can I try and grab someone in that time as well or. No. [02:09:37] Speaker C: That was your action. [02:09:38] Speaker D: Okay, so I didn't know how we were. Action economy. [02:09:42] Speaker C: Craig, what are you doing? [02:09:44] Speaker A: Okay, I can go to God. I can turn into. I can bring Godspeed on as a bonus action. So I'm going to. I'm gonna say the command word and then I'm going to like. [02:09:58] Speaker C: Excellent. [02:09:59] Speaker A: Take that out. And then who is closest to me because I still have the action to. [02:10:04] Speaker C: Right next to you is. Is Greta tumbling and spiraling through the air. [02:10:10] Speaker B: Can I grab her? [02:10:12] Speaker D: I was. [02:10:12] Speaker C: I was just thinking smash cut to Micah before we played. Being like I could unattune to Godspeed and attune to the rope. So you give me Craig. As. As you're tumbling in your armor plummeting like a rock, you. You shout and. And the. The metal straps from the. From the gorget like melt off. And the. The metal brilliant light wings. And as you and right yourself. I need you to give me a dexterity saving throw to grab her. Now. You have advantage on those. [02:10:43] Speaker A: I do have advantage. [02:10:44] Speaker C: Okay. You have advantage on those because of the. How I love this music. [02:10:54] Speaker A: Okay, so let me go to my spell casting modifiers. Casting my. Just my modifiers. This music is getting to me. Did I. What was the check for dexterity saving throw. [02:11:12] Speaker D: Was it? [02:11:12] Speaker A: It was dexterity. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Hey, that would be a 20. Unnatural. [02:11:20] Speaker C: Oh, okay. A 20. With a 20, you. You, like, thrust the wings against the force of gravity and you, like, throw up a little bit as the. As there's this intense jolt in your stomach and it dribbles down your beard. And as you, like, rotate your wings and bank hard, you snap Greta out of the air. And Greta, you are just tumbling in a smear of dark colors. And then there's this, like, hard jolt. You're gonna take a D4 of bludgeoning damage as you're caught. One point of bludgeoning damage. In the movies, Superman catches Lois and nothing happens. But that is as high velocity impact. So you take one point of bludgeoning damage and Greta, you are swooped out of the air in Craig's arms. Next initiative is wrong. Grim, what are you doing? [02:12:07] Speaker F: Oh, Ron. Grim, you know, has been in this. This situation a time or two, is just like looking around him and he's just like, I guess I'll call out to you. And I like, put my hand in my pocket and I bring out the symbol of the maker with the. [02:12:28] Speaker C: Oh, I forgot. [02:12:30] Speaker F: Yeah, the symbol of poly. Polymorphing my friend made me. And I'm just like. I look at the eagle that's across from me and I'm like, please turn me into that. And I express the powers in some way, but wrong. [02:12:48] Speaker C: Grim, so you are also tumbling through the air. I'm going to need you to give me a dexterity saving throw. First to successfully grab your pocket, pull the item out, and pull it to your chest where you can speak. Yep. I'm gonna. I'm gonna say this falls under your feature as a barbarian, where you have advantage. [02:13:09] Speaker F: Oh, good. Well, I got a Nat20 on it, so. Oh, Zach just said, nah, I don't want to hear danger. [02:13:16] Speaker C: Sorry. I went to like, one of the little message icons popped up and I went to click on it, and it went away the moment I clicked, and then it clicked and call a NAT20. What was your total rung? [02:13:26] Speaker F: 22. [02:13:28] Speaker C: Phenomenal. I don't know about you. As you, like, pull it out and scream into it. There's this. There's this like, little spark of light in front of your forehead, and then this burst of golden fire, like, raises over your brow, in the back of your head, burning down your body and burn burns your body away. And from the ash that comes behind it, this massive like gold and orange eagle begins flying from the point. That's cool. That's really cool. All right, Greta, your training initiative. [02:14:09] Speaker E: What are you doing? [02:14:11] Speaker