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Why, yes, luminary Zoobeard Rubyfist, that's

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the perpetrator. That's the seemingly wonderful

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human being that is not on our Discord, not on

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our Instagram. I bet they didn't even leave us

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a reviewer rating on Spotify or Apple Podcast

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or whatever thing they're using. Yes, yes, you

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may do what must be done. And everyone else out

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there, thank you so much for being a part of

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our community. Zoobeard Rubyfist will not be

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visiting you, thankfully. And have fun. on the

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Del Prado Manor has ended in success for the

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Angel King. The Mighty Pig Man has been taken

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into custody, and some reports say that a number

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of others have been rounded up by the surviving

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party angels that took part in the fight. It

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seems that Eastman's Manor has burned down during

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the struggle. Many civilians never seem described

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it as a beacon of change for the city, burning

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at the apex of the hill. A surprisingly optimistic

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take, considering the ferocity of the fight.

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A fight, I should add, that had indeed poured

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into it. the Old City. A number of residents

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of the city, calling themselves the Revolution,

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have triumphed over the force of Marfil Armored

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Guard that had been on their way to a back of

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the forces on the top of Uprouchon Hill. In other,

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even more incredible news, many claim that all

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those taken by the Serenite Illness have made

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a full and complete recovery. A miracle, this

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night. And as this night continues, as the night

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of remembrance continues on, one must wonder

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what other miracles are coming our way. Gentlemen,

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I'm freaking out. I'm still freaking out. How

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come you're freaking out? Because it feels to

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me right now like this show is ending. And it's

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not. It is decidedly not. There is a lot of story

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left here. But man, I mean, this has been around

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half of our show. Like our second season, if

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you will. And we are pushing into our season

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finale. We're so close. And I'm freaking out.

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I don't know. Yeah, I mean, the Sansatian arc

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is so huge that... To know that it's finally

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coming to an end soon -ish is pretty cool. It's

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pretty crazy. It's unbelievable. I mean, like,

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I did not have nearly as ambitious these ideas

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as they became when this arc started. Like, I

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just, everything sort of molded over time, became

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more and more over time. And now I cannot believe

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what's already happened and what is going to

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happen moving forward. So excited, in fact, that

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we just dropped mics on our drinks. Can you just

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say we dropped mics on our drinks? That's a weird

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way to put it. Crisis averted. We dropped mics

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on our drinks. We toasted the mics. The mics

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have been part of this journey, too. They've

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got us through San Satyan. Well, now microphones

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smell at least a little bit like bourbon. That's

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good, right? I mean, there are worse things for

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mics to smell like. Thank God it did not. get

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into any connections just on the outsides. Um,

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but really like super fast, like two second,

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um, no preview sort of thing. If, if you've listened

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to the show at this point, you know that when

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we wrap up an arc, we usually reach out and ask

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for questions for our unzipped things. So, uh,

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start to start to chew on those. Oh my God. Still

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got a few weeks, but dude, I was thinking about

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that today and you beat me to it. We're going

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to do a big one for this arc. I mean, like, yeah,

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I think we haven't done Unzipped since just after

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God's Breath. Right. Half the show ago. Get ready

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for a three -hour Unzipped, folks. Yeah, I'm

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sure everyone will watch that. Oh, yeah. They

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will watch it. Or listen to it. Whatever. Watch

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this. Hey, hey, put that away. Put it away! It's

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a family show. It's not a family show. Steven,

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I believe, before we proceed with the action.

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Mm -hmm. You had a little something for us. We've

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got mail. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't

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you fucking... Nope. Nope. Wrong one. We got

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it. Nope. We're almost there. Mail time! Yes!

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It's mail time. It's been so long, I forgot which

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pad it was on. It's always the last button. The

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last place you look. Sorry. Go ahead. So this

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comes to us from D. A .K .A. Danger Rumpus. Danger

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Rumpus. A .K .A. Danger in the Manger. A .K .A.

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our very own Rochelle's DM. Yes, Rochelle's DM.

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I heard he's amazing. I heard he's an incredible

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DM. She speaks very highly of him. This is an

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honor. So we got a little, actually a large note

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here. But the front of, dispense to any players

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you see fit. Okay. Thanks so much for making

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such a fun podcast. And sharing it with all.

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the pants people out here. Thank you for listening.

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I don't want to read because this is awesome

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and fantastic. So we're going to enjoy, we're

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going to enjoy that a little later, but let's

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see what, let's see what he sent us. Oh, what

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are you giggling about over there? Oh shit. Jack

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Daniels, Tennessee, honey whiskey. Oh, and one

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is a normie. So we got a little bit of a grab

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bag. Oh, he's got... Oh, my God. They're all

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labeled. Got it. All right. It's the night of

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dropping whiskey. Oh, okay. Excellent. I think

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everyone's are... Here you go. That one's for

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Jeremy. That one's for David. Oh, my God. This

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is... Okay. Okay. Potion of not my damn problem.

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Mine is a potion of now wait just a damn minute.

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I've got the same one. Now wait just a damn minute.

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Excellent. Oh, God. That is beautiful. Thank

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you. Thank you so much. I now regret that we

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just poured a glass, Jeremy and I. Guys. He's

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going for it. He's cracking it. He's going for

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it. He's going for it. He's cracking it. He's

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going for it. Wait, where's my phone? Master

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of the craft. This is going on Instagram. Don't

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put it on Instagram. Oh, come on. Really? Oh,

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it's going. I don't have to if you don't want

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me to. I cannot drink alcohol. It tastes like

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medicine to me. Yeah. But for you, I will toast.

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Oh, my God. I will. Oh, gosh. Hang on. Bums up.

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Two story. I don't know. Oh, God. Well, that

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was. Oh, God. I look. He chases whiskey with

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a rock star. With a rock star. That is possibly

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one of the worst things you could chase whiskey

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with. Oh, no. Oh, man. You all right there, buddy?

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Oh, that is horrible. This is awful. My tongue.

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All right. D, thank you? No, that was a treat.

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Honestly, thank you. That was wonderful. Oh,

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thank you so much. That was very nice. I can't

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wait to dig into your letter. You know, we wanted

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to open it while we're recording. So I'm excited

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to read that later. I'm excited. I really want

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to check that out. And now I'm going to like,

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I'm going to hold on to this for, I don't want

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to say a rainy day, but when I really need that

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potion, I'm going to have it. Hell yeah. Hell

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yeah. Oh, you know what? What's that? Mine's

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going to be a potion of greater healing at some

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point. No, as soon as I feel like, now wait just

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a damn minute, that's when I'm going to drink

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my potion. My D potion. All right. With that

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awfulness out of the way. Even D can't save us

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now. We are marching towards the end, gentlemen.

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Are you ready to start that march? Yeah, I guess

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I was ready as I can be. Let's hop right back

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to the Resignor Peaks, staring down over the

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borderlands, down, down at the city far below.

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Hop back over to Jules LaRoche, Crispin Dubois,

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Dance Macabre, a .k .a. Gabrielle Cortez, other

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way around, I think that's how that works, and

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Miskin. Jules, you are, we're picking up right

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where we left off before the combat we just had.

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Yeah, it's been weeks for us. Yeah, Jules, you're

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staring down at this. You see, like, lights in

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the city. It's hard to make out from far away,

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but looks like at the very apex of the hill,

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something burning? From here, it's hard to say.

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And your senses aren't keen right now anyway.

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You're woozy. Everything blurry. You feel so

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sick. I think you stop here for a moment to just

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kind of gather your breath because you're pushing

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yourself so hard, Jules. But this march, it's

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been indescribably tough. I think as you're standing

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here looking down at this, knowing that you need

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to push further, I mean, you have miles, hours

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to go. We're just after 9 o 'clock right now.

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I think dance approaches you. You can feel her

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there, like, waiting. You can feel something

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building. Words she does not want to say. And

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finally she steps up beside you. You should stay.

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I will save the child. Crispin will come with

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me. No. Jules, you cannot. You will die. You

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will be in our way. In your state, you'll get

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us all killed. Do you trust me? You asked me

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the same. In the town. In Mirpazul. Do you trust

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me? I am. She's staring at you, and there's that

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stubbornness behind her eyes setting in. And

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you can tell she's about to argue back. The words

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are about to bubble up. And then she stops, and

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her eyes widen just a little. Because this close

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to you, this high up under the light of the moon,

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I think even she can see the moment when your

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skin becomes less pallid, more full. When the

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circles beneath your eyes begin to clear away,

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the red rims sort of turning to white, the shivering,

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the constant shivering dying out in an instant

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as in a wash over, you feel amazing, better.

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Serenno is gone. It's gone. As this happens,

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my lute pulses with light. Huh. What color? Blue.

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Hell yeah. We've been over this. Okay, that's

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true. That's fair. That's fair. In the sort of

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wake of this blue light, I think everyone's eyes,

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Misk and Crispin, you all turn to see Jules,

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who's standing taller, stronger than ever. And

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as I take this in, as you guys all realize what

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this means, Dresden, Ramin, Jean, they did it.

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They did it. I didn't mention Blanche because

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no one knows you exist yet. I think that's probably

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the way she likes it. I'm not going to take that

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away from her. They succeeded. Sarah, no. Gone.

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The thing destroyed. You have a chance now. And

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I think you should see, like, Dan smiles at this.

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I knew it. I knew it. I mean, would not let me

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down. Oh, I knew it. They did it. As you stand

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here upon this peak looking down at this, knowing

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what's coming and knowing what's already transpired,

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I think a fresh sort of vigor fills all of your

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bodies, your souls, and everyone here is going

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to level up to five. Oh, baby. Level up. Level

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up. So you guys knew about this beforehand, obviously.

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I'm not surprising you with this. You figured,

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I mean. Everyone else got leveled up. Not going

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to take this party and say, nah. So you guys

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have done your level ups. And once again, we'll

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do a little round, the table talk, what you got.

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But I will start, just like last time, with the

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sidekick. Yeah. Cool. This is actually a pretty

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interesting one for me. I've been making her

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simplified monk stat block myself. And monks

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typically get stunning strike at level five.

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But I had my reservations about giving that to

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a sidekick. I really, really don't want their

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abilities to overshadow yours in combat. That's

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how Jean and Chester, that's how they've been

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built so far. You also hate the monk in our other

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campaign. No, no. He's amazing. Stunning Strike

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ends a fight. All the combats I came in are built

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around when Stunning Strike lands. Get that Stunning

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Strike to land. Burn those... What are they called?

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Legendary resistances. Right. And get that Stunner

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Strike to land. Yeah, it's amazing. And I want

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the sidekicks to feel more like hired help than

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full player characters. So it's just really good.

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I mean, it should be better than Jules. It should

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be way better than old Zebulon was. Gosh. Jeez.

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Rude. So in lieu of that, I had a different idea.

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And I think this idea fits the character even

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better. Because ever since... Your encounter

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last night as you've traveled through the mountains

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all day today, both up and then now down. I think

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Dance has been thinking a lot about the pooch.

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She's been thinking about his near supernatural

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reflexes. His ability to move away from harm

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in a blur. An ability that, as a dancing luchadora,

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she covets. And reflecting on this, I think Dance

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has figured out how to do it herself. So level

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5 Dance will be getting the rogue ability. uncanny

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dodge. As a reaction, she can take half damage

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from an attack that hits her. That definitely

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fits the character. Simple, perfect, fits the

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character, keeps dance alive. I think that'll

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be very helpful going forward. That's where dance

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is at. Which of you gentlemen wants to go first?

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Finger on my nose. I went first last time. I

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don't mind going first. I'll go first. Jules!

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Want to start with HP? Yeah, let's start with

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HP. All right. All right, what are we doing?

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D6, D8? Do you roll dance as HP? I do not roll

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side. I do average side. Okay, cool. Yeah, just

00:15:12.090 --> 00:15:14.190
easier. By the fifth level, I should have figured

00:15:14.190 --> 00:15:16.629
that out by now. So I'll preface this with saying

00:15:16.629 --> 00:15:21.110
at the beginning of level five. Yeah. I currently

00:15:21.110 --> 00:15:25.570
have 19 fucking HP. Yeah, so level four Jules

00:15:25.570 --> 00:15:28.190
has 19 HP. That's awful. Actually, while we're

00:15:28.190 --> 00:15:29.990
on HP, let me say. That's the beginning of level

00:15:29.990 --> 00:15:33.970
five. Right. Dance also, of course, gains a higher

00:15:33.970 --> 00:15:35.649
proficiency bonus. So she has higher hit to hit,

00:15:35.730 --> 00:15:37.590
saves, all that stuff. Sure. At fifth level.

00:15:37.669 --> 00:15:40.970
And her HP is currently at 28. So just so you

00:15:40.970 --> 00:15:43.169
know. All right. Here we go. Just to make you

00:15:43.169 --> 00:15:49.049
feel bad about your own. Let's do it. Four. Four.

00:15:49.529 --> 00:15:53.250
Fuck me. That's right at the middle. It's middle.

00:15:53.409 --> 00:15:57.470
It's average. 23. Now we'll plus your con bonus.

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No con bonus on Jules. Oh, Jules Roche. That's

00:16:02.049 --> 00:16:06.690
why 19 HP. That's why. Yeah. Okay. I mean, should

00:16:06.690 --> 00:16:09.549
I just leave right now? You should just stay

00:16:09.549 --> 00:16:11.730
in the back line right now and all his in forever.

00:16:12.269 --> 00:16:13.830
There's a little guy called the Tough Feet. You

00:16:13.830 --> 00:16:14.590
might want to look at him when you hit level

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eight. Just put it out there. Okay. Level eight.

00:16:19.149 --> 00:16:20.830
You're talking about like four years from now?

00:16:20.950 --> 00:16:25.190
Yeah. Yeah, a couple years. God damn. Jules,

00:16:25.309 --> 00:16:27.889
what other things did you get at this level?

00:16:28.110 --> 00:16:32.070
Yeah. I got another third level spell slot. Third

00:16:32.070 --> 00:16:35.850
level! Yeah, buddy. That's awesome. Good stuff.

00:16:36.409 --> 00:16:38.289
And what spell did you pick? I ain't telling

00:16:38.289 --> 00:16:39.850
you shit. What spell did you pick? I ain't telling

00:16:39.850 --> 00:16:42.990
you shit. Although, this is a gentleman's game

00:16:42.990 --> 00:16:44.830
of trust, and I'm trusting that you did not look

00:16:44.830 --> 00:16:47.389
at my sheet after I... I never look at you guys'

00:16:47.470 --> 00:16:50.470
sheets, to be honest. All right, he has every

00:16:50.470 --> 00:16:52.529
ability and every right to, but then it's just

00:16:52.529 --> 00:16:54.509
like he's got too much other shit to look at.

