181. Mightiest Heroes

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome back to Barely D and D. This is your sort of Dungeons and Dragons podcast. This is the Accidental Adventures, and we are pleased to have you. I am sure this. The episode following this is probably going to be a completely different tone, whether good or bad, but I have a feeling it will be chaotic energy. We are all together again, all of us collabing, having fun. [00:00:29] Speaker B: I. [00:00:29] Speaker A: We did not talk about a question, so I don't know where we're going to be going. [00:00:32] Speaker C: Daniel has a great one. [00:00:34] Speaker D: Oh, Daniel has a question. [00:00:35] Speaker A: Never mind. We have one for you. And Daniel took it away. [00:00:40] Speaker D: Gargle. [00:00:41] Speaker E: Oh, thanks for. Thanks for that intro. [00:00:45] Speaker A: The one and only. [00:00:46] Speaker D: It's Danny Boy. [00:00:53] Speaker E: I had the question of if your character was an album of music, and nowadays stuff like if you could personify your character through an album, which would it be? Autist and album. So everyone can have a good long week of figuring out if they can try to listen to it, and then we can figure it out on the big fight and have the correct energy for it. [00:01:18] Speaker D: Oh, I thought we were. Oh, we're not doing that question tonight. [00:01:22] Speaker C: No, we are doing it. [00:01:23] Speaker E: Yes, but I want to listen to the music in preparation for the big fight. [00:01:27] Speaker C: Oh, Daniel. Oh, I. I could lend you a CD for mine, but if I. If I see you. [00:01:32] Speaker D: Oh, that's true. [00:01:34] Speaker E: Oh, that's true. [00:01:35] Speaker D: I'm gonna mail you a cd. [00:01:36] Speaker E: We'll figure it out. [00:01:37] Speaker C: Yeah, we will. [00:01:38] Speaker D: I'm gonna super mail you the cd. It's gonna get there really fast. [00:01:41] Speaker E: That'd be sick. [00:01:42] Speaker D: I don't know. [00:01:43] Speaker C: I know my answers. [00:01:45] Speaker D: I know mine too, because I had to. [00:01:47] Speaker B: The GM NPC. [00:01:50] Speaker D: Can you do. Wait, wait, wait. Can you do Tello and UEG? Because they are both of our lovely DM NPCs. [00:01:58] Speaker B: Sure. [00:01:58] Speaker F: A lot. [00:01:59] Speaker D: It's not allowed. [00:02:01] Speaker B: Yeah, we can do that. We can. We can make that. Let's. Let's start with. Let's start with whichever person. I don't know, something random and arbitrary. Whoever has a hair dye planned the soonest. Whoever plans on dyeing their hair a different color the soonest. [00:02:30] Speaker C: I have one planned, but it's. [00:02:32] Speaker B: Oh, it's Jackie. Oh, that's crazy, guys. [00:02:37] Speaker D: I'm no longer gonna be blonde. Thank God. I'm just kidding. I. I don't mean that. I just don't feel myself anyway. [00:02:45] Speaker B: Any. Jackie? [00:02:47] Speaker E: No. She hates blonde people. Don't let her. [00:02:49] Speaker D: Don't let her hurt. [00:02:50] Speaker C: She's told me that if you're a [00:02:52] Speaker B: dirty blondie, she hates you like half the party. [00:02:55] Speaker D: Is blonde like the real Sometimes Jack. [00:02:59] Speaker B: She goes blonde color hair. We are. [00:03:06] Speaker D: I think I thought about this for a while, and I think Rose album, it was hard to pick because I feel like, just like myself, I have different albums that represent different times in my life to me, and I felt that way for Ro as well. But I think overall, for a good. A good encapsulation of Row, I'm gonna go with Joe's the Crux album. [00:03:40] Speaker F: O. [00:03:42] Speaker D: That is the. The Crux and the Crux Deluxe, because I think it's all those songs. First of all, it's like. It's like 20 songs, and that's. That's about right, because Ro talks a lot. Second of all, it has I just the vibes of it. And some of the songs, I feel like it. It covers a big space. Fan of different things that Row has done and gone through. And, like. I don't know. I just think it feels right to me. I don't know why, but it does. Yeah, I think that's it. I was gonna say, I think one of my favorite songs on there is Potion and. [00:04:27] Speaker C: Oh, I love that one. [00:04:29] Speaker D: Potion, Golden Line, and Charlie's Garden are. Are ones that would be good. But also, the first song is T. Rex is Loud, so. And she's been a T. Rex, so that tells me something. Anyway. [00:04:43] Speaker C: Perfect. [00:04:44] Speaker D: That's my. Yeah. The Crux Deluxe by Joe. [00:04:50] Speaker C: What's the person who has a hair dyed planned second next. [00:04:56] Speaker G: I mean, that's probably me. [00:05:00] Speaker B: Say, who is that? I have no idea who that is. [00:05:03] Speaker C: Well, I have one plan, but. [00:05:06] Speaker B: Well, now you and Andrea have to compete. [00:05:09] Speaker C: Andrea, when is. [00:05:10] Speaker G: I'll let you go. [00:05:11] Speaker C: Okay. [00:05:12] Speaker G: It's not. It's. Once I have a job and I'm allowed to be a professional, so. [00:05:18] Speaker A: Right. [00:05:21] Speaker C: Mine. So when I saw this question, my thought immediately jumped to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance. The whole. I think that's the name of the whole album, just because I listen to it a lot and. But it's. It's. There's so much, like, emotion in it, I feel. And it's very, like. I just feel like it. It kind of matches Greta's. I don't know. I just. That was just my gut instinct. [00:05:52] Speaker D: Scared the living crap out of you. [00:05:56] Speaker C: That was my, like, gut instinct that I immediately thought of just because of the emotions that are in it and how powerful. Like, just the way he sings them is very, like, big and loud. And I think that's how Greta feels things. But Noah saw the question also, and he texted me and he was like, I. Every time I listen to the Shepherd's Dog by Iron and Wine, I think of Greta. And then I listened to it again because he said that and I was like, this is totally Greta. So I'm gonna have to say those two because I think they. They really. They both really, really apply. And the Shepherd's Dog is. I don't know. I also really like that one, but it's. It's like less loud and emotional and more vibes. [00:06:45] Speaker B: I could be super off, but Greta feels a little penny and sparrow to me as well. But that's neither here nor there. [00:06:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:56] Speaker G: Okay. [00:06:56] Speaker B: Album. [00:06:58] Speaker G: I. I read when Daniel said that hours ago, that didn't think more of it, but I did forever ago have a Spotify playlist theme for jv. So I'm like, what, Picking an album with song from that. And I'm going to go with. Because I think multiple songs here fit it. The album. Wait, that's not the full album. What's the full album called? Please Just Breathe by Written by Wolves. And I think Alter and Give Them Hell are appropriate songs. It's a good album. Please Just Breathe. It's kind of short. I did. Was checking that was a full album and not just an ep, but it is. [00:07:44] Speaker D: Wait, who's it by? [00:07:46] Speaker G: Written by Wolves. [00:07:49] Speaker B: That's a great band name. [00:07:52] Speaker G: You know, this does of course have to be something in my music tastes like. [00:07:57] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:07:59] Speaker G: I'm not gonna know whole albums otherwise. [00:08:01] Speaker A: True, true. [00:08:07] Speaker C: Just dyeing their hair next. [00:08:13] Speaker F: I feel like probably. I don't know. I don't think I'm gonna dye my hair, but I feel like I'm the next person probable to do it if it was left for us for. So, okay, I'm gonna go one really, like, like on the note. Not, I don't know, pretty, like unoriginal one. And then I'll go one. One. Okay. So the first one is Stick Season Forever by Noah Khan. [00:08:40] Speaker B: Of course. [00:08:41] Speaker C: I love that song. [00:08:43] Speaker F: Well, it's his old album. If you listen to the whole thing, it's all about, like, growing up on hometown, having to leave the hometown, still finding, like, things that resonate with you about your hometown everywhere you go and, like, just kind of wrestling with that, like, you can't ever escape it kind of thing. I feel like that pretty much hits [00:09:02] Speaker B: it right on Janice. Yep, it does. [00:09:05] Speaker F: And the second one is a little crazy. It's. It's a. The album is Can't Get Right by Lefty Gunplay. [00:09:15] Speaker C: Okay. [00:09:16] Speaker B: Here is an unpredictable person. It's really good. [00:09:21] Speaker F: You should listen to Menace if you have to. That one's my favorite. [00:09:25] Speaker B: Every. I forget that you are into, like, serious rap, and I. Yeah, yeah. [00:09:32] Speaker F: And this one's pretty good because, I mean, the album's about him getting out of jail, figuring out what life is like outside of jail. I don't think that relates to Janice, but the street part, like trying to have street senses. [00:09:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:49] Speaker E: That's what I think of when I think of Janice. [00:09:51] Speaker A: Me too. [00:09:53] Speaker F: Lefty Gunplay is exactly who I think. Lefty Gunplay. [00:09:56] Speaker D: I love that name. I do Podcast so White, since I. I can't. Did you say Podcast so White? [00:10:07] Speaker B: What were you saying, Andre? [00:10:09] Speaker G: I don't think I can say more than, like, it's. It's rock about this stuff, but I do want to say the. The song alter has the lyrics, I won't kneel at your altar. I'm not your soldier no longer. And I'm like, oh, wow. [00:10:24] Speaker B: Incredibly. [00:10:24] Speaker G: Jiang burn on it. [00:10:29] Speaker C: The. The Black parade has one that's. I'm not afraid to keep on walking. I am not afraid to walk this life alone. Something like that. And it just, like, repeats at the end of the song. And I like that, to me, is just so. Greta. [00:10:46] Speaker G: Oh, it's not. [00:10:46] Speaker C: I'm not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this life alone, which is just. [00:10:51] Speaker G: See you keep on doing. [00:10:54] Speaker B: Mickel, what would Craig's album be? [00:10:57] Speaker A: So I think that. I think I've mentioned this in the past, but, like, a song that really resonates with Craig is Killer by Phoebe Bridgers. But just like, pretend that that's in this album that I'm about to mention. It's always been there. We never second guess it. That's just canonized. So I think that Craig would be. If you were an album or had an album, it would be Sable Fable by Von Iver. And basically the premise of I love Bonnie Bear. [00:11:30] Speaker C: I love him. [00:11:32] Speaker A: The premise of it is like. Like understanding yourself and the way that you're changing and growing and how it affects those around you for better, for worse. And just like, specifically with Sable Fable, it starts out really, like, heavy, and then it grows into something that's more, like, lovely and kind of beautiful, still, like, emotional but connecting. But I think that's kind of in Craig's journey. And so I think that the whole premise is just that, like, he's had to his, like, one of his biggest enemies has been, like, himself, you know, his own competitor, his own, like, reflection. But not only that, but what that reflection does to the people that he loves and having to process that. So those would be mine. [00:12:25] Speaker B: Okay. [00:12:26] Speaker F: Killer. [00:12:28] Speaker E: I dig it. [00:12:33] Speaker B: I thought you were gonna say baptized and filth by impending doom. But we live and we learn. Durngal, what would you say for Rand Grime? Oh, don't ask questions. Sorry. [00:12:48] Speaker E: How dare you? I mean, I think Zach might know this one, but. Yeah, I. Thank you. [00:13:00] Speaker D: The. [00:13:01] Speaker E: The album Deep in My Soul is. Ron Grims is Into the Sea by Atlas, which is this. [00:13:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I would have won that quiz. [00:13:13] Speaker E: Yeah, you would have won. It's this album about faith and the journey of it and how it's all related things. Right. So there's, like, a song that talks about sirens, that. These things that call out to you that drag you away from the truth. And there's the voices from the shore where you're going off the shore into, you know, Jesus been walking with him, and people try to draw. Draw you back. And there's like, a lot of faith and screaming out to God and stuff like that. And then the one that I think about a lot is there is this. The last song is a. Is an old poem that I hated when my brother had to quote it, but it's a very good song. It's called Death Be Not Proud. And I think. I mean, he's talking about how, like, death is better those who believe in Jesus to go into the next life. It's a beautiful song, and I think that resonates with Rongren the most because I think even. Even if he doesn't know where he's going, I think that is still a truth that Rongen believes, which is he's not afraid to die, and he's almost yearning for the release of it. It's a very good song. Very good. [00:14:30] Speaker B: Very. [00:14:30] Speaker E: It's also a lot of sad stuff, because I listen to a lot of sad stuff. It's also hopeful. Yeah. And it also screams. [00:14:39] Speaker B: Excellent. [00:14:39] Speaker E: A little bit. [00:14:40] Speaker C: Oh, I like screaming. [00:14:41] Speaker E: Studying anyone? Not a lot like that. [00:14:47] Speaker B: Not like a metal. Not like metal in there. [00:14:50] Speaker E: Yeah. So, yeah, that was. That was the album. [00:14:54] Speaker B: Amazing album. Highly recommend. [00:14:55] Speaker D: I'm gonna put all of these in a playlist. [00:14:59] Speaker C: Yes, A giant. Please do that. That's fabulous. [00:15:01] Speaker B: Weird playlist, let me tell you. [00:15:03] Speaker D: Hey. [00:15:06] Speaker B: Goodness. It's not an attack, I'm just saying. Gets a lot of variables on. [00:15:09] Speaker D: I'm just saying. We're all a very different group of characters. [00:15:13] Speaker B: It's not enough front. It's not an attack. Taking it like that for Fratello is. This is A funky answer. But I'm going to say that his would be John Foreman's EP Fall. Now, I would argue that. No, excuse me. Not Fratello. Not Fratello. [00:15:35] Speaker E: Sorry. [00:15:36] Speaker B: No. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fratella. [00:15:37] Speaker D: Which is it, Zach? [00:15:40] Speaker B: Oh, no. Did I do these both for you, Egg? I did that. I did two for you, Egg. [00:15:45] Speaker D: Wow. [00:15:48] Speaker B: Okay. No, I, I. Telos would be. Telos would be. Ah, okay. In the most current stage of his life, we could say Fall by John Foreman, which is a great ep, but I think Telos would be. I think Telo's internal world is somewhat different from his external world. And I think. I think Tello is a livelier, funnier, more vivacious person in his own head. Like, I think Tello is someone who is constantly responding to you all more than he does out loud. But I don't think it's an inaccurate. I don't think it's an unaccurate characterization to say that his album would be oh Gravity by Switchfoot. I think that encapsulates the adventure. I think it encapsulates his. His quirkier side even as rarely as it comes out because he can be a weird little goober sometimes. It has some somber songs and it has a lot of music about just kind of being lost in it all in life. And I think that is very much tell his experience. And then this is. This might not land with anybody and that's fine. But Ueggs and I feel bad because there's so very little music on this one, but I feel very strongly that Ueggs, this is another huge shout out that I think. I don't know. I would highly recommend this. I think Uegs would be Samuel Kim's EP the Avatar, the Last Airbender covers. Oh yeah, yeah. Samuel Kim crushes. Tello's album was oh Gravity, but it's only got three songs on it. Also, if you don't know who Samuel Kim is, he makes orchestral covers of popular music and it is gorgeous. Massive shout out to Samuel Kim. Before I had to use copyrighted music, most of the D and D music I used was his. But then I had to start using non copyright music. [00:17:45] Speaker D: But I was gonna jokingly say just the Kevin McLeod album that used the most of. [00:17:54] Speaker B: But the album has Avatar's Love and Leaves from the Vine. It also has the Legend of Korra theme. I don't think that has a thing to do with ueg, but it has to do. It has Leaves from the vine and Avatar's Love and there's One that has service and sacrifice. And I think both of those are very ueg. Especially the leaves from the vine. But. And that song makes me cry. Are we ready to. You what? I said you make me cry, so that's historically true. And don't worry, I'll do it again soon. Are we ready to start? [00:18:35] Speaker D: No. [00:18:36] Speaker B: Just shouted yes from another room for my note taking nerds. Now, who will never not be surprised by it all. Yeah, it's hot in there. [00:18:49] Speaker A: Mozia. [00:18:50] Speaker B: Can I get a kiss? Well, that's true. No, that's a good point. Nothing. She gave a response I won't repeat. For my note taking nerds. This is episodes 181 of the Accidental Venter and 254 of the Legend of the new ones. Mightiest Heroes. As in implied yellow Vin's Mightiest Heroes. Oh, cry. [00:19:22] Speaker D: I. Yeah. [00:19:25] Speaker B: Heck yeah. [00:19:27] Speaker D: Mightiest heroes. [00:19:30] Speaker F: What day? [00:19:32] Speaker D: Yeah, well, wait, I can tell you. [00:19:35] Speaker B: Check with Jackie first. [00:19:37] Speaker D: I think I can tell. Yeah. [00:19:39] Speaker B: I said. Well, what do you not want me to really sheepishly? Because I'm scared that I'm wrong. [00:19:47] Speaker D: Well, we started the last session at On. Can't speak. [00:19:53] Speaker F: Sorry. [00:19:54] Speaker D: Cebu call 22. But have we slept since then? [00:20:00] Speaker B: No, wait, wait. Hold on, hold on. I thought we were further along than 22. I was almost certain. No, I'm wrong. The other direction. Now, how is that possible? [00:20:09] Speaker D: No, because we already jumped. [00:20:11] Speaker C: Jumped? [00:20:11] Speaker D: We already jumped a little bit. [00:20:14] Speaker F: 22 is Adventure 252. Oh, yeah, that was the same day. [00:20:20] Speaker G: Yeah, that's what we appeared. [00:20:24] Speaker F: Yeah, but 253 was still. [00:20:25] Speaker G: We teleported to the island. [00:20:26] Speaker D: Yeah, we teleported to the island. But we had. It was all one day. [00:20:30] Speaker B: I know why I. I know why I wrote what I wrote. I know why I know what I. What I wrote what I wrote. Sorry. Yes, it is CB call the 22nd. Sorry. I understand what I was. I understand what I did. I'm good. We're good. It's okay. We're all gonna be fine. [00:20:43] Speaker D: Wait, wait, wait. It's Omnin. [00:20:46] Speaker F: Still the same day. [00:20:48] Speaker D: It's Omnin. And. We are 10 days away from Rose birthday period. [00:20:59] Speaker G: I don't know if we're gonna make it. [00:21:05] Speaker B: Okay, I know I'm not supposed to type when my mic's on because it picks up on the thing, but that's fine. All right, so like. Like at people, Fun guys and warriors of the. Well, we're gonna. Sorry. I'm not gonna get lost in the chat. We're gonna stay focused. Abby, it looks like okay, okay, okay. Hold on. [00:21:33] Speaker E: Hold on. [00:21:33] Speaker B: One Mom. So I. We're not going to give any other context for the conversation that's happening, but Abby, message, message. The song Cottonwood made me go cry in the bathroom. And then I responded, that song makes me piss in the bathroom at work. And then. And then Micah made a response, but then Abby responded and she was responding to her previous serious comment, but it looks like she's responding to mine, where it says, I know, it's just so heartbreaking. [00:21:59] Speaker C: No, I was responding to yours. [00:22:02] Speaker B: Oh, you are responding to what I know. [00:22:07] Speaker C: Like I said, bet you missed the toilet. Which was I thought was very funny. [00:22:14] Speaker B: All right, so we're just gonna get rolling. I'm gonna try not to use Midnight Wanderer just because it's a good song and it's so iconic of our campaign. But it's so hard to edit in the audio because it's. It's so much louder than all the other tracks for some inexplicable reason. So we'll see if this is an appropriate song and if not, I'll change it to something else, but this is inappropriate. Warriors of the well and fun. Guys, it has been a very short amount of time since you all completed the ritual of seeding and connected the Deep well to the Sapphire Desert and. Oh, did somebody just leave? Did I just kick Kenku? How did I kick Kenku? Okay, here we go. Is it back? The music's back. Excellent. Okay, that