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hey there pants people uh steven here just want

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to say real quick before the episode thank you

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for listening thank you for hanging out with

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us thank you for being here we love you enjoy

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the episode the Snake Eaters. What most don't

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know is that those adventures continued soon

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after, and they continued on Evanrath's own homeworld

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of Moor. Now what we've heard is now an official

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quiet head. This has all been reported to us

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from witnesses that were enjoying themselves

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at Bulger's House of Mead, not far from Moor's

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gemstone landing. Apparently, Evanrath and Bing

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entered the pub last night, looking like they'd

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fallen through all the hells. There, Evanrath

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regaled them all with tales of his newest pursuit.

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It seems the snake eaters have been tolerating

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more as famed giant mountain goats, a personal

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affront to our favorite wind -wielding wild man.

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He quickly led his sidekick, Binks, into the

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mountains of his youth, hunting for the hunters.

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It is not foggy from here, but there's word of

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a cave deep in the mountains and a full troll

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member of the poaching organization. Oh, man.

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Well, it just goes to show you all, you never

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know what dangers you may find in the wilds of

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the mountains. See, that's a podcast, right?

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I can connect anything to anything. We in mountains,

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I can connect that to something. You have the

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power. I have the power. You also just gave me

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hope that Emin Rath is coming back. As a matter

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of fact, right behind you. Hey, guys. Hey, guys.

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It's me, Stomp. He's not here. He's not here.

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He's not here. He's not coming in. There's no

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surprise guest appearance. Not yet. Someday.

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Someday. We're getting him back. But right now,

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he's on more. Or he was on more. Fighting trolls

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and saving mountain goats like that motherfucker

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would. Way to go. Yeah, what a hero. Oh, now

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I want a beer. All right. You guys banter while

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I go grab a beer. All right, that's fine. We

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can do that. Let's banter. We've been friends

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for a long, long time. I'm sure we can fill,

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like, what, 10, 20 seconds? I like how a banter

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question is like, hey, Jeremy, tell me about

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your trip coming up. Tell us all about your trip

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coming up. And then it's like. That's a good

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thing to talk about. But he's not here. He walked

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out of the room. Steven, take it away. Oh, look.

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And he's brought stomp. No, I'm just kidding.

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That's not happening. That's not happening. Oh,

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shit. Now I get my crack. Isn't that the best?

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Such a good sound. Put my finger in that crack.

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Such a good sound. This could be a ringtone.

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You think that's a thing? I can make that happen.

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I bet that's a thing. I can just make. That would

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be more meaningful. I would rather just get it

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from you. Hey, Jeremy, I need you to do more

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editing work for me, though. It will literally

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take like five minutes to make that into a ringtone

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that I can send to you. That's fantastic. I would

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assume. That's fantastic. As long as you can

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use MP3s on your phone as a ringtone, which I

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don't see. It's 2023. You got to be able to do

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that, right? It's got to be possible. Right?

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It's got to be possible. It's definitely complicated.

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We just make a whole episode as a ringtone. Oh,

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that's so awful. What an organic way to, like,

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advertise the podcast. Sitting on the bus and,

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like, boom, boom, bada, boom, boom, bada. Coming

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from your pocket. Oh, sorry about that, madam.

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That's my podcast. I use it as my ringtone. Yeah.

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Does it sound good, though? I could answer this,

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but you know what? It's just the. It's getting

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to the good part. It's getting to the good part.

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It's the Red Cross again. They always call me.

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I don't want to answer it. I don't want to feel

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rude and hang up. Let's just. Hear it out for,

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it's going to take like an hour. You doing anything?

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Do you like podcasts? Do you have money? The

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third most important question to ask. Jeremy

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Wolf. You know who's going to be listening to

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a lot of podcasts soon. Oh my God. Holy. You

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host this shit. Go. Take it away. That was good.

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That was good shit. I'm very confused. We're

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talking about next week. And we're talking about

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why we're recording two sessions tonight. You're

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talking about next week, meaning on the episode

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that comes out after I get back? Well, in our

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timeline, the real timeline. No, you know, no,

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this will come out actually the Monday that I'm

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gone. Hey friends, editor Jeremy here for the

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first time in quite a while. We, uh, well, I,

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uh, I fucked up. Yeah. This, uh, this episode

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is being released the Monday that I'm back. So

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whoops. See, see. When this comes out, where

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will you be? When our dear listener who Monday

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morning, all bright -eyed and bushy -tailed,

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pops out of bed and says, oh boy, it's Fancy

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Pants, and they pop on their headphones and they

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click on this episode and they hear us doing

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our fun, cool thing, where will you be? I will

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be in Chicago, yes. Where in Chicago? What crazy

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shit are you getting up to? Going to my cousin's

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wedding. What's the address? That's pretty cool.

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What's the exact address? No fucking clue. No

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fucking clue. What should I bring? Will there

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be pie? Yes, I am. I am going to Chicago to my

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cousin's wedding. Love my cousin very, very much.

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And this is going to be a very, very special,

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very special weekend. It's going to be good.

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Haven't, haven't seen them all in a long time.

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And we were basically like all brothers and sisters

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growing up. So it's going to be, it'll be good.

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It'll be really special. That's really cool.

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That's awesome. That's really cool. It's been,

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how long has he been there in Chicago? I went

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back about three or four years ago. Wow, it's

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been a while. It's been a while. Damn, man. How

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much trunk space are you going to have? A lot.

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Cool. Are you going to bring some beer? Actually,

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that's a really good idea. I was not going to

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bring beer until you mentioned that because I

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didn't fucking think of it. I am awful. I am

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awful. Jeremy. Well, I'm pretty sure the reception

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is at a brewery too, so it's going to be pretty

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awesome. Excellent. Easy access. It'll be pretty

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good. Easy access. That's great. Well, that's

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awesome, man. Well, congratulations to your cousin.

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Mac and D. Mac and Danielle. Mac and Danielle.

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Congratulations. And I hope the wedding is amazing.

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And I'm sure it will be because Jeremy Wolf is

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going to be in it. He makes everything amazing.

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So the funny part you mentioned earlier, David,

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and you were like, oh, yeah, if it's Monday morning

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and you're bright -eyed, bushy -tailed and listening,

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I'm like, yeah. Or if you're one of those, like,

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handful of weird night owls who listen at, like...

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Late, late, late Sunday night. There's more of

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those. It posts at like 11 or 12 o 'clock on

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Sunday night or something like that. Yeah, I

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think it's like 12 .05 by the time it hits platforms.

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Yeah, and sometimes we'll wake up in the morning

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to like Discord messages or whatever. It's hilarious.

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Oh, and I see all those downloads. When I get

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up in the morning, I open it up and I'm like,

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oh, look at that, 2 a .m. There you go. Shout

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out, Jeannie. Shout out, Rochelle. Discord messages.

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Are you saying we have a Discord? Hey. We have

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a Discord. They're going to kill us. They're

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going to come to our house and shoot us if we

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do this again. Oh, my God. ZooBeard will come

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and break our kneecaps if we do this again. One

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more speaking of humans who listen to our episodes

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thing. My wife, Rachel, came home from work the

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other day. Why did you say humans? That was weird.

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People. That was weird. That's a weird thing.

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Go ahead. I don't know. Humans is endearing and

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all -inclusive. It's been a minute since I've

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looked at, like, the numbers, but I think most

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of our listeners are humans. I think. I think.

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You know what? I'm the asshole. You're fair.

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That's fair. So my wife, Rachel, who is a whole

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human being in her own right, came home from

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human work, and she was like, oh, yeah. My buddy

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Kevin from work just caught up with the podcast.

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And I was like, oh, cool. I didn't know that

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you had a friend at work who listened to the

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podcast. She was like, yeah, I mentioned it like

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offhandedly like a month ago. And he just like

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chewed through it, I guess. Or maybe it was two

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months ago. I don't know. But it's awesome. That's

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so cool. Hey, Kevin. Hey, Kevin. Hey, welcome.

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Thank you. Thanks for listening. Thank you. Oh,

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that's great. That's great. Let's think. We had

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a lot of chit -chat, a lot of RP. It was really

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good stuff. I was so excited to do it. We didn't

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do much gaming last week. You know, a lot of

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character focus, which is, I love it. But I'm

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ready to game right now. Let's do a Chicago style

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this week. Let's do a Chicago style. Is that

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a Chicago accent? Oh, we're all dead. Fantastic.

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Come with me and you'll see how they do it in

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Chicago. Let me open a song. I'd like to welcome

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you all to the Ruiseñor Peaks and a long journey

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across them. You rolled high enough to see tracks

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last time. The tracks of Etans. A single pair,

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I should say. I don't know if I mentioned that

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before. There's one set, one creature moving

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deeper into the mountains. Another smaller set

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following in their wake. Something strange about

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the tracks. It's hard to make out what that exactly

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means. More signs of the cherry as you go. Every

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here and there on the ground where it looks like

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Miskin fell or even pretended to fall in order

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to scrawl something down. It's enough to go by.

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And there's sort of an open trail in the peaks

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where you can see brush, trees have been broken,

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branches snapped, and something very large has,

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doom, doom, thundered through. But it has been

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days since this thing. has moved away from the

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farmhouse since it has taken Miskin on a journey

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into the mountains. It used to be a longer song.