00:16:54.610 --> 00:16:55.850
You think I have that kind of time? I'm addicted

00:16:55.850 --> 00:16:57.789
to World of Warcraft now. I got no time. Oh,

00:16:57.789 --> 00:17:01.250
God, don't even. Yeah. No. Yeah. Just stop. It's

00:17:01.250 --> 00:17:05.470
a good time. I'm glad you're having fun. Been

00:17:05.470 --> 00:17:09.910
down that road, David. It's a long, long, long,

00:17:09.910 --> 00:17:12.190
dark road. It's like my sixth animal addiction.

00:17:12.589 --> 00:17:15.230
I go back to it. Anyway, back to you, Jules.

00:17:15.589 --> 00:17:17.990
Back to you. Is that it? That's it. Is that what

00:17:17.990 --> 00:17:19.799
you want to say? That's okay. All right. Third

00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:24.660
little spell slot, 23 HP. Not too shabby, Mr.

00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:26.420
Jules LaRoche. And we'll find out what that spell

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is perhaps a little later on in this night. Crispin

00:17:31.420 --> 00:17:34.000
Dubois. Crispin Dubois. What's up with you, Crispin?

00:17:34.059 --> 00:17:37.059
Let's do HP. I'm just pulling my phone up real

00:17:37.059 --> 00:17:39.980
fast because I can't remember if level four Crispin

00:17:39.980 --> 00:17:44.500
had 41 or 42 HP. Just obscene. Just absurd. You're

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a druid. You're a caster class. Why isn't it

00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:50.359
loading? 41, okay. Well, yeah, I mean, that D12

00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:52.900
at the beginning for Barbarian helped. That's

00:17:52.900 --> 00:17:54.619
true. And I think it's just been really good

00:17:54.619 --> 00:17:57.779
rolls. He's got super high con, so. As a caster,

00:17:57.839 --> 00:17:59.440
you're a pretty front -lining caster. You just

00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:01.200
turn into a big old doggy. Right, and he's got

00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:05.299
an 18 constitution, so. Let me find my D8. I've

00:18:05.299 --> 00:18:11.019
done my roll. Four. One. Oh, all right. So that's

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that. And speaking of the tough feat. Crispin

00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:20.359
took it. Damn. Crispin took the tough feet. Oh,

00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:25.160
damn. Yeah, so we go from 41 to 51 with the tough

00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:29.440
feet plus the eight. Come on with this. Yeah.

00:18:29.779 --> 00:18:35.819
Come on with this. Crispin has 59 HP. There you

00:18:35.819 --> 00:18:38.539
go. Let me just change the entire encounter real

00:18:38.539 --> 00:18:43.660
fast. That is absurd. Thanks. Anything else go

00:18:43.660 --> 00:18:46.049
on this level? I have a little something for

00:18:46.049 --> 00:18:48.569
you. Speaking of absurd, we'll get to that in

00:18:48.569 --> 00:18:51.809
a minute. No, nothing new. You know, I think

00:18:51.809 --> 00:18:55.369
one or two new spells. I got a new cantrip. Let

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me see. I can maybe save the cantrip. That'll

00:19:00.289 --> 00:19:05.529
be fun to hear later, I guess. Okay. All right.

00:19:05.569 --> 00:19:07.509
So that's pretty much it. I mean, 59 HP, that's

00:19:07.509 --> 00:19:10.150
not nothing. It's not nothing at all. Yeah, but

00:19:10.150 --> 00:19:13.529
that's it. It's a lot of something. That's not

00:19:13.529 --> 00:19:16.789
it, though. Oh, okay. I also, real fast before

00:19:16.789 --> 00:19:20.829
we move on, I still need Zebulon's charisma item.

00:19:20.829 --> 00:19:24.509
Crap. I forgot about that. Okay. Just assume

00:19:24.509 --> 00:19:27.970
it's at 12. Okay. Yeah. I'll try. Okay. I can

00:19:27.970 --> 00:19:31.329
add it in a minute. But that's not everything.

00:19:32.609 --> 00:19:35.609
Crispin, as you've traveled through the mountains,

00:19:35.690 --> 00:19:38.009
you've thought a lot about Miskin's story and

00:19:38.009 --> 00:19:40.650
about how it connects to your own. This child

00:19:40.650 --> 00:19:43.670
he mentioned, this Paul, the powers he wielded

00:19:43.670 --> 00:19:45.990
in the mind were akin to your own, right down

00:19:45.990 --> 00:19:50.069
to the sounds of thunder. This title of Mazir

00:19:50.069 --> 00:19:54.069
Drakon is a title that you must also share. There

00:19:54.069 --> 00:19:56.210
is something inside of you that can tap into

00:19:56.210 --> 00:19:59.089
a power beyond your understanding. The power

00:19:59.089 --> 00:20:02.470
of this Drakon. We mentioned before that the

00:20:02.470 --> 00:20:04.670
term Drakon has been translated into many different

00:20:04.670 --> 00:20:09.049
things in your studies. Spirits. Ancients, storms,

00:20:09.369 --> 00:20:14.569
serpents. What if all of those translations are

00:20:14.569 --> 00:20:17.529
correct? You imagine this great fossil that Paul

00:20:17.529 --> 00:20:20.430
tapped into, given Miskin a chance to escape.

00:20:20.930 --> 00:20:24.210
And you start to imagine, too, that perhaps a

00:20:24.210 --> 00:20:27.710
similar fossil resides deep in the earth, beneath

00:20:27.710 --> 00:20:31.210
the swamps of God's breath. And imagining this,

00:20:31.450 --> 00:20:34.390
you're on the road to understanding your power.

00:20:34.849 --> 00:20:38.650
So I have given you... A bonus feat. And it is

00:20:38.650 --> 00:20:41.569
a good one. I thought I was going to get like

00:20:41.569 --> 00:20:45.490
a spell or something. No, let's hop. Hell yeah.

00:20:45.769 --> 00:20:48.470
It's a rabbit pun. Let's hop over to your sheet.

00:20:49.549 --> 00:20:53.250
Get it? He's a Haringan. And you'll see I've

00:20:53.250 --> 00:20:55.789
given you a special feat called Mazir Drakon.

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Essentially what this does is I've given you

00:20:58.630 --> 00:21:04.150
a cleric domain ability called Divine Intervention.

00:21:04.750 --> 00:21:07.730
and sort of reflavored it. In times of need,

00:21:07.829 --> 00:21:11.049
you may use an action to call upon the spirits,

00:21:11.170 --> 00:21:14.089
these forces you can feel, to assist you in some

00:21:14.089 --> 00:21:16.410
grand, incredible way. And when this happens,

00:21:16.569 --> 00:21:21.009
we're going to roll a D100. If it is below your

00:21:21.009 --> 00:21:24.869
level, a miracle will occur. Oh, jeez, okay.

00:21:25.089 --> 00:21:28.269
In certain locations, I will double this. Okay.

00:21:28.329 --> 00:21:30.869
I will double your chances, essentially. Once

00:21:30.869 --> 00:21:33.779
you use it once... If it succeeds, it takes seven

00:21:33.779 --> 00:21:37.339
days for it to be able to use again. If it fails,

00:21:37.500 --> 00:21:39.079
I think it takes one day for you to try it again,

00:21:39.220 --> 00:21:40.680
or long rest or something. Okay, yeah, it says

00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.200
long rest here. Okay, there you go. So it's basically

00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:47.980
an oh shit button that probably won't work, but

00:21:47.980 --> 00:21:50.119
if it does, we're going to have a lot of fun.

00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:52.640
Yeah, it's an oh shit button with a five or,

00:21:52.779 --> 00:21:54.839
best case scenario, 10 % chance of succeeding.

00:21:54.980 --> 00:21:57.220
Yeah, exactly. All right, cool. I'm into it.

00:21:57.980 --> 00:22:02.210
Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Keep it in mind. It's going

00:22:02.210 --> 00:22:05.230
to be important. Okay. All right. And with that

00:22:05.230 --> 00:22:10.450
all said, let's move this group along. More time

00:22:10.450 --> 00:22:14.589
passes, the night deepening as you push towards

00:22:14.589 --> 00:22:18.250
the foot of the mountains. Now, as you hit the

00:22:18.250 --> 00:22:22.210
ruined farmstead, the dried blood of the family

00:22:22.210 --> 00:22:24.769
that had taken Miskin in, and you turn out towards

00:22:24.769 --> 00:22:27.750
the borderlands beyond this place, it is about

00:22:27.750 --> 00:22:32.240
10 o 'clock p .m. You have... Around an hour

00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:36.380
to travel to hit the cave. And from what Miskin

00:22:36.380 --> 00:22:38.559
says, it's rough going through the cave. It could

00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:41.039
be slow. There will be checks to determine how

00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:45.160
long it takes you. At midnight, the ritual will

00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:48.779
begin. You know how long this ritual takes? Could

00:22:48.779 --> 00:22:53.319
be moments. And round stuff could be lost. Transformed.

00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:56.880
You have two hours until then. It could take

00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:00.559
you perhaps that long to reach the place you

00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:03.099
need to go. I'm looking through, trying to see

00:23:03.099 --> 00:23:08.380
if I can figure out any beast to wild shape into

00:23:08.380 --> 00:23:11.119
that's going to help us. But again, we're sort

00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:15.079
of at that issue where there's so many of us

00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:17.359
that... There's three now. One of them's a child.

00:23:17.500 --> 00:23:20.579
I think before you carried... Oh, sure, sure,

00:23:20.660 --> 00:23:22.779
sure. Arhalon went off to die on his own. Right.

00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:25.359
You have to go die on his own and eat some people.

00:23:27.619 --> 00:23:31.650
Don't worry about him. So just a reminder, he's

00:23:31.650 --> 00:23:35.069
off distracting and pulling away and essentially

00:23:35.069 --> 00:23:38.009
culling as many of the human element there as

00:23:38.009 --> 00:23:39.829
possible. Out in front of this mine, there are

00:23:39.829 --> 00:23:41.690
a number of human guards Miskin talked about.

00:23:42.009 --> 00:23:44.670
They're not inside where you're planning to sort

00:23:44.670 --> 00:23:47.150
of backdoor into, but they could get called upon

00:23:47.150 --> 00:23:49.210
as reinforcements if they're not dealt with.

00:23:49.809 --> 00:23:51.450
Arhalon has moved to deal with them as he is

00:23:51.450 --> 00:23:55.769
too large to sneak in the back. Right. Jules,

00:23:55.769 --> 00:24:00.190
I can... I can wild shape into a war horse and

00:24:00.190 --> 00:24:03.750
that'll get us there a might bit faster. But

00:24:03.750 --> 00:24:07.230
what do you think? Anything to get us there quicker.

00:24:07.950 --> 00:24:12.230
All right. Say no more. And we're going to go

00:24:12.230 --> 00:24:15.829
ahead and use that one of those slots. Okay.

00:24:15.930 --> 00:24:21.970
Wild shape into a horse with, let's see, 60 feet

00:24:21.970 --> 00:24:24.950
of speed. So that makes things faster, I think?

00:24:25.089 --> 00:24:27.410
Oh yeah, definitely. Definitely. I will need

00:24:27.410 --> 00:24:32.750
you to neigh for me. Best I can give you is a...

00:24:32.750 --> 00:24:36.829
That's pretty good. That works. With that sound

00:24:36.829 --> 00:24:39.829
ringing across the screen, we see our heroes

00:24:39.829 --> 00:24:43.730
galloping off into the borderlands, away from

00:24:43.730 --> 00:24:45.690
the rugged mountain terrain. You can now run

00:24:45.690 --> 00:24:49.869
free, little horsey. Big horsey. Big horsey.

00:24:50.450 --> 00:24:54.319
About a half an hour passes. 10 .30, and you

00:24:54.319 --> 00:24:57.059
reach the place. Miskin's kind of pointing you

00:24:57.059 --> 00:24:58.420
out. He's pointing out different places ahead.

00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:00.440
He's like, I remember that. That stone right

00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:03.119
there. Keep going. There, there. Towards that

00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:05.180
strange cactus with the two heads. Keep going

00:25:05.180 --> 00:25:06.940
there. And he's telling you everything as you're

00:25:06.940 --> 00:25:08.900
kind of moving forward. Something he remembers

00:25:08.900 --> 00:25:11.000
when he was kind of in a haze running across

00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:13.940
the desert away from this place. Just keep him

00:25:13.940 --> 00:25:15.480
know, because he wanted to come back. He wanted

00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:17.819
to find help. Find you, Jules, and come back.

00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:20.740
What's so strange about that cactus? It's got

00:25:20.740 --> 00:25:24.259
two, two, look at it. Look at those strange flowers.

00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:28.000
I don't know, they're weird. Survival tip. It's

00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:29.299
a helix cactus. That was a thing we mentioned,

00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:32.680
helix cactus petals. It's cool helix -y. Cool.

00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:34.380
So survival tip, if you want to remember your

00:25:34.380 --> 00:25:36.480
way back to some place, instead of remembering

00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:39.619
landmarks along the way, you're supposed to periodically

00:25:39.619 --> 00:25:42.759
turn around and remember them from that perspective.

00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:47.339
Yeah. Shut up. I don't know if that's a true

00:25:47.339 --> 00:25:49.619
survival tip or not. Sorry, I did mean to derail

00:25:49.619 --> 00:25:53.099
this whole thing. you reach a fissure in the

00:25:53.099 --> 00:25:56.440
ground. Something very small. It is just like

00:25:56.440 --> 00:25:59.720
this, like, sort of open crack, sort of surrounded

00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:05.059
by nothingness. Somewhere to the west, you know,

00:26:05.099 --> 00:26:07.220
the town of Hollow stands somewhere, like, you

00:26:07.220 --> 00:26:09.880
can see where this sort of slopes into some canyons,

00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:12.579
and from what Miskin says, there's, like, some

00:26:12.579 --> 00:26:15.119
ruined buildings, a small, like, totally desolate

00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:17.460
ghost town that's been taken over, a number of

00:26:17.460 --> 00:26:20.599
Luroshgar sort of hiding amidst the ruins, and...