was unnecessary. It's been minutes since you all completed the ritual of seeking and reconnected the Deep well to the Sapphire Desert. Renewing the flow of Deep magic into the world and whatever that might have for the future yourselves being touched by the Deep well once again. Some of you transcending to, In a way, the highest. The highest power immortal form can be a vessel form. And others of you transcending to great heights as well to heights of magnificent ability and potential. Some of you died in the shock of power and were just raised to life in all of an instant. A number of you received visions and heard voices. And in the wonder of this isle having been addressed by. By the keeper of the forgotten island of the well of Yana. And with Calaclast in the wing and Senvon nearby, the party can be. We'll say that you guys have slowly but surely regathered at the mount, or not the mountain, but near the mouth of the Caldera, where the well is flowing. And being anywhere near it is just overwhelming. It snaps and thunders with power. And also it's it's the experience of being somewhere overwhelmingly beautiful simultaneously paired with and, like, the tranquility and appreciation that brings simultaneously paired with being somewhere far too intense and powerful. And what. What's the party doing as you all regather? Boz is nearby, but recalcitrant. No, not recalcitrant. Taciturn. He's taciturn. [00:25:19] Speaker D: Words. [00:25:21] Speaker B: That is 100% the wrong word. He is very taciturn. He's quiet and still shocked. What's the party doing as they gather? [00:25:37] Speaker C: I mean, I think Greta's probably just wherever we are, like, laying in. Go ahead. [00:25:47] Speaker B: I was about to say so importantly, and maybe you're already keying into this some last context I need to be sure to give. We left off with Greta receiving that vision from Ioun of Zorgrim, heading to the Bitterlands and attacking Carcon, who is on his way to try to beat him to the deep well. And that is where we left your vision, and we left with you being overwhelmed by it as you return to consciousness. [00:26:14] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm sorry. How long has it been? [00:26:20] Speaker B: Minutes. [00:26:21] Speaker C: Minutes. Okay. Well, I think. I think she was crying on the floor. I think she would just. She knows. I think that she needs. That this is important and that she needs to convey this to her teammates so that they can all. Everyone can do what they need to do and, like, take action. But I think she's just so overwhelmed that she's, like, just going to take a few minutes. And I say, like, maybe like, 15 or, like, like a while to just cry while her tears out. And then she'll probably just sit in, like, child's pose with her. Her forehead on the. On the sand. Maybe she. Are we near the beach? [00:27:08] Speaker E: I think we were very much, like, [00:27:11] Speaker D: right on the beach. [00:27:13] Speaker E: I was the last one with you. [00:27:15] Speaker C: Yeah. I think she'd just go over and kind of put her finger, like, her palms at, like, the very top of the ocean or like, at the very. Like when the. [00:27:24] Speaker D: When the. [00:27:24] Speaker C: When a wave comes in, her palms get wet and just stretched out in front of her and just taking deep breaths and trying to, like, summon the strength to, like, share this knowledge that she's been given and just, like, express gratitude and just, like, a little minute of, like, prayer and gathering her strength before she goes and shares what she learned with. [00:27:59] Speaker B: I'm coming on the pale, glittering sands almost. I mean, they're not, like, sugar white, but they are incredibly light sands. They're also dabbled with all those colors of the shattered gemstones all over them. And this is a good beach to put your hands in the water because it's very steep beach. I mean, it leads to a reef and then impossibly drops off into the vacuous ocean. So instead of being that gentle incline where waves can wash far up by you in the gradient, it's a fairly sharp decline. So where you sit can be dry while your palms are wetted by the waves as they come in. And the cool breeze comes by in the opulent weather with the raging apocalyptic storm everywhere on the horizon in every direction as the sun shines openly above you. And you are just caught there in the metaxas between the sublime and the ruinous. And as. As you're just held in the tension between these impossibly different feelings, as you have been for so long now, such as an overwhelming experience in so many directions. And as you. As you rest there, there's no powerful divine phenomena. You just. Something about the way the wind comes by feels a little bit like a whisper. And you just feel your symbol heavy on your chest, and you are reminded that you are the person Ioun chose to bear information, to bear witness, to bear truth. [00:29:45] Speaker C: I think Greta's been alive for a long time, and she's. [00:29:50] Speaker A: I would. [00:29:51] Speaker C: She's learned. She's. I mean, people have to learn how to, like, regulate themselves and manage their emotions and like, process panic and stress. So I think she's. Over her long lifetime, she's kind of learned how to, like, regulate her breathing, and she's learned, you know, to focus on the feelings in her hands and. And the way her. Her body feels and just like, her surroundings to kind of calm her down. And I think while she. She relies on these exercises that she's learned and that are familiar to her, there's like, these things that normally work. They. They work like normal, but there's. There's like an extra little bead of fortitude. Like, she does what she normally does. She practices her normal, you know, ways of processing things, but there's like a warmth that isn't always there. Like, there's a warmth that's unfamiliar. After all of these years of calming herself down, there's like an extra. It's a little easier than it normally is. [00:31:08] Speaker E: Ron Grimm, I think when she was in the fetal position, I think he would have tried to have gone over there and helped her up in some way, tried to help her to where she wanted to be, but then he would have respected that she needed to calm down. And I think he just kind of. When she put her hands in the waves. He put half his body in the waves and kind of just didn't sit, but just stood and just waited beside her, waiting for it to all pass. [00:31:48] Speaker B: Wrong grim as you. As you wade into the waves, Greta, you have the. You haven't known wrong grim too long, but hot dang, have you been through it with him in the short time you've known? And as this pillar, this. This stalwart ally just sits with you through it all, there's this really fascinating phenomena where as. As Ranger first treads into the waves, the ocean water, which is idyllic temperature here next to this aisle and high in salt, very hard to freeze, begins freezing around his immediate entry. As his boots enter the waves. And then as he puts more of his body and his trident enters where it's slung on his back, it begins to slightly boil the water from its radiant fire energy. So there's this bizarre. Like, the water around him first began to, like, just barely freeze at the surface and then immediately started, like, hissing and bubbling next to him. But he's just quietly awaiting. [00:32:55] Speaker F: I think Janice is. Since Janice has no idea that any of that stuff happened, I think she's having a completely different experience. Especially being, like, in my brain, I had her kind of, like, more up up above, so I'm like, not really near the. The sand and the water and stuff like that. [00:33:14] Speaker E: Sure. [00:33:14] Speaker F: Since I was kind of controlling at the front, like, forefront. [00:33:19] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:33:20] Speaker F: So I think what she's gonna be going through is, like, feeling the immense rush of power and like, magic that happened during the, like, combining, you know, and so I think it'll just be more like internal reflection, obviously. I feel like maybe she'd be, like, talking to the maker, kind of [00:33:49] Speaker D: just, [00:33:50] Speaker F: like, thankful for, like, the power, [00:33:54] Speaker C: but, [00:33:54] Speaker F: like, also scared for what this means. Basically. [00:34:02] Speaker B: Janice, as you. As you wait at the top of the mount is a strong word, but of the. Of the shallow mountain of the island, you move to a. To a familiar refrain, trying to depend in the middle of all the overwhelming experiences you've been in and where you are. Interestingly, Yanazala comes nearby. Yana, as we're calling her, and she, like, it's. It's like when you see those videos of elephants where they can. They're so very large, but they can move so very quietly. And so you still hear her because she is probably the largest singular organism you've ever witnessed. And she can't be too close to you before. It's just kind of uncomfortable because it's like a building is sitting down next to you, but a large building, a downtown building. But as she comes near and sits near you, she just sits. And her massive tail curls up next to her, crossing rock and infusing it with gemstone as it scrapes it. And she curls up kind of like a cat, and her immense wings fold together. The soft, not the grating, but the soft sound of metal sliding together where this immense platinum dragon lays down next to you. She just closes her eyes and kind of waits next to you, but very much with you. Coloclost has not left Boz's side, and he's still just kind of waiting with him, not saying anything, just waiting nearby him. And sorry, new NPCs still getting everybody's names nailed down. And Senva, the Emerald dragon has glided down to the shore, which is very interesting because she's fully made of crystal. And though the flight of dragons defeated five's physics and is always a little bit magical, there is great lift generated by their wings. It makes more sense, her flight. She doesn't even need to beat her wings. There's just kind of this like warping force that comes down from her and propels her upward. And then her wings just kind of like shift as she flies. And she, like sometimes she beats her wings very slowly and it seems less like she flies by propelling air downward at different forces, less that she's generating lift and more that she, she flies by manipulating gravity. And she comes and lands on the beach nearby and is just kind of waiting. And all three of the dragons seem to be just in the wings as if attending you all in this moment is what they're called to do. [00:36:37] Speaker G: Javian also, I believe he's the only person who's halfway up the mountain. And he definitely takes a little moment to process that he died again for just a second. And I, I think he will thank the maker that for, for, for bringing him back again. And he'll probably like wait a few minutes expecting the people at the shore to like walk up, have them, but then if they like don't come up, he'll probably start heading down to see if they're okay and also see if anything's obvious at the ocean. I sure, I feel he could probably quite easily follow the path that the magic river took. [00:37:28] Speaker B: Oh yeah, it's blazing down the side of the mountain. It's, it's, it's harder to miss and, but you know, in that way that the deep magic flows, where it's like, it is moving with immense power, but kind of slowly flowing in slow motion and waves of light arcing off of it in this sort of aurora pattern. And it's not long as you're walking before there is a not subtle but not clumsy padding that comes up behind you. And you see that Uegg has kind of jogged his way down the mountain, just making sure no one was dead and being there ready to recover anyone who might not have survived that experience necessarily. And before long, he sort of jogs his way down Weewoo as well. And as she jogs up, Wee Woo looks at you and she just goes, you good? [00:38:26] Speaker G: Yeah. I wasn't there for a second and I just pull her into like a deep hug. [00:38:31] Speaker B: Okay. She hugs you tightly as you're having this very intimate and profound moment. She just whispers, that was hot. And then she steps back and gives you like a kind of weird forced high five. Or she holds her hands up. [00:38:50] Speaker G: I mean, I'll give it, but yeah, definitely half heartedly. [00:38:54] Speaker B: What's your AC again? Javen? [00:38:57] Speaker G: 17. [00:38:58] Speaker E: Okay. [00:38:58] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:38:59] Speaker B: As you go to high five her, she punches you in the arm kind of hard. She goes, okay, okay. Still faster. [00:39:07] Speaker E: And then. [00:39:09] Speaker B: And then she slaps your butt and goes down to. Goes back to walking down, but doesn't leave your side. Doing her very, like, kind of aloof, comically above it all, but also still very much with you and attending and in the moment. You guys listen. [00:39:22] Speaker G: Yeah, I think he. I don't think he tells her that [00:39:26] Speaker B: he died so hard her headphones fell off. [00:39:30] Speaker G: I don't think he tells her that he died for a second because, like, we woo. Died for a few minutes just a few days ago, and that wasn't fun. [00:39:37] Speaker B: He's like, it takes one to know one. I'm not gonna say anything. Ueg walks up and just puts a big clawed hand on your shoulder and goes, you are right there, big guy. [00:39:50] Speaker D: Yeah, [00:39:53] Speaker G: I'll be okay. Thank you. And I wrap an arm around him too. Not the same types of. [00:39:59] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:40:04] Speaker B: He hugs you back and gives you a look and goes, well, if we haven't been in empty together, we're. We're in it now. I'm. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna touch your butt, but I'll see you at the beach. [00:40:16] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:40:18] Speaker G: We was still, like, conscious, like self consciously, like, like, like. But like, there's nothing there. It's like, I'll just w up my pants off. Okay. [00:40:30] Speaker B: All right. Is there anything, anything anyone else is doing? Also, Dal, the absolute champion of champions, if you wouldn't mind putting Your mic back up in between. Just because we get the fan or turning the fan off, whatever's easier. [00:40:47] Speaker D: I think Ro would have. Before she went down the mountain, she would have stayed what is like the inside of the well look now because she was like right on the edge. And once she like, I guess lowered down from floating [00:41:03] Speaker G: is like. [00:41:05] Speaker D: Is it still like flowing out of it or is. [00:41:07] Speaker B: Yes. So it has not receded as if its volume has exchanged and lost and lost what it has. It has increased so it's almost. It's only rising further and. But it doesn't look like. [00:41:26] Speaker D: Is it right on the edge, the X? [00:41:28] Speaker B: No. And you get the feeling that just it being that close would be kind of like lethal. But it has raised higher and it's just having these massive up wells are just the part that's moving through that cleft channel now and moving down the side of the mountain. [00:41:44] Speaker D: I think for a few minutes, like once it ended, she would have. When she like came back down, I think she would have still been plucking at her loot a little bit bit and kind of playing a bit of that old song. And then I think she would. She would just think of the maker and she would also think of Ceylon and she would do the seven stars. And I think after five or 10 minutes or so, that's when she would start making her way down the mountain because just to make sure that everyone else made it and is okay [00:42:33] Speaker F: eventually too. [00:42:35] Speaker B: Excellent. We'll say that it's about. This time at some point Yana like takes off just with this immense lift and she waits till you guys get a distance away from her because she wants. Once she lifts her wings and drives them with her again. I'd like to reiterate here. 182, 200T wingspan, maybe more. No, probably more like 200, 220. It's immense as it drives downward. It's this incredible of wind that like shakes and bends the trees. So she waited till you guys got away because it would have knocked you over. And she being soaring toward the beach, taking these long looping arch because she could obviously get there much more quickly. And as you guys are walking down the mountain, you pass near Kalloklast, who's waiting with Tello, who also looks like he's gone through it, been passed by the well. And Boz is there as well. And Tello looks like he has been recovering of sorts as well. But he appears to be. There's a real tension in that. He too looks overwhelmed and more on the positive side, but it looks like he's, like, kind of containing the things he's feeling because he's just trying to be present with Boz, who himself doesn't particularly look like he's associating with what's happening. [00:44:08] Speaker D: I. I think as I walked down and, like. Because you said they're, like, halfway down. [00:44:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:14] Speaker D: Or, like. Yeah, I think I would. I think I would. I don't think I would say much. I would just. If they let me, I would just, like, grab each of their hands and, like, hold on to their arm for a moment just to, like. Like, not in, like, a full hug, but just, like, almost, like, making sure that they're real. Like, that they're actually there. Like, I need to touch them to know that they're. That they're with me. And I would just reach out and hold them for a second and then keep on going down. [00:44:53] Speaker B: Boss looks at you as you do, but doesn't have a whole lot of other response. But Tello nods, and just a confident nod, and he goes, we'll be done as well. And Kalaklas lifts with this tremendous shifting, and he begins padding down behind you all. And Boz and Tello eventually are following, and the group is slowly but surely converging at the shore. [00:45:30] Speaker D: I think if I saw Greta. If I saw Greta, like, in the sand at this point still, I think I would rush to her. I think Roe would be concerned if. Unless I guess she could tell by Greta that she's okay. [00:45:48] Speaker A: But, [00:45:51] Speaker D: like, I know it's been a while now that she's been down there, but I think by the time she got. Got there, she would rush to Greta and just try to be by her side if she looked. [00:46:07] Speaker C: I kind of. [00:46:08] Speaker D: I, [00:46:10] Speaker C: like, get up. She's. She's a lot calmer now, but her eyes are, like, puffy, puffy, puffy. And her face. She, like, sees you coming, and she looks up and. And she, like, takes a minute to wipe all of the snot and, like. Like, tears off of her face on her sleeves. And then she kind of, like, looks at you and holds her sleeves out. Like, can you. [00:46:37] Speaker D: I think Roa, just nod and, like, quietly whistle and prestidigitated away. [00:46:45] Speaker C: Yeah, she kind of, like, sniffles, and I think she'd give you a hug and, like, just say, like, you did. You did great. You did so good. That was. That was perfect. [00:46:59] Speaker D: I think Ro would embrace her back, and I think she would hold on tighter to Greta than you've ever felt. [00:47:10] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:47:11] Speaker D: Ro Seems she's never been one that really holds on tight with hugging. And I think she. I think she would hold you there for a while, and then I think she would eventually step back and. And look at you and say. [00:47:32] Speaker A: Are. [00:47:34] Speaker D: Are you okay? What. Why are you down here? What happened? [00:47:40] Speaker C: I'm okay. I just. [00:47:41] Speaker D: It. [00:47:46] Speaker C: Everything went great. I just. I had another. Had another vision, and I think. I think Zorgrim is. Zorgrim is fighting Falkren now. [00:48:02] Speaker D: Like, right now. [00:48:06] Speaker C: Like, dm, can I. Dude, did I get the sense that it was happening right now, or is this an imminent. [00:48:14] Speaker B: The sheer unease in your heart makes you feel like it is current now. [00:48:20] Speaker C: Okay. [00:48:22] Speaker B: UEG froze his brow and says. Not that we were under the impression we had a lot, but that doesn't. That doesn't leave us with a great deal of time. [00:48:35] Speaker A: No. [00:48:35] Speaker G: Where? [00:48:37] Speaker C: Where? Yes, dm, did I see where. [00:48:43] Speaker B: I mean, you were very much at that place that, you know he was headed. You saw that he was headed to that. That land of frost on his way to that mountain in the distance. [00:48:56] Speaker C: Is he fighting Carcon on the way there? [00:48:59] Speaker B: So it's been weeks. If you