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I used it before for some reason. I don't know

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why. Hang on. Son of a bitch. I think this is

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all user error. I'm amped, man. I'm beginning

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to think that. I'm fucking amped. We started

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this and I was like, second episode. I'm a little

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tired. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. To fill the

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listeners in. This is episode two of the recording

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night. After a marathon, baby. After a long work

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day. Long work day. After a long work week. Yeah.

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Let's be honest. Yep. And we're what? Actually,

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I like this. This is good. Four beers in? Well,

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I mean, the first two at work were very low ABV.

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That's true. Yeah. Those are like starter beers.

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You're a wonderful beer. Yeah. Three, five percent.

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To be clear. So, I mentioned before, these peaks

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are actually quite verdant. There's spaces of,

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you know, lush greenery, trees, grass, all the

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good stuff. And of course, shut up. Stupid, stupid

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face. I'm reading my notes, David. Well, that

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wasn't in my notes. I'm reading my notes while

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I'm talking. I don't know what I'm saying. No,

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see, this works out perfectly because Miskin

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loves things and stuff. Try to figure out how

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long it takes you to get where you need to go.

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Hang on. Hang on. You love green stuff. Miskin's

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green stuff, too. Good stuff. You're moving.

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And... It's not easy. It's not like going up

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one mountain. I mean, it is like rising up one,

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down, up, slope, down the slope, winding around,

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crossing around one. Like, and it's all slow

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moving. That's something the terrain is difficult.

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Your model time, while there is like broken brush

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in the way, it's not a cleared path. You're moving

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over roots, stumbling over harsh rocks. And like

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your pace has slowed. Normally you'd travel around

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three miles an hour. That's where you traveled

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here. You know, when you went from Mi 'kmaq to

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the farmhouse, that's how fast you're going through

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the wasteland. But that's moved down to about

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one and a half miles per hour. It's rough moving.

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It's, one might say, difficult terrain for long

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-form walking. And hours are swiftly passing.

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And every hour that passes, Jules, I think you

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find a little spike of dawning horror. Because

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the sun will set for long. And Serena will come

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back to strike at you again. And how useful will

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you be when that time comes? Already a negative

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three exhaustion at night. And tonight, should

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you fail? Who knows? But it's bad. You are traveling,

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moving. And I'll say you are traveling for near

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six hours through the mountains. It was about

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ten miles to reach the farmhouse from Milpazul.

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And you've traveled another 10 miles up and down

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these peaks, occasionally rising high enough

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to look out and stare towards this great desert

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around you. You can see vaguely far away the

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walled city of Sunseton City. You can see Milpazool,

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tiny little town. I was about to say. Town or

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village, perhaps. I like that one better. Tiny

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little village. And sort of north beyond that,

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just this weird sort of indigo sands of the indigo

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desert stretching off all the way. I think Dance

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even tells you that this desert stretches all

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the way towards the end of this world where essentially

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the mists of the ethereal plane come and form

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like a border to it. Damn, I wonder what that's

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all about. It's probably pretty cool. But we're

00:14:06.669 --> 00:14:08.970
not going there because there's no half -orc

00:14:08.970 --> 00:14:10.970
childs there. Because this arc is already long

00:14:10.970 --> 00:14:12.570
enough. Yeah, it's a really long arc. How dare

00:14:12.570 --> 00:14:14.269
you? It's a really long arc. It's cool. It's

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two arcs. Two for one deal. Here, I'm fancy pants.

00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:23.960
Jules, as you move, I think there is one thing

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that is bothering you. When you were back at

00:14:27.779 --> 00:14:31.100
the farmhouse, what you guys noted was there

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was, you know, they saw the families, corpses

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all in one spot, the blood pooling in one spot,

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and one small set of tracks moving from where

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they had died to the Ettins. Yes. But why? Did

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Miskin leave? You know Miskin. He's stealthy.

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He's quick. You've always known Miskin. For him

00:14:49.419 --> 00:14:52.440
to fall prey like this is... It's hard to believe.

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Yeah, I think the immediate reaction is that

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he wouldn't be taken unwilling. So there's something

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that's not adding up in Jules' mind. Makes a

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lot of sense. If he's with them, he went willingly

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for some reason. With the... Sun sinking lower

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in the sky, and with that ominous thought clouding

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your mind, you guys are climbing up a mountainside,

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sheer cliff beside you as you've moved sort of

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away from some of the dense greenery for now,

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all that good stuff, off to the side. You're

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on rocks now. You stare down at the lush mountainside

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after the large drop -off beside you, maybe a

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hundred feet drop into the trees. And beside

00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:45.379
you, maybe there's a wide sort of open road,

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not road, but just open sort of cliff, maybe

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20 feet wide as you move. That quickly hits a

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slope shooting upwards. More trees, more life.

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Very hard to pass by, but the trail goes here.

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You know it goes through here. And then you see

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smoke somewhere ahead on the side of this cliff.

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Somewhere close. A fire. A camp, perhaps. Well,

00:16:13.769 --> 00:16:17.990
uh, should we go up to it or sneak up to it?

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Steven, I'm sorry? Jules is going to go invisible.

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Ah, nice. Ooh. As he does that, he says, wait

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here, guys. Oh, that's awesome. And Jules is

00:16:30.629 --> 00:16:33.929
going up. Hell yeah. Sorry, I'm in character

00:16:33.929 --> 00:16:36.350
right now. This is happening. This is great.

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With that, Jules, as you push forward. I'm going

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to put you on the map. Bear in mind, invisibility

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means you'll have plus two bonus to your stealth

00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:50.340
checks. Oh, no. Hawk fight again. I want to be

00:16:50.340 --> 00:16:54.340
close to the map I want. Stop it. I'm building

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the moment. Now, once again, feast your eyes.

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Another Rochelle original. Oh, Rochelle map.

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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Look at this beautiful mountainside.

00:17:03.100 --> 00:17:05.579
Oh, my God. Look at this mountainside. Yeah,

00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:07.579
we always... That is gorgeous. Sometimes we zoom

00:17:07.579 --> 00:17:09.359
right by it. Let's take a peek at this real fast.

00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:10.980
Take a peek. Look around. Spend some time here.

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The squares you see are 10 -foot squares. Wow.

00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:14.900
So it's a very large map. Very huge. That's incredible.

00:17:15.220 --> 00:17:18.500
Big old thing. Wait, wait. Don't look too far.

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Don't look too close. Hang on. Okay. GM layer.

00:17:21.500 --> 00:17:23.640
Okay. No, you can look now. I had to hide something.

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I had something that shouldn't have been on your

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layer. Very verdant. Quite verdant. But there's

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nothing to worry about. Professional podcaster,

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huh? Something to worry about here. It's over.

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Look at all the good stuff. There's a lot of

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good stuff in this map. There is. A lot of good

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green stuff. I was struggling to find the words,

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but good stuff really kind of like sums it up.

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See? You know, I'm not crazy. Oh, I saw a thing.

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What? No, it's gone. I can see Miskin. That's

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allowed. Oh, okay. You can see Miskin. Jules,

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you press forward and you see that the trail

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you're on. about 20 feet wide. I actually guessed

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that because I was looking at the map at the

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time. I am a hero. Quickly widens, sort of like

00:18:04.170 --> 00:18:07.529
pushes outwards, a cliff sort of, you know, sort

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of widening, and then sort of getting deeper

00:18:10.450 --> 00:18:12.470
in towards the mountains, sort of like the sort

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of raised slope beside you, indenting in kind

00:18:15.650 --> 00:18:19.910
of a bowl, and you can see at its widest point,

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this is almost 100 feet wide, this sort of open

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space, this camp. You peek over and you see this

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number of, it looks like supplies maybe stolen,

00:18:27.950 --> 00:18:33.630
lining the trees off to the, I'm really bad at

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these, hang on, off to the east, west, fucking

00:18:36.190 --> 00:18:39.910
shit, west. He did that while holding his hand

00:18:39.910 --> 00:18:42.069
in the shape of an L. In the shape of an L. On

00:18:42.069 --> 00:18:47.069
your forehead. Well, sorry. No, no, no, no. For

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the 30th time. I'm done. I quit. The other day

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in the kitchen on the line, we spent literally,

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we had like, I was working a double, or not double,

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it was like a 12 -hour shift. For the entire

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12 -hour shift, we listened to various versions

00:19:01.309 --> 00:19:05.690
of All Star. So it was like All Star, but it's

00:19:05.690 --> 00:19:08.650
set to the beat of I'm Blue. Why? Or it's All

00:19:08.650 --> 00:19:10.589
Star, but set to the Black Parade. That sounds

00:19:10.589 --> 00:19:13.450
like my own personal hell. It was so funny. Why

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would you do that? It was so good. We do troll

00:19:16.819 --> 00:19:18.500
music. We just listen to horrible troll songs.