B: Where's Tello? [02:14:13] Speaker D: Yeah, I was going to say he's. [02:14:14] Speaker C: About to about 30ft away from you flipping end over end screaming I Did you laugh? Did you laugh? [02:14:26] Speaker B: Would it be an option to pull out to get my broom? [02:14:37] Speaker A: I'm holding now. [02:14:41] Speaker C: I will. In our campaign pulling out an item we count as a free action. I will say in this context with Craig's, with Craig's help, even though you're falling at this rate speed, we can call it a bonus action to pull out your. [02:14:51] Speaker B: That sounds good to me. I would like. [02:14:52] Speaker C: You think you have it strapped over your back? [02:14:54] Speaker B: Yes, that's perfect. I would like to. I would like to pull out my broom as a bonus action. I would like to get on it. I attuned to it the night before. I would like to. I attuned to it in the sky. That would be funny. [02:15:11] Speaker C: You don't. [02:15:16] Speaker B: Can someone send me the information for that in reddish channel. But I would like to get on my broom and fly over to Tello. Use my movement to do that and then I would like to grab him. I look for. I'll look again. [02:15:37] Speaker C: Well, I think I can give you the essential deets right now from the Dusk Witch. You have proficiency, proficiency and dexterity saving throws while you're riding it. If you're on it, you just use your movement to move with it and it has. 50 foot fly speed. [02:16:00] Speaker B: What was that? I got the proficiency. I got the fly speed. What was the. [02:16:04] Speaker C: You have proficiency and dexterity saving throws while you're on it. [02:16:08] Speaker F: While you're on it. [02:16:08] Speaker B: Great. What was the thing after that? [02:16:13] Speaker C: I don't remember you foosh over. I'll tell you in a second. I'll tell you on break. You foosh over. I'm going to need an athletics check from you to try and get grab him out of the air. Athletics or strength saving throw dexterity check. [02:16:27] Speaker B: Could it be a not to grab. [02:16:29] Speaker C: That big big man? [02:16:31] Speaker B: No, it couldn't be. Did you shake your head? I'm not looking at you. [02:16:37] Speaker C: I'm looking at it cannot be. [02:16:40] Speaker B: That is a sturdy 20. [02:16:42] Speaker D: Boom. [02:16:46] Speaker C: Wow. That would. That had to be a good roll. [02:16:49] Speaker B: It was a 19. I have a plus one in athletics. [02:16:52] Speaker C: Yep, yep, yep, yep. Greta, as you swing by with with motherly adrenaline coursing through your veins for one of your most loved ones in your life, you, you foosh by, and you don't have the strength to catch him, but you very cleverly. [02:17:04] Speaker B: Can I say, can I say that I like, I, I just like, I have to, it's tricky because I have to aim it right. Because he's tumbling. [02:17:12] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:17:12] Speaker B: But I just, I like, fly in it. And I have the, I'm riding on the broom and I like, aim it so that I, I like just kind of. I and I, he like, yes, it's on the broom. [02:17:26] Speaker C: You. [02:17:26] Speaker B: And I'm like, you put the broom. [02:17:28] Speaker C: In the path of his travel so that you, like, you lean into his momentum and you. And as. As the broom under him, you grab your arms around him and use all your strength to hold on while gripping as hard as you can with your thighs not to fall at the, the broom. And you guys both catch on the broom and he, like, catches and he. [02:17:45] Speaker F: That's, this is the worst. [02:17:47] Speaker C: And you're just, like, flying with him as he's screaming. [02:17:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I think for. [02:17:53] Speaker B: Then I kind of stabilize myself and I look around at the rest of us to see where. What the situation. [02:17:58] Speaker C: Okay, Everyone is still fine. Eagles. They're two giant eagles. Craig has wings. You're on the broom. Boz is still tumbling through the air. [02:18:07] Speaker G: Okay, I, oh, sorry. [02:18:11] Speaker C: What do you want to do something? [02:18:13] Speaker B: I'm gonna use the rest of my movement to go over the boss. [02:18:17] Speaker