00:26:21.180 --> 00:26:23.440
Just inside that town, this great iron gate sits

00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:26.200
towards the back, and this gate leads into the

00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:29.119
closed -off mine. This is where, in this first

00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:32.599
open chamber, Zavar has his lab, where he performs

00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:36.359
his dark experiments, where, likely, Serapio

00:26:36.359 --> 00:26:38.880
himself, he isn't this part, but Serapio himself

00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:42.460
was changed initially. His monstrous owl form

00:26:42.460 --> 00:26:45.500
was born, and now you can find a different way

00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:49.039
in. It's going to be a tight squeeze. I think

00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:51.430
Dance is looking down at it and just says, I

00:26:51.430 --> 00:26:55.289
am going first. Jesus, challenging. Just glaring

00:26:55.289 --> 00:26:56.890
at you, waiting for you to say something, Jules.

00:26:58.269 --> 00:27:02.650
He'll allow this. Just nods. Crispin reverts

00:27:02.650 --> 00:27:06.369
back to his shape, his regular shape. You want

00:27:06.369 --> 00:27:08.309
to shove your horse body in there? No, I don't

00:27:08.309 --> 00:27:11.029
think the horse body will do that. It definitely

00:27:11.029 --> 00:27:15.170
won't. If everybody pushes on your ass, you might

00:27:15.170 --> 00:27:20.380
be able to squeeze in. and dance as a small -sized

00:27:20.380 --> 00:27:23.220
creature, I might be able to maneuver a little

00:27:23.220 --> 00:27:26.700
quicker at the front. She's like, like, starting

00:27:26.700 --> 00:27:30.200
for a really long time to think about this. Fine.

00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:34.039
You're right. You go first. But I am behind him.

00:27:34.099 --> 00:27:35.819
Just points to you again, Jules. Jules winks.

00:27:36.579 --> 00:27:42.660
As you are preparing yourself to move down there,

00:27:42.900 --> 00:27:46.619
sort of wind picks up, and on it, I think, suddenly,

00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:54.640
you... hear a sound. Locke screams on the wind,

00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:59.400
and somewhere behind them, just a... You see

00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:04.099
light flares up somewhere in the distance. Arhalon

00:28:04.099 --> 00:28:09.500
has made his move. He is fighting now. Crispin

00:28:09.500 --> 00:28:12.660
speaks a few words under his breath, just wishing

00:28:12.660 --> 00:28:16.539
him luck. And you push down the hole? Yep. And

00:28:16.539 --> 00:28:20.079
he dives on down. As you move down, you see that

00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:23.200
this hole quickly finds a spot of groundwater

00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:25.960
as you press down a little ways. It is dark,

00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:29.579
slick, and dangerous. You're still close to the

00:28:29.579 --> 00:28:31.480
peaks here. You're still close to the mountainous

00:28:31.480 --> 00:28:35.960
terrain that's actually not fully desert. So

00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:37.099
you're probably catching some of the groundwater

00:28:37.099 --> 00:28:39.519
off of the mountains as it's flowing. This is

00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:41.039
not going to be an easy climb. Miskin warned

00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:43.359
you that he was battered from his journey through.

00:28:43.500 --> 00:28:45.700
He barely remembers his time in the dark, and

00:28:45.700 --> 00:28:49.240
it is pitch, pitch dark. So first things first,

00:28:49.539 --> 00:28:53.420
how do you guys want to see? Yeah, I was just

00:28:53.420 --> 00:28:55.140
looking through. I was like, wait a minute. Can

00:28:55.140 --> 00:29:00.059
Crispin even see? No. Well, hold on. I think

00:29:00.059 --> 00:29:02.140
everyone here does. Only Miskin here has dark

00:29:02.140 --> 00:29:04.819
vision. Oh, excellent. Great. Yeah. Well, what

00:29:04.819 --> 00:29:07.180
do you have on you, Crispin? Hold on. Do you

00:29:07.180 --> 00:29:10.599
have a weapon? I have light. Oh, perfect. Oh,

00:29:10.619 --> 00:29:13.140
yeah. Just pull something out, and I'll tap it,

00:29:13.180 --> 00:29:16.220
and it lights. Yeah. I'm just going to say he

00:29:16.220 --> 00:29:17.839
pulls something out. I don't know if he wants

00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:20.119
to hold his great club out, but... That's pretty

00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:22.400
cool. Yeah, can we just generically say that

00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:24.720
he pulls something out that lights? Because it

00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:27.799
says I can light an object, not a creature. He

00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:30.180
pulls a penny out of his pocket. Penny. Perfect.

00:29:31.180 --> 00:29:34.980
Jules taps the penny. All right. And it's a 20

00:29:34.980 --> 00:29:37.880
-foot radius. Sweet. Of dim light. Oh, no, no,

00:29:37.900 --> 00:29:39.700
bright light for 20 -foot radius, dim light for

00:29:39.700 --> 00:29:40.960
an additional 20. It's enough that you can all

00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:43.339
see as you push forward. Yeah, yeah. Great. Okay,

00:29:43.339 --> 00:29:44.700
cool. So he's taking the lead, and you can all

00:29:44.700 --> 00:29:47.039
see as he goes and starts stepping down, the

00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:49.380
light sort of shining. I don't know if you attach

00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:50.839
it to your head like a headlight or something

00:29:50.839 --> 00:29:53.039
like that somehow or stick it yourself. But,

00:29:53.059 --> 00:29:57.160
yeah, you're moving down into the dark. As you

00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:00.619
guys move, I'd like you all to roll me. We're

00:30:00.619 --> 00:30:02.279
going to take a combined check and take the sort

00:30:02.279 --> 00:30:04.420
of average rather than the middle roll here.

00:30:05.019 --> 00:30:08.339
I want either survival. or athletics. Either

00:30:08.339 --> 00:30:10.759
you're going to cleverly find the right spots

00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:14.039
to move to, or you're going to just grit your

00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:17.299
teeth and push through and try to keep your footing.

00:30:17.660 --> 00:30:19.160
This is going to be rough. You're squeezing,

00:30:19.420 --> 00:30:22.220
you're slipping, you're climbing down rough patches.

00:30:22.380 --> 00:30:24.900
It's an easy choice for me. One's plus one, one's

00:30:24.900 --> 00:30:28.720
negative one. It's a little bit of a harder choice

00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:32.180
for me because one is plus seven, the other is

00:30:32.180 --> 00:30:36.599
plus eight. Plus seven with athletics, Crispin

00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:40.119
also gets advantage. Wait, are you raging? Or

00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:43.059
is that always? I think it's always, and I can

00:30:43.059 --> 00:30:45.099
figure out why if you give me like a minute.

00:30:45.299 --> 00:30:48.960
That's crazy talk. Squat nimbleness. Oh, to escape

00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:51.700
from being grappled. Shit. Never mind. Okay,

00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:53.539
I saw the little green A and I got excited. Hey,

00:30:53.539 --> 00:30:55.859
burn a rage on it. Crispin gets really mad when

00:30:55.859 --> 00:30:57.779
he almost slips off a rock. No, he's not grappling.

00:30:57.819 --> 00:31:01.940
Unless being in this cave is considered being

00:31:01.940 --> 00:31:06.289
grappled. You shut that shit right down. All

00:31:06.289 --> 00:31:09.849
right, fine. I'll just do survival then. Almost

00:31:09.849 --> 00:31:19.349
dropped it. 16 plus 8. You're fine. 14. 14? 14.

00:31:19.349 --> 00:31:21.309
Give me another one. It's a plus 5 athletics

00:31:21.309 --> 00:31:28.210
for dance. 21. 21? Okay. Not the worst average.

00:31:28.430 --> 00:31:32.200
Yeah. Miska has a really rough time. but we're

00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:34.279
going to move with essentially what stands between

00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:40.279
21 to 14. That's going to be above 15 DC. Nice.

00:31:40.500 --> 00:31:42.799
Average. So as Miskin's having, you see he starts

00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:44.640
to slip and stumble immediately. I think like,

00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:47.680
I think you and Dan sort of both grab like one

00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:50.079
of his arms or kind of, kind of helping him down.

00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:53.500
So as Crispin moves ahead, giving light, sort

00:31:53.500 --> 00:31:56.200
of clearing the path, you survival, right? Crispin.

00:31:56.539 --> 00:31:58.380
Yes. You're calling out, like, you know, which

00:31:58.380 --> 00:32:00.519
trails to take, which rocks to grab, which ones

00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:03.240
not to touch. And the two of you, Dance and Jules,

00:32:03.299 --> 00:32:05.740
are able to help Miskin down so he can help you

00:32:05.740 --> 00:32:10.779
find your way through. And with that, you reach

00:32:10.779 --> 00:32:16.859
the place you need to go to in 30 minutes. We're

00:32:16.859 --> 00:32:19.579
staying at 11 o 'clock. An hour before the ritual,

00:32:19.779 --> 00:32:23.720
you guys crushed it. Front fucking row. I'm trying

00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:24.920
to make a joke over here, if you don't mind.

00:32:26.100 --> 00:32:31.180
Piping down a little bit. Sorry, I'll give you

00:32:31.180 --> 00:32:33.740
the room. What I said was early enough to get

00:32:33.740 --> 00:32:39.559
a good seat. Oh my gosh, take a button. You're

00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:41.740
not getting a button. I remember having those.

00:32:41.900 --> 00:32:44.180
I burnt them all. You did. You're never getting

00:32:44.180 --> 00:32:51.559
a button again with that attitude. Holy shit.

00:32:52.380 --> 00:32:54.720
You work your way through the tunnel until you

00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:57.829
hit a point. Where, like, as you're sort of shifting

00:32:57.829 --> 00:32:59.950
through, you have this sort of long, narrow passage

00:32:59.950 --> 00:33:01.829
where it's, like, just barely wide enough to

00:33:01.829 --> 00:33:04.470
fit your bodies sort of through. You're shimmying,

00:33:04.529 --> 00:33:09.089
you know, side by side until you push out into

00:33:09.089 --> 00:33:13.390
a larger, open chamber. About a little over five

00:33:13.390 --> 00:33:16.809
feet wide. Which feels amazing compared to what

00:33:16.809 --> 00:33:18.230
you've been dealing with. Squeezing through this.

00:33:18.309 --> 00:33:21.009
And you realize that you have entered the mine

00:33:21.009 --> 00:33:25.769
proper. You are pushing through. Miskin sort

00:33:25.769 --> 00:33:28.750
of leading you along. I think he stops before

00:33:28.750 --> 00:33:32.710
you get too far and says, we're close now. He

00:33:32.710 --> 00:33:35.869
gestures to the coin, the penny that is shining.

00:33:36.150 --> 00:33:38.430
Pennies aren't even a thing. You just said a

00:33:38.430 --> 00:33:41.309
thing that I might find in my human pockets.

00:33:41.430 --> 00:33:43.750
I don't care. He points to the penny. Call it

00:33:43.750 --> 00:33:46.029
a piece of gold. Yeah, he took out a silver piece.

00:33:46.870 --> 00:33:48.769
You said penny. It's a copper piece at least.

00:33:48.890 --> 00:33:50.930
Okay, well, I didn't want it to be a gold piece

00:33:50.930 --> 00:33:53.109
because then I know you'd be like, ooh, roll

00:33:53.109 --> 00:33:55.710
for, you drop it. You drop it. You lose your

00:33:55.710 --> 00:33:58.970
gold piece. He points to it and says, we're coming

00:33:58.970 --> 00:34:03.589
on soon. They could be around. Do you want to

00:34:03.589 --> 00:34:07.029
sneak up on them? Well, I don't know how we're

00:34:07.029 --> 00:34:09.750
going to sneak without being able to see. I can

00:34:09.750 --> 00:34:13.730
lead and call out, but it'll be pretty tough.

00:34:14.649 --> 00:34:17.190
So you said to you guys, if you keep the light,

00:34:17.269 --> 00:34:18.949
I can try to like, you can, we can sort of work

00:34:18.949 --> 00:34:20.230
through the dark to see if you can get closer

00:34:20.230 --> 00:34:23.909
or, well, you said we are, we're not weaving

00:34:23.909 --> 00:34:25.869
anymore. We're in a wide open, sort of like wider

00:34:25.869 --> 00:34:27.789
open, sort of five to 10 foot wide. It's kind

00:34:27.789 --> 00:34:29.929
of varying, but you are in a mine tunnel, which

00:34:29.929 --> 00:34:31.969
means you're closing, closing, closing, closing

00:34:31.969 --> 00:34:37.210
in closing. Okay. On the lab. Damn. I wanted

00:34:37.210 --> 00:34:41.849
to, I wanted to clues in on it. Well, Still dealing

00:34:41.849 --> 00:34:46.429
with that alcohol taste. I'm drunk. Chris is

00:34:46.429 --> 00:34:48.250
going to pull something out of his bag. What?

00:34:48.650 --> 00:34:52.849
A little one foot long rod. And he's going to

00:34:52.849 --> 00:34:56.429
hold it horizontally. And he's going to speak

00:34:56.429 --> 00:35:00.670
a command word and cause it to grow to a length

00:35:00.670 --> 00:35:05.670
of at most 10 feet. This is his pole of collapsing.

00:35:05.909 --> 00:35:09.820
Oh my gosh. I forgot about this. Miskin, if you

00:35:09.820 --> 00:35:12.300
hold on to the beginning of the pole, you can

00:35:12.300 --> 00:35:16.019
lead us through. Don't you also have the... Horn

00:35:16.019 --> 00:35:19.219
of Silent Alarm? No, the pole of Immovable Rod.

00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:20.860
Oh yeah, I do have the Immovable Rod. He's like

00:35:20.860 --> 00:35:24.500
a pole guy. He's a rod guy. I'm actually now

00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:26.559
looking. I don't know if I ever put the Immovable

00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:30.139
Rod in his equipment. It was there. I didn't,

00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:32.400
but I know it's there. I just have to do it.

00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:34.300
We both have a little bit of homework to do.

00:35:34.420 --> 00:35:36.840
I have to do Immovable Rod. You have to give

00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:45.809
me Zebulons. You can't tell me. Okay, what are

00:35:45.809 --> 00:35:47.550
you doing with this thing? Man, we literally

00:35:47.550 --> 00:35:49.510
just could have used a string, but I had to make

00:35:49.510 --> 00:35:52.190
it fun with the item. Dude, it's fun as hell.

