180. True in the Light

[00:00:00] Speaker A: There's an actual bird called a Quetzal. [00:00:04] Speaker B: The Quetzalcoatl. [00:00:06] Speaker A: Welcome back to Verily D and D. [00:00:08] Speaker B: This is your sort of Dungeons and Dragons podcast. Today we are talking about. What was it, Abby? Quetzalcoatls. [00:00:17] Speaker A: Well, I just think I. I'm looking on the Internet. Quetzalcoatl is a deity in Aztec culture and literature. And then there's like a bird that is a real Quetzalcoatl or it's a Quetzal. And I just think that's really cool. [00:00:28] Speaker B: And that is. [00:00:29] Speaker C: There's also Quetzalcoatlus. [00:00:30] Speaker D: It's a pretty bird. [00:00:31] Speaker B: That sounds like a Pokemon. I'm not even gonna lie. That sounds like a Pokemon. [00:00:34] Speaker C: There's a real big pteran. [00:00:35] Speaker D: Rayquaza is the Quetzalcoatl. That's Rayquaza. [00:00:40] Speaker C: That's true. [00:00:40] Speaker A: Rayquaza. [00:00:41] Speaker C: Get pwned, nerd. Actually, hey, while we're talking Pokemon, because we have to meander aimlessly at the [00:00:46] Speaker E: start of a session. [00:00:47] Speaker C: It's who we are. I was forced to by the school district to read out of a textbook with my students for two weeks straight. And to help us survive that mind numbing experience, I was having them all sorts of nonsense. Read in your highest voice, read in your lowest voice, read while walking backward in circles. And so we were just laughing about it. And the best thing of all that we came up with was relying on their knowledge of Pokemon. I this last week for a couple of days, I had them read sections and I was like, okay, anytime you come across a word that starts with the word P, instead of saying that word, say your own name like a Pokemon would. And so a student would be in class and he'd be like, um, specifically high numbers of blood alcohol can Jose the amount that you have to. And I mean I had students crying, weeping, laughing in class. I mean weeping. And we made the most of it. [00:01:40] Speaker B: But that is so fun. [00:01:43] Speaker F: That's really fun. [00:01:44] Speaker C: We got to the readings. Anywho, here with our letter question is Danny Boy, take it away. [00:01:54] Speaker G: It's your boy. He's back. [00:01:56] Speaker C: No, never mind. Anyway, I take it back. Daniel. [00:01:59] Speaker G: He's back. [00:02:00] Speaker C: It's Danielford. [00:02:05] Speaker G: I've had that sung to me a few times. Anyway, sorry, I have the question of what is the either best slash most terrible prank your character has ever done to someone else in the world? [00:02:24] Speaker D: In the world of. [00:02:26] Speaker C: Yeah, in the world. [00:02:28] Speaker D: I know, it's just like a funny. A funny ad thing to add in there. [00:02:35] Speaker C: Heck yeah. Before we get going, who's The DM npc. [00:02:40] Speaker H: Let's do tell this time. Since we did u last time. No, Tello probably didn't play pranks. Never mind. [00:02:48] Speaker A: Might be really grim. [00:02:50] Speaker H: Yeah, [00:02:53] Speaker B: he seems. [00:02:54] Speaker F: Yeah, he seems like a goofy guy. [00:02:58] Speaker A: I also thought of knob. [00:03:02] Speaker B: I feel like I might have a cool prank. [00:03:04] Speaker C: Daniel, is it okay. Is it okay if we expand the question to the worst prank they've done or one they would do if they haven't done one? You okay with that? All right, Daniel's giving us the thumbs up. Javian, any wild rich boy stories from him? [00:03:23] Speaker H: Rich boys stories. [00:03:25] Speaker C: Did Javian perhaps go to a bank and give them 100 golden coppers so that they'd have to count it to their friend in deposit? Is that a prank you might have pulled? [00:03:38] Speaker B: What he's referring to is literally my job. So. [00:03:43] Speaker C: Because this is true. Micah was literally once a rich playboy prince. [00:03:49] Speaker B: And so you know it. [00:03:56] Speaker D: Thinking of Xavier's probably done at least one prank that it resulted in, like, you know, like an international diplomatic incident. [00:04:05] Speaker C: We said he peed off a balcony, so he knew it would be on people. [00:04:10] Speaker D: So peed off the balcony. There were no people there, but Micah [00:04:16] Speaker C: just laughed really hard while yawning. And she was like. [00:04:21] Speaker D: I think the air just went wrong. It feels like. I don't. Don't think I've ever done a prank myself. I don't know how to, like, what do people do prank? Other than think of the stupid YouTube stuff Jackie was talking about. But I don't know. He's definitely pulled some dumb pranks with his college buddies on like. Like a. Like another, [00:04:48] Speaker C: you know, some foreign diplomat. [00:04:51] Speaker D: Some foreign diplomat and ended up being assumed someone else did it. And it was a whole ordeal. And I don't know. [00:05:03] Speaker C: Oh, that makes me think of something. [00:05:04] Speaker E: But that's fine. [00:05:06] Speaker D: Maybe it was just like. Maybe it was just like messing with their clothes in some stupid way, though. [00:05:11] Speaker C: Like, excellent. [00:05:13] Speaker D: Something at that level, but, like, [00:05:16] Speaker C: switched out. Got rid of their ceremonial garments for some important event or something. [00:05:22] Speaker D: Yeah, like, messed up. Yeah, like, just like drew something funny on the back of the rope, but they didn't notice. [00:05:28] Speaker C: Like, yeah, I like it. [00:05:31] Speaker D: What about. I don't care if you're in college, you'd have a trouble for kick me. [00:05:38] Speaker H: So I think the worst prank that was ever done on Roe was when she was hog tied on the poor bet. And I think that was really rude. But I think, though, I think when it took Zach a minute, I think when. Because Roe used to be a little bit more mischievous and used to like, have a little bit of a, like, stealing and disguising phase. Because that was like her whole. Her whole. [00:06:10] Speaker C: You did some theft in this campaign. [00:06:12] Speaker H: Yeah. And that was her whole thing when she first became a bard is. She was. She was. College of What. What was it, Zach? [00:06:20] Speaker C: It was. [00:06:21] Speaker H: I can't even remember what's called now, but it was all about disguising and mischievous. Yeah, it was like all about stuff like that. Anyway, I think she learned disguise self pretty early on, since it's first level spell. And I feel like even maybe at the orphanage, if this makes sense, she maybe started trying to learn disguise self and like, she would play pranks on everyone else, like pretending to be like. Like the higher ups in the orphanage and like, you let the other kids or whatever. And then she would like, change back into herself and like, be like they got in trouble and then not get in trouble. I don't know. [00:07:06] Speaker D: Halfling child. Half the time it's like. Well, like they were really short. [00:07:11] Speaker C: And that's what didn't go so well about the pranks was that Aunt Yenny was suddenly two feet tall. [00:07:15] Speaker H: Yeah. [00:07:15] Speaker C: So it only worked on the kids in the orphanage who were really, really dumb. [00:07:20] Speaker H: Exactly. [00:07:21] Speaker C: But it crushed on them. [00:07:25] Speaker H: She was just getting the hang of it. She didn't know what she was doing. [00:07:27] Speaker C: Yeah, you got to start somewhere. What about Janice? [00:07:34] Speaker F: I feel like Janice used to have some pretty big prank wars with her sister when they would come home. [00:07:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:42] Speaker F: From college. Yeah. Her sister is a. A wizard who used to work at. Where does she work? The. [00:07:53] Speaker A: The Iron Cauldron. [00:07:55] Speaker F: Iron Cauldron, Yes. [00:07:57] Speaker C: Not so willingly, but yeah, she was. [00:08:00] Speaker H: No, no. [00:08:00] Speaker C: Yeah, she was like, forced to work for the. For the Empire. Yeah. [00:08:04] Speaker F: But she. Yeah, she was a wizard and so, yeah, I think that they would have some pretty big ones. Don't know what it would have been. [00:08:12] Speaker C: Maybe Janice needing to take Juno down a peg. [00:08:15] Speaker F: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's about it. [00:08:19] Speaker C: Taking. Taking her spell book and just like changing one letter on a page or something so the spell doesn't work. Yeah, yeah, something like that. Pretty brutal. What about Greta? I'm kind of scared to ask, but. What about Greta? [00:08:35] Speaker A: I was gonna say, with that prank [00:08:37] Speaker C: with the hags, it might have been murder, but I do feel the. [00:08:40] Speaker A: Greta learned some pretty gnarly pranks with the hags. [00:08:44] Speaker C: Like, haha, you've been disemboweled. [00:08:46] Speaker A: And they were probably pretty aggressive and cruel, like at the expense of others, and very mean. [00:08:55] Speaker C: But do you have less fingers now? [00:08:59] Speaker A: Maybe it's Time, like, with her family, she had. [00:09:05] Speaker C: Mike is crying. [00:09:08] Speaker A: Like, I don't know. I feel like when she was like, young or like, traveling and like, would visit her family, she was pretty mischievous and like, she would get kind of bored. So she would just maybe make like a really, like, mix like a, like a gross mushroom into someone's. [00:09:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:09:28] Speaker A: You know the drink, you know, the prank. That's like someone's like, hey, can you get me water? And you go get them a Sprite and wait for all the bubbles to. To go away and then you give them and then they're like, what? It's. It's Sprite. Oh my gosh. I feel like whatever the equivalent of that is. Greta would do that to like, her like, snotty older sister, but it's like potato. Yeah. Whenever she went back home, she'd be [00:09:53] Speaker C: like, haha, you've been disemboweled. [00:10:00] Speaker D: Oops, I can't disintegrate. [00:10:03] Speaker C: It's really funny because Micah's laughing super hard, but the laptop's like on her legs or her stomach, so the camera's just going, she's laughing. Oh my goodness. [00:10:15] Speaker B: Like, where are they? Where are your bowels? [00:10:17] Speaker E: Don't know. [00:10:21] Speaker C: Got your nose, but got your intestines, where they go? One of these thumbs is mine. One of them is yours. [00:10:35] Speaker H: I feel like. I feel like Greta with the hags. Is that vine? That's like, what did you bring? [00:10:40] Speaker B: Myrrh? [00:10:41] Speaker C: Murder. Oh my goodness. What about Wrong Grim? I can't imagine. But what about Wrong Grim? [00:10:53] Speaker G: I feel like Rongrim was a mischievous little guy and not. Not in the way that, like, he'd be proud of it or he would. He would acknowledge it. Like, all those pranks would be just these subtle little things. So, like, I think growing up, he would have on purposely heard people's names wrong. But no one was like, going to talk to him about it because he was a bit strong always. And he's just like, yeah. And you also didn't know if he was just like a little deaf. Who knows? And so, like, I think those little pranks would be like, following throughout his whole career. [00:11:28] Speaker C: That was Daniel being vulnerable there. [00:11:30] Speaker A: Like, only he knows. [00:11:32] Speaker G: Yeah, only he knows if I. If I give you the right name. And he also knows true friends are the ones he knew their names of. And I think the biggest pranks he would have done would have been. Let me look up her name. My cook, Livy. When Livy got sick once on the ship, she was the ship's cook. And I think Ron Grimm would have, unbeknownst to everyone, been a fine cook. And, like, whenever Livy got sick on the ship, every once in a while, he would cook. But I think every once, every. [00:12:07] Speaker C: He would. [00:12:08] Speaker G: When there was a new person on the crew or something, he would just give them the worst of all the food just to get. Just to. Just to see what they would react for and see if they would be like, oh, yeah. And then, you know, sometimes. One time, I think the worst that happened was that he accidentally probably got the whole ship sick once because he. He thought he had only put the bad stuff in the new person stuff, but then he just put it in everyone's. And then he just, like, everyone's barfing around him, and he's just like, this [00:12:41] Speaker C: is my own failure. I like that. It's like that scene in the office where, like, Pam's pregnant and people won't, like, accommodate her, so she barfs, but then everyone starts barfing. [00:12:55] Speaker D: I just had an idea, like, what if Jamie, at one point, like, maybe, like, really young, with Savina, like, they do, like, a switch around some of the food at the dinner, but, like, someone has, like, an allergy. [00:13:05] Speaker G: Oh, yes. [00:13:08] Speaker F: You're not, like, deadly. You're not a deadly allergy. [00:13:12] Speaker D: There's healers. [00:13:14] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Andrea said no. No, I dig. I'm kind of scared to ask, but [00:13:20] Speaker D: what about Craig's first murder? [00:13:22] Speaker B: Well, I'd like to reiterate. I like to reiterate from past episodes that Craig has, in fact, peed into someone's ear. [00:13:31] Speaker C: Yep. I was hoping you wouldn't bring it [00:13:33] Speaker B: up so I would be one. But [00:13:40] Speaker F: wait, what would he do? [00:13:42] Speaker B: So there. He had a bad boss one time, and he took his boss out, and his boss was, like, having a beer, and he was like, I don't know, gonna go get a refill. Maybe, like, the bar. They were sitting at tables, and he was gonna go to the bar, but he took it to the bathroom and he peed into it. [00:13:58] Speaker A: Craig, why are you taking my beer to the bathroom? [00:14:01] Speaker B: But he can't see it. [00:14:02] Speaker C: Don't worry about it. Bad boss. [00:14:05] Speaker B: This is what I'm imagining is that there's a room for table seating, then there's the bar, and then, like, to the, like, further end of the bar is like, maybe the bathroom. So what? It looked