C: You have 20ft of movement. You can't quite get back to him. [02:18:20] Speaker B: Okay, well, I go towards him. [02:18:21] Speaker C: You get most of the way. Absolutely. Okay. [02:18:24] Speaker G: Zach boss is a 14th level druid. He is, I think he would know how to stabilize himself in the sky. It's kind of like the, the first thing you learn how to do when you go up there. [02:18:50] Speaker C: I, I see the reasoning. As someone who's been polymorphing for a while now, I mean, you're gonna get wild. So it's like level. Excuse me? Wild shaping. Wild shaping. Wild shaping. Right. So you've been wild shaping as a flying creature for a long time. I can understand how some of that muscle memory would transfer. What are you trying to accomplish? [02:19:10] Speaker G: No, I mean, like, like I even see him. Like, he can wild shape multiple times. Like, I see him, like, flying high in the sky, like, becoming a person, and then wild shaping back into a bird and, like, flying around again. [02:19:21] Speaker C: Like, for. Fine. I, I, I see the reasoning. So you're just trying to rotate yourself over and stabilize what I want to. [02:19:30] Speaker G: Do is Boz is. [02:19:32] Speaker C: Is. [02:19:33] Speaker G: He could turn. [02:19:33] Speaker C: He could. [02:19:34] Speaker G: He could wild shape into like, oh, a dragon wormling and be fine. [02:19:37] Speaker C: Sure. [02:19:37] Speaker G: But I think what he wants to do is like just kind of wait a little bit and make sure. Because he knows that like Craig has God speed. He knows that like people can poly more. He wants to check on Bong Grimm. He wants to just kind of like stabilize himself and just take a little gander and wait just like a few. A little bit before he wild shapes into something to fly. [02:20:01] Speaker C: I will say, I. I think this reasoning is actually really solid. I. I completely see what you're saying. It's. It's like he's like, honestly, kind of like an experienced skydiver. You're in a really intense, intense role. Give me a dexterity saving throw at advantage because this is something you're very accustomed to, to try that in place. [02:20:24] Speaker G: And I've seen people practice how to do that. This. And it's not as hard as you would. I mean, I mean, like, like this right now is a completely different example, but it's like, right, It's. It's like one of the first things you learn how to do. [02:20:35] Speaker C: Because if you like, falling isn't that bad. Yeah, stabilizing while doing a double front full into a triple, that's harder. But stabilizing out of. Out of a free fall is not that bad. Also, it's cool that you've done a skydiving place. [02:20:51] Speaker G: No, I used to work at a skydiving place. And no, you are able to, because a lot of times, like, your parachute get wrapped up on you and you have to not only cut the parachute that's tangled and deploy your spare, but also, like, stop yourself from flipping around all over the place place. [02:21:06] Speaker C: That's cool. Deck save. [02:21:08] Speaker G: Nat 20. Okay, that's awesome. [02:21:10] Speaker C: Oh, let's go, Lando. Well, you have a huge bonus. The total. [02:21:13] Speaker G: That is a 26. No, no, 25. 25. [02:21:17] Speaker C: 25. Okay, boss. You, like. You guys look over and like, boss. And you all watch as he like, like, splays his whims, tucks an arm, like, rotates against the force, and then very suddenly splays out and like, shifts his weight. Oh, holy cow. And he just totally evens himself out in the air. And he's falling pretty calmly. Give me. You can just make it out, boss. You can see that wrong is in the shape of a giant eagle. You recognize a regal anywhere with the purple eyes. Craig is flying with Godspeed. And to your relief, you look over And Greta has Tello on his. On his. On her broom. He does not look comfortable. He's like, barely nearly holding on awkwardly, but he's on there. Is there anything else you're looking for? Or is below us dangerous? [02:22:06] Speaker G: Like, are we falling towards something that. [02:22:07] Speaker C: Will kill us when we land even if we're okay? Yeah, give me. Give me a perception check. Not the highest DC in the world. The difficulty