recall, Carcon was emerging from the ice, reaching the Bitterlands, and he was clearly going to follow that mountain path all the way to where he knew the deep well was like, his VI was like, I'll get there and become powerful and fight up Zorgo. And that is where Zorgrim attacked him. [00:49:19] Speaker C: Carkoon was on his way there. Okay. [00:49:23] Speaker B: Had just reached the Bitterlands, which are immense. [00:49:25] Speaker C: Okay. Okay. [00:49:26] Speaker D: Is Corcoran and Zach, it's also because I forgot that I'm asking. This is. [00:49:33] Speaker E: Ro. [00:49:34] Speaker D: Ask is. Is Corcoran alive, you think? Or do you think he. Did you see if. Or did he lose or correct me [00:49:43] Speaker C: if I'm wrong, tm, I don't. [00:49:46] Speaker D: He didn't. [00:49:47] Speaker B: Okay, so as a summary, you want Corcoran emerge from the ice. It's okay. Instead of. It's all right. Instead of asking 15 more questions, you watched Carcoin emerge from the ice. And it's just a whole lot of time spent on the sheer stunning scale and size of him. And he began pulling himself out and heading toward the mountain. But he couldn't hardly get almost anywhere on his pathway before the horrible form fell out of the sky and just plunged down on him. And there was like a couple moments of attack before some sort of power was utilized and summoned on Carcharren. And then the vision cut out. So that is what you know. But sure, there's Plenty that could be inferred with that. Also, we will say for the sake of setting the scene that everyone has arrived by this point. The dragons are giving you all some space. With their excellent senses, they can be 30, 40ft away. With their immense size, they're still hearing you all clearly. But the entire party has converged for when anyone wants to hop into roleplaying conversation. Everyone's there. [00:50:48] Speaker C: Okay? So I say, I say I think, I mean, I, I can't, I'd have to, to do more spells to know for sure. But I, I, I think he's probably dead by now. And, and Zorgrim is there. Zorgrim is, is that, he's in the Bitterlands. He's at the, he's at the deep well or he's nearby. [00:51:20] Speaker D: How much? Like, like u said and she's like looking at everybody at this point. She's like, how much, how much time does that give us? [00:51:31] Speaker C: I think we should go. I mean, like, I think we should get there as soon as we can. It sounds like Zorgrim is, is there or he's within hours of being there. If he's not, we've been there. [00:51:44] Speaker G: Janice could definitely teleport us there. [00:51:46] Speaker C: Okay. [00:51:48] Speaker G: And I just, I kind of, I, I look to Wee Woo and just like, I don't know, like, I don't even know how, how to comfort her, but I just like, kind of like go to like just stand, lean against her because like this, this sucks her considerable. [00:52:04] Speaker B: Her adamantine armor of protective humor and deflecting and just the humor with which she coats herself is just not up. She's just, she's almost not even talking. She's just watching the waves, listening but dissociating a little bit. And you stand nearby, you hold her hand javen. And as you do, she looks not lost, not vacant, but trying to dissociate. But as you hold her hand and hers absentmindedly takes yours, it hurts how hard she squeezed your hand. With her considerable strength. There is plenty of tension and fear just beneath the surface there. [00:52:54] Speaker D: We have to go, we have to go home for. We have to tell the others. We have to get more potions. We have to rest to be able to get there. And she's just like, she's just kind of like mumbling because she doesn't, she's just rattling off all of these things because it's like obviously, like when can you ever be ready for something like this? But, but like she's trying to fill the dead space of silence with the answers that she knows are coming. [00:53:31] Speaker F: I think we, we have to go there tomorrow. I think maybe the best bet is [00:53:37] Speaker G: we don't know how fast Zorim can move. It is most likely extremely fast. [00:53:45] Speaker F: I don't. Yeah, I don't think speed is gonna affect this. But dm, we know the time. We know roughly the, the difference between the time zones of here and. Or maybe not here, but like, let's just say. [00:53:58] Speaker B: Well, I mean, yeah, you have no idea where you are now, but I mean you are aware that the Bitterlands are at a very different place in the world. So you'd have a bit of a difference in time. But that difference in time is not going to work in your favor. If you're in the Sapphire Desert right now, you'd be further behind and because it's essentially kind of like the Pacific Ocean. [00:54:17] Speaker F: Yeah, but if we went over to like, maybe we should. We should go. [00:54:21] Speaker B: It took you guys about two weeks. No, no, no. Cuz you guys were teleporting the entire time. It took you roughly a week to like teleport, hop, walk your way to, to the central mountain in the Bitterlands, to that Xenal Peak and. But you know that he can fly fast now. [00:54:46] Speaker F: We've been there. [00:54:47] Speaker B: So you get the feeling that it'll take him about a day. Now you could just boop there if you want. You can make a strategies check for me if you'd like. Okay. [00:55:00] Speaker E: I think Ron Grimm would try to help with the strategies check because I am proficient in strategy. Okay. [00:55:07] Speaker B: Daniel, how could you help? [00:55:09] Speaker E: Action. [00:55:10] Speaker B: Lend me some. You Janice can absolutely be provided it. Lend me. And actually, I mean you guys are. You guys are in the process of discussing this right now. If wrong, Grim would like to hop in and kind of take over the check. I don't think that's outside of the role the realm and roleplay and someone could assist him because I know that's a strong check for you, Daniel. So if you, if you want to facilitate that and role play somehow that he's weighing in with opinion, you can have that check. [00:55:38] Speaker F: Janice also has pretty good strategy too. [00:55:42] Speaker E: Yeah, I figured Janice, the one who's an intelligence cast. Oh, she's not intelligent. [00:55:46] Speaker B: She's a charisma cast. [00:55:47] Speaker E: But yeah, I mean, I think Ron Grimm in the sense of a captain, knowing the basics of things, hearing a row, murmuring about things that fill the space and everyone being like, what are we gonna do? I think he just pipes in and he's like, but I know we need rest so we can't do his day. We can anytime. And so like he just goes over like just normal facts and just slowly looks at everyone and he's just like. So it sounds like we have one day to run rest before the apocalypse. [00:56:22] Speaker C: I wonder if our best bet is [00:56:24] Speaker F: to go to Zedge, maybe to find some supplies since they're technically. I mean, they love us. They would help us if they could. I wonder if we stay there, we get some rest and then we go in the morning. [00:56:40] Speaker D: I'm. [00:56:40] Speaker G: I think we're at the point where it doesn't matter. Any city would help us with money. It's the apocalypse is happening and the Empire's done. [00:56:50] Speaker D: I don't. But I know that [00:56:54] Speaker C: we also need to think of what places wouldn't be completely looted. [00:56:59] Speaker B: In the midst of having discussions. We also, if either wrong or Janice would like to make that check with advantage. You go ahead and camp. [00:57:07] Speaker D: We also, I mean working on healing potions if we wanted to grab those and any supplies there. [00:57:19] Speaker G: Yes, we might as well get the supplies we know we were certain of. [00:57:27] Speaker F: I got a 22. [00:57:31] Speaker D: Oh, we, we, we couldn't teleport here. Can we teleport away from. And she gestures to the island like knowingly. [00:57:45] Speaker F: I feel like if we have a destination that we know of, I can. [00:57:49] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean I could and I could get us, I could get us back to, back to Parsage to do that, to get our potions and all and put our affairs in order back there and then we could. You could hop us to a different place, I guess. [00:58:10] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:58:12] Speaker B: As you all are are communicating and planning and you know, like we're gonna have this conversation, the amount of time we have it, we can assume in roleplay that the group is talking for a while. You know what, I'll split this between wrong Grim and Janice because I think there's aspects of this that occur to both of you and I think that that fits well with the flavor of the scene. So Janice, what occurs to you is that when Zorgrim gets to that mountain, I mean you guys literally fell through the mountain, through that, that passage, that sort of semi physical, semi magical portal into that, that buried city below where the deep well was housed. And it is still inside that cage. So it's going to take Zorgrim however long it takes him to fly there and then he's going to need to get through the mountain and then through the cage. But once he gets to that well, it was all just good intentions and that's clear as day to you. So you are aware that the party can have endless ideas and brilliant plans, but time is a luxury you are rapidly losing. There is no greater need for expediency than this. And that is clear to you, Janus, from your consideration of the function of the deep well, that if the God Killer is currently murdering a different God in the world, right now he's at that level of strength and he's about to access the greatest well of power in this world. Reaching him after the fact would be a formality and wrong grim. The thing which. Which occurs clearly to you is that because you've spent quite a bit of time with the warriors of the well now. So it's not just, I mean your. Your ample experience as a naval captain and also, I mean, we talk about your strategy. The reason you have expertise strategy was not only were you a naval captain with the Kevin Empire unwillingly conscripted, you were also a member of your own military in Yazlan, resisting them for the better part of a decade. So you have seen plenty of what it means to make difficult decisions under pressure. And one of the things that occurs to you is that there is, I mean, it is difficult and these are hard choices to make, but there is a need. Need for the realistic prioritization of needs. So the part of that 22 that's dawning on you is that if there is anything that is not essential, then it shouldn't happen is what's clear to you that like picking up meager resources. And again, this isn't necessarily striking down the plans of your allies, but just what's down dawning on you is that like, you know, quote unquote, metaphorically like the Kefkin Lashla and the Kefkin military are at the gates and being like, hey, do we have backup shields and how are our ration provisions going? Is just really not the need right now. The. The only questions that matter are like, what's our plan of defense? And has everyone gathered their materials? Because the enemy's at the door, the wolves are at the gate. And so it's just no longer a question of do we have shopping? Would probably be a misuse of time. There is only the time it takes to fully recover yourselves for battle and the time it takes to get there. And that is what is clear as day to year you wrong. And you guys can relay this to your allies if you. [01:02:01] Speaker G: As uncomfortable as it is, we could technically sleep there for sure. Be ready for the arrival. We would just want to be in one of the buildings. [01:02:16] Speaker C: Another thing I this might Be. I. I just want to throw it out there just in case. But he's currently fighting another God right now. Wouldn't he be. Would he maybe be vulnerable right now? Or would he maybe be. I don't know. I'm just wondering. [01:02:41] Speaker B: He'll be. [01:02:43] Speaker G: Well, can we be certain we'll be safe? Cochrane? [01:02:48] Speaker C: That's. That's. That's a good question. It's just. It would. Yeah, it'd be great to catch him when he's already busy with something the [01:02:59] Speaker B: whole time you guys are talking. Senva, the. The Emerald Dragon. Who's that? Xenal Priest of Ioun. She has landed herself nearby. Not on the beach. She's just hovering above the water and she has herself in this sort of seated position and she has made a magic circle out of water. She's lifted up out of the water and suspended in place beneath her. And she is. It appears she's actively communing with Selune and the parts of her head have like come apart again and are rotating around her and she's. It just seems like she's in a sort of communion right now, also checking on things and actively being a part of the strategy. So she may have things to communicate to you soon. But that's just. That's something you're. You're aware of and witnessing in your space nearby. [01:03:44] Speaker C: That is so cool. So I. I guess maybe that's not our. It's best to just. It just. It'd be great if we could use his enemies against him. [01:03:56] Speaker D: I mean, I think he would be vulnerable, but we'd also be vulnerable, so I don't think it would. It would. It would still be the same. The same fight? Maybe. [01:04:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:04:09] Speaker A: I have a question. Is there any way we could try to get Corcoran on like over side in this? I don't know. [01:04:25] Speaker D: I don't think we have time for that now. I mean, either hiding. [01:04:29] Speaker G: He won't listen. [01:04:30] Speaker D: Either he's dead or. [01:04:32] Speaker G: Yeah, [01:04:34] Speaker B: fighting somebody. Yeah, we're not exactly his friends. He's not much of a team player and he's actively fighting someone who's Owen. However many against immortal beings. So. Yeah, it's really more a question of is he going to be alive soon. [01:04:54] Speaker G: But if we are able to attack Zorab soon, soon after, we may be [01:04:59] Speaker C: able to at least leverage. [01:05:01] Speaker G: Get in a weakened state. [01:05:03] Speaker C: Yeah, he might still be tired, [01:05:07] Speaker B: but [01:05:08] Speaker G: will there be enough time for us to sleep in the meantime as well? [01:05:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:15] Speaker B: As you all have been strategizing and talking, Senva has been Communing. And at some point the water falls down from around her and the many rotating pieces of her horns and head reconverge and that, like, third eye closes over the crystals that reform into her head and she lands by. You know, some, some, some stat blocks are immune to some conditions, but she lands on the beach nearby and she looks up at you, all that incredible glittering light in her iris, less crystal eyes. And I don't totally remember her voice, so I'm just going to vibe it out. But she says, actually, she doesn't address you all immediately. First, I mean first. She actually first directs her attention toward the keeper, to Yana Zangalida. And she says, keep her. He is not alone. He has brought them all with him. And Yana just kind of like opens her eyes for the first time in a while, nods, and her huge form with her voice turns and says, I am told that you all were there for the acolytes. [01:06:50] Speaker G: Yes. [01:06:53] Speaker B: He has been to many realms and killed many. [01:07:03] Speaker G: So you've made more. [01:07:05] Speaker B: We'll need to be ferried. You cannot win this alone. And as we said, you all will not be in it alone. We will slaughter his forces. You will not face him. [01:07:35] Speaker A: Are you kidding me? [01:07:38] Speaker B: Kalaklas turns his head and goes, no, no, not. And just looks at you flatly and lamely. [01:07:47] Speaker A: He's. He's used to Esmen Kai. He's not faith. [01:07:53] Speaker B: Ueg. At the talk of others like the acolytes, Ueg just kind of tightens his. His hands around his staff and just kind of widens his eyes and stares at this hand. And Tello goes, that's cool. What do you. What do you. You and me and everybody else here understand what you mean, but just, just for Craig, what do you mean by that? And [01:08:18] Speaker G: are you fast enough? [01:08:20] Speaker B: Color class chimes in. He says, we've been kept here on this isle for you all more than for the ritual of seething. We're here to face his army. Will you all face him? [01:08:37] Speaker A: Wow. [01:08:38] Speaker B: And Teller goes, army, cool. That's good. [01:08:45] Speaker C: I think Greta just like, is so overwhelmed by this. She just like puts her head in her hand. Like, she just puts her, like very, like digs her palms into her eyes and just like, it's just mind boggling. But I think she'll look at Calico and say like, that is. That's. I think that's. She's just, she's just stuttering. This is insane. [01:09:20] Speaker B: He. He just nods and he goes. It is very hard to comprehend. [01:09:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:09:29] Speaker G: Thank you. [01:09:31] Speaker C: Yeah. Thank you. I think that's what I meant to say. [01:09:35] Speaker B: We will all live and die for this world. I. Yanas are. Yanas are like a. The duh. Whatever. Yana chimes back in and she says, this is just fitting. It's fitting that I have to mess this up. Yana chimes back in and she says, you all have spoken much of going places, of making plans. We are open to your ideas and strategies, but you will need to fly with all of us. [01:10:08] Speaker D: Wow. [01:10:10] Speaker B: You may sleep on the wig. If you have anyone to contact or any preparations to make, this would be the time. [01:10:19] Speaker D: Do we need to. Ro kind of stutters because she feels. She feels. I can't figure out the words right now in my head, but she looks. She side looks to Boz and she looks back, kind of not talking to any of the dragons, but just kind of talking to, I think like Greta or Craig, because that's who she feels most comfortable like, looking at right now. Just like I think there are some of us that can no longer fight. I think. Could we take him. [01:11:04] Speaker B: She nods. [01:11:05] Speaker D: Could we take him home on the way to Parsage or. [01:11:10] Speaker B: Senva responds to your question and she says, we mean no offense to your friend, but there is no time. I have been to the Lost Lands. [01:11:27] Speaker D: Oh, I meant Parsage. [01:11:28] Speaker B: If he should be teleported there, sure. She's. She's responding. She says, I could. To the Lost Lands if he is to be teleported there. And Boz pipes in and he just goes, I don't. I don't know who's left there. I might as well just stay here. And Tello kind of furrows his brow and goes, no, come on. Whether with Shippagooba or your family, you should be somewhere for all of this. [01:12:12] Speaker D: They need you as much as you need them. [01:12:19] Speaker B: And Boz just kind of like shakes his head. [01:12:25] Speaker G: Well, if you, if you have. Oh, can we teleport back here after we've been here? Because I'm about to say teleport them home. Grab the potions hoops if they're gonna fly through Esmon Kai and then come back here. Because the flight has to come from here. [01:12:44] Speaker D: Yeah. Is there a way? She looks to Caliclas and she says, if, if Janus or I teleported away from here, could we. Would there be a way for us to know how to get back? [01:12:57] Speaker B: You would be greatly challenged to return. [01:13:00] Speaker C: Okay, I mean, not to be grim, but how long do we think that the. The fight is going to take? It might Be a day or two. [01:13:12] Speaker B: Senvar responds and says they could survive [01:13:15] Speaker G: here a few days. [01:13:17] Speaker B: Senvar responds and says no one knows at this time for certain, but how long do your battles typically take? [01:13:32] Speaker C: Minutes. Yeah. [01:13:34] Speaker B: She just nods grimly in real time [01:13:37] Speaker D: with a dream time. [01:13:42] Speaker C: So I, I, [01:13:48] Speaker D: I. [01:13:49] Speaker C: My only worry is I wouldn't want to leave anyone here without me to get back. And if, if we don't make it, then if we. [01:13:58] Speaker D: Wait, wait, wait. Can I, can I do a like a visit navigation check is. Well no, because I don't know where we are. Cuz I was going to say could I teleport them to Parage and they pick me up? [01:14:16] Speaker B: What? [01:14:17] Speaker D: Like could I teleport? Teleport somewhere on the path, let's say to Parage? And would Parage like can I do a check to see like would Parage be on the way Way for the dragons to sit down grab me. [01:14:29] Speaker B: And you are a skilled navigator. You are very aware that the Bitterlands are at the top of the world. [01:14:36] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:14:37] Speaker B: And Parage is kind of over here in the