like he was going to get the bar to the beer to refill, but he went to the bathroom and stood. Okay, back. But anyways, yeah, that. That has already been said. So I. I would say that Maybe his, like, favorite prank to do was that whenever he was working in the mines, he would. Like, when there was a new guy, he would pretend to be like. And like, just. I don't know. I don't know. I'm trying to think of, like, like, anyone but someone that works there. Does that make sense? [00:14:47] Speaker E: Like. [00:14:49] Speaker B: Like, he would pretend to be someone, like, live in the cave or something. Like, when the new guy's coming in to be trained by this other dude. Like, he's like, pretends to. Like, he basically just hazes the guy and, like, pretends to live in the cave or something and freaks him out or like a ghost. Why are you laughing at me? [00:15:14] Speaker C: It's. I'm. [00:15:19] Speaker B: I just. I just. [00:15:23] Speaker C: Yeah. Anywho, listeners, we're so sorry for helping. Just stop paying attention to the chat. [00:15:28] Speaker D: Sometimes I feel like it's like, okay, this has happened many times with shaving where it's just like. Or like, things like. Like for this week and last week, where I'm just like, I don't know what's a bad thing to do? So I come up with something, and you're like, wait, that's horrible. And I'm like, I tried to come up with, like, a funny place to do something. Like, apparently I went too far. [00:15:52] Speaker G: I think you did great. [00:15:54] Speaker C: There's no way that they wouldn't be [00:15:56] Speaker G: hoarding diamonds in your castle and just have them for rebootify for people they accidentally kill all the time. I can. [00:16:04] Speaker C: I can totally do a prank for Spaghuber. [00:16:07] Speaker D: Restoration can absolutely handle anaphylaxis. [00:16:10] Speaker C: I'm going to. I'm going to offer. We can strike it down an alternative to answering for Spaghuber. How do you guys feel about this? One time, instead of answering for Spaghuber. I admit a real prank that I did in real life that went very wrong. [00:16:31] Speaker H: Is it gonna get in trouble? [00:16:35] Speaker D: Can I guess? [00:16:38] Speaker A: I want to guess. I feel. I want to guess. [00:16:40] Speaker C: Go ahead, Abby. [00:16:41] Speaker A: Will I spoil it if I guess it? [00:16:43] Speaker C: Maybe. I don't know. [00:16:45] Speaker B: Did you group in someone's car? [00:16:47] Speaker C: It is. It is the one at summer camp. Okay, so wait. Which one were you? That's the only one. What were you thinking of, Daniel? [00:16:54] Speaker G: I was thinking of the thing with [00:16:55] Speaker C: Landon and the p. No, that was with Christian. But no, we don't have to talk about that one. I'll leave that one out. But Daniel knows all the lore, so this one year, Daniel and I were. [00:17:15] Speaker G: Were. [00:17:17] Speaker C: We were at summer camp our senior year, and there were these two guys on the trip who were not necessarily super emotionally balanced. We'll call them G. And I can't remember the other guy's name, so we'll call him D. His G and D. And we'll make it not rhyme. G and L. So G was, like. It wasn't hard to make him mad. And Elle was kind of an explosive personality who was also, like, weird in a fun way. And then Daniel and I had all our friends, and so we were at summer camp, and we'd done this thing where we took all of our bunk beds and we moved them into this big square. And I don't even remember what we called it, but we. You know, we were all there. And so it was this one. It was, like one of the last nights of summer camp. Like, the next to last night. And everybody'd gone to bed, and, like, three or four of us were still awake. And we were all, like. We were, like, talking about deep emotions. Some of us. Some of us. Some of us were like. Like writing letters to each other. It was very sweet, genuine male bonding time. And I just got this. Daniel was asleep. And once Daniel's out, he can. I don't wake up. He's invincible. I don't wake up. And so I. I just got this little demon voice in my head. And I spent 15 minutes slowly waking up from my bunk, rotating over the side, and climbing face down the ladder. So slowly that in the darkness, no one knew it was me. And then I got under the bunk, and I crawled all the way under the bunks until I got around to our friend Ryan's bunk. It was Ryan and then Andrew. I'm gonna make this fast, I promise. No, his names are fine. It's the other names I can't say. These names are fine to say. [00:19:08] Speaker D: Okay. [00:19:08] Speaker C: Okay. So Ryan was here, Andrew was here, and Andrew was his cousin. And so I was like. I got there, but I was like, I don't know what to do now. So I just got stuff Ryan had next to his bunk, and I started throwing it up at Andrew. So underneath Ryan's bunk, I got his shoe, and I threw it up, and I hit Andrew. And Andrew got really mad, and he was like, who threw that? And everyone was like, we don't know. And then I did it again, and Andrew was like, ryan, is that you? And then Ryan was like, it's not me. And then I did it, like, you know, five or six more times. And then finally, they're yelling at each other and they're getting super pissed. And Andrew was like, do that one More time and I'm gonna get yours, you know? But it was fine. They were cousins. So I did it one more time and Andrew got really mad and he took it and he, like, threw it away, like, you can't have your shoe back or something. But then it went. It flew across the room and hit L, who was asleep. And Elle got up and was like, who threw that? And everyone was quiet. And then he was like, who threw that? And he was like, g, was that you? Because they were beefing all summer camp. And G was like, that wasn't me. And I'm just quietly underneath the bunk, like, oh, no. And it's pitch black in the middle of the night, and they start screaming at each other. And one of them gets up and I'm like. So I like, crawl back to my bunk and up the ladder and back into my bed. So no one knew I was there. And at some point, L punches G in the face and, like, doesn't break his nose, but there's blood. And I take this opportunity to wake up out of my bunk like, ah, this is the first time I'm being awoken. And the worst part is that, like, Daniel and I were kind of moral authorities among our group. Like, they really respected us for our morality and honesty. And so I, like, got down off the bunk and broke it up. And, like, I, like, gave them moral talking tos and talked about the people we were trying to become. I sent Elle back to his bunk. I took G to the bathroom, cleaned him up. He was crying. We talked it out. I talked to L. I got everyone situated and calmed down, and they had no idea it was me. To this day. [00:21:09] Speaker B: You've never told them. [00:21:11] Speaker D: Now they know. [00:21:13] Speaker H: They listen to 200 episodes of our podcast. [00:21:21] Speaker C: So I started a fist fight at church camp and never told anybody. [00:21:25] Speaker B: Are you still. Are you still in contact with them? [00:21:29] Speaker C: No. None of these people know us. Episodes 180 and 253. The Accidental Adventures. The Note Taking Nerds. True in the Light. [00:21:43] Speaker E: Which what seems What? [00:21:46] Speaker C: True in the Light. [00:21:48] Speaker H: True in the Light. [00:21:50] Speaker C: True in the Light. Because we had an episode a while back called True in the Dark. Episode 180 and 253. True in the light. This is a level 1916 adventure. The date is 3488pb. No one's really sure what the day is right now. [00:22:15] Speaker H: What [00:22:18] Speaker D: is this? But it hasn't been. [00:22:23] Speaker H: But we haven't slept. So, like, we should know what day it is. [00:22:28] Speaker C: And I think I've given You guys, all the dates as note taking nerds. So let's hippity hop into it, shall we? [00:22:39] Speaker D: So to clarify, we have not slept since we. [00:22:43] Speaker E: No. [00:22:44] Speaker D: Okay, important question then. Has it been eight hours since we met them? Since we initially teleported in? [00:22:54] Speaker C: Doesn't feel like it. [00:22:56] Speaker D: Well, does my foresight feel like I'm still receiving the spell? [00:23:03] Speaker E: It does. [00:23:04] Speaker C: Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no. Since when did you cast it? [00:23:07] Speaker D: I would have cast it right before we teleported to see them. [00:23:11] Speaker C: Well, you didn't intentionally tell. Oh. Oh, to see the fun guys. [00:23:15] Speaker D: Yeah, sorry. [00:23:15] Speaker C: Yeah, it's gone. [00:23:17] Speaker D: It's gone. And I assume we've been walking long enough for my wings to disappear too. [00:23:22] Speaker C: Yeah, [00:23:27] Speaker E: Fun guys. [00:23:27] Speaker C: Awards as well. [00:23:29] Speaker H: That's us. [00:23:31] Speaker C: Do I want this song? How's this one? How's this one? What's this one like? What's this one like? Now I'll go back to the last one. You all stand at the edge of an immense caldera, and you have been told that you need to perform these incredible tasks. [00:24:03] Speaker E: What's the party doing? [00:24:05] Speaker D: I have one question. You said the surface is like diamond. Like, so do you mean like just like crystal, like. Or does it look like. Like an ice sheet, like sealing it in? [00:24:17] Speaker C: So, yes, he's a very important question. There is no. There is no. Like, the surface to the well is roiling, powerful, cracking liquid light. But it's like the edges, the interior edges of the bowl of the caldera, not the outsides like igneous stone, but those inward facing edges are all sheets of diamond. [00:24:39] Speaker D: Oh, okay. I was reading it as an ice sheet, but it's just on the edges. Okay, for sure. [00:24:44] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:24:45] Speaker A: That is helpful clarification. [00:24:47] Speaker C: Also, it's like a. Sorry, Another important detail. From the edge of the caldera to where like before the liquid light begins is like a 300 foot descent. But you guys are also aware that like, you know, nearing a deep well, you get too close to that magic, it'll. It'll annihilate you. It'll cook you. So the distance is probably not unintentional. You all know the process. Also, I'll give you one more heads up, just from a. You guys would intuit at this. I don't. I don't want you to be surprised by this, both for the sake of play and also for the things you would know. You are aware that this is some pretty incomparable magic you all will be working with. So I'm not saying you need to. And dear goodness, I'm not trying to bog us down in a bunch of planning, because heaven knows it's just trying the things and doing them. But if there was some sort of thing you wanted to do to provide yourself any aid or advantage, anything to help yourselves with these tasks, that wouldn't be a bad idea. Because you are willing to bet that these DCs are going to be bee fee. [00:26:10] Speaker B: Can I use bottle talent? [00:26:14] Speaker C: Sure. Craig, as this is transpiring, you pull out how many. How many remaining bottled talents do you have? [00:26:20] Speaker B: This is my last one. [00:26:23] Speaker C: Okay. Pretty sick [00:26:27] Speaker B: husband home. [00:26:30] Speaker C: Okay. All right, go get him. [00:26:34] Speaker A: Yes, dm Can I do. Question mark check to see what if I were to say, like, maybe enhance some abilities, what ability I would want to enhance the most. And I would like to make that check for Janice, Row and the three. [00:26:58] Speaker C: I don't think that you need to make a check. I think you have far too much expertise and understanding for this to require Check. I'm gonna say you could put together easily enough the kind. You'd be willing to bet that Janice would be working with Arcana. [00:27:17] Speaker D: Assuming we don't. I was just saying. No, I don't finish. I was just gonna say what spell I was doing. [00:27:25] Speaker C: Okay. You'd be willing to bet that Janice would be working with Arcana. You'd be willing to bet that Roh would likely be working with Arcana as well. You'd be willing to bet that Xavian and Craig and Rangr might be working with different individual kind of checks to deal with controlling that kind of magic through. They are different methods. For Xavian, it might be more magical. For Craig, it might be magical or physical. For Wronggrim, it's probably going to be a little bit more physical. While you are thinking those things through, Uegg is not directly involved in these. Oh, no. Go ahead, Kara, take it away. [00:28:17] Speaker F: Sorry, I was just going to say, can he enhance the other people? So. [00:28:23] Speaker E: Yes. [00:28:24] Speaker F: Greta gets. [00:28:24] Speaker C: Yes, we'll follow that up. [00:28:29] Speaker D: Go ahead. [00:28:30] Speaker A: Oh, it's concentration. Hold on. Okay. [00:28:36] Speaker D: I could do a bless. It'll last a minute, but I will do it before we l off. [00:28:42] Speaker E: Excellent. [00:28:43] Speaker C: How many people can you bless? Kind of everybody, Right? Because you cast that fifth one. [00:28:47] Speaker D: Yeah. So I can bless like seven. So I can get all six of us. [00:28:52] Speaker A: I can also cast up, enhance ability and target additional creatures. When I do target additional creatures, can I give different people? [00:29:04] Speaker C: Yes, absolutely. [00:29:05] Speaker B: Okay. [00:29:06] Speaker F: Well, that means to do anything during it or [00:29:13] Speaker C: not, as long as it's not another concentration spell. [00:29:16] Speaker A: Yeah, but I. I should need to. I Think. Yeah. [00:29:21] Speaker C: Gotcha, gotcha. [00:29:22] Speaker B: I have a question. [00:29:25] Speaker C: Yeah, real quick. I'm so sorry. [00:29:29] Speaker B: I just don't want to use the bottle talent and then pick a modifier. [00:29:35] Speaker C: Not a modifier. [00:29:40] Speaker B: How should I go? [00:29:41] Speaker C: That'd be awful. No, no, I got you. You can piece together easily enough. What you'll probably be utilizing, Craig, as you uncork the last bottle talent and drink. It's saccharine liquor. It's saccharine liquid. It gives you advantage, right? [00:29:59] Speaker B: Yes. [00:30:00] Speaker C: Okay. You provide yourself advantage on ability checks with your spell casting modifier. So charisma, ability checks. [00:30:15] Speaker B: Good stuff. [00:30:17] Speaker C: Yes. [00:30:19] Speaker H: Ro is gonna use epic ballad. [00:30:24] Speaker C: I thought you were going to. [00:30:27] Speaker H: And she is going to play a little bit of the old song. Like as she's preparing to play it, she's. It's kind of like her warm up, right? [00:30:36] Speaker F: To. [00:30:36] Speaker H: To actually playing it. And when she does that. Hold on. [00:30:39] Speaker C: I drop. [00:30:40] Speaker H: I dropped my pencil. [00:30:44] Speaker B: Okay. [00:30:45] Speaker H: And as she does that, she bartically inspires simultaneously Janice Jian, Ron Grimm, and Craig. So y' all each have a. Each a D12 to add to your checks. [00:31:04] Speaker A: Just to clarify, I'm not sure what Gabian, Craig and Ron Grimm would use. [00:31:13] Speaker C: No, no, you are coming back to that. So Craig is likely going to be using his own magical casting ability. Xavian is likely going to be doing the same. [00:31:25] Speaker D: Almost certainly. Charisma. [00:31:27] Speaker C: Yeah, charisma. [00:31:28] Speaker A: And then. [00:31:29] Speaker C: Wrong. Grim's probably going to be using his physical strength as Daniel showed off. [00:31:35] Speaker D: He's gonna stab that magic so hard. [00:31:38] Speaker H: I wish I could bar to cleat inspired. [00:31:40] Speaker G: I'm also already gonna be advantaged from our raging, so. [00:31:48] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:31:49] Speaker G: I think I have as many of the cool effects as you all, so if you need to do that thing for someone else. [00:31:55] Speaker A: I cast guidance. Well, I. I can do it, but I just fifth instead of fourth or sixth. So you don't need it, Daniel? [00:32:05] Speaker G: No, I don't. I'm good. [00:32:08] Speaker A: I'm gonna give a two anyway, just in case. [00:32:11] Speaker H: Yeah, I think. I think Ro would look to Greta and be like any guidance you give me could help right now. [00:32:17] Speaker A: Okay. I give royal guidance, and then I cast enhanceability at the sixth level on Janice. So I give Janice, Ro and Janice and [00:32:40] Speaker C: Janus Roe and Javian probably. [00:32:41] Speaker A: Right, right, right, right. But I need to. What's your. [00:32:46] Speaker D: What. [00:32:46] Speaker A: What's your spell casting ability? [00:32:48] Speaker C: Oh, you can give them the right ones. [00:32:52] Speaker H: Okay. [00:32:52] Speaker A: Okay. Well, then I give them and give [00:32:54] Speaker C: them the right ones. [00:32:55] Speaker D: Yes. I'm not saying you have to, but technically. Oh, wait, he already has Something. But Craig, Shavian, and Janice all have Prismacastic. [00:33:05] Speaker A: Okay, so I give those guys. But Craig already did the splendor. And then I give Rondgrim Bulls strength. [00:33:15] Speaker C: No, wrong. Grim's already got the. He's got the advantage. From raving. From raging. Not raving. So basically, only Jamie and Janus need it. Only Ro, Xavian, and Janice need advantage. [00:33:29] Speaker A: Everyone else, I'm gonna give it to him anyway. [00:33:32] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [00:33:33] Speaker B: Cool. [00:33:34] Speaker A: And just dislike, in case there's a strength check. [00:33:37] Speaker C: Sure. [00:33:38] Speaker A: I would like to give it to him anyway. [00:33:41] Speaker C: Understood. All right. [00:33:43] Speaker A: And there's one more that I'm forgetting. [00:33:47] Speaker E: There isn't. [00:33:48] Speaker D: Well, isn't that your concentration right there? [00:33:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm done. [00:33:55] Speaker B: Excellent. [00:33:56] Speaker C: So everyone's been blessed. [00:33:59] Speaker H: What is blessed? [00:34:00] Speaker C: Do everyone has an epic ballad, so mass bardic inspiration of a D12. And everyone has advantage. [00:34:11] Speaker F: Can we also guide? [00:34:14] Speaker C: Well, I was about to say, Greta, who do you guide out of this group? [00:34:17] Speaker F: Well, you. [00:34:18] Speaker A: I could guide everyone. [00:34:20] Speaker D: Guidance is also [00:34:24] Speaker C: concentration. He can guide 1% time. He's gonna guide Craig. [00:34:32] Speaker F: Okay, a D4. [00:34:35] Speaker C: So that means that everyone has a D4, a D12 and advantage. Micah, you have two D4 and a D12. An advantage. [00:34:50] Speaker D: We're just playing a numbers game. This is accounting right here. [00:34:53] Speaker C: It is. I also know how much my characters love ability checks. [00:35:00] Speaker H: Also, if anyone have guidance. Okay, so just the D4 and advantage. [00:35:06] Speaker E: Okay. [00:35:06] Speaker F: Wait, can't you. [00:35:07] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:35:11] Speaker D: Checks. [00:35:13] Speaker B: Got it. [00:35:16] Speaker F: What? [00:35:16] Speaker C: Well, she's already blessed. She's already blessed. [00:35:18] Speaker E: Correct. [00:35:18] Speaker C: Yeah, but if Craig wants to guide her, he's not focusing on any spells. So Craig could guide Roe. It's just the party, like, preparing and casting over each other and just waves of magic. [00:35:33] Speaker H: So I need the extra D4. [00:35:36] Speaker C: So, Rogue, you have two D4. [00:35:38] Speaker H: Okay. Because I'm starting this thing, and I'm nervous. I don't get it. [00:35:45] Speaker A: You also have your per diem. [00:35:47] Speaker H: I used mine. [00:35:48] Speaker E: That's true. [00:35:50] Speaker H: Yeah. [00:35:51] Speaker C: No, no. New session. Jackie, Wait. [00:35:54] Speaker H: We get one for each session. [00:36:03] Speaker D: I was about to be like, how [00:36:05] Speaker H: have I not known this? [00:36:09] Speaker D: Okay, I'm just gonna cast. I'm just gonna go ahead and cast a spell magic on the. On the lake of magic. And just take care of that. [00:36:21] Speaker H: Guys, I have nervous birds. [00:36:25] Speaker F: Better than nervous toots. [00:36:30] Speaker G: I can. I can attest to that. Zach, whenever we're doing fights and stuff at our place, my wife literally has to leave the table because they're so bad. [00:36:39] Speaker C: Daniel's campaign. When Daniel really stresses me out, I start farting. [00:36:44] Speaker H: Do you not remember the Candle at Christmas that we put you on the one side of the room. [00:36:53] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. [00:36:54] Speaker C: When you guys get me nervous, I get tootin. Anywho. [00:36:58] Speaker D: So nervous about graduation. I was like, farting like, constantly for a whole week. And my dad is always, like, rude about it. And I'm like, sorry, Sorry. [00:37:10] Speaker A: Why do our tummies do this? [00:37:13] Speaker D: Because they hate us. [00:37:14] Speaker C: Anywho. [00:37:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:15] Speaker C: Wait, can I do. [00:37:18] Speaker H: Can I do a strategy check to see. Would it be a good idea for what we're about to do in any way to like, death ward anyone or something like that? Is that something that would feel necessary? [00:37:33] Speaker C: You cast any spells on anybody? No. Death words, no. Concentration? [00:37:37] Speaker H: No. [00:37:38] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:37:39] Speaker C: Also, you can make a decision on whether or not you think that'd be necessary. [00:37:42] Speaker H: Make a decision, but not a check. Okay. [00:37:44] Speaker B: Well, [00:37:47] Speaker C: that is a really good quote, Daniel. I need to write that one down. [00:37:51] Speaker H: You know what? [00:37:52] Speaker G: I don't need death ward. Just so you know. [00:37:54] Speaker H: I think. I think. [00:37:56] Speaker D: Think. [00:38:00] Speaker H: She's gonna death ward Greta so that if any of us. Or that. So that. Because she's standing off to the side so that if something does happen, Greta can take care of anything that's going on. She's death. I'm gonna death ward Greta. So Debta. Debta. No, Greta. [00:38:22] Speaker C: Well, that's Greta when she's dead. [00:38:24] Speaker D: Vendetta [00:38:27] Speaker H: for eight hours. [00:38:29] Speaker D: If you. [00:38:30] Speaker H: Instead of like, dropping, like, you would just drop to one hit point instead of dying. [00:38:37] Speaker A: That's fabulous. Thank you. [00:38:38] Speaker H: So you are death warded to save the rest of us. Yeah. [00:38:42] Speaker B: That'd be really good. Cuz if something did happen to Greta, like. [00:38:45] Speaker H: Yeah. [00:38:46] Speaker B: She experienced. [00:38:50] Speaker A: I don't know if I have diamonds, though. [00:38:52] Speaker D: It has been. [00:38:53] Speaker H: I have one on my body. You would know that. [00:38:56] Speaker A: Do you want to give it to me? Actually, can you give it to me in case you get exploded? [00:39:01] Speaker C: Yeah. UEG is kind of the supreme reviving healer. But y' all. [00:39:04] Speaker G: Do y' all. [00:39:05] Speaker C: Well, Okay. [00:39:07] Speaker H: I also think. [00:39:09] Speaker E: But that's fair. [00:39:09] Speaker H: I death ward both of them. I have. [00:39:14] Speaker F: I just mean, like, you guys don't have to worry about. Let it happen. [00:39:18] Speaker C: Trust me. It's not about logic at the time. [00:39:20] Speaker D: I cast plot. [00:39:20] Speaker B: I cast plot. [00:39:21] Speaker D: So I know that word. I'll physically separate. Right? What, like with the walking. We're not gonna be by each other for much of this. Right. Okay. So things that are like an aura won't help. [00:39:36] Speaker C: Okay. So [00:39:41] Speaker G: Ro. [00:39:47] Speaker C: And really lean into the roleplay here. That's what I would like to emphasize. I'm too scared to. You have to be Brave. Tell me, what does it look like as you try to summon a deep well to rise? [00:40:06] Speaker H: Just real quick, just to clarify so that I know like what I know in what I know intuitively that like. Like, am I. Am I physically. Like it's physically gonna raise the well, like actually. Okay. Yeah. So would I know where to be? Like, not really. I'm just. I just go to the edge. [00:40:32] Speaker C: This is all. Okay. [00:40:35] Speaker E: You. [00:40:37] Speaker H: Why did you make me start it, Zach Love. [00:40:41] Speaker D: Okay. [00:40:46] Speaker H: Okay. Ro is going to. She's gonna sling songsplitter on her back and she's gonna pull out Soul Mender. [00:40:59] Speaker C: Okay. [00:41:01] Speaker H: And I think she is going to go as close to the edge as possible and she's gonna sit down. She's gonna sit down cross legged. [00:41:13] Speaker C: Okay. Okay. [00:41:15] Speaker H: Because the few times that she has invoked the old song in different ways, she has done it in more of a meditating way. So I think it's gonna. It's gonna go for just a tiny bit where she's just fiddling on Soul Mender. Like she's done so many of hundreds of times before when she wanted to meditate or connect with Ceylone or the maker. I think she also gets out her maker symbol necklace and lets that sit on top of her cloak. She usually has her necklaces tucked in. And she's just gonna start playing like. And you're. Everyone is gonna hear because of Soul Mender's ways and how it can project different instruments and songs and stuff. She plays. You hear pieces of the chaotic mage and then you hear chords that were played about Dolgoth and you hear the fun guys would hear notes that they recognized on the ship in early mornings or in the middle of the night when she was writing new songs. You hear progressions of the fun guy's battle cry, her most recent composure. And as all of these songs are coming together, you start to even hear. Greta might even recognize the songs that the notes that she played when she was trying to understand the bees and put math together with music. And that first time that she was really trying to dispute, decipher a little bit of what the old song was. And finally as all of these songs start melding together and harmonizing somehow eerily, but somehow even though they're all different songs and a different keys, they start melding perfectly together into kind of what you heard the first time that she sat down in front of the tree in. I'm forgetting what it's called. But in the. Not the temple, but the. [00:44:23] Speaker C: In the Westwood. [00:44:24] Speaker H: Yes, in the Westwood. And as she does this more and more as the harmonies come together. And as you start hearing the song, more and more magic starts flowing through her. So you see purple mist around her when she starts doing it. And then slowly more and more gold is like, not only seeping from. From the strings that she's playing and out of the lute, but starts seeping out of her pores almost and out of the flowers in her hair and out from under her cloaks. And she's sitting on the edge here. And there's a breeze, obviously from the well below, but there starts to be almost like an unexplained breeze that happens as this gold magic swirls around her, as she starts eventually playing what sounds like the old song that she's only ever been able to do a few times. And she starts plucking along, and she's just in this. She's in a trance at the. [00:45:44] Speaker C: This point. [00:45:46] Speaker H: Like, her eyes are, like, glowing with the gold flecks in. Her purple eyes are, like, glowing, and she's just kind of blank. You guys can't see her. She's facing out over the well, but. And that's where she sits, just, like, methodically attempting to craft this old song out of everything she's ever played, everything that's led her up to this moment. [00:46:16] Speaker C: Role plays in this moment as a masterful musician, [00:46:22] Speaker E: but far more potently as a student. [00:46:25] Speaker C: It's less this polished, elevated work and more this deeply experimental, explorative. Composition where an artist is delving into a piece of work, but the work is delving back. Where Ro begins playing, the music begins responding to. [00:46:56] Speaker H: Can I say one more thing? [00:46:58] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:47:00] Speaker H: As she plays, I think she starts, like, almost meditatively, saying over and over again under her breath. No