here is that the reason there's even a check is because it's coming at you fast. So you're trying to make out details. Yeah. Also, we've gone through a round here. You all have fallen 150ft. So the ground is now. [02:22:25] Speaker G: Oh, we've fallen that much. I feel like the ground will be close enough to where he would not. As soon as he realized everybody else was safe, he would turn into a dragon. [02:22:33] Speaker C: Wormling. Gotcha. Okay, understood. Sorry. I probably should have given you that context at the beginning. You return. No, no, no. It makes sense. [02:22:39] Speaker F: 100. [02:22:41] Speaker C: Well, I probably should have led with it. Boz, in a flurry of magic. You are a bronze dragon. Wormling. Go ahead and give me a perception check anyway, though. [02:22:50] Speaker D: Okay? [02:22:53] Speaker C: You can do it with either stats. You could have done it before or after you transformed. So up to you. Okay. [02:22:58] Speaker G: I don't know what the dragon wyrmling is, but he got a 21. [02:23:00] Speaker C: I bet yours are better. Okay, 21. Pause. As you look up, the black skies above are like. They're like dark and shadowy. And you watch a couple snaps of red light. And far off in the distance, you see silhouettes trailing in the crowd, in the cloud. Yeah, getting to the ground would probably be a good idea. [02:23:22] Speaker G: All right, so, Boz, like silhouettes, like. [02:23:27] Speaker C: Forms come things flying far away up in the clouds. See their silhouettes, really? [02:23:34] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [02:23:35] Speaker C: That'd be a good idea to get to the ground, Boz. [02:23:38] Speaker G: Boz dies towards the ground. [02:23:40] Speaker C: Okay. You all watch as boss turns in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You watch as Boz turns into his bronze dragon Wyrmling and toward the ground that you can see clearly now, Boz. It's this dark, fractured landscape of stone. There's like a deep ravine below, like tongues of liquid fire tracing around the landscape. And as you, like, tuck your wings, you, like, dive down. And it's only. It's a matter of seconds before you broaden out your wings and dovetail gracefully to a point where you want to land. At this point, I will say now that everyone is flying. If everyone chooses to follow Boz, you All can all land on the ground fairly easily. [02:24:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I would like to do that. [02:24:20] Speaker F: You're Tomdian. [02:24:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:24:25] Speaker C: So as the whole party gathers, flying in their various methods, you all land on the rocky, harsh landscape below. And as you all look around, you see at every angle a horrible place. This is. This is awful. You all are. [02:25:00] Speaker E: Oh, this place is awful. [02:25:02] Speaker C: You are surrounded by a scorched ruined earth. Black stone fragmented and covered by a finer dust of grays and dark sort of like charcoal hues all around you. Every once in a while, when the wind bye. Some of the dust whips up in little spurts and then goes away, far away. You all can hear. As lava flows of intense liquid heat slowly pour out from angry spouts in the earth and flow down hard rock. Sharp obsidian juts out of the earth at different angles everywhere. And you see above you not a raging sky, but a dark and angered one that stretches on forever. And there is a forsaken, hellish landscape all around you. It's the middle of winter and it is not very cool here. Not burning. The season seems to be helping a little bit. You can imagine this place being searingly hot at other times of the year, but it's warm uncomfortably. Craig, you're already sweating in your armor. And as you all look at the far landscape, it stretches on you in a ruined, dead place in every direction. The party has landed. [02:26:28] Speaker E: What do you all do? [02:26:31] Speaker C: And also everyone's panting and your sweat all over your brow and your hearts are going, but you're coming down off the adrenaline hug. [02:26:39] Speaker D: I unpolymorph. [02:26:40] Speaker C: Okay. [02:26:42] Speaker D: And just say, I'm. I'm so