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Like, it's great. It's great. I don't even know

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what to say. No. We're kitchen folk. We just

00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:26.779
do weird things. Gotta get by. Let's get back

00:19:26.779 --> 00:19:32.579
to fighting ettins. I can't even, like. So I

00:19:32.579 --> 00:19:36.279
guess you're not a rock star. Okay. Jules, you

00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:37.480
move out. You see, like, you know, there's a

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number of supplies sort of off to the west of

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this sort of, like, sort of open area. You see

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that maybe about 20 feet away from them, almost

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towards the center of the space, there's a large

00:19:49.670 --> 00:19:52.970
burning campfire. That's, you know, some smoke

00:19:52.970 --> 00:19:56.329
up into the sky. And beyond that, to the north,

00:19:56.349 --> 00:19:57.710
where you stand to the south of this thing, so

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far away from you, about, let's take a look,

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about 130 feet from where you stand as you approach,

00:20:04.630 --> 00:20:08.269
you see a tent, a very large tent. And then you

00:20:08.269 --> 00:20:11.029
vaguely see two big feet, boom, boom, sticking

00:20:11.029 --> 00:20:14.130
out from one side of the tent. Oh, boy. And outside

00:20:14.130 --> 00:20:17.670
of the tent, sitting, looking down into the dirt,

00:20:17.789 --> 00:20:22.869
clothes torn, and something around his neck,

00:20:22.990 --> 00:20:25.769
something, a chain, it looks like, running into

00:20:25.769 --> 00:20:29.490
the tent behind him. You see Miskin. You see

00:20:29.490 --> 00:20:31.910
he's finagling with the chain, trying to, like,

00:20:31.930 --> 00:20:33.750
maybe pick it with something. He's got a little

00:20:33.750 --> 00:20:38.579
sharp, like, stick of rock. It seems he's the

00:20:38.579 --> 00:20:40.539
only figure moving. I think as you move, you

00:20:40.539 --> 00:20:42.019
can see this, like, slow, almost like the tent

00:20:42.019 --> 00:20:46.839
expands a little, then sort of shrinks. Envy

00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:56.220
vaguely does... Something sleeping just beyond,

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or just inside, not beyond, in the tent. Okay.

00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:05.339
Yeah. And I can deduce that there's only one.

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That's all you see. That's all I see. That's

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all you see for free. So, okay. You want to make

00:21:10.819 --> 00:21:13.960
a check? You can. Why not? Let's make a check,

00:21:13.980 --> 00:21:15.619
and then I'll do what I'm going to do. All right.

00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:18.519
Want to give me perception? Yep. Give me that

00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:22.160
perception. Make it big good. Yeah, that's a

00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.500
tweener. 12 on the die plus 2 for a 14. How close

00:21:26.500 --> 00:21:29.900
is Crispin behind Jules here? You guys should

00:21:29.900 --> 00:21:32.940
still be hidden. You're far enough away. I put

00:21:32.940 --> 00:21:34.839
you at the very edge of this map. Okay. So you're

00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:38.380
not really within sight of the camp yet so much.

00:21:38.420 --> 00:21:41.740
You see the smoke. You can actually make a prayer

00:21:41.740 --> 00:21:47.079
here as well that is a little higher because

00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:49.039
of where you are. But I think you may be able

00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:50.980
to see something if you hit high enough. All

00:21:50.980 --> 00:21:53.259
right. I'll get in on this. I'm rolling the red

00:21:53.259 --> 00:22:00.809
dragon today. Ooh. 18. Okay. Okay. I'm going

00:22:00.809 --> 00:22:02.609
to do this to both of you. The initial check

00:22:02.609 --> 00:22:08.089
was a 12. The higher check was a 16. Nice. So

00:22:08.089 --> 00:22:09.849
you both actually will see from where you stand

00:22:09.849 --> 00:22:13.049
something. I'll say maybe at the same time you

00:22:13.049 --> 00:22:14.470
notice that you're like, Jules, you're stepping

00:22:14.470 --> 00:22:16.970
out into this space. Let me put you ahead of

00:22:16.970 --> 00:22:18.190
where you are because I think you're farther

00:22:18.190 --> 00:22:21.250
along than that. So at the point you notice this,

00:22:21.309 --> 00:22:25.200
I'll say you're about 60 feet ahead. of your

00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:27.720
allies who have stopped way behind. You're right

00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:30.380
at the sort of entrance of this widening camp

00:22:30.380 --> 00:22:34.799
space, and you note movement to the east -west.

00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:43.579
It's west. Something up high above the camp,

00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:46.859
beyond where those supplies lay, high up the

00:22:46.859 --> 00:22:50.259
slope on top of a tree. There is something, and

00:22:50.259 --> 00:22:51.640
Crispin, as you kind of peek out, you notice

00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:53.599
movement as well. It's sort of shrouded by some

00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:55.200
trees on your end, but you can see just kind

00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.700
of beyond them, you know, through like some reaching

00:22:57.700 --> 00:23:01.079
branches, that same sort of tree standing above

00:23:01.079 --> 00:23:04.880
all else, very tall. You see what looks like

00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:10.720
a large bird? Hmm. Maybe a little larger than

00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:14.059
a man. Oh, it better not be a fucking owl. Nestled

00:23:14.059 --> 00:23:15.779
on top of the tree. That was my first thought.

00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:19.019
It seems to be sort of... Scanning the field.

00:23:19.579 --> 00:23:21.940
Can I roll, like, nature or something to try

00:23:21.940 --> 00:23:25.099
to identify this creature? I don't think you

00:23:25.099 --> 00:23:28.240
need to. Oh, great. Because one of you, I can't

00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:30.119
remember which one now, but you can help me here.

00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:32.559
A few episodes ago, so that's not helpful. One

00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:34.660
of you rolled a very high check on ettins, and

00:23:34.660 --> 00:23:37.319
one of you rolled a very high check on peritins.

00:23:37.619 --> 00:23:40.259
Oh, yeah, that was Crispin. Yeah, I don't remember

00:23:40.259 --> 00:23:43.319
that. You were peritins? Or were you both? I

00:23:43.319 --> 00:23:45.700
thought you got both, but I don't remember. I

00:23:45.700 --> 00:23:48.180
have some notes about both somewhere here. Well,

00:23:48.259 --> 00:23:50.059
we'll assume anything you know was shared amongst

00:23:50.059 --> 00:23:52.299
both of you. Yeah. So because you knew what was

00:23:52.299 --> 00:23:56.519
coming in here, this is a Perryton. And because

00:23:56.519 --> 00:23:59.779
you guys know what to see, as you kind of look

00:23:59.779 --> 00:24:03.559
towards this creature, kind of stand low, you

00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:07.099
can see a face of brown fur sporting a red mane

00:24:07.099 --> 00:24:09.759
that shifts to feathers of red and blue. See

00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:12.839
great wings currently sort of furled up that

00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:15.609
could spread out from this body. which stands

00:24:15.609 --> 00:24:18.910
on bird -like legs that end in razor -sharp talons.

00:24:19.349 --> 00:24:24.529
But this avian form is contradicted. It's a hard

00:24:24.529 --> 00:24:29.289
word. Sure. By the face of a stag adorned by

00:24:29.289 --> 00:24:32.910
vicious antlers. And as we, the audience, repan

00:24:32.910 --> 00:24:36.009
towards this form, we can see its mouth forms

00:24:36.009 --> 00:24:38.170
a grin filled with sharpened carnivorous teeth.

00:24:38.490 --> 00:24:41.940
Its eyes are wild and predatory. Yet carry a

00:24:41.940 --> 00:24:46.240
spark of intelligence as it scans the camp. There

00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:50.240
is a scout, and you both know it. You are invisible

00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:53.859
jewels, but every step you make kicks up dust.

00:24:54.779 --> 00:24:59.279
Correct. However. What? However. How dare you?

00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:03.900
How dare you contradict me? Sorry. Go ahead.

00:25:03.940 --> 00:25:08.720
I'm done. Describe Miskin to me again. Describe

00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:11.539
the state that he's in. How he's sitting, where

00:25:11.539 --> 00:25:15.400
he's looking. I'd say he's basically sitting

00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:18.500
on his butt or knees up. He's got this chain

00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:20.119
around his neck that looks like it's basically

00:25:20.119 --> 00:25:21.880
taught sort of towards the end of what it can

00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:24.720
do. And it feeds into the tent behind him. Okay.

00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:26.660
Must be attached to something inside. He's like

00:25:26.660 --> 00:25:29.119
got like a little stick that he's sort of shoving

00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:31.299
into the sort of lock on it. And I see this sort

00:25:31.299 --> 00:25:34.670
of chain. It looks like maybe. This rusted old

00:25:34.670 --> 00:25:36.910
thing may be taken from a mine or something somewhere.

00:25:37.190 --> 00:25:39.549
I think your mind would flash to some of the

00:25:39.549 --> 00:25:41.970
prison mines on Tythos where they would chain

00:25:41.970 --> 00:25:45.130
people into the mines while they worked. Okay.

00:25:45.470 --> 00:25:48.789
And stole. Would you say during this time that

00:25:48.789 --> 00:25:51.549
he's at least like looking, you know, his face

00:25:51.549 --> 00:25:54.569
is like geared downward? His face is down for

00:25:54.569 --> 00:25:57.150
now. I think there's a snap as the stick sort

00:25:57.150 --> 00:25:59.950
of breaks and he kind of throws it and kind of

00:25:59.950 --> 00:26:04.410
looks up. His eye. He looks up. His eyes focus

00:26:04.410 --> 00:26:06.450
on. Okay, well, if he was looking down at all.

00:26:06.589 --> 00:26:08.109
Okay, yeah. I'm going to do what I was going

00:26:08.109 --> 00:26:10.269
to do when he's looking down. Okay, I'll do that.

00:26:10.349 --> 00:26:11.890
Yeah, he's looking down. He grabs another stick.