00:35:52.829 --> 00:35:54.329
So you're just using this to kind of feel out

00:35:54.329 --> 00:35:57.449
the way as you go? No. So Miskin's going to hold

00:35:57.449 --> 00:35:59.449
on to the beginning. He's going to be at the

00:35:59.449 --> 00:36:01.090
front of the line, and we're all going to hold

00:36:01.090 --> 00:36:02.849
on to it like a hand railing. Sorry, I'm drunk

00:36:02.849 --> 00:36:06.070
from D, so I couldn't. All right, so you're here?

00:36:06.130 --> 00:36:09.440
Got him. You got him. Okay. So you're going in

00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:15.000
dark, and you begin to move forward. A short

00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:19.960
bit of time passes, maybe 11 .15, when you feel...

00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:26.539
Hang on. I don't like that. You feel Miskin suddenly

00:36:26.539 --> 00:36:29.820
just stop. Just dead still in the middle of the

00:36:29.820 --> 00:36:32.579
darkness. It's so sudden that you probably feel

00:36:32.579 --> 00:36:34.420
like... You sort of shuffle, you're probably

00:36:34.420 --> 00:36:37.360
forced back. And I think you can feel just a

00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:41.860
slight sort of tremor moving down the rod. Go

00:36:41.860 --> 00:36:48.340
ahead and roll perception. Fuck. Just a 10. That's

00:36:48.340 --> 00:36:51.599
a 19. 19. Actually, Crispin, your passive is

00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:55.079
probably outrageous. Yeah, it's 18. Okay. Oh,

00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:57.739
no, sorry. Yeah, no, I was right. 18. That is

00:36:57.739 --> 00:37:00.619
truly outrageous. 18, 19, both of you immediately

00:37:00.619 --> 00:37:03.420
catch it as he stops, as he sort of shakes. I

00:37:03.420 --> 00:37:06.360
rolled with him. He rolled a 19, actually. You

00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:09.860
can hear somewhere ahead sounds of like scratching,

00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:13.599
sounds of rock, sort of rubble moving. And you

00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:19.400
hear like a... Something throaty, growling and

00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:22.400
grunting with effort. And it seems to be moving

00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:25.440
something ahead. A creature in the darkness.

00:37:26.139 --> 00:37:28.639
Miskin is not moving. He is frozen where he stands.

00:37:29.460 --> 00:37:32.440
Crispin doesn't even dare breathe. Yeah, same.

00:37:32.659 --> 00:37:35.550
I think Jules is kind of frozen. I think the

00:37:35.550 --> 00:37:37.909
thought is, you know, maybe we can wait for it

00:37:37.909 --> 00:37:41.429
to pass unless Miskin says something else. I

00:37:41.429 --> 00:37:45.989
think you hear or feel like Miskin sliding up

00:37:45.989 --> 00:37:47.409
the pole. He's sort of holding on to it. He's

00:37:47.409 --> 00:37:50.030
sort of moving with it very carefully. Try not

00:37:50.030 --> 00:37:53.090
to, like, make any sort of moves that could disturb

00:37:53.090 --> 00:37:57.550
the ground beneath him. I'll roll for it. It's

00:37:57.550 --> 00:38:02.389
fine. And you feel him suddenly, like, in front

00:38:02.389 --> 00:38:04.530
of you, just there in the middle of this blackness.

00:38:05.260 --> 00:38:07.599
I think he's more whispering. Biscuit's smart.

00:38:07.940 --> 00:38:10.360
So I think he tries to whisper very, very quietly

00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:16.119
towards Crispin because Crispin can hear particularly

00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:18.679
well with his harring on ears. Right. Crispin's

00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:20.179
probably right behind him as well. So you're

00:38:20.179 --> 00:38:22.139
picking this up very clearly as he just says,

00:38:22.300 --> 00:38:25.639
It's our step ahead. This is the place where

00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:28.579
Paul brought down the wall. We're almost at the

00:38:28.579 --> 00:38:32.800
lab. But one of those things. I think it's on

00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:35.219
this side of the wall trying to dig its way through.

00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:40.559
Do we know what he says when he means one of

00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:42.019
those things? When he told you the story of what

00:38:42.019 --> 00:38:45.880
happened, he talked about these undead creatures,

00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:49.340
pale skin with sharp teeth and long, reaching

00:38:49.340 --> 00:38:52.239
tongues, just these horrifying monstrosities

00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:54.860
with some intelligence that serves Zavars as

00:38:54.860 --> 00:38:58.179
kind of like lab servants and lab rats here.

00:38:58.779 --> 00:39:01.599
Zavar himself is also undead now, from what he

00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:05.579
says, boasting of the benefits of having a heart

00:39:05.579 --> 00:39:08.639
that does not beat. Based on what he says, you

00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:10.840
guys could roll checks. It would be a religion

00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:14.840
check to figure out what undead creature this

00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:17.539
is. Yeah, let's see. Why not? I just got a plus

00:39:17.539 --> 00:39:19.119
zero, but... Why not? Let's see if we can get

00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:24.239
some info. Just a six. Just an eight for jewels.

00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:26.659
You don't know. Goddamn. Let me look through

00:39:26.659 --> 00:39:29.690
my stuff here. But you at least know that that's

00:39:29.690 --> 00:39:30.889
what he's talking about. One of those creatures

00:39:30.889 --> 00:39:33.869
is on this side. At least one. And as you're

00:39:33.869 --> 00:39:35.550
here, you had really high perceptions. There's

00:39:35.550 --> 00:39:38.849
just one. You can only hear one. It is digging.

00:39:39.349 --> 00:39:41.829
And as he speaks, it becomes more clear to you.

00:39:42.090 --> 00:39:46.130
It is digging through rubble. It is probably

00:39:46.130 --> 00:39:49.409
about, I think it's around a bend. You can hear

00:39:49.409 --> 00:39:51.010
the echo kind of bouncing off. Those really high

00:39:51.010 --> 00:39:54.230
checks. The bend's about 30 feet ahead of you.

00:39:54.289 --> 00:39:59.039
And then from there, about 20 feet. to the left.

00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:06.280
This creature is digging through the stone. How

00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:10.179
deep through the stone does it have left to dig

00:40:10.179 --> 00:40:13.780
would we be able to figure out with Miskin? He's

00:40:13.780 --> 00:40:15.579
trying to dig through the stone. He'd have to

00:40:15.579 --> 00:40:17.659
move close enough to peek around the corner and

00:40:17.659 --> 00:40:22.260
see. What in the hell? Do you want to do that?

00:40:22.619 --> 00:40:24.900
You can move closer. I'm trying to think about

00:40:24.900 --> 00:40:27.409
this. I don't see any way that we're... gonna

00:40:27.409 --> 00:40:30.769
get through this thing other than just attacking

00:40:30.769 --> 00:40:34.449
it, right? Miskin, there's no other path to take,

00:40:34.449 --> 00:40:38.489
is there? This is it. Paul made sure of it. It's

00:40:38.489 --> 00:40:39.829
how I got away, but this thing must have been

00:40:39.829 --> 00:40:42.050
trapped on this side. It's probably been digging

00:40:42.050 --> 00:40:46.489
for days. Well, uh, are they particularly dangerous,

00:40:46.570 --> 00:40:51.530
or could we dispatch it easily? I don't know.

00:40:51.690 --> 00:40:55.010
I... They're dangerous for me. They've got...

00:40:55.369 --> 00:40:59.289
long claws and fangs. They were, um, they were

00:40:59.289 --> 00:41:03.210
gonna eat me and Paul. Can you get me in a straight

00:41:03.210 --> 00:41:07.949
line with it? Oh, that's pretty cool. Wow, I

00:41:07.949 --> 00:41:12.469
like that. Okay. Okay, I'm into this. Line me

00:41:12.469 --> 00:41:15.369
up with it. Tell me when it's straight in front

00:41:15.369 --> 00:41:17.969
of me. I don't have to be that close yet. Alright.

00:41:18.429 --> 00:41:22.429
I think he puts the rod down and you feel him

00:41:22.429 --> 00:41:26.730
take your hand when you're ready. Yeah, I'm thinking

00:41:26.730 --> 00:41:30.130
slash hoping that Crispin can do this real quick.

00:41:30.550 --> 00:41:33.150
I don't know. We'll see, I guess. He's leading

00:41:33.150 --> 00:41:36.369
you down the way, but it's still like stones

00:41:36.369 --> 00:41:38.650
lying in the ground as you get closer and closer,

00:41:38.809 --> 00:41:41.150
perhaps thrown back by this creature as it dug

00:41:41.150 --> 00:41:45.269
its way through. As you touch them, it's hard

00:41:45.269 --> 00:41:47.530
not to scatter them. We're going to make stealth

00:41:47.530 --> 00:41:50.170
checks. Me and you, we're going to take the median

00:41:50.170 --> 00:41:54.179
check again. Okay. I hate this. Stealth's not

00:41:54.179 --> 00:41:56.199
great for this little guy. I'll need a little

00:41:56.199 --> 00:41:59.239
check. Does he have a race thing that makes him

00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:05.980
stealthier? He does not. Okay. Crit my pants

00:42:05.980 --> 00:42:09.099
on the stealth check. It's not very stealthy

00:42:09.099 --> 00:42:12.320
with crit all over your little paragon behind,

00:42:12.699 --> 00:42:18.119
but Crispin pulls it off. Just walking. Quieter,

00:42:18.119 --> 00:42:23.909
quieter, quieter. There you go. Cut that. That

00:42:23.909 --> 00:42:27.570
was so gross. It softens the sound of the stone.

00:42:27.670 --> 00:42:31.409
It slides across the floor. It's awful. It's

00:42:31.409 --> 00:42:34.010
horrible. We're the worst. We're the worst. Miskin

00:42:34.010 --> 00:42:37.090
actually got an unnatural 20. Oh, okay, sweet.

00:42:37.130 --> 00:42:39.610
So you guys are super stealthy. You're just fine.

00:42:39.769 --> 00:42:41.769
You're pushing forward, pushing forward, dancing

00:42:41.769 --> 00:42:43.730
jewels. You can feel them moving ahead of you.

00:42:45.130 --> 00:42:48.820
And you sort of loop around. I think you're pressing,

00:42:48.920 --> 00:42:51.019
you can feel like a wall around beside you as

00:42:51.019 --> 00:42:52.800
you're kind of pushing around it and sort of

00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:57.420
turning sort of south and west towards like a,

00:42:57.480 --> 00:43:00.260
you know, down a narrow pathway. And Miskin kind

00:43:00.260 --> 00:43:03.500
of gets behind you and lines up your body. You

00:43:03.500 --> 00:43:10.380
can hear very close now. I will get back. Clattering

00:43:10.380 --> 00:43:12.599
of stone. And actually, as you hit this point,

00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:14.750
I think a stone has moved. And you can feel,

00:43:14.829 --> 00:43:17.150
like, something very high up is moved. And for

00:43:17.150 --> 00:43:19.309
a moment, you can see, like, this clawed hand

00:43:19.309 --> 00:43:23.449
as this violet light shines very dimly from the

00:43:23.449 --> 00:43:25.909
other side, just through a crack at the top of

00:43:25.909 --> 00:43:29.429
this wall, as it's slowly about to, like, it's

00:43:29.429 --> 00:43:31.949
about to move into the next room. You can feel

00:43:31.949 --> 00:43:35.010
the stone sort of clatters down, and the hand

00:43:35.010 --> 00:43:36.710
disappears as it moves away from that light.

00:43:36.909 --> 00:43:38.809
You saw a glimpse of this thing just before you.

00:43:39.110 --> 00:43:41.429
Miskin's poised you towards it. You know where

00:43:41.429 --> 00:43:44.019
it is. What do you want to do about it? Cast

00:43:44.019 --> 00:43:49.699
fairy fire on it. Oh, shit. So each object in

00:43:49.699 --> 00:43:52.659
the 24 cube within range is outlined in a color

00:43:52.659 --> 00:43:54.679
of your choice. And any creature in that area

00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:57.519
when the spell is cast, oh, yeah, is outlined

00:43:57.519 --> 00:43:59.460
in light. I think I just said that. I didn't

00:43:59.460 --> 00:44:04.659
say that twice. If it fails, oh, sorry. The first

00:44:04.659 --> 00:44:07.460
was object, not creature. Each object was outlined.

00:44:07.619 --> 00:44:11.559
I don't care about objects. Creature, when they

00:44:11.559 --> 00:44:16.099
fail, a dex save. Okay. First things first, you

00:44:16.099 --> 00:44:18.239
get to decide the color of this, correct? Yeah.

00:44:18.559 --> 00:44:21.659
I'm going to give you something because it's

00:44:21.659 --> 00:44:23.900
a really cool, clever idea. You said violet light.

00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:25.480
You saw violet light from the other room. You

00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:27.519
realize if you color it in that same color, it

00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:29.360
will not be noticeable that another light is

00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:31.139
shining beyond this side of the wall. That's

00:44:31.139 --> 00:44:34.099
great. It just makes sense. Hell yeah. In fact,

00:44:34.219 --> 00:44:36.559
you know what? Nice. Really cool plan here. Excellent.

00:44:36.599 --> 00:44:38.619
Take a button. Excellent. Really cool plan here.

00:44:40.089 --> 00:44:41.289
You're going to be giving that back to him in

00:44:41.289 --> 00:44:45.409
about 10 minutes. Seriously. This thing is going

00:44:45.409 --> 00:44:48.590
to roll a check. I mean, I'm not going to roll

00:44:48.590 --> 00:44:50.630
a check. I'm going to forfeit it. Oh, really?

00:44:50.690 --> 00:44:52.650
It does not know you're here. Why would it save?

00:44:52.989 --> 00:44:56.030
Okay, sure. It's digging. It's totally unfocused

00:44:56.030 --> 00:44:57.610
on you. Because you passed your stealth so well,

00:44:57.769 --> 00:45:01.230
getting above a 20, it has no idea you're there.

00:45:01.369 --> 00:45:03.690
It's a decent check anyway. So this thing is

00:45:03.690 --> 00:45:06.030
suddenly... Outline in this sort of vile light.

00:45:06.070 --> 00:45:08.210
I think its hand stops as it looks at it. You

00:45:08.210 --> 00:45:11.989
can see this, like, gross, pale, like, skinny

00:45:11.989 --> 00:45:13.530
creature. It looks like it might have been a

00:45:13.530 --> 00:45:15.590
human body, but now its ears are sort of sharpened.