one else would be able to hear this but saying, maker, I'm here. I'm yours. Do what needs to be done. I am here to do. I am here to be. I am yours, Maker. Be here with us. Just over and over again as she plays. [00:47:50] Speaker C: Ro, before you make the check, you need to make. Make for me with that supplication. Either a persuasion or a religion check. [00:48:00] Speaker E: Your call. [00:48:02] Speaker C: Okay. [00:48:06] Speaker E: I'm gonna make religion. [00:48:20] Speaker H: I don't do advantage on that, right? No, no, because that's not. That's not charisma. [00:48:28] Speaker A: Okay, Sorry. [00:48:33] Speaker H: That is a 20. [00:48:46] Speaker E: Rose. [00:48:46] Speaker C: You do more than plead as you do more than supplicate as you surrender. You'll have an additional D4 for the [00:49:01] Speaker E: roll that comes as your efforts are favored in this moment, okay. As you weave and the composition responds and you listen, and it listens back. This long dormant thing is eager to be awoken. [00:49:27] Speaker C: You all watch Ro play for roughly an hour. [00:49:34] Speaker E: And she plays. [00:49:36] Speaker C: You all watch as this great thing she's attempting to do doesn't yet seem to be happening. But the forest around her hushes more [00:49:48] Speaker E: and more and more. [00:49:51] Speaker C: No, it's not hushing. [00:49:55] Speaker E: It's joining. When she dims, it dims when her [00:50:01] Speaker C: notes trend upward, Birds trill. When she moves into minor chords, makes things low and alters the tempo. Great mammals chuff and whoop. And when she moves quickly up and down the frets, the trees clap and the leaves dance, and you watch as great arcs of light from the deep well snap in time to her music, you all realize that there's this great bassy resonance coming from near. Roh. And it is the Great Worm who I'm just going to start abbreviating to Yana, humming with Ro. [00:50:50] Speaker H: Wow. [00:50:50] Speaker C: Not the exact composition because she doesn't know all these pieces Ro is using, [00:50:54] Speaker E: but that underlying theme she is humming, [00:50:58] Speaker C: and it sounds like many people humming [00:51:00] Speaker E: at once as she hums in deepest speech. And Ro, I need you to go [00:51:04] Speaker C: ahead and roll that die. Go ahead and make that check for me. [00:51:08] Speaker H: So it's a. [00:51:09] Speaker C: Also, if I look away, I'm taking notes. [00:51:11] Speaker H: What? [00:51:13] Speaker C: Said, if I look away, I'm taking notes. [00:51:15] Speaker H: So it is a straight charisma check row. [00:51:20] Speaker C: You'll be making a performance check. [00:51:21] Speaker H: Okay. Performance check. Okay. [00:51:23] Speaker C: That's what I advantage. [00:51:25] Speaker H: Yes. [00:51:25] Speaker C: And if I understand correctly, I believe you have 3d4 to add on to this. [00:51:29] Speaker H: Yes, I do. [00:51:31] Speaker C: Okay. [00:51:32] Speaker H: Okay, cool, cool. I'm going to write these down. [00:51:35] Speaker C: So you're using. You're using Soul Mender, right? [00:51:40] Speaker H: Yes. [00:51:41] Speaker C: Am I correct in remembering that it is an enchantment relating to performance checks, or am I wrong about that? [00:51:47] Speaker H: I don't think so. [00:51:49] Speaker C: Okay, okay. Okay, then we're fine. We're fine. [00:51:53] Speaker H: Because I already have expertise in performance, so I don't think there's anything else. [00:51:56] Speaker C: Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. [00:51:58] Speaker F: Added to it. [00:52:02] Speaker C: Okay, okay. As Ro plays, it's about this time that Caliclast comes thudding back into the clearing, carrying Tello and Boz on his back. They don't particularly join, but they are laid down near the clearing where they [00:52:23] Speaker E: can observe as he also sits and watches. [00:52:51] Speaker H: Okay, well, I. Okay, so I. I rolled at advantage. I added my performance modifier, and I rolled 3D4. Is there anything else? I'm missing you guys. [00:53:08] Speaker C: That's it, dude. [00:53:09] Speaker H: I think that's it. I got a 41, So I rolled an 18. I have. That was the highest of the two. I have a plus 15 to performance. And on my D4s, I rolled a three, a two and a three. So that is Ro's highest roll to date. That is a 41, the highest roll period. And I'm extremely happy with that. I hope that's about as good as I could have gotten. [00:53:51] Speaker C: So, yeah. Ro's not aware. She does not witness as she lifts into the air. [00:54:00] Speaker A: Oh, cool. [00:54:03] Speaker C: She does not see as spare stones from around the landscape begin lifting upward. She does not see as all the trees still and all the animals quiet. She does not see as dust from the landscape lifts. Because Ro is no longer conducting. [00:54:26] Speaker E: She is only playing. [00:54:29] Speaker C: She has aroused the attention of the [00:54:31] Speaker G: well [00:54:34] Speaker E: and she is no longer driving this song. She has lit a fire and it burns with or without her now. So she too burns with it. [00:54:48] Speaker C: You all look upward as ro is floating 30ft off the ground. Her hands are no longer on her lute. They are suspended in the air above her, and she is simply twitching in response to when and where the chords should be played as her lute is rotating and orbiting in front of her, gyroscopically moving, playing. The notes and the patterns it begins to rotate in are matching the great earthen orbiting arms of stone and gravel and dust that are beginning to form from all over the aisle, from that gem like sand over that miles and miles wide well where the light is beginning to churn and thrum and snap. And as you all are overwhelmed not with the pleasant calming sound, but with the deafening concert speakers of music that is so complex, it's like hearing some ancient classical song in our lives now. And being like that sounds really good, but I can't even understand it but to the thousandth degree, blending and pouring and magnifying and reverberating. And the dragons have begun singing in melodic roars that match the song. And you all watch as the energy of the well. As the island is shaking, thrumming with the song. [00:56:17] Speaker E: And the light is rising up to the edge. [00:56:19] Speaker C: You see now that where that cleft channel has been carved in the edge of the caldera, this is the place that the light will first pour through. This is a dip in the edge of the bowl now. And if this magic is not directed and contained, it will wipe down this [00:56:35] Speaker E: mountainside and annihilate you, Janice Estrella, [00:56:42] Speaker C: as this magic rises and Ro can no longer hold back what she has begun. What does it look like as you try to seize this destiny foisted upon you and demand control of this immortal force? [00:57:04] Speaker F: I think, like, as Ro was. [00:57:07] Speaker C: That was DC35, by the way. Jackie, please continue. [00:57:11] Speaker A: Really crazy, [00:57:15] Speaker F: I think while watching Ro and I feel like. I don't know, I feel like in a there, in a moment, like it would have been hard not to add in when Yana was also starting to sing and stuff, but I feel like I just had to keep like, like almost kind of pushing that down as to focus on, like, the task ahead. But in that moment, just like thinking how incredible of a journey it's all been. And the fact that it was once, like, like, I just. I think what like, resonated in her brain at the time is that the maker once asked me to protect them. And how protected I like, now feel having, like, such a big crowd and like, I mean, of course, like four of the, like, closest people in my life, but like, also like, adding in this new half that, like, they didn't even know what was happening either. And just like having everybody being there and, I don't know, just really doing something not for them, but for everybody else. And so I think that's what would, like, lead me into that moment. So, like, just like having those, like, upwelling emotions and everything, I feel like it would just be more like I didn't even realize that I was like, starting to kind of control it. And so it was just like almost like a reaction to the. To the, like, energy. [00:59:11] Speaker C: I love it, Kara. Okay, good. And [00:59:18] Speaker E: so too, in the course of [00:59:20] Speaker C: Ro's playing, [00:59:22] Speaker E: Janice did not notice as she began singing. [00:59:28] Speaker C: Not a beautiful melodic voice of a trained singer. [00:59:32] Speaker E: A deeply human sound, [00:59:36] Speaker C: imperfect, cracked, untrained, but it reverberates and it splits and [00:59:45] Speaker E: it echoes until it's so much more than any single human voice. [00:59:49] Speaker C: Janice didn't notice as she began walking all the way to the edge of the caldera. Janus didn't notice as she began tracing glyphic summary after glyphic summary after glyphic summary. Not shapes and geometries that would revolve around her, but which expand and bend and lift and broaden to be hundreds and hundreds of feet wide until they are one massive spherical magical circle in golden light rotating over the entire caldera. She did not notice as she walked off the edge of the caldera into the air. And as she reaches out her first [01:00:35] Speaker E: hand, a snapping bolt of magic from [01:00:41] Speaker C: the deep well reaches back. [01:00:44] Speaker E: Go ahead and make that Check Janice. [01:00:48] Speaker B: Okay, this is really scary. [01:00:52] Speaker C: As Janice is rolling that. Check. UEG is praying near the edge of the caldera. [01:01:13] Speaker F: Okay. [01:01:16] Speaker C: And don't tell me I didn't even [01:01:18] Speaker F: do it at an advantage. Hold on. [01:01:19] Speaker C: Okay. And I was about to say, remember, if you have inspiration, it can also be used for a third roll. [01:01:25] Speaker H: And you also have a D12 and, yes, the D4. [01:01:29] Speaker E: Okay. [01:01:30] Speaker C: Okay. [01:01:31] Speaker F: So it obviously wasn't as good as Jackie's, but it was a 39. [01:01:37] Speaker E: Okay. [01:01:39] Speaker A: But [01:01:41] Speaker C: she said dismally somehow. [01:01:43] Speaker A: Whoa. [01:01:45] Speaker C: Whoa. [01:01:46] Speaker B: Well, making me nervous. [01:01:53] Speaker C: Crazy. [01:01:54] Speaker B: Crazy. [01:01:56] Speaker C: Sorry, I'm. I'm taking a ton of notes over here. Surpassing another DC of 35. [01:02:08] Speaker E: Sick Janice is. [01:02:09] Speaker C: The great bolt of energy flies out towards you. You reach out to it, and as it strikes you, Janice just. Her entire body locks in the air and she freezes, and her hair lifts up. And out of the many locks of her hair, bolts of light and power, like liquid lightning, sear out. But instead of scoring the landscape and striking her loved ones, they catch on those many symbols floating around the caldera, and Janice becomes this discoscopic, like, oh, my goodness, what are the 70s? Reflective metal balls that float things? Yes, like a disco ball. Like this magical sphere radiating light out in different directions that is coming, capturing and directing these symbologies. And like some demidiphic paragon, she just floats there in the sky. And as she does, the well's roiling power begins to gather and focus at an edge. Instead of ripping over its banks and killing everyone, instead it is surmounting to the edge of this cracked bearing in the caldera, where it is rising and [01:03:32] Speaker E: meeting at the lip. [01:03:35] Speaker C: Wielders of the divine instruments, Quorum of the ordained. [01:03:42] Speaker E: What do you do? [01:03:48] Speaker C: I can agree with the weapons. [01:03:50] Speaker G: That's me. I think in a moment of trying to enjoy the singing and not get wrapped. I don't think Ron Grimm's. I mean, Ron Grimm's a stoic and hard man, but I think he has a bit of whimsy in him. And in so. In so trying to rapture himself in this moment, to not be overwhelmed by. By the dread of failing and all that, as his rage encircles himself and everyone that's in, like, close to him, the three characters, the three. The three spirits. I think what he does is when he brings out the trident, and I mean, this is all not necessarily mechanical ways, but sure, sure, sure to take [01:04:40] Speaker C: it to Cleaver Town. [01:04:41] Speaker G: Yeah, [01:04:45] Speaker C: he. [01:04:45] Speaker G: He waits till the. The magic is there. So I think he almost goes into a sort of a Dance of sorts, of dancing with each of the spirits and so doing, like, athletically holding on to the power of it, but then also sharing it with his spirits that are with him, trying to enjoy the moment of the world being reforged. And so some weird way. And so he steals himself in that way, both mentally and physically. [01:05:20] Speaker E: That's sick. B. [01:05:26] Speaker C: That also, Daniel. That was kind of beautiful. As you dance with the spirits, this what could so easily be mistaken as clumsiness, but reveals itself to be, [01:05:43] Speaker G: not [01:05:43] Speaker C: to use too light of a word, whimsy, liberation, this willingness to just embrace movement. Not dancing like a professional, but like a child. And the spirits dance with you. You see in each of their faces [01:05:59] Speaker E: a solid, [01:06:02] Speaker C: a present detail you hadn't seen in a very long time. Not like they were close, but like they were clear. As they dance with you, [01:06:19] Speaker E: You feel [01:06:20] Speaker C: the edge of something that. Like you're at the edge of something you have. You haven't understood about them before. As you draw nearer and nearer toward this welling power and you offer out Remnant, as you hold out the trident, it catches in your grip and all [01:06:42] Speaker E: of those many Damascus lines in it [01:06:45] Speaker C: that are not that darker blue flare with light, and it is pulled from your grasp all at once, your mortal strength overwhelmed as it out of your grasp, it strikes into the edge of that welling, brilliant power that's hard to look at. And the chain on Remnant [01:07:06] Speaker E: shatters [01:07:09] Speaker G: the [01:07:09] Speaker C: chain that has bound you to the trident for decades. [01:07:14] Speaker