northeast. And though you don't know where this aisle is, you've been told it's in the Sapphire Desert, which is over here in the far west. [01:14:49] Speaker D: Fantastic. [01:14:50] Speaker B: So if you wanted to burn a day and a half of time, they could swoop by, but. [01:14:55] Speaker D: Yeah. Okay. [01:14:57] Speaker G: Well, Janice is able to teleport to our final destination if someone. [01:15:01] Speaker F: I just don't want to waste a spell slot. [01:15:03] Speaker D: Yeah, that's the thing. [01:15:04] Speaker G: Yeah, it is very high level teller ways. [01:15:07] Speaker B: And he goes. This might not be the best time to break up the group. [01:15:11] Speaker C: Yeah, I think we should tell some. I think we should tell someone who we're leaving here. Just. I know that this place is hard to find, but just so that someone knows where they are and maybe knows [01:15:26] Speaker B: some for the skills for the skilled casters. You all are aware that you can send someone with teleport? [01:15:32] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:15:33] Speaker B: Oh, [01:15:38] Speaker D: So silly. [01:15:41] Speaker B: Wait, hold on. Am I right about that? Let me check. [01:15:43] Speaker G: No, I don't think. [01:15:45] Speaker C: Could I have teleportation circle? [01:15:49] Speaker F: I could do it. [01:15:50] Speaker D: But do we have a circle? Do you have the supplies? [01:15:52] Speaker F: I just draw one. [01:15:53] Speaker C: Okay. [01:15:54] Speaker G: We just draw it on the ground. [01:15:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:15:56] Speaker C: Oh, and then we can just send them anywhere. [01:15:58] Speaker F: Yeah, send whatever's in the circle right there. [01:16:02] Speaker D: Let me, let me call. Let me call. I'll call Thespis and tell them it [01:16:08] Speaker F: can only be in locations that I know. [01:16:11] Speaker G: It could be our boat, home cove, [01:16:16] Speaker F: Tone. [01:16:18] Speaker D: Wait, is there has to be another circle there. [01:16:21] Speaker F: It has. I have to Know, we have a laundry. [01:16:28] Speaker C: You have a sketch. A lot of. You have sketches of a lot of different teleportation. [01:16:33] Speaker D: I have. [01:16:33] Speaker C: You could send it to. You could send them to Elec. [01:16:38] Speaker F: I could, Yeah. I could call. [01:16:42] Speaker D: Could I. Let me. I haven't checked to see if he's okay. Let me call him and see if he. [01:16:50] Speaker C: Oh, I'm sorry. [01:16:51] Speaker D: No, no. I need to do this anyway. [01:16:59] Speaker F: Yeah. [01:17:00] Speaker D: And she. She gets the stone from. I almost said Micah. From Craig. And I think of Valak. And I say a quiet prayer to the Maker in Selune before I connect. Or not. [01:17:24] Speaker B: Ro. As you reach out with the stone, you feel a sensation that is not unfamiliar to you in these last 48 hours of feeling that. That mental connection. And you are aware that you can feel his surviving presence. [01:17:49] Speaker D: Oh, you are a mean person. [01:17:51] Speaker C: I was devious. [01:17:53] Speaker D: I hated that whole. [01:17:55] Speaker C: That was so devious. [01:17:56] Speaker D: I didn't like that one bit. [01:18:00] Speaker B: You feel the connection made with the ancient copper dragon. Made your ally. [01:18:04] Speaker A: Hated that. [01:18:06] Speaker D: I say. I say. Valak. You're. You're alive. [01:18:15] Speaker B: Roy. Now, this was a call I was not considering. [01:18:23] Speaker D: Yeah, we're. Well, I mean, all things considering. We're all alive. Yes, I. We don't have much time. But first, I'm so glad you're alive. [01:18:38] Speaker B: And me too. Though I sense perhaps not for much longer. [01:18:44] Speaker D: Yeah, well, if we can help it, [01:18:50] Speaker B: I'm not surprised that you all are at the center of this. There's an excellent bard at the middle of every great story. [01:19:01] Speaker D: I'll try to remember that we have someone with us that cannot continue on that story with us. [01:19:14] Speaker B: Understood. [01:19:15] Speaker D: I was wondering if we could. Because time is of the essence and we need to get there quickly. We were wondering if we could teleport someone to your teleportation circle. As you remember, I had it memorized. [01:19:34] Speaker B: I would not lie to you. I am less than pleased that you are taking more than a full year and a half to answer my invitation to return to my office abode. But with pleasure, I will receive your friend. [01:19:46] Speaker D: I. [01:19:47] Speaker B: They must like wine and conversation. [01:19:49] Speaker D: Though I don't know about the conversation part right now, but if you give him enough wine, maybe he's like. He's like me. He's. You know, plant. Like [01:20:07] Speaker B: your boss fellow. [01:20:09] Speaker D: Yes. Yes. He wasn't with us. I don't believe the first time we were with you. But was he? [01:20:16] Speaker B: I remembered you speaking of him. [01:20:17] Speaker F: Okay. [01:20:21] Speaker D: Yeah, he's. He's wonderful. Please, just take care of him. And I promise you, if we make it through this. [01:20:33] Speaker B: Do I guess correctly likely that you all are headed to a great conflict for the fate of all of our lives? [01:20:39] Speaker D: Yeah, that's. [01:20:42] Speaker B: It seems about right. I don't know if you remember this. We spent a brief time together and I said many things, so this might have slipped your mind, but I am an incredibly large and powerful copper drag. And also the greatest part to ever live. If you all are. That is true. You all are going to fight some malignant evil. I see no reason why I should not go with you. This is my world too. I would also like to die for it. [01:21:14] Speaker D: Ro almost drops the stone. [01:21:19] Speaker B: It slips out of your hand and you have to like, catch it and toss it. [01:21:25] Speaker D: Wow, I. I never would have burdened you with asking that. [01:21:33] Speaker B: But yeah, Girly Poppit is the end of the world. What do you mean? That makes no sense. [01:21:39] Speaker D: Yeah, we're. [01:21:40] Speaker A: We're. [01:21:41] Speaker D: We're heading to the Bitterlands. And. [01:21:44] Speaker B: And it's lovely this time of year. [01:21:48] Speaker D: Yeah, always, I guess. And that The Hate came King has. He's. While we speak, he's fighting another God nearby. The Bitter Limbs. Yeah. [01:22:00] Speaker B: The what? [01:22:01] Speaker D: The. The. The Hate King. [01:22:04] Speaker B: Another God? [01:22:06] Speaker D: Yeah, it's Carcoran. It's a long story. [01:22:10] Speaker B: Well, you could be honest with me if this was a drunk dial. I will not. [01:22:14] Speaker D: No, I honestly wish it was. As bards, we tell a lot of stories, but this one, unfortunately, is true. [01:22:25] Speaker B: Well, I don't know what these words mean, but I'll go where you go. [01:22:28] Speaker D: Okay. We're. We're going to the Bitterlands and we'll send Boz to take care of your home. Wow. Okay. [01:22:42] Speaker B: Yeah, he's not prone to thievery, is he? [01:22:45] Speaker A: No, not. [01:22:45] Speaker B: Because if we all survive, I don't want anything missing from my home. [01:22:48] Speaker D: No. And if we all survive, you know, the like. I've heard that as you are the greatest bard in the world, you throw an amazing party. And if we survive this week, I would. I would love to celebrate my birthday in a week's time with you. [01:23:06] Speaker B: That sounds like a plan. Birthday bash. It's my incredible lair. [01:23:16] Speaker D: Okay, I need to let you go. I think more calls need to be made. But [01:23:23] Speaker B: the Bitterlands, should they start flying now or. [01:23:26] Speaker D: Yeah, I would. We have a couple of dragons, she says, like kind of under her breath, that are flying us there. We're currently on an island that I. I mean, obviously not as capable as you, but we are. She says. [01:23:44] Speaker B: You're telling me that you've been seeing other dragons on the side? Not am I Not your main dragon. I am [01:23:53] Speaker D: a pawn that lies in my heart. [01:23:57] Speaker B: I don't know what this hate king has done. But you have done the greater betrayal. [01:24:03] Speaker D: I'll make it up to you if we. If we get through this. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for everything. Always. Everything you always do. I will see you. [01:24:18] Speaker B: I am amazing. [01:24:19] Speaker D: Soon. [01:24:21] Speaker B: Give me a call when it is time to take the wing. [01:24:24] Speaker D: Okay, Will do. [01:24:26] Speaker B: I'll wait for your friend to arrive. I will have fresh one it. [01:24:29] Speaker D: Okay, perfect. Thank you. And she disconnects. And she immediately spills everything to everyone. Like as fast coming out of her mouth as her fingers can pluck her loot. [01:24:44] Speaker B: What? Okay, excellent. [01:24:46] Speaker C: The information. [01:24:48] Speaker B: Got you. I'm with you. Sorry. The information is relayed. I got confused in that sentence. [01:24:52] Speaker A: Sorry. [01:24:54] Speaker D: Oh, you don't like me confused and upset about the words your friend says to you about a character you love. [01:25:01] Speaker B: What? [01:25:02] Speaker C: Hello, [01:25:04] Speaker D: silly Jackie. [01:25:06] Speaker B: What's happening anyway? Does someone do something? [01:25:09] Speaker C: There's a lot of feelings. [01:25:12] Speaker B: I'm emotional. [01:25:14] Speaker D: What? [01:25:15] Speaker A: We can't. We can't say anything. Anything to Zach that's not amazing. Compliment and happy because he. [01:25:22] Speaker C: He plays nor girl. That's true. That's true. [01:25:27] Speaker B: You can throw whatever you want at me because he'll try to kill you no matter what. [01:25:30] Speaker D: So I was feeling okay until Zach said, hey, you're gonna need four dragons. And then I got a little nervous. [01:25:40] Speaker F: Speaking of the four dragons, can we run through the colors of them really quick so I can write them down? [01:25:46] Speaker B: Yes. You currently have an ancient copper dragon pledge to help you. An ancient amethyst dragon is copper. Excuse me? Ancient. Emerald. Emerald. Emerald. Emerald. They were messaging about an amethyst, which is. [01:26:00] Speaker D: Which one? Can you. [01:26:02] Speaker B: That's senva S E N apostrophe V, V, A H, Coloclost is an ancient blue dragon. And then Yana's. Yana's Salag. Galada is. Well, you don't really have reference for her. Yeah, but she is technically a platinum great worm. So she is a. A metallic great worm from Lisbon's treasury of dragons. [01:26:31] Speaker C: Wait, so she ain't. [01:26:32] Speaker G: Who's this copper guy? What's his name? Valak. [01:26:35] Speaker D: He's a bard. Oh. Ro. Ro answers it. She goes. He's a bard that once fought. I believe he fought Shista at one time. He went on a date with my mother once. And he's a better bard than. Or better caster or anything than I've ever known. Besides. Well, you guys standing in front of me. [01:26:59] Speaker G: Wait, so. So he's not a Dragon. [01:27:03] Speaker D: He's a dragon, but a bard. [01:27:05] Speaker G: Okay. [01:27:08] Speaker D: He's an ancient copper dragon that is also a bard. And he's a master of all things illusion. Illusions and stuff. Right, Zach? Yes, yeah. Of. He's a master of illusions. And. What. Who was he with? What was his. What were. What were the people he fought with? He fought with the. With the manabus, Right, The Majestic Company. Oh, the Majestic Company. She says that. She says he fought with the Majestic Company and knew some of the manabus. I believe. [01:27:41] Speaker B: A group of heroes from like 400 years ago. [01:27:46] Speaker A: That's cool. [01:27:47] Speaker C: Okay, so Greta is like pacing her. She's like looking at the three. At the three dragons in front of her, and she's like, there's another dragon. She's like. She's like having a lot of trouble with like the basic math of like. Okay, there's three there and. But there's one more. This is. [01:28:08] Speaker F: We try to ask for a fifth one. [01:28:11] Speaker A: I. [01:28:12] Speaker C: Do we know any others? I don't know. [01:28:14] Speaker F: We know the amethyst dragon, but we don't know if he would be chill. [01:28:18] Speaker B: You do know she's on a different plane of existence. [01:28:20] Speaker D: She. [01:28:21] Speaker F: Yeah. [01:28:24] Speaker G: And it might take a while to track her down. Don't know if she'll fit through the cube, but. We have a cubic gate that can take us to five other specific realms. [01:28:38] Speaker F: Wow. [01:28:40] Speaker G: This dragon resides of the beast dawns. And I don't think it wants to come back. Probably not very cool dragon though, in the scheme of dragons. And then I. I turned to, um, [01:28:54] Speaker D: the [01:28:57] Speaker G: Yana Kalaska Salada. [01:28:59] Speaker B: Yeah, we can all call her Yana. It's Yana Zala, Yana Zana Galada. But we can all call her Yana. But it's fine. [01:29:12] Speaker G: Excuse me. So there's fight, there's Zorgram. And we know some other obsidian new generals. Is it the best strategy for us mortals to fight the dragon while y' all fight the. Well, you. I would never say y' all fight the. [01:29:38] Speaker B: Yeehaw. [01:29:41] Speaker G: Fight them. Fight the army. Rather than dragons fighting the dragon. [01:29:49] Speaker B: The immense dragon responds and she says it might seem a strange choice. And she smiles a bit and she says, if the maker has chosen you all, I trust. But also there will be other dragons. It is not only the walking mortals. Zorgrim has turned. I think you all want us protecting your approach. Okay, thank you, Javion, Yor and Janus. And you eggs minds are all harking back to dragons made out of obsidian you have encountered in the past. [01:30:30] Speaker G: Last time we brought a Dragon is. [01:30:32] Speaker D: Is everyone. She looks at Ro looks at Javian and goes, is everyone that we're going to be fighting gonna be like. Like. Like your sister. And. And why am I going blank? Sh. She doesn't go blank. I do. [01:30:52] Speaker G: I can. I believe the role he needed for them is done. [01:31:02] Speaker D: But I mean, like, is their power gonna be the same, you think? [01:31:07] Speaker F: I think it would be best to [01:31:08] Speaker G: go over the lightning fire. Necrotic. [01:31:13] Speaker B: Ah, cool. [01:31:14] Speaker F: I think it would be smart if. If we went over how it was like when we were last fighting. Like in Unsen or not in Unsen, [01:31:24] Speaker B: but [01:31:27] Speaker F: just the area and what. What that kind of looked like. Because everything will be obsidian. Like she said. [01:31:33] Speaker G: It's lightning to Shissa's place. They don't probably need a location explanation. [01:31:38] Speaker B: Tello goes, no, I. I would love to know everything about the experiences you've had with that. If there's something we could know going into this. That sounds like a plan. I'm. I'm into that. If you guys wanted to say things about fighting the. The acophytes. Whatever the name she said earlier was the guys acolytes. That makes more sense. [01:32:05] Speaker G: More of a religious term. [01:32:08] Speaker A: You. [01:32:11] Speaker G: I believe. I don't believe there's saving for the obsidian creatures, but. [01:32:20] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:32:21] Speaker G: I cannot be sad. [01:32:23] Speaker D: I mean, I wasn't going in thinking that we were gonna. I mean. Okay, as. As awful as that sounds, I wasn't planning on us needing to save souls of the ones that were fighting. [01:32:36] Speaker A: There's no blankets for them. [01:32:38] Speaker G: But the. The main thing is you can't use fire on them. I don't believe there was a specific weakness. Weakness to. [01:32:45] Speaker C: No fire damage. [01:32:47] Speaker G: They. They will. They will not be damaged by fire. [01:32:51] Speaker C: Okay. Are they. What about radiant? [01:32:54] Speaker A: Are they. [01:32:55] Speaker G: Radiant is an excellent choice. [01:32:57] Speaker D: I mean, that seemed to hurt Shista a lot. [01:33:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:33:00] Speaker F: Yeah. [01:33:01] Speaker A: If. [01:33:02] Speaker F: If you have a high powered spell or anything that does use fire, I can change it, but I. I just would have to be. I would just have to know before you do it. [01:33:17] Speaker B: You can't. [01:33:17] Speaker G: You can't metamagic someone else's spell. [01:33:21] Speaker F: My. One of my new spells. [01:33:25] Speaker G: Oh, okay. [01:33:26] Speaker A: Cool. [01:33:28] Speaker B: Holy crap, that's true. You could. I just realized what you're talking. [01:33:32] Speaker D: I think Rose jaw drops to the ground. [01:33:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:33:37] Speaker G: JVN specifically will switch out his dragon scale loadout. [01:33:43] Speaker D: That's what I was about to say for wormworm. [01:33:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:33:48] Speaker G: Switches it out to be the ice one, the acid one and the poison one. [01:33:57] Speaker B: Yana chimes in and she says actually, we can take care of that. For you all. [01:34:08] Speaker C: Wait, what? [01:34:09] Speaker D: Holy crap on a cracker. [01:34:11] Speaker F: They're gonna get. [01:34:12] Speaker D: I have a red dragon scale and a blue dragon scale, which are both not good. Right? [01:34:20] Speaker F: Buffet of dragons. [01:34:22] Speaker B: Yana continues. And she says. [01:34:24] Speaker G: Wait, you learned the spell too? [01:34:27] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:34:29] Speaker G: I will give you. Do you want green or black? [01:34:32] Speaker D: Ron Grimm actually had given me a couple of the scales that he had left for. For the. For when we fought Shister. [01:34:40] Speaker G: I will give you at least one that will be effective. But. Okay, I get ice. [01:34:44] Speaker D: Okay. [01:34:45] Speaker G: Because that's the best one. But do you want acid? Do you want acid line or poison cone? The black or the green? [01:34:55] Speaker D: I would. Okay, should I do a. Should I do a strategy? I mean, I would choose. [01:35:00] Speaker E: No way poison's gonna be as good as acid. Just. [01:35:02] Speaker D: That's what I was gonna say. Because Ro. Ro would choose acid because she's thinking of Vallec and she knows that copper dragons. And she's. As you all are discussing, she's thinking of Polymorph and everything else. [01:35:14] Speaker B: And she says, you misunderstand. I am the keeper of the deep. Well, all our you would want. Her scale is mine. [01:35:24] Speaker D: Oh. [01:35:25] Speaker B: I can bless you all before the battle to alter the form of your spells. [01:35:33] Speaker D: Holy moly [01:35:36] Speaker F: crazy. [01:35:37] Speaker B: Your fire can become first flame. [01:35:41] Speaker C: Whoa. [01:35:43] Speaker B: And he will not be able to resist its potent. See? [01:35:48] Speaker G: No. Oh, [01:35:53] Speaker C: that is extremely. [01:35:54] Speaker F: For all of us. [01:35:55] Speaker D: She said that to both of us or just. Okay, everyone. I was like, who's she looking at? [01:36:02] Speaker B: She just nods solemnly. [01:36:04] Speaker C: Wow. [01:36:06] Speaker G: Then red dragon scale back in. [01:36:10] Speaker B: So she's communicating to you all. Is that she will be able to bless you all. This is something I have planned. She will be able to bless you all so that you all can choose one damage type you'd like to not be off of the table. And she can transmute it to be something that he will not be able to resist. Now you need to pick. So you need to pick. Do you want that to be necrotic lightning fire? But she can. She can solve one of those for you. [01:36:40] Speaker C: So. But we already know that radiant is already effective, right? [01:36:46] Speaker D: Wait. [01:36:47] Speaker G: It's great. [01:36:49] Speaker F: Radiant is fine. [01:36:52] Speaker D: Hold on real quick. [01:36:54] Speaker G: Will that be per person? Like, do we all have to say fire? Or can it be per person? [01:37:06] Speaker D: We are. We already know that radiant damage works well against them. [01:37:12] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. [01:37:13] Speaker G: We have switch type. [01:37:15] Speaker D: I know. I was telling Micah that from her. [01:37:17] Speaker G: Micah Radiant cast Radiant all day. Are we choosing. But are we choosing, Zach, which type ours is changing to? Or which type? Or we're gonna say all about lightning. No. [01:37:30] Speaker B: Problem warriors of the. Well, let's do this. I'm going to answer your question, but let's also make it an associated check. Not that I'm trying to prompt you to make checks right now, but the. The thing Yana is communicating is that you guys can pick a damage type all of you want to be able to deal that you're worried he would be able to resist or be immune to. And she can change it. She can change that one type you guys pick so that it becomes essentially first flame damage, so he cannot resist. And if anyone here, if anyone in the war is the well, who've had just so much experience with obsidian creatures, wants to make a strategy check for me, you can. [01:38:12] Speaker F: Yes, I will. Or actually, Daniel, do you want to. [01:38:16] Speaker E: Okay, you got it. [01:38:17] Speaker D: Okay. [01:38:18] Speaker F: Okay, okay. I'll make the. [01:38:19] Speaker G: I'm helping. [01:38:21] Speaker B: Okay. [01:38:21] Speaker D: Perfect. [01:38:21] Speaker B: Okay. This is internal. [01:38:23] Speaker F: Okay. 16 plus 9. What is that? 6? 