00:45:15.610 --> 00:45:17.769
It has this, like I said, this sort of dead eyes,

00:45:17.949 --> 00:45:20.309
long teeth, long tongue as it sort of reaches

00:45:20.309 --> 00:45:21.969
out and looks at its hand. The tongue is sort

00:45:21.969 --> 00:45:25.550
of lulling down, swaying beneath its chin. Just

00:45:25.550 --> 00:45:29.010
this hideous monster. I think it slowly turns

00:45:29.010 --> 00:45:32.150
its head around to look to you guys. Roll for

00:45:32.150 --> 00:45:35.480
initiative. All right. Ooh. I'm going to maybe

00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:37.739
ask to retcon something because I should have

00:45:37.739 --> 00:45:41.000
done a bonus action before I cast Faerie Fire.

00:45:41.239 --> 00:45:43.840
I'll allow it. It's also fun and exciting because

00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:46.860
it's the new cantrip that I took for level five.

00:45:47.099 --> 00:45:51.420
Bonus action candy rip? Bonus action shillelagh.

00:45:51.719 --> 00:45:56.280
Oh, dude. Yeah, buddy. That's solid. Bonus action

00:45:56.280 --> 00:45:58.760
shillelagh. On this beast of a druid? Yeah, man.

00:45:59.179 --> 00:46:06.400
Yeah. 15 for initiative. Jewel's got a 19. Dances

00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:13.039
at a 22. Holy crap. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So really

00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:16.639
quick for anybody who isn't super familiar with

00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:20.019
Shillelagh. Basically, it changes my great club

00:46:20.019 --> 00:46:23.920
from a plus 7 to hit and a 1d8 plus 4 for damage.

00:46:23.940 --> 00:46:27.579
It ups that to a... plus 8 to hit, and 1d8 plus

00:46:27.579 --> 00:46:30.460
5 for damage. That's amazing. Yeah, so right

00:46:30.460 --> 00:46:33.000
now it basically just makes it a plus 1. And

00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:35.619
it's a magic weapon, so you get through defenses.

00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:39.880
That's huge at this level. Okay, we're going

00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:42.119
to start with Dance. Dance is just before you,

00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:44.900
Jules. You're about 40 feet down the tunnel,

00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:46.780
so you're not quite at this fight right now.

00:46:46.860 --> 00:46:49.719
Okay, well, I mean, her speed is 40 feet, so...

00:46:49.719 --> 00:46:51.940
So 40 feet ahead of you. I'm actually going to

00:46:51.940 --> 00:46:53.320
start lighting this up so you guys can see what's

00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:56.960
going on. Okay. That's where the... turn is so

00:46:56.960 --> 00:47:00.320
okay i can't gush about too much yet because

00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:02.599
you can't see the whole map but this is i think

00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:05.960
a masterpiece by rochelle i i made a little shopping

00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:07.960
list i'm so stoked about this map right now you're

00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:09.679
looking at a little snaking tunnel that moves

00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:13.539
down towards a wall um What Dance sees, basically,

00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:15.360
as this happens, and you see those two jewels,

00:47:15.460 --> 00:47:18.960
is suddenly where Crispin and Miskin went, a

00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:21.659
light sort of pulses out from deeper in the tunnel

00:47:21.659 --> 00:47:24.059
around a corner you can't see. But at the corner,

00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:27.559
you see, lit by this violent light, you see Miskin

00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:31.239
and Crispin standing before it. Crispin's weapon

00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:33.889
looks, what should they look like? Is it, like,

00:47:33.929 --> 00:47:36.449
growing, like, flowers and nature all over it?

00:47:36.469 --> 00:47:38.449
Exactly. It's, like, vines and flowers. It's

00:47:38.449 --> 00:47:41.809
so cool. So Crispin's Gray Club has sort of,

00:47:41.809 --> 00:47:44.510
like, come to life with some sort of verdant

00:47:44.510 --> 00:47:48.650
foliage. You can hear, like, a sound. This thing

00:47:48.650 --> 00:47:50.750
is turning around to face. You can make your

00:47:50.750 --> 00:47:53.449
move. You cannot see how far away it is from

00:47:53.449 --> 00:47:56.869
you right now, Dance, but in 40 feet, you could

00:47:56.869 --> 00:47:59.269
reach the point where you could see it. Oh, yeah.

00:47:59.309 --> 00:48:00.949
I mean, that's her plan. She's running up as

00:48:00.949 --> 00:48:03.179
far as she can. She hits the 40 -feet point,

00:48:03.260 --> 00:48:04.840
and she's looking at it still a short ways away.

00:48:05.340 --> 00:48:08.159
Now, reminder that Dance has the ability, if

00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:10.360
you defend a key point, to move to dash as a

00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:11.900
bonus action if you want to get some attacks

00:48:11.900 --> 00:48:13.820
in. That's right. But that's going to be a key

00:48:13.820 --> 00:48:17.000
point. Right. She's up at the wind. Right, right.

00:48:17.300 --> 00:48:18.699
Oh, wait, never mind, never mind. I didn't double

00:48:18.699 --> 00:48:20.760
move. I just regular move. Okay, never mind.

00:48:21.099 --> 00:48:23.239
Yeah, no, that's the plan. She's just fast as

00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:26.099
hell. Yeah, she's going in. Okay. Key point down.

00:48:26.500 --> 00:48:28.280
She has five key points, a little five, so you're

00:48:28.280 --> 00:48:30.519
down to four. Yep. But she blasts around the

00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:32.320
corner. You feel like the wind pick up on your

00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:35.059
fur. Christmas Dance just weaves around you around

00:48:35.059 --> 00:48:37.059
the corner, moving up to this thing, and just

00:48:37.059 --> 00:48:38.599
starts. What's she doing? You're keeping track

00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:40.840
of these, right? Yes. They're in my brain. You

00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:42.519
don't have that ability to on your phone, unfortunately.

00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:44.780
Yep. I got it in my brain. All right. She's going

00:48:44.780 --> 00:48:48.739
in for a strike. Okay. This undead creature almost

00:48:48.739 --> 00:48:51.659
launches back in surprise as its form just...

00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:54.579
whirls around the corner, flies up to it, fist

00:48:54.579 --> 00:48:57.340
poised, and just goes in for a hard or a punch

00:48:57.340 --> 00:49:00.920
in the spiky, gross jaw. Quickly and quietly

00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:04.960
dance. That's going to be a 24. That is going

00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:10.579
to hit for sure. That's a five. Okay, five damage.

00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:13.659
Yep. Not bad. Two on the die. Its head just snaps

00:49:13.659 --> 00:49:15.679
back against the stone. It's like standing on.

00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:17.179
You can see like now in the light that this roll

00:49:17.179 --> 00:49:18.840
pile reaches almost near the ceiling, but there

00:49:18.840 --> 00:49:20.820
is that small crack going into the next room.

00:49:21.019 --> 00:49:22.980
It's been digging for a while based on the stone

00:49:22.980 --> 00:49:25.219
kind of cut off to the side here, but it's almost

00:49:25.219 --> 00:49:26.940
through into the next room. And you can kind

00:49:26.940 --> 00:49:28.460
of hear something on the other side, almost like

00:49:28.460 --> 00:49:31.780
an electrical current, a whirring. So even the

00:49:31.780 --> 00:49:33.320
sounds of this fight, as you get close, you realize

00:49:33.320 --> 00:49:36.159
are being drowned out by something beyond here.

00:49:37.820 --> 00:49:40.400
Dance hits him hard, and that's going to be Jules.

00:49:41.419 --> 00:49:46.719
All righty. Shit. You're pretty far away. I know.

00:49:47.460 --> 00:49:49.079
Stealth checks wouldn't you be any closer, so

00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:51.139
it's not bad to be this far away. I know. I'm

00:49:51.139 --> 00:49:53.860
just going to go the 30 feet I can go. Okay,

00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:54.980
do you want to double move to get all the way

00:49:54.980 --> 00:49:56.940
up to where you can see it? I'll, like, half

00:49:56.940 --> 00:49:59.219
double move to get to the 40 -foot mark. Hell

00:49:59.219 --> 00:50:00.820
yeah. But he's not going to get in any closer

00:50:00.820 --> 00:50:03.539
than behind everybody else. You can see, Jules,

00:50:03.559 --> 00:50:05.139
as you move up, you can see Miskin as he sees

00:50:05.139 --> 00:50:08.960
this thing. Like, he always acts so damn tough.

00:50:09.980 --> 00:50:12.400
and just their memories of what happened to him

00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:15.900
here. He's, like, terrified. And you can move

00:50:15.900 --> 00:50:18.860
up right beside him. I think your presence there

00:50:18.860 --> 00:50:22.179
just, like, immediately begins to calm him. Yeah,

00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:24.699
I don't think he moves up right beside him. I

00:50:24.699 --> 00:50:27.099
think he comes up right behind him and kind of

00:50:27.099 --> 00:50:29.599
puts his hand on his shoulders and just kind

00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:31.860
of gives him a little squeeze of reassurance.

00:50:32.099 --> 00:50:35.900
You can feel the trembling just die out beneath

00:50:35.900 --> 00:50:39.239
your hand. Good. And you look ahead and you see

00:50:39.239 --> 00:50:40.380
just Dance has just punched this thing in the

00:50:40.380 --> 00:50:44.500
face. So you're seeing that. Jules is blushing.

00:50:46.460 --> 00:50:50.739
Wish he'd punch me like that. Oh, God. Crispin,

00:50:50.739 --> 00:50:54.639
you're up. All right. Crispin's going to move

00:50:54.639 --> 00:50:59.440
up to the side of Dance here. So he's coming

00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:02.260
down this short little hallway. And he's got

00:51:02.260 --> 00:51:05.739
his great club held with both hands over the

00:51:05.739 --> 00:51:11.340
top of his head. He's this big gray club floating

00:51:11.340 --> 00:51:13.920
behind him as this small -sized creature runs

00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:18.460
with these little padded feet. He gets up to

00:51:18.460 --> 00:51:26.679
this guy and takes a swing. 18 on the die. That's

00:51:26.679 --> 00:51:29.099
a hit. This thing is not armored. It's wearing,

00:51:29.139 --> 00:51:34.820
like, maybe rags. Nice, yeah. 12. Oh, my God.

00:51:35.610 --> 00:51:38.070
You come down on this thing with a force. You

00:51:38.070 --> 00:51:39.909
can feel the magic pulsing out of your club,

00:51:39.969 --> 00:51:42.829
this nature magic, this life. It shrinks away

00:51:42.829 --> 00:51:45.690
from it as it's crushed beneath the weight. It's

00:51:45.690 --> 00:51:51.250
still up, but it is barely alive already. Not

00:51:51.250 --> 00:51:55.929
bad. I'm going to go now. And you seem like a

00:51:55.929 --> 00:51:57.949
pretty good target because that hurt. That's

00:51:57.949 --> 00:52:00.150
fine. It just reaches out with its claws and

00:52:00.150 --> 00:52:03.840
tries to rake at you. And it misses with a 10

00:52:03.840 --> 00:52:09.340
on the die. Okay, sweet. Darn it! Just like a

00:52:09.340 --> 00:52:11.659
ferocious monster, just cornered and scared.

00:52:11.820 --> 00:52:14.619
It lunges out, its claws go to hit you, and you

00:52:14.619 --> 00:52:17.000
just sort of easily weave back and away, and

00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:19.079
this thing goes wide, and that's going to be

00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:21.510
dance again. I think you see it like in this

00:52:21.510 --> 00:52:23.530
moment, so everyone's turning and trying to climb

00:52:23.530 --> 00:52:26.130
up. They're all piled, so and so are scattering

00:52:26.130 --> 00:52:27.889
beneath it. They're just trying to reach out

00:52:27.889 --> 00:52:30.030
through that crack, reach towards it, try to

00:52:30.030 --> 00:52:33.409
warn somebody, try to do something. And as it

00:52:33.409 --> 00:52:36.789
turns back to dance, her turn is happening now.

00:52:36.889 --> 00:52:39.449
All right. And she's going for it. Oh, shit.

00:52:40.909 --> 00:52:43.789
Is it 21 to hit? Yeah, it's going to hit. Oh,

00:52:43.829 --> 00:52:46.650
yeah, it's going to hit. Only for four damage.

00:52:47.010 --> 00:52:49.110
Okay. Then she's going to take her bonus action.

00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:51.579
She cracks against this thing with her first

00:52:51.579 --> 00:52:54.039
attack. It's just smashing up the stone. It's

00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:58.179
still up, barely. Its hand is reaching. It looks

00:52:58.179 --> 00:52:59.920
like it might be at one HP. You're not sure.

00:53:00.780 --> 00:53:03.739
It's trying to slide its hand through the crack.

00:53:04.260 --> 00:53:07.219
She's going to swat the hand away with one hand,

00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:09.860
and with the other hand, bonus action second

00:53:09.860 --> 00:53:14.519
attack. Holy shit. It's a 15. That's going to

00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:19.320
hit. Fuck yeah. Oh my god. Max damage, that's

00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:22.960
seven. Is that more than one? Hold on, let me

00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:27.940
check. Describe the kill. Yeah, I think, you

00:53:27.940 --> 00:53:30.559
know, I'm going to amend this a little bit. Rather

00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:34.880
than swatting the hand away, she's going to grab

00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:38.780
its wrist, yank it to the ground so it kind of

00:53:38.780 --> 00:53:40.940
pulls its whole body further, like, face down

00:53:40.940 --> 00:53:43.099
to the ground, and then just pummel the shit

00:53:43.099 --> 00:53:45.460
out of it. Just now, Prince of Body, this is

00:53:45.460 --> 00:53:48.210
how we do it on San Satyan, and just... Boom,

00:53:48.269 --> 00:53:50.670
boom, boom. Like a half sword of grapple. His

00:53:50.670 --> 00:53:55.429
head just caves in. Just like full ferocity.

00:53:55.510 --> 00:53:57.829
And yeah, you just see like... The head is just

00:53:57.829 --> 00:54:03.250
pummeled. And this creature is dead. You wait,

00:54:03.369 --> 00:54:06.429
wondering perhaps if the sounds of that combat

00:54:06.429 --> 00:54:10.449
were noticed. But all you hear is that same electric

00:54:10.449 --> 00:54:13.590
whirring in the next room. And somewhere in the

00:54:13.590 --> 00:54:23.820
midst of it, you just hear like a... I just think

00:54:23.820 --> 00:54:25.639
it's... Isn't it so funny that we always show

00:54:25.639 --> 00:54:29.019
up, like, right in time for the evil cackling

00:54:29.019 --> 00:54:32.019
laugh? I love my cackling laughter, man. Come

00:54:32.019 --> 00:54:34.139
on, don't take this from me. I'm sorry. Don't

00:54:34.139 --> 00:54:37.760
take this from me. Isn't it funny we show up

00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:42.000
right in time to see Steven's ponytail? I don't

00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:45.719
think it's funny. I think it's majestic. Those

00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:49.139
moments are majestic. There's a crack going into

00:54:49.139 --> 00:54:51.519
the next room. You could look into it. Yeah,

00:54:51.639 --> 00:54:54.599
Crispin wants to hop up with his little... He

00:54:54.599 --> 00:54:56.440
can see his little ears first, and then his head

00:54:56.440 --> 00:54:58.239
pokes up, and he falls down. You poke through

00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:02.840
the crack. I'll give you this much. You peek

00:55:02.840 --> 00:55:04.159
into the room, and the only thing you basically...