E: Ripping into pieces is. [01:07:17] Speaker C: The trident rests in that liquid light. [01:07:20] Speaker E: It superheats and gleams. But as you stride toward it and grip it with power, you're not afraid. [01:07:31] Speaker C: Well, whatever you feel. But you do not walk with fear and timidity. [01:07:35] Speaker E: And as you grip it. [01:07:36] Speaker C: Or no, go ahead. No role play. If you had a thing, Daniel. [01:07:39] Speaker G: No, no, I was stretching. [01:07:41] Speaker C: Okay. You grabbed grasp the trident. And in a way that looks very visually distinct but is not dissimilar to each of the Guardians of the Galaxy holding each other's hands as they hold the power stone, your body all of a sudden becomes rigid with power, and you just. You begin superheating. Like there's a great heat underneath your flesh, but you hold there and you bear it. I would like you to give me strength saving throw to hold on to this weapon. [01:08:16] Speaker E: Okay. [01:08:21] Speaker G: I am blessed. So I actually get the D4. [01:08:23] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [01:08:25] Speaker G: Oh, thank God. [01:08:27] Speaker H: Energy. [01:08:28] Speaker D: Yes. For a saving throw. [01:08:29] Speaker G: Oh, no worries. I'm rolling them all. Also use my per dm. There we go. That's better. Oh, wow. [01:08:48] Speaker C: Okay, cool. [01:08:50] Speaker H: I. I like these reactions. [01:08:53] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [01:08:54] Speaker G: Well, math wasn't working in my head, but now it is. I got a 39 as well. [01:08:59] Speaker B: Let's go. [01:09:02] Speaker G: I did have to use all the rule things, but. [01:09:04] Speaker D: I'm sorry. The DC was actually 52. [01:09:08] Speaker G: It could have been. [01:09:10] Speaker B: I'm sorry. [01:09:10] Speaker F: Better luck next time. [01:09:13] Speaker C: As Daniel surpasses his D, his DC Rongrim takes hold of. Of remnant and he flares with power and he grips it and pulls it toward himself and does not lose hold of his divine instrument. [01:09:29] Speaker E: Cragor. Xavian, you're up next. [01:09:33] Speaker D: I've been kind of thinking back and forth on whether Xavian should have. It felt like he should have summoned the Redeemer as a glaive because it's more like a lighting rod. But I think we're actually going to do it as the shortsword because he's so used to casting magic with it and almost. I feel it's almost kind of like a water mender. Does it, like the level of, like, using the sword in his other hand to, like, direct it through and, like, spin it around and then direct it. [01:10:04] Speaker C: That's dope. [01:10:05] Speaker E: Dope description. [01:10:07] Speaker D: He's. He's very. He's not the director of the music, but his music, his movements almost are like that as he is, like, moving through. He's very much the type of person to be humming along in whichever way he is inspired to be part of this. Yeah. So I think that's the way he's trying to direct the flow. [01:10:29] Speaker C: Phenomenal, Xavian, as this combative routine, not as something you were trained in from some sort of a discipline, but that you have learned from the lived experience of laying your life on the line again and again and again in defense of these causes, as you dance your way through these motions and near the well, it responds to you in this conductive form wielded by Janus, your close friend. And as you move through one fluid motion, the beam of energy flies out toward you from the broken aperture and catches at the edge of Redeemer, where it splits into a thousand different rays of color and light and spectre you can't witness. And as it flares around you and scalds the earth and burns the air, I need you to go ahead and make. You're going to be making a charisma check. I will just. Well, actually, hold on. Let's just make it a Christmas saving throw. It was going to be charisma with proficiency, but that's just a charisma saving throw. So as you are Trying to, with proficiency in this magic, try and control through your. Your charismatic warlock powers this flow of arcana. [01:11:44] Speaker A: Okay. [01:11:45] Speaker D: So having the saving throw helps Dobby. [01:11:51] Speaker F: Okay. [01:11:52] Speaker C: And it's at advantage. [01:11:54] Speaker D: Yes. That was a day. I get one D4 for it being I wasn't guided, but from the bless and then the D12. [01:12:05] Speaker C: And you have a D4 from per diem if you, you want it because you haven't used yours. [01:12:10] Speaker D: Let me do the math before we do that. [01:12:12] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:12:13] Speaker D: I, I, I roll pretty well. [01:12:15] Speaker C: Okay, [01:12:31] Speaker D: Let me redo that. Wait a minute. That, that's okay, the math. Yeah. [01:12:38] Speaker C: Okay. [01:12:47] Speaker D: 42. Without the per diem. [01:12:54] Speaker B: Crazy. [01:12:55] Speaker C: I mean, holy moly. Yeah. Savings is probably a good idea, but I mean, if you just wanted to make number big. But hey, you do you, you do, you, you do you. [01:13:06] Speaker D: Well, I, I just, I fear there may be other roles happening. [01:13:12] Speaker C: Sure, sure, sure. [01:13:15] Speaker D: Anyways, no, I was like, if number's not the biggest, maybe I'll roll again. But number's the biggest so far, so we'll allow it [01:13:25] Speaker C: smashing through your DC. [01:13:27] Speaker D: A45. Yeah. [01:13:30] Speaker C: You. You capture the. You capture the lightning power of the well in your blade. And as it burns across your blade, it sets it with golden fire. And you blaze as well. And the wings return, turn from your [01:13:51] Speaker F: back [01:13:53] Speaker C: and burn out to about 30ft [01:13:55] Speaker G: at each side, [01:13:58] Speaker C: just burning light. Craig. [01:14:02] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, I'm so nervous. I'm so nervous. [01:14:04] Speaker C: As you approach the well, you got this. [01:14:08] Speaker D: Oh, thank God. And I fly away. [01:14:12] Speaker C: Well, I'll get to that. [01:14:15] Speaker B: Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Almost did the role immediately. [01:14:21] Speaker C: Hold on. [01:14:22] Speaker B: I gotta do something first. Okay, so I. Craig is gonna take out Star Splinter. And I'd like to think that as the, the music is, like, playing, his voice takes on a, A deep, almost like. I don't know what it's called, but it's where it's like throat singing where it's like, really, like, it's like a deep base of, like, resonance. [01:14:58] Speaker H: Yeah, yeah. [01:15:01] Speaker B: And I, I'd like to think that's kind of like, going on as he's, like, he's almost like in a trance as he takes out Star Splinter. And when he brings it up, it. It fractures, but not that it's separated. The electricity from the, from the well has now connected each fragment, and it's consuming the whole sword. And as he's doing that, the fragments, they're, like, shaking and reverberating from the, like the, the Just the energy. [01:15:36] Speaker E: That's awesome. [01:15:37] Speaker B: And it was described as A pen. So I'm gonna say that each fragment suddenly, completely not disconnects, but like. Like divides, and it dips into. Into this, like the water. And it creates sentences of. Of different languages and. And symbols. And it starts, like, creating it up into the air, but they're all still connected. And electricity is wrapping around the water. It's wrapping around each symbol that it's creating, almost like keeping it controlled. And that's what he's doing. [01:16:23] Speaker C: That was awesome, Mike. I'm gonna need you to take inspiration for that. [01:16:27] Speaker D: Yes. [01:16:28] Speaker B: Because I didn't have it before. Heck yeah. Heck, yeah. [01:16:31] Speaker C: That was awesome. Go ahead. And Greg, as you reach out for this power, you begin trying to emulate that authorship. Go ahead and make that check for me, bud. [01:16:45] Speaker E: Okay. [01:16:57] Speaker C: Okay, so rolling an advantage. And then a D12 and then two D4. And for you, Craig, this is going to be a charisma saving throw. Same as jv. You're muted, Abby. [01:17:14] Speaker E: This is the way. [01:17:15] Speaker C: Or your mic's dead. That's also the way. Not Mike. [01:17:22] Speaker E: We loved him. [01:17:24] Speaker C: Oh, and you're blessed, Craig. [01:17:26] Speaker B: I've all written down. [01:17:29] Speaker C: Okay. Okay. Sick. Mike has got. [01:17:37] Speaker D: Me here. [01:17:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:39] Speaker B: Okay. [01:17:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:17:42] Speaker B: Breathe. [01:17:47] Speaker D: Eight. [01:18:01] Speaker B: Okay, so 1, 2, 3. But I'm just making sure that I can do everything that I can. [01:18:12] Speaker C: I don't know, what's your thing, do you think? Okay. [01:18:20] Speaker B: Okay. [01:18:20] Speaker G: Just. [01:18:25] Speaker B: Yep, yep, yep. [01:18:27] Speaker C: Okay. [01:18:28] Speaker A: Okay, that looks good. [01:18:43] Speaker C: Micah's working through this math. [01:18:45] Speaker B: Okay, I got a 40. [01:18:49] Speaker A: Nice, nice, nice. [01:18:54] Speaker C: Okay. And you guys have rolled when it matters. [01:19:00] Speaker F: Oh, my gosh. [01:19:01] Speaker D: Yeah. Zach said DC85. [01:19:07] Speaker E: Craig. [01:19:08] Speaker C: The power courses through the orbiting sphere of flechettes of sword fragments, rotating around you, pulsing with energy. And as each of the divine Quorum hearken the power of the deep. Well, it's not held in their weapon. No. It could never be contained among one mortal individual like that. No. Instead, now it's bound to them now, each of them like individuals. [01:19:39] Speaker E: I don't be a good comparison. [01:19:42] Speaker C: It's flowing. It's leaving the well. It's just being drawn toward them as the Ark's power are bound to them. Greta, you know now again, that ritual of seeding directs you exactly where to lead them. So now each of the three follow you down the mountain. Yeah, you know that first it will need to be Craig who plunges his blade into the earth. Then Javian, then wrong Grim. [01:20:22] Speaker A: Okay, [01:20:26] Speaker C: Lead them and direct. [01:20:33] Speaker A: And I know the locations. [01:20:36] Speaker C: You can point them. Like girlie, you know? So you tell them and that where it be. [01:20:48] Speaker A: I know [01:20:51] Speaker C: you're like, it's there, it's there, it's there. [01:20:53] Speaker B: You can hear the mountain. [01:20:55] Speaker C: One part way down and one at the beach. [01:20:58] Speaker A: Okay, I, I, I think I, I direct them and I show them where we're going. And then I think I would take. Or I wouldn't touch Craig, but I would guide Craig and the rest of them and I would say, okay, here. Okay, Craig, you do it here. [01:21:17] Speaker C: As you're directed to the location. Craig, you're convicted of certainty. To plunge star splinter into the shallow mountains, otherwise impenetrable, smooth mineral surface. As you lift it upward, all the flechette. Or do you want to describe it? [01:21:32] Speaker B: Or are you like, eh, grabbing. Gonna have to scrap it. [01:21:36] Speaker C: Do it, girly. [01:21:37] Speaker B: Okay, so star splinter, it's, it comes back. And because the electricity is still in between each fragments, it's. It's. The sword is like, so much, like, taller and like, more. There's just so much more to it. So as it goes into the earth, I would like to say that the electricity pushes away the dirt. It pushes it. It, like, it makes room into the earth for the sword as it goes in. And then the earth kind of comes around it as the electricity moves it back around and, like, holds it and it becomes a. It becomes like a rock. It like, solidifies. [01:22:28] Speaker C: The sword is held in place. And not a rock flares with energy. [01:22:32] Speaker B: Not a rock. It becomes the. The stones that we saw created from the dragon's tail, like, like really like gems. It like, like solidifies into rituals. [01:22:44] Speaker C: And from the broken fragments in that newly formed mineral, light begins bleeding and pulsing further down the treading travel. Oh. You okay, Andrew? Okay? Oh, no. I hope she's good. She's got a little cut on her. All right. [01:23:03] Speaker D: I thought it was a bug, but it's just rubber. [01:23:07] Speaker C: Okay, buddy. That's scary. [01:23:10] Speaker D: I thought a bug, like, died on my face. [01:23:14] Speaker C: I start every day that way, [01:23:18] Speaker D: but it's just my headphone coming apart. [01:23:20] Speaker B: Sorry. [01:23:20] Speaker D: Is it my job where Craig unites [01:23:23] Speaker C: his blade into the earth? [01:23:24] Speaker B: Oh, sorry. [01:23:25] Speaker C: Lines from the well begin flowing toward him, and he's creating this temporary conduit leading Xavian further down. Greta, you see, maybe a mile further into the shallow descent, you know, where Xavian needs to strike the earth. [01:23:43] Speaker A: I think that as. I think that she was kind of nervous for the first one, but I think that as she, like, relaxes [01:23:52] Speaker D: and [01:23:53] Speaker A: like, as she feels like, okay, I can't actually do this. She, like, in order to help with the nervousness, she closes her eyes. And when she does that, Like, a little symbol of Ioun, like, appears above her head, and it, like a. Like a little, like, symbol of golden light appears. And she's just walking with her eyes closed, but this, like, this symbol is, like, looking across. And when she reaches the point, she. She stops and nods to Javeen. [01:24:29] Speaker C: Javion. [01:24:31] Speaker B: Um. [01:24:33] Speaker D: I feel like almost like the whole way down, Javian has kept it in some sort of movement because it's just so much to contain. And rather than just, like, when you're, like, holding a glass of water, he's like, I just got to keep the centrifugal force with it. [01:24:54] Speaker B: And. [01:24:57] Speaker D: And maybe like, some of the, like, energy, like sparks, like, with the. Between it and his wings. [01:25:03] Speaker E: Very cool. [01:25:05] Speaker D: And as he. When we get to the spot, you said dream is like a scalpel, and I. I love that because I've