sorry. [02:26:44] Speaker B: I'm. [02:26:45] Speaker D: I'm so sorry, guys. [02:26:49] Speaker C: Tello leans over a big rock, throws up and goes, it's no big deal, bro. It could have happened to any of us. Could you press the digitate my mouth? [02:27:01] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she like starts prestidigitating all those. [02:27:04] Speaker C: It cleans off. He goes, thank you. He pulls out his crossbow and he goes, I'm a big strong elf. And he just like holds it and looks around at the landscape. [02:27:20] Speaker A: I. I think that we needed to get a move on as fast as possible. [02:27:23] Speaker B: Yeah. I say, let's start going. [02:27:28] Speaker A: Right. I just saw a hand in the air. [02:27:30] Speaker C: Get in there, Daniel. [02:27:30] Speaker F: Get in there is me. [02:27:31] Speaker C: Own the space. [02:27:32] Speaker F: I just want to make. Can I make like a perception check as the eagle just to see if there's anything in our vicinity before I polymorph back out? [02:27:40] Speaker C: Clever. Are you perceiving for sources of danger or for landmarks or. What are you looking for? [02:27:46] Speaker F: I think sources of dangers is his main thing. He lets people do that other stuff. [02:27:52] Speaker C: Very smart. [02:27:54] Speaker F: I imagine the eagle has good perception. I rolled a 19. [02:28:00] Speaker C: The eagle has great perception. I think it's a plus six plus five or something. [02:28:07] Speaker F: 24 to 25. [02:28:08] Speaker C: Then we'll call it a 24. [02:28:11] Speaker B: Has it. Wait, eagles have advantage on perception. [02:28:15] Speaker F: Oh, yeah, I remember. I did an advantage. [02:28:19] Speaker B: Oh, cool. I'm sorry. [02:28:20] Speaker F: Now you're good. [02:28:21] Speaker C: We'll just. We'll keep it. [02:28:22] Speaker B: You have a plus four of perception, Daniel. [02:28:25] Speaker C: 23, you dirty ginger. Abby said not on my watch. As you look. As you look around. Oh, well, you'd also be regal. Let's use the G as well. Regal. As you look around. Regal. You look up at the clouds above and you do in fact see a couple dark shapes dip out of the clouds, but then dip back up and soar away like a pair of them. Looks like they didn't spot you all. You might have gotten to the ground quickly enough. And you don't see a whole lot else, except very far in the distance there is a big single thinner structure. You'd reason it to be maybe like between 20 and 30ft tall. And it's very far away. Hundreds of feet, maybe even almost a thousand. And it's just standing stock still in the landscape. And as you look standing, it's like a. It's like a 20, almost 30 foot tall. Like a rough. Like it's at a weird angle. It's kind of hard to tell. But with a 24, it's almost like a statue. Very far away with dark stone. But it's really, really far off. Not anywhere near you. [02:29:46] Speaker F: Well, I. I unpolymorph from there and I just. Oh, how Janice does that I will never know. But I look and I say, great job. I haven't had that thrill in a few days. Nothing of the sort that I can see as an eagle. But there is a big statue about a fifth of a mile that way. [02:30:12] Speaker D: Do you think that's Black Fang, where we need to go? [02:30:16] Speaker F: It looked like a statue. [02:30:18] Speaker C: Ro give me. Give me an intelligence. [02:30:19] Speaker F: 20 foot tall statue. [02:30:21] Speaker D: DC3s an 8. [02:30:31] Speaker C: Black thing was like a big tower. [02:30:33] Speaker D: That's right, a big statue. Did Alondra mention anything about a statue? [02:30:42] Speaker B: I think it's. [02:30:43] Speaker A: I think it's a statue of big bad guy. [02:30:48] Speaker C: Probably Greta. [02:30:49] Speaker D: Probably nothing going out. [02:30:50] Speaker C: Could you give me a protection? [02:30:53] Speaker B: I would love to. Oh, goodness. I would not like to tell you. [02:30:57] Speaker C: I was about to say you could Use the telescope. But then I remember that belonged to the other party. [02:31:02] Speaker G: Is the statue black colored? Zachary. [02:31:05] Speaker C: It's dark in coloration, very far away Obsidian. [02:31:07] Speaker F: Dark in coloration very far away obsidian. [02:31:11] Speaker