00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:08.159
You look in. You see, like, this wider cavern

00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:10.880
lit by this violet light that seems to be emanating

00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:14.059
from two main sources. One... Further in, you

00:55:14.059 --> 00:55:15.179
need to get a different angle. You need to get

00:55:15.179 --> 00:55:17.159
through the wall to see it. There's a brighter

00:55:17.159 --> 00:55:19.920
light from there. But as you stare in here, just

00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:24.019
south of where you are, you can see this great

00:55:24.019 --> 00:55:27.579
fossil peeking up from the stone floor, just

00:55:27.579 --> 00:55:30.460
the tip of this black curved bone. And it is

00:55:30.460 --> 00:55:33.260
glowing with this violet light. There's like

00:55:33.260 --> 00:55:36.320
these strange, like almost crystal cables. They

00:55:36.320 --> 00:55:38.059
remind you of the ones you saw in Aurora Town

00:55:38.059 --> 00:55:41.489
that are sort of... wrapped around this fossil

00:55:41.489 --> 00:55:44.110
and sort of running across the floor towards

00:55:44.110 --> 00:55:47.269
that circle. Sorry, I didn't say that word. Towards

00:55:47.269 --> 00:55:50.269
some other form of light deeper into the room.

00:55:51.369 --> 00:55:54.690
Perhaps empowering it. And you think of what

00:55:54.690 --> 00:55:56.809
Miskin said about Zavar using the latent power

00:55:56.809 --> 00:56:00.590
of the fossils as they grow in. And there's sort

00:56:00.590 --> 00:56:05.130
of the ambient magic sort of brings them to higher

00:56:05.130 --> 00:56:08.230
power on this night, especially at the turn of

00:56:08.230 --> 00:56:11.289
midnight. which is fast approaching. You also

00:56:11.289 --> 00:56:12.730
see in this room as you peek in, there's like

00:56:12.730 --> 00:56:15.829
a small table off to one side with a few like

00:56:15.829 --> 00:56:19.289
alchemical regions on it. And maybe some like

00:56:19.289 --> 00:56:21.010
weird, like it's pretty scattered mess of like

00:56:21.010 --> 00:56:24.730
papers. There's also another one of those ghouls

00:56:24.730 --> 00:56:27.309
standing against, sorry, one of those strange

00:56:27.309 --> 00:56:30.710
undead creatures. I'm drunk. Standing against

00:56:30.710 --> 00:56:39.690
the wall. Here, have some more. And just kind

00:56:39.690 --> 00:56:42.409
of poising up against the wall, looking towards

00:56:42.409 --> 00:56:44.670
the source of greater light and towards the source

00:56:44.670 --> 00:56:48.489
of laughter. That's all you see. You realize,

00:56:48.610 --> 00:56:50.449
you sit here, it would not take much work to

00:56:50.449 --> 00:56:51.969
open up at this point. Like, you could probably

00:56:51.969 --> 00:56:54.110
dig through pretty quickly to open up a way to

00:56:54.110 --> 00:56:58.630
slide in. This ghoul was almost through. I mean,

00:56:58.650 --> 00:57:00.869
there's really no other way we got to go through.

00:57:01.510 --> 00:57:03.849
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Crispin's going to start to

00:57:03.849 --> 00:57:07.949
slowly and quietly try to dig through. Okay.

00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:12.340
I'm going to say this area is, the areas on the

00:57:12.340 --> 00:57:13.739
corners of this room, around where this wall

00:57:13.739 --> 00:57:15.840
is, I'm going to say are not quite as well lit.

00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:18.019
In order to get yourself through, you don't need

00:57:18.019 --> 00:57:20.099
to make a huge opening, just enough for you to

00:57:20.099 --> 00:57:22.820
like slide out. I'm not going to require stealth

00:57:22.820 --> 00:57:24.739
checks for this. This room is loud and there's

00:57:24.739 --> 00:57:26.320
a lot of stuff going on that's very distracting

00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:28.980
to the residents of it. What I would like is

00:57:28.980 --> 00:57:31.280
an athletics check to see how quickly you can

00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:34.159
move this rubble. Time is still just around 1115,

00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:39.000
maybe close to 1120. Oh my God. Bad time to roll

00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:41.440
a two on the die, but it's a plus seven, so.

00:57:41.679 --> 00:57:43.500
Only two of you can get in there right now, so

00:57:43.500 --> 00:57:46.420
Jules or Dance could assist. It's too tight for

00:57:46.420 --> 00:57:49.079
three people. I'm guessing Dance has higher athletics.

00:57:49.480 --> 00:57:53.800
Dance looks at you like, hey, me. Yeah, I know.

00:57:54.119 --> 00:58:00.300
That's where I'm going. Let me go there. She

00:58:00.300 --> 00:58:02.960
wears the mask. No, Jules knows. In this relationship.

00:58:03.380 --> 00:58:09.159
Sorry. Yeah, Jules knows. Oh, yeah. And that's

00:58:09.159 --> 00:58:13.519
a nine. It was like three millimeter cracked.

00:58:14.099 --> 00:58:16.960
It's your choice, man. Yeah, three millimeter

00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:18.840
cracked. Use whatever's more. All right, it was

00:58:18.840 --> 00:58:21.260
19. 19, okay. Yeah, sorry, I was spacing. I'm

00:58:21.260 --> 00:58:24.679
drunk. So Crispin, you said you rolled a what?

00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:28.719
Nine. Nine, okay. Nine, 19. What's that like?

00:58:29.280 --> 00:58:31.719
14, somewhere in the middle range? Yeah, unless

00:58:31.719 --> 00:58:35.280
you're just counting dances to help action. Let's

00:58:35.280 --> 00:58:37.900
call it 14 minutes. oh wow okay it's a good thing

00:58:37.900 --> 00:58:39.559
we got here oh it's a good thing we got here

00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:42.179
and it's time to get a good seat so yeah so you're

00:58:42.179 --> 00:58:46.679
digging oh okay so you're digging through the

00:58:46.679 --> 00:58:50.699
rubble uh it's probably just like sweat dripping

00:58:50.699 --> 00:58:53.179
down your face as time is passing. That ghoul

00:58:53.179 --> 00:58:54.780
in there is still within sight where it could

00:58:54.780 --> 00:58:57.099
look over your direction, potentially see. And

00:58:57.099 --> 00:58:58.500
it's probably just nerve -wracking as you're

00:58:58.500 --> 00:59:01.780
very carefully moving stone by stone. Jules,

00:59:01.820 --> 00:59:02.980
you're probably down at the bottom of the pile

00:59:02.980 --> 00:59:04.360
as they sort of clatter down. You could grab

00:59:04.360 --> 00:59:06.420
them so they don't make too much noise. And Miskin

00:59:06.420 --> 00:59:09.619
helping you and all four of you together. Just

00:59:09.619 --> 00:59:13.920
the minutes tick by as the hole opens bit by

00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:18.519
bit by bit. And then you find out. You can slide

00:59:18.519 --> 00:59:21.019
through. You realize all four of you could potentially

00:59:21.019 --> 00:59:25.300
slide in and push into the room beyond. Time

00:59:25.300 --> 00:59:30.659
is past 1130. And as the way opens up, mixed

00:59:30.659 --> 00:59:32.699
with the laughing, mixed with the whirring sounds,

00:59:32.920 --> 00:59:38.260
you begin to hear some light sobbing. Round stuff.

00:59:38.940 --> 00:59:41.039
She's just over there, just beyond the corner

00:59:41.039 --> 00:59:45.780
where this pulsing light is at its strongest.

00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:50.460
All right. Crispin wants to sneak through so

00:59:50.460 --> 00:59:54.639
he can see some more. I will say this. When four

00:59:54.639 --> 00:59:56.800
people enter this room, it's going to be very

00:59:56.800 --> 00:59:58.820
hard to not be noticed. We'll roll stealth checks.

00:59:59.559 --> 01:00:01.460
Do you all want to go in together? Or do you

01:00:01.460 --> 01:00:03.320
want one person? It's going to be tricky. Do

01:00:03.320 --> 01:00:04.619
you want to go in together or do you want to

01:00:04.619 --> 01:00:06.900
go in alone ahead? I think the kids should stay

01:00:06.900 --> 01:00:11.559
here, right? I want to help. I think the best

01:00:11.559 --> 01:00:13.880
way you can help is to stay out of the way. He

01:00:13.880 --> 01:00:16.650
looks to you, Jules. He wants to help. But your

01:00:16.650 --> 01:00:19.869
word is the final authority for Miskin. Miskin,

01:00:19.909 --> 01:00:23.750
I trust your timing. You'll know when. And I

01:00:23.750 --> 01:00:25.969
think despite it all, you just see he smiles.

01:00:26.429 --> 01:00:29.849
A little bit of that, like, sureness comes back

01:00:29.849 --> 01:00:33.510
to him. Right. A little grittier in his voice.

01:00:33.670 --> 01:00:38.210
Yeah. Okay. I'll know when. And the three of

01:00:38.210 --> 01:00:41.969
you push on. Yeah, I'd like to push on. I'd like

01:00:41.969 --> 01:00:45.800
to push on. along the edge of the wall here and

01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:49.480
walk by the fossil. Well, as you, so let's first,

01:00:49.559 --> 01:00:51.639
you guys enter the room. All three of you, Crispin,

01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:53.260
you step out. You start moving towards the fossil.

01:00:53.400 --> 01:00:55.780
Yeah. Dance slides out next. I think she takes

01:00:55.780 --> 01:00:57.619
the other wall, kind of like creating sort of

01:00:57.619 --> 01:00:59.659
a barrier as Jules, you're the last one that

01:00:59.659 --> 01:01:01.800
slides through. I need stealth checks from all

01:01:01.800 --> 01:01:07.079
of you. Come on, buddy. Come on, buddy. Hmm.

01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:14.860
Dirty 20. Jules got a 10. Well, Dan's critter

01:01:14.860 --> 01:01:20.019
pants. Critter leotard. Okay, that's actually

01:01:20.019 --> 01:01:24.000
really cool. I will say... I actually will say

01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:25.860
this. I was going for individual checks this

01:01:25.860 --> 01:01:29.820
time, so that 10 Jules did was not going to cut

01:01:29.820 --> 01:01:32.219
it. No, I know. But Dan slides down next to the

01:01:32.219 --> 01:01:33.960
wall, Jules, you go out, and as you kind of slide

01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:36.400
out, you're about to stumble down the wall, and

01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:37.860
as you start stumbling over the rock, I think

01:01:37.860 --> 01:01:40.239
she just catches you. superhero, like, fireman

01:01:40.239 --> 01:01:42.760
style. Oh, man. And, like, gently puts you down.

01:01:43.219 --> 01:01:46.059
It's all just super silent. That crit just paid

01:01:46.059 --> 01:01:48.320
off. That crit, that cripple dance saved you.

01:01:48.739 --> 01:01:51.159
And you're looking at the full room. Allow me

01:01:51.159 --> 01:01:55.059
to describe what you see. Holy shit. Oh, look

01:01:55.059 --> 01:01:57.179
at that in the middle. The fossil looks really

01:01:57.179 --> 01:01:59.679
cool. The fossil looks so cool. Holy fuck. This

01:01:59.679 --> 01:02:03.179
whole room looks amazing. Yeah. We are spoiled.

01:02:03.699 --> 01:02:08.119
Dude, we are so spoiled. You're looking out into

01:02:08.119 --> 01:02:10.820
this grand chamber I mentioned before, the fossil,

01:02:11.019 --> 01:02:13.219
the desk. Now you can see what lie beyond it,

01:02:13.219 --> 01:02:18.219
further to the west. About 40 feet away, maybe

01:02:18.219 --> 01:02:20.219
35 feet away from where you entered this room,

01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:24.119
you can now see this like 10 foot wide or so

01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:28.900
magic circle that pulses with this violet light.

01:02:30.619 --> 01:02:32.960
You can see where those cables sort of whirl

01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:34.519
around the edge of the room, moving in towards

01:02:34.519 --> 01:02:37.550
the circle, and this... These swirl with this

01:02:37.550 --> 01:02:39.329
magical light, which seems to flood and illuminate

01:02:39.329 --> 01:02:42.250
all these glyphs that surround this circle. You

01:02:42.250 --> 01:02:43.730
kind of stand in the dim light at the edges of

01:02:43.730 --> 01:02:46.090
the room as you're taking this in. You can see

01:02:46.090 --> 01:02:48.909
that they're sort of beyond the circle against

01:02:48.909 --> 01:02:50.570
one of the walls. You have a table, again, just

01:02:50.570 --> 01:02:53.230
scattered with notes and various sort of like

01:02:53.230 --> 01:02:56.050
dark things, like a small, like some weird chests

01:02:56.050 --> 01:02:58.389
and boxes sort of lined up against the wall by

01:02:58.389 --> 01:03:02.469
it. You can see... Can you see the huge iron

01:03:02.469 --> 01:03:04.849
doors jutting around from the side? Yes, you

01:03:04.849 --> 01:03:06.530
can. From your position, you look down. I'm trying

01:03:06.530 --> 01:03:10.329
to see what you guys... You tell me. Look to

01:03:10.329 --> 01:03:12.550
your position. As you guys move in, you can see

01:03:12.550 --> 01:03:14.869
that around the bend and to the very southern

01:03:14.869 --> 01:03:16.969
point of the room are these great iron doors

01:03:16.969 --> 01:03:21.110
that you know lead outside. As you stand here,

01:03:21.230 --> 01:03:23.750
you hear no sounds of combat or anything outside

01:03:23.750 --> 01:03:26.210
those doors. Maybe they're soundproof. Or maybe

01:03:26.210 --> 01:03:30.199
it's already over. To the north of this room,

01:03:30.300 --> 01:03:33.119
on the opposite side of that door, you can see

01:03:33.119 --> 01:03:35.460
there's a couple of branching tunnels that move

01:03:35.460 --> 01:03:38.699
up with cell doors placed in them, just barred

01:03:38.699 --> 01:03:42.940
cell doors. You cannot make out anything within

01:03:42.940 --> 01:03:48.360
them, but you hear something thrashing from one

01:03:48.360 --> 01:03:50.880
of the cell doors, the further one to the back,

01:03:50.900 --> 01:03:53.880
that you can't make out anything deeper there.