literally done surgery with my sword. [01:25:16] Speaker C: Yeah, true. [01:25:18] Speaker D: The. [01:25:18] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness, I forgot about that. [01:25:22] Speaker E: Crazy. [01:25:22] Speaker D: I love to use my sword for things that aren't battles. [01:25:27] Speaker H: But [01:25:29] Speaker D: with that, I think he. He takes it and he digs it. He, like, plunges it into the ground, and it goes in so smoothly, there's almost no resistance. And as he's doing it, it turns. He. He turns it into the glade, where it just continues throwing another five feet down into the ground. [01:25:48] Speaker C: And as the blade plunges into this earth, there's this big column of power that rises upward, and you feel locked in this plague shaving, containing it. Greta, for another mile or so, maybe more. [01:26:04] Speaker E: You lead Rongrim to the shore where that deep, fathomless blue depth laps up toward it just a short distance away. [01:26:17] Speaker C: You pointing to the location with confidence. [01:26:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:26:21] Speaker E: Bungam. [01:26:23] Speaker G: Just so I don't describe something weird. Do. Does it feel like I. I am. I'm controlling the flow of it, Right? So, like, if I touch something, I don't instantaneously destroy it or something because of the power in me. Okay. No, I. I think again, I mean, the whole way down, Rondgrim is doing this, like, different variations of like. Like almost jogging or jaunting down in, like, this beautiful. Because I don't know, I think he's just taken. I think there's lots of things that happened for Rongren. One of them is that this thing, he never thought it would ever free him or he would ever be without, is not on his arm. And I think in that joy and that excitement, he tries to dance. Not in a weird way again, in a whimsical way of, like, dancing the way down, like leading a crew. Of troubadours down a long way of beauty and excitement. And I think he would try to, if Greta is willing, he would try to, like, join her in it as well. [01:27:35] Speaker A: Yes, she would absolutely join. [01:27:37] Speaker G: Yeah. And like, like the spirits, even I feel if they can, as they're dancing around in some more form or fashion, as I like, I don't think I throw the trident in the air or anything like that. I think it's too much power for that. But there is a certain excitement. And like every time he looks to each of the people, he looks down to his hands, looks down at his wrist as the thing that's been on him for decades has finally left. And as she points me to area, I don't know, I feel like we're both old souls. And so I think at the very end of her doing that, he, like, you know, in a fashion Ron Grim has never been. Maybe this is a side of him that you didn't get to see from his old days as a captain. But he, like, kind of like, you know, as you end the dance or something, he, like, grabs your hand and he gives it a little peck, which is real rough and scruffy because I don't think he's shaved in a few days. But it's kind enough in the gesture. And as he looks to his. [01:28:43] Speaker A: Well, I betta just laughs. But in like, it's like a laugh that, like, a laugh just comes out of her, and it's just like a joy, joyful, like, happy, youthful laugh. And she, like, in that moment realizes that, like, she hasn't laughed in that way in like, like, probably decades. It's like a feeling that, like, she has not felt in years. But this just, like, purely, like, joyous, like, laugh escapes her. [01:29:10] Speaker G: And with that, he chuckles as well. And excitement that he could bring such a good feeling to someone that he probably hasn't done in decades as well as he turns around and I sadly did. It was real glitchy whenever you were describing the really important part. [01:29:26] Speaker C: To me, it's fine. [01:29:28] Speaker G: But he turns the trident upside down where the tines are going into the ground. And in a similar fashion, he's felt to be like a statue in many of the trials that he's gone through, he grabs it and with whole force of the spirits, he kind of just rests into it. And as it sinks, like two feet, he continues to fall and fall. And as he's falling, there's this. These just tears of joy hitting the beach, creating its own little waves. And so I think that's how he finishes it. Unless he needs to not be on the ground because it'll destroy him. But if it's just flowing through him and he's like this little lair area, then he will stay right there. [01:30:11] Speaker C: Daniel, that's beautiful. I. I'm gonna need you to also take inspiration. [01:30:17] Speaker G: Thank you. Thank you. [01:30:19] Speaker C: And for the first time, as you don't plunge remnant down with rage and power. As you lay it down, as you rest onto it, as you let it bear your weight instead of your you being bearing its you it into the soft sand, a great plunge of power just in its weight enough to separate the sand. And as you do, there is no great shatter but the shackle on your wrist where the broken chain rested. As you let your hand go from [01:30:55] Speaker E: the trident, it just [01:30:59] Speaker C: falls off. So impossible to separate before it's just like it didn't fit anymore. As that last. As those tines pierce the sand, the waters in front of you suddenly, as if repelled backward by a great force. And there is this instantaneous shock of thunderous power noise. As light, liquid light bursts down the mountainside at a speed and force so much greater than any pyroclastic flow. And as it rockets by you all, you would be thrown off the isle from the force if you weren't suddenly locked into place by the power as it burns into the ocean, sublimating it and bursting apart this white column. All of you are [01:31:55] Speaker E: captured and frozen in the path of deep magic. [01:32:07] Speaker C: And so you all have now once again entered a wellspring. I need some constitution saving throws. [01:32:21] Speaker B: Oh, this could either be really good or really bad. I'm scared. [01:32:33] Speaker C: Andrea, you're muted. This is the way. [01:32:36] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:32:37] Speaker A: I'm so freak. [01:32:39] Speaker F: What question would like UEG be a part of this or. [01:32:44] Speaker C: No. Everybody's in that path. [01:32:48] Speaker H: Hello. Do I need to make a check for Boss? [01:32:52] Speaker E: Don't worry about boss, okay? [01:32:54] Speaker C: Just don't worry. Okay? [01:33:00] Speaker A: I'm so scared. [01:33:01] Speaker B: I'm so scared. [01:33:02] Speaker A: I'm so scared. [01:33:05] Speaker B: Hey, is it a const Student saving throw? [01:33:12] Speaker C: It's. [01:33:15] Speaker F: I think so. [01:33:16] Speaker D: Yeah. I think he's a concept. [01:33:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:33:23] Speaker A: Oh, goodness. Okay. [01:33:27] Speaker D: I feel like my per diem won't get me high enough to pass. [01:33:31] Speaker A: Can I get. Can I give my per diem to Tello? [01:33:34] Speaker F: Yeah. Can I give mine to you? [01:33:36] Speaker C: Egg? I don't suppose there your NPCs. [01:33:48] Speaker D: Okay. Hopefully that's the DC when I got it to with the per diem. [01:33:54] Speaker F: Wait, so did you agree that we could use the per diem? [01:33:57] Speaker C: I will say in this Instance, you can thank God. [01:34:00] Speaker F: Okay. [01:34:02] Speaker E: Oh, Maya, I'm sorry. [01:34:04] Speaker C: Let's see. You're under the blanket. Okay, Craig got a 22, I got a 25. [01:34:12] Speaker D: 15. And I fought for that 15. [01:34:21] Speaker F: You got a 24. [01:34:23] Speaker G: Although also we're all blessed though. And this is a saving throw. [01:34:27] Speaker D: Wait, [01:34:29] Speaker B: wait, what does that mean? [01:34:30] Speaker D: That was with the bless. [01:34:32] Speaker B: Oh, so sorry. [01:34:33] Speaker G: So sorry. [01:34:35] Speaker C: Was yours with the bless angle. Okay. [01:34:39] Speaker A: Hello's not blessed, is he? [01:34:41] Speaker C: Well, Bless is a D4. [01:34:44] Speaker D: No, I did not. He was in the radius. I could bless seven people. So I did a six and a half. One other probably would have done new egg. [01:34:54] Speaker A: Okay, gotcha. [01:34:56] Speaker F: Wait, so bless is just a D4? [01:34:59] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [01:35:00] Speaker F: Okay, [01:35:03] Speaker H: I got a 19 roded. [01:35:08] Speaker C: Okay. [01:35:09] Speaker F: Okay, you got a 26. And Janice got a 34. [01:35:17] Speaker H: Oh, I forget. Your con is off the charts ridiculous. [01:35:22] Speaker E: I always forget that about. [01:35:23] Speaker H: Because I always think sorcerer is squishy and then con is. [01:35:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I built it wrong. And Greta got a five. [01:35:35] Speaker H: What did Talo get? [01:35:36] Speaker G: That seems not good. [01:35:39] Speaker C: But those don't seem good. [01:35:42] Speaker H: But you do have death war. [01:35:46] Speaker B: You can't die [01:35:49] Speaker C: well. So hold on. Don't worry. This has all been pre planned. I've thought through all this as the energy rushes through each of you all. Craig succeeds. Janna succeeds. Rongrim succeeds. UEG succeeds. Each time you enter a Wellspring, the DC increases by 10. [01:36:20] Speaker D: Oh, [01:36:23] Speaker C: so Ro fails. Hold on. RO fails. Greta fails. And Javian fails. [01:36:31] Speaker H: I failed by. I failed by very. [01:36:33] Speaker C: By one, didn't I? By one. Bear with me. I'm gonna say some words, but just hang on for the ride, okay? The way wellsprings work, they do not deal damage, they do not reduce hit points. It's too much power for a mortal form. Fail the saving throw, you die. [01:36:59] Speaker A: Explode, [01:37:01] Speaker C: and you're in the path of a deep well. So it's that very much and more. Bear with me. I'm going to say some words. Hang on for the ride. Keep bearing. Greta and Ron die. Tell him, however. Oh, and tell her for shki. [01:37:26] Speaker H: Wait, Does Greta not die because she has death ward? [01:37:30] Speaker A: No, there's no hit points. We just die. [01:37:32] Speaker C: When you are reduced to zero hit points returns you to one, you're dead. [01:37:35] Speaker A: We just like explode. [01:37:37] Speaker C: Hold on. Bear with me. I have more words to say. And then more words after that. The maker does not in this moment, permit the individuals he has chosen and gathered to be instruments in this world to simply perish. But they do die. And so they are in that same instant returned to life like it had never happened, one could say. However, they did die, so it has [01:38:15] Speaker H: the thingy to it. Oh, you mean deaths, but not meanie. [01:38:20] Speaker C: Tick upward. [01:38:23] Speaker H: Yeah. [01:38:25] Speaker C: Tello is now at two deaths. His DC. [01:38:34] Speaker F: Yeah, I can't handle that. [01:38:36] Speaker G: Okay. [01:38:37] Speaker C: His DC is now 20 for revives. Rock is now at one death. Her DC is now 15 for revives. [01:38:50] Speaker H: I got so close to not dying in this campaign up until the road. [01:38:53] Speaker C: Invite is now at four deaths. Her DC is now 30 or revives. And Javion, where's the. Sorry, different folder, different folder. Xavian is now at three deaths. His DC is now 25 for revives. That happens in an instant. No one can process. Thank you, Micah. I work very hard on it. Oh, wait, you meant sick in a bad way. I thought you were like, yo, this [01:39:34] Speaker G: is a stupid sick game. [01:39:36] Speaker D: Stop playing sick games with us. [01:39:38] Speaker B: I was like, this is a sick game. Like, my friends are dying and there's [01:39:42] Speaker C: nothing I can do about it. Opening the mechanical document. Bear with me. Opening the mechanical document for the function of wellsprings. This is the same. It is as it has been for three years. You all are in the 16 to 19 level category. You all therefore gain one level in your class. [01:40:12] Speaker F: Are we level 20. [01:40:18] Speaker C: And Janice, you are level 20 adventurers. [01:40:23] Speaker D: Wait, wait, that includes me. Even though I died, I still get it right? I just printed out all my level 19 stuff. What was I doing printing all this stuff? [01:40:33] Speaker F: I just finished my level 19 stuff also. [01:40:37] Speaker C: I'm so sorry I got you to level 20. [01:40:40] Speaker F: I'm so happy. So sorry. [01:40:42] Speaker C: Thank you. No, it's fine. I'm kidding. Greta. Craig. [01:40:46] Speaker B: Oh my gosh. [01:40:47] Speaker C: Oh my gosh. [01:40:48] Speaker B: Oh my gosh. [01:40:49] Speaker C: Reach level 17. [01:40:51] Speaker B: Oh my God. [01:40:52] Speaker D: I have a question. [01:40:53] Speaker C: Fun, guys. That means for the main casters, ninth level spells question. [01:41:01] Speaker H: And it. I want to clarify that. It's not me being greedy. I just want clarification. Does it just put us at 17 or. You said gain one level. So are we at like 17 point? Whatever. [01:41:14] Speaker C: We were in 6, you're at 17 flat. [01:41:16] Speaker H: Understood? [01:41:16] Speaker D: Understand 20.0 or 20.5? I need to know from zelling up to 20. [01:41:22] Speaker A: Well, I. [01:41:22] Speaker H: It doesn't go back to anybody how to track it. [01:41:25] Speaker C: That is a super valid question. It is 17 flat. Also level 17. That means your proficiency bonus is now plus 6. [01:41:39] Speaker A: Holy Ghost. [01:41:40] Speaker D: So you're still saying if you all [01:41:44] Speaker H: recall and proficiencies go up? [01:41:46] Speaker G: Yeah. [01:41:47] Speaker C: The way that bodies of deep magic work, they also, if you survive, physically alter your concentration. That means that everyone here, now that you are in the 16 to 19 category, as you are higher level, when you reach your Wellspring, there's more hit points to gain. I need everyone here to roll me 5D4. Wow. [01:42:15] Speaker A: I can do object reading now. It's my 17th level feature. [01:42:21] Speaker H: That sounds like the book I'm reading. [01:42:23] Speaker A: Me too. [01:42:26] Speaker G: Hell, yeah. Just 5D4. We don't add anything to it. Just so I don't have to read 5D4. Yes, it is. [01:42:32] Speaker