00:26:11.990 --> 00:26:15.329
That's all right. He looks down for another stick.

00:26:16.470 --> 00:26:18.369
He looks up at the sky. He's too late. Jules

00:26:18.369 --> 00:26:21.769
is going to cast Minor Illusion. Actually, hold

00:26:21.769 --> 00:26:24.250
on, hold on, hold on. Ooh. Give me the range

00:26:24.250 --> 00:26:27.569
of that bad boy. I retract that. I can't do that

00:26:27.569 --> 00:26:30.849
because that will end invisibility. Oh, sure,

00:26:30.910 --> 00:26:34.130
yeah. Fuck me. Oh, it's concentration. Fuck me.

00:26:34.470 --> 00:26:38.150
That's interesting. That's interesting. All right,

00:26:38.170 --> 00:26:39.910
well, okay, how about this? Good catch, though.

00:26:39.910 --> 00:26:42.230
How about this? Where am I at? Right now, I've

00:26:42.230 --> 00:26:43.789
moved you up to the point where you're at 90

00:26:43.789 --> 00:26:47.289
feet away from Mr. Okay, can I move into the

00:26:47.289 --> 00:26:51.410
brush that's to my right? Yes. Okay. That'll

00:26:51.410 --> 00:26:52.730
give you free because you're not going deeper

00:26:52.730 --> 00:26:55.150
in. Sure. Okay, so I'm going to go into the brush,

00:26:55.250 --> 00:26:58.029
and then I'm going to cast Minor Illusion. Well,

00:26:58.190 --> 00:27:02.440
shit, hang on. Fuck, I'm 90 feet? Yeah, no. I'm

00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:06.160
not in range at all for that. Oh, damn. God damn

00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:10.220
it. Do you make stealth checks? Yeah. Got a big

00:27:10.220 --> 00:27:12.640
old plus two. Yeah, I'm going to have to. Yeah,

00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:14.440
you could probably go from like bush to bush

00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:16.619
to get closer. Yeah, I think I'm going to do

00:27:16.619 --> 00:27:21.880
that. So what I'm trying to do is I want to cast

00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:26.799
minor illusion and have it display two cherries.

00:27:27.520 --> 00:27:29.900
Oh, that's awesome. I interlocked the stem at

00:27:29.900 --> 00:27:32.880
his feet. How close did he get? 30 feet. Okay.

00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:36.799
I want him to know that we're there. There's

00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:39.720
a copse of bushes exactly 30 feet away from him

00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:42.799
by the cliffside. If you look basically to the

00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:48.000
north and west east. Okay. Wait, do you mean

00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:50.400
the north or the north south? Shoot. You know

00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:52.839
what? Now I'm all confused. That way. It's that

00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:57.180
way. It's that way. That. You tell me what I'm

00:27:57.180 --> 00:27:58.880
going to have to do to get there. I want two

00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:02.579
stealth checks as you move. Okay. Okay. Crispin,

00:28:02.579 --> 00:28:05.000
you know Jules is invisible. Actually, I'm curious.

00:28:05.099 --> 00:28:07.380
Crispin, you saw that thing. Do you trust Jules

00:28:07.380 --> 00:28:09.019
saw it too? Or are you going to try to signal

00:28:09.019 --> 00:28:11.359
him in some way? What's your plan as you're waiting

00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:13.079
back there? Do you trust Jules? I mean, what's

00:28:13.079 --> 00:28:16.259
he going to do? Scream into the woods? Jules,

00:28:16.259 --> 00:28:19.960
watch out! That's fair. So you're just getting

00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:23.460
ready. Yeah. Ready to go. He's on high alert.

00:28:24.220 --> 00:28:26.579
Keeping his eye on this thing. Yeah. Watching

00:28:26.579 --> 00:28:28.720
to see if it's going to move or if it moves.

00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:32.440
Okay. So this first stealth check, going with

00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:35.779
a button. Okay. Give me that button. Oh, yummy.

00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:38.440
And by the way, it's a monstrous plus one to

00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:40.660
stealth, not plus two. Oh, no. It's actually

00:28:40.660 --> 00:28:42.200
plus three then. You're plus two from invisibility.

00:28:42.700 --> 00:28:44.720
Oh, shit. Yeah. So it's a little something. It's

00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:53.710
kind of something. Damn. 16 for both. You begin

00:28:53.710 --> 00:28:57.569
to move out across the dusty cliffside. You're

00:28:57.569 --> 00:29:01.789
just walking, slowly walking. You make it about

00:29:01.789 --> 00:29:04.289
halfway. Then you cut back to the group. Their

00:29:04.289 --> 00:29:06.130
eyes are all trying to dance, sort of watching

00:29:06.130 --> 00:29:09.490
nervously. Biting your lower lip, trying to catch

00:29:09.490 --> 00:29:12.029
any sign of your movement. The peritone does

00:29:12.029 --> 00:29:16.049
not react. Oh, shit. You're halfway there. All

00:29:16.049 --> 00:29:23.670
right, here we go. What's your roll? Roll yours

00:29:23.670 --> 00:29:30.210
first. Ten. Ooh. Yeah. I can't tell if David's

00:29:30.210 --> 00:29:33.849
face looks resolute on combat or... You. Oh,

00:29:33.869 --> 00:29:36.630
he's searching for a music change. Not yet. Not

00:29:36.630 --> 00:29:40.150
quite yet. You're moving towards the edge of

00:29:40.150 --> 00:29:42.390
the cliff. And as you kind of round, because

00:29:42.390 --> 00:29:44.509
you're about ten feet away from the cliff's edge,

00:29:44.549 --> 00:29:47.009
from the drop -off, as you round these two, like,

00:29:47.009 --> 00:29:49.730
larger brush... brushes. I think just as you're

00:29:49.730 --> 00:29:51.609
about to do it, a wind sort of picks up, hits

00:29:51.609 --> 00:29:53.470
you, and you reach out and you touch the edge

00:29:53.470 --> 00:29:57.769
of the brush. A single sort of like waving branch.

00:29:58.869 --> 00:30:03.730
It's something the trees perks up. Before we

00:30:03.730 --> 00:30:05.750
go any further, I forgot to add the three, so

00:30:05.750 --> 00:30:11.869
it's 13. Oh my goodness. Sorry. That just hit

00:30:11.869 --> 00:30:14.710
me. It was 10 on the die. And that thing in the

00:30:14.710 --> 00:30:23.670
trees goes. Oh, my God. It just calms down. It's

00:30:23.670 --> 00:30:28.210
like, oh, no, it's nothing. Bats. Holy shit.

00:30:28.589 --> 00:30:33.589
Bats. Good dramatic timing, my man. Wow. Holy

00:30:33.589 --> 00:30:36.890
shit. I need water. Give me one second. All right.

00:30:39.990 --> 00:30:44.670
All right, we're back, folks. Continue, David.

00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:48.059
You stand behind the brush. This thing sort of

00:30:48.059 --> 00:30:51.779
settles down. Eyes sweeping past your spot. And

00:30:51.779 --> 00:30:54.380
again, just scanning down below. I rolled a 12

00:30:54.380 --> 00:30:57.779
on that check. That's so wild. It's amazing.

00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:02.220
Yeah. We're so close to a huge wedgie. A massive,

00:31:02.339 --> 00:31:04.819
massive wedgie that I don't know if I could have

00:31:04.819 --> 00:31:06.900
ever recovered from. We've been throwing away

00:31:06.900 --> 00:31:10.720
those underpants. Stained forever. All right,

00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:13.279
so I make it. You are able to move across the

00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:16.640
brush completely unseen. Perfect. And far enough

00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:18.200
away that I can hear you, and you are able to

00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:21.259
reach just within 30 feet. And I'm in the brush?

00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:24.680
Yes. Okay. You're like pushing your head through

00:31:24.680 --> 00:31:26.599
and around like the very edge of it. Cool. And

00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:28.819
just like, you know, just short ways away from

00:31:28.819 --> 00:31:31.259
you, about 30 feet away from you is both the

00:31:31.259 --> 00:31:35.660
tent and just sort of south of that miskin. All

00:31:35.660 --> 00:31:39.940
right. So as I cast this, I become visible again.

00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:43.140
Okay. So I'm going to cast Minor Illusion to

00:31:43.140 --> 00:31:47.140
create a pair of cherries connected by their

00:31:47.140 --> 00:31:51.579
stems at Miskin's feet. He's just, like, finagling.

00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:55.759
Come on. I can get out. And then just, like,

00:31:55.779 --> 00:31:58.019
has a stick sort of shoved into the lock. There's

00:31:58.019 --> 00:31:59.480
another one he's trying to work on. And then

00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:02.880
just, like, disappears. And just, like, snap.

00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:06.299
The stick breaks, and he's just staring it down

00:32:06.299 --> 00:32:09.970
towards the ground. And you see his hand just

00:32:09.970 --> 00:32:11.890
starts shaking as he reaches down to touch it.

00:32:12.910 --> 00:32:16.670
As he touches it, it disappears. I think. It

00:32:16.670 --> 00:32:19.430
vanishes as his fingers reach it. And he looks

00:32:19.430 --> 00:32:23.250
up. He starts looking around. Do you make yourself

00:32:23.250 --> 00:32:26.470
known to him? He has an angle that the peritone

00:32:26.470 --> 00:32:28.250
does not on you. You could pretty easily know.