20. [01:38:28] Speaker G: 25. [01:38:28] Speaker F: 25. [01:38:32] Speaker B: Awesome. It was DC10. You all have fought a lot of obsidian creatures and you are very well aware that they tend to not be particularly affected by necrotic fire and lightning. You are also aware that they have not been. You have. And yet the party seem to be a little confused about which damage text are off limits. So I just thought I'd make that real explicitly clear for everyone. Absolutely no shame. No shame. I just thought I'd say that out loud for everybody. There's a lot going on. It's a lot. You're also very aware that the obsidian creatures are not alive in the classic sense and have not been particularly affected by poison, as Daniel pointed out. So if there was a God of all of them, those three damage types, and then poison would probably not be particularly effective against him. At least that is an assumption you can extrapolate from all the copious experience you have had fighting his many, many minions, [01:39:35] Speaker D: like Andrea asked. So does that mean we all need to pick one, or do we each pick one? I think we all pick a damage. [01:39:44] Speaker B: Everyone picks one. She cannot transmit a different one for all of you. She can transmit one. Transmute one for all of you. [01:39:52] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean, fire, this is not Ro, because she doesn't understand dice. But. But I mean fire 20D6, that's 120 max. What? Where lightning is 11D10 or something, it's 110. [01:40:09] Speaker G: Yeah. [01:40:10] Speaker D: So fire would be the way to [01:40:11] Speaker G: go at one point. [01:40:13] Speaker D: Plus first flame would be. [01:40:16] Speaker F: Fire would be. Most of my spells are fire, so I should probably do fire. [01:40:22] Speaker D: And first would be cool story wise, in my opinion. [01:40:26] Speaker G: Does anyone here have lightning or necrotic spells they even use often? [01:40:35] Speaker C: I don't have any necrotic spells. I don't know if I have any lightning. [01:40:43] Speaker F: Sorry. [01:40:44] Speaker C: I do still have inflict wounds. Wait, [01:40:48] Speaker G: you're not gonna want to be close enough to cast inflict wounds. [01:40:51] Speaker B: Hello. Put the hand on your shoulder. [01:40:53] Speaker E: And he goes. [01:40:53] Speaker B: I know it's been a long journey, Greta, but I do not think you should slap this one. [01:40:58] Speaker C: That is so true. What? Does anybody. I use guiding Bolt a lot. Is that. [01:41:03] Speaker G: That's radiant. [01:41:04] Speaker D: We're good. Cool. [01:41:06] Speaker G: Fine. [01:41:07] Speaker D: Thunder damage is not lightning damage. [01:41:10] Speaker C: I have firestorm, which is 7010 fire. [01:41:14] Speaker D: Oh, wait, did you say. [01:41:16] Speaker C: Okay, fire. [01:41:18] Speaker D: Yeah, I think fire no one uses. [01:41:23] Speaker G: Many of us, including me, have a lot of fire spells. There are relatively few lightning spells that people know, and relatively few necrotic spells that people know and sounds like we're all making it. [01:41:34] Speaker C: First flame [01:41:37] Speaker G: makes a lot of sense because one of my special things and one of Chanice's specific special cells with first flame is to make a fire that specifically cannot be resisted by Obsidian. [01:41:48] Speaker E: So. [01:41:48] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean, I. Yeah. Thanks, Story. [01:41:50] Speaker A: Yeah, [01:41:53] Speaker B: she says I use a lot of lightning, but I can lean into. Into the cold of of my people instead. [01:42:05] Speaker D: Wait, Jian, you said. Did you have an. Did you have an extra scale to replace my lightning by chance? If not, that's fine. I'll just use fire. But just in case. [01:42:22] Speaker G: Yes, I. [01:42:23] Speaker D: If not, no worries. [01:42:25] Speaker G: Well, I was, I was giving you the acid scale. [01:42:27] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:42:29] Speaker G: And then the poison scale and the lightning scale would not be helpful. And I plan to keep the ice scale. [01:42:34] Speaker D: Yeah, I, I, I would take the acid scale if you were cool with that. [01:42:39] Speaker G: You may have it. Yes. [01:42:40] Speaker D: Wonderful. [01:42:41] Speaker B: Ro, you are handed a fragmented black dragon scale. Sharp and highly ribbed. [01:42:49] Speaker D: Oh, it made me think of someone. [01:42:54] Speaker F: As far as magic items, I think we should make sure that we all have enough, that we all have them and that there isn't one going to waste. [01:43:01] Speaker G: We've already. I've already given ring of concentration. [01:43:06] Speaker D: We can say that happened at some point when we were at parsonage. Yeah. [01:43:11] Speaker F: If anybody has an extra one, Uik has an extra slot that he could do something for, but if not, that's Janice. [01:43:17] Speaker B: I'm very flattered, but in the end, I think the robes are better on you. I'm also a skilled caster, but I think you're a little bit better, so I think those should stay with you. But thank you. [01:43:28] Speaker D: I think when. I just want to say this. I think when. When Javian gave Ro the ring. She made some silly joke about him giving ring and kind of like winked at Wee Woo. And then she got scared and ran away. [01:43:47] Speaker G: So hard to get Wee Woo to use that ring because rages have so much concentration. [01:43:52] Speaker B: What were you saying? [01:43:53] Speaker F: Kara can tell use robes. [01:43:57] Speaker B: No, he was kidding. [01:43:59] Speaker F: Oh, okay. [01:44:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:44:01] Speaker B: But Ron Grimm, I will take that trident if you're not using it. Been working on my throw. [01:44:07] Speaker G: It's literally attached to him. And then I look and it's not. [01:44:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:44:13] Speaker F: Oh. [01:44:14] Speaker E: He just gives a small chuckle to the. To tell him. [01:44:19] Speaker B: Sorry. I'm trying my best. I'm really nervous. [01:44:22] Speaker F: Okay. [01:44:23] Speaker A: Are we. Are we long resting like. [01:44:25] Speaker F: Yes. [01:44:27] Speaker G: On top of dragon? [01:44:31] Speaker F: I think just as a note, I think I'm gonna move robo stars over to you, Egg. [01:44:37] Speaker B: Okay. That is an important note. Wow, that's a good item. [01:44:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:44:43] Speaker D: Greta, Abby, did you take the lucky coin? [01:44:46] Speaker C: I did. [01:44:48] Speaker D: And ro looks at UEG and goes, some point before Janice said that you could. Could do Hero's Feast. And she says it like, trying to be out of earshot from Boz, and she's like. And she hands him the chalice and [01:45:05] Speaker G: says, [01:45:07] Speaker D: would you be down to do that for us before the fight? [01:45:12] Speaker F: He hasn't prepared. [01:45:13] Speaker B: Sure. You know, I've been preparing that actually. I figured that might be useful. It's been helpful in the past. But I. I do warn you, if there are any dietary restrictions or if there are any special meals, you want to be included. I have to be told first if I don't default to lettuce. She's Rokos. [01:45:38] Speaker A: She's vegan. [01:45:39] Speaker B: But I don't. I'm sorry. I know a lot of the religions, but I don't know that. [01:45:46] Speaker D: Let us would be just fine with me. But if you can get some honey bread in there for all of these. [01:45:51] Speaker B: Don't. [01:45:51] Speaker C: No. [01:45:53] Speaker G: If you say lettuce is okay. We're getting only lettuce. And. [01:45:56] Speaker D: Well, I mean, I don't. [01:45:57] Speaker B: You eggs. You eggs. You lean into Ro. Extendable turtleneck reaches in and he goes, but you do want lettuce? I can go salad themed if you [01:46:08] Speaker D: like lettuce, if you like. [01:46:12] Speaker B: He kind of turns everybody with a bit more excitement in his voice. Voice. And he goes, I can do all salads. You guys don't know all the salads. [01:46:21] Speaker D: Whatever. Whatever your group loves before battle. And. And we like. [01:46:26] Speaker B: They like salads. We can do straight. [01:46:29] Speaker D: We like. We like honey bread. [01:46:31] Speaker C: How about we like ale sandwiches also? [01:46:36] Speaker G: I signal up to Janice and I say, berry jam. Do you have me for a second dinner? [01:46:46] Speaker A: I'll take it. [01:46:48] Speaker G: I feel like Wee Woo would like say something about like me just like, just like. [01:46:54] Speaker A: If this is my last meal, it can't be salad. I just can't. I can't, I can't, I can't. [01:46:59] Speaker B: That's going on the quote list. [01:47:02] Speaker E: Oh my goodness. [01:47:04] Speaker B: If this. [01:47:05] Speaker F: Maybe u should make some, some milk. Remember how he would drink milk out [01:47:11] Speaker B: of like a. Oh my goodness, I forgot about that. If this is my last meal, it can't be salad. This feels like a real parks and rec gag here. [01:47:24] Speaker G: Yeah, [01:47:27] Speaker C: that is funny. [01:47:30] Speaker A: All right. [01:47:32] Speaker F: Okay. [01:47:37] Speaker B: As there is a lull, Tello goes. Okay, so if I understand correctly, we're going to be doing some, some preparing and then we're going to be going, right? [01:47:52] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:47:55] Speaker F: Mainly sleep before. [01:47:58] Speaker B: Okay. [01:47:59] Speaker D: Does anyone want. I. I don't think we'll be able to call anyone while on the drive. [01:48:04] Speaker B: I was about to say, can I. I think I have a couple calls to make. [01:48:11] Speaker D: Yeah, I think we all do. [01:48:15] Speaker B: If I could have the stone. [01:48:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:48:19] Speaker B: He takes it. [01:48:20] Speaker D: I don't know, whoever. [01:48:21] Speaker B: I'm not gonna try and take too long, but give me a bit [01:48:29] Speaker C: shoulder and kind of like squeeze, I guess. She can't reach his. But she like pats his, well, his hand and squeezes. [01:48:34] Speaker B: You guys have been buddies for so long. As you start raising your arm, he bends down so that you can pat his shoulder. [01:48:39] Speaker C: Yeah, she like squeezes his arm and just gives him a. [01:48:42] Speaker B: Okay. [01:48:43] Speaker F: Look, also for like storyline purposes, while we maybe like go back and forth between a character, we also have a stone. So this. Somebody else could be doing this at the same time. But like we can bounce back or whatever. [01:48:54] Speaker A: I think that's absolutely. [01:48:55] Speaker B: Well, for the sake of things, we won't worry too much about the handoffs. In a second you guys can just be making calls. But Tello just gets a little misty eyed, gives a half hearted smile to Greta and treads off to the trees for a second. [01:49:12] Speaker A: Can. [01:49:14] Speaker D: Can I? [01:49:16] Speaker A: Yes. [01:49:17] Speaker D: Okay. Ro kind of goes off from some of the other. Like she just kind of steps away and she wants to try casting druidcraft cuz she's been kind of putting two and two together and she wants to see if any of her druidically natured inherent spells that she has known for a long time are even able to be used. [01:49:52] Speaker B: Roh, you take advantage of the apparent lull happening and you step aside for a moment and go over to some of the bizarre beautiful soils of this isle and you Focus on your connection to Ogba. And as you reach down to cast the familiar cantrip. No. No vegetation responds to your beck. You find that, like baas in Agba's waning power, your connection is at this time, not strong enough. [01:50:36] Speaker D: Ro hasn't known the word Ogba and the. The place itself for very long, but she has always had the connected feeling to that magic. And druidcraft was probably one of the first spells that she ever could just do. And I think. I think she just kind of sets like. Like falls to her knees in the sand and just kind of weeps for a bit because she's. She's always been. She's always served Selune and now the Maker. And since her meeting Boz, she's been able to put a name to the magic that she has always had inside her. And to not be able to feel that and connect with it anymore, even though she saw that with Boz, I think it. Her seeing it for herself with her own hand and nothing happening. I think she's just a different feeling. Yeah, she's stuck for a bit. [01:52:04] Speaker B: Not to pressure things too much, but in these hours that you all know that you have before the assault, what is everyone else doing? And hours might be the wrong way of putting it. [01:52:18] Speaker A: I would really like to call Catherine and Aaron. [01:52:24] Speaker B: Okay. Do you borrow the stone from the wars as well? We could say. I mean, there's a spare. Whoever wants a stone can have one. And this can be taking place over the court the better part of an hour or something. [01:52:34] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's good. [01:52:35] Speaker G: Xavian's taking the wow Stone. [01:52:38] Speaker C: Okay. [01:52:42] Speaker G: No, you. You do yours first. I was just saying. [01:52:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I just have to wait for. I know he was. [01:52:48] Speaker B: I had to go turn a fan. Craig. After a time, Tello returns. We'll say. Not that we have to roleplay the handoffs, but I think there's something meaningful in that. He returns and he has a strange expression on his face. He's clearly been crying. Not much of a surprise, but. Maybe he looks a little less distraught than you might have expected him to. And he looks like someone who's like coming down off of crying a bit hard. And he walks up and it's not energetic, it's not too intense, but as he approaches, he just picks your hand up and puts the stone in it and he clasps a hand on your shoulder and he goes, I haven't known you for a while, Greg, and I believe in who you are. I love you very much, buddy. And he just gives you a Full hug. [01:53:53] Speaker A: I think. Yeah. I think Craig is gonna, like. As Tello's like, putting in his hand, I think he's gonna grab. You know, it's almost like a. He pulls him in and he just, like, holds him and hugs him. Yeah, just a sweet bro moment. [01:54:09] Speaker B: He hugs you tight, and he says in that second moment after you've hugged him, he says, no matter what happens, it'll always be my big, strong dork. [01:54:21] Speaker A: I will always want to be you. And. [01:54:26] Speaker B: Yeah, sorry. [01:54:30] Speaker A: I think, like, Craig is gonna take the stone and kind of take up the spot that Tella was in before [01:54:42] Speaker B: Craig. You march up the beach, and as you walk into the tree line, you find. You don't know that it's where he was. But there's this one tree that has a very thick, knotted, sort of swirled base. And it's one of those trees that's kind of. It looks like it's grown, having fallen over. So it grows at this severe angle, and there's like this, like, shaft of light peeking down from in between branches right on it. And you're like. That's like a spot made for a call. And you figure that's probably where he was. And even a short distance into this tree line, it is thick with alien and beautiful life. Insects teem around you, and nothing flies to your ears or in your nose. No parasite attempts to. To leach resources. This ecosystem seems to be less interested in nutrient cycling. They seem to derive energy just from the deep well. And so there's this gorgeous variety of. Of feathered and scaled life all around you. Not teaming, but just all over. As you take this call, [01:55:49] Speaker A: I think he says a quick prayer, asking for new words, asking for courage, but more than anything, just asking for the maker to go before him. And he thinks to Catherine. [01:56:10] Speaker B: You feel the connection. [01:56:16] Speaker A: Catherine, it's Craig. [01:56:26] Speaker B: Hi. Are you okay? [01:56:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay. [01:56:35] Speaker B: It's not good anywhere. But the last time we spoke, you were. I mean, things weren't good, and you were. [01:56:41] Speaker A: I was really worried about you. [01:56:42] Speaker B: Talking about, you know, there's always a bunch of stuff I don't know. [01:56:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna have a lot of really crazy stories that we'll be able to talk about in past tense. I. Hopefully this is the last chapter of all of it. [01:57:11] Speaker B: Okay, that sounds a little fatalistic. You have a really different. You haven't talked to me like this in a long time. [01:57:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I wanted to. I wanted to. I wanted to thank you. For the ways you have. Met me where I lacked and raised our Son to be someone that I respect. And I. I want you to know that you were the backbone all those years. You were the backbone. And I never respected you as such. I never saw you as that. And I. I never credited you or valued you the way that you had value. [01:58:21] Speaker B: And. [01:58:22] Speaker A: And I wish I could go back, and I wish I could change all of it. But I just teach you to know that you are so. So valuable to me. And I think about you all the time. And you are the. You are my reason. You are my reason in all of this. Just want you safe. And I want to see you. I want to wrap my arms around you in for it to be okay. Want to be a family. I want normalcy so bad. I miss it. And I'm fighting for it. I'm fighting. I'm fighting for you, and I'm fighting for Aaron. And I. I don't know what the cost will be, But every fiber of my being stands against the thing that wants to take away all of what we have lived for and all that you have worked for. I will not let it go through. I will not let it step into the world that you have made for. For us. And I just wanted you to know. But. But I love you. I love you. I love you. I. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I can't say it. You don't have to say it back. You will never have to. I just teach you. [02:00:17] Speaker B: Craig, just. Just let me talk for once. [02:00:22] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:00:30] Speaker B: It's so confusing. You say all the things I want to hear, and then you say all these things I don't understand. I wish you'd said those things a long time ago. In the simplest way that you can. Greg, in a short way. Can you tell me what's happening? [02:01:24] Speaker F: Yeah. [02:01:25] Speaker B: Because I'd like to know. [02:01:27] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. I think the world had. You know, how, like, in the natural cycle of animals, there's, like, always, like, a predator, you know, for an animal. I think there's a predator for this. This world. [02:02:00] Speaker B: Okay. [02:02:02] Speaker A: And we, a long time ago, were able to banish it. We were able to keep it away from us and protect ourselves from it, but was actively digging, was active, actively trying to access us. [02:02:22] Speaker B: Okay. The fire in the sky, is it coming back? [02:02:27] Speaker A: That. That's it breaking in. It broke in. And in the way that. Zach, can I use real life animals to describe this moment, or is there, like. [02:02:45] Speaker B: Sure. [02:02:47] Speaker A: Okay. [02:02:48] Speaker B: I'm not gonna mess up the emperor's groove now. Keep going. [02:02:52] Speaker A: Okay, we Are like a domesticated cat. Fat and happy. And a wolf got into our house. We've never seen a wolf before. We've never lived. [02:03:12] Speaker B: Are you going to go deal with the wolf? [02:03:16] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. Oh. Because that wolf not only wants us, but wants everything. Wants to consume everything. And [02:03:32] Speaker B: Don't. Don't go die, Craig. That would be a very confusing thing to do, [02:03:43] Speaker A: Kathryn. I feel like I'm. If I step away, if I look, if I go away, I'm letting it have you. [02:04:00] Speaker B: This. It has to be you. This is something that you. You have to do. [02:04:06] Speaker A: It's been a while since you. You've seen me in action, but [02:04:14] Speaker B: you sound pretty different. [02:04:15] Speaker A: In my days, I got a little stronger, one could say. [02:04:21] Speaker B: But not that I'm always strong. [02:04:26] Speaker A: Yeah, but I can't let it happen, Catherine. I can't let it have you or Aaron. I can't let it have this world. [02:04:38] Speaker B: Okay. I just. Greg, I. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say right now. I spent so long being mad at you and then. I mean, it's taken like a year. You've been gone almost three, and it's taken like a year to even figure out how I feel. [02:05:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:05:15] Speaker B: It's so unfair for you to go die now. I just. None of this is fair. Is this like our. Is this like our last call? [02:05:49] Speaker A: Craig, at this moment, he can't like get the words out. But Catherine hears like a quiet cry. Stifled. Tried to hide it. And he then goes. I want to. [02:06:19] Speaker B: This was all supposed to be different. Craig. [02:06:27] Speaker A: Just. [02:06:30] Speaker B: Here's. Here's the deal. You owe me. You 20 years. Owe me so you don't get to die. You owe me. You owe. Waiting on me the way I waited on you. And you owe me hearing about everything I didn't get to say to you. So you can go fight your wolf, but you don't get to die. You have to come home and you have to listen. Craig, I don't. You have talked all this time like there is some sure thing. And I love the way you dream and the way you believe. But I don't. I don't know where we're at. I don't know exactly who you are anymore. But I can guarantee you this. I still want to talk to you. So don't die. That would be unfair to me. Come home. You owe me a lot of talks. [02:08:10] Speaker A: Please. [02:08:11] Speaker B: I. I finally know this. I want to have a fight with you. And I'm gonna win. Have you called Eric? [02:08:25] Speaker A: It was only right to call you first. Leave a seat for me at the table. We'll have a fight. And I'll have the sloppiest argument ever. And you will win. But you leave that seat open for me. [02:08:56] Speaker B: You have to come home first. Then we'll talk. [02:09:02] Speaker A: Okay? Okay. [02:09:10] Speaker B: Craig, I would like you to make an insight check. You know this woman incredibly well. If perhaps misunderstanding her for a very long time. [02:09:36] Speaker A: Seconds. It is a 21. [02:09:47] Speaker B: Excellent. You've been away from Catherine again. You know, we've. I was keeping track of dates one way, but we've talked a lot the last handful of sessions about how we've kind of retconned things because it doesn't really make sense for all the things you to have happened in the time frame that they have. So we've kind of been softly retconning that like the warriors of the Wild have been together for almost five years. The fungi's have been together for almost three. So for three years you've been away for three years. You've been thinking, you've been journaling, you've been calling. If unsolicitedly and unrequitedly, you've been. You've changed a lot as a person and you have thought a lot about your wife. It's not that all these things are falling in place now. It's not that Craig's having some sudden epiphany, but the course of a lot of consideration, especially more recently, especially as you have become. As you've been growing and changing, as you've been becoming the much more different person than how you left, there are a number of realizations that have been, if somewhat nebulously, beginning to solidify. And in this moment, as you're finally. As you're getting much more of a response from Catherine than you usually get, much more than just the overwhelmed, stunned. I don't know what to say at it all. There are just a number of things that you're. You're reading her well for the first time in a while, like you used to. I mean, it's. It's not been much of a mystery to you that she's been upset, that she's been angry. These are not. These are not revelations. But in this moment, you're very aware of the fact that. Oh man, I'm trying not to be too vague. Also not trying to use cliches. Things are not what they used to be. And that might be as plain as day, but they're different now. This moment is the first inkling. I mean, you have had this ironclad faith that you will rekindle your marriage, that you will have your wife back. But in this moment, it's so clear to you more than it has been in a long time. There is a clarity that's been building maybe for some time and is very clear right now with that, with that. That remembrance and that effective reading of your wife once more, that that was your decision and that was your perception, the way that so much of the marriage for the last however many decades were your perception and the way that you weren't hearing her. And in this moment, as she's finally responding to you, as she's finally saying something back, you can hear that she is fighting to consider any possibility other than you're all being separated because you. You are finally grasping now that for all the things you did wrong, for all the. It's. It was just not. Not listening to her, not thinking of her, that all that. All that passion and all that intention and all that emotion which was negative and now is positive, had taken the place of just hearing her and just listening to what she had to say. And that even now, as things had over the last couple years, all those passionate calls, that she wasn't requiting that like it was still returning with the. You know, it was still your perspective. And for the first time, you're really realizing how very much you had lost her. [02:13:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:13:50] Speaker B: And likewise, you are perceiving that the thing you're so very certain of, and I'm not telling Craig what he thinks and what he feels, only you can dictate that, Micah, he is your character, your character only. But you are understanding from her perspective that as much as you were so very certain that you would always get back together as you had that hope, that feeling, that belief, however it is to Craig, and as much as she. She has very much been certain that whatever you had no longer exists, that it died for her a long time ago and that you've just been love bomb. No, that's too negative of it. You get what I'm saying? As much as you'd been returning it, that in this moment, as you are giving her this sudden ultimatum, she doesn't see all of this the way that you do. And she's not at the place you're at, but she doesn't want to be done with you, at least not like this. [02:14:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:14:58] Speaker B: And of that you are certain. And maybe for a while, you've kind of effectively listened to her for the first time in a long time. All of this is dawning on you. Yeah, well, coming. Coming together. All these pieces are coming together and aligning as. And like, maybe we'll say. There's a bit of a pause as you've been kind of quiet for a moment. She responds and she says, You owe it to me to come back. And if you don't, I loved you very much. And. No matter what we are anymore, I am proud of you. Whether you're mine or not anymore. I'm. I'm glad that the Craig I fell in love with is still out there in the world somewhere caring about other people. I. I don't know how this works, but I don't want to. I don't know if I could talk anymore. Come back and have this talk with me another day. [02:16:40] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. [02:16:43] Speaker B: Don't finish the conversation. Finish it later. [02:16:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:16:50] Speaker G: Yeah. [02:16:53] Speaker A: Hear you. Okay. [02:17:02] Speaker B: Call her son. [02:17:04] Speaker A: Well, I will. Okay. I'll talk. [02:17:10] Speaker B: You finish this conversation, Craig. [02:17:16] Speaker A: It's worth finishing. It's worth it. [02:17:22] Speaker B: And she starts choking up in this elevated like. And you've. You know the sound of when your wife gets emotionally overwhelmed and begins to uncontrollably sob, which happens very rarely. You are the far more emotional of the two of you. And you know well enough that she does not want to talk anymore and that she's going to start crying very hard. [02:17:47] Speaker A: Okay. I don't know how to end this conversation. [02:17:55] Speaker B: D. But I'm gonna try. And in more ways than one, you let go of the connection. [02:18:01] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. [02:18:06] Speaker B: Would you like to bounce to someone else and then maybe come back to your call with Aaron? Because I know a lot of people have a lot of calls. [02:18:14] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do that. [02:18:17] Speaker B: I just want to make sure that we're moving effectively between people. [02:18:20] Speaker A: Amen. [02:18:20] Speaker B: And we'll come back to Micah. You can take a little breather, piss and drink some water if you have to. Would anyone else like to get on. On some role play things? And they don't have to be stone calls. They could be any number of things. Also, we still have next session because I know that there's. This is a lot. So we have next session as well. [02:18:41] Speaker F: Well, Janice, or while everybody's making some calls. Definitely. I want to make some calls, but I was gonna start working on the teleportation circle. [02:18:51] Speaker G: Yeah, well, I think will come to you while you. While you get down and be like, can I have the. The stone? [02:19:01] Speaker C: Oh, I want to call my sister. [02:19:04] Speaker F: Absolutely. [02:19:08] Speaker G: Do you at this. Are you ready to talk to your sister? [02:19:14] Speaker F: I think so. I think I'm just gonna wait A little bit. [02:19:18] Speaker A: Okay. [02:19:22] Speaker D: Ro would be showing. Just to finish that out. Ro would be at this point going over and showing her the drawing of the teleportation circle. And if there is anything that needs assisting with, she would help with her keen mind of knowing where everything goes of like telling her. [02:19:42] Speaker B: Yeah, Understood. Jaden, you have the stone? [02:19:48] Speaker G: Yeah, I'll. I don't need to go too far, but just at least out of sight, if not necessarily necessarily out of earshot. [02:19:57] Speaker B: Sure, sure, sure. [02:20:01] Speaker G: And you know, he like. He like in his hand just kind of like moves it back and forth, like plays with the stone for like a minute before mustering up. Mira [02:20:20] Speaker B: shaken. [02:20:23] Speaker G: Hi. [02:20:24] Speaker B: Your voice. Is everything all right? I know last we spoke things weren't well. [02:20:33] Speaker G: No, the world is not well right now. But I'm still here. [02:20:39] Speaker A: For. [02:20:41] Speaker G: Were you underground when the sky caught fire? [02:20:43] Speaker B: I've. I've. You told me to stay underground. This is where we've stayed, [02:20:50] Speaker F: okay. [02:20:51] Speaker B: Temple of yours. [02:20:55] Speaker G: We ran into. What does Frick. What's his name? The night guy. That Rogues. Nope. [02:21:02] Speaker B: Oh, Thespis. Thespis. [02:21:05] Speaker G: Thespis, yeah. Ran into Thespis and Edmund. Oh, I hope you're doing okay there. [02:21:14] Speaker B: Yes, they. They ran off to be useful. I suppose that makes a good deal of sense. [02:21:23] Speaker C: Yes. [02:21:25] Speaker G: I just wanted to. It's. This is the big one. [02:21:33] Speaker B: All right. What does that mean? [02:21:35] Speaker G: This is. He's. He's here. [02:21:42] Speaker D: The. [02:21:43] Speaker C: The. [02:21:45] Speaker G: The dragon that. [02:21:46] Speaker B: Oh, yes, that you. [02:21:48] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:21:48] Speaker B: Wait, you've spoken to. I mean, the sky caught fire. Obviously that's not good. But you talk to him as. As the end of everything. [02:22:01] Speaker G: Yes. This is the. It's. [02:22:04] Speaker B: It's bad, but that's a bit of an understanding. [02:22:08] Speaker G: I'm one of the people who can do something about it. Sorry, what. [02:22:14] Speaker B: Wait, what do you mean you have to go fight him? You. You said that he's like. Like. Like a God. [02:22:25] Speaker G: Very much so. [02:22:29] Speaker B: I know you think quite highly of yourself, but I don't think you made to fight gods. [02:22:37] Speaker G: According to these other dragons who met on a hidden island, I have specifically chosen to fight this dragon. [02:22:47] Speaker B: You've got dragons with. Apparently they breathe fire. [02:22:51] Speaker G: I've. I've not been. These. These aren't fire dragons. Only some dragons anyways, right? [02:23:00] Speaker B: What are you. Wait, what are you saying? Shavian? I'm just. [02:23:08] Speaker G: I'm. I'm sorry. I should have. I shouldn't have. This. This whole time since I reached out to you, I should never have been telling you. I. I don't mean to ever put any of this on you. [02:23:15] Speaker B: I just. [02:23:16] Speaker G: I want you to know where I am. I going into it. [02:23:24] Speaker D: I've. [02:23:25] Speaker G: I've not been safe for a long time. [02:23:29] Speaker B: Well, I know, but it's different if you're going to fight some bloody God dragon thing. If. [02:23:39] Speaker G: If not this then. As I said, it's. [02:23:47] Speaker D: If. [02:23:47] Speaker G: If not this, then we all die anyways. [02:23:50] Speaker A: It's. [02:23:53] Speaker G: I'm sorry. Oh, I miss you. [02:23:57] Speaker A: This isn't far. [02:23:57] Speaker G: This. I'm. [02:23:58] Speaker B: Well, I miss you too, brother. You. Oh, you were always such a prick. Why don't you ever just call to say hi? It's always something's badly wrong. [02:24:17] Speaker D: I know I [02:24:21] Speaker B: did. [02:24:21] Speaker G: If you make it through this, then take a break. [02:24:27] Speaker B: I know that last she was in bad. In bad sorts. [02:24:41] Speaker G: Let me just admit it. I'm doing mental roll. Do I lie? [02:24:45] Speaker A: Oh my God. [02:24:47] Speaker B: Hey, you're on the call. [02:24:47] Speaker E: You gotta. [02:24:48] Speaker B: You gotta answer. [02:24:50] Speaker G: No, I'm sorry. [02:25:01] Speaker B: Not you. You were always my favorite. You know I liked you best. [02:25:13] Speaker D: I know. [02:25:14] Speaker B: Don't leave me with you in Japan. He doesn't understand art or poetry or anything. [02:25:19] Speaker G: No, no, it's. I will do. [02:25:25] Speaker B: Could you just come and. What if they went without you? Can't you just. Can't you just. [02:25:32] Speaker A: It's not. It's not. [02:25:38] Speaker G: But I promise I'll come see. It'll be the first thing I do after. [02:25:46] Speaker B: I would like. I'd like to live in a palace with you again. Or just some house. [02:25:52] Speaker G: I. I have a very. [02:25:56] Speaker A: I. [02:25:57] Speaker G: That could be arranged not to have Nom actually bought a nice house in port Spendy salt. [02:26:02] Speaker B: I've spent far too much time away from you. It's not fair. [02:26:09] Speaker G: This dragon took so much for us. But it's. [02:26:25] Speaker B: For someone who thought you were dead for quite some time. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think you came back better than you used to be. Just. And Just please. I already loved you very much. So please give me more time with this brother that I'm so very fond of and that I'd like to have more time with. [02:26:52] Speaker G: Yes. There's [02:26:55] Speaker A: so much stuff to do and [02:26:57] Speaker G: I. Oh, you've not even seen the rest of Sedge or no. So long that we must travel home now that. Now that's the empire's gone we can see home though I know it'll never. [02:27:15] Speaker B: I would love to see free. I love you, Z. [02:27:27] Speaker G: I love you. Me. [02:27:27] Speaker A: I'll. [02:27:29] Speaker G: I'll see you in a few days. [02:27:32] Speaker B: Please do. I'll tell you and if you want [02:27:40] Speaker G: you and I yeah. Don't. [02:27:43] Speaker C: Just, just. [02:27:44] Speaker B: I understand. [02:27:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:27:47] Speaker G: He can't hand. He can't handle anything more. [02:27:52] Speaker B: No. [02:27:55] Speaker G: But I'll. I'll see you too. He can come on some of our trips. Maybe one. [02:28:04] Speaker B: I love you dearly. [02:28:07] Speaker G: Love you. And I'm. I'm so correct. Everything is. I'm so glad you're okay. [02:28:16] Speaker A: Excuse me. [02:28:17] Speaker B: I don't know what else to say. [02:28:23] Speaker D: Okay. [02:28:23] Speaker B: I'll have. I'll have tea Betty later. They only have one sort here, but I'll have it. [02:28:31] Speaker G: Okay. Yeah. Sh. Shopping we'll also do on our travel. [02:28:38] Speaker B: I love you, Shavian. [02:28:39] Speaker C: Good. [02:28:40] Speaker A: Goodbye. [02:28:42] Speaker B: Goodbye. And you let go. You let go of. [02:28:55] Speaker G: Made so many bad decisions the last [02:28:58] Speaker B: two members of your. [02:29:06] Speaker G: I'll bring the stone back to back and I mean Janice isn't ready. I could hand it off someone else, but just, you know who wants it. Yeah. I mean. Sorry, I just. Y' all do but. [02:29:23] Speaker A: Wow. [02:29:24] Speaker G: So good at this. [02:29:25] Speaker B: All at the table. Javen. You somberly return Return to the beach where the energy is really coming down. It's just people having unexpected last call after unexpected last call. And some individuals aren't calling. Ueg's not calling anyone. He's. He's sat all the way down on the water and he's just. Doesn't even look like he's praying or meditating. He's just resting. And as soon as you're back, Shavian Bew walks up and wipes some of the tears away and just gives you a big hug and whispers something inappropriate in your ear. [02:30:10] Speaker G: I'll let that hug linger for a while. And I know she needs it as much as I do and I offer. Do you want to. [02:30:21] Speaker B: Go ahead. We're not really. That's kind of not my family's way of doing things, but. [02:30:32] Speaker G: Okay. [02:30:33] Speaker B: I think I'll just say hi. [02:30:34] Speaker G: Okay. My family didn't do it this way till recently, but. Yeah. I need to meet your family at a better circumstance. [02:30:41] Speaker B: Actually, I guess I should call and gods knows we can't let UEG send the message. So I'll be back. And she takes the stone. And before she's even out of earshot into the trees, you hear her begin talking in a tongue you never hear her talking. She begins speaking ikhoni and walking into the trees. And that's happening off screen. So if anyone else has some other role played things. [02:31:13] Speaker D: No, Zach, we want you to have a conversation with yourself in a different language for 10 minutes, please. [02:31:19] Speaker B: I'm not going to do that. To the portrayal of indigenous Peoples, let's just go ahead and hop into whoever's next up in line. [02:31:26] Speaker C: Yeah, I think just kind of in between, Greta's just sitting probably next to Tello, if he's open to it, and just, like, she's probably looking around and sketching, you know, flora and fauna and topography in her. In her. In her book. And she's just thinking. She's. She said she's thinking about. It occurs to her that there's not anyone that she wants to call. She looks around and she sees that everyone that, like, kind of everyone that she knows and loves is. Is here. And she thinks of Spaghuber, and she thinks of Nam, and she thinks of Bill Free and Floth. [02:32:14] Speaker A: But [02:32:16] Speaker C: she. She just like her. [02:32:19] Speaker G: Yeah. [02:32:20] Speaker C: She. She sees all of her people around, and it. It, like, is kind of bittersweet because, like, it's. I guess it's sad not to have other people, but she. Like, she's sitting there and she's like, wow, maybe I should be sad that there's no one I can call. But I think it's. Instead of feeling sad, she just feels very content that, like, she's here with everyone that she loves, and she's here with. I want to as. [02:32:59] Speaker B: Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. [02:33:00] Speaker C: I want to take out her little. Her little curious speaker. Just. [02:33:11] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness, woman. Remind me how this works. What? Okay, remind me how this item works. [02:33:18] Speaker C: You speak a command to the stone statue. It will speak a piece of information previously unknown to you. The information is random and may range from any number of topics, perspectives, or uses. [02:33:35] Speaker B: Okay. You pull out the little stone skull and squeeze it and say, whatever the. Or. Yeah. What does it look like as you activate it? What does that look like for Greta? [02:33:51] Speaker A: She's. [02:33:52] Speaker C: She's maybe just laying, like, Satella or, like, with her head in her lap. In his lap or something, and