C: No, no. That is a super important question from Daniel. This is not like level up. I mean, you did level up, so you get those hit points too, but you don't add your con modifier. It is just the die for the Wellspring. [01:42:43] Speaker D: Wait, what level is wrong? Is wrong grave 19 or I'm 2012. [01:42:52] Speaker G: So wait, I'm excited to tell you my hit points in a second. [01:42:55] Speaker B: That number goes for. [01:42:57] Speaker D: I guess I have to do this. [01:42:58] Speaker C: And then I also get added on your hit point total. That's added on your max. [01:43:03] Speaker D: And then I need to do the role for leveling up in addition to that. [01:43:07] Speaker B: I'm sorry. [01:43:08] Speaker F: So excited to tell you UEG's hit points before leveling up. Actually, let me do it after leveling. [01:43:12] Speaker D: I'm passing 200. As a warlock, I'm passing 200. [01:43:16] Speaker B: That's crazy, too. [01:43:22] Speaker D: As a final note, so much better help. [01:43:24] Speaker C: If you all will recall, when reaching any source of deep magic, any fundamental source, it also alters your abilities. An ability scores. An ability score of your Choice increases by 1. [01:43:39] Speaker A: 23. [01:43:40] Speaker D: Wisdom. [01:43:42] Speaker A: No, 23 intelligence. [01:43:46] Speaker F: Wait, say that again. [01:43:47] Speaker H: I'm dead. [01:43:47] Speaker F: We can increase. What? By how many points? [01:43:50] Speaker C: One level five D four hit points. One ability to score by one by one by one. [01:43:57] Speaker D: Okay. [01:43:58] Speaker C: Sorry. That's okay. I threw a lot at. [01:44:01] Speaker D: I have a question, Zach. [01:44:03] Speaker C: I have an answer. [01:44:05] Speaker D: So I. So I have this thingy. [01:44:11] Speaker C: That magical little thingy. [01:44:14] Speaker D: I have a magical little thingy. [01:44:16] Speaker F: I love those. [01:44:19] Speaker D: It's a necklace. I think it was. Where? I have a con 19 because the amulet of Health. I probably can't stack that to a 20 with this. [01:44:32] Speaker C: No, no. But that is a very good question. [01:44:35] Speaker D: Well, then I guess I'm smarter. It's 16. Nerd time, [01:44:49] Speaker C: Guys. [01:44:50] Speaker E: I've been planning this for years. [01:44:54] Speaker D: Thank you, Zach. No, thank you for killing JB in a third time. But thank you for all this. [01:45:00] Speaker C: I cannot hear you. [01:45:01] Speaker B: Eggs. [01:45:02] Speaker F: Hit points. [01:45:03] Speaker A: Yes. [01:45:04] Speaker C: Yeah, go ahead. [01:45:05] Speaker F: So at level 19, I picked up a fee instead of a thing, so I did the tough feet. So he has 309 hit points. [01:45:16] Speaker C: Let's go. Let's go, let's go. [01:45:24] Speaker H: Ro now has 147 hit points, which is not as impressive as 309, but for a little boss, very low. [01:45:34] Speaker G: Constitution has 323. [01:45:38] Speaker B: Oh, whoa. [01:45:44] Speaker D: I guess instead of printing this back out, I will just. [01:45:47] Speaker G: Everything's so much more now. [01:45:49] Speaker D: White out. But why not? [01:45:53] Speaker F: Janice has 238. [01:45:56] Speaker D: So including that one that we got for. From the Dragon song I wrote, I rolled the one on the D4, and I rolled a seven on my hit die. I rolled very well on these two, though. On the thing we just rolled. [01:46:14] Speaker F: That was crazy. [01:46:16] Speaker H: I bumped my wisdom up, so. Because I actually got a different plus to that. Like, I got. [01:46:23] Speaker C: Could I get the other new hit point totals for absolutely no reason? [01:46:28] Speaker A: I'm working on it. [01:46:29] Speaker B: I got one. [01:46:34] Speaker D: Which is insane. [01:46:36] Speaker C: Wait, but you have said you got 200 hit points. [01:46:39] Speaker B: No, I got 199. [01:46:42] Speaker C: You said you got 200 hit points. [01:46:43] Speaker B: I got 200 hit points. [01:46:46] Speaker C: Excellent. Yes. Abby, we always reroll ones for no. Excuse me. Not for these 5D4. For anything else, you would not put these. [01:46:53] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [01:46:57] Speaker B: Plus, like, I'm not making you finish [01:46:58] Speaker C: the campaign at 199. That's just cruel. [01:47:00] Speaker H: Okay. But we also are leveling up, so we'll be above what we're at right now. We gotta level up those, right? [01:47:08] Speaker D: Or are we doing that right now? [01:47:10] Speaker C: Hopefully, everybody's doing that together right now. [01:47:12] Speaker H: Oh, I didn't do that. [01:47:14] Speaker D: Hold on, then. [01:47:15] Speaker H: Give me a second, Zach. [01:47:17] Speaker C: Yeah. Hopefully in these totals, you're also adding on your. Your new hit die from your level in your COD modifier. [01:47:22] Speaker A: Greta is at 119. [01:47:27] Speaker C: Hey, she got above one. [01:47:32] Speaker B: I mean, wait a second. [01:47:34] Speaker C: Intella. [01:47:36] Speaker A: I'm working on it. [01:47:38] Speaker H: Roe is actually at 156. [01:47:41] Speaker C: Nice. [01:47:43] Speaker H: I'm above 150. I didn't think that would happen before the end of campaign. [01:47:47] Speaker F: You. EG is officially has a. A dex modifier of a zero. [01:47:54] Speaker C: That's pretty massive for him. [01:47:56] Speaker F: I know. [01:47:58] Speaker C: Let's go. [01:48:00] Speaker B: I have a question. [01:48:01] Speaker F: Can we take the wish wish spell now? [01:48:06] Speaker C: Not as a cleric. What was. Yes, Micah, what's up? [01:48:09] Speaker B: I think I might have calculated the hit points incorrectly. Is it just one hit die? Yeah, just one hit die. So, like, just one D10. [01:48:20] Speaker C: One hit die plus your con, plus the five D4 from the deep. [01:48:25] Speaker B: Well, okay. Well, I didn't do the con. That's what I was missing. [01:48:28] Speaker F: Oh, I didn't add my con either. Let me go ahead. [01:48:34] Speaker D: Both Janice and UE have pretty good con, bro. [01:48:38] Speaker F: I know. [01:48:40] Speaker C: Okay. [01:48:41] Speaker H: To have to have a plus zero to my con, I'd say ending the campaign above 158 points is. Is pretty outstanding. [01:48:51] Speaker D: You have a plus zero con, and you have. [01:48:53] Speaker H: I have a plus zero con. [01:48:55] Speaker C: That's. [01:48:55] Speaker H: Yeah. [01:48:56] Speaker D: You really just dumped your physical stats. [01:48:59] Speaker H: Okay. But guess what? She's super intelligent and super charismatic. [01:49:03] Speaker C: It's all about what's on the inside, baby. [01:49:05] Speaker A: Well, magical. [01:49:07] Speaker D: To be clear, my stats are good from a combination of deep wells and magical items. [01:49:15] Speaker C: Andrew said, it's all nepotism, baby. [01:49:18] Speaker D: Two of mine are charisma. Something I get. [01:49:24] Speaker F: I just didn't want to kill Janice, so I didn't even do my highest stat as my spells, like the spell one, and I put it in Constitution like a dummy. [01:49:38] Speaker H: See, when I created characters, I did. I didn't understand what Constitution was, so I was like, 10 seems solid. I'll put that 10 right there. [01:49:47] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:49:48] Speaker F: I was like, I'll put that 10 right there. [01:49:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:49:51] Speaker H: Don't know what it does. [01:49:52] Speaker F: No, no. Zach was like, good. Constitution keeps you from dying. I said, okay. Hurt. [01:49:59] Speaker C: Be very fair. At the beginning, I was describing the different stats, and Kara said, which one keeps me from dying? And I was like, constitution? She said that one? [01:50:07] Speaker B: Yep. [01:50:08] Speaker F: I didn't even realize I needed charisma. [01:50:13] Speaker C: What were the corrected hit points, Micah? [01:50:16] Speaker B: Oh, it was 204. [01:50:21] Speaker E: Nice. [01:50:23] Speaker F: Corrected hit points for UEG is 314, and corrected for Janice is 243. [01:50:35] Speaker B: Oh, man, there's a lot here. [01:50:40] Speaker F: Wait, what else do you guys get at 17? [01:50:44] Speaker A: I get another. I get my Divine Domain feature. [01:50:47] Speaker B: I get Big B's hand. What's. I'm so excited. It basically acts as another. [01:50:55] Speaker C: I can't wait to see in Micah's hands. [01:50:58] Speaker F: It. [01:50:58] Speaker B: It basically takes on your hit. It's a hand that takes on your hit points, and it deals five. What was like 5D8 or something? No, 5D4. 5D4. [01:51:10] Speaker A: 5D8. [01:51:11] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. And then it basically goes within five feet of your enemy and attacks. [01:51:19] Speaker C: You can slap people with it. You can throw people in it. You can ride it. You can pinch people. You can pick things up, put them down. You throw stuff. It's a giant magical hand. [01:51:28] Speaker F: That's crazy. [01:51:30] Speaker G: Like the master hand from Super Smash Brothers. [01:51:32] Speaker C: Yes, it is. [01:51:35] Speaker D: So the best thing about level 20 for me is that my wings are now whenever I want. Just. I have that all the time. [01:51:47] Speaker A: That's so cool. [01:51:51] Speaker F: Also, I took just as another thing. I took. Oh, no, I don't I don't have to take it this part of the spell class or whatever, but I get to use deeper option twice per long rest. And that's a big old thing. And there's a lot. [01:52:10] Speaker D: Oh, I don't think. Have the other people gotten to see what Janice does? Like burst magic and the found and like five other, like. [01:52:21] Speaker C: Well, it'll become clear now. As a note. As a note, I love that we're enjoying this one thing. First of all, Kara, we could talk about this later, but the. The Level 20 Sorcerer feature is big old stinky turd. So if we want to rework that a little bit, we can just. A standard one kind of sucks. So if we want to rework that, we can. [01:52:47] Speaker H: Yeah, Bards and sorcerers got chipped on level 20. [01:52:50] Speaker C: And as a note, I'm not done. [01:52:56] Speaker G: Yeah. [01:52:56] Speaker B: What? [01:52:58] Speaker C: I'm done with the Wellspring stuff, but I'm not. [01:53:01] Speaker D: That didn't feel like the end of a session, but. [01:53:03] Speaker C: Yeah, he's starting to try not to. I'm going to try not to have us up for three years, but I've got some more things if you guys [01:53:11] Speaker E: can let me power through them real quick. [01:53:12] Speaker H: Yeah. [01:53:14] Speaker C: All of you feel the intense surge [01:53:17] Speaker E: of the deep magic. [01:53:19] Speaker C: And all of you have connection. But this isn't necessarily this moment of first vision that you experienced at the Wellspring. Instead, there are a few specific [01:53:35] Speaker E: moments [01:53:36] Speaker C: that are going to be had with some of you. Not all. It's not because anyone else is less important to the plot or anything like that. I hope everyone feels very special, but [01:53:43] Speaker A: it's because you have favorites. No, that's what I make. [01:53:50] Speaker C: The Maker doesn't have favorites. Romans 2, 11. But no focusing. Just bear with me. Just some story moments. [01:54:04] Speaker E: Craig. [01:54:08] Speaker C: As the magic shocks through you, you [01:54:13] Speaker E: find yourself at the crashing shores of far northern Byaston's shore [01:54:23] Speaker C: or far northern Biasten Coast. [01:54:26] Speaker E: The rocks are uneven and sharp, a [01:54:30] Speaker C: beautiful dark color beneath the contrast of [01:54:33] Speaker E: a clear, brilliant sky. [01:54:36] Speaker C: Cold waves collide with the obstinate shoreline, [01:54:40] Speaker E: exploding into sprays of briny mist. And in the opposite direction, the beastan landscape stretches out. [01:54:53] Speaker C: Is at that shoreline that you stand. [01:55:12] Speaker B: Was that it? Were you continuing or are you waiting for me? [01:55:16] Speaker E: Yeah, that's it. [01:55:17] Speaker B: Okay. I was like. He stopped talking. But I don't know if that's because he's looking at his notes or. So he's sitting at the end of the. At the edge of this water. Right. V. I think it's a very familiar spot for him. I'd like to think that he used to. To go there maybe as a little boy. I don't know how far away it is from his hometown, but I'm just going to, you know, we're not going [01:55:49] Speaker C: to get stuck in it at the moment. [01:55:52] Speaker B: And so I think that he's going to just kind of. I imagine in this scenario, in this, like, kind of dream state, he like puts his feet in the water and he just kind of sits there and just feels the water go up. Good thing just kind of move around him, maybe feeling like the mud under his feet and things like that and just kind of breathes in his surroundings, feeling safe, feeling at home. [01:56:26] Speaker C: It's a brutally sharp rock shoreline with crashing waves. But you find in your tidal pool where you can remove those boots. We can work it in. That's not me rebuking the roleplay. You find a title pool nearby and you remove your boots and you have exactly the experience you described. Not rebuking the decision. [01:56:47] Speaker E: Amid the crashing, you find that peace. And a familiar voice says, I gave you an instrument to help shape my [01:57:00] Speaker C: world [01:57:02] Speaker E: as you are an instrument of mine. But you are far more than my weapon. I'm not simply employing you, Craig. I've called you and I have called you to much more than tomorrow, to more than the land that lies behind you. I have called you past the shore. The days which lay ahead of you may or may not hold what you desire, but my call to you will remain. No matter what waits for you at the edge of this tomorrow, no matter what waits for you in your home, No matter what awaits at your hearth or at your grave, I will still call to you. Seek me, no matter what circumstance waits for you. It's short. And then the waves crash past you. [01:58:44] Speaker B: I think what kind of like takes root in Craig's mind and what he feels an overwhelming sense of is someone believing in him. And I think that goes really deep for him. It's just the sense that someone has hope for him, someone has belief in him, someone has purpose for