00:32:28.289 --> 00:32:30.490
Okay, cool. So I'm going to, then I'll rustle

00:32:30.490 --> 00:32:32.849
the bush. Okay, yeah. Yeah. Because he's kind

00:32:32.849 --> 00:32:34.650
of off to the sort of northern side of the bush.

00:32:34.690 --> 00:32:36.680
So he can peek in. The peritone's sort of. Coming

00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:38.619
from the south a bit, so. Cool. Yeah, I'll rustle

00:32:38.619 --> 00:32:41.619
the bush a little bit. He hears it. I snap over

00:32:41.619 --> 00:32:46.799
to you. His mouth drops. And I think, like, what

00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:50.579
hits you the most is the way he immediately puts

00:32:50.579 --> 00:32:53.539
his arm up to wipe his eyes so you don't see

00:32:53.539 --> 00:32:57.240
any tears. Oh, man. Just rubbing against it and

00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:58.839
just kind of, like, puts his hand down, shaking.

00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:02.140
And he looks back at the tent and kind of looks

00:33:02.140 --> 00:33:05.539
at you and just kind of, like, tries. Like, he

00:33:05.539 --> 00:33:09.140
doesn't say a word. He's pointing, just like

00:33:09.140 --> 00:33:11.180
putting his hand sort of down, this gesture of

00:33:11.180 --> 00:33:15.420
like, stay quiet, stay quiet. Okay. What do you

00:33:15.420 --> 00:33:22.299
do? I don't know. Oh, my God. I didn't think

00:33:22.299 --> 00:33:25.940
this far ahead. I thought the whole time you

00:33:25.940 --> 00:33:33.640
had a plan. Okay, my plan was to let him know.

00:33:34.269 --> 00:33:36.109
that we are there. I mean, that's great. I mean,

00:33:36.130 --> 00:33:39.809
that's a good thing because yeah, it's, he needs

00:33:39.809 --> 00:33:42.369
to know that we are there and he could provide

00:33:42.369 --> 00:33:46.049
something else too. If he knows. That's all I

00:33:46.049 --> 00:33:51.730
got. Crispin, take it away. Crispin's still watching

00:33:51.730 --> 00:33:55.849
out. He, I will say this. Miskin has a stick.

00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:58.240
You got to the point where he sees you? I was

00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:00.700
going to say he broke it before we retconned

00:34:00.700 --> 00:34:03.079
that and then redid it. He can use a half a broken

00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:06.380
stick. All right. So he reaches down. He's going

00:34:06.380 --> 00:34:08.920
to start, like, real quick, just to give you

00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:12.440
guys something cool. He starts writing, scratching

00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:16.739
into the sort of dirt beneath him, and he just

00:34:16.739 --> 00:34:24.409
writes, one head sleep, one wake. Ah. Yeah, right.

00:34:24.530 --> 00:34:26.329
They're two -headed. Yeah. Right, right, right.

00:34:26.849 --> 00:34:32.130
Shit. I will say, also, Miskin, after you kind

00:34:32.130 --> 00:34:34.349
of first see the message, after kind of noting

00:34:34.349 --> 00:34:36.789
you, he very quickly just, like, rubs his hand

00:34:36.789 --> 00:34:39.849
over it to erase it. His eyes for a second dart,

00:34:39.989 --> 00:34:42.389
you know, towards the tree line, towards the

00:34:42.389 --> 00:34:45.130
periton, and he notably looks away from you.

00:34:45.190 --> 00:34:47.730
He doesn't want to be seen focusing on anything.

00:34:48.090 --> 00:34:51.190
Okay. And I think at this point, Jules is focusing

00:34:51.190 --> 00:34:54.730
on the periton. Uh. Crispin, you actually can

00:34:54.730 --> 00:34:56.730
see jewels from where you are still. Yeah. Far

00:34:56.730 --> 00:34:59.590
off, and you can see, I think, this. Crispin

00:34:59.590 --> 00:35:02.690
thinks he can make the periton go away. You rolled

00:35:02.690 --> 00:35:06.989
a 19 before. I looked into it. Last time we made

00:35:06.989 --> 00:35:08.510
note of the periton. I can give you a little

00:35:08.510 --> 00:35:11.630
more information based on that. Yeah. So here's

00:35:11.630 --> 00:35:14.590
what I want you to know. Periton are voracious

00:35:14.590 --> 00:35:18.809
predators. While they are not known for their,

00:35:18.809 --> 00:35:21.519
like, sort of... the strength of physique. I

00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:22.639
mean, they are resistant to magic. They're to

00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:26.000
non -magical damage. They also are known for

00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:28.400
essentially like a hit and slash or slash and

00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:30.880
run kind of fighting style. They typically like

00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:34.679
fly in, either grab or rip at their prey, fly

00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:38.900
out very quickly and not taking AOOs, generally

00:35:38.900 --> 00:35:40.260
speaking. They're very good at just kind of like

00:35:40.260 --> 00:35:42.679
diving in, diving out, but very, very fast in

00:35:42.679 --> 00:35:47.980
the air. They hunt any kind of cattle or larger

00:35:47.980 --> 00:35:50.340
sort of prey, deer, You know, whatever they can

00:35:50.340 --> 00:35:53.179
find throughout the mountains. And if they were

00:35:53.179 --> 00:35:55.119
to see any kind of animal, they'd go for it.

00:35:55.139 --> 00:35:56.559
If they were to hear an animal, they'd go for

00:35:56.559 --> 00:36:01.179
it. They're hungry things. Only large animals

00:36:01.179 --> 00:36:03.880
they hunt? I mean, hungry enough, they'd go for

00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:06.320
something smaller. Okay. Take a snack. Okay.

00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:12.380
All right. Then let's see if this works. Crispin

00:36:12.380 --> 00:36:18.559
is going to cast Pass Without Trace on himself.

00:36:19.340 --> 00:36:24.199
And he's going to, I'll be right back. Stay here.

00:36:24.340 --> 00:36:28.860
I'm going to take care of that peritone. He's

00:36:28.860 --> 00:36:31.659
going to run into the woods to the south. He

00:36:31.659 --> 00:36:35.239
wants to go pretty much to the bottom edge of

00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:37.860
the map here. So you're climbing up the slopes,

00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:39.480
climbing through the greenery. And as you move,

00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:41.320
the shadows from the trees are like clinging

00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:43.239
to you, sort of spreading out around you and

00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:45.500
like encompassing you. And so you're just blended

00:36:45.500 --> 00:36:47.860
into the darkness. Your stealth rating has gone

00:36:47.860 --> 00:36:50.869
way up. So once he gets sort of to the edge of

00:36:50.869 --> 00:36:54.929
the map here, he's going to... So circling around

00:36:54.929 --> 00:36:57.190
until you're behind the periton, essentially.

00:36:57.670 --> 00:37:03.710
Yeah. And then we'll use druidcraft to make the

00:37:03.710 --> 00:37:07.690
noise of a small animal. Oh, yeah. 30 feet in

00:37:07.690 --> 00:37:11.750
the other direction. Oh, man. So where are you

00:37:11.750 --> 00:37:14.690
trying to get? With a periton standing, looking

00:37:14.690 --> 00:37:19.650
down, it's got the northeast. of where it is

00:37:19.650 --> 00:37:22.909
perched is the open valley. You are now to the

00:37:22.909 --> 00:37:24.690
southwest of it. Where do you want the sound

00:37:24.690 --> 00:37:26.809
to come from? Yeah, so basically right now, if

00:37:26.809 --> 00:37:29.369
you zoom way out on the map, there's jewels in

00:37:29.369 --> 00:37:31.949
the very top right -hand corner. If you go down,

00:37:32.050 --> 00:37:34.429
down, down to the left, there's the Periton.

00:37:34.769 --> 00:37:37.769
And then if you continue on that line, Crispin

00:37:37.769 --> 00:37:40.789
is a little ways away from the Periton. And if

00:37:40.789 --> 00:37:43.829
you continue on that trajectory, 30 feet out

00:37:43.829 --> 00:37:46.329
is the furthest that I can cast Druidcraft. Oh!

00:37:46.409 --> 00:37:49.010
So that's off the map. I want to cast it there.

00:37:49.769 --> 00:37:53.130
Okay. The one thing I'm going to say is because

00:37:53.130 --> 00:37:55.570
it's actively hearing a sound, it will be actively

00:37:55.570 --> 00:37:59.010
perceiving as it moves, even as it passes you.

00:37:59.130 --> 00:38:02.210
I will roll a perception check. You have heightened

00:38:02.210 --> 00:38:04.570
stealth. Yeah. But there was a chance you will

00:38:04.570 --> 00:38:08.150
be seen because that's cool and fun makes sense

00:38:08.150 --> 00:38:09.989
to me. I'm already giving you a button for that

00:38:09.989 --> 00:38:13.989
roll. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Okay, okay. Yeah, I

00:38:13.989 --> 00:38:16.989
think it's... It's necessary. I don't know exactly

00:38:16.989 --> 00:38:19.989
what you have planned, but I think we can get

00:38:19.989 --> 00:38:23.130
out of this if this roll works. So you make an

00:38:23.130 --> 00:38:24.969
animal sound. What animal? Just the one of it.