just. She's, like, trying to soak up as much. As much like, of this life as she can and as much of her friends as she can and as much of, like, everything. And. And she remembers this little. This little. It's. It's a toy. It's a toy that she was very, very excited about and just. Yeah. Just decides to honor the curiosity that's gotten her through so much, maybe for the last time. [02:34:35] Speaker B: As you squeeze the stone and think, Greta, its little marble eyes flash briefly. Go ahead and, Hey, this is a bold thing to do. We'll reward it. Go ahead and start by rolling me a D4. And if you roll a four, reroll. [02:35:01] Speaker C: Oh, I Got a one. [02:35:04] Speaker B: Okay. That takes a little bit of the pressure off of me. Okay, give me a second. I'm taking. If. If. I'm looking away a lot. I'm taking so many notes. I have two pages of notes currently. Okay? So. Jeez, abby. All right, a one. Go ahead and roll me a D100. Now [02:35:32] Speaker C: that's a 73. [02:35:37] Speaker B: Okay. Little skull flashes and that reedy, thin voice hisses and says, Oh, man. Okay, okay. Give me a second. I'm running through so many different things in my brain, and I really want to reward this thing you've been doing all campaign, but I'm. I'm. Give me a second. [02:36:11] Speaker C: Just wanted to do it one more time. [02:36:14] Speaker B: Don't say it like that. Don't make. Don't make me like that. [02:36:17] Speaker A: Don't like. [02:36:18] Speaker B: Don't. Don't make me confront what I've done to you all into the story. No Micah, message, please. Give her everything. No. The voice hisses and says, The hollow throne under Shagrat's lies empty. And that's what it says. [02:37:05] Speaker C: Does Greta know where that is? [02:37:08] Speaker B: Greta, go ahead and give me a rumors check. [02:37:14] Speaker D: Can you spell that for me just from. [02:37:16] Speaker B: I will. I'm gonna write it down for myself first. So I know what I just told you that I know the lore I just dropped. [02:37:27] Speaker G: Zach has to make a whole what? Shot now. [02:37:30] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. [02:37:31] Speaker C: Hopefully. [02:37:35] Speaker B: I hope I'm spelling this right. I'll go back and check my notes later. [02:37:37] Speaker D: Hollow throne. Under. [02:37:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:37:39] Speaker B: Under. Yes. Lies empty. Okay, I'm gonna spell this for you guys right now, but I don't know that I have it right. I might need to go back and check my spelling later, and if it's different, I'll tell you. But Jigratz is J apostrophe G, R, A, T, T, Z. I might be spelling that incorrectly right now. I'll check. [02:38:00] Speaker C: Can you spell it one more time? [02:38:01] Speaker B: Yes. J, apostrophe, G, R, A, T, T, Z. Actually, give me two checks, Greta. Start with a history check. The. Start with a rumors check. The two checks are very different. [02:38:14] Speaker C: Okay. I rolled and I guided myself on my rumors check. And I got a. Is that a 30? [02:38:24] Speaker B: Jeez. [02:38:25] Speaker C: And I'm going to guide myself again if that's for my history check. [02:38:30] Speaker B: Okay. [02:38:32] Speaker C: And I got a speculator. [02:38:40] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. [02:38:42] Speaker C: I want to say that as just as extra. An extra note. Greta, who normally very, like, religiously writes things down. She's not right now. She's just. She. She pulls out her little statue and she, you know, Uses it. And this voice comes to her mind and. And she just kind of lets it wash over her without, like, that almost like, manic impulse to write it down. She just like lets the information wash over her. And then like these checks, she's, I will read as her like, processing and interpreting. And just like, she's just savoring. She's just like, savoring the process of thinking and just savoring, like, her mind and just savoring that, like, process of wondering about something. And I got a 26 on my history. [02:39:38] Speaker B: Phenomenal role play. I love it. So with the 26 on the history check, that one was the much lower D.C. that was D.C. 18. So you know that. You know where. You know what Graz is. You know where Jigratz is? Because Jigratz is a where, not a what. You know that Jigratz is an isle, an island off of the western coast of Unson. And you know that it is. It's referred. Well, actually, we'll pair that with your history check. But you know that. You know that it is a barren, stony isle. It's. When I say island, it's not particularly habitable. It is this jagged. Well, few people in the world can conceive of this. But as someone who's been under the ocean to some underwater civilizations, you could. It's like this oceanic mountain that's just violently jutting out of the sea with some other peaks near it. But it's not like. It's not like a. Like a. Like a walkable aisle. I mean, if you tried to scale that thing, you would need mountain climbing gear. And the waters around it are rough. And it's. It's just these. It's like a land mass. It's a marker in the ocean. Now you know better with a 30, I suppose you know quite a bit. This is very fitting, Greta, as this arch priestess of Ioun. You've heard, you've heard quite a bit in your travels about this. And actually you heard about this place in your time, not with the Hags, but in Zilliam, you would hear many stories from traders and merchants. And Zigratz is called the COVID of Thieves. And that is because this island is the hub of piracy in Yalabran. And specifically the Hollow Throne refers to the fact that that's. With a 30, you get to know that that central peak of Zigratz has a cave in its center. It's hollowed in its center. Now, just because you got a 30, and just because it's the end of the campaign. And I'm going to try and have some fun with this. Greta wouldn't know, but you, as Abby, get to know that it's. There was originally a magma chamber in the center that hollowed it like a volcano. And then when there was a fracture in the part of it from weathering in the side, pirates got into it in a long time and found out that there was just this massive chamber inside of this inaccessible mountain. So the COVID of Thieves is essentially the world's pirate city. It's this cave city inside of a mountain in the ocean. And when the stone says the hollow throne lies empty, that means that whoever the ruler of Zigratz, there's essentially a pirate king or queen at any given time. And that must mean that right now there isn't one. That right now the throne's up for grabs. So that is a random piece of information which you learn. [02:43:02] Speaker C: Thank you for humoring me, everyone. I really appreciate it. [02:43:05] Speaker B: Consider yourself thoroughly humored. [02:43:08] Speaker C: I do. [02:43:09] Speaker A: Do you think we have enough time to side quest getting a whole chicken [02:43:12] Speaker B: army to fight sorghum guys stress how much you don't? No. I do love Muppet Treasure island very much. [02:43:25] Speaker D: I love everything. [02:43:26] Speaker B: Anything else? Regret at the moment. [02:43:29] Speaker C: She just, she. She just sits there and thinks about it. [02:43:36] Speaker G: Save yourself before I said it, Jaz. [02:43:37] Speaker B: Okay, [02:43:40] Speaker C: thank you. [02:43:41] Speaker B: Would anyone like to, as Greta is pondering and having that moment, to just value the life that she's living? Does anyone have some moments they'd like to connect with? We can go wrap the first session fairly soon. [02:43:55] Speaker F: Do you want to go? [02:43:55] Speaker D: Are we, are we still going to be doing, like calls? [02:44:01] Speaker B: I'm not going to, I mean, not to medicate. I think what I'm going to say is that you all will have the opportunity to continue to role play with each other next session. Stone calls aren't going to be impossible, but you are going to be going whoosh on a dragon fairly soon. So bear that in mind. [02:44:19] Speaker D: Could I, could I do a strategy check? If I could cast something and do something while on the dragon? [02:44:28] Speaker B: That's probably just more of. I don't even think you need an intelligence check for that. You probably can, because what you can put together is it would be inane for the plan to be that you're just gonna grab some scales for the day long trip around the world that seems begging for something to go wrong. So there must be some other plan and it's probably gonna leave you a little bit more physically capable than that. So, yeah, you could. You'd probably Be capable of casting. [02:45:04] Speaker D: Okay? I just. I just. So all I want to do is. I. I just. If it's okay, I just want to do a quick, quick call with sh. [02:45:13] Speaker B: And you pick up the stone. [02:45:15] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:45:15] Speaker B: Bro. [02:45:20] Speaker D: Sorry. Zach. Hey. [02:45:22] Speaker B: Go get him. Feel the connection. [02:45:26] Speaker D: Are you there? [02:45:29] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. Bro. Okay, [02:45:38] Speaker D: what time? [02:45:38] Speaker B: The solution has to. It has to. She keeps saying parkolette. I don't know what that means, [02:45:45] Speaker D: but [02:45:45] Speaker B: it's bubbling too much. I have not slept, and I'm sure you guys are inside of the jaws of some cosmic monster or something, but I feel like I'm going through it kind of. [02:45:58] Speaker D: Yeah, no, you are. You guys can actually halt on that. Unfortunately, the. What do you mean? The timetable is moved up and we're not. [02:46:13] Speaker A: All right. [02:46:13] Speaker B: We only have two ready and I don't know if they're that good. They're like. She said they're like, regular. I don't know what that means. [02:46:21] Speaker D: It's okay. I don't think we're. I'm calling because I. We're not going to get to come back before. Before we go. [02:46:31] Speaker B: Wait, what do you mean? [02:46:33] Speaker D: To the Bitterlands. [02:46:37] Speaker B: Wait, what? [02:46:38] Speaker D: We're. We're leaving very soon. [02:46:42] Speaker B: Just left suddenly. [02:46:43] Speaker D: I know. I mean, I'm sorry. [02:46:48] Speaker B: I'm so tired. [02:46:50] Speaker D: No, it's okay. You need. You need rest. And you guys can stop. You. You mean. [02:46:55] Speaker B: Hold on. But you said the Bither Lands were where Zar Graham was. [02:47:04] Speaker D: Yeah, we. We. We found the place that we needed to go first, and the. The timetable has just moved up. We learned some information that he's. He's closer there than what we expected, so we're gonna have to leave from here. [02:47:28] Speaker B: What. I mean, what do you guys have. I'm sorry. You probably don't have a ton of time, but, like, what. What's. What's the plan now? Like, you guys. Did you find, like, a spell? Are you gonna, like, banish him or. I've been reading in my book that you can. I mean, I'm not able, obviously, but there's probably someone among you like, that you can, like, trap things in cages made out of, like, just like, farce. I don't know if you could make a big enough one. What's your plan? [02:48:04] Speaker D: Well, we're trying to figure that out, but we do have the help. Help of wildly. Enough. The help of, I believe, five dragons to assist us. Yeah, we met some here. It's a long story and. [02:48:26] Speaker E: What? [02:48:27] Speaker D: Yeah, I. There. [02:48:31] Speaker B: That's crazy. [02:48:32] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:48:33] Speaker B: I can't believe I'm still Saying this three year scene. But that's crazy. [02:48:37] Speaker D: They're going to ally us in the. In the fight against the Hay King. I. I just wanted to call you like. Like that. [02:48:47] Speaker B: I'm sorry. Like that five week guy, you know. [02:48:50] Speaker D: Yeah, he's. He's actually coming too. He's. He survived. [02:48:54] Speaker B: He sounded nice. [02:48:56] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:48:57] Speaker B: Okay. So you guys have a bunch of help. [02:49:00] Speaker D: Yes. And. And I wanted to. To tell you thank you for your help over the years. You've. We couldn't have done what we've done without our Captain Shri Goober. [02:49:18] Speaker B: Well, I mean of course Ro, but. What [02:49:30] Speaker D: we. We don't know. [02:49:31] Speaker B: What are the dragons going to help you do? [02:49:35] Speaker D: We have. [02:49:36] Speaker B: You have to fight him now? [02:49:38] Speaker D: Yeah, we have. We have to stop on Spaghuber. We have to. If. If we don't, then there is no more anything. [02:49:49] Speaker B: Well, yeah. Oh, it's. It's that kind of a call. [02:50:09] Speaker D: Yeah. Okay. I listen. So in a. In Once this fight is over, we. We still have my birthday to celebrate. Remember Spaghuber And Valex said we could host it at his place and we just got to get it through the next few days and. And I need you to be the captain of. Of the ship in parsonage. I need you to take care of everyone. Okay. But take care of yourself. Okay. Thank you for being the family and the friend that I needed for a long time. [02:51:12] Speaker B: I'm really sorry, Ro. I don't have. I don't have your ship anymore. There's nothing in the house and I can't get the potions to you. [02:51:24] Speaker D: No, it's okay, Spagober. You've done everything you could. And there wouldn't be the fun guys without Spaghr. You're one of us. You're. You're. [02:51:37] Speaker B: I wish you didn't have to do it alone. [02:51:41] Speaker D: Yeah. We're. We're. We have the warriors of the well and Dragons. We're gonna be. We're gonna be okay. Spagoover. I just. I just wanted to tell you what's. What's going on. I don't want you to worry. Okay? [02:52:04] Speaker B: You just worry. [02:52:06] Speaker D: You just have to hold down the fort for just a few more days and we'll all be back. Okay? [02:52:27] Speaker B: You have to. You have to tell them how much I love you all. [02:52:33] Speaker D: I will. I think. I think Craig is. I think Craig wants to say something to you. He's looking at me, but just. Oh, and just so you know, Boss is. Boz is going to Valex. Okay, I can't explain right now, but He. He will be there. So if you need him, that's where to call him. Just. [02:53:02] Speaker B: Okay. [02:53:03] Speaker D: Just captain the Fungi ship a little bit longer. Okay? Before I go, could you tell. Could you tell Thespis to go to go to sleep soon so that I could reach out to him? [02:53:20] Speaker B: He's been asleep for like five, four hours. [02:53:23] Speaker D: Okay, good. I'll. Yeah. Okay. [02:53:27] Speaker B: He farts sometimes in his sleep. [02:53:29] Speaker D: Okay. [02:53:31] Speaker G: Okay. [02:53:34] Speaker D: Spa. I. I love you truly. [02:53:37] Speaker B: I love you very much. I love you so much. [02:53:45] Speaker D: Hey, just. Thank you. [02:53:47] Speaker B: I love you more than the whole big ocean. [02:53:51] Speaker D: We love you too, Spigoberg. [02:53:52] Speaker A: Just. [02:53:52] Speaker D: Just think you can take all of these fun guys adventures captaining our ship and write a book like. Like Love under the Mountain one day. [02:54:06] Speaker F: Okay? [02:54:09] Speaker B: But you are adventuro. [02:54:13] Speaker D: And you're our captain. [02:54:14] Speaker B: You were my adventure. [02:54:21] Speaker D: Here's. Here's Craig. I. I love you. I'll see you. I will see you soon. [02:54:27] Speaker A: Okay? [02:54:29] Speaker B: And he's talking as you and the stone over. [02:54:35] Speaker A: Craig picks it up. [02:54:37] Speaker B: And it was wrong the time that they tied you to the ship. But I just didn't know that they had done it. And I'm sorry for that too. [02:54:44] Speaker A: I'll make sure she knows that. [02:54:47] Speaker B: Oh, it's Craig. Craig, I need. [02:54:55] Speaker A: I know you need to go to sleep and get some rest. [02:55:00] Speaker F: I know [02:55:04] Speaker A: going to be. Oh, it's okay. I just couldn't. I just couldn't not tell you. I credit. I credit like the man I am to you. Because I didn't know how to love until I met. Until I saw you love. I didn't know how to be. I didn't know how to care about people until I saw you care relentlessly. And I just want to let you know [02:55:47] Speaker C: you. [02:55:50] Speaker A: You're the best man I know. And. We're gonna be okay. [02:56:02] Speaker C: And [02:56:04] Speaker A: I'm gonna fight and I'm gonna. I'm gonna fight for you. [02:56:11] Speaker B: At a. On a different day, at a different time, I'd be role playing it. It's 10 o' clock at night and my wife's gone to sleep, so I'm not gonna role play right now. But Goober is uncontrollably sobbing on the other end of the call, just weeping and at some point through blubber, it's just like four or five minutes of him like crying and like, and you know, making all the worst ugly cry sounds. And after some time as he's recovering and breathing it out, he just goes, Let's. We need to throw road the best birthday party. [02:57:00] Speaker D: I'll make. [02:57:01] Speaker B: I'll make. Honey, Bread. And if we get her drunk enough, I'll tie her to something again. [02:57:13] Speaker A: Yes, [02:57:16] Speaker B: Yes, I will double laugh at this time. And I won't scold you for doing it. Oh, I love you very much, Craig. [02:57:30] Speaker A: I love you, Spooky Cooper. [02:57:33] Speaker B: Thanks for not letting me fall off the boat. That. Huh. Also, can you give this to. And he's fully up. [02:58:00] Speaker A: Okay. Greta, you all get the feeling that [02:58:05] Speaker B: he was four hours past when he should have been awake when you all called. And that was too much emotion and he's exhausted after that call. [02:58:14] Speaker D: I. I think Ro would just go and. And sit by Greta. And if she allows her to, she would just. She would just kind of lay her head on Greta's shoulder. [02:58:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:58:27] Speaker D: Not say anything. Just be there with Greta and sit there there for the rest of the time. [02:58:35] Speaker F: Okay. I think Janice would make two calls. Hopefully one. Pretty short, but. Sorry. [02:58:44] Speaker B: I can do this. No, no, it's all good. It's all good. We're just. We're reaching back at the analog then PCs. Let's do this. Let's do this. [02:58:50] Speaker F: My bad. My bad. I did this. [02:58:53] Speaker B: This is my. [02:58:54] Speaker F: No, literally, this is your fault, actually. [02:58:58] Speaker C: Yeah, it is your fault. [02:59:02] Speaker B: I did this. [02:59:04] Speaker F: Janice is going to call Shaws from the brother Sumpt. [02:59:13] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [02:59:15] Speaker A: Just one of them. [02:59:17] Speaker F: One of them. He's the first one. [02:59:19] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:59:19] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. Jars the most. Is the most appropriate probably. [02:59:22] Speaker A: Okay, okay. [02:59:22] Speaker F: That one. [02:59:26] Speaker B: Okay. You feel the connection? [02:59:29] Speaker F: Okay. [02:59:30] Speaker C: Oh, [02:59:33] Speaker F: I think Abby. [02:59:33] Speaker B: I think Abby just fell out of the call. She'll be back. [02:59:35] Speaker F: Okay. [02:59:36] Speaker B: You feel the connection? [02:59:38] Speaker G: Disrespect for our crew. [02:59:41] Speaker C: What? [02:59:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:59:42] Speaker F: No, literally. [02:59:43] Speaker A: What? [02:59:44] Speaker E: Okay. [02:59:45] Speaker F: Hey, Gars. [02:59:46] Speaker A: This is. [02:59:47] Speaker F: This is Janice. [02:59:51] Speaker B: Captain, you all right? [02:59:57] Speaker F: Yeah. [03:00:00] Speaker B: I don't know if you know this. This guy was on fire. [03:00:04] Speaker F: Yeah, that was a joke. [03:00:06] Speaker B: I figured you knew. [03:00:08] Speaker F: Yeah, definitely not a joke, though. So. [03:00:18] Speaker B: Are you coming back? [03:00:21] Speaker F: I'm not sure if we are. [03:00:25] Speaker B: Oh, I just got to be away for a while. [03:00:29] Speaker F: Yeah. And if you don't hear from any of us in the next coming days, maybe try to head back to. To Alabon and go see Trent or take the money that's in the boat. [03:00:49] Speaker B: All right. Are you all going to be in like a long road begin. I know you went to those beastie lands for a while. Is it like that? [03:01:03] Speaker F: I think a little more dangerous. [03:01:06] Speaker C: We'll be here. [03:01:08] Speaker B: Okay. Like pandymonium. Understood, Captain. I can't wait for all the tales when you come back. And we're a good way from other bun, but we'll. We'll we'll turn the heading and we'll start hidden. [03:01:24] Speaker C: Okay. [03:01:24] Speaker B: Perfect. I hadn't thought about God's Trenton five years, but we'll. We'll. We'll. We'll see if we can't find him. I could recognize his old