G: I bet it's nothing. Guys, we should keep going. [02:31:13] Speaker B: It's got a. I agree. [02:31:15] Speaker F: It's not coming after an eight. [02:31:18] Speaker B: Yes. [02:31:19] Speaker C: It's too far away. Greta, you can't make out any clear details. [02:31:22] Speaker D: Can I perceive? Can. I mean, you can? [02:31:28] Speaker C: You can. [02:31:28] Speaker F: Yeah. [02:31:29] Speaker C: We're now in repeated Czech territory, so I'm gonna raise the DC a little bit. But you can. [02:31:32] Speaker D: That's fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. That is a 26. [02:31:42] Speaker C: Holy crap, Jackie. Also, Lando, I'm drinking a Bullet. The Bullet Bourbon. I don't know if we ever drank that together. It's really good. [02:31:50] Speaker A: I have. [02:31:50] Speaker D: I've had it. [02:31:51] Speaker C: Yes, you have, Jackie. That's right, ro. As you look out of the landscape, it's like a really harsh, like, sharp, roughly assembled angular statue of dark colors. It's really far. [02:32:05] Speaker E: Oh, shoot. [02:32:07] Speaker C: It's kind of like that thing Greta described from her dreams. The thing she said, Walter, except it's like more than two stories tall. [02:32:16] Speaker D: I relay this information gently. Gently relay it. [02:32:22] Speaker C: Greta. If the thing that killed Walter is an obsidian soul, this is like an obsidian giant. [02:32:28] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [02:32:30] Speaker C: Really far away. So far you could even say it's fully out of your path. [02:32:36] Speaker B: Okay, well, we'll just keep an eye on it. [02:32:38] Speaker D: Yeah, let's not go near that. Which. What. Which way would you say is northeast? And I say we head that way. Rose says. Well, RO knows northeast. [02:32:53] Speaker C: You are immediately aware where north is, and you get the feeling that you all are facing away from it. Could you give me a survival check? Actually, Navigator. [02:33:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:33:01] Speaker C: You've earned your proficiency in that. [02:33:03] Speaker F: Right? [02:33:04] Speaker C: Checks for navigation. I think you've earned your. [02:33:07] Speaker D: Not quite. Okay, I'm just shy of my hours, but I'm like, I'm getting there. [02:33:14] Speaker C: Let's say you earned them, okay? Okay. We're far enough in the campaign. We're out of the boat. Let's say you earned them. [02:33:21] Speaker D: So is it a. So what is it? [02:33:23] Speaker C: It's a survival check. And you add your professions, you'll add your profession. [02:33:27] Speaker D: So when I do survival, that has to do with navigation, I get proficient. [02:33:31] Speaker A: See? [02:33:32] Speaker D: Okay, understood. Wait. I'm so sorry. I feel like I'm having a brain fart. [02:33:42] Speaker C: You're going to roll a T20 and add your survival modifier, then add your proficiency bonus. [02:33:46] Speaker D: I don't get it. I don't. I don't get no, whatever I was trying to say. I thought. I was thinking I could roll it twice. That's not correct. [02:33:55] Speaker B: Okay. [02:33:58] Speaker D: Okay, so proficiency. That is going to be my. [02:34:04] Speaker F: It's going to bang me. Oh, no. I saw this. [02:34:09] Speaker D: That's a 17. All of that, she didn't do great, but not horrible. [02:34:13] Speaker C: That's not awful. 17's a good check row. [02:34:17] Speaker E: Okay. [02:34:19] Speaker C: You peer your eyes. If north is that way, you can see stones starting to jut out of the map. You remember from the map. Okay, well, you need to go, like, you're a little far south. You get the feeling that you were just shy of being kind of in bleeding Spring territory. Maybe if that third odds or evens had gone wrong. But you look far north, and, okay, that's. That's the way toward the mountainous landscape in the north, in the northeast, where Blackfang would be. But you're pretty far. It's time to start walking. You got no time to waste. Yeah, you'd say you're miles and miles and miles and miles and miles off. [02:35:07] Speaker D: So just for me as a player, are we on the map? Are we, like, south of the Boiling Lake? Basically, like, I know Ro doesn't