00:38:26.269 --> 00:38:29.670
A pangolin. Make the sound. Oh, this is a first.

00:38:29.690 --> 00:38:31.329
Make the pangolin sound. How does a pangolin

00:38:31.329 --> 00:38:34.449
sound? How does a pangolin sound? Tell me! Oh

00:38:34.449 --> 00:38:45.030
my god, this is awesome. Jamal, that you? That

00:38:45.030 --> 00:38:47.989
was not what I was expecting. That's like a spider.

00:38:47.989 --> 00:38:49.929
I don't know what I was expecting, but that wasn't

00:38:49.929 --> 00:38:51.369
it. It's terrifying. Let's hear it. Come on.

00:38:51.510 --> 00:38:53.730
You first, Jeremy. What's your pangolin sound?

00:38:54.349 --> 00:38:59.670
Whoa. Doesn't it look like an anteater sort of

00:38:59.670 --> 00:39:03.389
thing? All right. That was nice. That was nice.

00:39:03.570 --> 00:39:05.630
I appreciate the... Hey, hey, you're not getting

00:39:05.630 --> 00:39:08.230
out of this yet. Oh, I know. Give me some space.

00:39:08.329 --> 00:39:09.809
Give me some space. Hang on. I need the room.

00:39:13.250 --> 00:39:21.699
Ready? Hey, I mean, this is your universe, man.

00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:24.519
You fucking own it. Cannon. So that's what that's

00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:26.920
what it sounds like. And I'm going to make you

00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:29.940
do that all the time. And because it sounds like

00:39:29.940 --> 00:39:31.360
that, the Perryton just switches his head around

00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:35.019
like it's a fucking pangolin. I know that's the

00:39:35.019 --> 00:39:39.019
sound of a pangolin. Because that's exactly what

00:39:39.019 --> 00:39:40.659
it sounds like. Exactly what they sound like.

00:39:40.699 --> 00:39:44.949
And it launches off of the tree. and begins to

00:39:44.949 --> 00:39:48.670
fly over the trees. It's looking down, and here's

00:39:48.670 --> 00:39:52.150
prey. It's excited. Its eyes go wild, and it

00:39:52.150 --> 00:39:55.250
just flies down. Man, I really shouldn't have

00:39:55.250 --> 00:39:57.449
given you a button. I've got a plus 12 right

00:39:57.449 --> 00:40:01.530
now with Pass Without Trace. Ooh. But, I mean,

00:40:01.590 --> 00:40:04.710
like, there's still... Yeah, you need to secure

00:40:04.710 --> 00:40:08.070
it. Yeah, I feel like... Give me your stealth

00:40:08.070 --> 00:40:10.409
check. All right, I've got advantage because

00:40:10.409 --> 00:40:12.289
I gave you a fucking button. Before you give

00:40:12.289 --> 00:40:13.250
me a stealth check, I want to tell you what I

00:40:13.250 --> 00:40:16.130
got. Oh, no. Give me a button. I have a plus

00:40:16.130 --> 00:40:18.550
five to my perception. Oh, my God. I rolled a

00:40:18.550 --> 00:40:23.190
19 on the die. Oh, my God. 24. Fuck. Your plus

00:40:23.190 --> 00:40:27.429
12 might not mean much. So I got to roll a 13

00:40:27.429 --> 00:40:30.389
or higher. Yeah. I'm using the red dragon still.

00:40:30.610 --> 00:40:32.289
Wait. Roll two at the same time. Make it more

00:40:32.289 --> 00:40:34.690
exciting. No, I got to use the red dragon, man.

00:40:34.869 --> 00:40:36.710
Okay, fine. That's not how this works, David.

00:40:36.929 --> 00:40:38.510
To get in the first one, don't blame me when

00:40:38.510 --> 00:40:43.219
it's lame. What'd you get? What is it? 18, baby.

00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:46.539
Okay. One more just for fun. One more just for

00:40:46.539 --> 00:40:48.920
fun. Just for funsies. I think Rochelle specifically

00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:52.199
said that this die loves to roll 18s. That's

00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:54.559
awesome. Is it an 18 again? Oh, shit. No, but

00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:58.139
it was a 14. Okay. The red dragon pulls through

00:40:58.139 --> 00:41:00.840
twice in a row. It is very hard to read, though,

00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:02.059
so I'm going to put it down for the rest of the

00:41:02.059 --> 00:41:06.260
night. Thank you, Rochelle. The Perryton. swoops

00:41:06.260 --> 00:41:08.460
over your spot. I think a little bit of drool

00:41:08.460 --> 00:41:10.820
just runs down and splashes onto your head as

00:41:10.820 --> 00:41:14.920
this like, it's a sort of stag mouth is drooling.

00:41:15.300 --> 00:41:19.840
Teeth glistening, hungry for pangolin. And it

00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:23.280
disappears into the trees beyond. And as he does

00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:28.599
this, Jules is going to cast deafness onto the

00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:32.190
awake Ettenhead. And you can see its feet. So

00:41:32.190 --> 00:41:34.610
you can see the target enough that I say it's,

00:41:34.650 --> 00:41:36.949
you know, you can, you can cast it. Okay. Got

00:41:36.949 --> 00:41:38.750
to make a con save. It'll, it'll cast on the

00:41:38.750 --> 00:41:41.389
entire end because it's one creature. So we just

00:41:41.389 --> 00:41:43.769
want to head. Yeah. Hell yeah. I think unless

00:41:43.769 --> 00:41:46.170
there's a thing around that weird. Yeah. Cause

00:41:46.170 --> 00:41:48.250
it's, it's one set of feet. I just, I just want

00:41:48.250 --> 00:41:49.670
to get out there that while this is happening,

00:41:49.769 --> 00:41:53.650
once the, once the peritone flies overhead, Crispin

00:41:53.650 --> 00:41:57.389
wants to start moving towards the edge of the

00:41:57.389 --> 00:42:00.349
clearing here so he can get eye on, on Jules.

00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:04.559
Yo, it's wild. What? I don't know if that's a

00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:05.699
good wild for us or a bad wild for us. It does

00:42:05.699 --> 00:42:08.139
legitimately have a feature called two heads.

00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:11.340
Oh, God. They have advantage on saving throws

00:42:11.340 --> 00:42:13.800
against being blinded, charmed, deaf, and frightened.

00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:14.920
Are you kidding me? So basically the question

00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:17.519
is, you cast it, but you cast it on the right

00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:19.480
head. On the right. Yeah, that's funny. That's

00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:21.280
actually really cool. And the thing is, I'm going

00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.579
to roll it, and you won't know. Oh, my. God.

00:42:23.659 --> 00:42:24.980
Are you kidding me? I'll do it right now. That

00:42:24.980 --> 00:42:27.000
is so nasty. That's not going to change what

00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:29.820
I'm going to do. Right, exactly. You don't know

00:42:29.820 --> 00:42:31.619
I can do some cool -ass shit. You rolled too

00:42:31.619 --> 00:42:33.820
low. Jules, if I don't know, then that means

00:42:33.820 --> 00:42:36.559
Jules assumes that it worked. Sure. That's so

00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:39.679
awesome. All right. What is your DC just there

00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:44.679
now? What did you roll? I control this game.

00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:46.659
No, he said he's not going to tell us. No, you're

00:42:46.659 --> 00:42:47.699
not going to tell us. I need to know what you

00:42:47.699 --> 00:42:54.389
rolled so I can. No. What? 14. 14. Okay, cool.

00:42:54.949 --> 00:43:00.110
All right. I made my roll. So, yeah, again, Jules

00:43:00.110 --> 00:43:03.710
assumes that it worked, and he is going to run

00:43:03.710 --> 00:43:06.750
over to Miskin and use Performance of Creation

00:43:06.750 --> 00:43:11.030
to fabricate a lockpick. Okay. Pickton's gone.

00:43:11.110 --> 00:43:13.230
You don't know how long it's busy for. You run

00:43:13.230 --> 00:43:16.849
through, slide in the dust. So let's talk about

00:43:16.849 --> 00:43:19.289
this real quick. Performance of Creation. We

00:43:19.289 --> 00:43:21.610
actually haven't, like, narratively... touched

00:43:21.610 --> 00:43:24.409
on this but we tried to yeah yeah we found out

00:43:24.409 --> 00:43:26.309
it didn't work but like but like in the moment

00:43:26.309 --> 00:43:29.010
like this this ability you have i want to touch

00:43:29.010 --> 00:43:30.929
on like where i think this might come from for

00:43:30.929 --> 00:43:33.010
you sure because a lot of your bardic abilities

00:43:33.010 --> 00:43:37.230
come from your loot like we've seen jewels we've

00:43:37.230 --> 00:43:40.250
seen jewels touch into like this sort of demonic

00:43:40.250 --> 00:43:42.269
side of himself we've seen him reach out and

00:43:42.269 --> 00:43:45.989
change a man into a monster into a demon but

00:43:45.989 --> 00:43:49.960
we've also seen jewels before that reach into

00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:51.920
a different part of himself, activating this

00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:54.039
sort of connection with his loot, with the Feywild

00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:59.199
wood that it's made from. And somehow, not only

00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:01.739
blessed yourself with Feywild magic, but also

00:44:01.739 --> 00:44:04.760
your best friend, Chester. You transformed him,

00:44:04.860 --> 00:44:07.760
too. Like, Jules has a connection to different

00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:11.360
planes. It's a strange thing. It's yet unexplained,

00:44:11.380 --> 00:44:15.019
but Jules, I might, I would, I would wager a

00:44:15.019 --> 00:44:17.900
bet, and this is your character, it's you, that

00:44:17.900 --> 00:44:20.489
this Creation magic could stem from that same

00:44:20.489 --> 00:44:23.630
fey wild source, this wild magic of creation.