01:03:54.539 --> 01:03:56.760
Mentioned before that illuminated by this glow,

01:03:57.059 --> 01:03:59.820
a ghoul stands against the wall a short ways

01:03:59.820 --> 01:04:02.840
into this room. And beyond this creature, you

01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:05.920
see Zavar standing within the ritual circle.

01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:08.940
Roundstuff stands beside him, shackled by her

01:04:08.940 --> 01:04:11.699
ankle to the ground at the circle's center. I

01:04:11.699 --> 01:04:13.840
think as Zavar is kind of like standing over

01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:16.760
her, Roundstuff's eyes are facing you. And she

01:04:16.760 --> 01:04:19.340
looks to you. And you can see how the fear in

01:04:19.340 --> 01:04:22.769
her eyes gives way to hope, to joy. And then

01:04:22.769 --> 01:04:25.429
is buried again by a new, more powerful fear.

01:04:25.909 --> 01:04:30.429
A fear for you. Another ghoul lingers just behind

01:04:30.429 --> 01:04:35.030
her, standing over her small form. You see all

01:04:35.030 --> 01:04:38.610
of this. What do you want to do? You have a moment

01:04:38.610 --> 01:04:40.469
here. Now, the longer you're in this room, the

01:04:40.469 --> 01:04:41.369
more likely it's going to be that you're going

01:04:41.369 --> 01:04:44.050
to be seen. So, we'll take actions as they go.

01:04:44.090 --> 01:04:45.369
We'll roll more stealth checks as they are needed.

01:04:45.949 --> 01:04:47.730
When you perform any sort of aggressive action,

01:04:47.949 --> 01:04:51.869
stealth time's over. Yeah, I... I don't know

01:04:51.869 --> 01:04:53.610
about you, Jeremy. The only thing that I want

01:04:53.610 --> 01:04:57.210
Crispin to do before we get into it is I want

01:04:57.210 --> 01:05:00.929
him to touch that fossil. That fossil? Okay.

01:05:02.050 --> 01:05:05.030
I think, yeah, for the immediate time, if that's

01:05:05.030 --> 01:05:08.929
what Crispin's going to do, like Jules, while

01:05:08.929 --> 01:05:12.409
he knows what he's here for, he also recognizes

01:05:12.409 --> 01:05:14.829
the situation and he's not going to make a move

01:05:14.829 --> 01:05:18.969
until it's right to make a move. Okay. Get ready.

01:05:19.989 --> 01:05:23.940
I'm going. Go over to that wall, and then I'll

01:05:23.940 --> 01:05:29.079
jump on him. Crispin moves towards the fossil.

01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:32.239
You can feel that sort of power innate in you

01:05:32.239 --> 01:05:34.639
growing as you get closer. Your hair's all standing

01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:37.099
on end, and that boiling rage in you is starting

01:05:37.099 --> 01:05:39.019
to get hotter and hotter as you approach this

01:05:39.019 --> 01:05:42.500
thing. Is the rage in you, Crispin? Or is the

01:05:42.500 --> 01:05:44.860
rage channeling through you? A question I think

01:05:44.860 --> 01:05:46.440
that you've asked yourself so many times, and

01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:47.659
you're getting closer to this thing, and you

01:05:47.659 --> 01:05:51.079
feel it so hot. As he moves, you feel Dance's

01:05:51.079 --> 01:05:54.179
hand on yours, Jules. You look in, you see Zavar

01:05:54.179 --> 01:05:57.239
as he stands over round stuff. He's like etching

01:05:57.239 --> 01:06:00.800
things down into the circle, perfecting the sort

01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:04.780
of runes that line it. You can see this boorish

01:06:04.780 --> 01:06:07.079
creature, this man that you've hated your entire

01:06:07.079 --> 01:06:09.360
life, this man that put you through such hell.

01:06:09.849 --> 01:06:12.289
You can see how he's changed. Even in this violet

01:06:12.289 --> 01:06:14.530
light, you can see how pale he is. You can see

01:06:14.530 --> 01:06:17.170
his own sharpened teeth, his own elongated tongue.

01:06:17.409 --> 01:06:19.570
You can see he himself has become one of these

01:06:19.570 --> 01:06:23.190
undead things. Changed himself the way he wanted

01:06:23.190 --> 01:06:26.130
to change you. The way he wants to change her.

01:06:27.110 --> 01:06:32.110
Crispin, what are you doing? Crispin is going

01:06:32.110 --> 01:06:36.570
to go into a rage. Oh, shit. So you scream really

01:06:36.570 --> 01:06:38.809
loud. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly what happens.

01:06:38.989 --> 01:06:40.889
Yeah, yeah. Scream super loud. You feel this

01:06:40.889 --> 01:06:42.809
rage. I love this, too. It's forcing through.

01:06:42.869 --> 01:06:45.010
You feel it, and it's like gritting your teeth,

01:06:45.090 --> 01:06:46.269
trying to fight against it, and then you just

01:06:46.269 --> 01:06:49.789
go with the flow. Let the damn break. And then

01:06:49.789 --> 01:06:54.969
wild shape. What are you shaping into? Oh, yeah.

01:06:55.309 --> 01:06:57.789
What are you doing? Yes. What is that? Yes, I

01:06:57.789 --> 01:06:59.829
know. I see what you're doing. A giant toad.

01:07:00.110 --> 01:07:05.340
What the fuck? Crispin. I wasn't expecting that.

01:07:05.340 --> 01:07:10.380
Wild shapes into a giant toad. All right. This

01:07:10.380 --> 01:07:14.280
is a move. And that literally is his move. Okay.

01:07:14.400 --> 01:07:17.739
That's an action. Or actually, well, yeah. Can't

01:07:17.739 --> 01:07:19.500
do anything else. Okay. I didn't see what you

01:07:19.500 --> 01:07:20.900
were doing there. I was going to say, I was like,

01:07:20.920 --> 01:07:22.360
I don't think I showed this to Jeremy. No, you

01:07:22.360 --> 01:07:25.179
didn't. Nope. Nope. You are much more noticeable

01:07:25.179 --> 01:07:27.460
now. Yeah. I'm going to say you each have an

01:07:27.460 --> 01:07:29.699
action before this happens. Like, what happens

01:07:29.699 --> 01:07:31.840
happens. That was your action. Jules, what are

01:07:31.840 --> 01:07:34.539
you doing? Fuck me. I mean, it's a good move.

01:07:34.659 --> 01:07:35.980
You're ready to go. You're Rage, you're Wild

01:07:35.980 --> 01:07:37.280
Shape, you're ready for a fight. I mean, you're

01:07:37.280 --> 01:07:38.659
already in Rage, so you want to, like, make a

01:07:38.659 --> 01:07:40.460
move now anyway, or else you're going to lose

01:07:40.460 --> 01:07:43.159
that Rage. Hold on. Sorry, what'd you say? I

01:07:43.159 --> 01:07:44.239
was saying this. I mean, it makes sense, though,

01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:45.519
because you want to make a move very fast, or

01:07:45.519 --> 01:07:47.320
you're going to lose that Rage. Right. If there's

01:07:47.320 --> 01:07:49.539
monologuing, we'll just kind of hand wave the

01:07:49.539 --> 01:07:52.980
monologuing. So, yeah, if we're... I just don't

01:07:52.980 --> 01:07:57.739
have any moves left this turn. Yeah. Okay. I'm

01:07:57.739 --> 01:08:00.940
going to Bless us. Okay. All right. So, yeah,

01:08:01.019 --> 01:08:04.960
I'm going to Bless Crispin. Dance. And Zavar?

01:08:05.699 --> 01:08:07.380
Yeah, exactly. If you're really thinking about

01:08:07.380 --> 01:08:09.340
this, you should just do it. I'll give you a

01:08:09.340 --> 01:08:13.900
button. Well, on that note, I'm not within 30

01:08:13.900 --> 01:08:17.659
feet of Ron's stuff, right? Or am I? No, I think

01:08:17.659 --> 01:08:20.279
it's outside of 30 feet. Just barely, 35. Okay,

01:08:20.359 --> 01:08:21.859
so it's going to be Crispin, Dance, and myself.

01:08:22.779 --> 01:08:25.760
Okay. So that's a d4 added to attacks and saves.

01:08:26.189 --> 01:08:28.189
Crispin turns into a giant toad. You stand there.

01:08:28.229 --> 01:08:31.409
You sort of let this magic flow out of you into

01:08:31.409 --> 01:08:33.890
everybody else as they kind of feel this strength

01:08:33.890 --> 01:08:36.489
surging within them. Is Dance going to make any

01:08:36.489 --> 01:08:39.149
moves? Or is she going to sort of stand for it?

01:08:39.609 --> 01:08:42.850
She's going to ready. Okay. In action. Okay,

01:08:42.909 --> 01:08:44.729
so she like kneels down. So she gets ready. I

01:08:44.729 --> 01:08:46.890
think you see her just kind of like sort of enter

01:08:46.890 --> 01:08:48.729
into a runner's stance. She's about to just charge

01:08:48.729 --> 01:08:51.310
deep into the room. Looks to you as the strength

01:08:51.310 --> 01:08:55.649
pours into her. Let's do this together. Jules

01:08:55.649 --> 01:08:58.609
gives a nod. And just as she's about to take

01:08:58.609 --> 01:09:00.670
off, as like all this happens, so the light from

01:09:00.670 --> 01:09:04.229
you casting the spell, Crispin's sort of transformation.

01:09:05.170 --> 01:09:08.270
I think the ghoul in the wall turns towards you.

01:09:08.989 --> 01:09:12.649
And you see Zavar does as well. And he just looks

01:09:12.649 --> 01:09:14.729
up and the sort of like shock enters his eyes.

01:09:15.569 --> 01:09:17.890
And he looks towards you for a moment, sees the

01:09:17.890 --> 01:09:19.850
three of you standing at the ready. And you see

01:09:19.850 --> 01:09:21.729
how he's just like just over around stuff, like

01:09:21.729 --> 01:09:24.579
sort of this sort of dangerous position. But

01:09:24.579 --> 01:09:27.739
I think he moves away from her, like his hand

01:09:27.739 --> 01:09:30.619
sort of like turning away from her, turning towards

01:09:30.619 --> 01:09:34.180
you. And I think you're surprised when what enters

01:09:34.180 --> 01:09:38.640
his eyes isn't fear, but just this absolute delight.

01:09:39.260 --> 01:09:41.560
He just throws back his head and howls out this,

01:09:41.659 --> 01:09:55.800
Oh, Jules, it's really you. Look at you, all

01:09:55.800 --> 01:10:04.239
grown up. You're so beautiful. Don't get too

01:10:04.239 --> 01:10:06.199
excited. I'm just here to show you how much you

01:10:06.199 --> 01:10:11.159
failed. Failed? I've heard reports of your work

01:10:11.159 --> 01:10:15.220
in the city. What you did. Connecting with the

01:10:15.220 --> 01:10:21.460
Horned Lord. Oh, Jules. Jules, I'm so proud.

01:10:22.329 --> 01:10:27.130
Out of you. He's like, you can hear this dry

01:10:27.130 --> 01:10:30.029
heaving from his throat. And like you realize

01:10:30.029 --> 01:10:34.689
instantly that it's sobbing. He's actually sobbing

01:10:34.689 --> 01:10:38.449
tearlessly with this manic joy at seeing you.

01:10:39.829 --> 01:10:45.210
You challenge me. Cerise has had her reservations.

01:10:46.090 --> 01:10:50.310
But I can see it now. You have matured enough.

01:10:51.039 --> 01:10:55.020
We can finally take away that troublesome soul

01:10:55.020 --> 01:11:00.239
of yours. You don't need it. You don't need the

01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:05.619
limitations of your beating heart. You, my child,

01:11:06.020 --> 01:11:11.439
deserve to be free. As he says those words, you

01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:13.760
hear that same sort of pounding of something

01:11:13.760 --> 01:11:15.939
against metal, against the bars of a cage you

01:11:15.939 --> 01:11:18.500
can't quite see down a tunnel towards the north.

01:11:18.920 --> 01:11:22.340
His head sort of whirls towards it. His toothy

01:11:22.340 --> 01:11:28.600
grin grows. This could be a fine test. I think

01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:31.819
he, like, waves a hand out. And you're kind of,

01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:33.220
I think you're probably watching that ghoul that's

01:11:33.220 --> 01:11:34.899
staying just above round stuff, waiting for it

01:11:34.899 --> 01:11:37.800
to, like, move, step away. It actually does,

01:11:37.859 --> 01:11:40.659
just charges up towards the north. It's, like,

01:11:40.680 --> 01:11:42.500
holding something beneath its arms, some sort

01:11:42.500 --> 01:11:45.920
of small box. You don't see what it's doing there.

01:11:45.939 --> 01:11:47.340
You can hear the rattling of chains. You can

01:11:47.340 --> 01:11:50.149
hear something. Rashing, thrashing against metal.

01:11:50.810 --> 01:11:56.670
Zavar just says, Use all of it. My ally in Zinda

01:11:56.670 --> 01:11:59.970
was so kind to offer me such a substance. Dose

01:11:59.970 --> 01:12:03.069
him with it all. Let's see what this can do.

01:12:05.109 --> 01:12:08.670
You hear something opens. It's a sort of frozen

01:12:08.670 --> 01:12:12.729
moment as something's moving. Round stuff, sort

01:12:12.729 --> 01:12:14.590
of like... fighting against the collar, sort

01:12:14.590 --> 01:12:16.750
of looks towards you. You feel that rage bubbling

01:12:16.750 --> 01:12:19.149
within you, Crispin. It's just so strong, so

01:12:19.149 --> 01:12:21.729
hot as you stand beside this fossil. Jules, you're

01:12:21.729 --> 01:12:23.750
getting ready to make your move. Maybe you're

01:12:23.750 --> 01:12:26.670
about to pounce when Arhalon turns the corner.