know. [02:35:17] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I got you. I got you for your mental acuity. [02:35:20] Speaker F: Yeah. [02:35:21] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah, you're probably. Well, you're probably not too far south. You're probably, like, a little south and pretty far east. [02:35:31] Speaker D: I'm pretty far east. Okay, understood. So are we past the Boiling Lake? We're in, like, this. The random little hill area. Okay, we. Okay, that's fine. [02:35:42] Speaker C: That's fine. [02:35:44] Speaker F: Everything's fine. [02:35:45] Speaker D: Okay. Okay. So, yeah, I. Yeah, let's. Okay, we head that way, I guess. [02:35:56] Speaker F: All right. Does anyone know any good walking songs? You know, the ship always had good. [02:36:01] Speaker D: RO and starts like. [02:36:05] Speaker C: Tello. Tello just leans to your ear. [02:36:07] Speaker F: Wrong. [02:36:07] Speaker C: Grim. [02:36:07] Speaker E: And goes, what have you done? [02:36:12] Speaker A: Can I sing for you guys? [02:36:17] Speaker E: Yes. Yes, Greg. [02:36:20] Speaker D: I give him some backup music. [02:36:23] Speaker A: This is my walking song. Walking song. [02:36:27] Speaker B: Walking song. [02:36:28] Speaker A: This my walking song. All read the beat of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. [02:36:39] Speaker C: Okay. And this carries on for some time. [02:36:42] Speaker B: I have one. I have one. I have one. [02:36:43] Speaker C: Goodness, yeah. Okay, you're welcome. [02:36:46] Speaker B: 3, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. [02:36:52] Speaker C: Tell looks longingly at the dark statue and then continues walking. All right. Okay, okay, okay. [02:36:59] Speaker D: Did you just say 29? 29? 29, 29. [02:37:02] Speaker B: I did. [02:37:03] Speaker D: It's Joe. [02:37:06] Speaker C: And the party continues. And if we have any more songs, things start gaining hit points. And the party continues. And you walk for maybe the next eight or nine hours. [02:37:22] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh, Zach. [02:37:24] Speaker C: You take a break, you eat, you continue along the way, you have to forward unpleasant paths. You have to cross small tongues of lava. You have to move across ravines. But you use your various abilities, you do so rather easily. And eventually you start encountering a portion of the landscape where more of those statues are popping up every once in a while. And you recall what Alandra said about it being a little safer in the ravines she found. And you found that some of them do snake toward the north. Does the party climb down into them or do you stay above? [02:38:02] Speaker D: No, we go to. I say we go. [02:38:06] Speaker B: You'd say that we climb down. [02:38:07] Speaker D: Yeah. Not in the tunnels, but in the ravines. [02:38:11] Speaker B: Yes, yes, I think I agree. [02:38:14] Speaker E: Okay. [02:38:15] Speaker C: It's a precarious journey down, but the party makes it. The lips into them are 15, 20ft in some places and they're very sharp. The edges are. It's like the landscape here is obsidian. It's like cut like blades. But you all make your way down into it. And as the party travels there grimly moving through the ravine, that is where we are going to end. Episode 166 of the Accidental Adventure Ventures. Okay, listeners, thank you for enjoying it. We'll go over levels at the end of next session. I'll have that information for you. It'll be more pertinent then. But we. We'll come back after a little break, folks. Try and take like a five minute break. That's really the goal. We'll try to be back by 50. And if you need to go pissy, I understand if you need to even poopy, it's okay. If it's a little long, try to go as quick as you can. Five minutes. We're going for like five minutes. Tens, like ten. Like really topsies. Really topsies is ten. But listener, we had those logistics there. I could have done that off mic. Thank you for listening. We are going to come right back with the. With the fun guys and wrong to a very exciting second session. So life's an incredible adventure. You're a very important part of it. And we'll see you next time. Skibidi, Wap and Dada.