00:44:23.769 --> 00:44:25.829
You just reach out. You know you need something,

00:44:25.849 --> 00:44:29.289
and you feel, I can have that. And perhaps, like,

00:44:29.369 --> 00:44:31.010
you can feel it from your loot, like the same

00:44:31.010 --> 00:44:33.349
light that gives your part of inspiration just

00:44:33.349 --> 00:44:36.130
sort of wisps into your hand, and this thing

00:44:36.130 --> 00:44:38.949
is made. Does that sound right to you? Oh, yeah.

00:44:39.469 --> 00:44:43.949
Hell, yeah. The lockpick forms in your hands.

00:44:44.730 --> 00:44:47.610
And I'm going to go for it. You are untrained

00:44:47.610 --> 00:44:50.949
in using a lockpick. Unfortunately. But is Miskin?

00:44:51.230 --> 00:44:54.210
Yeah, is Miskin any better? Is Miskin? Honestly,

00:44:54.369 --> 00:44:56.849
Miskin does have the ability to use it. Perfect.

00:44:56.949 --> 00:44:59.469
Because I give it to him. Miskin will take a

00:44:59.469 --> 00:45:02.389
plus five on this, Jack. Whoa. I love that, like,

00:45:02.489 --> 00:45:05.710
Jules, like, knows and trusts his friends. Like,

00:45:05.769 --> 00:45:09.329
he makes this thing. And he's like, here, you

00:45:09.329 --> 00:45:12.449
fucking use it. And as you get to get close to

00:45:12.449 --> 00:45:14.030
this thing, if you reach out, he's just like

00:45:14.030 --> 00:45:15.750
almost panicking. He grabs on a chain. He looks

00:45:15.750 --> 00:45:18.909
over at the tent like, Jules, no, Jules. One

00:45:18.909 --> 00:45:20.809
heads. It's awake in there. It doesn't sound

00:45:20.809 --> 00:45:22.610
like it's awake, but he's deaf. He's deaf. Take

00:45:22.610 --> 00:45:25.469
it. Take it. Go, go, go. Take it. He grabs the

00:45:25.469 --> 00:45:29.190
lockpick. Okay. And just starts rolling the check.

00:45:31.590 --> 00:45:35.050
It's only a nine. Nine won't quite do it. Yeah,

00:45:35.090 --> 00:45:36.719
of course it won't. But it's not low enough that

00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:39.179
it breaks the lockpick. Cool. Can Jules grab

00:45:39.179 --> 00:45:42.519
it and try? After he clearly is having trouble

00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.000
with it? Or you can give him the help action.

00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:48.360
Yeah, help action. Oh, shit. Yeah. You basically

00:45:48.360 --> 00:45:50.559
just... Advantage. Yeah. Well, basically right

00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:51.840
now it's just time is passing. That's the only

00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:52.940
thing. Fuck it, yeah. A little bit of time has

00:45:52.940 --> 00:45:54.119
passed. You're looking nervous towards the trees.

00:45:54.139 --> 00:45:55.960
This thing might come back soon. Hell yeah. The

00:45:55.960 --> 00:45:59.820
Ettin doesn't seem to have stirred. Same fucking

00:45:59.820 --> 00:46:02.380
roll. Advantage. So, you know, you're rolling

00:46:02.380 --> 00:46:04.119
it another time. So you can roll it again because

00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:06.849
you have the help action. Oh, so you're... Wait,

00:46:06.849 --> 00:46:08.289
wait, wait, wait, wait. I thought we were just

00:46:08.289 --> 00:46:10.030
adding advantage to the first roll, but this

00:46:10.030 --> 00:46:12.110
is a totally separate roll, so that is the first

00:46:12.110 --> 00:46:14.010
roll. I'm going to let you make this roll multiple

00:46:14.010 --> 00:46:17.090
times. The thing is time passing. The cost is

00:46:17.090 --> 00:46:18.690
time is passing. If you roll very low, it might

00:46:18.690 --> 00:46:20.690
break the lockpick. Okay. Time passing is bad.

00:46:21.550 --> 00:46:24.949
There we go. All right, that's a 22. Okay, so

00:46:24.949 --> 00:46:26.530
the second time he doesn't quite make it, you

00:46:26.530 --> 00:46:28.289
look nervously towards the trees. You hear like

00:46:28.289 --> 00:46:31.630
a... Somewhere, something is like diving into

00:46:31.630 --> 00:46:33.889
a tree line. It'd be like some birds are flying

00:46:33.889 --> 00:46:36.150
out. Crispin, you hear this very close to you.

00:46:36.289 --> 00:46:40.650
How far has Crispin gotten back towards the clearing

00:46:40.650 --> 00:46:46.250
in this time? Say 30 feet, 60 feet, because you

00:46:46.250 --> 00:46:48.510
can just double dash. Yes, you can. Yeah, so

00:46:48.510 --> 00:46:51.840
you're moving on your way. Right there. You hear,

00:46:51.900 --> 00:46:53.360
like, something, this thing is just fighting

00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:56.519
through the forest. As you guys hear that, Miskin

00:46:56.519 --> 00:46:57.960
starts pointing again. He's, like, kind of panicking,

00:46:58.059 --> 00:47:00.960
his hands sort of shaking. And you reach down

00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:02.940
and, like, grab the end of the lockpick, sort

00:47:02.940 --> 00:47:05.179
of steadying it and helping him. He looks up

00:47:05.179 --> 00:47:10.019
at you, just kind of nods. And you hear... And

00:47:10.019 --> 00:47:13.920
the sort of manacle around his neck opens up.

00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:17.860
Before even a second goes by, Jules is grabbing

00:47:17.860 --> 00:47:21.090
him and running. And... As you do, you can hear

00:47:21.090 --> 00:47:28.809
from the tent shuffling as this ettin rolls over

00:47:28.809 --> 00:47:33.590
in its sleep. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That was

00:47:33.590 --> 00:47:37.150
so good. That was so good. Because. Because.

00:47:37.250 --> 00:47:39.309
All right. I'll give you a fucking high five

00:47:39.309 --> 00:47:42.289
for that one. Yeah. Because I rolled. Give me

00:47:42.289 --> 00:47:45.190
those. Because I rolled advantage. All right.

00:47:45.269 --> 00:47:47.389
Holy shit. Let me shout out someone here. Please

00:47:47.389 --> 00:47:49.599
tell me. Let me call somebody out here. Captain,

00:47:49.780 --> 00:47:53.539
you're a wonderful man, but I rolled your full

00:47:53.539 --> 00:47:55.739
metal d20 with advantage and rolled a one twice.

00:47:55.860 --> 00:47:59.300
Oh, my God. Get out of town. Dude, that just

00:47:59.300 --> 00:48:02.159
means it was meant to happen. I rolled a one

00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:05.820
twice. That means the captain reached through

00:48:05.820 --> 00:48:09.500
the internet from the Midwest, and he said, no,

00:48:09.579 --> 00:48:11.900
you know what? I think we're going to save Miskin

00:48:11.900 --> 00:48:13.960
tonight. I think we're going to save Miskin tonight.

00:48:14.039 --> 00:48:17.039
That's true. That's true. The captain's on Miskin's

00:48:17.039 --> 00:48:22.960
team tonight. Jules, you run, booking it across

00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:25.920
the open sort of terrain, across the open camp,

00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:30.579
past the fire and into the tree line. Holy shit.

00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:33.239
And you make it back to your allies just as Crispin

00:48:33.239 --> 00:48:35.980
bursts from the trees. Scott free. And all of

00:48:35.980 --> 00:48:38.980
you stand together. I didn't think we were going

00:48:38.980 --> 00:48:41.579
to do it. I didn't know it was possible to do

00:48:41.579 --> 00:48:44.159
it. I mean, I think there's not even really time

00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:46.969
to like. chat. I think we got to get out of here.

00:48:46.989 --> 00:48:48.389
Yeah, we got to keep moving. We got to keep moving.

00:48:48.489 --> 00:48:52.150
I think as Jules gets to the group with Miskin,

00:48:52.329 --> 00:48:55.349
he's silently motioning with his arms. Go, go,

00:48:55.409 --> 00:48:58.150
go. Move, move, move. You begin to run. Yes.

00:48:58.349 --> 00:49:01.389
Starting down the cliffside, charging back towards

00:49:01.389 --> 00:49:04.449
like thicker brush, thicker trees. Guys, this

00:49:04.449 --> 00:49:07.289
is not how things go for us. This is not how

00:49:07.289 --> 00:49:10.110
things go. We never get this lucky. You're like

00:49:10.110 --> 00:49:11.889
routing out the cliff and more entering the spot

00:49:11.889 --> 00:49:14.110
where like the trail snakes back into like...