01:12:26.689 --> 01:12:29.489
I knew it. Oh, I just figured it out. You see

01:12:29.489 --> 01:12:32.449
him just turn the corner. Something's wrong.

01:12:32.689 --> 01:12:36.050
Something's wrong with him. His eyes look unfocused.

01:12:37.369 --> 01:12:42.050
He looks roughed up, but there's something in

01:12:42.050 --> 01:12:44.890
his eyes. It lingers on him, this sort of primal

01:12:44.890 --> 01:12:50.930
rage. And Zavar continues, Your ally managed

01:12:50.930 --> 01:12:54.449
to call and chase away the entirety of my living

01:12:54.449 --> 01:13:02.869
god. He is strong. Arlan sort of turns the corner.

01:13:03.069 --> 01:13:05.590
I think he's like, just still lost in his eyes,

01:13:05.590 --> 01:13:09.739
looking between you. He sees you, blinking. He

01:13:09.739 --> 01:13:11.819
looks towards Zavar, blinking. It seems like

01:13:11.819 --> 01:13:14.199
he doesn't know what to do. His teeth gritted.

01:13:14.880 --> 01:13:19.180
Do you say anything? Any of you? I don't think

01:13:19.180 --> 01:13:24.279
Jules does anything. He recognizes that Arhalon's

01:13:24.279 --> 01:13:27.060
gone. You don't know what is wrong with him?

01:13:27.560 --> 01:13:29.979
Can I roll a check? Yeah, you know what? Go ahead

01:13:29.979 --> 01:13:32.899
and roll, um, call it medicine. Or insight. One

01:13:32.899 --> 01:13:37.319
of the two. No. Okay, yeah, he just... Three

01:13:37.319 --> 01:13:39.720
on the die plus one. His mind looks fucking lost.

01:13:39.899 --> 01:13:42.220
He's still turning. I think he almost, like,

01:13:42.239 --> 01:13:46.439
moves snarling towards Zavar. Towards over round

01:13:46.439 --> 01:13:48.060
stuff. He sort of squeaks out and kind of, like,

01:13:48.079 --> 01:13:51.319
ducks herself down. Zavar just, like, stands,

01:13:51.340 --> 01:13:54.220
like, firm and smiling. And for a moment, maybe

01:13:54.220 --> 01:13:56.640
you think this is going to settle itself. Zavar

01:13:56.640 --> 01:14:01.319
just says, He doesn't know who to attack. His

01:14:01.319 --> 01:14:07.340
mind lost to the blood rage. Bye. In my experience,

01:14:07.760 --> 01:14:13.520
rage always seeks direction. Monster, your brother

01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:17.859
was murdered yesterday. I assume you know that.

01:14:18.119 --> 01:14:21.319
Did Jules tell you of the demon that slayed your

01:14:21.319 --> 01:14:29.039
brother? Or hold on, just... Kellig! Kellig!

01:14:29.800 --> 01:14:35.640
Ah, he did. But did he tell you who really killed

01:14:35.640 --> 01:14:38.420
little Zebulon? Killing may have been the arrow

01:14:38.420 --> 01:14:41.319
that pierced his heart, but he was not the assassin

01:14:41.319 --> 01:14:47.699
that made the shot. Jules. Jules transformed

01:14:47.699 --> 01:14:51.060
him. He gave into his demonic power, gave into

01:14:51.060 --> 01:14:54.520
his own hatred, and gave it form. And that form,

01:14:54.659 --> 01:14:59.819
the form he made, killed your brother. Arlon.

01:15:00.569 --> 01:15:04.369
His eyes snap towards you, Jules. And you can

01:15:04.369 --> 01:15:11.090
see something in them. Jules. Something buried

01:15:11.090 --> 01:15:13.350
behind the rage. You can remember the way he

01:15:13.350 --> 01:15:15.470
smiled, that goofy smile before he left. You

01:15:15.470 --> 01:15:18.890
can see how far that smile has gone now. There's

01:15:18.890 --> 01:15:21.310
hurt in his eyes, so much hurt. You can see a

01:15:21.310 --> 01:15:23.630
single tear wells up in his eye, then burst into

01:15:23.630 --> 01:15:27.109
a jet of steam. He can see the truth. Then his

01:15:27.109 --> 01:15:31.720
eyes narrow. His teeth grit. Fire flickers in

01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:40.640
his throat. Charles! You watch as Arhalon's right

01:15:40.640 --> 01:15:47.460
hand begins to rise, veins bulging from it, and

01:15:47.460 --> 01:15:50.520
trembling reaches over and grabs onto his great

01:15:50.520 --> 01:15:54.680
sword two hands. In this madness, in this rage,

01:15:54.760 --> 01:16:00.609
Arhalon has become whole again. Zavar laughs,

01:16:00.909 --> 01:16:04.029
round stuff, screams. The two ghouls begin to

01:16:04.029 --> 01:16:06.670
make their move towards you, and Arhalad, barreling

01:16:06.670 --> 01:16:11.109
towards you, Jules, begins to charge. I thought

01:16:11.109 --> 01:16:12.470
you were going to try to, like, say something

01:16:12.470 --> 01:16:15.529
to him. Wait. Well, I was waiting for him. I

01:16:15.529 --> 01:16:17.310
was waiting for a moment that never came. Oh,

01:16:17.310 --> 01:16:18.810
shoot. Do I need to say anything? No, we were

01:16:18.810 --> 01:16:21.510
just talking, and I was like, and I said to Jeremy,

01:16:21.590 --> 01:16:23.029
I said, I thought you were going to try to, like,

01:16:23.029 --> 01:16:25.090
say something to him. Yeah, I was going to, but

01:16:25.090 --> 01:16:28.399
the moment never came. Oh, sorry. I thought you

01:16:28.399 --> 01:16:30.100
were, you didn't seem like you were trying to,

01:16:30.140 --> 01:16:31.680
do you want me to take it back and do you want

01:16:31.680 --> 01:16:33.199
to say something? He's about to recharge, do

01:16:33.199 --> 01:16:37.000
you want to talk? So can we, can we rewind then

01:16:37.000 --> 01:16:39.420
back to just before he's charging? Yes, yeah.

01:16:39.579 --> 01:16:41.079
Because I want to pull out the recording diamond

01:16:41.079 --> 01:16:46.180
and I want to show him Zebulon dying. He would

01:16:46.180 --> 01:16:48.340
need to be very close to see the footage, I will

01:16:48.340 --> 01:16:50.520
say that. Can I, can I throw it to his feet?

01:16:51.239 --> 01:16:55.560
I'm going to tell you this. I think as like...

01:16:55.880 --> 01:16:59.680
As these words sink into him, you can do this,

01:16:59.680 --> 01:17:03.359
but you get the impression that he's lost his

01:17:03.359 --> 01:17:06.739
wits almost entirely at this point. I don't think

01:17:06.739 --> 01:17:08.720
he would have the wherewithal to pick up something

01:17:08.720 --> 01:17:11.500
thrown at his feet when lost into this rage.

01:17:12.420 --> 01:17:14.539
Hearing you may be something possible but difficult,

01:17:14.779 --> 01:17:18.699
but I think that would stretch what he would

01:17:18.699 --> 01:17:23.220
do. Okay, that's fair. Can I roll for it? I don't

01:17:23.220 --> 01:17:25.510
know if you'd be able to hit the DC. Even with

01:17:25.510 --> 01:17:27.909
your persuasion. But you can certainly try. Let's

01:17:27.909 --> 01:17:32.109
try. Okay. Okay. Let's try. I'm going to throw

01:17:32.109 --> 01:17:36.189
the diamond to his feet. The diamond. You want

01:17:36.189 --> 01:17:41.390
to see who really killed Zebulon? It's all right

01:17:41.390 --> 01:17:50.229
there. Fucking crit my pants. I fucking crit

01:17:50.229 --> 01:17:53.130
my fucking pants. And it's a plus 10 persuasion.

01:17:53.680 --> 01:17:56.939
Plus twins. That is a 30. That is a 30. Here's

01:17:56.939 --> 01:18:00.119
the thing. This will pause him because what he's

01:18:00.119 --> 01:18:03.600
going to see is exactly what Zavar said. A shadowy

01:18:03.600 --> 01:18:06.359
demon that you created. You did not convince

01:18:06.359 --> 01:18:08.260
him that that's not the case. But I think he

01:18:08.260 --> 01:18:10.739
does see it lands. You say that and it will pause.

01:18:10.819 --> 01:18:13.279
He reaches down. He picks it up. And like, hands

01:18:13.279 --> 01:18:16.899
sort of trembling. That's his darkness moving

01:18:16.899 --> 01:18:22.359
uncontrollably in and out of everything it can

01:18:22.359 --> 01:18:27.890
see. We've had our differences, but I know you

01:18:27.890 --> 01:18:32.569
know me. How do I honor this? This may seem harsh,

01:18:32.789 --> 01:18:35.170
but understanding the nature of what's happening

01:18:35.170 --> 01:18:37.010
to Arhalon, I think this is the best way to handle

01:18:37.010 --> 01:18:39.390
it. And it's going to actually pay off for you

01:18:39.390 --> 01:18:43.029
in a pretty cool way moving forward. I think

01:18:43.029 --> 01:18:47.350
his eyes, I think he just drops the diamond back

01:18:47.350 --> 01:18:50.029
down, grabs the greatsword, he looks to Zavar,

01:18:50.149 --> 01:18:56.979
he looks to you, and he just... You both die!

01:18:58.500 --> 01:19:03.359
But he will still move towards you first. He

01:19:03.359 --> 01:19:05.800
steps right on the diamond as he begins moving

01:19:05.800 --> 01:19:15.340
across the room. Roll for a ni - Wait. There's

01:19:15.340 --> 01:19:20.380
a moment. A frozen time. A presence. A light.

01:19:20.960 --> 01:19:23.359
It shines through the cracks of that great iron

01:19:23.359 --> 01:19:25.880
door that leads to the outside. You can see the

01:19:25.880 --> 01:19:27.960
violent light of the ritual almost retreats before

01:19:27.960 --> 01:19:33.739
this new, bright radiance. Arhalon freezes, transfixed

01:19:33.739 --> 01:19:35.699
as that light pushes through the cracks like

01:19:35.699 --> 01:19:38.640
motes in a swirling mist and forms itself into

01:19:38.640 --> 01:19:42.579
a shining orb, hovering off of the ground. It

01:19:42.579 --> 01:19:45.680
launches into the cavern, flying to a space just

01:19:45.680 --> 01:19:50.090
before Jules. And you do all stare on. it begins

01:19:50.090 --> 01:19:53.729
to take shape. It grows and grows until it stands

01:19:53.729 --> 01:19:56.869
as a shining silhouette of a human, tall and

01:19:56.869 --> 01:19:59.710
broad -shouldered, a heroic -shaped, poisoned

01:19:59.710 --> 01:20:03.210
challenge towards the raging half -dragon. And

01:20:03.210 --> 01:20:05.369
we can see Danza's smile gleaming white as it

01:20:05.369 --> 01:20:08.109
reflects this light, as she whispers tearful

01:20:08.109 --> 01:20:13.470
words towards it. Mateo, you came! And then that

01:20:13.470 --> 01:20:18.170
light begins to shrink. It pushes down, condensing

01:20:18.170 --> 01:20:21.850
into a smaller form. Still humanoid, but not

01:20:21.850 --> 01:20:25.130
quite human. The hands sharpen into claws. The

01:20:25.130 --> 01:20:28.670
face elongates. Two spiraling horns jut out from

01:20:28.670 --> 01:20:31.810
the light. Two tiny waves begin to form on its

01:20:31.810 --> 01:20:34.649
back. As a shining light splits apart into a

01:20:34.649 --> 01:20:37.390
body made of radiant, painted bone, we are looking

01:20:37.390 --> 01:20:41.909
at the skeletal form of a half -dragon. Two sabers

01:20:41.909 --> 01:20:45.949
of gleaming bone held before him. It's Zebulon!

01:20:46.470 --> 01:20:50.529
Yeah! Zebulon, the forces of fate have given

01:20:50.529 --> 01:20:53.029
you one last fight, one last chance to make good

01:20:53.029 --> 01:20:55.689
on your promise to Roundstuff, to protect Jules.

01:20:55.970 --> 01:20:58.729
You can see her smile, your own light reflecting

01:20:58.729 --> 01:21:00.869
in her eyes, in the eyes of every figure in this

01:21:00.869 --> 01:21:04.170
room. You are, as ever, the center of attention.

01:21:04.649 --> 01:21:07.369
The spark inside you giving form to this strange

01:21:07.369 --> 01:21:10.810
new body is fading fast. But you are fully aware

01:21:10.810 --> 01:21:12.729
of everything that is happening here. You have

01:21:12.729 --> 01:21:16.109
been watching all along. How this is possible

01:21:16.109 --> 01:21:18.050
and how you received this spark, we will find

01:21:18.050 --> 01:21:21.470
out next week when we finally hear your side

01:21:21.470 --> 01:21:23.949
of the story. But right now, your time is quickly

01:21:23.949 --> 01:21:26.630
running out. And your own brother stands before

01:21:26.630 --> 01:21:30.090
you, towers over you like he always has. You

01:21:30.090 --> 01:21:33.729
have to face him now, once and for all. Protect

01:21:33.729 --> 01:21:37.399
Jules. Save round stuff. Bring peace to Arhalon

01:21:37.399 --> 01:21:39.500
with these goals in your mind. With the eyes

01:21:39.500 --> 01:21:41.840
of every figure in this room locked in awe on

01:21:41.840 --> 01:21:44.859
you, what does Zebulon the Return have to say?

01:21:45.760 --> 01:21:50.659
Now wait just a damn minute. And we'll call it

01:21:50.659 --> 01:21:56.720
there! I once said that I wanted this arc to

01:21:56.720 --> 01:21:59.100
follow the trail of two separate yet connected

01:21:59.100 --> 01:22:03.630
storylines. I lied. There have always been three

01:22:03.630 --> 01:22:06.710
stories here. So let me take you all back for

01:22:06.710 --> 01:22:10.510
one more flashback. To the endless gray landscape

01:22:10.510 --> 01:22:14.010
of the Fugue Plain. To the land beyond life where

01:22:14.010 --> 01:22:16.529
the souls of the dead push toward the light of

01:22:16.529 --> 01:22:19.329
the beyond. And let me tell you all the last

01:22:19.329 --> 01:22:21.750
story of Zebulon Black.