ship. [03:01:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:01:37] Speaker B: Come. I don't mean to be impertinent, and I know you only make these calls when you have to. He's breathing heavily. You get the feeling he was like, just working, probably in some rough waters. And he continues, and he says, you took the spider away for some time. Is that coming back or. He's getting really rather big. [03:01:53] Speaker F: No, I think. I think he'll stay. [03:01:55] Speaker B: You've done so much for us, but it could have gave us the heebie jeebies. [03:02:00] Speaker A: I thought. [03:02:00] Speaker F: I thought I would need him more and he was a fun pet and all, but. [03:02:05] Speaker B: No, he was very fun. [03:02:07] Speaker F: He's back where he needs to be. [03:02:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. We'll go to early bond. It will take us a bit, but that's okay. We'll get there. [03:02:17] Speaker F: Okay. Thank you. Taking care of everybody. [03:02:22] Speaker B: Of course, Captain. Always. It's all run grim. I. Well, tell him he owes me some money. [03:02:38] Speaker F: I will do that, I'm sure. [03:02:40] Speaker B: Okay. You'll know what it means. All right. Okay, bye. Cupping. [03:02:46] Speaker F: Okay, bye. [03:02:49] Speaker B: You said connection. [03:02:51] Speaker F: Okay. Does Micah want to go or should I. Should I go again? [03:02:56] Speaker B: Micah messaged, asking me to kind of summarize the conversation with Aaron, and I think that's a fine idea. [03:03:03] Speaker F: Okay, perfect. I mean, we could also summarize the conversation with my father, but I was [03:03:09] Speaker B: just going to call him. [03:03:11] Speaker F: Well, I was going to see if it connects even. [03:03:16] Speaker B: Oh, don't make me pull up the. [03:03:17] Speaker G: He's alive, right? [03:03:18] Speaker B: Zach, I don't know. [03:03:20] Speaker G: Her father and sister alive. Right. [03:03:23] Speaker D: Cursed document. I know of death. The document of death. [03:03:29] Speaker B: Table. I go. Okay, hold on. Okay, give me a second. [03:03:53] Speaker G: The only relief I had is I already knew the status of my magic casting family member. [03:04:00] Speaker B: Okay. [03:04:01] Speaker F: Yeah. I don't know the status of them. I didn't want to. [03:04:04] Speaker G: You pull up roll for Sabina? [03:04:06] Speaker F: No, literally. [03:04:07] Speaker B: And of whom do you think? [03:04:11] Speaker F: My father. I can't remember his name. I didn't write it down. [03:04:20] Speaker G: I think it's dad. Yeah, short for Father. [03:04:24] Speaker C: Yeah, short for father. [03:04:27] Speaker F: He's in my phone to reach out. [03:04:28] Speaker B: Kara. You do feel like a connection. [03:04:33] Speaker F: Wow. Okay. Crazy. Hey, dad, it's Janice. [03:04:45] Speaker B: Hi, janice. [03:04:48] Speaker F: How are you guys? [03:05:00] Speaker D: We're. [03:05:00] Speaker B: We're. I mean, you know, we're. We're alive. Yeah, I mean, Your mother's. Yeah, she's just an elf, so she's safe. [03:05:19] Speaker F: Yeah. [03:05:23] Speaker B: I heard you're up by family. [03:05:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:05:31] Speaker B: Hadn't heard those calls in a long time. I. I heard you meant the Keeper. [03:05:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [03:05:42] Speaker B: You and I haven't talked in a while, but obviously there were some things I never told you. And there's a lot of stuff that's happened for you, so we'll just call it even. [03:05:58] Speaker F: Well, we're gonna protect the deep well. So I just wanted you to pass that information on. [03:06:11] Speaker B: I'm sorry. I can't believe any of this has ever happened. Honey, I. I love you very much. And, you know I'm proud of you. [03:06:31] Speaker F: Yeah. [03:06:33] Speaker B: I've spoken with your sister. That's probably not what this moment's about. [03:06:40] Speaker F: No, that it's part of it. [03:06:47] Speaker B: You'll always be my brightest star in the sky. Give him hells, honey. I will kick his teeth in. [03:07:04] Speaker F: I'll try to take one home. [03:07:08] Speaker B: No, don't do that. [03:07:15] Speaker F: And then I'm probably in the call, [03:07:20] Speaker B: and you just. It's a bit too much, and you just cut it short. [03:07:24] Speaker F: Yeah. [03:07:25] Speaker B: Yeah. All right. One by one, the Olive Brin's defenders come to terms in these realized ways with. The beginning of the end as you all reach out and make all these connections. In these moments, you watch as the gathers, the dragons begin gathering. People take breaths, and you all ready yourselves for the journey. Are there any. Are there any last bits or pieces before we wrap up the session? The first one. And we'll have a second session where you could do some more role play, but. [03:08:27] Speaker E: Well, I probably won't be able to make the second session, so. [03:08:30] Speaker B: Oh, okay. I'm sorry. [03:08:32] Speaker E: I'm very exhausted, so. [03:08:34] Speaker B: Okay. That's good to know. I did not know that. I'm sorry, Daniel. [03:08:37] Speaker E: It's all good. I don't know. I probably won't make it as long as I was thinking about it, but. [03:08:46] Speaker B: Well, feel free to go all up. [03:08:48] Speaker E: We. [03:08:48] Speaker B: We've got. You've got a second. [03:09:00] Speaker E: I think he would have tried before it got all. Before everything happened. He would have tried to find this quiet moment in a similar field as Greta. He doesn't have anyone to call. All he knows is dead. And so he would have waited. I think he just would have stayed in the ocean the whole time where he was waiting for Greta to get better. And then everyone else came in. I think he just stayed in the ocean. And then he goes to Roe, and I'm making this lure up right now, so. Hey, don't feel bad. [03:09:42] Speaker B: Earned it. I think you've earned it. Daniel, [03:09:46] Speaker E: he's gonna go over to you and in a very quiet but calm voice, while everyone else is away, he's gonna wait. He's waiting for everyone to get off their calls. But he does come up to Hero and he says, do you know the final sale? An old sailor song of long ago, but probably one that was quite prolific in the taverns and things that you probably have played in. [03:10:18] Speaker D: Do I know it? Can I say I know it? [03:10:20] Speaker B: If you want. Hey, take this away players. If you want to know it, you can. If you want to be surprised by it, you can. [03:10:28] Speaker E: And then he, in hoping that you say yes, he, he continues on, he says, I know it's a bit sad, but I think it fits the chorus of everything [03:10:40] Speaker D: I think. I, I, I. Yeah, I think it rings, rings a bell. Yeah, I can, I could play it. I could play the tune if. [03:10:53] Speaker E: Yeah, not the, not the words. [03:10:54] Speaker D: I want to say something on the loot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [03:10:58] Speaker E: You know, at the end of all I say, you could sing the final line, one that reminds us that the ocean is just the beginning. And he goes and he like looks to all the crowd of his cohorts and friends. He doesn't really look towards the dragons because he doesn't know them very well and so I mean they're cool. But he looks at everyone else though and he looks at, tries to make eye contact. [03:11:27] Speaker G: There's no way they know the lyrics. [03:11:29] Speaker E: Oh no, no, he's not, he's not doing a sing along thing. But he enables his rage in a bit of flavor of the spirits this time instead of being these amorphous blobs of color and light and excitement and like all the cool things that it is, I think he tries to focused on the rage especially with the immense power that he just had and the ocean that's nearby. He gathers all of his thoughts and closes his eyes and looks and then opens them. And the spirits are no longer these amorphous people, but they are three distinct sizes with like the hints of like what they would have looked like in life. And he looks to everyone here and he says, I have no one to call. For all that I know is here before me. And those that I knew before are now dead. I am a solitary man. I don't share many things very often for you all know. But I thought you should know my old friend and family found family. I, I want you to know them and know the names before we take our final sale. And he like, he grabs. Let me make sure that I got the colors right. He grabs the shoulders of what it looks like. I mean, he's taller than Rongrim. He's probably a human from the characteristics, not the pointy ears. He kind of just looks stoic. He probably looks like he has a faint resemblance of old armor of some sort and a sword at his side. And he crashed. He kind of, like, clasps his shoulders, but. And it's one of those ways where you like, you know, know that they're not physical. So you kind of, like, put it there as if to symbolize it. And he says, oh, this. This one was Rondrick. [03:13:48] Speaker B: We. [03:13:48] Speaker E: We had fun with the captains trying to say our names from far away. They started using our last names after a while, or just Grim and Drake. But I wanted to share you a story of him. He was. Was a compatriot of mine while we fought the empire at this town of long ago. He. He was a fun one. He kept me on me my toes. Tried to drink me under the table once. He lost, of course, trying to impress all the men and maybe a couple of the women in the bar, but I never told him. But he was only one drink away from drinking me under. I praised Tamora for that. He was a good man, strong, capable. Until he died. He lived a good life. He fought and died with integrity. He lingers for a second. [03:14:58] Speaker B: Then, as Rongrim speaks. Rongrim, when you go to put your hands on the shoulders, of course, it is the illusory spirit, but as you've described, they're in so much more detail now. And you all see them as he puts his hands on the shoulders. There aren't shoulders there, but there's resistance, like a strong breeze, only at the point you meet. And as Rongrim tells his story in a way that you all have never seen, the spirit reacts. It listens and nods. And he speaks of the story of trying to drink him under the table. The face. The face has plenty of detail. It's just slightly translucent, hard to capture in its exactness. A smile wraps across. And for one moment, you all get this glimpse of this Rondrick person who seemed like he was full of just joy. Just every moment was an opportunity to make it a joke. And he smiles at you all as Rongrim speaks. And then as Rongrim says the final thing about his integrity and how he died, the spirit places a hand on your shoulder. Rongrim. In just a little bit, you can feel it. [03:16:17] Speaker E: Wrong room with tears. [03:16:19] Speaker B: Not. [03:16:19] Speaker E: Not too Much. But with a hearty cheer and chuckle he. He goes on to his next friend Rondrick. I didn't even tell you he was the green Spirit. He goes on to the blue Spirit. And this one is a. A much taller person than even Rondrick. You see the pointed tips of his ears and he's elven or half elven depending on how close you look at him. And he's got the livery of the empire on him and he's. He talks about how this is Everix. He was our navigator, a straight man on the wake, on the wave buckler. He kept not only the crew but myself and in line and didn't let me tarry too long in the, the docks if I was taking too long or if some of the other sailors were a strict regimented man who did not like dilly dally and did not like pranks. But he was, he was a kind one. And all of his strictness and all of his fairness. He could make you laugh with his wit. He made me laugh many a times. One of my dearest friends while in the 20 years of the Empire made my captain days easier though I didn't have to learn all the stars all the time. I mean I did but you know, elves have better memories than dwarves. And he had a good one. One I very much thought on after the. The ship crashed. It wasn't his fault. No one could predict the weather that day. And again he, he like kind of like grabs a shoulder, like a side hug almost and he like hopes to embrace him once more. And the guy just whispers into the spirit's ear and he says it wasn't your fault. [03:18:40] Speaker B: The whole time you were describing Everix as you described him run. It was just where there was a glibness to Ron Drake's reaction and expression. Everix just stared at everyone straight on. He looked at them as you spoke, as if falling in attention to his captain again and just looking where you were looking. And. That last part even before you whisper to him as you start talking about the storm that day, he looks at you and again straight on. And as you embrace him and whisper, there's one solemn nod of a deep acceptance. [03:19:43] Speaker E: And last but certainly not least, there's this orange lively spirit. She's the only female of the three and there is a height differential between all of them. And one that Ron Gurman is finally taller than as this halfling lady is probably a foot or two shorter than him right now. And she's got on robes and the cooks, cooks wear aprons and things like this, and maybe even a knife behind the ears that she keeps behind her. And before he, like, describes her, he hasn't seen her as accentuated a long time. And he just takes a moment and, like, swallows hard and says, this is. This is living. A halfling cook. I don't know if she knows this, but she was the hardest person to find for my. My ship. Many cooks came and went on my crew. They were loud and boisterous and complainers, as most people who are inducted into military, they don't want to serve. But she kept a tight rein on both her assistant cooks and those who wished to complain that her food tasted like seed tack. They. They got sea tack in their Venus that night to show them what it really was and how much good her food was and how better it was. She made a killer stew. If I could wish for a meal right now, it would be her. I could see one more person. One last time. It would be her. It's interesting how. Sorry, one last thing he says. He says, it's interesting how death brings about the good memories. Also the ones you regret. I never told her I liked her. Seemed inappropriate for a captain to date someone on the crew. I guess date isn't the right word. That's how people talk now. It just didn't seem right. I loved her. She was a good one. I wish you could have met her. I mean, Janice, you make great food. But there was something about Livy's that just filled your stomach a bit fuller. [03:22:59] Speaker F: Probably love. [03:23:07] Speaker E: She had lots to give. [03:23:12] Speaker B: Bhangrim. The spirit, as you speak, is much less interested in the others. I mean, she faced everyone as you described her. But by the time you were talking about her food, she was listening to you. And even before confessing anything at the part where you said, if there was anyone's meal I would have had, it would have been hers. She reached up and put a very small halfling hand on the side of your cheek. Just very slightly. You could feel it. And again, this is your moment. But maybe even as you said some of those lines, your head was leaned into her hand a bit, and her hand very slightly slipped into yours. As you finish, she leans to your ear and just very quietly whispers, they always fancied you, too, but you are a bit too much of a grump [03:24:31] Speaker E: That I be. [03:24:33] Speaker B: Maybe we might still have time together. [03:24:42] Speaker E: Maybe [03:24:46] Speaker B: take him on one last ride. Captain. There's no one better to lead him. Thank you. [03:24:58] Speaker A: Living, [03:25:01] Speaker B: she steps away from you a little bit before turning back and giving you a churlish smile. And then she says, it was saffron. That was. Was. That was what was in the stew. It was saffron. [03:25:17] Speaker E: He chuckles with tears coming down his cheeks. And he looks to you all and he says, I know I don't have the right. And I don't think we can see twee or twee too low or too long. [03:25:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [03:25:31] Speaker E: And I don't even know if it's in the right time from long ago when I met the fun guys at the ceremony. And you don't have to if you're feeling sad. We've got a great bard and it'd be a shame to waste his skills if we didn't dance one last time. [03:25:57] Speaker B: Yo. He gets this big smile on his face and goes, that sounds like a good idea. And he puts his staff down in his hand and stands up. [03:26:11] Speaker D: It rose starts kind of. She's been kind of like playing a little bit behind his. His stories and trying to. Trying to remember that the final sale song that he had said. And she just looks at him and [03:26:33] Speaker C: says, [03:26:36] Speaker D: it was an honor to dance with you the first time we met. And it'll be an honor to fight with you till the end, you and them. And she nods to each one of the spirits. Spirits playing [03:26:57] Speaker B: and as you play, Ro and the music rises and kicks up on the beach. All of these people with dragons just staring at them awkwardly begin dancing. And most of you have no coordinated dance. You don't know the dance. [03:27:25] Speaker D: Dang it. We sold the necklace. [03:27:27] Speaker B: The spirits. You sold. I gave you an item for it and you sold it. [03:27:32] Speaker C: Can we roll the dance? [03:27:35] Speaker G: Like, if you go, at least I might know it. [03:27:40] Speaker E: Of course. [03:27:43] Speaker A: Before we. [03:27:44] Speaker F: From my time on education want me to have. Oh, yeah. I should also cast Heroes Feast for sure. [03:27:53] Speaker B: Maybe we can take care of that next time. [03:27:55] Speaker F: But fun guys, do you want me to have finished the teleportation circle and have sent boss home? If you want him here for this. [03:28:05] Speaker B: Janice shouts as people are currently attempting to form a very poorly coordinated blind dance. [03:28:13] Speaker A: Can we have him here for that? [03:28:15] Speaker F: Yeah. I just won't have finished the circle again. [03:28:20] Speaker G: Okay. [03:28:22] Speaker D: And Ro also, like, because she can play with, like, one hand and all, she. She goes up to Rongrum and she, like, like, does some dancing with him and, like, twirls around and stuff. Performance check. Because I haven't rolled, like, any checks [03:28:38] Speaker C: Greta makes with her. [03:28:45] Speaker B: Tello is filled with a levity you have not seen in a long time. And you're dancing for a while before he just picks you up and like, begins kind of like swinging you around like a toddler. Yeah. At one point, he's. Throws you up and catches you. [03:29:04] Speaker C: Oh, that's so fun. My old bones. [03:29:08] Speaker D: That's a. That's a little meek 30, 32 performance on the dancing. And. [03:29:17] Speaker B: And Rongrim, she falls. At first you're just having fun flailing about, but soon she falls in with the correct. Oh, she knows the song and she knows this dance. And you all begin doing this. It's this interesting. Like, it's kind of one arm at a time, and you, like, swing centripetally, accelerating around each other, you know, just kind of relying on each other's weight. And you need to lean in a little bit because she doesn't weigh half as much as you do, but. And as you guys switch off back and forth until kind of spinning away from each other and then returning. And the idea behind the dance is that as the tides moved you down together, so the tides move you away. And that the ocean, it's just a new beginning. And the group dances and dances and the spirits dance with you all. And at some point, Senva is actually in a joviality you weren't expecting from a dragon, takes to the wing and begins looping through the air and flying with it and doing her own dances. And [03:30:23] Speaker F: at some point, I. I think I put my hand, like, I'd try to find a way to put my hand on Ron Grimm's shoulder and just kind of like, say, like in a. In, like a very quick, you know, message or whatever. Thank you for. For sharing. We'll be fighting with them. [03:30:47] Speaker E: Thank you for not giving up on me. And I could barely hold a trident. [03:30:53] Speaker F: You didn't see me in my early days, so. [03:30:56] Speaker B: No, as. As he's spinning and dancing. UEG shouts. I still remember the net. And as. As the war is dwell. Guys dance and laugh and find some desperate moment of joy in the middle of the end of the world. I can think of. Thanks to Daniel, I can think of no more appropriate ending. That's where we'll. That's. We'll end our episode on a group of people who were made for the dance, not the fight and listener. [03:31:37] Speaker A: It. [03:31:39] Speaker B: Life's an incredible adventure, and you're a very important part of it. We'll see you next time. Oh, yes. Excuse me. Wap.