00:49:14.300 --> 00:49:17.119
Thicker wood and, you know, canopy forest. And

00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:18.880
as you do, you can hear somewhere behind you

00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:26.139
just this. Something roaring out. But something

00:49:26.139 --> 00:49:30.260
relatively far back. As you imagine, it's been

00:49:30.260 --> 00:49:33.159
noted that Miskin is missing. And that the thing

00:49:33.159 --> 00:49:35.199
that was supposed to watch him didn't do a very

00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:39.420
good job. But where you stand now, you're okay.

00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:42.440
Yeah, the moment that we feel safe enough to

00:49:42.440 --> 00:49:46.340
stop. Jules goes down and embraces Miskin. Yeah.

00:49:46.539 --> 00:49:48.539
It's really fucking hard. Imagine you're running

00:49:48.539 --> 00:49:50.239
for quite a while. We've got to be running for

00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:52.739
at least like 10, 15 minutes, right? And that's

00:49:52.739 --> 00:49:54.659
fine. We want to get like a mile away. Whenever

00:49:54.659 --> 00:49:56.920
we're stopped. Exactly. Whenever we get that

00:49:56.920 --> 00:49:59.400
moment. I think you get a moment as you're kind

00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:01.320
of moving down farther and farther down the mountain.

00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:03.659
I think like you kind of spiral and you're always

00:50:03.659 --> 00:50:06.139
lower. And I think you have this moment of like

00:50:06.139 --> 00:50:09.000
where you finally can sort of breathe again when.

00:50:09.820 --> 00:50:11.900
You can hear a different roar, kind of a bellow.

00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:15.679
It sounds like two voices overlapping. Just like,

00:50:15.699 --> 00:50:17.239
hey, if you want to edit this later on to make

00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:18.719
these both the same voice at the same time, that's

00:50:18.719 --> 00:50:24.559
pretty cool. You just hear like a... As these

00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:27.900
two, like, large voice screaming in, maybe giant.

00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:31.610
And then you hear like a... And you see this,

00:50:31.670 --> 00:50:33.469
like, way above you, this, like, figure, this

00:50:33.469 --> 00:50:35.650
peritone goes flying away, not running towards

00:50:35.650 --> 00:50:37.730
you, but running very fast away from something

00:50:37.730 --> 00:50:41.130
else. He's in trouble. He's in trouble. And the

00:50:41.130 --> 00:50:42.949
thing that can fly is not looking for you. It's

00:50:42.949 --> 00:50:45.210
looking to get the hell out of there. Great.

00:50:45.429 --> 00:50:47.409
And so I think at that point, you breathe a little,

00:50:47.469 --> 00:50:50.670
like, okay, the ettin's way back there. We got

00:50:50.670 --> 00:50:54.230
a good running start. The peritone, gone. We

00:50:54.230 --> 00:50:56.269
can breathe. And you probably just settle down

00:50:56.269 --> 00:50:59.849
in your run, hidden by the trees, down the mountain.

00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:12.719
Jules. No, I was about to say, hi, Miskin. Jules,

00:51:12.780 --> 00:51:16.900
you got new friends. A rabbit and a Zebulon you

00:51:16.900 --> 00:51:22.739
got real big. Arlon just kind of looks down and

00:51:22.739 --> 00:51:27.280
he doesn't say anything. He just sort of stares

00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:30.309
at Miskin for a long moment like, Like, he doesn't

00:51:30.309 --> 00:51:32.409
believe that it happened and that it's this easy,

00:51:32.510 --> 00:51:35.989
that it's done. And Miskin doesn't even remember

00:51:35.989 --> 00:51:37.949
him? Oh, that's right. He didn't know. He didn't

00:51:37.949 --> 00:51:40.449
know Arhalon. I'm just being silly. No, he does.

00:51:40.650 --> 00:51:42.889
So I think, actually, so when you get over there,

00:51:42.949 --> 00:51:45.110
I think what's more likely to happen, he answers

00:51:45.110 --> 00:51:46.769
about friends, he looks over at you, Crispin

00:51:46.769 --> 00:51:48.349
nods, and he looks over at Arhalon, and he actually

00:51:48.349 --> 00:51:49.829
sort of takes a shuffling back away because,

00:51:49.889 --> 00:51:52.230
like, this is the guy that did it. And Arhalon,

00:51:52.250 --> 00:51:55.849
I guess, more looks shamefully towards him. It's

00:51:55.849 --> 00:51:59.380
all right. He's here to help. What? We're all

00:51:59.380 --> 00:52:04.079
here to help. Miskin, we came for you. And we

00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:07.880
got you, buddy. You got me. They were gonna...

00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:12.880
They wanted me to be one of them. They were calling

00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:17.420
us a family. Calling me their son. Oh, you know

00:52:17.420 --> 00:52:20.079
that's bullshit. The farmers. How are the farmers?

00:52:20.159 --> 00:52:22.679
Are they okay? When the Aten came down, when

00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:24.739
they were going to attack the farmers, they knew

00:52:24.739 --> 00:52:26.380
I was there. They asked for me specifically.

00:52:26.380 --> 00:52:28.920
I think the monster, the bird, told them about

00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:32.719
me. It must have seen me running. They said I

00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:35.719
could, if I just went with them. They let everyone

00:52:35.719 --> 00:52:39.599
else be okay, so I did. I went with them. I will

00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:41.860
say, I think something clicks here for you, which

00:52:41.860 --> 00:52:43.900
is that you notice the Aten tracks didn't go

00:52:43.900 --> 00:52:46.420
near the people. You also know Paritans can fly.

00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:50.260
The Aten didn't kill the farmers. No. Miskin,

00:52:50.280 --> 00:52:54.139
they didn't make it. No. No, they didn't. They

00:52:54.139 --> 00:52:55.940
didn't hurt them. I was with them the whole time.

00:52:55.960 --> 00:52:58.880
They didn't hurt them. I saw. They were good

00:52:58.880 --> 00:53:02.199
on their word. They told the truth. They didn't

00:53:02.199 --> 00:53:06.119
hurt them. But that baritone did. I'm sorry.

00:53:06.219 --> 00:53:10.179
I don't want to lie to you. They were nice. I

00:53:10.179 --> 00:53:12.679
know they were. I was hurt. I was so hurt when

00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:15.519
I stumbled to their home. I was so hungry and

00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:18.579
thirsty. They took care of me and men came looking

00:53:18.579 --> 00:53:20.219
for me. They hid me beneath the stairs. They

00:53:20.219 --> 00:53:23.480
had a spot. They hid me from them. But they couldn't

00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:26.980
hide me from that. You gotta close those eyes.

00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:33.079
No time. Jules, it's not just me. Roundstuff

00:53:33.079 --> 00:53:38.039
and Paul, they're here too. What? They're here

00:53:38.039 --> 00:53:41.119
and they're in danger. Wait, tonight. When is

00:53:41.119 --> 00:53:43.260
the night of the remembered? Tomorrow, wasn't

00:53:43.260 --> 00:53:45.380
it? It's tomorrow, right? It's tonight. Oh, it's

00:53:45.380 --> 00:53:48.610
tonight. Oh, great. Why? Is it tonight? It's

00:53:48.610 --> 00:53:51.170
tonight, right? Yes, it's tonight. Why? They're

00:53:51.170 --> 00:53:53.449
going to do something to her. Round stuff. They're

00:53:53.449 --> 00:53:55.969
going to do something to her. Where did they

00:53:55.969 --> 00:53:58.090
go? The mines in Hollow. There's a mine abandoned

00:53:58.090 --> 00:54:01.190
in the cliffs above the town. They have a lab

00:54:01.190 --> 00:54:04.389
in there. Some sort of occult lab like the ones

00:54:04.389 --> 00:54:06.750
you told me about your childhood. There's a man,

00:54:06.949 --> 00:54:11.150
Zavar. They call him Zavar. You know that name.

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I do know that name. It came up once in a flashback.

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Zavar, to fucking hell! Your mother's a cult

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magician, the one that set up all her little

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rituals, the one who was the backbone behind

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everything she did to you. Zavar, he's here,

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and he has them. Jules looks around to the rest

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of the crew. We're not done yet. Yes. Arhalon

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just nods. We're not. Only one third of the way

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back from sullying my honor. We will save the

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other two. I will die before I let them fall

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into their hands any longer, before anything

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bad happens to them. In this, you have my trust,

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Jules LaRoche. We're going to get you the other

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two -thirds. And we're going to bring my family

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back. I don't know what he's going to do. He

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mentioned something. A demon that they made.

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I know who he's talking about. He said he wants

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to make another. He said it works best on tieflings.

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He mentioned another, someone's son. He's mean,

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I think. They've made one of these things before

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and they want to make round stuff into one as

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well. Oh, fucking pig man. There it is. He's

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just kind of like stammering. And Paul, Paul's

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in danger too. He did something, Jules. I don't

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understand it. He did something down there. They

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would have had me in a cage with the rest. They

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were bringing us in, putting us away, and I tried

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breaking free, tried causing a commotion. They

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were going to hurt me, and Paul acted out. There

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were fossils, black, jutting from the stone in

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the lab in the mine, and Paul touched one, and

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the ground shook. I had never seen anything like

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it. The whole mine shook, caves, walls cracking.

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He opened a path for me, and as I ran away, I

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could feel... The world behind me closing off.

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He gave me the chance to get out. He made a new

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route for me somehow. He did something. And I

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could hear words. As I fled, Zavar called him

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something strange. He called him a Mazir Drakon.

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And we'll call it there.