him. And I think that it's just feeding his soul. [01:59:18] Speaker E: Bagram, You yourself, Far from the shore, far from the sea, far from the stone. You find yourself in a field you don't know, calm and lovely and gentle, And you feel an availability of presence. [02:00:11] Speaker G: This is the same place that I remember at the other wellspring I was at. Right at the deep well after that moment. [02:00:21] Speaker C: Yes and no. Right. Very much the same feeling, if not [02:00:27] Speaker E: necessarily the exact same visual location. [02:00:30] Speaker C: But for all intents and purposes, well enough, yes. [02:00:33] Speaker E: No pun intended. [02:00:43] Speaker G: I think in his state of mind, he usually is quite cold to this present. But I think this time after, after crying and joyfully dancing and laughing, I think he kind of just looks over the flowers and looks for someone. And if no verbal assent is given anywhere, I think he says, I don't know. Title, Ease in you per se. Not as in I don't believe you exist. Clearly, my life has been shaped by your existence. I carrying out things that you seem to have called others to people to carry out as well. I'm not convinced as of yet whether you're good. [02:01:55] Speaker C: Yet [02:01:58] Speaker G: I cannot deny your power and your. What seems like foreknowledge and your destiny that you give to others. I hold my hands open for now, but I really want to see what you truly are, what you truly say of yourself and those who follow you. [02:02:36] Speaker C: There's no physical embodiment rangum, but a voice responds to you directly. [02:02:45] Speaker E: You bring me questions, wrongdoing, and I will answer you. Ask me, but ask me fully. Ask me your naked questions. Do not hide your heart from me. [02:03:10] Speaker G: Do I get the sense that is asked right now, or ask, as in throughout your life? [02:03:15] Speaker C: No, that that voice speaks to you [02:03:17] Speaker E: immediately, in this moment. [02:03:18] Speaker G: Immediately. [02:03:19] Speaker C: Okay. As clearly as I said that. Not a. Not a theme, not an idea. [02:03:23] Speaker E: Those words spoken to you direct. [02:03:31] Speaker G: I wish to know if you're good. It seems the other gods directly deal with us. They answer. They give powers. I held the body of that demigod crying to you to stop the veilblade from coming. And Timmy, you did nothing when we killed Javian's sister. Grew again. You did nothing. So I don't know if you're good. I don't know if you're good. Being is good because people can be good to people they want to be good to. That's not a trait of morality. There are many sailors who were. And he, like, stops for a second looking at the words she's about to say. And then he says, we're not all together righteous. They were good to people they loved and cared, just like us. I don't know if you're good. I don't know if you're just. I know you give power to those that you deem to give power to when you want them to have power. That is what I ask. Are you good? On a level beyond my comprehension. To me specifically. To those around me specifically. Are you good and just in the world's eyes? [02:05:38] Speaker E: The pause that follows is patient. It waits. The voice returns. You Are mine. Bhanga. I made you for many purposes, [02:06:05] Speaker C: but [02:06:05] Speaker E: for this purpose most of all. To know me. To be known by me. You ask if I am good, if I am just. And you do not know because you do not know me. You believe that I have called you to battle, that I've called you to wield weapons. I made you for the dance, not the fight. This was Mercy's war. It was one long ago, long before you. I bound to you, remnant. Not so that you would have a [02:07:01] Speaker C: weapon [02:07:03] Speaker E: to crush foes. Though in this world that was made for my intentions, truly there have been foes to crush [02:07:16] Speaker C: Now. [02:07:16] Speaker E: I bound that to you so that you would remember. So that you might know me and be known by me. The trident is not my remnant. Rangrim. You are after all these days, you think it's your strength that you offer me the force of your will. [02:07:45] Speaker C: Will. [02:07:47] Speaker E: And I am pleased by your heart. I'm glad. I see in you the fires I started when they burn. And what is unjust and what is wrong as those fires burn in me. But, Rangam, when I call you my remnant, is that after all this time, you have not proven stronger than all else. You are mortal, man. You will live and you will die and they will not remember. For all the strength that could be imbued upon you, you can be crushed as easily. Sorry if they're snoring in the mic. [02:08:42] Speaker C: I invited Hoffa to sleep in the living room and she said, no, I'm good. And she just crawled into bed next [02:08:46] Speaker E: to me and now she's ripping some snores. [02:08:48] Speaker C: But that's love. HE CONTINUES Sorry, that really startled me, because she said. [02:08:58] Speaker E: HE CONTINUES AND says, I am pleased with you. Because after all this time, no matter how you see yourself, you fight for one reason. You still love them. Marooned on an isle, you could not help but love the lonely old man. When strangers came to you in the storm. With what little meager heart you had left, you could not help but love them. For every reason you have to surrender to those cold jaws and just sink into despair. Still you love. That is my heart in you. That is my remnant. You demand my word, Rangram. You look for my text. You want to find my prayer priests. They died. They died and they fled and they forgot. Why do you think I brought you to this isle, Angra? You ask for my word, so I give it to you. Write these words on your heart and write them with your hand. If you find me and love me, or if you hate my name, I will not abandon your heart if you leave my promise receded in my soul. [02:11:07] Speaker C: Excuse me? If you bear my promise receded in [02:11:09] Speaker E: your soul, you will still bear my signature. If you learn my voice or forget my face, I will not cease to pursue you. And Daniel, I can type that up and send it to you in a message. You asked to know me, Ranka, [02:11:36] Speaker C: so [02:11:36] Speaker E: spend the rest of your existence knowing me. I want to know you and be known by you because I love you more than you have ever dared to hope. Come close to me and I will show you. For the dance, not the fight. As a breeze moves by Vongam, [02:12:21] Speaker C: the [02:12:21] Speaker E: vision is gone where you blink back to vision. Rangam. You stand at the edge of a flowing river of living light dumping into the ocean, and at your wrist the [02:12:41] Speaker C: shackle has disintegrated in the wellspring or well, the flow of the deep well. And there is nothing on your wrist now except this sort of like burstmark [02:12:52] Speaker E: release of the Maker symbol [02:12:56] Speaker C: and remnant. The trident is nearby in the sand, [02:13:02] Speaker E: and you find that there is this very faint trail of gold and silvery light between your wrist [02:13:12] Speaker C: and the trident [02:13:14] Speaker E: and you get the feeling that it's still connected. [02:13:21] Speaker C: Greta. [02:13:23] Speaker E: Last I promise for all my sleepy kiddos. [02:13:28] Speaker C: Greta, [02:13:32] Speaker E: you also hear the voice. Greta, chosen vessel, a vision of my daughter Ioun. I'm glad to be in communion with you again. I love your voice. I look forward for the day that our conversation knows no end. But today I ask you once more to open your eyes. Today I honor Ioun's consecrated and her decision. And while I will have good tidings for you today, instead I bring you heavy sight. And Greta, your vision shifts. Your communion vision with the Maker transitions into a vision of a land bound and frigid stillness. Vast sheets of perfect white span in every direction, their reflective potential dimmed to a dull shade of gray by the global storm's ruthless oppression. Streaks of bitter wind whip like lightning across the lifeless white, racing through the landscape, incarcerated by the unending rain of a perfectly cruel winter. You recognize from previous visions the Bitterlands and their great ice sheets of ocean. [02:15:43] Speaker C: As you watch Greta, the wind snips [02:15:46] Speaker E: back, snaps back and forth across the expanse, beginning to absorb a different gas. Thin arms of suddenly rising and vanishing steam wisp up from cracks of a lighter white in the frigid flats. [02:16:11] Speaker C: In an instant, steam flashes into thicker [02:16:13] Speaker E: spouts roaring upward into the air, instantaneously freezing into snow, which is then stolen immediately away by the screaming winds. [02:16:30] Speaker C: The discolorations in the oceanic ice crack. [02:16:37] Speaker E: Into thunderous fissures, ripping the land into upending fragments which shift at severe angles, displacing great spewing waves of ocean. And then, Greta, you see a great and terrible mass explodes upward from the broken land, larger than any living thing you have ever witnessed or fathomed very much, including today. [02:17:12] Speaker C: A titanic claw. Itself, greater than any ship that you have ever ridden, [02:17:25] Speaker E: crushes great swaths of frozen land, paired with a motion of equal magnitude from a murder limb. [02:17:39] Speaker C: The limbs which rend the land around the rising deity lick with an undying veil of fire, unquenched by the insatiable [02:17:49] Speaker E: hunger of the arctic cold gripping the frozen realm. Great carcinite protrusions rise from the hellish claws, serrating their gargantuan form with monstrous echoes of their mortal origins. [02:18:05] Speaker C: The land all around Carchran, Lord of [02:18:08] Speaker E: chains, continues to groan and shatter, failing under the power of the young God which rips apart the world around him. As he lurches out of the sea. [02:18:19] Speaker C: A carapace like mountains splits the depths, [02:18:23] Speaker E: which boil and churn from his rising, shuddering from the emanation of his horrid divinity. Unable to obey their physical laws in his presence, great stalked eyes, abyssal gates to darker realms, rise from the splintering protrusions. Countless divisions and shifting clashing blades of his chittering jaws. [02:18:50] Speaker C: More and more titanic monstrosity pulls itself [02:18:53] Speaker E: out of the ocean, unrelenting in the horror scale unveiling to your eyes, two more realm raising limbs emerge from the wake. [02:19:07] Speaker C: Four titanic arms and legs after legs drive the apocalyptic organism engine upward and [02:19:16] Speaker E: ice for miles behind cracks and snaps under the power of his thrashing tail. As his thundering stills to a shape like a living tectonic peak, Carcharne's many eyes turn and fix on a dark ridge silhouetting the far horizon beneath the cracking stone. As Carcone focuses on the distant stone vault enclosing the beating twin heart of the world. You know, Greta, that he's also headed to the deep well, a race for ascension. But you notice Greta as you watch. But as he remains transfixed on that dark point, the storm above him. Barks in anger before growing momentarily more placid. For a moment, your perspective explains spans far enough back for you to see [02:20:35] Speaker C: both Carcharan destroying the landscape in his [02:20:37] Speaker E: traversal, as well as the great back veil of clouds and the ever stretching field of bitter death. Just long enough to watch the sky bow underneath a massive weight and a web of vermillion lightning shock across the sky and converge at the zenith of the collapsing clouds as a shape falls from the atmosphere and a great obsidian form [02:21:18] Speaker G: burns, [02:21:22] Speaker E: crashing into Carcrans. A skeletal obsidian dragon every bit as big as Carchran crushes him into the ice. [02:21:38] Speaker C: The massive titanic crustacean rounds on himself [02:21:42] Speaker E: and turns toward the Hate King. [02:21:47] Speaker C: And as Carcohen locks his claw claws around Zorgrim [02:21:53] Speaker E: and thunder churns from the Lord of Chains, Zorgrim's head rears back [02:22:01] Speaker C: and the lightning behind him in the sky converges until it strikes him. Carcharan's many arms. Crash into Zorgrim, crushing parts of his body and ripping them out before Zorgrim. [02:22:26] Speaker E: And his energy gathers at his mouth and creates a flash so bright that your vision dissolves. You wake from your vision. [02:22:40] Speaker B: Oh, [02:22:43] Speaker A: I think she, she just. She like jumps like how you like, like how you. You're starting to fall asleep and then you feel like you're falling. I feel like her whole body just jolts. And I think she. Well, I think, I think she just like lays down like in the fetal position and just starts like sobbing like, like partly just from the shock of like hearing the Maker's voice and just like that, that close communion, but then also just like the terror. I don't think, I think this is the first time she's like seeing Zorderman and I, or just like that up close. I can imagine like she like saw his face, like his face for the first time and like looked at his eyes for the first time. And just like the absolute terror of that is just. And the scale of what was happening. It's like this awful mix of like, like, like incredible gratitude and like, like, like love and emotion, but also just like the like like bone chilling terror. She just like lays on the ground and sobs. [02:24:07] Speaker E: And as the party find themselves in the indescribably overwhelming experience of all of that, all awaking at different positions along the sides of the now flowing deep well into the ocean. [02:24:25] Speaker C: That's where we will end. [02:24:27] Speaker E: Episodes 180 and 253 of the Accidental Adventures and the Legendary Ones. [02:24:35] Speaker C: There's no XP to talk about because you already got it all. [02:24:40] Speaker B: Oh. [02:24:41] Speaker E: So listener, as I leave files to download, players to decompress and people to go to sleep. We just want you to know that life is an incredible adventure and you're a very important part of it. Skibidi wapum da da.